May 21, 2026
Murder For Hire Trial: Stabbing Death Of Prominent NYC Art Dealer
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RSS Feed Closing arguments are underway in the murder-for-hire trial of NYC art dealer Brent Sikkema. SIkkema’s estranged husband Daniel is accused of hiring a hit man, who brutally stabbed 75-year-old Brent 18 times in his own home. The couple was in the middle of a bitter divorce and custody battle, and prosecution has multiple damning voice memos
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey that folks, it is Thursday, May twenty first, and what a story. A murder for hire, a millionaire art dealer and a husband on trial for murder. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. No, it's not Amy and DJ's Amy and TJ presents. Get it right.
00:00:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're presenting.
00:00:22
Speaker 1: Say we're presenting today and this is a hell of a case to present, robes as true crime goes, this is intriguing, shall we say?
00:00:32
Speaker 2: Yes?
00:00:33
Speaker 3: And all the dramatic details are playing out in a Manhattan courtroom. We are wrapping up week two of a murder for higher trial here in Manhattan, and it's a murder that truly rocked the art world. Folks and reporters who are there in the courtroom each day say, one side is for the defense. The other side is basically the who's who in the art world. They want to see this. They want to see justice for their friend and someone who they looked up to in the art world. We're talking about renowned Galarus seventy five year old Brent Sackima, and he was brutally murdered.
00:01:13
Speaker 2: While traveling to Brazil. They have a town home.
00:01:16
Speaker 3: He and his estranged husband who is Brazilian, but he was found stabbed eighteen times in his Rio Town home on January fourteenth, twenty twenty four.
00:01:29
Speaker 1: Now to have right, he's being stabbed and killed there. The husband, meanwhile, is here in the US, the New.
00:01:36
Speaker 2: York City with their son. Yes.
00:01:39
Speaker 3: So basically, how could fifty five year old Daniel Sikima, who was on trial right now for his life, how could he have brutally murdered his husband if his husband was in Brazil and he was here in New York. Well, he is charged with first degree murder for arranging the murder of his prominent art dealer husband. And yes, and so this alleged hitman, who he hired, according to prosecutors, was arrested pretty quickly after the murder, and he pretty quickly sang, he said, yeah, I got paid to do this. His name is Alejandro Triana Prevez and he is currently in jail in prison in Brazil, and he is talking, so he is pointing the finger directly at Daniel Sakeema. And what we've seen in court this week is pretty damning.
00:02:34
Speaker 1: It's kind of remarkable. I guess, Robes, how do you explain this, like I know this defense teams doing with that, How do you explain being in contact with the hit man? You explain that.
00:02:51
Speaker 2: They kind of haven't.
00:02:53
Speaker 3: Basically, in their opening statements, the defense said, we know who killed Brent Sakima and it wasn't Daniel, it was Alejandro Prevez, right, Okay. They said Prevez was obsessed with the woman in Cuba and was laser focused on buying her a house in Spain.
00:03:11
Speaker 2: So they are claiming this is.
00:03:13
Speaker 3: About robbery, this is about motive, And they say prosecutors have no direct proof linking their client, Daniel, the estranged husband, to the murder, and the hitman won't testify, didn't testify, so they're hoping that will help them. But when you hear what the prosecution has, it's pretty it seems almost insurmountable. The opening statement, I actually wanted to read it for you because it was well done by the prosecution. When this trial started, and it started May twelfth here in Manhattan, so again the end of week two here, they started with this to the jury. In the year twenty twenty four, Brent Sakima was brutally murdered a hitman snuck into his home in Brazil, took a knife and stabbed Brent over and over again. The killer immediately made a phone call.
00:04:04
Speaker 2: Who did he call?
00:04:06
Speaker 3: He called that man and they pointed directly at Daniel. Daniel sakema that man who hired and paid him to kill Brent, And they said, and they provided the digital financial and location data showing frequent contact with the hitman before and after the killing. So there's that, But the evidence doesn't stop there. Have you gotten a chance to check out? So Daniel liked voice memos.
00:04:41
Speaker 2: My daughters do this too.
00:04:43
Speaker 3: Instead of typing out a lengthy text message to me, they just go ahead and record it into the phone and send their voice to me in a voice memo.
00:04:52
Speaker 2: That's how they text me a lot when there's a lot to.
00:04:54
Speaker 1: Say, and it's ninety seconds to five minutes depending on which daughter.
00:04:58
Speaker 2: That is absolutely correct.
00:05:00
Speaker 3: Well, the voice memos that Daniel was sending to Brent during their divorce are pretty ominous and pretty telling now that we know what happened to Brent. So would you like me to read some of these?
00:05:15
Speaker 2: I'll try not to.
00:05:16
Speaker 3: Do it in dramatic fashion, do it straight up, just do it. So here's one of several voice memos that he sent to friends during the divorce. I'm still fighting with this old bastard who won't die. But anyway, I'll tell you until he dies or until someone kills him, until or until I get divorced. That's how it's going to be. Well anyway, kisses, here's another one, and here I am struggling with, Oh, this old bastard who won't die soon enough, for God's sake. Every day it's something different every day. Now he's cut off the credit card he gave me to pay for their son's things and stuff, making up lies that I spend on this.
00:05:56
Speaker 2: And that, and then how about this one?
00:05:58
Speaker 3: One month before the murder, we are in the divorce process, which never ends well. He can take all the time he wants. Let's see if instead of getting divorced, I end up a widower, which.
00:06:09
Speaker 2: Would suit me much better.
00:06:11
Speaker 3: He literally sent these voice memos with his voice two folks in the days and months leading up.
00:06:20
Speaker 1: To the murder.
00:06:22
Speaker 2: That's tough.
00:06:23
Speaker 1: Minus the phone records, I would listen to someone say, Hey, this is just somebody angry. It's emotional. It's divorce. They talk like this sometimes and they don't really mean it. I would listen rose the phone. The phone info is you can't. How do you overcome that? How? How? Why is the hit man calling you right after they hit?
00:06:50
Speaker 2: Just happenstance from.
00:06:55
Speaker 3: So what the defenses had to say about those voice memos is very much what you were saying and they're trying. They said, during contentious divorces, people can say things they don't mean. They also said, sometimes during acrimonious splits, people just say things that reflect, quote, the worst versions of themselves.
00:07:14
Speaker 1: That is true.
00:07:15
Speaker 3: Okay, fine, So you've got these voice memos, You've got phone calls or at least phone records between and it never really was explained between the defendant and the hit man. Now, the hitman did not testify, but and there is no obviously forensic evidence directly tied to the murder itself because he wasn't there, he was thousands of miles away. But certainly the circumstantial evidence is fairly damning. And so the prosecution wrapped up their closing arguments today. Now tomorrow we get to hear this is on Friday, we get to hear the defense give their closing arguments and then this case goes to the jury.
00:08:00
Speaker 2: So it is possible.
00:08:01
Speaker 3: We're recording this on Thursday, late afternoon on May twenty first, but it is possible we could have a verdict as soon as tomorrow, Friday, May twenty second, in this case, if the jury, if the dream has a unanimous decision pretty quickly.
00:08:20
Speaker 1: Again, timing that out robes. We deal with a lot of guessing on juries, and it's a holiday weekend.
00:08:29
Speaker 2: You know what, you just made a really really, really good point.
00:08:32
Speaker 1: So they're either going to say the hell with it early or they're going to really give us a quick verdict.
00:08:38
Speaker 2: They're going to be motivated for a verdict.
00:08:40
Speaker 3: I would not be surprised if we have a verdict on Friday, And of course then we'll probably need to hop back on to fill in everybody. But when we come back, we're going to tell you how this relationship ended so tragically and horribly wrong. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ Presents. We have been following this murder for higher trial that is taking place in Manhattan, the stabbing death of a prominent New York City art dealer, seventy five year old Brent Sachema. If you even google his name, you will see his picture with stars celebrities. The one that stood out to me was him with Michelle Obama. This was somebody who really built his brand and built his art.
00:09:37
Speaker 2: Is it an art dealership or is it just a car dealership? Art gallery? Thank you.
00:09:41
Speaker 3: I don't know why I couldn't come up with that, but art dealership, I don't know why we can't call it that. But anyway, an art gallery, a very very prominent art gallery here in Manhattan, and just was just revered. And now he's going down for business to his Brazilian town home that he shares or I should say he shared with his estranged husband. Now, his husband was Brazilian, a Brazilian national. They married and fell in love pretty quickly, and so the story of their romance. They met in Miami nineteen years ago, reportedly fell madly in love, became romantic pretty quickly, and Daniel was a Cuban national at the time. But because they got married, he was able to move here to the United States, moved into Brent's New York City apartment, and they began their lives together. They had a son via a surrogate in twenty ten. They officially married in twenty thirteen, and things were going along really well. They had this beautiful circle of friends, They were able to go back and forth between Brazil and New York City, and they had millions and millions and.
00:10:49
Speaker 2: Millions of dollars to spend. What could possibly go wrong?
00:10:54
Speaker 3: Well, according to friends of the couple, Daniel obviously much younger. I said, obviously, But if I didn't give their ages before, I mentioned that he Brent who was killed, was seventy five, but Daniel is fifty five, So there's a twenty year age gap.
00:11:11
Speaker 2: I guess that's not that big of a deal these days.
00:11:14
Speaker 1: But waits, So go back then when they met, it was what thirty five and.
00:11:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty five and fifty five, So I mean that's not unreasonable. He was of an age to obviously make a decision on who he wanted to be with.
00:11:29
Speaker 2: But what happened? What went wrong? According to friends, and as we look into.
00:11:34
Speaker 3: Their relationship, according to everyone, Daniel wanted to have an open marriage.
00:11:41
Speaker 2: He wanted to he wanted to be with other men.
00:11:44
Speaker 3: And this came out in trial, and this is pretty well known among their circle of friends. And Daniel's very very verbose. As we heard about all those voice memos with his friends about being frustrated about being in the middle of a divorce and everything that was going on. But Daniel ended up filing for divorce in twenty twenty two because Brent did not want an open marriage. He wanted he was interested in other men, and so yes, he filed for divorce in.
00:12:09
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two.
00:12:11
Speaker 3: But then a custody battle ensued and there was all sorts of ugliness where Daniel literally took their son out of school, told the school that he'd be not returning and he was going to be in Brazil, and literally took the son to Brazil, and Brent had to go through a bunch of steps to get his son back to New York City. So then just this massive custody battle went back and forth and back and forth.
00:12:34
Speaker 2: At one point, listen to this.
00:12:36
Speaker 3: The divorce got so nasty that when Brent was going to JFK to go back to Brazil again for business because he went back and forth to with his art dealings, he called police and told police that Brent was going to commit mass murder at JFK Airport. Police acted on the tip, arrested Brent, and Brent actually spent twenty two hours in a holding cell being interrogated because Daniel was obviously so convincing on the phone to belie they actually believed he was a potential mass murderer.
00:13:13
Speaker 1: Daniel wasn't arrested for this.
00:13:16
Speaker 3: Apparently not which I also he could just say, well, the way he was talking, I thought he was going to do it. He could basically say I had every reason to believe he was going to do something crazy.
00:13:28
Speaker 1: That's all. It's pretty twisted.
00:13:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, divorce can get can get pretty brutal, but that might have been like the fact that he was willing to do that and to put his estranged husband in prison for twenty two hours and suffer and have authorities stop him from going that was just a baby step.
00:13:48
Speaker 1: He could have gotten killed, yes, really making a wrong move, shocked by people running up on him. Who knows robes that's a little out. I mean, even keying somebody's car I think is too far.
00:14:01
Speaker 3: But this was sadistic And then so it does make sense someone who was willing to do that and then took the next step, according to prosecutors, and decided, you know what, I'm just going to finish this thing once and for all, and look plenty of folks have been testifying friends of the couple who are just discussing. Basically, Daniel talked NonStop about wanting Brent to die, and look again, not unusual for people in a divorce. I think a lot of people have wished that their ex would die rather than see a divorce through to the end.
00:14:35
Speaker 1: Your last two sentences were just hilarious to think that that's the case. What has just flowed out? It's just weird to yes, a divorce and we have all seen We are not speaking from first an knowledge at all. Not things never get there, but we've known folks and we have heard folks, and yes, divorces can get ugly. So I don't know some of the language, I could understand this. The behavior is beyond normal and just a heated divorce.
00:15:09
Speaker 2: Correct.
00:15:10
Speaker 3: So you see the prosecution just showing how things escalated and escalated and escalated. And so now as soon as tomorrow, this case will be in the jury's hand and they have heard and seen all of this evidence and it will be fascinating to see if they come to a unanimous decision, and hopefully quickly.
00:15:32
Speaker 2: At least for folks who are hoping to.
00:15:34
Speaker 3: Get away for the Memorial Day weekend. We will see what happens in this murder for higher trial, but a lot of people have a vested interest in seeing where this ends and whether or not fifty five year old Daniel will end up paying for his crimes. But he's been behind bars this entire time, and then he did post some bail, so he has been back and forth. But they have a young son, you know, to think about. We always talk about these cases and when you think about a child who basically, if Daniel Sakama goes to prison for the rest of his life, this child just lost both of his parents in a very short amount of time, and he's at a very impressionable age.
00:16:12
Speaker 2: I believe they said he was, I think now he is.
00:16:17
Speaker 3: He's a teenager. Yeah, he's thirteen years old. So this is a tragic story no matter what.
00:16:22
Speaker 2: But of course we'll continue to keep.
00:16:23
Speaker 3: Our eye on what happens in that Manhattan courtroom for you, and as always, we appreciate you listening to us on our regular feed Amy and TJ, and certainly on this one Amy and TJ Presents.
00:16:35
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you soon
Speaker 1: Hey that folks, it is Thursday, May twenty first, and what a story. A murder for hire, a millionaire art dealer and a husband on trial for murder. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. No, it's not Amy and DJ's Amy and TJ presents. Get it right.
00:00:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're presenting.
00:00:22
Speaker 1: Say we're presenting today and this is a hell of a case to present, robes as true crime goes, this is intriguing, shall we say?
00:00:32
Speaker 2: Yes?
00:00:33
Speaker 3: And all the dramatic details are playing out in a Manhattan courtroom. We are wrapping up week two of a murder for higher trial here in Manhattan, and it's a murder that truly rocked the art world. Folks and reporters who are there in the courtroom each day say, one side is for the defense. The other side is basically the who's who in the art world. They want to see this. They want to see justice for their friend and someone who they looked up to in the art world. We're talking about renowned Galarus seventy five year old Brent Sackima, and he was brutally murdered.
00:01:13
Speaker 2: While traveling to Brazil. They have a town home.
00:01:16
Speaker 3: He and his estranged husband who is Brazilian, but he was found stabbed eighteen times in his Rio Town home on January fourteenth, twenty twenty four.
00:01:29
Speaker 1: Now to have right, he's being stabbed and killed there. The husband, meanwhile, is here in the US, the New.
00:01:36
Speaker 2: York City with their son. Yes.
00:01:39
Speaker 3: So basically, how could fifty five year old Daniel Sikima, who was on trial right now for his life, how could he have brutally murdered his husband if his husband was in Brazil and he was here in New York. Well, he is charged with first degree murder for arranging the murder of his prominent art dealer husband. And yes, and so this alleged hitman, who he hired, according to prosecutors, was arrested pretty quickly after the murder, and he pretty quickly sang, he said, yeah, I got paid to do this. His name is Alejandro Triana Prevez and he is currently in jail in prison in Brazil, and he is talking, so he is pointing the finger directly at Daniel Sakeema. And what we've seen in court this week is pretty damning.
00:02:34
Speaker 1: It's kind of remarkable. I guess, Robes, how do you explain this, like I know this defense teams doing with that, How do you explain being in contact with the hit man? You explain that.
00:02:51
Speaker 2: They kind of haven't.
00:02:53
Speaker 3: Basically, in their opening statements, the defense said, we know who killed Brent Sakima and it wasn't Daniel, it was Alejandro Prevez, right, Okay. They said Prevez was obsessed with the woman in Cuba and was laser focused on buying her a house in Spain.
00:03:11
Speaker 2: So they are claiming this is.
00:03:13
Speaker 3: About robbery, this is about motive, And they say prosecutors have no direct proof linking their client, Daniel, the estranged husband, to the murder, and the hitman won't testify, didn't testify, so they're hoping that will help them. But when you hear what the prosecution has, it's pretty it seems almost insurmountable. The opening statement, I actually wanted to read it for you because it was well done by the prosecution. When this trial started, and it started May twelfth here in Manhattan, so again the end of week two here, they started with this to the jury. In the year twenty twenty four, Brent Sakima was brutally murdered a hitman snuck into his home in Brazil, took a knife and stabbed Brent over and over again. The killer immediately made a phone call.
00:04:04
Speaker 2: Who did he call?
00:04:06
Speaker 3: He called that man and they pointed directly at Daniel. Daniel sakema that man who hired and paid him to kill Brent, And they said, and they provided the digital financial and location data showing frequent contact with the hitman before and after the killing. So there's that, But the evidence doesn't stop there. Have you gotten a chance to check out? So Daniel liked voice memos.
00:04:41
Speaker 2: My daughters do this too.
00:04:43
Speaker 3: Instead of typing out a lengthy text message to me, they just go ahead and record it into the phone and send their voice to me in a voice memo.
00:04:52
Speaker 2: That's how they text me a lot when there's a lot to.
00:04:54
Speaker 1: Say, and it's ninety seconds to five minutes depending on which daughter.
00:04:58
Speaker 2: That is absolutely correct.
00:05:00
Speaker 3: Well, the voice memos that Daniel was sending to Brent during their divorce are pretty ominous and pretty telling now that we know what happened to Brent. So would you like me to read some of these?
00:05:15
Speaker 2: I'll try not to.
00:05:16
Speaker 3: Do it in dramatic fashion, do it straight up, just do it. So here's one of several voice memos that he sent to friends during the divorce. I'm still fighting with this old bastard who won't die. But anyway, I'll tell you until he dies or until someone kills him, until or until I get divorced. That's how it's going to be. Well anyway, kisses, here's another one, and here I am struggling with, Oh, this old bastard who won't die soon enough, for God's sake. Every day it's something different every day. Now he's cut off the credit card he gave me to pay for their son's things and stuff, making up lies that I spend on this.
00:05:56
Speaker 2: And that, and then how about this one?
00:05:58
Speaker 3: One month before the murder, we are in the divorce process, which never ends well. He can take all the time he wants. Let's see if instead of getting divorced, I end up a widower, which.
00:06:09
Speaker 2: Would suit me much better.
00:06:11
Speaker 3: He literally sent these voice memos with his voice two folks in the days and months leading up.
00:06:20
Speaker 1: To the murder.
00:06:22
Speaker 2: That's tough.
00:06:23
Speaker 1: Minus the phone records, I would listen to someone say, Hey, this is just somebody angry. It's emotional. It's divorce. They talk like this sometimes and they don't really mean it. I would listen rose the phone. The phone info is you can't. How do you overcome that? How? How? Why is the hit man calling you right after they hit?
00:06:50
Speaker 2: Just happenstance from.
00:06:55
Speaker 3: So what the defenses had to say about those voice memos is very much what you were saying and they're trying. They said, during contentious divorces, people can say things they don't mean. They also said, sometimes during acrimonious splits, people just say things that reflect, quote, the worst versions of themselves.
00:07:14
Speaker 1: That is true.
00:07:15
Speaker 3: Okay, fine, So you've got these voice memos, You've got phone calls or at least phone records between and it never really was explained between the defendant and the hit man. Now, the hitman did not testify, but and there is no obviously forensic evidence directly tied to the murder itself because he wasn't there, he was thousands of miles away. But certainly the circumstantial evidence is fairly damning. And so the prosecution wrapped up their closing arguments today. Now tomorrow we get to hear this is on Friday, we get to hear the defense give their closing arguments and then this case goes to the jury.
00:08:00
Speaker 2: So it is possible.
00:08:01
Speaker 3: We're recording this on Thursday, late afternoon on May twenty first, but it is possible we could have a verdict as soon as tomorrow, Friday, May twenty second, in this case, if the jury, if the dream has a unanimous decision pretty quickly.
00:08:20
Speaker 1: Again, timing that out robes. We deal with a lot of guessing on juries, and it's a holiday weekend.
00:08:29
Speaker 2: You know what, you just made a really really, really good point.
00:08:32
Speaker 1: So they're either going to say the hell with it early or they're going to really give us a quick verdict.
00:08:38
Speaker 2: They're going to be motivated for a verdict.
00:08:40
Speaker 3: I would not be surprised if we have a verdict on Friday, And of course then we'll probably need to hop back on to fill in everybody. But when we come back, we're going to tell you how this relationship ended so tragically and horribly wrong. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ Presents. We have been following this murder for higher trial that is taking place in Manhattan, the stabbing death of a prominent New York City art dealer, seventy five year old Brent Sachema. If you even google his name, you will see his picture with stars celebrities. The one that stood out to me was him with Michelle Obama. This was somebody who really built his brand and built his art.
00:09:37
Speaker 2: Is it an art dealership or is it just a car dealership? Art gallery? Thank you.
00:09:41
Speaker 3: I don't know why I couldn't come up with that, but art dealership, I don't know why we can't call it that. But anyway, an art gallery, a very very prominent art gallery here in Manhattan, and just was just revered. And now he's going down for business to his Brazilian town home that he shares or I should say he shared with his estranged husband. Now, his husband was Brazilian, a Brazilian national. They married and fell in love pretty quickly, and so the story of their romance. They met in Miami nineteen years ago, reportedly fell madly in love, became romantic pretty quickly, and Daniel was a Cuban national at the time. But because they got married, he was able to move here to the United States, moved into Brent's New York City apartment, and they began their lives together. They had a son via a surrogate in twenty ten. They officially married in twenty thirteen, and things were going along really well. They had this beautiful circle of friends, They were able to go back and forth between Brazil and New York City, and they had millions and millions and.
00:10:49
Speaker 2: Millions of dollars to spend. What could possibly go wrong?
00:10:54
Speaker 3: Well, according to friends of the couple, Daniel obviously much younger. I said, obviously, But if I didn't give their ages before, I mentioned that he Brent who was killed, was seventy five, but Daniel is fifty five, So there's a twenty year age gap.
00:11:11
Speaker 2: I guess that's not that big of a deal these days.
00:11:14
Speaker 1: But waits, So go back then when they met, it was what thirty five and.
00:11:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty five and fifty five, So I mean that's not unreasonable. He was of an age to obviously make a decision on who he wanted to be with.
00:11:29
Speaker 2: But what happened? What went wrong? According to friends, and as we look into.
00:11:34
Speaker 3: Their relationship, according to everyone, Daniel wanted to have an open marriage.
00:11:41
Speaker 2: He wanted to he wanted to be with other men.
00:11:44
Speaker 3: And this came out in trial, and this is pretty well known among their circle of friends. And Daniel's very very verbose. As we heard about all those voice memos with his friends about being frustrated about being in the middle of a divorce and everything that was going on. But Daniel ended up filing for divorce in twenty twenty two because Brent did not want an open marriage. He wanted he was interested in other men, and so yes, he filed for divorce in.
00:12:09
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two.
00:12:11
Speaker 3: But then a custody battle ensued and there was all sorts of ugliness where Daniel literally took their son out of school, told the school that he'd be not returning and he was going to be in Brazil, and literally took the son to Brazil, and Brent had to go through a bunch of steps to get his son back to New York City. So then just this massive custody battle went back and forth and back and forth.
00:12:34
Speaker 2: At one point, listen to this.
00:12:36
Speaker 3: The divorce got so nasty that when Brent was going to JFK to go back to Brazil again for business because he went back and forth to with his art dealings, he called police and told police that Brent was going to commit mass murder at JFK Airport. Police acted on the tip, arrested Brent, and Brent actually spent twenty two hours in a holding cell being interrogated because Daniel was obviously so convincing on the phone to belie they actually believed he was a potential mass murderer.
00:13:13
Speaker 1: Daniel wasn't arrested for this.
00:13:16
Speaker 3: Apparently not which I also he could just say, well, the way he was talking, I thought he was going to do it. He could basically say I had every reason to believe he was going to do something crazy.
00:13:28
Speaker 1: That's all. It's pretty twisted.
00:13:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, divorce can get can get pretty brutal, but that might have been like the fact that he was willing to do that and to put his estranged husband in prison for twenty two hours and suffer and have authorities stop him from going that was just a baby step.
00:13:48
Speaker 1: He could have gotten killed, yes, really making a wrong move, shocked by people running up on him. Who knows robes that's a little out. I mean, even keying somebody's car I think is too far.
00:14:01
Speaker 3: But this was sadistic And then so it does make sense someone who was willing to do that and then took the next step, according to prosecutors, and decided, you know what, I'm just going to finish this thing once and for all, and look plenty of folks have been testifying friends of the couple who are just discussing. Basically, Daniel talked NonStop about wanting Brent to die, and look again, not unusual for people in a divorce. I think a lot of people have wished that their ex would die rather than see a divorce through to the end.
00:14:35
Speaker 1: Your last two sentences were just hilarious to think that that's the case. What has just flowed out? It's just weird to yes, a divorce and we have all seen We are not speaking from first an knowledge at all. Not things never get there, but we've known folks and we have heard folks, and yes, divorces can get ugly. So I don't know some of the language, I could understand this. The behavior is beyond normal and just a heated divorce.
00:15:09
Speaker 2: Correct.
00:15:10
Speaker 3: So you see the prosecution just showing how things escalated and escalated and escalated. And so now as soon as tomorrow, this case will be in the jury's hand and they have heard and seen all of this evidence and it will be fascinating to see if they come to a unanimous decision, and hopefully quickly.
00:15:32
Speaker 2: At least for folks who are hoping to.
00:15:34
Speaker 3: Get away for the Memorial Day weekend. We will see what happens in this murder for higher trial, but a lot of people have a vested interest in seeing where this ends and whether or not fifty five year old Daniel will end up paying for his crimes. But he's been behind bars this entire time, and then he did post some bail, so he has been back and forth. But they have a young son, you know, to think about. We always talk about these cases and when you think about a child who basically, if Daniel Sakama goes to prison for the rest of his life, this child just lost both of his parents in a very short amount of time, and he's at a very impressionable age.
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Speaker 2: I believe they said he was, I think now he is.
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Speaker 3: He's a teenager. Yeah, he's thirteen years old. So this is a tragic story no matter what.
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Speaker 2: But of course we'll continue to keep.
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Speaker 3: Our eye on what happens in that Manhattan courtroom for you, and as always, we appreciate you listening to us on our regular feed Amy and TJ, and certainly on this one Amy and TJ Presents.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you soon