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00:00This time on Killers Caught on Camera.
00:07Sheriff's Department, 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.
00:29Because there's nothing you can do.
00:31And in the U.K., a long-running feud at work...
00:35Won't be told I'm being with.
00:37...ends in a lethal altercation.
00:40Willis made another threat to kill Mr. Doug.
00:44The knife actually pierced his aorta, and he died from catastrophic internal bleeding.
00:51It just sounds like something bad is happening to her.
00:54We know what happened because the video tells us what happened.
00:57I heard some gunshots.
00:59Drop it! Whatever it is, drop it!
01:01That does not prove that I killed my wife.
01:05The camera doesn't lie.
01:12Colorado.
01:13Between Denver and Colorado Springs, in Douglas County, is Franktown.
01:18Franktown is a quiet area, very family-oriented.
01:33It was home to 34-year-old Todd Gray.
01:36Todd was charming.
01:44He was funny, independent, never had trouble making friends.
01:50He was very outgoing.
01:51His laugh was contagious.
01:53He would laugh a lot.
01:56You always knew he was in the room when he was there.
01:59He had four siblings.
02:01Todd was the middle child.
02:04He wasn't an inside child.
02:06He was outdoors all the time.
02:10They went out and neither did horses or dirt bikes or chores or whatever.
02:15But he was always the most playful one, always wanted to play.
02:20From an early age, Todd was keen to follow in his father's footsteps as a mechanic.
02:25Before he had his license, he was buying and selling cars.
02:29He'd buy something, fix it up a little bit and sell it.
02:31When he's 15, he was a fantastic welder.
02:34He could weld anything.
02:35He pretty much taught himself how to do it.
02:37Todd 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.
02:48He had to know how to do everything.
02:51There was a way to do it.
02:53He wanted to figure out how to do it.
02:54Todd married his high school sweetheart and together they had a child.
02:59She was the light of his life.
03:02It calmed Todd down to have his daughter.
03:05It 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.
03:16And then his health was going downhill.
03:19His liver started failing already at a very young age.
03:22He knew he had to do something, so he actually showed up one day and told his dad, you need to keep me busy.
03:29Todd and his first wife divorced, and he was sober for eight years.
03:33He started a new relationship, and in 2016 they had a daughter, a second child for Todd.
03:44In 2019, the Gray family took on a new employee, Jessica Mitchell, a single mother with a love for animals and the outdoors.
03:55Jessica came to work for us for a couple of years, always on time.
04:01She talked about her kids all the time.
04:03Jessica had a smile that just lit up the room.
04:06She was bubbly.
04:07But everything changed when Jessica and Todd started dating.
04:11Jessica would be more of a party person, drink, have fun.
04:18Todd couldn't drink.
04:19Right there, we could just tell that's not a good match, because once he'd started, he wouldn't stop.
04:26And it wasn't long for the drinking and partying kind of got out of hand.
04:32It went downhill fast.
04:35They thought that Brian and I were controlling them.
04:39Once 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.
04:48It was definitely the drugs that tore us apart.
04:50You know, it was kind of heartbreaking.
04:52You got to take your child out of the home that we built together, but, you know, it had to be done.
04:58To be honest, him and I had a pretty bad falling out.
05:01He 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.
05:23He was building some momentum, getting his little business going, so I was proud of that.
05:30In January 2022, Brian met Todd in the car shop in town.
05:36We just sat and talked for probably a half hour.
05:40And then just, it's like, okay, I got to go.
05:42So he left.
05:43And I mean, you never know, that's the last time you're ever going to talk to him.
05:46But that was it.
05:51Early afternoon on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022.
05:569-1-1 dispatchers received an alarming call.
06:019-1-1, that's emergency.
06:03I have two people that are deceased laying in the garage.
06:07Tell me 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.
06:49Police obtained a search warrant for the property.
06:52They started to look for any evidence to lead them to a suspect.
06:56We 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.
07:12The bodies in the garage were confirmed to be Todd Gray and Jessica Mitchell.
07:17Todd, I believe, had suffered at least one wound to the head that was fatal.
07:21Jessica Mitchell had certainly suffered gunshot wounds to her abdomen, chest, torso.
07:26News of Todd and Jessica's death spread amongst family and friends.
07:35I 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?
07:52I was shocked when he told me it was Todd and Jessica.
07:55I said, Todd and Jessica?
07:57And he's like, yes.
08:05Just 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.
08:38The 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.
08:51At 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.
09:12And 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 man 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.
10:01Sixteen 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.
10:33Staying 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.
10:46But 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 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.
11:04Hitting 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.
11:35And 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, it's identical.
11:50Casey 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.
12:02That's especially heinous, it'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.
12:15Siblicide is when somebody kills a sibling.
12:20And 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.
12:30But 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,
12:47they build up and they build up and they build up.
12:50And you've basically got this festering of wounds, psychological wounds over time,
12:55that ends with siblicide with the worst possible outcome.
12:59It's the first thing that came to my mind is like, who would kill their own sister?
13:05When we learned that Casey was the prime suspect and they posted his picture and we're looking for him,
13:11it's like, okay, we have a suspect, let's just, let's find him.
13:15The hunt was on for Casey Duvall.
13:18Within Douglas County, we have a system called FLOC.
13:22FLOC is a license plate recognition system that captures pictures of license plates.
13:29We 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.
13:39In comparing those FLOC images to the surveillance footage, it was an exact match.
13:45At this point, we have enough to obtain an arrest warrant for Casey Duvall.
13:50Investigators went to Casey's property in Douglas County.
13:53One of our impact detectives, he puts a drone up over Casey's house
13:57and he does see that Casey's truck is there.
14:00We immediately author a search warrant for Casey's home.
14:04I find out that Casey ended up taking his father's gold Ford truck
14:08and 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.
14:38He told family via text message and one of his good friends that he was fleeing to Nebraska.
14:44While he was on the run, Casey recorded an unapologetic video.
14:52I killed my sister and 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.
15:09Police gained access to Casey Duvall's phone data.
15:18They discovered that he'd driven 400 miles from the crime scene to Selena in Kansas.
15:28Selena police officers immediately tracked him down.
15:39Hey, do not move. You understand me?
15:41You will get shot.
15:43Yes, sir.
15:43Stand up and keep your hands when we can see him, okay?
15:47Stand up and keep your hands up.
15:49Up.
15:50All the way up.
15:51Stand up.
15:53Drop to your knees.
15:55Cross your feet.
15:57Put your hands on your head.
15:59Do not move.
16:02Detectives Matt Tallman and Kristen Donahoe drove through the night to Kansas so they could interview Casey.
16:09Lynn?
16:10Yep.
16:13Morning.
16:13How's it going?
16:15I'm all right. How 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.
16:30Okay.
16:30We've lost their kids and everything.
16:32Really just kind of ran into Todd a couple days ago and he said,
16:37Hey, it's been by the house one day.
16:39He said, I'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.
16:51And he says at some point he receives this gift from Jessica.
16:54And he says it's this wooden crossbow that has an inscription in it.
16:59There was this dumb fricking quote that said, Casey, Michael, you can do amazing things.
17:04So I kind of, I got really pissed.
17:06I got thrown her about a lot of things from our childhood.
17:09And the thing that 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, they had 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.
17:34Went to Chuck, tossed the bow in there.
17:35She just left.
17:37That shotgun on the front seat.
17:39I just grabbed it and I went back in there.
17:41And I said, you want to use something on me?
17:44And that shotgun, unfortunately, did not kill them.
17:49I consistently carried, didn't feel carried 9mm.
17:53And that's why I just, I panicked and entered the magazine into them.
18:00He said to put them out of their misery, he decided to unload his entire magazine into both of their bodies.
18:06And he said the dog caught a straight round.
18:09You didn't intend to kill the dog in an accident?
18:11Yeah.
18:13Casey Duvall agreed to waive extradition.
18:16The detectives drove him back to Colorado.
18:19On Thursday, February 10th, autopsies were performed on Todd Gray and Jessica Mitchell.
18:28Todd Gray had sustained seven gunshot wounds in total, one to the head.
18:33Several were from a shotgun and some were from a 9mm caliber.
18:37Jessica Mitchell also sustained multiple gunshot wounds, one being fatal through her heart and lung.
18:46The coroner has deemed both deaths as homicide.
18:50The 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.
19:21It was actually, you guys, trust me.
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.
19:43And 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.
19:55And 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,
20:08is 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.
20:21The only thing I can think of is that she was just wanting to record everything
20:25so 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 bell?
20:43Yeah.
20:44That's a bear bell.
20:46But she's a strong one.
20:48We 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, we, that's never talked about.
21:05Hey, me, where'd you fall?
21:07Okay.
21:07Hey, Christina, there's a small type of hours 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, it's harrowing to hear the actual last moments of their life.
21:56And 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.
22:17Oh, you guys are so sad.
22:20Oh, what's that, douchebags?
22:23Casey is now in this room with them and is mocking them.
22:30And 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.
22:44The 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.
23:14Crucially, 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.
23:30Detectives Kristen Donahoe and Matt Tallman
23:33confronted Casey Duvall with the new evidence.
23:37I had no point in time, Casey.
23:39There was no argument with Jessica.
23:41No?
23:41There was no argument.
23:43At all?
23:43Yep.
23:45Well, there's some things in my head that I could show
23:49where he was arguing about the both things.
23:51And we don't know how to introduce a handgun.
23:53After you come back in with the shotgun,
23:57it's two shots.
23:59You immediately pull your handgun and unload the magazine.
24:02Mm-hmm.
24:03Right?
24:04At that point, the dog is still alive.
24:09It was about seven minutes ago, five.
24:11Um, and 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.
24:19And the next thing when you're in the recording is a gunshot.
24:22I don't remember the time going by between the dog.
24:26I've been trying to understand it, too.
24:28And I'm the only one that was there.
24:30I remember the heated argument.
24:32Maybe it was the argument I had trying to keep in my head over everything I wanted to say to her.
24:37This is one of the most interesting interviews I've seen in a long time.
24:41The fact that he says that he believes that 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 I fabricated it in my own mind.
24:52And so what he's saying is that he has a false memory of what happened.
24:56And even when confronted with the evidence, he 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, Casey had been hanging out with a female friend.
25:09She told the police that Casey said he was going to collect a debt.
25:14And the next morning, he texted her.
25:16But the police still wanted to understand why Casey shot and killed Todd Gray
25:43and his own sister, Jessica Mitchell.
25:46Is it'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.
25:56Okay.
25:57And maybe I was on the way home and thought, this is it.
26:00This is the only time.
26:01The only time for what?
26:03To fuck her.
26:06And it didn't actually have to kill her.
26:10Okay.
26:10Were you thinking about killing her?
26:12Probably what I did.
26:13I don't know what the thought process was.
26:15Prior to this, have you ever had any other thoughts of wanting to harm or kill Jessica and Todd?
26:21Multiple times.
26:22What we know is that he had conflicts with his sister for many years, since he was a child.
26:30And the family also considered her the black sheep in 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 with his sister.
26:42So the question, of course, is why did he kill Todd?
26:45Why did he kill his sister's partner?
26:47And it seems to me that the answer might be a really sad one, which is that simply he was there.
26:56And that he probably wasn't specifically a target.
27:00He was effectively collateral damage to this murder that he'd been fantasizing about.
27:04It's possible that he saw them as a pair and that he always sort of thought, if I'm going to kill my sister, I'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 of first degree murder and animal cruelty.
27:24Originally, he pleaded not guilty, but later he decided to change his plea.
27:32The plea that he ultimately took, he pled guilty to two counts of murder in the second degree, as well as that animal cruelty, and received a sentence just shy of 100 years.
27:45The case divided the community.
27:48There were certainly people that said there is no way that Duvall could have done this.
27:51And that's why it was so important at the sentencing, to make sure that we played just a portion of that audio recording, so that we could set the record straight for any community member that 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 to bringing Casey Duvall to justice.
28:18Jessica's final act was really the instrumental and key piece of evidence that put her murderer behind bars for the next 100 years.
28:27It was in that moment that she practically solved her own murder.
28:32I think they could have together got their life under control.
28:36They both would have been very happy and 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 once 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, you know.
28:52He was my son, but he was also a good friend.
28:54The murder of a sibling is known as siblicide and 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 of fights and arguments and slights over a long period of time, but within the family.
29:21Long-standing grudges don't just fester inside the home, they can also fester in other contexts.
29:28For example, in settings where trivial issues, perceived slights and verbal threats become physical manifestations and can turn into violence.
29:37In 2024, a combination of these three factors led to a brutal murder.
29:42In the U.K., eight miles northeast of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is the town of North Shields.
29:59North Shields sits on the north bed of the River Tyne.
30:03North Shields has a really interesting history.
30:06It was a real epicenter for the fishing industry and for the shipbuilding industry as well.
30:12It was home to 35-year-old Andrew Darn.
30:17Andrew was the heart of the life.
30:19He looked very intimidating because of the size of him, but he was as soft as anything.
30:26He would do anything for anybody.
30:28Andrew grew up 200 miles south in Northamptonshire.
30:33He had an older brother and a younger sister named Natalie.
30:37Andrew was funny.
30:40He was always making everyone laugh.
30:42You couldn't help but laugh at him, no matter what you did.
30:49We're watching the same video over and over.
30:52As a teenager, Andrew fell in love with fishing.
30:57Andrew used to like carp fishing.
31:00I think it was because it was peaceful and relaxing for him.
31:04And 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 northeast, and Andrew started working with his dad.
31:17He used to be the boss at work.
31:19He used to tell me what to do, and 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, and it started to take its toll.
31:37He had turned around and said, look, 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, then that's what you've got to do.
31:55In spring 2022, Andrew started working at a garage door fitting company
32:00on the Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate in North Shields.
32:03He went up on the Monday, and he never looked back.
32:08He loved the job.
32:10But Andrew's boss had been involved in a long-running feud with a man named Alder Willis.
32:17Mr. Willis ran the business next door to where Andrew worked, which was a cafe-deli business,
32:26which he'd been running with his partner for many years.
32:29Andrew had walked into a long-standing antagonism between the two neighbouring businesses,
32:38which had started years before he ever began working there, in about 2010,
32:43over a parking dispute about who was entitled to park in the parking spots outside the businesses.
32:52A debate about a parking space, on the surface, feels like a trivial matter.
32:57But really, parking spaces are symbolic.
33:00They're symbolic of territory.
33:01So what looks like a surface disagreement, actually, if we look deeper,
33:06is about space, is about territory, is about respect, is about power and control.
33:12And they have to defend not only their parking space, but 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.
33:29But 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, but 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,
33:50but 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 because each party retaliates against the other.
34:06Ultimately, 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.
34:37Andrew's boss started keeping a record of any incidents of conflict with Alder Willis.
34:45In October 2022, it was recorded that Willis had threatened to stab Andrew.
34:51On a number of occasions, Willis would threaten to have Andrew stabbed.
34:59He would be constantly giving him dirty looks and making these threats
35:03that he would get someone to come and stab him,
35:05which obviously are quite terrifying threats.
35:08March 26, 2024.
35:12There was another incident involving the female partners of the warring businesses.
35:17But once again, Andrew became the target.
35:21That was the point at which Willis made another threat to kill Mr. Don.
35:28But Willis' threatening behaviour didn't end there.
35:3220 minutes after the incident, Andrew leaves work to run a few errands.
35:37But 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, or any sort of behaviour
36:37which aims to intimidate someone and provoke feelings of anxiety and fear.
36:42And it can include behaviours such as following.
36:45If you look at what Aldo Willis did, he decided to follow Andrew Don in his vehicle.
36:50When a person is a victim of stalking, it's incredibly unsettling.
36:54It's distressing.
36:56There's a sense that your space has been intruded upon in a way that feels incredibly threatening.
37:04The next morning, March 27th, 2024, Andrew set up for work as usual.
37:12Less than an hour later, paramedics were called to the Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate
37:17and found a man with severe injuries.
37:22They tried to save him, but 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.
37:36They'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.
37:46You think it's a dream.
37:49It just doesn't hit home.
37:51I'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 the 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.
38:35At 7.55 a.m., Andrew Darn pulled into the parking area outside the garage door company.
38:41This car here is Andrew Darn's car parked 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 with his supplies for the cafe that day.
39:03Andrew's dash cam recorded what he said to Alder.
39:09Why are you trying to intimidate me?
39:13Why 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.
39:31He's gesturing quite a lot.
39:32The 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.
40:29He goes in for a bit.
40:30He comes out.
40:31You can see him looking in the direction of Andrew's car,
40:34and you can see him moving his hand across his throat,
40:38which we took to be a very hostile gesture.
40:42This is about 20 minutes after their confrontation,
40:46and Willis goes over to Andrew Darn's car.
40:50He may have thought there was 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
41:00or trying to rouse Andrew at that point,
41:03and 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.
41:19Whatever he has seen, Alder Willis does not call for help.
41:26You can see how shocked his partner looks
41:29because she puts her hand across her face.
41:32Alder Willis walks away from Andrew's car,
41:35gets 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
41:49and unconscious.
41:51How's he?
41:53Hello, I need an ambulance.
41:55No, he's just there, Doc.
42:00Five minutes later,
42:02emergency services arrived on the scene
42:04and 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,
42:30who'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
42:56just by looking at this,
42:58but on the face of it,
42:59he seems pretty calm.
43:02A little later,
43:03Willis had a conversation with one of his friends
43:06where he said,
43:07I don't think I'm going to be going to Bennet-Armson.
43:10I think I've killed someone.
43:12Just after 10am,
43:13Willis called a solicitor.
43:15He handed himself in at a police station
43:18and was arrested on suspicion of murder.
43:20The autopsy concluded that Andrew had died
43:25from a single stab wound.
43:27The knife actually pierced his aorta,
43:29a major vessel in the body,
43:31and he died from catastrophic internal bleeding.
43:35The police seized the knife,
43:37which Willis still had in his pocket at the time.
43:40There was blood on this knife.
43:42The DNA tested it,
43:43and it was a match for Andrew Don.
43:45The footage clearly captured the moment
43:50Alder Willis killed Andrew Darn.
43:53Quite often,
43:54the critical moment is not captured,
43:56it'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,
44:10why him?
44:11He had so much going for him.
44:14He loved his job.
44:17He loved his partner.
44:18He loved his children.
44:20He loved his fishing.
44:22And in the space of two seconds,
44:25it's all gone.
44:28In court,
44:30Alder Willis argued self-defense.
44:33We had to prove that the killing was unlawful,
44:35which in this case meant
44:37we had to prove it wasn't done in self-defense.
44:40Willis gave evidence at the trial
44:42and had to be asked about what he'd done.
44:46He did accept that using a knife in response to a punch
44:50was out of proportion.
44:53The jury rejected his defense of self-defense.
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.
45:09He'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
45:29and 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.
45:53And he loved this place.
45:54For Andrew's birthday,
45:56we'd gone down to his favorite place where he liked to fish
46:00and would set off balloons with family.
46:04Happy birthday, Andrew!
46:06It'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
46:18because that's what he would have done.
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