The Murder of Mickey Bryan Part 4: Joe Takes the Stand

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When it was time for the defense to present their case in the State of Texas V. Joe Dale Bryan, for the murder of Mickey Marlene Bryan, attorney Charles McDonald was confident he’d get his client off. Not only did he truly believe in Joe’s innocence, but also, the prosecution simply had no evidence. Certainly nothing scientific. But, did the fact that the state presented what they had as forensic facts influence the jury? With the murder of Judy Whitley earlier in 1985 still unsolved, it seems likely the public was looking to close at least one of the cases. And since Judy’s had no suspect on trial, Mickey’s murder, at the hands of someone statistically more likely to have committed it, might help put the public’s mind at ease should it be closed. But at what cost?

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0:00.0	The Gond Cole Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:06.0	Listener discretion is advised. It wasn't only Charlie Blue and Bud Saunders' late night country drive on which prosecutors depended in the state of Texas versus Joe Day
0:26.1	O'Brien.
0:27.8	According to the case built by Texas Ranger Joe Wiley, District Attorney Andy McMullen, and Special Prosecutor Gary
0:36.3	Lewellen, there was also Joe's theorized drive. It goes something like this.
0:42.0	At approximately 9.50 It goes something like this.
0:43.0	At approximately 9.15 PM on October 14th, 1985, Joe and the victim, his wife Mickey Brian, got off the phone after talking for several minutes.
0:56.0	Joe then left the Hyatt Regency in Austin, where he was staying while in town for the annual
1:01.8	meeting of the Texas Association of Secondary School
1:05.4	Principals. He was to return home the following day, but instead of rolling over
1:11.6	and going to sleep, authorities speculated, Joe began the
1:15.8	perpetration of a crime he'd been meticulously planning for some time.
1:22.0	He climbed in his 1984 Black Mercury Grand Marquis and headed to his and
1:27.6	Mickey's house in Clifton, Texas. A trip Clifton Police Sergeant Chuck Ford testified to clocking as either a two-hour 33-minute drive or a 2-hour 26-minute drive, depending on the route.
1:44.0	Either way, Joe just so happened to arrive not long after, or perhaps just before, a telephone
1:51.3	call between Mickey and her mother ended.
1:55.0	Managing not to be seen by a soul, both himself and his vehicle, Joe parked somewhere near his home on the 900 block of South Avenue O in Clifton and entered.
2:08.0	Using a flashlight to blind Mickey of his identity, Joe got in close proximity to his wife and shot her four times, once
2:16.8	in the left side of her face from a distance of about six inches.
2:22.2	They'd have you believe he moved to a different position each shot.
2:26.8	He then turned on the ceiling fan which, like nearly the entirety of the room, had been spattered with small spots of blood.
2:37.0	The implication here was that the fan was turned on to dry the blood faster and obscure the time of death.
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