the life he had with vashti and their two boys, now motherless boys. brandon, born in the fall of 2006. bronson, less than two years later. >> when they had their babies, it was a very happy time. my sister was mother of the year award goes to her. >> and at 4:00 in the morning she would get up and hand-make baby food. >> wow. >> so her kids could have organic, healthy food. >> she lived for those babies. >> and not just her own kids. >> she was the first to help someone at the boys' daycare a little boy had -- it was cancer, leukemia, something. and she stayed up and baked mini loaves of banana bread and sold those to raise the money for that boy to have treatment. >> what was brett like as a dad? >> he did lots of things with the kids. i will tell you, he did walks with them. he would play outside with them. he was very engaged as a dad. he was very proud of his sons. >> brett was a lawman from a family of lawmen. a former sheriff's deputy. and for the last few years he'd been teaching officer rekrufts all types at the kansas law enforcement training