Little Girls Lead Cops to Mom's Bloody Murder

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Police Department! Need to speak with you real quick! I think she can't hear you. Can you bang on the door loud? She did, but she's still not coming. The girl says their mom is home, but she's asleep. Police at this point don't have the probable cause to go inside, so they're just trying to figure out what exactly is going on. But then, one of the officers, who's leaning in the doorway, notices that the girl is asleep. But the door appears to be broken. When did this happen? Where's that from? That's from the door. Yeah, what happened? I don't know. You don't know? It happened from her whole sleeping bag. Oh no, it's from right here. It's from right here because I think someone scratched it. I don't know who. Did her and your dad get into an argument or something? No. Do you eat these? I wouldn't. Can I see that? What are these, mints? Mints. There's white ones. Yeah, there's. Wait, I couldn't see. Can you hit me? Yeah. I was going to say. How old are you? Nine. Nine? Yeah. I think she will have a great day. Do you have any trouble? No. We're just trying to make sure she's alright. Someone called and said that y'all weren't at school today. So they wanted to come make sure y'all were okay. And someone said that they've been trying to get a hold of your mom and they haven't been able to get a hold of her in two days. In two days? Yeah, I guess they were trying to call her on the phone or something. Well, I'm sorry she's acting like this. What does she do for work? I don't know. Okay, listen, I'm going to go ahead and come inside. I'm going to knock on the door and see if she wants to go inside. No. It's not work. Force entry, I think he said. Say 10-9. 3-2-3. 3-2-3, check. Oh, no. All right, I'm talking about it. Come back inside, sweetie. Yes, sir. Just come back inside. Say the kids answered the door. No, the door is open. The kids answered the door. The officers notice the seemingly busted door and decide there is now enough evidence of concern to make their way inside. Say go ahead and make sure she's okay. See any of her doors open for me? Okay. What's your name? Jessica. Jessica. Jessica! This is Officer Erwin out in the police department. You okay? Is this her room? She can't hear you. She's asleep. Okay. Well, we're going to try to wake her up, okay? Make sure you guys are okay. All right. What are you looking for? Dumbo. Dumbo? Go put it on. Jessica, this is Officer Erwin down in the police department. We're here for a welfare concern. Check on your well-being. You okay in there? Show button here. Football is finally back, and PrizePix is going crazy with the deals to start the season, giving out promos every day in September. On PrizePix, you can make all the picks you want, all in the same app. And now, PrizePix is available nationwide. So what are you waiting for? Lock in. For kickoff. 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Do you want water? Do you want water? Okay, that's it. Huh? Do you want water? No, I don't want water. Jessica, this is Officer Irwin. I'm with the Alvin Police Department. We're here on a welfare concern. Check to make sure you're okay. Can you say anything? No, she's asleep. No, no, no. Do you have keys? Do you have keys? Let's see if that works. Do you have keys? Come on with that. Hey, leave him alone. Try using that. Let's see. Do you have keys? That's my dad and my mom's room. Hey, y'all go sit in y'all's room, please. Yeah. Yeah, let me go check, okay? Y'all go sit down for me. Okay. Now, we're not going to show you what these officers saw inside the bathroom for obvious reasons, but according to court documents, police say they found Jessica, quote, bent over the side of the tub, face down with her head and shoulders submerged in the tub water. They pulled her out, and after realizing she was cold to the touch and was in full rigor, they set her down on the bathroom floor. You'll notice when the officers made this discovery, they were calm, it seems. They were quiet. You have to remember that. This woman's two daughters, just five and nine years old, are right outside the door, and they want to know what happened to their mom. Can I come in? No, not right now, okay? I'm going to have another officer come by, okay? Where's she at? She's in the bathroom. No, I'm just. 404-132, I'm in my car. What's your location? We're inside the apartment. Say again? Do you see how far he is? Yes, she is. Oh, what is she doing? Do me a favor. Do y'all have any family right now? Got any aunts or cousins? No? 104, when can we get the address, please? 2400. What is she doing in the bathroom? The officers try to keep the girls calm. They tell the girls to call their grandmother. The officer then returns to the bathroom because he and his partner need to figure out what's going on. They don't know what they're going to figure out if they're investigating a homicide. She's cold. She's cold. Is she cold? Yeah, she's cold. John, I need to get a hold of somebody. LTE's coming over here. Oh, from the kids? We need to get somebody to the kids. Yeah. 132. Go ahead. I need you to contact that caller back and try to get somebody. We have two kids here. Yeah. We need you to contact that caller back and try to get somebody. 9 and 5. They're going to need to have somebody come watch them. No, we need to get a hold of a CPS, possibly. Should we pull her out? Huh? 104. Go ahead. Yeah. I'm on route to that location. Police determine Jessica could not have done this to herself. They also learn that she's not the only victim. Police determine that Jessica could not have done this to herself. They also learn that Jessica could not have done this to herself. She probably would have known about it. Who was pissed off enough by your wife to do that to her? I'm telling you, it was not accidental. She didn't do it to herself. Those two little kids in that apartment didn't do it to her. Brandon, this is your opportunity to be honest. I've been honest with you the whole time. I've been honest with you the entire time. Brandon, I don't think you have been honest. I have, yes. But for one, 95% of this time that we've been talking to you, you haven't looked at us. You stared at the ground the whole time. You've only looked when you want to see our reaction to things that you say. That's the only time that you've looked at us. No, that's not true, sir. Yes, sir, it is. This is not my first rodeo. No, it's not yours. But there's things that we look for that are indicative that someone's not telling us the truth. So far, man, you've been spot on on almost every one of them. I don't have a problem with that. So this is your opportunity. Maybe you made a mistake. Maybe something bad happened. Maybe y'all had an argument. We don't know. We need you to fill in those details. But if you want to play games and if you want to say that, "I don't know what happened. I wasn't there." Later on, we get results from the autopsy. We get your cell phone records. We get all of this evidence that says otherwise. It's not going to be good for you, man. Police then start to press. You know what I think happened? I think you messed up. I don't think you meant to do anything in your life. I'm just judging by the way you've acted all day. By the way you're acting now. I think you know you screwed up. You did something stupid. You went a little too far. And now your wife's dead because of it. You're only telling yourself, "No, you didn't do it." You're not telling me that. I just don't want you to blame me for this. You what? I was doing it, but now I'm being blamed for this. That's why I was like, "When you told me that, I'm coming to have a personal life with you." I thought we were going to be married. Well, Brandon, you're married to her. And you're gone. I'm getting information that you're making some strange phone calls that you normally don't make. When I do talk to you on the phone, you tell me you're going to be here. After you find out that your wife's deceased, and then you drive around for another five hours, and you tell us that you were afraid, if I had just found out that my wife was dead, I would have been there as quickly as I possibly could have. When I first got, I was on my way. When I got back to my car, I was on my way out here as soon as I possibly could. Hey man, Brandon, stop. Stop. Stop. Stop feeding us the lines, playing games. Detective Jackson is right. Any normal person that found out their wife was dead, warrant or not, whether or not you knew you had a warrant or not, you're still going to go to the police and try to find out what the hell happened. Let's talk about Brandon's alibi for a second, because he claimed he was at a friend's house, that he was out of town. Detectives, though, talked to that friend, and the friend said Brandon wasn't there. And Brandon eventually breaks. And if you didn't sneak in to say, "Ooh, I'm this evil person, I'm going to go kill her," and you didn't do that, then what's fair is for your side of the story to come out. That's what's fair. Do you think that what happened wasn't intentional? Or that you're not a monster? Do you think that you're not a monster? Do you think it's important that you tell your side of the story, or you just keep acting like nothing happened between you? I wouldn't be shaking your head no at this point. I'm sorry, I don't even understand the question. What happened? What was the altercation that happened between y'all two? What button did she push? Tuesday night in her bedroom when that happened. That's the question. And don't say y'all just didn't talk and you left. Because we know that's not the truth. And what's more important is you know we know that that's not the truth. So you're not sitting here BSing us. You're lying to yourself, if anything. We haven't lied to you at all, Brandon, about anything. This really is important for your future. If there's a mitigating circumstance there, then you have to be the one that says it. Brandon. Was this on purpose or was it accidental? Just give me that much. Was it on purpose or accidental? Brandon. Brandon. Don't hide behind your hands. Show button here. Football is finally back. And PrizePix is going crazy with the deals to start the season. Giving out promos every day in September. On PrizePix, you can make all the picks you want. All in the same app. Lock in for kickoff. What you want? Download the app today and use code SPOTIFY to get $150 instantly in lineups if you win your first $5 lineup. PrizePix. Run your game. You'll win $250. Do you hear that? That sound, right? That means that summer is officially here. And unlike ice cream, it won't drip down your wrist or look nothing like the picture. 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You know that makes all the difference in the world, don't you? prior on monday or sunday night excuse me sunday night it was she pressed her hands against mine i mean her neck against my hand on tuesday she pressed her neck against your hands on tuesday tell me tell me what happened then let's go back to when you opened you walked in the door tell me what happened i walked the door and we were speaking and she was crying you walked in the door and what i couldn't hear you sir she was crying sit please sit up so she was crying okay and then what happened crying she kept saying repeatedly she didn't want to live no more she was saying she didn't want to live anymore she kept saying her family just owned it we're going to just own it she took me back and she said she loved me and she like i've done everything for her so what happened standing but i was sitting inside of the bed on my side of the bed talking to her and my side of the bed is the side with the big uh nightstand i don't know if you were in there if you're looking at the bed the left side of the bed on one side and i was sitting on that side and we were talking and she was saying she don't want to lose me and she said but she just doesn't want to live anymore and i was like what do you mean you don't want to live anymore and she walked over picked my hand up and walked into where the rest were and it was already water in the bathtub and i was like i'm thinking she was taking that she was like you were thinking what i was i mean i was watering the bathtub so i was like thinking she doesn't take a bath and i was weird when she takes showers i feel like that was weird already and i was like what's going on what's wrong and she put she looked in the mirror and i just to look at her face she was crying like i've never seen her cry so hard and so much but she put her hand on her neck and she said i don't want to live anymore and she started squeezing and she was saying she started squeezing what she started squeezing my hand like at first they were just sitting here like that because i was trying to snap them down she was like no and i didn't want to snap she said don't and i put my hands up and she said she started squeezing my hand she said do it and she stood there and she said do it and she said but that's where she started because i can't live anymore how long did you squeeze her neck not long at all what would be your guess probably not even a minute so what happened then she kind of like fainted and fell in the tub and then what happened and then i don't have to like she didn't move it's like she was already gone and it wasn't even that long so then what happened i just left the apartment she told me to do it i didn't think it was gonna happen i didn't do it long enough for it to happen i don't think i did you want a glass of water or something can you do me a favor do you want to leave can you show me on this box how hard you squeezed your neck just squeeze i don't care if you crush the box i don't care if you crush it show me how hard you squeezed it probably like that much that's that you can crush that box as much as you want i don't care it's probably like this i felt that i think she already had a bruise from when i first did it and i think sunday i think i hit that bruise or whatever there's something because i felt like this real low like it wasn't just like that is that how you're doing is that as hard as you squeeze but even then brandon was not being truthful though he had made a shocking claim he said that jessica had asked him to choke her because she had mental health issues and then she just fell into the tub police say though that story just does not match up with the forensics but i know what some of the things you've told us some of them are the truth but some of them are not i mean like i said the police can put together what happened it's just the why and that's the reason to give that you that opportunity to say this is why like detective taylor said monster or somebody that has some mental health issues i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna go out on linear and i'm gonna go so far as to say that you are a monster and i'm gonna tell you why because you choked that girl out shoved her head into that bathtub until she drowned then you politely and quietly grabbed your and you fled the scene and then you sit here and cry crocodile tears about doing it because she told you to do it not only did she tell you to do it she made you do it she grabbed those big six foot whatever you are 300 and whatever pounds you are and pressed your hands around her throat until she suffocated until she strangled to death and fell in that tub and drowned you know what crocodile tears are that's like the absence of tears show button here football is finally back and prize picks is going crazy with the deals to start the season giving out promos every day in september on prize picks you can make all the picks you want all in the same app and now prize 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bald face to two men that have a combined bald face to two men that have a combined time in law enforcement is 62 years time in law enforcement is 62 years time in law enforcement is 62 years and try to convince us this little girl and try to convince us this little girl and try to convince us this little girl choked herself out with your hands choked herself out with your hands choked herself out with your hands and then fell in that bathtub and drowned huh huh huh you're saying she pressed her hands in you're saying she pressed her hands in you're saying she pressed her hands in and then she just blacked out she fainted and then she just blacked out she fainted and then she just blacked out she fainted and she fell in the tub and she fell in the tub and she fell in the tub she fell in the tub you know what was in she fell in the tub you know what was in she fell in the tub you know what was in the bottom of that tub under her head the bottom of that tub under her head the bottom of that tub under her head blood blood blood blood you know why there was blood blood you know why there was blood blood you know why there was blood because her face was hitting the bottom because her face was hitting the bottom because her face was hitting the bottom of that tub of that tub That's not what happened. You might not be aware of it. That is what happened. That's not what happened, sir. Dude, don't sit here and tell me she fainted and fell in that bathtub. That's not what happened. And drowned. Then tell me what happened. Because it ain't what you told me a minute ago. That's what happened. Just stop. Just stop. Brandon, you know that's not what happened. And you know you have not convinced us. You know what? I'm going to cut Detective White out because he's a nice guy. He wants to give you the benefit of the doubt. And I am beyond that at this point. You're a cold-blooded killer. You choked that girl out, held her head underwater until she drowned and strangled. And then you left the house real quietly. You were so concerned about your own a**hole that you couldn't even call 911? That you couldn't try to resuscitate her? That you couldn't pull her head out of the water? No. Because you know once her head went in that water, she was dead. Because you held it under there until she stopped moving. And now you're sitting in here trying to convince two detectives. She fell in the bathtub. This is the one I've got to tell you again. Are you listening to the words that are coming out of your mouth? Do they stop and reflect and tell me? It doesn't make any sense to you. Huh? Huh? It don't make any sense because there's no sense to it. No, no, no, no, no. It might not. But what you're telling me is so far from not making sense. Garrett was arrested and later convicted of killing his estranged wife, Jessica Taylor Sullivan. Online court records show he is serving a life sentence in Texas State Prison. That will do it for On The Case presented by Law & Crime. Subscribe to us on YouTube and Spotify. also streaming on Peacock. I'm Chris Stewart. We'll see you next time.