Paula Levine

Snippets of what the police had looked into, breadcrumbs for us to follow.

If we wanted to figure out who killed Brian, we realized that we would need to pursue some questions of our own.

Questions like, where did Brian's money come from?

Remember, on the night of the murder, Brian had $900 in cash in his wallet.

He drove an Infiniti with a $500 monthly payment.

And he still had money to pursue an expensive hobby, buying old Chevys, giving them custom paint jobs and rims, and flipping them.

He called those cars his babies.

And they fit right into the Miami backdrop.

He painted an Impala bright orange and a Tahoe glossy blue.

Brian's brother, Edwin, was as intrigued by the money as we were.

Some of this explains itself.

If you're buying and selling cars, you should be turning a profit.

But Brian seemed to regularly have thousands of dollars on hand.

And D1 football players don't have part-time jobs.

Brian worked on the cars with his brother Fednal, but even Fednal didn't know where Brian's money was coming from.

Near the start of Brian's senior year, Fednal remembered seeing him in a new car.

I've been an investigative reporter for almost 30 years.

Anytime there's a murder and there's large sums of money attached, the next logical question is, did the money have anything to do with it?

Fednal told us someone was paying for Brian's nights out, but Brian didn't want to tell Fednal who that was.

He'd always refer to that person as Uncle or Unc or My Guy.