The Truth Behind the Murder

Today's story is about a murder from two thousand three in Rochester, New York. Now at first, when you listen to this story, it's gonna to sound like a sort of run of the mill murder case if there is such a thing But it's not When you get to the end of the episode, we're going reveal one piece of information that you didn't have that not only will inform why anything happened in the story. It'll completely explain that But more than that It will totally alter your perspective of what you thought was happening when you first listened to the story a lot of you. once you reach the end, may consider Listening to this story all over again Before we get into today's story If you're a fan of the strange Dark and mysterious delivered in story format and you've come to the right place because that's all we do. 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Tabatha was actually having an affair with a guy named Keith, and her husband Kevin, who was forty five, and nearly twenty years her senior, he had recently found out about it and confronted her about it Kabatha, during this confrontation had promised Kevin. that she would end the affair. And then she and Kevin had agreed that they really needed to to work on their marriage together despite sort of coming to a kind of resolution It was very obvious that Kevin was still very mad at her Tabitha had been sleeping on the pull out couch in the den ever since. Now, Tabitha watched as Kevin grabbed his briefcase off the kitchen counter He kissed their two boys goodbye, and then he walks back out to his car Tabatha was used to him disappearing to the office on the weekends Kevin was a lawyer, and he worked basically all the time And you know, they did depend on his salary, his big salary to pay their mortgage and also finance their expensive lifestyle vacations and lots of nights out Despite Kevin's salary being so sizable, they had for a while tried to supplement his income by renting out a bedroom in their house to Tabetha's half brother, Cyl Weinbrenner and his girlfriend, Cassid Greene However, that arrangement, despite it being profitable for the couple, had ultimately soured when Cyl, the half brother, had begun using drugs inside of the house. And so Cyl and Cassidy had moved out two months earlier But despite, you know, the terms on which they left, the group, you know, Cyl, Cassidy, Tabitha, Kevin, You know, their family, they remain friends, and they would still actually spend time together on the weekends. It was just they were not able to live together Tabeta, she did like having that extra money coming in, but the truth was, having her whole house back to herself was ultimately a good thing. she felt relieved in some ways. But also there was a part of her that sort of missed having, you know her half brother and Cassidy around Eespecially when Kevin was you know gone all the time working. Like she just felt lonely. And also on top of just being lonely, I mean, Tabitha often was the one saddled with childcare. You know, they had a toddler and a five year old and you know, she was just sort of taking care of kids all the time or sort of isolated. It was just exhausting And now as she watched Kevin back his car out of the driveway, she could tell today was gonna to be another long, exhausting, lonely day That night around nine PM, Tabetitha was fast asleep on Kevin's bed with one of their sons when she felt somebody shaking her And when she opened her eyes and looked up, she saw Kevin standing right over her And he leaned down and he whispered to her that it was very late and that Tabbitha should go to her bed And then he picked up their sleeping son and carried him off to the boy's bedroom without waiting for a response from Tabitha As Tabitha got out of bed She thought about just staying put and insisting on sleeping in the master bedroom that night. But, you know, their kids were already asleep and she also didn't want to risk getting into a fight with Kevin, especially at this hour and waking everyone up. And so ultimately she decided against it and just left the bedroom and headed downstairs to the den And she got there, Tabitha unfolded the pullout couch and lay down And she tried to fall asleep. afterfter tossing and turning for a while She just pulled out her phone The number for Keith, the guy she'd been having an affair with. As she did this, she reminded herself that she had promised to end things with Keith She was also feeling sort of desperate for someone to talk to Kevin was clearly very intentionally shutting her out, so for a moment. Tabitha hit the call button Later that same night, around midnight Nine hundred eleven operator, Jacqueline Senabria, had just started her shift at the Monroe County Sheriff's Office when a call came in. Jacqueline answered it, and immediately this man's voice came over the line, saying his wife had just been shot. And so right away, Jacqueline followed protocol. and as calm as she could, she asked the man had he attempted CPR The man in this eerily calm voice said, no, he hadn't The reason he gave was there was simply too much blood At one forty five AM on july fourteenth, two thousand three. So about two hours after that nine hundred and eleven call Sergeant Pul Sienna of the Monroe County Sheriff's Department pulled up in front of a large white house with black shutters and an attached garage There were a bunch of police cruisers and forensics fans that were already on the scene, and Sienna could see neighbors who were kind of coming outside, watching from their lawns and driveways, trying to figure out what was going on Sienna had been very surprised when he had gotten the call from Dispatch about a murder Penfield. because Penfield was a really nice safe area In fact, there had not been a single murder there in more than forty years. Now, he climbed out of his car. walked over to the front lawn, where three deputies were interviewing this middle aged man who looked like he might have just gotten out of bed. One of the deputies saw Sergeant Sienna, and so he ran over to him began to brief him on what they knew He explained to Sienna that the man they were speaking to was Kevin Bryant. He was the man who had called nine hundred and eleven and he was the husband of the victim abathha Brian The deputy said that Tabitha and Kevin's two young sons had been inside the house at the time of the shooting theirir grandparents had picked them up a few minutes ago. The house itself had already been searched, and there were no signs of forced entry, but it was not hard to guess how the killer or killers got inside The garage door had been left open and then the door between the inside of the garage and the inside of the house had been left unlocked basasically anybody off the street could have just waltzed into the house. Now, Sienna knew that in nice, safe neighborhoods like Penfield It was not unusual for people to leave their doors and garage doors unlocked or even open But at the same time, you know, he did think it was a little unusual that it just so happened that on the night of the shooting house was unsecured, so he wasn't really sure what to make of that At this point, Sienna glanced over at the husband, Kevin. and he saw Kevin suddenly bend over and start dry heapving. Now, Sienna definitely wanted to talk to Kevin, But really, he needed to check out the crime scene first and also considering how You know, Kevin did not appear to be ready to talk right now. He figured he should just Go inside and have a look around So he ducked under the police tape was roping off the garage and he made his way inside Once inside the house, Sienna passed the kitchen and also a playroom and they looked relatively normal then he got to the d There's nothing normal about the den There was blood everywhere. walls, the floor, the ceiling, and there were all these forensic technicians that were inside of the den furiously swabbing all over the room trying to take samples of all this blood and also trying to photograph the entire scene And in the middle of all this chaos happening in the den Sienna saw the victim Tab at the Brian She was laying on the pull out couch bed As Sienna walked over to the body to get a closer look, right away he saw this was not just a shooting becausecause Tabitha had, you know, more than a dozen stab wounds to her chest and her neck And also right below her right eye, there was the small clean hole that Sienna recognized as a gunshot This was an excessive amount of violence, and it made Sienna think that This could have been a crime of passion And the fact that Tabitha clearly had been sleeping on the pullout couch in the den instead of in bed with her husband, made Tabitha's husband, Kevin Sienna's prime suspect I've got a road trip coming up and I have unfortunately learned the hard way that the worst time for car trouble and often the most common time for car trouble is when you are miles away from anywhere familiar. 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I mean, the murder itself was rare in a town like this, but it was just so violent, so much gore and blood. It just sort of screamed, This is a personal attack. This is a crime of passion. Again I think Kein seems sort of suspicious here However The physical evidence made it look like Kevin actually could not have done it He didn't have any blood or defensive injuries on him would make sense if he was the killer I mean, given how much blood was at the scene, there should be some on him. And Sienna had checked the sinks and showers at the house to see if maybe Kevin had had gotten blood on himself but cleaned himself up before police arrived but there was no sign that there had been blood in the drains. Plus, the police had spent all night searching the house for murder weapons, a gun and maybe a knife And so far they hadn't found anything Still though, Sienna was not ready to, you know outright dismiss Kevin as a suspect, and he was looking for any holes in Kevin's story at this point As Kevin had already explained multiple times by this point, he said he had come home from work around nine PM the night before He said he took the trash out And then he went right up to his bedroom to read, while Tabitha was asleep on the pullout couch downstairs But at around eleven thirty PM Kevin said he had gotten a very strange phone call answered and it was a woman and she had said, hello then it was silent and there was just static on the line. Kevin eventually had just hung up and said he thought it was just a wrong number But then he said a little while later, just before midnight, he'd heard gunshots and screams. Kevin said at that point, he got up and he ran to his kids' bedrooms first to make sure they were safe when he saw they were And then he went downstairs and he found Tabitha dead in the den And so now Sienna sitting across from Kevin in their booth He asked him, you know, do you have any idea who could have done this? Kevin, he paused for a moment. And then when he spoke, his voice cracked and he actually began to cry as he sort of choked out that his wife's death was his fault Now at first, Sienna thought, oh my goodness, is this guy about to confess? Did he kill her? Is he going to tell me that when he pressed Kevin to continue. likeike what do you mean by that? Kevin very tearfully would say that you know, he thought he maybe was the one who had left the garage open when he had taken out the trash and he suspected that That must have been how the killer or killers got inside. And then sort of oddly, Kevin continued and basically began to lay out this whole theory for what might have happened that night, sort of unpompted.'s just giving his opinion. Kevin said, as he saw it, a burglar must have driven by, saw their garage was open, and decided to rob the house. However, he said when they went inside the house to rob it, they must have been caught off guard when they saw Tabitha in the den And she must have woken up, and there must have been some sort of confrontation and the burglar or burglars must have panicked and killed her and then fled without even robbing the place. Like that's probably what happened And Sergeant Sienna did not give off how he felt about, you know, what Kevin was doing and what he was saying. He just sort of nodded thoughtfully like he was considering his theory. However, in reality, Sienna had already considered the possibility of this being a burglary gone wrong The way Tabitha had actually been killed just felt way too personal to chalk it up to a random intruder. And also, you know, again, nothing from the house had been stolen. so what Sienna really wanted to know from Kevin was why was Tabitha sleeping on the couch and not up with you? And to Sienna's surprise, Kevin was actually really open about these problems in their marriage He explained that Tabitha was young, you know, twenty years younger than he was And she wanted to go to clubs and see friends every night of the week. while he was, you know, usually too busy and too tired for doing that kind of stuff. So she would do it alone Kevin said that once he'd realized his marriage was actually in trouble because of this dynamic. He said he' put a lot of effort in to try to fix it by taking Tabitha out more often. And he'd thought things were basically back on track until a few months ago, when he'd found out that she was actually having an affair. He said he'd drawn up divorce papers and been on the verge of filing them Tabitha had ultimately promised that she would break off the affair, so he had decided to give her one more chance. As Kevin said this, Sienna watched him very closely trying to gauge whether or not Kevin was lying Kevin definitely seemed nervous as he was speaking and he also kept tapping his foot and running his fingers through his hair, but there was a chance that was also just exhaustion and maybe some shock, you know, lingering shock. Sienna checked his watch and saw it was almost nine o'clock and he knew Kevin by this point had been awake for about twenty four hours. But Sienna didn't want to just let him off the hook right now, because if Kevin was guilty, if he really did kill his wife. or had something to do with it. Sienna knew he might never get a better shot at a confession than right now So he decided he would just push Kevin to his breaking point and see if he'd crack. Eight hours later, around four PM, Sienna stared at Kevin from across an interview room at the Monroe County Sheriff's Office in downtown Rochester Kevin was sort of slumped in his chair with his head buried in his hands, and he kept complaining about migraines. Now, Sienna was not surprised that Kevin might be feeling worn out right about now because he'd been answering questions for the last seventeen hours. And they'd covered everything from the details of Kevin and Tapitha's relationship to their extended families, including the fact that Tapitha's half brother, Cyril, had lived with them for a few months earlier in the year and it had sort of ended badly. And by this point, Kevin had made it clear that he actually thought Keith Cromwell, the guy Tabitha had been cheating on him with, should be a suspect, and Sienna had to agree However, what Sienna couldn't get over right now was just how angry Heaven sounded whenever he mentioned Keith. I mean, he was truly raged. he clearly was not remotely over his wife's affair And so now Sienna was trying to gauge if maybe Maybe Kevin was angry enough about this to have committed murder And so Sienna decided he would push Kevin a little bit further and extend the interview And he did this by suggesting that they go ahead and order dinner And at that point, Kevin, who was totally mad, He jumped about of his chair and he said that unless he was under arrest He needed to go back to his kids And Sienna did not have the evidence to hold Kevin So he had no choice but to tell him that of course, he was free to leave. And as Sienna watched a deputy escort Kevin out of the room He felt a little disappointed that he had not managed to get a confession But he had gotten some pretty promising leads. Primarily there was Tapitha's half brother, Cyl, who definitely sounded like he knew a lot about Kevin and Tapitha's relationship and he could have some good insights And also CNO was thinking, as soon as possible He needed to speak to Keith. who was Tabeth as a fair part ten AM the next morning Sergeant Sienna sat across from a broad shouldered, bald, middle aged man in the living room of a small house outside of Rochester This was Keith Cromwell, the man that Tabitha had been having an affair with And he struck Sienna as being a pretty tough intense guy. So Sienna was actually a bit taken aback when He asked Keith about his affair with Tabitha, and Keith just began to cry just seems sort of uncharacteristic for the way he appeared, you know, at least at first glance. But Keith quickly wiped his eyes and he apologized, and then he asked what exactly Sienna wanted to know And Sienna told him to just, you know, start at the beginning So Keith explained that he was a machine operator at a local factory And it was a really stressful job Keith would sometimes blow off steam by going to a nearby strip club And it was at that strip club about six months earlier that he had met Tabetitha Bryan And this really caught Sienna off guard, and he immediately asked Keith like what was Tabitha doing there at the Strip cllub? Keith just shrugged and said Tabetitha had a wild side. She was a regular there Sieno is still sort of taken aback by this and really didn't know what to think of it He just told Keith to keep telling his story And so Keith continued, and he explained how he and Tapitha had exchanged numbers that first night. and then started texting and calling and how that eventually turned into regular meetups Kevin was at work He said by July, they were hanging out several times a week and speaking on the phone basically every day. And he said this continued right up until Tabetitha's death And here, Sienna had to stop Keith again because Kevin had told Sienna that Tabitha and Keith their affair was over But here Keith was basically telling Sienna the opposite so when Sienna pressed him on it, Keith said that actually Tabitha had called him around eleven PM on Sunday night about an hour before she was killed And so this timing just felt like way too big of a coincidence And it made Sienna wonder if Keith was actually just trying to give himself an alibi Except it was not a very good one because Keith lived close enough to Tabetitha and Kevin A that last phone call at about eleven o'clock He would have had time to hang up the phone and drive over to their house and commit the murder by midnight. So this wasn't alab So now, Sienna realized he was in a tough spot here. Tapetitha's affair really gave both Kevin and Keith strong motives to want to kill her. And so basically, neither man could be ruled out. They were kind of like equally primary suspects at this point. And on top of that The additional information that Tabitha had been a regular at a strip club just raised a lot of additional questions. He realized he really needed to speak to someone who really knew Tabitho All heard those scary IRS radio ads that try to frighten you into calling, but tax relief advocates is different. If you owe the IRS five thousand, fifty thousandars or even five hundred thousand dollars, TRA has a solution for your tax problem. It doesn't matter if you're in your car at work or with your kids, no matter where you are, visit tRA dot com d Don't lose hope. TRA could reduce or even eliminate what you owe. Their passion is taxes and helping people and businesses fix IRS problems. They have over a thousand five star Google reviews and an A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau. You no longer need to fear the IRS. 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Let us surprise you Five days later, on july nineteenth, two thousand three, Sergeant Sienna stood inside of a cemetery at the back of a group of mourners and watched as Tapitha Brian's casket was lowered into the ground Sienna had come to Tapitha's funeral not only to pay his respects, but also because he was looking for her half brother, Cyl Two reasons he really wanted to speak to him First of all, he thought Cyl might have some additional unique insights into Tabitha's various relationships. I mean, Cyril had lived with Tabitha and Kevin and their kids earlier that year, and Sienna had heard that Cyl and Tabitha were quite close. And so maybe she had shared some additional insights that he would know But the second reason for wanting to speak to Cyl was recently Sienna had also begun to look at Cyro as being may be a potential suspect. So Sienna had spoken with a number of Tabitha's friends and from those interviews, Sienna had learned that Cyrol and his girlfriend Cassidy were also both regulars at that same strip club that Tabitha went to And then on top of that, Sienna knew that, you know Cyl and Cassidy had been caught using drugs by Tabitha and Kevin, and that's why they had been booted from the house just a few months ago And so who knows, there could be some bad blood there. And so this made Sienna wonder if Tabitha's murder might have had nothing to do with her affair and everything to do with, you know very likely some fight that she had had with Cyl and Cassidy when she caught them and kicked them out now, as Sienna scanned the funeral crowd, He didn't see anybody who matched Cyl's description And so when the service ended and all the mourners began making their way out to the parking lot Sienna hustled over to Tabitha's mother and he asked her, had Cyl attended the funeral And she said that Actually No one had heard from Cyl Since the night, Tabitha was killed. And she said that she was really worried about him because Cyl's mental health was quite fragile About a year earlier, he'd suffered a huge mental breakdown after the death of another sibling, which was why Tabitha had invited him to live with her in the first place. And so now Tabitha's mom was afraid that Cyrol had spiraled again be in trouble But as empathetic as Sienna was Ultimately, this information he was getting from the mother did not paint Cyrol as like a guy in need of help It painted Syal as being really suspicious. And so as politely as he could, Sienna asked the mom if she had any idea of like how he could go about trying to find Cyl, like any way he could even begin that process. And Tabetitha's mom, she thought for a moment and then said that if anyone knew where Cyl was It was his girlfriend Cassidy Green One night, about a week after Tabitha's funeral, Sergeant Sienna sat in the back of an unmarked van in downtown Rochester And through the windshield, he watched a man standing alone in an alley pacing back and forth, constantly checking his phone This was all part of a sting operation that Sienna hoped would finally lead him to Tabitha's half brother Cyl. Ever since Tabitha's funeral He and his fellow deputies have been trying to track Cyal down But so far, they'd had no luck. It looked an awful lot like Cyl had either left town or was actively hiding from the police However, Sienna had managed to locate Cyril's girlfriend, Cassidy, who, it would turn out, was well known to the police for being a drug dealer and an escort went by the working name. Angel Now, Sienna doubted that if he approached Cassidy directly, that she would just immediately give up Cyl's location willingly And so what he needed to do was like get leverage on her first. So Sienna went to an informant of his with a plan The informant would reach out to Cassidy or Angel, looking to buy some cocaine. And then once they had clear evidence that she had broken the law by selling these drugs, Sienna would arrest her and then try to strike a deal to get her to talk about Cyro And so now through a pair of binoculars, Sergeant Sienna watched as a small blonde woman appeared at the far end of the alley His heartbeat picked up as he realized, it was definitely Cassidy watched as she walked right up the alley and began talking to the informant, the man who had been pacing before on his phone. And when Sienna saw the money and drugs change hands gave the command on his radio to go ahead and move it. In an instant, two police cars rounded the corner with their sirens blaring, cutting off both ends of the alley Cassidy looked completely startled and started to run before the arriving deputies boxed her in, and moments later, they had her in handcuffs The following morning, Sienna stood outside of an interview room at the shheriff's office in Rochester, New York You look through a two way mirror And on the other side of the glass, he watched a deputy question Cassidy girlfriend of Tabitha's half brother Cyro who was still missing and still a major suspect. Cassidy had been completely stonewalling police since they'd arrested her for selling cocaine the night before, and she was still insisting that she had no idea where Cyrel was or why he'd disappeared. to this point, the deputy who was speaking to Cassidy had not brought up Tabitha's murder. And so at this point, Cassidy seemed to think that her only problem was the cocaine charge. And so as Sienna watched this interview just kind of go in circles and drag because Cassidy just was not giving them anything, finally, Sienna just couldn't take it anymore, and he just busted in the room And he slammed a folder down right on the table, totally shocking not just the deputy, but Cassidy. They both looked at him like, what are you doing? And then before Cassidy could say or do anything Sienna looked right at her and just said I don't care about your drug charge What I want to know is what you know about Tabitha Bryant's murder And at first, Cassidy just stared back at Sienna and said nothing For a minute, Sienna thought maybe he had sort of miscalculated here But then after a long, awkward pause, Cassidy's whole demeanor shifted and she started to talk Based on witness testimony, evidence collected at the crime scene And the killer's eventual confession. Here is a reconstruction of what police believe happened to Tapitha Briant on the night of july thirteenth, two thousand three aroundround eleven fifty PM Killer very carefully crept through the first floor of the Bryant home, carrying a rifle And they went straight to the den where they found Tabitha asleep on the pullout couch For a moment, the killer paused, just staring down at Tabitha, wondering questestioning whether they could really go through with this. then after just a little bit of deliberation in their own minds Raise the rifle they fire