An Irresistible Force

Garden City, Idaho, is a town of about 4.27 square miles and 11,637 people, wrapped entirely around by Boise. It began as Tom Davis's hay farm and, by the 1950s, had become a gambling strip just outside the Boise city limits. In 2012 it was the home of Brian Barton Gettys, a 49-year-old car dealer.

Brian was born on October 17th, 1962. His family history says Moscow, Idaho; obituaries of relatives say Sacramento, California. In the mid-1980s, out of work and with a $600 unemployment cheque, he bought a car, fixed it and sold it for a little more. He did it again, and again, and over the next 20 years turned that into several car dealerships and an income of a couple of million dollars a year. He lived in a large manufactured home on the Boise River with a hot tub, a big patio, a boat, a motorcycle, a Hummer, a BMW and a Porsche, and he liked to take his grandchildren fishing.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Her parents divorced when she was small. She was six feet tall, outgoing and well liked, but her family had a reputation around the area, and by her teens she had dyed hair, piercings and a tattoo on her chest. She graduated from high school in 2009. In April 2012 she attacked a boyfriend who had asked her to sell her dog to pay their bills. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it A few days later she knocked on his door in the evening, covered in blood, and said her boyfriend had beaten her and thrown her out. Brian called the police, got her medical attention and offered her somewhere to stay. She paid rent, he told his children, and they were not dating. His daughter Megan and his son met her and were uneasy about the age gap, but Brian insisted he was only helping her.

this part of the story is covered for now They met at a mall at lunchtime and quickly became a couple. She told him she was a loan officer who had bought the house on the river; the cars, the furniture and the cash came from her father, she said, a man who had made a fortune and then had to leave for Europe to care for his sick parents. Birk moved in. details of the account remain covered until revealed She never went to work and said she was on paid vacation. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

On October 14th or 15th Megan had her last conversation with her father and cut it short because she was in a hurry. On October 16th the family last spoke to him. details of the account remain covered until revealed He handed it back over his shoulder, she said, and it went off, shooting him in the back of the head. The autopsy found a perforating contact wound, with the muzzle within an inch or two of his skull. She went to Walmart, where security footage showed her buying bras, clothes, make-up, shampoo and a tarp. She rolled the body in a comforter, then in the tarp, and put it under the trailer. She kept his phone.

On October 17th, his fiftieth birthday, Megan called repeatedly and got no answer. Days later a text came back from his phone saying he was in Jackpot, Nevada, celebrating his birthday. More texts followed, always with an excuse about bad service or dinner, and then the texts stopped altogether. On November 2nd the family went to the house. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now The police secured the house and checked every casino, hospital and hotel in Jackpot; nobody had seen Brian. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Then she said Brian was a drug dealer with enemies, that a dealer had held a gun to her head and threatened her family, and that the drugs in the house were his. The police brought in Birk, who told her to tell the truth. She then gave the back-rub and gun account. Officers found Brian's body under the trailer, the stolen handgun under the bed, and blood soaked through the mattress and box spring. The decomposition was so advanced that identification had to wait for dental records; the coroner estimated the shooting had happened about two weeks earlier. this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Prosecutors recommended a minimum of 20 years; her lawyer asked for ten, then 15, and was refused. this part of the story is covered for now In November 2013 she told the judge she was sick and disgusted with herself and asked the Gettys family for forgiveness. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed Brian Gettys was buried at Cloverdale Memorial Park in Boise.