Natalie Morales
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Investigators then, they go and get a search warrant.
They open the walls and get a piece of the lead from the walls.
And I was at that point, I was like, okay, that's it.
They've got their evidence.
Was that the smoking gun, Anne-Marie?
I mean, almost.
Well, Brian was freed on half a million dollar bond, but he was required to report to jail every weekend, which, again, I was surprised.
I mean, I'd never heard of weekend jail before that exists.
So as rare as it is for us to hear directly from the victims, I mean, it's very rare that we get to interview the defendant before the trial.
And you had that opportunity.
I mean, we saw him with the ankle monitor.
You're talking to him, sitting on the bench with him.
So it was June 2025.
Brian's trial finally gets underway.
Brian's defense team said that the state lacked clear-cut evidence.
I was shocked, though, at trial.
They didn't present a single witness.
I mean, what was the defense's strategy with that?