The Plot to Kill Alyssa Burkett

- What was lost when Alyssa was taken?

What was lost with her murder? - My daughter will lose mother. Everything.

“- How do you keep Alyssa alive for her daughter Willah?”

- Show her pictures, this is your mom, this is your mom. Every mother's day, we visit the grave, we take flowers, we take cards, you know, we talk about her all the time. - What does this say?

- Mother of Willah Ann. - I hope that when she learns what happened, she doesn't let it tear her apart. - October 2nd, 2020. - Me, crime scene is gonna be inside that tape,

since I had that tape. - All right. - I remember my phone was continuously ringing ringing.

And I finally answered it 'cause it's my supervisor,

and she's frantic, and she's telling me, you've got to get to green tree apartments. - I'm gonna hear that pop, and I turn around, I know it was a gunshot. - And she says something has happened to Alyssa.

What happened to her? - We're gonna start having family members show up here. - I pull up police, fire trucks, ambulance, everywhere. - She got shot in the car. - Okay, should you get see your hand please?

- Who are you? - I'm Detective Hardin. - I remember asking that officer, I said she didn't make it did she, and he said no, she didn't. And I just lost it at that point.

- When you learned that your sister was dead, did you have a suspect in mind? - I knew immediately it was Andrew Beard. I knew that the only person I could think that would warranted was Andrew Beard.

“- She even said, I think he's the kind of person”

that's gonna try to kill me. And he did, he did. Oh my god. - It was one of the most brutal scenes that I've been to in 32 years long portion.

You could see the rage. - Don't touch anything, okay? - What does it tell you when it's this vicious about the killer? - It's personal.

- She barely has had a history with baby daddy. - Within an hour of getting to the crime scene, we knew that we needed to look for Andrew Beard. - Andrew Beard is the suspect? - Yes.

- We can not get away with this. They can not get away with this.

“- It first seemed like an open and shut case,”

but as it turned out, Andrew Beard was only half the story. - In the months after Alyssa Burkett was murdered, she appeared to her mother Teresa Collard in a dream. I see her across the room.

And in my dream, I knew she was gone. But I was hysterically happy that I was seeing her and I was thinking, "You're back." She came to me and said, "No, I'm not back and I don't want to come back

and I never want to be there again."

- I was puzzled, why don't you want to come back and she said, "Because I was always afraid there." - Although 24-year-old Alyssa Burkett had been afraid for months, the attack at this apartment complex

where she worked in Carleton, Texas, North of Dallas came as a surprise. So when you arrive here, what do you see? According to one of the lead detectives, Michael Harding, Alyssa pulled into her usual parking space

at around 9 a.m. - Alyssa's car was actually parked right here where this green van is, right here, and the Asalance vehicle had parked right next to her in the spot.

- Were you here when everything happened? - Yes, I was seeing him at death. - Witnesses say the Asalance Exited His Vehicle, a Black Ford Expedition SUV with a gun on his hand. - She had the window up and he shot

right through the window. - Maintenance supervisor, Darren Eichler, about 15 feet away, it's horrible.

- What do you see?

“I see a Black SUV starting the back out of the parking spot.”

- Investigators believe the shooter thought Alyssa was dead. The blast had destroyed her left eye and part of her face, but Alyssa Burkett was still alive. - She gets out of her car and she walks up to this landing

to try to get help 'cause she knows her co-workers are here. - The shooter, described by some as a Black man, - The loud knock is over, the loud knock is over. - God out of the vehicle and began sprinting toward Alyssa. This time with a new weapon in his hand,

something more personal, a large, hunting knife. - Did she see him holding the knife? - Ah, yeah, in the hand. - After he starts to stab her, she's still fighting.

On this window right here, there was a blood, a hand-print smear where Alyssa was trying to get anyone to come out, help her. - But Fieryne, it was an active shooter situation they stayed inside.

- We just get in our day start. - And the attacker launched into a rabid killing frenzy. Plunging his knife into flesh and bone again and again. - Incredibly, Alyssa was still breathing when her assailant fled.

- Once the suspect left, her co-workers came out to try to render aid. - One of her colleagues made this call to 911. - 911, what is the address of the emergency? - I'm working, I'm supposed to start my assistant manager.

- Where is the shooter? - I don't have enough information. I need to be gone. He left in his car.

He literally left a second ago.

- I tried to borrow a pull-up first, they came out. I didn't get out of the way and let them do their thing. They started working on it right here. - You know what I should have said? - Immediately, yeah, and then it was too late.

She was gone. - Alyssa had been stabbed and slashed a total of 44 times. Alyssa's mother Teresa immediately gave the police a name. And it wasn't a black man.

It was Andrew Beard. - And now he did this, he is an evil person. - Teresa told detectives that Andrew Beard and Alyssa were in the throes of an ugly custody battle over their one-year-old daughter Willowan.

A battle that began when Alyssa was still pregnant says her friend, Brandy Reagan. - He initiated by asking her if she could have had full custody of the baby after the baby was born. - And what did Alyssa have to say to his idea

of him getting full custody? - He better be, I think kidding me. Alyssa and Andrew were worlds apart from the beginning. He was almost nine years older, established with a good job at a tool company, a nice house,

even had a plane. She was 22, loved eating turkey legs at state fairs and was still figuring life out. After meeting on a dating app, they had a fling. Nothing serious, but then she found out she was pregnant,

says her friend and roommate shall be right.

“I'll never forget, she's just standing there,”

hysterically crying and upset. She couldn't even speak and she hands me a pregnancy test that said positive and I honestly had no words for her. - But as the pregnancy progressed, Alyssa's fears turned to excitement, says Shelby.

Especially when she learned, it was a girl. On July 23rd, 2019, Alyssa gave birth to a baby girl she named Willow. - And when you saw them together, Alyssa and Willow, what was that experience like?

- Amazing, motherhood looked great on her, yes. Just looking at the two of them, you could tell that their relationship was, that mean everything.

- I always love how she's looking at her in this picture.

Madison Grimes is Alyssa's younger sister. - Willow clung to her every second every day and I think that tells you a lot about the mother, Alyssa was. - Alyssa went back to college and got a good job as an assistant property manager.

“- I think everything she did at that point in her life”

was for Willow, she wanted to be successful for Willow. She didn't want Willow to grow up and struggle. She just wanted Willow to have an easy life. Andrew, who had joint custody, had Willow a few days every week,

but he kept pushing for primary custody. Dragon Alyssa in and out of court hearings, emptying her bank account. - She was terrified.

Willow, at this point, was the most important thing

and drew, he made more money than her.

“You know, he had a house, he had all the nice things”

that she didn't have so she was afraid that, you know, he wanted Willow and he was gonna get her. - Andrew's mother, Lizette Bowers, says her son was acting out of love, not Malice. - My son, Andrew Beard, is a loving, warm individual

who always operated from his heart, from his core center.

When he had Willow, she was constantly strapped to the front of him. He was reading to her, he wanted her to see the whole world. Every day, he just felt that he could provide her more stability. - In March, 2020, when Willow was eight months old,

things seemed to change for the better. The feuding parents found common ground, finally reaching an agreement on visitation and child support. - And so things seemed to calm down. - Things calm down, yeah.

But a gathering storm was about to come barely in. (dramatic music)

“- Council Police Fire Research Department”

if you haven't been coming up for years, though. (dramatic music) - In the spring of 2020, it looked like the bitter custody battle between Alyssa and Andrew

had finally come to an end.

Alyssa had a new guy named Ben, and Andrew fell hard for a woman named Holly Elkins. Someone his mom, Lizette, was thrilled about. - A daughter from Minut1, she just has this charm and energy. I warmed it to her very quickly.

- Alyssa was happy that he started dating someone else. I guess, hopeful that Holly would help this situation, that Holly would be supportive of the mother that's involved. - Holly sent this text to Alyssa. Look forward to having a super healthy relationship

with you and Ben. Alyssa responded, I hope your influence helps because I'd love nothing more for us all to have a healthy relationship. - Despite Holly's message, Andrew suddenly became hostile

with Alyssa. He was once again demanding primary custody of Willow, dragging Alyssa back into court.

- He was always very short, very rude, very hateful.

It just totally changed the way that they communicated together. - Alyssa couldn't shake this uneasy feeling that she was being watched and began telling family and friends that Andrew always seemed to know what she was doing.

- He knew where she was, he knew where Willow was, he knew just other places that she had been. I remember one night she was out with one of her friends and they were at a bar in downtown Dallas and she's like, "Tex me, oh my gosh, Andrew is here."

And in my mind, I'm like the odds of that happening are slim to none. You know, she didn't know how he was tracking her. She just knew that she was being tracked. How would you describe what she went through?

- Hell, I mean every day you feel like you're having to watch

“over your shoulder, that's how I felt she lived.”

- Hi everyone, my name's Alyssa. - Madison found this video after Alyssa's death. It was never posted. - Last year I have been going through a custody battle, a very ugly one, have a one year old child

to take a toll on my mental and physical health. With that being said, I've become a lot stronger in the process and I guess just my message is no matter what you're going through, stick it out, you could do it, and stay strong.

- But she would continue to be tested. In September 2020, one month before her murder, it reached a whole new level. A man who said his name was Frank Moro called 911 and reported that Alyssa was selling drugs

out of the trunk of her car at work. - I saw him when I thought, look like someone just selling some drugs out of her truck, and I could smell it and I could see it. - Okay, what kind of deep was it?

- It's a little Toyota Corolla. I have a license plate that's not out. - Okay Frank, are we sure last name? - Moro. - Acting on this tip, Kerleton police officers

descended on the Green Tree Apartments' leasing office and confronted Alyssa. She gave them the keys to her car and they opened the trunk. Inside, they discovered drugs, a pistol, and some cash.

- So your daughter's suddenly now looks like a drug dealer

and a dangerous one as well, she's armed. - Yes.

“- I mean, is Alyssa worried that she's gonna get arrested?”

- Yes, all of the above, she's worried about her job. She thinks, yeah, she's gonna be arrested. Now, he's gonna use this in court, so she's for sure gonna lose the willow. - After questioning Alyssa,

it was clear to police that she knew nothing about the drugs and pistol in the trunk of her car. They concluded those items had been planted. The caller had tried to frame her. Alyssa knew in her gut that caller was Andrew Beard.

Later that day, she texted her roommate Shelby. - Alyssa, message me and said, "He is going to try to get someone to kill me next." - And when you read those words, - My heart dropped.

- That wasn't who she was. She wasn't a fearful person, showing and asking for help shows me that she would genuinely stay here. She knew that, you know,

whatever was coming next was going to be serious. - The once fearless young woman had become scared for her life. These are some of the texts she sent to her sister Madison. Come over while I walk inside, lock the door behind you. Do you see anyone around you?

And Alyssa wasn't the only one who was terrified. - It kept progressing. - Each thing that he would do just kept getting worse. And after this point, frame me her, and she didn't get arrested,

“I thought, well, what else is there to do besides kill her?”

(upbeat music) - Tonight's 48 hours will continue. (upbeat music) - One month after the drugs and gun were planted in Alyssa Brickett's car, she was dead.

- I knew that it was him when the drugs didn't work in the car for him to get the baby. - Once we talked to Alyssa's mom, we had an idea who we were looking for. - And who was that person?

- That person was Andrew Beard. - Oh my God. (laughs) - And to Theresa's horror, he had visitation with Willow that day. The baby was with him.

- I guess I won't make her a baby away from him.

My first thoughts were if he's gonna kill Willow.

(upbeat music) - Within hours of the murder,

“the police pulled over Andrew Beard's F-150 pickup truck”

for an alleged traffic violation. Andrew and his fiancé, Holly Elkins, were asked to get out of the vehicle. - The daughters in a car scene in the backseat. - Much of the body cam footage in this program

has been resized so you can see it better. - They've been pretty cooperative. Andrew seemed unfazed by the whole thing says detective Hardy, he was very calm. So he wasn't amped up, he didn't seem nervous.

- My brother was to just find him. That's all he asked me to do. - Ultimately, Andrew and Holly were allowed to go, and because he had court mandated visitation rights, take Willow with them.

But the police seized his F-150 pickup and instructed him not to return home. Andrew, Holly, and Willow went to a hotel. - He had a trucker. - And that night, a search of Andrew's house

turned up critical evidence.

- This was found inside the living room in one of Andrew Beard's backpacks. - Such as this envelope, scribbled with incriminating notes. - Upon reading the notes, we realized those were tied to the Frank Marrow, nine one call.

- Frank Marrow, the caller who had reported Alyssa was selling drugs out of her car. - Alyssa's license plate number, the color and model of the vehicle. Frank Marrow, everything that he needed

to make that nine one one call was on this back up. - This I can discover the screenplay to this fully called a nine one one. That was kind of shocked. I was like, he kept this.

- So we found this GPS tractor box. - Also in plain view, since another lead detective, Jeremy Chevalier, charging stations and batteries that matched the tracking device detectives discovered on Alyssa's car after the murder.

- So this is the device that was put on her car. - That was all part of his plan to catch her doing something that he believed that she shouldn't be doing. The gain and advantage in that child custody dispute.

- A search of that Ford F-150 seized at the traffic stop turned up

- So this is one of the makeup vials

“that were recovered from inside one of the bags”

in the F-150. - It was a foundation called Java. - It's really dark. - Very dark. - And the purpose of that was what do you believe?

- Was to disguise Andrew Beard's face to make him look like an African American. - The police found the knife sheathed the scene,

but never found the knife or the gun.

But the day after the homicide, they found something just as important. - That black SUV. They'd learned Andrew had bought it specifically to commit the murder.

And there it was, abandoned less than a mile from Andrew's house. - He drove it to that location and he fled back to his house the morning of the murder. - That's Andrew Beard captured on a home security camera

fleeing through the neighborhood. - He is doing the big foot run from this vehicle. - What you find when you guys process the inside of this vehicle. - We were able to recover multiple spots

where blood was recovered. That was later tested to be a list of blood. - They also found another part of his disguise of fake Beard. - That looks like a Halloween kind of Beard, just.

- Exactly, yes, he purchased a Halloween costume.

“- So that's what led us to get the arrest warrant”

for Andrew Beard. - Andrew Beard, who still had Willow, had been staying in an Airbnb with his fiance, Holly Elkins, and mother, Lizette. - When we were at the Airbnb, he got a call.

He was going to be arrested. - Just three days after Alyssa was killed, Willow was sent back to Teresa. And Andrew Beard turned himself into the police. - Andrew Beard.

- He was charged with murder. - I was confident they had the wrong man. - So was Holly Elkins. She volunteered to speak to the police. - I want to help, I really do.

But I don't have any answers. - Incredulous that the man she planned to marry was capable of murder. - So I just told all my friends and family that I'm engaged to the most wonderful man on the planet.

And now people want me to believe that he's not that.

“- And there are so many emotional roadblocks”

for you to try to believe that I get that. - I can't believe that my fiance would do something like that to a woman or to anybody, but a woman. - Detective Shavoye, on the right, and detective hardening on the left,

interviewed Holly for about an hour, hoping to turn her into a witness for the prosecution. - I'm telling you there's a side of him that you do not know. - But she stood by Andrew,

insisting that he had an alibi. He was home with her when the murder took place. - There are a few hours that you know he was not in that house. - You cannot tell me that I feel that way, sir. - I can tell you that because I know that for a fact

that he was out of the house, Holly. - I don't know that for a fact. That's what my problem is. - Holly remained adamant that she would have known if he had left.

- I am a total stage five clingy girl friends. I'm always up his ass. I find it hard to believe. - The interview ended with Holly standing by her man. She and Andrew's mom Lizette

continued living together in an Airbnb. They became extremely close and bonded over their shared belief that Andrew was innocent says Lizette. - We stayed so close, we were just connected at the hip

and made agreements to never go anywhere without one another.

- Finally, after two weeks behind bars, Andrew was released on bond. Lizette was overjoyed. - Holly, as Lizette would soon discover, not so much. - They've told us he's coming home tomorrow

and Holly says I'm going. She holds, it's holding her suitcase and she goes, I'm going, I'm leaving. I'm going home, but the day before Andrew gets home, what, why are you choosing now?

- During this scary, scary time for his in his life. She'd already ordered her Uber and never came back. - Detective Chivalier says he was so worried about Willow's safety, he reached out to the federal government to take the case under federal firearm laws.

Because an unregistered silencer was found in Andrew's home, the feds agreed. Andrew beard was re-arrested eight days after he bonded out.

- Ultimately, that point our goal was to get him

back into custody. - Andrew was ultimately charged with cyber stalking, using a dangerous weapon resulting in death. One year and eight months after Alyssa's murder, Andrew called his mother with unimaginable news.

So I immediately said, Andrew, you're not gonna,

you're not gonna plead guilty to anything you didn't do because clearly he didn't murder her in my mind because that's out of character and not who he is and it was stupidly done and he's not stupid. - So it never was him.

- But she would learn, it was him. He admitted he did it. He killed the mother of his child. - I have physically dropped to my knees, sometimes feeling like I've gone punched in the stomach.

And I have to tell myself, I have to tell myself that that was a moment, a heinous, awful out of character, broken moment. - Andrew beard, pleaded guilty. But the investigation wasn't over.

Andrew beard was talking and he had a lot to say.

“- How did you wait it so long to talk about what Holly did?”

(dramatic music) - Holly Elkin's left Texas and returned to her home state of Michigan two and a half weeks after the murder of Elizabeth Burkett. She gave no hint of what she'd left behind

says her best friend from childhood, Stephanie Gauder. Did she ever mention the name, Alyssa Burkett to you?

- Never, never, never, never once.

- She didn't talk about Andrew beard either. - Not even once, nope. - Stephanie, who met up with Holly about seven months after she returned to Michigan, says her old friend appeared to be starting life a new,

a new condo, a new Lexus, a new man. She had this boyfriend with her. So everything just seemed really normal. - Stephanie says from the time she was a teenager,

“Holly always had a guy and she knew how to wrap them”

around her little finger. - It was like a cat and mouse thing. - When you say cat and mouse, she was the cat. - Oh, absolutely. Yes, she was the cat.

- She controlled the relationship.

- Absolutely, she was the one in the driver's seat. - Back in Texas, investigators were just beginning to learn more about the fiance who had skipped town after the murder. One year and nine months after Alyssa was killed,

Andrew beard spoke to the FBI as part of a plea deal. - Which I'm assuming, absolutely, it doesn't plan out 'cause it was, the process was planned out. - It quickly became clear to investigators that this Holly Elkins--

- I'm trying to help and no one's helping me. - The Holly Elkins seemingly torn apart by Alyssa's death. - Just feel bad enough. I just feel bad to know I help.

“Something that I think is very sad and happen to me.”

- Was giving the performance of her life. - I literally cried myself to Nazium every single night over this. - What did you learn about her true feelings about Alyssa? She hated Alyssa.

With it with a burning passion, investigators dug back into Andrew and Holly's text messages, many of which Alyssa's family also saw. - Both of you learned that Holly had some derogatory words about Alyssa, what did she call her?

- Ugly, fat, a bad mom. All things that she wasn't. And maybe mama is was my sister's contact name in Holly's phone. - C-baby mama, derogatory word that any woman finds

despicable, but the hexal that. - jealousy. - Holly wanted something Alyssa had, and she didn't, says Madison. - She wanted Willow.

- Why was she so obsessed with Willow? - That was her life. She wanted a perfect family. And that was her way of getting it. Alyssa was gonna stand in her way of doing that.

- If it was Friday, Holly would have been. The more Andrew talked, the clearer Holly's role became says detective Chivaly. What portrait did he paint of Holly Elkuts? - That she was the one we're on the show,

that she was telling him what he was gonna do, when he was gonna do it, how he was gonna do it? - Remember that drug plant? - If you were to ask me who's idea was what? Drugs and the planning drugs was Elkens.

The incident started when Theresa and Alyssa drove by Holly and Andrew's home.

“Theresa says Holly and Andrew had failed to return Willow”

at the appointed time. - We see Holly on the golf cart with Willow in her lab coming towards the end of their driveway. And I got out of the car and I grabbed Willow, went and got back in the car,

handed Willow to Alyssa and sped off. Holly immediately called the police who arrived with body cams roly. - The grandmother. - Holly told them Theresa assaulted her

when she grabbed Willow from her lab. - She literally taught me from behind side. I was facing the lake.

- Theresa says she never touched Holly,

but Holly pulled up her shirt to show cops, scratches she claimed Theresa had inflicted. - No, no, no, no, no. - Oh, you have some of the news on you, Theresa. - What did you think of those pictures?

- That they were ridiculous that it was so apparent that she had done that to herself. - How would they even think someone else did that to her because they're going downward? Like your own hand did it.

- The police agreed, concluding the injuries looked like they were self-inflicted, but it only made things more dangerous for Alyssa says detective Chivalye. The things that they were doing

to try to get custody of Willow wasn't working at that point.

“And I think that they decided we would get up the game”

and up in the game, getting rid of Alyssa. - Holly began playing her game of cat and mouse. - It was made very clear to me that your previous methods aren't working. This is what you're gonna do now in order to prove.

- That you're facing your worthy. - We're the of being a man who deserved her love. - Holly Elkins writes to Andrew. I don't want anyone who is a (beep) to some low life or a pushover.

I want a man who protects his women and child before anyone and doesn't give two F's otherwise. - You're comment? - It's just straightforward manipulation. She was gonna make him do what she felt needed to be done

no matter what. - And Andrew told investigators, it worked. - Like I was emotionally drained.

And at that point, I just basically said,

okay, it became submissive to whatever she wanted me to do, that's the task I did. - A week and a half before the murder, Holly left for Mexico, but didn't let up on Andrew. Here's a text.

This is one week before the murders. This is September 25th, 2020. Holly Elkins writes, "I hope you handle it. I'm not coming home to BS."

Andrew Beard says, "That's my goal." To that, Holly texted back, "Well, it will be a whole different conversation if I feel like you are right or die. If not, then I don't know.

What is she saying to you?" - To me, it means that you're either with me or you're not with me. You're either gonna ride with me and die with me or you're not gonna be with me at all.

After he killed Alyssa, Andrew told investigators, Holly begged for details about the crime. - Her request was that he described the murder to her while they were in bed together. - It's one of the most degrading things I've ever heard.

- In May of 2023, Andrew Beard was sentenced to 43 years in federal prison. Investigators believe Holly Elkins thought that case was over.

“- I think she believed that the further she got away”

from this, the less involved she was gonna be, but it didn't work out for her. (dramatic music) - These were the photos of the grave.

We always decorated for every holiday.

- In July of 2023. - Valentine's Day, and then Christmas is. Almost three years after Alyssa's death. Holly Elkins was arrested by federal agents at the Miami Airport, as she was returning from a trip

to the Dominican Republic. - Well, we have turned. That was, I think one of my favorite things that we did. - And arrest a long time coming for Alyssa's family. - What is that, Blue?

- I thought we were never gonna see that happen. I felt brilliant. - Holly, who pleaded not guilty, was charged with conspiracy to stock and stocking using a dangerous weapon resulting in death.

The FBI had built a compelling case against her,

- Holly's phone really had a lot of stuff on it, searching for tracking devices.

“There were indications that they were together”

whenever the ammunition and the knife were purchased. And they also tied Holly to the makeup and drew use to disguise himself as a black man. - It was, you're going to dress up as a different person, essentially you're gonna wear this dark makeup.

That was her plan. That was how it's gonna be done. - Well, Andrew seems harmless in this video.

Never forget that he was the one

who chased Alyssa down like a hunter tracking a wounded animal. He furiously stabbed her with a brutality. These detectives had never seen. Andrew and Subsane about why he came back

to finish her, what did he say? - His statement to us during the interview with Agent Hanson was that he did it out of mercy that he knew that she was still alive

“and he was somehow doing her favor by killing her.”

Andrew may have committed the murder alone, but according to the U.S. Attorney's office, he didn't plan it alone. In April 2024, Holly Elkins went on trial as a co-conspirator.

In the courtroom where no cameras were permitted, one of the prosecutors put it like this says Detective Harding. - Andrew Beard is a monster, but he was Holly Elkins's foster.

- I don't want or need a lawyer because I don't have anything to hide. - U.S. Attorney's painted a picture of a woman who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. - Well, I feel like the dumbest, most manipulated woman

on the entire planet of this is true. Yes. - And what she wanted was a little girl named Willow. And do you believe Holly Elkins was a puppet master in all of this?

- 100% I do. - She orchestrated this whole thing. - I think Holly is wicked. I think she's wicked to the core that she would ever want this to happen to another woman,

to a mother, to a mother of the child that she had come to love.

- What if these two had never come together, Holly,

“and Andrew would Andrew have committed this murder?”

- I don't think they would have. I want to present believe that if Holly and Andrew had never met, that a lesser per kid would be alive today. - After a one week trial, the case went to the jury.

The jury takes just 90 minutes to deliberate. When they come back to that courtroom, what is the verdict? - Guilty. - Holly was found guilty, and sentenced to two life terms, much longer than Andrew, for Alyssa's family,

but the verdict was a bittersweet victory. - I was thrilled that Hart broke it out the same time. I'm so happy that Alyssa's getting the justice she deserved, but at that point it's over. Our fight is over.

- Two families are left to grapple with the wreckage, Holly Elkins and Andrew beard left behind. Leset Bowers will forever be known as the mother of a murderer. He killed someone, and that is beyond awful.

It's the worst thing anyone can do, but that's not who I love. - And Teresa and Madison must try to make sense of a world without Alyssa in it. - We don't get to live the normal life anymore.

It was always me and her, my best friend,

like that was my person, and only getting to be with her for 20 years, but it's not just not fear. - After the trial, Teresa was allowed to take Alyssa's things out of her car.

- It was pretty emotional for all of us, actually. This was the mirror that she used, so she could see Willow from the driver's seat. You know, just knowing that was the last place she was sitting when it happened.

- I want mama. Willow, who was with Teresa, had never cried over her mother until that day. - She was crying, asking me if I could please bring her mom back just so she could see her one more time,

and I tried to explain to her that she's in heaven, and then she asked me if she had a phone number in heaven. - One day, Willow will learn the whole story of what happened to her mother. Indina, what this is.

- And when that time comes,

“her family hopes Willow will see the beauty in Alyssa's life,”

not the tragedy of her death.

- I hope that one day she grows up,

and she feels the love that her mom seared and searly hat for her. - Oh, what?

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“- This is the moment we have all been waiting for.”

- Forfeeturing two UFC title fights with Illya Teporia versus Justin Gachie. - The hype is real! - Plus Alex Carrera versus Zero God and so much more. - Let's go, man!

- UFC at the White House, Sunday, June 14, the easter only on Paramount Plus.