Dan Arruda

Yeah, Dan, I think the interesting thing about what we saw in the trial is that it laid out almost exactly to what our podcasts showed.

It was, you know, we interviewed family, we interviewed friends, we interviewed the police, and it was all the same evidence that the state gave over to the jury.

There was really no surprises in this trial, probably because there's been no new evidence gathered since the 2000, 2006, 7, 8 era.

So the question lends itself to why was this case taken so long to be brought to trial?

As far as the Pata family goes, they were just incredible throughout this ordeal.

They came in 18 strong on day one, and those numbers didn't facilitate for the entire trial.

They had two rows strong with Pata family members there, Jeanette Pata, Brian's mother,

wheeled in in a wheelchair every day, showing her support.

And it just breaks your heart to know that they're going to have to do this all over again.

They've been waiting so long for justice, and now they're going to have to put a pause on that yet again.

It's a fair question, Dan.

To date, we've interviewed well over 100 people.

We've gathered more than 5,000 documents and pieces of evidence to go along with our reporting.

Clearly, the Miami-Dade police were not expecting us to shine a flashlight into their work.

But once we saw the deficiencies in that work, we knew that we had to press forward.

We knew we had to press them for answers.

I think we did a pretty good job of giving a better overall picture of the case because again for 15 years no one knew exactly what was going on and we were the ones that finally got to show the public that Rashawn Jones was a primary suspect the entire time despite them holding that evidence back.

It's interestingly a piece of evidence that was never really introduced into trial.

Pretty early on in my interviews with Brian's teammates, I spoke to one of his teammates named Chris Sellner, who was adamant that less than an hour before Brian was murdered, he overheard Brian in the locker room in a very heated discussion

And he said something to the effect of the person on the other line will come and get it.