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And Brandon, after that, was forced to pay $760 a month in child support.

And according to Lindley, that's when Brandon started threatening her.

So she goes back to court.

She takes out a protective order against Brandon to make sure that nothing bad could happen.

But Lindley claims that after that, even with this protective order, Brandon kept stalking her.

So she contacted the police and Brandon ended up going to jail because of that.

He was slapped with five counts of violating the order and two counts of stalking.

And so that's where Brandon was in January of 2020, when his father called the police and told them that Brandon was ready to talk about the murder of Ben Rennick finally.

And I will add here, too, that the detectives did have reason to be cautious about Brandon's information.

Informants who are incarcerated and expect to receive leniency or other benefits in exchange for their testimony, which they're known as jailhouse informants, frequently do give false information.

And according to the Innocence Project, nearly one in five DNA exoneration cases involve a jailhouse informant who contributed to the wrongful prosecution.

Yes.

From that point on, investigators moved pretty quickly.

On January 16th, two days after Brandon's jailhouse interview, 31-year-old Lindley was finally arrested for murder.

35-year-old Michael Humphrey was arrested separately on January 16th, but there was still one more suspect, Ashley Shaw.

Lindley's coworker, who Brandon claimed was in on the poisoning and also in on the shooting.

The investigators had a different plan for her, though.

They presented her with a choice.

She was either Team Missouri or Team Lindley.

You're basically on the side of the truth or you're on the side of your friend.