Tonight, ABC News' 20/20 will investigate the death of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips. "In my mind, that investigation is still out there.". After 22 witnesses testified and after a two week trial, Nick was found not guilty. Tonight, ABC News' and Dateline will both. 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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It wasnt until later that Cyrus was finally informed that her son was strangled to death. Nick and Tandy met while Tandy was working part time as a bartender. In the wake of the shocking murder of the boy -- in the very early hours of the investigation -- Tandy and her family believed that Nick Hillary was the likely killer. The only real signs of struggle was his sweatshirt laying in the hallway and his physical body.". Inside the home that day, "Everything was very clean," Murray said. 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. Garrett was found unconscious in his home and died that night due to injuries inflicted by a yet unknown perpetrator. He said: Its important to note I think that the cops may have been somewhat intellectually challenged, but the district attorney that prosecuted this case has been a district attorney for three decades, thats thirty years in New York. Who Killed Garrett Phillips? Garbus questioned them about their missteps and lack of physical or DNA evidence tying Hillary to the crime. They said that he had a limp in his right leg, however, the video is grainy and I didnt see any limp. And then there was the potential witness about whom prosecutors never told the defense a revelation that nearly led to the trials dismissal. Soon afterwards, a neighbor in Garretts apartment building heard strange noises and called 911. Around 5:16pm, the police arrived. The police also made Nick strip down in the nude, so they could take photographs. Whether Phillips mother agrees remains to be seen. 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 two-part HBO documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips? doesnt solve the mystery but looks at the case through a critical lens. Police said they tested every person with access to the apartment, including residents and maintenance staff. ), Police canvassed the neighborhood, but no one had witnessed anything, Murray said. There were people outside changing a tire, but they only reported hearing the window screen being pushed out, Murray said. With the case still very much open and unsolved, justice for Phillips has not been achieved. 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. premieres on HBO on Tuesday, July 23 at 8/7c. When the police arrived on the scene, Phillips was still breathing. "There is obviously no resolution to Garrett Phillips murder," Pasqua said at the time. There was a blue car that the police zeroed in on. Despite housing crisis, there's pushback against development, Rochester man dies in snowmobile crash on the Tug Hill, Hochul wants to tie the minimum wage to inflation. A security camera recorded Garrett skating home from an afternoon of basketball with his school pals just before 5 p.m. Director Liz Garbus is pictured in an undated photo. The new documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips?, airing on HBO July 23 and 24, looks into the unsolved 2011 death of a 12-year-old boy by that name. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. 1.) This case is about a murdered 12 year old and the polices tunnel vision against one suspect. They knew that Garrett and his brother lived there and had heard noises before, but never this loud. Garrett was described as always being a happy kid, who always had a smile on his face. But his involvement with Hillary's case isn't over, even though Hillary was acquitted in 2016, according to The New York Times. Even more interesting is that Brandon has a cousin who was 15 at the time named Amos who is black and Hillary's lawyer believes they have information that puts Amos and Brandon at the scene and may have information regarding the murder. About his hitch in the U.S. Army. Ms. Jones held Cyrus' hand and comforted her as she was interviewed by the police. However, if youre innocent, why would it matter? When the former live-in boyfriend of the mother, a black Jamaican-born soccer coach, became an almost immediate suspect in the murder, a cry went out from his camp that he was being railroaded. There are no clues as to who killed Garrett. Theyre calling for the state Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the 12 year-old boys death. He added: "It was definitely frustrating. He was 12. At least one of them had talked to police back in 2011, and their story did not add up. They were biased right away. But going forward, it looks like industry-shifting life sciences New York, 2011: Garrett Phillips, 12, is found strangled. The filmmaker interviewed Mark Murray, who headed the police investigation, Mary Rain, the former St. Lawrence County district attorney, and William Fitzpatrick, the Onondaga County district attorney who headed the trial team. But Hillary was black and Jones was white, and Hillary was focused on as a suspect with much more intensity. https://www.nny360.com/news/new-leads-surface-in-phillips-murder/article_129462bd-bed2-53ab-b550-39d06dfacc74.html. Photo: David Sommerstein, D.A. He was asked many questions about where he was the day of the murder. I personally dont think Nick killed Garrett, but theres just no proof of him doing it. It doesn't appear as though his daily life has been drastically altered following the case: without reports to the contrary, one can assume that he still resides in Potsdam, New York. Nick was finally released, but they kept his clothes and took the cigarette butts from his pocket and drain. His mother was rushed to the hospital. Cyrus says that when she showed up at the hospital, her son had bruises all over his face, and Marks on his neck. It doesnt say what his relationship was like. Photo: Lauren Rosenthal, Over 50 people gathered to release balloons in memory of Garrett Phillips in 2016. 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. The Accused: With Lester Holt. The police also noticed Nicks ankle was swollen and he had an abrasion on his ankle. He would be both judge and jury in what's called a bench trial. Again, I saw an abrasion, but it ankle didnt look swollen to me. Also the Mom of Brandon's girlfriend also overheard Brandon talking about this unidentified male. She had also been in a relationship with a police officer named John Jones at the time. 24. "The district attorneys office, the police, and the sheriffs department refuse to get to the bottom of things and basically have swept this investigation under the rug.". "It became very clear that the only place to get in or out, other than the front door that hadn't been utilized, was this window," he said. 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. Nick also denied this ever happened. Garrett Phillips was a 12 year old boy who lived with his mom, Tandy and brother, Aaron, in Potsdam, New York. Garrett Phillips was strangled in his familys second-floor apartment in upstate Potsdam in October 2011. On that rainy afternoon in October 2011, police responded to the scene at just after 5 p.m. after next-door neighbors heard concerning noises from Garrett's apartment and called 911. A Brandon D. Murphy from nearby Norfolk was arrested in 2013 for sexual contact with a minor under 14. Nick tried to leave for work, and the police blocked the door. "Mr. Jones went on to say that if I was sleeping with his ex-girlfriend he would have 'kicked in my door,'" Hillary said. And the focus right now is to start puttin this in the rearview mirror.. They couldnt break down the door, so they got the manager to unlock the door, which was locked from the inside. Garbus shares that she was in contact with Tandy while in production on the project, and she expressed the possibility of sitting down for an interview once the trial was over. After about a year together, Tandy moved out with her sons. For years, one of the loudest voices demanding justice for Garrett Phillips belonged to his uncle. Yet, the suspect was indicted for a second time before he was found innocent by Judge Felix Catena, in 2016. Today, Garrett's mother's ex-boyfriend, Nick Hillary, was found not guilty in the boy's murder. And they havent been in touch with Garrett Phillips family. The window is approximately 20 feet above the ground, Murray said. 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. The group wrote a letter to DA Pasqua seeking an independent prosecutor two weeks ago. He loved sports, being with his friends and ripsticking (kind of like skateboarding, but your back leg always moves). By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Movie Info. 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. Text. All Rights Reserved. The accused was Nick Hillary, 37 years old at the time of the boy's death. 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. She said they were still intimate that night, but she demanded her key back. 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. Prosecutors have also said they will not reopen 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.. Phillips's final hours. The person who brutally murdered Garrett Phillips is still allowed to walk free. Nick had to leave the station that day in a hazmat suit. It suggests that a kid named Brandon who lived next door gave two different statements about his whereabouts. ", So far, this new lead doesnt seem to count as "something different. A new foreign DNA company called Starmix said that Nicks DNA matched the crime scene, however, during the investigation, the police said the DNA mixture was too small. They also knocked on the door and said they heard footsteps coming from inside the apartment. But he backed off after the main suspect was acquitted. His brilliant field leadership at St. Lawrence, next door to Potsdam, had made him a college All-American. Fourteen at the time of the murder, she was one of his two alibi witnesses. Since then, St. Lawrence County law enforcement has been unable to piece together the facts surrounding this tragedy and bring . Years passed with no arrest, and now Nick Hillary, a former college soccer coach and an ex-boyfriend of Phillips's mother, awaits trial on a murder charge. For years, no one was named in Phillips death. 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. 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. Nick Hillary, Tandy Cyrus Collins, lawyer who questioned Hillary in civil suit to be featured on NBC https://t.co/EkWKVOTN1o #lawyer. 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. His close friend Mani Tafari is less optimistic. IE 11 is not supported. One DA declined to pursue an indictment and was eventually voted out of office. He is also a Jamaican immigrant, who was living in a community that was 94 % white a fact crucial to understanding how the justice system failed Garrett, Brooklyn-based director Liz Garbus told the Daily News. Since moving to New York, I've associated Kips Bay with decent curry and a cheap pint. Thats why Who Killed Garrett Phillips? devotes so much time to following Hillary himself. "I think about him every day. 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. It's simple.. Oral "Nick" Hillary and Tandy Cyrus are pictured in an undated photo. A deputy sheriff as a suspect who also helps the investigation. Potsdam's chief of police is now Mark Murray, who was lead detective on the Garrett Phillips investigation. She ignored Hillary's phone calls. 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. At 4:40pm, Shanna-Kay took a shower. Nick was the head soccer coach at Clarkston University, and had played there himself. Shanna Hillary is the eldest of Nick Hillary's five children. Hillary got back with Lee after the death of Phillips, the New York Times reported in 2011. Jobs People Learning Dismiss Dismiss. He was just all about control.". "Im here because justice is due for Garrett and justice is due for Nick Hillary, too," Baxtron said on Friday. The documentary examines and chronicles the years following the 2011 murder of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips and the subsequent trial of Clarkson University soccer coach Oral "Nick" Hillary. What was his relationship like with Garrett? ", 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Nick said he was shocked and surprised to hear the allegations of bad blood between him and the young boy. In most cases, there's a hierarchy. How are police handling new leads in the Garrett Phillips case? (Courtesy of HBO ). 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. "But the day of the verdict, something just hit me. Back at the apartment, the investigation was just beginning. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? 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Bastuk says now is the time to draw national attention to a murder case thats been unsolved for too long. They moved in just months before Garrett died, after Cyrus and Hillary broke up. Garretts family, especially his mom and uncle, Brian Phillips, believe Nick 100% killed Garrett. She attended soccer practice after school, and when she arrived home at 4:30pm, her father was there. POTSDAM Nearly nine years after Garrett J. Phillips was strangled to death in his Potsdam home, the case remains open and no one has been convicted in connection to the 12-year-old's murder. Nick Hillary 20/20 Interview After Found Not Guilty of Murder. Phillips died soon after at a hospital. Why would I even want to hurt a child, after having worked with kids for over two decades? But their approaches to parenting seemed very different. Brian Phillips helped produce hundreds of yard signs that read "Justice for Garrett," with a picture of the boy, smiling. Trainum is part of a growing movement that encourages police and prosecutors to check their work with these reviews. Ive probably seen every show on this case, but for my research I watched Deadline Crime with Tamron Hall. When Hillary was acquitted this week, the judge said that his case was mostly circumstantial and didnt prove he was guilty without a doubt. I dont want to ever talk bad about the police, because some of them actually do their jobs the way they are supposed to, however this police department didnt. 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. Photo: Brit Hanson, Brian Phillips pushed hard to get a resolution to his nephew's case. We were fascinated by the legal intricacies, the nuances of the case, and picturesque Potsdam, a river town so far upstate New York the closest big city is in Canada. You know, outlandish thoughts like, 'Maybe Garrett fell out the window and made his way back up here and died,' or an accident happened in the apartment and one of the kids didn't wanna get caught or in trouble, so he went out the window. Genre: Documentary. The two-part HBO documentary "Who Killed. Prosecutors also referenced two interviews Shanna-Kay gave in 2014 and 2015 in both interviews, she said she ate dinner at 6pm. However, Postdam is apparently really small, so if you go a different way it doesnt take long to be back where you started. On the same courthouse steps in Canton where Hillary walked away a free man after being cleared in Garrett Phillips death almost four years ago, a couple dozen people held a press conference Friday afternoon. Garrett was described as always being a happy kid, who always had a smile on his face. Garrett Phillips was twelve years old when he was murdered It doesn't appear that Jones's daily life has been drastically changed following the case: without negative reports, one can imagine that he still resides in Potsdam, New York. ABCwrites, Almost immediately, police focused on her ex-boyfriend Hillary as the prime suspect, but it would take them several years before they arrested him for the murder., Cyrus and Hillary broke up a few monthsbefore Garrett was killed, and Cyrus believes that Hillary blamed Garrett for the breakup. ABC News writes, While Cyrus said she never saw Hillary hit a child, lose his temper with a child or threaten a child during their nearly one year together, she told 20/20 that she has no doubt that Hillary killed her son., Nick Hillary's Daughter: Race 'Definitely' a Factor in Murder Case https://t.co/mu2gutc1Qo pic.twitter.com/GcybAmJpxJ, Marko Zelic (@SnoperMZ) September 30, 2016. 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). In 2011, Garrett Phillips, who was just 12-years-old, was killed in his upstate New York home. Garbus says her team did analysis on that tape beyond what the police had done but no new developments came out of it. What do you think about this case? miaomy 3 yr. ago. I mean this is something that like is stated in the documentary, he explained: For 20 years I spent building my entire legacy up until that point and within 20 minutes they destroyed., Hillary added: Up to a point now Im trying to clear the rubble in the process of hoping to rebuild.. 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. Nicks defense team said right away that the police had tunnel vision and said it was a race issue. That process has a name sentinel event review. It's going on four years since . is available to stream on Sky Crime. But no one would see his killer leap out of the back window. In April 2012, Nick filed a suit against the police department for how he was treated. A 'Justice for Garrett' sign is pictured in an undated photo. The victim, Garrett Phillips, was only 12 years old. Dateline's been covering the case of Garrett Phillips for over a year. And that was the tunnel vision., And that was on what Garbus wanted to shine a larger light with this project. HE HAD A KEY!!! From Emmy (R) winner Liz Garbus comes this riveting documentary that examines the 2011 murder of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips and the subsequent trial of Clarkson University soccer coach Oral "Nick" Hillary. In a complaint filed to the county attorney's office, Hillary claimed that Jones "trailed [him] home in his truck" in September 2010, then knocked on his door to ask him about his "romantic relationship with a certain individual." Garrett Phillips was strangled in his family's second-floor apartment in upstate Potsdam in October 2011. Today, Garrett's mother's ex-boyfriend, Nick Hillary, was found not guilty in the boy's murder. Part 2 premieres on HBO on . By then, the D.A. And that's an important part of the lawsuit Hillary has since filed against many individuals involved in his case. (Courtesy of HBO ). As least, that's. No one else has ever been named a suspect. She added Nick warned her, "If I didn't get Garrett under control or get him on a more strict schedule, then when he got older I wasn't gonna be able to control him. he was with his dad cutting wood (his dad confirmed this), 2.) 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. As le Nick was deposed for the suit. This led to Hillarys arrest, which satisfied Brian Phillips, who still passionately professes his belief that Hillary is guilty in Garbus doc. The medical examiner also collected DNA from under Garretts nails. Tips come in. — -- 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. The coachs daughter Shanna-Kay Hillary testified for her father and said he was in their house at the time of Garretts murder. On October 26, two days after the murder, Nick was brought into the station. "There will be no further investigation," Rain saidat a press conference, "because Im 100 percent certain, as are police, they got the right man.". Pictured is the 100 Market St. apartment building in Potsdam, New York. No, the police did. "The head person, the most dominant person everybody is gonna follow their lead," said James Trainum, a nationally-recognized police consultant. Powered by. New information has come to light and is being investigated in the 2011 murder of 12-year-old Garrett J. Phillips. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. His rip stick was neatly propped up against the wall. Trainum has an extensive background workingon cases himself. Garbus credits the dogged local reporters who wouldnt let up on the case for bringing it to the larger attention, including her own. 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 . Hillary is now a free man, and he cannot be retried. His killer is still out there. with hopes to shed more light on the devastating case. Tandy's 12-year-old, Garrett, bristled at his mom's new boyfriend, said Tandy. He argued that Garrett was the victim of overzealous prosecutors and poor defense attorneys. Interim Police Chief in Potsdam, New York, Mark Murray, stands in the house where Phillips' body was found on Sept. 27, 2016. The apartment that Jones helped Cyrus find was the same spot where Phillips was found gravely hurt. Rain is no longer in office, and the new St. Lawrence County D.A., Gary Pasqua, was reluctant to discuss the tip in an interview with NCPR. ", "That day, I pulled the sign out of my yard. Tonight, ABC News and Dateline will both investigate the 2011 murder of Garrett Phillips. It was a dramatic tableau in an ornate courtroom. David SommersteinGroups call for independent probe of Garret Phillips murder. (Courtesy of HBO ). Following this, Hillary was then indicted for murder in the second degree, spending 70 days in prison before he was released on bail. The big question now is how law enforcements following up. But where was the evidence to put before a jury? An officer arrived on the scene and found 12-year-old Garrett . Nick told the police that he was with his assistant coach, a man named Ian at the time of the murder. 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