How Police Tracked Teen Killers After Grandmother's Murder

Tammy King was 61 years old when she was found dead in her Bacliff, Texas home. Now her granddaughter Tara King, 17, and Tara's boyfriend Uriah Urick, 18, are on trial for capital murder. In this testimony, Detective Bryan Bernard walks the jury through how police tracked the teens' movements using Walmart surveillance footage, license plate reader cameras, and old school stakeout work that led them to a storage unit full of guns.

The surveillance video shows Tara buying hair dye at Walmart, paying cash, on the same day prosecutors say her grandmother was killed. Detective Bernard then explains how they tracked Travis Hodge's white Chevy Malibu using highway cameras all the way toward the Laredo border. When they finally stopped Hodge for a traffic violation in Bacliff, they found meth in plain view and keys to a storage unit he'd rented the same day the teens were arrested 300 miles away.

The defense pressed on what was left behind at the scene. More than five guns were still in the house. If this was robbery, why leave valuable firearms? The detective admitted he originally wrote the search warrant for burglary, not murder.

⏰ KEY MOMENTS

00:00 - Detective Bernard continues from Day 2
03:20 - Walmart surveillance: Tara buying hair dye with cash
06:06 - Parking lot video shows both getting in driver's side
14:43 - Flock cameras track Travis Hodge's Malibu
22:35 - Stakeout and traffic stop with meth in plain view
27:01 - Storage unit rented same day as arrests in Laredo
38:18 - Defense: Why were valuable guns left behind?

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📖 CASE BACKGROUND

On February 5, 2025, Galveston County Sheriff's Office deputies discovered 61-year-old Tammy King dead in her Bacliff home with a gunshot wound to her head. Her house was ransacked. Gun safes were open. Firearms were missing. Her granddaughter Tara King, 17, and Tara's boyfriend Uriah Urick, 18, were both living in the home and quickly became persons of interest.

The State is charging this as capital murder during the commission of robbery, arguing that Tammy was killed while the defendants were stealing money and firearms. Under Texas law, capital murder carries mandatory life sentences. Tara King, who was 17 at the time, faces life in prison with the possibility of parole. Uriah Urick, who was 18, faces life without parole unless prosecutors seek the death penalty.


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