BONUS: Brenda Dixon & Elbert Holder (Snapped: Killer Couples)

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With no seller fees, you keep every dollar you earn. Hi, Snap listeners. We are bringing you a special bonus episode today from Oxygen's hit series, Killer Couples. You can also watch full episodes live or on demand on the free Oxygen app or on Peacock by clicking the link in our description. Enjoy. [MUSIC PLAYING] I remember the last time I saw my sister. She came to my house. She was very happy that day that I saw her. Her about her ring, they were going to get married. I remember when I got ready to leave, and we just waved and waved until we could see her. I think that will forever be in my mind. The next morning, the phone rang, and it was my mom. She said they found Carla. I said, what do you mean they found her? And she said they shot her. I said, they shot her. Who shot-- what do you mean? What are you talking about? [MUSIC PLAYING] It looked like a roadside robbery. He basically said it all happened so fast. He couldn't give them any details. I can't remember all of the policemen and the community reacted kind of like we did. Everybody was very angry. Sometimes people can mislead you, misguide you. Sometimes you can be sleeping with a snake and don't even know it. [MUSIC PLAYING] Surrounded by rich Delta farmland, the historic port town of Helena, Arkansas, is a quaint and tight-knit community. Helena, Arkansas, he has a population of 8,900. So it's a small area. It's a nice area. We're a Mississippi River town, south of Memphis. If you didn't consider Helena, the heartbeat of the blues, it certainly was a major artery. A lot of people go there for the history of it. There are great museums there. And the King Biscuit Blues Festival is still there. And it's an interesting town. Late in the evening on June 23, 2001, emergency dispatchers from the Phillips County Sheriff's Office receive a distraught phone call from local resident, 46-year-old Albert Holder. Albert Holder called 911, saying that he had been robbed in the South part of Phillips County, Arkansas, on a highway in the middle of nowhere. He said they shot him, and then they shot his girlfriend. He was forensic and pleading for help. It was very clear that his fiancee was much more badly injured than he was. Paramedics and law enforcement are immediately dispatched to the scene. The medics are first to arrive. Albert actually flagged them down, and they could tell that he was bleeding from one arm. But he quickly let them know that his fiancee, Carla Nolton, was in the front passenger seat, and she was much worse off than he was, and in his desperate need of medical attention. The first thing they did was check Carla's vitals, and quickly realized that she was deceased at the scene. He was very upset, very distraught, and you'd expect that of any man who just had his fiancee shot to death. Albert was beside himself. He could not understand who would want to do something like this. Growing up in Helena, Arkansas, Carla Nolton was the eldest of six siblings. Carla, she was kind of like a mother hand to the rest of us. When my mom and dad would go to work and stuff, of course, she would be in charge. A big sister was like mama. She was the enforcer. I mean, and she was a disciplinary. She wasn't soft. She had to jack you up. She would jack you up. She was a happy, playful, loving kid. In school, she was a good student. She made good grades, made the honor all. She was the president of her senior class. All the teachers were like, Carla's going to do this. Carla's going to do that. I mean, so, yeah, she was excellent student. After graduating high school in 1980, Carla set her sights on college. But an unexpected pregnancy put those plans on pause. Carla, when she got pregnant, it was a shock of all of us. She was like, what's going to happen now? So she didn't go off to college. Later that year, Carla gave birth to her daughter, Kanika. We were close. We was not really a mother daughter. She was just like my sister, my friend, versus my mom. Kanika's father went into the Marines. So he was gone. I mean, he financially supported and took her things, but he wasn't there. As a young single mother, Carla was dedicated to providing for her daughter. She was in high school. And she graduated class of 1983 from Fields College of Young. She always wanted to help people. That was her calling. I don't think she would have wanted to do anything else. She started working at home in the hospital. And then after her hospital, she started working different jobs, like at the nursing home and home health. That was our like, notifications and stuff like that. But she worked a lot. She'd come home, she'd cook, sleep. She loved going to work. She loved helping people, especially the children. She was just sit there with them and talk to them. She loved her profession, what she was doing. And if you want a nurse, Carla would be the one that you want. Once her career had taken off, Carla set her sights on finding lasting love. She got married and she had two more kids. Her husband was just my seven day. It was married like 17 years. Unfortunately, the marriage came to an end in 1998. She's kind of private and something she just didn't share with the family. We just knew that they were getting divorced. She was saying about it because she's met a long time. She tried to make it work. It didn't work. She didn't want to see the effect of kids. She kept a chin up and it's OK. Let me move on and continue to do what I got to do. Because it's about these kids. Now she's kind of trying to do everything on her own. It's always working. And I think she always is long for happiness. She wanted to be happy. She wanted to help a husband and a family. She just wanted to be loved. A year after her divorce, Carla finally met the man who would change her life forever. My mom met with her in 1990. She met him at the West Island Fish Market. And he moved in with us. Elbert was seven years older than Carla. He grew up in Helena as well. And he had a teenage son. And he was a single parent much like Carla. Elbert was known to do quite a few odd jobs and a little bit of everything here and there. He was very focused on making money. And it was a bit of a hustler. I think what she liked about him or what drew her to him was the fact that he would jump up in a minute and they would go shopping. She loved that. They would take a trip overnight. He took her to Chicago on different trips. They said he'd do something fun. He wanted to go see those women. He was pretty much fun. He kept us laughing. He showed a lot of attention, a lot of affection. He did a lot of things for her that she'd never have. He was a nice looking guy. He was kind of a fancy dresser, you know. And him and her could go out and go places, you know? He could be dressed nice and they could do things when she hadn't had anyone to really do these things with her. So she was excited. She was a sociable, she liked to go places. Well, he came along and he did those things. So we started to see a different side of her. And she was happy. She was actually happy. In May 2001, two years into their relationship, Albert proposed. my mom and ever. plan on doing a cruise, and last weekend of July. And they was gonna get married in the wild. And she was so excited. But just a month before their destination wedding, their future together is upended. When they robbed Carl and him, they shot Carl and killed her, and they shot at him. The Sheriff's Office contacted the criminal investigation, the vision with Arkansas State Police. So the Sheriff's Department and the State Police worked this case together. Before Albert is rushed to a local hospital, he gives investigators a brief statement. Albert's story was that he took Carl to work that day. Carl had to use a home healthcare nurse, and she had to go see a patient down near E-lang, which is about 30 miles south of Helena, that they drove down to E-lang. He waited for her to go in and see the patient. Then they were driving back towards Helena. And there was Carl trouble. He pulled over to check the engine. He got out of the car, opened the hood, and two men pulled over. He thought they were pulling over to help, but they pulled a gun on him. Albert Holder reported that he'd just walleted with $900 stolen from him. For investigators there, it looked like the roadside robbery with Carl being killed and Albert being injured. Albert says that the men were armed with a shotgun. When they opened fire, he instinctively ducked out of the way. He had a hat on a cap on his head, and there was a bullet hole through the cap that he showed the police. Albert was extremely lucky that he wasn't killed, too. It was a very close call from Mr. Albert. After shooting, the two guys got back in their car and then they just sped off. Albert told investigators that it was two black men in a black Cadillac with Tennessee plates on. Police put out an all-points bulletin to the sheriff's departments to be able to look out for a car, meeting the description of a black Cadillac with Tennessee tags. We're 60 miles south of Memphis. They're probably 300 black Cadillac's at Memphis with Tennessee tags. So if that car gets back to Tennessee, it's over. Coming up, crime scene details send investigators back to square one. They would have left the scene in a hurry. So they looked for tire tracks, but there were no tire tracks that indicated that. Her red flags all over the place. And a tip comes in pointing to a long con and a twisted romance. I think she got caught onto that bad boy deal. You know, oh, I got a bad boy. Was this a case of if I can't have him? Nobody can. Hours after a roadside robbery claimed the life of Carlin Norton and injured her fiance, Albert Holder, authorities in Arkansas are on the lookout for a black Cadillac with Tennessee police. The police start contacting law enforcement agencies over in Mississippi. To see if anybody noticed a vehicle with Tennessee tags passing from Arkansas in the Mississippi and then in Tennessee. While investigators wait for an alert to come in, they consider the possibility that the perpetrators might have routes in their own community. Hell in Arkansas, to me, is a nice area, but we are a declining area, declining in population. Since the 1970s, our factories moved and went overseas. The population is declined over the years, but criminals hadn't gone anywhere. A lot of the homicides appear to be drug-related, homicides, some game-related retaliation type stuff. You do get some robberies. We don't have descriptions of the shooters other than two black males. That could be anybody. Arkansas State Police Investigators begin processing the crime scene. There were three shotgun shells found at the scene, so they were submitted for analysis. You would assume that if somebody committed a robbery and shot two people and killing one, they would have left the scene in a hurry. So they looked for tire tracks that indicated that anybody would pull off quickly. But there were no tire tracks that indicated that. There wasn't a whole lot at the crime scene other than shell casings that were identified. There was an abandoned house not too far from the crime scene and outside. They did find Albert's empty wallet. Albert told them that there was a wallet stolen, so maybe they ditched it. Without much to go on, investigators searched for potential witnesses. Although Highway 85 is very rural, there were also some residential homes not too far away. The police canvas the area to interview any witnesses that may have potentially saw or heard something. There was a witness that said that she saw a car parked at them at the scene, but not a black cat away. That person told them that they believe they saw a letter colored sedan. And so the police set out to trace the whereabouts of that car. Obviously, they wanted to know where these people were. Meanwhile, investigators learned that Albert is in stable condition. Wound on Mr. Holder's arm was enough to draw blood, but it was not a significant wound. It was like a graze wound. By the following warning, news of Carlos' death reaches her family. I grabbed my cane and they told me, "You know, we're sorry, your mom, you know, it's been cute." And right now, we don't know what happened. But at that point, I just broke down. It was horrible. I mean, I was devastated. I couldn't eat, sleep, or anything. They kept saying, "She gone, you know, but I never accepted it." I was just in, like, this maid just shocked, like, "What do you mean? What do you mean? I screamed, and some neighbors had to come and comfort me." It was really bad. After being discharged from the hospital, investigators visit Albert at his home for a second interview. His story was he had never seen this car. He didn't know who was in it. People were wearing masks, and he basically said it all happened so fast. He couldn't give them many details. Investigators thought his demeanor was very calm, and different than what they would expect him to be acting like. They know that cues they're expecting to see from victims when they're recounting what happened to a loved one. And emotion, sobbing, and crying is usually part of it. Investigators left that meeting with Albert, and this is when they started to realize that things just weren't adding up. Investigators shift their focus to Carla's autopsy. The medical examiner found that Carla was hit three times with a 12-gauge shotgun twice to the head, and once to the chest. The evidence that was recovered from the actual autopsy itself were shotgun pellets, and those were submitted to the firearm section on the laboratory, along with clothing from the victim's body. The 12-gauge shotgun is going to cause massive damage. I'm sure she died instantly. The crime lab can match shell casings based upon ejection scratches or patterns, and they determine that all three of those shell casings came from the same shotgun. If they find a weapon, they can match it. When experts analyze the hat, Albert was wearing when the shooting occurred, the report raises several questions. Albert said he was able to dive out of the way, but his hat was grazed by the spray of the shotgun. The hat was examined, and it appeared to be a bigger caliber weapon than just simple shotgun pellets that are penetrating through it, and that would have been based on the suit analysis, surrounding the diameter of the hole itself. They can determine by the residue on the hat how close of range the shot was, and they determine fairly quickly that the shot came from very close by. It didn't make sense that Albert was shot in the hat, but the bullet missed his head. The red flags all over the place. His grey's wound to his arm was pretty much superficial, so he was relatively unharmed, but getting a snouted and was shot in the head and killed. The fact that he was grazed in the arm, although he was the one outside who confronted the two men when they came to rob him, and why they walked around to the car and shot Carla with a shotgun. That didn't make a lot of sense, it just seemed like that was not. A true story. Albert McCain, a suspect, fairly quickly. Less than a day after the roadside ambush that killed Carla Nolton, investigators are becoming increasingly suspicious of her fiance, Albert Holder's account of the shooting. The loved one of the victim, the spouse, or boyfriend, or girlfriend, is always a suspect. When a murderer occurs, every good place officer will tell you this. Everybody's a suspect. And then you start eliminating people that couldn't have possibly done it. So Holder was a suspect immediately. When investigators pull Albert's criminal record, they discover he's no stranger to the law. I don't recall Mr. Holder having any violent acts in his history. He did have some insurance fraud claims that went back a few years. Holder pretty much made a career on running scams and insurance scams. And I'm not sure what he did for a living. What his honest job was, so to speak. But my understanding is, every so often, he would run an insurance scam. And that's how he made money. There was a lawyer down there in Louisiana. I remember talking to him on the phone. Came to find out that there was a case that was filed in Louisiana over some insurance fraud. That he was alleged to have committed down there. He allegedly reported some property stolen that he still had. It was a big enough of an issue that an insurance company filed suit against him. Albert had also reportedly suffered an injury on a Mississippi Riverboat job. Albert claimed that the boat he was working on was hit by a barge and that he was injured his back or his spine, but to the point where he could hardly walk and he couldn't even work. And that's when he filed a work in his comp claim for about $140,000. Investigators reach out to Carla's grieving family to see if they can provide any additional information on Albert. I knew that he was into this workman's comp scam. He was a street guy and any way to make money in the streets, that's what he did. He was selling sex tours and videotapes out of his truck and doing things that the average person would do. Nothing legit. I don't like what does Carla do with him. Why, why, she wouldn't? He grew up more. He started us spending getting money through scamming if you're going to get money. That was the lifestyle he knew. Carla went through a divorce. And so I think Albert came in. I think he came in and said nice things, buy her things. And I think she kind of got caught onto that bad boy deal. Oh, I got a bad boy. They were like on him water, but she was so happy. And so I'm like, you know what? Maybe it's not so bad, after all. Carla's family tells investigators that she accidentally tipped off Albert scamming activities to his lawyers. [MUSIC PLAYING] He had used her phone and had caught on top with the lawyers. So they had this number. They called back to the house. One day and asked her, where was he? But she told me he was gone riding his motorcycle. They say riding a motorcycle, he can ride a motorcycle. Albert is supposed to be disabled, couldn't work, because of his bag. Her family says a few months earlier, Albert and Carla had driven to New Orleans for Albert's deposition hearing. There, attorneys representing the insurance companies had approached Carla. The attorneys had a conversation with her, something to the fact that, hey, we know that this guy's fraud is having watching him. They had asked her about testifying. Against him and that way, the insurance they wouldn't have to pay all of this money. That could be huge motive to get rid of her. Still, investigators have doubts that Albert was the trigger man, since he was also injured in the attack. You don't get tunnel vision. You don't focus on one person. There was some idea that Holder was a scam artist and Carla got caught in crossfire. Investigators start to wonder if Carla's murder could have been connected to Albert because of some of the circles that he's been known to run in. And it could have potentially been aimed at him. According to Carla's family, there was a recent incident where Carla and Albert may have been targeted. One of her cars was sent on fire. I'm like, Carla, how did your car catch you fire? They were pointing to fire and I said, it was set. I'm like, Carla, what in the hell is going on? Carla felt that the fire in the car was a technical issue or a malfunction of some sort, but her family had a suspicion that it could have been something that was meant for Albert. Albert had enemies and people that he maybe ripped off were wronged in some way. The alarming thing is that Albert didn't say anything about this, so maybe he didn't want detectives snooping it in his case. But his fiance is dead, so they know he's got to be hiding something. The four investigators can confront Albert about these claims. They receive a pivotal tip. The woman called the police and said that she had loaned her car to somebody the night before. The local woman tells police that her friend who had borrowed the car the night of the murder came back the next day in her own car and told her that they would have to go pick the car up. The woman rode with her friend to get her car, which was parked at a rest stop along Highway 85, the same highway Carla was killed. When they get to the car, it's got dirt on it, grass on it, so when she eventually does get at home, she naturally starts to clean it up. She tells police when she's in the process of cleaning her car up, she makes it very startling discovered. She had discovered a shotgun in the trunk. She said the person she loaned the car to was Brenda Dixon. It so happens that Brenda Dixon was the ex-girlfriend of Albert Holder and the mother of his son. The sheriff's department immediately sent an officer out who recovered to gun from the trunk. It turns out this woman's vehicle matches the description of the vehicle a witness saw out on the highway when authorities were initially canvassing the area, which was a lighter color to the dam. It was shocking. A potential murder weapon had just fallen into their hands. Was Brenda Dixon the shooter? [MUSIC PLAYING] 24 hours into the investigation of Carla Nolton's murder, Arkansas police have recovered a shotgun from a car allegedly loaned to Brenda Dixon, the ex-girlfriend of Carla's fiance, Albert Holder. While police have sent this shotgun off to the crime lab for testing, they're trying to locate Brenda Dixon, because naturally, they'd like to talk to her. Brenda wasn't at home, so police started talking to friends and family trying to locate anybody. You could help them find her. When investigators speak with Brenda's friends, they learn that Brenda and Albert's relationship hadn't necessarily ended. Mr. Holder was dating more than one, lighty. Mr. Holder was in a relationship with Carla Nolton. He was also in a relationship with Brenda Dixon at the time. They just never stopped dating even though he was living with Carla. Carla had found out he ain't never broke up with Brenda. He ain't never broke up with him. He was going from her house to Carla's house. So it was like, he was living a double life, but he didn't so well. We were very angry. He was not the guy for our sister. Investigators theorize that Brenda may have enacted a plot to get rid of her romantic rival. Jealousy is a powerful motivating factor in a lot of hers. Brenda and Albert's relationship was the relationship of the woman on the side. And maybe she thought that was going to come to an end if he married Carla. And you see this quite frequently where the woman on the side wants to eliminate the woman who is occupying the attention of who she would consider her man. Was this a case of, if I can't have him, nobody can? If Brenda was involved, the question is, what did Albert know? Initially, it was said there were two men at the scene. The first thought was, could Albert be protecting Brenda? The following day, investigators searched for their main suspects, Albert and Brenda. Shortly after, police received a call from the woman who had previously loaned Brenda her vehicle. The lady called the sheriff's office again, basically, in a panic. Saying that Mr. Holder and Ms. Dixon were over there, they wanted to get in the trunk of the car, and she had told them that she lost the keys. She had actually tossed the keys to the trunk behind her couch. As soon as Brenda Dixon and Albert got out of ears, she called the police. It was really panicking about the whole situation, fearful for her alive. Investigators race to the scene, where they find their two primary suspects, Albert and Brenda, standing at the woman's car with the trunk popped. Holder had actually brought a either mechanic or a locksmith or somebody to try to open the trunk. It was totally surprised that the gun was no longer in the trunk. And why is he out there retrieving the shotgun if he had no knowledge? Albert Holder and Brenda Dixon were arrested on the spot by a law enforcement. Brenda and Albert are transported to the sheriff's office for questioning. Albert refused to talk to police, and immediately asked her about her. Brenda Dixon, she started talking pretty quickly. She said that this was all Mr. Holder's idea and all his plan. She told them about her involvement, but that Albert was really behind it all. Mr. Dixon said that Mr. Holder had approached her about killing the victim because Mr. Holder thought she was going to testify against him in an insurance fraud case. According to Brenda, Carla had set conditions on her silence. Carla wanted Albert to really clean up his act and stop any scamming that he was doing, stop seeing Brenda and settle down a barrier. Brenda said Carla was forcing Albert to marry her. Albert agreed to Carla's conditions, and then Carla was excited about moving forward with their life. She was always like, "Oh, get in here, get in here." "Oh, yeah, get in here." But she was planning a wedding, and he was planning a friend. Brenda said that she was approached by Albert who said he wanted her to help. Brenda doesn't want her man to marry another woman and agrees with him to murder Carla to get her out of the way. Originally, Albert attempted to plan some sort of a bomb in Carla's car, but she dodged that attempt. Brenda explained she refused to commit the murder herself, so Albert enlisted the help of his friend, 43-year-old Greg Jenkins. Brenda told us holder came to him and asked him to do it, and that he would pay green. And so, he willingly agreed to do it. I don't know if he got paid $2,000. I don't know if he got paid $10,000, but apparently he got paid money to do this. According to Brenda, they met several times to talk about how they were going to do it. It was Friday, June 22, 2001, that Jenkins, Dickson, and Holder finalized their plan to kill Carla. Albert's plan was to drive Carla to work the next night. And when he turned on to the desolate part of Highway 85, he was supposed to act as though there was car trouble, and that's when Greg Jenkins was supposed to be waiting. When Albert pulls over and then pops the hood, that's the signal that Greg Jenkins waiting nearby to come out and then shoot Carla. The plan was to make this appear like it was a robbery that had gone wrong. Brenda claims that Albert was never supposed to be injured, but he had taken steps to make his story more believable. Brenda tells police that Albert actually put a bullet in his own hat the day before the murder. He took his cap off and shot it with a handgun. He would then just claim that he was another victim, and he just got lucky and hadn't been killed himself. On the night of the murder, Brenda says she borrowed her friend's car and picked up Greg Jenkins, who was armed with a 12-gauge shotgun. Brenda told us Greg said he could not do it unless he got drunk. Brenda's story was that they drove out to the Razorback liquor store. Greg got something to drink. They then drove down to Highway 85. And she dropped off Greg at the spot where Albert told them they would meet. She then pulled up to the vacant house and stayed there and waited. As Brenda was waiting, she saw the headlights coming down the road and then stopped at that location where they had chosen to shoot Carla. She said that she did not see Greg actually pull the trigger and kill Carla, but that she heard four shots. There was a grazed shot on Albert's arm, and so that would have accounted for the four blasts she heard. But nobody ever said he stood there and Jenkins shot him and whether he shot himself. According to Brenda, Dickson, Greg Jenkins ran over to the vehicle that Miss Dickson was in, threw the gun in the truck, jumped in the car with her and I fled to sleep. The next day when Brenda realizes she had left the shotgun in the trunk of the car, she gets a hold of Albert and says we've got to get the shotgun. By that time, though, it was too late. And I think Dickson didn't know what to do with the firearm happens. The plan was how do we make this murder happen? But there was no plan for what happens after the murder. On August 14, 2001, authorities charged Brenda Dickson and Albert Holder with Capitol Murder. Capitol Murder is a murder that's premeditated where there are aggravating factors. Capitol Murder means that you have to face the death penalty. At this point, the police they go and pick up the alleged trigger man, Greg Jenkins, as well. Once Greg is in custody, he doesn't speak to police and he immediately asks for a lawyer. Mr. Jenkins was charged with the Capitol Murder of Carla Notte. Coming up, as the trials get underway, several issues threaten to upend the case and leave Carla's family and authorities baffled at its outcome. She's got every motive to lie out to try to get herself a sweet deal. And I watched them walk out of court. That was just angry. I don't know that you could find a case more tragic than this. In Helena, Arkansas, Brenda Dickson has confessed to conspiring with her lover, Albert Holder, to murder Albert's fiance, Carla Notte. According to Brenda's Mr. Holder, patched the whole plot, planned it, in a location, in a whole lot of New York. But I personally don't recommend them. How could you even let them convince you? Team Do this. The anger definitely kicked in with everybody, and then would kind of beat ourselves up because we knew he was no good. While Carla's loved ones grappled with the tragedy, authorities continued building their case. The key piece of evidence was Brenda Dickson's testimony, but she was a co-defendant. For that testimony to be given any weight or credibility at all, it has to be corroborated or substantiated by independent evidence. The vehicle that Carla was killed in was examined. There was no evidence that the car had any kind of engine trouble. So the story that Albert gave that they pulled over for car trouble, clearly fabricated. Please, we're also able to confirm that Albert did own a 38-calibre revolver, and they found that revolver not too far from the crime scene. His hat's got a bullet hole. The crime lab determined that the hole in the hat was consistent with a 38-calibre revolver. The crime lab confirms that the shotgun found in the trunk is, in fact, the murder weapon. There was no DNA or any other kind of physical evidence that linked Greg Jenkins or anybody else to the weapon. Greg Jenkins never confessed to a crime, and the only thing investigators actually had against him was Brenda Stort. As news of the arrest sweeps across Helena, a witness comes forward alleging Greg Jenkins had confessed to shooting Carla Nolton. He told me flat out that Jenkins had come to him after his sad and said, I should not have led Holder to get me to kill Carl. I should not have done it. So we had that. The trial of Albert Holder started the morning of May the 20th of 2002 in the Phillips County Courthouse in Helena, Arkansas. We were very confident going as trial. Prosecutors assert that Albert had a clear motive for wanting Carla dead. Carlin, Elton was scheduled to be a witness against Elbert Holder down in Louisiana. Turned out that was a big part of the motive. Elbert Holder had asked several people to get rid of Miss Elton and he needed her gone by a certain date, which was just prior to when he was scheduled to go to trial on the insurance fraud case down in Louisiana. The state's star witness is Brenda Dixon, who directly implicates her lover in the plot to kill Carla. Elbert's defense, however, attempts to pin the murder entirely on Brenda. Brenda Dixon couldn't be believed according to the defense because she's a co-definite and she's charged herself. So she's got every motive to lie to try to get herself a sweet deal. You could look at the motive as being jealousy and that Brenda had a larger role than she let on. Or you could look at as a man selfishly trying to protect himself, or maybe it was a combination of the two. After hearing the testimony, the jurors retire to deliberate. The juror returned a verdict of guilty to Capitol Murr. I think he narrowly escaped receiving the death penalty from the jury that he received to the sentence of life in prison without parole. He did appeal it and then they went back and he's gave him 40 years. And I said either way, he'll die in prison. So we're okay with the judgment. Greg Jenkins' trial gets underway four months later. This Dixon's testimony was a big part of the evidence against Mr. Jenkins. But there was other evidence against him as well. One of the proprietors of the Razeback liquor store verified that Greg came into the liquor store that night and bought liquor. And there was a person who lived at the South Beach apartments who testified that he saw run to drop off Greg that night at some time after the murder occurred. Another key witness for prosecutors is the man who claimed Greg Jenkins had confessed that he regretted killing Carla. I was the person who examined him, put him on the witness stand and he said no that's not true that didn't happen. And so I asked him five different ways, you know, isn't it true that you told me this? Isn't it true that he came to you? No. No, that's not what happened. That was disappointing for me. The witness's testimony, along with the lack of physical evidence tying Greg to the murder, result in a frustrating outcome for prosecutors. He was found not guilty. Mr. Jenkins was acquitted. He's a free man. As we sit here today, the investigators were very thorough, very solid case on Mr. Jenkins, but the jury just didn't see it that way. When they said not guilty and how he chewed his mother chewed and I watched him walk out of court, that was just angry. I don't think Justice was served in his being found not guilty. For her role in Carla's murder, Brenda Dixon is sentenced to 10 years in prison. Oliver definitely needed help to execute this plan and he couldn't necessarily have done it alone. So Brenda was a very important part of the plan. Mr. Holder got her involved in this game that he hatched in his head. I personally talked to Dixon several times over the course of these two trials. I appeared to feel a lot of remorse that she'd made a horrible mistake and she wished it hadn't happened. I don't know that you could find a case more tragic than this, because everybody walls. Nobody should have to lose their life, but for simple greed, it's even worse. So just be careful and if you see any red flags, don't ignore them, because they're there for a reason. Brenda Dixon served half of her 10-year sentence and was released on parole in 2007. Albert Holder died in prison in March 2023, just weeks before his parole hearing.