And that's an important part of the lawsuit Hillary has since filed against many individuals involved in his case. He was 12. ), Police canvassed the neighborhood, but no one had witnessed anything, Murray said. In 2015, Hillary had also alleged that he'd been harassed by Jones in 2010, which was reported by NNY 360. I probably will the rest of my life," Phillips said. Chronicling the five years after the murder, the film is an eye-opening look at how justice is delivered and delayed. After Nick was done smoking, he kept the butts in his pocket and even put one in the drain. He denied any butt-head moment with Garrett, or spats over homework or chores. It doesnt say what his relationship was like. First, why the actual eff was he allowed to be in the interrogation room with Tandy? ", "That day, I pulled the sign out of my yard. Murray said the window screen was forced out, with just enough space to fit a body through. Garrett Phillips was a 12 year old boy who lived with his mom, Tandy and brother, Aaron, in Potsdam, New York. The accused was Nick Hillary, 37 years old at the time of the boy's death. Dismiss. But he backed off after the main suspect was acquitted. The apartment that Jones helped Cyrus find was the same spot where Phillips was found gravely hurt. M3GAN Is Finally Available To Stream After The Kids Go To Bed, 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio' Puts A Dark Twist On The Classic Disney Tale, 'Puss In Boots: The Last Wish' Is So Fun, But Gets Way Darker Than You Expect, Everything You Need To Know To Watch 'Puss In Boots: The Last Wish', What Parents Are Talking About Delivered Straight To Your Inbox, By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. Oral "Nick" Hillary and Tandy Cyrus are pictured in an undated photo. Garrett and Aaron's school schedules were on the fridge and family portraits were on the wall. 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Police suspect the killer escaped through this window. 23, with Part 2 following the next night on Jul. Before he spoke with NCPR, Trainum reviewed press clippings and media coverage to familiarize himself with the Garrett Phillips case. There was a blue car that the police zeroed in on. Nick was finally released, but they kept his clothes and took the cigarette butts from his pocket and drain. Read more at watertowndailytimes.com. A 'Justice for Garrett' sign is pictured in an undated photo. Garrett was described as always being a happy kid, who always had a smile on his face. The two-part HBO documentary "Who Killed. He talked a lot about accountability, but with guys rarely getting benched, demoted or cut, it was just talk. Who Killed Garrett Phillips? And, once I started working on the film, I realized that another major issue was the lack of oversight and the free reign given to the district attorneys.. 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. Police soon said it was a homicide. Pictured is the 100 Market St. apartment building in Potsdam, New York. As le The Phillipps family was victims of prosecutorial misconduct, as well as Nick, says Garbus. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Nick soon asked for a lawyer, food and cigarettes. His rip stick was neatly propped up against the wall. Garbus film, which debuts on Tuesday, uses police footage and photos, video evidence and interviews to recount what went wrong in meticulous detail. The latest events in the case come as Oral "Nick" Hillary, who was found not guilty of the murder, is suing Potsdam and St. Lawrence County police, claiming he was unfairly accused because he is Black. 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. Director: Liz Garbus. He has maintained his innocence since day one telling Elizabeth Vargas, I have absolutely nothing to do with what has happened to Garrett. The police photographed the window, took fingerprints and took the blinds as evidence. He entered the parking lot of the high school, heading towards his house. However, Postdam is apparently really small, so if you go a different way it doesnt take long to be back where you started. They knew that Garrett and his brother lived there and had heard noises before, but never this loud. Interim Police Chief in Potsdam, New York, Mark Murray, stands in the house where Phillips' body was found on Sept. 27, 2016. Again, I saw an abrasion, but it ankle didnt look swollen to me. 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). Where was he on the day of the murder? Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Knowing where John Jones is now shows how differently he was treated by police after Phillips' murder. Jones essentially told the players . This case is about a murdered 12 year old and the polices tunnel vision against one suspect. 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. His arms were at his side and his legs close together. Nick did say he was at the high school that day, watching a soccer game. Photo: Lauren Rosenthal, Over 50 people gathered to release balloons in memory of Garrett Phillips in 2016. In one room, a screen in a window seemed warped, Murray said. After first reading about the case in a New York Times article, Garbus recalls being struck by the thematic issues and concerns that, I think, are ones that spoke to larger systemic problems. Specifically what caught her attention was that the local polices focus was on one of Phillips mothers ex-boyfriends, a Jamaican American man who was well-known around town as a soccer coach, despite the fact that he had an alibi and that there had been rumblings of other possible suspects early on. 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"Theyre able to benefit from the mistakes that they learned. But no one would see his killer leap out of the back window. There is only one door to the apartment. And while the killer of the 12-year-old boy could still be on the loose, Oral Nick Hillary paid the price at the time of the murder, as he was initially named as a key suspect. Nick did drive a blue car, however the footage is so blurry that you cant tell who is driving or see the license plate. She had also been in a relationship with a police officer named John Jones at the time. Phillips was the 12-year-old boy who was fatally attacked at his home in Potsdam in 2011. And we talked of his passion: Soccer. 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. Sky Crime launched the documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips? Meanwhile Garretts autopsy was done. When 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was murdered in 2011 . According to the documentary, that once police focused in on Hillary an Army veteran and respected soccer coach at nearby Clarkson University other investigative avenues were not explored. A police chief whose brother names his successor as mayor. Join now Sign in . His close friend Mani Tafari is less optimistic. But now, St. Lawrence Countys new prosecutor, Gary Pasqua, says he's learned of another lead that points away from Hillary. 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. "It was a true tragedy," he said. On Oct. 24, 2011, a dispatcher in Potsdam, N.Y., got a 911 call from a person reporting suspicious sounds in a neighboring apartment. "There will be no further investigation," Rain saidat a press conference, "because Im 100 percent certain, as are police, they got the right man.". "In my mind, that investigation is still out there.". NCPR checked in with Pasqua last month. He loved sports, being with his friends and ripsticking (kind of like skateboarding, but your back leg always moves). Jobs People Learning Dismiss Dismiss. And that was the tunnel vision., And that was on what Garbus wanted to shine a larger light with this project. 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. But where was the evidence to put before a jury? "I think about him every day. That's a remarkable jump from the window.". But Murray said, "even if we had collected hairs and fibers [matching Hillary], he had been in the apartment -- he moved [Garrett's mother] Tandy in, he was in the apartment in the middle of the night on a number of occasions. The first afternoon, of many, spent rebuilding his life. He spent more than two decades asa homicide detectivein Washington, D.C., where he eventually opened a cold case unit. (Also pictured: Potsdam Village attorney Thomas Mortati.) The original DA did not feel that she could mount a case, and Mary Rain mounting the case put them through an enormous amount of hope, and then disappointment.. Whatever has come to light or will come in the years ahead Phillips said hes tried to focus on the good. The car is seen driving to the back of the lot into a parking space. In 2011, 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was killed in his upstate New York home. Ive probably seen every show on this case, but for my research I watched Deadline Crime with Tamron Hall. At least one of them had talked to police back in 2011, and their story did not add up. Nick was interviewed for 9 hours that day. "The Garrett Phillips case is just full of the appearance of impropriety.". 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. 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. The issues around race and policing and prosecutorial misconduct have been huge issues across our nation. The Accused: With Lester Holt. Inside the home that day, "Everything was very clean," Murray said. 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. In March 2019, North Country Public Radio reported that Hillary had filed a lawsuit against the New York State Police, St. Lawrence prosecutors, local police, St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain, and Jones, who was a Sheriff's Deputy in St. Lawrence County. That trial could begin later this fall. "Everybody that knows me knows what goes through my head and who I believe," Phillips said. Easily explained." At that point "we weren't sure what we had," Murray told "20/20." Photo: David Sommerstein, Oral "Nick" Hillary was found not guilty on Wednesday in the 2011 murder of twelve-year-old Garrett Phillips. Oral "Nick" Hillary, center, hugs defense attorney Edward Narrow after being found not guilty in the murder of Garrett Phillips on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, in Canton, N.Y. He also said he'd talked with police and met with Garrett Phillips mother but he didn't want to discuss his findings. The current district attorney, Gary Pasqua, has given Potsdam Police, now headed by Murray, new information pointing to a different suspect. The judge took it all in and after about a week of both sides summing up their arguments, he came back with a verdict. Hillary claims Potsdam and St. Lawrence County law enforcement violated his civil rights, in part because hes Black. The big question now is how law enforcements following up. However, at 6:24pm, Nicks daughter texted her dad asking what was for dinner, despite having told the police Nick was home with her at the time of the murder and they had talked about dinner. I did everything I could. 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. Powered by. Garrett Phillips was strangled in his family's second-floor apartment in upstate Potsdam in October 2011. They said that he had a limp in his right leg, however, the video is grainy and I didnt see any limp. 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. 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. After about a year together, Tandy moved out with her sons. He was just all about control.". The police also noticed Nicks ankle was swollen and he had an abrasion on his ankle. 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.. After the trial ended in 2016, Murray told NCPR, were confident we prosecuted the right person.. "I dont know that its fair to them to keep reliving it unless something new or different happens. Phillips's final hours. After the schoolboys body was found suffocated and strangled, all fingers pointed to Nick as the murderer. It's an unlikely setting for what reporter Jesse McKinley of the New York Times would tell us turned out to be a story about "love triangles and fated love." When asked if it was under investigation, Pasqua responded: "I think that's safe to say, yes.". Formal complaints were filed against him for violence and abuse. "It's a very busy street. Garrett Phillips was a 12 year old boy who lived with his mom, Tandy and brother, Aaron, in Potsdam, New York. Hillary has adamantly denied the charge, saying from day one he was innocent. When police arrived and got into the apartment, they found Garrett unresponsive on the floor in a bedroom. 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. They struck up an easy conversation that, in short order, became a live-in relationship with a blended family. The neighbors knocked on the door, and heard what sounded like the door being locked and latched. They also knocked on the door and said they heard footsteps coming from inside the apartment. 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. "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. Jones held Cyrus' hand and comforted her as she was interviewed by the police. Garbus credits the dogged local reporters who wouldnt let up on the case for bringing it to the larger attention, including her own. 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. Heres what you need to know about the case. Garretts mother, Tandy Cyrus, has said that her son was a gregarious boy who had absolutely no fear. and our Then, ABC News 20/20 will interview the accused ex-boyfriend of Phillips mother, Oral Nick Hillary, for the first time since he was acquitted two days ago. For years, no one was named in Phillips death. Phillips was the 12-year-old boy who was fatally attacked at his home in Potsdam in 2011. "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. 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. Dec 18, 2020. Jennifer Baxtron, organizer of many demonstrations in Potsdam and across St. Lawrence County, has collected 1,650 signatures on a petition calling for an independent investigation. Tandy and Nick had moved in together for a brief time, but according to family of Garretts, Nick and Garrett didnt get along. 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. 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." The DA says an investigation is ongoing, but its hard to know if police are taking the new information seriously. "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.". After 22 witnesses testified and after a two week trial, Nick was found not guilty. The duo were joined by lawyer Mani Tafari, who also shared his view on the case. He was, they said, the only person in town with a grudge against Garrett, blaming him, the family argued, for the break-up of his relationship with Tandy. Nick Hillary, Tandy Cyrus Collins, lawyer who questioned Hillary in civil suit to be featured on NBC https://t.co/EkWKVOTN1o #lawyer. 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. There was very little energy around anything else in this case., Over time, as Garbus kept asking the key players in the case to relive and rehash the nitty, gritty details, she says she doesnt feel that changed. As least, thats what many may hope after the new St. Lawrence County district attorney admitted a new tip earlier this spring. He looked like he was sleeping.. A St. Lawrence County prosecutor says there's a new tip in the Garrett Phillips murder case. And Nick doesnt have any of that right now. Bastuk says now is the time to draw national attention to a murder case thats been unsolved for too long. It was two days after 12 year-old Garrett Phillips was found strangled to death in his home in Potsdam. A Brandon D. Murphy from nearby Norfolk was arrested in 2013 for sexual contact with a minor under 14. If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. Despite having only circumstantial evidence, the D.A. Soon afterwards, a neighbor in Garretts apartment building heard strange noises and called 911. His killer is still out there. The coachs daughter Shanna-Kay Hillary testified for her father and said he was in their house at the time of Garretts murder. "And so, whos going to challenge him?". "There is obviously no resolution to Garrett Phillips murder," Pasqua said at the time. When a new prosecutor took office, St. Lawrence County district attorney Gary Pasqua, he said the case remains open because no one was convicted. Oral "Nick" Hillary still coaches soccer. Nick Hillary's defense had elected to waive a jury trial and argue directly to the judge. He argues he was treated differently than another suspect in the case, a deputy sheriff named John Jones. He loved sports, being with his friends and ripsticking (kind of like skateboarding, but your back leg always moves). Yard signs like this were planted across St. Lawrence County to keep the case in the public eye. "But the day of the verdict, something just hit me. He was 12. Today, Garrett's mother's ex-boyfriend, Nick Hillary, was found not guilty in the boy's murder. with hopes to shed more light on the devastating case. It just blows my mind.. With the case still very much open and unsolved, justice for Phillips has not been achieved. So we had intelligent people, people with a lot of power working to deny him of his freedom, knowing that hes innocent., Teacher who misgendered trans pupil 'was acting like a preacher', Teacher sacked for restraining 'out of control pupil' wins unfair dismissal claim, Emergency assemblies and extra staff: how schools are tackling Andrew Tate, He added: District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, he knew there was no evidence, and he said quote after Nick was acquitted: I have locked people up with much less evidence than this.. Nick is innocent, and cannot be retried. NY Man Speaks out After Not Guilty Verdict in Murder of Ex's Son: He was accused of strangling to death his e https://t.co/y1qpX8JO62, Around 5pm on the night of Monday, October 24, Sean Hall and his fiance, Marisa Vogel, heard a scream, a bang, and then moans, coming from the neighboring apartment. Clearly, the film won't be . On Wednesday morning, Hillary was found not guilty by a judge, after a two-week long trial. "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. 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. By then, the D.A. All of other window screens in the home were intact, Murray said. His mother's ex-boyfriend, Nick Hillary, was found not guilty of the murder just over two years ago in a. 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. After Hillary was cleared, Rain claimed the case was closed because she still believed he was guilty, which is crazy, according to Garbus. Who Killed Garrett Phillips? airs July 23 and 24 on HBO. 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