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Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is
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not intended for all audiences.
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Listener discretion is advised. So I went in there, and, um,
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the lights were off. It was like a f *
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* * ing horror movie.
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Hello, and welcome to Season 13, Episode 376 of Sword
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and Scale. A show that reveals that the worst monsters.
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Are real.
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Y'all sure do love free shit, don't you? I mean,
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that's pretty obvious from What I did to myself last
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week by saying that you'd get free shit with your
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purchase at the store. I wasn't expecting that many orders,
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to be honest with you. And here's what we're going
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to do. We're not going to do that anymore, okay?
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The orders that went out, those orders, by the way,
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they did go out. I spent days and days working
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on that. But I realized I was doing it all wrong.
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So here's what we're going to do today. We're just
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going to make things super cheap at the store. And
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if we can, we will throw in an extra object
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or two that we have lying around. But we really
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just want to get rid of everything because I don't
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want boxes and boxes of crap.
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In my garage.
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So order now. We're going to open it up. You
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should be open now. Store.sortandscale.com. And once we run out
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of stuff, we run out of stuff and it'll be available,
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I guess, on the secondary eBay market or something. But
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that's it, I guess. I'm just dragging this out at
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this point. So I guess we might as well get
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to some murder.
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What do you say?
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It was late evening in the Zanesville Police Department in Ohio,
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one of my favorite places, when a teenage girl named
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Nina was brought in for questioning about her missing grandfather.
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This is Detective Brian Ruff. It is February 11th, 2025.
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I'm at the Zanesville Police Department speaking to, go ahead
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and say your name for me.
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Nina Baos.
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All right.
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Who do you live there with?
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I live there with mom and dad and my boyfriend.
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Okay.
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And mom is?
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Brittany Anderson.
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Brittany Anderson?
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Yes.
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Does she go by any other names?
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Her mother went by Brittany Cole, and her father-in-law was
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David Cole Jr. The detective continued through the basic questions.
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Nina was 16 years old. She had lived in the
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house on Summer Street for about seven or eight years.
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Her mother had inherited it from Nina's grandmother. And after
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her grandmother died, the family moved in. Nina's boyfriend had
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also recently moved in and was basically living with Nina
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in the basement of the house.
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Is there anybody else that lives there or has lived there?
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My grandpa was living there, but from what I was told,
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he went to Cincinnati.
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So it's just been me, my boyfriend.
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My mom and my dad.
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Okay, so your grandpa that was living there.
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When did he move?
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He moved around like Christmas time.
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I think. Okay.
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And what was his name?
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David Cole.
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Sr.
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So David Cole was living there up.
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Until around Christmas time? Yes. Okay.
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And him moving to Cincinnati, was that like abruptly or
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was it just like?
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No, I didn't really notice him leaving or anything.
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I'm always down in my room because I have depression
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and whatnot, so I'm not really upstairs. Like, if they, like,
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help anybody out of the house or, you know, they
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take somebody somewhere, I don't really know because I'm not
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out of my room.
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Okay.
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Nina and her boyfriend had made a small living space
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in the basement, and she said she rarely went upstairs
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unless she needed something from the kitchen. Typical. Her grandfather's
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bedroom was on the opposite end of the house, down
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the hallway, beside her parents' room. Grandpa, otherwise known as
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David Cole Sr., had turned 80 just two days before Christmas.
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He had Parkinson's and didn't drive anymore, but according to
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his family, he was still able to walk around and
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take care of most of his own needs. Nina hadn't
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seen anyone come to pick him up. She didn't know
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where in Cincinnati he was staying, and she hadn't spoken
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with him since he left. If she ever spoke to
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him much at.
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All, that is.
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But she had no reason to question what her parents
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told her. A little less than an hour after Nina's interview,
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Detective Ruff sat down with her mother, Brittany Cole. He
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asked her the same questions.
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And that house on Summer Street, did you buy that?
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It was left to me by my grandmother.
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And what was her name?
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Catherine Anderson.
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Okay.
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It's spelled with a K.
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Oh, okay.
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Has anybody else lived there over the last few years
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with you guys?
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My mother-in-law and father-in-law.
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Okay.
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And what are their names?
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Janet Cole.
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Janet?
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay.
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And? And David Cole Sr.
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Okay.
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She also told detectives that her daughter's boyfriend had recently
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moved in.
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And Janet and David, when did they move out?
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Mom actually passed. It was 2023. She died of cancer.
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And David?
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When was I told? It was the second week of
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January that I was told he moved out. I'm in
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nursing school, so I'm hardly ever home. Okay.
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Just like her daughter, Brittany only heard through the grapevine,
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I guess, that her father-in-law was not only planning to
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move out, but had in fact done so.
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And where did he go?
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He has a brother in Columbus.
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I think we ran a plate up there.
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Was one of those vehicles his?
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Yes, it was the SUV.
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Does he not drive No. Okay. So how'd he get
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to Columbus?
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The brother came and got him.
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Okay, and what's the brother's name?
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I'm trying to remember.
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I've never met him.
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This is what you'd call a loose-knit family. Grandpa had
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been living with the family for about four years before
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his health started to decline at a faster rate. Apparently,
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he didn't want to be a burden, so his brother
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came to get him. But there were two versions of
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when he left and where he went. Nina said he
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left at Christmas and went to Cincinnati. On the other hand,
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Brittany said he left during the second week of January
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and went to Columbus. Although Brittany and Grandpa's brother came
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to the house to pick him up, she had never
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met the man and couldn't even remember his name. But
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Brittany said Grandpa couldn't have left on his own.
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You said you were told. Who told you that he moved?
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My husband.
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Okay.
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And you said he doesn't drive. Why doesn't he drive?
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Because he wrecked the SUV in 2020 because he had Parkinson's.
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So he shook real bad. So? He decided to quit
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driving after that.
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Okay.
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He decided that?
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Yes.
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Um, so having Parkinson's, did you guys have to, like,
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take care of him a bunch?
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Um, yes and no. I mean, he was up walking. Like,
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the only thing I would have to do is remind
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him to take his
medicine. Okay.
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If Grandpa had moved out and gone to Columbus, somebody
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had to come and get him. To physically take him there.
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Neither Brittany or her daughter had seen any of this
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for themselves. Brittany was simply repeating what her husband had
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told her. And at first you might think, so what?
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So Grandpa moved out. People move out all the time.
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There was no reason for police to get involved. Except
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that earlier that night, their daughter's friend had called in
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with a very different story. According to her, Grandpa hadn't
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moved at all. She said he was dead. And she
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told them exactly where to look. On February 10th, 2025,
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the police started asking questions about an 80-year-old grandfather who
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was living with his son's family in Zanesville, Ohio. The
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household included him, his son, David Jr., David's wife Brittany,
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their daughter Nina, and Nina's boyfriend. According to Brittany and Nina,
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Grandpa had moved to his brother's place because he knew
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he was going downhill and didn't want to be a burden.
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But the stories about when and where he left were
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very different. His granddaughter said he went to Cincinnati around Christmas.
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But Brittany said he went to Columbus in January. The
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thing is, neither of them actually saw him leave. But
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now it was February 10th, and police found themselves answering
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a call claiming that maybe Grandpa had never left the
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property at all. So, They had a few questions for Brittany.
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All right.
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So what did officers say to you when they came and.
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Knocked on your door?
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They said that they had received a call that their
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grandfather had passed away and his body had been moved
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to this shed. And I was completely confused. One officer
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even mentioned that I had a confused look on my face.
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I had no idea why they were there. Okay.
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Did you tell them that they could go look around?
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Yes, I did.
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Okay.
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Um, So you were kind of shocked at that.
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Who do you think they would have gotten a call
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like that from?
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They told me who they got the call from.
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And who was that? Did they tell you more than
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they told me?
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It's one of my daughter's friends, well, used to be friends.
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We've had a lot of issues with her. She gave her, like,
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all kinds of hoodies when they were in eighth grade.
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And she got a hold of me and was like, well,
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I want it back, or I'm pressing charges for theft.
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And I'm like, well, it was in eighth grade. They're
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just going to tell you that you should have. I
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ended up giving her $ 150 for a black Nike hat
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that my daughter lost.
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Okay.
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So who was that?
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Emily Walls.
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The call came in just after 10 p.m. from Emily,
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who said that she was in charge of a big secret.
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What's going on?
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Well, I got a call from my friend. I got
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called back in the He died and got put in
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the shed of the back of their house.
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And that's on Summer Street? Yeah.
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Okay.
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This was a girl who said she knew Nina, the
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Coles' daughter. She heard it from her best friend, who
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stayed with the Coles for about a week, and heard
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it from Nina herself.
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So.
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The shocking information came from three teenage girls who knew
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if there was any truth to it.
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I don't remember the name of the parent.
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Okay.
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Because I used to stay over there. And you got
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a text, you said? I got a call and text,
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but I've been blocked because I told her I was
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calling the cops because she was begging me not to
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tell anybody. I'm just afraid they might try to move
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the body now.
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There was
another reason the dead body in the shed
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could have been dismissed as gossip. Brittany told detectives that
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both the caller and the cousin had fallen out with
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the family. Emily called 911, but she got the information
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from her best friend and Nina's cousin.
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Emily Walsh, they told me that she called and said this.
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Why would she have said this?
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I honestly have no idea.
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Okay.
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Well, how would she know information like that? Has she
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been over at your house recently to have even started
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some kind of a rumor like that?
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No, but her best friend has.
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And who's her best friend?
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Nevaeh Stroud. She also had a falling out with my...
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She actually used to live with... She was there for
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like a week. She didn't pick up after herself. She
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didn't clean... And so we asked her to politely leave.
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We're like, Emily?
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No, Nevaeh.
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Oh, Nevaeh.
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Okay.
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And she was very not okay with it. And she
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was very upset that we kicked her out. And I'm like,
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I'm not your maid. I can't. You're 18 years old.
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You are an adult.
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Right.
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I didn't even make her pay rent. I was like,
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the only thing I ask is that you help clean
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around the house if you want to be living here.
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Right.
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Makes sense.
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Right. Right.
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We spoke to the detective who took over the case
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that night. Even he was a bit dubious about whether
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the girls were telling the truth.
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I am Detective Brian Ruff. I work with the Zanesville
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Police Department. I've been in the Detective Bureau since 2018.
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I've been with Zanesville.
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PD for a little over 13 years now.
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I do general case detective work, so anything from an
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F5 drug possession to murder.
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Detective Ruff wasn't one of the officers who knocked on
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Brittany and David's door that night, but he clearly remembers
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what happened.
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Initially, when the officers went there and the sergeant went there,
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it wasn't, we thought it was, They thought it was
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a hoax. I mean, you wouldn't normally get a knock
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at your door, hey, can we check your property for
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a dead body? But, I mean, that was the information
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they had and when they did it and was told, sure,
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go check out our shed. And they were pretty shocked
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to find what they found back there.
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Still a little doubtful, the officers made their way to
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the back of the ranch home. As they approached, they
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spot an old mattress leaning against something. It's covered in
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a dark stain that's shaped like a body. They see
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a small tan building. Inside, the air is still and heavy.
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A flashlight beam shines inside the musty shed, catching all
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the floating particles of dust in the air. Then, they
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see a long shape covered in plastic. It's too deliberate
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to be random. and takes up a lot of space.
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All they have to do is shine a light to
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see what's inside. A blanket and a large plastic mattress bag. Inside,
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there's a man, just like the caller said there would be.
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It's 80-year-old David Cole Sr., the grandfather who had supposedly
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moved to Cincinnati or Columbus or whatever. He had, in fact,
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never left the property. Finding Grandpa's body answered one question,
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but begged an even bigger one. If he had never
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moved out, then what had actually happened inside that house?
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The only way to find out was to bring the
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entire family into the police department, collect their phones, and
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work on a timeline. Almost immediately, Brittany's story changed.
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After I got done with the juvenile interviews, I released
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the juveniles to parents. And then I went into interviewing
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Brittany Cole. In the first interview, especially in
cases like this,
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we're certain that we're not going to get all of
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the truth. So I went in there, talked to her,
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got a consent for the extraction of her cell phone.
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My sergeant sat in on that one because he does
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the data extractions of the phones.
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So she told us.
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Some truths, but for the most part, it was he
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had only been deceased for a couple of days. He
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died of natural causes. We were taking care of him,
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and I thought my husband had taken care of it.
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I didn't realize that he was out.
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In the shed.
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Brittany was treating this like it was completely ordinary to
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have an 80-year-old man die in the house and then
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just leave the rest to her husband. Apparently, at some point,
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that meant moving Grandpa's body out to the shed. Problem is,
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this isn't an 18th century frontier settlement where families bury
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their dead on their own property because nobody else is around.
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This is 2025 Zanesville, Ohio. And Putting Grandpa in the
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shed isn't really part of the death process. At least,
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not the one we accept in modern society. According to Brittany,
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Grandpa had died naturally only a few days earlier, and
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whatever happened after that was mostly her husband's doing. Brittany
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wasn't the only one changing her story. In Nina's first interview,
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she said Grandpa moved to Cincinnati. She didn't see him leave.
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She didn't know much more than that. But when did
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it happen? Ruff brought Nina back in, he told her
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he already knew she hadn't been honest.
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But I need to know what you know. So I
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need you to be 100% honest with me. And you
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can't say, I know you lied to me.
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Right?
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And I can't.
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You can't say you don't know anything.
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Because I know that you do.
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So I didn't know about the situation.
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But when my dad told me that he wasn't going
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to call the cops, we were basically just abiding by him.
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And from my past with guys, it really scares me,
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like dealing in situation with guys and whatnot. And they
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just kept telling me, they were like, tell people he's
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in Cincinnati.
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People don't need to know.
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And, you know, he like, he really scares me with
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his anger issues. And he's on medicine and everything. But
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there's just like sometimes that he like gets over aggressive
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and like really scares me.
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So Nina, after all, knew that her grandpa had died.
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She said David Jr., her stepdad, scared her. Blame the
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big scary man, I guess. He said he didn't want
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to call the police and told her not to tell anyone,
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just to tell them that Grandpa had moved out of
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the house. But that was a big, heavy secret to
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be carrying around for a teenage girl. And Nina wanted
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a way out.
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And I knew it would have been the right thing
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to do. So I told, I knew it was going
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to happen.
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I told my friend, Nate.
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And Emily had ended up finding out. And she was
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the one who called you guys.
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Right.
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So, nay is Nevaeh.
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Nevaeh, yes.
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Stroud, correct.
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Yes.
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And I told her in hopes that you guys would
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find out because I don't want to be that person
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and keep that secret and whatnot, and it scares me.
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Nina deliberately let the secret out, hoping someone would tell
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because it was just too much for a depressed 16-year-old
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to be burdened with. Fortunately, her strategy worked. But now
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Detective Ruff hoped her mother, Brittany, would shed more light
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on what she knew.
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We don't want to think that anybody's a bad person
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or a monster or anything.
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But when we look at things based upon evidence and.
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What we're getting at, that, you know, we need to
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know up front what the truth is. And you sit
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there and you don't tell the truth 100%.
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How do you think that makes that person?
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You know what I mean? Yes, I understand.
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So, in situations like these, like he just said, with DNA,
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like everybody's always transferring everything, you know, he's wrapped in
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plastic out in their shit.
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Okay?
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He's what?
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Yeah.
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Let's just cut to the chase. We're not going to,
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I'm going to sit here, and don't act like you're surprised.
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I am surprised. I thought he moved to Columbus.
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You're not.
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Listen.
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Listen.
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I've been doing this for about 20 years now. And
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maybe this wasn't your idea from when it began. Here's
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a chance to say, here's what really happened.
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I mean, crap is a lie that he moved to
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come to listen.
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We're going to talk to some people and they're going
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to say, anybody with half a brain would know that
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that's a bullshit story.
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And I'm not here to make you feel bad. And
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I know whatever happened, happened. You can't change it. The
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only thing you can do now is be honest. There's
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a man in your.
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Father-in-law that you care about, that you say that you
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care about.
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If you really care about him.
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Then you'd probably tell the truth. If you don't, I
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really don't care.
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That's something that you're going to have to live with.
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The detectives weren't buying the idea that Brittany had simply
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been blindsided by a body turning up in her own shed.
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So they kept trying to figure out exactly what she
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knew and when she knew it.
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So what happened to him?
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He passed away of natural causes.
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How do you know that?
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Because I found him.
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Where did you find him at?
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In his bed.
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Where was his bed at?
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Last room on the right.
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Did you guys take the carpet out?
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My husband did.
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Why?
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Dad, I have no idea. I wasn't home when he
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did it.
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Why didn't you just call the.
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Call us?
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She didn't want to tell her husband he was now
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an orphan.
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Confusing, right?
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The detective was confused about her response, also.
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He was dealing.
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With adults, after all. Brittany was 37, and her husband.
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The orphan, was 44. Like he said, people die every day.
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But detectives realized in this interview with David that Brittany
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wasn't exaggerating. David took his mother's death really hard, and
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she was afraid his dad's death would devastate him.
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I just, he was the last thing I had left
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in this world. And when he was, with him being gone,
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all I had was her. I just had her. I know,
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I know it sounds... I can't... Don't you have two sons?
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They don't talk to me, and for good reason. I
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had cut them out a long time ago.
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See, Brittany was his fourth wife. He didn't seem to
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have a good track record with marriages. And it appeared
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his sons may have had to pay the price. But
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whatever David Jr. 's emotional state, detectives... still had a
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dead man wrapped in plastic in a shed. And they
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still didn't have a straight answer of how or why
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he got there.
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That was his last appearance.
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So why?
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That doesn't make any sense.
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Why wouldn't he.
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Call the police and say, hey, you passed away?
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You know what I mean?
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You found him?
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Yes, sir.
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How did you find him?
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I went in to make sure he took his morning meds.
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Okay. Okay. So if you found him and you say
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he died of natural causes, how.
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Do you know he died of natural causes? I just assumed.
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Brittany admitted finding Grandpa dead and eventually telling David, but
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she reported having no idea how he got moved to
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the shed after David said he'd take care of things.
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So if your DNA is not going to be on
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there and you don't think your daughter's big enough to
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be able to move a body.
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So if it wasn't you and you don't think your
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daughter could.
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Do it, who does that leave?
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My husband. Okay.
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Do you think your husband is capable of killing someone?
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He was overseas and that's what he did. But his
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own dad, I'm not. I mean, I don't think he would.
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But I don't know.
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Even though Brittany was the one to discover Grandpa had died,
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she said she wasn't the one who had wrapped him
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in plastic. She maintained that her husband had done this
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while she was at school, after he said he would
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handle everything, including making the necessary calls and arrangements.
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Well, let's not, we're.
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Not here to, we're not here to assume we're going
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to just... It would have been him because he ordered it.
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Off of Amazon. Ordered the plastic?
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00:27:48.299 --> 00:27:48.539
Yes.
512
00:27:49.420 --> 00:27:50.200
And I targeted that.
513
00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:53.180
Because he told me he did, but he didn't tell
514
00:27:53.220 --> 00:27:54.029
me what it was for.
515
00:27:55.509 --> 00:27:57.410
So you go to school Monday through Friday.
516
00:27:57.769 --> 00:27:58.190
Yes, sir.
517
00:27:58.250 --> 00:28:01.039
You've found him was it close.
518
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:03.339
To the weekend was it like first thing monday morning
519
00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:05.019
oh we're starting the week.
520
00:28:04.900 --> 00:28:07.200
Off with i want to say it was like a
521
00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:08.740
monday or a tuesday morning.
522
00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:11.900
Okay how long did he lay in that bed before
523
00:28:11.940 --> 00:28:14.230
the the plastic showed up.
524
00:28:14.670 --> 00:28:17.670
And he
was moved that i'm not sure you live
525
00:28:17.690 --> 00:28:19.609
in the house you come home every night.
526
00:28:20.190 --> 00:28:23.509
I if i had to guesstimate maybe a week so
527
00:28:23.609 --> 00:28:26.130
he laid in the house for a week How long
528
00:28:26.190 --> 00:28:28.299
did it take to order the plastic and for the
529
00:28:28.339 --> 00:28:30.299
plastic to get there? Two days.
530
00:28:30.740 --> 00:28:31.039
Okay.
531
00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:32.299
The old prime members?
532
00:28:32.980 --> 00:28:33.220
Yes.
533
00:28:33.859 --> 00:28:36.339
Okay. You didn't help put him in the plastic?
534
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:37.759
No. Okay.
535
00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:39.299
Did you help carry him to the shed?
536
00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:40.099
No.
537
00:28:40.819 --> 00:28:41.200
You did?
538
00:28:42.660 --> 00:28:44.140
As far as I know, it was just my husband.
539
00:28:45.470 --> 00:28:49.069
There was another reason detectives would start to suspect David Jr.
540
00:28:50.069 --> 00:28:52.789
His father's money kept running the house.
541
00:28:53.890 --> 00:28:57.920
And they didn't have... full-time jobs. I mean, David Jr.
542
00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:05.920
And Brittany, they, I think they did like door dash.
543
00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:10.089
They were door dashing. He went to school full-time, but
544
00:29:10.750 --> 00:29:14.450
David Jr. wasn't, he wasn't employed by anyone other than
545
00:29:14.470 --> 00:29:16.950
the door dashing. So they didn't really have a source
546
00:29:16.990 --> 00:29:19.470
of income other than his father. And that's why they
547
00:29:19.529 --> 00:29:20.160
needed to keep him.
548
00:29:21.329 --> 00:29:24.549
To be fair, David admitted in his interview that They
549
00:29:24.589 --> 00:29:29.069
were essentially his dad's caretakers. So some of his monthly
550
00:29:29.150 --> 00:29:32.769
checks were spent on wound care, bed rails, things like that.
551
00:29:33.809 --> 00:29:35.869
He also said his dad was happy to give him
552
00:29:35.910 --> 00:29:38.309
part of his Social Security checks to help him with
553
00:29:38.329 --> 00:29:42.220
the bills. But there was a little more to it
554
00:29:42.339 --> 00:29:48.539
than that. Although his dad was hardworking, David Jr. lacked ambition.
555
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:53.690
By all accounts, when he wasn't door dashing, he was
556
00:29:53.730 --> 00:29:59.150
just sitting around playing video games and watching TV. Sound familiar?
557
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.319
So when he would get his monthly checks, what would
558
00:30:04.339 --> 00:30:04.819
you do with it?
559
00:30:04.819 --> 00:30:10.559
I mean, use it to outpay the bills or anything,
560
00:30:10.579 --> 00:30:13.769
to add electricity, water, whatnot.
561
00:30:14.130 --> 00:30:17.529
So you guys used it to maintain the household and
562
00:30:17.569 --> 00:30:18.269
your lifestyle?
563
00:30:18.849 --> 00:30:20.369
Somewhat, yeah. Okay.
564
00:30:21.430 --> 00:30:24.150
Obviously, we didn't find him until earlier this week. You
565
00:30:24.190 --> 00:30:27.319
would have gotten checks for him in January, and he
566
00:30:27.339 --> 00:30:28.390
was already deceased.
567
00:30:28.900 --> 00:30:29.160
Yes, sir.
568
00:30:32.609 --> 00:30:33.549
Did you spend that money?
569
00:30:34.829 --> 00:30:35.170
Yes, sir.
570
00:30:35.650 --> 00:30:35.990
Okay.
571
00:30:37.269 --> 00:30:40.690
Here, it's clear the Coles didn't just rely on Grandpa's
572
00:30:40.730 --> 00:30:44.829
Social Security while he was alive. They cashed his final
573
00:30:44.930 --> 00:30:49.670
check after he was gone, then spent the money. And
574
00:30:49.710 --> 00:30:53.539
that played into the timeline of when exactly Grandpa died.
575
00:30:54.700 --> 00:30:57.599
According to Brittany, the family spent Christmas together at the house,
576
00:30:57.740 --> 00:31:02.759
then On December 26th, the day after Christmas, Brittany, her husband,
577
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:06.380
and daughter Nina left for a planned trip to Orlando.
578
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:12.559
Grandpa stayed behind. Nina's boyfriend allegedly came and went from
579
00:31:12.579 --> 00:31:16.019
the house, and Brittany claimed he was checking in on
580
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:19.700
Grandpa and the dogs while they were gone. The family
581
00:31:19.740 --> 00:31:22.779
drove back from Florida on New Year's Eve and arrived
582
00:31:23.140 --> 00:31:27.339
on January 1st. She claimed that Grandpa died after they
583
00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:31.170
got back and She told David about it. But this
584
00:31:31.230 --> 00:31:33.769
is where the second version of Brittany's story starts.
585
00:31:34.609 --> 00:31:36.430
We asked him if he wanted to go, but he
586
00:31:36.470 --> 00:31:38.240
said it would be too much work to try to.
587
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:42.099
Okay. You guys get back from Florida. You guys all
588
00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:42.980
come back at the same time?
589
00:31:43.140 --> 00:31:43.400
Yes.
590
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:43.920
Okay.
591
00:31:44.380 --> 00:31:46.069
And you guys get back New Year's Day.
592
00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:47.359
Yes.
593
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:48.089
You check on dad?
594
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:49.230
Yeah, he's fine.
595
00:31:49.410 --> 00:31:49.869
He's fine?
596
00:31:49.970 --> 00:31:50.250
Okay.
597
00:31:51.890 --> 00:31:54.130
Is he complaining about any ailments or anything like that?
598
00:31:54.470 --> 00:31:55.150
Just back pain.
599
00:31:55.529 --> 00:31:55.789
Okay.
600
00:31:55.910 --> 00:31:56.309
Which type?
601
00:31:57.109 --> 00:31:58.589
Wasn't nothing out of the ordinary.
602
00:31:58.869 --> 00:32:02.430
So tell me, when do you find out that Dad's passed?
603
00:32:03.289 --> 00:32:04.829
That's another thing I want to talk to you about.
604
00:32:04.890 --> 00:32:05.019
Yeah.
605
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:07.759
I wasn't the one that found him. I said I
606
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.119
was because I was a
jittery mess. Who found him?
607
00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:11.099
My husband.
608
00:32:11.619 --> 00:32:11.819
Okay.
609
00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:12.839
And then what happens?
610
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:19.259
He calls me at school. He's not crying, but you
611
00:32:19.299 --> 00:32:20.460
can tell there's a little.
612
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:20.619
How.
613
00:32:23.190 --> 00:32:28.130
Do I want to describe this? He's upset, but not
614
00:32:28.230 --> 00:32:30.529
as upset as I thought he should have been.
615
00:32:30.750 --> 00:32:31.049
Okay.
616
00:32:32.309 --> 00:32:34.500
And he was like, I can't believe this happened. I
617
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:36.980
don't know what to do. And I'm like, what's going on?
618
00:32:37.779 --> 00:32:39.619
He's like, well, dad's gone. And I'm like, how do
619
00:32:39.660 --> 00:32:40.019
you know?
620
00:32:40.619 --> 00:32:40.859
Okay.
621
00:32:41.079 --> 00:32:43.940
And that's where I got the pulse from. He took
622
00:32:43.980 --> 00:32:46.789
his pulse. We're trained him to do the different pulses.
623
00:32:47.490 --> 00:32:48.109
So then what happens?
624
00:32:48.150 --> 00:32:49.009
Do you come home from school?
625
00:32:49.190 --> 00:32:50.930
I asked him if he wanted me to, and he
626
00:32:50.990 --> 00:32:54.910
said no. Because you can only miss 24 hours per
627
00:32:54.930 --> 00:32:58.819
term or you're kicked. I was like, are you sure?
628
00:32:58.859 --> 00:33:00.559
And he was like, no, I'll make what calls need
629
00:33:00.579 --> 00:33:03.859
to be made. And just, I'll see you when you
630
00:33:03.900 --> 00:33:04.119
get home.
631
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.400
Brittany claimed she had checked on Grandpa when they returned
632
00:33:08.819 --> 00:33:13.119
on New Year's Day. And according to her, he was fine.
633
00:33:13.269 --> 00:33:16.470
But in this new version of events, David finds his
634
00:33:16.529 --> 00:33:19.009
dad dead in bed on January 8th.
635
00:33:19.829 --> 00:33:20.170
A week.
636
00:33:20.859 --> 00:33:25.380
After the family returned from Florida. He calls Brittany, tells
637
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:27.619
her what happened, and says he'll take care of everything.
638
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:31.440
When Brittany gets home, she asks if it was handled.
639
00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:38.910
David says yes. But it hasn't. Grandpa is still lying
640
00:33:38.970 --> 00:33:43.410
dead in his bedroom, getting colder by the hour. And
641
00:33:43.450 --> 00:33:48.470
there's no coroner in sight. Brittany says David won't let
642
00:33:48.490 --> 00:33:51.890
her go into Dad's bedroom. He's worried about her because
643
00:33:52.250 --> 00:33:55.380
she just suffered losses on her side of the family recently,
644
00:33:56.119 --> 00:34:00.579
and she's still grieving. But this is interesting because in
645
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:04.660
Brittany's first interview, she told detectives almost exactly the opposite.
646
00:34:05.700 --> 00:34:08.599
That she had found Grandpa dead and didn't want to
647
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:12.480
tell David because she was protecting him after the death
648
00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:17.780
of his mother. No matter who initially found Grandpa passed away,
649
00:34:18.699 --> 00:34:21.619
Brittany claims she didn't even know where his body had
650
00:34:21.699 --> 00:34:24.920
gone until the day before police came knocking on the
651
00:34:24.980 --> 00:34:30.300
door on February 10th. By then, detectives had gone through
652
00:34:30.380 --> 00:34:34.469
both her and David's phones, and they'd seen video footage
653
00:34:34.530 --> 00:34:39.449
from inside the house. They've heard inconsistencies in Brittany's story,
654
00:34:39.530 --> 00:34:42.809
so they politely ask again.
655
00:34:43.969 --> 00:34:48.909
We're not here to play games, okay? Yeah. What do
656
00:34:48.929 --> 00:34:49.989
you think we found on your phone?
657
00:34:52.210 --> 00:34:53.949
Probably text messages.
658
00:34:53.969 --> 00:34:54.110
Okay.
659
00:34:54.210 --> 00:34:55.889
What text messages do you think we found?
660
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:03.739
I had asked a friend of mine about body removal.
661
00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:04.940
Okay.
662
00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:10.820
Who's the friend? Caitlin. When was that? Was that on
663
00:35:10.860 --> 00:35:12.739
January 8th as soon as you found out?
664
00:35:14.110 --> 00:35:14.469
No.
665
00:35:14.510 --> 00:35:17.909
Remember, we know what's on your phone. We know the date.
666
00:35:17.989 --> 00:35:19.110
We want you to tell us.
667
00:35:19.110 --> 00:35:20.070
It was in December.
668
00:35:21.809 --> 00:35:23.070
So you knew in December?
669
00:35:24.340 --> 00:35:24.530
Wait.
670
00:35:25.300 --> 00:35:27.610
Why would she need to know about body removal in
671
00:35:27.860 --> 00:35:33.280
December when Grandpa was still alive? According to her, that is.
672
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:36.639
I was asking how I go about it because I've
673
00:35:36.699 --> 00:35:39.980
never had to do that before and he works for
674
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:40.519
a mortician.
675
00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:41.760
Okay.
676
00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:45.130
I wanted to get a sense of How I would
677
00:35:45.170 --> 00:35:46.590
go about it, just in case.
678
00:35:46.710 --> 00:35:51.909
Brittany, you realize that there is nobody on the face
679
00:35:51.989 --> 00:35:53.409
of this earth that is going to believe a story
680
00:35:53.449 --> 00:35:53.769
like that.
681
00:35:54.349 --> 00:35:57.130
You work in the health care system.
682
00:35:57.510 --> 00:35:57.710
Yes.
683
00:35:57.750 --> 00:36:00.780
You know when people die, what happens.
684
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:03.300
I'm saying at home, though, I've never experienced.
685
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:04.380
Be straight and honest with me.
686
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:04.920
Yes, sir.
687
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:07.400
Before you guys take off to Florida, is he dead already?
688
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:10.099
Be straight
with me and be honest with me. Is
689
00:36:10.139 --> 00:36:10.820
he dead already?
690
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:12.280
No, not that I was aware of, no.
691
00:36:13.500 --> 00:36:17.940
Grandpa wasn't dead, as far as she was aware. What
692
00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:22.619
a weird response, right? Unless it was another lie, of course.
693
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:26.900
No, no, no. Not that I was aware of. When
694
00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:30.519
you guys leave for Florida, is Dad dead? Be straight
695
00:36:30.539 --> 00:36:31.139
and honest with me.
696
00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:33.619
It doesn't matter if you knew about Dad being dead
697
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:36.659
on the 8th, or if Dad was dead in October.
698
00:36:37.019 --> 00:36:39.590
It's still the same. Was Dad dead before you guys
699
00:36:39.610 --> 00:36:40.119
went to Florida?
700
00:36:40.699 --> 00:36:40.889
Yes.
701
00:36:41.219 --> 00:36:41.489
Okay. Okay.
702
00:36:41.869 --> 00:36:44.289
And I knew that answer, okay? That's why I'm trying
703
00:36:44.329 --> 00:36:46.650
to tell you. The camera that was in the living
704
00:36:46.670 --> 00:36:47.889
room and the kitchen, we have that.
705
00:36:48.570 --> 00:36:51.840
And it recorded, and we have everything that was on it.
706
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:55.760
So tell me about that. When do you find Dad dead?
707
00:36:56.739 --> 00:36:58.320
I know he's alive on the 23rd.
708
00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:03.309
It was, again, it wasn't me that found him. It
709
00:37:03.329 --> 00:37:05.429
was David, and it was Christmas morning.
710
00:37:06.269 --> 00:37:08.849
No, we're off of that, okay?
711
00:37:08.869 --> 00:37:12.139
Because on that camera, when David finds him, I can
712
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:14.300
see it on that camera because he calls you at
713
00:37:14.340 --> 00:37:17.210
school and he says, how long has he been dead?
714
00:37:17.630 --> 00:37:22.650
You say three to five days. David says he's been
715
00:37:22.670 --> 00:37:26.309
dead longer than that. He's starting to decay. That's exactly
716
00:37:26.329 --> 00:37:28.980
what he says on there. So David does not find him.
717
00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:30.840
It was Christmas morning. Okay.
718
00:37:31.139 --> 00:37:31.960
Do you find him?
719
00:37:31.980 --> 00:37:32.599
Yes.
720
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:33.539
Tell me about that.
721
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:38.940
And just like that, the story shifted again. Grandpa had
722
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:41.239
been dead for more than six weeks by the time
723
00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:45.420
police found out and came to his door. Bodies start
724
00:37:45.460 --> 00:37:48.940
to decompose after just a few days, so you can
725
00:37:49.019 --> 00:37:52.929
imagine that when David finally opened the bedroom door, the
726
00:37:52.989 --> 00:37:57.969
stench would have been overwhelming, and the sight of his
727
00:37:58.050 --> 00:38:01.610
decaying flesh would have been just as bad.
728
00:38:02.670 --> 00:38:03.309
If not worse.
729
00:38:04.409 --> 00:38:06.809
And they had a camera pointing down their hallway. And
730
00:38:06.909 --> 00:38:09.340
we actually, we have the video, we have the point
731
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.659
in time when David Cole Jr. walks down the hallway
732
00:38:12.699 --> 00:38:17.360
and opens up the door to find his dad deceased
733
00:38:18.139 --> 00:38:24.590
and decomposing. I mean, he even called and asked Brittany, like, hey,
734
00:38:25.510 --> 00:38:29.789
what happened? And he even said, no, he's decomposing. He's
735
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:32.840
been dead longer than a couple of days, and then
736
00:38:32.900 --> 00:38:34.380
she even tries to lie to him.
737
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:40.000
Here is the camera footage and the audio it captured.
738
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:44.679
Oh my God, why did she do this?
739
00:38:48.030 --> 00:38:50.429
Oh my God.
740
00:39:08.619 --> 00:39:10.699
You know how your house smells when you've been on
741
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:16.079
vacation for a while? A little stuffy, dank, musty maybe?
742
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:21.360
Have you ever had a mouse die in your house? Well,
743
00:39:22.219 --> 00:39:25.719
this was the body of a full-grown man, and it
744
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:28.739
had been lying there for nine days by the time
745
00:39:28.780 --> 00:39:32.539
they got back. David had his own version about what
746
00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:34.239
happened when they got back from Florida.
747
00:39:35.099 --> 00:39:38.539
Okay, so you change out the filter.
748
00:39:38.550 --> 00:39:39.889
Put in the air purifier.
749
00:39:39.909 --> 00:39:42.889
It's smelling real bad in there, and she's trying to
750
00:39:42.929 --> 00:39:43.809
mask the smell.
751
00:39:44.170 --> 00:39:45.389
You still don't go in and check?
752
00:39:45.730 --> 00:39:49.789
No, I still don't, but that's when I started to
753
00:39:49.829 --> 00:39:53.429
kind of get that that feeling like something wasn't right.
754
00:39:53.449 --> 00:39:58.289
And I just, I just shut it out. I just, okay, no.
755
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:03.840
And then I know it was a day when she
756
00:40:03.860 --> 00:40:08.960
was in school and everything was getting worse. There was flies,
757
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:14.920
there was the smell. I, um, I thought it couldn't be.
758
00:40:16.059 --> 00:40:16.800
Because, I mean, I.
759
00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:22.230
Just couldn't. but I forced myself. I was like, okay, no,
760
00:40:23.250 --> 00:40:25.710
I have to know. So I went in there.
761
00:40:27.369 --> 00:40:28.010
And, um, of.
762
00:40:29.550 --> 00:40:31.570
Course the lights were off. It was like a fucking
763
00:40:31.610 --> 00:40:43.260
horror movie. I lifted up the blanket and, um, I saw,
764
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:46.820
I mean, not well because I got off the lights off,
765
00:40:46.860 --> 00:40:49.900
but I, I saw, and I dropped the blanket real quick.
766
00:40:51.909 --> 00:40:53.510
and I freaked out.
767
00:40:55.030 -->
00:40:57.860
That's when he called Brittany at school and basically asked
768
00:40:57.900 --> 00:41:01.139
her what the hell was going on. He opened the
769
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:03.880
door and, in his own words, it was like a
770
00:41:03.940 --> 00:41:09.889
horror movie. Grandpa was dead, but he wasn't gone. He
771
00:41:09.929 --> 00:41:14.190
was just literally moved from room to room before finally
772
00:41:14.250 --> 00:41:18.349
landing in the shed. And the camera inside the house
773
00:41:18.489 --> 00:41:23.119
did confirm something important. when David finally opened the bedroom
774
00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:28.440
door on January 8th, he really did look shocked, like
775
00:41:28.579 --> 00:41:32.179
he had no idea. Which meant that his dad's body
776
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:36.559
had likely been in that bedroom from Christmas Day until
777
00:41:36.659 --> 00:41:42.989
January 8th. After that, David's decaying corpse lay in bed
778
00:41:43.050 --> 00:41:48.170
for another two or three days. Eventually, Brittany admitted she
779
00:41:48.230 --> 00:41:51.570
dragged her father-in-law out of the bedroom and down the hallway,
780
00:41:52.409 --> 00:41:55.190
and into the sunroom where he spent another two days.
781
00:41:56.750 --> 00:41:59.929
Brittany would eventually claim that David helped her wrap the
782
00:41:59.969 --> 00:42:04.190
body in plastic so they could move it outside. But
783
00:42:04.230 --> 00:42:09.030
David denied that. He admitted he knew what was going
784
00:42:09.130 --> 00:42:12.590
on after January 8th, but insisted Brittany did all the
785
00:42:12.670 --> 00:42:14.050
physical work herself.
786
00:42:14.909 --> 00:42:18.010
You didn't move anything.
787
00:42:18.130 --> 00:42:18.570
Bullshit.
788
00:42:18.590 --> 00:42:19.849
I moved the furniture, yes.
789
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:24.559
We have text messages between you and Junior where you said,
790
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:26.360
I can move it myself.
791
00:42:28.780 --> 00:42:34.280
Stop lying to us. Tell us the truth. Tell us
792
00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:35.349
what happened with the body.
793
00:42:36.070 --> 00:42:37.429
He got moved and put in the sunroom.
794
00:42:38.309 --> 00:42:38.690
Okay.
795
00:42:40.030 --> 00:42:40.789
Tell us about that.
796
00:42:41.050 --> 00:42:41.809
Tell us about that.
797
00:42:41.989 --> 00:42:42.349
I mean.
798
00:42:43.530 --> 00:42:44.190
How long did.
799
00:42:44.750 --> 00:42:45.530
How did you get.
800
00:42:45.429 --> 00:42:47.090
Him from the bedroom to the sunroom?
801
00:42:47.750 --> 00:42:48.230
I drug him.
802
00:42:48.710 --> 00:42:49.820
You drug him? Yes, sir.
803
00:42:50.389 --> 00:42:50.750
Okay.
804
00:42:51.929 --> 00:42:53.949
Why are you still trying to throw your husband that
805
00:42:53.969 --> 00:42:55.670
you claim to love under the bus?
806
00:42:56.610 --> 00:42:57.590
Because he told me.
807
00:42:57.739 --> 00:42:58.599
Let me ask you this.
808
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:02.099
You're
sitting where you're sitting and we're discussing all of this.
809
00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:04.079
Is it David Jr.
810
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:06.039
's fault? Yes, sir.
811
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.860
So should he go to prison because of your actions?
812
00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:10.780
Yes, sir.
813
00:43:11.699 --> 00:43:13.630
Should he be sitting in jail right now because of
814
00:43:13.690 --> 00:43:14.389
your actions?
815
00:43:14.929 --> 00:43:15.269
Yes, sir.
816
00:43:16.030 --> 00:43:17.750
Then tell us the truth and quit trying to throw
817
00:43:17.789 --> 00:43:21.869
him under the bus. You drug him from the bedroom
818
00:43:21.909 --> 00:43:22.570
to the sunroom.
819
00:43:22.869 --> 00:43:25.280
I only throw him under the bus because that's what
820
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:25.840
he wanted.
821
00:43:25.889 --> 00:43:26.360
He said he.
822
00:43:26.409 --> 00:43:27.280
I don't give a shit.
823
00:43:27.099 --> 00:43:27.619
What he wants.
824
00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:28.480
I want the truth.
825
00:43:29.059 --> 00:43:29.440
Yes, sir.
826
00:43:31.260 --> 00:43:34.519
Either way, detectives had finally pieced together what happened to
827
00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:39.159
David Sr. 's body after he died. But was she
828
00:43:39.300 --> 00:43:42.639
also lying about what happened before he died?
829
00:43:42.659 --> 00:43:46.639
I mean, he was asking for Tylenol-like candy. Okay. And
830
00:43:46.699 --> 00:43:49.500
I suggested to him that he stop, and he's like, no.
831
00:43:50.340 --> 00:43:51.079
He's bedridden.
832
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:53.480
The only person that could have given him his Tylenol
833
00:43:53.539 --> 00:43:53.920
is you.
834
00:43:54.539 --> 00:43:56.860
Yes, that's what I just sat here and said.
835
00:43:58.059 --> 00:44:00.420
Did you give him something else that he doesn't usually
836
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:01.280
get the night before?
837
00:44:01.780 --> 00:44:04.260
No, the only thing I gave him was Tylenol and
838
00:44:04.429 --> 00:44:07.730
it was like Z-Quil to help him sleep because he
839
00:44:07.750 --> 00:44:09.130
complained he couldn't get to sleep.
840
00:44:10.929 --> 00:44:13.110
You said you gave him Z-Quil. How much Z-Quil did
841
00:44:13.130 --> 00:44:14.010
you give him?
842
00:44:14.030 --> 00:44:16.829
The recommended amount, which was I believe 15 milligrams.
843
00:44:18.389 --> 00:44:21.179
They weren't buying it. They had sat across from a
844
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:23.780
woman who had changed her story so many times that
845
00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:26.440
it was like trying to pin Jell-O to the wall.
846
00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:31.099
Somebody who lies so easily, it's their first instinct.
847
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:33.840
Be straight honest with me. I can tell you want
848
00:44:33.860 --> 00:44:35.610
to tell me what happened to him.
849
00:44:35.909 --> 00:44:37.030
It was the sequel.
850
00:44:37.190 --> 00:44:38.829
The sequel? Tell me about that.
851
00:44:39.449 --> 00:44:40.449
I gave him one coat.
852
00:44:40.730 --> 00:44:41.130
Okay.
853
00:44:41.690 --> 00:44:43.590
And an hour later, he asked for another.
854
00:44:43.769 --> 00:44:44.170
Okay.
855
00:44:44.349 --> 00:44:46.730
I said I didn't feel it safe. Okay. He said
856
00:44:46.750 --> 00:44:48.010
he didn't care, and I gave him this.
857
00:44:48.769 --> 00:44:52.789
Okay, so he had two things as equal. Is that
858
00:44:52.809 --> 00:44:55.650
why David says, what did she do to him? Is
859
00:44:55.690 --> 00:44:57.090
that why he says that on the video?
860
00:44:57.110 --> 00:44:59.690
Other than that, I didn't, I can promise you, other
861
00:44:59.710 --> 00:45:01.380
than that, I didn't do anything else to him.
862
00:45:02.980 --> 00:45:07.260
But she continued, much like her earlier stories. I found him.
863
00:45:08.019 --> 00:45:12.380
I didn't find him. David did. I was protecting David. No,
864
00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:15.679
he was protecting me. Grandpa died of natural causes.
865
00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:16.440
Maybe.
866
00:45:16.940 --> 00:45:21.010
Maybe I overdosed him. How do you even make sense
867
00:45:21.070 --> 00:45:22.530
of a story like this?
868
00:45:23.409 --> 00:45:27.690
Okay, so 3,000 milligrams of Tylenol and a double dose
869
00:45:27.750 --> 00:45:28.469
of Z-Quil.
870
00:45:29.070 --> 00:45:31.309
And he makes the comment, I want to go see
871
00:45:31.349 --> 00:45:31.769
my wife.
872
00:45:32.010 --> 00:45:32.429
Yes, sir.
873
00:45:32.949 --> 00:45:36.400
Okay. He'd been down and depressed since she died. Okay.
874
00:45:36.860 --> 00:45:39.039
Listen, let me throw this at you. Yes, sir.
875
00:45:39.159 --> 00:45:40.440
Did you do anything else to that man?
876
00:45:40.949 --> 00:45:41.550
No, I did not.
877
00:45:41.630 --> 00:45:42.400
Be straight with me.
878
00:45:42.409 --> 00:45:43.320
I am being straight with you.
879
00:45:43.329 --> 00:45:46.800
Because if you gave him Z-Quil, or you gave him Percocet,
880
00:45:46.969 --> 00:45:49.719
or you gave him, I don't know, cocaine, heroin, anything.
881
00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:52.300
Okay, that doesn't change anything. We're still at the same
882
00:45:52.340 --> 00:45:52.840
spot where.
883
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:53.900
We're at, okay?
884
00:45:53.980 --> 00:45:57.019
Because me giving somebody some Z-Quil, I'm not going to
885
00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:57.579
be thinking.
886
00:45:57.699 --> 00:46:00.199
Oh, crap, man, I've got to hide a body and
887
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:03.300
all that other stuff. That's not how people think. So
888
00:46:03.340 --> 00:46:06.780
what happened to him? It's like some NyQuil is not
889
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:07.480
going to kill somebody.
890
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:08.099
It's not.
891
00:46:08.659 --> 00:46:10.340
It's not. It's not.
892
00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:11.639
So NyQuil's not going to kill somebody.
893
00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:12.079
It's not.
894
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:14.900
So tell me, what'd you give to him,
or what
895
00:46:14.940 --> 00:46:15.420
else happened?
896
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:20.320
I just gave him the Tylenol. It had codeine in it.
897
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:22.719
Okay, so now we're doing Tylenol codeine. So tell me
898
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:23.460
what you gave him.
899
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:28.969
Tylenol is one thing, but Tylenol with codeine, otherwise known
900
00:46:29.030 --> 00:46:34.929
as Tylenol 3, is another. Codeine is an opioid and
901
00:46:35.389 --> 00:46:39.789
will suppress the central nervous system. including slowing the breathing
902
00:46:39.849 --> 00:46:45.130
and heart rate down, possibly to dangerous levels. Then you
903
00:46:45.190 --> 00:46:50.199
add a little Z-Quil, which does the same thing, only
904
00:46:50.409 --> 00:46:55.639
without the opioid. But when combined, the Z-Quil enhances the
905
00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:59.599
effects of the codeine. Just for good measure, they asked
906
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:00.039
her again.
907
00:47:00.059 --> 00:47:08.170
How much? It was like three or four cups of
908
00:47:08.190 --> 00:47:08.730
this equal.
909
00:47:09.309 --> 00:47:09.670
Okay.
910
00:47:11.329 --> 00:47:13.190
So it wasn't 60 milliliters.
911
00:47:13.250 --> 00:47:14.949
It was probably 120.
912
00:47:14.949 --> 00:47:16.789
He kept complaining he couldn't sleep.
913
00:47:17.230 --> 00:47:19.250
And then at 11 o'clock, what did you give him?
914
00:47:19.269 --> 00:47:19.969
The rest of it.
915
00:47:20.550 --> 00:47:20.989
Wait a second.
916
00:47:21.010 --> 00:47:21.329
Wait a second.
917
00:47:21.369 --> 00:47:21.670
Bring it.
918
00:47:21.789 --> 00:47:22.590
Bring it. Bring it.
919
00:47:22.630 --> 00:47:25.590
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
920
00:47:25.630 --> 00:47:26.269
Let's stop here.
921
00:47:26.849 --> 00:47:27.150
Okay?
922
00:47:28.070 --> 00:47:32.030
You don't give a guy a freaking half gallon of NyQuil,
923
00:47:32.949 --> 00:47:37.250
a half bottle of Tylenol, And a quarter bottle of
924
00:47:38.329 --> 00:47:40.849
Tylenol 3 because you think he can't sleep.
925
00:47:41.809 --> 00:47:43.150
That's what he was telling me.
926
00:47:43.570 --> 00:47:44.969
But you know that that's not.
927
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:46.019
What's going to happen.
928
00:47:46.139 --> 00:47:46.500
I know.
929
00:47:46.539 --> 00:47:47.800
What happens, you.
930
00:47:47.699 --> 00:47:49.920
Knew what was going to happen with that concoction.
931
00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:53.099
And I tried to tell him that. I did.
932
00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:58.280
It's easy to imagine what that looked like. Brittany standing
933
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.880
over a frail man she said she loved like her
934
00:48:00.940 --> 00:48:05.539
own dad, feeding him massive amounts of sedatives and reading
935
00:48:05.579 --> 00:48:08.139
him the warning label about how it could be harmful
936
00:48:08.179 --> 00:48:11.010
or fatal. I don't think that's what happened.
937
00:48:11.969 --> 00:48:14.230
Do you? I gave him the medicine.
938
00:48:14.250 --> 00:48:15.070
Every time we get like this.
939
00:48:15.190 --> 00:48:16.269
Every time we get like this.
940
00:48:16.309 --> 00:48:17.610
You're like, man, this is what happened.
941
00:48:17.630 --> 00:48:18.289
This is what happened.
942
00:48:18.349 --> 00:48:20.010
And then what happens?
943
00:48:20.110 --> 00:48:21.889
We talk for another 20 minutes and then we come
944
00:48:21.909 --> 00:48:23.670
back and then, oh, hey, guess what? We're going to
945
00:48:23.690 --> 00:48:25.750
add this to it now. So what else did you
946
00:48:25.769 --> 00:48:26.070
give him?
947
00:48:26.570 --> 00:48:27.050
Okay.
948
00:48:27.170 --> 00:48:28.659
And what happened to him in these three?
949
00:48:29.050 --> 00:48:31.300
If you gave him NyQuil, it's the same as if
950
00:48:31.340 --> 00:48:34.659
you took and you strangled him or you did whatever
951
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:35.360
else you.
952
00:48:35.139 --> 00:48:36.019
Did to him.
953
00:48:36.099 --> 00:48:39.420
At 930, I gave him 60 milligrams of the Z-Quil
954
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:41.239
and three Tylenol threes.
955
00:48:41.679 --> 00:48:41.820
Okay.
956
00:48:42.500 --> 00:48:44.139
At 11, when I went to check on him, he
957
00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:46.960
complained that he couldn't sleep and he was still in pain. Okay.
958
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:49.079
And I asked if he could have more Tylenol.
959
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:50.800
You gave him more Tylenol threes?
960
00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:53.389
I gave him more Tylenol threes. I told him.
961
00:48:53.409 --> 00:48:54.269
How many?
962
00:48:54.550 --> 00:48:55.429
It was another three.
963
00:48:55.949 --> 00:48:56.269
Okay.
964
00:48:56.289 --> 00:48:59.849
So he's got six Tylenol threes within how many period
965
00:48:59.869 --> 00:49:00.170
of time?
966
00:49:00.269 --> 00:49:03.230
Two hours. Okay. Okay.
967
00:49:03.550 --> 00:49:04.489
So then keep going.
968
00:49:05.150 --> 00:49:08.500
I gave him that. I told him it could hurt him. Okay.
969
00:49:08.539 --> 00:49:10.539
And I told him that there would be repercussions. Okay.
970
00:49:11.420 --> 00:49:13.500
So you knew by giving him six times or he
971
00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:14.090
would die?
972
00:49:14.409 --> 00:49:14.769
Yes, sir.
973
00:49:14.809 --> 00:49:15.329
What happened?
974
00:49:16.050 --> 00:49:16.469
He died.
975
00:49:16.889 --> 00:49:17.190
Okay.
976
00:49:18.989 --> 00:49:22.409
There would be reasons. is another way of saying you'll
977
00:49:22.449 --> 00:49:28.480
probably die. And Brittany very well knew this. After all,
978
00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:31.599
she had worked in a nursing home and was now
979
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:38.340
in nursing school. So, scary. This was all they needed
980
00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:44.730
to know. She had just confessed to overdosing an elderly man.
981
00:49:45.989 --> 00:49:50.409
Despite having Parkinson's, he had some quality years left, and
982
00:49:51.230 --> 00:49:53.889
even if
he didn't, it wasn't up to her to
983
00:49:53.929 --> 00:49:58.920
play God. But playing God would suggest that Brittany simply
984
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:02.400
euthanized Grandpa and put him out of his misery and
985
00:50:02.420 --> 00:50:04.199
let him be with his wife in the next world.
986
00:50:05.820 --> 00:50:09.400
That's not at all what police believe her motive was.
987
00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:15.550
And when the toxicology report came back, they were all
988
00:50:16.650 --> 00:50:52.460
in for a big surprise. By the time detectives finished
989
00:50:52.500 --> 00:50:56.219
their second interview with Brittany, almost every part of her
990
00:50:56.260 --> 00:51:00.070
original story had fallen apart and had been rearranged to
991
00:51:00.130 --> 00:51:07.369
include slightly more truth. Grandpa hadn't moved to Cincinnati or Columbus,
992
00:51:08.269 --> 00:51:12.409
and he hadn't died in January. He died on Christmas Eve,
993
00:51:13.309 --> 00:51:15.889
when all through the house, not a creature was stirring
994
00:51:15.969 --> 00:51:20.190
except for Brittany shuffling back and forth between the bathroom,
995
00:51:20.269 --> 00:51:25.429
and Grandpa's bedroom, dosing him over and over with Z-Quil, Tylenol,
996
00:51:25.510 --> 00:51:29.409
and codeine. Brittany kept David Sr. 's health from her
997
00:51:29.469 --> 00:51:33.389
husband for two weeks, told her daughter to lie about
998
00:51:33.489 --> 00:51:38.179
where Grandpa had gone, and left his body decomposing behind
999
00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:41.659
a closed bedroom door while the rest of the family
1000
00:51:42.300 --> 00:51:46.639
went to Disney World. Kill your father-in-law and go to
1001
00:51:46.679 --> 00:51:53.400
Disney World. That's the state of society today. When David Jr.
1002
00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:58.159
finally discovered his father on January 8th, cameras inside the
1003
00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:02.719
house captured a reaction detectives believe was genuine. He really
1004
00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:07.159
had not known. But when he did find out, he
1005
00:52:07.539 --> 00:52:12.800
neglected to tell authorities. Together, Brittany and David eventually wrapped
1006
00:52:12.860 --> 00:52:16.739
his father's body in a tarp and a plastic mattress bag.
1007
00:52:17.699 --> 00:52:22.000
And Brittany, moved him into the shed. According to Brittany,
1008
00:52:22.179 --> 00:52:26.519
his murder was an act of mercy. Grandpa was in pain.
1009
00:52:26.800 --> 00:52:31.090
He missed his wife and wanted to die. And that
1010
00:52:31.130 --> 00:52:34.309
could very well be true. You know, it's kind of
1011
00:52:34.349 --> 00:52:36.869
depressing to get old and see everyone you love die
1012
00:52:36.889 --> 00:52:41.929
around you while your own health fails. You feel like
1013
00:52:42.030 --> 00:52:44.550
shit most of the time and none of the young
1014
00:52:44.590 --> 00:52:46.860
people even want to talk to you or be around you.
1015
00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:50.230
You smell like an old person. And you got nothing
1016
00:52:50.269 --> 00:52:55.030
interesting to say. So that's the life we're all looking
1017
00:52:55.110 --> 00:53:02.389
forward to ahead. But detectives had already found another possible
1018
00:53:02.469 --> 00:53:07.440
explanation for all this. Do you want to take a
1019
00:53:07.579 --> 00:53:11.300
guess as to what that might be? I'll give you
1020
00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:12.550
a second to think about it.
1021
00:53:14.059 --> 00:53:14.679
Ding, ding, ding, ding.
1022
00:53:14.699 --> 00:53:15.119
Money. Of course.
1023
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:16.119
Money.
1024
00:53:19.530 --> 00:53:20.670
Don't you just love it?
1025
00:53:21.780 --> 00:53:24.139
I was able to hear from some of her family
1026
00:53:24.599 --> 00:53:27.739
and from some of even some of his family that
1027
00:53:28.300 --> 00:53:33.739
David Jr. didn't do a whole lot and blew through
1028
00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:36.860
a bunch of his parents' money and was kind of
1029
00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:40.860
the reason why his dad ended up having to live
1030
00:53:40.900 --> 00:53:45.389
with them is because David Jr., ended up getting them
1031
00:53:45.449 --> 00:53:48.199
into a situation. His parents had to sell their house,
1032
00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:53.380
and he ended up being in control of like $ 120, 000,
1033
00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:54.699
I believe is what he told me, and.
1034
00:53:54.659 --> 00:53:55.820
All of that money was gone.
1035
00:53:56.960 --> 00:54:04.550
Somehow, they burned through $ 120, 000 and had very little to
1036
00:54:04.610 --> 00:54:07.989
show for it. They certainly weren't sitting on a pile
1037
00:54:08.030 --> 00:54:10.090
of assets or crypto.
1038
00:54:10.849 --> 00:54:13.150
Neither one of them, I don't think, really wanted to
1039
00:54:13.329 --> 00:54:16.269
put a whole lot of effort into working. And they
1040
00:54:16.329 --> 00:54:21.860
found there were opportunities with his parents to inherit money.
1041
00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:26.360
And that's why they lived the way that they lived.
1042
00:54:26.500 --> 00:54:29.340
I mean, they had, I think, four TVs in their
1043
00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:34.320
living room and they had two or three lounge couches
1044
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:37.920
with all the bells and whistles, but they didn't own
1045
00:54:38.010 --> 00:54:42.230
any of it. All of it was from Rent-A-Center because
1046
00:54:42.309 --> 00:54:45.730
they had blown through all of the money. Even their
1047
00:54:45.769 --> 00:54:50.150
car was, I mean, it wasn't paid for or anything.
1048
00:54:50.469 --> 00:54:54.510
They had all that money from the sale of David Jr.
1049
00:54:54.510 --> 00:54:57.940
's parents' farm and they had spent it all.
1050
00:54:59.179 --> 00:55:02.320
To be fair, Brittany and David weren't available to defend
1051
00:55:02.380 --> 00:55:10.079
their spending habits. their Timu purchases, their Amazon Prime subscription.
1052
00:55:11.260 --> 00:55:14.340
They were too busy doing time. So I think we're
1053
00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:17.900
going to have to take the detective's word for it. Anyway,
1054
00:55:17.940 --> 00:55:24.170
Grandpa got approximately $ 2, 300 a month in Social Security. David Jr.
1055
00:55:24.329 --> 00:55:28.650
had power of attorney and managed the account along with Brittany.
1056
00:55:29.869 --> 00:55:34.070
Police records show that even after his dad died, His
1057
00:55:34.110 --> 00:55:37.889
December and January payments had hit the account and had
1058
00:55:37.909 --> 00:55:42.219
been spent. That alone doesn't prove somebody committed murder for
1059
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:46.519
a Social Security check. But then detectives learned about some
1060
00:55:46.820 --> 00:55:51.340
family meetings around Christmas. Ah, don't you just love the
1061
00:55:51.389 --> 00:55:55.949
Christmas spirit? David's dad was becoming harder to care for.
1062
00:55:56.670 --> 00:55:59.730
He was becoming the burden they claim he didn't want
1063
00:55:59.769 --> 00:56:03.440
to be. Brittany was in nursing school and the whole
1064
00:56:03.500 --> 00:56:08.989
situation was wearing her down. On either December 21st or 22nd,
1065
00:56:09.050 --> 00:56:13.489
just days before he died, Brittany got on a telehealth
1066
00:56:13.530 --> 00:56:18.630
call about his condition. Afterwards, she started calling nursing homes.
1067
00:56:19.650 --> 00:56:22.860
One facility was willing to take him, but his insurance
1068
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:26.820
would only cover the first 30 days. If he stayed
1069
00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:31.510
and transitioned into long-term care... his Social Security money would
1070
00:56:31.849 --> 00:56:35.949
be taken to pay for it. You know how it goes.
1071
00:56:37.179 --> 00:56:39.300
Somebody's got to get that money other than the person
1072
00:56:39.340 --> 00:56:44.300
it's for. In other words, Grandpa going to a nursing
1073
00:56:44.340 --> 00:56:47.440
home wouldn't just remove an elderly man from the house,
1074
00:56:47.500 --> 00:56:51.980
it would also remove Brittany and David's main source of income.
1075
00:56:53.139 --> 00:56:56.389
The timing was hard to ignore. On December 21st or 22nd,
1076
00:56:58.550 --> 00:57:03.570
The family was discussing putting Grandpa into a facility. December
1077
00:57:03.849 --> 00:57:10.559
23rd was his 80th birthday. And on December 24th, Brittany
1078
00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:15.300
Cole gave him drugs she admitted she knew would kill him.
1079
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:19.260
Brittany, he's got to talk straight. All that's going to
1080
00:57:19.659 --> 00:57:20.739
come out.
1081
00:57:20.780 --> 00:57:21.260
We got that.
1082
00:57:21.340 --> 00:57:23.400
It should be coming at any time now. We're going
1083
00:57:23.420 --> 00:57:25.980
to know exactly what's in there. So if you say
1084
00:57:26.380 --> 00:57:27.480
you're not telling me something.
1085
00:57:28.019 --> 00:57:28.539
It's going to show.
1086
00:57:28.519 --> 00:57:29.340
Up on this tongue stick.
1087
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:34.969
But it didn't show up. The blood was screened for
1088
00:57:35.010 --> 00:57:40.690
more than 95 commonly used drugs. But everything came back negative.
1089
00:57:41.889 --> 00:57:45.969
There was no Tylenol, no codeine. No evidence of any
1090
00:57:46.070 --> 00:57:50.510
over-the-counter medication Brittany claimed she had given him. And that
1091
00:57:51.199 --> 00:57:55.639
wasn't the only surprise. The autopsy showed that David Sr.
1092
00:57:55.820 --> 00:58:02.239
had serious... heart disease. Microscopic examination showed a blood clot
1093
00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:07.139
nearly blocking one of his coronary arteries. The official cause
1094
00:58:07.179 --> 00:58:13.619
of death was an acute myocardial infraction, a heart attack, essentially.
1095
00:58:14.800 --> 00:58:21.960
Natural causes, just like Brittany originally said. But how could
1096
00:58:21.980 --> 00:58:25.719
this have happened? And how would it affect the case?
1097
00:58:27.010 --> 00:58:30.269
Brittany had already confessed to first-degree murder. After all.
1098
00:58:31.230 --> 00:58:34.480
Based off of the coroner's report, and that can be confusing,
1099
00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:37.820
is because, you know, the body was so decomposed, there
1100
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:40.300
wasn't any evidence to prove anything there.
1101
00:58:41.079 --> 00:58:45.889
But we had enough other evidence. You know, if she
1102
00:58:45.929 --> 00:58:47.239
wouldn't have confessed, I.
1103
00:58:49.210 --> 00:58:52.050
Am certain that we still would have gotten a conviction
1104
00:58:52.130 --> 00:58:54.949
on her because we did have the camera footage.
1105
00:58:55.670 --> 00:59:00.409
Uh, we did have, uh, David Jr. Uh, talking about it.
1106
00:59:00.469 --> 00:59:04.050
We do have the records from where she ordered or
1107
00:59:04.110 --> 00:59:05.250
he ordered the.
1108
00:59:05.190 --> 00:59:09.289
Amazon, um, the mattress bag off of Amazon.
1109
00:59:09.829 --> 00:59:13.719
And the text messages, uh, where he's saying, I'm trying
1110
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:15.429
to eat in the living room and the smell is
1111
00:59:15.489 --> 00:59:18.539
so bad. Maybe we should open a window like you.
1112
00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:21.059
And that's, that's one of the things that we use.
1113
00:59:21.099 --> 00:59:25.460
Like we told her, like, we have this information. You
1114
00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:30.360
might as well just like tell us what happened. And so, Yeah,
1115
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:33.000
I'm confident that we still could have gotten a conviction
1116
00:59:33.039 --> 00:59:34.880
if that would have gone to trial.
1117
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:41.250
Detective Ruff was suspicious from the start. Brittany's story kept changing,
1118
00:59:41.369 --> 00:59:45.250
and every new piece of evidence seemed to bring another lie.
1119
00:59:46.429 -->
00:59:49.860
Even after the coroner ruled David's death natural, Detective Ruff
1120
00:59:49.940 --> 00:59:54.139
says that gut feeling never went away. And he was
1121
00:59:54.260 --> 00:59:55.179
absolutely right.
1122
00:59:55.900 --> 01:00:00.849
To me, there's... there's still something underlying there.
1123
01:00:01.849 --> 01:00:05.849
I think that, uh, she says she goes in the
1124
01:00:05.889 --> 01:00:07.769
first time she gave him the medicine and then she
1125
01:00:07.789 --> 01:00:10.340
goes in a second time to give him medicine, but
1126
01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:13.400
then she doesn't go back and check until 5 AM.
1127
01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:16.280
Well, I personally, I don't believe that.
1128
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:19.159
Um, you know, if you've gone in, you've given him
1129
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:23.920
medicine once with the thought process that he's probably going
1130
01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:26.909
to die and you go back into check and he's
1131
01:00:26.969 --> 01:00:30.309
not dead, and so you give him more medicine, uh,
1132
01:00:30.550 --> 01:00:31.739
you're not going to stop there.
1133
01:00:31.860 --> 01:00:34.000
You're going to come back in and you're going to check.
1134
01:00:34.260 --> 01:00:37.880
And then at that point, I think I personally, I
1135
01:00:38.219 --> 01:00:41.380
think she took, uh, kind of matters into her own hands.
1136
01:00:41.940 --> 01:00:46.550
And I think there was something else that happened, uh,
1137
01:00:46.650 --> 01:00:50.900
before 5.00 AM because we did find the medicine bottle and, uh,
1138
01:00:51.170 --> 01:00:54.170
of prescription pills. And then we did find the medicine
1139
01:00:54.210 --> 01:00:58.170
bottle of the Z-Quil, uh, and, The amounts were consistent
1140
01:00:58.849 --> 01:01:00.030
with what was left.
1141
01:01:01.309 --> 01:01:04.849
For days, detectives weren't sure about how much David Jr.
1142
01:01:04.909 --> 01:01:05.150
Knew.
1143
01:01:06.230 --> 01:01:09.949
He was definitely part of the cover-up. He continued spending
1144
01:01:09.989 --> 01:01:13.650
his dad's checks and lied about what happened, so it
1145
01:01:13.690 --> 01:01:17.699
was reasonable to wonder whether he knew all along. But
1146
01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:21.880
Detective Ruff says that video, from the camera inside the home,
1147
01:01:22.980 --> 01:01:23.760
changed everything.
1148
01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:29.210
My first thought was, wow, I can't believe we've got
1149
01:01:29.250 --> 01:01:34.449
this on video. And then it was like, wow, he
1150
01:01:34.630 --> 01:01:39.809
really didn't know. This was not him. This was Brittany.
1151
01:01:40.550 --> 01:01:44.500
You know, we weren't sure exactly. We knew she was lying. And,
1152
01:01:45.059 --> 01:01:47.639
you know, like I said, that's something that we're going
1153
01:01:47.659 --> 01:01:50.679
into the first interview of a case this big.
1154
01:01:51.119 --> 01:01:53.920
We know they're going to lie. Just how much?
1155
01:01:54.039 --> 01:01:55.360
Well, David.
1156
01:01:56.570 --> 01:01:58.530
David Jr. really didn't know.
1157
01:01:58.630 --> 01:02:02.449
And we didn't believe that he didn't know until we
1158
01:02:02.489 --> 01:02:05.739
saw that video. We didn't know how involved he was
1159
01:02:05.820 --> 01:02:07.179
until we saw that video.
1160
01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:11.719
And he says, what has she done?
1161
01:02:11.739 --> 01:02:16.980
Then he immediately calls her and starts questioning her on that.
1162
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:20.969
And that's what was running through my mind when we
1163
01:02:21.010 --> 01:02:23.530
saw that video.
1164
01:02:23.550 --> 01:02:25.969
I have a theory. You want to hear it?
1165
01:02:26.960 --> 01:02:27.179
No?
1166
01:02:28.179 --> 01:02:30.639
Well, then go listen to Crime Junkie. The hell are
1167
01:02:30.659 --> 01:02:31.179
you doing here?
1168
01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:32.119
Then come poop.
1169
01:02:33.480 --> 01:02:36.760
I think these two lazy fucks were planning to kill
1170
01:02:37.059 --> 01:02:40.769
the old man. They wanted his shit. And when you're
1171
01:02:40.789 --> 01:02:42.789
an old man with any amount of savings and a
1172
01:02:42.849 --> 01:02:46.869
couple of lazy, good-for-nothing losers living in your home, you
1173
01:02:46.909 --> 01:02:51.909
got a problem. These two likely talked at length about
1174
01:02:51.969 --> 01:02:56.380
killing him, about getting rid of him, without getting rid
1175
01:02:56.389 --> 01:03:01.269
of the money. They researched and they strategized about doing it,
1176
01:03:02.059 --> 01:03:05.460
probably while lying there in bed at night, thinking about
1177
01:03:05.519 --> 01:03:09.639
their plans, riding the Dumbo ride at Disney while the
1178
01:03:09.699 --> 01:03:13.519
old man is ancient history. Maybe they even argued a
1179
01:03:13.539 --> 01:03:16.909
bit about when or how to do it, but never
1180
01:03:16.989 --> 01:03:23.469
actually solidified a complete plan, at least not yet. Then, suddenly,
1181
01:03:24.250 --> 01:03:27.030
out of the blue... They're in the midst of formulating
1182
01:03:27.070 --> 01:03:29.630
their plan, and the old man dies suddenly of a
1183
01:03:29.670 --> 01:03:33.469
heart attack. Brittany, being the genius that she is, and
1184
01:03:33.670 --> 01:03:36.320
with all the existing evil thoughts of getting rid of
1185
01:03:36.340 --> 01:03:40.960
the old man still freshly swirling inside that little peanut-sized brain,
1186
01:03:42.019 --> 01:03:45.039
skips to part two of the series of events she's
1187
01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:50.320
already envisioned and talked about with David Jr. That's why
1188
01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:54.380
David Jr. 's expression in the surveillance footage seems so genuine.
1189
01:03:55.400 --> 01:03:58.840
It's not because he's shocked Brittany killed his father. It's
1190
01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:02.699
that he's surprised she did it now, suddenly, without a
1191
01:04:02.739 --> 01:04:07.250
plan first, without letting him know. He's shocked about the when,
1192
01:04:08.190 --> 01:04:13.289
not the why, or even the how. Now, David has
1193
01:04:13.329 --> 01:04:16.429
a dilemma. Because even though the old man died of
1194
01:04:16.489 --> 01:04:20.969
natural causes, Brittany didn't tell anyone about it. She kept
1195
01:04:21.010 --> 01:04:24.380
it to herself. She pretended like everything was fine and
1196
01:04:25.179 --> 01:04:29.130
went about her days. And now it's way too late
1197
01:04:29.190 --> 01:04:33.510
to call anyone. So these two knuckleheads go into self-preservation
1198
01:04:33.550 --> 01:04:36.849
mode because Brittany had been attempting to overdose the old
1199
01:04:36.909 --> 01:04:41.590
man and it hadn't worked yet. And after about 10 hours,
1200
01:04:41.710 --> 01:04:46.030
the Tylenol leaves your system. That's when the old man's
1201
01:04:46.130 --> 01:04:49.869
heart goes out. But Brittany isn't completely sure what it
1202
01:04:49.969 --> 01:04:53.929
is that killed him. That's why she admits to her crime.
1203
01:04:54.929 --> 01:04:57.960
That's why Junior helps conceal the body after the fact.
1204
01:04:59.059 --> 01:05:02.980
Both of these clowns, in my opinion, should be under
1205
01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:07.960
the jail. And I stress, this is all just my
1206
01:05:08.019 --> 01:05:11.840
own speculation. I have no facts other than what you've
1207
01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:15.960
heard to back any of it up. But it makes sense,
1208
01:05:16.940 --> 01:05:17.300
doesn't it?
1209
01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:18.440
I just.
1210
01:05:19.940 --> 01:05:23.840
I couldn't say anything. I couldn't... She was the only
1211
01:05:23.880 --> 01:05:24.719
person I had left.
1212
01:05:26.940 --> 01:05:30.559
So you were afraid that if you called the police,
1213
01:05:30.699 --> 01:05:31.679
she would get in trouble?
1214
01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:34.730
Yeah. So you didn't call the police? I didn't call
1215
01:05:34.750 --> 01:05:39.030
the police. I just went along with everything, and I
1216
01:05:39.050 --> 01:05:39.869
just wanted to just.
1217
01:05:41.289 --> 01:05:46.360
It's not... You know, too, it's not an excuse.
1218
01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:47.599
I know.
1219
01:05:48.900 --> 01:05:53.679
But there's no escaping the law. Well, most of the time.
1220
01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:57.360
Unless you live in a liberal state, that is. Brittany
1221
01:05:57.400 --> 01:06:01.360
pleaded guilty to murder and abuse of a corpse. She
1222
01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:04.579
was sentenced to life in prison and will be eligible
1223
01:06:04.619 --> 01:06:09.909
for parole after 16 years. David Jr. later pleaded guilty
1224
01:06:09.949 --> 01:06:14.170
to multiple felonies stemming from what happened after his father's death.
1225
01:06:15.369 --> 01:06:19.679
He was sentenced to nine years in prison. Neither Nina
1226
01:06:19.820 --> 01:06:23.360
nor her boyfriend was charged with any crime. After all,
1227
01:06:23.420 --> 01:06:27.150
Nina was a juvenile and Her own mother put her
1228
01:06:27.190 --> 01:06:33.989
in an impossible situation. Brittany showed absolutely no remorse. Not once,
1229
01:06:34.969 --> 01:06:40.170
not ever, during any of her interviews. But David did.
1230
01:06:41.030 --> 01:06:44.079
You also don't know, my dad was an amazing man.
1231
01:06:44.500 --> 01:06:47.659
All my life he took good care of me. He
1232
01:06:47.699 --> 01:06:55.780
worked two jobs. He got me through scouts. He was
1233
01:06:55.820 --> 01:06:57.420
always there for me. He would work two jobs and
1234
01:06:57.460 --> 01:06:59.300
yet still stay awake and take me to Scouts.
1235
01:07:00.099 --> 01:07:00.559
He would.
1236
01:07:01.980 --> 01:07:03.760
Cut me out of my life just like I did
1237
01:07:03.780 --> 01:07:07.449
with the boys when I had that woman that did
1238
01:07:07.489 --> 01:07:11.250
all those drugs. And she ended up, I tried to
1239
01:07:11.289 --> 01:07:12.809
move her around the state to get her away from
1240
01:07:12.849 --> 01:07:15.869
her dealers and shit. And I was down in Cincinnati
1241
01:07:15.909 --> 01:07:20.119
and she got into some fentanyl and died. I found
1242
01:07:20.159 --> 01:07:25.500
her after work. And I called and I hadn't talked
1243
01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:29.099
to him in three years and they immediately rushed down
1244
01:07:29.179 --> 01:07:34.099
to me and he was an easy man.
1245
01:07:34.119 --> 01:07:35.139
My dad was a good man.
1246
01:07:35.500 --> 01:07:36.469
He didn't deserve this.
1247
01:07:39.449 --> 01:07:43.650
He didn't deserve this. He just wanted to be buried
1248
01:07:43.690 --> 01:07:48.469
next to mom. And I know about all this legal
1249
01:07:48.510 --> 01:07:55.650
stuff and shit and there's all this going on. But honestly,
1250
01:07:55.670 --> 01:07:56.809
that was one of the worst things.
1251
01:07:56.829 --> 01:08:00.469
It was knowing.
1252
01:08:00.210 --> 01:08:02.110
That his wish was to be buried next to mom.
1253
01:08:02.610 --> 01:08:04.559
And I was possibly taking that away from him.
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David's senior, Grandpa, expected to live out his final days
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around people who loved him and would care for him.
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Isn't that what we all want? Isn't that what we
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all think will happen? He thought that because he was
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living with family, let alone family that provided health care,
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he would be in good hands. Instead, he ended up
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wrapped in plastic in a shed, behind the house where
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his family continued living and spending his money. His son
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had said once that he was a good man who
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deserved better. He was right.
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Thank you.
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You you.
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I figure we'll go ahead and go out with a
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bang and from here on out we'll put out weekly episodes.
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What do you think?
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At least till the end of the year, that is.
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Thank you once again for joining us. It's always a pleasure.
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Till next week, stay safe.