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18-year-old Brittany Clardy
loves to be in touch
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and is always seeking connection.
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She always had her phone.
Talking about all of her feelings.
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-But looking back, I appreciate it.
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That's because
on one cold February day,
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she goes missing.
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I said, "I don't know. Something's wrong."
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Over a week goes by,
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her loved ones disconnected
and in the dark.
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They weren't giving me information.
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No one was telling me anything.
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Then, the race to find her
reveals an astounding truth.
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Brittany kinda had a secret life,
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and tied to that secret life
was this secret phone.
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But will the phone
ultimately connect Brittany...
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...to her killer?
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She solved her own murder
from beyond the grave.
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The fitness app on the phone.
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It was overwhelming evidence.
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♪ I've been haunted by the visions ♪
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♪ That I've seen with my own eyes ♪
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♪ And the only way to find you ♪
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♪ Is to go beneath the lies ♪
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She did help catch this killer.
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February 11, 2013.
St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Like everyone her age,
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18-year-old Brittany Clardy's
phone is her lifeline.
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Something her mom is thankful for
in the snowy Minnesota winter.
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♪ I feel your cold skin ♪
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♪ Sink in my mind ♪
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It's a Monday,
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and we just had
a snowstorm the day before.
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My name's Marquita Clardy.
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Brittany is my daughter.
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Brittany and I were standing at the top
of the stairs, talking about the day,
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and she said, "I'm gonna leave."
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And I said, "Well, where are you going?"
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You know, "I want you to stay here.
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"Stay here, rest.
If there's ice on the road,
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you're not able to stop at all."
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And she said, "No, I gotta go.
I'll be right back.
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I won't be gone long."
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And then, when I turned
around and looked at her, it--
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I wanted to grab her,
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but I didn't grab her.
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It's like, "Why am I wanting to grab her?"
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It's engraved in my mind to this day.
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But hours go by,
and no word from Brittany.
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I had a bad feeling,
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but I couldn't pinpoint
what that was about.
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-I started calling her
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around 1:30, two o'clock.
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"Are you back at home?
'Cause I'm on my way to work
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'cause you need to get
your brother off the bus."
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So, I'm starting to call her,
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-and she's not answering.
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Other family members
feel something is off as well.
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My name is Lakeisha Lee,
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and I'm Brittany Clardy's older sister.
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She always had her phone.
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She was always paying
attention to her phone,
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so we knew something was
wrong with her not answering.
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This is totally
out of Brittany's character.
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She's a people person,
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a point of connection between
so many different types of personalities.
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Surely, someone knows where she is.
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Brittany was very popular in school,
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had a lot of friends.
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The teachers loved her.
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♪ Oh... ♪
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She was a caretaker.
She loved working with little ones.
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Her first job was at a rec center,
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working with the kids
in the community at 14,
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and she never left that job.
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She loved the children.
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She was a nurturer from Jump Street.
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And Brittany
has just made a connection
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she'd always dreamed of.
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A love connection.
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But, it's complicated.
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He was 23.
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The age difference, to me, was huge.
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I'm like, "What do you
want with my sister?"
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She's a kid, still.
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I just know that he wasn't right for her,
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and I told her that.
I voiced that to him, even.
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♪ Don't let it show ♪
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Brittany cared about him a lot
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because we would ask,
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or if she would even talk about him,
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she would get defensive
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'cause sometimes things didn't add up.
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She never wanted him to
look like the bad guy to us.
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She cared so much about him.
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So maybe this is the reason
they can't reach her.
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She's with her boyfriend
and knows her family doesn't approve.
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But even still,
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Brittany would never
want her mother to worry.
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So, as time passes and the snow piles up,
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her family's concern grows more and more.
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- This is...
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February... in Minnesota.
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Something in the back
of my mind or my gut
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was saying something's wrong with her.
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Is she in her car? Slid into a ditch?
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Brittany's mom continues
to call, hoping for an answer.
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And then, something disturbing happens.
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She got a-a pocket pickup,
it sounded like.
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And they hung up.
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This doesn’t seem right.
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It makes no sense.
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They need help.
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My mom called the police.
Like, something's wrong.
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So, they said, "Call tomorrow.
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"She's 18. Legally, she can leave the home
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and doesn't have to tell
you where she's going."
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And I said, "I don't know.
Something is not right."
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Marquita and Lakeisha continue to wait.
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-Concerned, calling, trying to connect.
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Through the night, the anxiety
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and the fear increased
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because she just would not answer.
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And then, of course, the next morning,
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I got up and called the police again
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and said, "Okay, I called you yesterday.
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I need to make a report
'cause she's still not back."
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But the authorities are cautious.
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I'm retired Detective Mike Lapham
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with the Anoka County Sheriff's Office.
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The St. Paul police took a report,
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entered her as being a missing person.
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Nothing unusual there either.
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But, Marquita is insistent.
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They sent out two investigators
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from the missing persons unit
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to talk to me about Brittany,
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and why she possibly wasn't home.
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They were like,
"Oh, she just turned 18 recently?
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Well, maybe she just ran away."
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Like, no! We just seen her!
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You know, we were
the experts on our family.
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Brittany's family knows
that she didn't just run away,
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and Marquita shares the first
suspect that comes to mind.
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And that's when I told them
about Brittany's boyfriend.
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Everybody is, you know,
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"You gotta check out the boyfriend.
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He is just wrong. He's bad."
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He's this, he's that.
He's gotta be involved.
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Marquita immediately springs into action.
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I took the police
to where I thought he lived.
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They knocked, but nobody answered.
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And they called the number.
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He answered first,
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and then he hung up on the police.
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Then shut the phone off.
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So, I knew something was really wrong.
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Investigators continue
looking into Brittany's boyfriend,
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but after four days of her being missing,
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that's not enough for her family.
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I think you go into
your investigative mode
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and start trying to piece things together.
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We started passing
these flyers out everywhere.
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We organized with friends and family,
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sharing out the flyer en masse.
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We drove up and down highways, looking,
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see if she had went in a ditch.
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Then, on February 21st,
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Marquita finally gets a lead.
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A call.
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- I got a phone call
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from the credit union she had got
a car loan from for her car,
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that the car was impounded and towed
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to a tow yard in Columbia Heights.
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She immediately notifies the authorities.
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So, Marquita met the officers
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at the impound lot.
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And then they took the key,
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and I stayed in the waiting area.
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And the tow company
directed the officers
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to where the car was at.
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And I didn't know my worst nightmare...
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was happening.
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Because what turns up
inside of Brittany's backseat
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is sheer horror,
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and a disturbing warning sign
of what's to come.
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For 10 excruciating days,
Brittany Clardy has been missing.
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The girl who is constantly
connected, posting, calling,
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disturbingly disconnected.
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And investigators can find
no answers for her loved ones.
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Until February 21st,
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when they arrive at an impound lot
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where Brittany's car has been towed.
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I heard some employees starting to talk
and kinda mumble
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about they found something in the vehicle.
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I don't think they realized
I was in the waiting area.
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And what Marquita overhears
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shatters her to her core.
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In the back of that car,
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underneath a whole bunch
of junk in the backseat,
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we found a frozen, dead body.
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By the time the detectives came back,
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I had lost it.
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I was screaming in the waiting area.
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Although tragic,
investigators can't assume
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whose body it is.
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Is it Brittany, or somebody else?
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They don't want Marquita coming out there
and rushing out,
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to find her daughter dead in the backseat.
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So they said, "You know what?
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"This car is snowed and iced,
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"and we can't get into it now.
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"We're on it, we're here, we got the car.
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We'll take care of it,
and we'll let you know."
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♪ What on Earth is this? ♪
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They wouldn't tell me what was going on.
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They just said I needed to go home.
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That they would call me.
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♪ Wake me now ♪
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♪ Wake me now ♪
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I don't remember how I got home.
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I just remember calling...
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my husband...
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telling him to get to where I was,
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but I didn't know where I was.
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Detective Lapham
is soon on the scene.
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So, I get there, and they
take me out to the car.
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The body was in the back
passenger side of the car.
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The weather being that, you know,
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we were below freezing temperatures,
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she was solid.
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Detective Lapham
notices something peculiar.
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Every belonging in the car
was packed on the backseat.
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Cigarette butts, receipts,
all sorts of stuff.
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Was this an attempt
to hide the body in plain sight?
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With a cluttered crime scene
to sift through,
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investigators need to get
the car somewhere secluded
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so they can get to work,
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and other authorities are notified
and brought into the mix.
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My name is Wade Kish.
I was the Assistant Anoka County Attorney.
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What they actually did was,
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no pun intended,
froze the scene, took the car,
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towed it to
the Anoka County Sheriff's Office
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where they have a garage
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that's used for forensically
examining automobiles,
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with her still in there.
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The time can be very important
as far as when a body is discovered,
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so that was important to get
on as quickly as possible.
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It could be hours or even days
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before the medical examiner can
fully identify if this woman is Brittany.
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It came time to remove
the body from the car.
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The one thing I'll never
forget is the sound
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when we set her on the floor.
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I mean, it was like a rock on the floor.
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A body shouldn't do that.
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But one detail does stick out.
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The only thing that we could visibly see
257
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was one tattoo on one of her thighs
258
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of the name "Tristan."
259
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With this identifier,
260
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Detective Lapham goes
back to Brittany's family.
261
00:14:13,562 --> 00:14:16,732
It took, probably, about 12 hours
262
00:14:16,815 --> 00:14:18,942
before detectives showed up at my door
263
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in the middle of the night.
264
00:14:24,114 --> 00:14:27,951
He asked did we know of any
distinctive tattoos on her.
265
00:14:28,035 --> 00:14:29,995
And we said, "Yes, on her arm."
266
00:14:30,078 --> 00:14:33,373
He said, "Well, there's
possibly another tattoo."
267
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I said, "Does the name 'Tristan'
268
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mean anything to you?"
269
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And that's when they both
had said, "Well, yeah.
270
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That was Brittany's first boyfriend."
271
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And then I lost it.
272
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♪ In a word, every piece of ♪
273
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♪ All the things I left behind ♪
274
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For Brittany's family,
there's no longer any doubt in their mind.
275
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Their beloved daughter and sister is dead.
276
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And I remember falling to the floor,
277
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and I kept saying, "No."
278
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
279
00:15:09,243 --> 00:15:12,329
I didn't want to accept...
280
00:15:13,914 --> 00:15:16,834
that that was reality, in that moment.
281
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Everything from there is a whirlwind.
282
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In St. Paul,
283
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news of a frozen body in the backseat
of a car spreads quickly
284
00:15:32,307 --> 00:15:35,185
and ignites a media frenzy.
285
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February 2013.
286
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In a Columbia Heights impound lot,
287
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a vehicle with a woman's body inside.
288
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She's so important.
289
00:15:44,319 --> 00:15:48,282
The woman was
Lakeisha Lee's younger sister, Brittany.
290
00:15:48,365 --> 00:15:50,742
Our family home,
we couldn't get into our family home
291
00:15:50,826 --> 00:15:53,829
without all of this media,
292
00:15:54,538 --> 00:15:56,623
all over the lawn.
293
00:16:00,335 --> 00:16:03,213
In life, Brittany was always connecting.
294
00:16:03,714 --> 00:16:07,259
And now in death, she's still
bringing people together.
295
00:16:08,677 --> 00:16:11,471
But the toll on Brittany's
family is immense.
296
00:16:12,139 --> 00:16:14,808
They want justice and answers,
297
00:16:14,892 --> 00:16:16,518
and so do the authorities
298
00:16:17,019 --> 00:16:20,314
who need to find out how did she die,
299
00:16:20,397 --> 00:16:22,149
and if it was a murder,
300
00:16:22,232 --> 00:16:24,860
how can they catch her killer?
301
00:16:27,029 --> 00:16:31,575
Then, after seven long days
of waiting for Brittany's body to thaw,
302
00:16:32,117 --> 00:16:34,578
the autopsy results are in
303
00:16:34,661 --> 00:16:36,288
and it's disturbing.
304
00:16:37,331 --> 00:16:40,876
It did appear that there was
some ligature around her neck,
305
00:16:41,210 --> 00:16:44,213
that she might have been
choked at some point,
306
00:16:44,296 --> 00:16:47,591
but it also showed multiple blows
307
00:16:47,674 --> 00:16:51,303
from an impact weapon to her head.
308
00:16:52,930 --> 00:16:55,641
Her report indicated that Brittany
was struck in the back of the head
309
00:16:55,724 --> 00:16:58,101
with that blunt instrument
16 or 17 different times.
310
00:16:59,102 --> 00:17:01,772
Also, the medical
examiner couldn't rule out
311
00:17:01,855 --> 00:17:04,149
the fact that she could've
been put in there
312
00:17:04,233 --> 00:17:07,444
alive but unconscious,
and froze to death.
313
00:17:10,822 --> 00:17:13,742
The findings are unimaginable,
314
00:17:13,825 --> 00:17:17,412
especially to those who knew
and loved Brittany the most.
315
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♪ As the rain begins to fall ♪
316
00:17:20,123 --> 00:17:21,959
-Why?
-♪ It's to the heavens ♪
317
00:17:22,042 --> 00:17:23,669
Tell me why.
318
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Why her?
319
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I was so mad.
320
00:17:29,049 --> 00:17:31,385
The anger that I had was like...
321
00:17:31,468 --> 00:17:34,263
boiling inside of me.
322
00:17:34,346 --> 00:17:35,889
I was so mad.
323
00:17:35,973 --> 00:17:38,517
But the Clardys
already have their own theory
324
00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,520
about who's responsible
for this heinous crime.
325
00:17:41,603 --> 00:17:45,065
I'm thinking, "Did her boyfriend
do something to her?"
326
00:17:45,148 --> 00:17:47,401
But I could not confirm
327
00:17:47,484 --> 00:17:50,904
because I-I didn't know his whereabouts.
328
00:17:50,988 --> 00:17:52,364
I didn't know his surroundings.
329
00:17:54,283 --> 00:17:55,951
Investigators need answers.
330
00:17:56,034 --> 00:17:58,036
And after an exhaustive search,
331
00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,539
they uncover unsettling news.
332
00:18:00,622 --> 00:18:04,585
St. Paul Police were able
to identify the boyfriend,
333
00:18:04,668 --> 00:18:07,004
and he had warrants out for his arrest,
334
00:18:07,087 --> 00:18:09,756
and they were related to domestic battery.
335
00:18:10,591 --> 00:18:12,342
Made my eyebrows go up.
336
00:18:13,635 --> 00:18:15,971
Now, all they have to do is find him.
337
00:18:16,054 --> 00:18:19,725
Or so they think,
as there's so much more to this story
338
00:18:19,808 --> 00:18:22,144
than any of them can imagine.
339
00:18:32,988 --> 00:18:34,615
18-year-old Brittany Clardy
340
00:18:34,698 --> 00:18:37,117
thrived on being connected to people.
341
00:18:38,118 --> 00:18:41,747
And three days since her frozen body
was discovered at an impound lot,
342
00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:44,249
abandoned in the backseat of her own car,
343
00:18:45,292 --> 00:18:48,754
there's one connection that may lead
the investigators to catch her killer.
344
00:18:50,964 --> 00:18:52,925
Her boyfriend.
345
00:18:56,345 --> 00:18:58,180
We knew about the boyfriend,
346
00:18:58,263 --> 00:19:01,391
that he had warrants for domestic battery.
347
00:19:01,475 --> 00:19:04,811
I was really scared that
he did something to her.
348
00:19:05,521 --> 00:19:08,524
All kind of scenarios involving him
349
00:19:08,607 --> 00:19:11,026
were definitely going on
in my mind at that time.
350
00:19:12,110 --> 00:19:15,489
However, St. Paul Police
have one major problem.
351
00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:17,699
We didn't know where he was at.
352
00:19:18,367 --> 00:19:22,037
Hitting the pavement,
the authorities search high and low,
353
00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:23,789
and finally get a break,
354
00:19:23,872 --> 00:19:26,500
seven days after
Brittany’s body was found.
355
00:19:26,583 --> 00:19:29,419
They were able to locate
Brittany's boyfriend
356
00:19:29,503 --> 00:19:31,255
-and get him arrested.
357
00:19:31,338 --> 00:19:34,341
And I went down to where he was in jail
358
00:19:34,883 --> 00:19:37,010
and interviewed him at length.
359
00:19:38,011 --> 00:19:40,722
Brittany's boyfriend
denies any wrongdoing,
360
00:19:41,932 --> 00:19:45,018
but Detective Lapham isn't
gonna take his word for it.
361
00:19:45,352 --> 00:19:47,479
His team does a thorough
check into his whereabouts
362
00:19:47,563 --> 00:19:49,273
the night Brittany went missing.
363
00:19:53,610 --> 00:19:56,321
My guys were able to
come to me and say, "Look,
364
00:19:56,405 --> 00:19:58,490
"this guy, using this phone,
365
00:19:58,574 --> 00:20:01,910
"was on the other side of
the Twin Cities metro area
366
00:20:01,994 --> 00:20:04,788
"on the dates that you're talking about.
367
00:20:05,706 --> 00:20:09,042
"So there is no way
he was in any proximity
368
00:20:09,126 --> 00:20:10,335
"of where she was at,
369
00:20:10,419 --> 00:20:13,172
where her phone was registering."
370
00:20:14,673 --> 00:20:16,300
It sounds like Brittany's boyfriend
371
00:20:16,383 --> 00:20:18,427
is nothing more than
a bad guy with an alibi.
372
00:20:22,264 --> 00:20:23,974
Lakeisha can't accept this news,
373
00:20:24,057 --> 00:20:26,226
so she digs in even deeper,
374
00:20:26,894 --> 00:20:29,188
and she makes a second discovery.
375
00:20:31,064 --> 00:20:34,526
Me and my mother were
exchanging information,
376
00:20:34,610 --> 00:20:37,029
and we were comparing notes,
377
00:20:37,112 --> 00:20:40,657
when we realized we had
two different phone numbers for Brittany.
378
00:20:41,825 --> 00:20:43,702
And law enforcement discovers
379
00:20:43,785 --> 00:20:45,245
that in one of the phone numbers,
380
00:20:45,329 --> 00:20:47,497
it's associated with
a TracFone or a burner phone.
381
00:20:47,581 --> 00:20:49,333
You can go out and just buy a phone
382
00:20:49,416 --> 00:20:51,585
and use it up and throw it away.
383
00:20:52,169 --> 00:20:55,506
We knew from the phone number
that Marquita provided
384
00:20:55,589 --> 00:20:59,176
that it also matched to a local website,
385
00:20:59,259 --> 00:21:02,429
and Brittany's picture appeared on there.
386
00:21:03,764 --> 00:21:09,061
And this latest discovery
leaves her family stunned and confused.
387
00:21:11,522 --> 00:21:15,400
Brittany had been posting
ads on escort-type websites.
388
00:21:18,403 --> 00:21:21,073
Her family is in total disbelief.
389
00:21:22,491 --> 00:21:24,243
I had no idea.
390
00:21:24,826 --> 00:21:27,371
That wasn't even part of her character.
391
00:21:28,247 --> 00:21:32,125
She was very naive to the world.
392
00:21:32,209 --> 00:21:34,586
I was... I was taken aback.
393
00:21:34,670 --> 00:21:36,547
That wasn't my sister.
394
00:21:36,630 --> 00:21:38,298
She looked not healthy.
395
00:21:38,382 --> 00:21:41,093
She wasn't the regular Brit that I knew.
396
00:21:41,176 --> 00:21:43,470
-That wasn't her.
397
00:21:44,388 --> 00:21:47,599
How did Brittany get caught
up in this world, and why?
398
00:21:48,642 --> 00:21:51,603
Her family can only
come up with one theory.
399
00:21:53,605 --> 00:21:57,276
Her desire to be deeply
connected and find true love.
400
00:22:01,947 --> 00:22:04,533
I believe that the older boyfriend
401
00:22:04,616 --> 00:22:07,411
that my sister was
involved with at that time
402
00:22:07,494 --> 00:22:09,705
had pressured her to do these things,
403
00:22:09,788 --> 00:22:11,456
to earn money fast.
404
00:22:13,292 --> 00:22:16,879
He told her if
she didn't get things for him,
405
00:22:16,962 --> 00:22:19,673
he would find another
bitch that would do it.
406
00:22:23,051 --> 00:22:26,180
He took advantage
of her feelings for him,
407
00:22:26,263 --> 00:22:29,141
to manipulate her to do these things.
408
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,687
Despite the family's deep feelings,
409
00:22:34,188 --> 00:22:36,273
investigators are unable to find
410
00:22:36,356 --> 00:22:38,984
any evidence to support this theory.
411
00:22:39,067 --> 00:22:40,736
What investigators do know
412
00:22:40,819 --> 00:22:43,906
is that there's much more to the story
they'll have to unravel
413
00:22:43,989 --> 00:22:45,908
in order to catch her killer.
414
00:22:45,991 --> 00:22:47,117
And their hunch,
415
00:22:47,201 --> 00:22:49,328
based on what they've
learned about Brittany,
416
00:22:49,411 --> 00:22:52,164
is to take a closer look
at the burner phone.
417
00:22:53,373 --> 00:22:55,876
We need those burner phone records,
418
00:22:55,959 --> 00:22:57,878
but we had to get subpoenas,
419
00:22:57,961 --> 00:22:59,463
and then we have to send them off.
420
00:23:00,797 --> 00:23:02,090
Several days later,
421
00:23:02,174 --> 00:23:05,135
as her family reels
from the recent discovery
422
00:23:05,552 --> 00:23:08,931
and police wait for records
from Brittany's burner phone,
423
00:23:09,014 --> 00:23:10,849
they get a surprising new lead
424
00:23:10,933 --> 00:23:13,060
from another close connection to Brittany.
425
00:23:14,561 --> 00:23:16,647
We interviewed one of Brittany's friends.
426
00:23:16,730 --> 00:23:18,398
It came up in the conversation
427
00:23:18,482 --> 00:23:20,192
that-that we had found her car
428
00:23:20,275 --> 00:23:22,861
in an apartment lot in Brooklyn Park.
429
00:23:24,071 --> 00:23:28,325
And she brought up to us
that Brittany used to buy her marijuana
430
00:23:28,408 --> 00:23:31,036
from a person named Artie Stennis
431
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,163
in a Brooklyn Park apartment.
432
00:23:36,166 --> 00:23:37,501
Artie's apartment is just
433
00:23:37,584 --> 00:23:39,878
a few feet away from where
Brittany's car was found.
434
00:23:41,171 --> 00:23:44,174
We got a dead body
in a car in his parking lot.
435
00:23:44,258 --> 00:23:46,969
We've got a witness saying
436
00:23:47,052 --> 00:23:50,347
that Brittany used to buy
her marijuana from this guy
437
00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:52,683
at that Brooklyn Park apartment.
438
00:23:53,684 --> 00:23:57,145
Didn't take any special language there
to convince a judge
439
00:23:57,229 --> 00:23:59,064
that we need to go look at this guy.
440
00:23:59,815 --> 00:24:01,942
It's time for them to move,
441
00:24:02,025 --> 00:24:04,903
and this time with the K9 unit
to detect any foul play.
442
00:24:06,530 --> 00:24:09,950
We couldn't get a warrant fast enough
for Artie's apartment,
443
00:24:10,033 --> 00:24:11,535
and down we went.
444
00:24:13,620 --> 00:24:15,414
We got in front of Artie's door.
445
00:24:16,665 --> 00:24:18,083
The K9 got a hit.
446
00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:20,169
What did the dog pick up on?
447
00:24:21,003 --> 00:24:24,590
And is this the break they've been chasing
to crack the case,
448
00:24:24,673 --> 00:24:26,383
catch the killer,
449
00:24:26,633 --> 00:24:29,469
and find out what really
happened to Brittany?
450
00:24:36,101 --> 00:24:38,937
It’s been a week since
Brittany’s body was discovered,
451
00:24:39,021 --> 00:24:42,524
And one of her friends has connected
investigators to an apartment
452
00:24:42,608 --> 00:24:45,110
not too far from where her body
was tragically found,
453
00:24:45,194 --> 00:24:46,904
only seven days ago.
454
00:24:48,447 --> 00:24:52,075
But even though the K9 unit
picks up on something suspicious,
455
00:24:52,159 --> 00:24:55,495
what they find inside
is not what they expect.
456
00:24:56,205 --> 00:24:58,540
We were looking for a bloody crime scene.
457
00:24:58,957 --> 00:25:02,419
We didn't find a drop of blood
or any evidence.
458
00:25:02,836 --> 00:25:05,339
No bed sheet that matched.
459
00:25:05,422 --> 00:25:09,092
They found some indications of drug usage,
460
00:25:09,176 --> 00:25:11,512
but nothing there that we
were gonna get anything from.
461
00:25:11,595 --> 00:25:14,431
By the time the crime
scene guys went through it,
462
00:25:14,598 --> 00:25:16,934
we were all convinced
463
00:25:17,017 --> 00:25:20,020
that this apartment was
not the scene of our crime.
464
00:25:21,897 --> 00:25:24,024
They very quickly ruled Mr. Stennis out.
465
00:25:27,444 --> 00:25:29,905
Once again, after a glimmer of hope,
466
00:25:30,447 --> 00:25:33,659
they still can't connect all the pieces
to solve Brittany's murder.
467
00:25:34,993 --> 00:25:37,287
A devastating blow for her family
468
00:25:37,371 --> 00:25:40,374
as they prepare to
finally lay her to rest.
469
00:25:40,457 --> 00:25:42,751
♪ Here we go again ♪
470
00:25:42,835 --> 00:25:44,127
Her memorial service
471
00:25:44,211 --> 00:25:46,672
was at a church in the neighborhood,
472
00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:49,299
about a half a block away from us.
473
00:25:50,884 --> 00:25:54,513
Teachers and her principal did the eulogy.
474
00:25:54,596 --> 00:25:57,057
Kids got up and spoke, friends and family.
475
00:25:57,808 --> 00:25:59,434
It was a packed house.
476
00:25:59,518 --> 00:26:02,563
♪ It's all I ever wanted ♪
477
00:26:02,646 --> 00:26:06,441
♪ How could I run from it?
If only... ♪
478
00:26:06,525 --> 00:26:10,362
This is where Brittany
worked with the kids
479
00:26:11,196 --> 00:26:14,616
as a, um, rec coordinator,
after-school program.
480
00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:18,412
The staff and the booster club
481
00:26:18,495 --> 00:26:21,498
and the kids wanted
to do something in recognition
482
00:26:21,582 --> 00:26:24,626
for her contribution to North Dale,
483
00:26:24,710 --> 00:26:28,589
so they erected the plaque, 2015.
484
00:26:28,672 --> 00:26:32,134
We dedicated this also in her memory.
485
00:26:32,217 --> 00:26:34,261
♪ All I ever wanted was you ♪
486
00:26:34,344 --> 00:26:37,472
I just remember, it was very, very sad.
487
00:26:38,682 --> 00:26:40,309
Very dark times.
488
00:26:41,852 --> 00:26:44,980
But from here, we're seeing news articles
489
00:26:45,063 --> 00:26:48,650
and our local newspaper posted her picture
490
00:26:48,734 --> 00:26:50,527
on the front page, very big.
491
00:26:50,611 --> 00:26:53,197
Underneath, it wrote "Prostitute."
492
00:26:55,490 --> 00:26:57,993
This was so...
493
00:26:59,786 --> 00:27:03,498
humiliating,
and that was not my sister.
494
00:27:03,582 --> 00:27:05,083
How dare you?
495
00:27:08,754 --> 00:27:11,215
We all felt that in the investigation,
496
00:27:11,298 --> 00:27:13,759
that nobody deserves what
happened to Brittany,
497
00:27:13,842 --> 00:27:15,761
to happen to anyone.
498
00:27:15,844 --> 00:27:17,054
She was a victim,
499
00:27:17,137 --> 00:27:20,474
and we weren't gonna brush it aside.
500
00:27:22,309 --> 00:27:25,604
It's been 11 days
since Brittany's body was discovered.
501
00:27:25,687 --> 00:27:27,814
Investigators need a break,
502
00:27:27,898 --> 00:27:30,400
and they hope the records
from Brittany's burner phone
503
00:27:30,484 --> 00:27:32,027
is the final piece they need,
504
00:27:33,153 --> 00:27:36,365
so that Brittany and her family
can have some peace.
505
00:27:36,448 --> 00:27:37,991
The phone records are coming in.
506
00:27:38,575 --> 00:27:41,870
The guys, they come running to me,
saying they had this phone number.
507
00:27:41,954 --> 00:27:44,998
We find that that phone
has been contacting Brittany,
508
00:27:45,082 --> 00:27:47,167
you know, from February 8th,
intermittently,
509
00:27:47,251 --> 00:27:49,711
up until the afternoon
she's suspected to have died.
510
00:27:51,797 --> 00:27:54,174
About half hour, 45 minutes
511
00:27:54,258 --> 00:27:56,343
after she leaves home in St. Paul,
512
00:27:56,426 --> 00:27:59,930
over in Brooklyn Park,
there's the last phone contact,
513
00:28:00,013 --> 00:28:02,307
and it's with that same number again.
514
00:28:02,391 --> 00:28:04,309
So, just like we had done
with Brittany's phone,
515
00:28:04,393 --> 00:28:06,436
to get the search warrants
and administrative subpoenas
516
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,188
to find out account holder information
517
00:28:08,272 --> 00:28:10,858
and messaging history and phone history,
we take this odd number,
518
00:28:10,941 --> 00:28:13,694
and the investigators do
the same thing for that phone number.
519
00:28:16,113 --> 00:28:18,323
And they gave us
the records on that phone,
520
00:28:18,407 --> 00:28:21,743
and it belonged to an Alberto Palmer.
521
00:28:22,536 --> 00:28:24,830
Much like Brittany's
problematic boyfriend,
522
00:28:25,455 --> 00:28:27,875
Alberto has a dark past of his own.
523
00:28:29,126 --> 00:28:32,045
He had a series of arrests,
524
00:28:32,129 --> 00:28:36,216
and he had a current warrant
out for his arrest
525
00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:38,093
out of the state of Georgia.
526
00:28:38,177 --> 00:28:41,555
So, we get on the phone
with Chamblee, Georgia,
527
00:28:41,638 --> 00:28:43,098
where this warrant is out of.
528
00:28:43,182 --> 00:28:45,475
And I said, "What's your warrant for?"
529
00:28:45,767 --> 00:28:47,519
23-year-old Alberto
530
00:28:47,603 --> 00:28:50,689
has been high on Georgia's
most wanted list for months.
531
00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:52,983
He's suspected of hiring a sex worker,
532
00:28:53,066 --> 00:28:56,820
beating her up, and putting her
into the trunk of a car.
533
00:28:58,363 --> 00:29:00,157
Well, she was able to free herself,
534
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,285
get out, go report this to the police.
535
00:29:04,203 --> 00:29:06,872
We're all pretty amped up
at this point, going,
536
00:29:06,955 --> 00:29:08,999
"Oh, this has gotta be our guy."
537
00:29:09,082 --> 00:29:11,919
We've got a name, we've got date of birth,
538
00:29:12,002 --> 00:29:14,922
we've got warrants out for his arrest.
539
00:29:15,005 --> 00:29:16,298
We need to find him.
540
00:29:17,549 --> 00:29:18,675
But once again,
541
00:29:18,759 --> 00:29:21,970
locating Alberto threatens
to halt the investigation.
542
00:29:23,430 --> 00:29:26,683
He's got no real permanent address.
543
00:29:26,767 --> 00:29:28,227
He's on the run from Georgia.
544
00:29:28,894 --> 00:29:32,105
Detective Lapham
has to think outside of the box.
545
00:29:34,733 --> 00:29:36,443
So, Detective Lapham goes through
546
00:29:36,527 --> 00:29:38,111
the phone records from
this Georgia number,
547
00:29:38,195 --> 00:29:40,989
and one of the things he discovers
after looking through all these numbers
548
00:29:41,073 --> 00:29:42,658
and really putting his nose
to the grindstone
549
00:29:42,741 --> 00:29:45,077
is that a pizza had been
ordered from this phone number.
550
00:29:45,786 --> 00:29:48,121
And this pizza place
is in the Twin Cities,
551
00:29:48,205 --> 00:29:50,707
not far from where Brittany's car
was discovered.
552
00:29:52,751 --> 00:29:55,295
Detectives ran over there and said,
553
00:29:55,379 --> 00:29:57,381
"You got a delivery on February 13th
554
00:29:57,464 --> 00:29:59,508
from this phone number."
555
00:30:00,133 --> 00:30:02,302
Lo and behold,
they still have the receipt
556
00:30:02,386 --> 00:30:03,679
from the pizza that was delivered.
557
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,349
Good pizza place,
they had ever-- all the records.
558
00:30:07,432 --> 00:30:10,018
Pizza driver took the detective
559
00:30:10,102 --> 00:30:11,979
and pointed out the house.
560
00:30:12,062 --> 00:30:14,147
That address was within blocks
561
00:30:14,231 --> 00:30:16,692
of the apartment where the car was dumped.
562
00:30:19,194 --> 00:30:22,489
So, we sat on that address,
we're watching it.
563
00:30:22,573 --> 00:30:24,116
They think they have it,
564
00:30:24,199 --> 00:30:27,160
but as they wait, they get another lead.
565
00:30:27,244 --> 00:30:30,080
A food delivery on
the other side of the city.
566
00:30:31,039 --> 00:30:32,624
Further away this time.
567
00:30:33,709 --> 00:30:36,879
Detective Lapham continues looking
through those phone records,
568
00:30:36,962 --> 00:30:38,881
and again, we come up with more pizza.
569
00:30:38,964 --> 00:30:42,634
It turns out Alberto's phone number
had ordered a pizza
570
00:30:42,718 --> 00:30:45,888
from a Domino's location in Woodbury,
25, 30 miles away.
571
00:30:47,181 --> 00:30:48,807
Didn't take us too long
572
00:30:48,891 --> 00:30:51,560
to figure out that we're
gonna go to the pizza guy.
573
00:30:52,060 --> 00:30:54,271
And they, too, had all the records,
574
00:30:54,354 --> 00:30:56,315
receipts, address, and the whole bit.
575
00:30:57,316 --> 00:30:59,860
It's in a townhouse complex in Woodbury.
576
00:31:01,486 --> 00:31:04,740
So, we've got two search
warrants ready to go.
577
00:31:05,449 --> 00:31:09,203
I'm coordinating SWAT teams
in two different counties.
578
00:31:09,286 --> 00:31:11,496
We wanna do these
warrants simultaneous.
579
00:31:12,706 --> 00:31:14,333
This is all happening
in a matter of hours.
580
00:31:16,210 --> 00:31:19,254
This is our Super Bowl
of this investigation.
581
00:31:19,338 --> 00:31:24,551
We are at the Quarry Ridge Townhouses
here in Woodbury.
582
00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:32,392
Okay, here's where we were.
583
00:31:32,476 --> 00:31:34,895
This is the complex right here.
584
00:31:35,979 --> 00:31:38,148
We all waited at the entrance,
585
00:31:38,232 --> 00:31:40,400
and we all just came in,
586
00:31:40,484 --> 00:31:42,861
and we must have had a dozen vehicles.
587
00:31:43,862 --> 00:31:46,532
Thirteen days after
Brittany’s body was found,
588
00:31:46,615 --> 00:31:50,661
SWAT teams are ready to move
on two potential crime scenes.
589
00:31:50,744 --> 00:31:52,079
It's tense.
590
00:31:52,162 --> 00:31:53,914
One mistake could alert Alberto
591
00:31:53,997 --> 00:31:56,208
that investigators are hot on his trail.
592
00:31:58,460 --> 00:32:00,504
The SWAT teams did their entries,
593
00:32:00,921 --> 00:32:03,090
and us detectives,
594
00:32:03,173 --> 00:32:06,260
they usually don't wanna get in
their way, so we stay out,
595
00:32:06,343 --> 00:32:08,053
and we wait for an all-clear.
596
00:32:09,471 --> 00:32:12,850
But when detectives manage
to get inside the first location,
597
00:32:12,933 --> 00:32:14,852
to their shock and disappointment,
598
00:32:15,561 --> 00:32:16,937
there's no Alberto.
599
00:32:17,479 --> 00:32:20,899
At Brooklyn Park,
they found one female in the apartment.
600
00:32:22,901 --> 00:32:25,654
When they questioned her,
she happened to be
601
00:32:25,737 --> 00:32:28,198
Alberto's sister-in-law.
602
00:32:28,282 --> 00:32:30,242
Mr. Palmer had been at
that address in Brooklyn Park
603
00:32:30,325 --> 00:32:31,535
for about the last month.
604
00:32:31,618 --> 00:32:34,538
My partner in Brooklyn Park,
they started pointing at things
605
00:32:34,621 --> 00:32:37,916
like the blood spatter on the wall
606
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,087
and the blood that looked like it had been
kinda cleaned up in the carpet.
607
00:32:42,963 --> 00:32:45,048
The sister-in-law says, "Well, yeah.
608
00:32:45,132 --> 00:32:47,759
"Alberto said he had spilled juice,
609
00:32:47,843 --> 00:32:50,095
"and he was trying to clean it all up.
610
00:32:50,179 --> 00:32:52,973
And my daughter actually came home
and helped him clean up."
611
00:32:55,309 --> 00:32:58,645
Also, she said there was
a car parked in her garage
612
00:32:58,729 --> 00:33:01,064
and she said, "What's that car?"
613
00:33:01,148 --> 00:33:03,609
And Alberto had explained to her that,
614
00:33:03,692 --> 00:33:05,485
"Well, it belonged to a friend,
615
00:33:05,569 --> 00:33:07,988
and he was gonna come back and get it,
but he didn't."
616
00:33:08,071 --> 00:33:10,073
So she made him get rid of the car.
617
00:33:10,949 --> 00:33:13,493
Well, he drives off in that car,
618
00:33:13,869 --> 00:33:15,746
comes home later that night.
619
00:33:16,705 --> 00:33:19,458
Have detectives
finally uncovered the crime scene?
620
00:33:20,250 --> 00:33:23,378
And what's the real tale
behind Brittany Clardy's brutal murder?
621
00:33:24,379 --> 00:33:27,549
In Alberto's apartment,
they spot a telling sign
622
00:33:27,633 --> 00:33:29,593
that might be their first big break.
623
00:33:34,598 --> 00:33:36,141
It's March 6th.
624
00:33:36,225 --> 00:33:38,727
Twenty-three days since
Brittany Clardy went missing
625
00:33:38,810 --> 00:33:41,146
and was eventually discovered murdered.
626
00:33:42,481 --> 00:33:45,150
Investigators have been
hunting for Alberto Palmer,
627
00:33:45,234 --> 00:33:46,777
their prime suspect.
628
00:33:46,860 --> 00:33:48,612
They haven't found him yet,
629
00:33:48,695 --> 00:33:51,907
but after breaching the first
of two stakeout locations,
630
00:33:51,990 --> 00:33:55,077
they have what they think
is a critical piece of evidence.
631
00:33:56,828 --> 00:33:59,623
The detective found
a set of sheets that belongs
632
00:33:59,706 --> 00:34:02,251
to that sheet that was covering Brittany
in the back of the car,
633
00:34:02,334 --> 00:34:03,502
in the dresser.
634
00:34:05,546 --> 00:34:07,965
Investigators also found
an old rusty hammer.
635
00:34:09,132 --> 00:34:11,176
It had traces of blood on it.
636
00:34:11,260 --> 00:34:13,053
He says, "Mike, this is our crime scene.
637
00:34:13,136 --> 00:34:15,722
This is where Brittany was murdered."
638
00:34:21,436 --> 00:34:22,646
Back in Woodbury...
639
00:34:24,147 --> 00:34:25,732
...the SWAT team breaks through the door.
640
00:34:31,446 --> 00:34:33,031
And there he is.
641
00:34:35,158 --> 00:34:36,702
Alberto Palmer.
642
00:34:37,911 --> 00:34:38,912
We've got him.
643
00:34:41,123 --> 00:34:43,792
I went up to Alberto, and I said,
644
00:34:43,876 --> 00:34:46,253
"Alberto, my name's Mike.
I'm a detective,
645
00:34:46,336 --> 00:34:47,754
and I'd sure love to talk with you."
646
00:34:49,089 --> 00:34:50,924
But in order to make the arrest,
647
00:34:51,008 --> 00:34:53,468
Detective Lapham has to
connect Alberto's phone
648
00:34:53,552 --> 00:34:56,221
to the number that had been calling
Brittany's burner phone
649
00:34:56,305 --> 00:34:57,931
right before her disappearance.
650
00:34:59,391 --> 00:35:01,268
And I said, "Is that your phone?"
651
00:35:01,351 --> 00:35:02,895
"No, that's not my phone."
652
00:35:02,978 --> 00:35:06,690
And, uh, I asked one of my partners,
"Would you dial that phone?"
653
00:35:07,608 --> 00:35:08,817
My partner dialed the phone...
654
00:35:11,695 --> 00:35:14,156
...and I held it up and showed it,
and I says,
655
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,116
"Well, that clears that up."
656
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,118
Brittany's secret burner phone
657
00:35:18,202 --> 00:35:21,079
has led investigators
directly to their suspect.
658
00:35:22,372 --> 00:35:25,125
He had a backpack
sitting right next to him.
659
00:35:25,209 --> 00:35:28,670
As we're looking through the backpack,
there is Brittany's iPhone,
660
00:35:28,754 --> 00:35:31,089
and there is her burner phone.
661
00:35:31,173 --> 00:35:33,217
A final connection.
662
00:35:33,300 --> 00:35:34,843
And I said, "Well, you're under arrest."
663
00:35:36,345 --> 00:35:39,056
I had to go--
didn't care how late it was,
664
00:35:39,139 --> 00:35:40,265
had to go to Marquita's.
665
00:35:44,144 --> 00:35:47,773
Detective Lapham, Mike, came to our home
666
00:35:47,856 --> 00:35:50,776
and he came, and he walked in and said,
"We got him."
667
00:35:51,818 --> 00:35:54,655
♪ I just wanna love you ♪
668
00:35:54,738 --> 00:35:56,365
And I thought it was...
669
00:35:56,823 --> 00:35:59,284
that guy that she was seeing.
670
00:35:59,368 --> 00:36:03,080
But, no. I guess there's more
than one scumbag out there.
671
00:36:04,164 --> 00:36:07,042
I thought I was feeling
some sense of relief
672
00:36:07,125 --> 00:36:09,127
when they said that he was arrested,
673
00:36:09,211 --> 00:36:10,712
but I just was more angry
674
00:36:10,796 --> 00:36:12,589
because I had questions.
675
00:36:12,673 --> 00:36:14,967
♪ I could tear your skin ♪
676
00:36:15,050 --> 00:36:16,468
♪ Heart screams out ♪
677
00:36:16,552 --> 00:36:19,638
♪ As your lungs cave in, in ♪
678
00:36:21,056 --> 00:36:23,058
And so did the investigators.
679
00:36:23,141 --> 00:36:27,104
They wanna hear what Alberto has to say
when confronted with the evidence.
680
00:36:28,146 --> 00:36:29,147
Okay, alright.
681
00:36:29,231 --> 00:36:31,149
We started talking about Brittany.
682
00:36:41,243 --> 00:36:42,870
They disagreed over the money,
683
00:36:42,953 --> 00:36:46,915
but he couldn't remember specifics
and this and that.
684
00:36:47,666 --> 00:36:49,960
He first provided some
preliminary information,
685
00:36:50,043 --> 00:36:53,589
wasn't willing to jump all the way
into confessing what he had done.
686
00:37:08,353 --> 00:37:10,939
Then, Alberto makes a special request.
687
00:37:41,887 --> 00:37:45,265
He's been caught,
so now he fills in the details.
688
00:38:22,386 --> 00:38:24,012
Brittany was placed
in the back of the car,
689
00:38:24,096 --> 00:38:25,639
and then ultimately froze to death,
690
00:38:25,722 --> 00:38:27,641
and died as a result of her injuries.
691
00:38:31,478 --> 00:38:35,023
But sadly,
there is another chapter to this story.
692
00:38:35,607 --> 00:38:38,193
I remember this very clearly.
I was making dinner,
693
00:38:38,277 --> 00:38:40,404
and I hear on 6 o'clock news,
this is in May,
694
00:38:40,487 --> 00:38:42,823
um, "Body recovered in trunk."
695
00:38:42,906 --> 00:38:46,243
Police have identified the woman
whose body was found in a car
696
00:38:46,326 --> 00:38:48,787
that was towed from
a Brooklyn Park grocery store.
697
00:38:48,871 --> 00:38:51,373
She is 24-year-old Klaressa Cook
698
00:38:51,456 --> 00:38:53,375
from Gainesville, Georgia.
699
00:38:53,458 --> 00:38:59,047
That murder was determined
to have occurred before Brittany's,
700
00:38:59,131 --> 00:39:01,133
by the same person. Alberto.
701
00:39:02,009 --> 00:39:05,304
We probably got
a serial killer off the street.
702
00:39:07,931 --> 00:39:10,142
The hunt for Brittany's killer is over.
703
00:39:11,185 --> 00:39:12,436
Time passes.
704
00:39:13,061 --> 00:39:15,522
It's December 2014,
705
00:39:15,606 --> 00:39:17,107
almost two years since Brittany
706
00:39:17,191 --> 00:39:21,028
walked out of her mother's house
on that snowy February day,
707
00:39:21,111 --> 00:39:24,114
but there's still no closure and no peace.
708
00:39:24,698 --> 00:39:26,491
Sitting in the courtroom,
709
00:39:26,575 --> 00:39:29,786
watching the person who
did this to my sister,
710
00:39:29,870 --> 00:39:31,955
felt like an out-of-body experience.
711
00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:35,250
♪ Wanna be your friend ♪
712
00:39:35,334 --> 00:39:38,086
Mr. Palmer pled guilty to a first-degree
murder in Hennepin County.
713
00:39:38,170 --> 00:39:40,255
Then, after that case was sentenced,
714
00:39:40,339 --> 00:39:43,592
he pled guilty to a second-degree
intentional murder in Anoka County.
715
00:39:43,675 --> 00:39:45,511
So, it's, in all likelihood,
716
00:39:45,594 --> 00:39:48,096
Mr. Palmer will never see
the outside of a prison again.
717
00:39:49,348 --> 00:39:52,434
♪ The sun will meet with the moon ♪
718
00:39:52,518 --> 00:39:55,145
He's not allowed
to do this to no other families.
719
00:39:55,229 --> 00:39:56,813
He's not allowed to take away
720
00:39:56,897 --> 00:39:58,732
that love from anyone else.
721
00:39:58,815 --> 00:40:02,027
And if he thinks about it,
he'll remember her name.
722
00:40:05,739 --> 00:40:07,616
He'll remember Brittany's name
723
00:40:08,367 --> 00:40:12,371
because it was her, her phone,
and her actions
724
00:40:12,454 --> 00:40:15,499
that ultimately took
Alberto off the streets.
725
00:40:15,582 --> 00:40:17,000
Brittany kinda had a secret life,
726
00:40:17,084 --> 00:40:19,461
and tied to that secret life
was this secret phone.
727
00:40:20,254 --> 00:40:22,422
But, in the end, it was
the use of the secret phone
728
00:40:22,506 --> 00:40:24,925
that Brittany was able
to catch who killed her.
729
00:40:25,467 --> 00:40:27,427
And Brittany's spirit of caring for
730
00:40:27,511 --> 00:40:29,304
and connecting with others
731
00:40:29,388 --> 00:40:31,390
has resonated far beyond her death.
732
00:40:32,516 --> 00:40:34,768
We've created
the Brittany Clardy Foundation,
733
00:40:34,852 --> 00:40:38,814
and that is specific to
supporting women and girls
734
00:40:38,897 --> 00:40:40,774
who are in domestic violence
735
00:40:40,858 --> 00:40:43,402
or exploitative situations.
736
00:40:43,485 --> 00:40:46,572
♪ Think about it, then fire ♪
737
00:40:46,655 --> 00:40:49,283
♪ I'm waiting on the other side ♪
738
00:40:49,366 --> 00:40:53,120
And recently,
the Brittany Clardy Act was introduced
739
00:40:53,203 --> 00:40:56,915
to build an office on a federal level
740
00:40:56,999 --> 00:40:59,501
to collaborate across the nation,
741
00:40:59,585 --> 00:41:01,962
to share data with law enforcement
742
00:41:02,045 --> 00:41:03,046
together
743
00:41:03,755 --> 00:41:07,009
to work on saving more
Black women and girls.
744
00:41:07,092 --> 00:41:09,428
♪ Now, is that too much to ask for? ♪
745
00:41:09,511 --> 00:41:12,598
♪ I just wanna love that,
girls like me ♪
746
00:41:12,681 --> 00:41:15,851
When Black women and girls
are safe, everyone is safe.
747
00:41:17,895 --> 00:41:18,896
Yep.
748
00:41:21,231 --> 00:41:23,358
That I miss her.
749
00:41:23,442 --> 00:41:25,611
I'm proud of her...
750
00:41:26,778 --> 00:41:29,156
and that she's doing a good job.
751
00:41:30,991 --> 00:41:34,244
♪ I don't know where my head is lately ♪
752
00:41:34,328 --> 00:41:36,705
♪ Have I lost my mind? ♪
753
00:41:44,588 --> 00:41:47,841
♪ But I know that I have a secret ♪
754
00:41:47,925 --> 00:41:50,886
♪ And it's only mine ♪
755
00:41:58,310 --> 00:42:01,563
♪ And the only way to find me ♪
756
00:42:01,647 --> 00:42:05,150
♪ Is to go beneath the lies ♪
55543
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