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>> october 14th, 2011 started out as a fun day. vols were taking on louisians tailgating with friends. but nightfall, something was terribly wrong. >> 40 miles away on knoxville, a couple was driving down a country road, keeping an eye out for crossing deer, when their headlights caught someth else. >> there's a body laying on the side of the road. >> okay, i need somebody to check for a pulse. >> she's a bloody mess, ma'am. >> i understand. >> chief deputy tim phillips of the rowan county sheriff's office h watchi the football game when dispatch called him at home. >> what information were you given before you arrived at the scene? >> that we had a white female deceased, laying on the side of the road. >> the body had been found after o rural quiet roads.ersection of

the won had not been dead for very long. >> when you arrived here, what did you see? victim's body was over here on the side of the road, close to the intersection. >> right on the road? >> white on the white line. >> what did she look like? >> well dressed, wearing blue jean boots, a bright orange shirt. she had her purse with her and everything. >> i.d. 'ing the victim was the easy part. her purse was found at the scene. it was 23-year-old brook morris. the hard part would be unraveling the mystery that led to her death on this lonely country road. >> was it someone that was a stranger to us, was it someone that we knew? all kinds of things were coming into our heads, trying to figure this all out. >> what had happened to brook? >> they're asking us, do you know anybody that would want to harm your sister? and we're lie a clue. >> the hunt for a killer begins

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sudden wave come ove middle of the she woke her husband. >> and i said, "i ju really sick, like, j sudden, really sick in stomach." and he was like, well, what do you think's going on? and i'm like, i don't know, i feel really nauseous, and it wasn't 20 minutes later i get a phone call. >> reporte were looking for her tina. >> he didn't wanna t until he talked to m. >> reporter: tina friend's house. both chief phillips headed over there. >> mom, you know, co door. and then she looks a. and she's like, isn't it?" and i'm like, "yeah. >> how did you know? what -- >> i knew it had to brittany was there, ? so it had to be. >> i've delivered mo share of death notif and this particular i'll never forget it. >> i asked her to si couch and we sit the second and i said, we're -- is brooke m daughter?"

and she said, she is. and i said, well, sh murdered. >> she passed out co. so we had to get her know, come back to. and i think we were shocked. >> reporter: when ti she could hardly had happened. >> it was almost lik real. you know, "you've got person. it's not her." >> reporter: but it . brooke was dead. she'd been shot thre once in her neck, chest and an executi shot to the back o. >> i could not belie another human could heartless. >> and you know, the us these questions lik would -- do you know that would wanna har sister?" and we're like, "we clue." >> i could not even th someone that would w brooke in any way. everybody loved broo

>> reporter: but inv had to start somewhe only 23 years old, b already had an ex-hu clayton morris. she met him soon aft school. >> he was kind of co know? they just hit it off. they just had fun to started dating. and then the surpris >> she comes home wi news, some big news. >> uh-huh. she was totally exci course. i was not so much ex >> reporter: brooke, years old, was pregn >> i thought brooke wa young, for one thing. and you know, it's j not what i had hoped that time. >> reporter: brooke were determined to m it as a family. so before they becam they got married. >> then they had thi that just stalled my instant, you know >> did that make it ?

when you met your gr? >> th -- it did, it did -- >> and -- and how wa a mom? did she just take ri >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: they mo house and both had j but the young couple realized that family with grown-up respon and problems. >> did she confide i about how things wer not great at home? >> yeah, of course. she talked to her fr it and we just tried supportive that we c. but we were on such level than she was, ? here we were still s and she was married so hard for us to ki in that area. but i think she -- s it wasn't going to - you know? >> reporter: after t the couple split. brooke moved out and stayed in the house son. but, brooke's family and clayton were c raising the child to. >> well, she lived, just a few doors up

and they had shared . >> was it an amicable did they fight? >> they had some dis you know? they definitely had disagreements. >> ex-husbands, husb spouses, are always >> they are. >> did you feel he w important person to well? >> we did. >> did you call him >> we actually went him. >> reporter: it was of the night, just h brooke's body was di when investigators a clayton's house. chief phillips woke . >> so what do you sa then? >> we didn't tell hi brooke was deceased our main objective i find out what he had that evening. >> you wanna hear hi before you talk abou happened to brooke? >> that's right. >> reporter: clayton investigators he h that weekend. he said he was at wo saturday and then sp evening at home. >> could he have lef and gone out? >> he could have. ♪

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goodbyes, her mother admits to being in d brooke's death. >> i kept thinkin', she's gonna call, she's gonna call, i know she's gonna call. and she's gonna say, mom, you know, it was a big mix-up, you know? i just couldn't grasp that she was gone forever. >> tina ha. i remember being at and tina was holding picture of brooke an crying, just hysteri i mean, two people h her to the gravesite. >> reporter: along w there was something . >> how scary was it whoever did this was? >> oh, very scary. i mean, 'cause they' somethin' from you. i mean, what are their motives for us? investigators, tas bringing brooke's ki justice, had spoke ex-husband clayton m night of the murder. >> were you gettin a vibe from clayton? >> you know, sometim

read people and -- a know, people throw o language but he just like, what in the world's going on? >> r tension during the m divorce, those who k best didn't think he was a killer. >> i just never ente thought. >> clayton was a goo i didn't think that, he would be capable something like that >> reporter: more im clayton's alibi chec investigators cleare if not the ex-husban who had brooke come with that weekend? investigators retrac steps, starting not game on saturday, bu night before, friday. friends told investi had tickets to a con. >> she was super exc going to that. so she was like, okay, i've gotta go find something to wear, i'm going to go to dinner. >> reporte brooke left her car shopping center park

the restaurant, and friends to the c she spent the night house. >> i called it hotela everyone just stayed. >> yeah. >> left it unlocked everyone, you know. >> reporter: the nex saturday, was the te football game. and everyone was loo to tailgating. but the fun day turn brooke borrowed some dina's closet, the g had an argument abou. >> and i had found o wore it without aski. >> reporter: it was fight, but it stuck she didn't tailgate . >> she had been call these people to pick take her to her car be wanted to change her the night, for that >> reporter: brooke' albert dotson had be tailgating with he the day. >> so we would, like, and i was with some friends of ours at t. so i'm not really su was. >> reporter: neither albert ever saw broo. and with more than a thousand football fa the city for the game,

brooke's killer was for a needle in an o haystack. >> i thought that mayb had kidnapped her, you and we were all just figure out who would this and why, what w motive? it was a very horrib >> did you think tha could be connected t? >> you never know. you never can -- you it's tennessee and she so happened to be wearing a bright orange top, and if anybody knows anything about tennessee football, bright orange is a color for the tennessee vols. had been discovered miles from the footb and investigators we stymied as to how sh there. >> did it lend itsel she maybe was dumped or did you think tha actually shot here? >> based off of ever was here at the scen appeared that she wa >> reporter: the crime itself yielded littl

evidence, no fingerpri tire marks, and no m weapon. only some brass, as th it. >> they found spent ammo, they found live ammunition. as well as some unfi all from a 32 calibe that brass was sent in a lab, while inve turned their attenti item at the crime sc could possibly provi quick leads -- brook phone. it was right there, in her purse. >> you can find a lo a person within seco of, you know, goin' ov -- the person' was very helpful to . >> reporter: in fact, phone provided inves with a major lead to two leads, actually. two men. investigators wanted them. but they'd have to fin first. >> it's always a con whenever you have so you'd like to talk t can't get to 'em to

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brooke morris's murd the search for her k >> we really hate th into our community a such a crime. >> reporter: roane c investigators had cl brooke's ex-husband,. but they had two oth look at, two men whose numbers were right t brooke's phone. >> who was brooke co with that day that s of potential importa >> daniel hawkins. >> this is a man she date? >> this is a person we believe that she relationship with, yes >> i think they were nothing too extrem maybe a couple of da >> reporter: albert through mutual. >> we would just han daniel, you know. i would text him, an hey man, are you coming out? and he would meet up with us. >> reporter: spoken to da and didn't know dani brooke had been text other, making plans investigators say th the number listed fo brooke's phone. he didn't answer.

>> you couldn't find? >> couldn't find. >> reporter: investiga learned daniel lived colorado. he'd just been in kn the weekend. >> were you worried couldn't get a hol he was out there? >> yeah, it makes yo you know, what's going on, are they intentionally trying to avoid you? >> rep back to colorado by got on the phone wit sheriff's investigat. >> basically intervi got his whereabouts. >> where was he? >> from what i under was at the ball game. >> reporter: daniel investigators he was stadium watching the game, as he texted w on and off throughou afternoon. the game ended just 7:00pm. brooke's body was fo after 8:00 p.m. so if dani truth, investigators figure out if he had to get through the c fans, meet up with b make the 40-mile drive here to roane county to commit the murder, all within about an

hour. as inv daniel's timel was still texting br after the game ended. the last text was ju past midnight. it read, where are you darling? by then br more than four hours. >> until we clear hi him out, we do consi like daniel interest. >> reporter: but dan wasn't the only pers with brooke. >> who else had broo texting with? >> shawn smoot. >> what did you lear shawn smoot? >> we found out that allstate office ther knoxville. >> married, children? >> married, was no l married at that part >> reporter: amy den former employee of s. >> what were you of, of shawn? >> seemed like a nic person, outgoing, ty easy to get along wi >> reporter: shawn s name rang a bell wit family and friends. not long after brook shawn had hired broo

assistant in the ins office. >> i remember the da had the interview. we had lunch right b she was so excited, ? >> it was a real job. and i said, there's gonna be so much potential for you to move up in this company, you know. i was real >> did you feel like kind of the fresh st needed? >> yeah, we did. we thought -- we -- thought it was gona thing for her. >> did she seem happ >> oh yeah, she love. i think there was a ladies in the offi worked with. everybody got along, enjoyed it. >> she had formed a guess, tight relatio her boss. >> reporter: but bros had no idea how clos relationship with he smoot actually was. some of her friends di >> well, she had tol beginning, that she working for th smoot.

and a little bit dow i had, like, saw the or something like th. >> as things progres relationship, i was, what's going on here? i was like, this guy, he seems a bit older. you know, does he have a family or anything like that? and she was like, yeah, he's married. >>it married man. >> i don't really th she was, like, commi relationship. i think it was just coming through a div and she had this att this man. >> but there's still going on that shou on? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: brooke after just a few mon but it was clear, to investigators, at le brooke and shawn were touch. her phone showed cal them on the day of t game. and they'd been text forth. >> did you call him? >> our attempts to c unsuccessful. >> another one who's >> that's correct.

>> reporter: detecti not to wait for shaw his phone. they went to his hou early morning hours brooke's murder. >> you go over there. is he home? >> he is. >> reporter: shawn t investigators he had the day before. she'd called him fro knoxville asking f remember brooke's ta plans had gone awry wanted to go home an clothes. she needed a ride to which had been left restaurant the nig shawn said he agreed a lift, but said the bar to watch the gam >> he had picked her they'd went to, i th wings and buffalo wi. it's two different ran within the same squa each other. >> reporter: shawn s dropped brooke off a the parking lot wher it. >> did he say he did where she went aft >> he was at home. he said he didn't kn went. >> reporter: so had her killer there in th lot, or sometime l? perhaps she left to me that other guy she'd texting, danie

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here they are taking drirges out to the patio. another camera captured the couple leaving at about 6:30 p.m. brooke ahead of shawn, some phillips thought w. >> normally if people and all that stuff, they would walk out >> reporter: this is lot where shawn smoo dropped brooke off a none of the security around here had e but it was still sit the next day after b. which made investiga was shawn smoot tell truth? and if he wasn't, wh really go? so they decided to t steps. they pulled his cell records and found soth unusual. in the two and a hal after shawn and broo been seen together, activity on his cell. and here's what also around 11:00 p.m. his phone started pi towers along this interstate heading out knoxville. then it looked like around.

his phone started pi other direction, all back to his house. >> did he talk about maybe about to leave didn't or why he tur? >> well, initially t him, he had told us home all night. >> so that's an inco for you? >> it is. >> reporter: investi becoming increasingl of shawn smoot. and they weren't the. brooke's closest fri really suspected her clayton, or daniel h they knew her relati shawn had been storm >> she would just, y tell me little thi there. >> reporter: her fri shawn had a temper a witnessed it first h night after a dinner. shawn was drunk, kaitl so she didn't want b drive home with hi >> he did not like t he began to get very. and we drove just do street, pulled into lot. and i pulled up righ car and she opened t

and shawn was, like, there, grabbed her by the arm. i told her back in th and so she did. she got back in the and we drove off. >> reporter: friends incidents followed, shawn was stalking h. showing up unannounc uninvited when she was friends. even after she stopp for him. >> she definitely kn something was wrong, after he was obsessi calling her multiple texting her, and t her. >> brooke, reached h point and in january something she though shawn out of her lif >> i'm done with thi he won't leave me al i'm going to the wif she needs to know ab situation. >> i think she was p tired of living in t you know. she wanted to be fre situation. >> the wife knows, he'll leave

me alone? >>h, if i'm honest with the wife, then maybe they can try to work out their problems and he'll leave me alone. >> but it ba shawn's marriage imp >> she was just like to the wife. she's getting a divo she's made him move ou >> he lost everythin that. >> yeah. >> reporter: and fri shawn continued to har brooke. in fact, they say, t intensified. >> beyond emotional it physical? >> uh-huh, yes. >> she had just told shawn was getting viol >> he broke into her one night, came in t bathroom window, thrd up against the tile >> reporter: brooke' didn't know about the relationship, th violence. it wasn't until afte that her family fina brooke's secret. did that give you ch you found that manil? >> yeah, it was horr

>> it was britney wh it as she went about task of cleaning out apartment. >> we were getting t order to pack away a and so i went in her. on top of the refrig manila folder. >> britney opened ther it was an order of p brooke had taken out year before her murd her former boss, sha >> and it was page a just crazy stuff tha her. and i'm just like, this is horrifying. li any of this was ha >> reporter: the docum details a litany of violent outbursts by including the time b he broke into her ap attacked her. >> why didn't she ju you know, that, this is what i'm

going through, i need help. >> why do want to share wi going on in her life? >> she knew we'd i mean, i would have myself, for hurting way. and i think she knew >> reporter: brooke' who knew about the o protection were surp find out she and sha talking on the day o football game. >> nobody knew that contact with him. >> reporter: but to investigators, there something different particular order of . brooke had asked the allow her and shawn social contact. and sure enough they continued to talk together. so they had to wonde were really that bad brooke and shawn. the inve weeks. then months. it was almost too mu to bear. >> i got really frus. yeah, i did. you know, and i'm su to hear my wrath a f

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day now. >> rto their suspicions as we they were trying to against smoot. he was the last to see alive. they had an allegedl relationship. he had lied to inves. but so far they had physical evidence ty the crime. you were able to sea smoot's apartment? >> we were. >> reporter: do you fi anything? >> we find an empty once contained a fir some ammunition. >> reporter: no gun? >> no gun. >> reporter: the box .32 caliber pistol. the same caliber as weapon. and the ammo? >> it was the same - ammunition that was murder scene. >> reporter: but wit actual gun itself, t circumstantial case strong enough to cha with murder. then, the crime lab ballistics report sh marks on shell casin crime scene matched s bullet found in smoo.

his missing hand gun be the murder weapon. that's a huge connec. >> reporter: in june eight months after b killed, shawn smoot on charges of first murder. did you immediately with her just being woman who was clearl vulnerable? >> oh, absolutely. >> reporter: prosecu edwards and tiffany sm saw this case as a r turned deadly. >> we're still talki domestic violence. we're still talking of protection, and a things that go wrong situations. >> reporter: you had witnesses. you had no dna from suspect. you had no murder we. that's a lot of thin didn't have. >> if we didn't feel could prosecute it, successful, we indicted it. we would have never with it. >> circumstantial ca allow you to be crea. you can take a set o

and -- and weave a s together for your prosecution. >> reporter: shawn s insisted he was inno. he cycled through fi defense attorneys an was delayed again an >> it was surreal, r you know -- 'cause i reset 22 times, 22 t >> reporter: that's >> it is. it is torture. >> reporter: the tri started in july 2016, five years after bro. robert jolley, smoot's attorney, believed t case was weak for on reason. >> i don't think tha did very thorough in of anyone other than. and even his investi wasn't very thorough. >> reporter: jolley jury just how little investigation had un >> there are no fing there's no gunshot r

there's no dna test, absolutely no eviden links mr. smoot to r on that evening. >> reporter: the def to prove that the ev state did have wasn' incriminating. like the missing gun owned. yes, it was the same the murder weapon, b- >> there are however million of people in country who own guns was a very common we. >> reporter: the def argued that the ball report linking shell from the crime scene at smoot's home had science behind it. >> there's no scient evidence of that or that show that, is t? >> there's not curre standard that shows e firearm makes unique. >> reporter: as for relationship describ order of protect the defense pointed smoot never admitted

of allegations. and he charged, much less convictedy ass on brooke. >> the mr. smoot ever did a it doesn't mean that admitted that he d >> reporter: and the protection didn't pr from seeing each other they clearly did. >> ms. morris told t that she wanted to h contact with mr. smo. >> reporter: jolley brooke was so afraid why would she want t seeing him? after all, phone rec she was is one who c that day. >> she continued to as a friend. as someone that she activities with. >> reporter: did you w that could be confg jury? >> absolutely. and i think that's t underlying question we're talkin' about violence. why does anyone go b >> reporter: the pro hoped any doubt the have regarding smoot

would be wiped away called their key wit stand. >> do you swear or a any testimony -- amy working for smoot wh was murdered says he of the nice, outgoing hired her didn't las why did it change? >> he was cold. he got angry easily. not satisfied, reall it almost seemed lik getting somebody ril >> reporter: in cour testified about what the monday followings murder. >> now on that day d come into the office? >> he came in that m. when i saw him the f he didn't see me and crouched down under um, unhooking his co. and i asked him if he and he said, "no." and i asked him if t anything i could do, said, "turn back tim"

>> reporter: amy had heard about the murd investigators had be smoot's house. she told the jury wh defendant said next. >> and at that point if he was directly o involved and he said >> reporter: did as a total admission >> absolutely. absolutely. >> reporter: it had five years after bro to get her alleged k a jury. it took the jury les hours to reach its v >> we the jury, fi defendant, shawn nel guilty of premeditat degree murder of bro morris. >> reporter: what's that you're feeling hear that word? >> well, of course, show emotion in cour >> reporter: okay, w on, on the inside? >> on the inside, i' i'm jumping for joy. >> i was able to giv a hug, and see her s

all of the tears tha over the last five y. >> reporter: this was she'd been waiting? >> yes. i think it was the m all been waiting f. >> reporter: for the the case was about m winning a conviction. there's a lesson to . for a woman watching maybe going through situation, what's th from this story for he >> get out. get help. get out. don't go back. it's not gonna chang >> speak out. and don't be afraid. don't be ashamed. 'cause you know, it' fault that -- that y treated this way. you should never be way. >> reporter: the jur to decide smoot's se. that's when prosec starr smith asked th imagine the horror o last moments. >> i'd ask that you your eyes for a few mi morning. >> reporter: were yo that having the jury eyes like that would powerful impact? >> i wanted them to

envision this young the middle of nowher three times by an an she was afraid of. >> all goes silent a years old brooke morri >> reporter: the jur smoot to life withou possibility of parol he is appealing his . that conviction and sentence, have provi for brooke's family. but not closure. >> i can't make any memories with her. the only memories i are past memories. i mean, it's hard. >> she's always in m she will always be i. and -- you know, we 23 wonderful years w. i wish i had 53 more. but unfortunately, i d but i know where b. i know i'll see her and that gives me ho

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