1 00:00:04,637 --> 00:00:07,606 She's executed on the ground with a single shot to the head. 2 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:09,108 [gunshots] 3 00:00:09,142 --> 00:00:12,945 This is someone who is in a stage of rage, and wants to see her suffer. 4 00:00:12,979 --> 00:00:15,180 [Jesse] Danielle was a single mom. 5 00:00:15,215 --> 00:00:18,217 She had a 9-month-old child, who she cared for deeply. 6 00:00:18,251 --> 00:00:20,352 He was kind of the center of her world. 7 00:00:20,387 --> 00:00:22,388 [Amy] He wanted control of his daughter. 8 00:00:23,056 --> 00:00:24,289 [Nick] I think over time, 9 00:00:25,558 --> 00:00:27,226 it just became kind of a powder keg. 10 00:00:28,228 --> 00:00:29,561 [Lane] He's got a criminal history. 11 00:00:30,330 --> 00:00:31,463 He's a murderer. 12 00:00:32,565 --> 00:00:33,899 He's a thief. 13 00:00:33,933 --> 00:00:35,667 [Amy] Baby momma drama. 14 00:00:35,702 --> 00:00:37,770 She tries to run her over with a car. 15 00:00:38,471 --> 00:00:40,372 Could it be? She has motive. 16 00:00:44,244 --> 00:00:47,046 [Nick] His alibi is completely broken. 17 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,748 He had created an elaborate, false alibi, 18 00:00:50,884 --> 00:00:51,784 because he killed her. 19 00:00:51,818 --> 00:00:53,719 [gunshot] 20 00:00:53,753 --> 00:00:55,220 [narrator] Every day in North America, 21 00:00:55,255 --> 00:00:57,523 dozens of people are murdered. 22 00:00:57,557 --> 00:01:00,793 The key to solving the toughest of these homicides, 23 00:01:00,827 --> 00:01:03,896 lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life. 24 00:01:04,531 --> 00:01:06,298 To crack the case, 25 00:01:06,332 --> 00:01:10,102 detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline. 26 00:01:10,136 --> 00:01:12,971 The minutes and hours containing evidence 27 00:01:13,006 --> 00:01:14,373 that can help unlock the mystery, 28 00:01:15,208 --> 00:01:16,275 and catch the killer. 29 00:01:26,019 --> 00:01:28,454 Powder Springs, Georgia. 30 00:01:28,488 --> 00:01:32,524 Nestled in the leafy country side, north-west of Atlanta. 31 00:01:32,559 --> 00:01:35,294 It's not the kind of place that's often in the news. 32 00:01:36,696 --> 00:01:40,566 Powder Springs is a small blue-collar town. 33 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,102 Very much a family-orientated town. 34 00:01:44,804 --> 00:01:47,773 It is not as hustle and bustle as Atlanta. 35 00:01:47,807 --> 00:01:50,175 You can walk alone at night. 36 00:01:50,210 --> 00:01:52,077 And you're not afraid that you're gonna get robbed 37 00:01:52,112 --> 00:01:54,980 or assaulted or anything like that. 38 00:01:55,014 --> 00:01:57,416 [Jesse] A lot of residents feel safe enough that they could 39 00:01:57,450 --> 00:02:00,018 even leave their house unlocked in certain circumstances. 40 00:02:02,555 --> 00:02:04,656 [narrator] But when a late night 911 call 41 00:02:04,691 --> 00:02:07,659 comes in to the Powder Springs Police Department, 42 00:02:07,694 --> 00:02:10,629 it shakes the sleepy town wide awake. 43 00:02:26,246 --> 00:02:30,082 [narrator] The caller identifies himself as Joshua Gibson. 44 00:02:30,116 --> 00:02:34,153 He tells the dispatcher he's standing outside the home of his ex-girlfriend. 45 00:02:34,187 --> 00:02:36,288 Who is also the mother of his baby daughter. 46 00:02:37,357 --> 00:02:38,824 [Jesse] He could not get into the home, 47 00:02:38,858 --> 00:02:41,260 and that he wanted, basically, to have a welfare check there. 48 00:02:41,294 --> 00:02:42,427 [siren] 49 00:02:48,535 --> 00:02:53,338 [Amy] Powder Spring's police officers respond around 1:20 am, 50 00:02:55,175 --> 00:02:58,977 and what they found was, Joshua was standing at the front door. 51 00:02:59,012 --> 00:03:03,549 [Jesse] They tried the front door and realized that it was locked. 52 00:03:03,583 --> 00:03:05,584 They asked Joshua to have a seat at the front. 53 00:03:06,819 --> 00:03:09,421 And they walked around the back, and quickly discovered 54 00:03:09,455 --> 00:03:11,590 that the backdoor was not only unlocked, 55 00:03:11,624 --> 00:03:14,626 but it was just a gentle push they were able to make entry into the home. 56 00:03:17,530 --> 00:03:21,200 [Amy] There was no signs of forced entry. 57 00:03:21,234 --> 00:03:22,901 [baby crying] 58 00:03:22,936 --> 00:03:25,103 [Amy] But they can hear the baby crying. 59 00:03:25,138 --> 00:03:27,239 [baby crying] 60 00:03:27,273 --> 00:03:29,374 [Amy] And one of the officers 61 00:03:29,409 --> 00:03:31,310 immediately went to the child, picked her up, 62 00:03:32,679 --> 00:03:33,946 and held her. 63 00:03:35,915 --> 00:03:38,817 As the officers responded to the kitchen area, 64 00:03:41,754 --> 00:03:45,390 they found a black female in a pool of blood. 65 00:03:45,425 --> 00:03:47,459 [Nick] She's laying on her right side 66 00:03:47,493 --> 00:03:49,595 and she appears to be almost in like a fetal position. 67 00:03:50,830 --> 00:03:53,966 She had a gunshot wound to the left side of her head. 68 00:03:59,405 --> 00:04:02,941 [narrator] The victim is 23-year-old Danielle Marshall. 69 00:04:02,976 --> 00:04:05,310 The ex-girlfriend of Joshua Gibson. 70 00:04:06,713 --> 00:04:09,615 Danielle was a single mom. 71 00:04:09,649 --> 00:04:14,620 She had a 9-month-old child who she cared for deeply. He's kinda the center of her world. 72 00:04:14,654 --> 00:04:18,490 She was trying to better her life through study. 73 00:04:18,524 --> 00:04:20,892 She was enrolled and trying to get a nursing degree. 74 00:04:20,927 --> 00:04:24,396 [Amy] What people loved the most about Danielle was her smile. 75 00:04:24,430 --> 00:04:26,331 It was big. 76 00:04:26,366 --> 00:04:28,734 And it just lit up a room. 77 00:04:29,469 --> 00:04:31,637 She was kind to everybody. 78 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,340 [narrator] Lieutenant Lane Cadwell, 79 00:04:36,309 --> 00:04:38,277 and detective Amy Randolph, 80 00:04:38,311 --> 00:04:40,445 from the Powder Springs Police Department, 81 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,715 are called in to investigate. 82 00:04:43,750 --> 00:04:46,885 [Amy] Once I arrived on scene, Lieutenant Cadwell and I 83 00:04:46,919 --> 00:04:49,554 walked into the kitchen area, 84 00:04:49,589 --> 00:04:52,524 and we see Danielle laying on the floor. 85 00:04:52,558 --> 00:04:54,359 [Lane] Just the traumatic scene and... 86 00:04:54,394 --> 00:04:58,463 your heart goes out to somebody that young that lost her life. 87 00:04:58,498 --> 00:05:03,368 [Nick] So the wound on Danielle's left temple was of a star-shaped pattern. 88 00:05:03,403 --> 00:05:06,905 Which indicates that this was a very close-range shot. 89 00:05:06,939 --> 00:05:10,208 There's also a wound down the left side of her face, 90 00:05:10,243 --> 00:05:12,678 that would be consistent with being pistol whipped. 91 00:05:12,712 --> 00:05:15,013 That's probably what put her on the ground. 92 00:05:15,048 --> 00:05:17,449 And that's where she's executed on the ground 93 00:05:17,483 --> 00:05:18,784 with a single shot to the head. 94 00:05:19,585 --> 00:05:20,819 [gunshot] 95 00:05:24,557 --> 00:05:27,059 [Amy] All she's wearing is a T-shirt and underwear. 96 00:05:28,261 --> 00:05:29,861 So in my mind I'm thinking, 97 00:05:29,896 --> 00:05:32,564 it's got to be somebody that she knew, 98 00:05:32,598 --> 00:05:34,866 that Danielle had let into the home. 99 00:05:34,901 --> 00:05:37,536 [Nick] We know there's no forced entry into the house. 100 00:05:37,570 --> 00:05:40,005 This isn't something random. 101 00:05:40,039 --> 00:05:42,974 It's pretty obvious that Danielle knew her attacker. 102 00:05:45,078 --> 00:05:47,846 We have this close contact headshot. 103 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:48,880 Execution style. 104 00:05:49,716 --> 00:05:51,683 It seems precise. 105 00:05:51,718 --> 00:05:54,052 - [gunshot] - It seems disciplined. 106 00:05:54,087 --> 00:05:57,522 And yet we also have this pistol whipping beforehand. 107 00:05:57,557 --> 00:06:00,659 Which to me suggests in fact the opposite of control. 108 00:06:01,627 --> 00:06:03,495 This is someone who is in a state of rage 109 00:06:03,529 --> 00:06:05,697 and wants to see her suffer. 110 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,768 [narrator] To solve Danielle Marshall's murder, 111 00:06:09,802 --> 00:06:13,638 detectives will need to unravel the final 24 hours of her life. 112 00:06:15,174 --> 00:06:16,842 [gunshot] 113 00:06:17,510 --> 00:06:18,844 [Amy] Touching Danielle, 114 00:06:18,878 --> 00:06:22,247 she was cold, but she wasn't in rigor. 115 00:06:22,281 --> 00:06:23,915 It hadn't been very long 116 00:06:23,950 --> 00:06:25,317 since she was 117 00:06:25,351 --> 00:06:27,252 attacked and killed. 118 00:06:27,286 --> 00:06:30,455 [Jesse] Probably the time of death, if we had to make an estimate, 119 00:06:30,490 --> 00:06:32,324 was within 2 hours of her discovery. 120 00:06:32,358 --> 00:06:36,762 So between 11:20 and 1:15, when the 911 call was placed, 121 00:06:36,796 --> 00:06:39,564 that's a pretty tight window from an investigative standpoint. 122 00:06:40,833 --> 00:06:43,502 [narrator] With a preliminary window of death established, 123 00:06:43,536 --> 00:06:47,572 investigators begin processing the crime scene. 124 00:06:47,607 --> 00:06:51,410 [Nick] We were able to determine that two shots were fired within the house. 125 00:06:51,444 --> 00:06:54,079 You have the round that killed Danielle. 126 00:06:54,113 --> 00:06:56,615 And you also have another round that missed, 127 00:06:56,649 --> 00:06:58,850 that went through the cabinets. 128 00:06:59,652 --> 00:07:01,553 Maybe during the struggle, 129 00:07:02,522 --> 00:07:04,689 a round was discharged. 130 00:07:04,724 --> 00:07:08,794 Investigators were able to take the slug from the wall. 131 00:07:10,263 --> 00:07:11,863 [gunshot] 132 00:07:11,898 --> 00:07:13,999 [Nick] They were unable to find any shell casings. 133 00:07:14,033 --> 00:07:16,968 Either the perpetrator took the shell casings with him 134 00:07:17,003 --> 00:07:19,371 or this was a revolver. 135 00:07:19,405 --> 00:07:23,175 A weapon that does not eject shell casings when it's fired. 136 00:07:25,511 --> 00:07:27,179 [narrator] To build a narrative of the murder, 137 00:07:28,014 --> 00:07:29,714 detectives turn their attention 138 00:07:29,749 --> 00:07:32,551 to the remainder of Danielle's home. 139 00:07:32,585 --> 00:07:36,021 [Lane] Definitely no sign of a struggle anywhere else in the house. 140 00:07:36,055 --> 00:07:38,757 There was computers and cellphones. 141 00:07:38,791 --> 00:07:41,026 Whoever did this, this is what they were there for. 142 00:07:41,961 --> 00:07:43,628 It was not a robbery or burglary. 143 00:07:44,764 --> 00:07:46,531 The house was dusted. We dusted, 144 00:07:46,566 --> 00:07:48,333 you know all the entry ways and all 145 00:07:48,367 --> 00:07:51,470 the areas we can think of touching. 146 00:07:51,504 --> 00:07:54,239 But nothing useful came on the fingerprints. 147 00:07:54,273 --> 00:07:58,143 [Amy] What we took from the crime scene as evidence, 148 00:07:58,177 --> 00:07:59,811 was of course cellphones, 149 00:07:59,846 --> 00:08:01,746 and laptop computers. 150 00:08:01,781 --> 00:08:03,415 It will tell you 151 00:08:03,449 --> 00:08:06,251 who they've been talking to, when they've been talking to them. 152 00:08:07,086 --> 00:08:08,820 It's the biggest 153 00:08:08,855 --> 00:08:11,990 key to almost every investigation, 154 00:08:12,024 --> 00:08:13,091 these times. 155 00:08:14,594 --> 00:08:17,429 [narrator] Looking for more information about Danielle, 156 00:08:17,463 --> 00:08:19,564 investigators turn to her mother, 157 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:20,966 Gloria Marshall. 158 00:08:22,068 --> 00:08:23,735 [Lane] We did have to break the news to her. 159 00:08:25,605 --> 00:08:27,239 That's never fun, to have to tell somebody that. 160 00:08:30,142 --> 00:08:33,111 [Amy] Danielle was living with her mom, Gloria. 161 00:08:33,145 --> 00:08:37,115 She was more than happy to make sure that her daughter 162 00:08:37,149 --> 00:08:39,484 and her granddaughter had everything that they needed. 163 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:42,988 [narrator] Investigators ask Gloria 164 00:08:43,022 --> 00:08:44,956 about Danielle's movements 165 00:08:44,991 --> 00:08:46,758 in the hours leading up to her death. 166 00:08:48,661 --> 00:08:51,596 [Amy] Gloria left for work about 9 pm. 167 00:08:51,631 --> 00:08:54,099 Danielle, according to her, didn't have any plans, 168 00:08:54,133 --> 00:08:56,234 nobody was to come over. 169 00:08:56,269 --> 00:08:58,203 [Lane] Gloria gets a break around 11, 170 00:08:58,237 --> 00:09:01,339 when she usually calls Danielle, just checks in. 171 00:09:01,374 --> 00:09:03,942 And she had called, and got no response. 172 00:09:03,976 --> 00:09:07,546 [Amy] She didn't think it was too much out of the ordinary at the time. 173 00:09:07,580 --> 00:09:09,581 Sometimes Danielle would go back to sleep. 174 00:09:10,316 --> 00:09:12,617 And she let it go. 175 00:09:12,652 --> 00:09:16,655 [narrator] Investigators shift the conversation to Danielle's relationship 176 00:09:16,689 --> 00:09:18,156 with Joshua Gibson. 177 00:09:18,190 --> 00:09:21,226 [Nick] Gloria tells them that Danielle has been 178 00:09:21,260 --> 00:09:26,131 in this relationship for quite a bit of time with Josh Gibson, 179 00:09:26,165 --> 00:09:29,134 and it has been nothing but a toxic situation. 180 00:09:29,168 --> 00:09:32,370 And Gloria has completely 181 00:09:32,405 --> 00:09:33,872 banned him from the house. 182 00:09:33,906 --> 00:09:35,907 Based off of a past behavior. 183 00:09:38,811 --> 00:09:41,012 [Amy] Danielle and Joshua met 184 00:09:41,047 --> 00:09:43,148 at Goodwill, where they both worked. 185 00:09:44,917 --> 00:09:47,886 So when Danielle brought Joshua home, 186 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,821 it wasn't the greatest meeting in the world. 187 00:09:49,855 --> 00:09:53,825 Gloria found him obnoxious, controlling, 188 00:09:53,893 --> 00:09:56,528 and she wanted better for her daughter. 189 00:09:58,764 --> 00:10:00,932 [Lane] Danielle and Joshua weren't together for very long 190 00:10:00,967 --> 00:10:02,667 before Danielle became pregnant. 191 00:10:04,203 --> 00:10:06,137 [Amy] Seven months into the pregnancy, 192 00:10:06,205 --> 00:10:10,875 Joshua impregnates his old girlfriend, Deandra. 193 00:10:11,844 --> 00:10:13,378 Complicates things a bit. 194 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,680 [Nick] And Josh 195 00:10:15,715 --> 00:10:18,783 then got back together with his ex-girlfriend. 196 00:10:18,818 --> 00:10:21,052 So he's got babies with two different women. 197 00:10:22,188 --> 00:10:24,723 There's a lot of drama going on here. 198 00:10:24,757 --> 00:10:26,958 You can't make it up. 199 00:10:26,993 --> 00:10:29,928 [Jesse] Danielle was fulltime custodian of Ava. 200 00:10:31,998 --> 00:10:33,865 But she also thought it was important 201 00:10:33,933 --> 00:10:37,936 and rightfully so to have her father in the picture. 202 00:10:37,970 --> 00:10:41,006 [Amy] So when Gloria would leave for work, 203 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,241 that's when Joshua would come over. 204 00:10:46,912 --> 00:10:49,381 When I asked Gloria who wanted to hurt Danielle, 205 00:10:49,415 --> 00:10:52,317 who could've had any ill will towards her, 206 00:10:53,052 --> 00:10:55,587 immediately she said Joshua. 207 00:10:57,156 --> 00:10:58,957 [Lane] Gloria feels there's nobody else 208 00:10:58,991 --> 00:11:01,760 that that would do this to Danielle, except for Josh. 209 00:11:04,764 --> 00:11:08,933 [narrator] Detectives begin to consider a possible motive for Joshua. 210 00:11:08,968 --> 00:11:12,604 [Nick] Josh wants nothing more than to have control 211 00:11:12,638 --> 00:11:15,240 over the situation with Ava. 212 00:11:15,274 --> 00:11:16,875 And he doesn't have that control. 213 00:11:16,909 --> 00:11:20,879 Danielle and Gloria don't just let him show up at the house whenever he wants. 214 00:11:25,985 --> 00:11:28,286 [Jesse] You know, it was somebody close to Danielle. 215 00:11:29,889 --> 00:11:31,189 It was somebody that, 216 00:11:31,223 --> 00:11:32,891 that was upset with Danielle. 217 00:11:39,632 --> 00:11:42,100 [Amy] At this point I thought, we're good, 218 00:11:42,134 --> 00:11:44,703 we've got our suspect, he's the one who did it. 219 00:11:44,737 --> 00:11:46,037 [gunshot] 220 00:11:46,906 --> 00:11:50,241 He's got motive. He's got opportunity. 221 00:11:50,276 --> 00:11:54,279 Everything is pointing at Joshua. 222 00:11:58,751 --> 00:12:01,019 [narrator] In the shooting death of 23-year-old 223 00:12:01,053 --> 00:12:03,855 single mom Danielle Marshall. 224 00:12:03,889 --> 00:12:07,025 Investigators are zeroing in on their first suspect. 225 00:12:07,059 --> 00:12:10,061 The victim's ex-boyfriend, Joshua Gibson. 226 00:12:10,096 --> 00:12:11,863 [pistol hit] 227 00:12:11,897 --> 00:12:16,434 When Detective Randolph told him it was Danielle who was dead in the house, 228 00:12:16,469 --> 00:12:18,570 he showed no response, no emotion. 229 00:12:20,139 --> 00:12:23,208 [Amy] He didn't seem concerned about anybody 230 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:26,778 except for himself and his child. 231 00:12:26,812 --> 00:12:29,447 [narrator] As investigators continue to question Joshua 232 00:12:29,482 --> 00:12:31,149 about the events of that night, 233 00:12:31,183 --> 00:12:33,051 his answers don't add up. 234 00:12:34,487 --> 00:12:36,821 [Amy] He said he was so afraid, 235 00:12:37,857 --> 00:12:40,024 but he didn't jump the fence 236 00:12:40,059 --> 00:12:42,861 to go into the backdoor to see if that was open. 237 00:12:42,895 --> 00:12:44,829 That was very odd to me. 238 00:12:44,864 --> 00:12:46,464 Very odd. 239 00:12:46,499 --> 00:12:48,967 And his only response was, "I didn't feel like it." 240 00:12:50,803 --> 00:12:51,836 Okay. 241 00:12:54,173 --> 00:12:58,209 [narrator] Then, detectives notice something strange about Joshua's car, 242 00:12:58,244 --> 00:13:00,879 which is sitting in Danielle's driveway. 243 00:13:00,913 --> 00:13:03,381 [Amy] The driver's window was broken. 244 00:13:03,415 --> 00:13:05,784 It wasn't even there, it was covered up in plastic. 245 00:13:05,818 --> 00:13:10,054 And then the rear driver's side had a bullet hole in it. 246 00:13:11,290 --> 00:13:13,091 [Lane] We wanted to search that vehicle, 247 00:13:13,125 --> 00:13:15,393 because we have somebody here shot in the house, 248 00:13:15,427 --> 00:13:18,363 but we have a bullet hole in the truck sitting in the driveway, 249 00:13:18,397 --> 00:13:21,032 I wanna see what's going on with the truck, also. 250 00:13:22,067 --> 00:13:24,169 [narrator] With their suspicion mounting, 251 00:13:24,203 --> 00:13:26,404 detectives bring Joshua down to the station 252 00:13:26,438 --> 00:13:28,173 for a formal interview. 253 00:13:28,207 --> 00:13:30,475 [dog barking] 254 00:13:39,251 --> 00:13:41,286 [Amy] He tells me that he is 255 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:47,025 currently living with his second baby momma, Deandra. 256 00:13:47,059 --> 00:13:51,062 [Lane] But he still comes and sees Ava, his daughter, 257 00:13:52,298 --> 00:13:54,866 usually at night when he gets off work. 258 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:57,235 [Nick] It was under the guise that he was coming to see Ava, 259 00:13:57,269 --> 00:13:58,870 to get to see his child. 260 00:14:01,473 --> 00:14:05,710 But there was also a continued sexual relationship with Danielle. 261 00:14:21,727 --> 00:14:23,027 [cellphone ringing] 262 00:14:23,062 --> 00:14:24,429 [Nick] I think over time, 263 00:14:24,463 --> 00:14:27,465 it just became kind of a powder keg. 264 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:30,568 Joshua Gibson has ample motive in this case, 265 00:14:30,603 --> 00:14:32,804 he may want custody of his child. 266 00:14:32,838 --> 00:14:35,440 He may also want to control Danielle. 267 00:14:35,474 --> 00:14:37,408 Imagine how stressful this might be. 268 00:14:37,443 --> 00:14:39,978 To manage two relationships, 269 00:14:40,012 --> 00:14:41,913 multiple children. 270 00:14:41,947 --> 00:14:45,116 You may resort to certain strategies, including violence 271 00:14:45,150 --> 00:14:48,920 in an effort to control the various players of these relationships 272 00:14:48,954 --> 00:14:50,521 and get what it is you want. 273 00:14:52,458 --> 00:14:55,426 [narrator] Investigators drill down on Joshua's timeline 274 00:14:55,461 --> 00:14:57,896 for Saturday night and early Sunday morning. 275 00:14:59,465 --> 00:15:01,199 [Amy] That night, 276 00:15:01,233 --> 00:15:04,469 Joshua was supposed to go over to Danielle's 277 00:15:04,503 --> 00:15:07,238 around 9 o'clock after Gloria left. 278 00:15:07,273 --> 00:15:10,675 Joshua got home about 7:30 pm. 279 00:15:10,709 --> 00:15:16,281 And he texted Danielle and said, "Hey, I'm tired, I'm not gonna come over tonight." 280 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:20,585 [Nick] So Josh said that his girlfriend came home from work, 281 00:15:20,619 --> 00:15:22,553 she came home from work later than him. 282 00:15:23,389 --> 00:15:24,455 They went to bed. 283 00:15:25,557 --> 00:15:27,659 He said he woke up about midnight. 284 00:15:27,693 --> 00:15:30,528 And he said he just decided "I'm gonna call Danielle, 285 00:15:30,562 --> 00:15:32,931 and see if I can go see my child." 286 00:15:34,133 --> 00:15:36,367 [Amy] He's texting Danielle. 287 00:15:39,271 --> 00:15:40,538 She's not responding. 288 00:15:40,572 --> 00:15:41,873 And in his words, 289 00:15:41,907 --> 00:15:45,076 that was odd because Danielle is always on her phone. 290 00:15:47,179 --> 00:15:49,747 [Lane] He woke his girlfriend up and said, 291 00:15:49,781 --> 00:15:52,216 you know, "I'm gonna go over there, because something's wrong." 292 00:15:52,251 --> 00:15:56,587 [Amy] So by the time he gets there, it was about I am. 293 00:15:56,622 --> 00:16:00,158 And he's knocking on the door, he's knocking on the window. 294 00:16:00,759 --> 00:16:02,260 He's calling. 295 00:16:03,796 --> 00:16:08,132 Sometime after 1 o'clock. 1:10, 1:15, 296 00:16:08,167 --> 00:16:09,267 he panics. 297 00:16:09,301 --> 00:16:11,002 So he calls 911. 298 00:16:33,592 --> 00:16:36,260 Joshua was asked who he thought could've done it. 299 00:16:38,263 --> 00:16:42,133 The one person he brought up was a guy named Darnell. 300 00:16:43,268 --> 00:16:45,436 He said that Danielle had been seeing him. 301 00:16:46,105 --> 00:16:48,439 And that he was a bad dude. 302 00:17:04,323 --> 00:17:06,024 [Amy] He was just worried about his daughter. 303 00:17:06,058 --> 00:17:08,393 He didn't want his daughter in any kind of harm's way. 304 00:17:24,977 --> 00:17:26,677 So to me 305 00:17:26,712 --> 00:17:28,279 that could've been 306 00:17:28,313 --> 00:17:30,548 a motive for murder. 307 00:17:33,485 --> 00:17:35,553 He wanted control of his daughter. 308 00:17:37,322 --> 00:17:40,058 [Lane] But we had no charges on him at that point. 309 00:17:40,092 --> 00:17:41,526 We would be back in touch, 310 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,796 but he was released from custody at that point. 311 00:17:44,830 --> 00:17:47,298 [narrator] With Joshua still in their crosshairs, 312 00:17:47,332 --> 00:17:50,134 detectives dig into Danielle's phone records, 313 00:17:50,169 --> 00:17:52,537 to see whether his alibi holds up. 314 00:17:52,571 --> 00:17:56,274 What we found was that the last time that she used her phone 315 00:17:56,308 --> 00:17:59,777 was at 10:34 that night. 316 00:17:59,812 --> 00:18:02,346 And once we looked at his phone, 317 00:18:02,381 --> 00:18:07,418 his story, what he said was true. 318 00:18:07,453 --> 00:18:11,222 [Lane] Text messages he told us about as he was getting off work. 319 00:18:12,291 --> 00:18:14,192 No activity on his phone 320 00:18:14,226 --> 00:18:16,527 when he said he was asleep. 321 00:18:16,562 --> 00:18:18,596 [Jesse] The geo-location analysis show 322 00:18:18,630 --> 00:18:21,332 that he was not at this crime scene prior to making 323 00:18:21,366 --> 00:18:24,435 that 911 call at 1:15 in the morning. 324 00:18:24,470 --> 00:18:26,737 [Amy] Everything else he said wasn't holding water, 325 00:18:27,439 --> 00:18:29,874 but data doesn't lie. 326 00:18:29,908 --> 00:18:32,777 We found that he was where he said he was, 327 00:18:32,811 --> 00:18:35,113 at the time that he said he was. 328 00:18:36,215 --> 00:18:38,082 [Lane] We had to break his alibi. 329 00:18:39,384 --> 00:18:42,253 [narrator] But the data confirming Joshua was not 330 00:18:42,287 --> 00:18:44,255 at the crime scene at the time of the murder. 331 00:18:44,289 --> 00:18:46,491 He is eliminated as a suspect. 332 00:18:47,893 --> 00:18:50,728 Detectives then shift their focus to the bullet hole 333 00:18:50,762 --> 00:18:53,965 they observed on Joshua's vehicle at the crime scene. 334 00:18:53,999 --> 00:18:57,235 They wonder if it can be connected to Danielle's murder. 335 00:18:58,537 --> 00:19:00,972 Joshua tells us two weeks prior 336 00:19:01,006 --> 00:19:02,673 somebody shot at his vehicle. 337 00:19:04,510 --> 00:19:07,311 [Nick] He says he saw a compact car 338 00:19:07,346 --> 00:19:08,646 coming toward him. 339 00:19:10,115 --> 00:19:12,450 A hand and a pistol come out of one of the windows. 340 00:19:13,452 --> 00:19:14,619 [glass breaking] 341 00:19:16,221 --> 00:19:19,023 And opened fire on his car as he passed by. 342 00:19:20,559 --> 00:19:23,828 [Amy] Joshua reported to the police 343 00:19:23,862 --> 00:19:27,532 that the only person that he thought could do such a thing, 344 00:19:27,566 --> 00:19:29,901 would be Danielle. 345 00:19:29,935 --> 00:19:32,570 [Jesse] Police quickly realized that she was home 346 00:19:32,604 --> 00:19:35,072 with Ava and Gloria the entire time 347 00:19:35,107 --> 00:19:37,308 and she was not somehow involved in this. 348 00:19:39,811 --> 00:19:41,679 [Amy] So when looking at the dates 349 00:19:41,713 --> 00:19:44,482 and the times, and who's all involved, 350 00:19:44,516 --> 00:19:49,520 we're thinking that, somehow, his drive-by shooting, 351 00:19:49,555 --> 00:19:51,756 and her murder, 352 00:19:51,790 --> 00:19:54,192 something has to be connected here. 353 00:19:57,462 --> 00:20:00,198 [narrator] Looking for evidence connecting the two shootings, 354 00:20:00,232 --> 00:20:02,266 police process Joshua's car. 355 00:20:04,803 --> 00:20:08,639 [Nick] The projectile that was lodged in the side door of the car 356 00:20:08,674 --> 00:20:13,878 was actually compared with the projectile that was found in Danielle's house. 357 00:20:15,214 --> 00:20:17,148 And a firearm scientist was able to determine 358 00:20:17,182 --> 00:20:20,284 they were fired from the same weapon and it would've been a .38. 359 00:20:21,687 --> 00:20:22,787 It's a match. 360 00:20:23,555 --> 00:20:24,689 So the bullet 361 00:20:25,490 --> 00:20:26,757 that killed Danielle, 362 00:20:26,792 --> 00:20:29,193 was fired from the same gun 363 00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:33,931 that Joshua said was a drive-by shooting. 364 00:20:33,966 --> 00:20:36,467 [Nick] That's a huge lead in any investigation, 365 00:20:36,501 --> 00:20:41,572 because now you know that these cases are definitely connected. 366 00:20:41,607 --> 00:20:44,141 [Amy] Who would wanna kill Joshua? 367 00:20:44,176 --> 00:20:46,911 And who would wanna kill Danielle? 368 00:20:46,945 --> 00:20:49,614 Why would they want both of them dead? 369 00:20:51,483 --> 00:20:53,150 [gunshot] 370 00:20:54,853 --> 00:20:57,188 [narrator] Detectives are convinced the execution-style 371 00:20:57,222 --> 00:20:59,757 killing of young mother Danielle Marshall 372 00:20:59,791 --> 00:21:01,726 is connected to a drive-by shooting 373 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,261 that targeted her ex-boyfriend 374 00:21:04,429 --> 00:21:05,663 Joshua Gibson. 375 00:21:06,765 --> 00:21:09,634 [Nick] They both been shot at, 376 00:21:09,668 --> 00:21:12,303 and we know that the same gun was used. 377 00:21:12,337 --> 00:21:13,638 [gunshot] 378 00:21:13,672 --> 00:21:16,073 [Nick] So we have to look into the possibility 379 00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:19,744 that we have somebody out there that wants both of these people dead. 380 00:21:22,147 --> 00:21:24,749 [Lane] Doing our background investigation, 381 00:21:24,783 --> 00:21:25,883 we did find a report 382 00:21:25,917 --> 00:21:28,786 between Josh's current girlfriend Deandra 383 00:21:28,820 --> 00:21:30,054 and Danielle 384 00:21:30,088 --> 00:21:33,024 where they had an altercation 385 00:21:33,692 --> 00:21:34,759 at the Goodwill. 386 00:21:35,861 --> 00:21:37,928 [Amy] They get into a verbal argument. 387 00:21:39,097 --> 00:21:41,532 And Deandra tries to run her over with the car. 388 00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:43,768 Hits her slightly. 389 00:21:43,802 --> 00:21:45,469 And the police are called. 390 00:21:45,504 --> 00:21:47,405 But nothing ever happened with the case. 391 00:21:49,341 --> 00:21:52,443 So, we're wondering 392 00:21:52,477 --> 00:21:54,578 could it possibly be Deandra? 393 00:21:55,180 --> 00:21:57,481 He's cheating on her. 394 00:21:57,516 --> 00:21:59,216 She hates Danielle. 395 00:21:59,251 --> 00:22:00,151 Could it be? 396 00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:01,852 She has motive. 397 00:22:03,822 --> 00:22:04,889 So we call her in. 398 00:22:06,758 --> 00:22:09,560 She is a hostile witness. 399 00:22:11,029 --> 00:22:12,730 She didn't wanna talk to me. 400 00:22:12,764 --> 00:22:16,567 She is very short with her answers. 401 00:22:17,803 --> 00:22:20,738 When I asked Deandra about the Goodwill incident, 402 00:22:21,473 --> 00:22:23,374 she just brushed it off. 403 00:22:23,408 --> 00:22:26,210 She's just like, "Yeah, I did it. 404 00:22:27,379 --> 00:22:28,379 So what?" 405 00:22:29,748 --> 00:22:31,549 She doesn't care one bit 406 00:22:32,584 --> 00:22:33,918 that Danielle was dead. 407 00:22:44,696 --> 00:22:48,632 When we interviewed Deandra, we asked her to account for her whereabouts. 408 00:22:48,667 --> 00:22:51,602 You know, during the time of the homicide. 409 00:22:51,636 --> 00:22:53,003 And she said she had work that night, 410 00:22:53,038 --> 00:22:54,638 she worked at the Walmart. 411 00:23:03,882 --> 00:23:05,616 [Amy] Thank God, you know, 412 00:23:05,650 --> 00:23:07,685 Walmart has great cameras. 413 00:23:07,719 --> 00:23:10,054 So, of course we pulled all the video footage. 414 00:23:11,556 --> 00:23:13,090 So what she's telling me 415 00:23:13,125 --> 00:23:16,494 time for time, lines up exactly 416 00:23:17,629 --> 00:23:19,430 with what the Walmart video shows. 417 00:23:19,464 --> 00:23:22,299 And she gets back to her house about 10 pm. 418 00:23:23,769 --> 00:23:24,969 [Lane] They went to sleep. 419 00:23:26,738 --> 00:23:29,273 She got woke up midnight or so 420 00:23:29,307 --> 00:23:32,376 by Josh saying, "I've been trying to reach Danielle." 421 00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:35,713 She provides the same timeline. 422 00:23:35,747 --> 00:23:40,184 About 12:45, he leaves and goes to check on Danielle. 423 00:23:40,218 --> 00:23:45,623 So she's solidifying and supporting his alibi he's given us. 424 00:23:45,657 --> 00:23:49,126 [Amy] The data from phones confirms her story, 425 00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:51,328 confirms Joshua's story. 426 00:23:54,933 --> 00:23:58,536 At this point in the investigation, I'm frustrated. 427 00:23:58,570 --> 00:24:03,274 Because I have got two people that have the means and the motive, 428 00:24:04,309 --> 00:24:06,210 and the opportunity. 429 00:24:07,145 --> 00:24:09,280 But everything else, 430 00:24:09,314 --> 00:24:10,981 the actual facts 431 00:24:11,016 --> 00:24:13,350 and the actual evidence, 432 00:24:13,385 --> 00:24:15,019 is leading away from them. 433 00:24:17,956 --> 00:24:21,025 [narrator] With Deandra's alibi clearing her as a suspect, 434 00:24:22,027 --> 00:24:23,994 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, 437 00:24:30,802 --> 00:24:32,937 he revealed that a potential suspect could be 438 00:24:32,971 --> 00:24:35,639 this prior boyfriend that Danielle had been seeing. 439 00:24:35,674 --> 00:24:37,575 So, we really wanted to look into that 440 00:24:37,609 --> 00:24:39,743 and see if there was a possibility that perhaps 441 00:24:39,778 --> 00:24:42,446 some scorned lover was the actual perpetrator of this crime. 442 00:24:43,682 --> 00:24:46,584 [narrator] As investigators dig into Darnell Jones, 443 00:24:46,618 --> 00:24:49,487 they soon make a surprising discovery. 444 00:24:49,521 --> 00:24:51,255 [Lane] So as we looked into Darnell, 445 00:24:51,289 --> 00:24:53,157 he's got a criminal history. 446 00:24:53,191 --> 00:24:56,193 He's a murderer. He's a thief. 447 00:24:56,228 --> 00:25:00,097 [Jesse] He had a probation warrant that was outstanding for him. 448 00:25:00,131 --> 00:25:02,800 These were certainly red flags that anyone 449 00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:05,569 involved in an investigation like this would want to look into. 450 00:25:07,372 --> 00:25:09,206 [Amy] It's 100% possible 451 00:25:09,241 --> 00:25:12,676 that he could have gotten jealous of Joshua. 452 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. 454 00:25:26,491 --> 00:25:28,792 [narrator] Detectives have a new suspect 455 00:25:28,827 --> 00:25:31,862 in the cold-blooded murder of Danielle Marshall. 456 00:25:31,897 --> 00:25:34,665 An ex-boyfriend with a criminal record 457 00:25:34,733 --> 00:25:35,799 named Darnell Jones. 458 00:25:37,636 --> 00:25:39,837 [gunshot] 459 00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:42,873 [Nick] Any place where there could've been some level of tension, 460 00:25:43,642 --> 00:25:45,009 you gotta look into that. 461 00:25:45,043 --> 00:25:48,913 And it was very important to find Darnell. 462 00:25:48,947 --> 00:25:52,249 [Lane] Darnell did have an active warrant. 463 00:25:52,284 --> 00:25:56,253 So, we knew getting him to talk to us was gonna be 464 00:25:56,288 --> 00:25:57,621 a tricky thing. 465 00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:01,325 [Amy] I call up the phone number. 466 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:02,893 And I said "Okay, listen, 467 00:26:02,928 --> 00:26:04,495 I'm gonna meet you. 468 00:26:04,529 --> 00:26:07,865 I'm not going to arrest you for your active warrant." 469 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,334 So, finally he agreed. 470 00:26:15,106 --> 00:26:18,842 Darnell was very sad that she was gone. 471 00:26:18,877 --> 00:26:22,913 He very much enjoyed her and they had a great time together. 472 00:26:26,518 --> 00:26:28,719 But Darnell explained 473 00:26:28,753 --> 00:26:31,722 that Joshua was very controlling. 474 00:26:32,891 --> 00:26:35,492 Whenever they had any interactions, 475 00:26:35,527 --> 00:26:39,296 Joshua was rude, aggressive, violent. 476 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. 478 00:26:56,948 --> 00:27:00,851 [Amy] I point blank asked Darnell, "Did you try to kill him?" 479 00:27:02,420 --> 00:27:04,855 His response was no. 480 00:27:06,858 --> 00:27:08,892 [narrator] Investigators asked Darnell to account 481 00:27:08,927 --> 00:27:10,928 for his time on the night of the murder. 482 00:27:12,330 --> 00:27:15,399 [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, 484 00:27:17,902 --> 00:27:20,070 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. 488 00:27:32,817 --> 00:27:36,053 [narrator] After ruling out three strong suspects, 489 00:27:36,087 --> 00:27:39,423 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, 492 00:27:44,596 --> 00:27:48,932 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 00:41:47,137 --> 00:41:50,306 of my child is dead in the other room. 739 00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:53,109 [narrator] To this day, Danielle's family and friends 740 00:41:53,143 --> 00:41:56,779 continue to make sure her beautiful spirit lives on. 741 00:41:56,814 --> 00:42:00,049 [Lane] I just hate that Ava doesn't have her mom, 742 00:42:00,084 --> 00:42:03,219 but at least Gloria can 743 00:42:03,254 --> 00:42:06,422 teach her who her mom was, and eventually let her know 744 00:42:06,457 --> 00:42:08,825 that justice was served for her mom. 745 00:42:11,228 --> 00:42:14,397 I want Danielle to be remembered by her smile. 746 00:42:14,431 --> 00:42:17,834 Every single picture that you look at Danielle, 747 00:42:17,868 --> 00:42:19,235 and that smile, 748 00:42:19,270 --> 00:42:20,570 and those dimples, 749 00:42:21,405 --> 00:42:22,872 says a thousand words. 750 00:42:23,374 --> 00:42:24,440 She was beautiful.