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In Baltimore, a killer strangles two women to death less than a week apart. Investigators piece together the clues from CCTV footage from the locations of the two homicides to reveal a suspect with designs on becoming a serial killer.
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00:07Anita Barrett's cause of death had been ruled a homicide.
00:10They said it was very clear strangulation.
00:12She was always a show-decking girl.
00:15911, you suggest a green emergency.
00:17911 call came through.
00:19The hotel staff had located another body.
00:23It's uncommon to have two women killed within a week by asphyxiation.
00:29I noticed several cameras facing directly at the room that Ashley was murdered in.
00:34We see that the suspect is leaving.
00:37He's walking quickly.
00:38We need to find out who he is.
00:40I want to get this person off the streets immediately.
00:59Donita was living on Annapolis Road with her boyfriend, Justin, and her two-year-old son.
01:18Her daughter was five years old and living with her grandma.
01:26But she still made time to see her and be around her.
01:31She was a good mom.
01:33Donita didn't like her name.
01:35She preferred to be called Lexi.
01:37We met 2014, 2015, a year before she had her first daughter.
01:44And we just never left each other's side after that.
01:48She was like my best friend.
01:50She was always a show-decking girl.
01:52We went through, like, everything together in our teenage years.
01:55She was like the realest person you could ever meet.
01:58We was planning to see each other.
02:03I texted her early in the day just to check on her.
02:06And she responded back like she was okay and I went to work.
02:11I didn't hear from her again after that.
02:13Shortly after midnight on March 22nd of 2021, 9-1-1 operators told us that we had a suspicious death.
02:29That's Annapolis Road.
02:31An adult female was found unresponsive.
02:38The primary officer arrived.
02:40The civilians were on the sidewalk.
02:42The victim's sister, they informed him that the deceased, Ms. Barrett, was inside the blind.
02:48He reports that Anita was laying in the middle of the floor on her stomach.
02:53EMS are already on the scene.
02:58The medics could not revive her.
03:01I get there in maybe 15, 20 minutes after the call.
03:07Myself and Detective Scott entered their residence.
03:12It appeared that there was no forced entry into the house.
03:15Things seemed neat and orderly.
03:16Danita's cell phone was next to her body.
03:20And we noticed that there was an unwrapped condom in the room.
03:22Medical examiners examined Ms. Barrett's body on the floor.
03:26The body was in full rigor mortis.
03:27So we assumed it had been there probably at least eight to 12 hours.
03:36The medical examiner didn't find any injuries that you could see with the naked eye.
03:39It left us a little puzzle as far as the cause of death.
03:40Let me know what you find.
03:41But I felt in my gut that it wasn't natural.
03:42Detective McDonnell heads outside to speak to the victim's sister, Diana.
03:46What happened here?
03:47He informed us that she was brought to the location by Danita's boyfriend, Justin.
03:49And he's the one that actually discovered Danita's body.
03:52Gone.
03:53He told Danita's sister that she was brought to the location by Danita's boyfriend, Justin.
03:59And he's the one that actually discovered Danita's body.
04:04Gone.
04:05He told Danita's sister that she was brought to the location by Danita's boyfriend, Justin.
04:11And he's the one that actually discovered Danita's body.
04:18Gone.
04:19He told Danita's sister that he had gone over to the house.
04:23There were no lights on.
04:25He actually tripped over the body.
04:27Instead of calling 911, Justin phoned Danita's brother and sister.
04:32What?
04:33And then they went to the location.
04:36After they went in and saw the body, her brother called 911.
04:40Justin fled the scene soon after.
04:43We were informed Justin had been in a car park across the street.
04:48But prior to our arrival, he left the scene.
04:50He just drove off.
04:52Danita's sister knew the boyfriend's first name was Justin.
04:57And that's all the information she had.
04:59Okay.
05:01What else can you tell me about Danita?
05:03Danita's sister was very candid in telling us that Danita was a prostitute.
05:07That she utilized her house.
05:09There was her house there on Annapolis Road as a place to meet her customers.
05:14I can only surmise.
05:15One of two things happened.
05:17She was either killed by a customer and or she was killed by Justin.
05:22Danita had only been prostituting for about six months.
05:25And that she was doing it solely to provide a better life for her and her son.
05:30She assured me that the only substance that Danita had ever used was marijuana.
05:36Okay.
05:41McDonald.
05:42I got a phone call from the OCME's office.
05:45And they informed me that Danita's cause of death had been ruled a homicide by asphyxiation.
05:51They said it was very clear with strangulation.
05:53Mm-hmm.
05:54Huh.
05:55The news of Danita's death spreads fast.
06:08And she called me like, yeah, you know, oh my God, Dad.
06:13I'm sorry I gotta be the person to tell you, but Lexi is gone, yo.
06:20So I'm crying.
06:21And like, me and I have been through so much together.
06:25And I'm asking her like, what happened?
06:30She couldn't really tell me what happened.
06:32I'm thinking like, oh my gosh.
06:34Like, she just had her son.
06:35Like, she didn't even get to watch him grow up and see neither one of her children grow
06:42to their teenage years, take them to school, none of that.
06:46Two detectives from my squad did an area canvas.
06:55And they spoke to a young lady who lived several doors down from Danita's house.
06:59She informed them that approximately a year ago, Danita and her boyfriend had gotten into
07:04a loud altercation that ended with hands put on her neck.
07:08But they didn't know of a police report and if anything ever became of it.
07:12Justin became more of a person of interest.
07:17So we had our homicide operations unit, um, start looking for Justin.
07:23No more neighbors come forward with information.
07:26So investigators look for electronic witnesses.
07:31Detectives canvas the area to find ring cameras or store surveillance cameras.
07:37Hopefully we could see someone going in the house.
07:39And they also informed me of a CCTV camera, city owned, at the top of the block of Annapolis Road
07:45in front of the firehouse.
07:46Danita's house is probably several hundred yards away from this camera.
07:53While they wait for access to the CCTV footage, investigators examine the items recovered from Danita's home.
08:00Detectives had searched the home and found her cell phone.
08:07They had requested a warrant to look through her phone to figure out who she had last been in communication with.
08:14Cell phones are a wealth of information, but almost all phones now have passcodes.
08:18Believe it or not, it's more common than you would think.
08:21People use either their birthday, their kid's birthday.
08:24So I used Danita's child's birthday, which actually opened the phone.
08:31There were a lot of calls and missed and unanswered text messages.
08:35But there was a text conversation in Ms. Barrett's phone that was the last message that she had responded to.
08:41She had directed somebody who was planning on meeting her to her neighbor's house, to their back door, rather than to her address.
08:50I would think she wanted to see who was going to be meeting her before that person knew where she lived.
08:55To a customer she actually wants to date, and then she'd call them over and then utilize the back door of her residence instead of the front door.
09:02That way, you know, your neighbors don't see people coming and going in the front of the house.
09:07Danita had never responded to any more messages after the 140.
09:14There were a lot of incoming, but she never responded to them.
09:17Hey, I've got a time frame.
09:20They gave us a time of 140 as approximately the time that we believe the assault had occurred.
09:26Ran that number through our databases in the department.
09:30Yeah.
09:32Can you run a number for me?
09:38While they wait for the results of the check, investigators analyze the CCTV footage.
09:43Go to the Annapolis Road camera and start at 140.
09:53This particular camera we had on Annapolis Road, it panned from one location,
09:58then it would go around before it came back again.
10:10Punch in there.
10:11As we were watching the CCTV cameras,
10:14as it panned down towards Danita's house,
10:16we saw an individual several hundred yards down the street.
10:19We were watching the CCTV pan down towards Danita's house.
10:37The distance was so great that we couldn't tell if the individual was going to her house.
10:41Can you clean it up?
10:44We couldn't get a good description of the person, even what they were wearing.
10:49It's close to the time where we think the time of death was.
10:52So we were a little excited that maybe if this person had left the house and walked back up towards the camera,
10:58hopefully we could see this person again.
11:01When cameras are rotating, you more or less hold your breath for the next rotation.
11:07It usually takes about 45 seconds for the camera to rotate fully around.
11:12Sometimes the camera footage is so frustrating, right?
11:17When you need it to be on one side of the street and the camera is inevitably on the other side of the street.
11:31They're gone.
11:32We never saw them come back out of the house.
11:35We assumed it probably was one of the neighbors.
11:39Okay, let's keep looking through it.
11:41We kind of concentrated on the time between 1.30 and 2.30 down Annapolis Road.
11:48We knew she wasn't using the front door for her customers,
11:51but we were hoping we'd see something, maybe someone stop out front,
11:55and then go around the back of the house.
11:58My partner noticed a delivery van coming out of an alley.
12:15Directly underneath or pretty much underneath a CCTV camera in front of the firehouse.
12:19That's odd.
12:21It's very uncommon for people to drive in these alleys in this area.
12:31There's a lot of debris and trash in the alleys.
12:33Once it pulled out, it made a right turn on Annapolis Road,
12:36and it appeared to stop in front of Danita's house.
12:39We never see anyone get out of the vehicle or go back into the vehicle.
12:45Punching on the plate.
12:46Punching on the plate.
12:56I can't read it.
12:57It was parked there for longer than you would expect a delivery truck to be.
13:0410, 15 minutes later, that vehicle leaves from in front of Danita's house.
13:07Makes a U-turn on Annapolis Road.
13:09And drives up back underneath the camera and out of sight of the camera.
13:22They asked me to subpoena the records from that retail company to see if they could figure out which truck had been in the area at that time and maybe who had been driving it.
13:37The company did not have GPS tracking on their van, so we weren't able to determine who had been driving the truck at that time.
13:47Once the van pulls away, you're a little disappointed that it didn't capture what you hoped it would have captured.
13:54Seeing Danita alive, you know, would have been a great help as far as closing the timeline in.
14:01But we never saw her enter her exit the house.
14:04The footage from the fire station camera reveals no further leads.
14:10There was a camera opposite to Anita's house across the street.
14:19Play this.
14:20It also had some video.
14:23Annapolis Road is like six lanes across, so it's a good distance across the road.
14:27It's not just a smaller city street.
14:29The system was so neglected that images really weren't that clear.
14:45Detective McDonald receives notification of a breakthrough in identifying Danita's boyfriend, Justin.
14:51We obtained a screenshot of Justin.
14:54We used facial recognition through the Baltimore City Police Department.
14:58We identified Justin as Justin Powell.
15:03We ran him through Baltimore City databases, and it was established that he had an open warrant for handgun violation.
15:12The medical examiner shares the results of Danita's autopsy with investigators.
15:17There was evidence of sexual activity on her body, so we knew that the person that had strangled her had engaged in some sort of sexual activity with her.
15:31When you have a sexual component to a crime, you do look towards the domestic partner first.
15:38Strangulation has a very personal component to it.
15:44You are literally taking the life out of somebody with your own hands.
15:50I was pretty confident Justin was the suspect.
15:54I need a warrant for Justin Powell.
15:56I passed this information and went to the Warrant Apprehension Task Force in Homicide Operations.
16:01And they went out to search for Mr. Powell.
16:05He's now our number one suspect in the murder of Danita Barrett.
16:09Meantime, Danita's family and friends gather for her funeral.
16:21Danita was well known in the neighborhood.
16:23A whole bunch of people came.
16:28More than I expected.
16:34When her daughter walked up to her casket, her daughter broke down.
16:40It was the saddest thing.
16:41It was the saddest thing, like, you could ever see.
16:44Like, she asked, is that my mommy?
16:47And then just broke down crying.
16:52I just started crying.
16:54It was so sad.
16:55It was so sad.
16:56It was so sad.
16:57The Warrant Apprehension Task Force is still trying to locate Justin.
17:10When 911 receives another call.
17:16911 call came through hotel staff at the Deluxe Plaza off of Gulaski Highway.
17:25Have located another body.
17:37On March 28, 2021, a patrol officer was dispatched to the Deluxe Plaza Motel in Baltimore.
17:46The motel staff advised that they went to a guest room who had not checked out on time.
17:49They knocked on the door, and after receiving no answer, they used a room key to enter the room.
17:55Upon entering the room, they found a deceased female on the ground.
17:59The officer notified the homicide unit.
18:05We're not sure what we're gonna find when we get there.
18:07I get to the room, there's a deceased female laying face down on the ground next to the bed, still wearing clothes.
18:17I don't notice any signs of trauma or foul play.
18:21There was an empty pill bottle and a drug paraphernalia.
18:32Initially, they thought maybe it was a drug overdose because there was some evidence in the hotel room of recent drug use.
18:39The medical investigator arrives, the victim is rolled over, and the body is examined.
18:46The victim was strangled, and the larynx was broken.
18:49I would start looking around the room to help identify the victim.
19:02We located a credit card, which had the name Ashley Lambert, as well as a cup from Dunkin' Donuts.
19:11This time in the investigation, we need to find the family of Ashley Lambert to notify them of her death.
19:16We check the police database, and we find out that she has family in a neighboring county.
19:23Ashley was at one time my wife, and she is my children's mother.
19:29She was very caring and kind and sweet, and she was also really good with children.
19:35My mom, she was very outgoing.
19:37She loved to be with family.
19:39She really loved to hang out with her kids.
19:41She was very open, and she made you feel like you could talk to her about anything, you know?
19:47I was never nervous to ever tell her anything.
19:50She loved making people feel special.
19:53She was outgoing, opinionated, funny, happy, but she dealt with mental illness.
20:03She would go through different periods in her life, but even through all that, she, you know, always tried to be the best mother, tried to be the best wife, daughter, friend.
20:16Ashley started struggling with drugs, which is why the children came to stay with me, and why her sons were with her grandparents.
20:27She always hoped to get her own place and for the kids to come back to stay with her.
20:33She had tried to get help with rehab, but it wasn't successful.
20:36It's very hard to kick a habit like that.
20:40She was a beautiful, kind-hearted person.
20:49On Baltimore, it's uncommon to have two women killed within a week, both being found in a room by themselves and both being strangled.
20:56Danita Barrett, it was a very similar case. My job at this juncture is to find Danita's boyfriend, our number one suspect, Justin, and bring him in for questioning.
21:10Back at the Deluxe Plaza, investigators search for clues that could identify Ashley's killer.
21:17Now that we know this is a murder, it's time to step up the investigation.
21:21We need to find witnesses, evidence, video footage to help capture this killer.
21:28I noticed that the motel is equipped with several cameras to include the lobby, as well as the parking lot, facing directly at the room that Ashley was murdered in.
21:36We go back to the security room of the motel, where we can now view all the cameras.
21:41That hotel has several cameras. They have one camera near the check-in area. They have one camera that overlooks the parking lots, where the doors to the hotel rooms are.
21:53I noticed it's a decent video system. The cameras are not equipped with sound, but you can see clear pictures.
22:00Okay, can you start from where your last are?
22:03So I watched the video to find out when the person was last seen alive, to show what led up to the death of Ashley Lambert.
22:10Okay, there she is. You can pause it there.
22:23At this time, it was 2.03 p.m. on March 27th.
22:27Okay, just keep it playing.
22:28And I see an individual walking quickly.
22:54Back it up.
22:55An individual in their hoodie and camouflage, backpack, walks up to the door carrying a white bag.
23:14Zoom in there.
23:18He knocks on the door. Ashley Lambert answers. After a brief conversation, he's let in the room.
23:26I continue watching, and the next thing I see is this individual leaving the room approximately 25 minutes later.
23:43Seeing that this individual is in the room for only 25 minutes, and now he's leaving the room, walking away quickly, it looks very suspicious to me.
23:50Can you enlarge it?
23:54The hoodie he's wearing is partially covering his face, and the camera footage is not clear enough to identify him.
24:04It's frustrating.
24:05Not seeing anyone else enter or exit that room, now we know that this individual is our potential killer.
24:17Can you follow him?
24:18I discovered there is an additional camera in the front of the building. This camera showed the entrance to the motel.
24:31I noticed that he had a red hoodie, and he's standing at a vending machine, digging through his backpack.
24:47I could see his face, and it was covered by a mask, but I could tell it was dark skin.
25:00And the individual walks eastbound on Pulaski Highway, out of the view of the camera footage.
25:13I need a copy of this, and can you bring up the details of who rented the room?
25:20She wasn't the one that rented the room. The room had been rented by a male.
25:25He had signed the rental paperwork and had rented the room initially for one night.
25:32The detectives learned that he extended the room for a second night.
25:35The hotel staff provided us the name of the person who rented the room, and his name is Michael.
25:42The motel provided information on how he paid for the room, as well as his address and phone number.
25:47Now we need to find Michael as soon as possible to find out if he's responsible for the death of Ashley.
26:05We get to Michael's house and knock on the door.
26:08It's in the back of your mind that this could be the potential killer.
26:14You have to be careful. You don't know what to expect.
26:17You just go in prepared and be ready for anything.
26:25Michael answers.
26:28G'day, sir. Did I ask you a couple questions?
26:31He did not match the description of the last individual seen leaving the room.
26:35Michael comes outside with us, tries to get us away from his house.
26:40He seems a bit nervous.
26:42At this time, he explains to us that his wife and newborn child are inside the house.
26:47He explains that he met Ashley on a dating app.
26:51Met her at a hotel because he likes to get high.
26:54He rented the room the first night, hung out with Ashley.
26:59They partied, and he said he left in the morning.
27:02What about the second night?
27:03He later came back to the motel, and Ashley asked him if he would rent the motel for one more night because she had no place to stay.
27:11Michael paid for the room.
27:12Did you go back again?
27:13Michael said the last time he saw Ashley was March 27th, the day before Ashley was found murdered.
27:19I believe what Michael was telling us.
27:29If Michael is not the killer...
27:31Did you play the footage from the motel again?
27:33Then we need to find out who is.
27:37I want to make sure we get this person off the streets immediately.
27:40At this time, I continue watching the video footage to find more clues.
27:55Can you punch in there?
27:56I noticed that the man in the red hoodie is carrying a small white pastry bag before he enters Ashley's room.
28:04I need to find out where he purchased this item, which could lead me to additional footage and hopefully his identification.
28:10I watched the video footage and I saw the direction where he came from before entering Ashley's room.
28:18Can you bring up the map?
28:19Knowing that this individual in the red hoodie is walking, we wanted to find a location that was within walking distance.
28:26We noticed that there was two locations, a liquor store and a Dunkin' Donuts.
28:31They were only a few hundred yards away.
28:33Inside of the hotel room, there was a styrofoam coffee cup from Dunkin' Donuts.
28:40So they went to the Dunkin' Donuts.
28:46I immediately noticed that they had cameras on the outside of the establishment.
28:50I asked the manager if we could view the footage.
28:56Can you start at 1.30 on the 28th?
29:15They were able to see the same person wearing the same clothing approaching the Dunkin'.
29:19We're approaching the Dunkin' Donuts 30 minutes before we see this person entering Ashley's room.
29:32Camera footage shows the individual in the red hoodie from before.
29:36But it's not clear enough to show his face and he's still wearing a mask before he entered.
29:44Detectives show a picture of the suspect to the restaurant staff.
29:47The waitress recalls serving him on the day of Ashley's murder.
29:54Did he make that purchase with cash or did he use a credit card?
29:57Because if he used a credit card to pay for this item, we have a better chance of tracking him down.
30:02Can you get me those transaction details?
30:04Dunkin' Donuts was able to go back into their system and regenerate the receipt that had the credit card information for that purchase.
30:14Because of legal reasons, Dunkin' Donuts is not allowed to give us the information about the person who made the purchase.
30:22I then had to subpoena the bank in order to get the actual records from the bank to show who that bank account belonged to.
30:31What we were doing to do is the place to do.
30:34Meantime, investigators on the Donita Barrett case receive a list of names from the numbers on the victim's cell.
30:44I've got a hit on the phone.
30:46Detective McDonald learns the name
30:48of the last person to text Danita.
30:51And he came back with a result,
30:53and that result was a gentleman called Christopher Tyson.
30:57We ran a background check on him
31:00because he wasn't in convicted film.
31:02In this database, there were other run-ins he had
31:05with different entities,
31:07whether it be law enforcement or school,
31:09but he did have a past.
31:11I might have a lead.
31:13Up to now, investigators have focused
31:16on finding Danita's boyfriend, Justin Powell.
31:20Now I'm like a 50-50.
31:22Could it be Justin? Could it be Christopher Tyson?
31:25So I was pretty much split down the middle.
31:28It could be either one at this juncture.
31:30We established that Christopher Tyson had called police himself
31:33for a domestic incident, which he was assaulted.
31:36That's what he reported.
31:38We wanted to talk to the girlfriend
31:40who supposedly assaulted him
31:42and tried to get some background on Mr. Tyson.
31:47So myself and my partner responded after the county
31:50to find his girlfriend.
31:54Hi.
31:55Heard asked you about Christopher Tyson.
31:57She was not at home at the time,
31:58but we spoke to the girlfriend's mother,
32:00who told us where Mr. Tyson worked.
32:02Is there anything else you can tell us about her?
32:03He worked for a well-known retailer.
32:05That was significant because we saw the van owned by that company
32:09on the CCTV creeping out of the alley,
32:12stopping and parking in front of Danita's house
32:14at the approximate time that we thought the murder had occurred.
32:18The woman tells detectives that her daughter was charged with no crime
32:23in connection with the alleged assault on Tyson.
32:26She also said that she thought that he had anger management problems.
32:32Thank you for your time.
32:33Investigators contact the retailer to find out Tyson's position within the company.
32:46Can you tell me what role Christopher Tyson did for you?
32:49His management at his place of employment, they said he was not a driver.
32:55He was only working the warehouse.
32:58He didn't have access to the trucks.
33:00We were unable to rule out 100% that he didn't have access to the vehicle,
33:06but at this juncture I had no proof that he could have taken one of their vehicles.
33:12While investigators work out how Christopher Tyson connects to Danita Barrett's murder.
33:19The detectives on the Ashley Lambert case receive a hit on the bank card used in Dunkin' Donuts.
33:28Once we obtained the subpoena, it only took a few days to find out the name of the person who made that purchase.
33:34And the name of the person that used the card was Christopher Tyson.
33:39Tyson?
33:42Detective Steve McDonald sits diagonal from me,
33:44and I remember saying that, oh, we have the name of Christopher Tyson.
33:47He then says, wait.
33:50I've got that name on my file.
33:52At that juncture, I felt confident that Christopher Tyson had also committed the murder of Danita Barrett.
34:00At this point in the investigation, Detective McDonald and I start to work together.
34:04Now we need to bring Christopher Tyson in for questioning.
34:06We obtained his phone information, and we obtained an order to track his cell phone.
34:10Got it. Let's roll.
34:12His phone was tracked to 2,000 block of Bryant Street.
34:21A search and seizure warrant was obtained for Christopher's house.
34:24The feeling you get when you're about to enter a house where a potential suspect is for murder, you get a little fired up.
34:32We went to the location, surrounded the house.
34:38You get a little excited, a little nervous.
34:41You're hoping that they're in there.
34:42You're hoping that they're in there.
34:51We execute that search and seizure warrant.
34:53When officers entered his room...
35:07Hey!
35:08...and we locate Christopher Tyson in the second floor of the front bedroom.
35:10He was found hiding under the bed.
35:12It's your hands! It's your hands!
35:13It's your hands!
35:14He was then secured without incident.
35:15Come on! Get up!
35:16Get hands behind your back! Get up!
35:18He was then brought down to the homicide office for questioning.
35:20Let's get up! Let's go.
35:21Yeah, let's go.
35:23At this time I conduct the search warrant of Christopher Tyson.
35:24Let's go.
35:26And then, I took a question of Christopher Tyson.
35:28...and we locate Christopher Tyson in the second floor of the front bedroom.
35:30He was found hiding under the bed.
35:31It's your hands. It's your hands! It's your hands!
35:32He was then secured without incident.
35:33Come on! Get out!
35:35Come on! Get out!
35:36Come on! Get out!
35:37Get out!
35:38Get out!
35:39At this time, I conduct the search warrant of Christopher's room.
35:43I'm looking for any evidence, anything that will help solve this case.
35:47They knew that they were looking for a backpack that had pretty unique patterns on it,
35:52and they were looking for a reddish-brown sweatshirt that he may have been wearing.
36:02And we did locate the camouflage backpack, and within that backpack was Ashley Lambert's phone.
36:09And they found what they believe to be the sweatshirt in the surveillance video.
36:16They did find the credit card that Mr. Tyson had used to make the purchase.
36:21The numbers matched up on the receipt.
36:26They also found a bag full of women's underwear.
36:34It's not common for a murder suspect to keep items from a murder.
36:37They don't want to be connected to the murder at all.
36:40But I felt like Christopher Tyson was keeping these items almost as a trophy.
36:53Detective Moran interviewed Mr. Tyson first.
36:56Do you know Ashley Lambert?
36:57Christopher is questioned about the murder of Ashley Lambert.
37:01At first, he denies even knowing her, denies being at that motel.
37:10But at this point, we show him a picture of the individual that caught on camera footage
37:14wearing the red hoodie and backpack.
37:17Is that new?
37:18He immediately points that out as being himself.
37:21As we present it with more and more evidence, he starts to break.
37:24Finally, Christopher tells us that he met Ashley on a dating app.
37:29He said when he got to the hotel, Ashley was making fun of him, at which he took offense to.
37:35He described it as she started getting angry at him.
37:40And that's when he described that he choked her.
37:43He said that before he left the motel, he checked for her pulse and she was still alive.
37:47He then left the area.
37:48At that point, him admitting that he strangled her and he was the last person to be seen with her,
37:54I was confident that he killed her.
37:57Detective Steve McDonald comes in next.
38:01I go in there and sit in and talk to Mr. Tyson.
38:05So what can you tell me about Danita Barrett?
38:10It's pretty much the same scenario.
38:12Mr. Tyson denied ever being in Westport.
38:15I'd show him the text messaging.
38:21What about these text messages?
38:22He said, yes, I was in there.
38:24You know, I had sex with Miss Barrett.
38:28And she made fun of me.
38:29We got into an altercation.
38:31And I just choked her out.
38:33And as I left, I checked her pulse and she was alive.
38:38Maybe someone else killed her after I left.
38:41And we was talking about these people's deaths.
38:43He didn't have a lot of emotion.
38:46I thought in my mind there could be more, there could be more women out there that this guy has assaulted and or killed.
38:52They asked him, have you done this before?
38:57And he said something to the effect of, well, why don't you tell me who else you think that I hurt?
39:03He implicated himself enough, and with the corroborating evidence we already had, he's charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
39:15Tyson pleaded guilty to the murder of Miss Barrett and the murder of Miss Lambert.
39:20Tyson enters a special plea that admits the evidence against him would likely result in his conviction.
39:27He receives two life sentences.
39:30Prosecutors charged Anita Barrett's boyfriend, Justin Powell, with no crimes in connection to her death.
39:38I wish every case had a camera pointed directly at my crime scene.
39:45That CCTV camera footage, it was the strongest evidence that we could find to show that no one else could have committed this crime.
39:52Had he been left on the street for any longer, I have no doubt that there would have been another victim.
40:00I think we definitely took a budding serial killer off the streets of Baltimore.
40:05There's nothing you can do to make up for my best friend death.
40:14I miss her talks.
40:16She was my motivation.
40:18She was my inspiration.
40:20She kept me on my toes, and we kept each other laughing.
40:27Ashley didn't deserve what was done to her.
40:31She was taken from her entire family way too soon.
40:35She was just senselessly taken, and, you know, she's loved, and she's missed.
40:43I remember he lives on through my daughters.
40:47I miss how nice she was, and I miss how she would stick up for anybody, and she was always just nice to everybody, and she had, like, a kind heart.
40:57I miss her, you know, celebrating even the small things with me, because she would definitely be, I think she would be proud, like, of how I am right now.
41:09Next time on CINOEvil.
41:13911, what is the address of your emergency?
41:15Here's your coming.
41:16This guy's not moving.
41:17This attack was violent.
41:18We start to look for any surveillance cameras.
41:21There's probably blood on this shit.
41:23We're in a race with this time to find this person as quickly as possible.
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