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Police knew that there was
a violent incident in the car.

There were no witnesses. They had a
young man who was at death's door.

Brian was flashing a lot of money.

He was making that money
by selling crack in DC.

I had no idea
until after my son got stabbed.

Could have been a robber
or an unsatisfied customer.

Everybody in the area
is a suspect.

Investigators get a message
from a former informant.

Police want to follow up
with more questions.

He's running.
We need to track him down.

I will find out who did this to
you and bring them to justice.

Brian got into his car unharmed.

Who did Brian open the door to?

Laurel, Maryland,
is kind of a unique area.

It sits between Washington, DC
and Baltimore.

Laurel is right in the middle
of where these counties intersect.

It's a working community.
The population is, I believe,

around 22, 23,000.

Well, Laurel, to me, was
a welcoming community.

I moved from DC

because DC, at that time,
was unsafe just walking home.

So, I decided to move to Laurel
so that my kids could play freely.

They could go out and enjoy life.

It's not known
as a high-crime area.

So, when there is a serious crime,

it catches the attention
of the people in the area.

On September 15th, 2005,
at approximately 11:30pm,

Laurel Police received a 911 call

in reference to a singular vehicle
accident at the top of West Street

near the intersection
of Sandy Spring Road.

The caller described the vehicle
as a black Cadillac sedan

and it had hit a wooden sign and the
driver was motionless in the car.

As the police arrived on scene,

they believed at that moment
it was just a car accident.

They saw that the victim
was bleeding from the chest.

They were unable to get into the
car because the doors were locked.

Eventually the driver
was able to unlock the door

so they could gain access.

Once the paramedics
started to work on him,

they were able to find that he had
been stabbed in the chest.

It was obviously a very grizzly
and very dangerous situation.

There was a lot of bleeding in the
car, on the clothing of the victim,

and the police needed
to get him to the hospital quickly.

It was critical enough he needed
to be rushed to the trauma centre.

At this point,
the police knew that there was

a violent incident in the car.

There were no witnesses
to what had happened,

and the police, when they searched
the car, found no weapons.

And they had a young man
who was literally at death's door.

The victim was identified through
his Maryland driver's licence

as 20-year-old Brian Moses.

Brian was born on June 12th, 1985.

He was a joyful kid.

Always clowning, always performing.

Always laughing, joking,
making people laugh.

He was just a good spirit.

Brian was still in high school
because he was a IEP student -

that's
an individual education student.

He had a reading deficit

and I was very adamant about him
not dropping out of school.

When the police officer
knocked on the door

and he told me
that my son had been stabbed,

I dropped to my knees. I prayed.

I prayed to my God
that my son would be OK.

He told me
he was already in surgery,

but he had no idea
that it was as severe as it was.

Once Brian Moses
arrives at the hospital,

they determine he'd lost
a significant amount of blood.

X-rays revealed that
one of his lungs are collapsed

and he has
a 50-50 chance of survival.

The victim was eventually
put on life support,

so he was unconscious,

and the family nor investigators

could speak to the victim
at that time.

I never asked him
who did that to him

because my concern
was just to let him know

that I was there and I loved him.

He really couldn't talk,
but he could squeeze my hand.

He was still smiling at me.
"That's my mom, she's here."

I would go to that hospital and stay
until, like, ten o'clock at night.

But I knew with all the equipment
and all the machines and everything

that he was hooked up to,
it was very serious.

At the hospital,
police learned from Shirley Bell,

the mother of Brian, that she
last saw him that evening at 10:30.

And that she has no knowledge
what happened after that.

I had no idea. None.

Shirley Bell informs the police

that her son had been hanging out
in The Grove a lot more lately,

and police officers
began to canvass the area

to speak to witnesses.

The Grove is a local term
known for this community

where there was a lot
of drug activity at that time,

and Brian had been selling narcotics
to make money.

I was totally shocked.

That was a side of Brian
that I knew nothing about.

He was a different person
out there in that street.

Cos when he came home,
he was just my little Brian.

I had no idea of any of it
until after my son got stabbed.

Investigating any violent crime
where it's ultimately revealed

that the victim was leading
something of a double life

can be very problematic
for investigators

because the typical people
they would go to

to gather background information,

to get the victim's routine down,

to explain how they ended up
in this situation,

they're blind
to what is actually going on.

What compounds the problems
for investigators in this case

is that the second secret
double life being led by the victim

is an illicit life, a life of crime.

The people in that world

aren't going to be forthcoming with
police who are seeking information.

So, you really have
this collision of two worlds

where investigators are left
trying to fill in the blanks.

Brian Moses
was flashing a lot of money.

When asked about the money,

Moses had stated he was making
that money by selling crack in DC.

It might make you a lot of money
at first, but it's very dangerous.

Could have been a robber who thought
he had a lot of cash on him.

Or it could have been
an unsatisfied customer.

At this time,
everybody in The Grove,

in the area of where this
incident occurred, is a suspect.

In a case like this,

getting people to come forward
is very difficult.

There's, you know, people who don't
trust or are afraid of the police

because what they're doing -

not the police,
but what they themselves are doing -

might be
some sort of criminal activity.

So,
it's kind of a natural human impulse

to just not volunteer
any information.

That word "snitch" -

people yell, "I'm not gonna snitch,
I'm not gonna tell."

They're telling the police nothing.

All indications were that the
assault occurred inside the car.

And the question
that the police had to solve

was
"Who did Brian open the door to?"

Investigators get a break
in the case when they find out

that an individual named
Mateo Antonio

has been assaulted and taken
to Howard County General Hospital.

When investigators
interview Mateo Antonio...

...he tells them that
he believes he was assaulted

because of what happened
to Brian Moses.

But he won't go into reasons
why that is.

Laurel Police needed to figure
out what Antonio was talking about.

How did it fit in
to the assault on Brian?

Police want to follow up with
more questions of Mateo Antonio.

They go to his house after
he is released from the hospital,

but they can't find him.

Investigators learn that
he works at a local steakhouse.

So, they sit there and do
surveillance on the steakhouse,

waiting for him to show up.

He never shows up.

And then they learn that he got
on a bus and went to North Carolina.

Investigators take this
as a major clue.

So, it's clear that Mateo
Antonio left the town in a hurry.

Why?

Was he afraid of the police?
Was he afraid of retaliation?

Was he afraid
of possible involvement

in what happened to Brian?

He's running.
We need to track him down.

Seeing the tear
roll out of his eye,

I think that was his way to tell me,
"Ma, it's time, now.

It's time. I'mma be OK."

As a mother...
...I didn't want to let him go.

I could tell by his eyes that,
you know,

he was ready and I had to let him
go.

I went downstairs to the chapel

and I said to God, "It's your will."

And when I went back upstairs

and said my goodbyes to Brian,

I knew that he was at peace.

October 9th, 2005...

...investigators learn
that Brian Moses has died

and the investigation now has turned
into a homicide investigation.

And I said to him,

"I will find out who did this to you

and bring them to justice."

You know,
and I made that promise to him.

On November 6th, 2005,

investigators get a message
left on the tip line

from a former informant

for their narcotics officers
identified as TI.

Investigators learn from TI
that he received information

from a friend in The Grove

that Darryll Rodgers, known as DR,

had stabbed somebody in The Grove.

So, they need to chase down
Darryll Rodgers immediately

because they believe he could be the
prime suspect in this investigation.

Darryll Rodgers is known to police,

not for anything major,
but petty crimes.

Brian Moses would hang out

with Darryll Rodgers'
cousins or nephews

in The Grove area,

They also learned
that Darryll Rodgers

had gone and visited Shirley Bell

shortly after Brian Moses
has been stabbed.

Darryll Rodgers
came to the house.

I was very suspicious.

I mean, you know,
I don't know this guy.

So I opened the door
and he said to me, "Miss...

...I didn't do this to your son
and I'm sorry it happened."

I did not believe him.

I'm like, "Why come over here
to apologise to me?"

In February of 2006,

with the help of
North Carolina authorities,

we're finally able
to catch up with Mateo Antonio.

Mateo Antonio
finally tells the police

that he wants to be questioned
about the death of Brian

with a polygraph.

A polygraph is used as a tool.

It kind of directs the police

on if they have a possible suspect
or not.

Polygraph instruments
can be

a tremendous resource
for investigators

in terms of eliminating
people of interest.

If someone is willing
to take a polygraph,

those results aren't admissible
in court,

but it will convince police

whether or not
they're barking up the wrong tree.

There's a few reasons
why polygraph results

aren't admissible
in criminal cases.

They are in some civil cases
because there's a different

evidentiary threshold
in those cases.

But in criminal cases
the polygraph is not admissible,

in part because it is subjective.

A lot of the responses

are interpreted by the polygraphist.

Essentially, the polygraph measures
autonomic stress responses

to specific questions,
yes or no questions,

and it relies on people
having a stress response to lying.

But it is circumstantial really,
and it is open to interpretation.

I believe Antonio agreed
to take the polygraph...

...to eliminate himself
as a possible suspect.

During the polygraph of Antonio,
he fails.

There was deception indicated.

It did show
that he was being evasive,

but nothing that could actually

implicate him
in the murder of Brian.

Investigators believe that Antonio

might not necessarily be the killer,

but he has information that would
be useful in the investigation.

Investigators have to let Antonio
go. They can't hold him.

Darryll Rodgers,
we don't know where he is,

but we need to locate him because of
what was learned by the informant.

On September 29th, 2010,
investigators are finally able

to locate Darryll Rodgers
in North Carolina,

and travel there to do an interview.

During the interview,
Darryll Rodgers confirms

that Brian Moses was selling drugs,

but he had no issues with him
at all.

During that interview
with Darryll Rodgers,

they request
that he take a polygraph.

At that point
he requested an attorney,

and the polygraph never happened.

So, at this point,
investigators hit a dead end

with Darryll Rodgers.

In 2010, investigators
have exhausted all their leads.

Talking to witnesses,
possible suspects,

they aren't learning anything new
in this investigation,

and there's no physical evidence
or forensic evidence

that can be pointed to a suspect.

So, at this time,
the investigation goes cold.

I was sad because the last thing
I said to Brian is,

"I will find out who did this to you
and bring them to justice."

I made this promise to him,
and I felt like I let my son down.

That's why I could not,
over the years,

give up on finding out
what happened to my child.

But I also did
basketball tournaments

to just keep Brian's name out there.

On the 10th anniversary
of Brian's death,

I did do a news interview

and we talked about the case,

and trying to plead to people
to come forward to help me

because I've been trying so long
to get that closure.

I was constantly in contact
with the police department,

always at the police department.

Always calling somebody,
always meeting somebody.

But nothing's happening.
Nobody is telling them anything.

I was frustrated with them

until Detective Cheek came on.

I joined the criminal
investigation division...

...and the Brian Moses homicide
investigation is still open.

And I go to my sergeant at the time
and I start telling him

it needs to be gone through
with a fine-tooth comb.

So, as a new detective,

I volunteered to take on
that challenge.

I thought, at that time,
that having fresh eyes on it

and looking at it,
may yield new information.

Reopening any cold case
is an arduous task.

There's no standard playbook,

it's going to vary case by case,

but typically you're going to look
at the investigative chronology.

You're going to look at photographs,
what evidence was gathered.

You're going to look at who was
interviewed, who was screened out

and was that possibly an oversight.

You're really going to reassemble
that investigation from scratch

and look for what was missed
or what current technologies

can be leveraged
that weren't available at the time.

I come to find out the mom,
Shirley Bell, is very persistent.

She calls once a month
wanting an update.

I had heard Shirley Bell
had come to the police department,

so, I approach her and I said,
"Let me take you to lunch."

I had never met
Detective Cheek before.

From what I remember is
we sat down, we had lunch

and he was always smiling,
and very pleasant.

And he understood how I felt,
and the need that was there

to make sure we got this closure
for my family.

And he was dedicated
to going above and beyond

and he assured me of that.

If I called him, he would answer
right away or call me right back.

It's a lot to carry on
cos now you have

the responsibility
of this investigation,

you have a mother who wants answers.

Now it's been 11 years
since the incident occurred,

and who's still around?

Maybe the person had died.
Maybe he's incarcerated.

Because many of the people

in The Grove in 2005
weren't around anymore.

At the time of speaking
with Shirley Bell...

...I learned about Darryll Rodgers
and him coming by the house,

and saying, "I'm sorry
this happened to your son."

And she was really adamant that he
had something to do with it,

that I should start there
and look into it.

There's a saying in the cold case
world among investigators

that more often than not,
the name of the killer

is already in the file.

Often the offender was identified
and spoken to, but misclassified.

And the quantum of their involvement

was not fully understood
at the time.

They were deemed to be a witness,
a person of interest,

but never elevated
to the level of suspect.

It's very rare
in cold-case homicides

for the offender
ultimately identified

to come out of the blue,

to have not already
been identified by police

and have their name in the file.

I can count on two hands the number
of cold cases recently solved,

where it was someone
completely unknown to police.

Darryll Rodgers had started
a new life in North Carolina,

away from where
he has gotten in trouble

throughout the years
in Laurel, Maryland.

So, I want to travel down there
and interview him.

Darryll Rodgers confirms that
Brian Moses was selling drugs,

and rumours had it
that it was fake crack.

Fake crack is...

...not real crack, obviously.

It could be everything
from soap mixed together

with baby formula or flour.

A variety of different things.

For someone who's selling
fake narcotics, it's very risky.

You're dealing with
abusers of narcotics,

people who are addicted to drugs
that want to get that high.

And if you sell them
fake narcotics...

...they're going to get upset.

While we talked
to Darryll Rodgers,

I'm thinking about him
as not being the suspect,

that he honestly had felt bad
for what had happened.

That he was looking out
for Brian Moses...

...telling him not to sell crack, not
to be involved with these people.

But he was a young kid, and he
wanted to do what we wanted to do.

Detective Cheek called me

and told me about the conversation,

but I did not believe him
in the beginning.

But, as time went on,

I realised
he was sincere. It wasn't him.

I learned that Mateo Antonio
is incarcerated in North Carolina

for attempted murder.

During the interview of Antonio...

...I learned that he did
associate with people in Laurel,

specifically in The Grove.

He only knew of Brian Moses...

...because he had bought
crack cocaine from him.

And he did state
that the crack cocaine

that he bought from Brian Moses
was, in fact, fake crack.

He had confronted him but it never
resulted in a physical altercation.

I felt pretty satisfied
with his statements,

especially because
he stated this confrontation

happened probably a week
before the stabbing of Brian Moses.

At this point in the investigation,

I felt that Antonio and Darryll

had nothing to do
with the murder of Brian Moses.

We really needed to rely
on the public's help.

If they still lived in the area
or had moved on,

but we needed to rely on their help.

It wasn't until maybe ten years
later after my son passed,

when I started probably working
at Food Lion,

it's a grocery store
in the city of Laurel.

The Grove maybe
two blocks down from it.

People started talking to me
and saying,

"Just keep... keep... keep going,
Shirley.

Keep going because
it's gonna come out eventually."

Finally,
I receive a tip from an individual

that was there in The Grove

shortly before
Brian Moses was stabbed,

saying that Brian Moses
was last seen down in The Grove

with a woman named Sonja Schroeter.

So, I do research,
use investigative tools,

and find that Sonja Schroeter

is working at a restaurant
in a neighbouring city,

and I need to go locate her.

Once I get to the restaurant
where she works,

Sonja is very surprised that
the investigation is still ongoing,

and she explains that she doesn't
live that lifestyle anymore -

she's cleaned up,
she's gotten a new job,

she's the manager
of this restaurant -

and agreed to come back to Laurel
Police Department for an interview.

During the interview, Sonja was
being very helpful and informative,

and providing new information
that we hadn't known at the time.

She states she was doing
Brian's hair down in The Grove,

and he had stated to her

that he needed to go get money
from his house so he could pay her.

She walks him to his car
and goes to see her cousin...

and explains that she didn't know

Brian had been stabbed
until later that evening.

So, from Sonja Schroeter,
we know that

Brian got into his car unharmed.

He was fine.

He had to open the door to someone.

During the interview of Sonja,

she confirms that Mateo Antonio
is there in The Grove

with another person
identified as Michael Duvall.

Sonja informs me that Brian Moses...

...got into a verbal altercation
with Michael Duvall

in regards to being sold fake crack.

Nothing physical happens,
it's all verbal.

And then Brian Moses leaves

and is walked to his car by Sonja

before he drives up the street.

After the interview, I went back and
looked through the case files again,

and find that Michael Duvall's name
had popped up,

but just been overlooked.

Three months after
Brian Moses was stabbed,

Michael Duvall was arrested for
the murder of another individual.

In that incident,
Michael Duvall used a knife.

Michael Duvall had been
convicted of a first-degree assault

and he received an eight-year
prison sentence back in 2008.

He was now out in 2016.

During the investigation, I
located the knife that Duvall used.

I contacted the Maryland
State Police laboratory...

...and had it tested
against Brian Moses' blood

to see if there was any of his blood
still on the knife.

Those results were negative.

But that doesn't mean
that Michael Duvall didn't do it.

On May 30th, 2016,

a 911 call to the Laurel City Police

from a woman identified
as Shannyn Hodges

indicates that she has information
about the death of Brian Moses.

During that interview,
she revealed

that she had a domestic disturbance
with Michael Duvall.

And during that disturbance...

...he pulled a knife on her and said,
"I'm going to kill you,

just like I did to that kid
in Laurel."

This is a substantial
break in the case

because this is...

...information from the mouth

of who we believe to have been
the perpetrator.

This interview is huge.

I want to get going.
I want to find Michael Duvall.

At this point in the investigation,

I don't interview Michael Duvall
right away.

I set up a grand jury for Shannyn
Hodges to go testify in front of

so we can indict Michael Duvall.

And she testified about
what Michael Duvall did and said

regarding the death of Brian.

We needed corroboration. We
just couldn't rely on one witness.

We wanted more.

So, the case was really
reopened and expanded.

On September the 16th of 2016,

Detective Cheek and I decided
to go down and visit Shari Baily.

Her attention to detail,
her understanding

of the importance of this case,
impressed me.

During the interview with Shari,
she reveals

that she let Michael Duvall

use her car three nights
prior to the murder of Brian Moses.

In the early mornings
of September 16th, 2005,

a couple hours
after the stabbing of Brian Moses,

Michael Duvall returned the car
belonging to Shari

and, at that time,
he was covered in mud and dirt,

and he had blood on his hands.

And Shari asked what had happened.

At first he told Shari
that he was jumped

and had an altercation with others.

But he came off of that
and basically indicated

that he took care of someone

who had provided him
with fake crack.

When he saw a funeral
a few weeks later in Laurel,

he indicated that he was responsible
for killing the kid.

Now with this information,

it solidifies
Michael Duvall's involvement.

It's putting him there
at the scene of the crime.

And now, with his statements
that he has made,

I'm confident that Michael Duvall
is now my prime suspect.

Sonja - she made it clear
that on that night,

she was braiding Brian Moses's hair.

In The Grove,
she also saw Michael Duvall.

She was very clear about that.

Sonja revealed
that she observed Michael Duvall

walk up the hill
with a few other individuals

at the same time
that Brian Moses was leaving.

And, a short time later,

saw Michael Duvall
running down the street.

She then later heard

that Brian Moses had been stabbed.

Although she did not see
any assaultive conduct,

what she saw

certainly supported the idea

that there was an encounter, a
deadly encounter, up on West Street.

During the investigation,
in interview with Sonja,

I informed her that I would like her

to testify in front
of the grand jury,

and she said she would co-operate
with anything that I needed.

I'm very relieved at this point
with having now three individuals

who are going to testify,

but I needed something more,
like a confession,

because I lacked
any physical or forensic evidence.

I need Michael Duvall
to confess to me.

Maryland law allows us to do

a one-party consent recording
of a conversation.

We wanted to get incriminating
statements from Michael Duvall

during the course of a conversation
with his former girlfriend.

One-party consent recordings,
the law varies by state,

but when it is permissible,
it means

that calls or conversations
or communications

can be surreptitiously
audio recorded,

so long as one member
of that conversation,

whether it's two people
or 22 people, consents.

Typically, it's the person
naturally doing the recording.

The caveat for one-party consent
recordings is that the state,

the police,
cannot provide that consent.

It needs to be a citizen either
acting of their own volition

or, in some cases,
acting as an agent for police

and taking direction
to make the call and record it.

But police using
an intermediary or an agent

to conduct a one-party consent
recording is fraught with risk.

This is not
a professional investigator

who knows how to nuance
the questions,

and they may end up
tipping off the suspect.

We asked Shari Baily
if she would feel comfortable

letting us record a phone call...

...where she could get Michael Duvall

to talk about what happened
back in 2005.

On December 7th,
Detective Cheek and Shari Baily

came to the Prince George's
County Police homicide division,

where there was equipment that could
be utilised to record a phone call.

During the one-party
consent call...

...Michael Duvall answers,

and she has the ruse of saying

that she needs to have
her record clean

so she can get work
at the nearby stadium.

She says she's afraid
they're going to question her again

in regards to Brian Moses' murder
and what she knows.

During that call,
Michael Duvall tells Shari

not to say anything to police,
don't co-operate.

He's admitting to
at once having the knife,

but now he's gotten rid of it,

and also not to co-operate
with police.

We believe this is enough
to go in front of the jury with,

and I'm excited and knew that,
all right, we've got him.

Based upon everything
that we had gathered,

we went to the grand jury
and got an indictment.

We got an arrest warrant
based on the indictment,

and police were able
to take him into custody...

...in January of 2017.

Detective Cheek called me

and told me about Michael Duvall.

That he had stabbed
somebody else in DC.

And the first thing that
went through my mind is

if we had gotten him years ago,

then he would have not been on
the street stabbing somebody else.

Then I was relieved that finally,
after all this time,

I'm getting some kind of closure

to what happened to my son
and who did it.

Once Michael Duvall was arrested

and transported
to the Maryland jail, I visit him.

As soon as I opened the door,
he says, "I'm not talking to you."

I said, "I'm just here
because I want you to know

I'm the one that caught you."
And then I walked out.

And it was a sense of relief
that I have taken this case

that had gone cold and now I have
a suspect who's been incarcerated

that's going to face
a judge and jury.

The first trial was a hung jury.

They did a mistrial,
which upset me more than anything.

Hung juries are, fortunately,
relatively rare in murder cases.

The judge will typically
work with the jury foreperson

and the jury as a group,

in order to get them
to find some kind of middle ground

that they can agree on and have them
keep going back and deliberating.

Hung juries are not only stressful
on the investigators

but also, naturally,
on the family of the victim.

They know full well that,
number one,

they haven't had a resolution, there
hasn't been justice in their mind,

and they know they're probably
going to have to do this again

and be revictimised once more.

Based upon
the testimony of the witnesses

and the telephone calls,
we were able to...

...come up with the truth

as to what happened
to Brian Moses that evening.

This whole episode begins
with Brian Moses

deciding he wants to make
some quick money.

Brian Moses decided

to sell fake crack to individuals,

one of which was Michael Duvall.

The night of his stabbing,
he was in The Grove in Laurel.

He was with Sonja Schroeter,
with her for a while,

got into his car to drive away.

Once Brian leaves The Grove,
he drives up West Street,

out of the sight of the other people
hanging out.

He's flagged over
by Michael Duvall.

Brian Moses opened the car door

for Michael Duvall.

Michael then produces a knife

and stabs Brian Moses
in the left side of his chest,

and flees the vehicle.

Brian Moses then attempts to
drive away but is severely injured,

which causes him to crash his car,
prompting the 911 call.

He's rushed to the hospital...

...but ultimately succumbs
to his injuries three weeks later.

It's the worst
nightmare for any mother.

I lost my child over $10

and to a person that was
old enough to be his father.

Michael Duvall received 30 years
for this murder,

and I was ecstatic.

I was happy for the family,
I was happy for the city,

the police department,

that this crime
that shook our community in 2005

was now closed.

Shirley Bell was great
in this investigation.

She was relentless.

She even helped form a Crime
Stoppers with the city of Laurel

to help other victims.

We stayed in constant contact
and, even to this day, we'll talk.

I did feel like that my son's case

should not have taken 16 years

to get... to start getting closure,

but I was satisfied
with the verdict.

It was a relief for me to know
that I have finally got closure

and I was able to keep
my promise to my child.

I want people to remember
the Brian I know,

who always was making people smile,

laughing, acting silly,

and had a heart of gold.

He was a sweetheart.
Brian was a sweetheart.

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