- 7/9/2025
See No Evil Season 14 Episode 6
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00:00It was very clear that she had been beaten up.
00:18She was involved in a very physical altercation.
00:21Now we have to start running down the details.
00:24Surveillance footage was really paramount in this investigation.
00:29Why did she need that money?
00:31Could she have gotten in trouble?
00:33She's gone, and now he's throwing things away right when he gets home.
00:38Something just didn't look right, and it raised our suspicion.
00:42Where'd you go?
00:44Well, the camera doesn't lie.
00:59Eileen Gowan is celebrating her birthday with her family.
01:17Happy 60th birthday, Granny!
01:20Happy birthday, Mom.
01:23Happy birthday, Mom.
01:25She didn't like getting older, that's for sure.
01:29But she still looked good for being 60.
01:33Okay, let me get this food ready.
01:35I'm starving.
01:37She was getting her buzz on cooking, just in her element in the kitchen.
01:42She was an awesome cook.
01:44Can I help?
01:46You can get me another beer.
01:48Eileen and Sam were dating off and on for about a year and a half, maybe two years.
01:55My mom was married three times.
01:57I believe she was a hopeless romantic, and she was always looking for that right person.
02:02Cheers.
02:03Cheers.
02:04She definitely wanted things to work with Sam.
02:07They seemed like they were having a pretty good day together.
02:10She just loved that we were all together.
02:13I just wish I would have done more.
02:15I wish I could have made it more special.
02:29How can I help you, ma'am?
02:30I need to report a missing person.
02:32Nicole came into police records and reported her mother missing on the 14th of February 2023.
02:39She last heard from her mother the morning of the 13th.
02:42I spoke to her at like 8.30 in the morning, and she told me that Sam kicked her out and she had nowhere to go.
02:51There was arguing going on, and it wasn't good.
02:55So a friend of hers, Mike, offered to let her stay for a couple days.
03:00I didn't have Mike's number.
03:02I called Sam.
03:04He said he hasn't heard from her.
03:06It just was very odd to me.
03:08I was worried.
03:10I'll get an officer to look at this.
03:12So Nicole provided us with two names, Sam Brammer, Eileen's on-again, off-again boyfriend, and Mike Brockman, who she was currently living with.
03:27So we needed to speak with both of them.
03:34Right away on the 15th of February, we reached out to Sam Brammer and requested an interview with him.
03:42The missing person's case was initially assigned to Sergeant Ted Roberts.
03:47I'm the sergeant he talked to on the phone.
03:49My name is Ted Roberts.
03:51You know, Eileen, she's never done this kind of thing before.
03:54She's never just, you know, took off and gone.
03:57What she does is she comes to me.
03:59She's moved in with me four or five times.
04:02But usually when she moves in with me, she stays away from home.
04:05He explains that they would be together, they would get in these arguments, and they would break up.
04:11Sam tells detectives that Eileen messaged him on February 13th, the same day that Nicole last heard from her mom.
04:19She texted me, okay, and wanted to know if I would come and get her.
04:24He said she needed to ride from Sugar's Diner to Mike Brockman's residence.
04:29My mom was working at Sugar's in Council Bluffs as a server.
04:34She would come in at 5, 6 in the morning and clean it and then serve for the morning shift.
04:40And then come back for her afternoon shift.
04:43Sam says that he picked up Eileen in his 1999 Ford F-150 at 8.30 in the morning.
04:50They leave Sugar's Diner and he takes her to Mike Brockman's residence.
04:55I pull up, she gets in the truck.
04:58We take off and drop her off there, then I'm left.
05:03It's about two and a half miles from Sugar's Diner.
05:06He would have dropped her off there at about 8.40 in the morning.
05:09Sam indicated that he had not heard from her again.
05:12When Sam mentions that, it certainly makes us want to talk to Mike sooner than later.
05:18Detectives bring in Mike Brockman for questioning.
05:25I'm Detective Branigan. This is Sergeant Roberts. Thanks for coming in today.
05:29Law enforcement wants to know when was the last time Mike Brockman saw Eileen.
05:33How did that relationship work or go?
05:35Tell me how you met Eileen.
05:37Mike said he's a regular patron of Sugar's Diner.
05:42He knows Eileen from frequenting that business.
05:46We asked him if he had any type of contact with Eileen.
05:51Was there ever anything sexual between you and Eileen?
05:54He flat out denied that.
05:56He said he had no desire to have an intimate relationship with her.
06:00Why was Eileen staying at your place?
06:03He allowed her to stay on this couch and stay there for a short period of time.
06:08On Sunday night, had a conversation with her that that was going to be her last night.
06:12She needed to find another place to stay.
06:14And he would take her to work that morning on the 13th, Monday morning.
06:18And he would come pick her up, gather her things, and he would take her wherever she wanted to go.
06:23What time did you drop Eileen off at Sugar's Diner Monday morning?
06:28He said he dropped her off at about 5 in the morning.
06:31Thanks, Mike.
06:32And he says he worked all day.
06:37He arrives home around 5 o'clock in the evening.
06:40So he waits until about 8 p.m.
06:42He still hasn't heard from Eileen.
06:44What did you do then?
06:46So he gathers up Eileen's belongings.
06:48He drives two sugars himself and drops them off.
06:53Mike's account is directly contradicted by Sam's interview that he picked up Eileen and he drove her straight out to Mike Brockley's house.
07:01Both Sam and Mike are released pending further investigation.
07:05Police are now trying to verify the stories that they've received from Sam and from Mike.
07:17First thing they do is start looking for video.
07:21So I reach out to Sugars.
07:22Morning.
07:23Morning.
07:24I'm Sergeant Roberts.
07:25This is Detective Branigan.
07:26Good morning.
07:27We'd like to ask you some questions.
07:29That morning, Eileen came in early.
07:32She did her cleaning.
07:33Then she left at 8.30 in the morning.
07:36Was there anything odd or unusual about Eileen's mood or behavior?
07:40She was supposed to be back at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and she didn't show up.
07:45It was completely out of the ordinary.
07:47Do you have any surveillance cameras on the premises?
07:50Sugar's diner has a camera at the back door, has a camera at the front, at the entrance.
07:57What we're hoping to see is Eileen come to work and how she's acting.
08:03We want to make sure that she's first off acting normal.
08:07Can you start just before 8.30 a.m. on the back door camera?
08:28Stop.
08:34There's Eileen.
08:37We see Eileen walking across the video screen.
08:41She leaves work.
08:42She doesn't look like she's in any type of distress.
08:45Okay, keep playing.
08:48They're really hoping that, you know, as that camera advances, that they'll be able to see what happens next.
08:55Where she goes, who she's with.
08:57Sam indicated that he was driving her out.
09:00And he had a fairly distinctive truck.
09:02He had a Ford F-150.
09:10Rewind and play that again.
09:19It's grammar.
09:21We see Sam's truck drive directly in front of that camera angle.
09:25Play that again.
09:26Stop.
09:27Zoom in.
09:28We can clearly see Eileen sitting in the passenger seat of that truck.
09:41So that confirms the statement from Sam that he did pick her up that morning at 8.30.
09:49And she was healthy, alive, and with him voluntarily.
09:54It's time to start trying to verify Mike Rockman's story.
09:58He had indicated that he had dropped Eileen's belongings off that evening at the back door of Sugar's.
10:04Show me the camera that covers the back.
10:07Play just before 8 p.m.
10:09Stop there.
10:10We can clearly see Mike Rockman removing some items from his truck and leaving them at the back door.
10:28And then he gets back in his truck and he drives off.
10:33So he was telling us the truth.
10:36Now we know that at 8.30 in the morning that she's alive and well in the passenger seat of Sam Brammer's truck.
10:44At about 8 o'clock at night, Mike Rockman is dropping off her belongings at the back door.
10:49So we need to be able to put more things into that timeline.
10:53We need to know where she was at what time, who she was with, what she was doing.
11:00We don't have any of this information yet.
11:08See, now police have to start running down the details.
11:11Does Mike Rockman have an alibi for his whereabouts on the day of February 13th?
11:16And so detectives went to his work.
11:20The manager pulled up his timesheets on the morning of the 13th.
11:24He clocks in around 6 o'clock in the morning.
11:26Mike Rockman was still there talking with co-workers when she left around 4 o'clock.
11:32Mike Rockman was at work all day long on the 13th, just like he told us.
11:40Mike has a pretty solid alibi.
11:42So Sam Brammer was the last one that has been seen with her at 8.30 in the morning.
11:51Investigators switch gears.
11:55The police are trying to find out who has spoken with Eileen, who has seen Eileen after Sam had picked her up from sugars.
12:01So they reach out to friends and family, and they end up speaking with Eileen's mom, Kathleen, at Dudley Court Apartments.
12:09Kathleen tells detectives that Eileen visited her at around 8.45 a.m.
12:14How was Eileen when you saw her on February 13th?
12:18Kathleen said that she was acting completely normal.
12:21What did Eileen do when she came in?
12:24Kathleen said that she went into the apartment, went straight into the bedroom where the safe is kept, retrieved the safe, and she left the apartment.
12:33That safe had about $1,200 into it, according to her mom.
12:38That's a pretty good, sizable amount of money.
12:41Eileen's visit to her mom's apartment conflicts with Sam's account of her movements that morning.
12:47Sam's interview indicated that he picked up Eileen at Sugars at 8.32, and he drove her straight out to Mike Brockman's house.
12:58He lived north and east of Sugars about 5, 10 minutes away.
13:04Eileen's mom's apartment is around 15 minutes west of Sugars, and if he drove her straight out to Mike Brockman's house,
13:10then she couldn't be at her mom's apartment at about 8.45 a.m., 10 minutes later.
13:19So law enforcement is looking to try to verify again the accuracy of the statements.
13:24They're able to acquire the surveillance footage from the Dudley Court apartments.
13:29Okay, start just before 8.40 a.m.
13:31So at about 8.45 in the morning, we see Eileen enter Dudley Court. She comes in through the foyer.
13:50She gets on the elevator.
13:59Next camera.
14:03And then we see her come off the elevator on the second floor.
14:08And she walks directly to her mom's apartment.
14:11And she goes off camera.
14:16And then about 5 minutes later, you can see her coming out.
14:21She's carrying the safe.
14:24It was a small black safe with a handle on top.
14:30Why did she need that money?
14:34Did she need to just get away from everything for a little while?
14:44Or could she have gotten in trouble?
14:46Did she need to pay somebody off?
14:48That's the lobby camera.
14:52She exits out of the lobby.
14:55Unfortunately, there's no cameras that cover where she goes once she leaves.
14:58She's not seen with Sam Bramer, but he's the one that left Sugars with her.
15:04And 15 minutes later, she's on camera at Dudley Court apartments.
15:07So this is certainly pretty good evidence that she is still with Sam Bramer during this period of time.
15:18Across town, Eileen's family struggles with her disappearance.
15:23As time went, we became more and more concerned.
15:29My brother, Jack, made a missing person flyer.
15:34And we all went.
15:36Every gas station, every bar.
15:39I mean, just every business that would let us put it up.
15:47Hey there.
15:48It's Eileen Gowan.
15:49Leave a message.
15:50I was calling her, blowing her phone up.
15:53No response.
15:56My mom was my best friend.
15:59And so I knew I had to stay strong for the girls.
16:02But believe me, there was times that I couldn't.
16:11Investigators refocus on Sam's movements on February 13th.
16:16They review the data from traffic cameras to trace where he went that day.
16:21Sam told us that he picks her up at 830, took her to Mike Brockman's house, and he went back home.
16:28There are a couple of surveillance cameras that were positioned between Sugar's and Mike Brockman's house that captured the highway.
16:38Sam's truck is not captured on that video.
16:40But Sam's truck is identified at 928 AM on the 13th, heading westbound on West Broadway at about 36th Street, which would be leading into Omaha, Nebraska.
16:53Still not in the direction of Mike's house, which is north and east of town.
16:59The next surveillance camera photograph we receive is Sam returning, now traveling eastbound at the same location at 1028 AM, one hour later.
17:11So for one hour, he's somewhere in Nebraska.
17:17There is someone in the passenger side, but you can't see the passenger's face.
17:24Something just didn't look right, and it raised our suspicion.
17:28Investigators invite Sam to the police department for a second interview.
17:39We began talking with him again about his movements that day.
17:45Now this time, he knows that we have some questions, he's prepared, and he gives us a little bit more information.
17:51So I went and picked her up, and she got in the truck, but she didn't want to go home right away.
17:57So me and her just went right down Broadway, and then she wanted to stop her at her mom's house.
18:02He tells us, well, I didn't take her straight to Mike Brockman's house.
18:08First, she needed to go see her mom.
18:10So we went to Dudley Court.
18:12I stopped her at her mom's house, and she was in there for, I don't know, five or ten minutes.
18:16She came out of there, got back in.
18:19She just said she wanted to talk to her mom.
18:21That's what she told me.
18:22Did she come out with anything?
18:23Did she have anything?
18:24Yeah, she had her purse, and she had a black seat with her.
18:28She wanted to talk to me about helping her get in the apartment.
18:31Now we know what that money was for.
18:33That money was to put down on an apartment the deposit, first month's rent.
18:39We received video photos from Sherwood Apartments, and located them walking up to the door,
18:45seeing that the office doors were closed, and then they left.
18:50That confirms that part of his story, but he still ends up with the story
18:54that he drops her off at Mike Brockman's house.
18:57Okay, and it's somewhere off of there is where you drop her on.
19:00As soon as I pulled up, and she didn't want to be going to the driveway
19:03in case he was there.
19:04That's when I watched her.
19:06Okay.
19:08We know that he didn't take her to Mike Brockman's house,
19:13because we have the video of him going back west.
19:17We have a camera at 36th and Broadway, and we have your truck going westbound at 928 AM going to Omaha.
19:23I told you I went straight home.
19:25I don't remember going to Omaha.
19:27Well, the camera doesn't lie.
19:30And then one hour later, you're coming back from Omaha,
19:34and you're coming back into Council Plus.
19:38One hour later.
19:39Where'd you go?
19:41I'm with your mom.
19:42I know that he's not telling me the truth.
19:44I don't know why he's lying to me yet, but there's a lot of things that just aren't adding up.
19:51We'd like to look a little bit further in your phone and get the location information off of it,
19:55so that we can see where you went during that time.
19:59Okay?
20:01We applied for search warrants for Sam and Eileen's phone.
20:05We can find out the movements of their phones.
20:14While investigators wait for the phone data,
20:18they review the surveillance footage from the apartments where Sam lives.
20:22Play the camera that faces the parking lot.
20:31That's Sam's truck.
20:34This camera angle shows Sam Brammer arriving home at 1259 on the 13th,
20:41the day that Eileen went missing.
20:46He gets out, fiddles around with his truck.
20:52Sam takes some things out of the truck and walks away.
21:00What's he got in the bag?
21:01Is there a camera that shows where Sam goes?
21:15Right at the entrance is a dumpster.
21:18We can see Sam, and he walks toward that dumpster carrying whatever it is that he's carrying.
21:22What's he throwing in the trash?
21:23What's he throwing in the trash?
21:25It's hard to tell.
21:27Go back to the first camera.
21:28He returns to his truck.
21:30He's opening up the doors.
21:32He looks like he's cleaning a couple of things up.
21:33Why is he spending so much time in the passenger side?
21:34That door is open.
21:35There's a tree there.
21:36It's hard to see exactly what he's doing.
21:37Then he closes up the truck.
21:38Then he closes up the truck.
21:39And he opens up the trash.
21:40It's hard to tell.
21:41Go back to the first camera.
21:43He returns to his truck.
21:45He's opening up the doors.
21:47He looks like he's cleaning a couple of things up.
21:50Why is he spending so much time in the passenger side?
21:54That door is open.
21:55There's a tree there.
21:56It's hard to see exactly what he's doing.
21:58Then he closes up the truck and walks back to his apartment.
22:09We can clearly see that Eileen's not in the truck at this time.
22:16She's gone.
22:17And now he's throwing things away right when he gets home.
22:21That raises some red flags with me.
22:23By the time we realized that footage existed, it was too late to find out what he'd put in the dumpster.
22:31That dumpster had already been emptied.
22:35Okay.
22:36Let's just keep washing and see if Sam comes back out to his truck.
22:39The surveillance camera on the 14th shows him leaving in his truck after dark about 8 p.m.
22:58Fast forward. Let's see when he comes back.
23:00He returns at about 10 p.m.
23:09So he's gone for about two hours.
23:12We need to know where Sam went.
23:14So we still have some unresolved questions that we would like to talk with him about.
23:19We had tried to contact him, leaving messages, but we didn't get any response.
23:32Investigators issue a bolo for Sam and his pickup.
23:36You can light it up. It's approaching him.
23:39A patrol officer spots the truck in Council Bluffs later that afternoon.
23:43Sam is obviously beginning to elude.
23:47He speeds up.
23:49It's a dangerous pursuit.
23:52He's driving recklessly.
23:55There's traffic.
23:57The speeds are getting pretty high.
24:00He's running stop signs.
24:03So it's determined that this pursuit needs to end.
24:07A warrant is obtained for Sam's arrest for eluding.
24:18Three days later, Sam Brammer turns up at the police department.
24:23I'm Sam Brammer.
24:25I got outstanding warrants.
24:27I'm here to get myself up.
24:29I drove straight to the station and prepared to talk to him.
24:33Detective Branigan questioned Sam for a third time about his movements on the day that Eileen disappeared.
24:40I'm trying to really lock him in to a final route that he took.
24:47Where did you go between 9-28 and 10-28 with Eileen?
24:51He now admits to having new memories.
24:55He now remembers that they did actually travel over across to Omaha.
24:58He said they went to Carter Lake to the park, which is actually in Omaha.
25:05And he said that they fooled around a little bit.
25:09So that was his reason for being in Omaha for an hour.
25:15And where did you go then?
25:17I dropped her off at Mike's place.
25:19If you don't believe me, I can show you the route we took.
25:22And I thought, you know, that's a great idea. Let's do that.
25:31We turned up 205th Street, and 205th is where Mike Brockman lives.
25:36He says, this right here is where I turned around.
25:39She got out, grabbed her purse, grabbed her safe, and she just stood there as I drove away.
25:46So he's able to claim at that point he has no idea where she went because he last saw her standing on the side of 205th Street between two homes.
25:56I absolutely know he's lying at that point. He never made it there. He never went to 205th Street.
26:01So we drive back to his apartment. I pulled up right behind his truck, and I asked him, Sam, do you mind if we take a look in your truck?
26:14He says, you're not going to find anything, he said.
26:17We just want to look and see if there's anything in there that tells us that there was a disturbance between you and Eileen inside that truck.
26:23So, Detective Fletcher looked inside the vehicle. He didn't see anything completely out of the ordinary.
26:32Sam Brammer knew now that we were definitely interested in this truck.
26:37We wanted to see inside that truck.
26:39But at this point, we only have a missing person.
26:43We don't have a crime. So I don't have probable cause to seize or search anything.
26:53Sam is taken back to the station and released on bail for his traffic violations.
27:00Investigators refocus on tracing Sam's movements on February 13th, the day Eileen disappeared.
27:08When Sam comes back from Omaha, the traffic camera captures his truck at 1028, but we didn't know where he went after that.
27:17So I requested a couple of our detectives to go canvas every business in that area for any kind of video footage that they could find, and they did just that.
27:26We were able to secure video from one of the businesses in this area, it's Burger King, in the 3200 block of West Broadway, right by the traffic camera at 36th and Broadway.
27:38Play from there.
27:39We can see Sam Brammer's truck pull up to the drive-through.
27:49Okay, rewind. Let's have another look.
27:53It captures both him and Eileen in the passenger side.
27:59We know it's Eileen, but the way she's positioned is very awkward. It's strange.
28:06Zoom into Eileen.
28:09It looks like her right arm has crossed her body. It just, she doesn't look right and all you can see is her lower body.
28:21And nothing moves. The whole time that he's sitting there, nothing moves.
28:26We watched it several times. I never thought that I would ever see a piece of video footage like this.
28:45We started noticing Brammer. Look at his chest. It's really moving up and down.
28:50He was taking very large breaths. He was gasping.
28:57You could see the nervousness on Brammer.
29:01After that, we were convinced that Eileen was either hurt very bad and unconscious or already deceased.
29:09And that we received a phone call.
29:20911, what's the address of your emergency?
29:22Can I say Iowa?
29:23What's going on?
29:24So we're driving down the road and there is a dead body on the side of the road.
29:30Do you know if it's male or female?
29:32It's female for sure.
29:34On February 26th, a 911 call came in alerting authorities to a body that had been located.
29:41I was the on-call supervisor that day. And so that's why I was dispatched to it.
29:46I could see that the body was on the side of the roadway in the ditch.
29:52The body had jeans on and a coat with a zipper.
29:56And I was aware of the clothing that Eileen had last been seen in.
30:01So it was pretty apparent that that was her.
30:06Detective, you seen a black safe box?
30:09Nope.
30:11The safe wasn't anywhere in the area.
30:15She was missing her glasses.
30:17One of her shoes was missing.
30:19Her purse was not in the area.
30:21Her phone wasn't around her.
30:24When could she have been dumped here?
30:26It had snowed several days before.
30:29And so the snow had begun to melt.
30:32That's when the body was able to be seen.
30:35We could see that there really wasn't snow underneath the body,
30:38which suggested that she had been there prior to when it snowed,
30:43since roughly the 13th, the day she went missing.
30:47There was a laceration on the top of her head,
30:50and there was also a ligature mark on her neck that we noted.
30:54The number of contusions and injuries that Eileen sustained,
30:59it was very clear that she had been beaten up.
31:03She was involved in a very physical altercation.
31:05Now my investigation ramps up.
31:09Now we absolutely have a homicide.
31:16Investigators contact Eileen's family with the news.
31:20Detective Branigan said,
31:23I'm sorry to inform you, but it was your mom's body that we found.
31:26I just lost it.
31:31That little sliver of hope is, of course, gone.
31:37You don't ever think that something like this is going to happen to someone you know.
31:41I couldn't tell my daughter that the person she loved so much was never coming back.
31:47I felt between helpless and hopeless.
31:51My focus was they better get him before I do.
31:56Detective secure a warrant to search Sam's apartment and his pickup truck.
32:01The truck wasn't there that night.
32:03We had announced ourselves, entered.
32:07Sam was inside the residence.
32:09He didn't want to talk to us.
32:11Put Sam on the stairs and searched the apartment.
32:13Sam shares that apartment with his granddaughter Emily.
32:18We asked Emily what happened to her grandpa's truck.
32:22My grandpa told me to tell anybody who asks about the truck and where it is.
32:29He told me to say, I don't know.
32:32That's all he told me to say, was I don't know where it is.
32:36I told the police officer that a few days prior, my grandpa asked me if I could follow him in his truck to the scrapyard in Carter Lake.
32:48He pulled his truck in to go get crushed.
32:52We received the still photos from Lakeside Auto Salvage.
32:56We can clearly see his truck, his driver's license, and him in his truck.
33:02He had the car shredded.
33:05Our belief was that there would have been incriminating forensic evidence in that truck.
33:10He was able to get that truck crushed before we were able to get it searched.
33:15We missed that opportunity.
33:18It just makes you shake your head.
33:20It's unbelievable.
33:21What else could happen?
33:27Detectives received Sam's and Eileen's cell phone data from February 13th.
33:32We were able to triangulate their locations with cell towers.
33:37The information that we received shows the phones traveling together up until about 11 o'clock in the morning.
33:47And right about that time, the phones are no longer communicating, which means they were either turned off or they were placed on airplane mode.
33:55Investigators search for surveillance cameras close to the location of the last ping from Eileen's phone.
34:05We were able to find some surveillance video from a Department of Transportation camera out in Trainer, Iowa on Highway 92.
34:12At 11.46 a.m. on February 13th, a camera captures Sam Brammer's pickup.
34:19Sam's truck is seen traveling east on Highway 92 through Trainer, Iowa.
34:24And he drives out of sight, continuing east.
34:29And at 12.34, we again see Sam's truck, this time traveling on Highway 92 back toward Council Bluffs.
34:45Now, we can clearly see through his windshield as he's driving, he's the only person inside that truck.
34:56But Eileen's phone is with him.
35:06Sam continues all the way to his home.
35:08When he gets home at 12.59, we know Eileen is not in that truck because he has it all opened up.
35:19I believe that Sam dumped her somewhere east of Trainer.
35:27Just to get her out of his truck, he needed to find someplace to hide her quickly.
35:39The next day, we know he's gone for two hours.
35:43On the 14th, as we see the surveillance video showing him leaving the apartment complex about 8 p.m.
35:51And returning at 10 p.m., that would have been plenty of time for him to drive, retrieve her body,
35:58take her to the different location, and drop her body on Mormon Bridge Road.
36:01Law enforcement is really, you know, looking at motive at this point.
36:09So, we've obtained Sam's bank records.
36:12I came upon one deposit that occurred on the 15th of February.
36:17This was a deposit of $1,200 in cash.
36:21This amount of money matches the amount of money that should have been in the safe that Eileen had.
36:28Video from the bank does show Sam Brammer enter the bank and give cash to the teller.
36:35This was very significant because Eileen has a safe that has $1,200 cash in it that has gone missing.
36:43And then two days later, he's showing up at the bank depositing, coincidentally, $1,200 in cash.
36:50He had taken possession of her safe.
36:51So, at this point, we had enough probable cause to issue warrants for Sam Brammer's arrest.
37:04On May 24th, Sam Brammer is arrested.
37:08He was formally charged in August of 2023 with second-degree murder.
37:13And then the trial began in mid-November.
37:16Prosecutors lay out the events that led to Eileen's murder.
37:19Sam picked her up at Sugar's at 832.
37:24He drove her to her mom's apartment where she retrieved the safe.
37:30Then they started heading westbound through the city of Council Bluffs.
37:35Across to Omaha.
37:38They drove to Carter Lake.
37:40Oh, no, no, no. Come on, come on.
37:43Come on, jump out. It's a beautiful day. Come on.
37:46No, no.
37:48Yeah. Come here.
37:51Hey, come here.
37:52Sam, no.
37:54Stop.
37:55I posited to the jury that he's assaulting her with something more than his fist,
38:01something significant enough to cause a laceration to the left side of her scalp.
38:06He brutally assaulted her while he was choking her.
38:09And during that assault, she died.
38:14He then puts her back in the truck and heads back into Council Bluffs.
38:19At 1036 AM, she can be seen now awkwardly slumped in the drive-through at Burger King.
38:29We have cell phone data and the surveillance video that showed that he was heading east toward Traynor, where he dumped her body.
38:41Shortly thereafter, he's heading back westbound, back into Council Bluffs, without Eileen.
38:47And then he arrives back home, the Cottonwood Apartments, and he grabs something from the bed of the truck, and we see him walk across and deposit that item in the dumpster.
39:00The next day, she's leaving the apartment complex about 8 PM to collect her body from maybe where it had initially been dumped to where it ultimately ends up north of town at Mormon Bridge Road in 152nd.
39:15Then Sam Bramer deposited $1,200 cash, probably taken from her safe.
39:27On January 18th, 2024, the judge sentenced Sam Bramer to the maximum of 65 years in prison for murder in the second degree, abuse of a corpse, and theft in the second degree.
39:39Mike Brockman was cleared of any wrongdoing whatsoever.
39:43Surveillance footage was really paramount in this investigation.
39:48Even though the crime itself was not captured on video, almost the entire before and almost the entire after was captured on surveillance video.
39:58Without the cameras, we would have possibly never solved this crime.
40:02It was partial release when we found out that he was guilty, but then the other part of it is it didn't bring mom back.
40:15So that would give anything to talk to my mom one more time.
40:18I just miss her big personality and it's infuriating that someone could take that for no good reason.
40:31I would just choose to remember her as somebody who was always willing and able to do her best for her kids and her grandkids.
40:40She was funny. She loved life. She had this weird laugh that was contagious. She was just a great person.
40:51Whenever I needed her, whether it was in the middle of the night or she had something going on, she would stop what she's doing and come to be with me.
40:59Just anything. She was there. I love and miss her very much.
41:10Next time on See No Evil.
41:13Calls of death had been ruled a homicide. They said it was very clear strangulation.
41:19I noticed several cameras. We see the suspect. We need to find out who he is. I want to get this person off the streets immediately.
41:26Calls of death.
41:27Calls of death.
41:28Calls of death.
41:30Calls of death.
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