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I couldn't believe I committed murder.
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I took away two men out of their lives.
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I would never be able to give back.
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I'm truly sorry for what I did...
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to them boys.
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My name is Brandon Hutchison.
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I was charged with two counts
of first-degree murder.
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And I was given the death penalty.
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I've never talked about this or...
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I've never implicated anybody or myself
in anything.
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I know what I did.
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And I'm taking responsibility for that.
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This is a true story.
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I'll start it off like that.
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I just wanted to rebel.
I wanted to cause chaos.
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I looked over at him.
We're gonna see who kills who.
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I made the choice.
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I took his life.
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It's something
that I never intended to do,
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I wish I didn't do.
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I knew I was gonna get out
of that car and murder those two men.
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As he kneeled in front of me,
all I remember is pulling the trigger.
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I'd killed them both.
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I'd stabbed them to death.
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I was born in Ventura, California.
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1974.
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I was raised out there
till I was 18 or 19.
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I had two brothers,
one older brother and one younger brother.
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There was some sexual abuse
during my childhood.
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I'm not sure when it started.
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I can remember...
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kindergarten, maybe.
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I started going to see psychologists
and things because of my behavior.
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I got help for behavior problems
my whole life.
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Dealing with the... the drama
of what happened to me, I... I used...
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methamphetamines and... and alcohol.
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Just to cope with, I guess, those feelings
that I didn't know how to express.
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I smoked weed when I was younger,
and drank.
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But the methamphetamine use started
heavy probably when I was about 15.
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I was a drug addict.
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That's... pretty much it.
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Yeah, it was... It was...
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it was destruction.
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I met Michelle in a motel room.
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I think I was 15 years old.
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I was selling her friend an ounce of weed.
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And she was there with her boyfriend.
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Nine months into meeting her,
she was pregnant with Jerry,
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my... my oldest son.
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I wish I would have took
the responsibility on
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and became a man at that time, but, uh,
I was so wrapped up in amphetamines and...
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the relationship with Michelle,
it was off and on for years.
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I had two kids with her.
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But I really quit seeing her, I would say,
at 17, 18 years old.
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Moving to Missouri was gonna be
a new start for me.
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I... I thought it was gonna be a...
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a better chapter in my life.
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And it didn't work out.
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I met Freddy Lopez
when he married my cousin
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here in Missouri.
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Freddy rented a house
and had a shop next door
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that he was gonna turn into a detail shop.
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But it was more of a front than anything.
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For the drug activity.
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Freddy was a marijuana dealer at the time
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and he would bring back
50, 60 pounds of marijuana.
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Trips back and forth to California.
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I would say I was working for Freddy
at first to build a clientele.
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But the drug use got...
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a hold of me again.
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I told him
what the methamphetamines would do,
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that the profit margin
would be a lot more.
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And it just rolled in,
it just started going.
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I met Michael Salazar
through Freddy Lopez.
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He came back here from California.
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Michael was the, uh, dude
that looked out for Freddy.
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You know, they were both
from the same gang there in California
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and they were tightening the ropes down
on their organization.
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There was a New Year's Eve party
in Freddy Lopez's garage
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next to his house.
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Just started drinking and partying
and doing lines and...
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More people showed up at the...
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at the party
and we were just partying and...
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everybody seemed to be getting along.
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I met Ronald and Brian Yates that night
at Freddy Lopez's house.
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Me and Brian and Ronald were sitting
in the garage playing dominoes.
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For some reason, they were talking
about Michael and Freddy.
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They were referring to them
as Mexicans or wetbacks.
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They called them wetbacks
because of the Rio Grande, I guess,
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swimming across the border.
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That's been a racist slang
ever since I can remember.
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I went outside and I met Michael.
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I said, "You won't believe
what these dudes are saying."
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And...
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he went in the shop and started shooting.
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Shot Brian first.
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Then shot Ronald.
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I was shocked.
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I've never seen somebody get shot
like that in my life.
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Ronald didn't fall at first.
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But then, after a minute or so,
I seen him hit the ground.
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Like, he just dropped.
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He was crawling on the floor
in the garage.
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Michael grabbed a screwdriver
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and went over
and started stabbing Ronald Yates.
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And, uh...
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it was just chaos.
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After witnessing what I witnessed,
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I thought I was gonna get shot too.
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I went in the house at that time
and I, uh...
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told Freddy something bad had happened.
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And when he came out to the garage,
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he was like, "What the hell happened?"
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Ronald was trying
to get out of the back of the garage.
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And Freddy said, "Go get him. Look what...
Go get him."
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Because he was opening up
the back roll-up garage.
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I went over there and dragged Ronald
back over and kicked him.
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Somebody said, "Should we call
an ambulance?" I'm not sure who said it.
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And I'm like, "They're dying."
Because he was gurgling and...
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they weren't moving.
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So Freddy says, "We'll get the car
and pull it in the back of the shop."
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And me and Michael loaded the two brothers
into the trunk.
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I was driving.
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Freddy was in the passenger seat
and Michael was in the back seat.
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Somebody started making noise in the trunk
and Freddy told me to pull over.
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Freddy handed me the .22 pistol.
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And I guess I knew what I had to do.
I guess I had to get out and shoot 'em.
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A silent order, I guess.
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I'm not sure.
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I mean, I'm not no murderer in my heart.
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So I guess I was just taking an order.
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I really wasn't worrying about them.
I was worrying about staying alive.
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I knew I was gonna get out of that car
and... and... and murder those two men.
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And I got to the back of the trunk,
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and lifted the trunk lid.
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I don't know if it was Ronald or Brian.
I can't... I don't know.
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I grabbed one of their heads and I shot.
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Two shots.
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And...
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did the same thing to the other body
that was in the trunk.
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It was a bad feeling.
It was an empty feeling.
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I should have stuck up for 'em.
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I should have stuck up
for the Yates brothers
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instead of making them victims.
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I never have told anybody anything,
except right now.
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I've never mentioned this to nobody.
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At about six o'clock in the morning,
New Year's Day,
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I get a phone call.
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Dispatch saying,
"We had a double homicide.
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We need your assistance."
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And I had the privilege of going there.
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It was not a very pretty scene.
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My name is Walter F. Metevier.
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I've been with the Lawrence County
Sheriff's Department for 22 years.
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And we are at the scene right here.
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Right here is where the bodies were found.
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We had two of them, facing...
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this way.
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One here and one...
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in the grass area.
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In my life,
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I have never been to a double homicide.
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It's... it's unbelievable
something like that could happen.
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And I've lived here 30 years.
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Nothing like that. So...
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Hmm...
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Scary.
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But I knew this was an execution somehow.
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They were shot in their eyes
by a small-caliber weapon.
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We turned the bodies over
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to check their backs
and found wounds in their back.
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So they were...
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incapacitated and then brought out here
and assassinated.
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The detectives and the rest of them
that put it all together and stuff
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determined it might have been
gangland affiliated.
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Somebody was sending a message.
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When the bodies were laying here,
the only way we could identify them was,
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a little further up here...
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was a, uh... a pair of teeth.
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And they happened to be teeth
that came from DOC,
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which is the Department of Corrections.
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And it's kind of wild,
because the teeth...
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were etched inside,
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and...
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and it had a DOC...
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number on it, along with his name.
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And so it was like,
"Great. Great, hey, that's a possibility."
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And that's when we found out
it was Brian Yates.
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Once we, uh... identified the bodies,
it didn't take us very long, a day or so,
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to link them back to Freddy Lopez.
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Well, I wasn't familiar with the party,
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but the investigations that we did
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zeroed in on, uh, Freddy Lopez's house
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and also the little, uh, detail shop
next to it.
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I am Kerry Lynn Lopez.
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And I am the ex-wife of Freddy Joe Lopez.
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This is...
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the Verona house in Missouri
where we lived.
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Where we...
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had a New Year's Eve party,
which was in the shop.
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I was there that night.
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We were in the house,
which is next to the shop.
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And Brandon came knocking on the door.
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And he was,
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you know, belligerent and...
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just, "Freddy, you need to come out here.
You need to come out here."
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And so that's what made me get up
and run around to see what was going on.
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This back door here...
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See the crack,
which you can still see, obviously?
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That's the one I looked under.
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And I seen...
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Ronald, I believe, was crawling away.
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You know, and I knew
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that he was paralyzed at that point,
'cause he was trying to get away.
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I heard Freddy say, "Maybe we should
take him to the hospital."
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And, uh, Brandon's like, "No, no, no, no."
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I don't think that the Yates murders
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were planned.
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I believe that the Yates brothers
did owe Freddy money.
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Um...
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and it was quite a bit, but, I mean,
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Brandon did get in an argument that night
and he got very aggressive.
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He was throwing up signs to...
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to, uh, the Yates brothers.
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But I don't think it was gonna come down
to where he was gonna kill 'em.
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I don't think
that he was planning on that.
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But I... you know,
after the shootings in the shop,
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it was clear that...
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Brandon planned after that.
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He planned to do this on a back road
and get rid of them.
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My brother was a drug addict.
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Know what I mean?
He just wanted to get high.
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He was put in a bad spot
where he would have been killed too.
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I believe
my brother Brandon was a fall guy.
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My name is Matthew William Hutchison.
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Brandon is my brother.
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And he's, uh, 14 months younger than me.
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He was molested.
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Yeah. He was sexually abused.
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Brandon didn't go into details,
but there was...
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straight up, you know, molestation.
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It was a big deal.
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I know that.
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And that could have kept him
why he stayed doing the drugs.
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You know, stayed on them.
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When he came out here from California,
he was pretty messed up, hardcore, then.
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Once it got into him,
selling the harder drugs,
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it just was crazy.
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The Yates went there to buy the drugs.
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They were getting really good drugs
at the time.
251
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,080
Freddy, he was the kingpin, like...
252
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"Go get my car."
You know, "Pull my car around." You know?
253
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"Go get this. Go get that."
You know, he... he played that part.
254
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Brandon...
255
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was very fearful...
256
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of, um, Freddy.
257
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You didn't want to do him wrong
or get on his bad...
258
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or be around when he was too drunk either.
259
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,840
You know, Freddy was a...
260
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was a bad, bad dude.
261
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Brandon's a gentle giant.
262
00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:35,600
But I think
that he also could be easily intimidated.
263
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When I heard about the murders,
264
00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,400
I fully believed that he was innocent.
265
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,840
My name is Michelle Strand.
I am the ex-wife of Brandon Hutchison.
266
00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:05,440
When we were in California and I chose
not to have contact with Brandon,
267
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,800
I felt like it was the best decision
at the time...
268
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,240
because of the drug use,
269
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,440
because of the things
that he was going through.
270
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:24,760
So the contact with the boys was removed
until after Brandon was in Missouri.
271
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:30,040
And, unfortunately,
until after he was incarcerated.
272
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,080
I wanted to support Brandon.
273
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,400
I wanted the boys to... know their father.
274
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,000
And I felt compassion.
275
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,280
I never asked Brandon the details...
276
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,320
of the case. Never.
277
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:12,520
Um, I was fully confident that...
278
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that he was... that he was innocent,
279
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,640
that he was not capable of...
of doing something like that.
280
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:29,080
Brandon was in county jail.
I think it was before trial.
281
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:36,000
I decided to marry Brandon
just simply because I loved him.
282
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,440
It was very quick.
283
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,800
Um, we actually were allowed to...
284
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to hug and kiss and, um...
285
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:46,680
And that was about it.
286
00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:54,160
I was very young.
287
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:56,200
Idealistic.
288
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,080
And fully believed
that everything was going to work out.
289
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:08,560
That everyone's part in that situation
would be revealed.
290
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,960
I had a lot of faith
in our justice system.
291
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,400
I don't think
that Brandon had a fair trial.
292
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:48,640
The family didn't have the money
293
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,440
to get the representation that he needed.
294
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:19,480
I remember the sentencing
and I remember more his reaction.
295
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,400
Going over by the wall and turning around
296
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,160
and just sliding down the wall in tears.
297
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,120
It was... it was devastating.
298
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,000
It was devastating.
299
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,760
I don't sit here
and resent and blame
300
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,120
as much as I might be justified
in doing so. I just...
301
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,680
You know, a lot of bad decisions
that I made in my youth,
302
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,680
you know, led me to...
to where I found myself that night.
303
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,040
My name's Michael Anthony Salazar.
304
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,360
I'm the first to admit...
305
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,440
that my participation, you know,
that night was messed up.
306
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,720
But I didn't shoot these guys in the head
307
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:25,960
and I didn't kill them.
308
00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:36,680
After I shot the two victims initially,
309
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,640
from that point on,
the rest of that night,
310
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:41,280
I was...
311
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,520
I was just in a haze. Know what I mean?
You know, I went to Freddy,
312
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,280
you know, to ask him what to do,
you know, and whether it was Freddy
313
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,360
or whether it was Brandon
who was making the decisions
314
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,800
for the rest of that night,
315
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,000
every decision
or every action that I made,
316
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:58,880
I just wasn't thinking.
317
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,520
I was just, you know, trusting in him,
I guess you would say.
318
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,720
They have a jury instruction
319
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,080
that says that I am responsible
for my conduct
320
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,400
and the conduct of another person
if I aid and assist with a common purpose.
321
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,800
If I helped put them in the car
and helped take them out of the car
322
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,296
with the purpose of taking them
to that road and killing them,
323
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:37,520
then I'm just as guilty.
324
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,560
But that wasn't my mind-frame that night.
325
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,320
I didn't have that common purpose
326
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,920
to take them to the side of the road
and kill them.
327
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,960
I know this much.
We're taking them out to the country
328
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,040
to throw them on the road
and somebody will help them.
329
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,480
That's what's in my mind, you know.
Whatever.
330
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,520
And I believe I was getting
back in the car when I heard some shots.
331
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,840
Boom, boom, you know what I mean?
Then I turned, "What the hell?"
332
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,080
I ran to the back and this dude was,
you know, throwing them out of the car.
333
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,880
I'm like, "What the fuck?"
You know, "What's going on?"
334
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,760
Not, "What's going on?"
But like, "What the fuck?"
335
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,280
And I... I wasn't ready for all this,
wasn't expecting all this.
336
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,080
I just wanted to go home.
337
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,040
I just... I didn't come out here
to Missouri for all this.
338
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:25,040
I grew up in California around a bunch
of gangs and drugs and stuff like that,
339
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,680
running around on the streets.
340
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,240
I'd never been involved
in anything close to this.
341
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,880
I'm out here in the middle of nowhere
for a couple of months.
342
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,600
Next thing I know,
I see a couple of guys get killed.
343
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,800
Man, I'm gone. I'm over this. I'm...
Shit, I'll take my chances back home.
344
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:15,440
My name is Matt Selby and I am the elected
prosecutor in Stone County, Missouri.
345
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,000
We handled a number of murder cases,
346
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,880
and particularly the one
involving Ronald and Brian Yates.
347
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,600
There were three people
that were charged with that crime,
348
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,840
uh, being Michael Salazar,
Brandon Hutchison and Freddy Lopez.
349
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:39,440
Was justice done?
350
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,200
Well, let's take a look
at all three of them.
351
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,080
Michael Salazar shoots
both of the Yates brothers.
352
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,120
That may be first-degree murder,
353
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,680
which is defined as knowingly causing
the death of another person
354
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,200
after deliberation.
355
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,480
But probably more likely,
second-degree murder.
356
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,640
But when you take what happened next...
357
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,320
they load them into the car
and then take them out in the country,
358
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,600
Brandon puts a gun
up against their forehead
359
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,800
and pulls the trigger.
360
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,680
There's no question, at that point,
you're doing something intentionally,
361
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,600
with deliberation,
that you have reflected on...
362
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,040
for some period of time.
363
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:28,280
When you get to Freddy,
we never had any evidence...
364
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,880
at all that he was in the garage
when the initial shooting took place.
365
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,880
To what degree
he may have directed the others...
366
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,280
to do something, we don't know,
because he didn't say that he did it
367
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,960
and I don't think
either one of them made statements.
368
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:47,880
Freddy made a statement.
369
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:49,760
The others didn't.
370
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,840
The only information that we had
came from Freddy.
371
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,800
And so there was a decision to...
372
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,680
offer him something if he cooperated.
373
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:20,760
Some sort of leniency.
374
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,920
Freddy whistled like a bird.
375
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,000
He told them everything.
376
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,080
You know, to get a lighter sentence.
377
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:56,800
I believe that Freddy was responsible
for the Yates murders, because...
378
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,680
if Freddy wasn't transporting the drugs,
379
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,720
listened to his wife that cared,
380
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,600
and got a normal job,
none of this would have happened.
381
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,080
Brandon and Michael were basically there
to help Freddy.
382
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,040
They were more like leeches, really.
383
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,040
You know,
like how a fly is attracted to shit.
384
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,400
You know? I'm sorry, but that's how it is.
385
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,680
When you're addicted to something,
you're gonna do anything for that person
386
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,680
because they got the goods.
387
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,200
They got what it is.
They know where it's at.
388
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,880
Here it is. Thirty-four million.
389
00:34:53,920 --> 00:35:00,720
This here is from when Freddy's family won
the lottery out in California.
390
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,560
He was looking at 30 to life.
391
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:09,320
Then they won the lottery
and they got a high... high, top lawyer.
392
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,000
I'm trying to find his brochure.
I have it.
393
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,440
Here we go. Here's Dee's brochure.
394
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,840
This is a high, top lawyer, man.
395
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:25,040
Dee Wampler is the lawyer
that got Freddy ten years.
396
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,040
I mean, you gotta have money
to get this lawyer.
397
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,480
Freddy Lopez put money in a trust fund...
398
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,560
to help raise my niece and nephew,
Brian's kids.
399
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:20,840
At the time, I didn't know
400
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,440
that he only got a short-term sentence
for that.
401
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,240
That's something I didn't know
and I wouldn't have agreed with it.
402
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,760
I don't believe
somebody should plea bargain
403
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,320
and pay their way out
of a horrendous crime like that.
404
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:43,040
My name is Gary Len Yates.
405
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:46,040
I had five brothers.
406
00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:50,840
Timmy is the only brother I have left.
407
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:00,800
Me and my stepdad...
408
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:05,200
went to the funeral home
and identified my brothers.
409
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:10,360
And it was horrifying
410
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,640
to see my brothers laying there
on the steel table...
411
00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:16,240
lifeless...
412
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,720
with bruises and scrapes
all over their face
413
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,920
where they'd been dragged
across the floor.
414
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,800
And bullet holes in their eyes...
415
00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:30,320
and in the side of their head.
416
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:33,720
It was just...
417
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,360
it's un-human.
418
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,160
I know Brandon did the execution.
419
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:44,800
Salazar initiated it.
420
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:46,480
I know that for sure.
421
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,560
And I do believe that Freddy Lopez
orchestrated the rest of it
422
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:53,920
to get rid of the bodies.
423
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,720
They're all three
as guilty as the other is.
424
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,760
None of them should be serving
a light sentence.
425
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,080
They should all be serving
the same sentence.
426
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,520
They should all get the death penalty.
427
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,360
And they should all be carried out.
428
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,480
They should not even be living right now,
in my eyes.
429
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,560
I'm grateful that he wasn't executed.
430
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,560
But he deserves more than life without.
431
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,600
My children deserve more...
432
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,680
than their father having life without.
433
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,960
His intentions were not to kill anyone
that night...
434
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,040
um... I don't believe.
435
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,920
After witnessing what I witnessed,
436
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,760
I thought I was gonna get shot too.
437
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,200
Freddy was saying,
"Should we call an ambulance?"
438
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,040
And I'm like,
"They're dying. They're dead."
439
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,120
Michael loaded the two brothers
into the trunk.
440
00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:58,040
I knew I was gonna get out of that car
and... and... and murder those two men.
441
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,320
Freddy gave me the gun.
I popped the trunk of the car,
442
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,240
and I don't know if it was Ronald
or Brian... I can't... I don't know.
443
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,360
And I grabbed one of their heads
and I shot.
444
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:12,960
Two shots.
445
00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:24,040
I wish
someone would have called an ambulance.
446
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,040
And when Freddy handed that .22
to Brandon...
447
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,560
I really wish that
Brandon would have called him out on it.
448
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:40,640
I wish that...
449
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:45,840
he...
450
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,560
I wish
that he would have called him out on it.
451
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,600
That he would have handed it back to him.
452
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,600
I wish that he would have made
a different decision.
453
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,040
I never gave Michelle
or anybody else any full details on...
454
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,320
on the murders of the Yates brothers.
455
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:31,400
Maybe I should have told her.
456
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,520
You know? Instead of taking four years
from her life, like I did.
457
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,840
And she stuck with me
for three, four years.
458
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,960
I thought it was the right thing to do.
459
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:46,040
The people I was involved with, I thought
that's what you were supposed to do.
460
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,680
I kept my silence out of fear
461
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,160
for my family and my own safety.
462
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,760
After I shot the two victims initially,
463
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,720
from that point on,
the rest of that night,
464
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,560
I was... I was just in a haze.
You know what I mean?
465
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,680
And, you know, I went to Freddy
to ask him what to do, you know, and...
466
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,840
whether it was Freddy
or whether it was Brandon,
467
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,200
you know, who was making the decisions
for the rest of that night,
468
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,920
every decision
or every action that I made,
469
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:35,440
I just wasn't thinking.
I was just, you know, trusting in him,
470
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:36,640
I guess you would say.
471
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:38,280
You know?
472
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,120
Michael's a good person.
473
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,680
He was... he was just manipulated
by the wrong people too.
474
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:49,760
Does he deserve life without parole?
475
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,480
I don't think nobody deserves
life without parole.
476
00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:00,080
If I've got any hard feelings
towards anybody, it would be Freddy.
477
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,600
Mr. Lopez had millions of dollars,
478
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,160
and I think he used his manipulation
479
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,960
and his criminal way of thinking...
480
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,920
to get what was best for him.
481
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,480
I don't think any of this has hit me
482
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,760
until the last four to five years
of my life.
483
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,840
I've never really felt that remorse...
484
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:29,920
of what I've done.
485
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,400
As people say,
"Well, yeah, I've got remorse..."
486
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,280
I've never felt the remorse of them...
those two men dying like they did.
487
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:39,760
And...
488
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,600
I was watching a program on TV one night.
489
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,160
There was this grandmother or mother
490
00:43:47,240 --> 00:43:50,600
that was on there
talking about her daughter being murdered.
491
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,240
And I felt her pain. I felt...
492
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,640
And that's all I could think about,
was the Yates'... the Yates' mother.
493
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:05,120
And, uh... the next morning,
I woke up and there was a message
494
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from you guys...
wanting to do a story on my case.
495
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,960
I just think it was the right time
to tell the truth,
496
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,360
admit to what I did.
497
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:22,040
I feel great about what I've talked about,
and talked to you guys about.
498
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,680
I'd wish the victims' family
would understand the grief
499
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,000
that I do go through
that I put them through.
500
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:37,080
I just... Hopefully, they understand
that I'm not the monster.
501
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:42,360
Or I wasn't out tracking down people
to hurt or...
502
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,720
Something bad happened that night
and it...
503
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:48,120
it went bad.
504
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,000
If you talk about regrets,
505
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,200
I regret not saving their life,
506
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,120
instead of taking it.
507
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:01,920
And I'm sorry to take those two...
508
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,240
two people out of you guys' life
that meant so much to you.
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