Former college football player Earl 'Tony' Joiner, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting and killing the mother of his two children, back in 2016.
He was once the captain of the Florida Gators football team, and part of the school's 2006 National Championship tram.
He origianlly got away with the murder for three years before a true crime TV show, 'Cold Justice' helped local investigators crack the case.
He is now facing over two decades in prison for murdering his girlfriend Heyzel Obando with a gunshot to the temple in 2016.
He had called the police himself, claiming he found her that way in their apartment. She was 26 years old.
The two shared two young daughters, and he has now been ordered to have no contact with his children or Heyzel's family ever again.
Their two daughters spoke with police days after the shooting, telling investigators "poppy shoted mummy" and "mummy blood."
Investigators also became suspicious about the 9-1-1 call saying he was acting "odd" and said "I'm sorry."
“If he just found his girlfriend bleeding there, why is he sorry?”
However, he never faced charges and for years he walked free, taking a job at an auto dealership.
In 2019, the investigations started on 'Cold Justice' which led to his arrest that June.
“I wanted to see in his eyes to see if there was any indication of remorse, but there wasn’t any."
“One thing bringing in ‘Cold Justice’ allowed us to do was to spend nine days — almost like a blitz attack — working nothing but this case. It’s a luxury we don’t often have, because of fresh cases and other things coming in.”
Heyzel's mother won custody of the children in 2017, previously stating she was distraught and conflicted over her daughter's murder.
“As a mother, I understand the pain his mother is going through. But as a mother, no one is going to take my pain away. Now that he is arrested, I hope he feels the weight of the law.”
Heyzel's sister explained her nieces had "absolute joy" after his sentencing, but the family is still angered about what he took.
“She always wanted to be a mother. She finally had that chance, just for it to be taken away.”
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