In rural Minnesota, a masked murderer bludgeons an entire family in their sleep. As small-town secrets unravel, Sheriff Mike Gormley uncovers a dangerous love triangle and a vengeful killer who is willing to risk his own blood for retribution.
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00:00Patrol officer Matt Hotzler from the Blue Earth Police Department is working midnight to eight.
00:27Dispatch calls him and says they've received a 911 call that only contained heavy breathing and then a hangup.
00:46At this moment, I wasn't worried. I'd been to 911 hangup calls before. It was pretty common.
00:54I heard a noise that sounded like, help me. I've never heard a help me like this. It made the hair on my neck stand up.
01:08It's not somebody screamed an hour ago. Somebody's screaming right now. You put a gun in your hand and you go in there and find out what's happening.
01:20I walked in. The main floor was completely empty. I'm standing in the living room. There was a young girl at the top of the stairs.
01:38She's got red hair and she then asked me to come upstairs and help them.
01:45I see blood droplets going up the stairs and notice that the red hair wasn't hair dye. It was actually blood.
01:56The girl walks into the bedroom to the left. I kind of froze. The bedroom just looked like a horror movie.
02:12Blood splatter on the walls. There was blood on the floor. There was blood on the floor. There's a little girl sitting on what looked like a toddler bed mattress watching cartoons.
02:28There was an adult female laying on the bed covered in blood. And on the right hand side was an apparent deceased male with extensive head trauma to the point that you knew he was not alive.
02:45And then I saw a girl laying at the foot of the bed. And at that point, the adult female reached up and said, help my daughter, help my daughter.
02:58And while she was saying this, one of her eyeballs slid out of the socket down kind of on her cheek area.
03:06At that point, I felt like I was in a nightmare. I have never seen anything to this day that has come close to what I saw in that bedroom.
03:16This is a horrific attack by someone who is absolutely out of control. He is wild. This is different.
03:28I spent my career closing murder cases. But I'm not the only one who answered the call.
03:40It takes a rare breed to solve the unsolvable. To catch a ruthless killer. To find justice for the dead.
03:51That's what it takes to be an American detective.
04:06I'm Sheriff Mike Gormley with the Faribault County Sheriff's Office.
04:12When I got the call from our dispatch, I was at home sleeping.
04:16I got dressed and jumped in my truck and headed to the scene.
04:21We haven't had very many homicides in Faribault County.
04:26It was definitely an oh crap moment and I wasn't sure what we were going to be dealing with.
04:34I'm Tom Fletcher. I am the Chief of Police for the City of Blue Earth.
04:38When this happened, I just remember thinking, we have to preserve the crime scene.
04:43So everybody else was out except for the body upstairs.
04:49When Sheriff Gormley showed up at the scene, we informed him of what happened.
04:54They informed the sheriff that this entire family, with one exception, has been attacked in a savage way.
05:01One is dead, an adult male, 37 years of age, and his name is Christopher Fulmer.
05:11The surviving victims, at least at the moment, are his girlfriend, Candace Freeman, and her three children.
05:1838-year-old Candace Freeman is near death at the hospital.
05:26A 15-year-old girl and her 19-year-old sister both have fractured skulls.
05:33There is also a six-year-old girl found at the crime scene who is unhurt.
05:40Three victims in there with life-threatening head injuries, and we didn't know they could very well die.
05:50Before Candace passed out, she told the medical people that she had been attacked by someone wearing a black ski mask.
06:00And that she and Chris, her boyfriend, were both asleep when the attack began.
06:10Everyone's greatest fear.
06:11We entered the house, and we were just kind of going slow, just taking a look at it, trying to see what we had.
06:29I was taking some pictures.
06:31There was definitely blood down on the couches and on the floor as we worked our way around.
06:37We ended up going upstairs into the bedroom where the assault had happened.
06:44Before we entered the victim's bedroom, I had gotten information that the person had been bludgeoned.
06:49So in my mind, I was already preparing to see that, but it was not enough.
06:54Saw the deceased laying there with his head that was very badly damaged, looked like it was bludgeoned with something very heavy.
07:11This is beyond the pale.
07:14His head is crushed nearly flat.
07:17How many blows would that take?
07:19A number.
07:21When you kill like this, this overkill, this savage attack, you don't see this as a criminal act.
07:30You see this as administering justice.
07:33You need to punish the victim.
07:35And you're having a wonderful time doing it.
07:37I haven't seen these pictures in a long time.
07:44It's exactly as I remember it.
07:47It was so much blood.
07:49So much blood.
07:52Next to the deceased victim is the blood-soaked pillow where Candace was sleeping.
07:57You can see here is the little girl's bed. She was six and she was sleeping in their room at the time.
08:08There's blood on her bed even. It's like a little hand print there. Blood.
08:13When the two adults were attacked, how much of that did she actually see? Hard to say.
08:18We thought that this was something that was very cold. Who could do this to kids?
08:26It's always the collateral damage that makes you the most upset sometimes.
08:31Particularly when it involves a child.
08:33I've been there and done that. And it's just awful.
08:36When you have a little human who is faced with how adults behave.
08:43And will always remember it. And will always be frightened by it.
08:48Breaking into a house, trying to kill everyone in that house is someone not of a regular mindset.
08:56Why were the others injured as well, but not as badly? We didn't know.
09:00So they go to the teenage girls rooms to see if they were attacked in bed.
09:07There's no blood in that room. No anything.
09:11So the likely scenario is the six year old, in total alarm, runs out of the master bedroom.
09:19Goes to get her sisters to say there's something happening.
09:23They then come into the master bedroom and probably try to put a stop to it.
09:27Then they themselves are attacked and injured.
09:33But not as severely as the two in bed.
09:37Then the perpetrator leaves.
09:42We weren't exactly sure what we were looking for, for a murder weapon, but we knew it was something of some weight.
09:51Whatever it is, it's going to be covered in blood and brain tissue.
09:57We had people looking just to try and see if we could find anything.
10:02But we did not find the murder weapon.
10:05If he comes here with a weapon, his intention is to use it.
10:09And if he removes it, his intention is to perhaps use it again.
10:15Is he on his way to somebody else's house?
10:17Well, he could be.
10:19The worst thing about homicide investigation at the outset is not knowing.
10:24Where is he? What is he doing?
10:28That's a terrible feeling in your stomach.
10:29This person has to be found and neutralized.
10:39When we stepped into the house, the crime scene was like a nightmare.
10:44This has got to be the most horrific crime scene that I've ever seen.
10:49That is a very frightening thing for the residents of Blue Earth, Minnesota.
10:55There is a killer in their midst who did a horrible thing to sleeping residents.
11:01Neighbors living next door to where the homicide took place say they're still trying to come to terms with what happened.
11:08It was very shocking, very tragic.
11:10We were extremely surprised and a little scared when we found out what was exactly going on.
11:15Middle of the night, somebody is killed in their bed.
11:20Yeah, that put a lot of people in panic mode.
11:23There was fear around town.
11:25Who was this and what's next?
11:28So we were definitely concerned.
11:31We had already called for the BCA to come down and assist us with the crime scene and investigations.
11:38My name is Michael Anderson and I am a special agent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension,
11:42which is the State Crime Bureau in Minnesota.
11:45I remember meeting with Sheriff Gormley at the hospital to try to get an update and determine if we can get any more information from the victims about what had happened to them.
11:55But they can't interview them yet.
11:58Candace Freeman is in a medically induced coma and may not survive.
12:05She has enormous contusions to the brain and multiple skull fractures.
12:13Her one eye was destroyed and had to be removed.
12:17The teenage girls have non-life threatening injuries.
12:20They expect a full recovery, but they're still being treated.
12:25We thought Chris was definitely the primary target by the amount of blows that he sustained.
12:33And our team did some investigating and looking into the background of our victim.
12:38My name is Karen. I'm Cawther. I am Christopher Fulmer's sister.
12:45This one right here brings up a lot of memories of him when he was younger.
12:50Like, yeah.
12:52Christopher was very smart, witty.
12:55He was very spunky and he liked to joke around a lot.
12:58He would always try to cheer you up, make a smile, forget about your problems for a minute.
13:04He used to always make me laugh.
13:09We used to sit and play Monopoly for hours at a time.
13:12And video games, a lot of Nintendo.
13:15I think of all the good memories that we had and at least I got to have him in my life for as long as I did.
13:23I received a phone call from my mom saying that Christopher was no longer with us and I thought she was joking at first.
13:30And she said, no, it's the truth.
13:34The hardest day of my life, really.
13:43We did discover that he was previously married.
13:46He had a son.
13:48At the time he was born, Christopher was so happy over the moon.
13:53I haven't seen him smile so big in forever.
13:56He was really excited about it.
13:59He now lives in Blue Earth, Minnesota because his ex-wife moved there with their son.
14:08He was just here for a son.
14:10It was all about his son.
14:13A few months ago, he met Candace Freeman.
14:16They have hit it off and they have become an item.
14:19I know he really loved her.
14:22Just all around loved her personality and how caring she was and how good of a mom she was.
14:29So we are concerned about Chris Fulmer's ex-wife, Mary.
14:34Ex-partners represent the closest and most emotionally connected person who may develop a real hatred for someone.
14:41Could it lead to violence without question?
14:46It often does.
14:50We learned that they did have a contentious past.
14:55That's just controlling on my brother.
14:58He couldn't talk to people or go out or anything.
15:02They just didn't get along that well.
15:03They fought all the time.
15:06They had terrible arguments.
15:08And the marriage just kind of fell apart.
15:12He had fought for a really long time to get back into his son's life because for some reason she just cut him out and wouldn't let him see him at all.
15:21Now that raises an eyebrow in both the chief and the sheriff.
15:30What if the emotions of that still linger in his ex-wife?
15:36I've been involved in cases where we have had contentious custody battles that ultimately resulted in violence and even homicides.
15:42What if Mary allows those emotions to come forward and they begin to eat at her?
15:51The thought of his ex-wife having something to do with what happened to him did cross my mind.
15:56I just didn't know what to think at the time.
15:58As far as the type of perpetrator, it could have been male or it could have been female at that point.
16:03We didn't know. We just had Candy's description that it was someone in a mask.
16:11That's all we had.
16:16You know, one of the key things we do for investigating crimes is determine that people have an alibi.
16:21When they spoke with Mary, she says she was in another state where she had been for some period of time.
16:27They said, who can confirm that? And she provided them with several names.
16:33We looked into her story.
16:37Chris's ex-wife was not in town at the time.
16:41So she's eliminated as a suspect.
16:44We need a new one. And we need a new one right now.
16:49We need to look at Candace Freeman, who was also savagely attacked.
16:53She is married. They are separated, but still legally man and wife.
17:00And his name is Brian Freeman.
17:03Initially, you do look into exes or currents.
17:08We're not ruling anybody out.
17:10So they want to speak to Brian Freeman.
17:13And lo and behold...
17:15I was notified that Brian Freeman had arrived at the hospital.
17:18He's in the waiting room. He's got a six-year-old daughter with him because she's not hurt at all.
17:24Is he there as a caring spouse and father?
17:28Or is he there to learn more about the brutal damage he did to his own family?
17:32We are about to find out.
17:35Brian seemed to be willing to talk to us.
17:40So we find a room that's not being used that we can do an interview with him in.
17:46You can just tell me how you were notified of the sentence and what you know.
17:49I had a missed call on my phone.
17:51So I picked it up and I seen it was my daughter.
17:54I'm sorry. I'm a little shaky.
17:57It's okay.
17:58He appeared to be acting concerned.
18:02He was very nervous.
18:04But our first impression when Brian showed up was that he had just showered.
18:10And that was odd.
18:13The fact that he took a shower before he came in was suspicious.
18:18I'm probably going there in my pajamas if I got out of bed.
18:22I'm not taking the time to take a shower.
18:23Well, Brian, you can wash away blood, but you can't wash away guilt.
18:39So someone murders Christopher Fulmer in the bloodiest way imaginable.
18:44And now Brian Freeman is showing up at the hospital freshly showered.
18:49He doesn't prove anything, but it's awfully suspicious.
18:56We asked him about his situation with Candace and why his family was staying with Chris Fulmer.
19:04Brian says they've been together for eight years, but they would fight and they would argue.
19:11They mutually apparently decided that it's time to move on.
19:14So Brian Freeman and Candace are going through a divorce, but it hasn't been completed.
19:18What's been the status of your relationship as of late?
19:23It's pretty good.
19:25We only have our opinions.
19:27What are they both?
19:29Most of the money.
19:31Not enough of it.
19:32Yeah, pretty much not enough of it.
19:33Okay.
19:34One of the things we look at in a situation like this is we try to alibi out anybody or could have a motive or anything like that or a connection to the people.
19:50He said he had a fireman's dance.
19:53He was on the Ceylon fire department.
19:55He's a volunteer fireman.
19:57Ceylon is a small town.
19:59It's about a half hour away.
20:01Who else would be some people that would have seen you there?
20:02My fire chief, his wife, and members in the fire department.
20:10After talking with Brian Freeman, they see nothing alarming about his demeanor and nothing alarming about what he had to say.
20:20I gave him my cell phone number and just told him, you know, if anything comes up, just give us a call.
20:28After speaking with Candace's estranged husband, investigators are even more anxious to get a first-hand account from someone who was there during the attack.
20:38Luckily, the doctors give them the go-ahead to speak to the two teenage daughters.
20:44They begin with the 15-year-old daughter.
20:49I woke up to hear my older sister crying and yelling out my mom's name.
20:59And then when I got upstairs, I noticed my mom's friends and my mom and my sister's face was covered in blood.
21:10And then I blacked out and then I woke up until I was in the hospital.
21:14When the investigators question the eldest daughter, the 19-year-old, she gives a similar story.
21:24She said she was awakened by screaming.
21:27She ran into the room and saw a man wearing a ski mask was attacking her mother.
21:36She went toward him and she was struck in the head and doesn't remember anything after that.
21:44But the investigators learn something interesting.
21:50Those girls independently report that they refer to Brian Freeman as dead.
21:56He's been a loving father toward them, but he's actually their stepfather.
22:02It turns out that Candace was married once before to their biological father, Richard Messina.
22:08We had learned that he had not had contact with his daughters since 2010.
22:18Candace had filed for an order for protection on him because of some allegations of abuse.
22:25Is it possible that Richard Messina decides to attack this family?
22:30Humans are capable of any level of violence against any level of victim.
22:36If you don't believe that, then you better not be a homicide detective because you're not going to do very well at it.
22:41We did track down her ex-husband and he was interviewed at the sheriff's office.
22:51They say, well, Richard, what is the case between you and your ex-wife?
22:55We got married in September 30th of 95 or 96.
23:00We're married five years.
23:02Just right at six years, we've got our divorce.
23:06She tried claiming child abuse on me three times a year.
23:11I'd gotten a lawyer and that proved her wrong, and I did.
23:16Have you ever been charged?
23:17No.
23:19There was a contentious relationship there,
23:21but I don't feel like it was something that really stood out as, like, over the top.
23:26Like, oh my gosh, this guy's really angry.
23:29He was abiding by the conditions of the OFP.
23:32He didn't want to violate that.
23:34Where were you at yesterday?
23:36Yesterday I was at Don's place.
23:38We didn't leave the house all day.
23:40He had a girlfriend who lived in Dundas,
23:45and he was with her all that weekend.
23:47He didn't sneak down, take a two-hour drive to Bloor, take a two-hour drive back.
23:52So we ruled him out as a suspect because he had a rock-solid alibi.
24:00Gormley and Fletcher are running out of leads.
24:04They head to the medical examiner's office to determine if perhaps the autopsy can reveal a clue.
24:11When we got the autopsy results back, it showed that Chris had received 11 strikes to his head, causing cerebral damage and ultimately his death.
24:24The type of weapon we were probably looking for, judging by the condition of his head, it was probably a flat handle, a sledgehammer, the back of an axe, something like that to make that chopping smash wound.
24:41The other interesting thing about the autopsy, there are no defensive wounds on Mr. Fulmer.
24:50He is killed immediately.
24:52But that didn't matter.
24:54He doesn't want to just kill him.
24:57He wants to erase him.
24:58So after that discussion with the coroner, Fletcher returns to something he's been wondering about for some time.
25:07Who made the 911 call?
25:10When Matt Hotzler was first dispatched, he was told that there was an open line and they weren't really sure what was going on at the residence.
25:19I called dispatch and I said, hey, would you, would you send me that 911 tape?
25:24Because as far as I knew, no one had listened to that 911 tape yet.
25:32911 emergency.
25:35Hello?
25:37The original 911 call, there was just kind of a blank error for a while.
25:43Hello?
25:44Hello?
25:45Hello?
25:46Hello?
25:47Hello?
25:48Hello?
25:49I remember the hair on my neck just standing up because it was a male's voice who comes on the telephone and he's panting hard.
26:02And he said,
26:04And then the line goes silent.
26:07And it's done.
26:08Because the dispatcher failed to listen to the male voice, that call got dispatched out incorrectly.
26:23Fletcher realizes that's the killer.
26:27They got another male in that building and it's dead.
26:30Whoever killed him made the call.
26:32Hello?
26:34Can I help you?
26:38The 911 call started out as a mystery and now it's even more of one.
26:46There's been a, got murdered.
26:49A killer reporting what he's just done.
26:53Is he trying to apologize?
26:56Is he trying to get medical treatment for these people?
26:58Why would the killer make that call?
27:03We had at that time probably two BCA agents, the sheriff and myself working on this.
27:12Everybody was out chasing something down.
27:17We had people talking to neighbors, trying to see if they heard anything, saw anything.
27:22We were unsuccessful with the neighbors, given the time of night everyone was in bed.
27:30But they talked to Chris's landlord and asked him what he knew about the relationship between Chris and Candace.
27:38The investigators learned something interesting.
27:42Chris Fulmer indicated he had been dating a woman who was married.
27:45And he was dealing with, I think the term he used was jealous husband issues.
27:50So that certainly didn't match up with what Brian Freeman was telling us.
27:55He said that the relationship was, was good and there was no issues or concerns with her spending, you know, the weekend at Chris Fulmer's house.
28:02So that sort of tripped some red flags for us.
28:07It wasn't all sunshine and roses like he sort of made it out to be.
28:13Another piece of the puzzle falls into place when the investigators learn more about Candace's family.
28:20While her first husband, Richard Messina, is the father of her two teenage daughters, her six-year-old had a different father, Brian Freeman.
28:29The one person that's in the house that doesn't receive any injury and is not attacked in any way is his biological child.
28:38So we're looking at that to try and put that together as far as, is he a possible suspect here.
28:47Agent Anderson and I, with that information, decided to go to take another chat with Brian at the hospital in Rochester.
28:55So they start to ask him questions about his alibi of the night in question.
29:01And Mr. Freeman begins to be rather vague.
29:06He initially said it was at this volunteer fireman dinner in a town 45 minutes away.
29:12He suddenly doesn't remember what time it was over.
29:18He further adds that people were drinking heavily and it's possible they wouldn't remember he was there.
29:24He was very shaky and very nervous.
29:29It was raising our suspicion with Brian.
29:32Before he left the hospital, I had asked if I could look in his vehicle.
29:36He's somewhat reluctant, but he finally said, yeah, you can search it.
29:40The truck, of course, is a mess, a lot of junk and a lot of trash, but they find something that's very interesting indeed.
29:50We were able to find a black ski mask.
29:54That was very concerning.
29:59The daughters said that the person in the house assaulting them was wearing a black ski mask.
30:07Brian said that he had those ski masks in his vehicle just because of work and it's a possibility.
30:14But with the circumstances, that just didn't add up.
30:19After seeing that, we seized Brian's vehicle and it was taken back to the sheriff's office and processed by the BCA crime lab.
30:29Brian indicated he was going to go home.
30:32His mother was driving him around at that point.
30:35And so we had made a decision.
30:36We felt it was important to put some surveillance on him.
30:39And so I had made contact with one of my colleagues to kind of get in position at Mr. Freeman's house in Ceylon to watch what was going on there.
30:54Eventually, we received a phone call from the agents watching Freeman's residence.
31:00They said they witnessed him carry out a black plastic bag and put it into a vehicle.
31:06Now, with the things that are going on with your family in the hospital, it was like, why are you taking trash out and putting it inside of a vehicle?
31:14It's not just the trash.
31:17It's something he doesn't want the police to see.
31:21At that point, Mike Anderson and I headed over to his house in Ceylon.
31:27I think he was a little surprised that we were there.
31:30You know, he talked to us again reluctantly.
31:32We decided to confront him about the black plastic bag the agents had witnessed him put in the vehicle.
31:42And he said there's just some crap in it.
31:45And I said, well, can I take a look at it?
31:49Brian opened up the bag and he pulled out a coat and held it up backwards to us so we could only observe the back.
31:54We thought that was a little strange, so we turned it around.
31:58And I remember seeing on the jacket for sure what looked like possible blood stains to me.
32:04Brian immediately says to them, I know what you're thinking, but that's not true.
32:10And why is that?
32:11He indicated that he had worked at a hog rendering facility where they butcher or cut up hogs.
32:19And that could be pig blood basically on his clothing.
32:23What Brian is saying is very interesting indeed.
32:27Do you know how they kill hogs in a slaughterhouse?
32:30They hit them over the head with a hammer.
32:32Mr. Freeman says that blood is from a slaughtered animal.
32:46Well, that might be true in his mind.
32:49But I don't think that blood is from a pig.
32:54At that point, I can't let that evidence walk away.
32:56Right? So I tell him, look, I'd like to take these clothing and have that tested.
33:01And if it turns out it's pig blood, that's great.
33:09The BCA lab did a presumptive test to see if it was human or animal blood.
33:15And we were told later that it was human blood.
33:19They don't have enough yet to make an arrest.
33:22They're close and they know it.
33:26So they subpoena his phone records and read his texts.
33:31What the text messages showed is that Candace and Brian had problems.
33:37He's concerned for his marriage in the text messages.
33:40One of his messages, he stated, scared that you're going to leave and not come back.
33:45He was worried that Candace was going to leave him for Chris.
33:51And he was worried that his daughter was going to be moving away with them as well.
33:56We do have motive, definitely, with Brian showing that he was worried about Chris.
34:02At this point, we need to have a more in-depth conversation with him about what his involvement may or may not be in this investigation.
34:09I want to reiterate that you're not under arrest.
34:16We want to talk to you about a few things.
34:19I'm not going to lie to you, okay?
34:21I believe there's some problems with what you've told us.
34:23And what Mike and I are asking you to do is be honest with us.
34:26And they start to show him the evidence they have against him, item by item by item.
34:37That's where we pushed on harder, trying to get him to come clean with the real truth of what he did.
34:42I was scared, that's why I didn't really say too much. I wasn't too sure what to say.
34:50And that's when I tried to appeal to him as a firefighter.
34:56Brian's a volunteer fireman in a small town in Martin County.
35:00Mike is a volunteer fireman in a small town in Faribault County.
35:05Brian, I'm a fireman too.
35:07And he seemed like the kind of guy that I wouldn't mind to have him behind me on the nozzle.
35:11You don't want them to believe they're a cold-blooded killer.
35:15Make them believe that you are going to redeem them in some way.
35:19You need to finish this right.
35:21That's it. That's what got Brian to crack.
35:31So you got out of your car and picked up your Warhammer by mistake?
35:39How many times did you swing, do you think?
35:42I'd have to take a guess two or three times.
35:46I think maybe that's when Candace woke up and got caught in the grass fire.
35:51And then the kids.
35:53I'm thinking they may have come up his hair or something.
35:57And then they got caught in the grass fire too.
36:01He minimizes the violence.
36:04He reports half of it was an accident.
36:07We have a male voice on the 911 call.
36:10It's certainly not a pure confession, but it will do nicely in combination with the remaining physical evidence.
36:24What happened to the hammer?
36:27It caused it out.
36:29He had said he threw that out driving down the highway back to Ceylon and gave kind of an approximate area like near a bridge.
36:36We did later conduct some ground searches of that area and we were able to recover the hammer on the ground in the ditch.
36:44After talking with Brian Freeman, prosecutors and the investigators all believe they have a fairly clear picture of what really happened that night.
36:58They believed that Mr. Freeman had worked himself into a frenzy over the fact that his wife was actually going to leave him for another man.
37:11This caused him to become overwhelmed by the emotion of it all.
37:16He parked at the house and sat there mustering up the courage to go up to the house.
37:26He was getting more and more angry, I would suspect, the more time went on before he finally reached the point where he decided to get out of his vehicle, walk down the street and made entry into the house.
37:40He walks into this room and he sees his wife is sleeping with another man with his six-year-old daughter just a few feet away.
37:58At that point, he was blinded with rage. He went over to Christopher's side of the bed and hit him repeatedly with the hammer.
38:10Now, he said he probably hit Chris three to four times. It was a lot more than three to four times.
38:17He was swinging for the right field wall of Yankees Stadium every time.
38:27While his six-year-old daughter that he loves so much is watching him from three feet away.
38:33What a lesson to provide your child with.
38:38The evidence showed that after he was done hitting on Chris, he started hitting on Candace.
38:44While this is underway, the two older girls come into the bedroom, try to stop him, and he beats them off of him with his hammer, knocking them down.
39:00Girls who called you their dad.
39:03You fractured their skulls for God's sake, Brian.
39:07You did that. Nobody else. Just you.
39:10Just you.
39:21Approximately four days after the incident, Candace came out of her coma.
39:26Police revealed to her who they were arrested for this crime.
39:30She was a little shocked and very emotional that Brian did this to them.
39:39After we placed him under arrest, Brian was charged with second-degree homicide.
39:44He entered a guilty plea in a plea agreement.
39:47And he is scheduled to get out of prison in 2045.
39:53It's been hard the last couple months just thinking about it again.
39:58It's the hardest part for me is not having the closure.
40:06I know he knows that I love him, but it's just hard.
40:09In a little town like Blue Earth, it's just hard to believe that that kind of horrendous crime can happen.
40:19When I talked to Candace, she remembers something that you shouldn't have to remember.
40:24And same with her girls, but they're trying their best to go on with their life.
40:33Candace and her girls came to our office just to, they brought us some goody packages.
40:39So it was nice to actually see them up and about and healing quite nicely.
40:44No one wants to believe that someone that they loved is capable of harming them.
40:52They really don't.
40:54They believe they live in a safe place with safe people.
40:58And no one ever does live in a safe place with safe people.
41:03On the next American detective.
41:13They can't think of a single reason why someone would want to fill his head with bullets.
41:18So why did you have to shoot him then?
41:20I didn't shoot him.
41:22Yet here he is.
41:24He's on the point of boil.
41:26Did you shoot that man?
41:28And boom, boom, boom.