Paula Levine
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Jerome was arrested several weeks after Brian's killing, when cops found guns in a car he'd rented in Boston.
In December 2006, Detective Dominguez traveled to Massachusetts to interview him in jail.
Here's what Dominguez wrote in his report, read by a voice actor.
We contacted Jerome too, but he wouldn't speak to us either, except to ask how we got his number.
But to Herbert Walker, the former prosecutor, this theory was credible.
As I mentioned earlier, Jada wouldn't talk with us.
Early in his reporting, Dan spoke with a former detective on the case named Pat Diaz.
By this time, Diaz was a private detective working for the Pata family.
He and Dan visited the crime scene together.
Remember, Brian was worried about something in the weeks before his death.
He was having nightmares, sleeping in the closet with his guns, covering his license plate.
After spending eight years looking into every corner of Brian's life, we found lots of reasons Brian could have been worried about his safety.
And any one of those suspects could have been on the other end of that phone conversation Chris Zellner remembered Brian having right before he was killed.
Chris was positive that on the night of Brian's murder, he'd told police about that phone call earlier in the day.
Ed Hudak, the cop who ran security for the hurricanes, also said Chris told him about that call.
The police conducted an interview with Chris the night of the murder.
They even wrote down Brian's cell phone number.
They would need that to access his phone records.
But they didn't document the overheard call anywhere in the police report.
His phone records were investigated.