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The body was found
in the grave site, face down.

He was completely decomposed.

There's not many people
who can tie up
a live human being

to bury them,
where they're gonna suffocate,
in a shallow grave.

Somebody was really doing this
to not just be hurtful

but to really torture him.

Out of anger, out of spite,
out of hate.

Who is this guy?

What did he do to get
this kind of punishment?

I just remember thinking,
"This is probably gonna be
one of the hardest cases

I've ever worked
in my entire life."

This is the Old West...

...where a man's word
is his bond.

100%.

The neatest thing
about a cowboy's life is,
I think, everybody gets along.

I make one phone call,
we got 10 guys here.

All great guys.

All of them would do
whatever you asked them to do
to help you out.

It's very close-knit.

A lot of the people
that I know are horse people,
rodeo cowboys.

The Western way of life
is something we love.

We trust a little bit easier,
take people at face value.

We have a lot of people
that just pop in,

and, "Hey, I'm looking
for a job."

I've seen that
a million times.

It's always been that way,
as far as I know.

Forever.

This champion cowboy,
Rick Godfrey,

showed up in Phelan
looking for work.

He was putting himself out
to be a horse trainer
and a farrier.

He had these glowing reviews.

The horse committee
is pretty tight.

We all basically
know each other.

I was on Facebook
looking for a farrier,
and I met Rick.

We hit it off,
talking about horses.

Rick was a likeable guy.

He acted like a know-it-all,

but when you see him
with horses,
he was good with them.

He really was.

So at first,
everything was fine.

We had a trailer
on the property,

and I remember him mentioning
something about needing
a place to stay.

He had asked me
if he could stay there.

I said it was my boyfriend's.
He would have to ask Dale.

Dale told me, "Well, you know,
I've been down
on my luck before.

I wouldn't mind
helping somebody."

The arrangement
was $300 a month,

and then Rick was gonna
help me around the property
during the week.

Rick and I met
on a dating website.

We spoke a few times,

and then we started talking
pretty much every day
after that.

He just was
a really nice person

and just really cared
about animals,

which is really important
to me.

At some point,
he had made a name
for himself as a bull rider.

Rick talked about
his bull-riding days,
all the rodeos,

and being a horse trainer.

He also shoed horses
and groomed them
and that sort of thing.

He was always in full costume.

He believed in that lifestyle-
that old Wild West:

be polite, "Yes, Sir.
Yes, Ma'am."

Rick treated me like gold.

From the moment he woke up,
he was sending me videos,
phone calls,

and making sure that I knew
that he was there.

One day, his phone was going
straight to voicemail.

And even though
I really only knew him,
like, two months,

I kind of knew right then
that something was wrong.

Lisa called me and asked me
if I'd heard from my son.

And I said, "No, I haven't
talked to him. Why?"

You know, I had talked to him
a couple days prior.

And I said, "Okay, well,
I'll try calling him."

I couldn't get through.

It just kept ringing,
ringing, ringing,
and going to voicemail.

My son does things
at whim sometimes,

so I really wasn't sure
what to believe.

There was a good possibility
he was licking his wounds
in a motel.

Maybe he ran away
with another woman.

But I was concerned
about my son.

I started
to Facebook Messenger
his landlord, Debbie,

if she had seen Rick
and his dog,

and she said she had not
seen them all day.

Rick's girlfriend
messaged me asking
if Rick was home.

I had not seen Rick.

But I had seen
my boyfriend, Dale,
talking to a local woman

called Laura Vasquez.

I knew of her Facebook,
but I didn't know her personally.

She was building a business
with Rick.

You know, stalls
and round pen and...

Some kind of horse business.

When I heard Laura Vasquez
and Dale talking,
I heard her say,

"You seen the bracelet
that he's wearing?

Well, that bracelet
was my husband's."

I was working
in the Phelan station.

Rick Godfrey's father
called in and reported
that his son had been missing.

I went to see Dale and Debbie.

They told me
that when Rick got back,

Rick had Laura Vasquez's
bracelet.

Dale told Rick
to give it back,
and he said, "No."

Dale got upset,
then Rick said,

"Okay", took off the bracelet,
and threw it at Dale.

Dale Brewster contacted
the sheriff's department

and reported
that he was involved
in a physical fight with Rick

and was concerned about him.

That's a very odd thing,
I thought.

Rick had jumped
over his fence,

lost his boots and took off,
and he hadn't seen him since.

No one knew what happened
with Rick.

A lot of women are attracted
to the cowboy type of man.

The ruff and gruff, you know,
belt buckle, cowboy hat.

A lot of the women
who were very interested
in Rick

were already in relationships,
whether that was
them being married

or in a relationship
with a boyfriend.

It was a dangerous game-
sleeping with married women.

He was actively
having relationships

literally, you know,
coast to coast.

The Internet
was his hunting field.

He had a certain type
that just opened themselves up
to him.

They wanted
that romantic fairytale

that we have perpetuated
about the cowboy.

This masculine, strong, wise,

hard-working, hard-loving man

that is gonna take care
of you.

But he was giving them
the same line of bull [bleep].

He just needed your money.

He wanted all of it.

There were rumors
that he was sleeping
with everybody's wives,

and then he was
ripping people off.

But it seemed like
people from all over
were unhappy with him,

not just here in Phelan.

I didn't know
any of that stuff
until after Rick went missing.

It was just kind of, like,
somebody you knew
but didn't know,

and you're not sure
how you're supposed to feel.

He had these women
all over the country

thinking that they
were talking to, you know,
or dating

this real rodeo cowboy.

When it came to women,
Rick didn't have
much common sense, you know.

Men who chase
after married women
are gonna come to no good.

He didn't seem to get that.

As a parent,
you don't wanna
assume the worst.

So, you know,
you gotta keep going,
hoping that they find my son.

We probably get two,
three phone calls a month.

"Hey, I'm looking for a job",

you know, "I've been out
of work for a little while.
I'm really good with cattle ",

and it never pans out.

We've had some real yo-yos
come out here.

We've rode plenty people
off out of here

probably a little
more aggressive
than we should.

You don't call
law enforcement.
You just handle it.

That's why we have dogs
and rifles and pistols

and anything else
you can find.

My son's name was Allan.
Allan Frederick Godfrey.

Allan is the junior.
I'm the senior.

He was born in New York state.

When he was seven,
his mother and I separated,
and they moved to Ohio.

He had an uncle, I believe,
that lived in Kentucky
or Tennessee

that raised horses.

And he ended up
living with him for a while.

He was around people
that wore cowboy hats
and cowboy boots.

You know, that's where
he got his interest
in the cowboy life.

He would tell me,
"I'm a bull rider",

and, "I'm a bronc rider."

And then he was
showing me pictures
and sending me videos,

and I couldn't really tell
100% if they were him or not.

I told him: "Just 'cause
you ride a horse don't mean
you're a cowboy."

When I met Rick Godfrey,

he had all these credentials
that he had listed.

He said that he had gone
to the NFR,

which is
the National Finals Rodeo.
It's our Super Bowl.

He rides broncs and bulls.

He was a director on the board
for the rodeo association.

It became very clear
very quickly
that there was something else,

you know, under the surface
with this guy.

I met him
on a social media site,

and he was talking
about going to a rodeo
in Florida

and had a few days
to just hang out some place.

And I was like,
"Well, if you're coming
through Oklahoma,

you're welcome
to come to my house
for a little while."

So I went and picked him up
at a gas station.

This picture I took,
putting his suitcase
in the back of my truck.

He talked
a real good horse game.

Really tried to put on
a nice facade.

But when I asked him
to halter a yearling,
he put it on completely wrong.

Then I knew
he knew absolutely nothing
about horses,

and that was the moment
that I told him he was never
to ever touch my horses again.

From there on out, it was,
"You're a wannabe,
you're a joke."

He no longer could get
this trainer, bull rider,

rodeo person over on us.

I found out he does not have
bull-riding licenses,
wasn't a rodeo champion.

He wasn't even
a horse trainer.

He'd rip off pictures
off the Internet

of actual trainers
at competitions,

and he'd put them
on his profile and say,
"This is me."

You know, and he would either
chop the head off

or blur the head, you know,
the face.

And a lot of people
just didn't know any better.

What's going on?

He was a user.

He was a liar.

Not a real cowboy.

He was fake.

Found a site on the Internet
called Gunsel Busters.

All the people Rick had come
in contact with

were talking about
how he'd scammed
numerous people

and how people
didn't like him.

Unfortunately,
Godfrey was just the living,

breathing epitome of a gunsel.

This was somebody
that would try
to wear a costume.

Act the part poorly.

He had multiple little clips
on his belt

for all the cell phones
that he carried.

He had himself
his little Bowie knife.

You know, all the jewelry
and, you know, flare

that he would attach
to himself, you know,

to show that he was
a military veteran,
to show he was a cowboy.

Just somebody that shows up
at the rodeo, and they've got
their outfit on,

and they're gonna
ride that bull,

and then at the last minute,
"Oh, God. Headache."

But a gunsel
gets in a lot of trouble.

They get themselves hurt.
They get other cowboys
and cowgirls hurt.

They hurt the stock.

Some people said,
"I hope he's hurting."

They hope he's dead.

But they had no idea
where he was.

We put out flyers
with Rick's photographs

throughout the whole
High Desert.

Search and Rescue
did a great search

in the area where
his last cell phone hit was.

We weren't able to,
obviously, find anything.

The last person who saw Rick
was Dale Brewster.

I thought, "Could Dale
have something
to do with it?"

We got a search warrant
for Dale and Debbie's home

and took forensic people
out there.

Dale took me
into the garage.

We also looked inside
the trailer

where Rick was staying
on the property.

We weren't able
to find anything.

Even though Dale
had called 9-1-1,

I don't believe
there was any evidence

he had anything to do
with Rick going missing.

My next thought was-

"Could Laura Vasquez
have something to do
with Rick being missing?"

Laura Vasquez.
She had such animosity
towards Rick

for basically defrauding her.

And such anger.

She was going the extra mile
to get her money back

and to settle the score.

Laura told me
everything was great at first.

He would work with her horses,

train her horses,
shoe her horses.

Eventually though he wanted
to start a business with her,

and that's how he ended up
talking her into

giving him some money
to start the business.

Rick ended up

cheating Laura out of $25,000,

her entire life savings.

I got the opinion that
she probably wished

something bad had
happened to him.

Rick Godfrey
was never gonna
have a happy ending.

The devil doesn't
show up as the devil,

he shows up, you know,
in a cowboy costume.

There was a very long line
of women that, uh,
wanted to get vengeance.

The question that
should be asked

is if any of those
women did it.

There was a lot
of people in this area

and surrounding areas that
were not happy with Rick.

Rick is a drifter.

If he burns a bridge,
instead of trying
to rebuild or fix it,

he basically just
packs his stuff up
and he moves on.

This was basically
a missing person with
some unusual circumstances.

We didn't know exactly
what happened to Rick.

I was at work
when Trevor Thomson,

a dirt bike rider, called me.

Trevor said that he found
a body out in the desert.

It was a very shallow grave,

and they'd put a couch
on top of the body.

The, uh, legs were partially
sticking out of the ground.

They were very decomposed.

I asked, Trevor,
"Was there anything
you noticed

on the body that
would stand out?"

Trevor took some pictures
and sent 'em to me.

That's when I saw
a rodeo belt buckle.

When they
found his body,

they called me to identify it.

I said, "Well, he has
plenty of tattoos,

can't you just
check his tattoos?"

And I think that's
when it really hit me, like,

"Oh, my gosh,

this is somebody
I cared about and,
like, this is it."

Body was found
in the grave site, face down.

He was completely decomposed.

Somebody was really doing this

to not just be hurtful,

but to really torture him.

Out of anger, out of spite,
out of hate.

He had duct tape around
his entire face and head.

And then he also had
rope around his neck,

tying his hands
behind his back,

such as being hog-tied.

Somebody meant
to bury him alive.

And it's a horrible
way to die.

I knew it was going
to be a very difficult case,

you're just praying to God
you have some suspect DNA.

There's a good possibility
that we had DNA

from his fingers
on the duct tape and,
possibly, fingerprints.

There's a good chance that
their skin cells are embedded
in the knot of the rope.

But when we sent out
those two items
for forensic testing,

we learned very quickly
that there was no
forensic evidence.

Which really made the case
so much harder for us.

In a lot of murders,
you usually have
a lot of evidence,

which means you don't need
a solid confession,

you have DNA, you have video,
you have witnesses,

you have the gun,
you have the weapon,

in this we had none of that.

This was gonna be
pulling a rabbit out
of a, of a hat type of case.

I was heart broke for Allan

when, when they confirmed
it was my son.

You know, so many emotions
run through you.

You're just thinking about
the little boy
that you remember,

um, the times you had
that were special.

And you think, you're job
as a father is to protect,

you're first instinct is,
"I just wanna...

...you know,
get my vengeance."

Um...

And I just couldn't
do that, you know.

I have six other children...

...but it hurts everyday.

Now the question was,

was he killed by
one of the women that
he had taken advantage of?

Or was he killed
because he cheated,

he stole, and he lied
about everything?

You had
the scorned lovers...

...the women that were upset

and wanted their
piece of flesh.

There was a, a contingent

of, of real horsemen, professionals,

getting together,
so they could stop
Allan Godfrey.

You had multiple people
in the community

who were really
upset with Rick.

There were comments like,
"It's about time."

Or, you know, "Good riddance."

"Who doesn't want him dead?"

But there is no evidence
against them.

They were upset,
but they didn't have
enough hatred

to tie him up,
duct tape him...

...and throw him into
a shallow grave alive.

They didn't have
enough motive to kill him.

So we started getting
closer and closer
and closer to the people

who are around Rick
in the last week
before his death.

There was one individual

who is extremely
angry with Rick

for basically defrauding her,

Laura Vasquez.

Rick Godfrey lived
with Laura Vasquez
for a short amount of time.

Kind of the same circumstances,

in a trailer, on her property.

But Laura Vasquez
was just recently
retired from her job,

and Rick frauded her
out of quite a bit of her
retirement money.

So Laura starts a small scale
lawsuit against Rick.

So Rick does
what Rick always does,

he collects his belongings
and he moves on.

Laura Vasquez,

her situation was,
she was ripped off,

and she wanted
to at the very least

try to be made whole
and get some
of her stuff back,

but she wouldn't
murder anybody.

The one thing
about the truth is,

you just never change it,

it stays very consistent.

Laura Vasquez
was very forthcoming

about how angry
she was with Rick.

Ten months later,
when I contact her,

she lays everything out
the exact same way,

she tells the same details,

so Laura Vasquez,

uh, starting pulling
herself out of that
suspect pool for me.

So I went back to the person
that last saw him alive,

that was Dale Brewster.

Rick and Dale
did not get along,

because Rick
was always flirting.

To make matters worse,

Dale had heard that Debbie
may be sleeping with Rick.

I have
no doubt in my mind

that, that he was
coming on to her,

because he'd done
the same thing to me
at the beginning.

I believe that
there's a high probability

that Debbie and Rick,

all the times that
they were left alone,

probably crossed
a line or two.

That is not something that

Dale Brewster would
have taken lightly.

I think the thought alone,

that Debbie may be
sleeping with Rick
under his very own nose,

would have upset him enough

to get him into
a horrendous fight.

That wasn't happening.

Why would I do that?
Why would I be...

Why?

Rick and I had

just a friendship,
and he knew that's all it was.

He was charming.

But not that
I was interested in him

because I wasn't,
you know, I--

It wasn't that kind of...

He was nice to be around,
that's all.

He actually tried
to kiss me one time,

and I was like, "Dude, like,
what the heck?"

So, you know, basically

put him in his place then, so.

The only suspect
with a strong enough motive

to kill Rick Godfrey
was Dale Brewster.

He was the last person
with Rick Godfrey

the day that he went missing.

Normally, the victim

who gets beat up worse
would call in.

I mean, it just doesn't
make sense to say,

"We had a horrible fight,
and I got the upper
hand in it."

Dale Brewster was
our number one suspect.

Dale Brewster

bragged about the fact that
he got in a fight with my son.

The man bragged about how,
how rough he beat my son.

The man might was well
just admit the fact that
he killed my son.

The day that Rick Godfrey
got placed in that grave,

Dale Brewster said
he basically was
at his house all day,

he didn't leave.

What the cellphone
evidence showed us

is that Dale Brewster,
on the Rick Godfrey
went missing,

left his home around
six o'clock in the evening.

He drove out
to the middle of the desert.

We looked at cellphone records
from months before,

and at no other time during
that time period

had he ever driven out to this
remote area of the desert.

And lo and behold,

Rick's body is found
near the location that
Brewster's phone

was pinging the day
that Rick went missing.

So now it was
extremely important

to interview Dale and Debbie,

the people that saw
Rick Allan Godfrey last.

Unfortunately,
they had packed up
all of their belongings

and moved out to Arizona.

We're just
having a good time,

we weren't on the run.

I told Dale, "How about
you and I just go take
a trip to the Grand Canyon?"

We didn't know that
they were following us.

It seemed
very suspicious

that they left town
all of the sudden.

The team travel out
to Arizona.

When we get there,
Dale and Debbie
were in a local motel.

I'm so excited.

We know what room he's in,

we have eyes on it...

...so let's go get this guy.

We have a murder
suspect in this room.

Months and months
and months of investigation.

And sure enough...

...Dale Brewster
answers the door.

Neither one of 'em
was shocked or dismayed.

They weren't like,
"We had nothing
to do with this.

Why are you guys
still bothering us?"

He invoked immediately
and said he did not wanna
speak without an attorney.

I read Debbie
her Miranda warning,

and she just started talking.

And, uh, I just said,
"Do you recognize this rope?"

And she said,
"That's one of the ropes
I use for my ponies,

that's my rope."

And I said, "Well, this was
the rope that was around
Rick's neck and wrist...

...bounding his hand
behind his back
in that shallow grave,"

And she just had this look
on her face, like, "Oh, shoot,

I said too much,
'cause I just said that
that was my rope,

and it came
from my residence."

And that's the residence that
she shared with Dale.

She pretty much stopped
talking at that point.

I'm feeling super good

that I get to call
Allan Senior,

and I said,
"I just arrested the man
who murdered your son."

You know,
I was elated.

I wanted to be able
to just go down there

and smack him upside
the head myself,

but, you know,

they promised me
they were gonna make sure
he paid for what he did.

Walking into
the courtroom
on the Brewster case

we knew that
it's a circumstantial case.

That doesn't necessarily mean
that it's a weak case.

When they see each piece
of circumstantial evidence,

from Dale being
the last person
to see Rick alive,

that Dale admits that
there was an altercation
that occurred,

and ultimately Dale's
phone record showing
that he left

and headed out to the area
where the body was found

at the time
that Rick went missing.

Put that all together,
and what you have
is a clear-cut case,

Dale Brewster murdered
Rick Godfrey.

The motive being that

Dale Brewster believes
there's something
inappropriate going on

between Rick Godfrey
and his girlfriend.

I think, personally,

that Allan might have been

having an affair with his wife

or had some kind of a, uh,

affair with his wife
while he was away.

That's what I think.

Why would you get all mad
and beat somebody up because

some woman comes
to see you and says,

"Oh, he stole a piece
of jewelry"?

Why would you be
concerned about it?

But you say,

the guy is screwing around
with your wife,

now we have a personal issue.

You know?

So I really don't know,

but it seems more likely

that was the reason
for that to happen.

I just remember
closing my eyes

when they read the verdict.

And, basically, they said,

"As to first degree murder...

...Dale Brewster
is found guilty."

I just remember thinking,
"Oh, my gosh"

He's got
a 50 year sentence with life.

He better never be
able to get out.

You know?

His girlfriend was there,
and she claims she didn't have
any idea he was there.

She knows what he did.

And they're telling me
they can't charge her
with anything

'cause they have no evidence.

There was not enough
to file on Debbie

through this entire case,

but I think she was
a part of the cover-up.

I think that she was
definitely afraid of Dale,

and she knew what Dale
was capable of

because she knew that
Dale murdered Rick.

There must have been
a reason why I'd never
asked questions.

'Cause maybe
I didn't wanna know.

Maybe I didn't want to

see what was right
in front of my face.

Rick Godfrey

was never gonna
have a happy ending,

and that was by
his own design.

He barked up
the wrong tree finally,

and got what was coming.

He took advantage
of the wrong person,

and got himself killed.

It was the,
the most odd,
surreal thing ever.

Maybe I'm just numb to it,

I wasn't emotional about it.

I just didn't feel much.

Just surreal, I guess.

And it was just very sad.

To this day,
I still haven't

done any real
grieving over it.

Hurts everyday.