WEBVTT - 4. The Sentencing 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:05.480 Murder on Songbird Road is a production of iHeart Podcasts 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:09.920 previously on Murder on Songbird Road. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.559 So I wanted to interview her. I wanted to get 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.880 factually what her side of the story was. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.880 Since Mota is still a licensed attorney, he was able 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.280 to meet with Beverly in privacy anytime. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:26.400 There were issues with Jade. Jessica would never communicate with Julie. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:27.680 She would always go to Mike. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:32.640 This strained, if not nonexistent, relationship with Jessica could shed 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.559 some light on the lack of support for Julia in 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.559 the days and hours immediately following the murder. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:40.879 And so she's like, I tell Jade, I'm going to 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.000 be gone a couple hours. Just play on your phone. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.440 I'll be back. She's like, it wasn't unusual for us 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:46.960 to leave Jaden and Jade. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.280 In Illinois, it is illegal to leave a child under 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.200 the age of fourteen home alone. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.280 And she claims that as soon as she pulls the 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.000 storm open that she notices blood in the living room. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.560 It's somebody clad and all black. It's a man black gloves, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.640 comes charging at her and then he's got a knife. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.160 This was the front door. This is word went down 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:13.480 with the masked marauder for to believe that story. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.200 I'm Lauren brad Pacheco, and this is murder on Songbird Road. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.560 Julia Beverly's sentencing was set for Friday, the thirteenth of 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.760 October twenty twenty three. Bob Matta and I were in 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.760 Marion to attend it in person. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.160 The woman found guilty of murdering Jay Beasley will be 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.760 sentenced today. That's happening at the Williamston County Courthouse at 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.600 one this afternoon. It took the jury less than two 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.520 hours to find her guilty on three counts, so first 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:01.280 degree murder. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.280 All right, So let's figure out what the hawks says. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.760 Good morning, good morning. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.240 We're gonna head over to HWKS now, but there are 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.000 three hooks in the general vicinity. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.200 Which one did she go to? 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.359 It's gonna be the one on the Yong Street, Okay. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.280 So the closest, the closest one. 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.600 It'll be on the Young or Route thirteen. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:30.080 If there's one, that's two point seven miles on East 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.880 d Young. There's wayet okay, So that's not the one 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.640 five miles on West n Okay, Okay, Okay. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.160 We're heading there now. And then we're gonna head over. 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:42.399 What time are you guys going? 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.400 Bob Mada and I were scheduled to sit down with 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.480 Beverly's mother, Renee, and her siblings before the sentence. Sing 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.400 On our way to High Towers home, we decided to 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.560 clock the time it would take us to get from 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.800 the location on Songbird Road where Jade was murdered to 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.639 the Hucks gas station where the prosecution containds Beverly disposed 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.840 of dents. Beverly maintained she was simply tossing dirty diapers 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.680 before turning around and heading home for her credit cards. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.280 Turn right onto Corey League. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.680 Okay, so yeah, we're going the right way. Okay, So 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:21.040 if we're to believe the state's theory, she has committed 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.720 the murder at this point, Okay. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.639 Has washed up, thoroughly, washed up thoroughly. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.160 She would have had to have transported stuff, put it 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.160 into a bag. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:34.000 And unless she. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:35.600 Was about bloody clothes. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.240 And so she would have been wearing gloves or there 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.320 would be some kind of cross contamination. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.200 Right, and you're you're talking about a either a garbage 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.880 bag or plastic bag filled with bloody clothes and a knife, 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:54.040 which I'm assuming would be poking holes in the plastic bags. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.200 Just common sense, all right. So we're going to take 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.320 this right the Corey League Road. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.520 And unless you double or triple wrapped that plastic bag, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.640 you would have gotten some kind of blood on the 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.040 exterior as you were loading the stuff in it. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:15.000 There would have been some kind of biological material somewhere 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:15.680 in this car. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.480 A pointed out no blood belonging to Jade Beasley was 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.719 found anywhere in Beverly's car. There was a small spec 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.200 found on the wheel attributed to both Beverly and Jade's father, Mike, 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.919 which is not surprising given the shared use of the car. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.200 Back to clocking the drive, it was. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.880 About three point three miles from the house to the 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.760 gas station. We are three minutes into the drive. You 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.480 still got about two point five miles. It's not as straightaway. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.960 You're having to slow down. Now. You have to try 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:55.280 to imagine what would be going through somebody's mind if 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.400 they just committed a brutal homicide like that. 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:05.640 If you you are a compartmentalized killer, you are thinking, 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.400 look normal, don't attract suspicion, Drive slowly, right. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:15.280 Don't get pulled over. And I'm curious it doesn't seem 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.599 like this is a highly policed area back here. I'm 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.960 imagining it's either Marion or the county sheriff is the 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.560 only ones ever back here. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.200 But also houses are close to the road, and you 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.120 would be aware of dogs or children or you know, 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:33.279 running out into the road. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.240 You don't, you wouldn't tear through You're not. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.000 Yeah, you're not doing seventy five back here for sure, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.680 Like I'm going thirty eight maybe. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:46.800 And that feels quick, yeah, and appropriate. The rural back 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.960 roads gave into more suburban sprawl as we got closer 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.880 to the young It is a blinking solar stop sign, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.599 so there must be enough traffic on the road to 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:58.400 warrant that. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.880 That looks like a main Thoroughfarewell we just turned off of, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.039 and this one does as well. It's relatively freshly paved. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.599 Much more residential housing on this m. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.560 Street, higher end looking homes. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.640 For sure, newer built as well. 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.120 Like permanent driveways. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.440 Yeah, and I would hazard to guess these were all 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.880 built in the last ten to fifteen years. It looks 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.600 like to me, we're about six minutes into the drive, 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.000 we're about a mile from the gas station. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.520 And it very much is a little suburban community nestled 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:32.839 around a cornfield. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.520 Yes, like I can guarantee that at one point this 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.760 was all farm land not too long ago, all right, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.719 So we were on the stretch round nine tenths of 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:47.000 a mile. You can see the Marianne water Tower. We've 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.360 got a main thoroughfare door left over here. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.440 That looks like another church. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:52.440 I mean there. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.840 You can't throw a stone without hitting a church. A 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.680 lot of churches cast a stone without hitting a church. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:58.320 There you go. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.520 In a quarter miles, we're seven times. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.560 We're getting the young the hawkses. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.520 Yeah, and we're already seven minutes and thirty seconds in 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.320 about making that turn. 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.520 Okay, so she's gonna getting her left lane here. It's 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:26.720 a two lane highway. We're hitting a light. Just beyond 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.600 this light is going to be the Hawks on the left. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.760 And you know what, I understand why she would have 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.640 pulled in there to turn around, because now we're in 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.760 a much more commercial, multi lane main road. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.320 And this makes me feel way better about her story 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.000 because this is the first and only light that we've hit. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.520 This is where she claims that she goes into her 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.400 purse and realizes that she did not have her cards 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.520 with her when she told me the story last night, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.520 she was like, well, it was like halfway this is 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.680 eyeshot of the Hawks. Yeah, okay, So that makes way 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.120 more sense to me why she would have just continued 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.000 to go to the Hawks for nothing else to turn 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.640 around to go back, you know what I'm saying. I mean, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.080 that makes way more sense to me. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.200 We pulled up along the gas pumps at Hawks where 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.239 Julia Beverly was captured on security cam discarding a small 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:25.000 plastic bag. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:30.880 So we have three lanes of pumps, all of which 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.040 have garbage receeptacles in between the sets of pumps. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.439 And when we say garbage, I mean we're talking garbage cans. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.360 We're not talking a dumpster exactly. But interestingly enough, the 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:46.360 one that we just pulled up to has contracting debris. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.600 Exactly in it. All right, So took us nine minutes 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.880 fifteen seconds to get here catching that light, which we 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.800 knew she caught the light as well when she realizes 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.800 that she doesn't have her debit card. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.079 This is important to note because the prosecution contends it 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.679 would have taken Beverly six to seven minutes to make 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.640 the drive. Google Maps approximate seven, but with having to 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.360 wait out the red light. It took us over nine. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.320 She pulls in, you know, because she has two young 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.839 children who are still pooping in diapers. Occasionally as a parent, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:21.760 you know that there are times that you have to 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.400 change the diaper in the car. It happens. So she 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.960 has the bag with the poopy diapers, gets out and 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.920 she's going to I'm assuming opens the back door right 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:40.080 grabs the diapers. Maybe she reaches around grabs them, and 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:45.720 then she's gonna go dump right into this receptacle and 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.599 we'll have to ask her which one she went to, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.719 if she went closest to, because I'm going to take 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:51.600 a walk and see where the camera is. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.320 Okay, but this is a busy, very busy, very busy street. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.120 Very if you were disposing of bloody clothes and a 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.240 murder weapon, right, would you do it in the broad 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:06.079 daylight in front of multiple people and by multiple people? 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.680 These are gas pumps. You have somebody five feet away 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:10.320 from you at all. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:17.200 Times we're talking. This is in the morning on December fifth, daylight. Like, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.760 this is a busy gas station. I mean there's people here, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.319 a lot of people, a lot of traffic, a lot 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.720 of foot traffic, people getting in out of their vehicles. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.240 All right, I'm going to walk up. I want to 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:28.760 see I think I could see a camera. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:29.120 There. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:39.720 She comes here, it's about an eighteen inch opening, dumps 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.600 the bag in here. Now, she would have gotten right 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.920 back into the vehicle. From what I've heard, they're able 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.960 to see her toss the bag. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.400 And I'm curious if we can see what type of 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.560 bag it was. Is it a bag from Kroger, like 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.960 the plastic bags they bag or groceries in or is 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.360 it a garbage bag that's it. 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.440 We've confirmed that it does appear to be a plastic 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.000 shopping bag for Walmart. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.240 Exactly. So there's the camera. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.320 Oh there's another one over there. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.160 Okay, all right, so that would have been the one 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.640 that would have caught those pumps over there, I'm imagining. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.480 So this, So then that's even more suspicious because why 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.439 would you go to the closest pump where you can 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.400 be monitored by the person looking out the window. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:28.760 Exactly, there's twelve pumps, and this is a busy gas station, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.880 and we're within forty five minutes in which she would 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.720 have been here, you know, and this hawks has a 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.480 full convenience store in here. I mean, small towns like 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.920 this has people get breakfast. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.960 Yet lottery slot machines. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.920 Why are you pulling up here if you don't want 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:49.880 to bring. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.160 A place possible to dump evidence of crime. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.040 And there's a recreation center right there. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.600 Yeah, like I mean that's a full park there, full 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.400 children park with a full playground in there. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.880 The Huck station on DeJong Route thirteen Beverly crossed over 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.360 oncoming lanes of traffic to pull into boasted heightened security 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.520 in keeping with the amount of money and traffic that 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.760 combination of business would attract. Standing at this very busy 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.760 gas station slash casino, it was pretty obvious there were 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.800 many places that would have been better suited for discarding 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:31.440 murder evidence, including the rural area surrounded by abandoned baseball 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.320 fields where the murder occurred. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:38.880 From that light, there's five businesses all that would have 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.760 been on the side of the road that she was 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.679 driving on, which all would have made more sense if 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.360 you're dumping evidence. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.000 And there was something else that Hucks was just a 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.240 block and a half away from another gas station, one 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.520 that was managed by Beverly's mother, Renee high Tower. Why 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:03.320 wouldn't Beverly have gone there if she was ditching evidence. Yes, 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:08.720 story does not make sense from the prosecution's standpoint right now, 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.880 for all the bumps that we're seeing from Julie's version, 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:19.840 it's not sensical from the prosecutions. Murder on Songbird Road. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:27.640 We'll be back after the break here again is murder 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:33.240 on Songbird Road. The reality was that Beverly was about 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.040 to be sentenced for a crime she may not have committed. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.160 That weighed heavily as we left the Huck station and 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:40.880 drove to Renee High Towers home. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.400 So we're going to head to Julie's mother's house, Renee. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.760 That home belonged to Renee's mother, who passed a little 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:53.080 over a year after watching her granddaughter arrested there. All right, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.679 I think we're going to know it's Renee's home when 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.880 we see the Halloween decoration right. High Tower's modest home 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.320 situated about eight miles northwest of where the murder occurred. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.320 When I Google map the address, the image that appeared 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.240 showed a large we still stand with Julie banner hanging 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:14.000 from the front porch, but we were anticipating a much 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.679 bigger display in person. Oh my gosh, you get to 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.280 see the Halloween decorations. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.520 I'll close and persp close, I'll. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.040 Grab my Do you want your notebook? 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:24.640 I do? 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.400 We get all the gear for Halloween. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.440 Renee high Tower had transformed her entire front line and 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.600 porch into an elaborate and creative protest display, with individual 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:41.120 vignettes targeting every individual she believes corrupt or at fault 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.560 regarding her daughter's conviction. Okay, now wait, we have to 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:51.200 look at these Danny boy bias. Justice sentenced the dishonorable 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:57.480 judge paint Huh severely blinded by tunnel vision toll wrong 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:03.000 storyline and tripped up, lost his memory and left wandering. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:03.520 Wow. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.240 She posted video of the installation on Facebook, but it 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.080 was even more impressive in person. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:14.480 Renee has a graveyard with nine headstones, all relating to 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:19.520 people that I think that she believes pretty pretty strongly 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:20.600 screwed her daughter. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.680 Oh my gosh, I'll look at the front They lied 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.880 and manipulated an investigation. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.360 Oh it's called the Shady Blue Cemetery. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.280 The artistry and humor intertwined with the anger that fueled 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.359 the hours that must have gone into crafting the incredibly 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.080 detailed pieces is daunting and somewhat heartbreaking. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.320 So this is what a mom fighting for justice. It's like, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:47.320 look close and personal. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.360 This is what somebody who's out of fs to give. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.000 Yep, yep. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.360 Unless she's calling it less, she sees it, you know, 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.520 which I respect. So I'm a. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.280 Big fan of that. You know, all right, let's go 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.480 in this Danny boy, I don't know, I'll have. 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:02.920 To ask. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:04.880 Order. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:09.960 It was indeed referencing local reporter Danny Vaye, who I 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.280 have found to be very candid and thoughtful in revisiting 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:14.560 his covering of the case. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.880 Oh yes he is, because there is. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:22.440 She even has the news flag attached to the microphone. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:23.960 Hey hi hi. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.000 Renee radiates a very grounded energy in person. She's direct 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:33.040 and controlled, quick to laughter at times, but otherwise pretty stoic. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.280 It's not at all surprising. She was married to a 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.000 cop at one point and has two sons in the 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.400 armed forces. She favors non frilly, dark clothing, which compliments 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.880 her dark hair, which is often topped with a hat 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.960 of some sort. She's only about five foot one, but 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.360 there's nothing petite or meek about her. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.320 It's fitting. She's a manager. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.680 She comes across as one who gets things done. Upon 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.400 entering the house, we were immediately met by piles of 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.200 neatly wrapped and stacked Christmas presents, even though it wasn't 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:04.400 even Halloween yet. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.040 It was early makes piece. 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.159 In real time we realized Renee wasn't ahead of Christmas, 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.640 but rather it was postponed when Julia Beverly was arrested. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:21.280 These are the presents sitting from three years ago. I'm 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:21.919 still waiting. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:22.800 Wow. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.080 Hey, I'm Lauren. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:26.120 This is my oldest son. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.600 Nice to meet you. 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:31.200 And the puppies? 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:33.399 Was that a cat or a puppy? 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:33.880 Puppies? 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:37.760 You watch your TV? 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.720 I'm Lauren, Nice to meet you. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.680 We settled down at her dining room table with Renee 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.040 and Julia Beverly's oldest brother, Michael. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.960 And Michael, you flew in two days ago? 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:52.480 Yes? 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.880 Okay? And where where do you live? 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.520 I'm in in California? 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:58.159 Got it? 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.640 Got Michael, like all of Renee's four children, is mixed race. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.520 He's reserved, thoughtful, and clean cut, all in keeping with 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.840 his profession as an aviation mechanic in the US Navy. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.879 Like all of her sons, he stands just under six foot, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.400 towering compared to the petite sister he's traveled to support 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.440 it sentencing. He listens intently, taking in the two strangers 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.720 at his mother's table and their microphones. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:29.159 Property made the drive to Hawks thanks you're saying about 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.000 with nine minutes. 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:32.200 So we caught the light. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.440 I spent a couple of hours many two and a 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.800 half freezon night, bought off the Williamson County Jail over 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:41.720 there time, ye Julia was saying. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.120 Stat Next to Renee are multiple large binders she's been 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.680 filling with every news clip, social media post, or official 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.399 record of the murder for which her daughter is about 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.120 to be sentenced. They're about five or six of them 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:55.399 and they're all full. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:57.960 I wanted to show you you guys were talking about 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:04.000 to mouse, Yeah, and this kind of shows you a 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.399 little bit the lay of it, the way it was 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:08.920 set out there, so you can kind. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.320 Of see high tower. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.480 Wanted to share photos of the crime scene that show 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:17.760 Beverly's car was moved before it was examined by the 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.040 crime scene investigator. 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.560 So this one is the very first picture where Julie's 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.879 car is way there on the driveway, and then the 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.920 others we took to show where it's moved and This 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:29.920 is like a straight down vision of the house. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.360 Okay, So show me show me the car being. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.920 Moved where it was and where right here's her car 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:41.159 way up there right here, okay, and they moved it 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:45.199 over here for what reason, don't know. 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.320 What's the timeframe of the car bed this is. 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.720 You can see the ambulance are there, okay? And this 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.280 you see they're rolling out the tape here and her 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.679 car has been moved. Julie was still there when they 0:19:57.680 --> 0:19:58.760 were rolling out the tape. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.520 So did they ask her for her keys or her 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:02.360 keys out the car? 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:06.760 She was on the porch hysterical. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.280 I was trying to tell Bob they found a DNA 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:12.200 thing in the car. 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.920 What they found in the car was little tiny specks 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.399 like the top of an eraserhead. It was only Joy's. 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:19.040 Well, they did. 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.720 Test and the DNA that was found in the car 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.840 was on the steering wheel, and it was Mike's because 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:25.720 they both drive the car. 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.480 No, but it was if someone moved the car and 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:32.440 they had interacted with Julie. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.880 It's quite possible that that was transference. Quite possible. 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.440 No acknowledgment of Beverly's car, ever having been moved, has 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.560 been mentioned. Not during the trial or in any official documents, 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.760 Renee has seen being moved at the crime scene by 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.439 someone other than Beverly. Aside, her vehicle wasn't processed by 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.560 the crime scene investigator until December seventh, two days after 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:59.359 the murder and after it had been moved into storage. 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.639 That leads us back to the evidence. The prosecution believes 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:05.680 Beverlely drove to Hawks to discard. 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.240 So today we took the exact same round she took, 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.440 all rural until you hit the Young and that light 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.520 is like a half a block, So, like, that made 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:19.400 way more sense to me. It's frankly, that's where she's 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.400 turned around. She pulls into the Hawks to turn back 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.200 to go back to the house. You know, she's first 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:27.119 telling me the story and I'm like, why are you 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.840 still going to Hawks? That sucks to me, It doesn't 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.280 make any sense. So now when we did the drive, 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:33.680 it made way more suck. 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:38.080 Because you realize you're on a multi lane, busy road 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.239 and you need to turn around. We went in and 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:45.320 looked at the security camera set up they have there. 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.840 She would have known, because you manage a gas station 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:54.840 that that would probably be the worst possible place if 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.520 you wanted anonymity or it's not very. 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.080 Good to stop out in superiod, you know, it's like 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.320