He was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading no contest.
Brian Winchester admittedly shot his long-time friend Jerry Michael Williams on December 16, 2000, buried his body near a lake north of Tallahasse, Florida, and kept the murder secret until 2017. In 1997, after a Sister Hazel concert, Brian and Denise shared their first kiss while their respective spouses were out in the parking lot. However, in 2017, when charges were finally filed relating to Williams’ death, the man who murdered him was not charged.Sometimes, “justice doesn’t feel like justice,” Grace says on the latest episode of “Injustice With Nancy Grace,” after taking a deep dive into the 17-year story of Williams’ brutal death, and his mother’s tireless quest for answers.As told by Grace and friends, family and investigators on the episode, a number of facts surrounding Mike’s disappearance didn’t sit well with people close to him.
“We call that a clue.”The couple went about their daily life, ignoring the suspicions of Cheryl and others that were close to Mike, until their marriage took a dark turn. He then proceeded to shoot him in the face, at point-blank range.Brian left the scene as planned, but he also took Mike’s body with him – it was evidence of homicide. Injustice With Nancy Grace Bonus: Nancy Grace Says Mike Williams' Case Cut Her' To The Core' 92 views; 6 years ago; 1:04. As established in testimony, an armed Winchester broke into her vehicle in 2016, hid there for hours, and confronted her when she entered. They started to get paranoid, believing they were being watched.For years, because there was no body, Mike Williams’s case was a missing-person investigation. By then, police reclassified Mike Williams’s disappearance as a suspicious death, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was investigating again.
Mike’s own wife and his best friend, Brian Winchester, had conspired to kill him. “He had completely lost it, and he kept saying, ‘I’ve lost everything. Winchester had, months before, helped the couple take out one of the life insurance policies she“We have a widow married to the guy who wrote the million-dollar insurance policy,” Grace said on the show. So, in 2019 when he held his end of the bargain, the lawmakers did as well, and Brian was not charged with any crimes related to Jerry Michael William’s death.
Brian Winchester, Williams’s best friend, has testified that Denise had him kill her husband. Brian Winchester Mike Williams’ best friend confessed in 2017 to the planning, killing and 17-year cover-up of Mike’s murder. Brian Winchester, realizing drowning was not going to work, pulled out his gun and circled the stump. Later that morning, when she opened the door, she found Brian Winchester with a gun and screamed.
Further arousing suspicion, Denise began openly dating Brian Winchester, an old friend of Mike’s, shortly after his disappearance. Williams's best friend, Brian Winchester, was among them. In 2005, the two married.
51 views; 6 years ago; 2:54. Winchester quickly folded, revealing that his affair with Denise began in 1997, and taking detectives through the sequence of events that ended with him shooting Mike in the head while he struggled in the waters of Lake Seminole — all at the urging of Denise, who was afraid of losing her daughter if she went through divorce proceedings with Mike, according to Winchester.“How cold-blooded is that?” Grace commented on the episode.Police would eventually, with Winchester’s help, recover Mike’s remains, and file charges. As told by a prosecutor from the State Attorney’s office on “Injustice,” Winchester began using drugs and having sex with prostitutes; he and Denise separated in November 2012, and she filed for divorce in 2015. The death declaration allowed Denise to collect on $2 million in life insurance policies.“Cheryl couldn't understand why the people who were supposed to love Mike the most were not equally concerned with finding him,” Grace said on the show.began openly dating Brian Winchester, an old friend of Mike’s, shortly after his disappearance.
When the time would be right he would push Mike into the lake and leave the scene, making it look like Mike was always alone there and had accidentally died after drowning.