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00:00This time on Killers Caught on Camera.
00:07Sheriff's form, anybody here?
00:09In the U.S. in Colorado, a couple are found shot dead in their own garage.
00:14To put them out of their misery, he decided to unload his entire magazine into both of their bodies.
00:20It was a horrific, bloody, terribly violent scene.
00:24Do not move, you understand me? You will get shot!
00:27I just remember him feeling helpless, because there's nothing you can do.
00:32And in the U.K., a long-running feud at work...
00:35Won't be told I'm late, man.
00:37...ends in a lethal altercation.
00:40Willis made another threat to kill Mr. Dunn.
00:44The knife actually pierced his aorta, and he died from catastrophic internal bleeding.
00:51It just sounds like I'm the bad it's happening to her.
00:54We know what happened because the video tells us what happened.
00:58I hit some gunshots.
00:59Drop it! Whatever it is, drop it!
01:02That does not prove that I killed my wife.
01:05The camera doesn't hide.
01:11Colorado.
01:13Between Denver and Colorado Springs, in Douglas County, is Franktown.
01:18It is extraordinarily low crime.
01:23It's historically one of the fastest, if not the fastest-growing county in the United States.
01:29In the north, it's very suburban, but in the south county, it's very rural.
01:35Franktown is a quiet area, very family-oriented.
01:39It was home to 34-year-old Todd Gray.
01:42Todd was charming.
01:45He was funny, independent, never had trouble making friends.
01:50He was very outgoing.
01:52His laugh was contagious.
01:54He would laugh a lot.
01:57You always knew he was in the room when he was there.
01:59He had four siblings.
02:02Todd was the middle child.
02:03He wasn't an inside child.
02:07He was outdoors all the time.
02:11They went out and neither did horses or dirt bikes or chores or whatever.
02:16But he was always the most playful one.
02:19Always wanted to play.
02:20From an early age, Todd was keen to follow in his father's footsteps as a mechanic.
02:26Before he had his license, he was buying and selling cars.
02:29He'd buy something, fix it up a little bit, and sell it when he's 15.
02:32He was a fantastic welder.
02:34He could weld anything.
02:36He pretty much taught himself how to do it.
02:38Todd and his dad spent a lot of time together fixing up cars.
02:42Todd was 12 when we did this car.
02:46We just enjoyed doing this.
02:47We spent a lot of time out here.
02:49He had to know how to do everything.
02:52There was a way to do it.
02:53He wanted to figure out how to do it.
02:55Todd married his high school sweetheart, and together they had a child.
03:00She was the light of his life.
03:01It calmed Todd down to have his daughter.
03:06It was a huge focus for him.
03:08But Todd struggled with addiction.
03:10Right out of high school, Todd was having some issues with alcohol.
03:13That's probably why his first marriage didn't work out.
03:17And then his health was going downhill.
03:20His liver started failing already at a very young age.
03:23He knew he had to do something, so he actually showed up one day and told his dad,
03:27you need to keep me busy.
03:29Todd and his first wife divorced, and he was sober for eight years.
03:34He started a new relationship, and in 2016, they had a daughter, a second child for Todd.
03:40In 2019, the Gray family took on a new employee, Jessica Mitchell, a single mother with a love for animals and the outdoors.
03:54Jessica came to work for us for a couple of years, always on time.
04:00She talked about her kids all the time.
04:04Jessica had a smile that just lit up the room.
04:07She was bubbly.
04:08But everything changed when Jessica and Todd started dating.
04:15Jessica would be more of a party person.
04:17Drink, have fun.
04:19Todd couldn't drink.
04:20Right there, we could just tell that's not a good match, because once he'd start, he wouldn't stop.
04:27And it wasn't long for the drinking and partying kind of got out of hand.
04:34It went downhill fast.
04:35They thought that Brian and I were controlling them.
04:40Once we had to ask them to leave the home they were living in, we really didn't have much contact with Jessica or Todd at all.
04:49It was definitely the drugs that tore us apart.
04:51You know, it was kind of heartbreaking.
04:53You got to kick your child out of the home that we built together.
04:56But, you know, it had to be done.
04:59To be honest, him and I had a pretty bad falling out.
05:02He lost custody of his kids.
05:05Jessica also lost custody of her children and had a difficult relationship with her parents and two younger brothers.
05:14But by 2022, Todd was getting his life back together.
05:19He'd started his own business, fixing cars.
05:22He was building some momentum, getting his little business going.
05:28So I was proud of that.
05:30In January 2022, Brian met Todd in the car shop in town.
05:35We just sat and talked for probably a half hour and then just, it's like, okay, I got to go.
05:42So he left and, I mean, you never know.
05:45That's the last time you're ever going to talk to him.
05:47But that was it.
05:48Early afternoon on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022.
05:56911 dispatchers received an alarming call.
06:01911, what is emergency?
06:02I have two people that are deceased laying in the garage.
06:07That'll be exactly what happened.
06:09I have no idea, ma'am.
06:10I just got here.
06:15Investigators arrived at a remote property south of Franktown.
06:19When I went inside, I saw an adult female and an adult male lying deceased on the ground of the shop.
06:29It was a horrific, bloody, just terribly violent scene.
06:34A dog had also been shot.
06:37Whoever did this has no regard for life, leaves two people dead, and doesn't call for help.
06:44And so our initial thoughts is we need to get this person into custody as soon as we can.
06:48They're very dangerous.
06:50Police obtained a search warrant for the property.
06:53They started to look for any evidence to lead them to a suspect.
06:58We discovered, in part, bloody thumbprint or fingerprint within close proximity to the bodies on one of the vehicles.
07:05We discovered inside the home that it had been ransacked.
07:11The bodies in the garage were confirmed to be Todd Gray and Jessica Mitchell.
07:16Todd, I believe, had suffered at least one wound to the head that was fatal.
07:22Jessica Mitchell had certainly suffered gunshot wounds to her abdomen, chest, torso.
07:29News of Todd and Jessica's death spread amongst family and friends.
07:33I just remember it being very emotional and feeling helpless because there's nothing you can do at all.
07:44And it's like, what did he get himself into?
07:46I was shocked when he told me it was Todd and Jessica.
07:54I said, Todd and Jessica?
07:56And he's like, yes.
07:58Just three hours after obtaining the search warrant, police got a major break in the case.
08:14Exterior cameras on Todd and Jessica's property showed a vehicle arriving at 12.51 a.m. on Tuesday, February 8th.
08:22On the video, we captured, at that time, an unknown suspect arriving at Jessica and Todd's residence in a flatbed Ford pickup.
08:34The video didn't capture the plate, but it was a very distinct vehicle.
08:37The driver headed into the garage.
08:41Todd was already inside.
08:43Moments later, Jessica was captured on camera, leaving the house, and appeared to hesitate.
09:01At this point in the video, we can see Jessica Mitchell and our unknown suspect exit the garage together.
09:09There doesn't appear to be any sort of animosity, and from the video, we believe, at that time, that they were known to one another.
09:20We see that Jessica's not under any kind of distress when she returns to the garage.
09:24This is the last time we see Jessica Mitchell alive.
09:27Just over a minute later, what appeared to be a friendly visit would prove fatal for Todd and Jessica.
09:34And at this point, we can clearly see that he's armed with a shotgun, and that he enters the garage with a shotgun.
09:42Over the next few minutes, the unidentified men returned to his truck multiple times to get more guns.
09:51We can see that the male's also armed with a handgun.
09:56Investigators concluded that Jessica and Todd had been shot and killed during this time frame.
10:0116 minutes later, the man was still on the scene.
10:08He went inside the house for over half an hour.
10:12We see the male turn off the rear porch light, and he exits the residence.
10:17He's carrying a duffel bag and another shotgun that he's removed from the house.
10:23We know that he's armed and dangerous.
10:25The unknown man then roamed around the property for another 25 minutes.
10:32Staying on scene for such a long time after the killings, to me, suggests that he didn't have a real plan as to what he was going to do next.
10:43He obviously went and got his guns, and so he had a plan to kill them, at least in that moment.
10:47But then afterwards, usually what you do is you'd start covering up the crime scene, or you'd leave, and you'd make an escape.
10:52But in this case, the fact that he's just roaming around almost feels like he's still processing what he's going to do now.
10:58After almost two hours on the property, the unidentified man leaves, hitting a car and then a dumpster as he exits.
11:08He pulls out, and then he goes south, and that's the last we see on camera.
11:13The footage gave the police a clear image of the prime suspect, but he was unknown and at large.
11:20It's a white male, bigger, stockier build, and his hair is very, very distinct.
11:26We need to find this guy, and we need to find out who he is.
11:31The police decided to release the image of the man to the public, and got a lucky break when a woman recognized him.
11:39The name she gave was Casey Duvall.
11:43We pull his dossier photo from his driver's license, compare it to the surveillance footage.
11:49It's identical.
11:51Casey Duvall worked for the town of Castle Rock, which is in Douglas County.
11:55But what's most important here is he's the brother of Jessica Mitchell.
11:59What we're looking at is potentially a brother killing a sister.
12:02It's especially heinous.
12:03It's especially grave.
12:04We don't know if any other family members are potentially at danger.
12:08This is an axe to grind or a grudge that was against his sister.
12:11We don't know if this is a grudge against Todd and potentially his family.
12:16Siblicide is when somebody kills a sibling, and it's one of the most rare forms of murder.
12:23When you hear the term siblicide or when you hear about someone who's killed a sibling, your mind jumps to kids.
12:29But actually, siblicide is almost always committed after the age of 25.
12:35There's a couple of theories as to why actually the rate goes up with age.
12:40And one of the theories is that there's more access to guns.
12:43And the other is that resentments that maybe started when you were in your teenage years, they build up and they build up and they build up.
12:50And you've basically got this festering of wounds, psychological wounds over time, that ends with siblicide with the worst possible outcome.
13:00It's the first thing that came to my mind is like, who would kill their own sister?
13:05When we learned that Casey was a prime suspect and they posted his picture and we're looking for him, it's like, okay, we have a suspect.
13:13Let's just, let's find him.
13:15The hunt was on for Casey Duvall.
13:17Within Douglas County, we have a system called FLOC.
13:22FLOC is a license plate recognition system that captures pictures of license plates.
13:28We did a workup on Casey and we discovered that he had a green F-250 Ford truck registered to him.
13:36And we put his license plate information into our FLOC system.
13:40In comparing those FLOC images to the surveillance footage, it was an exact match.
13:44At this point, we have enough to obtain an arrest warrant for Casey Duvall.
13:50Investigators went to Casey's property in Douglas County.
13:54One of our impact detectives, he puts a drone up over Casey's house and he does see that Casey's truck is there.
13:59We immediately author a search warrant for Casey's home.
14:04I find out that Casey ended up taking his father's gold Ford truck and he left his green truck at the property and he was not home.
14:13Casey's in the wind. Casey's on the run.
14:14We start with breaking news tonight.
14:19If you live in Douglas County, deputies want you to be on the lookout for a man considered dangerous.
14:24This man here.
14:26Police spoke with Casey's family and friends for any information about his whereabouts.
14:30We knew he was communicating with his mom and his really good friend via text message on his personal phone.
14:37He told family via text message and one of his good friends that he was fleeing to Nebraska.
14:45While he was on the run, Casey recorded an unapologetic video.
14:50I killed my sister, then talked.
14:56There's no excuses.
14:59I can't even imagine the gut wrench, sadness and hate you all feel right now.
15:08I can't even apologize.
15:11Because I did it.
15:15Police gained access to Casey Duvall's phone data.
15:18They discovered that he'd driven 400 miles from the crime scene to Salina in Kansas.
15:29Salina police officers immediately tracked him down.
15:39Hey, do not move.
15:40You understand me?
15:41You will get shot.
15:43Stand up and keep your hands where we can see him, okay?
15:45Stand up and keep your hands up.
15:49Up.
15:50All the way up.
15:51Stand up.
15:54Drop to your knees.
15:55Cross your feet.
15:57Put your hands on your head.
15:59Do not move.
16:00Yes, you.
16:02Detectives Matt Tallman and Kristen Donahoe drove through the night to Kansas so they could interview Casey.
16:09When?
16:10Hey, Nancy.
16:14How's it going?
16:15I'm all right.
16:15How are you?
16:16I kind of want to give you an opportunity to kind of tell us your side of the story.
16:21He's very cordial.
16:22He's very friendly in person.
16:23He's very affable.
16:24You would never think that he just committed a murder.
16:27We've had a very rocky relationship with them.
16:29Okay.
16:30We've lost their kids and everything.
16:31Really just had ran into Todd a couple days ago and he said, hey, it's been by the house one day.
16:39He said, we've got a birthday present for you.
16:41Texted Todd and said, hey, I'm going to stop by.
16:45And it actually was going really well.
16:47He was in a great mood and she had made a bunch of food and stuff.
16:50And he says at some point he receives this gift from Jessica and he says it's this wooden crossbow that has an inscription in it.
16:59There was this dumb freaking quote that said, Casey Michael, you can do amazing things.
17:04So I kind of got really pissed.
17:06I got thrown her about a lot of things from our childhood.
17:09And the things I brought up to her, I'm not super comfortable talking about.
17:14Her losing her kids was brought up.
17:16It got really, really weird at that point.
17:19He says they have this argument.
17:21He just basically calls him a liar.
17:23Todd was yelling.
17:25He had that .32 pistol.
17:28Just, he's like, don't make me use this on you.
17:31I'm like, okay.
17:33Went to Chuck, tossed the bow in there and shoot his left.
17:36He said to put them out of their misery, he decided to unload his entire magazine into both of their bodies.
18:05And he said the dog caught a stray round.
18:09You didn't intend to kill the dog in Jacksonville?
18:11Yeah.
18:13Casey Duvall agreed to waive extradition.
18:17The detectives drove him back to Colorado.
18:21On Thursday, February 10th, autopsies were performed on Todd Gray and Jessica Mitchell.
18:28Todd Gray had sustained seven gunshot wounds in total going to the head.
18:32Several were from a shotgun, and some were from a 9mm caliber.
18:38Jessica Mitchell also sustained multiple gunshot wounds, one being fatal through her heart and lung.
18:46The coroner has deemed both deaths as homicide.
18:49The autopsies revealed how Jessica and Todd had died.
18:54But a critical piece of evidence was recovered during Jessica's autopsy, which would break the case wide open.
19:03Jessica had hidden in her bra a digital audio recorder.
19:07It was an outstanding piece of evidence.
19:08Because it fills the gap, what the video footage was unable to capture.
19:14Namely, what actually happened in the garage leading up to and during the homicide.
19:19You look good, baby.
19:21You guys, that's it.
19:22I've been best before 10 to block every night of the week.
19:25She put a recording device into her bra, and that raises a lot of red flags.
19:33Why would you put a recording device in your bra?
19:37That's not where it normally lives.
19:38That's not a place that people just casually keep them, right?
19:40And so you have to go out of your way to put it there, and you're doing that because you want to record a situation that you think might escalate.
19:48Or where there might be some conflict that you need to have evidence of later.
19:51And now that evidence might be to hold it against the person themselves, to say, ah, you said this, and to make them somehow pay for whatever they said.
20:00Or it could be gathering evidence because you're afraid of somebody.
20:03So the question in my head the whole time is, given how casual she sounds, is she actually masking that she's afraid because she put this recording device in her bra?
20:14We know that she knew her brother was coming over.
20:17We knew that there was some animosity between her and her family.
20:20The only thing I can think of is that she was just wanting to record everything so that nothing was thrown in her face later.
20:29What we hear in the audio is a very cordial, friendly conversation between Todd, Jessica, and Casey.
20:35At no time are we going to hear any kind of argument.
20:39Todd did that for you.
20:41Oh, is that a bear bow?
20:43Yeah.
20:44That's a bear bow.
20:45Oh, this is a strong one.
20:49We found it.
20:51And I was like, hey, I'm going to move.
20:53Kind of like this.
20:54Put my name on.
20:57I'm listening to the recording.
20:59There is a mention of a crossbow, but there's nothing mentioning the inscription on it.
21:04Like, that's never talked about.
21:05Hey, me, where's your phone?
21:07Okay.
21:07Hey, Christina, there's a small type of eyes to be in the concrete.
21:11The conversation is jovial, happy.
21:14They're joking.
21:15However, Jessica doesn't realize this.
21:17This is the last time she'll speak with her brother, Casey, before he murders her.
21:21Just one minute later, Casey pulled a shotgun on his sister and Todd.
21:27The audio is extremely distressing.
21:31Casey walks into the garage and immediately starts to shoot.
21:36You can hear 10 or 15 seconds of just screaming.
21:43It's chaos.
21:44And there's so many gunshots.
21:47And you hear her screaming.
21:48You hear him screaming.
21:49You hear the dog barking.
21:50And it's harrowing to hear the actual last moments of their life.
21:57And at some point, it just goes quiet.
22:00It's a shocking escalation from the cordial, friendly banter that we had just moments ago.
22:07From the situation alone, you wouldn't be able to sort of point at a moment and say,
22:11this is where it all went wrong.
22:13This is where it escalated.
22:14Oh, you guys are so sad.
22:20Oh, what's it, douchebags?
22:24Casey is now in this room with them and is mocking them.
22:29And he's just making some very just derogatory statements towards them,
22:34just being very disrespectful towards them now that they have died.
22:39Also in this recording, the dog is still alive.
22:42The weird comments he makes at them, at the dead bodies,
22:50and says it in this mocking tone, suggests someone who has finally won
22:55and is now able to enjoy their victory.
23:00And I think him walking around the property for a while and not leaving,
23:04not immediately trying to get out of there,
23:06and points to me to someone who went through the motions of something
23:09that maybe he'd thought about for a while and then enjoyed the moment.
23:15Crucially, the audio recording completely contradicted Casey's interview testimony.
23:23Todd never threatened him with a gun.
23:26There was nothing.
23:26It was a straight-up ambush.
23:28Detectives Kristen Donahoe and Matt Tallman
23:33confronted Casey Duvall with the new evidence.
23:36At no point in time, Casey, there was no argument with Jessica.
23:41Really?
23:41There was no argument.
23:43At all.
23:44Yep.
23:45Well, there's some things to my head, then.
23:48I could show where we're just arguing about the both things.
23:51And we know until I didn't produce a handgun.
23:53After you come back in with a shotgun,
23:57it's two shots, you immediately pull your handgun
24:00and unload the magazine.
24:02Mm-hmm.
24:03Right.
24:04At that point, the dog is still alive.
24:09It was about seven minutes ago by,
24:11and you come back in, and the dog starts barking at you.
24:15You seem to get mad that he's protecting Todd and Jessica.
24:19Cool.
24:20And the next thing when you're in the recording is a gunshot.
24:22I don't remember the time going by between that and the dog.
24:26I'm just trying to understand it, too.
24:28And I don't know when I was there.
24:29I remember the heated argument.
24:32Maybe it was an argument I fabricated in my head
24:35over everything I wanted to say to her.
24:38This is one of the most interesting interviews
24:40I've seen in a long time.
24:41The fact that he says that he believes
24:44that there was a heated argument,
24:45even at this point, he knows that that's not true.
24:48And then he says, well, maybe it's because
24:50I fabricated it in my own mind.
24:53And so what he's saying is that he has a false memory
24:55of what happened.
24:56And even when confronted with the evidence,
24:58he still feels like this argument happened
25:01because he'd been playing it in his mind so many times.
25:04The night before the murders,
25:07Casey had been hanging out with a female friend.
25:09She told the police that Casey said
25:11he was going to collect a debt.
25:13And the next morning, he texted her.
25:16The messages are bracketing what happens.
25:25Not long before they're killed,
25:28he asked them that you're going to collect a debt.
25:30Five hours after you killed them,
25:31you said you did so much goodness.
25:34In my mind, I did goodness at the time.
25:37OK.
25:37But the police still wanted to understand
25:40why Casey shot and killed Todd Gray
25:43and his own sister, Jessica Mitchell.
25:46It's not just what happened, it's why.
25:49Because why is important.
25:52I didn't like him.
25:52I didn't like her.
25:53It was enjoyable.
25:54I remember that.
25:56OK.
25:57And maybe I was on the way home and thought,
25:59this is it.
26:00This is the only time.
26:01I don't know.
26:02The only time for what?
26:03To fuck her.
26:06And it didn't actually have to kill her.
26:09OK.
26:10Were you thinking about killing her?
26:12Probably what I did.
26:13I don't know what the thought process was.
26:16Prior to this, have you ever had any other thoughts
26:18of wanting to harm or kill Jessica and Todd?
26:21Multiple times.
26:24What we know is that he had conflicts
26:26with his sister for many years since he was a child.
26:30And the family also considered her
26:32the black sheep of the family.
26:33She had all these substance use problems.
26:35There were neglect issues with her own children.
26:37So there was a lot of beef going back years
26:40with his sister.
26:42So the question, of course, is why did he kill Todd?
26:45Why did he kill his sister's partner?
26:48And it seems to me that the answer might be
26:51a really sad one, which is that simply he was there
26:55and that he probably wasn't specifically a target.
26:59He was effectively collateral damage
27:02to this murder that he'd been fantasizing about.
27:05It's possible that he saw them as a pair
27:07and that he always sort of thought,
27:09if I'm going to kill my sister,
27:10I'm also going to kill her partner.
27:11But I think it's more likely that he was there that night.
27:15And if he hadn't been there, he might still be alive.
27:19Casey Duvall was charged with two counts
27:21of first-degree murder and animal cruelty.
27:25Originally, he pleaded not guilty.
27:27But later, he decided to change his plea.
27:32The plea that he ultimately took,
27:34he pled guilty to two counts of murder
27:36in the second degree as well as that animal cruelty
27:38and received a sentence just shy of 100 years.
27:45The case divided the community.
27:48There were certainly people that said
27:49there is no way that Duvall could have done this.
27:51And that's why it was so important at the sentencing
27:53to make sure that we played just a portion
27:55of that audio recording so that we could set
27:57the record straight for any community member
27:59that wanted to know, this recording doesn't lie.
28:02I just thought, what a coward.
28:04He just walked up and shot him.
28:07Nobody had a chance there but him.
28:09He had the guns.
28:10There was no fair fight.
28:11There was no nothing.
28:12He just lost it.
28:14The audio recording was vital
28:16to bringing Casey Duvall to justice.
28:19Jessica's final act was really the instrumental
28:23and key piece of evidence that put her murderer
28:25behind bars for the next 100 years.
28:27It was in that moment that she practically
28:30solved her own murder.
28:32I think they could have together
28:34got their life under control.
28:36They both would have been very happy
28:37and they would have impacted a lot of people.
28:40He had a really good heart.
28:41I think he could have done really well in life
28:44once he'd figured out his struggles.
28:46I'm still proud of what he accomplished.
28:49He was just a person that I could talk to all the time.
28:51You know, he was my son,
28:53but he was also a good friend.
29:02The murder of a sibling is known as sibilicide
29:06and it is an incredibly rare occurrence.
29:09In the U.S., about 150 people every year kill a sibling.
29:13And when it happens, it's usually an accumulation
29:15of fights and arguments and slights
29:18over a long period of time, but within the family.
29:21Long-standing grudges don't just fester inside the home.
29:25They can also fester in other contexts.
29:28For example, in settings where trivial issues,
29:31perceived slights, and verbal threats
29:32become physical manifestations
29:34and can turn into violence.
29:37In 2024, a combination of these three factors
29:41led to a brutal murder.
29:42In the U.K., eight miles northeast of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
29:56is the town of North Shields.
30:00North Shields sits on the north bed of the River Tyne.
30:03North Shields has a really interesting history.
30:06It was a real epicentre for the fishing industry
30:09and for the shipbuilding industry as well.
30:12It was home to 35-year-old Andrew Darn.
30:17Andrew was the arch of the life.
30:19He looked very intimidating because of the size of him,
30:23but he was as soft as anything.
30:26He would do anything for anybody.
30:28Andrew grew up 200 miles south in Northamptonshire.
30:32He had an older brother
30:34and a younger sister named Natalie.
30:38Andrew was funny.
30:40He was always making everyone laugh.
30:42You couldn't help but laugh at him,
30:44no matter what you did.
30:49We're watching the same picture over and over.
30:53As a teenager, Andrew fell in love with fishing.
30:57Andrew used to like carp fishing.
30:59I think it was because it was peaceful and relaxing for him
31:03and he could sit and concentrate.
31:07It's the only time he ever had any patience.
31:10When Andrew was 17, the family moved to the North East
31:14and Andrew started working with his dad.
31:17He used to be the boss at work.
31:19He used to tell me what to do
31:22and I used to do it at the end of the day.
31:25Rules were reversed.
31:27I was the dad and he was the son.
31:30And that's how we got on so well.
31:32But the job meant Andrew spent a lot of time away from home
31:35and it started to take its toll.
31:38He had turned around and said,
31:40look, it's getting too much, dad.
31:42The children are missing us.
31:44They don't want me to go away on a Sunday.
31:46He says, so I'm going to have to get a job at home.
31:49She says, fine, if that's what you've got to do son,
31:51then that's what you've got to do.
31:52In spring 2022, Andrew started working at a garage door fitting company
32:00on the Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate in North Shields.
32:04He went up on the Monday and he never looked back.
32:08He loved the job.
32:09But Andrew's boss had been involved in a long-running feud
32:13with a man named Alder Willis.
32:17Mr. Willis ran the business next door to where Andrew worked,
32:23which was a cafe deli business,
32:26which he'd been running with his partner for many years.
32:28Andrew had walked into a long-standing antagonism
32:34between the two neighbouring businesses,
32:37which had started years before he ever began working there,
32:42in about 2010, over a parking dispute
32:45about who was entitled to park in the parking spots
32:49outside the businesses.
32:52A debate about a parking space,
32:54on the surface, feels like a trivial matter,
32:56but really, parking spaces are symbolic.
33:00They're symbolic of territory.
33:01So what looks like a surface disagreement,
33:04actually, if we look deeper,
33:06is about space, is about territory,
33:09is about respect, is about power and control.
33:13And they have to defend not only their parking space,
33:15but their honour at all costs.
33:18And the defence of honour spiralled out of control.
33:22Over the years, there had been a series of microaggressions,
33:26quite trivial incidents where they were winding each other up.
33:30But it came to a bit of a head in 2021.
33:33Mr. Willis assaulted Andrew's boss.
33:36He punched him and knocked him over.
33:38It didn't go to court,
33:40but he was given a caution by the police.
33:44Long-running feuds are really an interesting concept.
33:47They're not necessarily common in the general population,
33:49but they do occur frequently in specific contexts or instances
33:54where there tends to be interpersonal or community tensions.
33:58And these tensions kind of bubble up.
34:00The initial grievance gets escalated
34:02because each party retaliates against the other.
34:05Ultimately, this culminates in what's known as a cycle of revenge,
34:10which is difficult for either party to exit
34:12because each party wants to maintain and hold on to the winning position.
34:16Alder Willis was cautioned by the police for assaulting Andrew's boss.
34:22But the antagonism between the two businesses continued.
34:26And Andrew seemed to become the focus of Alder Willis' aggression.
34:31It was completely unclear why he became a target.
34:35It seems that he just took a dislike to him.
34:39Andrew's boss started keeping a record
34:41of any incidents of conflict with Alder Willis.
34:44In October 2022, it was recorded
34:48that Willis had threatened to stab Andrew.
34:53On a number of occasions,
34:56Willis would threaten to have Andrew stabbed.
34:59He would be constantly giving him dirty looks
35:01and making these threats that he would get someone to come and stab him,
35:05which obviously are quite terrifying threats.
35:07That was the point at which Willis made another threat to kill Mr. Darn.
35:27But Willis' threatening behaviour didn't end there.
35:3220 minutes after the incident,
35:34Andrew leaves work to run a few errands.
35:36But he isn't alone.
35:38Willis tails Andrew for a few minutes.
35:41At this point, Andrew notices him and pulls over onto the curb.
35:44He was clearly very anxious about what was going on.
36:01He got out of the car and shouted something in the police's direction.
36:05After that, Andrew went home and he was anxious.
36:08He had spoke to myself and the wife on the phone.
36:18He sounded very worried.
36:20I think he wasn't so much worried for himself.
36:23He was worried for his partner and the children.
36:27Definitely a deal, isn't it?
36:28Stalking involves repeated unwanted attention, harassment or contact,
36:35or any sort of behaviour which aims to intimidate someone
36:39and provoke feelings of anxiety and fear.
36:42And it can include behaviours such as following.
36:45If you look at what Alder Willis did,
36:47he decided to follow Andrew Darn in his vehicle.
36:50When a person is a victim of stalking,
36:52it's incredibly unsettling.
36:54It's distressing.
36:55There's a sense that your space has been intruded upon.
36:58In a way that feels incredibly threatening.
37:04The next morning, March 27th, 2024,
37:08Andrew set up for work as usual.
37:12Less than an hour later,
37:14paramedics were called to the Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate
37:17and found a man with severe injuries.
37:22They tried to save him,
37:25but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
37:27He was confirmed to be Andrew Darn.
37:32Police went to Andrew's parents' house to tell them what had happened.
37:35They'd said that Andrew had been killed.
37:40Just couldn't believe it.
37:42You sort of go numb.
37:44You don't comprehend what's happened.
37:47You think it's a dream.
37:49Just doesn't hit home.
37:50I'd entered the front door of my mum and dad's house.
37:55And mum just stood and told us that Andrew had been murdered.
37:59And I just dropped to the floor.
38:02I was like, no, he's not.
38:04He's not.
38:04Police searched the area for surveillance footage
38:13and found a crucial camera inside the garage door company.
38:18We're seeing on the main screen
38:22the view directly from the front of the office.
38:26As the police tracked back through the footage,
38:30they were able to piece together the events of that morning.
38:34At 7.55 a.m.,
38:37Andrew Darn pulled into the parking area
38:39outside the garage door company.
38:41This car here is Andrew Darn's car
38:46parked on the right-hand side of the parking area.
38:51And up here, we see Alder Willis' van.
38:54See the back doors in the van are open
38:57because he is in the process of unloading boxes
39:00with his supplies for the cafe that day.
39:04Andrew's dash cam recorded what he said to Alder.
39:09Why are you trying to intimidate me?
39:11Why are you following me?
39:16At 7.59 a.m., Andrew got out of his car.
39:21Well, this is the beginnings of a conversation, certainly.
39:25And it looks as though Andrew is quite animated.
39:30He's gesturing quite a lot.
39:33The important thing to notice, as far as Willis is concerned,
39:36is where his hands are.
39:38His left hand is out and gesturing.
39:41But his right hand stays firmly stuck in his pocket.
39:46Andrew Darn then throws a punch at Willis.
39:52Willis reacts by taking his right hand out of his pocket.
39:59And he strikes two blows towards Andrew's torso.
40:07After the altercation, Andrew walked back to his car.
40:11Andrew appears to be walking quite normally.
40:14He is walking to his car, turning away from any additional violence.
40:19Andrew then remained inside the parked vehicle.
40:23We see Willis heading back towards his business.
40:28He goes in for a bit.
40:30He comes out.
40:30You can see him looking in the direction of Andrew's car.
40:34And you can see him moving his hand across his throat.
40:39Which we took to be a very hostile gesture.
40:42This is about 20 minutes after their confrontation.
40:45And Willis goes over to Andrew Darn's car.
40:49He may have thought there was something, something amiss.
40:52And he reaches into the open driver's door window.
40:56Can't quite see what he's doing.
40:57But he's peering in and possibly shaking or trying to rouse Andrew at that point.
41:02And then he walks away again.
41:05Alder Willis went back to his shop.
41:08Then, 30 seconds later, he returned again to Andrew's car.
41:13He opens the door this time.
41:15And he, again, he seems to be looking or reaching inside.
41:20Whatever he has seen, Alder Willis does not call for help.
41:26You can see how shocked his partner looks because she puts her hand across her face.
41:31Alder Willis walks away from Andrew's car, gets into his van and drives off.
41:42Andrew remained in his car for a further three minutes
41:46before his boss's partner found him severely injured and unconscious.
41:51Howdy.
41:53Hello, I need an ambulance now.
41:56He's just there.
41:56It's a lot.
41:57Five minutes later, emergency services arrived on the scene and attended to Andrew.
42:09Six miles away, at his home in Camperdown,
42:12Alder Willis was recorded on a doorbell camera.
42:15It shows him having just reached his street,
42:28speaking to his partner, who's travelled separately from the cafe.
42:32He says about, see you in 15 years' time,
42:44meaning he knows that he's done something seriously wrong
42:48and that he's going to be going away for a long, long time.
42:51It's quite difficult to tell what he was feeling or thinking just by looking at this.
42:58But on the face of it, he seems pretty calm.
43:02A little later, Willis had a conversation with one of his friends where he said,
43:07I don't think I'm going to be going to Benidorm, son.
43:10I think I've killed someone.
43:12Just after 10am, Willis called a solicitor.
43:15He handed himself in at a police station
43:17and was arrested on suspicion of murder.
43:20The autopsy concluded that Andrew had died from a single stab wound.
43:27The knife actually pierced his aorta, a major vessel in the body,
43:31and he died from catastrophic internal bleeding.
43:35The police seized the knife, which Willis still had in his pocket at the time.
43:40There was blood on this knife.
43:42The DNA tested it, and it was a match for Andrew Don.
43:45The footage clearly captured the moment Alder Willis killed Andrew Darn.
43:53Quite often, the critical moment is not captured, it's just off camera,
43:57but here it was right in front of our eyes.
44:00It's hard to comprehend how it's happened
44:03when it had nothing to do with Andrew.
44:06You look back and you still see, why him?
44:10He had so much going for him.
44:15He loved his job.
44:17He loved his partner.
44:19He loved his children.
44:20He loved his fishing.
44:22And in the space of two seconds, it's all gone.
44:28In court, Alder Willis argued self-defence.
44:32We had to prove that the killing was unlawful,
44:35which in this case meant we had to prove it wasn't done in self-defence.
44:40Willis gave evidence at the trial and had to be asked about what he'd done.
44:46He did accept that using a knife in response to a punch was out of proportion.
44:53The jury rejected his defence of self-defence.
44:57After an almost two-week trial at Newcastle Crown Court,
45:01Willis was found guilty of murder and possession of a bladed article.
45:05He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 18 years.
45:10He's going to be 86 when he gets out.
45:17But he's still going to get out.
45:19He's still going to have a life.
45:22There's no life for Andrew now.
45:24The jury clearly thought that whatever had happened in the past and whatever happened that morning
45:30did not justify what Willis did to Andrew.
45:35He'd done nothing to deserve that.
45:37He didn't deserve to die.
45:39Not in that way.
45:40Not at the hands of Alder Willis.
45:41I'd like people to remember Andrew for being here fishing.
45:46His happy place where he was most at home.
45:49He was relaxed.
45:51It was just his own little world.
45:53He loved this place.
45:54For Andrew's birthday, we'd gone down to his favourite place where he liked to fish and would set off balloons with family.
46:03It's the worst situation you could ever possibly imagine going through.
46:13But you just have to try to sort of look on the brighter side because that's what he would have done.
46:21You just have to try to look on the brighter side because that's what he would have done.
46:51I'm not mad.
46:52I'm not mad.
46:53I'm not mad.
46:55It's my��'s vanilla tea that never counts.
47:01You just have to try to look on the brighter side.
47:04But
47:10in the past,
47:12youogyundrum on all all days.
47:13Bye.
47:17B go
47:18Bye.
47:18Bye.
47:19Bye.
47:20Bye.