48 Hours - Friends for Life

On June 29, 2009, Brian Davis disappeared. According to his wife, Robyn, and her best friend, Carol Saltzman, Brian had left to go boat shopping and never came home. Police soon began to suspect the women when an examination of their cell phone records convinced police that they were lying. The two were both charged with murder when Brian was found shot to death alongside his car on an isolated road in St. Charles, LA. “48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 4/13/2013. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.

Duration: 39m
Broadcast on: 11 Dec 2024
Audio Format: other

[MUSIC PLAYING] We lived in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Me and my mom and my stepdad, Brian. On that Monday, June 29, 2009, my mom and Brian, they went shopping for a boat. [MUSIC PLAYING] He came home early to pick my mom up. He called me and said, hey, look, I'm coming home. Well, a lot of people on Lake Charles have boats. And I knew that Brian had been wanting to buy a new fishing boat. He said, well, let's go look around. You can get some brochures.

Mom and Brian got home around 3.30. He dropped her off, and he left the house to continue boat shopping. I don't know what happened to him after that. It was 6.37 o'clock. I tried to call him.

And when I got 10 o'clock, I just thought it was kind of strange. Brian never came home. I said, why don't we got in a wreck or something? And we kept trying to call. We waited, and we waited till late. And then I finally went to bed. And Sissy, who was my mom's best friend, was at our house. By midnight, I said, call me when he gets home. And I went home. I woke up about 6 o'clock that morning. I called her and said, is he home? She said, no, but said you're joking. The next day goes by. Still no word from Brian. It concerned me, because you don't imagine Brian. You know, he's a big guy. We get on the scene, and there's a car. Jacked up, a body, 20 feet or so from the vehicle, appears to have gunshot wounds to the body. The scene gave the appearance that this could have been a robbery. Brian's gone, and he has been murdered by God no safe. The statements that we've taken from the spouse and her friend just aren't adding up to what we're piecing together. It was becoming very clear to us that maybe this wasn't what it appeared to be at first. There's no fingerprints, there's no eyewitnesses, there's no DNA, there's no nada. We start to think, you know, is it possible these two women could have done this? I had no idea. I was under a suspicion for murder.

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