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MURDER AT THE U Episode 5: Open and Active

30 for 30 Podcasts

ESPN

Sports

4.39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A dozen years after Bryan’s murder, the Pata family is frustrated. No arrests have been made, and yet the police say the case is far from cold.  Meanwhile, relations between the detectives and our team of ESPN reporters have grown strained. That’s when the team takes matters into their own hands, suing the Miami-Dade police to force the release of unredacted case files.  Next episode coming Thursday, February 26th Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Previously on Murder at the U.

0:07.0

Man, y'all need to look at the goddamn scoop.

0:10.0

Padda had a lot of enemies.

0:12.0

Rashad, like, kind of rubbed some people the wrong way.

0:15.0

Everybody was looking for him. Where's Rashon?

0:18.0

If you're asked me point blank, do I think that he did it? The answer is no.

0:22.6

The Pada family had a lot of reasons to believe Rashaun Jones killed Brian.

0:31.6

One of the reasons it turns out was that in those early years, the Padas had an informant who was working the case.

0:39.1

He'd tell them what the police knew in confidence.

0:43.0

As Brian's brother, Edwin Pada, told producer Dan Aruta, just a few months after Brian's death,

0:49.0

this informant told him that the police thought they knew who killed Brian.

0:53.5

He always just tell me, listen, this is what happened. Rarshan Jones. He was, like, listen. He would say the words Rasha Jones. He said he did it. He said, there are certain protocols and rules. You got to follow and you got to obviously prove beyond, you know, you got to have all this evidence and witness and all that stuff he was

1:11.2

like listen what would he tell you why he thought it was rshawn did he give you any specific reasons

1:16.0

uh he's the he's a guy that has a motive and after brian died he was the only player that was not

1:22.0

there so and why would he tell you that they couldn't arrest? Circumstantial evidence.

1:28.5

No gun, no witness.

1:33.1

For about a decade, the family held on to that information.

1:37.5

They believed the police would eventually uncover more evidence.

1:41.5

Edric Padda said the family would visit Rashan's Facebook and Instagram looking

1:45.9

through his photos. Is it worse that you guys believe, you know, who did it and still that person

1:51.3

hasn't been brought to justice? It's frustrated, yep, because when they say that, you know,

1:55.8

the person really don't get rest until, you know, the case is solved. That's true.

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