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Ever since I heard that had spent playing in my head over and over. IT was all very unbelievable.

IT happened on thanksgiving, two teenagers missing.

and I just .

buried my head into my hands, and I started to cry where they were.

And what they did was launched a terrifying case.

Why did this have to happen .

here with a deadly, and .

nobody's leading until we figure out what happened.

A man at home, alone and afraid they .

were really attacking.

is home. You have a right to protect your home and to protect yourself.

He planned, he prepared, and he was determined to .

kill the most chilling detail of all what you'll .

hear on tape. No one would be the same.

I think that's probably .

one of the hard parts about i'm .

letter home. And this is dateline. Here's kate snow with twelve minutes on l street.

Twelve minutes, not a long time, but for three people whose path collided on thanksgiving day, twelve minutes was all IT took for their lives to explode in a flash.

I refuse to live in fear.

Twelve minutes that would haunt their families.

I dropped to my news and I was like, this can be happening basically.

why?

Every second of those terrifying minutes would be fiercely debated.

Your natural instinct is to take yourself however .

you need to do. IT. A town divided over what happened inside this house on own story.

about a lot of weird things happened in trial. I've never in my life had evidence such as this.

This might be more than what were initially be untold.

But before all the fear and the finger's pointing, IT was just another thanksgiving weekend in november twenty twelve in the small town of little falls, minnesota.

Everybody knows everybody and everything about everybody.

Eighteen year old Rachel brady was spending the holiday with her seventeen year old brother, nick, and their eighteen year old cousin hai kf. er. The cousins were inseparable, had been ever since they were little.

We were always together. We will go camping. We were always in the water, always doing something, mean how we always together.

Nick was the fun loving one in the group. Kimberley is his mom.

He found joying everything, and he would .

mix you to e my big sister and then make me laugh every single time.

Like all kids, they d like to see each other. Like when Rachel caught nick, the nickname he'd had when he was a little boy nico baby, that's like just the family joky nickname from nobody else called him .

that just the family his like really good friends would call him IT after they heard me call him IT, he would get so mad at me for saying in front of his friends growing up.

nick was into sports and loved the outdoors. So did his cousin hailey, who was as bright and active as he was .

SHE is my nation. SHE was bottling and funny.

SHE was very athletic and high school SHE was .

Jimmy tic and softball .

and track the close senate cousins .

spent the wednesday before thanksgiving together. Rachel says there isn't all that much proteins to do in little falls, so they would drive around town in the red mobi. Nick rebuilt himself. Would you cruise? Write down the main drag here.

pretty much everywhere.

So just spent to spend in the day with with no cares. No, they all spent the night together at a friend's apartment. On thanksgiving morning, nick and hail left around seven A M.

And then they thought they were gonna go to my mom and dad's house.

The plan was to meet later at grandma's house, but nick and hail, I never showed up. Kimberley and Rachel tried calling them. Is IT strange for nicking phone? absolutely.

Even if I would have, like, called over the graham, he would called the uncertain men like, what do you want?

Strange for hay, we did not answer .

her phone extremely SHE would have never not answered my phone call.

So where could nick n. Hai be on thanksgiving of all days? Adding to their worry was the weather. IT had started snowing.

So i'm thinking, okay, the weather, maybe he got stranded somewhere and I was hoping that he was just buried IT up and staying overnight.

And I try place.

yeah, in a safe place.

Are you worried about a car accident?

I was very worried.

Nick wasn't experienced driving in the snow. The family spent thanksgiving night on edge, and sure enough, on friday morning there was frightening news.

We heard about a car accident that had a red car, and we thought that was him right away. And so we went and looked, and I ended up being car pieces for a different car. And so then when that wasn't him either, we started .

get extremely worried. We go up and down the think anywhere.

Rachel posted messages on facebook. Has anyone heard from hail or nick? Still nothing. By friday afternoon, they were out of their minds with worry.

We called and called and called. No answer. No, nothing.

We kept him with the boy to males, and I was ignited. This is getting serious. You know, I T.

I started crying on one of, like, Better not be making one of me this Better.

I'll be a joke. yeah. Before the day was over, the family would find out this was no joke.

Something terrible had happened to nick and hail. But IT wasn't a car crash or an accident. IT was something no one in little .

falls we've seen coming .

I to across town. There was concerned too, when we return.

just worry and panic like something, thing is wrong.

Someone else had also met with trouble that thanksgiving day, the deadly kind.

The friday after thanksgiving twenty twelve, Kimberly brady was worried sick that her son nick and her knee hai never showed up for thanksgiving dinner. They'd been missing for more .

than twenty four hours. Did you have a mother's .

by friday afternoon? The family was frantic, so you decided .

to call the police .

away and feel like missing person's reports for both of them.

As authorities processed those reports, three other share of deputies were over on l. Street investigating something so troubling. They later called in a crime scene van that got the attention of john Cathy lyn, who saw the van go straight towards the house of their good friend byron smith, a sixty four year old retired man living on his own.

I was decorating the Christmas tree. I saw a big, huge truck go down this road called the the magi crime scene unit. And I I shouted for john, I think you are in the kitchen. And I said, call byron cell, something has happened.

What did you worry that? What did you think that happened?

I thought he was dead.

Kathy and john feared the worst for their friend, who seemed out of sorts in recent months. Everything was fine when by in first moved back to his home town of little falls about five years earlier, after a career that took him all over the world with the state department.

he was talking about living in moscow. And Carol and the car, and it's amazing, a word guy, very much soul, a great conversation list and and fun to talk with.

But recently, byron wasn't himself. His house had been broken into a few times, the thigh taking everything from money to precious family airlock the legs, say their friend who d mentee boy scouts and let their son's rock band jamin his garage had become afraid. He was acting real quiet, real scared. And then that crime seem showed up outside bion's home. And Kathy was sure her friend was in trouble.

Just worry and panic like something is wrong.

SHE was right. Something was wrong. Burglars had struck again this time. Byron was home and he had a gun. He'd managed to defend himself and survive the break in.

If you break into somebody's home, you Better not have an expectation. You're going to walk out a lie because the law permits .

them to shoot you microvessels the more and county sherif byron told his deputies that he bent in his basement and his reading chair. When two intruders broke into his house and crept downstairs, byron shot both of them dead.

Minnesotan law is clear on this thing. You have the right to use deadly force against another person if you believe your life for the life of another is an immediate jeopardy.

As investigators continued to secure the scene at byron house, the sharif s. Office was calling another family. Kimberley brady had been frantically trying to find her son, nick, and her nie, hailey. Now investigators knew what had happened to them. They drove out to speak with kimberley, and they .

brought a chair. Lin, as soon as I saw them turn the corner, that something anyway was gone. I didn't know how or why, and then all the time I remember the door opened and the chaplain came.

Mode I always said was no. And I I don't only remember if I said anything else. He's like, your son is dead.

Nick hailey were both dead. Kimberley fell to her knees, and then the chaplain told her IT was no accident.

He's like your son was shot and leak. And then, I mean, shot that just wasn't doesn't fit. I just remember feeling like I said, what you mean shot to us when I could finally get out and then IT was shot three times.

shot?

What do you mean? Shot three times? And that that was big. I couldn't function. I I couldn't really .

hear out to that there, Rachel.

I want somebody. Somebody shot the baby and and my right just went right outside, and I thought, and small. I just buried my head into my hands and I started to cry, and then he taught me on the shoulder and told me, hay, he's gone to that.

your brother and your best friend to remember what was racing through your head, Rachel.

Basically why, I guess .

we .

all just couldn't believe that was both at one time so sudden, weak.

even harder to absorb how and where nick and hail were shot. They were the intruders by ron Smith killed.

very believe.

So what happened in that basement on our street? The answer to that would lead to a heated debate. How far is too far when IT comes to defending your home? When do you cross the line between victim and criminal .

coming up? What had nick in Haley been up to? A training image captures a clue is that nick to see .

him on different cameras, different angles, walking around the house.

is that hay deputies are about to learn something puzzling.

Why in the world are we're only hearing about the shooting of two people a day later.

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The story of what happened on old street spread quickly around little falls, minnesota, that two teenagers had broken in the bian Smith s. House, leaving the terrified home on or no choice but to shoot them in self defense. His friends and neighbors john Cathy lang, had no trouble believing IT .

what was scary. IT was very personal to him because they were really attacking his home.

But the family of those intruders, they were in shock.

I didn't believe in IT that I was completely not untrue. Teenage cousin's .

nick brady and hailey kiva had gone missing the day before thanksgiving. Now, as he learned the circumstances of her son's death, nick mother had so many questions, how do you reconcile in your head your beautiful boy who loves the outdoors and what they're telling you that he broke .

into somebody's house? I just say I was so, not so you just couldn't, right?

Kimberley had never heard the name byron smith, but Rachel had.

I knew that my brother had worked for him in the summer about I didn't know him at all.

Nick had once on yard work at byron Smith s. house. Now the share of had evidence of what he was doing there again, byron had set up surveilLance cameras at his home, frightened after a string of brains.

Those cameras proved there was no mistake about the brain. Just after twelve thirty, the cameras pick up a man approaching the house. The hooded figure is nick.

He looks through several windows as if checking to see if someone's home. He clutches his hood closely, concealing his face. Jeremy Roberts says, an investigative sergeant with the morals and county sheriff department.

You could see that there had been what appeared to be a little bit of casing done on Nicholas brady part.

He even heads told one of the cameras and tries to dismantle IT. Then he walked out of camera range, shares a window and enters the house. Minutes later, the camera shows another hooded figure, this one Carrying a purse and a cell phone. Is hailey on the video.

which shows that the female had come walking up through the yard, up towards the house.

all on tape, clear as daylight. But why what we're nicking hailey up to that day?

They both went to my school at one time.

Delay lung is the sound of byron friends, john and coffee. What did you know about those two teenagers? I knew that nick was .

aggressive. He would be the kid who would push you up against the locker.

Kind of a bully.

right? He was a bully.

And as I turned out, a thief after the shootings, authorities determined that nick had been behind one of those previous burglaries at violence house. Just a month earlier, he and a friend broke through this door and store thousands of dollars in cash and Priceless family allows, and more disturbingly, two guns. They took things that were really important personally. And then when he took the guns, he thought he was gonna shot by his own guns. He was extremely afraid to sergeant lobert IT all looked like a classic case of trouble making kids crossing the line into dangerous criminal behavior.

You have two, two teenagers that IT seemed to be running can of rampant. You can obviously see that they had to change in their lives.

The evidence appeared to all be there, clearly captured on that surveilLance video. Nick and Haley had broken in, and byron Smith seemed to have every reason to be afraid.

The impression that he kind of left on me was that he was living in the fear. He was not sleeping. IT obviously bothering him physically and and emotionally at first.

Even next, mom, while SHE didn't want to believe much of what he was learning about, her son tried to imagine herself in byron shoes.

I don't believe that breaking and entering is right. I don't would have expected on my son.

IT looked like a tragedy all around, two intruders and a fearful home owner with no choice but to shoot them.

We know you have a right to protect your home and to protect yourself.

but a quick survey of the scene told sherif vessel that the teenagers were unarmed. As with any shooting, IT would require a more investigation.

IT would be ordinary with two people that in the home that nobody's leading until we figure out what happened.

Beginning with one question, a pretty big one.

Why in the world are we only hearing about the shooting of two people in a house?

Day later, he turns out sergeant lobert and other deputies had rushed to baron Smith s. House friday afternoon, only to learn that the break in and shootings happened thursday. On thanksgiving .

day call enforcement, he tells me I didn't want to bother you guys on thanksgiving .

day that struck the share of as extremely odd.

Nobody worries about recking our thanksgiving where about recon our day.

So the intruders had been dead for twenty four hours when byron called a neighbor for help and asked him to call the share of office. When you found out that byron Smith had waited twenty four hours.

my mind was, then why? If he was so scared when you be on the home, I think because those kids and families do, they were waiting and then for.

say, he don't want to bother anybody on things going IT became clear .

and clear and clearer that there were some things that were strange about this case.

Investigators were about to learn a lot more about that shooting in the house, on the street. And what happened next would tear this town apart.

Coming up was no oner going to .

live viral. Smith story was at all adding up.

You would think after such a horrific event, you would be very emotional, maybe crying. I didn't notice any of that.

Nick brady and hailey cava had broken into byan Smith s. house. The frightened home owner said he had shot them in a moment of self defense, but investigators had questions for byron, so sergeant lobert escorted him down to headquarters right away that friday.

Can you tell me your full name with ian Davis? H.

I just wanted his story. I wanted to find out the rest of the facts of what happened at the house.

Whoever IT was who was breaking into my home had been doing IT for so long that I was no longer willing to live in fear.

Byan explained how he'd been terrified ever since that break in a month earlier when two of his guns were stolen.

These are people who have stolen my guns. I figured they, William, to use guns of this deal. guns.

Beyon wasn't home during those other brains, but this time he was as seen on this home security camera, he said he'd moved his truck a few blocks away that morning so he could clean his garage. The teens must have thought he wasn't there.

I needed to clean out the garage, and I wanted IT out of the way for a while.

Byron told him how he was in the basement when he heard the first intruder break in upstairs and had down, told him.

third, what steps coming down the stairs as I, yes, and I saw heat, and then I saw legs and when I saw hit, I shot .

IT was nick byron shot him three times.

I was reacting, okay, what were you reacting to? Is what I asking the threat? The previous losses are spent twenty years overseas, a couple of years in bangkok, several years. And caro, twenty years overseas, not one problem, and I retired to my peaceful, went down while .

byrds voice broke a few times during his account of the shooting, sergeant lobert was surprised at how calm and matter of fact, he was for most of the interview.

you would think, after such a horrific event shooting and killing two people that broke into your house, that you would be very emotional um maybe crying at times. I didn't notice any of that from by ron smith. He just maintained his composure which was rather .

odd much stranger still .

the investigation thought was by on account of what happened a few minutes after he shot, nick hai entered the house and byron .

fired again. You jam check your clicked and SHE left me I just called out to twenty two and shot you're trying to shoot somebody in they live at you .

you go again was highly really laughing as he shot her to the sergeant. IT seemed like such a bizarre detail, and then byan told them this.

I thought SHE was there. And to turn out, SHE wasn't. So I did a good, clean finishing shot.

He shot hailey six times in all. And with that, the investigators came to believe this was something other than a simple case of self defense.

My question by iron is, why did you shoot IT again? SHE didn't have a weapon in her hand. SHE wasn't like, I don't. SHE had a weapon in her hand on later. I wasn't looking at her hands, but did he was lay on her heart, did SHE SHE wasn't threatened you, just he was threatened me.

There was certainly a continuation of the use of deadly force. After IT appeared to us, the threat had stopped, and that made us believe that this needs to be looked at by the prosecuting.

Byron Smith was arrested that day, but later released on bond. A grand jury was convened to look at the case in little false. His friends were shocked that authorities could believe byron was anything but an innocent .

victim was ridiculous that he would be this cold blooded killer. Like, really, he's a quite soft spoken person. I just in fait.

while byron was free on bond, his friends the lungs say he couldn't bear to go back to his own home, so they took him in. I can hear in this room many, many nights. I'm so sorry.

I feel so bad. I didn't wana hurt anybody. I can hear when I try. The case quickly became a big controversy in little falls, minnesota. Do people take sides?

absolutely. People became more opinionated about what happens.

Some people come up to me, he's going to prison. Done that. I said, you have heard the whole story.

I think that I got a lot of support in this area. Bill Anderson is byron's neighbor, the same one who called authorities the day after the shootings myself. Would I ve done the same thing that mr. Smith.

no dopp my mind. No doubt my mind. IT seemed like a big box of puzzle pieces.

Prosecutors pete or put and bint Warner were in charge of evaluating the case against yaron, and they knew I was controversial from the start .

when when I got involved in IT, the email started the phone calls castigating us for taking this. After all, doesn't I have a right to defend his dwelling? You know, I didn't argue with people. I just will just stay open and let the evidence come out, and then let's see if you hold the same view.

After looking at all the evidence, the prosecutors believed there was a strong case the moment nick broke the window and entered into that house. Didn't byron Smith then have the right to defend himself?

Yes, yes, he did, but that's not what he did. He went way, way beyond defending himself.

That grand jury and minnesota agreed in April of twenty thirteen, five months after the shootings, byron Smith was indeed on two counts of first degree murder. Now there would be a trial in the case everyone town was talking about, with revelations from both sides .

coming up.

I tried a lot of murder cases, and this one seemed like a real chAllenge.

why?

Because is a lot of people thought we would .

lose IT murder or self.

Why did he wait so long before calling .

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Byron Smith s first degree murder trial got under way in April twenty fourteen. And just like the town itself carved in two by the mighty mississippi river, the people of little falls soa found themselves divided on one bank to those who saw byan as a cold blooded killer who fired nine shots at two unarmed teenagers.

When you're talking about multiple shots down on the ground right away jumps out, you know, hey, this is premeditated murder on the other bank, where those who viewed Smith as a man with every right to defend himself and his home against intruders. They weren't invited for thanksgiving and dinner. There wasn't a table set form. They didn't comes to the door, but they, certains found a window that come in. But nicks mother, kimberley brady, was determined, even through her own grief, not to make up her mind until he heard all the facts.

I kept an open mind because if he was fearful for his life, I couldn't fought him for defending himself. I waited until I heard all the evidence.

The evidence said by ron Smith s. Defense attorney Steve mesh pressure would show his had done nothing wrong.

This is a case about bigger standing. This is about byron Smith being accused of a crime he did not commit.

Did you believe that by on Smith was justified in shooting nick brady and helier?

Yes, it's not something he wanted to do, but he didn't ask them to burglar ze his home in a violent way on thanksgiving. They chose to do that and he reacted.

So the defense came to court confident a jury would see IT that way in. Da, as I understand that you have the right to protect your life. You have the right to protect your home, your property, as long as it's reasonable.

if somebody breaks into your home and commit a felony offence in your home, you can kill that thread mesh measure .

said that everything byron did that thanksgiving day and the next was evidence that he was truly verified inside his own home. Why did he wait so long before calling .

authorities fear? He was afraid. There was a third or fourth or fifth person. So he was afraid of the backyard, the front yard, the stairway, the door. He's just in other fear, and he goes in a closet and hides in his own house until the fear subsides.

As for smiths calms a minor and the matter effect way in which he described the killings.

I just called out to twenty two and charter .

on the experience. He appears to be calm, but he's talking about how frighten he is internally. He's trying to explain to the place what I happened. He's trying to help solve what occurred. But would the .

defense be able to convince the jury that byan Smith s. Own account of the shootings, how he gave hail a self described finishing shot was really justified.

I did a good, clean finishing .

shot from a human standpoint that just sounds so .

cold blooded IT. And I had a deal with the way that sounded. But it's not evidence of what he is thinking. It's evidence of emotion. It's not evidence of murder.

Mesh pressure thought his strongest evidence to justify the shootings was the fact that nick brady had broken into by ron smith's house before had even stolen guns. So byron had every reason to fear for his life. You wanted to show them that these are kids are up. And no, good.

No, that's not what I wanted to do. I wanted the jury to see the truth, rather than just see a painted pitch that the media was playing of their high school photographs.

But the judge said testimony about nicks involvement in that previous broken was irrelevant and inadmissible. Match special also couldn't say in court that there was evidence that nick and hayley together had robed another house too.

Unfortunately, the judge would not allow that evidence to come in. And I thought he was making a grave air.

And so byron smith, friends watching in court, could only hope that the jury would see things as they did, that he was a scared man who defended his life and property.

We know him as our friend baron. So IT was ridiculous to us for authorities calling him a cobley killer.

IT would be an up hill battle in the court of public opinion, thought prosecutors, they knew they had the burden of proof.

Actual lot of murder cases. And this one in particular, seem like a real chAllenge.

why?

Because a lot of people thought we'd lose IT.

A lot of people saw this as a referendum on whether it's OK to protect your property and protect your life. You don't see if that .

were not this case, not these facts.

but to prove murder in the first degree, the state would have to show that byran acted not just with excessive, unreasonable force, but also with premeditation. And while the defense may have had a lot of town's people on its side, the prosecution had something else.

A piece of evidence they felt would sway any jury to see byron smith, not as a fearful victim, but as a calculating killer, did byan tel investigators that he had made audiotape.

No, he did not .

coming up. The revelation that stopped everyone called those twelve deadly minutes heard on ten.

Can you ever race that from your memory.

my lover?

There are people who think byan Smith is a hero. What do you say to them?

Says a murder and murder can be heroes.

In a sharply divided minnesota courtroom, the prosecution argued that byron Smith was no fearful, innocent victim, but an angry man bent on violent confrontation. He told investigators from the beginning that he was sitting reading a book in the basement that he was caught on aware you don't buy any of that. No, not at all.

The prosecutor said they had evidence that IT was premeditated murder. They told the jury byron had set a trap for the burglars. Remember the story about moving his truck to clean the garage. The prosecutor said that was a lie that byron had, in fact, moved the truck to make IT look like he wasn't home. You think byron wanted to catch the people who had been breaking into his house?

clear. He planned, he prepared, and he was determined tekko whoever is breaking into his house and stealing his property.

The prosecution said byron was in the base not to read a book, but to wait like a hunter.

IT seem like byan Smith was dear honey, like a lot of folks do in minnesota, where you're get in your stand and your weight and your weight and when a dear comes by your shooting, kill IT and IT just seems like that's what he did with these kids.

But could they prove IT turns out the prosecutors had something they'd never encountered in nearly half a century of combined trial work. Do remember when .

you first listen to IT? I do. And IT knocked me out. I've never been able to hear a murder actually occurring.

Byron Smith had recorded the brain and the shootings. Investigators found this digital audio recorder on a bookshelf in the basement. IT had captured more than six hours worth of audio. That day. You ended up with a trove of information, his own words .

on tape.

Here is byron smith, shortly before the break in talking to himself.

In your left ee, why would he say that a half hour before anyone came over? Well, when you go through the autopsy photographs, you see that he shot hailey kifar in her left eye.

He was planning where he was going to shoot intruder.

not just shooting him, but where? Where in the face is he going to shoot him then?

IT sounds like byron is planning not just the shooting, but also his defense. He practices contacting a lawyer.

I realized I don't have an appointment, but I would like to see one of the lawyers here.

Ten minutes later, the practicing is over. The record captures something real. How quickly did everything go down .

that day of minutes?

Twelve minutes from the first shot fired at nick brady to the ninth and final one fired at highly kv. r.

IT was frightening. The .

prosecutors played all twelve minutes in court, but first warned nick and hayley's families who SAT through every day of the trial, that they may not want to hear IT. He actually suggested you probably .

shouldn't be there more than once.

Why did you want to be there?

I needed to know. I mean, I you need to hear the whole story to understand that. I think in this case, you can't just make a stb judgment.

This is the sound of nick entering the home, walking down the stairs to the basement.

And as he's going down the stairs, you can hear him get shot.

We won't play that part of the recording, but listen to what violences. After shooting nick three times 就 对。 You can then hear byron.

Reload is gone. Ten minutes go by. Then the recording picks up a whisper. It's highly coming into the house looking for her cousin.

So SHE comes in and goes right to the basement, starts walking down and that's when he shoots her.

Here on the recording is what the prosecution says is a pivotal moment in his interview with investigators, byron had said he felt threatened by hailey and that she's been laughing at him when he fired.

SHE left at me.

But on that audio recording of the shooting, which again, we have edited, the prosecution says hailey clearly sounds terrified.

She's screaming in a high pitch saying, oh my god.

oh my god. And after he's done shooting, this is what iron says. Those in courts saw byron Smith wipe away tears. As the audio played, there was stunned silence, save for the quiet sobs from nichay ee's families. Can you ever race that from your memory?

No ever.

I think ever since I heard that had spent playing in my head over and over, I feel like any time I hear somebody say, oh my god.

that's what I think of. But the prosecution wasn't done with that recording.

cute. I'm sure he thought he was a real pro .

because byron continued to talk to himself. After the teens were dead.

I felt like I was cleaning up a mess. I see, we see.

What do you hear when you hear those words?

Clear evil. I I don't know how you can say that. About anybody but one. Too precious .

kids and I don't .

believe he was scared. I I believe that was premeditated .

my but in court, the defense said that recording as disturbing as IT .

is proves no such thing.

Rather, IT shows a man quite possibly driven mad with fear.

I feel a little bit safer. I'm totally safe and still shaking.

He's talking to himself, mumbling things. A lot of things didn't make sense.

He sounds Frankly like someone who's maybe losing his mind.

someone who's or lost their mind. He simply had no ability to deal with reality at that time.

After a week of testimony, the case went to the jury. IT was anyone's guess which portrait of viral smith, those twelve people would believe, the cold blooded killer lying and weight, or the terrified man under siege in his own home? What were you thinking as the jury went out to deliberate?

I gave IT all to god. I was pretty peaceful.

Just put your .

faith in him and and waited and waited.

IT wasn't a long wait. The jury was back in less than four hours. The verdict guilty of first degree murder for killing both nick brady and haik .

fer I waited, I heard that, I believed, and then I was said .

I was very happy to see him taken away. But there is no winners.

IT doesn't give you your brother and your best .

friend back exactly.

But byron supporters felt the opposite .

of relief. Shocked stand IT .

was such a one sided trial that was so unfair. Cathy says there's so much more to her friend. The jury never learned.

He just came here to retire. And one, a quiet life. This should have never happened.

IT was just twelve minutes that change so many lives in so many tragic ways. Byron Smith will live out his retirement in prison, having received an automatic life sentence, and nick brady and hay career to Young cousins who made a terrible decision to enter that home, paid for IT with their lives and their loved ones are left to more in the future. That will never be. You have a little baby girl not too long ago, and they can hardly work here to see that.

I think that's probably one of the hardest parts about all of IT. I would have loved to see my brother hold her.

He would have been an uncle, nick. I got no baby.

That's all for now. I'm less or hot. Thank you for joining us.

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