Mom Helped Investigate Her Daughters Murder And Almost "Got Away With It"

On a hot Friday in Florida, a four-year-old girl named Pinky was found dead in her bedroom closet. Her mother, Dominique Brewer, told police that Pinky had been playing dress-up with a pink and purple scarf and a sheet, and that she must have accidentally strangled herself while her mother was asleep on the couch. But the physical evidence told a different story. The scarf was not wrapped around Pinky's neck in the way Dominique described, and the marks on the child's body did not match a self-inflicted accident. What followed was a raw, hours-long interrogation in which Dominique's own mother—April Casey, a former police officer—was brought in to help investigators get a confession.

The mother's evolving story

From the moment deputies arrived, Dominique stuck to the same account. She said she had fallen asleep on the living room couch while Pinky played in her bedroom. She woke up when her phone rang, went to check on her daughter, and found her hanging from a closet rod with the scarf around her neck. Dominique insisted she had nothing to hide. She voluntarily consented to a search of her home, submitted to a drug test, and repeatedly swore on her life that she did not hurt her child.