Are you ready to go to jail today for this? >> The interesting part though is that he implicated you in it. He said you guys were in a relationship and that you were the mastermind behind all of this and it was your idea because you wanted the million-dollar life insurance policy >> and he could take over George's job >> and you guys would be set to be together. >> Well, I can tell you that's a lie. That's a lie. I'm I tell you right now, I have a whole lot of stuff that points to Tim had something to do with it. Okay. And you guys are still in a relationship now? >> Yes. To be honest. Yeah. >> He's going to take you down in a ball of fire with him. >> Well, he'll be doing it with a bunch of lies. I'm just >> Are you ready to go to jail today for this? >> On the night of November 16th, 2017, 43-year-old George Young drove home to Buford, Georgia after working a security event. He never made it through his front door. George was shot twice on his own front porch, his keys still in the lock. Inside the house were his wife, Tia Young, their three children, Tia's mother, and another man, Harvey Tim Lee. Tim wasn't a stranger. George had given him a job in a room in the family home, and investigators would discover that Tim and Tia were secretly having an affair. But the affair was only the beginning. Tim had hidden a GPS tracker underneath George's car. Detectives say he checked it every night, including the night George was killed. It could show when George was coming home. Minutes after the gunshots, a neighbor saw someone go to George's vehicle and hunch over it, then do it again. Tim later told police that was him, removing the tracker. Detectives say he had also tried to track George's phone and searched for Venom, including Blackmamba Venom. The morning after the shooting, Tia asked for help finding George's life insurance policy, $1 million. George's last phone call ended at 11:23 p.m. As he arrived home, Tia called 911 at 11:31, and that night, Tia had given one of the children a sleeping pill. Then, detectives found emails exposing the secret relationship between Tia and Tim. For months, Tia had described Tim as family, nothing more. Now, on April 2nd, 2018, detectives have brought her back into the interrogation room. They have the tracker. They have the emails. They know about the affair. And according to the detective, Tim has started talking. >> So, how have things been? >> Stressful. Um, >> a lot of >> a lot of stress and just a lot of grief. >> A lot of financial issues. >> Um, we're struggling. We're making it with my mom's help. Um, Tim helps and what I have for social security for the boys. >> Okay. You said Tim's mom helps or your mom helps? >> My mom. >> Oh, my mom. >> Okay. So, like I said, the reason I brought you back in here today is I have follow-up questions. I kind of want to go over it again. Uh, because it's just at the point that we're at now that it's been a couple months. Sometimes bringing people back in and going over the story helps us find that there was something you didn't remember the first time. Uh the thing is with it the first time we talked and then you came up here and then we talked to you at the house and I understand that there was some issues with that it it gotten pretty confrontational I guess the way that some people had talked to you right at the house. >> Yes. Very >> okay. Um, one of the one of the things is that we when we bring people in over and over, obviously I know that because of the things we're going because of the suspected relationship between you and him, because of all of those things, you were listed, you know, as a suspect, but you you knew that, right? >> I found out through Yeah. >> Okay. You found out through where? >> Um, they sent me They sent me a letter every month. >> Oh, okay. Um, so because of that, like I said, I want to go over this with you again today and ask you this, but because we already kind of come to you hard and talked to you and all that kind of stuff. Uh, and I just did the same thing with Tim and they have to talk to you. Um, is that I'm going to have to read your rights. Okay. You know, I don't have a warrant for you right now or anything like that, but to continue talking because it's the fourth time I've talked to you. I have to read it to you. Okay. >> Okay. >> Okay. Um, so what I want to do today is just kind of walk back through what you can remember. Sometimes over time people remember things that they didn't remember the first [music] time. Um I'll help kind of jog your memories. We go over things that you told me and maybe you'll tell me something you didn't remember the first time. Okay. Um so just start out that night. I know that you said you had gone or you were in bed. Um were you like in a deep sleep or were you just kind of sleeping or what was going on then? >> Um as far as I remember I was in a deep sleep. >> Okay. And then what happened? >> Uh I heard two loud noises. I wasn't sure if it was firecrackers or what it was. Um, I sat up on my bed, looked around. My baby boy was still asleep. Um, if I remember correct, I think I went to Tim's room, but he wasn't there. His light was on and I remembered he was downstairs on a computer on a laptop at the table. >> Um, I don't think I went to my mom's room right away. I think I went downstairs to where he was. Um, and I think as I got almost down to the bottom step, he was coming up. >> He asked me, "Did I hear it?" I said, "Yeah, I heard it." He said, "It sound like shots." I said, "I'm not sure if it was shots or firecrackers or what it was cuz some people in our neighborhood that I knew, uh, they periodically do firecrackers for whatever reason." >> Um, >> so, um, I think at that point he said I think he said he was going to go get his gun, >> go to his room, go down and check, see. I remember him opening the door, >> um, shutting it pretty quick, telling me to call 911. Mhm. >> Um >> and that's when he told you that it was that George was out there. >> Okay. >> And I called 911. The lady um goes through the whole thing. What's your emergency? >> Um and then I told her um that my husband was what we heard gunshots and my brother opened the door and said that it was my husband. She wanted to know >> I think where the shots were is what she needed to know. And yeah, that's the first thing she asked. I told her I couldn't do it. I couldn't go down there. Um, so she says, "Anybody can look that can." I said, "My brother." So he looked, told me what he thought he saw. So I relayed to her. Then she wanted me to do CPR. >> I don't know CPR, first of all. And if I did, I don't think I'd have been able to gather myself to do it. I don't know. I may could have. So, >> okay. >> So, she [clears throat] asked me, "Is there anybody that could?" I asked him could he do it. He said, "Yeah." At some point, I remember throwing my phone down so he could talk to the operator. Um, and then at some point, I don't remember, at some point I went and got my mom. She wasn't asleep. I thought she was. She was in a room with the TV up loud. >> Okay. So, you were sleeping. You heard these shots. You come down. Tim sitting at the table. You asked him if he heard that. He's like, "Yeah, he heard that." Did he go check out the door first or did he go get his gun first? >> If I remember right, I thought he went upstairs to get his gun first, but I didn't actually watch him go in there and get it. >> I think I remember. I think I remember him going up the steps, heading to his room, but I can't speak to it. >> Okay. And you were on the platform. >> Catwalk. Oh, you were upstairs on the catwalk thing. >> Yeah. By the time he went down to check on George, that's where I was standing. >> So, he goes outside, he opens the door, he sees George. And I know at some point he put his gun up. When did he do that? >> I don't know. I don't know if it was after I don't know if it was after emergency people got I don't know. I really can't be honest. I don't know. >> Mhm. I'm not sure. >> Okay. Um, so he goes outside at some point. He puts his gun up, he sees George and he tells you, um, it's George and whatnot. And then is that when he tells you to call 911 or did you did you ever go down to the door or No, >> no, no, I never went to the door. >> Okay. >> I stood up at the top where you could see over the thing. >> Okay. >> All I can see was like his feet and legs on the door open. Okay. And when you went and woke your mom up, you what did you tell her? >> Well, she wasn't asleep when I was when you went >> Yeah. I just said, "Something bad has happened to George. Mommy, something bad has happened to George." And of course, she sat straight up. What do you mean? Or what are you talking about? And [clears throat] I said, "Mommy, George has been shot." And she said, "No, no, no. I think she might have asked me first. Is it a car? Did he have a wreck or what?" Cuz she knew he was working at night with Rob. >> Um, and I said, "No." And by then, I think I was breaking out. And I said, "Mommy George was shot." And she said, "Where is he at the Linux thing?" I said, "No, he's at the front door." You know, and of course I wasn't that calm, but she couldn't hardly digest it. So, we walked out of the room. She stood with me on the little balcony thing, and I'm telling her, >> I'm walking her basically through through what I'm telling you. >> Um, she stayed fairly calm. I think she was in shock just like I was. >> Um, but she can see Tim down there. You know, like I said, you can see his George's legs and feet from that angle, but that's all you could see. >> We could tell Tim was on his knees. Um, I don't know. We just I don't know. I think we just both just stood there in shock. >> Yeah. >> I think she was standing next to me whenever I threw my phone down, I think. But I can't remember. I know at one point I had to throw my phone down for 911 to talk to him about CPR. Do you ever remember him leaving um leaving the the area right there with George to go anywhere else out in the yard or anything like that? >> Not that I remember, but I do know at one point I did go pee in my bathroom. >> Okay. >> So, but where that fell into it, I I honestly couldn't tell you. >> Okay. Right. I think when I was talking to Tim, he had said that cuz I kind of talked about how everybody just seemed so shocked that he was living there. Nobody wanted to believe that Tim had been living in the house for long. And I guess is it Marjorie? Is that his mom name? Yeah. Stood up for >> Tim and said, "No, I knew that." >> I didn't know. She told him, I think two or three months before. >> That didn't come out till a few days after he died. She actually brought up that she knew it. >> Okay. >> He told her. >> What What is your opinion? Why do you think George kept that from everybody? Cuz that seems to be a huge issue for everybody. >> I think because George is very private. Very, very private. Um I know at one point he did state early in the game. He didn't never sit down with me and the kid and say, "Don't tell nobody." >> But he did mention that he wasn't going to mention it to Rob or anyone right then cuz he said he didn't want to embarrass Tim or make it look like this man can't even afford to have a place to lay his head. >> But it wasn't like a family discussion that nobody better not tell that he lives here. Nothing like that. >> So I don't know. Like I said, I thought Rob knew after after well February maybe two years that Tim was here. So I guess when George died it was what 18 months or something like that. But I just assumed Rob knew. I thought at some point George probably told him. I never knew that he didn't tell him. I didn't know till that night that Rob flipped out and was just like, I didn't know you stay here. >> Um I never knew that he didn't tell his family until they cut up when they got there. One of the things that I wanted to talk to you about obviously is I've talked to Tim and one of one of the things that you know I was be honest with you in the beginning issues with him is you know we had talked to you and you you had told us what you had told us and there was you know I won't say there was much to that but um Tim just seemed you know there was a lot more confrontation going on with him during the first interview and talking to him the day that you guys came up there um because of that whole tracker thing which you said you didn't So, >> George came to me about it, but like I said, I never knew it was actually purchased and the whole night, but >> Okay. So, did you did you know the night that that happened before whatever was going on with you and Tim that he had gone and retrieved that off the car? >> No, not until you told me. Okay. >> I think it was a night out here on the 18th. >> What What do you What did you What do you think about that? I mean, why would >> Well, when you said it, I I was floored cuz like I said, first of all, I didn't even realize the track was ever purchased. Um, and then when you told me that a neighbor or somebody saw him take it off, I found it really strange and I even asked him about it later. >> I didn't ask him about it at night. Um, he said with what George had going on or whatever about remember I told you the guy who came down, he said he just didn't want >> I guess I think he said he just didn't want George being exposed in a bad light or something like I don't know something like that. But I haven't asked him anything about it since. Do you did you feel like that was and I just want your opinion on it because I tell you how it looks to us. Do you think that was weird that in the moment that his friend is laying out on the front porch bleeding out, his first thought is to go to the car and pull that off instead of rendering aid to George? >> Yeah, I find that weird. And that was before the he did >> CPR. Yes. >> Okay. Yeah, I found that strange. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Well, I mean obviously I do. That's why I went over and we asked him and he admitted that he went and did it and he didn't have a good answer. He didn't really have an answer as to why. He said he didn't want you to find it or the family to find it and they would know. But I said it's under the car. Who's going to look under the car? That's weird. >> Right. >> You know what I'm saying? >> Right. Right. >> Um Well, let me just ask you, do you think that there's you ever felt that he was may have been involved in this in any way? >> I don't I mean I know that part of it doesn't add up at all. Um but I personally, the only reason I not the only reason, but I just never seen any beef between the two of them. um at the house. I've never heard George and me and George had a really good relationship as far as he would tell me about stuff that went on or he got into it with somebody at Acriman or whatever. But he never mentioned to me ever that they had a beef disagreement. Like I said, even went to him several times about, you know, I can go ahead and leave now. You gave me 6 months, >> you know, you told me six months. George came to me. You you want him to go? Are you cool with it? I mean, it's a help to us cuz he's paying rent, >> you know. And then at the end of the year, George, he came to George again. Do you want me to go? And George came to me and was like, "What do you think? Cuz I'm cool with him being here. I go out of town so much. I feel better with him." So it's like I never George never let on that ever that he had a beef or I >> was threatened or scared of him or I just never witnessed anything. And the kids haven't and as far as I know, my mom has it. So I just that part doesn't make sense. >> Jealous over the position that he wasn't making as much money as George. >> I don't think it was that cuz he was making good like George started in I think at 23 an hour I think I think it was 23 and his first raise was up to like 26. >> Mhm. >> So I don't think it was that. And I know there's been several times George couldn't make payroll and he had to go to David and Tim and can I give you half or a thousand and you I pay you the rest and they've always said yes every time. Never know. He's never come back and told me, "Oh my god, Tim is hot or David is pissed." >> And then he's borrowed money from Tim before and Tim told him, "Pay me back when you can." He's fixed my car several times cuz George didn't have the money and neither did I. And he just told George, "Pay me when you can. It's fine." >> And to my knowledge, George has paid him back every time. Okay. >> Now, I know this last time, um, I think the last time I got a fixed was in October. That was the transmission. I think it was like over 2,000 2,300. I don't think we finished that debt off yet. I think we got gave him maybe 13 of it. >> But George was in the process between the two of us paying it back. >> Okay. >> But that's that's the only part I just I don't know. It just if I had something to go on, something I've seen it just nothing. >> Okay. I I'll kind of just go into what I have. Okay. So, after talking to him and I've talked to David multiple times and then I talked to Tim again today, okay, I'm I tell you right now, I have a whole lot of stuff that points that Tim had something to do with it. Okay? And I know him and David were good friends and some stuff was going on. I went over there and just talked to him now. Um, and obviously you guys knew you were coming up here and I wanted to follow up with him, but that's because I knew I was going to talk to him about the stuff that I had found. Okay. Um, I'll say that conversation went pretty quickly. Okay. There's not like a whole lot that he was going to be able to deny. Okay. So, I'm telling you that the investigation shows that he had something to do with it. The interesting part though is that he implicated you in it. He said you guys were in a relationship and that you were the mastermind behind all of this and it was your idea because you wanted the million-dollar life insurance policy and he could take over George's job >> and you guys would be set to be together and that was the the whole deal. >> Well, I can tell you that's a lie. That's a lie. >> So, I want to hear from you the truth and what was really going on because if he's that's what he's telling me and I already know he's involved. You see how it makes it look? >> Yeah, but that's [ __ ] I can tell you that's [ __ ] >> Okay. Well, tell me. >> I don't First of all, like I said, I don't know that he's involved. I don't know anything about what happened that night. Nothing. >> I didn't even know the policy was any good until me and Rob called a couple days later. >> Okay. >> So, there's no there First of all, I'm used to struggling. >> Me and George have struggled our entire marriage financially. >> I don't I would never hurt or take anybody's life for no money. >> And like I said, first of all, I know at one point George had a million dollar one, a 450, and then I had a 250 on me. I knew he had at some point dropped mine. I didn't know he dropped the 450 until me and Rob started our calls and found out one was no good and the other one was. But him taking over the business, I know nothing about that. That was never a discussion we had. >> One of the things that Ivy said was you told her that there was the million-dollar policy way earlier last year. >> Who? >> Ivy. >> Me and Ivy have never discussed an insurance policy. Never. Now, George told me at some point that Ivy knew about it. him and her and Ivy him and Ivy were very close and she used to work for George remotely from Myrtle Beach. She could log on and do work for him. So, at one point, I don't know, I think it was a couple years ago, he said that an email that I guess the insurance company sent him, Ivy saw it or I don't know she could access his I think she could access his massive email. And so, he told me he said now Ivy knows about the insurance, you know, policies that we have, but me and Ivy would have always been close. I was close to her than any of the other ones. So even when he mentioned to me that she knew about it, I was cool with it. I mean that's fine. We were go up close. So I didn't I didn't care that she knew. But like I said, I knew he had a policy, but I didn't know it was active cuz I knew he had dropped one I don't know earlier last year. So I didn't know if any of them were any good. I didn't. >> Okay. >> So no no conversation ever went on about no no insurance, him taking over no business or none of that. That's [ __ ] >> Okay. Um >> I don't even know why he'd say that cuz that's that never happened. I guess obviously the concern is I'm telling you the thing with him is he got the tracker. Um he got it he had tried to put some apps on George's phone before then um and he said George knew about those. I know for a fact George didn't know because I have his text messages where he explained to George that it was Zena that Zena was trying to do that to him. But I know for a fact they only were signed up through his phone because I could tell that he did that. So he was trying to find ways to track George and George didn't [music] know it. Which is why I have a hard time believing about him knowing that the tracker was going to be on the car because he he didn't know about the other stuff on the phone because why would you explain to him Zena didn't explain it away if he knew that's what you were trying to do. You would just tell him this is what I'm doing because when he downloaded those apps it sends a notification to the person you're trying to track. So George was like why am I getting this notification you're trying to track my phone and he said oh well Zena's been trying to track me which is not true. >> Okay. Yeah this is new to me. Um, also he was looking at that app for the tracker, which in his words is only supposed to be in case something was going to happen to him to find the truck, not him, which is weird that you're only worried about the car and not him. He was looking at it from the day that he bought it on the 6th. He was looking at it every single night. And he was looking at it the night before George came home. >> You the night of the 16th. >> Mhm. >> So, okay. So, the tracker sends a message to his phone. I mean, I'm confused. Okay, so a couple days prior to the murder earlier in the month of November, he tried to download these apps on your phone, just like an iPhone app or a Samsung Android, I'm not sure how that one works, where you can track somebody's phone. Well, when you do that, you're not allowed to do that without their permission. So, when you put in that person's number that you want to track, it sends them a notification. I have it on George's phone where he got the notification and then asked, >> okay, >> Tim, why am I getting this? and he said, "Oh, Zena is trying to track me because of stuff going on with her. Don't worry about it. I'm sorry about it." But I know for a fact he signed up for it because it came to his email through his phone number that he signed up for it. He has to download the app on the phone. So, you see what I'm saying? So, George didn't know he was trying to track him. Otherwise, he would have been like, "Hey, I'm tracking you." Because we talked about this before, remember? >> Oh, okay. I see. >> You see what I'm saying? >> Yeah. >> Then he got that actual tracker and was using it, the one he put on the car. Okay, >> he was looking at that one on his phone. >> Okay, >> we have the app and I can show every time he opened it every single night from the night that he bought it up until the night of the murder. And he was looking at it the night of the murder before George got home. So he knew when George was going to be home because he was watching him on the map. >> Okay. So Jesus. So did >> and before that somebody did some he asked somebody to do it. I'm I'm >> That's what I'm asking you. >> I hope I don't know. I have >> Before that, he was researching all kinds of uh poisonous things online. He researched black mamba venom, which is the most venomous snake in the world. You cannot buy their venom online like he was trying to over 27 times. That's how many times he looked it up to try to find he tried to find the venom. Then he tried to find breeders where he could buy the snakes himself. You see how that looks? And then a week later, you buy a tracker to put on his car and then I know that you're looking at it the night of the murder. And the first thing you did instead of helping your friend was run out to the car and take the tracker off. Who does that? You know what I'm saying? In front of a jury when you look at that say, what would a reasonable person do? No reasonable person would jump over a dead body or somebody who's dying to go pull something off a car. That would be the last of their worries, >> right? >> So that's my question to you. Now the problem is is that now he's bringing you into it. I have nothing to do with it and know nothing about it. >> That's haunted. >> Until now, Tia has drawn a clear line between herself and Tim. In her telling the tracker, the phone app, and the trip to George's car after the shooting were all Tims. But detectives are no longer treating Tim as a lone suspect. They know the two were secretly involved and if Tim really was watching George's movements. The question becomes whether the woman in a relationship with him could have known nothing at all. So we called you called the insurance the very next day, right? >> The next day or two days later, I can't remember. >> So it was the next day. And do you see how that looks though? >> But my mom could tell you if you talk to her. She started bothering me that next morning. >> She said, "Ted, you need to do you have insurance? How are you going to do a funeral, anything?" And I said, "Mommy," and she could tell you if you call her right now before I can even reach her. I said, "Mama, I can't deal with that now. I'll worry about that later." I said, "This is I'm overwhelmed with what just happened." Mhm. >> And so she kept saying it and matter of fact it was her and I'm not sure it might have been even after George's mom and and >> why did you want to call the insurance guy soon though the very next day? >> That's what I'm saying. My mom is the one that kept telling me I needed to call. >> Okay. >> She kept cuz she knew I didn't have a job. She said, "How are you going to do a funeral if you don't know if he has a policy?" And I said, "Mama, I'll get to that in a couple days. I'm not I said right now I'm overwhelmed with what just happened." This was that he died on a Thursday. This was like Friday when she was I had several even several people like friends asking me you know do you have insurance do we need to take out something for funeral and I said my mom keeps bugging me but I haven't called yet. >> So then even Rob when I talked to Rob Rob said do you know if Cuz had insurance >> and I said I don't know mommy keeps bugging me about calling. So that's when Rob said, "Well, let me look for the uh the policy with you and we'll call together before I leave." >> Cuz so that wasn't my first reaction. Like I said, you can call my mom right now and she would tell you. She was the one egging me on that I needed to call cuz she was worried about funeral expenses. She know she only gets 1,300 a month. She knows I didn't have a job. So her big thing was what are we going to do about the funeral with no money. But after I called, they said uh they said it was she said it was effective. She said, "I'm going to email you the whatever the papers I need to fill out. You can isolate it." She emailed them, I think, to me on Friday. I didn't even print them off, I don't think, till like Saturday or Sunday. >> Mommy kept asking me, "Have you filled the things out? Have you printed them? If you even call the insurance, I don't think I sent the stuff till the next week or a week and a half later cuz I wasn't in a rush because it's like I was too open with everything that was going on." >> Mhm. >> But yes, I've made maybe three calls, I think, to Mutual Omaha. Since then, I stopped calling. They told me about, I don't know, 10, 11, 12 weeks ago, Miss Young, whenever you're cleared or whatever, we will call, send an email, and mail you something in the mail. >> You know, you don't have to keep calling. I haven't called them since, and it's probably been close to 3 months. >> So, it's not like I mean, I don't keep it's I've just wiped it out of my head and I've told numerous people who have said, you know, did you get your life insurance? A lot of people don't know how much it is, >> but have you gotten your life insurance? I said, no. you know, it's I'm, you know, it's still an investigation. Um, I told him I haven't even called. >> Mhm. You know, and one of the other things is that we get these Crimes Stoppers tips. >> Yes. >> And both of these right here have him listed on it that people want us to look into him. >> You see what I'm saying? So, it's just it's one thing after another. >> I see what you're saying. But I can tell you, I don't know nothing nothing about it. >> I would never trade my husband's life ever for money. And I've made that comment to numerous of family members and friends. And I mean it. I really mean it cuz that doesn't replace him or my kids having a father. >> Correct. So why do you think that uh Tim's going to be doing something like this? >> I don't know. That's what I'm saying. This is new to me. I don't I don't this none none of this makes any sense to me. So you guys were So what is he >> So what about the part where he says that you him and have been in a relationship for a long time? >> We have not we've been in a very close friendship. He's like we started off like I mean it's like my brother first of all it was like he was a stranger when he first came cuz I haven't seen Tim probably in 15 20 years since he was young. Um the longer he was there cuz he is very quiet we became close. Mhm. >> Um but that that I'm not understanding that either. I I don't know. >> Um one of the things I talked to Zena, his ex, and she said that she had found out through him that he was seeing somebody named Tia and that he had been calling around and he kept changing up which tea it was. And then she called you one day when you and George were at a hotel or something like that and [music] confronted you. Did you remember that? >> She didn't call me and George. She called my job. She called my uh the job the hospital that I work at. >> Mhm. >> And asked me some questions. She asked me, "Was I Tia?" She didn't ask. She said, "Tia." Uh it was another last name she asked me. I can't remember what the girl's name was. And I said, "No, but I'm Tia Young." And she said, "Do you know Tim?" I said, "Yeah, Tim lives with us." >> So she said, "Oh, so you're so you're" She said, "So you're George's wife." I said, "Yes, I'm Tia Young." She said, "Do you know anything about a Tia?" Whatever the girl. Anyway, the girl worked for Decap County. She was a teacher or a band coach or something. I don't know. So, she asked me some questions and do I know anything about Tim and >> messing with this girl named Tia who worked for the cab? I said no. >> Okay. Do you know who Christie is? >> I've heard of Christie. I think one of Tim's friends from Mississippi or Alabama. >> Okay. Cuz it looks like I don't know. He was emailing her back and forth. Um, he said, "I apologize for everything. I wish all this could stop, but I feel like I'm going to end up dead over all of this. Sorry for getting you involved." >> Yeah, I know. I never met her. I know he has a best well, best friend, best friend, and Christie. >> Well, they've been talking more than that. They've been talking romantically >> through the summer of last year. >> What do you say about the whole him saying you and having been in a relationship? I know I just asked you that, but why would he just come up with that to say that? >> I have no idea. >> Okay. >> I have no idea. Yes, we were close. Like I said, very very close. Um, and since George has died, it's we've become a little closer, but I think it's more so because he has I guess I mean my boys really look up to him because my kids, we don't have any family. They don't have any uncles. George has one brother that they met for the first time when George died. So, they don't have any male figures. So, they really look up to him. So, now they call him Uncle Tim. Um, my middle son even said to me, and I think I had the text message on my phone a few weeks ago, [clears throat] >> that he kind of looks up to Tim almost like a dad figure cuz we don't have any men in our life, >> you know. >> Um, in his phone, you were he had you saved in his phone as big sis. You knew about that, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um, this is your phone from your phone. Why did Why is he saved under Asa under your phone? Both of his phones. That's just what I put on. His sister, his older sister name is Sonia. >> Why would you do that though? Unless you I mean that looks like you're trying to cover up him being in your phone like you didn't want George or somebody >> Oh, no. That's I mean there's quite a few people in my phone that I don't have under the actual name. >> Okay. Um so one of the things that you know like I told him is that when we took his phones we could get everything that was done. Okay. >> So obviously um I was able to retrieve everything that was off of his phone. Okay. And so I have all of these emails that you sent him talking about yours and his sexual relationship. Do you remember those? >> Yes. >> Okay. So this is where we're at, Tia. Okay. I want you to listen to me. >> Mhm. >> I know what's been going on. I know Tim's involvement. I also know there's a lot more that's been going on here. Okay. What I want from you now is to understand all of this because what it looks like is you're this hateful, horrible spouse that connived with your living boyfriend to kill your husband for money. If that's how it is, then that's fine. You can tell me that. But if that's not what happened, then this is your only chance to tell me what was really going on. >> That's not what happened. >> Then tell me what's this is your only chance to tell me what's really going on because everything else looks really bad. And I'm telling you right now, if you put all of this in front of a jury without your explanation of it, they're going to that's exactly what they're going to think. >> I did not have anything to do with George's death. >> Okay. >> And definitely no nothing dealing with him wanting him dead for money. Nothing at all. >> Okay. So, you're willing to let all of that stand in front of a jury? >> Yes. As far as having anything to do with his death? Yes, I am. I am. Cuz I know I did. I had nothing to do with it. Nothing. >> Okay. But you've had you've been having a relationship with Tim. What has he said to you? >> He hasn't never said anything about wanting to hurt George ever or taking over the business. That's why I'm sitting here like this is new to me. He's never said he wanted to take over Metro Atlanta security. He's never told me he wanted George dead. He never said he was going to try to hurt George. >> Never. Not once. >> All right. So, George got home at 11:23. Okay. And he had just gotten off the phone. And when he got off the phone, he came inside or came to open the door. Um, and that's when people remember hearing the shots around that same time, too. Okay. >> The 911 call was not placed till 10 minutes later when you guys called. In that time, I've gone over the store with you multiple times and you've told me that he went, he opened the door, he saw it was George and all of that. So, I can tell you that when I go back and listen to the 911 call that it is absolutely 100% completely staged. you the things you told the dispatcher you had already done and already said. >> No, I haven't. No, I I haven't and I wasn't. >> Why not? >> Because he told me to call 911. And that's exactly what I did. And everything the lady asked. >> And while you're on the phone with her, he says, "Oh, there's somebody got shot." And then he says, "Oh, can you send an ambulance?" My brother now says it's my husband that was hit. But you already knew that. >> I didn't when I made the call. when he told me to call 911. The lady asked me, I said, "I heard some shots." >> Mhm. >> Um, she asked me, I believe she asked me, um, do I don't know. I think she might have asked me did I know who it is or whatever. I don't remember. I don't remember all the details. But what I'm saying is when I when I called, it was not stage. I called >> soon as I heard the shots, went and found Tim. Well, what I thought at first was fire crack cuz I wasn't sure what it was. >> Um, and [clears throat] went and found Tim and he checked and told me whatever the time frame was to call 911. That's what I did. >> Okay. >> Nothing would I did not stage the conversation or any of that. >> Okay. Well, talk to me about this then. How did this happen? How did you guys enter into this relationship while he's living into the living in the house behind George? >> Um, and I don't remember when it I don't I don't remember exactly when it started. I think it was around the time that um that I thought George is messing with the girl Mariah. >> Mhm. >> Um, I never had any real proof. I saw something on his tablet at one point. Um, and I questioned him about it. He denied it. He said, you know, he was not sleeping with her. She was just a secretary for him and Rob. Um, I didn't have anything to worry about. But I just, to me, I felt like it was more to it than that. >> Okay. So, you were pursuing this relationship cuz even in your emails, it sounds like Tim was trying to cut it off and you you were the one that was continuously talking to him and continuing it, right? >> Uh, I was hurt about it. Yeah. because I found out he was, you know, he had told me he wasn't talking to Zena anymore. >> He wasn't messing with, you know, anyone anybody else anymore. Just kind of got caught in some lies and I questioned him about it. >> Mhm. So, you know, these messages were in that phone. Okay. The day that we went to go do the search warrant when you called Kim and told her to go get the phone. Is this what you were worried that we were going to find? >> To be honest, yes. >> Well, that's what I wanted, honestly. >> To be honest, yes, I was. >> Okay. cuz this looks really bad >> to be honest. Yes. I was very afraid of that part. Yes. >> And you've been in this house and you've been living with him. And whether or not you guys are in a relationship, I don't know cuz I'm not in there anymore. But that's what it looks like. And I know that he's not just living in this house and nothing has been said. So if you know something, I need you to explain it to me and help me because he's going to implicate you and he can take you down with him. >> Okay? And I don't think you want that. So that's why I'm telling you, what do you know? What has he said? What is going on? >> Nothing as far as the murder of Mr. Smith. Nothing. I don't know that Tim had anything to do with it. He has not opened up, confessed nothing to me. Um, like I said, we discussed the tracker I think once and that was the night after we left here when you told me that somebody said they saw him getting it before they helped George or whatever whatever it was. Um, but as far as the case, we don't even discuss it. Like, >> well, let me just go over some of the issues because I got to understand what's going on. Okay. the Y SUV thing that you guys had talked about. I asked Rob about it. I've asked a bunch of other people about it. Nobody else knew that but you and him. See, that's information that's sending me down, we'll say, a wrong trail that was only coming from you and him. So, that makes it look like you guys are in something together. Okay? Every time that I've talked to you, it's kind of been a different story about what happened that night. And I understand it can be traumatic, but when things like this happen, people don't forget those kinds of things. So that also makes it look like because what he told me where he saw you that night and what happened was not true and what you told me that you saw him was always different. I just don't understand that. >> Okay. Um obviously him going out and getting a tracker and that kind of stuff. It's just not right. The fact that he had a million dollar life insurance policy and you called the next day. Um you one point you told me that you went to wake up your mom and you were on the catwalk with her and >> No, she was never asleep. I don't I never >> Okay. No, wait. You went to go get your mom and you brought her on the catwalk with you. One time you said you stood out there, you talked to her. That's what I can hear in the 911 call. The time before that you said you took her into your bedroom and put her in the closet so she wouldn't wake up your kids. >> When she started having a breakdown, yeah, I took her closet. >> She told me that didn't happen. >> She told you what? Did she never >> She told me she never went into your room and went into the closet. >> This whole gun running thing. Okay. I looked into it. You gave me a totally different story than he did. You said it was some Cuban guy named Carlos. He said it was Teruin guy that you grew up with. I found Terrence. I know that I know that stuff's not true. >> The Carlo Yeah, the Carlos got >> But why would you tell me Carlos and he brings up some Those are not even related at all. >> I have no idea. The only thing I can tell you is about the Hispanic looking guy that came to the house looking for him. And when I I didn't call George right away. I didn't even text him. I waited till he got home that night and I told him about the guy coming by. >> George's eyes got real big. He looked at me and I asked him, "What in the world is this about? Don't worry about it. Just don't worry about it. It's somebody I got some financial help from." >> Mhm. >> Don't worry about it. And then I said, "George, you need to tell me because this guy said he means business. Is this something we're I mean, is are you into something that would jeopard jeopardize us? You're I mean, what what's going on?" And he just said something to the fact um he said, "I'm just running running weapons or delivering weapons or something like that." He said, "But you don't need to worry about." >> So then every time after that when I asked you, "Is there any reason anybody would want to hurt him?" You never mentioned it until we brought it up to you. >> Yeah. That night when he was killed, I didn't think of Why would you not think about somebody coming to your house asking for money, looking for your husband, talking about running guns? >> It was 2 or 3 months before that. I didn't think of it at all. >> Okay. Um, how come that most of the messages and phone calls from you and Tim are deleted in your phone, but they're all in his? >> I mean, when you talking about the phones you have? >> Mhm. >> Yeah, I would delete them. I would periodically delete them. >> Okay. There's uh there's even a coworker, another coworker that I talked to that I period would delete the calls from. >> All right. And that night you gave your middle son the unison, correct? >> Uh yeah, but I give him I mean he gets that a couple times in >> Yeah. Well, he had [clears throat] before, but when we spoke to him, he said he hadn't gotten it in a long time. And that was the very first night he'd gotten it in a long time. In over a month. >> Yeah. Probably been a couple weeks, I guess. >> You see what I'm saying, though? that night. The night that he normally goes out in the middle of the night between 9:00 and midnight is the night your husband comes home at 11:00 p.m. and gets killed. That makes it look like you gave it to him so that he wouldn't wake up during that time period. And it's also weird that we're there, the ambulance comes, the police come, we walked in their rooms and went everywhere and none of them woke up in any of that. >> And I but I asked me and my mom both asked everybody that came in the house. My mom, she was the first one that started asking, "Please be quiet. My grandchildren asleep. My my daughter doesn't want the kids to wake up." >> I know. But the ambulance and everybody coming in and out and they never none of them ever woke up. >> But >> and that's the first time he got that pill. You see what I mean? That >> it's not the first time he had had it. That's what I'm saying. >> Been a while. >> It had been a couple of weeks. But I don't give it to the oldest one and I don't give it to the baby. Well, I've had to start giving it to the youngest one now to to be able to get some sleep. >> Either benadryil, I give him benadryil or either a unis. He doesn't get it every night, but he can't sleep since George died. >> Mhm. But yeah, my middle son is the only one that will walk and pace the house 2 or 3:00 in the morning and then don't want to get up for school the next day. My oldest one, I I don't think I've ever had to give him anything for sleep. But he slept through everything because we were quiet. We asked the police would they be quiet as much as possible. When some guy came around, he had to take pictures of the rooms. I asked him, "Was there any way he cannot go in that room with the boys?" >> Why was that your concern? Even on the 911 call, you tell them don't come lights and sirens. Your husband is laying out on the front porch dying and you're worried about the kids waking up. I didn't want my kids to see my husband bleed to death on the front porch. Mr. Smith, I >> I understand that to an extent, but I just think you would be worried about him and not I mean, your kids find out. >> I wanted her to send help, but I didn't want her to just if my kids has saw their dad laying in the front doors there. I didn't want them to have that picture in their mind. >> Mhm. >> I feel like any mom would have that, just like my mom did it for me when my dad committed suicide in ' 07. I was upstairs sleep. He hung himself in the basement. She let me sleep upstairs and did not wake me up until he she was hoping he would be removed from the basement before they woke me up, but I ended up waking up on my own because of the commotion. >> Mhm. >> But that's the same thing my mom did for me. And I was a grown woman, but she didn't want me to wake up and see my dad hanging in the basement and I was in my 30s when he died. >> This is where the interrogation changes. Tia is no longer just answering questions about a night she says she slept through. The detective is now telling her that Tim, the man at the center of the tracker evidence and the man she kept a secret relationship with, is pointing at her. She has no way to check what Tim actually said. And from here, every answer she gives will be weighed against his. >> I don't know, you it doesn't look good. And I'm telling you right now that I have no reason to lie to you because I have all this information to go in there that I went there and talked to him and I just went in there with him. I didn't go in come in here and sit down and talk to him like I did you. Why would we lay all of this out in front of him? And that's what he told me. >> Well, I don't know why you would. >> So, why would you do that? >> I don't know. I guess if I guess if he feels like he's going down, maybe he's just going to take try to take me with him. I don't know. I would never picture I would never imagine him doing that, but that's the only thing I can figure because he's never said one thing about one. Matter of fact, it's hard for me to believe Tim even said that. I'm not calling you a liar, but what I'm saying is he knew just like Rob knows. The only people who didn't know was George's family. That when George died, this company died. When he died, his alarm license dies with it. Nobody can run Metro Atlanta security once George dies. That's it. Cuz Abby thought she that was her big thing. Me and my brothers and sisters, we're going to keep the business going. I said, "You can't." When your brother passed away, his his he said that years ago. That's why he wanted Tim hopefully that Tim and David would one day maybe get their license so they could help run, you know, they could equally run the company. But when George died, the company died. >> We all knew that. So it's like that's why I'm saying how would I It's hard for me to believe he would say >> that he wanted to take over the business. >> Oh, he said it. Trust me. Um and then right here he's talking to David the day before he bought the tracker. He says, "We uh David says, "We need to get a spot." And Tim says, "You think?" And then Tim says, "I got to end this mess first." And then David says, "Yep, you definitely do." And then the very next day, he buys the tracker. Well, I know that I know that he even knows the company can't be ran because neither one of them have an alarm license. [snorts] >> Okay, but what about the million-dollar life insurance policy and you guys being in a relationship? All of that stuff together. >> Mr. Smith, I don't never get the million. I could care less. And I voiced that to my mom, my aunts, George's mom can tell you. She can tell you. I've been saying it for the past two or three months cuz she's worried about it. When are you going to get paid? What are you going to do with the kid? Why are you going to? I said, Margie, I'm to the point I don't give a [ __ ] if I don't ever get the money. I'm just tired of all the stress. I just want to move on this grief, dealing with dealing with all the things I'm dealing with. I don't give two shits about the money. If I don't ever get it, I know how to work. That's what I've been doing the past two or three years, working 15, 20,000 of overtime a year. >> I know how to work. >> So, if I don't get it, it's fine. That's why if you call me mom, they can tell you I ain't called in months. >> I don't care anymore. So, the money is not an issue for me. I mean, yes, I need money. We all do need money to live, but if I don't ever get it, that's fine. Matter of fact, I even have the courts gave me um I got his probate uh whatever you call executive estate >> paperwork. Uh I think it was like January 25th maybe. Um I've only been to one bank to to see if there was money in and that was Regents. >> And I knew that's where his paycheck went, his last paycheck went. But well, I think he has a Wells Fargo account. I think he has a Bank of America account. I haven't been to any of them banks with the statements to try to see what's in him to see if I could get it. I don't care. >> Even my mom keeps saying, "Tia, with the way money is tied around here, why don't you go to those banks and see what he has? It might be something to help this household. I still haven't." [clears throat] So money, that's what I'm saying. To make this out like I'm doing it for money or it was it for me. >> I'm not I'm not I'm telling you that's what it looks like and that's what he's telling me. Wow, that's that's some bull. I can tell you that. That's some bull. Yes, I will admit and I I apologize for lying. I am very embarrassed about this. I really am. Um I am. >> And you guys are still in a relationship now. >> Yes. To be honest. Yes. I'm just going to be honest. Yes. >> That's what I want cuz listen, Tia, I'm telling you this is how it looks. And I keep telling you this. He's going to try to take you down with him. And I'm telling you, when he gets up there and he starts talking about everything and what you did and what you did and you don't have anything to counter that and you don't have a way to say, "No, that's BS because this is actually what happened and this is what he told me or this is that's right there is going to be a huge issue." >> You see what I'm saying? Are you ready to go to jail today for this? >> No, not cuz I know I have I'm guilty of this wrong. >> Then tell me there's no way he's been living under your roof and you've been in a relationship and you don't know that something's happening. As far as you talking about hurting Georgia having a sexual No, that part I don't. >> That part I don't. That part I don't. >> The sex part, the affair. I'm very very embarrassed. >> Mhm. >> I can't tell you how embarrassed I am. I really am. I'm sorry that I never continued it past your husband dying. >> Um the first two months we didn't. It started back up around the 1 of March. The first couple of months we didn't. We called it. we to stop because I'm going to tell you the truth, I was afraid that my boys would end up picking up on something is wrong or catching, you know, catching us kissing or something. So, we both said the boys have been through enough and I didn't want to chance them seeing anything inappropriate to send them off cuz I'm sure it would hurt them deeply that I'm talking to Tim and Daddy's just not too long ago died. So, I think it might have been like the middle of February or 1 of March when we kind of got talk, you know, kind of get romantic again. But up until then, no. >> Okay. So, you don't you don't know anything about >> nothing about the crime? I do not know [snorts] nothing. >> Why do you think if he loves you and he's been in a relationship with you and you guys have had this ongoing relationship and he has stayed with you through all this that he is so easily going to bring you in you? >> I'm s I don't know. I don't know, Mr. Smith. I don't know. I don't know why he's saying that I knew he wanted to take over the business. um that I did it for money that I know he did had anything to I don't know. I do not know. I'm sitting here just I don't know because I know nothing about it. Nothing. All I know is what happened that night. That's all I know. And then when I came here the 18th and y'all talked to me. That's all I know. >> But the problem is is that I'm talking about all these tracker things and things too. And I'm telling you George didn't know anything about that. There is nothing to show. The only part I don't get is I know George came to me talking about the tracker when when the white in I think it was a white Infinity SUV. Those couple encounters he had with that. Then when I told him about the the Carlos guy, it was I don't know if it was days. I can't say if it was days. >> Don't you think he would have went to someone who could have helped him like Rob or Antoine or somebody else that knows something about security that knows something? Why would he only tell you and Tim? No one else knew anything about that. >> The only I don't know. So, I don't understand. >> If you didn't know anything about it and Tim did it, then who would who would Tim have gotten to do it if he wasn't going to do it himself, if he was in the house with you? >> I don't know. The only friend I know that Tim has that he's close to is David. That's the only name I ever hear him talk about is David. That's it. And I know they've been best friends. I don't know how far back it goes. I think it goes back to Walmart days when he was a manager at Walmart. >> Um, I've never really heard him, you know, talking about any other guys other than David. So, but again, like I said, all these things, the 911, the the different stories every time, only you guys knowing the SUV, the life insurance policy, him going out to his car, you guys being in a relationship, all of this other stuff, the tracker, these things like that that I can show and prove the things that he's done, and I know that you guys are in a relationship because you both admitted to it. Um, and then, you know, the only time that your son had gotten a unison was in the middle of that night. I'm telling you, that's how it looks. That is how all of this looks. And I'm telling you that that's how a jury would see it. >> Okay. and Miss Smith not being a smart ass. If I was going to give, why would I just give the middle one unism? I didn't give my oldest one unis. [clears throat] I didn't give the baby boy unis. >> Well, I don't know that you didn't. I mean, did you? >> No, I didn't. And you can ask them. I'm sure y'all probably asked the boys that one because he's the only one that got up in those hours that George was coming home that night. >> You see what I mean? >> No, both of my oldest two stay up late. Just the middle one stays up to 2 and 3 pacing the house, going in my mom's room, talking. But the older two, both of them stay up late. It's even my oldest one. There's nothing for him to be up to 12 1:00. The the middle one is the only one I think has an insomnia that roams around the house to 2 and 3. >> And you remember George talking about that week of the murder that he was going to fix the cameras and him and Dan were going to fix the cameras outside. >> Not that week. The boys told me that. [clears throat] >> Okay. >> I didn't I wasn't present. I didn't know nothing about >> You see how that kind of put a timeline on it that it had to be moved up >> cuz if they waited another week for George to be killed, then the cameras would have been working. So, the person that did it knew that they knew the cameras were going to be working soon and they had to do it then. >> Oh, I see what you're saying. I didn't couldn't follow what you were saying. >> Yeah, I see what you're saying, but I didn't get what you were saying. Like I said, I didn't know nothing about the conversation till the boys told me after I think when the news ran a few or something and the boys said um that their dad had talked to them about training, I think he was going to let my oldest one watch him do the cameras or whatever cuz he would take him in the summer. But my thing is is is I just found out not too long ago the dag on the neighbor across the street told me that the cameras at the pool at the whatch you call them house was she said it was something with the computer that powers ours the cameras was down but I mean I know I didn't have nothing to do with that either but I mean I'm sure that looked suspicious that the cameras at the pool house weren't working. I ain't have nothing to do with that. I don't think he had nothing. >> I'm just saying all the stuff that I explained to you. You see how that all adds up? >> I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. >> So that's why I was hoping that you had an explanation. I don't have no explanation as far murder. No, I have no explanation to that. [clears throat] >> Does your mom know about the relationship? >> No. >> Between you and Tim? >> No, she doesn't. >> Does anybody else know? >> Um, in the house? No. >> No. >> What about outside the house? >> Uh, one girlfriend of mine named Candace. Not the Candace he used to date. A different Candace. She doesn't know all the details, but she knows um that we that we had something going last year. >> I'm telling you to he's going to take you down in a ball of fire with him. Well, he'll be doing it with a bunch of lies because I had the sex the sexual relationship. I will admit I'm embarrassed to stand before jury to admit it, but if I have to, I have to. I mean, it's it happened. I lied about it and I'm I'm I'm sorry. I mean, it was embarrassing that I did. But as far as the murder, I ain't got [ __ ] to do with it. Don't know nothing about it. Had nothing to do with it. Nothing. I know nothing about it. Nothing. >> And you never suspected him in all of this? >> No. Not until y'all brought up the the night you had to come in on the 18th and y'all kept saying he took the tracker off that night. Like I said, I wasn't quite aware that it was before the CPR and I think until y'all I think y'all told me >> I think it was all that's what I'm telling you. It was all done before I think you even knew or came downstairs if that's what happened. >> I don't like was his weapon used in it. >> Maybe that's why I want to know. I have no idea >> because I don't want him to take you down with him and make you out to be this horrible monster. If there's something that you know and you're just wanting to protect him, this is not. Nope. There's nothing. The only thing, like I said, that I have to admit now to the world, I guess, is the affair. >> Well, I just want you I don't want you to protect him. >> I'm not protecting him. I have to own what the things that I'm guilty of, I will own it at this point. The affair, I'm very embarrassed and I know my mom and my children would be very hurt by it, but if it has to come out, it has to come out. But anything beyond a freaking affair, that's it. That's the only thing I'm guilty of is having an affair. Yes. And I'm not I'm not like belittling it like it's nothing. I know that's a big thing. So I'm not saying it like, oh, but that's all I did. But that is the only damn thing I'm guilty of is that that is it. And is it wrong? Is it dirty? Is it treacherous? Yes. But I will own it. That's that is what happened. >> Okay. >> And if I need to, I mean, you have to tell me. Do I need to go ahead and tell my children that about their fair? >> I'm not I don't tell your children. That's not my job. I don't tell people that. >> Okay. I didn't know whether I needed to go home and go ahead and tell. >> I don't I don't. >> Now, will you be telling I know you It's I mean, it's up to you whether you tell me or not. Will you be telling his mom and his sisters about it >> about the affair? >> Yes. >> I don't discuss those types of things. If if he was charged or somebody's charged in it, then I will tell him, "Hey, so and so has been charged in the murder." But I'm not going to go because I prefer if you're going to tell them. I rather tell them first. >> Okay. That's the one I'm asking. >> All right. Let me go talk to him again. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Is there anything else you need right now? >> No, but I'm going to My son needs to get to practice at 5:30. >> All right. >> All right. T, if you could stand up for me, please. >> Okay. >> Turn to face the wall. >> Okay. >> Uh, if you want to take off your visitor pass. >> Okay. All right. >> You don't have anything in your pocket, do you? >> My keys. >> Your keys. Okay. >> Where's your cell phone? >> It's in the car. >> In the car. Okay. If you want to just put your hands on on the wall this way. >> I don't know much about what's going on, okay? But I know if you have anything on you that could be deemed a weapon or anything like that, um, you could get in more trouble. >> Okay. You don't have anything on you? No. >> Not even like a dime bag or nothing like that. Okay. Separate your feet for me. >> Okay. Um, okay. Do you want to put your hands behind your back over yours? Yeah, >> I will get you a bag um and put all your property in it. >> That same day, April 2nd, 2018, Tia Young and Harvey Tim Lee were both arrested and charged with George's murder. In June, awette County Grand Jury indicted them both. Much of what detectives told Tia that day was accusation meant to test her. What the Supreme Court of Georgia later pointed to was this, the secret affair and the lies about it. The tracker Lee removed from George's car, the million-dollar policy, the phones Tia asked a friend to move, and a meme saved on Tia's phone of a woman asking whether she would be convicted of her husband's death. There were gaps, too. The murder weapon was never found. Lee's hands tested negative for gunshot residue, and Tia's hands were never tested. In March 2019, Tia and Tim stood trial together. Neither of them testified. The jury found Tim Lee guilty of malice murder. Tia was acquitted of malice murder, but convicted of felony murder, aggravated assault, and two counts of attempting to tamper with evidence. In April 2019, Judge Tracy Mason sentenced Lee to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Tia received life with the possibility of parole, plus 3 years. Both appealed. In 2022, the Supreme Court of Georgia upheld both convictions, ruling the evidence was enough to convict Tia, either as a direct participant or as a party to the crime. Behind the evidence, the timelines, and the trial, there was a man. George F. Young III was 43 years old. He worked in security, and he was a father of three. [music] At trial, his employer described a saying around the office. Everyone loved George. He was a man who saw a friend struggling and opened his home to him. Today, a foundation in his name started by his sister Ivy and others who knew him works to raise awareness of domestic violence and to help young people reach their full potential. George Young deserves to be remembered for the life he lived. If this case held your attention, subscribe to Stay Alert Interrogation. More interrogations are coming. Stay alert.