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Speaker 15 Tragedy strikes a close-knit southern town.

Speaker 4 You see these types of killings a lot of times with the cartel or mafia.

Speaker 18 This is probably one of the most complex homicides that I've been a part of.

Speaker 15 Family and friends are left wondering who could target such a beloved member of his community.

Speaker 20 He treated us like each of us were part of his family and he was just simply taking care of us.

Speaker 8 That was my only son.

Speaker 22 It hit hard that somebody had taken my baby from me.

Speaker 15 In search of justice, investigators unearth a disturbing plot.

Speaker 23 Can't you ask me, Honestly, did they kill my brother?

Speaker 15 One born both out of greed and deadly romance fueled by a macabre obsession.

Speaker 25 He described dancing around in a ritualistic manner.

Speaker 11 He told me, I think she just wanted to play with a dead body. She's crazy.

Speaker 27 It was kind of like a body and class situation. We can do whatever I die.

Speaker 25 I don't believe they could have done it it without the other because they both had sinister intention and they relied on each other.

Speaker 31 It's a cautionary tale about the dangers of meeting people online because you don't know what their true intentions may be.

Speaker 32 It's hard to imagine that kind of evil could live in the world.

Speaker 15 In the heart of the deep south, Metro Atlanta is a mix of vibrant city life and pastoral settings.

Speaker 31 The further out you move from the Metro Atlanta area, such as Indeco and even to Paulding,

Speaker 31 the more rural things get. You expect that there's going to be a lesser crime rate.

Speaker 15 But on the evening of June 3rd, 2016, the Paulding County Sheriff's Office receives an alarming phone call.

Speaker 34 She said he's found a dead body right across from our dealership on Old Griffin Road.

Speaker 31 A man was walking his dog when he came across what he suspected to be a decomposing body.

Speaker 19 He became alarmed and he went to a neighboring business and called 911.

Speaker 23 Is it all intact, did did he say?

Speaker 34 That's what I don't know yet.

Speaker 13 Any other sisters?

Speaker 34 I do not know.

Speaker 33 The body was found off of a major sort of four-lane roadway in Paulding County.

Speaker 26 The first responders arrived, and they discovered that it was, in fact, human remains.

Speaker 31 The deceased victim had been wrapped in a tarp and lit on fire.

Speaker 15 Despite extensive injuries, police determined their victim is an African-American male approximately five feet three inches tall.

Speaker 4 Even though the remains had been burned and charred, you could tell that there was a bullet hole in the left temple area of the head.

Speaker 31 It was apparent that they were dealing with the homicide.

Speaker 15 Police search the area around the body and find no obvious signs of a struggle.

Speaker 4 You can imagine that if somebody was alive in that situation, they would be flailing and there would be a tremendous amount of turmoil in that area and there was none of that.

Speaker 31 Halding County quickly realized that this body had been dumped at this site and had been lit on fire post-mortem.

Speaker 31 Probably because the perpetrators were trying to cover up the crime and distance themselves from what they had done.

Speaker 4 You see these types of killings or these types of body dumps a lot of times with the cartel or mafia

Speaker 4 where people aren't just killed,

Speaker 4 they're killed and then they're burned.

Speaker 4 So I thought he had to be linked to something that would be so bad to where these people had killed him and mutilated his body.

Speaker 4 They searched the area around the remains and they searched the actual remains themselves and they did not find any identification or anything that could help identify that person at the scene.

Speaker 24 Our coroner did contact the GBI and requested an autopsy for this decedent to give us more information to proceed with the investigation.

Speaker 15 In the meantime, authorities turned to reports of missing persons in search of a match for their John Doe.

Speaker 4 The GBI agent who was assisting us with this case was viewing the local news and saw a family on the local news making a broadcast about a missing person.

Speaker 4 It's a very short mail matching the description of the human remains that were discovered in Paulding County.

Speaker 4 The missing person was a Howard Sewell.

Speaker 40 We kind of put it together that this could very well be, in fact, our person.

Speaker 15 Howard Lewis Sewell Jr. was born on May 29th, 1981 in Vicenza, Italy.

Speaker 41 My parents both were in the Army and they were stationed in Italy and that is how Howard came about.

Speaker 33 Faith and Howard were close.

Speaker 21 They played together all the time when they were younger.

Speaker 22 And he was a protector too, so

Speaker 18 he looked out for her.

Speaker 43 Howard Sewell was in between Faith and I so he was like our little watch man watched over us at all times and he was always comforting for us.

Speaker 15 Howard remained close to his sisters throughout his life. In his 30s he and his sister Faith shared an apartment in Smyrna about 10 miles from downtown Atlanta.

Speaker 15 They also found jobs together at a beauty salon.

Speaker 32 He was the housekeeper, but but he was the best.

Speaker 32 It goes more beyond the task. It was just the amount of effort and pride he put into his work.

Speaker 28 It was inspiring.

Speaker 20 Howard was the MVP, and that was because he treated us like each of us were part of his family, and he was just simply taking care of us.

Speaker 21 He loved working around the people that he was with.

Speaker 22 He had a lot of good people, positive people.

Speaker 21 I could say that his second family were the people on his job.

Speaker 15 On the eve of his 35th birthday, Howard Sewell's future looked bright.

Speaker 20 When I saw him on that Thursday, he asked if we could move his birthday party from Sunday to Monday. He said that he had plans.
I said, oh, Howard, that sounds like a lady.

Speaker 20 And he's, you know, he just smiled and kind of grinned.

Speaker 15 But that was the last time any of Howard's friends or family heard from him.

Speaker 41 On Tuesday, mid-morning, the location that he worked at actually called me and said, hey, we've tried calling Howard. He was a no-call, no show.

Speaker 41 And that's very unusual for him. So I tried calling him multiple times and I didn't get an answer.

Speaker 42 I know my brother, and I know he wouldn't ignore my calls unless something was going on, something was wrong.

Speaker 41 And it just didn't feel right with me.

Speaker 21 Faith called me. She said, Mama, I don't want to worry you or scare you, but Junior didn't show up for work today and he's not at his apartment.
She said, I've been calling him all day.

Speaker 21 I can't reach him.

Speaker 14 Me being a mother,

Speaker 14 immediately I know my son. And

Speaker 8 at that particular time, I have to say that my heart dropped.

Speaker 8 My heart actually dropped

Speaker 8 because I know him and I knew something was wrong.

Speaker 22 That's when we dropped everything and went to the police

Speaker 21 to file a missing person's report.

Speaker 31 Local agency, Cobb County Police Department, documented the last time that they saw and spoke with him and began their investigation.

Speaker 31 They also wanted to get some stats on him, how much he weighed, how tall he was, so that they could circulate that around the Metro Atlanta area in the hopes that we could discover where Howard had gone.

Speaker 15 Days pass with no news or leads on Howard's whereabouts.

Speaker 15 Then, one week after his family reported him missing, police in nearby Paulding County, Georgia find the remains of an unidentified male matching Howard's description.

Speaker 15 Detectives contact Howard's family.

Speaker 41 They said they found a body

Speaker 41 and I was very hopeful that it wasn't him. I was just like, you know, I hope it's, just hope it's not him.
It just can't be him.

Speaker 21 They asked us a lot of questions about Howard, about his job, about where he lived and all the things that he did.

Speaker 24 The family made it very clear to us that this is not like Howard and that he would not go a length of time without speaking to his family, whether it be by by phone or in person.

Speaker 17 He was very involved with his family.

Speaker 15 On June 6th, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducts an autopsy on their victim.

Speaker 44 The autopsy was rather revealing.

Speaker 26 We learned very quickly that he had died from multiple gunshot wounds, at least four gunshot wounds.

Speaker 31 They could also tell from the recovery of the projectiles that this was done with a nine millimeter handgun.

Speaker 15 The autopsy also confirms the family's worst fears.

Speaker 31 Looking at dental records, the GBI was able to confirm for us that indeed this was Howard's body.

Speaker 41 The police called and they gave us the information. And

Speaker 41 that was probably

Speaker 41 the moment I remember probably the most.

Speaker 21 He said, Mrs.

Speaker 14 Edmund, are you all together?

Speaker 22 I said, yes, we're all together.

Speaker 21 And he said, the coroner just came back into the room and he has informed us that the body that we found

Speaker 14 is your son's body.

Speaker 41 At that point, I lost my breath. Like, I almost began hyperventilating.

Speaker 41 I remember it just vividly getting out of the car and screaming and literally screaming to the top of my lungs.

Speaker 8 We stood at the truck screaming and crying and hurting

Speaker 14 because

Speaker 8 that was my only son.

Speaker 22 It hit hard that somebody had taken my baby from me.

Speaker 15 Coming up, an anonymous tipster comes forward.

Speaker 15 And the investigation uncovers a sordid romance with sinister intentions.

Speaker 12 He kind of had a bad boy thing going on that she liked, and she really started spending all of her time with him.

Speaker 4 They fell in love with each other.

Speaker 15 Investigators in Paulding County, Georgia, have identified the remains of 35-year-old Howard Sewell.

Speaker 15 And both law enforcement and Howard's family are desperately searching for answers on why someone would do this.

Speaker 43 We were torn into pieces because of the way he was done more than anything.

Speaker 43 The way he was abandoned, you know,

Speaker 43 and left there to die.

Speaker 26 When we learn that this is Howard, we have to go back and look at his victimology even closer.

Speaker 18 We have to look at his last footprint, if you will, where he was seen, who he was talking to.

Speaker 15 Just hours after Howard has been identified, his family meets with detectives at headquarters.

Speaker 19 They indicated to us that the last day that they talked to him was his birthday, May 29th.

Speaker 41 I called my brother that morning, kind of early, and wished him a happy birthday.

Speaker 12 And he hadn't really woke up yet.

Speaker 41 So I was like, you know, I'm sorry. I just wanted to tell you happy birthday.
I told him, you know, I'll let you sleep and you just call me when you wake up.

Speaker 21 It was on Sunday, as a matter of fact.

Speaker 3 After church, I gave him a call.

Speaker 21 I said, what are you going to do today? He said,

Speaker 21 I'm going to rest for a while and then I'm going to get up and I'm going to clean up my apartment and then I have a...

Speaker 14 a date.

Speaker 31 He planned on meeting up with a young lady that he had met online who was from Virginia. But that's about as much information that investigators were able to ascertain.

Speaker 21 I didn't question him about the young lady that he was going out with.

Speaker 15 That's when the family reveals they had received a disturbing phone call from an anonymous woman earlier that morning.

Speaker 41 She told us that she had overheard some guys talking about my brother and one of them was her boyfriend.

Speaker 41 I put her on speakerphone for my mom and my sister to hear because we were all sitting together. My sister took her phone out and she was like, just record.

Speaker 43 She explained to us that she had a son and that she was expecting at that moment. And if it was her child, she would want someone to come forth with information to help her find her child.

Speaker 15 The family tells detectives that the caller said Howard had planned to meet a woman for a date the night of his birthday.

Speaker 15 And she doesn't see the female, and she has a boyfriend. Okay.
When he got there, their whole plan was

Speaker 15 to rob him instead of letting him, you know, do what he had to do with the girl. Yeah, they're gonna set him up, uh-huh.
Okay. They set him up, and I guess, you know, they all got to fight

Speaker 15 or whatever.

Speaker 15 And it

Speaker 15 okay,

Speaker 41 She was like, he's been shot.

Speaker 41 And I asked her, and I by then was just tears were flowing. And I said, you know, did they kill my brother?

Speaker 23 I need you to ask me, honestly, did they kill my brother?

Speaker 23 I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 I just want to know if they killed my brother.

Speaker 23 Please, I need to know.

Speaker 23 I know you are, I know you are.

Speaker 23 We have to know this information.

Speaker 10 We have to know.

Speaker 21 I actually got on the phone with her.

Speaker 21 And I said, sweetheart, this is Sonia.

Speaker 3 I'm Howard's mother.

Speaker 21 And I said, I really need to know all that you know as to what happened that night.

Speaker 23 He's my only son.

Speaker 23 And I am so proud of you for coming forth.

Speaker 23 I can't tell you,

Speaker 23 I know you're scared. I know you're scared, but look, we are Christian people.

Speaker 21 And we will promise you we're going to ask God's protection upon you.

Speaker 15 As detectives listen to the recording, they learn Howard's death might be connected to a man in neighboring Cobb County.

Speaker 19 Our homicide team learned that Howard Sewell had went to an apartment in the Marietta area, and the apartment belonged to a person that this source identified as Chris Hanna's.

Speaker 15 While the informant never reveals her name, she indicates she's a friend of Chris Hanna.

Speaker 17 We immediately contacted the Marietta Police Department and

Speaker 25 give them this information.

Speaker 24 And they were able to research and locate Mr.

Speaker 18 Hanna's apartment

Speaker 29 and learned of several calls to that apartment.

Speaker 15 Detectives discovered that in the early morning hours of May 30th, the same night that Howard went missing, a 911 call had summoned Marietta police to Chris Hanna's apartment building.

Speaker 4 The law enforcement had not only been called to that apartment complex, but actually called to Christopher Hanna's apartment on the night in question due to a fireworks or shots fired complaint.

Speaker 4 Officers investigated the exterior area of the apartment complex, but was unable to determine if shots were fired or if they were fireworks.

Speaker 31 The police went back into service.

Speaker 32 Nothing came of it.

Speaker 15 But detectives learned that later that same night, Marietta Police became involved in another incident involving Chris Hanna.

Speaker 4 They received a second call from an officer that was working a part-time job at the local hospital.

Speaker 4 The officer had a car drive up into the emergency room ramp.

Speaker 4 Three people got out of that car, one of them had been shot.

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Speaker 15 Less than a week after police in Paulding County, Georgia found the body of 35-year-old Howard Sewell, his family struggles to cope with the tragic loss.

Speaker 43 We weren't able to have a proper funeral for my brother. You know, there was nobody

Speaker 43 there for us to

Speaker 43 even glance at one last time.

Speaker 21 We decided as a family not to even

Speaker 21 buy a casket to put any charred remains in because that wasn't my boy.

Speaker 3 That was not him.

Speaker 28 So we ended up cremating his body.

Speaker 21 We weren't able to really say goodbye.

Speaker 15 Thanks to a tip from an anonymous informant, detectives believe they have connected Howard's death to a man named Chris Hanna.

Speaker 15 Police have also just learned that Chris Hanna was involved in a second shooting the same night Howard disappeared, and that the victim had been treated at a local hospital.

Speaker 26 He had sustained gunshot wounds to his arm and his leg, however, that they were non-life-threatening.

Speaker 4 The gentleman that was shot, he was identified as Omar Xavier. The female was identified as Tadasia Clark.

Speaker 4 The male who had driven the car was Chris Hanna.

Speaker 15 Detectives learned that an officer working on duty at the hospital that evening had attempted to question the group, but they were unwilling to provide many details.

Speaker 29 Marietta detectives told us that they did not buy the story that they were given.

Speaker 40 However, there were not many leads to pursue at that time.

Speaker 4 When the uniformed officer went out to the car to look inside the car,

Speaker 4 right dead center, in between the two front seats, he saw the butt of the 9mm handgun sticking out.

Speaker 18 Marietta detectives contacted Chris and said, you have a handgun in plain view in your car.

Speaker 25 And his words to them was, it's not mine.

Speaker 29 Go ahead and take it.

Speaker 4 At that point in time, it was abandoned property.

Speaker 44 The firearm and the vehicle were seized by police that night on May the 30th.

Speaker 12 Police had no reason to hold Chris or Tadasia, so they left the hospital and Omar Savior was treated and released the next day.

Speaker 15 But police still had very little information about the shooting.

Speaker 15 And now, authorities from Paulding County, Marietta, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation theorize that the incident may be related to the murder of Howard Sewell.

Speaker 31 It was apparent to the police that Chris Hanna was somehow involved. We now had two additional names of people that might be involved as well: Omar Savior and Tadasha Clark.

Speaker 4 We created bolos or lookout forms for those people, and then they were sent out to various agencies in the metro Atlanta area.

Speaker 25 We were now gathering all the information and intelligence that we could pertaining to Chris, Omar, and Tadasia.

Speaker 19 We searched all of the social media that each of the three may have.

Speaker 31 What we learned about Chris Hanna is that he lived at an apartment complex here in Marietta. His profession was working as a personal trainer at a local gym.

Speaker 4 Chris Hanna met Tadasia through the gym.

Speaker 15 Detectives learned that 20-year-old Tadasia Clark had moved to Atlanta from Hampton, Virginia five years earlier.

Speaker 4 I looked into Tadasia Clark quite extensively. She was living with Chris Hanna.

Speaker 4 She was actually at the time of this investigation was taking classes at a local community college in how to become a mortician.

Speaker 15 Detectives also connect Tadesha to 21-year-old Omar Savior.

Speaker 12 Omar and Tadesha were involved in a romantic relationship.

Speaker 44 What we knew about Omar, he wasn't from around here.

Speaker 44 We knew he was from the Pennsylvania area.

Speaker 4 We believe that due to the arrest or some criminal activity that he had there, he actually left Pittsburgh fleeing from that area and coming to Georgia to try to start a new life.

Speaker 44 It seemed like he had actually only been in this area for a very short period of time. He was basically homeless.

Speaker 12 Omar didn't really seem to have a steady job or home. He did have family in the area, but they couldn't really tell police much.
He seemed to honestly be drifting through when he met Tadesha.

Speaker 15 Authorities run a background check on Tadasha and discover her record is clean.

Speaker 15 When detectives reach out to her friends and family, they're surprised to learn police are searching for the 20-year-old college student.

Speaker 27 Tadasha, she was like the smart person, then it was like everybody else. She never really been the type of person to follow anybody.

Speaker 36 You know,

Speaker 27 she had a lot of energy. She was open to a lot of people.
I mean, she stayed to herself at the same time, but never really had problems.

Speaker 15 But what did Tadesha, Omar, and Chris have to do with Howard Sewell's murder? Detectives scour Howard Sewell's phone records in the hopes they'll find a connection to the trio.

Speaker 31 We knew from Howard's sister he intended to meet up with a young lady from Virginia.

Speaker 31 Once we were able to get those records from the provider, we were able to see that he was indeed in communication with Tadesha Clark.

Speaker 15 According to messages exchanged through a personal ads website, Howard planned to meet Tadesha for a date.

Speaker 44 We know that he also contacted a taxicab company. In the early morning hours of May the 30th, he had gone to the area of Roswell Road near this apartment complex where Chris Hannah and Tadesha live.

Speaker 4 That was the last time Howard Sewell placed a telephone call.

Speaker 18 We were very concerned at this point that this was going to be our homicide location.

Speaker 15 On June 10th, investigators serve a search warrant at Chris Hanna and Tadesha Clark's apartment.

Speaker 4 We gathered the City of Marietta SWAT team together. because we did not know what was potentially there or who was potentially there.

Speaker 17 We knew that the people responsible for Howard's death had a strong propensity for violence.

Speaker 40 And so a dynamic entry was made into the residence.

Speaker 4 I can remember the SWAT team exiting the apartment with a dumbfounded look on their face. And I said, what's going on?

Speaker 40 One of the SWAT team members looked at me and said, there's nobody here and there's nothing in the house.

Speaker 15 Coming up, a forensic search leads investigators to discover a key piece of evidence left behind by the suspects.

Speaker 4 I can remember the crime scene technician walking over to the bench and opening the bench up and I looked inside and it was full of blood.

Speaker 15 And the manhunt for the missing suspects leads to a shocking tell-all confession.

Speaker 31 The next thing he recalled was hearing gunshots, waking up to the sound of these gunshots.

Speaker 23 She's actually going to burn him and say her prayers.

Speaker 15 In Marietta, Georgia, homicide detectives are searching the apartment of Chris Hanna and Tadasha Clark, where they believe 35-year-old Howard Sewell was shot and killed on May 30, 2016.

Speaker 3 The apartment was abnormally clean.

Speaker 4 There was no furniture. Each room had a very strong odor of bleach or cleaning solution in it, which raised a huge red flag in my investigation.

Speaker 31 Police were able to recover projectiles, bullets from the wall. They also found some shell casings that had been missed during the cleanup process.

Speaker 4 Those projectiles were then linked back to a 9mm handgun.

Speaker 44 Which was very significant because we know that Mr. Sewell was killed with a 9mm

Speaker 44 and that a 9-millimeter firearm had been found in the car that Chris Hanna had drove to the hospital with Omar Savior and Tadisha Clark.

Speaker 15 As detectives continue processing the apartment, they make a crucial discovery in one of the few remaining pieces of furniture.

Speaker 4 It appeared to be a piano bench.

Speaker 4 I can remember the crime scene technician walking over to the bench and opening the bench up and I looked inside and it was full of blood.

Speaker 4 There was blood that had leaked down like the lid was open and then the blood was leaking down into or leaching into the middle of the piano bench

Speaker 4 We took swabs from the blood located in the bench, and that blood was later matched to Howard Sewell.

Speaker 31 Now you have DNA, shell casings, and projectiles from the back room of this apartment. We all but confirmed that the shooting happened at this apartment, and this is where Howard was actually killed.

Speaker 15 Unfortunately, there are no signs in the apartment of where the suspects had fled.

Speaker 15 Then, five days later, on June 15th, detectives receive word that one of the three suspects has been taken into custody, but on unrelated charges.

Speaker 31 As it happens, Omar was arrested for an unrelated assault charge in a neighboring city.

Speaker 4 We were contacted by another agency stating that Omar Xavier was actually in custody in our local jail. And I decided that we were going to go interview Mr.
Xavier.

Speaker 15 When detectives sit down with Omar for a formal interview, the 21-year-old is less than cooperative.

Speaker 31 Police did bring up Howard Sewell by name to Omar and asked if this was somehow related to this missing person's report and the discovery of Howard's body in the neighboring county.

Speaker 31 He denied any involvement in it whatsoever.

Speaker 4 You could tell that he was getting mad. He was getting frustrated with us asking these questions until the point to where he just said, I don't want to talk to you guys anymore.

Speaker 4 I want to go back to my jail, so I need to talk to an attorney.

Speaker 36 And we ended the interview right after that.

Speaker 31 Omar essentially shut down, but police let him know in no uncertain terms that they believed he was involved in this fatal shooting and that charges could be forthcoming.

Speaker 15 Two days later, investigators catch another big break.

Speaker 4 Chris Hanna got picked up on her pandering charge and we found that he was in jail.

Speaker 4 So we attempted to interview Mr. Hanna about our investigation.

Speaker 25 Chris volunteered to speak with us.

Speaker 30 When we met with him, we went through essentially his life history and we went all the way up to the point of this case.

Speaker 12 Chris is giving background into his relationship with Tadesia. They had actually been friends and roommates for several years, but Omar had just recently come into the picture a few weeks ago.

Speaker 4 Tadesia Clark met Omar Xavier Savior at a park. They had run into each other and had an interest in each other.

Speaker 4 She found out that Omar was homeless. She then in turn went to Chris Hanna, who she was living with, and requested that he allow Omar Xavier to either stay on the couch or in this back sunroom.

Speaker 15 Chris tells detectives that while the relationship between Tadesha and Omar was new, the couple had already formed an unbreakable bond.

Speaker 4 I think what she was trying to do is she was trying to help Omar feel like he had a family, like he had some self-worth, because she saw good in him. And in turn, he took care of her.

Speaker 4 He protected her.

Speaker 4 They fell in love with each other.

Speaker 15 When detectives press Chris for information about what happened in his apartment the morning of May 30th, He doesn't mention anything about the murder of Howard Sewell,

Speaker 15 but he does go into detail about how Omar's savior was shot. According to Chris, he was asleep when the shooting occurred.

Speaker 31 Chris Hanna articulated to detectives that he had gotten so drunk the night of the shooting, he actually went and passed out in his room.

Speaker 31 The next thing he recalled was hearing gunshots, waking up to the sound of these gunshots, and seeing Omar run into the room where he said, she shot me, she being with the Deja Clark.

Speaker 46 He said, she shot me, she shot me. I need to go to the hospital.
Take me to the hospital. He just kept saying, take me to the hospital, take me to the hospital.
I'm like, all right, man, chill out.

Speaker 36 Just get out of the room and I'll take you to the hospital.

Speaker 4 Christopher stated to me in the interview that it took him a second to gather his thoughts. He didn't really know what was going on, but he knew that Omar was hurt.

Speaker 24 He was shot, and he needed help. So he stated that he had gotten up out of bed and they drove to the hospital.

Speaker 15 Chris explains that after dropping Omar off at the ER, he and Tadesha returned home.

Speaker 31 Once Chris and Tadesha got back to the apartment, this is when Chris said that he first realized that Howard had been shot in the back room.

Speaker 15 Chris tells police he had no idea who Howard Sewell was,

Speaker 15 but he assumed Tadesha had killed him after she made several bizarre comments

Speaker 46 Tadesha is telling you how she's

Speaker 46 oh I can't wait to embalm this guy

Speaker 46 she mentions to you that she might want to embalm this guy she told me she did or something she said she did something like pour the bleach in his mouth or something I don't know

Speaker 46 she told you that yeah

Speaker 46 Or that she wanted to or something. Something of that nature.
She said she wanted to involve the guy. Did she ever talk to you about Anus before?

Speaker 4 I mean, obviously you said that she was...

Speaker 46 She said she wanted to be a mortician, but that was

Speaker 46 as far as it went. And then it's like she was threatening me with it, like, don't f ⁇ with me.

Speaker 26 He told me, I think she just wanted to play with a dead body, and she's crazy.

Speaker 25 He became afraid of her.

Speaker 3 However, he wanted this body out of his house.

Speaker 25 And so he assisted her in wrapping the body, packaging it and they worked together to load this body under the cover of night and they removed the body from the apartment complex

Speaker 46 did you guys have this predetermined location or did you just drive along you're like driving along and she decided where she just stop here

Speaker 31 it's at that point the days you had actually lit the tarp with howard's body inside on fire

Speaker 46 she's actually going to burn him and

Speaker 1 say her prayers and shit

Speaker 24 He described her activity as very bizarre.

Speaker 24 Dancing around Howard's body while it was burning in a ritualistic manner.

Speaker 11 He decided to get back in the car and just wait on her.

Speaker 31 Once Chris and Tadasha Clark had abandoned Howard's body in the field, they quickly went back to Chris's apartment so that they can continue the cleanup.

Speaker 15 Chris claims that the next morning, Tadasha left.

Speaker 12 Tadesha had packed up her things and left the apartment. Chris left the apartment, and Chris said he hadn't seen Omar since they left the hospital.

Speaker 12 So at this point, he couldn't say where anyone had gone.

Speaker 15 Following his confession, police charge Chris with concealing a death.

Speaker 15 They also continue their search for Tadasha Clark, putting pressure on her known associates to help bring her to justice.

Speaker 31 Undoubtedly, word got back to Tadasha that police were quickly honing in on her.

Speaker 4 Lieutenant Mike Hill and I were in my office at the City of Marietta Police Department when we received a telephone call. And I just so happened to answer the phone, and it was Tadasha Clark.

Speaker 31 She said, hey, I know you guys are looking for me. It's time for us to meet and talk.

Speaker 15 Coming up, detectives finally hear Tadasha's side of the story. But what she reveals changes everything police thought they knew about the case.

Speaker 31 Howard was kind of in a fight for his life, and he managed to get the upper hand on Omar.

Speaker 15 Two weeks after the murder of Howard Sewell Jr., 20-year-old Tadasha Clark surrenders to law enforcement.

Speaker 19 We met with her at a place of business in a parking lot, and we conducted an interview with her.

Speaker 15 Tadasha starts her story by admitting to police that late in the night on May 29th, she had lured Howard Sewell to her apartment under false pretenses.

Speaker 15 He was intended to be the first of several victims that Omar and Tadesha had planned to target.

Speaker 31 What was revealed through the interview with Tadeija was that this was a scandal.

Speaker 31 That their whole intent was to lure people to this apartment so that they could rob them of their money. And that Tadesha had met Howard online.
She had made some promises to him.

Speaker 31 Howard showed up at this apartment, thought that he was going to celebrate his birthday, thought that he was going to maybe have a hookup with Tadesha.

Speaker 33 So initially, it was amicable.

Speaker 31 They were kind of flirty with each other. And then all of a sudden, Thadesha and Omar pulled a gun on him and started trying to rob him.

Speaker 4 Omar starts demanding money from Howard Sewell. I believe Howard Sewell felt that he didn't have any other recourse.
He attacked Omar's Xavier.

Speaker 31 Omar was significantly bigger than Howard. Howard was kind of in a fight for his life, and he managed to get the upper hand on Omar such that Omar actually lost the gun during this physical fight.

Speaker 31 Tadesha picked up the gun at Omar's request.

Speaker 24 She said that Omar instructed her to shoot Howard.

Speaker 5 She picked up the gun and began shooting.

Speaker 31 She mistakenly struck Omar, but she also struck Howard a couple of times as well. And it's at that point that Howard was incapacitated enough that Omar could retrieve the firearm.

Speaker 31 He fired the fatal shot into the power tech.

Speaker 29 In interviewing Tadasia, she discloses to us that once Howard is killed and that he is lifeless there on the bench that we had found during the first search warrant, that

Speaker 17 Omar essentially removes all of Howard's personal effects, part of which is $400 in cash.

Speaker 26 And when asked about her receiving any of those funds, she explains to us that she didn't get any of the money.

Speaker 4 He never gave The Deja Clark any money.

Speaker 17 He took all the money, kept it for himself.

Speaker 24 It's at the conclusion of the interview that we did take Tadesia into custody, and she was ultimately charged with felony murder.

Speaker 15 Based on her confession, authorities charged Tadesha Clark and Omar Xavier with malice murder, felony murder, and concealing a death.

Speaker 41 We felt grateful that they had now been arrested, but we also were angry. We were upset.
We wanted justice to be served.

Speaker 15 In April 2018, nearly two years after the murder of Howard Sewell Jr., Tadesha Clark appears in court for a pre-trial hearing.

Speaker 31 Ultimate, she pled guilty to murder. She also agreed that she would testify against Omar.

Speaker 15 Three months later, on the eve of his trial, Omar Savior also pleads guilty.

Speaker 31 To our surprise, he said, I'm going to get convicted anyway. It's time for me to just plead guilty to the murder counts, too.

Speaker 31 Chris Hanna was also convicted

Speaker 31 for his lesser offenses. He received a total sentence of 15 years with eight years to serve the balance on probation.

Speaker 33 Omar and Tadesia were sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Speaker 19 I think they were equally responsible in this case.

Speaker 29 I don't believe they could have done it without the other because they utilized Tadasia to lure Howard Sewell and Omar handle the robbery aspect.

Speaker 25 I think that they both had sinister intentions in this case and they relied on each other to carry it out.

Speaker 27 I felt like she got into a relationship and was probably so deep in love with this person that she would do whatever. It's kind of like a Bonnie and Clyde situation.

Speaker 27 Maybe she had a certain type of feeling for this guy that I'm going to stick with you through thick and thin and do whatever ride or die type of situation.

Speaker 43 It's heartbreaking

Speaker 43 to know that you have someone out here that can be so cruel.

Speaker 41 Howard was always the person that was the calm in the storm. And so...
They robbed the earth of someone that was the calm in the storm. I want this message to get out.
I want people to

Speaker 41 hear about this. I want it to, I want them to learn, you know, to be cautious in situations.
You know, if you're doing online dating, be very cautious.

Speaker 41 Just understand that your life is precious, you know, and that you need to be careful.

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