Episode 374

In Clackamas County, Oregon, a night of heavy drinking left behind more questions than answers. As suspicion and jealousy began to take hold, tensions escalated between two former coworkers. Five days later, one of them was shot to death, and the truth about what started it all remains a mystery. Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

• 0:12Speaker 01

  Justin Murray there yet? He said, "Yep, I got him in the car." And you told him, "Okay, baby, be safe."

• 0:17Speaker 02

  At the very least, based off of everything we know now, you're a co-conspirator in his murder.

• 0:23Speaker 03

  No, God!

• 0:25Speaker 02

  If not the originator of the idea of his murder.

• 0:28Speaker 03

  No, no, no!

• 0:33Mike Boudet?

  Welcome back to season 13, the final season of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.

• 1:09Mike Boudet?

  It's late April of 2024 and a young man named Nathan Dean Anderson is going through a difficult time in his life. Nathan is 25 years old and lives in Oregon City, just southeast of Portland. He has struggled with addiction in the past, but for several years, he'd managed to get his life back on track. He worked hard to maintain his sobriety and rebuild relationships with his friends and family. Nathan was passionate about music. He wrote and recorded his own songs and often collaborated with other local artists who recognized his talent.

• 1:50Mike Boudet?

  But in early 2024, something about Nathan started to change, and his friend Brian noticed it.

• 1:57Speaker 01

  And when did you meet him?

• 1:59Speaker 05

  Uh, maybe August of 2021.

• 2:02Speaker 01

  Okay, so you guys have known each other quite a while.

• 2:04Speaker 05

  Yes. So I had kind of distanced myself from him since he was in the relapse mode.

• 2:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:11Speaker 05

  And so, uh, in any conversation I would have with him after he had relapsed, he was like on some really weird stuff, like, like, like sleep deprived. He would say weird shit like, uh, I tried to tell him to go to CSHAP. He's like, "You're just trying to tell me to go to CSHAP because the human centipede has a win around the world and, you know, I don't think you noticed that the timing for me." He was just on a really weird, he was being really weird.

• 2:38Speaker 01

  Do you know what kind of drugs he was using?

• 2:40Speaker 05

  I imagine fentanyl.

• 2:44Mike Boudet?

  Brian met Nathan through recovery, and according to him, Nathan had been clean for years. But after breaking up with his girlfriend, Nathan relapsed.

• 2:53Speaker 05

  Ever since he had broke up with Michaela, he's just been in this spiral. And, man, I can only imagine what that, what that woman's going through. She probably is carrying a lot on her shoulders. She's like, the best he's ever done and the most, the most he's ever accomplished in life has been with her.

• 3:11Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:12Speaker 05

  And then, and then they break up and separate. And then within months after that, he, something happens to him, you know?

• 3:19Mike Boudet?

  Brian started putting some distance between himself and Nathan. Not because he stopped caring, but because Brian was also in recovery. He knew that being there for Nathan couldn't come at the expense of his own sobriety.

• 3:33Speaker 05

  I don't know if he was with anybody. I don't know. I tried to call Matt back through his roommate and find out. My brain just wants to know.

• 3:42Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 3:43Speaker 05

  What happened to my fucking friend, you know?

• 3:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:45Speaker 05

  Because he was, he was a real lovable person and he was a real generous friend.

• 3:51Speaker 01

  You already kind of touched on this, but you said Nate was nice. You can't think of anybody who would want to hurt him?

• 3:56Speaker 05

  No, man. Like, Nate is a good friend, a lovable friend. He's a little emotional sometimes, but he, he's innocent, man. He wouldn't, he wouldn't hurt, he wouldn't hurt a fly.

• 4:09Mike Boudet?

  Brian described Nathan as a genuinely good person. But by April of 2024, Nathan's life had started to unravel. His relationship had ended. He had relapsed. According to Brian, Nathan also started calling friends to ask to borrow money or to sell his belongings.

• 4:28Speaker 05

  He was trying to get a hold of me all weekend.

• 4:31Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 4:31Speaker 05

  I kind of not answered his calls because I would just assume that he would want to borrow money or wanted to sell me something.

• 4:40Mike Boudet?

  Brian didn't know what Nathan wanted, and at the time, there was no reason to believe the voice message he'd left was particularly important. Nathan was going through a rough time, and the people around him knew it, including some of his former coworkers. One of those coworkers was a young man named Cody James Dennewith. Cody and Nathan had worked together at their local bakery, Dave's Killer Bread. According to Cody, they weren't best friends, but they were close enough to occasionally help each other out.

• 5:13Speaker 01

  Did you, uh, know Nathan?

• 5:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, he used to be my worker.

• 5:18Speaker 01

  He used to be a worker for you?

• 5:19Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 5:19Speaker 01

  At Dave's?

• 5:20Speaker 06

  At Dave's, yeah.

• 5:20Speaker 01

  When was that?

• 5:21Speaker 06

  Maybe a year ago.

• 5:23Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 5:23Speaker 06

  Yeah, we've hung out maybe two or three times since then. I helped him move from his mom's to an apartment complex. And it's the first time I've heard from him in about six months.

• 5:32Speaker 01

  When was that?

• 5:33Speaker 06

  Um, maybe a few months back.

• 5:36Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 5:36Speaker 06

  After that, he called me one day saying that he needed picked up. He just got arrested or whatever for a DUI or something.

• 5:44Speaker 01

  Oh, so like recently?

• 5:45Speaker 06

  Yeah, recently, yeah. And, uh, he looked pretty bad off, you know? And I took him to the impound lot and...

• 5:51Speaker 01

  So pretty recently, you said he looked kind of like he's been struggling?

• 5:54Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 5:54Speaker 01

  Did he look like he was using drugs again?

• 5:56Speaker 06

  Um, possibly. I'm sure he was, yeah. I don't know what him and his girlfriend were going through, but him and his girlfriend were going through something and he was struggling and his life just started to fall apart.

• 6:07Mike Boudet?

  Cody understood addiction. He had struggled with it himself. Originally from Oklahoma, Cody had a criminal history that included a burglary conviction. After moving to Oregon, he entered treatment and started working towards sobriety. It was during his recovery that Cody met Dominique Britt, a young woman who would eventually become central to Nathan's story. As for Cody and Dominique, though, their relationship had no breaks. Not long after meeting, they were already expecting a baby boy.

• 6:42Speaker 03

  We met at a recovery camp out and we just hit it off. And he has my number. He was still in treatment, so we just like talked on the phone. Pretty much he came over one night, one day, and that day I got pregnant with Maverick.

• 6:56Speaker 01

  Oh, wow.

• 6:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was pretty fast. He got out of treatment, moved into an Oxford house, and then seven months of me being pregnant, he moved in with me and my mom. And then after we had Maverick, we moved into the place that we're at now. So almost two years we've been together.

• 7:12Mike Boudet?

  After their son was born, Cody started working long shifts at Dave's Killer Bread, where he eventually met Nathan Anderson. Dominique, meanwhile, stayed home to care for their child. She described Cody as a mostly easygoing, loving, and devoted partner and father.

• 7:30Speaker 01

  In your relationship with Cody, what is Cody like?

• 7:33Speaker 03

  He's usually a very happy, like chill person, a great dad. But he has his moments where he just is like down, like his mental. And he's struggled with that his whole life, but he just has never gone on medicine because he doesn't want to be a zombie, he says.

• 7:49Speaker 01

  Do you think it's like depression or is it more psychosis?

• 7:53Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:54Speaker 01

  Like, do you think he hears voices or?

• 7:56Speaker 03

  Something in his head.

• 7:57Speaker 01

  Why do you think that? Is there behaviors you can attribute to like, hey, that's an example of him being kind of mentally unstable?

• 8:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, like, uh, accusing me of cheating on him when I'm like home all day with your kids. I cook, I clean, I take care of the house, like, just like thinking like I'm being sneaky or thinking that everybody hates him or people are talking about him, just like stuff like that.

• 8:19Speaker 01

  Does he kind of spiral when he is, when he gets into the...

• 8:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, like this last month, completely different person.

• 8:25Mike Boudet?

  Dominique said Cody sometimes had irrational bouts of jealousy and anger. She believed he struggled with mental health issues that could cause him to become suspicious and paranoid. By April of 2024, those episodes had become worse than she'd ever seen. Then, on the night of the 24th, things came to a head. Cody and Dominique had been drinking heavily when they got into a heated argument at their apartment. Police were called. And although the argument never became physical, Cody was arrested.

• 8:58Speaker 01

  I know that there was a call at your apartment on 24th. It was a domestic violence call, is what I know.

• 9:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, he was screaming and yelling.

• 9:06Speaker 01

  Was there any physical stuff that night? Has there ever been any kind of physical abuse?

• 9:10Speaker 03

  No, not at all. Like, usually, that night, he drank like a whole fifth, but no, he'd usually, he doesn't ever yell at me, nothing like it's this month. He's just, I don't know.

• 9:23Speaker 01

  Do you know what, what's... Cut it off, or what? Like, why he's been acting like that?

• 9:27Speaker 03

  No.

• 9:28Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 9:28Speaker 03

  I think him getting arrested the last time kinda just made everything worse. Like, within like, the last two weeks, it's just been like, I don't know, bad, I guess. His mental health, I don't know.

• 9:39Mike Boudet?

  After police removed Cody from the apartment, Dominique continued drinking. At some point that night, Nathan Anderson arrived. Exactly why he was there, or exactly when he showed up, remains unclear. By then, Dominique was so intoxicated that much of what happened that night remains a mystery. If you believe women, that is.

• 10:05Speaker 03

  When the cops came, Nate was there that night? I don't know. I guess, I don't know.

• 10:10Speaker 01

  You don't know, because you...

• 10:11Speaker 03

  I was drunk that night, too.

• 10:13Speaker 01

  Okay, do you not remember?

• 10:14Speaker 03

  Uh-uh, I remember nothing from that night, nothing.

• 10:16Speaker 01

  Uh, was Cody ever jealous of Nate?

• 10:18Speaker 03

  No, uh, no.

• 10:20Speaker 01

  No?

• 10:20Speaker 03

  No, I mean, I don't think so, I don't know, honestly.

• 10:22Speaker 01

  He never expressed to you that he was jealous of Nate? Did he ever accuse you of any, of any kinda sexual relationship with Nate?

• 10:28Speaker 03

  No.

• 10:28Speaker 01

  Or anything like that? Uh, did you feel, like, after that night? Did you feel anything? I mean, you were drinking, I'm sure that there was like...

• 10:35Speaker 03

  I woke up and everything was just like, everything hurt.

• 10:37Speaker 01

  Like, a hangover, or...

• 10:38Speaker 03

  No, like, my whole body, like...

• 10:40Speaker 01

  Was it a hangover pain, or was it a different pain?

• 10:41Speaker 03

  Different pain. Like, my hangover pain was like, oh, my head.

• 10:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 10:45Speaker 03

  You know? I don't know, like, my knee is still, you could see, still scraped up. So, I don't know, like...

• 10:49Speaker 01

  Do you remember where that was from?

• 10:51Speaker 03

  Uh-uh.

• 10:51Speaker 01

  Uh, and you don't remember when Nate came over that night?

• 10:54Speaker 03

  No.

• 10:54Speaker 01

  Or anything like that?

• 10:55Speaker 03

  No, that night is a blur.

• 10:57Mike Boudet?

  The next day, Dominique couldn't explain what had happened between her and Nathan. And when Cody got out of jail, he wanted answers. Why had Nathan been there? What happened between them? And why couldn't Dominique remember? According to Cody, he reached out to Nathan hoping to get some answers.

• 11:19Speaker 06

  Uh, when I got out of jail, I talked to him. Um, but I talked to him, and I guess he'd come over to my apartment while I was in jail, and ended up getting my girlfriend high, and all sorts. Yeah, I don't, I don't know the whole story. He wouldn't tell me it.

• 11:33Speaker 01

  Is Dominique in recovery, too?

• 11:34Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 11:35Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 11:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, so it was like, and she wasn't getting high or anything, you know?

• 11:39Speaker 01

  So, it's kind of a big hit?

• 11:40Speaker 06

  Yeah, like, we're all in recovery, and you know...

• 11:42Speaker 01

  Does he know Dominique?

• 11:44Speaker 06

  Um, I don't know personally, just through me, maybe.

• 11:47Speaker 01

  What made him go over to your apartment?

• 11:49Speaker 06

  Because I was in jail.

• 11:50Speaker 01

  Do you think he was, like, trying to pick up Dominique?

• 11:52Speaker 06

  I couldn't tell you. He wouldn't tell me. I tried to get the full story from him for a couple of days, and he kept getting all heated and arguments and stuff, and, you know, cussing, and this, that, and the other. And it's on the Facebook, if you've been on his. I'm sure you have, since you're doing an investigation. I'm sure that's probably why I'm here, because of all his threats and stuff, right?

• 12:12Speaker 01

  Well, I mean, I haven't seen it myself, personally. Um, but what kinda threats was he making to you?

• 12:17Speaker 06

  Just that he would end my life, and this, that, and the other. And he doesn't, I don't know him, and...

• 12:22Speaker 01

  Uh, how did that make you feel? Did I make, did you feel threatened?

• 12:25Speaker 06

  No, not at all.

• 12:26Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 12:26Speaker 06

  You know, he's, in my eyes, he was like my little brother. You know, I didn't know him on a personal level, but, you know, he's younger than me. We've been through some of the same things. He had his life on track there for a minute, you know? And if he needed help, all he had to do was call.

• 12:41Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:42Speaker 06

  You know, I was always there if he needed help.

• 12:44Mike Boudet?

  Cody explained that, despite his efforts, he couldn't get a straight answer from Nathan. Still, he kept pressing him. What exactly happened between Nathan and Dominique that night? It's a simple question, really. You don't really need a PhD for it.

• 13:03Speaker 01

  So, it's kinda, I mean, it's kinda messed up that he went over to your apartment, then? Given the fact that, it sounds like you tried to help him out?

• 13:09Speaker 06

  Yeah, I mean, I didn't really mind, you know? I didn't think he was trying to pick up on her. But she couldn't remember what was going on, because she was blacked out drunk.

• 13:17Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 13:18Speaker 06

  And so, I tried to get the story from him. And, uh, all I asked him was, hey, screenshot me the messages that you guys had. That'll way I can get some clarity on the situation of what happened.

• 13:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:30Speaker 06

  And immediately, he just went into blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and that blah, blah. Like, dude, some simple screenshots, like, what's the problem?

• 13:39Speaker 01

  What did you think went down with them?

• 13:40Speaker 06

  That she got taken advantage of. And I mentioned that to him, and on Facebook as well. You'll see that, if you took a look.

• 13:47Speaker 01

  Did he deny it?

• 13:48Speaker 06

  He didn't deny it, but he didn't confirm it, you know?

• 13:52Mike Boudet?

  Cody was left in the dark. And that certainly, apparently, made things much worse. According to Dominique, Nathan only added to that uncertainty by making provocative comments to Cody about what may or may not have happened between them that night. At least, that's how Dominique described it to police.

• 14:13Speaker 01

  Because Cody told me that he was concerned that that night Nate had maybe taken advantage of.

• 14:17Speaker 03

  That's what supposedly, I guess, I don't, I couldn't tell you. There was things that Nate said that could have been, like, um... He told Cody that he turned his wife into his thought that night. "Have the police swab her pussy, you won't find nothing." Those are his words.

• 14:35Speaker 01

  Thought, meaning that hoe over there?

• 14:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:37Speaker 01

  Uh, T-H-O-T. Okay, he told that to?

• 14:40Speaker 03

  Cody.

• 14:40Speaker 01

  Cody? Yeah, is that like, on Facebook, or text?

• 14:43Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 14:44Speaker 01

  What is he, what do you think he meant by that?

• 14:46Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 14:47Mike Boudet?

  Well, you look at that, I'm fresh out of swabs. Dominique didn't have many answers. She wasn't telling Cody that Nathan had raped her. She simply couldn't remember what happened. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Nathan, meanwhile, never appeared to have outright denied that sexual contact occurred. And Dominique seemed to wanna keep that plausible deniability. You know, in case she changes her mind later and wants to cry rape. But wait, I was told no women ever do that. Hmm, so confused. But Nathan had allegedly made comments to Cody that Dominique interpreted as meaning the two had not had sex.

• 15:32Mike Boudet?

  All of this left Cody, who apparently was already prone to suspicion and paranoia, with plenty of room to draw his own conclusions. I'm sure you've drawn a few of your own while listening to this story. Over the next few days, his suspicion only continued to grow. He and Nathan argued. Threats were exchanged over Facebook. The tension between them kept escalating. Then, according to Cody, just when it seemed like things were about to boil over, everything suddenly calmed down, supposedly.

• 16:06Speaker 06

  And a couple days go by, and I'm like, hey, are we cool? It's like, oh, yeah, we're good, and then a couple days go on.

• 16:13Speaker 01

  Were you guys cool?

• 16:14Speaker 06

  Yeah, he said we were cool.

• 16:15Speaker 01

  Did you bury the hatchet?

• 16:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, I mean, he said we were fine, you know? But, you know, I texted him, I said, "Are we cool, you know? We're both hot-headed, or we're both cooled off?"

• 16:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:24Speaker 06

  And he said, "Yeah, we're good."

• 16:26Mike Boudet?

  Cody claimed the conflict was over, but over the next few days, Nathan's friends started having trouble reaching him. At first, Nathan's close friend Brian feared that Nathan may have overdosed.

• 16:38Speaker 05

  I thought automatically he overdosed. So, I reached out to his ex-girlfriend to find out if she knew anything. But she didn't hear anything yet. So, she starts working out. Okay, so, fast forward about two hours later, she hits me back saying that she had talked to Nate's grandma, and Nate's grandma had said that it wasn't an OD, it was a possible murder.

• 17:02Mike Boudet?

  Eventually, Brian learned what happened to his friend. Nathan was dead. But he hadn't overdosed. He had been murdered. As investigators started piecing together Nathan's final days, they learned about the recent conflict involving Nathan, Dominique, and Cody. It didn't take long for their attention to turn towards Cody. He quickly became the prime suspect in Nathan Anderson's murder.

• 17:32Speaker 06

  What are you trying to charge him with?

• 17:34Speaker 01

  Murder in the second degree and unlawful use of a weapon.

• 17:37Speaker 06

  Okay. Under what grounds?

• 17:40Speaker 01

  Based on the evidence we've collected in our investigation. Honest question, do you have a reason why we shouldn't be looking at you for this? Is there someone else we should be looking at?

• 17:51Speaker 06

  I mean, I couldn't tell you firsthand there's somebody else, but me? Why me? I'm a family man, I work hard every day to support my family. Why would I go jeopardize it to kill this guy?

• 18:01Speaker 01

  And that's, and that's a good question. I mean, is, is there, is there something you had against him?

• 18:05Speaker 06

  No.

• 18:06Speaker 01

  Well, you talked about, I'll put it this way.

• 18:09Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 18:09Speaker 01

  Just, just talking about myself, okay?

• 18:11Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 18:11Speaker 01

  If a buddy of mine went over to my house, where my wife was, when I was out of town, no matter where I was, jail or not...

• 18:20Speaker 06

  You're not gonna go kill the guy?

• 18:21Speaker 01

  But if they, if my wife said, hey, man, dude was over here, he got me super drunk, I passed out, I don't know what happened, at the very least, I would be pissed.

• 18:32Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 18:33Speaker 01

  Like, I, like, I would start at pissed, right? And I can, I'm just saying, I can understand that.

• 18:39Speaker 06

  Um, but you still wouldn't go kill the guy?

• 18:42Speaker 01

  I, I can't say what I would do. I can only say that I would, I would be pissed, right? So, so at least there's a reason to, to think about...

• 18:49Speaker 06

  That's not a reason to take somebody's life. I put life into this world, why would I wanna take it out?

• 18:54Speaker 01

  People have been killed for their shoes.

• 18:57Mike Boudet?

  Cody framed himself as someone with everything to lose. A girlfriend, a child, a job, a family. Whatever conflict he had with Nathan, Cody insisted it wasn't worth throwing all of that away. And he was absolutely correct. There was no sense in throwing that all away. But detectives weren't talking to Cody because of an argument on Facebook. They had more. A lot more. Surveillance footage, cellphone data, and a distinct vehicle all pointed to one man. By the time detectives sat down with that man, they weren't trying to find Nathan or figure out what had happened to him.

• 19:41Mike Boudet?

  They already knew. On the evening of April 29th, sheriff's deputies responded to reports of a shooting near an intersection in Clackamas County. I'm definitely not gonna say that correctly, so, you know, go ahead and correct me all you want. It's already recorded, so I'm not gonna go back and change it anyway. But, you know, you could scream at the pod player all you want. Clackamas County. What a stupid name, first of all. Anyway, when they arrived, they found Nathan suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Nathan was still alive and was rushed to the hospital, but doctors could not save him.

• 20:26Mike Boudet?

  At just 25 years old, Nathan Anderson was dead. And detectives believed Cody Dennewith was the man who killed him.

• 20:59Mike Boudet?

  On April 29th, 2024, 25-year-old Nathan Dean Anderson was shot and killed in Clackamas County, Oregon. Within days, homicide detectives had focused their attention on one of Nathan's former coworkers, Cody James Dennewith. Cody had recently been arguing with Nathan after becoming convinced that something sexual may have happened between Nathan and his girlfriend, Dominique Britt. But during his interview with detectives, Cody insisted that whatever conflict existed between them was over. According to him, he had no reason to kill Nathan.

• 21:40Mike Boudet?

  If only everyone could get over being with a hoe that easily, there'd be a lot less murders in the world. But investigators didn't believe them, and they had evidence to back up that belief.

• 21:56Speaker 02

  This is a surveillance image that was captured at the time of Nathan's death.

• 22:02Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 22:03Speaker 02

  Okay. Do you recognize that vehicle?

• 22:05Speaker 06

  Yeah, I see them everywhere.

• 22:06Speaker 02

  Okay. This one has some particulars about it.

• 22:09Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 22:10Speaker 02

  Okay. Is this your vehicle?

• 22:12Speaker 06

  Doesn't look like my car precisely. There's a sticker in a window.

• 22:19Speaker 02

  Has your car ever had a sticker like that?

• 22:22Speaker 06

  No.

• 22:23Speaker 02

  Never?

• 22:24Speaker 06

  Never had a sticker.

• 22:25Speaker 02

  Okay. In Clackamas County, all of our patrol cars have automatic license plate readers, and so when they drive around the county, they take pictures of people's cars, and then you can search the license plate. This is a picture of your car from August 20th, or from April 28th, that's the day before Nathan's death.

• 22:42Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 22:43Speaker 02

  You can see there's a sticker there on the car.

• 22:46Speaker 06

  Okay, so somebody put a sticker on my car?

• 22:49Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 22:50Speaker 06

  I've never had a sticker on my car.

• 22:51Speaker 02

  Have you removed a sticker from your car?

• 22:53Speaker 06

  No.

• 22:54Speaker 02

  No?

• 22:55Speaker 06

  No, I've never had that sticker on my car. I mean, obviously, it looks like my car, but...

• 23:00Mike Boudet?

  Cody's car was a big problem for him. The investigators had surveillance footage of a Nissan near the scene around the time Nathan was killed, and the vehicle looked remarkably similar to Cody's, right down to that distinctive sticker on the rear window. But the sticker wasn't the only thing about the Nissan that caught their attention. There was also something strange about the license plates.

• 23:27Speaker 02

  Have you ever taken the license plates off of your car before?

• 23:31Speaker 06

  No. The only damage to my license plates are the ones that you guys did to me.

• 23:35Speaker 02

  Well, I'm not talking about damage, just because the...

• 23:37Speaker 06

  They've never been off since they've been put on.

• 23:38Speaker 02

  Okay. So you would never have any reason to take your license plates off?

• 23:42Speaker 06

  No, they've been on there since I got the car, since I put them on the car.

• 23:47Speaker 02

  If you did take your license plates off, what would your reason be?

• 23:50Speaker 06

  To clean the car? I don't know. I have no reason to take them off.

• 23:54Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 23:55Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 23:56Speaker 02

  Hmm, okay.

• 23:57Speaker 06

  Even through a car wash, you don't take your license plates off?

• 24:00Speaker 02

  Oh, no, I've never taken mine off.

• 24:01Speaker 06

  No, never.

• 24:03Speaker 02

  Just curious.

• 24:04Mike Boudet?

  Cody couldn't have been much clearer. According to him, those plates had been there on that Nissan since the day he got it. He had never moved them, and he couldn't think of a reason why he would. But the investigators could come up with a reason, and the reason they had in mind was much more serious than Cody seemed to realize.

• 24:30Speaker 02

  For argument's sake, let's say that it is your car in the video. And the video basically shows the driver of the car killing Nathan. No doubt about it, right? If that vehicle had license plates on it before he was killed, and then on the day that Nathan was killed, it didn't have license plates on it, the only reason someone would do that is if they were planning on killing Nathan and wanted to try to obscure their identity. So that's an element of premeditation, which is not a crime of passion killing, it's a thought-through, premeditated crime. And that's super interesting to me.

• 25:09Speaker 06

  That was no question. I don't understand what you're asking.

• 25:13Speaker 02

  Okay, well, never mind then.

• 25:14Mike Boudet?

  You just have to love this detective's smugness. Cody still insisted he had never removed the plates from his car, but investigators clearly weren't buying it, and they weren't finished. While tracking Cody's car, they had also been tracking something else: Nathan's phone.

• 25:33Speaker 02

  One of the things that we found when we were kind of investigating this is Nathan's phone wasn't with his body when his body was found.

• 25:42Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 25:43Speaker 02

  And after his death, his phone actually traveled to the area of your apartment.

• 25:50Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 25:51Speaker 02

  Okay. Did you have Nathan's phone with you?

• 25:54Speaker 06

  No.

• 25:55Speaker 02

  No?

• 25:56Speaker 06

  I've had his phone, but it's never with him.

• 26:01Speaker 02

  Basically, what I'm getting at is there's more surveillance images that we've collected, and I'm fairly certain that you're involved in this.

• 26:10Speaker 06

  You think I killed him, seriously?

• 26:13Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 26:14Speaker 06

  You think I killed him?

• 26:15Mike Boudet?

  When paramedics arrived at the scene of the shooting, Nathan's cellphone wasn't found on him, and Cody denied ever having it. But according to investigators, the phone had somehow traveled away from Nathan and towards Cody's and Dominique's apartment. If Nathan's phone could help investigators reconstruct what happened after the shooting, Cody's own phone could potentially tell them where he'd been when it happened.

• 26:43Speaker 02

  Is there any reason why we're going to get information from your digital device that you were in the area of Nathan's death when he was killed?

• 26:50Speaker 06

  I don't think so.

• 26:51Speaker 02

  You don't think so? Okay, so what does it mean to you if you are in the area? If your device, if your cellphone's in the area, what does that mean?

• 26:58Speaker 06

  Well, I don't know what area he was killed in, so...

• 27:01Speaker 02

  Okay, well, I'm just asking generally. What would that mean to you?

• 27:04Speaker 06

  Well, probably that you have more evidence.

• 27:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:07Speaker 06

  Obviously, you guys think I did it, so one little more piece of evidence to tie the piece together will fucking just confirm it, right?

• 27:14Speaker 02

  We're not here to judge anybody. You know, people have this misconception that the police are judging people or whatever. Our job is to collect facts. We develop probable cause belief, that you killed Nathan.

• 27:26Speaker 06

  And what's the probable cause?

• 27:28Speaker 02

  I'm not going to explain that to you right now. I don't believe that you didn't hang out with Nathan, I believe you were with Nathan. I believe that your cellphone records will show you, will corroborate that information, and other data that we have covered will corroborate that information.

• 27:44Mike Boudet?

  The investigators seemed confident that Cody's cellphone records would eventually help place him near the scene of Nathan's murder. Whether those records ultimately confirm that isn't clear, but by this point, Cody had a much bigger problem. Detectives weren't simply asking questions anymore, they were telling him they had probable cause to believe he had killed Nathan.

• 28:09Speaker 06

  My anxiety is just so high right now, this is ridiculous.

• 28:12Speaker 02

  Okay. No, I just do, being arrested sucks, I get it. I'm not going to argue that.

• 28:16Speaker 06

  Being arrested for a fucking murder, it's not being arrested. Like, I'm, this is probably, what, 20 years in prison? Second-degree murder? What does it carry?

• 28:26Speaker 02

  Well, actually, we're now probably looking at more of a first-degree murder.

• 28:31Speaker 06

  How to go from second-degree to first-degree?

• 28:33Speaker 02

  Well...

• 28:34Speaker 06

  Within five minutes.

• 28:35Speaker 02

  Because of premeditation.

• 28:36Speaker 06

  All of a sudden?

• 28:38Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 28:39Speaker 06

  All of a sudden, now that's...

• 28:41Speaker 02

  In my mind, I'm not the judge or DA, but in my mind it is.

• 28:45Mike Boudet?

  The criminal charge hadn't actually been upgraded, but in the detective's mind, the evidence was beginning to suggest something much more serious than second-degree murder: premeditation. Cody wanted to know how the detective had reached that conclusion so quickly, so the detective laid it all out for him.

• 29:06Speaker 02

  So you, it's the whole car plate thing, man. If you never take the plates off your car, which you kind of, you stated you don't, as well as you're... But all of a sudden, one day you did, and that follows fairly recently after finding out that Nathan likely, we'll use the word likely in this case, I think, you know, had sex with your fiancee, and you took him off, you picked him up, and we have video of you picking him up. You picked him up, you took him down a particular area in the alleyway there, you shot him, you drove off, you put the plates back in your car. You wouldn't have taken the plates off your car unless you were planning on doing it. Premeditation, that's murder one. Is there any reason why we shouldn't be looking at murder one, and should we look at murder two instead?

• 29:51Speaker 06

  You guys can look at whatever you want. You guys are the investigators, right?

• 29:55Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 29:56Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 29:57Mike Boudet?

  The theory was simple: Cody removed his license plates, picked Nathan up, drove him to an area in Clackamas County, shot him, left with Nathan's cellphone, discarded it somewhere, then put the plates back on the car. At this point in the interview, Cody offered no alternative explanation. Instead, he decided it was time for a lawyer.

• 30:22Speaker 02

  So I guess we're looking at an option one, which is a crime of passion, right? You got pissed at the moment and shot and killed him. Option two is you planned it ahead of time, which is much worse. Maybe option three is you meant to shoot him but didn't mean to kill him? I don't know which one of those it is, and this is...

• 30:42Speaker 01

  Kind of your opportunity to tell us which one of those it is because you're probably not going to get another one.

• 30:46Speaker 06

  I think it's time to be a lawyer now.

• 30:47Speaker 01

  Are you saying that you want a lawyer?

• 30:49Speaker 06

  Well, obviously, if you guys think I killed somebody, I need a lawyer.

• 30:52Speaker 01

  Okay, fair enough. So what's gonna happen now is we're going to have you go down to our temporary holding.

• 31:01Mike Boudet?

  Cody Dennewith was arrested, but detectives still had work to do. And one of their biggest unanswered questions involved the murder weapon. As a convicted felon, Cody wasn't legally allowed to possess a firearm. But that doesn't stop somebody that wants to kill. That's why the whole gun argument is really fucking retarded. Cody's girlfriend, Dominique Britt, however, owned two. And when police spoke with her on the day Cody was arrested, she revealed something important. One of those guns was missing.

• 31:39Speaker 03

  Okay, so I'm gonna be honest with you guys. I own two firearms. One, I haven't seen in like three weeks. Okay, what kind of firearm is it? It's a nine millimeter, another one. And I don't know if he put it back in the safe upstairs in the room. There's a, there's a safe. I don't know. Does he have access to that safe? Mm-hmm. And the only reason why he has access to that is because all of our information is like the kids versus the kids from kids, the social security cards, everything's in that. Have you noticed it missing? The gun, the gun? Yeah, I haven't seen it in like three weeks. You've opened it up and noticed that it was missing? Yeah, but if you open up the safe, it's not there. And has he mentioned that he was taking the gun? He just noticed that it was missing? Mm-hmm. Did you ever ask him about it? No.

• 32:21Mike Boudet?

  The missing firearm was a black nine millimeter pistol. And according to Dominique, she hadn't seen it in weeks. Cody had access to the safe where the gun was normally kept. But Dominique said that she never asked him about it. And despite everything detectives were telling her, she still couldn't believe Cody had used it to kill someone. Then again, women do lie, you know? Despite what you've been told on TikTok.

• 32:51Speaker 01

  Does it worry you that he may have used that firearm?

• 32:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, because am I gonna get in trouble?

• 32:56Speaker 01

  Sounds like you didn't know what he was up to, right?

• 33:01Speaker 03

  No, I, I don't think he did. Because I don't, he's not that type of person. I know Cody, he's not that person. But for some reason, if it did happen, I mean, it's in my name. You know? I don't know.

• 33:13Speaker 01

  I mean, it seems like that's the best reason to be forthcoming with us.

• 33:18Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 33:19Speaker 01

  You know? Because if he did something, we're gonna figure it out. If he didn't do something, we're gonna figure that out. If you did something?

• 33:28Speaker 03

  No.

• 33:28Speaker 01

  We'll figure that out.

• 33:29Speaker 03

  No.

• 33:29Speaker 01

  So.

• 33:30Mike Boudet?

  Dominique seemed overwhelmed by everything happening around her. Cody had been arrested for murder. Police were searching their apartment. Her children were confused and the life she knew had essentially exploded overnight. But that's what happens when you kill someone. Still, Dominique defended Cody. She described him as a loving father and insisted that the man she knew wasn't capable of murder. She acknowledged that his behavior in the weeks leading up to Nathan's death had been unusual, but maintained that she knew nothing about what had happened. That was on May 6th.

• 34:14Mike Boudet?

  Two days later, an investigator called her.

• 34:18Speaker 01

  Hey, is this Dominique?

• 34:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, who's this?

• 34:20Speaker 01

  This is Detective Hunter. I talked to you the other day.

• 34:22Speaker 03

  Hi.

• 34:23Speaker 01

  Hey, I was just kind of calling to check in, um, see how things are going.

• 34:28Speaker 03

  Not great.

• 34:29Speaker 01

  That's understandable.

• 34:31Speaker 03

  Having slept, having ate, my son cried all the time for his dad. Literally losing my mind, but other than that, you know, life.

• 34:39Speaker 01

  It's understandable. It's a stressful situation. Um, and I can't.

• 34:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't know anything. Nobody will tell me anything.

• 34:45Speaker 01

  Well, that's actually the purpose for my call.

• 34:47Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 34:47Speaker 01

  One of the things that we want to do is, uh, I know you already talked to the detectives. Uh, I wasn't there for that. Um, one of the things that we'll want to do, obviously, in investigations like these is recorded interviews with everybody. Uh, are you available to come to our office to do our kind of a formal interview? And then, uh, we can give you some updates on kind of what, what's going on and what to expect next and that kind of stuff.

• 35:11Mike Boudet?

  Dominique agreed to come into the sheriff's office for another interview. She had already insisted that she knew nothing about Nathan's murder, but since then, investigators had gone through her phone and what they found completely changed the entire investigation. Because according to Dominique's own messages, she hadn't simply known that Cody wanted Nathan dead.

• 35:40Mike Boudet?

  She may have also helped him do it.

• 36:07Mike Boudet?

  On May 8th, 2024, 26-year-old Dominique Britt arrived at the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. Right now, there's probably someone in the audience screaming, "It's Clackamas! It's Clackamas!" Yeah, I don't, I don't care. Nobody cares. You live in a shithole, anyway. Portland is a complete shithole. Anyway, at the time, her boyfriend, Cody Dennewith, was rotting in a jail cell, charged with murdering Nathan Anderson. Two days later, Dominique had insisted that she knew nothing about Nathan's murder. She acknowledged that Cody had been angry with Nathan and had even talked about fighting him. But according to Dominique, she thought that's as far as it went.

• 36:51Mike Boudet?

  And we didn't even need to swab her pussy for it to all go away. For this interview, though, detectives had something they didn't have before. Dominique's text messages with Cody. And those messages told a very, very different story. Because guess what? Women lie. Not only do they lie, but they lie with ease, often, when they get caught in a love triangle. Which is not the best geometry for a relationship, by the way.

• 37:27Speaker 01

  He messaged you a couple hours before Nathan was killed, um, that he needed you to bring him his toy, the one from upstairs?

• 37:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I said, told him sure, and then I called him and I said, "No, I'm not bringing nothing to you."

• 37:39Speaker 01

  What is he referring to?

• 37:41Speaker 03

  The gun, probably. The gun. And I told him I'm not.

• 37:43Speaker 01

  The Sig gun?

• 37:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, I told him I'm not bringing nothing to you. If you want it, you can come get it. He came in the house, he grabbed a backpack.

• 37:50Speaker 01

  Which backpack?

• 37:51Speaker 03

  Um, the blue one that is, was at my aunt's house.

• 37:55Speaker 01

  You messaged him and you said, "Do you even know where he is?" Who are you referring to?

• 38:00Speaker 03

  Nate, because he was going to meet my dad, right? At my dad's, uh, work. And, and I just told him, I was like, "Do you even know where he's at? Like, you're just driving around like a fucking maniac." Like I said, I thought he was going to beat him up. Now that the weapon, like, yes, things are piecing together where.

• 38:18Speaker 01

  So he's asking you to bring him a gun and you thought he's gonna go beat Nate up?

• 38:22Speaker 03

  That's what he told me.

• 38:23Speaker 01

  Okay. Why would he need a gun to beat up Nathan?

• 38:25Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 38:26Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 38:27Mike Boudet?

  Essentially, Dominique asked detectives to believe two things at once. That Cody wanted a gun, but also that he was planning on fighting Nathan only with his fists. That explanation was pretty difficult to reconcile with the messages investigators had recovered. And the more they pressed Dominique about what happened that day, the more her story started to change.

• 38:52Speaker 03

  He came and got the stuff, he left, sorry. And he literally came back and we went to McDonald's. We went to my mom's, like, "What I'm telling you, he acted completely normal, like nothing happened." That's why I just thought nothing happened.

• 39:08Speaker 01

  Do you know if he met up with Nate?

• 39:10Speaker 03

  I don't know. I.

• 39:12Speaker 01

  I need you to be real honest.

• 39:13Speaker 03

  He said that he was going to meet up with him and that he was waiting for him to show up. And that was it.

• 39:20Speaker 01

  Did he ever tell you that he was with him or anything like that?

• 39:22Speaker 03

  I think so, that he was with him, yeah.

• 39:24Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 39:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:26Speaker 01

  We need, we need the full story.

• 39:28Speaker 03

  I know.

• 39:28Speaker 01

  You need to stop hiding things related to this investigation because this is a murder. A man is dead, right? And if that guy did something to you, that's fucked up and that's not okay. But it's also not okay that someone shot and killed him. Okay? And that person is Cody. So I'm gonna, I can read more.

• 39:46Speaker 03

  No, I know he met up with him.

• 39:47Speaker 01

  But you need to tell us the full story of that day and what happened immediately after, okay? Because we're kind of done beating around the bush now.

• 39:56Speaker 03

  I know he met up with him. I know that. And he met up with him on Monday. Monday Nate died.

• 40:03Mike Boudet?

  The detectives had gotten more out of Dominique, but they clearly believed she was still holding back. Her conversations with Cody suggested she wasn't simply aware the two men had met. She suggested she knew exactly what Cody was doing. And eventually, caught in the lie, she stopped denying it.

• 40:26Speaker 01

  You're in a really hard position and I understand that and I can actually sympathize with that, okay? But you are not, it's not gonna be beneficial to you to withhold more information.

• 40:38Speaker 03

  He had to have killed him. Let me, my gun's gone.

• 40:42Speaker 01

  No more he had to have, no more whatever. You need to tell us all the details you know about this crime, okay?

• 40:54Speaker 02

  Because what these messages look like is that he asked you for a gun, you were arguing about Nate, you gave him a gun, and then you texted him to ask status updates about what happened. Are you there yet? Yeah, he's in my car.

• 41:07Speaker 03

  I didn't give him the gun, I didn't. He came and got it. And I, I know he didn't. I know he didn't.

• 41:15Mike Boudet?

  For the first time, Dominique acknowledged that she knew Cody had killed Nathan. Now detectives wanted to know what Cody had told her about the murder itself. And what happened to that gun.

• 41:29Speaker 02

  What did he tell you after the fact?

• 41:32Speaker 03

  That he shot him and left.

• 41:33Speaker 02

  Correct. What did he do with the gun?

• 41:37Speaker 03

  I don't know, I really, I really don't know. I haven't seen it since then.

• 41:42Speaker 02

  What did you do with Nathan's belongings?

• 41:45Speaker 03

  They, they, it was at my mom's and he threw it away. He, I didn't know, it was a backpack in the car. Me, my mom, and him, because my mom had a trash bag, we walked to her trash and he threw away that bag that you guys, that was in the warrant that he was looking, that you guys were looking for. So I don't know if maybe the gun was in that backpack or something, I don't know. I just know he threw it away.

• 42:07Speaker 02

  When he told you that he shot Nathan, what did he say exactly?

• 42:10Speaker 03

  That he got, that he, Nathan got out of the car and he shot him and then he drove off.

• 42:20Speaker 02

  Which gun did he use to shoot him?

• 42:22Speaker 03

  The one that's missing.

• 42:24Mike Boudet?

  Dominique gave investigators another piece of the puzzle, a blue backpack. According to her, it contained Nathan's belongings and was later thrown away. Fortunately for detectives, Dominique wasn't the only person who remembered seeing it. Dominique's aunt had seen the backpack as well.

• 42:44Speaker 02

  A blue backpack? It was, yeah, dark blue, yeah. Um, you asked Dominique what that was doing here and what it didn't? And she said she didn't know that it wasn't Cody's backpack or it wasn't, she'd never seen it is what she'd said. Okay, did you guys pick it up and look at it or? I didn't look through it, I just knew it stunk and I just left it there. And then I'm thinking it was the next day afternoon when they came here. We asked him about it, I said, Cody, is this your backpack? And he told me it was just something that was, stuff that came out of his car that needed to go in the trash. Did the backpack feel light, did it feel heavy? No, it was heavy, it felt heavy, like full, like it was full of stuff. I don't know if it's just, it was a pretty heavy backpack. So did she throw the bag away and the hat away? We all walked outside because I was leaving to go to work, so we all went out.

• 43:28Speaker 02

  And it got thrown into the dumpster over there. And do you distinctly remember that when the backpack went in there and made a thud sound? Yeah, it was like, you know, the garbage dumpsters are like metal dump and it was, yeah, it was like kind of a bang because it makes, you know, when they, garbage dumps, it did go bang, like it's kind of like a bang sound.

• 43:44Mike Boudet?

  Dominique's aunt knew that the backpack was heavy. It smelled strange and eventually it ended up in a dumpster with a loud metallic bang. What seemed strange though was Cody's demeanor. He didn't seem particularly concerned about getting rid of it or about anything at all, really.

• 44:04Speaker 02

  Did Cody seem concerned or nervous at all about that backpack? When you asked him about it? No, nothing. I was gonna say, the last couple of times I saw him, he just seems a real, like blank, like no, like nothing in his mind. I don't know, I don't know how to explain it. So when he said it, when he gave you the, where he got that backpack, oh, it just, did he sound very nonchalant about it? Or did it sound like he was like taking time to think about what to say? No, he just, he just said that it was stuff that was in his car that just needed to go in the trash.

• 44:33Mike Boudet?

  The backpack helped investigators understand what Cody may have done with the murder weapon after Nathan was killed. But their interview with Dominique soon shifted and became increasingly focused on what happened before the murder. Dominique had already admitted that she knew Cody killed Nathan. What detectives still didn't believe was her claim that she only learned of his intentions after the fact.

• 44:59Speaker 02

  You know, I've, I've gone over the, the messages that Detective Hunter's talked about. And I'll be honest with you, I, I've heard what you've said to us, to a degree it makes sense. But I, I think you knew a good bit more about his plan.

• 45:14Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:14Speaker 02

  That I don't think it was, I'm gonna beat this guy up. When the messages and what you're telling me, they don't match. The content of the messages, that makes no sense.

• 45:22Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:23Speaker 02

  I don't, I think he was putting on killing him the whole time.

• 45:26Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:27Speaker 02

  It doesn't, the beat up thing, that's out the window based off of all the planning that he did. Doesn't make any sense.

• 45:33Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm. The plan that he told me was that he was going to go meet up with him and they were gonna fight each other. But yes, I should have, okay, you're coming to, asking for a gun, I mean.

• 45:45Speaker 02

  I, I think before that, because in your messages, you're asking, is it done? Is it done isn't what you ask beating a guy up, that's a murder. So when, when for real did you know about the murder that was going to happen? Because there, it's bullshit that the idea, the plan was to beat him up, that's out the window, that's not a real thing.

• 46:04Mike Boudet?

  At this point detectives weren't asking whether Dominique knew Cody had been planning something. They wanted to know when she knew that something was murder. After repeatedly insisting that Cody had only talked about fighting Nathan, Dominique finally started giving them a very different answer.

• 46:26Speaker 02

  When was the first time that you talked to, to Cody about killing Nate?

• 46:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, it, he called me on the way to go meet him, that.

• 46:37Speaker 02

  It was before that, from the messages, I know that it was before that. So when it was, I think it was before Monday, based off the messages.

• 46:45Speaker 03

  He, yes, and he.

• 46:46Speaker 02

  Let me ask you the question to, to answer first, okay? When did you two talk about the plan to kill Nate?

• 46:52Speaker 03

  It wasn't my plan.

• 46:54Speaker 02

  The, just, I didn't say it was, just, when was the first time that you and Cody talked about the plan? Okay, so.

• 47:02Speaker 03

  He had his mind set that he was going to make him pay for what he did to you. And him making him pay was, he was gonna hurt him, shoot him or stab him, do something.

• 47:15Speaker 02

  It, I think the whole time it was shoot, based off the messages.

• 47:19Mike Boudet?

  The detectives pushed Dominique closer to the truth. The murder plot she now admitted had been discussed before Monday. Still detectives pressed her for more.

• 47:30Speaker 02

  And, and here's the thing, you've already lied to us, I understand if you're scared about it, but that has got to end.

• 47:37Speaker 03

  Mm.

• 47:37Speaker 02

  The lying has to end.

• 47:38Speaker 03

  I knew, I knew when he came into the house and got the gun, that that's what he was gonna do, I knew.

• 47:43Speaker 02

  When, when was the first time he said, I'm gonna shoot and kill Nate?

• 47:47Speaker 03

  From Friday is when he had his, his mind set that that's what he was gonna do and there was no talking him out of it.

• 47:53Speaker 02

  And what specifically did he say?

• 47:55Speaker 03

  That I'm gonna need to go shoot Nate.

• 47:58Speaker 02

  Okay, with the intention?

• 48:00Speaker 03

  Of, I guess killing him.

• 48:02Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 48:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't know if we, I don't think we were on the phone, I think we were together, maybe in the car. And he just said that I'm gonna go shoot him and that's what I'm gonna do. Like there was no talking him out of it at all because he was just gone, like, mm, gone.

• 48:19Speaker 02

  What, what do you mean by he was gone?

• 48:21Speaker 03

  Like it wasn't Cody, like you look at him and it wasn't the Cody that I fell in love with, it wasn't the Cody that, you know, my kids are, oh, that's dad, you know, like, but it just wasn't Cody.

• 48:32Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 48:33Mike Boudet?

  Dominique wasn't describing something Cody suddenly decided to do during a confrontation with Nathan. According to her own account, Cody had announced his intention days earlier. And Dominique knew all about it. But there was still one crucial part of her story detectives did not believe. She continued to insist that when Cody needed the gun, he came back to the apartment and got it himself. Investigators suspected that that was not true.

• 49:05Speaker 02

  We've, uh, applied for court orders to get his phone records, okay? So when we get the records back, we'll be able to tell that Nate drove up or didn't drive up? And whether or not he went in the house or not?

• 49:20Speaker 03

  Mm.

• 49:21Speaker 02

  So if it shows that he drove up and then drove away, that means you brought him the gun.

• 49:25Speaker 03

  Mm.

• 49:26Speaker 02

  So if that's what happened, this is the time to talk about it. So when, talk to us about you bringing him the gun.

• 49:33Speaker 03

  I did.

• 49:35Speaker 02

  Where?

• 49:37Speaker 03

  Where?

• 49:38Speaker 02

  Where?

• 49:38Speaker 03

  Uh, he was on the side of the street and I brought him the backpack and everything.

• 49:44Speaker 02

  What was in the bag?

• 49:45Speaker 03

  The gun and some clothes.

• 49:47Speaker 02

  And you did that knowing what he was about to go do?

• 49:50Speaker 03

  Uh, it was more, yes, yes.

• 49:52Speaker 02

  We can't walk back, we can't, you're, you can't unring the bell.

• 49:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, I, yeah.

• 49:56Speaker 02

  What, what bag did you bring him the gun in?

• 50:00Speaker 03

  The blue one that's, um, here as evidence, it was at my aunt's house.

• 50:04Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 50:04Mike Boudet?

  Hey Dominique, you're, uh, an accessory to murder now, stupid. Dominique admitted that Cody never came upstairs for the gun or even went into the house at all. Dominique delivered the murder weapon to him, kind of like Uber Eats or DoorDash. But, you know, with guns. And more importantly, she admitted that when she handed Cody that backpack, she knew what he intended to do. No bueno. Still Dominique insisted that none of this had been her idea. According to her, she had spent weeks frightened by Cody's increasingly erratic behavior.

• 50:47Mike Boudet?

  And when he finally told her what he'd done, she claimed she didn't ask many questions.

• 50:53Speaker 02

  What was the plan afterwards, what were you guys gonna do after it was done?

• 50:57Speaker 03

  He acted so normal where I thought, okay, maybe he didn't do it. And then he told me he did. I, I, I don't have an excuse, I, it was wrong, I, this whole month I've just been like scared of him type of thing. Like not knowing like how he's gonna be, what he's gonna do, is he gonna freak out on me, it's like, but it's still not an excuse.

• 51:18Speaker 02

  When did he tell you that he had shot Nate?

• 51:20Speaker 03

  The next morning.

• 51:21Speaker 02

  Okay, and what precipitated that?

• 51:24Speaker 03

  I said, well, how did it go? Because he didn't say, you know, and he just said, I shot him. And then just stopped talking to me.

• 51:32Speaker 02

  Okay, did you ask him any follow up questions or details?

• 51:35Speaker 01

  Did you ask Cody to take care of Nate?

• 51:39Speaker 03

  No.

• 51:40Mike Boudet?

  Dominique's portrayal is office someone who had been afraid of Cody and simply failed to stop him. But there was a problem with that explanation. Her messages didn't show someone completely removed from what Cody was doing. They showed Dominique checking in with him while he was carrying it out. They showed someone complicit.

• 52:04Speaker 02

  So based off of the conversation you had, knowing about it on Friday, knowing the specific plan of what's gonna happen, texting him, "Hey, is he with you? Cool, let me know when it's done. Hey, take care of yourself. Look, man, you're as part of this as anyone else."

• 52:22Speaker 01

  Dominique, I'm just gonna read you here on messages. Okay? "You asked him, 'Are you there yet?'" He said, "Yep, I got him in the car. I think I'm gonna get it in the car." He said, "Oh, my God." He said, "It'd be the easiest." And you told him, "Okay, baby, be safe, then come home and take a walk with us." That's cold.

• 52:44Speaker 02

  So either we're looking at one of two things happened. Either you were good to go with it from the beginning, or this was your deal and you wound him up and kept him loose. So which of those two is it?

• 52:57Speaker 03

  I guess I was just like, "If you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it," type of thing, you know? But I'm just...

• 53:03Speaker 02

  For how long did you want Cody to kill Nate?

• 53:06Speaker 03

  I didn't.

• 53:08Speaker 02

  Everything about this says that you did.

• 53:11Mike Boudet?

  This was the problem Dominique could no longer explain away. She knew Cody intended to shoot Nathan. She supplied the gun. And while Cody was gone, Dominique was asking for updates.

• 53:24Speaker 03

  I didn't. I was just, "Okay, whatever, do what you want," type of thing.

• 53:31Speaker 02

  At the very least, based off of everything we know now, you're a co-conspirator in his murder.

• 53:37Speaker 03

  No, God!

• 53:38Speaker 02

  If not the originator of the idea of his murder.

• 53:41Speaker 03

  No! No! No!

• 53:45Speaker 02

  And I get that you're upset right now, but I'm gonna be honest with you, from where I'm at, you're not upset for Nate, you're upset because you got caught.

• 53:53Speaker 03

  No, I hurt for Nate too, like...

• 53:58Speaker 03

  Didn't mean for this to happen. I should've just called the cops on him.

• 54:03Speaker 02

  You could've made that call on Friday. You could've made the call on Saturday.

• 54:07Speaker 03

  I know, everything.

• 54:08Speaker 02

  You could've made the call on most of Monday. All Sunday, most of Monday, okay? So this idea that you just sort of went with the flow, I'm sorry, but it just doesn't track with the information we have.

• 54:23Mike Boudet?

  Dominique had arrived at the sheriff's office that day believing she was there to help investigators understand what Cody had done. But by the end of the interview, the real reason detectives had asked her to come in had been revealed. Dominique Britt was arrested and charged for murder. But neither she nor Cody would ever face a jury.

• 54:48Speaker 06

  Cody Dennewith took a plea deal today for the death of Nathan Anderson. Investigators say that Anderson was shot three times in Clackamas County. He was taken to a hospital where he passed away. Now, an investigation revealed that Dennewith believed the victim had been sexually intimate with his girlfriend, Dominique Britt. Dennewith and Anderson were coworkers. In the days before the shooting, Dennewith was briefly jailed after a domestic violence call at a Milwaukee apartment. While in jail, Britt claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Anderson and that Dennewith was fixated on getting revenge. On the day of the shooting, investigators say that Dennewith sent Britt a text message asking her to bring him a gun.

• 55:32Speaker 06

  Britt admitted to investigators that she did deliver the gun, knowing that Dennewith intended to kill Anderson. Both Dennewith and Britt were charged with murder, but they had that charge reduced after taking a plea deal.

• 55:46Mike Boudet?

  Dominique's case was resolved first. In December of 2024, she pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and unlawful use of a weapon. She was sentenced 12 and 1/2 years in prison. Several months later, Cody pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and first-degree assault with a firearm. He received a total sentence of 27 and 1/2 years. So more than twice the sentence for basically the same crime. The criminal cases were now over, but one question at the center of Nathan Anderson's death remained unanswered.

• 56:26Mike Boudet?

  What actually happened inside Dominique's apartment on the night Cody was arrested? Dominique had maintained she doesn't remember. She was simply too extremely intoxicated. And much of what happened after Nathan arrived allegedly remains blank. She remembered, though, going to bed with her son and her dog. She remembered waking up later hurting with scrapes on her knees. But she couldn't explain what happened in between. Well, I have a pretty good idea. I'm sure you do as well. Exactly what Dominique told Cody afterwards isn't entirely clear, though.

• 57:11Mike Boudet?

  Prosecutors would later say that Dominique claimed Nathan had sexually assaulted her. Oh, what a surprise. But in her interview with detectives, Dominique couldn't say what Nathan had actually done. She couldn't even say with certainty whether the two had had sex. Nathan, meanwhile, allegedly made comments that Dominique interpreted as meaning the two had not had sex. There was never an investigation that established what happened between Nathan and Dominique that night. And after Nathan was killed, there never could be. The secret was now just hers.

• 57:52Mike Boudet?

  But whatever the truth was, Cody decided he already knew it. He decided Nathan was guilty. And then he decided what the punishment would be. And he didn't even need to have any swabs on him. Dominique knew what Cody intended to do. And rather than warn Nathan or call the police, she handed Cody a gun. These choices didn't deliver justice. They made justice impossible. And somewhere beneath the allegations, the arguments, the investigation, and the murder was Nathan Anderson himself.

• 58:36Mike Boudet?

  A 25-year-old man whose family didn't want his worst days to become the story of his entire life.

• 58:44Speaker 05

  That family hoping for justice for the murder of their loved one, Nathan Dean Anderson, was just 25 years old when he was shot and killed last month in Clackamas County. They want him to be remembered for more than his death. According to his uncle, he had the potential to go far. He loved connecting with people through his music, touching people's hearts through his music.

• 59:05Mike Boudet?

  And he loved basketball. He was really good at basketball, too. I know Nathan loved the coast, Oregon coast, California coast, lighthouses, because he was that bright and beautiful, shiny light. Whatever happened inside Dominique Britt's apartment on April 24th, Nathan never got the opportunity to tell anyone his side of it. Five days later, he was dead. And whatever the truth was, Nathan took his side of the story with him.

• 59:45Mike Boudet?

  That does it for another one. Hope you enjoyed it. And thank you, guys, for all the sweet, kind, heartwarming messages you left me this week. Stay safe.