1 00:00:00,533 --> 00:00:02,401 [dramatic music playing] 2 00:00:04,938 --> 00:00:06,605 [Michael Arntfield] This ambush style execution... 3 00:00:06,639 --> 00:00:09,341 - [gunshot] - ...suggests, number one, it was personal. 4 00:00:13,079 --> 00:00:15,414 [Det. Robert Milby] He was a young man who was trying to do 5 00:00:15,448 --> 00:00:17,416 the right thing by his family. 6 00:00:17,450 --> 00:00:18,684 They were making a life together. 7 00:00:18,718 --> 00:00:21,553 [suspenseful music playing] 8 00:00:21,588 --> 00:00:23,288 [officer] Sheriff's office. 9 00:00:24,491 --> 00:00:26,525 [Det. Milby] He is reaching out to people to see 10 00:00:26,559 --> 00:00:28,727 if they will keep that weapon for his girlfriend, 11 00:00:28,762 --> 00:00:32,231 so now we believe he has more to do with this homicide 12 00:00:32,265 --> 00:00:33,766 that he's letting on. 13 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:35,768 [Christine Callanan] Custody battles over children 14 00:00:35,802 --> 00:00:39,538 bring out the absolute worst in people. 15 00:00:39,572 --> 00:00:42,374 Is this a warning sign that leads towards violence? 16 00:00:43,943 --> 00:00:46,645 [Arntfield] A conspiracy of two is still a conspiracy 17 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:48,514 regardless of who pulls the trigger. 18 00:00:48,548 --> 00:00:51,417 [suspenseful music playing] 19 00:00:51,451 --> 00:00:53,919 [narrator] Every day in North America, 20 00:00:53,953 --> 00:00:55,721 dozens of people are murdered. 21 00:00:55,755 --> 00:00:58,724 The key to solving the toughest of these homicides 22 00:00:58,758 --> 00:01:02,161 lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life. 23 00:01:02,662 --> 00:01:04,596 To crack the case, 24 00:01:04,631 --> 00:01:07,666 detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline. 25 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:10,536 The minutes and hours containing evidence 26 00:01:10,570 --> 00:01:13,405 that can help unlock the mystery 27 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,207 and catch the killer. 28 00:01:21,548 --> 00:01:24,450 [dramatic music playing] 29 00:01:24,484 --> 00:01:25,851 [narrator] Sodus, New York, 30 00:01:25,885 --> 00:01:29,388 a charming lakeside town in serene oasis, 31 00:01:29,422 --> 00:01:32,357 on the shoreline of Lake Ontario. 32 00:01:32,392 --> 00:01:34,893 Sodus is a pretty small suburban community. 33 00:01:34,928 --> 00:01:35,794 It's nestled between the cities 34 00:01:35,829 --> 00:01:37,696 of Rochester and Syracuse, New York 35 00:01:37,730 --> 00:01:39,742 and within the village limits, 36 00:01:39,766 --> 00:01:42,868 there's right around 2,000 is the population. 37 00:01:42,902 --> 00:01:44,403 Everybody, uh, pretty much 38 00:01:44,437 --> 00:01:46,738 knows everyone within the community. 39 00:01:46,773 --> 00:01:48,774 [It. Joseph Croft] The crime rate in, uh, Wayne County 40 00:01:48,808 --> 00:01:52,344 is typically a lot lower than you would see 41 00:01:52,378 --> 00:01:54,379 in Rochester or Syracuse. 42 00:01:54,414 --> 00:01:57,249 We don't get too many major felonies. 43 00:01:57,283 --> 00:01:58,550 [dramatic music playing] 44 00:01:58,585 --> 00:02:00,452 [narrator] One October afternoon, 45 00:02:00,487 --> 00:02:03,755 that calming environment is thrown into chaos 46 00:02:03,790 --> 00:02:05,691 when Sodus Police get a frantic phone call 47 00:02:05,725 --> 00:02:08,360 from someone claiming to have witnessed shots 48 00:02:08,394 --> 00:02:10,996 being fired at the neighbor's house. 49 00:02:11,931 --> 00:02:15,567 Right around 2:00 PM on October 22nd, 2018, 50 00:02:15,602 --> 00:02:17,402 a 911 call came in. 51 00:02:17,437 --> 00:02:20,072 Someone had shot someone in their driveway 52 00:02:20,106 --> 00:02:24,576 and there were multiple gunshots reported. 53 00:02:24,611 --> 00:02:27,946 At that moment we immediately started to respond to the scene. 54 00:02:28,681 --> 00:02:30,415 I was only several houses up 55 00:02:30,450 --> 00:02:32,751 so the response time was very quick. 56 00:02:32,785 --> 00:02:35,454 I would say less than a minute. 57 00:02:35,488 --> 00:02:37,589 [Callanan] The investigators saw a male 58 00:02:37,624 --> 00:02:39,558 deceased under a truck 59 00:02:39,592 --> 00:02:41,660 and then in the vehicle that was parked, 60 00:02:41,694 --> 00:02:43,629 they observed a female that was deceased 61 00:02:43,663 --> 00:02:45,864 in the driver seat. 62 00:02:45,899 --> 00:02:48,867 [Dep. Matthew Carr] I saw that there was a toddler in the vehicle, 63 00:02:48,902 --> 00:02:51,403 I'm glad to see that he was live in the back, 64 00:02:51,437 --> 00:02:53,572 holding the chicken nuggets, at the time, 65 00:02:53,606 --> 00:02:56,742 I didn't know if he was, uh, a nonverbal autistic, 66 00:02:56,776 --> 00:02:57,776 I just thought he was in shock 67 00:02:57,810 --> 00:03:01,146 and we took him to a safer area. 68 00:03:02,649 --> 00:03:04,583 [narrator] The victims are identified 69 00:03:04,617 --> 00:03:08,720 as Josh Niles and Amber Washburn, 70 00:03:08,755 --> 00:03:12,858 a young couple and devoted parents to three children. 71 00:03:12,892 --> 00:03:15,527 [Det. Milby] Josh Niles was 28-years-old, 72 00:03:15,562 --> 00:03:17,563 he and his girlfriend Amber, 73 00:03:17,597 --> 00:03:19,665 had recently moved into the neighborhood, 74 00:03:19,699 --> 00:03:22,267 he was a young man who was trying to do 75 00:03:22,302 --> 00:03:23,535 the right thing by his family, 76 00:03:23,570 --> 00:03:26,405 he had started a new business 77 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:28,874 and was a good father. 78 00:03:30,109 --> 00:03:33,712 Josh had two other children from a previous relationship, 79 00:03:33,746 --> 00:03:35,581 they were nine and seven-years-old. 80 00:03:35,615 --> 00:03:38,317 Amber was a devoted mother, 81 00:03:38,351 --> 00:03:41,486 she doted on her son Josh Jr. 82 00:03:41,521 --> 00:03:43,722 Whom she of course had with Josh, 83 00:03:43,756 --> 00:03:46,325 and they were making a life together. 84 00:03:47,527 --> 00:03:49,595 [narrator] Heading up the investigation 85 00:03:49,629 --> 00:03:51,330 into the brutal double homicide 86 00:03:51,364 --> 00:03:53,932 of Josh Niles and Amber Washburn 87 00:03:53,967 --> 00:03:56,301 is Detective Lieutenant Robert Milby 88 00:03:56,336 --> 00:03:58,604 aided by Lieutenant Joseph Croft 89 00:03:58,638 --> 00:04:00,839 of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office. 90 00:04:00,873 --> 00:04:03,709 [Det. Milby] When we're responding to a crime scene like this, 91 00:04:03,743 --> 00:04:06,511 the fact that it was in close proximity to the local school, 92 00:04:06,546 --> 00:04:08,647 one of our first responsibilities 93 00:04:08,681 --> 00:04:11,450 is to make sure that school is locked down, 94 00:04:11,484 --> 00:04:12,884 the other thing that we have to do 95 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:16,188 is gather resources in order to start a manhunt. 96 00:04:16,222 --> 00:04:18,991 [indistinct radio chatter] 97 00:04:19,025 --> 00:04:21,226 [Det. Milby] SWAT team members were brought in, 98 00:04:21,261 --> 00:04:22,694 K9s were brought in, 99 00:04:22,729 --> 00:04:23,629 we had a coordinated effort 100 00:04:23,663 --> 00:04:26,164 to attempt to find the shooter. 101 00:04:27,033 --> 00:04:28,900 [Callanan] There's panic in the area. 102 00:04:29,535 --> 00:04:31,136 [officer] Sheriff's office. 103 00:04:31,170 --> 00:04:32,704 [Callanan] Facebook posts started going up 104 00:04:32,739 --> 00:04:34,906 about hearing shots fired, 105 00:04:34,941 --> 00:04:36,608 there was a complete shutdown 106 00:04:36,643 --> 00:04:38,310 like you would see in a movie 107 00:04:38,344 --> 00:04:39,778 when there's a manhunt going on. 108 00:04:40,847 --> 00:04:43,482 [narrator] With the hunt for the killer underway, 109 00:04:43,516 --> 00:04:45,951 detectives speak to Tiffany Fair, 110 00:04:45,985 --> 00:04:49,821 the next door neighbor who claims to have witnessed the shooting. 111 00:04:49,856 --> 00:04:52,357 [Det. Milby] Tiffany Fair shared a driveway 112 00:04:52,392 --> 00:04:53,792 with Josh and Amber. 113 00:04:53,826 --> 00:04:56,361 And when the shots first rang out, 114 00:04:56,396 --> 00:04:57,829 Tiffany was in the kitchen, 115 00:04:57,864 --> 00:05:00,565 she was looking out the window and she saw 116 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,304 Josh talking with an individual in the driveway, 117 00:05:05,338 --> 00:05:06,705 Josh Niles got a relaxed posture, 118 00:05:06,739 --> 00:05:08,740 he was leaning up against his pickup truck. 119 00:05:08,775 --> 00:05:12,110 She went about preparing a meal for her child 120 00:05:12,145 --> 00:05:14,780 and had seen Amber pull into the driveway 121 00:05:14,814 --> 00:05:18,617 which was normal for that time of day. 122 00:05:18,651 --> 00:05:22,087 And that's when the shots rang out. 123 00:05:22,121 --> 00:05:24,022 [gunshots] 124 00:05:25,425 --> 00:05:27,426 [Det. Milby] She saw Josh grab his chest, 125 00:05:27,460 --> 00:05:29,661 saw that Amber tried to leave the scene 126 00:05:29,696 --> 00:05:31,830 - when she was shot. - [gunshots] 127 00:05:31,864 --> 00:05:35,334 [Det. Milby] At that time, several more shots rang out. 128 00:05:38,771 --> 00:05:42,574 Tiffany describes the shooter as a white male 129 00:05:42,608 --> 00:05:44,910 who was wearing a dark colored hoodie, 130 00:05:45,545 --> 00:05:47,346 while we're still not sure 131 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:48,980 who it was that committed this crime 132 00:05:49,015 --> 00:05:51,316 we know Josh and Amber's time of death 133 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:52,984 which is at 2:00 PM. 134 00:05:53,019 --> 00:05:54,386 [Dep. Carr] Josh was laying under 135 00:05:54,420 --> 00:05:57,222 the rear bed area of the truck, 136 00:05:57,256 --> 00:05:59,524 we could see that there was, uh, several shots, 137 00:05:59,559 --> 00:06:02,294 uh, into the dirt, into the back of the truck, 138 00:06:02,328 --> 00:06:04,229 and, uh, into Josh. 139 00:06:05,665 --> 00:06:08,333 [Det. Milby] He had suffered several bullet wounds 140 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:10,836 to his front and his back, 141 00:06:10,870 --> 00:06:14,706 through eyewitness accounts and through the evidence that we had on scene, 142 00:06:14,741 --> 00:06:17,542 it was determined that Josh was trying 143 00:06:17,577 --> 00:06:19,411 to escape his shooter. 144 00:06:19,445 --> 00:06:20,812 Originally he had been shot in the chest 145 00:06:20,847 --> 00:06:22,714 and when he started to go to the ground 146 00:06:22,749 --> 00:06:25,817 he observed his girlfriend get shot, 147 00:06:26,719 --> 00:06:29,988 at that time he started to crawl away 148 00:06:30,022 --> 00:06:33,525 and the shooter immediately returned to Josh 149 00:06:33,559 --> 00:06:35,293 and shot several more times. 150 00:06:35,328 --> 00:06:38,330 [gunshots] 151 00:06:42,135 --> 00:06:44,336 [Det. Milby] There were quite a bit of shell casings 152 00:06:44,370 --> 00:06:45,871 that were found both on the driveway 153 00:06:45,905 --> 00:06:48,373 and in the grass behind the truck, 154 00:06:48,408 --> 00:06:49,875 due to identifying marks, 155 00:06:49,909 --> 00:06:51,576 we're immediately able to determine 156 00:06:51,611 --> 00:06:53,879 that those shell casings came from a nine millimeter. 157 00:06:54,814 --> 00:06:57,349 [narrator] In their analysis of the scene, 158 00:06:57,383 --> 00:06:59,351 detectives notice a stark difference 159 00:06:59,385 --> 00:07:01,486 between the injuries to each victim. 160 00:07:01,521 --> 00:07:03,488 [dramatic music playing] 161 00:07:03,523 --> 00:07:05,524 [Det. Milby] It's readily apparent that 162 00:07:05,558 --> 00:07:07,292 this was not a random shooting, 163 00:07:07,326 --> 00:07:09,561 whoever did shoot Josh Niles 164 00:07:09,595 --> 00:07:11,763 was very determined that they were going to kill him. 165 00:07:11,798 --> 00:07:15,534 [It. Croft] You could tell that Josh was clearly the target, 166 00:07:15,568 --> 00:07:17,302 he was shot multiple times 167 00:07:17,336 --> 00:07:20,105 where Amber was only shot once. 168 00:07:21,474 --> 00:07:23,542 [narrator] To find Josh and Amber's killer, 169 00:07:23,576 --> 00:07:25,644 detectives will need to piece together 170 00:07:25,678 --> 00:07:28,180 the couple's final 24 hours. 171 00:07:29,682 --> 00:07:31,550 The fact that Josh is gunned down 172 00:07:31,584 --> 00:07:33,652 in broad daylight in his own driveway 173 00:07:33,686 --> 00:07:35,720 in a... in a quiet suburban neighborhood, 174 00:07:35,755 --> 00:07:38,323 that in itself is a huge lead 175 00:07:38,357 --> 00:07:40,625 in terms of possible motives, 176 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:42,828 this ambush style execution 177 00:07:42,862 --> 00:07:44,796 suggests, number one, it was personal, 178 00:07:44,831 --> 00:07:47,499 probably preplanned but also consider 179 00:07:47,533 --> 00:07:49,468 the brashness and brazenness, 180 00:07:49,502 --> 00:07:52,637 you're dealing with somebody with nothing to lose, 181 00:07:52,672 --> 00:07:55,841 that they don't care about being seen. 182 00:07:56,909 --> 00:08:00,145 [narrator] As the coordinated manhunt continues, 183 00:08:00,179 --> 00:08:02,848 investigators get their first break in the case. 184 00:08:02,882 --> 00:08:06,585 [Det. Milby] Some detectives were assigned to canvas the neighborhood 185 00:08:06,619 --> 00:08:08,753 and ask each and every neighbor 186 00:08:08,788 --> 00:08:11,289 if they had any surveillance cameras, 187 00:08:11,324 --> 00:08:12,657 we were able to gather 188 00:08:12,692 --> 00:08:14,659 through some of those surveillance systems, 189 00:08:14,694 --> 00:08:17,496 video footage of who we believed to be the shooter. 190 00:08:18,731 --> 00:08:21,533 We're able to see the person that matched the description 191 00:08:21,567 --> 00:08:25,504 at 1:57 PM walking towards Josh and Amber's residence, 192 00:08:25,538 --> 00:08:27,739 just minutes before the crime took place 193 00:08:27,773 --> 00:08:30,509 but we were not able to see the face 194 00:08:30,543 --> 00:08:32,377 of who we believed to be the shooter. 195 00:08:33,446 --> 00:08:36,581 Shortly after we started that K9 track, 196 00:08:36,616 --> 00:08:38,350 we discovered the ski mask 197 00:08:38,384 --> 00:08:39,918 that had been freshly dropped 198 00:08:39,952 --> 00:08:42,621 in the direction that the shooter had been seen running. 199 00:08:42,655 --> 00:08:45,624 [officer] We got a black mask, approximately 30 yards 200 00:08:45,658 --> 00:08:47,492 east of North Street and Elmwood. 201 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:49,327 [policewoman] Copy. 202 00:08:49,362 --> 00:08:51,296 We believe that that could've been, 203 00:08:51,330 --> 00:08:52,564 uh, a piece of evidence. 204 00:08:53,599 --> 00:08:55,734 [Callanan] Ultimately, the K9 track ended up 205 00:08:55,768 --> 00:08:59,170 falling off in a public parking lot. 206 00:09:01,507 --> 00:09:03,208 So at that point it was believed 207 00:09:03,242 --> 00:09:04,509 that where the K9 stopped, 208 00:09:04,544 --> 00:09:05,677 there must've been a vehicle 209 00:09:05,711 --> 00:09:07,512 and he was able to get away 210 00:09:07,547 --> 00:09:09,314 prior to the perimeter being set-up. 211 00:09:09,348 --> 00:09:11,950 [dog whimpering] 212 00:09:11,984 --> 00:09:15,620 [Det. Milby] We believe that the shooter conducted surveillance 213 00:09:15,655 --> 00:09:19,624 to get a layout of the land and look for escape routes. 214 00:09:19,659 --> 00:09:22,160 [Callanan] At this point, the community was panicked, 215 00:09:22,194 --> 00:09:23,929 panicked that this kind of crime could happen there, 216 00:09:23,963 --> 00:09:26,598 panicked that they didn't know where the shooter was, 217 00:09:26,632 --> 00:09:29,334 and panicked that the community might not be safe. 218 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:37,208 [narrator] With a violent killer on the loose, 219 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:39,811 Detective Milby questions Josh Niles' parents 220 00:09:39,845 --> 00:09:42,614 to learn more about who might've wanted to harm him 221 00:09:42,648 --> 00:09:45,483 and his partner, Amber Washburn. 222 00:09:45,518 --> 00:09:47,752 [Det. Milby] And police were always looking for a motive, 223 00:09:47,787 --> 00:09:51,489 and obviously someone had intent to kill Josh Niles 224 00:09:51,524 --> 00:09:54,526 with the amount of gunshots and from the evidence 225 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:56,227 that we had found on the scene. 226 00:09:56,262 --> 00:09:57,429 So we knew that somebody 227 00:09:57,463 --> 00:10:00,165 had a beef with Josh Niles. 228 00:10:02,468 --> 00:10:03,735 When we first contacted the family, 229 00:10:03,769 --> 00:10:05,870 we asked if there was any enemies 230 00:10:05,905 --> 00:10:08,673 or anybody who would want to harm Josh and Amber 231 00:10:08,708 --> 00:10:10,642 and we couldn't get any immediate answers 232 00:10:10,676 --> 00:10:12,510 as to who would wanna do that 233 00:10:12,545 --> 00:10:14,846 but we discovered a normal daily routine 234 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,616 for Josh and Amber would be that Josh would drop off 235 00:10:17,650 --> 00:10:18,717 the two older children 236 00:10:18,751 --> 00:10:20,752 at school right around 9:00 AM, 237 00:10:20,786 --> 00:10:22,587 and then later on during the day, 238 00:10:22,622 --> 00:10:24,756 Amber would pick up Josh Jr. 239 00:10:24,790 --> 00:10:27,792 In Belgium, Newark and then bring him home right around 2:00. 240 00:10:28,794 --> 00:10:31,429 One of our detectives actually wound up calling 241 00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:33,264 the family court just on a hunch to see 242 00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:34,566 whether or not there was 243 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,534 any pending family court matters 244 00:10:36,569 --> 00:10:38,470 that concerned Josh or Amber 245 00:10:38,504 --> 00:10:40,572 and we discovered that there was. 246 00:10:41,641 --> 00:10:45,410 Josh had been in a family court custody battle 247 00:10:45,444 --> 00:10:47,646 with his ex, Charlene Childers, 248 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,848 the mother of two of his children 249 00:10:49,882 --> 00:10:53,585 and that Charlene had actually lost custody 250 00:10:53,619 --> 00:10:55,420 of the children to Josh. 251 00:10:59,625 --> 00:11:02,994 [Callanan] Josh and Charlene's relationship was young love, 252 00:11:03,029 --> 00:11:05,430 they met, fell in love quickly, 253 00:11:05,464 --> 00:11:07,098 and found out they were pregnant 254 00:11:07,133 --> 00:11:08,600 with their first child pretty early on 255 00:11:08,634 --> 00:11:10,769 in their relationship. 256 00:11:10,803 --> 00:11:13,505 Josh's family was always helping as much as they could 257 00:11:13,539 --> 00:11:15,373 with the children, 258 00:11:15,408 --> 00:11:17,442 trying to keep Josh and Charlene 259 00:11:17,476 --> 00:11:19,678 as a coherent family unit, 260 00:11:19,712 --> 00:11:21,646 but it became pretty clear 261 00:11:21,681 --> 00:11:23,615 towards the end of the relationship 262 00:11:23,649 --> 00:11:25,450 that there was a toxic element 263 00:11:25,484 --> 00:11:26,818 to them being together. 264 00:11:27,787 --> 00:11:29,754 [Det. Milby] At one point Josh's mom had told me 265 00:11:29,789 --> 00:11:32,257 that she didn't believe that Josh and Charlene 266 00:11:32,291 --> 00:11:33,792 were very good for each other. 267 00:11:33,826 --> 00:11:36,594 There had been several calls to 911 to their residence, 268 00:11:36,629 --> 00:11:38,797 both by Charlene and by Josh. 269 00:11:38,831 --> 00:11:40,899 So it was a pretty rocky relationship 270 00:11:40,933 --> 00:11:43,735 by a couple of people who had had children young. 271 00:11:44,904 --> 00:11:48,440 After Josh and Charlene dissolved their relationship, 272 00:11:48,474 --> 00:11:52,477 Charlene moved to Texas where her mother resided 273 00:11:52,511 --> 00:11:56,314 and there was shared custody. 274 00:11:56,348 --> 00:11:58,650 [narrator] As Detective Milby reviews the evidence, 275 00:11:58,684 --> 00:12:01,619 he receives a phone call from Josh's ex-wife, 276 00:12:01,654 --> 00:12:03,922 Charlene Childers. 277 00:12:03,956 --> 00:12:06,391 [Det. Milby] What I was met with in that phone call 278 00:12:06,425 --> 00:12:08,259 was a very demure Southern belle, 279 00:12:08,294 --> 00:12:09,494 she seemed very nice, 280 00:12:09,528 --> 00:12:11,563 only concerned about her children, 281 00:12:11,597 --> 00:12:15,400 she had seen the house where the incident occurred 282 00:12:15,434 --> 00:12:16,801 on social media 283 00:12:16,836 --> 00:12:19,404 and knew that that was Josh and Amber's home 284 00:12:19,438 --> 00:12:21,139 and that's where her children lived. 285 00:12:21,173 --> 00:12:24,709 Charlene said that she was going to be leaving Texas 286 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:25,710 to take custody of her children 287 00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:27,512 and I asked her if she knew 288 00:12:27,546 --> 00:12:29,047 who might've committed this crime 289 00:12:29,081 --> 00:12:31,182 against the father of her children, 290 00:12:32,284 --> 00:12:33,618 she denied any knowledge, 291 00:12:33,652 --> 00:12:36,287 I had asked her when she did get into town 292 00:12:36,322 --> 00:12:38,089 if I can meet with her. 293 00:12:39,358 --> 00:12:40,658 When she was on the phone with me, 294 00:12:40,693 --> 00:12:42,293 I believe that she was in Texas, 295 00:12:42,328 --> 00:12:43,495 I believe she was on her way 296 00:12:43,529 --> 00:12:45,296 to take control of the children. 297 00:12:46,899 --> 00:12:49,167 We were able to verify that through investigation 298 00:12:49,201 --> 00:12:52,937 that she was in fact at work during the time of the crime. 299 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,742 [narrator] With Charlene's alibi placing her in Texas, 300 00:12:57,777 --> 00:12:59,577 investigators press her for details 301 00:12:59,612 --> 00:13:02,013 about her history with Josh, 302 00:13:02,047 --> 00:13:05,150 hoping it will reveal clues about his murder. 303 00:13:05,985 --> 00:13:07,652 [Callanan] Charlene made it very clear 304 00:13:07,686 --> 00:13:10,288 that Josh was abusive to her 305 00:13:10,322 --> 00:13:13,358 both verbally and physically, 306 00:13:13,392 --> 00:13:14,759 and that was ultimately the reason 307 00:13:14,794 --> 00:13:18,363 she ended the relationship and got out of Sodus. 308 00:13:19,532 --> 00:13:22,433 Initially when Charlene and Josh break up, 309 00:13:22,468 --> 00:13:25,503 she is the primary caregiver to the children 310 00:13:25,538 --> 00:13:27,505 and they reside in Texas with her. 311 00:13:28,474 --> 00:13:32,477 In May 2018, Charlene's husband Timothy Dean 312 00:13:32,511 --> 00:13:36,781 was brought up on abuse charges of his child. 313 00:13:36,816 --> 00:13:39,517 Charlene had elected to stand by her man's side 314 00:13:39,552 --> 00:13:42,654 and as a result of that, lost custody of her children. 315 00:13:43,823 --> 00:13:47,458 Her husband Tim Dean also lost custody of his child 316 00:13:47,493 --> 00:13:51,229 and Josh immediately picked up his children 317 00:13:51,263 --> 00:13:52,564 and brought them home, 318 00:13:52,598 --> 00:13:56,434 and that's when the custody battle ensued. 319 00:13:58,037 --> 00:14:02,974 [Callanan] Josh was granted temporary primary custody of his two children. 320 00:14:03,008 --> 00:14:04,876 So when that decision is handed down, 321 00:14:04,910 --> 00:14:08,680 Charlene indicates that she's going to divorce Timothy Dean 322 00:14:08,714 --> 00:14:11,783 in the hopes that that would be looked favorably upon 323 00:14:11,817 --> 00:14:15,320 by the court to get the children back to her in Texas. 324 00:14:16,922 --> 00:14:20,825 [narrator] Investigators dig deeper into Josh and Charlene's troubled past, 325 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:23,394 hoping to find clues about the murder. 326 00:14:24,663 --> 00:14:26,698 [Callanan] The investigators looked back 327 00:14:26,732 --> 00:14:29,500 into the history arrest that they had made 328 00:14:29,535 --> 00:14:30,635 between the couple. 329 00:14:30,669 --> 00:14:32,370 It was very apparent 330 00:14:32,404 --> 00:14:35,740 that it was a abusive relationship, 331 00:14:35,774 --> 00:14:37,609 but that the police calls and reports 332 00:14:37,643 --> 00:14:40,645 had both Josh as a suspect and a victim 333 00:14:40,679 --> 00:14:43,381 and Charlene as the suspect and victim. 334 00:14:44,650 --> 00:14:46,684 [Keira Stockdale] When we learned about Charlene 335 00:14:46,719 --> 00:14:48,353 and we learned about her history 336 00:14:48,387 --> 00:14:49,787 and being involved in relationships 337 00:14:49,822 --> 00:14:52,757 that are conflictual or involving domestic violence, 338 00:14:52,791 --> 00:14:55,627 one in three women are the victims of domestic violence, 339 00:14:55,661 --> 00:14:58,563 so this may not be as rare as folks think. 340 00:14:58,597 --> 00:15:01,633 That being said, I wonder, is this a warning sign 341 00:15:01,667 --> 00:15:04,636 that when these patterns start to cycle 342 00:15:04,670 --> 00:15:05,837 that this leads towards violence? 343 00:15:05,871 --> 00:15:09,340 And I think in this case, high conflict situations 344 00:15:09,375 --> 00:15:11,643 such as custody or abuse 345 00:15:11,677 --> 00:15:14,312 could precipitate violence. 346 00:15:15,981 --> 00:15:21,119 [Callanan] The investigators have a person of interest in Charlene Childers, 347 00:15:21,153 --> 00:15:26,391 but at the time of the murder she's on video at her job in Texas. 348 00:15:27,359 --> 00:15:29,594 But based on learning her history, 349 00:15:29,628 --> 00:15:31,829 the issue with the custody of the children, 350 00:15:31,864 --> 00:15:34,532 the husband she was separated from, Timothy Dean, 351 00:15:34,566 --> 00:15:35,767 they still had reason to believe 352 00:15:35,801 --> 00:15:38,336 that she was involved in some way. 353 00:15:38,370 --> 00:15:39,570 But they knew ultimately 354 00:15:39,605 --> 00:15:42,040 she could not have been the shooter. 355 00:15:42,074 --> 00:15:45,710 [narrator] While Charlene makes the drive from Texas to New York, 356 00:15:45,744 --> 00:15:48,513 she asks police to release her children 357 00:15:48,547 --> 00:15:50,415 to a man named Casey Miller 358 00:15:50,449 --> 00:15:52,717 who lives in the New York area. 359 00:15:52,751 --> 00:15:57,722 [Det. Milby] Casey Miller is a prior boyfriend of Charlene Childers. 360 00:15:57,756 --> 00:16:00,591 Back when she was 14, they had had a relationship. 361 00:16:00,626 --> 00:16:02,460 Casey was 19. 362 00:16:02,494 --> 00:16:05,596 He was convicted of having sex with a minor 363 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:06,798 for that relationship. 364 00:16:06,832 --> 00:16:10,368 And he is on the sex offender registry. 365 00:16:10,402 --> 00:16:12,503 She named Casey Miller as her boyfriend 366 00:16:12,538 --> 00:16:14,539 to come and pick up her children. 367 00:16:14,573 --> 00:16:16,641 That kind of, uh, you know, set off a couple of flags 368 00:16:16,675 --> 00:16:18,810 with us once we looked into Casey Miller's background 369 00:16:18,844 --> 00:16:20,845 and his relationship with Charlene. 370 00:16:20,879 --> 00:16:23,514 Knowing what we knew about the custody battle 371 00:16:23,549 --> 00:16:25,750 between Josh and Charlene, 372 00:16:25,784 --> 00:16:28,519 we begin to focus our efforts on Casey Miller, 373 00:16:28,554 --> 00:16:32,590 because now we had a motive to explore. 374 00:16:32,624 --> 00:16:35,827 [Callanan] His relationship with Charlene, her motive, 375 00:16:35,861 --> 00:16:40,264 and their apparent rekindling made him a suspect 376 00:16:40,299 --> 00:16:42,700 with motive and opportunity 377 00:16:42,735 --> 00:16:44,702 to kill both Josh and Amber. 378 00:16:44,737 --> 00:16:47,005 [Det. Milby] We started to look into Casey Miller 379 00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:49,407 and his physical characteristics 380 00:16:49,441 --> 00:16:52,477 are right about the same of the suspect 381 00:16:52,511 --> 00:16:54,379 that was described to us as the shooter. 382 00:16:58,417 --> 00:16:59,751 [narrator] In the brutal double homicide 383 00:16:59,785 --> 00:17:02,620 of Josh Niles and Amber Washburn, 384 00:17:02,654 --> 00:17:06,357 detectives are zeroing in on their first real suspect, 385 00:17:06,392 --> 00:17:09,827 convicted sex offender, Casey Miller. 386 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:11,662 [Callanan] Initially, the working theory 387 00:17:11,697 --> 00:17:14,899 once Charlene Childers is ruled out as the shooter 388 00:17:14,933 --> 00:17:18,703 is that Casey Miller could have been the gunman. 389 00:17:18,737 --> 00:17:20,571 [Det. Milby] Casey was cooperative with us. 390 00:17:20,606 --> 00:17:22,673 He was quite confident in himself 391 00:17:22,708 --> 00:17:23,641 and he didn't appear to be anybody 392 00:17:23,675 --> 00:17:25,443 who had anything to cover up. 393 00:17:25,477 --> 00:17:26,677 Casey told us that he didn't have 394 00:17:26,712 --> 00:17:28,646 anything to do with the crime 395 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,349 and he didn't know anything about the crime. 396 00:17:31,383 --> 00:17:33,418 Through his job at a local pizza shop, 397 00:17:33,452 --> 00:17:34,986 he was actually out on delivery 398 00:17:35,020 --> 00:17:36,687 at the time that the crime occurred. 399 00:17:37,489 --> 00:17:39,490 We were satisfied at that time 400 00:17:39,525 --> 00:17:43,428 that Casey had nothing to do with the actual shooting. 401 00:17:43,462 --> 00:17:44,796 [narrator] Casey leaves the police station 402 00:17:44,830 --> 00:17:46,831 having been cleared as the shooter, 403 00:17:46,865 --> 00:17:48,533 but 24 hours later, 404 00:17:48,567 --> 00:17:50,501 he's back on their radar. 405 00:17:50,569 --> 00:17:52,570 [Det. Milby] Shortly after an interview with him, 406 00:17:52,604 --> 00:17:54,939 it became known to us through some witnesses 407 00:17:54,973 --> 00:17:57,575 that Casey was trying to get somebody 408 00:17:57,609 --> 00:18:00,511 to hold on to a nine millimeter handgun 409 00:18:00,546 --> 00:18:03,081 for his girlfriend, Charlene. 410 00:18:04,516 --> 00:18:06,417 And a nine millimeter handgun 411 00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:08,853 was used to kill Josh and Amber. 412 00:18:09,855 --> 00:18:12,557 Casey told us that Charlene had forgotten 413 00:18:12,591 --> 00:18:15,593 to leave that at home when she came to New York 414 00:18:15,627 --> 00:18:16,694 to pick up her kids. 415 00:18:16,728 --> 00:18:18,596 And so he was looking for somebody 416 00:18:18,630 --> 00:18:20,465 to keep that handgun safe 417 00:18:20,499 --> 00:18:22,533 because she did not have a license to carry 418 00:18:22,568 --> 00:18:24,168 that weapon in New York. 419 00:18:26,872 --> 00:18:28,873 [narrator] Detectives tracked down the weapon 420 00:18:28,907 --> 00:18:32,577 and send it to the ballistics lab to be tested. 421 00:18:32,611 --> 00:18:34,679 [It. Croft] The evidence tech test-fired the gun 422 00:18:34,713 --> 00:18:36,714 to make sure it wasn't a match to the, uh, 423 00:18:36,748 --> 00:18:38,583 shell casings that were recovered 424 00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:40,585 from the crime scene. 425 00:18:40,619 --> 00:18:42,487 [Det. Milby] And we were able to determine that 426 00:18:42,521 --> 00:18:44,455 that was not the weapon that was used 427 00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:45,756 to shoot Josh and Amber. 428 00:18:46,992 --> 00:18:50,728 While we're not able to tie Casey directly to the crime, 429 00:18:50,762 --> 00:18:52,997 we kind of wanna keep tabs on him 430 00:18:53,031 --> 00:18:54,866 just in case we need to re-interview him again. 431 00:18:55,934 --> 00:18:59,537 But at that moment, we still don't have a way 432 00:18:59,571 --> 00:19:00,872 to tie Charlene to the crime. 433 00:19:01,874 --> 00:19:04,375 [Callanan] We have a feeling she's involved, 434 00:19:04,409 --> 00:19:06,244 but we're not able to prove it yet 435 00:19:06,278 --> 00:19:07,745 or put it together. 436 00:19:07,779 --> 00:19:09,814 [Det. Milby] We certainly know that there's motive 437 00:19:09,848 --> 00:19:12,917 for Charlene to get her children back 438 00:19:12,951 --> 00:19:17,088 to have someone help her get custody of her kids back. 439 00:19:18,390 --> 00:19:19,724 So then we start to focus on 440 00:19:19,758 --> 00:19:21,759 who else Charlene has a relationship with, 441 00:19:21,793 --> 00:19:25,129 and that would be with her husband, Tim Dean. 442 00:19:27,666 --> 00:19:29,800 Charlene kept saying over and over again 443 00:19:29,835 --> 00:19:32,303 that she was no longer part of Tim Dean's life. 444 00:19:32,337 --> 00:19:33,671 They were getting a divorce. 445 00:19:33,705 --> 00:19:35,573 They're no longer live together. 446 00:19:35,607 --> 00:19:37,975 But we were still very interested 447 00:19:38,010 --> 00:19:39,877 in where Tim Dean was at the time of the crime. 448 00:19:40,946 --> 00:19:43,614 [narrator] Because Tim Dean is living in Texas, 449 00:19:43,649 --> 00:19:47,318 investigators reached out to the Texas Rangers for assistance, 450 00:19:47,352 --> 00:19:50,555 checking into his background. 451 00:19:50,589 --> 00:19:53,357 [Det. Milby] The marital residence between Tim and Charlene 452 00:19:53,392 --> 00:19:55,626 was in a very small town called Sunray, 453 00:19:55,661 --> 00:19:57,862 which is in the panhandle of Texas. 454 00:19:58,830 --> 00:20:01,499 I believe the population is right around 2,000. 455 00:20:01,533 --> 00:20:03,501 Their police department is not very big. 456 00:20:03,535 --> 00:20:05,369 It's a three-man police department. 457 00:20:05,404 --> 00:20:08,172 And there's not a lot going on in Sunray. 458 00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:12,543 [It. Croft] Tim Dean was a chief of police 459 00:20:12,578 --> 00:20:14,512 in Sunray Police Department, 460 00:20:14,546 --> 00:20:19,183 a normal every day guy. 461 00:20:19,218 --> 00:20:21,519 But as we dig in with the law enforcement from Texas 462 00:20:21,553 --> 00:20:23,354 and get more information from them, 463 00:20:23,388 --> 00:20:24,655 we're really finding out more of 464 00:20:24,690 --> 00:20:27,458 the he's not the typical police officer 465 00:20:27,492 --> 00:20:28,826 that you would think that you know. 466 00:20:29,962 --> 00:20:32,563 [Det. Milby] We actually got a hold of a Texas Ranger 467 00:20:32,598 --> 00:20:34,599 who was able to tell us 468 00:20:34,633 --> 00:20:36,734 that he had personal dealings with Tim Dean. 469 00:20:36,768 --> 00:20:40,504 There was an investigation into a child abuse allegation 470 00:20:40,539 --> 00:20:42,440 where he was videotaped 471 00:20:42,474 --> 00:20:45,576 abusing his very young daughter. 472 00:20:45,611 --> 00:20:48,446 And as a result to that investigation, 473 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,482 Tim Dean was arrested and he lost his job 474 00:20:51,516 --> 00:20:54,118 with the Sunray Police Department. 475 00:20:57,522 --> 00:21:01,292 The fact that Amber is shot once in the head 476 00:21:01,326 --> 00:21:02,627 with reasonable accuracy 477 00:21:02,661 --> 00:21:04,562 through a car window 478 00:21:04,596 --> 00:21:07,598 speaks to a certain level of experience 479 00:21:07,633 --> 00:21:09,433 and comfort with handguns. 480 00:21:09,468 --> 00:21:12,470 And the fact that Tim is a former chief of police 481 00:21:12,504 --> 00:21:14,672 and has been training and carrying a gun 482 00:21:14,706 --> 00:21:17,575 for his entire adult life, I mean, 483 00:21:17,609 --> 00:21:20,411 these two things seemed to now be... 484 00:21:20,445 --> 00:21:23,080 obviously coalescing. 485 00:21:24,383 --> 00:21:26,684 [Det. Milby] Through our discussions with the Texas Rangers, 486 00:21:26,718 --> 00:21:28,719 we found out that the videotape 487 00:21:28,754 --> 00:21:30,588 that was taken of the incident 488 00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:32,657 that he was accused of abusing his child 489 00:21:32,691 --> 00:21:35,693 was actually taken by Charlene Childers. 490 00:21:35,727 --> 00:21:37,795 She had sent it out to two of her friends. 491 00:21:37,829 --> 00:21:41,465 One of those friends turned it into authorities. 492 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:42,900 And what was interesting is that 493 00:21:42,934 --> 00:21:46,604 there was a message that accompanied the video 494 00:21:46,638 --> 00:21:48,973 and that message had said 495 00:21:49,007 --> 00:21:51,709 that she was going to take Tim Dean down. 496 00:21:51,743 --> 00:21:53,477 Custody battles over children 497 00:21:53,512 --> 00:21:56,447 bring out the absolute worst in people. 498 00:21:56,481 --> 00:21:58,549 The ultimate love that a person has 499 00:21:58,583 --> 00:22:00,451 is for their children 500 00:22:00,485 --> 00:22:01,652 and if they believe that the courts 501 00:22:01,687 --> 00:22:03,587 aren't going to help them, 502 00:22:03,622 --> 00:22:05,623 they ultimately are willing based on that love 503 00:22:05,657 --> 00:22:09,126 to do whatever they have to do to get their children back. 504 00:22:10,362 --> 00:22:11,495 [Det. Milby] Tim Dean was the reason 505 00:22:11,530 --> 00:22:14,498 Charlene Childers had lost custody of her children. 506 00:22:14,533 --> 00:22:16,467 It became pretty apparent to us that 507 00:22:16,501 --> 00:22:20,338 not only that Charlene have motive to kill Josh, 508 00:22:20,372 --> 00:22:21,806 but Tim had motive 509 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,442 to try to win those children back for her. 510 00:22:27,512 --> 00:22:28,446 [intense music playing] 511 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,613 [narrator] In the murder of young parents, 512 00:22:29,648 --> 00:22:32,249 Josh Niles and Amber Washburn, 513 00:22:32,284 --> 00:22:34,518 investigators are working a new theory 514 00:22:34,553 --> 00:22:36,721 that the killer could be a former chief of police 515 00:22:36,755 --> 00:22:40,257 in Sunray, Texas named Tim Dean. 516 00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:43,728 [Det. Milby] We started to formulate the idea that 517 00:22:43,762 --> 00:22:45,663 Tim Dean was trying to do the chivalrous thing 518 00:22:45,697 --> 00:22:48,532 by his wife who supposedly wanted 519 00:22:48,567 --> 00:22:49,633 nothing else to do with them anymore. 520 00:22:49,668 --> 00:22:52,870 Maybe he felt responsible for them breaking up 521 00:22:52,904 --> 00:22:55,606 and maybe he was going to try to do whatever it took 522 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,708 to get her kids back to her, 523 00:22:57,743 --> 00:23:01,312 because that was the most important thing in her life. 524 00:23:01,346 --> 00:23:04,882 [narrator] With a potential motive established for Tim Dean, 525 00:23:04,916 --> 00:23:06,717 investigators worked to uncover 526 00:23:06,752 --> 00:23:09,653 how he might've committed the murders. 527 00:23:09,688 --> 00:23:11,822 The difficult part of the investigation 528 00:23:11,857 --> 00:23:16,527 was how would Tim Dean get from Texas to New York 529 00:23:16,561 --> 00:23:18,329 committing the murders. 530 00:23:18,363 --> 00:23:19,697 [Det. Milby] We're able to find out 531 00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:22,666 that Tim Dean was not in Sunray, Texas 532 00:23:22,701 --> 00:23:25,636 at the time of the homicide. 533 00:23:25,670 --> 00:23:27,638 He had actually been involved 534 00:23:27,672 --> 00:23:29,340 in a motor vehicle accident 535 00:23:29,374 --> 00:23:31,709 on October 20th, 2018, 536 00:23:31,743 --> 00:23:35,312 two days before the murder in the state of Kansas. 537 00:23:35,347 --> 00:23:36,614 [narrator] Detectives learned that 538 00:23:36,648 --> 00:23:39,283 after his car accident in Kansas, 539 00:23:39,317 --> 00:23:42,420 Tim Dean called 911 for help. 540 00:23:42,454 --> 00:23:44,455 [officer speaking] 541 00:23:44,489 --> 00:23:48,993 [Tim speaking] 542 00:23:51,863 --> 00:23:54,498 [Det. Milby] Tim Dean was trying to perform a U-turn 543 00:23:54,533 --> 00:23:57,234 and wrecked the car in a culvert. 544 00:23:57,269 --> 00:24:01,672 [officer speaking] 545 00:24:01,706 --> 00:24:03,474 [Tim speaking] 546 00:24:03,508 --> 00:24:06,444 [officer speaking] 547 00:24:06,478 --> 00:24:07,711 [Tim speaking] 548 00:24:07,746 --> 00:24:09,480 [Det. Milby] As a result of the accident, 549 00:24:09,514 --> 00:24:11,515 the car is no longer operable. 550 00:24:11,550 --> 00:24:14,852 He has to get a ride with a tow truck operators into town. 551 00:24:14,886 --> 00:24:18,589 So he started to unload some of his baggage 552 00:24:18,623 --> 00:24:20,758 and one of those items is a tote. 553 00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:24,261 And Tim describes the items that are in the tote 554 00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:25,529 as weapons, ammunition, 555 00:24:25,564 --> 00:24:27,698 a sidearm, and a shotgun 556 00:24:27,732 --> 00:24:31,502 that he's going to take back with him to the hotel. 557 00:24:31,536 --> 00:24:34,605 Deputy Nicolet doesn't really ask much about 558 00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:37,174 the weaponry or the shotgun 559 00:24:37,209 --> 00:24:39,009 because it's Kansas 560 00:24:39,044 --> 00:24:40,544 and it's not out of the ordinary 561 00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:42,980 for people to have those items with them. 562 00:24:45,283 --> 00:24:47,451 [officer speaking] 563 00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:48,452 [Tim speaking] 564 00:24:48,487 --> 00:24:50,187 [officer speaking] 565 00:24:50,222 --> 00:24:54,191 [Tim speaking] 566 00:24:54,226 --> 00:24:55,192 [officer speaking] 567 00:24:55,227 --> 00:24:56,594 [Tim speaking] 568 00:24:56,628 --> 00:25:00,130 [officer speaking] 569 00:25:00,165 --> 00:25:03,934 [Tim speaking] 570 00:25:03,969 --> 00:25:05,703 Once we find out that Tim Dean had wrecked the car 571 00:25:05,737 --> 00:25:08,739 that he was five hours away from Sunray, Texas 572 00:25:08,773 --> 00:25:11,475 that he was en route to New York, 573 00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:12,910 we got excited. 574 00:25:12,944 --> 00:25:16,247 He became a primary person of interest for us 575 00:25:16,281 --> 00:25:17,815 as a suspect. 576 00:25:17,849 --> 00:25:21,385 During that interview that Deputy Nicola has with Tim Dean, 577 00:25:21,419 --> 00:25:23,587 he discovers that 578 00:25:23,622 --> 00:25:26,323 Tim Dean is not named on the rental agreement. 579 00:25:26,358 --> 00:25:28,392 [officer speaking] 580 00:25:28,426 --> 00:25:29,593 [Tim speaking] 581 00:25:29,628 --> 00:25:31,428 [officer speaking] 582 00:25:31,463 --> 00:25:35,199 [Tim speaking] 583 00:25:35,233 --> 00:25:36,734 [officer speaking] 584 00:25:36,768 --> 00:25:37,635 [Tim speaking] 585 00:25:37,669 --> 00:25:39,570 [narrator] For Wayne County detectives, 586 00:25:39,604 --> 00:25:42,506 the account of Tim Dean's rental car accident 587 00:25:42,541 --> 00:25:46,710 changes the course of their homicide investigation. 588 00:25:46,745 --> 00:25:48,646 [Det. Milby] We found out that Tim Dean 589 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,215 tried to rent another car, 590 00:25:51,249 --> 00:25:52,683 but he wasn't able to do so. 591 00:25:52,717 --> 00:25:54,518 He only carried cash with him. 592 00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:57,688 But on October 21st in about 1:32 PM, 593 00:25:57,722 --> 00:26:00,824 Tim Dean is able to rent a second vehicle 594 00:26:00,859 --> 00:26:02,526 and we're able to find out 595 00:26:02,561 --> 00:26:04,662 what the plate number is on that vehicle 596 00:26:04,696 --> 00:26:06,830 that Tim Dean started the rest of his journey in. 597 00:26:06,865 --> 00:26:10,267 We put that plate in a plate reader system 598 00:26:10,302 --> 00:26:11,669 to see if it comes up anywhere 599 00:26:11,703 --> 00:26:14,572 and we were able to actually get a match on that plate 600 00:26:14,606 --> 00:26:16,807 as it entered New York State. 601 00:26:16,841 --> 00:26:20,411 So on the night of the 21st at 10:52 PM, 602 00:26:20,445 --> 00:26:22,346 we find that Tim Dean actually enters 603 00:26:22,380 --> 00:26:23,581 Chautauqua County, New York. 604 00:26:23,615 --> 00:26:26,417 And the morning of the 22nd, 605 00:26:26,451 --> 00:26:29,520 the morning of the murders at 5:25 AM, 606 00:26:29,554 --> 00:26:31,355 we got a second hit 607 00:26:31,389 --> 00:26:33,624 as he comes up New York State Route 390 608 00:26:33,658 --> 00:26:35,926 out of Dansville, New York. 609 00:26:36,695 --> 00:26:39,597 On October 22nd at about 3:30 PM, 610 00:26:39,631 --> 00:26:42,266 we also had a license plate reader hit 611 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:45,936 on the same vehicle headed south out of New York 612 00:26:45,971 --> 00:26:48,472 on Interstate Route 390 in Dansville 613 00:26:48,506 --> 00:26:52,009 which is about 90 minutes away from Sodus, New York. 614 00:26:53,578 --> 00:26:55,679 So we're also able to ascertain that 615 00:26:55,714 --> 00:26:59,750 about an hour and a half after the homicide at 3:30 PM, 616 00:26:59,784 --> 00:27:03,487 that vehicle that Tim Dean was renting left the area 617 00:27:03,521 --> 00:27:06,991 by way of the same license plate reader in Dansville. 618 00:27:07,025 --> 00:27:10,361 [narrator] With confirmation that Tim Dean's rental car 619 00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:11,462 traveled into New York 620 00:27:11,496 --> 00:27:13,530 around the time of the murders, 621 00:27:13,565 --> 00:27:15,666 Detective Milby travels to Texas 622 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:18,936 to find more evidence of a possible criminal conspiracy 623 00:27:18,970 --> 00:27:23,207 between Tim Dean and Charlene Childers. 624 00:27:23,241 --> 00:27:24,475 [Det. Milby] So five of us 625 00:27:24,509 --> 00:27:25,643 pile into a couple of vehicles 626 00:27:25,677 --> 00:27:29,680 and we make the same drive that Tim Dean did to Texas 627 00:27:29,714 --> 00:27:31,749 where we're met by the local authorities 628 00:27:31,783 --> 00:27:33,517 that are ready to conduct a search warrant 629 00:27:33,551 --> 00:27:35,019 on Tim Dean's residence. 630 00:27:35,053 --> 00:27:37,888 [officer] Hands up. Anybody in here? 631 00:27:37,922 --> 00:27:40,591 [Det. Milby] We discovered a few items of interest to us. 632 00:27:40,625 --> 00:27:43,827 Tim has several handguns in the residence. 633 00:27:43,862 --> 00:27:46,630 Some things discovered were actually with him 634 00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:48,532 in the vehicle during his drive to New York, 635 00:27:48,566 --> 00:27:50,668 including the tote that we believe was used 636 00:27:50,702 --> 00:27:52,736 to carry the weapons in. 637 00:27:52,771 --> 00:27:55,339 We learned that things were kind of going downhill 638 00:27:55,373 --> 00:27:56,774 for Tim Dean. 639 00:27:56,808 --> 00:27:58,609 He was having trouble making bills. 640 00:27:58,643 --> 00:28:00,644 He wasn't able to make his mortgage. 641 00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:02,446 And he'd started selling 642 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,282 a lot of his personal possessions. 643 00:28:06,518 --> 00:28:09,586 So we've got a very, very intricate picture of a man 644 00:28:09,621 --> 00:28:12,456 who's very self-righteous. 645 00:28:12,490 --> 00:28:15,325 He's a man of small stature 646 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:16,660 but he carries a heavy hand 647 00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:18,796 underneath his own roof, 648 00:28:18,830 --> 00:28:20,497 especially with the investigations 649 00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:21,832 into the child abuse. 650 00:28:21,866 --> 00:28:24,768 He's desperate. He's careless. He's emotional. 651 00:28:24,803 --> 00:28:28,305 And frankly, Tim Dean at that point in his life is a mess. 652 00:28:29,441 --> 00:28:31,341 [narrator] Investigators request a copy 653 00:28:31,376 --> 00:28:32,876 of Tim's cellphone records 654 00:28:32,911 --> 00:28:35,679 to confirm his location near Josh and Amber's house 655 00:28:35,714 --> 00:28:37,681 at the time of the murders. 656 00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:39,483 [Det. Milby] Tim Dean's cellphone hit off of a tower 657 00:28:39,517 --> 00:28:40,918 outside of St. Louis, Missouri 658 00:28:40,952 --> 00:28:44,788 at about 10:15 AM on the 21st of October. 659 00:28:44,823 --> 00:28:46,724 Cellphone records tell us the phone was put back on 660 00:28:46,758 --> 00:28:49,359 at around 3:30 PM on the 23rd, 661 00:28:49,394 --> 00:28:51,762 and that was outside of Missouri. 662 00:28:51,796 --> 00:28:55,599 And he was back home in Sunray by 11:27 PM 663 00:28:55,633 --> 00:28:57,701 on the 23rd of October. 664 00:28:57,736 --> 00:29:00,370 We're able to ascertain that around 2:00 AM 665 00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:02,272 when the phone is turned back on, 666 00:29:02,307 --> 00:29:05,375 Tim Dean has 36 missed calls. 667 00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:06,510 These phone records indicate to us, 668 00:29:06,544 --> 00:29:08,345 they actually screened to us 669 00:29:08,379 --> 00:29:09,713 that he did something intentionally 670 00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:14,752 to try to mask his whereabouts for that 28 hours. 671 00:29:14,786 --> 00:29:16,754 [narrator] When Tim's phone records come in, 672 00:29:16,788 --> 00:29:19,523 they reveal a surprising new detail. 673 00:29:19,557 --> 00:29:23,427 There are two phone calls between him and Charlene. 674 00:29:23,461 --> 00:29:25,796 One, during his accident in Kansas 675 00:29:25,830 --> 00:29:28,398 and another after the murders. 676 00:29:28,433 --> 00:29:29,933 [Det. Milby] Two of these phone calls 677 00:29:29,968 --> 00:29:31,502 that are pretty interesting to us, 678 00:29:31,536 --> 00:29:33,470 the first call, Tim Dean makes to Charlene 679 00:29:33,505 --> 00:29:35,439 when he has his accident in Kansas, 680 00:29:35,473 --> 00:29:38,575 and then when he turns the cell phone back on 681 00:29:38,610 --> 00:29:40,477 after the homicide occurs, 682 00:29:40,512 --> 00:29:43,380 his first phone call is to Charlene Childers. 683 00:29:43,414 --> 00:29:44,715 This is interesting to us 684 00:29:44,749 --> 00:29:47,284 because through our interview with Charlene, 685 00:29:47,318 --> 00:29:48,685 she first tells us that 686 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,321 she no longer wants anything to do with Tim Dean 687 00:29:51,356 --> 00:29:52,489 and that they're no longer a couple. 688 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:56,393 [It. Croft] Not many people have a 16-minute conversation 689 00:29:56,427 --> 00:29:57,728 with a soon-to-be ex-wife, 690 00:29:57,762 --> 00:29:59,763 so it was shooting some holes in her story, 691 00:29:59,798 --> 00:30:03,700 as far as her getting a divorce from Tim Dean. 692 00:30:03,735 --> 00:30:07,104 [Det. Milby] We now know that Charlene is lying to us deliberately. 693 00:30:07,138 --> 00:30:08,772 There was actually still a full-blown relationship 694 00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:11,775 going on between Tim and Charlene. 695 00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:15,045 So now we believe she has more to do 696 00:30:15,079 --> 00:30:17,381 with this homicide than she's letting on. 697 00:30:18,917 --> 00:30:20,450 [Callanan] She came up to Kansas 698 00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:22,986 to help him get the second vehicle 699 00:30:23,021 --> 00:30:26,790 and this contact showed that she was assisting him 700 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:29,293 trying to get from Texas to Kansas 701 00:30:29,327 --> 00:30:31,628 and from Kansas to New York. 702 00:30:32,897 --> 00:30:35,866 [narrator] With inconsistencies in Charlene's testimony, 703 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,570 Detective Milby zeroes in on a suspicious detail 704 00:30:39,604 --> 00:30:42,639 from their initial contact. 705 00:30:42,674 --> 00:30:44,708 [Det. Milby] Charlene had said that she had seen 706 00:30:44,742 --> 00:30:48,378 a post that was on Facebook of a house 707 00:30:48,413 --> 00:30:49,847 with crime scene tape in front of it 708 00:30:49,881 --> 00:30:52,749 and that it was a picture of Josh's residence, 709 00:30:52,784 --> 00:30:56,086 and she knew that Josh was a victim. 710 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,622 At that point, no victims have been identified 711 00:30:58,656 --> 00:31:00,757 as being involved in the shooting. 712 00:31:00,792 --> 00:31:03,760 The news camera footage was actually showing 713 00:31:03,795 --> 00:31:06,396 a neighbor's house across the street 714 00:31:06,431 --> 00:31:09,399 and not the location of the homicides. 715 00:31:09,434 --> 00:31:11,335 The only way she would've known 716 00:31:11,369 --> 00:31:12,769 that Josh and Amber were the victim 717 00:31:12,804 --> 00:31:16,740 was because she had something to do with the crime. 718 00:31:16,774 --> 00:31:18,775 [narrator] Based on the multiple lies from Charlene, 719 00:31:18,810 --> 00:31:21,845 and the new evidence tying her to Tim's actions, 720 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,915 detectives believed she could be the true mastermind 721 00:31:24,949 --> 00:31:29,052 who orchestrated the murder of Josh and Amber. 722 00:31:29,087 --> 00:31:32,956 [Callanan] Timothy Dean wasn't doing this by himself, 723 00:31:32,991 --> 00:31:36,260 it became very clear that she was behind 724 00:31:36,294 --> 00:31:37,694 not only the crime, 725 00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:39,796 but exactly how this crime was going to be committed 726 00:31:39,831 --> 00:31:42,866 and what the plan was for him. 727 00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:45,068 [Det. Milby] She was willing to do whatever it took 728 00:31:45,103 --> 00:31:47,404 in order to make sure she got her own way. 729 00:31:51,943 --> 00:31:53,443 [narrator] In the horrific double homicide 730 00:31:53,478 --> 00:31:55,846 of Josh Niles and Amber Washburn, 731 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,582 detectives have refocused their investigation 732 00:31:58,616 --> 00:32:00,684 on proving a criminal conspiracy 733 00:32:00,718 --> 00:32:04,187 between Tim Dean and Charlene Childers. 734 00:32:05,423 --> 00:32:07,557 Motive is the reason behind the crime, 735 00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:10,260 conspiracy is acting in concert with others 736 00:32:10,295 --> 00:32:12,129 to commit that crime. 737 00:32:12,163 --> 00:32:15,499 [Arntfield] If Charlene and Tim were in fact working together 738 00:32:15,533 --> 00:32:18,435 in a plot to travel out of state, kill Josh, 739 00:32:18,469 --> 00:32:21,538 so Charlene could reclaim the children 740 00:32:21,572 --> 00:32:23,740 regardless of who pulls the trigger, 741 00:32:23,775 --> 00:32:26,310 they are both mutually culpable. 742 00:32:27,578 --> 00:32:29,313 [narrator] To build their case 743 00:32:29,347 --> 00:32:30,781 against both Tim and Charlene. 744 00:32:30,815 --> 00:32:33,550 Detective Milby moves on to question the person 745 00:32:33,584 --> 00:32:37,321 who Tim says facilitated his first car rental, 746 00:32:37,355 --> 00:32:38,622 Bron Bohlar. 747 00:32:38,656 --> 00:32:40,257 [detective speaking] 748 00:32:40,291 --> 00:32:42,225 [detective speaking] 749 00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:43,360 [Bron speaking] 750 00:32:43,394 --> 00:32:44,628 [detective speaking] 751 00:32:44,662 --> 00:32:46,363 [Det. Milby] Bron Bohlar is a police officer 752 00:32:46,397 --> 00:32:49,733 in Sunray that idolized Tim Dean 753 00:32:49,767 --> 00:32:52,602 and became friends with Tim and Charlene 754 00:32:52,637 --> 00:32:55,372 when they lived in Sunray. 755 00:32:55,406 --> 00:32:56,606 [It. Croft] Every profession, 756 00:32:56,641 --> 00:32:58,342 but especially law enforcement, 757 00:32:58,376 --> 00:33:00,444 you have leaders and you have followers 758 00:33:00,478 --> 00:33:03,480 and I think Bron is a follower. 759 00:33:03,514 --> 00:33:07,584 He would do anything that Tim asked him to do. 760 00:33:07,618 --> 00:33:09,619 Bron had to be convinced during that interview 761 00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:10,721 that he needed to tell the truth 762 00:33:10,755 --> 00:33:12,522 and is to what his role was. 763 00:33:12,557 --> 00:33:16,560 [detective speaking] 764 00:33:16,594 --> 00:33:17,694 [Bron speaking] 765 00:33:17,729 --> 00:33:19,396 [Callanan] The investigators appeal to him, 766 00:33:19,430 --> 00:33:21,431 not only as a member of law enforcement, 767 00:33:21,466 --> 00:33:24,201 but also as a father with children, 768 00:33:24,235 --> 00:33:25,535 and then shortly after 769 00:33:25,570 --> 00:33:29,306 Bron Bohlar provided the true story. 770 00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:30,507 [Bron speaking] 771 00:33:30,541 --> 00:33:31,608 [detective speaking] 772 00:33:31,642 --> 00:33:32,609 [Bron speaking] 773 00:33:32,643 --> 00:33:34,277 [detective speaking] 774 00:33:34,312 --> 00:33:35,245 [Bron speaking] 775 00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:37,581 [detective speaking] 776 00:33:37,615 --> 00:33:42,119 [Bron speaking] 777 00:33:44,555 --> 00:33:46,556 [detective] Okay. 778 00:33:46,591 --> 00:33:48,592 [Bron speaking] 779 00:33:48,626 --> 00:33:50,338 [detective speaking] 780 00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:51,361 [Bron speaking] 781 00:33:51,396 --> 00:33:53,497 [Det. Milby] Bron Bohlar knew full well 782 00:33:53,531 --> 00:33:56,299 that there was going to be a homicide in New York 783 00:33:56,334 --> 00:33:58,668 and he agreed to do this 784 00:33:58,703 --> 00:34:02,205 while he was in uniform as a Sunray police officer. 785 00:34:03,174 --> 00:34:04,841 Through our interview with Bron Bohlar, 786 00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:07,611 we were able to determine that Charlene was actually 787 00:34:07,645 --> 00:34:09,713 the mastermind of this whole thing. 788 00:34:09,747 --> 00:34:13,417 With her setting up and actually taking Bron 789 00:34:13,451 --> 00:34:15,752 to rent the first vehicle 790 00:34:15,787 --> 00:34:18,488 and through her taking the time and effort 791 00:34:18,523 --> 00:34:20,590 to drive all the way five hours from home 792 00:34:20,625 --> 00:34:24,061 to make sure that Tim Dean could complete his trip. 793 00:34:24,095 --> 00:34:26,530 Painted a picture to us of a very determined woman 794 00:34:26,564 --> 00:34:28,799 that was using quite a few different pawns 795 00:34:28,833 --> 00:34:32,369 in her scheme to get her children back, 796 00:34:32,403 --> 00:34:34,371 and she was gonna do this at any cost. 797 00:34:35,907 --> 00:34:37,374 [narrator] With Bron's testimony 798 00:34:37,408 --> 00:34:39,276 that Charlene and Tim conspired 799 00:34:39,310 --> 00:34:41,645 to have Josh and Amber killed, 800 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:44,548 police enact dual operations across the country 801 00:34:44,582 --> 00:34:46,383 to arrest Tim in Texas 802 00:34:46,417 --> 00:34:49,486 and Charlene in New York. 803 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,354 [Det. Milby] The reason that we wanted to handle 804 00:34:51,389 --> 00:34:52,789 Tim and Charlene at the same time 805 00:34:52,824 --> 00:34:55,358 was so that they could not communicate with each other 806 00:34:55,393 --> 00:34:58,128 to try to fabricate a story. 807 00:34:59,497 --> 00:35:01,498 [Callanan] Charlene Childers was taken into custody 808 00:35:01,532 --> 00:35:03,700 on weapons charges in New York. 809 00:35:03,734 --> 00:35:07,471 A SWAT team surrounded Charlene and Tim's home 810 00:35:07,505 --> 00:35:09,806 in Sunray, Texas, breached the door 811 00:35:09,841 --> 00:35:14,144 and are able to successfully take Tim Dean into custody. 812 00:35:15,613 --> 00:35:17,380 [Det. Milby] During initial contact 813 00:35:17,415 --> 00:35:19,483 with law enforcement in Texas, 814 00:35:19,517 --> 00:35:21,618 Tim is pretty smug. 815 00:35:21,652 --> 00:35:23,253 Tim isn't gonna talk. 816 00:35:23,287 --> 00:35:27,657 [Tim speaking] 817 00:35:27,692 --> 00:35:29,593 [Det. Milby] Eventually, he makes some sort of admission 818 00:35:29,627 --> 00:35:32,562 that he came to New York with all that weaponry 819 00:35:32,597 --> 00:35:35,198 to commit suicide. 820 00:35:35,233 --> 00:35:41,204 [Tim speaking] [bleep] 821 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,842 [Tim speaking] 822 00:35:45,877 --> 00:35:47,244 [Det. Milby] The average person only needs 823 00:35:47,278 --> 00:35:49,412 one weapon to commit suicide. 824 00:35:49,447 --> 00:35:51,248 That was a lie. 825 00:35:51,282 --> 00:35:55,519 [detective speaking] 826 00:35:55,553 --> 00:36:02,025 [detective speaking] 827 00:36:05,296 --> 00:36:07,764 [detective speaking] 828 00:36:07,798 --> 00:36:10,400 [Det. Milby] We tried to appeal to his senses 829 00:36:10,434 --> 00:36:14,004 and he was completely shut down. 830 00:36:14,038 --> 00:36:16,573 [narrator] Meanwhile, back in New York, 831 00:36:16,607 --> 00:36:19,743 detectives questioned Charlene Childers. 832 00:36:19,777 --> 00:36:21,611 [Det. Milby] We were relatively certain that 833 00:36:21,646 --> 00:36:24,714 Tim Dean was the one who pulled the trigger. 834 00:36:24,749 --> 00:36:26,783 The hurdle that we had to get over was 835 00:36:26,817 --> 00:36:30,954 connecting Charlene as that puppet master. 836 00:36:31,789 --> 00:36:33,456 We circle the wagons a little bit 837 00:36:33,491 --> 00:36:35,592 and just to see what comes out. 838 00:36:35,626 --> 00:36:41,531 [Christine speaking] 839 00:36:41,566 --> 00:36:43,266 [detective] Mmm-hmm. 840 00:36:43,301 --> 00:36:46,937 [Christine speaking] 841 00:36:46,971 --> 00:36:48,638 [Det. Milby] During that interview, we focused completely 842 00:36:48,673 --> 00:36:52,676 on Tim in coming to learn the person that Charlene is, 843 00:36:52,710 --> 00:36:54,444 it's not that far of a stretch 844 00:36:54,478 --> 00:36:56,213 to think that she's gonna throw him 845 00:36:56,247 --> 00:36:57,614 completely under the bus, 846 00:36:57,648 --> 00:36:59,716 which she does. 847 00:36:59,750 --> 00:37:03,453 - [Charlene speaking] - [detective speaking] 848 00:37:03,487 --> 00:37:09,192 [Charlene speaking] 849 00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:10,527 [detective speaking] 850 00:37:10,561 --> 00:37:12,128 [Det. Milby] Wanting to hurt Josh 851 00:37:12,163 --> 00:37:14,364 because of the allegations that she's made in the past 852 00:37:14,398 --> 00:37:16,099 about being abused by Josh. 853 00:37:16,133 --> 00:37:18,435 So she's trying to paint the picture of a motive 854 00:37:18,469 --> 00:37:21,504 that Tim has to commit this crime. 855 00:37:21,539 --> 00:37:25,508 She says this is completely Tim's idea to get this done. 856 00:37:25,543 --> 00:37:29,145 [Charlene speaking] 857 00:37:37,888 --> 00:37:41,291 [Det. Milby] Charlene is very charismatic, 858 00:37:41,325 --> 00:37:42,592 manipulative woman. 859 00:37:42,627 --> 00:37:45,395 And she got the impression that 860 00:37:45,429 --> 00:37:47,631 if she repeated a lie more than once 861 00:37:47,665 --> 00:37:49,633 that people would believe it. 862 00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:52,402 She didn't realize she was dealing with 863 00:37:52,436 --> 00:37:53,403 seasoned detectives. 864 00:37:54,739 --> 00:37:58,742 And finally she tells us that she had said at one point, 865 00:37:58,776 --> 00:38:02,445 it would just be better off if Josh was dead. 866 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,583 [Charlene speaking] [bleep] 867 00:38:06,617 --> 00:38:07,651 [detective] Mmm-hmm. 868 00:38:07,685 --> 00:38:11,354 [Charlene speaking] [bleep] 869 00:38:11,389 --> 00:38:12,922 [Det. Milby] And eventually 870 00:38:12,957 --> 00:38:15,258 we get a confession from Charlene. 871 00:38:15,293 --> 00:38:21,164 [detective speaking] 872 00:38:21,198 --> 00:38:24,334 [Charlene speaking] 873 00:38:24,368 --> 00:38:25,502 [detective speaking] 874 00:38:25,536 --> 00:38:27,337 [Charlene speaking] 875 00:38:27,371 --> 00:38:30,874 [detective speaking] 876 00:38:30,908 --> 00:38:33,910 [narrator] Detectives are now able to piece together 877 00:38:33,944 --> 00:38:39,149 Josh Niles and Amber Washburn's final 24 hours. 878 00:38:39,183 --> 00:38:40,817 In May of 2018, 879 00:38:40,851 --> 00:38:45,689 Charlene loses custody of her children to Josh. 880 00:38:45,723 --> 00:38:47,457 Charlene is devastated, 881 00:38:47,491 --> 00:38:50,327 and ultimately Charlene tells Tim, 882 00:38:50,361 --> 00:38:52,562 Josh needs to die. 883 00:38:52,596 --> 00:38:54,497 She begins to develop a plan 884 00:38:54,532 --> 00:38:56,466 in order to get that custody back. 885 00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:59,469 And that starts in the garage in Sunray, Texas, 886 00:38:59,503 --> 00:39:01,504 when her, Tim Dean, 887 00:39:01,539 --> 00:39:04,674 and friend Bron Bohlar are present. 888 00:39:04,709 --> 00:39:07,410 Bron agrees to rent the vehicle. 889 00:39:07,445 --> 00:39:10,714 Charlene drives Bron to the Amarillo Airport 890 00:39:10,748 --> 00:39:13,516 in order to pick up this rental vehicle. 891 00:39:13,551 --> 00:39:15,151 And Tim takes it from there. 892 00:39:17,788 --> 00:39:21,624 Tim actually does start his trip on October 19th, 893 00:39:21,659 --> 00:39:23,693 but wrecks his rental vehicle in Kansas 894 00:39:23,728 --> 00:39:27,630 on October 20th at about 4:00 AM. 895 00:39:27,665 --> 00:39:31,267 [Callanan] On October 21st, Timothy Dean called Charlene 896 00:39:31,302 --> 00:39:34,571 to make her aware that he is stranded in Kansas. 897 00:39:34,605 --> 00:39:37,307 She drives up to Kansas 898 00:39:37,341 --> 00:39:40,543 helps him rent another vehicle 899 00:39:40,578 --> 00:39:43,179 and tells him that he should not come home 900 00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:46,983 unless he has done what he's supposed to do. 901 00:39:48,552 --> 00:39:49,753 On October 22nd, 902 00:39:49,787 --> 00:39:51,454 license plate readers pick him up 903 00:39:51,489 --> 00:39:53,456 at about 5:25 AM, 904 00:39:53,491 --> 00:39:55,759 90 minutes outside of Sodus, New York. 905 00:39:55,793 --> 00:39:58,795 At 1:57 PM, home surveillance cameras 906 00:39:58,829 --> 00:40:02,132 catch Tim Dean walking through the streets of Sodus. 907 00:40:04,034 --> 00:40:05,702 [Callanan] Timothy Dean walks down the driveway 908 00:40:05,736 --> 00:40:09,506 of Carlton Street and confronts Joshua Niles. 909 00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:10,874 There's a brief discussion 910 00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:14,444 before Timothy Dean pulls out his gun... 911 00:40:14,478 --> 00:40:16,246 [gunshot] 912 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,548 ...and shoots Josh Niles once in the chest. 913 00:40:18,582 --> 00:40:20,517 [Det. Milby] At that same time, 914 00:40:20,551 --> 00:40:23,253 Amber pulls into the driveway with her son, Josh Jr. 915 00:40:23,287 --> 00:40:24,554 In the backseat. 916 00:40:24,588 --> 00:40:26,489 Amber tries to leave the driveway. 917 00:40:26,524 --> 00:40:29,159 Tim immediately turns to her 918 00:40:31,295 --> 00:40:34,330 and shoots her in the head. 919 00:40:34,365 --> 00:40:36,633 Tim then turns to Josh 920 00:40:36,667 --> 00:40:39,102 where he shoots him nine more times. 921 00:40:39,136 --> 00:40:42,172 [gunshots] 922 00:40:46,377 --> 00:40:49,379 [dramatic music playing] 923 00:40:53,617 --> 00:40:56,853 [narrator] Tim Dean, Charlene Childers, and Bron Bohlar 924 00:40:56,887 --> 00:40:58,521 are charged with the murders 925 00:40:58,556 --> 00:41:02,325 of Josh Niles and Amber Washburn. 926 00:41:02,359 --> 00:41:04,627 For conspiracy in the second degree, 927 00:41:04,662 --> 00:41:09,132 Bron Bohlar is sentenced to one to three years. 928 00:41:09,166 --> 00:41:11,734 Tim Dean is convicted a first-degree murder 929 00:41:11,769 --> 00:41:14,737 and sentenced to life without parole. 930 00:41:14,772 --> 00:41:17,407 Charlene Childers is found guilty 931 00:41:17,441 --> 00:41:18,708 of first-degree manslaughter 932 00:41:18,742 --> 00:41:21,644 and sentenced to 28 years. 933 00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:25,148 She is eligible for parole in 2042. 934 00:41:27,818 --> 00:41:32,722 [Callanan] I think of that afternoon on Carlton Street, 935 00:41:32,756 --> 00:41:37,594 Josh Niles completely ambushed in his driveway. 936 00:41:37,628 --> 00:41:39,295 The last thing he saw 937 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:43,366 was his fiancee being killed 938 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,668 wondering with his last moments, 939 00:41:45,703 --> 00:41:48,705 what was going to happen to Josh Jr. 940 00:41:48,739 --> 00:41:50,740 [It. Croft] I have young kids too. 941 00:41:50,774 --> 00:41:54,143 I can't imagine what that would do to a young child. 942 00:41:55,346 --> 00:41:56,779 To be in the backseat 943 00:41:56,814 --> 00:42:00,450 and be a part of the actual incident, 944 00:42:00,484 --> 00:42:03,586 it's got to be tough. 945 00:42:03,621 --> 00:42:05,588 [Det. Milby] We're quite proud of the fact 946 00:42:05,623 --> 00:42:07,557 that we were able to bring 947 00:42:07,591 --> 00:42:10,527 Josh and Amber's killers to justice. 948 00:42:10,561 --> 00:42:13,696 But we have kids out there 949 00:42:13,731 --> 00:42:16,466 who now don't have parents 950 00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:18,868 and for what? 951 00:42:18,903 --> 00:42:23,006 Because of someone who got told 952 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,276 that she wasn't allowed to have things her way. 953 00:42:26,310 --> 00:42:28,978 That's the tragedy.