Kaelyn Moore

But this car stereo story didn't really explain why they talked regularly for weeks before the murder and then just stopped the day Ben died.

Like, why?

You have this relationship, your friends, air quotes, like you have something going on where she'd ask you at least to help with a

Multiple interviews.

She's singing like a canary.

When investigators spoke to Brandon on January 14th, 2020, it was clear exactly what he wanted, his freedom in exchange for information.

Simple.

Brandon opened the conversation by saying, quote, So Brandon told the investigators his story.

And that story is our fifth clue.

Brandon claimed that when law enforcement spoke to him back in 2017, he didn't really know anything about Ben's murder.

But as his relationship with Lindley progressed, she started to reveal what actually happened to her husband.

Lindley said leading up to the murder that Ben was planning to leave her because her spa was losing a lot of money and forcing the snake breeding profits to cover her losses.

And if the couple divorced, Lindley believed that Ben would hire a lawyer and get full custody of both of her children.

And she suspected that he might even weaponize her history of substance use to get that custody.

So according to Brandon, Lindley told him that she struck first.

In May 2017, with the help of that friend from the spa, Ashley Shaw, she allegedly served Ben a smoothie that was laced with, quote, an enormous amount of narcotics.

Ben got sick, but he didn't die.

It's unclear when that was, but after that, Lindley and Ashley moved on to plan B. Lindley's ex, Michael Humphrey.

At some point, Brandon said that they went to Jefferson City, Missouri, found him at his home, and apparently they had both convinced Michael to help them kill Ben.

They picked a date for the murder, June 8th, 2017.