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What happened to Dwight Grant?
Not surprisingly, Clemens was not as quick to confess.
So we took Andre over to the Pembroke Pines Police Department. His mother came as well. And we attempted to interview him, but because of the fact that he was detained pending the DNA warrant, we read Miranda and he invoked his right to counsel.
But the fact was investigators didn't need his statement. Search warrant on his cell phone revealed all the evidence they needed to prove he was guilty of premeditated murder.
What we mainly got from all the text messages were the conversation between Andre and Christy pre-murder, about a week before the murder, where he's telling Christy that murder is going to happen soon. And at that point, Christy pretty much tells him she's going to help him with it.
The only thing missing from the investigation, or I should say the only two things, were the murder weapons. But thanks to his texts on his phone, police had a pretty good idea what had happened to them.
Based off the text messages between him and Christy, at one point after the murder occurred, he made a comment to Christy about, I should go throw out my trash. So I believe... I believe that he had the sword and the dagger with him and he threw it out in the dumpster of his community when he got home that night.
Once we were able to get those text messages and we saw that, we went back to the community to try to see if we can go into the dumpster to look for the sword. However, by that time, the trash had already been picked up and had already gone to the dump.
You know, Scott, I just have to say it because this is one of those things that I think we get from TV more than anything. It's like, oh, my gosh, they don't have the murder weapon. Like, can they prove the case? But look, as a prosecutor and I think as a member of law enforcement, we know it's really not that uncommon.
They're actually rarely located because the important thing is, you know, they were used based on the injury to your victims. Right. And here they already have the video corroborated by statements. They certainly have more than enough for a case right there.
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