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- CAROLINE: We have a lot of murders in Houston,
but not necessarily a lot of murders of cab drivers.
- This man had been shot to death.
It was a very disturbing scene.
- BRIAN: There was smoldering smoke,
the distinct smell of burning human flesh.
- SARA: 2 cab drivers murdered within 48 hours of each other.
- CAROLINE: Both individuals had come here trying to live
the American Dream, but you need to be careful,
you don't know who you've got in your cab.
- BRIAN: His last words on this earth is,
"Please, I have children, don't do this."
- SARA: I think the ultimate motive was money, was thrill.
- NARRATOR: Five unique perspectives,
five points of view, one murder.
- BRIAN: I'm homicide veteran. - SARA: I've been a reporter
in the Houston area-- - ROGER: I was
one of the investigators assigned to work this case.
- My name is Chaz Blackshear.
- CAROLINE: I was the lead prosecutor.
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- My name is Brian Harris.
I'm a 21-year retired homicide veteran
for the Houston Police Department.
On October 14, 2010,
when I arrived at work at the homicide headquarters
downtown Houston...
I ran into 2 detectives.
I knew they'd been working non-stop on a taxicab killing.
A Yellow Cab murder where the driver of that cab
had been murdered
and his body was dumped on the north side
of the city of Houston.
I quipped, "Glad it's you, not us."
Little did I know that within the hour,
my partner and I would be assigned the murder
of the second cab driver within 48 hours.
Right away, my partner and I are talking while we're driving
out to the west side of Houston,
that, "Could this be connected?"
We didn't know at the time,
but, you know, our Spidey senses certainly were tingling.
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- BRIAN: We had a Houston officer,
and he was simply making rounds,
driving through the various different parking lots
in his beat and saw a Yellow Cab.
Quickly he figured, "That's certainly out of place.
"Why would a Yellow Cab be in the middle of a parking lot
at 3 o'clock in the morning?"
As he got closer-- and he could see,
the cab was smoldering,
there was smoke coming from the cab.
There was also that distinct smell--
the distinct smell of burning human flesh.
By the time I get there with my partner,
there's dozens and dozens of people
along the perimeter of the crime scene.
We don't know who are witnesses, who are just casual onlookers.
In a chaotic scene, you gotta start
breaking that scene down into larger parts, smaller parts--
No matter how crazy it looks,
you can make a lot of sense out of that.
The dead themselves, in a way, speak to us.
Not literally, but the position of their body,
the way their body is inside or laid out or presented
at any different homicide scene can tell us a lot.
This case was no different.
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- BRIAN: It looked as though there was a struggle.
The person was trying to escape.
It looked as though they almost did escape out that door,
and they were shot and dragged back into that vehicle.
And then to add insult to injury,
the car is set on fire.
But we weren't dealing with exact rocket scientists here,
because they didn't understand
that fire needs oxygen to breathe,
so when they set this car on fire,
other than the initial explosion or burst of flame,
the fire quickly dies,
because there's no oxygen to feed on.
They were sloppy. They left evidence behind.
They left the shell casing--
one on the outside of the car, one on the inside of the car.
This is all great stuff that we can work with.
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- BRIAN: So, how did he die?
Was it the fire or was it the gunshot?
And there's an easy way to tell.
See, when an autopsy is done, if there's soot
on the inside of the lungs-- if there's soot on those lungs,
that means that they were alive when the fire was started.
I'm just very thankful, as gruesome as this scene was,
was that it was clear after the autopsy
that he died of the gunshots, not of the fire,
because there was not any soot in the lungs.
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- BRIAN: Now we're able to attach a name.
This was somebody who had a family,
this is somebody who had people who loved him,
somebody that he was trying to provide for,
working a second job, bringing in extra income
so he can just make it.
Blaise was no different than myself.
We all have three things in common:
we all wanna be loved, we all wanna be respected,
and we all want the ability to provide
for the ones that love and respect us.
They wanted that American Dream,
and that's exactly who he was,
he was trying to provide for his family.
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- BRIAN: On this particular scene,
the cab is in the parking lot.
Looking up at the office complex, it is clear
that there are video cameras.
So, one of the first things that we do
is look at these videos.
Partner and I, we walk in and we go to the security office,
we don't know what we're getting ready to see.
And as that videotape starts,
we see the Yellow Cab pull up,
and we see clearly a black female with this wild Afro,
crazy kinda hair.
And she gets out and she starts to run to the front
of the cab area and she keeps going,
as a lookout, "Is anyone around?"
And there's one particular moment she stops
and is caught in mid-stride
staring directly into the camera.
It's the perfect shot.
We just knew then we had to freeze that frame,
and that would be the picture that we would use.
But the video keeps going.
She comes back to the cab and then there's a flash--
there's a flash inside the cab.
You see that same black female, she runs across the parking lot,
and then a lanky, thin male, baggy T-shirt, pants on,
runs past the camera as well. Where are they running?
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- BRIAN: You had absolute fear and terror
running through the transportation industry.
One incident, two incidences, it will be a third,
will there be a fourth? We needed to get this stopped.
Throw in the fact that now there's a male there.
Is this their version of trying to be a Bonnie and Clyde?
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- Hi, I'm Sara Davenport and I've been a reporter
here in the Houston area for over a decade.
When the news broke that there had been a murder,
it wasn't that uncommon.
It's a big city-- six million people.
But what was uncommon was a small twist.
Two cab drivers murdered within forty-eight hours of each other.
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- SARA: October 12, early morning in 2010,
a utility worker was out and he spotted something strange
in a drainage ditch.
And when he went to look,
it was a very gruesome discovery. It was a body.
You can imagine how terrifying that is.
I mean, normally, early morning hours it's pretty quiet.
And here this body is covered in dirt,
shot up, possibly stabbed.
You could tell it was a very disturbing scene
by the way--when the utility worker called 911,
he was terrified.
When the police first arrived on the scene,
they're trying to identify who this is,
and they didn't find anything on his body.
I mean, it looked like he had been robbed,
there was nothing in his pockets.
But when they started searching just a little bit away,
they were able to find his passport
and also his cellphone.
That was a pretty significant break for two reasons.
One is, it looks like the body was dumped.
The murder probably didn't happen there,
since the cellphone and passport were
in a different area.
But it was a huge break because now they knew
who this body was through the passport.
And now they had his cellphone
and could figure out more about him.
They were able to identify the victim as 32-year-old
Mohammad El Sayed.
Mohammad had been in the Houston area for a few years.
He was a family man, had several children.
He was a cab driver, and he had been working
to pick up some extra shifts to make some more money
to help out at home.
He was working really hard to make ends meet for his family.
They were new immigrants to the Houston area
and to the United States,
and so being a cab driver was a good, honest job
for him to do.
Being a cab driver might be somewhat of an easy job
from the outside, but it's a risky job.
You never know who you're picking up,
what the next fare is going to be.
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- SARA: When police went to the cab company,
they ran the number from where the last call had come in
for Mohammad El Sayed's cab.
It had come in from a gas station--a Chevron--
around 2 in the morning.
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- SARA: When police got to the Chevron station,
they thought maybe this could be their first lead,
but it really wasn't, because the security cameras,
they weren't working that night.
And the phone had been totally wiped clean of fingerprints.
The suspects were really lucky on this one,
because the police were hot on their tail until they weren't.
Suddenly, it went cold.
There were no fingerprints, there's no security cameras.
The police didn't have any sign of the cab near where
Mohammad El Sayed's body was found,
so they went back to the Chevron
and started looking in that vicinity.
And it was pay dirt.
The cab was found about three or four blocks away from where
the call was originally made, right behind a strip mall.
It had been wiped clean. There were no fingerprints.
But they did find some small traces of blood,
and then they did find two .380-caliber bullet shells.
Where those bullet casings were found suggests that
the driver, Mohammad El Sayed, had been sitting in his cab
when he was shot.
Police had the cab, and they had the victim,
but they really didn't have any leads.
The call was made about 35 to 40 minutes away
from where the body was found.
So, what does that mean for these suspects?
If they're willing to drive that far to dump the body,
where are they now? They could be in Dallas,
they could be out of the State of Texas.
People started wondering,
is there a serial killer on the loose?
What's gonna happen the next day after that?
The tension in the city with these reports coming out,
it was very real.
Mohammad and Blaise were both Muslim cab drivers.
Did that have anything to do with these murders?
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- My name is Roger Chappell and I was an investigator
with the Houston Police Department
assigned to work this case.
Cab drivers are hardworking people.
It is not your-- your gangster-on-gangster
or your dope-dealer-on-dope-dealer
kinda stuff.
These are innocent people doing hard work.
Something like this, where we have at least two cab drivers
that were killed in such a short period of time.
So, at that point, uh, the urgency really did kick in.
This was definitely gonna happen again.
To me, it's not a matter of if, it's when.
- [wind blowing]
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- ROGER: I made a phone call to Yellow Cab
and was able to obtain the recording
from the second case.
The deceased had picked up a fare, uh,
somewhere on the west side of town.
And it was a female that had made that phone call.
The name that I heard, as I remember it, was Shauntay,
because it was a little difficult to understand
on that recording.
- ROGER: My immediate thought was, "That's a fake name."
I don't know if it's just a--a version of her name
or if she just made it up.
But that's one of the things too that we disseminate
to the other investigators.
In most murder cases that I've investigated,
this is the first one where we actually had the murder
captured on video.
It truly does open up the book for us.
As these folks were leaving and running away,
what direction were they headed?
So, that's where we're gonna start our canvass.
We decided to go ahead and concentrate
on the apartment complexes first.
When the officers were out there, this manager's like,
"You know what? I could be wrong,
"but this is a coincidence to me
"that I just can't seem to get over.
"I had this tenant who was behind in her rent,
"she was due to be evicted, then all of a sudden,
she comes in this morning and pays off everything."
The public already knew that we had two cab drivers,
the media had already reported that.
For this manager, based on what glimpse he got from
the surveillance video--uh, photograph,
was able to draw those parallels very quickly.
They gave her name as Crystal Jones
and the physical description seemed to match.
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- ROGER: What we want to do is to get her
before she gets inside her apartment,
and there's a reason for that.
It creates too much hazard for the officers
and for other citizens.
Crystal shows up and once everything got explained to her
about how we wound up there, she agreed,
"Yeah, you know what? Let me run down and explain
all this to ya, I don't have a problem doing that."
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- ROGER: Just that cooperation right from the beginning
sent a very clear message to us.
So, when she comes in to homicide, uh,
Sergeant Harris talked to her, he felt very quickly
that she wasn't involved in this.
Brian is like, "Her voice is just too raspy,
it just doesn't quite match up."
When Brian asked her about, you know,
how she came into all of this money
and was able to pay off all her debt all of a sudden,
she said, "Oh, well, I sold my car."
And he said, "What do you mean?"
and she was able to produce the documentation,
the bill of sale and everything.
We can tell when someone's lying to us most of the time
very quickly, uh, we can also tell
when they're being very truthful.
Brian just felt right away this isn't our girl, period.
Once Crystal Jones is eliminated as a suspect,
it's very late at night, uh, everybody's worn out.
There's really not much more we can do at the moment,
all of our physical evidence is tied up at the crime labs.
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- ROGER: We come back in the next morning
and we get a phone call from our firearms lab.
Typically, from a firearms report,
we may get between 8 to 15 firearms that these--
these shell casings could have come from.
But Kim Downs came downstairs and, for the first time
since I've known her, she's ecstatic.
There's, I don't know, 4 or 5 of us standing around,
she says, "You're looking for a Cobra 380."
She even shows us a picture of it.
She says, "I'm not saying 'It's this number of firearms,'
this is the gun you're looking for."
That was a game changer.
Our crime analyst starts doing the research
on stolen firearms.
Well, there were two reports that were located,
and one of them mentions two suspects by name.
Turns out this gentleman had allowed these two folks
to stay with him and, uh, they stole a pistol from him.
Uh, he names them as Chaz Blackshear
and Danielle Hudson.
Immediately we start doing the research on those two folks,
and we notice that he has an arrest--a prior arrest,
so--every arrest that occurs in Houston, uh,
the arrestee is assigned an H.P.D. number.
And lo and behold if we don't find pictures of them
that resemble what we see in the video.
Especially with Danielle.
Phil called somebody in our fingerprint lab,
and the information he was trying to tell
the fingerprint person is, uh, "Hey, I've got a H.P.D. number
I need you to compare this to."
He didn't even mention a name.
He says, "Don't tell me it's Chaz Blackshear."
Phil literally--I think he came close to dropping the phone.
All of that took place literally in a matter of 10 minutes,
15 minutes-- just boom, boom, boom, boom.
The gentleman that-- that listed his pistol,
he was friends with Chaz.
He had his cellphone number,
and he listed that on the police report.
Now, we have enough evidence against Chaz
to be able to get a warrant for his arrest.
Once the marshals were able to get the court order
and activate, uh, the phone search,
it literally took us right back to the same apartment complex
that we had been to before.
- My name is Chaz Blackshear. I'm from Dallas, Texas.
As a child I went through a lot of...
emotional rollercoasters.
My mother being in jail--
that's my first memory.
I used to get letters, drawings from her.
I know my real father,
but I only stayed with him for a short amount of time.
It was in Arizona.
I left him up there because, you know,
he used to put his hands on me.
Busted my nose and all that.
Not too long after that, my mom got out of jail.
Within a couple--probably a couple of months maybe,
she had met this, uh, this dude named John.
He was different, man. He actually showed love.
Made me do my homework, made me, you know what I'm saying,
do things that counted in life,
and he was that father that I wanted.
He had a motorcycle, you know.
He loved to ride bikes,
and I'd hop on the bike with him.
He rode off and he never came back.
I remember the police came.
The police came knocking
at our door probably around 10, 11 at night.
So, I rush over to see what's going on
and they put their hands on my momma,
and I just hear her bust out crying.
He had wrecked on the bike and the wreck killed him.
He flew off the highway or something, I don't know.
In a way, I feel like everything was snatched from me.
The little family that I-- that I had.
After he died, my momma went back on the drugs.
I seen my mother OD one night.
She was foaming up at the mouth, she couldn't stop shaking,
and I was scared.
I ended up moving in with some cousins.
So, I ended up staying there with my, uh, adoptive father
and my adoptive mother.
They wouldn't let me do certain things
that I was used to being allowed to do.
That was one of the reasons I really rebelled a lot
as a child, because I couldn't get my way.
A lot of times--I used to cry every night.
And I was contemplating suicide at an early age.
Music was my passion, my goal, and my dream back then,
you know, uh, that's where I put all my emotions,
everything I've been through my life, I put in my music.
And, um, that's-- that's one of the things I know
that I'm blessed and I'm gifted at and, uh,
I think I could breathe then, you know, I could--I could do it
for the rest of my life as a career and be happy doing it.
And not just doing it for the popularity or--or the money.
Nobody supported me through what I wanted.
It was always what somebody else wanted,
what they think is right.
What they believed in.
They told me, uh, "You can go to college,
"go to the military or get you a job,
but you've got to do something," and none of it involved music.
So, basically, I end up joining the military just...
so I can get out of the house, so I can get away.
Just get away.
If things weren't gonna get better,
I was going to force them to get better.
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- CHAZ: Danielle, she was one of the first people
who believed in me.
She really showed me something that I'd never really seen
out of a woman.
She wanted the same thing I wanted.
She was raised by her granny and everything too,
so we kinda had similar backgrounds.
We just kinda built that trust, you know,
'cause we both been through something.
And then not before long, we got--
you know what I'm saying,
she started staying there with me, um,
and I guess that's when everything kicked off.
She just so happened to have a child,
and I knew that his--his father wasn't really in his life.
I could see how her son really looked up to me,
always wanted to be around me.
That made me hold on to him even tighter, you know.
'Cause that's how I felt that he needed, uh, a father.
You know, I didn't want them to feel the same way that I felt
back when I lost John, and I was willing to do anything
to make sure that don't happen.
I really had tried to stop hustling and, you know,
and actually go out and get a real job,
'cause I don't want nothing to take me away from my family.
And it was hard to get a job, you know, uh,
I couldn't get one, couldn't find one,
'cause I was unhonorably discharged from the military.
We end up getting kicked out the apartment,
and they had put the eviction notice on the door.
The next day we was-- we had to go.
I had to take care of 'em,
I figured it was my responsibility,
I felt if I didn't do nothing, I wasn't a man.
The first thing that came to mind was quick money,
and I was desperate for it.
I'm pretty sure anybody for their family would do
anything they have to to make sure they family was okay.
I'm not gonna lie, I probably wasn't mature enough to see
I could have found a better way.
- [sirens wailing] - [indistinct radio chatter]
- I'll never forget, I was laying on the floor,
she was sitting up, and I was asleep.
I was sleeping so hard, I didn't even--
I didn't even hear them kick the door in.
I didn't even hear it.
I don't know if it was from the stress or the depression,
I don't know what it was, but I was actually dead asleep.
She shook me and woke me up. I said, "What's up?"
She said, "Man, the police here."
They took --they took me, but I coulda took that,
but with her--when they took her in, you know, uh...
AJ was still there.
Man, that's stuff I didn't want him to see, man.
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- My name is Caroline Dozier.
I'm a prosecutor at the Harris County
District Attorney's Office,
and I was the lead prosecutor in the Chaz Blackshear
and Danielle Hudson capital murder cases.
My very first involvement with this case was
when Sergeant Harris and Detective Waters
came to my office and talked to me about picking up this case.
A cab driver had been murdered and they wanted my help.
There were two very good leads that led us
to Chaz Blackshear, specifically,
and then ultimately, Danielle Hudson, as well.
Um, one of which was the link between the two cases--
the shell casings.
They were found to be fired from a very, um,
unique type of gun.
In addition to that, they took fingerprints off of the cab,
and they were able to match one of the prints
to Chaz Blackshear.
We knew that Chaz Blackshear had a phone,
and we were in contact with the phone company
about his service.
It was a prepaid phone and it was running low on minutes.
And so, in a ruse, they told the phone company
to call him and let him know that they were giving him
additional minutes so that we could keep tabs
on where he might be.
Chaz Blackshear and Danielle Hudson
were staying at a family member's home.
I believe it was a cousin's home.
And so, we wrote warrants for Chaz Blackshear.
We didn't believe that we had enough at that time
to write one for Danielle Hudson.
- [siren wails]
- CAROLINE: They found Chaz and Danielle both at the home.
I believe they were sleeping on an air mattress.
There was something about the shape of Danielle's hair
or her head that was familiar, um, when they saw her.
She looked basically like the person who was in the video
of the two suspects running away from--from the taxi cab.
The other thing that the officers found familiar
about Danielle was the sound of her voice.
They had listened to the recordings of the phone calls
being made to the cab companies, and when they talked to her,
they noticed that her voice sounded very similar to--
if not the same--as the person who'd made those phone calls.
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- CAROLINE: They arrested Chaz on the warrant,
and then they asked Danielle Hudson
if she wouldn't mind coming down to the police station
and giving a statement, and she agreed to do so.
The detectives decided they first wanted to speak
with Chaz Blackshear and see what he would admit to
regarding the crimes.
He said that he had taken cabs,
um, he might've even been in the cabs
of the murdered drivers, but that he was not involved
in any way, shape, or form in those murders.
- CAROLINE: Detective Waters was trying to get Chaz
to confess to his involvement in these crimes, um,
but was unsuccessful initially.
The one ace in the hole that we had was Danielle Hudson.
We still had an opportunity to talk to her
and try and find out the crime from her and then maybe use
what she told us to get Chaz to tell us the truth.
Brian Harris showed her the footage from the crime scene
and pointed out the similarities between her and the female
on the surveillance footage.
And she admitted at that point that that was in fact her.
That was a huge break in the case for us.
We already had some evidence that tied them to--
to this particular case,
but now that we know that she's admitting to being
the person on that video.
Now we know that those two are probably our best suspects.
- ♪
- Danielle seemed to think that
because she wasn't the actual shooter,
that somehow she would play no part in this particular crime.
And she was pretty quick in-- in ratting out Chaz.
- CAROLINE: Danielle Hudson claimed that she was
driving the cab and that she heard Chaz
having a conversation with Mr. El Sayed.
At that point, she just thought they were gonna rob him.
Mohammed was saying,
"Please don't kill me, I have kids."
And Chaz said, "Well--well, how old are your kids?"
And once he told him how old they were,
Chaz was basically like, "Well, that's old enough,"
and shot him.
- [gunshot]
- CAROLINE: The children were like maybe six years old.
That was old enough in his mind.
And when the gun went off, she claimed she was surprised,
although she then helped pull the body out of the car
and kick him down into the culvert.
From Danielle's perspective, I think she wanted the police
to believe that they were only gonna use the gun
to scare people and get money.
She did not want the police believing that she knew
that the murders would happen beforehand.
As she said in the interview,
this was the beginning of his life of crime,
and that maybe he enjoyed it a little bit.
Danielle claims that Chaz told her "Don't worry about it.
If we ever get caught"-- And that's a big if in his mind,
--"if we ever get caught, I'll take full responsibility
and you won't have any blame in this whatsoever."
- SARA: 2 cab drivers murdered within 48 hours of each other.
The tension in the city with these reports coming out,
it was very real.
And now we finally have two suspects that have been arrested
and the city of Houston-- you could almost sense
a sigh of relief.
Chaz Blackshear and Danielle Hudson
were now looking at two counts of first-degree murder.
- BRIAN: During the interview with Danielle,
my partner's in the other room with Chaz
and they've been talking for a long time,
and he was pretty cool character,
he wasn't giving an inch.
- Detective Waters told Chaz, you know,
"Danielle's talking to us. She's telling us what happened.
"She's telling us that you were involved
and that you are the shooter in this--both of those cases."
And Chaz wouldn't bite.
He didn't believe that she was telling him.
He said, "That's not the truth."
Sergeant Harris had Danielle write a note,
like, "You promised me you'd take responsibility."
- He looks at that note, and it doesn't break him.
He looks at it and he says, "She didn't write this.
There's no spelling mistakes, she's not that smart."
Still not breaking.
We bring in the photographs, and on one of the photographs
Danielle has circled Chaz
and she writes in her own handwriting,
"My ex-boyfriend."
He's surprised, and then finally,
as a result of seeing more and more of these photographs
that she has signed off on,
he then agrees to tell the full story to my partner.
- Chaz Blackshear said he would tell the police everything,
but not until he had a chance to talk to Danielle.
- "I wanna see her. If you let me see her,
I'll tell you whatever you wanna know."
- BRIAN: We said, "Well, we don't--
"we're not gonna put her in the room first,
tell us first and then we'll see what we can do."
And he does.
He describes in detail what he did.
The actual "confession" itself was probably less than
five to seven minutes.
But what happens next is pretty incredible.
- CAROLINE: The detectives were true to their word.
After Chaz confessed and told them what had happened
in the crimes, they allowed Danielle
to be in the same room with Chaz.
You could see what their relationship was like.
And there was no fear on Danielle's face.
As a matter of fact, instead of sitting in a chair
across the table from him, she went right up to him
and sat in his lap.
- BRIAN: Her arms are curled around his head,
like almost massaging his ears and scratching his head.
And saying, "Well, you told me that you would do this
"and that you would take responsibility,
'cause I have my son."
- CHAZ: When they let her come talk to me,
I told her then, man, you know what I'm saying,
"I--I got you, I'll put it on me, just--
"but you gotta do the same,
that's the only way you can get out."
- BRIAN: He then asks her, "Are you going to jail?"
And she doesn't know at that point,
because in our interview I said,
"I don't know if you're gonna be charged,
basically depends on what she says."
- SARA: Criminals normally aren't very smart.
And so the fact that the two of them were together,
and they spoke so openly talking about the case,
who was gonna take the blame,
they must have been shocked when they realized the police
were listening to every word.
- CAROLINE: Once we had the confessions
from Chaz and Danielle, we then filed formal charges
of capital murder against them for both of the cab drivers.
- SARA: Just because she didn't shoot the victims,
just because she wasn't the one actually pulling the trigger,
doesn't mean that she was gonna get off completely scot-free.
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- SARA: In the end, both Chaz Blackshear
and Danielle Hudson plead guilty.
- CAROLINE: She was allowed to plead guilty
to a lesser included offense.
The state chose to seek the death penalty
against Chaz Blackshear because we thought the cases
were cold-blooded enough, and we thought a jury
would return a verdict of death.
- BRIAN: Danielle Hudson gets sentenced to 40 years--
40 years in Texas Department of Corrections--TDC.
Chaz Blackshear, he also pleads guilty.
- CHAZ: My lawyer at the time didn't understand.
At the time, they were trying to give me the death penalty,
you know, uh, and I wasn't trying to fight it.
And I really didn't care about-- as long as they got off,
then I was good no matter what, you know what I'm saying?
Whether it's death or whether it's life
or whether it's freedom, I put them before myself,
and that's what... a--a family man does.
- BRIAN: Chaz, he takes a life sentence
without the possibility of parole.
He will die behind bars in TDC.
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- CAROLINE: I would say that Chaz Blackshear
and Danielle Hudson were both just cold-blooded killers.
They really--they really don't care about anybody who isn't
part of their immediate family or their inner circle.
The cab drivers that they killed
were--were nothing and nobody to them.
- Danielle had a child and so, potentially, the motive
behind this was maybe they were trying to provide for the child.
And then it just kind of spiraled out of control.
- Would they have gone on to kill again?
I'm convinced of it.
How many more dead bodies would there have been?
Who knows.
I was very grateful to see that they were stopped
before we could find that answer out.
In either case, society lost two people
who were family men, who love their children,
who needed to be treated with dignity in life
and certainly were not treated with dignity in death
by these two crooks.
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