Moments Before A Mass Killer Takes His Next Victim

This man just committed mass murder and. mercilessly ran over 50 innocent people. in a single horrifying rampage.

street unces. The race was on to catch the mass killer. who committed this horrifying act, but. he managed to flee on foot into a. neighborhood. Little did he know his. every movement was being recorded. And. what would follow is the largest manhunt. this town has ever seen. Hands up. Put your hands where I can see. them. Put your hands.

Daryl Brooks had been on the wrong side. of the law since he was just 17 years. old. He was clearly a troubled and. disturbed individual, racking up charges. of domestic abuse, reckless. endangerment, and was even registered as. [music] a sex offender. But all of this. seemed to culminate in 2021. On the. grand return of the Wauaaw Christmas. parade following the pandemic, Daryl. Brooks decided to ruin the lives of. countless people as he took his anger. out on the Christmas parade in a blind.

moment of rage. From the hour of 400. p.m., neighbors reported a violent. argument coming from Daryl's house. He. and his girlfriend weren't on the best. of terms and would occasionally explode. into fiery rose such as this one. Often, it'd be about their troubled. relationship. And this one ended in. physical violence toward his girlfriend. and one of the most violent and. senseless acts Wisconsin has ever seen. 30 minutes after the argument, Daryl. exited his house and sped across the. familiar roads towards the center of. Wauaasha. And at 4:39, he reached the.

main street before plowing through the. barricades to the Christmas parade at 40. mph. 5 seconds in, he claimed his first. four victims, several members of the. Dancing Granny's performance group. As. he continued, he pressed on the. accelerator, swerving to hit as many. people as possible, killing an. eight-year-old a few seconds later. This. is when police and bystanders began to. react, trying to clear the roads, warn. others of the attack, and attempt to. stop Daryl from driving. Thankfully, this worked to some extent, and only one.

more person was killed 10 seconds later. After a total of 30 seconds of the. murder spree, Daryl sped out of the. parade route, leaving 62 people injured. behind him. Once he was out of the other. side of the parade, Daryl fled roughly. half a mile from the parade before. abandoning his SUV near a house on. Elizabeth Street about 6 minutes later. From there, he fled on foot. He even. tried knocking on someone's door and. claiming he was homeless, asking them to. call an Uber for him. He was given a. jacket and a sandwich before fleeing.

when he noticed police searching the. area. Not long after, he was captured by. a security camera, which helped the cops. approximate his route and track him. down. It's hard to see, but if you look. closely at the top of this road, you can. spot Daryl trying to inconspicuously. navigate his way around Wakaot to escape. the police. But given the scale of this. event, the cops were dedicating all. their resources to finding him. Cops set. up a perimeter around where his SUV was. found abandoned. Nobody was allowed in. or out, meaning that if Daryl was here,

they'd find him soon. Eventually, a. resident spotted him hiding out in the. woods, and the cops were able to narrow. their search efforts considerably. After. 6 hours into the manhunt, the cops. located him at a house in a residential. area and moved in to apprehend him. This. is the body cam footage of that intense. arrest.

Get on the ground. Get on the ground. Do it now. Lay on your stomach. Robert, are you on? You guys don't want your name on it. No. Okay. Okay. I just use my phone call a little bit. Oh, okay. If everything turns out to be on the up. and up, life will be good and you'll be on your.

way. All right. With Daryl in custody, the officers were. able to begin questioning him. But. quickly, they were forced to stop due to. the fact the FBI wanted to take over. this case. I've asked a former detective. to analyze this interview, and he was. able to give a deep dive into every. influential moment. Prior to the. investigation, the detectives involved. already knew just about everything. They. knew he was driving, that he didn't own.

the car, and that he had found the car. key inside his pocket. What makes this. interrogation so interesting, though, is. that Daryl doesn't even know what he's. being brought in for. Police never told. him he was suspected of the parade. killings. From the cop's perspective, this almost 5-hour long interrogation. wasn't really to figure out if he did. it, more so to see how Brooks would. react. They wanted to see how much he'd. lie and if he'd felt any remorse for. what he'd done. That way that way. Uh, you show yours. There you go. All right. Show yours.

Oh, you can drop your hand now, man. Thanks. Appreciate it. Holy [ __ ]. How long you been out of work? Um, let's see. When did I get locked up? A few months. Anything to do with the pandemic that's. been hit hard. That's the reason why. Yeah. Yeah. I bet. It made me smooth off. I got stuff lined. up, though. So, yeah. What? Like, so like what? I'm probably going to go back. I was. working at a sheet metal place. M, so I'm probably going to go back there.

And do you stay at your Is it Is it your. mom? You talked about your mom. Is it. her address you stay at now? It's She owns the house. She owns the. house. She owns the house. She doesn't stay. there anymore, but she owns the house. Okay. She She has her own house. She's. Yeah. You think we put your mom as. emergency? The [music] detectives have already. found the first indication that Brooks. is willing to lie. If you haven't. noticed, the extreme shoulder pain. Brooks complained about earlier has. miraculously vanished just a few minutes. into the interview. He was able to move. his arm effortlessly as if the pain.

never existed, something that would. later be used as evidence in court. and. his tendency to lie will become even. more obvious as the detectives continue. to divert his attention. When you left Stephanie, it was still daytime. It was still dangerous. Okay. Were there still a lot of people. out? It was It was still people out. It was still people out. Um, not a lot. in that area, but it was a. [clears throat] lot of people out. And. it was, like I said, it was people It. was older couples walking down the. street. It was younger people walking. down the street. People. like an event or something was going on.

I I don't know, but it kind of seemed. like it was a lot like it was something. going on to where it was vibrant. How long was it between leaving. Stephanie's and those cops yelling at. you at the door of that guy's house? Was it dark when they yelled at you? Yeah, by the time they came, it was. dark. Okay. But we had been sitting out there. We. had been sitting out there for a minute. Me, me and the guy. Define how long? Uh, estimate. 20 30 minutes maybe. We were sitting. right there just like this. cuz you're. sitting on the porch. Why? I call called.

me a Uber. I called the Uber. I said, "Look, man." I I let him know. I said, "Listen, I ain't trying to rob you or. nothing like that." Cuz when I knocked. on the door, he kind of was like, "Wo.". I'm like, "Look, I don't got no weapons. I'm not trying to break in your house. I'm not trying to rob you.". Daryl has clearly thought a lot about. this alibi since he's managing to. deliver a lot of very specific details. However, the officers already have. mountains of evidence against Daryl and. don't believe a word he's saying. As the. interrogation continues, Daryl continues. to lie until the cops have had enough.

Let me ask you this, Dell. So, you. weren't out You weren't out in WA. Saturday, just Sunday. That's right. You're a part in the. investigation. There's a lot of parts, right? And the investigation, there's. well, this domestic abuse thing I'm. talking about, right? You talked about being a, you know, a. religious man. I can do better. I can definitely do better. We all could. I'm not. We all could. That's why That's why. yesterday was a mistake. I should have. just freaking watched the game and just. [ __ ] went home. That's the thing. What What do they.

teach us in Christianity through that? They teach us that we're broken, right? We're sinners. You're a father. You got. three children, 18, 14, and seven. Yes, sir. All right. You got a mama that raised. you well, and a god you you believe in. Absolutely. All right. And all of them are here's. the thing they'll all want is to tell. you're telling the absolute whole truth. and nothing but the truth, right? Absolutely. I just have concerns if I fact check. that Derell's not telling me the truth.

You don't have a car. So Marcus had to. bring you out. You don't own a car. Your. mom doesn't own a car, right? So why did. we find you with a car key in your. pocket? It wasn't in my pocket. I don't even. know where they said that was laying on. the ground. The car key in Daryl's. pocket is a key part of this case as it. shows that Daryl does in fact drive. despite his statement to the officers. Knowing that he's quickly being backed. into a corner, Daryl tries even harder. to convince the officers of his. innocence. But these officers had done. their research and were about to take a.

different angle that would hopefully. guilt him into confession. It's yours. It's your car key. I'm trying to be as. open and honest with you as I can be. And I'm not calling you a terrible man. I'm not saying you were out yesterday. hunting and just let me finish. But you. did not walk to that house. You did not. walk to that house. [music] You did not. come here in a tania. You got a key in. your pocket, your car, your mom's name. For the love of God, Marcus, for.

yourself, for your family. You know what. happened yesterday for the people? Tell. me what happened. With what? With the car. What am I being? With your mom's car. You're driving. goofy. People called in. You drove out. of there in your mom's car, the red car. You're driving a little silly, probably. because you're pissed. You met up with. Erica in the car at the park. She got. in. You talk. And what you're telling me. seems pretty consistent that there was. nothing physical. I didn't put my hands on her. Nothing. But you met her in the car.

What's going on, man? Asking a question. Just. you were out there driving kind of. crazy. Some people said you were driving. kind of crazy. Daryl is heavily on the. back foot now and has very little room. to wiggle out of this one. Eventually, the pressure from the detectives would. cause him to cave and admit that he was. driving at the time. Now, choosing to. change tactics and try to garner. sympathy from the detectives, deflecting. blame onto his girlfriend and an. apparent alcohol problem. Erica, she's a sweetheart until she gets. that alcohol. The alcohol is the problem. then you all.

type of asses and [music]. I I'll have somebody touch you and uh I. I'mma keep my daughter away from you and. even my mom doesn't even like her around. when she's drinking. I've never been with anyone that is as. bad as what you're saying right there, but I think he can attest to it. We all. we've all. probably look like he did do it with. some chicks, man, you know. So D, what were you thinking when you. went driving through this parade? What am I facing? I don't have no. problem talking with you guys.

You got people You got people injured. that I had to go to the hospital. So, they're saying I I injured somebody. or you're saying I injured somebody. So, I'm looking at what? Reckless. endangerment. The very least. Yeah. The very least. People got hurt. That's reckless. endanger. I don't know exactly what. they're going to classify it. Yeah. People had legs broken. Endangerment is where you may have hurt. somebody by your actions. You did hurt. somebody by your actions. You wanted information from us. We're. sharing. I want you to watch it and see what's in. it. Yeah. It's a good point. It's. information sharing. Why do you want me. to see that car? Why?

Cuz they think it's important. Why is it important? Is it to make like. what is it? Why don't you want to look? Everybody think. Everybody knows what was going on. [music]. There's our children right there. See those kids? See that little kid. right there? You going to look at it? [music]. You're too hurt? Yeah. Emotionally? No. Don't do that. Please [clears throat]. don't. Don't do that.

Don't do this. Please. The most shocking part about this. interview is this moment when Daryl. discovered what had actually happened to. the [music] victims. Daryl didn't once. ask about the victims or if anyone had. lost their lives. Very likely because he. had no remorse to give and was concerned. only for himself. At this point, the. detectives have successfully achieved. the main objectives of the interview. to. get Daryl to admit he was driving the. car and to see if he had any remorse. The interrogation was exceptionally long. to corroborate the strong evidence they.

already had and to acquire footage. [music] that would persuade a jury that. Daryl had no remorse, which is why they. let him lie and portray himself as a. selfish, evil man as much as possible. Boom.