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I just felt like my soul had left my body.

We have a killer out there.

We don't know if this is a serial killer

or someone that's going to kill again.

I have to tell chief allar this because

this is going to change the whole investigation.

Your mind takes you to some dark, scary places.

Was he laying there on the ground with bullets in his head?

Nobody will ever know what he went through on that cold floor.

10-63.

Go ahead. Coming up, code 131.

Within minutes, officers arrive on the scene.

I pulled up to the scene.

I turned my body cam on, and I was going through my head

what scenarios were going to play out.

Everybody is on high alert.

Bellaire police chief Michael kovalyk takes the lead.

Someone finding a dead body in a residence in the west bellaire

area was something that... The last thing we would expect.

It's wondering what could have brought this about.

It was kind of a shock to find out it was Brad mcgarry.

I knew him.

This guy was a very nice guy.

The victim was facedown with what appeared to be

a gunshot wound to the head.

Of course, there was quite an amount of blood on the floor,

but we didn't figure it had been over 5 or 6 hours

since he had been shot.

There was no signs of any struggle of any sort.

When we find someone that had been shot in the head,

we consider a possibility of suicide.

Looking for answers, investigators turn to the people

who discovered Brad dead.

The people outside are David Kinney and his wife,

cheri, the woman who called 911.

We had to start with the kinneys.

They're the ones that said they had found Mr. Mcgarry.

They were our star witnesses.

It was locked, and no one came to the door.

Kinney said he then told his daughter

to go up behind to the back door of the house.

She found the door open.

He saw Brad, and Brad had obviously been shot

and was deceased.

He became very devastated.

Word of Brad's death quickly filters out

to his family and friends.

The day I found out that Brad was dead,

I was at work that day,

and I got a call from our mutual friend.

It was surreal and is something that happens on TV and movies.

It's not something that happens in real life.

Brad was a big Teddy bear, just a loving, cuddly guy.

Brad was uncle Brad to my kids.

He loved my kids.

He just was so creative and had a good heart and loved people.

My mom told me, and I fell to the floor.

I was just crying. I couldn't get myself together.

I just felt like my soul had, like, left my body.

Brad meant the world to me.

He was just someone that I could count on

to make me laugh or make me smile or just whatever I needed.

He was there.

One of Brad mcgarry's closest friends was David Kinney,

the man who found Brad's lifeless body.

It is horrific for them to come up on such a scene like that.

It was too much for them to handle.

You can never get used to it.

David Kinney showed a great deal of emotion.

He expressed disbelief that his friend was gone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Suspecting suicide, investigators question

the kinneys about Brad's personal life.

He's not too bad.

While investigators speak with David and cheri Kinney outside,

inside officers pore over the crime scene

looking for the gun Brad might have used to kill himself.

One of the primary concerns of the crime-scene search

we're definitely wanting to find is the weapon used.

In a lot of suicides,

you'll see the victim fall on top of the weapon

where the weapon ends up underneath them.

We moved the body around to do a search underneath the firearm.

We did not find one.

We have a gunshot victim and no gun.

Somebody took the gun somewhere.

You're dealing with a homicide.

We have a killer that is out there,

and we don't know what their motivation is.

We don't know if this is a spree killer,

a serial killer, or someone that's going to kill again.

The hunt for who killed Brad mcgarry was on.

Beloved friend and coal miner

Brad mcgarry has been found shot dead

in the basement of his bellaire, Ohio, home,

and with no gun found at the scene,

investigators now realize

they have a murder on their hands.

At this point in the investigation,

we don't know a lot,

but we have a killer that is out there,

and we don't know what their motivation is.

Investigators continue their search of Brad's house

looking for anything that might lead them to their killer.

We started going through the upstairs and the bedroom.

All the drawers were pulled out and the dressers.

The place was pretty much throwed about,

things thrown here, there and everywhere.

Brad collected what was referred as country art,

kind of things you'd see at a cracker barrel country store.

He had a great deal of it.

But when investigators take a closer look

at the crime scene, questions arise.

You know, there's cash money

and brand-new smartphones laying around.

There's cameras still in boxes.

There's nice tvs.

These are all things I would expect to not be there

in a burglary or robbery-type situation.

We didn't know exactly what we were dealing with.

Things weren't adding up 100 percent.

If burglary wasn't the motive for this murder, then what was?

At this point, detectives aren't sure.

A canvass of the area was done,

and one of the questions that we asked

was if we got any surveillance video.

It could really help US narrow down our search for a suspect.

We're double, triple-checking some of the stories

we've been getting from some of the witnesses.

They discover Brad's neighbor

had his video-surveillance system

rolling on the day of the murder.

It was very exciting to hear.

We can use that footage to nail down

what time Brad returned home,

what his travels were, what his habits were.

That'll help US get to know Brad better,

but you're looking at a very time-intensive period

of going over hours and hours and hours of recorded video

trying to figure out what's relevant or not relevant.

Back outside Brad's house,

chief kovalyk looks for answers by continuing to press

cheri and David Kinney.

He...

Yeah.

Yeah.

Brad was a gay man, and David and cheri Kinney

had told US about a recent ex-boyfriend of Brad's

who had the first name of Scotty

that there had been some friction and problems with,

but the kinneys didn't know Scotty's last name,

so that's something that we definitely had to find out,

and as he was leaving, David Kinney,

you know, put out his hand and grabbed my hand,

and he squeezed it very tight,

and he looked at me right in the eye and said,

"Brad was the best friend I had in the whole world.

I loved him. Please find out who did this to my friend,"

and I told him that we would do

everything we could to make that happen.

While the kinneys grieve, the next day,

the results of the autopsy come in.

Brad was killed by two gunshots

from a .22-caliber handgun to the back of the head.

Finding out that Brad had been killed was one thing.

Finding out the manner that he had been killed

was an entirely different thing.

I just couldn't comprehend the concept

of somebody purposely harming him.

I couldn't understand that at all.

It's definitely a punch in the stomach to find that out.

I couldn't breathe.

With any type of death investigation

and especially a homicide investigation,

there's a dark energy,

definitely runs through the entire department.

It's a good motivation for everybody to get up

and do everything they can.

Investigators start their search for a suspect

by questioning the people who knew Brad best:

His friends and family.

Chief allar starts with Mary Kay milliken.

But...

Then Mary Kay mentions something else,

a detail that matches an earlier theory investigators

had already been pursuing.

Did investigators abandon

their botched-burglary theory too soon?

It's something that we got to keep in the back of our heads.

Could this homicide have been the by-product of a robbery?

You know, maybe Brad come home and spooked a burglar

and was shot to cover up the crime.

Detectives investigating the murder

of Brad mcgarry in bellaire, Ohio,

wonder if he was killed during a burglary gone wrong.

We thought that maybe it was a burglary,

and it went bad,

and whoever it was panicked and murdered Mr. Mcgarry.

Investigators return to the crime scene

looking for evidence to confirm their theory.

You're doing due diligence on any case

in pursuing any possible factor

what could've led to Brad's death.

The crime scene itself presents a mystery,

and investigators aren't sure how to interpret the evidence.

You have a homicide.

You got a ransacked house.

It's pointing this way, but it's not feeling that way.

You walk into any scene.

These places have feels, you know,

and nobody was feeling this as a robbery,

but that's what it wanted you to think.

Each one of the drawers in all the areas

looked like they were pulled out to the same point

if you would or same distance.

That struck US as being somewhat odd.

It was a rushed job, it was sloppy,

and it definitely started to feel like a staged crime scene.

It was made to look like something that it wasn't,

so if this was a staged crime scene,

this was not a burglary or a robbery.

We got to start asking questions of who benefits

or who would've been in the best position

to have something to do with his death.

Investigators have a possible suspect,

but his identity remains a partial mystery.

We definitely felt like finding Scotty could help US

to find the missing piece of that puzzle,

so of course we wanted to find him, see what he knew,

if he knew anything that was going to help US

to solve this case.

We're interested in finding this Scotty,

at this point, last name unknown,

and we don't have a lot to go on.

Detectives continue looking for answers by tracking down

and speaking with Brad's friends.

Boom, we got a name: Scotty Butler.

Finally, detectives have the remaining piece

of this investigative puzzle.

This was very exciting.

It's like Christmas morning.

Now we could find him and talk to him.

Police dig into Scotty's background.

They discover a criminal record and a location.

We discovered he was in fact in jail in West Virginia

for a parole violation.

We talked to Scotty Butler.

He seemed to be surprised and very upset that Brad had passed.

He had no idea who would want to do anything like this to Brad,

didn't seem to have,

you know, any reason to have him killed either.

We were fairly confident to rule him out as a suspect.

It was time to stop wasting time on that train of thought.

We documented what we did with him and moved on.

Days into the investigation and detectives are no closer

to catching Brad mcgarry's killer.

I did want to know who did this to him.

I felt very angry and frustrated

because I couldn't figure it out myself,

and I wasn't in control of the situation.

It's hard to understand

why someone would take someone else's life,

and the next thing that goes through your mind is,

"did he suffer? Was he laying there on the ground

with bullets in his head? Did he bleed to death?"

And your mind takes you to some dark, scary places.

But just as the investigation begins to stall,

detectives receive word that what they feared

the most may have come true.

Seventy-eight-three-five, code six, 25 north...

There's been another shooting

just minutes away from Brad's home.

Two days after Brad's murder, there was another shooting

that occurred just across the county line.

We didn't know what was going on.

Did he kill again?

Just 2 days after Brad mcgarry was shot dead in his own home,

there's been a second shooting

just a few miles away in wheeling, West Virginia.

Now detectives wonder if the two cases are related.

You kind of got a stopwatch going off in your head

that you want to race against the clock,

at the same time not trip and fall,

and that's a hard thing to do.

Officers at the scene discover the victim,

identified as 41-year-old ahmid hinton, barely alive.

While their squad-car dashcams record,

first responders struggle

to keep hinton from death.

Emts race hinton to the hospital,

but he dies en route.

A murder investigation is underway in wheeling.

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Thanks for joining US.

I'm Jennifer black. And I'm rich Pierce.

A man shot several times on wheeling island,

now a manhunt underway.

Detectives learn that, just minutes before he died,

hinton identified his killer: A man named Jordan Davis.

But can bellaire investigators

link Davis to Brad mcgarry's murder?

It's not the sort of thing that happens

on a regular basis in this area,

and you get two violent gun incidents

that occurs at the same time.

We need to look at that.

I reached out to the department handling it

and very quickly compared notes.

This is the type of case I have.

These are the players that I have.

What do you got? Is there any connection between the two?

Chief allar learns that

wheeling police obtain surveillance video

from a neighbor near the crime scene.

You're looking at surveillance video

of a gun fight outside of a residence

in the wheeling area.

The video captures ahmid hinton collapsing outside the house

of an acquaintance after being shot.

The acquaintance then returns fire,

but the shooter gets away.

Investigators know Brad was killed

with a .22-caliber gun, so they compare the ballistics

to the weapon used to kill hinton.

One thing that you're looking out for

is weapons, calibers, and it wasn't a .22.

That's what we're looking for,

and, you know, we quickly found out

that the persons involved were not connected.

The murder in wheeling,

as close as it was to Brad mcgarry's killing,

is just another dead end

that has cost detectives valuable time,

but detectives press on.

They question another one of Brad's close friends.

We thought this person might know who's in Brad's circle.

Who's he close with?

Who is he dating?

Who is he maybe fighting over?

This person told US that when Brad had a relationship

with a man known as dj,

dj and Brad had met in the coal mine.

This is the first time detectives are hearing

about another boyfriend.

We learn that dj was married, and his wife did not know

that he was in a relationship with Brad

and that this was a secret that he kept for years.

And then he tells investigators dj's real name.

It's a name they've heard before.

Hold this together.

David Kinney, Brad mcgarry's best friend

and the man who found Brad dead in his basement.

Yeah.

Kind of popped out of nowhere.

This dj that he had been in this relationship

with was David Kinney.

It definitely turned the case on its axis, you know?

We found out that Brad pressured David Kinney

on various occasions to leave his wife

so they could be together.

Up to a couple hours ago, our whole idea

of the relationship of David Kinney and Brad mcgarry

is that they were very, very close friends.

Now we learned that David Kinney and Brad mcgarry

were involved in a sexual relationship.

We had to look, was that somehow connected with Brad's killing?

It was time to have a different conversation with David Kinney.

Your GPS location is often going to be

revealed to US on your phone.

I absolutely wanted to see where Mr. Kinney's phone

was at the time of the murder.

As detective cruse reviews David's phone,

chief allar continues questioning him.

When you see a suspect start to respond emotionally,

that's the indicator that you're close to them

reaching some sort of moment

where they're going to give you something.

He's telling chief allar in the interview room,

"we're just friends. We're just friends. We're just friends."

I'm looking through his phone and seeing,

"we're lovers. We're lovers. We're lovers."

We're able to see texts, deleted photos.

But it's what else they find on David's phone that could be

the most compelling piece of evidence of all.

Now alls I'm thinking is, this is going to change

the whole aspect of this investigation.

The search for Brad mcgarry's killer has come full circle

and landed right back where it started with David Kinney.

It was Kinney who found mcgarry's body,

and now investigators suspect

he was having an affair with Brad,

an affair Kinney's wife knew nothing about.

Now investigators are reviewing the contents of David's phone,

looking to connect him to Brad's murder.

As I go into his phone, what I'm looking at,

what I'm seeing in the text thread

between the two is they're not just friends.

They're, in fact, romantically involved.

They're lovers.

He really started to make US think this guy is hiding a lot.

Detective cruse also recovers deleted voice messages

from Brad mcgarry,

left just days before he was killed.

But it's his analysis of the phone's GPS locator

that's the most revealing.

The most important thing is, is it's putting him

at the crime scene at the time of the murder.

Now alls I'm thinking is, I have to tell chief allar this

because this is going to change the whole aspect

of this investigation.

We had David Kinney lying to US

about the sexual relationship with the victim.

We had GPS coordinates coming that, you know,

would prove that he was at the house

when the murder took place.

That's not the only piece of evidence placing David

at the scene after investigators finally go through

all of the surveillance footage from Brad's neighbor.

At one point in the surveillance video,

you'll see David Kinney arriving at Brad's home

driving his wife's car.

Then you'll see Brad return home,

and then shortly after Brad returns home,

you can see David Kinney leaving the area.

A couple hours later, you see David returning in his truck

with the family, which is a direct contrast

to everything we'd been told prior to.

Armed with this new information,

chief allar returns to David Kinney

and presses him about his relationship with Brad.

I tried to put him at ease about it.

I told him.

I said, you know, "what year is it? No one cares.

Maybe your wife is probably going to care,

but as far as society, no one is going to care.

You like dudes or chicks. I mean, no one cares."

The interview is going on.

Everything started to flow rather well.

I had this overwhelming feeling that David was about

to share with me what happened.

David and Brad were involved in this sexual relationship,

and David didn't want more, but Brad did.

Brad wanted a lot more than David was willing to give.

Four hours into the interview,

David Kinney starts to break down.

At one point, David told him, "hey, we can't do this anymore,"

and Brad was threatening to tell David's wife about the affair.

David said that Brad grabbed a .22 pistol

that he had laying around the basement.

Kinney insists he was afraid Brad was going to shoot him,

so he snatched the gun away,

but chief allar doesn't buy it.

At no point...None of the evidence would make US indicate

or believe that this was self-defense.

I believe David Kinney, with prior calculation and design,

shot Brad mcgarry twice in the back of the head.

Then he staged a crime scene.

David Kinney was terrified of what Brad mcgarry

could do to blow up his life.

Chief allar takes David's written statement

and then allows him to speak with his wife, cheri.

David Kinney is arrested and, after an 8-day trial,

is convicted of the murder of Brad mcgarry.

David Kinney was found guilty of aggravated murder

and sentenced to life without parole.

The ironic thing is, David killed somebody that loved him

because he was just so afraid of this secret

about his alter personality, his alter life if you will,

being revealed that he was willing to murder somebody

that loved him over it,

and what's sad is now everybody knows anyway, and Brad is dead.

I miss hearing that voice.

There's just an emptiness

that nothing will ever take his place.

My world and a lot of other worlds are darker now

because Brad is not there to light our way.

Brad had a whole lot more life to live and love

to give to so many people.

David Kinney took so much from this world

when he took Brad mcgarry.

Brad mcgarry could've changed the world with his kindness

and his loyalty and his determination.

He had so much to give, and that was just ripped away from US.