This is Rhonda Harper and she's about to learn that her son is a wanted killer. >> That boy scares the hell out of me. But that's all I mean, like I said, that's all I know, guys. Really all I know. >> Just days earlier, officers found the body of a 35-year-old father of three with a single gunshot wound to the head. >> Do you guys know who he is? >> No. >> He looks familiar. At first, it looks like a random act of violence. But as officers begin speaking with witnesses, it quickly becomes clear that a murder duo might be on the run and that a strange woman is at the center of it all. >> Just one bullet. That's it. One shot. I just seen that he had a gun. Next thing I knew, they got in the car and left. >> I want you to be honest with I am being honest with you. I didn't shoot, bro. If I did it, I wouldn't be here. But I know I'm in the time of show. >> It's July 6th in West Odessa when 911 dispatch gets a routine call from a man at a trailer park reporting someone had broken into his RV. >> County Sheriff's Office. How can I help you? >> Yes, ma'am. I'd like to report a death. >> All right. I'll get a deputy out there. Okay. All right, appreciate it. >> As officers respond to the report of a break-in with theft, they have no idea this is only the first of several calls to come. Each one growing more disturbing than the last. >> Who does the RV belong to? >> My fiance. >> Are you sure it's in her name? How do you know it's trying to say? Because my fiance and her ex both brought it together. >> Okay. >> And they're both in jail right. She gets out in September. So, I'm pretty much watching over everything. Make sure everything was okay. >> Okay. Well, he might have told his mom the same thing. >> My landlord would say the same thing. >> Oh, >> but all my tool had two boxes over there completely empty. >> They didn't take anything else but tools. >> They went through stuff, but I don't know. >> Okay. And what's her name? >> Lori. >> This is 35year-old Europe Crow von Brentesen. Europe claims that he's been having ongoing issues with a woman named Lori, arguing over the trailer he's been staying in. To police, it feels like a straightforward civil dispute between two people. They document the call, file the report, and leave the scene thinking little of it. But what they don't realize is that in just 2 days, this simple dispute will turn far more volatile. >> Sure. Go ahead. >> All right. Um, my fiance and her ex bought a RV and she already uh done a paperwork and had it notorized to give me legal right to be here. I just had uh her ex mother and two of her friends came here trying to threaten me and wanted me to move out of this RV in two days. I just want to know like if they come back to threaten me, I just want to know where like where's my right? The call ends and dispatch marks it as a low priority incident and cues a unit to check on Europe at the RV. But before that unit even arrives, another call comes in from the very same trailer park. And this one is far more unsettling. >> Sheriff's office Jennifer. >> This man said that there's another man yell or not yelling, sorry. He's laying on the ground with like blood on his head. >> Okay. >> And he said he is breathing. He said he doesn't know if he shot him, if they stabbed him or what's going on, but he said he he dropped in the street and now he's not moving. And he doesn't know if the people are still there. >> We'll get deputies around too. All right. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. >> With reports of a man shot on the side of the road, officers race to the scene, completely unaware of what they might be walking into. What they find there will launch a dayslong investigation filled with conflicting stories and at least one killer still on the loose. For now though, all they can do is confront the scene. With no witnesses and no suspects, officers need to do everything in their ability to secure the crime scene and preserve any potential evidence before it's destroyed. >> All right. Y'all confirm everything. >> Sounds good. Okay. All right. Just no more walking around here. >> Okay. >> As first responders arrive, they instantly find a man lying on the side of the road with a pool of blood around him and a single gunshot wound to the head. They have no idea what happened, but one officer spots something right away. The sheer amount of evidence lying around the scene and among them, one that will later lead them straight into catching the real killer. >> I don't see any gun or case. >> I don't see it either. I think they shot him in the car. >> Probably. >> I don't. But >> but hold on. If they would have dumped him and he would have been bleeding, wouldn't it have spattered like at least a drop or something? If he's laying down that way, the car had to have been coming this way. You'll see his shoe prints all right there. And you see these tire marks. >> That may look like his ship. That's his shoe tracks right there. So, let's make sure none of this right here gets uh tampered tampered with cuz he may have been walking when he got shot. And there's a different set of shoe tracks right there. >> With the scene secured and the evidence documented, officers start forming their initial theories about what happened. But everything takes a turn when they identify the victim, someone they'd already met, and someone whose earlier dispute may soon explain why he ended up dead. All we know is the deceased is named by Crow. First name Europe, but we don't know what his last name is. His nickname is Crow. >> Oh, I know him. I know. >> Can you go confirm him? >> Yeah. >> He's laying right there on the Don't step on the dirt on the asphalt. He's on the north side of the road. >> That's when the realization hits them. The victim on the roadside is Europe. the same man who had called 911 both earlier that day and in the days before trying to report a growing conflict over his trailer and an unknown woman involved in it. And as officers revisit those earlier calls, they quickly realize the scale of the problem. Everything about this case is still a mystery. Who was with him? Who he argued with? Who might want him dead? But out of all the chaos and unanswered questions, only one clue stands out. Just one name, Lori. Europe was a 35-year-old father of three, working to stay sober and get his life back on track for his children. The RV he was living in had become one of the few steady parts of his life. But that effort came to an abrupt end here on the roadside, long before he had the chance to fully turn things around. And now to figure out who this unknown woman is and what led to Europe's death, officers split up and start speaking with witnesses from the trailer park. Little by little, they begin to piece together what happened. And here are the first names of potential suspects who may have played a role in Europe's murder. >> We live back here in the back. My wife actually >> I was outside feeding my chicken before 6:00. So it was about 5:30 5:45 and I heard one shot. It sounded like pistol. I don't know exactly what it was, but it just hit one shot. I didn't see it exactly what happened, but I seen what was going on over here. I just seen that he had a gun or what looked like a gun to me. They were just sitting there talking and only thing I knew they got in the car and left. >> I've seen him and a girl that I know comes here has been here two or three times. >> The person that's >> Yes. That all I know him by is Crow. That's his last name. I saw him walking back this way. They were down there, walking back this way 15 minutes ago, maybe just right before it happened. I'm sitting in my house. I didn't think nothing of it. That's his friend. She's been here before. And they say there was a guy with him. I didn't I didn't see I don't know. I saw him and her walking. >> As officers keep gathering statements, the story stays consistent. Multiple witnesses saw Europe arguing with a woman just moments before the gunshot, and they mention the same detail that will become important later, her purple spiky hair. And soon, officers get the confirmation they need, along with new details that push Lori even further into focus as their main suspect and expose just how complicated this situation really is. >> You know, Crow. >> Yes. >> What What's his uh name? >> His uh uh Europe. >> Europe. What? >> Europe. Uh, it starts with a B. I can't remember. Uh, >> it's a >> Burton. >> No, it's it's long. Uh, >> he's not even from here. He's from uh Georgia, South Carolina, somewhere like that. >> Do you know if he's ever been arrested before? >> Uh, yeah, I think so. I don't I don't know. From what I understand, somebody heard them say something about a deposit. >> Put a deposit on that or something. Brenda that called me, my ex sister-in-law that lives here, she told me that all they heard somebody heard uh something about I paid a deposit on this. Okay. Well, the issue with the trailer is Destiny. She's in jail. >> Okay. >> Okay. And she was dating a guy named that her and Zach. He's in jail also. Their family to Zach. And they were coming to try to take the trailer. I called the sheriff. >> Mhm. >> Because I said, "You cannot take that trailer. Those two people own it, Destiny and Zach." And when Zach went to jail, she moved her other boyfriend in, Crow, the one that they supposedly got shot. Zach's mother and her roommate had been over here a couple of times and they they just gone to him and kind of start with him. You know what I mean? >> Okay. >> So, Zach's mom and her roommate come over here to get the trailer about a month ago. But anyway, so they I wasn't here that day, but they jumped out and they were jumping all over Crow. We're going to take this trailer, blah blah blah. Well, then they came I did I didn't know how to get a hold of them. I they came back a couple of weeks later and uh they pulled up and I met them down here and uh it was Zach's mom and her roommate and that's the woman whose son jumped out of the car the other day with the gun because he was name >> um and I don't even know that lady's name. I know Lory's name, Zach's mom, but that's all I know about her and I have her phone number upon. >> After concluding the interviews at the trailer park, officers slowly start to piece together the situation. And while there's a lot of unclear statements, one thing finally becomes clear. They learn who Lori is. Witnesses explain that Lori has a son named Zach and that the RV belongs to them. Zach has an ex-girlfriend named Destiny who was dating Europe, known as Crow, before he was killed. At the time, Destiny was already in jail on unrelated charges, meaning Crow was living alone in the RV in the days leading up to his death. But while officers begin to understand the tangled dynamics surrounding the RV dispute, these are still only fragments, secondhand accounts, nothing they can rely on. To truly understand the conflict between Lorie and Europe and whether she could be responsible for his murder, investigators need to speak with the one person closest to him, Destiny. So, they set up an interview at her prison and begin the questioning. >> Hi, Destiny. Hi, Jud. I'm in business county sheriff's office. The reason I pulled you in here, you're not in trouble or anything like that. I just wanted to talk to you about it today. >> Yeah, don't worry about this. I was like, I know I haven't done anything to get in trouble. I've done everything to try to get myself out of trouble. I'm going to be asking you a whole lot of questions about everybody out there and more or less who you know, who you talk to, or who you know out there. So, today I was called out. there was what appears to be like an altercation or something happened on that property having to do with that RV, >> somebody else claiming it to be theirs. And so we're trying to get him out. Uh how close were you with uh your Pretty close. Were we were well we're engaged to hopefully be married when I'm done with this. >> Okay. from what other people like on the property were saying is that you lived there with somebody else before uh your Zachary Hamilton. Well, that's who was that's who was keeping an eye on my camper and who actually got it moved when I was getting out on probation. So, is there any reason why he would try to like take ownership of it or or say that it's his or would you know of any altercation that he might in the beginning it was both of ours like we we had to camper together. >> So, do they have different moms or >> Zach and Jared? >> Yes. >> Okay. Who is Zach's mom? >> Zach's mom was Lorie Brandon. >> Does Lori have good contact with Zach or you don't really know? As far as I know, yeah, he's still he's as far as I know, he's still in jail, I think. >> As far as Zach, would he tell Lorie to try to take care of the RV or anything that you know about? >> As far as I don't know. >> Um, but you do you keep did would you keep in touch with Europe constantly that every day? Mhm. >> Did he ever tell you there were any issues on the property or he was >> Well, he he told me that he he he needed a power of attorney as soon as possible because Tammy kept starting stuff with him. Um >> Tammy, >> yeah, she's the property manager. >> As Destiny walks detectives through the RV situation, it's clear she doesn't fully grasp how intense the conflict around its ownership has become. But as the interview continues, Destiny's nerves build and they're about to break into a moment of pure shock and disbelief because the investigators decide it's time to tell her the truth about Europe's death >> today. Somebody went out there tried to force him out. Apparently, they've been trying to kick him out, right? That's what I'm trying to ask you. Who's been trying to get him out? Because we need to find out who did this to him. Oh, >> my husband's gone. >> Yes, he didn't. I'm And I'm sorry. >> Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm sorry, God. I'm sorry, God. I'm sorry. But if there's anything, any information, anybody that you may know would be really helpful. And like I trying to figure out who a lady with purple spiky hair is or a red >> that would be Oh, Lori has spiky hair. >> Lori has spiky hair. >> Lori Brandon's actual mom. >> Okay. >> The moment Destiny confirms that the lady with the spiky hair is Lori, she instantly becomes the center of investigation. Now that officers know it was Lori who was seen with Europe just minutes before his death and that she was already involved in a heated dispute over the RV, they finally have a clear direction. They need to find her fast before she realizes investigators are closing in. But tracking her down won't be simple. Lorie doesn't own or rent a home, aside from possibly the RV, leaving police with no reliable address to search. The only hint they have comes from Destiny, who explains that Lorie used to bounce between motel. So, officers start checking those areas, spreading the word that they're looking for her. And just as that search begins, something unexpected happens. Lori herself calls the police, revealing exactly where she is. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I'm not even going to ask if I'm smoking your car. Can I bait? >> Can I bait? >> Uh, preferably not. I don't I don't >> I don't smoke. So, >> yeah. >> Oh, no. I'm fine. Detectives detain Lori and transport her to the sheriff's office for a formal interrogation without an issue. And while they can't really explain why Lorie revealed her location, this will become clear in the future. This is the moment investigators believe everything might have finally come together. They have their primary suspect sitting in an interview room, the woman witnesses placed at the RV, the person tied to the long-running conflict over the trailer, and the last person seen with Europe before he was shot. If she talks, this entire case could break open. But what detectives don't realize is that this interview won't end the investigation. It will completely change its direction, raising a chilling possibility. Lori might not be the person they should have been looking for at all. you know the the reason we are here at this moment right for for incident that happened uh on on the 8th what exactly can you tell us about that >> I just went over there check my son's camper was supposed to be moving out deposit down on it and everything he would be about the sixth he was still there and I told him I said dude you got to go pay $50 not rent at the hotel room. You know, you didn't know. >> So, you're there related to an RV that's on the property. Correct. >> Yeah. Camp room. >> You say the the RV belongs to your son? Yes, he does. >> Exactly. >> Yes. >> Okay. Who's who's currently staying at the RV? >> Crow is staying there. Destiny had him move in, which is foul business, man, because she's just foul. >> So, so Destiny, I understand she's she's in our destiny at the moment, right? Mhm. >> And as well as your son, right? >> Yes. >> So you you said the trailer belongs to your son or or that's that you understand. >> Correct. >> Yeah. >> It's understanding your your crow was was staying at the RV in question. >> Okay. >> And I've been over here several times. You know, Tommy, why are you here? Y'all are not even friends. Y common denominator is Destiny. Destiny screws everybody around. She's married to Tommy, engaged to Crow, sleeping with my kid. >> So on this particular day, you you went back out there >> to check he had moved out yet. >> Who who was with you? >> Nick. >> Nick. Uh >> I don't know. >> Okay. So just you and Nick? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Here, Lorie gives detectives their first major breakthrough. She reveals that Nick Seabolt, the son of her best friend, is the one who drove her to the trailer park to confront Europe, and that Nick was with Europe at the exact moment he was killed. Just like that, detectives suddenly have a new potential suspect they haven't even heard of before, and another person they now need to track down. But before they shift their focus to Nick, detectives need to determine one last thing. Did Lorie have any idea that Nick might have killed Europe? or could she have played a role in setting up the confrontation? >> What What happened once once you guys got there? >> Well, Croy's still there and that's why I said, "Man, dude, you had until the 6th. You know, we've already paid a deposit on here. You were supposed to move out. You know, he said he didn't have anywhere to go." I mean, I understand because I'm in the same boat. So they went and took a walk around the block and I went and looked to see what the camper looked like, you know, how much problem it was going to be and cleaning it up and moving in. And then they came back and said, "Let's go." So we left. He went to the room, dropped me off. I went and saw my granddaughter. Didn't find out till later on that night that they was dead. >> Who was it? They grow. >> Okay. So, how how did that happen? >> I don't know. I went I went there. >> You You just told me you were you were there. >> I don't know what happened to Crow. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO CROW. I don't I didn't shoot Crow. >> I didn't say it. I asked you who shot something. >> I guess you did. >> There's no about it. It's either Nick did it or or did it? I >> didn't see it. I didn't see it. >> So, you were inside the toy though the entire time or when the incident happened? >> Yes. >> Yeah. I heard gunshot. Didn't really think it was a gunshot. Very short time after that. I mean, I don't think a minute. I mean, I'm assuming it's a minute cuz it was pretty quick after he got heard the shot that he said. We got to go. If you're looking at me like I'm a suspect or like I had something to do with this, then I >> I clearly told you from the getgo, you know, we want to use you as a witness. You know, we were a suspect, we would come in here in a whole different scenario. >> We would catch part of the process. >> Um >> I think I that is totally but All right. >> The interview concludes with Lorie sticking to her story and denying any involvement or knowledge of what happened. With no evidence tying her to the murder and her explanation sounding believable, detectives decide to let her go and shift their focus to the one person she plays directly at the scene, Nick. The days pass and Nick is still nowhere to be found. Police search every possible spot in the city. Shelters, motel, known hangouts, but there's no trace of him. And the murder of Europe, the father of three, remains unsolved. As investigators continue searching for Nick, they revisit every clue they've gathered so far. That's when they realize there's one person they never formally interviewed. someone especially close to both Nick and Lorie, Rhonda Harper, a woman Nick referred to as his mother. Detectives reach out to Rhonda, hoping she can help them locate Nick. But instead, she would share a detail from the day of the murder, one that suggests Lorie was far closer to Nick than she initially let on. >> The other guy wouldn't let me drive. >> Good morning. How are you? >> I just got called into work right after you. >> Oh, really? >> But can we go away >> somewhere else? >> Yeah. Okay. Where do you want me to park? >> Um I'm investigator Jamie Kon with the county sheriff's office. >> I've been trying to keep up with it a little bit. >> Okay. So, um that morning or that that Saturday morning, um what how was what happened? Well, how was your day? >> Well, I mean, we woke up um typical day at the Sahara Motel, you know. Um she said um somebody's going to cuz Okay. In the motel room, we had two dogs. Okay. We weren't allowed to have dogs there. And so I allotted to stay that day. Like I'm going to stay here with the dogs. You go ahead and go find out about the uh um you know what was going on with our trailer. And Nick showed up. Okay. And uh she said, "Well, I'm just going to ride with Nick in case you need my car and we're going to go take care of this real quick and we'll be back." And I said, "Okay." And that's the way that went. They left. There was no nothing, you know, just they left. And uh they came back and he dropped. It was the strangest thing because he opened the door. She opened the door to come in the room and they kissed at the front door and I'm like, "Wo, when did this happen?" Like she's 40, he's 30. I mean, there's a big age difference there. And they kissed at the door and he left and she come in and there was nothing different about none of them. >> It appears Lorie may have been involved in some kind of relationship with Nick. It's a detail that quietly brings her back onto investigators radar, but not enough to make her a suspect again. That changes when Rhonda reveals something Nick told her shortly before he disappeared. >> After you found out about the incident, then did you talk to Nick? >> I uh I was too scared. >> You talk to Lori? >> I don't want to be involved in that crap. You know, I was scared. Can I ask you a question? Why did he say that my what Lori has more to do with it than I know >> or can you answer that? >> Well, uh it's an >> cuz you know you don't want to think is your friend is a killer. You know, >> I cannot go into details unfortunately because for for obvious reasons, you know what I mean? Um but uh things will come out in in in due time. >> Thank you guys. You're welcome. >> You have a good day. Rhonda's statements suggest Lorie may have known far more and been far more involved than she ever admitted. It's information that will later help push this case towards its conclusion. But for now, as the days continue to pass, one problem remains. Nick is still missing. Then, nearly 20 days later, something completely unexpected happens. Just like Lori, Nick turns himself in. At first, investigators assume he did it out of guilt, that the weight of the murder finally caught up to him. And detectives believe they finally have the real killer of Europe sitting right in front of them, and that they're just one confession away from closing the investigation for good. But what Nick tells them will force detectives to rethink everything. The evidence they've gathered, the statements they've relied on, and the assumptions driving the entire investigation. when you were outside and it was hot, so I brought you some water. I don't know, you like water and some people. Okay, so I already introduced myself. My name's Genie from Mr. Town Sheriff's Office. So, this is your statement. I'm have to read this out loud to you. Bam. Excuse my reading skills. They're not perfect. >> And then you can just sit here. >> Yes. You know the reason we're here at the moment, correct? >> Uh yes, I know why, but I don't know why. >> I do know it's is regarding an incident that happened on on 56th Street. >> I didn't but I do know. >> Okay. Uh are you familiar with a uh an individual named uh Europe? >> No, sir. >> This this individual I asked you about Europe. Never knew never never knew the name or anything. >> No, sir. I understand that most people knew him by crows. That's it. No coincidence your name gets gets mentioned by several people. >> Like I said, a lot of people don't like me. >> Well, exactly. It just so happens that the same day that the vehicle arriving at this this location happens to give the vehicle you own. >> Well, you said it. That's a small. a lot of people knew a lot of people. If I did it, I wouldn't be here. If I did it, I I say I did it. Just like a couple years ago when someone shoted me and I shot back at them and drove off, picked me up right down the street, I said it was me, you know, just >> Do you have anything else to say that that might help your case? It might help you. I mean, I don't I don't need help. I know I'm innocent. >> Okay. >> And time will show that. >> Perfect. your time. You know, you always have time for me. Little soon take you back. >> Go with that. >> Nick denies any involvement in the murder, and officers failed to locate the weapon used to kill Europe. This alone could have stalled the entire investigation, leaving detectives with no confession, no motive, and no murder weapon. But days before Nick turned himself in, investigators had made one crucial discovery that would change everything. A car was captured on a CCTV camera speeding away from the area not far from the trailer park. When detectives ran the plate, they learned that the vehicle belonged to a woman named Catherine Alen Ray. And after interviewing Catherine, they uncovered something important. Just weeks earlier, she had sold that very car to Nick, her nephew. Officers later found the vehicle abandoned near Nick's home and secured it. And that's when the most overlooked piece of evidence from the first day of the investigation suddenly became the key to the entire case. The tire tracks found next to Europe's body matched the tires on Nick's car exactly. It's the strongest forensic link detectives have. And even with Nick refusing to speak, it's enough to move forward with charges. As investigators rebuild the timeline, Lorie's story begins to fall apart. Her statements no longer line up with the physical evidence or witness accounts, and she describes details she shouldn't know if she truly wasn't aware of the shooting. Her timeline doesn't match the confirmed movement of Nick's car either, revealing she knew far more than she claimed. Piece by piece, detectives realize she wasn't simply an innocent bystander who happened to be there. She knew far more than she admitted and helped set the confrontation in motion. This is what finally turns her from a released witness into a second suspect. On December 5th, 2024, more than a year after the murder, Nick is charged with murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. He is later sentenced to 60 years in prison. Then on June 1st, 2025, over 2 years after the murder, Lorie Grant pleads guilty to murder and is sentenced to 20 years.