Snapped: Women Who Murder - Angel Brown

Episode Date: June 25, 2023

After a father's life is tragically cut short in a car accident, the events that follow force Ohio investigators to race against the clock to prevent a murder-for-hire plot before it's too late.Season 30 Episode 02Originally aired: October 10, 2021Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WatchSnappedPodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wonder East Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. A father's life is cut short on a desolate highway. You got a dark horse running at you. You're not going to see anything until it is right in front of you.

He was killed instantly. What seemed like just a tragic accident would open the door for jealousy, greed, and a twisted attempt at murder. I'm taking my drugs, but I'm thinking if I don't do it, she won't have somebody do it. It's human nature to say, wait a minute, this person has a criminal record. Is he really trustworthy? Listen, you want him to find a body or you want me to disappear?

It's a piano father. She wants this done, and she wants it done now. To avoid further bloodshed, detectives must fight a potent thirst for vengeance. I've always hated her, he hates her, we've always hated her. The motive was, this woman is about to take everything from me, wants to take everything from me, and I'm going to kill her. So I don't think that you can hire someone to commit murder in a small town and not become notorious for it.

November 18, 2011, Ash de Buella County, Ohio. It's just after 10 p.m. and 45-year-old Daniel Posey Brown is traveling down remote state route 193 in northern Ohio. Route 193 runs pretty much the full length of the county, which means it runs about 35 miles or so. It's a two-lane road. On either side you would have pastures and cornfields, barns with silos and farmhouses, and the occasional convenience store. It's not unusual to be the only car on the road. Daniel Brown is driving home. He's on his way home from work through rural Astribula County. In the seat. Daniel Brown is driving home. He's on his way home from work through rural Ashabilly County.

In the seat beside Daniel is a present for his seven-year-old son, Dartanian. His son had just gotten an A on a spelling test, and he was excited to go home and give Dartanian this gift. As Daniel continues his drive, his wife Angel calls him. They speak briefly before she hands the phone off to their young son. Moments later, the quiet, dark highway erupts in chaos. Out of nowhere, a chestnut-colored horse runs out into the middle of the road.

Daniel's car hits the horse, and the middle of the road. Daniel's car hits the horse, and the horse is killed instantly. Daniel's car drives off the side of the road, flips and hits a guardrail. Within minutes, Ohio State troopers are notified of the accident and race to the scene, hoping to save Daniel Brown. Five standards, dial 911, got the Ohio State Highway Patrol, and troopers are immediately dispatched to the crash. The scene would be chaos, absolute chaos.

Several miles away, Daniel's young son has no way of knowing what just happened. The phone just went blank. As soon as I said the phone went blank, my mom took the phone back from me. And said he probably just hung up. I went to start crying, and she told me not to cry, that it's fine.

And not to worry about it. As the rescuers scrambled to save Daniel's life, no one could know a series of dark events would begin to develop in the distance. It all just took off from there. So there's many, many questions. And the job now is to get a answer. Born in 1965, Daniel Posey grew up in Northern Ohio. We just really always had a very close relationship.

Danny could always talk to me and he always did. Dan and his mom, Colleen, were always close. He was a mama's boy for sure. He loved dirt bites and motor cycles. He played drums through school. He was a character. He just had a charisma about him. You know, he just had this way.

For 17-year-old Lisa Guthrie, 21-year-old Daniel seemed like the total package and they began dating. Two years later, Daniel learned Lisa was pregnant with their first son. They ended up getting married, and then he got a job work for his dad. At Madison Muffler, his dad was an excellent mechanic, and he picked that up from his dad. Then later on, in roughly 1994, him and I started up our own business, which was a tanning salon, and we started that from scratch and built that into a nice

business. In the years that followed, the couple welcomed two more children into the world. I have three children, two boys and a girl, and they are the love of my life. Dan was an amazing father. In the whole time that we were married, never once did he not put his kids first above everything. Juggling a full-time job as a mechanic and running the tanning salon, their growing family proved to be too stressful

for the couple. By 1996, after a decade together, Daniel and Lisa had drifted apart. I told him that I wanted a divorce. That time in my life was somewhat of a blur because of the stress that I was under. Later that year, at a venue called The Queen of Hearts, Daniel found a new queen of his own, Bayd in Nyan.

Angel Brown was a dancer at a local club, and she and Daniel met while she was performing. She was 19 years old at the time, and it was at that point that she met Daniel who was 12 years her senior. She's got a good personality. She's real bubbly and outgoing. Over the next few months,

Daniel started spending more hours at the club and less time with his kids. Angel quickly had a hold on Daniel's heart. Born in 1977, Angel's relationship with her family didn't exactly mirror Daniels. She told me that when she was little, that her mother would get mad at her often.

She had kind of a rough upbringing. Angel wanted a better life. With little money or education to propel her forward, Angel made the most of what she did have, a ferocious fighting spirit. She had this desire to become a boxer, so she took some boxing lessons. She had a couple of vouts trying to term professional. After a year in the ring and a losing record,

her boxing career was down for the count. At 19, Angel was at a crossroads. Until she met 31-year-old Daniel Posey and everything changed in a heartbeat. He loved her dearly. He would write her letters until her how much he loved her. She just had a hold on him. Daniel put his divorce from Lisa on the fast track.

Just a few months after the papers were finalized, he and Angel drove off into the sunset. They just took off. They got in a car and left for Las Vegas and never looked back. They got in a car and left for Las Vegas and never looked back. After three years, the glittering lights of Vegas grew dim. The couple moved back to Ohio, where they married in 2003, and just a year later, Angel gave birth to their son, Dartanian. Then, in Angel, when Dart was born, were wonderful parents.

Their goal was just to love him, take care of him, and be excellent parents. with her. With her days in the ring and nights at the club behind her, Angel worked to re-earn her and she was in the ring. Angel was a very young and talented girl. She was a very talented girl. Angel was a very young and talented girl. Angel was a very young and talented girl. Angel was a very young and talented girl. Angel was a very young and talented girl.

Angel was a very young and talented girl. Angel was a very young and talented girl. Angel was a very young and talented girl. her last name. That's what Dan had did. With her days in the ring and nights at the club behind her, Angel worked to reinvent her image. Angel was very much into carrying and taking care of her son, Dartian, and she enjoyed being a mother. She belonged to the PTA and did things like that with her son. She was a stay-at-home mom. Angel and Dan seemed very happy, planning their life and their future.

I knew my dad as a guy that would do anything he could for his family. And anytime he could get, he would like spend it with me. I know, and he was trying to give me the best life he could. But on the night of November 18, 2011, seven-year-old Dartanians' last memory of his father is a phone call that falls silent. Daniel's driving home when a horse runs out into the middle of the road

and he hits it dead on. When highway patrolman peer into the wreckage of the vehicle, it's obvious there's nothing they can do. He was killed instantly. Hitting a horse, head on in a car is like hitting a wall. Daniel probably never saw it coming. He died of trauma to the head knack and trunk. While the scene appears to simply be a tragic accident, it would create a chain reaction that would rip two families apart.

A man crashes into a horse and dies. End of story, right? If you look at all of this, it's all about Daniel, but it's never really about Daniel. It's really all about Angel Brown. Coming up, the aftermath of the accident contains a blueprint for murder. This is unique.

This isn't something that somebody walks into a sheriff's department tells people every day. I didn't know how far she was going to take it or what she was going to do. And an unexpected phone call reveals a hatred that had been brewing for years. He had been contacted by a acquaintance of his and that asked to kill an individual.

On November 18, 2011, after colliding with a horse in the middle of a dark highway, 45-year-old Daniel Brown is pronounced dead on the scene. They try to help Daniel, but there's nothing that can be done. They start recovering, you know, the body trying to help and getting people off the roadways. Police get word that the horse belongs to a member of an Amish community just off the roadways. Police get word that the horse belongs to a member of an Amish community just up the road.

A Amish party is happening at the Dorset Community Center. The horses are generally tied up outside the community center as the party is happening inside. A horse, a chestnut-colored horse, breaks loose. The horse broke loose and started galloping down the road. So the people that owned the horse were trying to chase it, follow it, try and corral it back,

to where it was supposed to go or corral it off the road. Sadly, the horse made its way onto the highway just as Daniel Brown was approaching. It's not probably happened within 30 to 60 seconds. He's probably going 65 miles an hour down 193. It's pitch black. You've got a dark horse running at you. I mean, you're not going to see anything

until it is right in front of you. It was a complete freak accident. As state patrolmen wrap up their investigation, they face the grim task of notifying the victim's families. They find Daniel's wife, Angel, at the couple's home with their seven-year-old son, Dartanian. A cop pulled in, and when she went and answered the door, and I was standing right there, he said that my dad had died.

And she told me that, and I started crying. Angel notified Daniel's mother. I was in bed. It was 11 o'clock at night. And I had work next morning. And she called. And Angel said, Dan's dead. And I said, what?

I was shaken. I was shaken. And I was crying. It just hurt. I just loved Danny Deerley. I had a special I was crying. It just hurt. I just loved any dearly. I had a special love for him. In the days that follow, news of the horrific crash grips Ash de Bula County.

Reporter Margie Netzel interviews Angel for a story in the Ash de Bula star begin. Angel talks about her grief. She talks about losing her husband. She talks about their relationship and how devoted they are to each other, how devoted Daniel is to Dartanian. Weeks pass, and eventually the headlines fade as Angel and Dartanian tried to move on.

Try talking to her to see if Angel needed anything. She said she was fine. She was just trying to piece things together and figure out things on her own. What's really interesting about this story, we thought it was over. That should be the end of the story, but the Angel Brown story never seemed to end. On January 11, 2012, two months after Daniel Brown's death, a man arrives at the

Astubula County Sheriff's Office, claiming to have information about a potential murder for hire. An individual named James Hawley came into the Asheville County Sheriff's Office and asked to speak with investigators about a situation that he had become involved in. Detectives know James all too well. Mr. Hawley also goes by the name Hawke. That was his name when he was a boxer. He was a professional boxer

for a period of time. Had several pro-fights and then after he stopped fighting, he ran a gym, a boxing gym, an estupila, or he taught boxing to people for a period of time. For local law enforcement, James Hawk Holly had a reputation and a rap sheet. The Mr. Holly has a conviction for Arson. Several years prior to this, he was convicted for setting a fireworks factory on fire. James Holly did go to prison for about 15 years.

When Mr. Holly pled guilty to this charge of arson for setting this fireworks factory on fire, he was not cooperative with authorities. He would not detail why he set this building on fire or at whose request he set this building on fire. While detectives are well aware of James' nefarious past, he tells detectives he has information he wants to share about a different crime.

Mr. Holly said that he had been contacted by a acquaintance of his, that he had a relationship with a long time ago in his life, and that that acquaintance of his had to ask him to kill an individual. James Holly said that the individual had to ask him to kill Lisa Luke. This is unique. This isn't something that somebody walks into a sheriff's department

or a police department and tells people every day. James says the woman offered him $4,000 to kill Lisa, and he admits to accepting the money. James Holly took his $4,000 and went to a casino in Erie, Pennsylvania, and basically it spent the four grand. He had no problem taking $4,000 from somebody and being on his way, but at no time did he want to get involved in a homicide. She supposedly hired him to commit a murder and he was afraid that if he didn't do it, that she would find somebody else to do it.

And there would, in fact, be a murderer and a death. And had he not said anything, so he felt, you know, I better come in and at least blow the whistle on this supposed plot. He's serious, you see what I'm saying? That's what bothered me. He was a girl that he used to have as an amateur boxer, and he stayed at the head and talked to her probably in over 15 years.

Investigators ask James the identity of his former pupil. The person that had approached Mr. Holley was Angel Brown. Investigators know the name Angel Brown, but in their eyes, Angel is a grieving widow, not a cold-blooded killer. Is this new information somehow connected to Daniel Brown's tragic death? Mr. Holly said that Angel Brown told him

that she was having some problems with her deceased husband's ex-wife. There was an issue with his deceased husband's ex-wife. There was an issue with his estate. In order to remedy this, she wanted Lisa Luke gone. She wanted Lisa Luke killed. Coming up, detectives reach out to Angel Brown's alleged target. I started shaking uncontrollably.

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Visit Wendery.com or download the Wendery app to get started. On January 11, 2012, the Astribula County Sheriff's Office receives a visit from a man claiming local widow, Angel Brown Brown tried to hire him as a hitman. James was claiming that he had been hired to kill her husband's ex-wife, Lisa Luke. Investigators consider the possibility the ex-con may have ulterior motives.

It's human nature to say, wait a minute, this person has a criminal record. He obviously committed a crime in the past. Is he really trustworthy with what he's telling you now? James admits he took the money, but says he never intended to murder anyone. But ultimately, a guilty conscience led him into the sheriff's office.

The man who comes to come to the money right, I'm thinking, if I don't do it, Ultimately, a guilty conscience led him into the sheriff's office. The macro-hounder comes here to money and write. I'm thinking, if I don't do it, she won't have somebody do it. As they continue the interview, James tells investigators he's just received a text from Angel. James Holly gets a text saying, forget about that thing. Keep a thousand for your trouble. Investigators try to make sense of the angel's text. Maybe she wanted to end her association with James Holly,

and she wanted to find somebody else to kill a salue. Or did she even want to kill a salue herself? In an effort to find out what Angel is really thinking, investigators asked James to call her. They're here to help me get her a call. Tell her, hey, listen to what he's done. You're going to get him back and make sure that she's she does not want to do anything with that. All right. Don't kill me. I don't think to. Do you want anything? All right. Don't kill me. It's no good. A conversation is arranged between James,

Holly, and Angel Brown, where James says, I already spent the money. You're not going to get the money back. Are you sure? You want the done is done. I mean, you just let me know. And I got to make sure me and you're on the same down page, man, because I can't afford to get you him done. Oh, you just let me know and I gotta make sure me and you understand down page man

Because I can't afford to get you him done. Oh, I know that's what I'm saying. I can't do that Eventually during the course of that angel Brown says go ahead and do it. Go ahead and finish out All right, I'm gonna hit you up so it's done, okay? After this first phone call ends, we know that Angel Brown actually wants Lisa Lou be dead. While the question of why Angel wants Lisa dead remains elusive, detectives more pressing concern

is capturing Angel on camera. If it was possible to get Angel Brown on video, agreeing that James Holley should go forth with the murder and Indicating that she in fact had paid him some money. This would be sort of the icing on the cake with regard to the evidence Pictures worth a thousand words I'm gonna get you wired up and be thinking in your head about how you can have another conversation with her as far as How this would go to talk to her or report a conversation with her face-to-face conversation. Two hours later, James is outfitted with a camera and microphone.

With an undercover officer by his side, he drives to Angel's home. There was a detective in the car with James Holly. He just slumped down where she couldn't see him. James meets with Angel Brown at the front door of her residence. Angel comes out, she's got the concern about being caught for this crime. And if anybody gets busted, nobody's coming back on me, though. She says she'd watched her crime show and it made her really scared about getting caught. We weren't too concerned because it was pretty good equipment so we weren't

worried about her finding anything. Once she did that she became a little bit more confident in having conversation with her. In order to ensure that Angel Brown wanted to go forward, there were a couple different times where James Holly said to her, are you sure about this? Are you sure this is what you want done and each time Angel Brown said yes?

You want to leave it alone? Well, not if I'm not gonna get in trouble. She wants this done and she wants it done now. You can see it all over her face and her body language. She was not kidding around. 10 o'clock this should be nine. All right. You good?

Yeah. All right. Oh, sorry. You go. Thank you. With that, James gets back in the car and leaves. Investigators are certain that Angel is determined to see Lisa Luke dead.

But why, she wants her husband's ex-wife murdered, remains a complete mystery. I wanted to have a meeting with Lisa Luke. We had to let Lisa know that she was in fact a target of a homicide. Detectives bring Lisa in for an interview where they fill her in on Angel's plot. I started shaking uncontrollably.

I was just in serious shock. And I'm just trying to get myself under control and calm down. Lisa explains that during her eight-year marriage to Daniel, he was devoted to their family. Until Angel drove a wedge between them while their child was fighting a life-threatening illness. Then we found out that my son had leukemia and that's when everything changed in our relationship. That was to me the start of it.

He came to the hospital one night and he was all dressed up. Like the dressed up, when him and I are going out, somewhere nice. And so I decided to follow him from the hospital. And I followed him to the strip club where Angel Brown worked. And that was the first that I truly knew that anything was going on. the first that I truly knew that anything was going on.

By November 1996, Daniel and Lisa were divorced. For the first few months, Daniel attempted to stay in contact with his kids. We would talk on the phone, but after that, after those phone calls ended, he really just kind of disappeared. Lisa Luke certainly wanted and rightfully so, Daniel to pay child support for the kids, which apparently he didn't. From then on, whenever Lisa contacted Daniel about his child support obligations, she was only allowed to talk to Angel. She literally told me on the phone,

you are not gonna take one bite of food out of my child's mouth for your children. That's how she viewed it. I was taking money from her child by Dan Payne Child Support. There was some contention between the two families. Before Daniel's death, he was over $30,000 behind a child's accord.

According to Lisa Luke, Angel's behavior was becoming more dangerous. Angel would periodically throughout the years call me and harass me, threaten me, tell me to drop the child's support. That's what led to me deciding to drop everything that had to do with child support because I felt that she was becoming more of a danger. I didn't know how far she was going to take it or what she was going to do. When Daniel died, Lisa learned that her kids,

now in their late teens and early 20s, might have a chance to recoup some of the money that was owed to them. Dan had a life insurance policy through his work for $15,000 that was given to Angel after his death. And then she had taken out a life insurance policy of her own for $240,000.

Those benefits were payable to Daniel's estate upon his death. But when Lisa checked on the status of Daniel's probate case to execute his will, she discovered Angel had made a bold and unexpected move. As the executor of the estate, she legally has to list all of his next of kin, and she chose not to.

She left two of my kids off of it, so it only leaves one motive, and that motive is money. She chose not to. She left two of my kids off of it. So it only leaves one motive, and that motive is money. Coming up, Angel and Lisa's feud goes one more round. I believe that that's what put her over the edge. That was the same day, literally, the same dates around the documents that she contacted James. And Angel has her say.

I was just talking to you, baby, I'm frustrated. I made a joke out of it. On January 11, 2012, Astribula Sheriff's Department investigators captured 34-year-old widow, Angel Brown, appearing to sign off on the murder of her deceased husband's ex-wife. You want to leave him alone? Well, not if I'm not going to get in trouble. According to Angels' intended victim, Lisa Luke, Angel was trying to prevent two of Lisa's children from inheriting their share of Daniel's estate.

That's when I hired my attorney. Took him birth certificates. Everything that was required, he then contacted her attorney and said, you got to change the estate. These kids got to be on there. Lisa's attorney also discovered that Daniel's life insurance wasn't the only money her kids were missing out on. After Daniel's death, there was a wrongful death, civil lawsuit filed against the owner of the horse that had caused the crash. There was a settlement in that lawsuit

for which Daniel's estate received around $200,000. According to Lisa, on January 9, her attorney contacted Angel and told her that she was going to have to share both the insurance and the settlement money. I believe that that's what put her over the edge. That was the same day, literally, the same dates around the documents that she contacted James. Investigators believe they have just zeroed in on Angel's Modes.

Maybe she felt that if she killed Lisa, that there would be nobody there to further the fight for the children to get any part of the settlement. Greetings. She hated me and my kids enough that she didn't want us to have one dime. Detectives have enough to place Angel under arrest, but before they do, they make one final move

to tighten up their case. We want to make one more phone call and have James Holley tell Angel Brown, hey, Lisa Luke's dead. And we want to see what kind of response that she has and basically what she wants done at that point. So, James Holley makes the phone call. Hello.

Hey, man, you're, hey, she did. Now, for the lesson, you want him to find the body or you want him to disappear? It's a bit of a problem. Like I said, you know, I just don't want nothing to come back on me. Mir hours after James James Holly first showed up at the Sheriff's Office, investigators

head to Angel's home armed with an arrest warrant. Me and my mom were sitting in the living room. The cops pulled in, knocked on a dorm, said Angel Brown got under arrest. When we placed Angel Brown in the handcuffs, she was surprised to say the least. She started crying uncontrollably. And at one point in time, she started screaming.

She was going to take everything for me. She was going to take everything for me. Investigators transport Angel to the Ash to Bealless Sheriff's Department. When Angel Brown was being booked, detectives recovered a receipt in her back pocket for a withdrawal of $20,000. The date was more important, and that date was January 10th. In January 10th was the same day that she went and met with James Hawley and paid him $4,000. When investigators sit down with Angel, she explains that in the months after the death of her husband, James Hawley had become her rock. Angel claims that when she talked to James about Lisa,

she was just unloading on a friend. This is your opportunity to explain your actions. I told you I was mad, but I was just talking in many of us traded. She started to say that she was joking, that this was all fun and games, that her and James joked around like this all the time. Wouldn't it be funny if somebody killed Lisa Luke?

This was all just a big joke. I thought it was a joke. I don't realize it's Aaron. It was a joke. I don't realize it's Aaron. It was a joke. I don't realize it's a joke. No.

I don't realize anything. This is a joke. Realizing that a confession isn't coming, investigators confront Angel with her final phone call with James. As worth word, she's dead. Do you want her to be found or do you want her to disappear? I did. And I thought he was joking.

I didn't think that he was talking with truth. I thought he was going to start going right back. On the video, there's no, there is, you patting him down for a wire. How is that thinking that he's joking? Play that in a courtroom and then... I was patting him down for a while, okay? Okay.

In a last-ditch effort to get Angel to come clean, investigators ask about the large sum of cash she withdrew from the bank the day before. The same day, James Holly claims she gave him $4,000. She had told us that she made a $10,000 withdrawal from her bank account. But that was for Christmas presents and to pay some bills. That withdrawal receipt of $20,000 didn't match the fact

that she had turned the whole interrogation kept telling us it was $10,000 that she was through when in fact it was double that. Angel admits that the evidence looks incriminating, but continues to maintain her innocence. There's all kinds of motivation, I mean there's a home conversation. The only thing Angel doesn't deny is the bad blood between her and Lisa Luke. I've always hated her. He hated her. We've always hated her.

She hates us. You know why couldn't there have been her? I still have my husband. Following the interview, Angel is charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. News of her arrest provides relief to Lisa, but her sense of security is only temporary. Angel Brown was given the opportunity to make bail.

And with our constitution, you do have a right to make bail. I find out that they let her out on bail. And I'm like, wait, what? Okay, how much she out on bail? I couldn't believe it. And I'm like, wait, what? Okay, how much she out on bail? I couldn't believe it. Cher is a hitman to kill me. I was absolutely livid at this point

because I'm helpless. There's nothing I could do about it. Coming up, Lisa's fears come to fruition when detectives make an ominous discovery. It has a newspaper article with Lisa Luke's picture that has written above it dead. And a family still searches for answers. What did I do to you to make you hate me that bad that you want me dead.

After being arrested in a foiled murder for higher plot that targeted the first wife of her deceased husband, 34 year old Angel Brown is out on bond awaiting trial. For would be victim Lisa Luke, it's like living in a nightmare. We lived in fear all the time because we never knew who was outside our house, who was still watching. Nothing like that. There was just no sense of security whatsoever. I just was constantly watching what I was doing. As Lisa and her family remain on edge, authorities in Ashtabula, Ohio prepare for trial. Among the items in their possession is a box that Angel's son grabbed at the time of her arrest.

They said, go grab a couple of things. That's when I went in and grabbed her box of stuff because I remember Angel always saying that if anything happened, that was the one thing that was the most important. We had to make sure we got it. So I went and grabbed it. And when they looked inside, they immediately took it away. I did include some drug paraphernalia and some drugs. But there's more. It has a newspaper article and with Lisa Luke's picture

that has written above it dead. And obviously, she's show is a huge, huge amount of hatred that Angel Brown has towards Lisa Luke. And obviously, she shows some motive that she wanted her dead. In August of 2013, the first obviously she was some motive that she wanted her dead. In August of 2013, 36-year-old Angel's trial gets underway.

During the trial, James stated that Angel Brown had a long history of the only Lisa Lou. She hated Lisa Lou Luke to the core. She did not care for the fact that Lisa Luke was always involved in their life because of the fact that Daniel was behind on child support. She felt that Lisa Luke was harassing her at times and she had gotten to the point

where she just wanted her out of her life. James Holly isn't the only powerful witness to take the stand. I went up on the stand and I told my story and she made sure to keep, angel made sure to keep her head down. She never tried to look me in the eye. She laid the foundation. The motive was greed. The motive was greed.

The motive was hatred. The motive was this woman is about to take everything from me, wants to take everything from me, and I'm going to kill her. When it comes time for the defense, Angel takes the stand. Her testimony hits a familiar note. She's trying to convince the jury that this was all a joke. I didn't mean it. You know, it was all a joke.

The jury convenes. Just two hours later, they announced they have reached a verdict. When they came back guilty on both counts, it was a huge relief, not just for us, but for Lisa. When the verdict was read, I was so happy. The judge at sentencing gave Angel Brown nine years. It wasn't the maximum, but under a high law, it was probably as close as he could get to the maximum.

Following Angel's conviction, Dartanian goes to live with his cousin Linda and her husband. We are so proud of Dar and who he is and the man that he's become. We tell him he can be anything and achieve anything he wants in life. My life now is lendently. It's really good. When mom sends cards and stuff,

I write refused, return to sender on them. And I written a letter to the master. I've written a letter to prison for her to stop writing me. But she still keeps writing me. I'm a lot of afraid of her. I don't care that when she gets released, as long as she stays away from me. As for James Holly, Lisa Luke believes

she owes him a debt of gratitude. My thoughts about James Holly are that essentially, he quite possibly saved my life. He did the right thing. There's always a passion at the bottom of a murder. And in this case, that passion was hate. What did I do to you to make you hate me that bad that you want me dead? I didn't steal your husband. You wrote a long come on in and took mine. And that comes from her place of insecurity. That comes from her own mind.

Angel Brown served her nine-year sentence in the Ohio Department of Corrections. She was released on supervision in 2022 at the age of 45. you