When he arrived back home to the second-floor apartment he shared with his mother and younger brother , someone would strangle and suffocate the life out of the boy. An officer arrived on the scene and found 12-year-old Garrett . Advocates say raise it first, DEC says 2022 tied for the safest hunting season on record, Governor Kathy Hochul Releases New York State Budget, New York redistricting commission to hold final public hearings this week, New York unlikely to have a new chief judge until later this spring, Adirondack Council leader to step down later this year, Stefanik opens district office in Rensselaer County Government building, Budget watchdog says NY should plan for an upcoming "fiscal cliff", Community Advisory Board (NCPR Executive Council). The victim, Garrett Phillips, was only 12 years old. Is Nick guilty or innocent? Garbus film, which debuts on Tuesday, uses police footage and photos, video evidence and interviews to recount what went wrong in meticulous detail. He loved sports, being with his friends and ripsticking (kind of like skateboarding, but your back leg always moves). Original Language: English. "To date we do not know who murdered that 12 year-old boy," said WilliamBastuk, executive director of It Could Happen To You, a Rochester-based not-for-profit that fights to overturn wrongful convictions. Trainum is part of a growing movement that encourages police and prosecutors to check their work with these reviews. It doesnt say what his relationship was like. His mother's ex-boyfriend, Nick Hillary, was found not guilty of the murder just over two years ago in a. After Nick was done smoking, he kept the butts in his pocket and even put one in the drain. Murray and another officer, Gary Snell (who Garbus notes declined to be interviewed for the doc), interrogated Hillary after conducting a joint interview with Phillips mother Tandy and John Jones, who was not only her ex-boyfriend but also a sheriffs deputy at the time of the crime, and later briefly brought under suspicion because he was seen on tape by Phillips just before the murder. "It was a true tragedy," he said. Garrett was described as always being a happy kid, who always had a smile on his face. As of this week, the source who originally contributed the new lead said that they have not been contacted by Potsdam investigators roughly six months since this person first attempted to share information with law enforcement. The university soccer coach had previously dated the victims mother, Tandy Cyrus, but was reported to have split with the grieving mum as he didnt get on with her children. 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Gary Pasqua in his office near the St. Lawrence County courthouse. In regards to the interesting and sad story about Garrett Phillips the 12- year old CHILD murdered victim. It concerns a group of people who were living in the North Country around the time of the murder. Oct. 24 marked the ninth anniversary of the murder of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips. But no one would see his killer leap out of the back window. He loved his ripstick," Phillips said. Garrett Phillips was strangled in his family's second-floor apartment in upstate Potsdam in October 2011. Rain said she was "100% certain" she'd prosecuted the right person. is available to stream on Sky Crime. Its so heartbreaking, and I feel bad for his family. (Courtesy of HBO ). Two years after the slaying, Garretts mothers ex-boyfriend, Oral Nick Hillary, was arrested, tried for the murder and acquitted. Garretts mother, Tandy Cyrus, has said that her son was a gregarious boy who had absolutely no fear. Cyrus did not want to participate. They realized that the killer could have had an injury since the jump was pretty far. The issues around race and policing and prosecutorial misconduct have been huge issues across our nation. he was with his dad cutting wood (his dad confirmed this), 2.) "There will be no further investigation," Rain saidat a press conference, "because Im 100 percent certain, as are police, they got the right man.". Director Jesse Quackenbush, a man from Albany, New York who graduated from the University of Houston Law School in 1987 and, that year, moved to Amarillo, made the documentary The Last Word which argues that Garrett was in fact innocent of the crime. I think of Michelle McNamara: Did that book [Ill Be Gone in the Dark] solve that case? The big question now is how law enforcements following up. No one else has ever been named a suspect. Tafari, a lawyer who provided legal support to his former Tilden High School friend, doesnt believe this film can change a corrupt system. That trial could begin later this fall. One DA declined to pursue an indictment and was eventually voted out of office. When a new prosecutor took office, St. Lawrence County district attorney Gary Pasqua, he said the case remains open because no one was convicted. Today, Garrett's mother's ex-boyfriend, Nick Hillary, was found not guilty in the boy's murder. "I dont know that its fair to them to keep reliving it unless something new or different happens. All Rights Reserved. Director Liz Garbus is pictured in an undated photo. And Nick doesnt have any of that right now. Rain ran for district attorney of Potsdam in 2013 with a platform that specifically singled out Tandy Phillips, promising to prosecute someone for the murder of Garrett. "Im here because justice is due for Garrett and justice is due for Nick Hillary, too," Baxtron said on Friday. Who Killed Garrett Phillips? The judge took it all in and after about a week of both sides summing up their arguments, he came back with a verdict. There was really nothing beyond whats in the film that we were able to learn.. Again, I saw an abrasion, but it ankle didnt look swollen to me. Read Next: WGAs David Young Bows Out of Negotiations Due to Medical Leave, Bridget Everetts Comedy Can Be Blue on Stage But Somebody Somewhere Leans Into the Tender Moments, Inside the Naomi-Verse With Ava DuVernay and Kaci Walfall, Woody Harrelson Slams COVID Set Protocols as 'Nonsense,' Urges Hollywood to 'Stop' Forcing 'Vaccination': Thats 'Not a Free Country', Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Writer Surprised by Terrible Reviews: I Was in a Low Spot and Really Sad About It, Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Releasing Two Days Early, 'Perfect Match' Star Joey Sasso on Running Around Panama to Find an Engagement Ring, How Much It Cost and What Viewers Didnt See, Michael B. Jordan Meets Reporter at 'Creed III' Premiere Who 'Teased Him all the Time' in High School: 'I Was the Corny Kid, Right? His arms were at his side and his legs close together. Garbus says her team did analysis on that tape beyond what the police had done but no new developments came out of it. Oral Nick Hillary exhales as he leaves the St. Lawrence County Courthouse in Canton Wednesday after being found not guilty of murdering Garrett Phillips. Filling the benches behind, were foursquare supporters of Hillary across the aisle from Tandy's extended family. Interim Police Chief in Potsdam, New York, Mark Murray, stands in the house where Phillips' body was found on Sept. 27, 2016. proceeds with the case. Oral Nick Hillary stands outside the St. Lawrence County Courthouse Wednesday in Canton during a press conference after he was found not guilty of murdering Garrett Phillips. He thought Nick [Hillary] was the guy, so I think the likelihood of this being pursued by the police and the DA needs the police to do the pursuing is pretty low. A 'Justice for Garrett' sign is pictured in an undated photo. "The head person, the most dominant person everybody is gonna follow their lead," said James Trainum, a nationally-recognized police consultant. ", So far, this new lead doesnt seem to count as "something different. They struck up an easy conversation that, in short order, became a live-in relationship with a blended family. Nothing is ever 100 percent, but Nick is a highly decent lovely person, with no sign of a temper and no weird evasions, explained Garbus, who says she came to the table with an open mind. The lawsuit alleged that Hillary's civil rights had been violated during his trial. Nick is targeted. And they havent been in touch with Garrett Phillips family. And we talked of his passion: Soccer. Hillary was confused, especially because Jones was not in his deputy uniform and he wasn't sure if Jones was there in an official capacity or not. For years, no one was named in Phillips death. True crime is popular because theres a healthy impulse to want these things to be solved, Garbus says. Back at the apartment, the investigation was just beginning. They moved in just months before Garrett died, after Cyrus and Hillary broke up. Garbus questioned them about their missteps and lack of physical or DNA evidence tying Hillary to the crime. Today, Garrett's mother's ex-boyfriend, Nick Hillary, was found not guilty in the boy's murder. Powered by. In Shanna-Kays cross-examination, the prosecution brought her attention to surveillance footage that showed her walking home at 4:02pm, which would have gotten her home at 4:12pm, and therefore into the shower at 4:22 pm. premieres on HBO on Tuesday, July 23 at 8/7c. The first part of the documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips? The police wanted to locate Garretts family and tell them what had happened. But who's looking, you know, 40 yards off, 50 yards off the street on a dark, rainy night for someone jumping out a window?". Dismiss. Garrett didnt ever want to be alone with Nick, even though Nick said he never had any problems with Garrett. (Hillary has denied visiting the apartment without Cyrus' permission. The two-part HBO documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips? doesnt solve the mystery but looks at the case through a critical lens. New York, 2011: Garrett Phillips, 12, is found strangled. Formal complaints were filed against him for violence and abuse. It was almost Halloween, a rainy late Monday afternoon in Potsdam, NY, when a security camera high atop a high school recorded a video that still makes the hair on your neck stand-up. By the time Liz Garbus 's two-part documentary " Who Killed Garrett Phillips ?" debuts on HBO, there could be a new public lead in the case of the murdered titular 12-year-old. said he had gone through the case files himself. Could the choke out theory be true. I have so many questions about the ex-boyfriend, John Jones. Nicks defense team said right away that the police had tunnel vision and said it was a race issue. What was his relationship like with Garrett? It wasnt until later that Cyrus was finally informed that her son was strangled to death. Director Liz Garbus is pictured in an undated photo. But going forward, it looks like industry-shifting life sciences The two-part HBO documentary "Who Killed. Residents of upstate New York, where Phillips was killed, are reportedly split between those who believe in Hillarys guilt and those who believe in his innocence. "He was a kid he was a 12-year-old kid. Its no secret how police usually do their work. Photo: David Sommerstein, D.A. Despite the fact that the circumstantial evidence against him and Hillary was so similar, he didn't suffer nearly so many consequences as Hillary did. As least, thats what many may hope after the new St. Lawrence County district attorney admitted a new tip earlier this spring. The window is how it is believed that the killer escaped. I probably will the rest of my life," Phillips said. The police also made Nick strip down in the nude, so they could take photographs. Photo: Julie Grant, St. Lawrence County DA Mary Rain at a press conference after the trial in 2016. "He was something else. However, Postdam is apparently really small, so if you go a different way it doesnt take long to be back where you started. But in a county thats population is more than 90% white, the killing of a child -- a crime that screamed out for justice -- became an investigation that boiled with questions of racial fairness. Edward F. Narrow, the Canton attorney who represented Oral "Nick" Hillary, the former Clarkson University men's soccer coach acquitted of the boy's murder, said that leads involving inconsistent statements . After medics rushed the boy to the hospital two blocks away, Wentworth noticed that one of the window blinds in another bedroom had been damaged. After Nick Hillary was found not guilty almost four years ago in a trial that captivated the North Country and gained national headlines, local police and prosecutors declared the case closed, insisting on Hillary's guilt. Back in the hospital, Garrett Phillips was pronounced dead at 7:18pm. Whatever has come to light or will come in the years ahead Phillips said hes tried to focus on the good. And yet, in that security video of Garrett on his skateboard, wasn't that Nick driving his Honda CRV though the high school parking lot just after Garrett skated by? When they didnt hear back, they called on state Attorney General Tish James to intervene. Read more at watertowndailytimes.com. Also the Mom of Brandon's girlfriend also overheard Brandon talking about this unidentified male. And then there was the potential witness about whom prosecutors never told the defense a revelation that nearly led to the trials dismissal. The district attorney, Mary Rain, teared up at a post-verdict press conference, and said Tandy told her, I know you guys tried., But Nicks attorney Earl Ward, speaking to a group of press outside the courthouse, reiterated what the defense team maintained all along: Nick Hillary is an innocent man., Nick spent that afternoon surrounded by a group of family, supporters and former soccer teammates. What makes this weirder is that Brandon and his dad both say they saw a white male with dirty blonde hair go in out of 100 Market Street around 3 - 330. Who Killed Garrett Phillips? airs July 23 and 24 on HBO. Related stories:A phone call from inside the investigationSteve Downs, former chief attorney for New Yorks Commission on Judicial Conduct, said Friday that state rulings require avoiding those potential conflicts. Dismiss. he was with his girlfriend til 11pm (his girlfriends mom confirmed this). Join now Sign in . By the time Liz Garbus's two-part documentary "Who Killed Garrett Phillips?" debuts on HBO, there could be a new public lead in the case of the murdered titular 12-year-old. We did hear these rumors, and we wanted, as much as we could, to go out and explore them and accompany local journalists, Garbus says, but there really was so little [to go on]. After being found not guilty of murder, former college soccer coach Nick Hillary opened up to ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas for his first post-verdict interview. Nick said he was at the high school to watch a soccer game, went home and talked with his daughter, and then went to his assistant coachs house. Part 1 of Who Killed Garrett Phillips? Tonight, ABC News' 20/20 will investigate the death of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips. There is only one door to the apartment. Nick tried to leave for work, and the police blocked the door. "Ideally, it should be used as a learning experience, where all the parties go back and theyre open with each other and honest with each other," Trainum said. It's simple.. The window is approximately 20 feet above the ground, Murray said. Advocates say raise it first, DEC says 2022 tied for the safest hunting season on record, Governor Kathy Hochul Releases New York State Budget, New York redistricting commission to hold final public hearings this week, New York unlikely to have a new chief judge until later this spring, Adirondack Council leader to step down later this year, Stefanik opens district office in Rensselaer County Government building, Budget watchdog says NY should plan for an upcoming "fiscal cliff", Community Advisory Board (NCPR Executive Council). He had minutes left to live. He added: "It was definitely frustrating. In 2011, Garrett Phillips, who was just 12-years-old, was killed in his upstate New York home. 24. But Hillary and a vocal group of supporters say that he has been wrongfully accused. His career, its Nick interrupted: Its gone., Continuing her spiel, Liz said: His family have suffered great trauma and Nicks financial situation is not what it was before its not a happy ending.. Tonight, ABC News and Dateline will both investigate the 2011 murder of Garrett Phillips. 1. "When someone is wrongfully convicted or wrongfully prosecuted, the true perpetrator remains on the streets to commit another crime," Bastuk said, referring to the Phillips case, which remains unsolved. "Theyre able to benefit from the mistakes that they learned. Garrett Phillips was a 12 year old boy who lived with his mom, Tandy and brother, Aaron, in Potsdam, New York. Garbus credits the dogged local reporters who wouldnt let up on the case for bringing it to the larger attention, including her own. Nick was deposed for the suit. Dismiss. After Garrett is seen turning towards his house, the car is seen following him. It suggests that a kid named Brandon who lived next door gave two different statements about his whereabouts. 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In 2011, Garrett Phillips, who was just 12-years-old, was killed in his upstate New York home. Phillips died soon after at a hospital. Phillips also knows that the former DA, Mary Rain, had her law license suspended last summer. David SommersteinGroups call for independent probe of Garret Phillips murder. It was two days after 12 year-old Garrett Phillips was found strangled to death in his home in Potsdam. When he entered, he found an adolescent boy, just around the corner, lying on his back in the master bedroom, with his head facing the door. Oral "Nick" Hillary and Tandy Cyrus are pictured in an undated photo. His neighbours turned against the proud father, and he was soon fired from his job back in 2011. North County Public Radio - NPR for the Adirondack North Country, Jennifer Baxtron (front center) of Black Lives Matter in Potsdam and William Bastuk (front right) of It Could Happen To You called on the state Attorney General's office to launch a special investigation into the unsolved Garret Phillips murder from 2011. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Garrett and his family lived on the second floor, so the police determined that the killer would have had to jump on the landing and then down to the ground. 3. But he backed off after the main suspect was acquitted. The only real signs of struggle was his sweatshirt laying in the hallway and his physical body.". Nick soon asked for a lawyer, food and cigarettes. After the schoolboys body was found suffocated and strangled, all fingers pointed to Nick as the murderer. He spent more than two decades asa homicide detectivein Washington, D.C., where he eventually opened a cold case unit. "It was over five years whether it was selling stickers, selling T-shirts, [raising money for] the reward, " Brian Phillips said in an interview with NCPR last week. With the case still very much open and unsolved, justice for Phillips has not been achieved. Rain, who was elected on her promise to crack Garretts case, saw her law license suspended for two years for misconduct, which included hiding potentially exculpatory evidence from the coachs defense team. But you cant take race out of the picture the way in which white Americans are just more likely to look at Black people as capable of committing crimes. Over four hours, Garbuss Who Killed Garrett Phillips? painstakingly covers the surprising murder that rocked the small town in Northern New York in 2011. No prints or hairs from the scene matched the police's suspect, Hillary. Hillary claims Potsdam and St. Lawrence County law enforcement violated his civil rights, in part because hes Black. Jones held Cyrus' hand and comforted her as she was interviewed by the police. He argues he was treated differently than another suspect in the case, a deputy sheriff named John Jones. The current district attorney, Gary Pasqua, has given Potsdam Police, now headed by Murray, new information pointing to a different suspect. Oral "Nick" Hillary still coaches soccer. Jones was briefly a suspect in the murder as well, though he didn't receive nearly the same level of scrutiny that Hillary did. The medical examiner also collected DNA from under Garretts nails. There was another former flame of his mother Tandy Cyrus a local sheriffs deputy against whom she had previously filed a complaint saying he made her fear for the safety of myself and my sons.. We need to start a true dialogue about how can we bring forth changes, he explained. The judge dismissed most of the claims, but some are still ongoing. People want to be heroes. Director Liz Garbus Writer Karen Sim Stars Oral Hillary Brian Phillips Tyler Rodrigues See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video "Everybody that knows me knows what goes through my head and who I believe," Phillips said. A state investigator whos close with the murdered boys family. A deputy sheriff as a suspect who also helps the investigation. Hillary still swears by his innocence, while the cops and prosecutor reiterate that Hillary was the only person who could have done this and had opportunity in their minds.. In 2011, 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was killed in his upstate New York home. The last time Phillips was seen alive was on school surveillance footage, in which he's seen making his way home on a Riptide skateboard. You would send a wave of evidence, you know, expecting a probative piece of DNA, or fingerprint or a hair or fiber then just not getting that. She had also been in a relationship with a police officer named John Jones at the time. However, Shanna-Kays phone records show she texted her father at 6:24pm, asking Whats for dinner?. The police went to Nicks soccer game the day after the murder, and recorded him on the sideline. But their approaches to parenting seemed very different. Soon afterwards, a neighbor in Garretts apartment building heard strange noises and called 911. He was 19 at the time of the 2013 arrest, which makes him the same age as the Brandon D. Murphy in question for Garrett's murder. Phillips was convinced police had the right suspect, but he felt it was time to move on and it became clear that law enforcement wanted to move on, too. Ignorance and arrogance walk hand in hand through "Who Killed Garrett Phillips ?"documentarian Liz Garbus 's incendiary true-crime drama about the death of . Pasqua and local police have declined to comment. civil actions filed against DA Rain and Jones, circumstantial evidence against him and Hillary. This button displays the currently selected search type. And that was the tunnel vision., And that was on what Garbus wanted to shine a larger light with this project. — -- It was Oct. 24, 2011, when 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was found strangled to death inside his home in Potsdam, New York, a small town near the Canadian border. This case is currently still unsolved after a not guilty verdict. https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/who-killed-garret-phillips-theories, https://heavy.com/news/2016/09/garrett-phillips-abc-news-2020-trial-potsdam-obituary-nick-hillary-websleuths/, https://philosophyofcrime.com/the-murder-of-garrett-phillips/, https://www.nny360.com/news/crime/garrett-phillips-revisited-recent-leads-in-murder-case-fall-flat/article_615185e3-73a4-511c-a287-43c85b845d14.html. In 2006, Hillary was acquitted of murder after a trial before a judge without a jury, The jury pool came from the same individuals who had elected the district attorney, Hillary, 45, told The News. A roller coaster of emotions. Garrett and Aaron's school schedules were on the fridge and family portraits were on the wall. He said he had gotten it a week ago from moving furniture. A few other people who were interviewed in this episode also said they didnt see a limp and it could have been the recording and camera. Cookie Notice Inside the home that day, "Everything was very clean," Murray said. (Courtesy of HBO ), There was systemic racism and police tunnel vision but when both are linked it becomes really problematic, Garbus explained. Again, this doesnt really prove anything. "Mr. Jones went on to say that if I was sleeping with his ex-girlfriend he would have 'kicked in my door,'" Hillary said. "We weren't thinking it was a homicide immediately, but something had happened. Shanna Hillary is the eldest of Nick Hillary's five children. The HBO documentary is likely the best place to get an update on Jones. Whatever you might say about the film and how it portrays the justice system and Nick Hillary, my hope is that it also reflects the pain of the loss of this family and the gaping hole it left in their lives, Garbus says. Lauren Rosenthal (Investigative Reporter and Producer), A phone call from inside the investigation, Gumball machine serves up free poetry in the Adirondacks, Not in Old Forge's backyard? Director Liz Garbus investigates the 2011 murder of a 12-year-old boy. Sky Crime launched the documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips? 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Bastuk admits theyre just familiarizing the AGs office with the details of the case. Starting with talking heads with the neighbors who first called 9-1-1 after hearing a crash and ominous moaning coming from inside the Phillips apartment, Garbus takes her audience back to Phillips last moments and then expands the story to include similar interviews with police and journalists alike who investigated the crime, as well as the former district attorney who pushed for an arrest, Phillips uncle Brian, and the man who stood trial for the crime (Hillary). According to North Country Now, that includes civil actions filed against DA Rain and Jones. Bastuk says now is the time to draw national attention to a murder case thats been unsolved for too long. "You could see that Garrett had neatly set his sneakers by the closet. Because we werent gonna get justice for him.". "It's very frustrating," he told "20/20." 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