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on august 8 2013 firefighters were called to scott and janet pettit's house in modesto california after their
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bedroom went up in flames first responders found them both dead with seven gunshot wounds the elite
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detective called me he said there was an accident in your parents house and he said there was a fire your
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parents didn't didn't make it i just started hysterically crying lauren pettit was shocked by the news of
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her parents deaths and struggled emotionally you really miss them don't you they were amazing
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[Music] scott pettit was the owner of a martial arts studio in nearby riverbank and a
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local newspaper once named him citizen of the year janet pettitt was a neonatal nurse and
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had recently earned her phd two of the pettit family's three dogs died in the fire but one of them bailey survived
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is it kind of a miracle she's even here it's insane bailing means a lot to you now
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everything she's like my lifeline things only got worse for lauren after police called her brother brandon pettit
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in for questioning a week after the murders lauren pettit drove her brother to the modesto police
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department without knowing that he was a suspect if you had known what was going on if
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you had any idea your brother was a suspect would you have taken him over there so
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willingly i wouldn't have taken them their period we would have had an attorney brandon pettit was ultimately arrested
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and accused of hiring a friend to commit the murders in 2020 brandon went on trial and was
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convicted and sentenced to life in prison lauren pettit has believed in her brother's innocence all alone
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she maintains he loved their parents and that he had no involvement in their deaths
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has there ever been a moment though through any of this that you've been wondering maybe my brother did it
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no but you know i'm not gonna lie i'm not naive i still believe that my brother is
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innocent but if someone can prove to me that he's not with actual evidence not just
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words you know then it is what it is and i'll deal with that