she's she's under the ground there who is it my mom this man has just been told that his wife has been murdered however he never could have expected that it was his daughter that was responsible what happened your wife and daughter got into an argum she's going in jail forever wife's dead Al us too on March 3rd 2020 Ohio police responded to a 911 call at an address in akan and found Brenda Powell on the floor of her kitchen with 30 stab wounds in her neck her daughter Sydney was in the house at the time
and told police this was a home invasion turned brutal murder but even though Sydney was injured as well there were still questions left unanswered things weren't adding up for the cops Brenda was on the phone with one of Sydney's College professors at the time she was attacked and during that call she suddenly started screaming before the phone went dead when he called back the voice on the other end of the phone claimed to be Brenda but the college professor knew this was a lie and suspected Sydney was pretending to be her mother fearing the worst
he called 911 and the First Responders arrived in no time this scream combined with being called to the location is enough probable cause for the police to forcefully enter the home and this is what was waiting for him when he walked inside the house ha pleas ha pleas where's your mom at okay stay right no no there there's so much one no [Applause] pleas no stop we got to figure what's going on you car9 get that 32 rolling here quick we got a female down blood start more got cry take her outside she's blood secure
the scene she looks like a 22 she looks like she's been down for a while there's blood all over the place there's a Knife by her head and stuff like that and there's a huge pool of blood no I think she just walked in on it there's broken window in the back so if you can just put up some crime scene tape soon as afd gets here they're going to pronounce her I'm sure it turns out Brenda hasn't just been stabbed she's also been hit over the head with an iron skillet and her injuries are
so devastating that her life hangs in the balance no stop stop hold on we got to figure out what's going on she is she going to be okay come on come on come on you just need to Cooper with me all right my dad huh I love my dad what happened what's going on what's going on we heard a bang we heard a bang and she told me to get out and then I heard screaming so I came back and she was on the ground okay you heard a now back there was an egg some
broken what is your name sdy [Music] are you cut I I don't think so yeah you're cut somewhere I don't think so yeah your hand no I was helping her I grabbed her all right stop before the yeah what's going on I don't know we just got the dad I'm the dad Sydney I don't know I don't know Dad Sydney appears to have been injured as well is suffering from shock and struggling to hold herself together even the arrival of her father Steve Powell doesn't calm Sydney down police need to lock down the crime scene
and try to figure out exactly what's happened the back window's broken in so you're going to have to Daddy inside there so I don't know she was there was house okay she's got minor inside the house there's a broken window and the knife used to stab Brenda but something isn't quite right as the broken window had blood dripped on the outside of it leading police to conclude it could have only been broken after Brenda had been stabbed however Sydney claims that the Intruder used the window to enter and was broken before the attack leading to
the first of many inaccuracies in her story interesting that's not okay do we know who where which way bet it's the younger guy I'm looking through here and I can see pictures and there's a whole basement set up for yep call you right back bye all right let me go report that prob brother well see if we can find out who who else lives here with such a serious case with so many unanswered questions the cops spend some time talking with homeowners nearby they have to try and collect as much information as possible but right
now the only person making any sense is Sydney's father okay to do you live here with sir yeah okay that's my wife there is my daughter I the hell is your daughter she'll be 20 in March she 19 today is she coming out not no not yet so just kind of hang out Sydney can you tell me what happened huh Sydney Sydney all this way yeah it's coming from where yeah that's him right here I can hear have a while trying to piece this puzzle together police speak to Steve Powell and one of Sydney's friends
down at the station in the hopes that they may be able to help them shed some light on exactly what happened but unfortunately for Steve he has absolutely no idea Sydney is the attacker or even worse that his wife is in critical condition at the hospital and likely won't survive something detectives will have to break to him sooner than later where'd you get a call fromed got call from you call from me oh okay he said there was a call went out a distress call from the University of Mount Union where my daughter was going
and said uh female in distress I said well that's funny cuz Brenda's there my wife why I called Brenda and it rings and rings on the cell phone no answer I call Sydney back rings and rings and Rings no answer I call R the back ring ring ring no answer I'm pacing around I call Jeep back and as I'm on the phone with him telling me there's no answer my doctor broughts me back I said oh Mom's on the phone with the with uh mom Union I said well cops are on the way and she
went there's going to break in and there's she just started going off she said what she was that was there's been somebody broke into the house there's blood everywhere she was hysterical and crying so at first you talk to her she said your wife is on the phone about yes and as soon as I said cops are on the way the hysteric started is she still attending well as far as we knew up until today yes but apparently not for the last I don't know maybe couple weeks what Sydney hadn't told her parents was that
she been kicked out of college weeks before this happened and had been lying to them ever since but she did tell her friends including Lauren who lived in the same dorm now we understand that that Sydney was your roommate at M Union Yes she was last year and then this year and so you've been friends ever since your soft freshman year at St B mhm go over each other's houses everything and everything like that y well she started off in exercise science freshman year her first semester but then she didn't like the classes so she
switched over to psychology and sociology but then she didn't really like that so this year she switched to education and then she didn't like that either and that's one of the reasons she left is cuz she really couldn't find what she left I think she struggled in her classes I don't think her grads were the best but she didn't really tell me that cuz um I wasn't really struggling I think she kept a lot of stuff hidden because when we were just talking or what our friends she always seemed happy like she seemed okay like
I said I couldn't tell until the end when she was kind of just like struggling and she kind of was sad and just like Lauren I don't know what to do I think she felt like everybody around her kind of had figured out what they wanted to do she had it establishing Sydney's state of mind leading up to the incident will help detectives find out if she simply snapped or if this was premeditated the issue is Sydney is going to claim that she actually has no idea what happened throughout this entire case in fact she's
going to base her entire defense on the fact that she blacked out and even claim Insanity using this this means the cops still have no solid proof that Sydney is the guilty party but they're starting to discover she was hiding secrets from just about everyone well I know she's had anxiety for a while but I don't think I think it last like this last semester like starting coming back in January when it really started that she was kind of more like upset because she really didn't know what she wanted do my friends and I were
worried for her because we were just we didn't know what was going on cuz she didn't tell us and then Lauren knew something was wrong and tried to help At first she had no reason to doubt her and was as supportive as any friend could have been at a time like this but even Lauren grew suspicious of Sydney's evasive Behavior I could tell she was getting more upset like more sad and I told her like I'm here like you could tell me I'm here for you if you need anything I'm here but she never really
opened up until she was leaving and saying that she was struggling with school and that she wanted she was kind of trying to figure out what was going on and that's when I started to try to help her let's talk about this um you know you're her best friend and know this is difficult but tell us about her relationship with her parents her and her parents had a really good relationship like her mom and her were best friends probably like they did everything together like one of the reasons she went home was to be with
her mom they were always close she never said anything bad about her mom she never ever talked about having an argument with her mom like I can't recall every time she'd be going home she's like I can't wait to see my mom or when she goes home for weekends she'd be like oh my mom wants me to come home so we can hang out and like watch movies and she Lov like she loved being home by this point Sydney is becoming wrapped up in a lie that she's going to struggle to escape from but instead
of owning up she decided to make out as if College just wasn't working out for her and tried to convince her parents that they could save a lot of money on College bills if she left to pursue other things what's going on are you now come she go I'm overwhelmed in school and I don't really like what I'm doing and it seems like it's a waste of my time and your money I said well but that's all part of it nobody's going to tell you you need to do what you're doing when you're 20 you
need to figure it out but that's not what she told her friends when she's talking to you about um you know the problem she's having at school uh did she mention that she tried talking to her parents yeah I know she definitely especially when she left she talked to her mom about leav and they kind of made that decision together to leave out like she told them that Lauren's suspicions were proved to be right and Sydney was lying to her friends but at the same time she was also lying to her parents who knew nothing
of her problems at College until they received a phone call from Sydney's Professor so Steve Brenda began crisis talks to find out exactly what was going on with their daughter so I went back I called my wife from my daughter's phone she picks up she was working down in shans and she goes what's wrong and I basically told her I said you know I mean Sydney I think the reason we can't get on is because she's unrolled she hasn't been going to school Sydney became wrapped up in two sets of Lies the story she told
her friends and the story she told her parents failing grades aren't the end of the world and any parent would support their child through such difficult times but it seems she thought her parents would be mad and couldn't bring herself to tell them she'd been asked to leave the college yeah we asked her she was doing and she said she was good like she acted like what we would see as normal like she was laughing she was having fun she said she got jobs cuz she works at the aan rubber ducks she's worked there for
a couple Seasons so she was going to go back there and then she also said she was looking for another job and like everything was good and she was trying to figure out like for next year and all this stuff and she was going to talk to her parents about housing trying to come back to Mount once she got to my union or in actually did uh did s ever drink alcohol at all or she did okay cuz kind of describe that for us she like to drink um there was an incident in the fall
of our freshman year where she drank too much and she wasn't alcohol poison but she did end up in the hospital her mom came and got her at like 2:00 in the morning usually after that her and I work together and she did drink I usually kind of like SL her down after I'm of her limit cuz she's small detective suspect Sydney snapped when Brenda was on the phone to her college professor and tried to cover up her Lies by silencing her mother forever the issue is again Sydney is claiming that she doesn't remember a
thing but it seems that she made some crucial and careless mistakes that let the detectives pick up the pieces Sydney grabbed an iron skillet and beat her mother into submission before plunging a steak Knife into her neck over 30 times she then impersonated her mother on the phone and staged a break-in to try and cover her TR you able to go the house at all I made it in far enough to see the back fit there when you go into the front door you come around the kitchen you go in you can see the uh
there's like a pass through between the kitchen and the family room the back of the house I could see the right hand there's two big sliding windows I could see that window was clearly it looked like it was busted went down the hallway probably about 2 ft just enough to see blood all the way down the hallway sadly Brenda didn't survive her ordeal and passed away in hospital the county count medical examiner came to the conclusion that Brenda had died from blunt force trauma to her head and stab wounds to her neck they ruled her
death a homicide this left detectives to deliver the tragic news to Steve that his wife was dead well really bad news your wife detectives investigated Sydney's claims that an Intruder was responsible but their findings didn't seem to match her story and the evidence was painting a different picture altogether this left detectives with one final devastating task to carry out telling Steve that his own daughter killed his wife what happened I don't think someone broke into the house I don't know if your wife and daughter got into an argument that physical I mean the window was
broken but there's no Force entry into the house did your wife and not like really he no AR this is not possible your son's outside he doesn't know my son's here yes would you like one of us to just go be with your son I I don't know take your time there's no rush it's simply impossible to imagine the turmoil Steve must be going through at this moment his wife murdered and his daughter the main suspect suspect finally Steve realizes the detectives might be right leaving him to deliver the news to his sonar they think
Sydney did [Music] this I twoo she's going in jail forever wife's dead you know they're going to do everything they can to make sure they find out exactly what happened nothing's definite as of yet they still have to do their investigating where's Andrew you to sit out there by himself or well yeah I don't want anybody I just want me and him that's legal I don't care I don't want any of you no I just want I just [Music] want just come us you're ready they don't know they haven't told me they're investigating Sydney was
arrested and charged for the murder of Brenda Powell she claimed Insanity at first saying she had almost no memory of what happened including hitting Brenda with the cast iron skillet and fatally stabbing her the jury didn't believe Sydney and she was found guilty on two counts of murder one count of fonus assault and one count of tampering with evidence Sydney Powell was sentenced to life in prison with a Chance of parole after 15 years
