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She's executed on the ground
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[gunshots]
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This is someone who is in a stage
of rage, and wants to see her suffer.
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[Jesse]
Danielle was a single mom.
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She had a 9-month-old child,
who she cared for deeply.
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He was kind of the center
of her world.
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[Amy] He wanted control
of his daughter.
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[Nick] I think over time,
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it just became kind
of a powder keg.
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[Lane]
He's got a criminal history.
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He's a murderer.
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He's a thief.
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[Amy] Baby momma drama.
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She tries to run her over
with a car.
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Could it be? She has motive.
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[Nick] His alibi is completely
broken.
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He had created an elaborate,
false alibi,
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because he killed her.
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[gunshot]
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[narrator]
Every day in North America,
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dozens of people are murdered.
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The key to solving the
toughest of these homicides,
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lies in the final 24 hours
of the victim's life.
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To crack the case,
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detectives must reconstruct
that critical timeline.
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The minutes and hours
containing evidence
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that can help unlock
the mystery,
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and catch the killer.
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Powder Springs, Georgia.
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Nestled in the leafy country
side, north-west of Atlanta.
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It's not the kind of place
that's often in the news.
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Powder Springs is a small
blue-collar town.
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Very much
a family-orientated town.
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It is not as hustle and bustle
as Atlanta.
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You can walk alone at night.
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And you're not afraid
that you're gonna get robbed
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or assaulted or anything
like that.
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[Jesse] A lot of residents feel
safe enough that they could
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even leave their house
unlocked in certain circumstances.
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[narrator] But when
a late night 911 call
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comes in to the Powder Springs
Police Department,
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it shakes the sleepy town
wide awake.
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[narrator] The caller identifies
himself as Joshua Gibson.
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He tells the dispatcher he's standing
outside the home of his ex-girlfriend.
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Who is also the mother
of his baby daughter.
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[Jesse] He could not get
into the home,
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and that he wanted, basically,
to have a welfare check there.
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[siren]
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[Amy] Powder Spring's police
officers respond around 1:20 am,
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and what they found was, Joshua
was standing at the front door.
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[Jesse] They tried the front door
and realized that it was locked.
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They asked Joshua to have
a seat at the front.
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And they walked around the
back, and quickly discovered
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that the backdoor was not
only unlocked,
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but it was just a gentle push they
were able to make entry into the home.
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[Amy] There was no signs
of forced entry.
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[baby crying]
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[Amy] But they can hear
the baby crying.
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[baby crying]
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[Amy] And one of the officers
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immediately went to the child,
picked her up,
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and held her.
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As the officers responded
to the kitchen area,
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they found a black female
in a pool of blood.
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[Nick] She's laying
on her right side
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and she appears to be almost
in like a fetal position.
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She had a gunshot wound
to the left side of her head.
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[narrator] The victim is
23-year-old Danielle Marshall.
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The ex-girlfriend
of Joshua Gibson.
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Danielle was a single mom.
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She had a 9-month-old child who she cared for
deeply. He's kinda the center of her world.
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She was trying to better
her life through study.
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She was enrolled and trying
to get a nursing degree.
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[Amy] What people loved the
most about Danielle was her smile.
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It was big.
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And it just lit up a room.
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She was kind to everybody.
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[narrator] Lieutenant
Lane Cadwell,
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and detective Amy Randolph,
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from the Powder Springs
Police Department,
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are called in to investigate.
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[Amy] Once I arrived on
scene, Lieutenant Cadwell and I
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walked into the kitchen area,
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and we see Danielle laying
on the floor.
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[Lane] Just the traumatic
scene and...
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your heart goes out to somebody
that young that lost her life.
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[Nick] So the wound on Danielle's
left temple was of a star-shaped pattern.
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Which indicates that this was
a very close-range shot.
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There's also a wound
down the left side of her face,
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that would be consistent
with being pistol whipped.
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That's probably what put her
on the ground.
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And that's where she's
executed on the ground
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with a single shot to the head.
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[gunshot]
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[Amy] All she's wearing is
a T-shirt and underwear.
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So in my mind I'm thinking,
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it's got to be somebody
that she knew,
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that Danielle had let
into the home.
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[Nick] We know there's no
forced entry into the house.
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This isn't something random.
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It's pretty obvious that
Danielle knew her attacker.
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We have this close
contact headshot.
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Execution style.
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It seems precise.
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- [gunshot]
- It seems disciplined.
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And yet we also have this
pistol whipping beforehand.
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Which to me suggests in fact
the opposite of control.
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This is someone who is
in a state of rage
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and wants to see her suffer.
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[narrator] To solve Danielle
Marshall's murder,
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detectives will need to unravel
the final 24 hours of her life.
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[gunshot]
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[Amy] Touching Danielle,
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she was cold,
but she wasn't in rigor.
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It hadn't been very long
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since she was
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attacked and killed.
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[Jesse] Probably the time of
death, if we had to make an estimate,
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was within 2 hours
of her discovery.
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So between 11:20 and 1:15,
when the 911 call was placed,
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that's a pretty tight window
from an investigative standpoint.
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[narrator] With a preliminary
window of death established,
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investigators begin processing
the crime scene.
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[Nick] We were able to determine that
two shots were fired within the house.
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You have the round
that killed Danielle.
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And you also have
another round that missed,
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that went through the cabinets.
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Maybe during the struggle,
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a round was discharged.
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Investigators were able to
take the slug from the wall.
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[gunshot]
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[Nick] They were unable
to find any shell casings.
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Either the perpetrator took
the shell casings with him
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or this was a revolver.
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A weapon that does not eject
shell casings when it's fired.
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[narrator] To build
a narrative of the murder,
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detectives turn their attention
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to the remainder
of Danielle's home.
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[Lane] Definitely no sign of a
struggle anywhere else in the house.
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There was computers
and cellphones.
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Whoever did this, this is
what they were there for.
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It was not a robbery
or burglary.
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The house was dusted. We dusted,
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you know all the entry ways
and all
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the areas we can think
of touching.
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But nothing useful came
on the fingerprints.
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[Amy] What we took from
the crime scene as evidence,
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was of course cellphones,
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and laptop computers.
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It will tell you
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who they've been talking to,
when they've been talking to them.
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It's the biggest
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key to almost every
investigation,
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these times.
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[narrator] Looking for more
information about Danielle,
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investigators
turn to her mother,
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Gloria Marshall.
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[Lane] We did have to break
the news to her.
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That's never fun, to have
to tell somebody that.
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[Amy] Danielle was living
with her mom, Gloria.
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She was more than happy to
make sure that her daughter
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and her granddaughter had
everything that they needed.
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[narrator]
Investigators ask Gloria
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about Danielle's movements
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in the hours leading
up to her death.
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[Amy] Gloria left for work
about 9 pm.
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Danielle, according to her,
didn't have any plans,
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nobody was to come over.
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[Lane] Gloria gets a break
around 11,
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when she usually calls
Danielle, just checks in.
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And she had called,
and got no response.
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[Amy] She didn't think it was too
much out of the ordinary at the time.
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Sometimes Danielle would go
back to sleep.
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And she let it go.
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[narrator] Investigators shift the
conversation to Danielle's relationship
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with Joshua Gibson.
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[Nick] Gloria tells them
that Danielle has been
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in this relationship for quite
a bit of time with Josh Gibson,
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and it has been nothing
but a toxic situation.
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And Gloria has completely
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banned him from the house.
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Based off of a past behavior.
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[Amy] Danielle and Joshua met
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at Goodwill,
where they both worked.
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So when Danielle brought
Joshua home,
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it wasn't the greatest meeting
in the world.
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Gloria found him
obnoxious, controlling,
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and she wanted better
for her daughter.
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[Lane] Danielle and Joshua
weren't together for very long
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before Danielle became pregnant.
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[Amy] Seven months
into the pregnancy,
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Joshua impregnates
his old girlfriend, Deandra.
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Complicates things a bit.
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[Nick] And Josh
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then got back together
with his ex-girlfriend.
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So he's got babies
with two different women.
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There's a lot of drama
going on here.
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You can't make it up.
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[Jesse] Danielle was fulltime
custodian of Ava.
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But she also thought
it was important
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and rightfully so to have
her father in the picture.
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[Amy] So when Gloria would
leave for work,
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that's when Joshua would
come over.
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When I asked Gloria who wanted
to hurt Danielle,
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who could've had
any ill will towards her,
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immediately she said Joshua.
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[Lane] Gloria feels there's
nobody else
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that that would do this to
Danielle, except for Josh.
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[narrator] Detectives begin to
consider a possible motive for Joshua.
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[Nick] Josh wants nothing
more than to have control
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over the situation with Ava.
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And he doesn't have
that control.
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Danielle and Gloria don't just let him
show up at the house whenever he wants.
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[Jesse] You know, it was
somebody close to Danielle.
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It was somebody that,
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that was upset with Danielle.
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[Amy] At this point I thought,
we're good,
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we've got our suspect,
he's the one who did it.
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[gunshot]
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He's got motive.
He's got opportunity.
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Everything
is pointing at Joshua.
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[narrator] In the shooting
death of 23-year-old
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single mom Danielle Marshall.
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Investigators are zeroing
in on their first suspect.
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The victim's ex-boyfriend,
Joshua Gibson.
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[pistol hit]
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When Detective Randolph told him it
was Danielle who was dead in the house,
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he showed no response,
no emotion.
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[Amy] He didn't seem concerned
about anybody
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except for himself
and his child.
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[narrator] As investigators
continue to question Joshua
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about the events of that night,
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his answers don't add up.
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[Amy] He said he was so afraid,
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but he didn't jump the fence
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to go into the backdoor
to see if that was open.
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That was very odd to me.
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Very odd.
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And his only response was,
"I didn't feel like it."
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Okay.
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[narrator] Then, detectives notice
something strange about Joshua's car,
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which is sitting
in Danielle's driveway.
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[Amy] The driver's window
was broken.
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It wasn't even there, it was
covered up in plastic.
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And then the rear driver's
side had a bullet hole in it.
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[Lane] We wanted to search
that vehicle,
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because we have somebody
here shot in the house,
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but we have a bullet hole in
the truck sitting in the driveway,
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I wanna see what's going on
with the truck, also.
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[narrator]
With their suspicion mounting,
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detectives bring Joshua
down to the station
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for a formal interview.
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[dog barking]
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[Amy] He tells me that he is
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currently living with his
second baby momma, Deandra.
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[Lane] But he still comes
and sees Ava, his daughter,
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usually at night when he
gets off work.
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[Nick] It was under the guise
that he was coming to see Ava,
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to get to see his child.
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But there was also a continued
sexual relationship with Danielle.
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[cellphone ringing]
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[Nick] I think over time,
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it just became kind
of a powder keg.
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Joshua Gibson has ample motive
in this case,
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he may want custody
of his child.
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He may also want
to control Danielle.
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Imagine how stressful
this might be.
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To manage two relationships,
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multiple children.
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You may resort to certain
strategies, including violence
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in an effort to control the various
players of these relationships
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and get what it is you want.
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[narrator] Investigators drill
down on Joshua's timeline
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for Saturday night
and early Sunday morning.
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[Amy] That night,
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Joshua was supposed to go
over to Danielle's
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around 9 o'clock
after Gloria left.
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Joshua got home about 7:30 pm.
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And he texted Danielle and said, "Hey, I'm
tired, I'm not gonna come over tonight."
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[Nick] So Josh said that his
girlfriend came home from work,
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she came home from work
later than him.
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They went to bed.
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He said he woke up
about midnight.
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And he said he just decided
"I'm gonna call Danielle,
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and see if I can go
see my child."
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[Amy] He's texting Danielle.
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She's not responding.
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And in his words,
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that was odd because Danielle
is always on her phone.
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[Lane] He woke his girlfriend
up and said,
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you know, "I'm gonna go over
there, because something's wrong."
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[Amy] So by the time he
gets there, it was about I am.
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And he's knocking on the door,
he's knocking on the window.
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He's calling.
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Sometime after 1 o'clock.
1:10, 1:15,
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he panics.
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So he calls 911.
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Joshua was asked who he
thought could've done it.
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The one person he brought
up was a guy named Darnell.
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He said that Danielle
had been seeing him.
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And that he was a bad dude.
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[Amy] He was just worried
about his daughter.
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He didn't want his daughter
in any kind of harm's way.
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So to me
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that could've been
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a motive for murder.
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He wanted control
of his daughter.
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[Lane] But we had no charges
on him at that point.
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We would be back in touch,
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but he was released
from custody at that point.
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[narrator] With Joshua still
in their crosshairs,
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detectives dig into Danielle's
phone records,
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to see whether his alibi
holds up.
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What we found was that the
last time that she used her phone
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was at 10:34 that night.
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And once we looked at his phone,
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his story, what he said
was true.
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[Lane] Text messages he told us
about as he was getting off work.
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No activity on his phone
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when he said he was asleep.
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[Jesse] The geo-location
analysis show
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that he was not at this crime
scene prior to making
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that 911 call at 1:15
in the morning.
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[Amy] Everything else he said
wasn't holding water,
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but data doesn't lie.
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We found that he was
where he said he was,
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at the time that he said he was.
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[Lane] We had
to break his alibi.
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[narrator] But the data
confirming Joshua was not
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at the crime scene at the time
of the murder.
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He is eliminated as a suspect.
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Detectives then shift
their focus to the bullet hole
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they observed on Joshua's
vehicle at the crime scene.
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They wonder if it can be
connected to Danielle's murder.
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Joshua tells us two weeks prior
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somebody shot at his vehicle.
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[Nick] He says he saw
a compact car
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coming toward him.
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A hand and a pistol come out
of one of the windows.
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[glass breaking]
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And opened fire on his car
as he passed by.
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[Amy] Joshua reported
to the police
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that the only person that he
thought could do such a thing,
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would be Danielle.
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[Jesse] Police quickly
realized that she was home
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with Ava and Gloria
the entire time
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and she was not somehow
involved in this.
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[Amy] So when looking
at the dates
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and the times,
and who's all involved,
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we're thinking that, somehow,
his drive-by shooting,
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and her murder,
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something has to be
connected here.
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[narrator] Looking for evidence
connecting the two shootings,
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police process Joshua's car.
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[Nick] The projectile that was
lodged in the side door of the car
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was actually compared with the projectile
that was found in Danielle's house.
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And a firearm scientist was
able to determine
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they were fired from the same
weapon and it would've been a .38.
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It's a match.
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So the bullet
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that killed Danielle,
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was fired from the same gun
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that Joshua said
was a drive-by shooting.
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[Nick] That's a huge lead
in any investigation,
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because now you know that
these cases are definitely connected.
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[Amy] Who would wanna
kill Joshua?
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And who would wanna
kill Danielle?
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Why would they want both
of them dead?
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[gunshot]
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[narrator] Detectives are
convinced the execution-style
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killing of young mother
Danielle Marshall
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is connected
to a drive-by shooting
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that targeted her ex-boyfriend
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Joshua Gibson.
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[Nick] They both been shot at,
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and we know that the same gun
was used.
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[gunshot]
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[Nick] So we have to look
into the possibility
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that we have somebody out there
that wants both of these people dead.
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[Lane] Doing our background
investigation,
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we did find a report
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between Josh's current
girlfriend Deandra
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and Danielle
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where they had an altercation
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at the Goodwill.
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[Amy] They get
into a verbal argument.
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And Deandra tries to run
her over with the car.
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Hits her slightly.
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And the police are called.
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But nothing ever happened
with the case.
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So, we're wondering
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could it possibly be Deandra?
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He's cheating on her.
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She hates Danielle.
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Could it be?
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She has motive.
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So we call her in.
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She is a hostile witness.
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She didn't wanna talk to me.
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She is very short
with her answers.
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00:22:17,803 --> 00:22:20,738
When I asked Deandra
about the Goodwill incident,
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she just brushed it off.
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She's just like,
"Yeah, I did it.
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00:22:27,379 --> 00:22:28,379
So what?"
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She doesn't care one bit
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that Danielle was dead.
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00:22:44,696 --> 00:22:48,632
When we interviewed Deandra, we
asked her to account for her whereabouts.
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You know, during the time
of the homicide.
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And she said she had work
that night,
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she worked at the Walmart.
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00:23:03,882 --> 00:23:05,616
[Amy] Thank God, you know,
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Walmart has great cameras.
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So, of course we pulled
all the video footage.
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So what she's telling me
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time for time, lines up exactly
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with what the Walmart video
shows.
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And she gets back to her house
about 10 pm.
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[Lane] They went to sleep.
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She got woke up midnight or so
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by Josh saying, "I've been
trying to reach Danielle."
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She provides the same timeline.
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About 12:45, he leaves
and goes to check on Danielle.
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So she's solidifying and
supporting his alibi he's given us.
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[Amy] The data from phones
confirms her story,
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confirms Joshua's story.
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At this point in the
investigation, I'm frustrated.
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Because I have got two people
that have the means and the motive,
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and the opportunity.
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00:24:07,145 --> 00:24:09,280
But everything else,
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the actual facts
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00:24:11,016 --> 00:24:13,350
and the actual evidence,
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is leading away from them.
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00:24:17,956 --> 00:24:21,025
[narrator] With Deandra's
alibi clearing her as a suspect,
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detectives go back
to the drawing board
435
00:24:24,029 --> 00:24:25,296
looking for new leads.
436
00:24:27,065 --> 00:24:30,768
In Josh's own interview
with police, very early on,
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he revealed that a potential
suspect could be
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this prior boyfriend
that Danielle had been seeing.
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00:24:35,674 --> 00:24:37,575
So, we really wanted
to look into that
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and see if there was
a possibility that perhaps
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some scorned lover was the
actual perpetrator of this crime.
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[narrator] As investigators
dig into Darnell Jones,
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they soon make
a surprising discovery.
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[Lane] So as we looked
into Darnell,
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he's got a criminal history.
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He's a murderer. He's a thief.
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00:24:56,228 --> 00:25:00,097
[Jesse] He had a probation
warrant that was outstanding for him.
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00:25:00,131 --> 00:25:02,800
These were certainly red flags
that anyone
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involved in an investigation
like this would want to look into.
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[Amy] It's 100% possible
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that he could have gotten
jealous of Joshua.
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00:25:12,711 --> 00:25:15,012
He just could've been angry.
453
00:25:17,048 --> 00:25:19,517
You never know when somebody
is gonna snap.
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[narrator] Detectives have
a new suspect
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in the cold-blooded murder
of Danielle Marshall.
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00:25:31,897 --> 00:25:34,665
An ex-boyfriend
with a criminal record
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00:25:34,733 --> 00:25:35,799
named Darnell Jones.
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00:25:37,636 --> 00:25:39,837
[gunshot]
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[Nick] Any place where there
could've been some level of tension,
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you gotta look into that.
461
00:25:45,043 --> 00:25:48,913
And it was very important
to find Darnell.
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[Lane] Darnell did have
an active warrant.
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00:25:52,284 --> 00:25:56,253
So, we knew getting him
to talk to us was gonna be
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a tricky thing.
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[Amy] I call up
the phone number.
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And I said "Okay, listen,
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I'm gonna meet you.
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I'm not going to arrest you
for your active warrant."
469
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,334
So, finally he agreed.
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Darnell was very sad
that she was gone.
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00:26:18,877 --> 00:26:22,913
He very much enjoyed her and
they had a great time together.
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But Darnell explained
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that Joshua was
very controlling.
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Whenever they had
any interactions,
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Joshua was rude,
aggressive, violent.
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00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,070
[Lane] So he just kind of
stepped away from the relationship,
477
00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:50,174
because she wouldn't
get rid of Josh.
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[Amy] I point blank asked
Darnell, "Did you try to kill him?"
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His response was no.
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[narrator] Investigators asked
Darnell to account
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for his time on the night
of the murder.
482
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[Amy] Darnell said that he was
at a hotel room
483
00:27:15,433 --> 00:27:17,868
with three or four other people,
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they were partying
all night long.
485
00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:25,809
He got a ride home, went
back to his girlfriend's house.
486
00:27:25,844 --> 00:27:28,912
We were able to verify that he
was nowhere near the homicide
487
00:27:28,947 --> 00:27:30,814
and not involved
in the homicide.
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[narrator] After ruling out
three strong suspects,
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detectives revisit Danielle's
email and phone records
490
00:27:39,457 --> 00:27:41,125
looking for new leads.
491
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,494
So we're looking
through her phone,
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and we see some racy
conversations between her
493
00:27:48,967 --> 00:27:50,300
and another male.
494
00:27:51,636 --> 00:27:52,970
He had sent some...
495
00:27:53,004 --> 00:27:55,072
What's it called? [bleep] pics.
496
00:27:55,106 --> 00:27:56,373
Of course.
497
00:27:56,408 --> 00:28:02,279
So I thought, "This is a guy
we should look into, for sure."
498
00:28:02,313 --> 00:28:06,216
[narrator] Investigators learned that
the man's name is Willie Sandoval.
499
00:28:06,251 --> 00:28:08,919
And he and Danielle were
friends from the neighborhood.
500
00:28:10,889 --> 00:28:14,625
[Nick] The conversation seemed
to be somewhat one-sided.
501
00:28:14,659 --> 00:28:17,628
This same man had been at
the house several days before.
502
00:28:17,662 --> 00:28:22,166
Danielle had actually had
to ask him to leave the house.
503
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,335
You always have to think
about the idea of rejection
504
00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:27,438
being a motive for murder.
505
00:28:27,472 --> 00:28:29,673
So that's something that you
just got to look into.
506
00:28:31,076 --> 00:28:34,378
[Amy] When we met with Willie,
and we're talking to him,
507
00:28:34,412 --> 00:28:37,314
"and saying "Here's exactly
what you said,
508
00:28:37,348 --> 00:28:39,850
and here's what she said."
And he's like,
509
00:28:39,884 --> 00:28:42,086
"No, that's not true,
that's not true."
510
00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:51,028
And then I show him the
picture of his penis, and he says,
511
00:28:51,596 --> 00:28:53,697
"Uh, no, that's not me."
512
00:29:05,210 --> 00:29:07,211
[Amy] And at that point,
he was like,
513
00:29:08,213 --> 00:29:10,914
"Okay, alright, that was me."
514
00:29:10,949 --> 00:29:14,051
So, you just got to build a
rapport with people sometimes.
515
00:29:15,987 --> 00:29:18,455
When I asked Willie where he was
516
00:29:18,490 --> 00:29:20,090
the night that she was murdered,
517
00:29:20,792 --> 00:29:22,559
he said that he was at work.
518
00:29:23,161 --> 00:29:25,195
And come to find out
519
00:29:25,230 --> 00:29:27,531
later on, we were able to alibi
520
00:29:27,565 --> 00:29:29,199
exactly what he said.
521
00:29:29,234 --> 00:29:30,267
That he was at work.
522
00:29:31,870 --> 00:29:35,372
At this point we've determined
that Willie is not her killer.
523
00:29:38,109 --> 00:29:40,377
[narrator] With no new leads
or suspects,
524
00:29:40,411 --> 00:29:43,680
the investigation into the
murder of Danielle Marshall
525
00:29:43,715 --> 00:29:45,048
hits a wall.
526
00:29:46,417 --> 00:29:49,219
It's heartbreaking to have
a case go cold.
527
00:29:49,254 --> 00:29:51,522
Danielle, she's a person.
528
00:29:51,556 --> 00:29:57,294
She had life, she had love, she
had fear, she had friends and family.
529
00:29:57,328 --> 00:29:59,930
And you get to know all of that,
530
00:29:59,964 --> 00:30:01,231
and it's gone.
531
00:30:03,067 --> 00:30:05,335
[narrator] One year
after Danielle's murder,
532
00:30:05,370 --> 00:30:08,005
the Cobb County district
attorney's office
533
00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:11,275
creates a new unit dedicated
to solving cold cases.
534
00:30:14,546 --> 00:30:19,082
Detective Nick O'Conor is
given the unit's first assignment:
535
00:30:19,117 --> 00:30:22,986
reinvestigating Danielle
Marshall's murder.
536
00:30:23,021 --> 00:30:25,689
[Nick] I felt like we could
get somewhere with this case.
537
00:30:25,723 --> 00:30:30,194
Also there was this 9-month-old
baby that had been left at a crime scene.
538
00:30:30,228 --> 00:30:32,396
So it was one of those cases
539
00:30:32,430 --> 00:30:34,565
that just kinda pulled
your heartstrings a little bit.
540
00:30:35,567 --> 00:30:37,034
[narrator] With fresh eyes,
541
00:30:37,068 --> 00:30:40,704
cold case investigators revisit
all the evidence in the case file.
542
00:30:42,207 --> 00:30:46,577
We noticed that, on Josh's
girlfriend Deandra's records,
543
00:30:46,611 --> 00:30:51,381
there was a phone call made at
11:22 on the night of the murder.
544
00:30:53,051 --> 00:30:55,552
And that was very interesting
to me,
545
00:30:55,587 --> 00:30:58,722
because the time of that call
would've been
546
00:30:58,756 --> 00:31:02,326
when she was supposed to be asleep,
and Josh was supposed to be asleep.
547
00:31:06,297 --> 00:31:08,966
[Jesse] We had every reason
to believe that Danielle was killed
548
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,668
you know, between
11:20, 11:30, and 1:15
549
00:31:11,703 --> 00:31:13,604
when the 911 call was placed.
550
00:31:15,707 --> 00:31:18,609
Suddenly, we have a new lead
that needs to be looked into
551
00:31:18,643 --> 00:31:22,246
that's pretty close in time to
the perpetration of our crime.
552
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,781
[narrator] To help determine
whether it was Joshua or Deandra
553
00:31:24,816 --> 00:31:27,184
who made the phone call,
554
00:31:27,218 --> 00:31:30,354
detectives need to track down
who they were calling.
555
00:31:30,388 --> 00:31:32,623
[Nick] We were able to
determine that the subscriber
556
00:31:32,657 --> 00:31:34,157
was a guy by the name of Trevor.
557
00:31:34,192 --> 00:31:37,294
Trevor and Josh had gone
to high school together.
558
00:31:37,328 --> 00:31:40,197
And he is also friends
with Josh's girlfriend as well.
559
00:31:40,231 --> 00:31:44,568
We did a search warrant to
obtain the cell tower records
560
00:31:44,602 --> 00:31:46,570
so we could get the coordinates.
561
00:31:46,604 --> 00:31:49,439
What was very interesting
about what we found,
562
00:31:49,474 --> 00:31:54,411
is you could see Trevor moving
to the apartment complex
563
00:31:54,445 --> 00:31:56,313
shared by Josh
and his girlfriend.
564
00:31:56,347 --> 00:31:58,015
And then from there,
565
00:31:58,049 --> 00:31:59,917
moving to Powder Springs,
566
00:31:59,951 --> 00:32:02,719
where Danielle lived.
567
00:32:02,754 --> 00:32:06,924
Right smack dab in our time period
of when Danielle was murdered.
568
00:32:10,628 --> 00:32:13,797
Trevor may not have had
a specific motive personally,
569
00:32:17,068 --> 00:32:18,468
but we know Josh did.
570
00:32:18,503 --> 00:32:20,637
And we know that Josh's
girlfriend did.
571
00:32:20,672 --> 00:32:24,574
So we have to consider him
a suspect at that point.
572
00:32:24,609 --> 00:32:27,678
This is a big lead that we've
got to follow up on quick.
573
00:32:27,712 --> 00:32:29,379
[Michael] Investigators would
have to consider
574
00:32:29,414 --> 00:32:31,515
the possibility
that Trevor Green
575
00:32:31,549 --> 00:32:34,384
was retained
to do the dirty work.
576
00:32:35,586 --> 00:32:37,888
Could we have a situation
where Trevor Green
577
00:32:37,922 --> 00:32:39,189
is the trigger man?
578
00:32:40,091 --> 00:32:42,059
But Joshua Gibson
is the puppeteer?
579
00:32:44,062 --> 00:32:45,262
[gunshot]
580
00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:51,802
[narrator] Detectives have
uncovered a new suspect
581
00:32:51,836 --> 00:32:55,439
in the murder investigation of
23-year-old Danielle Marshall.
582
00:32:56,107 --> 00:32:57,274
Trevor Green,
583
00:32:57,308 --> 00:33:00,811
a good friend of her
ex-boyfriend Joshua Gibson.
584
00:33:00,845 --> 00:33:03,480
This was the first person
we can say,
585
00:33:03,514 --> 00:33:06,850
without a doubt, you were at the
house at the time of the homicide.
586
00:33:07,852 --> 00:33:10,020
We wanted to catch him
off guard.
587
00:33:10,054 --> 00:33:13,890
We were able to do some background,
and find out where he worked.
588
00:33:16,027 --> 00:33:17,995
[narrator] Face to face
with detectives,
589
00:33:18,029 --> 00:33:20,364
Trevor is caught by surprise.
590
00:33:42,286 --> 00:33:43,553
Initially, Trevor lied.
591
00:33:43,588 --> 00:33:45,722
He tried to create
another reason
592
00:33:45,757 --> 00:33:47,424
why he would've been
593
00:33:47,458 --> 00:33:50,427
in that neighborhood
or in the area.
594
00:33:50,461 --> 00:33:53,330
I confronted him
with the phone records,
595
00:33:53,364 --> 00:33:54,898
with the cell tower analysis.
596
00:34:16,921 --> 00:34:19,322
[Nick] Eventually he had
admitted that,
597
00:34:19,357 --> 00:34:21,792
"Yeah, I had, I did go
over there that night."
598
00:34:24,295 --> 00:34:28,432
He explains that on that
night, Josh called him
599
00:34:28,466 --> 00:34:30,267
from his girlfriend's phone
600
00:34:30,301 --> 00:34:31,435
to come pick him up
601
00:34:31,469 --> 00:34:33,270
and to take him
to Danielle's house.
602
00:34:33,304 --> 00:34:34,905
Supposedly to have a threesome.
603
00:34:36,808 --> 00:34:39,910
[Lane] He said that this was
Josh's idea,
604
00:34:39,944 --> 00:34:42,045
and that Josh called him
and said that, you know,
605
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,981
tonight's the night, she's
down for it, she's ready to go.
606
00:34:45,016 --> 00:34:47,884
[car screeching]
607
00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:49,586
[Nick] When they arrived
at the house,
608
00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:54,224
he explained that Danielle
seemed to be kinda shocked
609
00:34:54,258 --> 00:34:55,092
that they were there.
610
00:34:58,996 --> 00:35:03,366
Trevor says he stays in the
living room with Ava, the baby
611
00:35:03,401 --> 00:35:07,204
while Danielle and Josh go
into the backroom.
612
00:35:07,238 --> 00:35:09,439
[Danielle] What are you doing?
You can't be here.
613
00:35:09,474 --> 00:35:10,707
[Joshua] I'm here,
what's happening?
614
00:35:10,741 --> 00:35:12,008
[Danielle] You're such a psycho!
615
00:35:12,043 --> 00:35:14,144
And then, Josh reappears,
616
00:35:14,178 --> 00:35:16,980
and basically says,
"Hey, she's not into it.
617
00:35:17,014 --> 00:35:18,048
Let's get out of here."
618
00:35:45,910 --> 00:35:47,344
So at this point,
619
00:35:47,378 --> 00:35:50,714
I begin to question him.
"Did you hear a gunshot?"
620
00:35:52,483 --> 00:35:55,552
Trevor says he doesn't hear
any gunshots or anything at all.
621
00:35:58,389 --> 00:36:00,390
When Josh gets back to the car,
622
00:36:00,424 --> 00:36:02,492
he said that he acted
completely normal.
623
00:36:03,127 --> 00:36:05,962
And he just took him home.
624
00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:08,732
[narrator] Detectives conclude
their interview with Trevor.
625
00:36:08,766 --> 00:36:10,634
Leaving him noticeably rattled.
626
00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:13,670
As soon as we leave,
627
00:36:13,704 --> 00:36:16,173
we know that he's gonna be
calling Josh.
628
00:36:16,207 --> 00:36:19,409
So, I had a plan to have
a search warrant ready.
629
00:36:19,443 --> 00:36:22,012
So I could actually just take
his cellphone,
630
00:36:22,046 --> 00:36:25,015
so I could find any kinda
contact between him and Josh
631
00:36:25,049 --> 00:36:26,249
during that time period.
632
00:36:28,653 --> 00:36:33,290
So we found a text conversation
where Trevor kinda just went off on him.
633
00:36:33,324 --> 00:36:34,925
"Did you get me
into some kind of murder?"
634
00:36:35,893 --> 00:36:37,928
Josh responded to him,
635
00:36:37,962 --> 00:36:40,997
and said,
"Hey, man, I didn't do it.
636
00:36:41,065 --> 00:36:42,232
But I know who did."
637
00:36:43,701 --> 00:36:44,734
He's not saying
638
00:36:45,469 --> 00:36:46,670
"Trevor, you're crazy, man.
639
00:36:46,704 --> 00:36:48,705
We didn't go over there
that night.
640
00:36:48,739 --> 00:36:50,407
I can't believe you said that
to the police."
641
00:36:50,441 --> 00:36:52,042
He isn't denying any of this.
642
00:36:52,076 --> 00:36:55,245
[Jesse] Josh had been denying the
whole time that he knew what happened.
643
00:36:55,279 --> 00:36:57,347
He was essentially
corroborating the fact
644
00:36:57,381 --> 00:37:00,917
that the friend was actually being truthful
about having driven him to the crime scene,
645
00:37:00,952 --> 00:37:02,852
at the time
of Danielle's murder.
646
00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:04,921
It was the big break in the case
647
00:37:04,956 --> 00:37:07,457
that we'd all been
searching for, hoping for.
648
00:37:08,626 --> 00:37:10,493
[Nick] So Josh's best thing
that he had going for him
649
00:37:10,528 --> 00:37:12,128
in this investigation
was an alibi.
650
00:37:14,165 --> 00:37:16,099
That alibi is completely broken.
651
00:37:16,767 --> 00:37:18,134
He had created an elaborate,
652
00:37:18,803 --> 00:37:19,869
false alibi.
653
00:37:21,706 --> 00:37:22,806
Because he killed her.
654
00:37:24,976 --> 00:37:27,744
[narrator] Having broken
Joshua Gibson's alibi,
655
00:37:27,778 --> 00:37:32,749
detectives are now able to piece together
Danielle Marshall's final 24 hours.
656
00:37:32,783 --> 00:37:34,517
[gunshot]
657
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:38,355
Josh obviously had a plan.
658
00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:40,523
He wants custody of Ava.
659
00:37:40,558 --> 00:37:45,528
He realized that there was no
other way for him to get custody
660
00:37:45,563 --> 00:37:47,163
without taking Danielle
out of the picture.
661
00:37:48,766 --> 00:37:52,269
[Amy] Joshua had plans
to meet Danielle,
662
00:37:52,303 --> 00:37:54,537
and to see Ava that night.
663
00:37:55,873 --> 00:37:57,307
However,
664
00:37:57,341 --> 00:37:59,075
Joshua had different plans.
665
00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:00,277
[cellphone buzzing]
666
00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:02,579
[Amy] He cancelled.
667
00:38:03,748 --> 00:38:06,850
Deandra gets home from work
about 10 o'clock.
668
00:38:07,752 --> 00:38:09,352
They go to bed about 11.
669
00:38:12,356 --> 00:38:14,724
Joshua pretends to be asleep.
670
00:38:14,759 --> 00:38:18,328
At 11:22, he uses
Deandra's phone
671
00:38:18,362 --> 00:38:20,830
to call Trevor.
672
00:38:20,865 --> 00:38:22,699
[Nick] He's got a kind of bank
on the idea that they're not
673
00:38:22,733 --> 00:38:24,801
gonna check his girlfriend's
phone records.
674
00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:26,970
He knew they would check
his records,
675
00:38:27,004 --> 00:38:30,040
so he had to use something
different, and that's what he chose.
676
00:38:30,074 --> 00:38:33,910
He knows that Danielle's mother has
a neighbor that kind of keeps a lookout
677
00:38:33,944 --> 00:38:34,978
for his vehicle.
678
00:38:35,012 --> 00:38:36,513
So he didn't have to worry
about that issue,
679
00:38:36,547 --> 00:38:38,515
because he's gonna be going
in Trevor's car.
680
00:38:39,784 --> 00:38:43,086
[Lane] And they get
to Danielle's house at 11:41.
681
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,321
They go in,
682
00:38:44,355 --> 00:38:47,057
still under the eyes of having
the three way.
683
00:38:48,092 --> 00:38:49,993
And Danielle,
684
00:38:50,027 --> 00:38:52,062
she's not having it,
she's upset.
685
00:38:54,031 --> 00:38:55,332
So they leave,
686
00:38:55,366 --> 00:38:57,967
walk back out to the car.
687
00:38:58,002 --> 00:39:01,204
Josh tells Trevor, "Hold on
for a minute, I gotta go back in,
688
00:39:01,238 --> 00:39:02,906
I gotta do something."
689
00:39:02,940 --> 00:39:04,774
[Jesse] Josh's friend is
waiting outside,
690
00:39:04,809 --> 00:39:06,242
playing loud music in the rain.
691
00:39:06,277 --> 00:39:09,245
So he is not really cognizant
of what's going on around him.
692
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:16,252
[Jesse] Meanwhile, Josh
693
00:39:16,287 --> 00:39:19,155
is able to get into the house
without any forced entry.
694
00:39:22,326 --> 00:39:24,828
[Nick] And there is the
confrontation in the kitchen.
695
00:39:27,098 --> 00:39:29,232
There was some kind
of physical altercation.
696
00:39:30,735 --> 00:39:32,635
[gunshot]
697
00:39:32,670 --> 00:39:35,372
I think the first shot
was by surprise.
698
00:39:35,406 --> 00:39:36,272
He missed the first shot.
699
00:39:38,743 --> 00:39:40,910
[Lane] And that's where Josh
struck her.
700
00:39:41,912 --> 00:39:43,646
[gunshot]
701
00:39:43,681 --> 00:39:45,048
[Lane]
And shot her with the weapon,
702
00:39:45,082 --> 00:39:46,750
and committed the homicide.
703
00:39:50,988 --> 00:39:54,257
[baby crying]
704
00:40:00,798 --> 00:40:02,232
[Amy] By 12:15,
705
00:40:02,266 --> 00:40:04,601
Joshua was back at his house,
706
00:40:04,635 --> 00:40:06,369
texting Danielle,
707
00:40:06,404 --> 00:40:09,406
knowing that she is dead,
and she is not going to respond.
708
00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:14,077
[Jesse] He then wakes up his
girlfriend so that he can create
709
00:40:14,111 --> 00:40:15,912
another layer
to this false alibi.
710
00:40:16,981 --> 00:40:19,249
At 12:45, he leaves his house,
711
00:40:19,984 --> 00:40:22,752
goes back to Danielle's house.
712
00:40:22,787 --> 00:40:24,087
He gets there.
713
00:40:24,989 --> 00:40:28,124
Finally at 1:15,
he makes the 911 call.
714
00:40:31,829 --> 00:40:33,062
[Nick] Now we know,
715
00:40:33,097 --> 00:40:36,332
the first shooting was
basically a set-up.
716
00:40:37,768 --> 00:40:39,369
[glass breaking]
717
00:40:39,403 --> 00:40:41,371
[Nick] Josh shot his own car up,
718
00:40:41,405 --> 00:40:44,274
and immediately said that Danielle
was the prime suspect on this
719
00:40:44,308 --> 00:40:47,076
to get her arrested so he can
get custody of the child.
720
00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:48,978
That didn't work.
721
00:40:49,013 --> 00:40:51,114
You're talking two weeks later
is when Danielle's murdered.
722
00:40:51,148 --> 00:40:52,849
[gunshot]
723
00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:59,322
[Amy] Baby momma drama
is what it all boiled down to.
724
00:40:59,356 --> 00:41:03,159
And a guy that was
so narcissistic,
725
00:41:03,994 --> 00:41:06,463
that he had to murder
726
00:41:06,497 --> 00:41:10,099
this girl just to get his way.
727
00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:14,103
[narrator] Joshua Gibson is arrested,
and charged with first degree murder,
728
00:41:14,138 --> 00:41:17,040
aggravated assault,
and possession of a firearm.
729
00:41:18,309 --> 00:41:21,878
At trial, he is sentenced
to life in prison,
730
00:41:21,912 --> 00:41:23,713
without the possibility
of parole.
731
00:41:26,317 --> 00:41:29,786
In my 20-year career,
this ranks as one of the cases
732
00:41:29,820 --> 00:41:32,722
that has more premeditation
and planning than I've ever seen.
733
00:41:35,826 --> 00:41:38,728
[Nick] Josh is probably one of
the more cold and calculating
734
00:41:38,762 --> 00:41:39,996
people that I've ever
dealt with.
735
00:41:40,064 --> 00:41:42,142
And it's just hard for me
to imagine
736
00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:45,001
my baby crawling across a floor
737
00:41:45,035 --> 00:41:47,103
of a living room when the mother
738
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of my child is dead
in the other room.
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[narrator] To this day,
Danielle's family and friends
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continue to make sure
her beautiful spirit lives on.
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[Lane] I just hate that Ava
doesn't have her mom,
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but at least Gloria can
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teach her who her mom was,
and eventually let her know
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that justice was served
for her mom.
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I want Danielle to be
remembered by her smile.
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Every single picture that you
look at Danielle,
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and that smile,
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and those dimples,
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says a thousand words.
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She was beautiful.