“Ma’am, just go inside and go to bed please,” the Daytona police officer, Brian Biddix*, told 38-year-old Milena Chiri, after questioning Chiri and her husband, Johan Chiri, about a domestic violence call. Johan was accusing his wife of having an affair. And even though this was the fourteenth time the police had been called to the house, the unidentified officer instructed the couple to go back into their apartment and sleep in separate, locked rooms.
Later that night, Johan Chiri slit his wife’s throat and stabbed her to death while their two children slept nearby.
“Forgive me please, but that’s what you get when you play with people’s emotions,” said a note found near Milena’s body. “This is the truth, my wife had been cheating on me for too long.”
According to footage recorded on the Biddix’s body cam, he had enough evidence to arrest Johan on disorderly conduct and domestic violence. The body cam also shows that Biddix interviewed neighbors about the Chiris’ previous arguments. Milena also told Biddix that her husband had been involuntarily institutionalized before and was currently not taking his medication.