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The Murder of Brittany McGlone Part 1: The World Stopped · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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This episode is not simply a rerecording of Goncold's earlier coverage of Brittany mcloone's murder.
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It includes updated and corrected information that came to light after the recent release
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of an affidavit requesting an arrest warrant, as well as a recent conversation with
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family. Because of new developments, most of which will be discussed in Part
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two, but plenty in this episode, we felt obligated to produce new,
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updated episodes to hopefully help Britney's family on their quest for justice, which,
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unfortunately they've been forced to continue after Britney's case hit another unforeseen roadblock. That
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is, justice for Britney recently seemed well within reach, but was unexpectedly and
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once again torn away from her loved one's grasps. Now without further hamblings from
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me onto the episode. The concol podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
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Listener discretion is advised. Wood County, located about eighty miles west of
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the Louisiana Texas border in the East Texas Timberlands, is a strikingly beautiful place.
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It's densely forested with post and willow oaks, various pine and cherry laurels,
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among a variety of other trees. Wood County holds the majority of Lake
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Fork, a favorite among nature enthusiasts from across the state, particularly to those
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who are looking for a respite from the frenzied rat race that is the Dallas
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Fort Worth Metroplex. Those traveling to the area do so not only with fishing
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or hiking in mind, but also for the tranquility the natural environment surrounding the
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man made of wir The county's most populous towns are modest in size and include
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Minneola and Winnsborough. Regardless of the many archetypal small city downtown squares and picturesque
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rural surroundings, there's a dark side to Wood County, a dark side that
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likely escapes the site or notice of tourists and perhaps most residents. While Wood
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County seemed to most who lived there like a collection of safe country communities in
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two thousand and seven, the reality was something of an anomaly. At the
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time. Although the majority of Texas towns and big cities were continuing to enjoy
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a downhill trend in violent crime, wood County was at the peak of a
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decade long rise and that year, one of the most unimaginable and senseless acts
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of violence in the history of Wood County occurred, the murder of nineteen year
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old Brittany McLoone. This heinous crimes sheer brutality, shocked area residence and began
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a grieving family's quest for justice that continues to this day. Britney Danielle McLoone
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was born on November ninth, nineteen eighty seven to Ron McLoone and Patricia Tye
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in Alama Gordo, New Mexico. She was very wanted when her dad and
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I got bretted it with her first Ary really wanted a girl, so he
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had Britta's name Britney Daniel picked out before our son was one, which really
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didn't have a boy's nake. Brittany was wanted away before she got here.
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While Britney was still very young. The family moved to Winnsboro, Texas,
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a small town of about three thousand residents at the time, located in both
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Wood and Franklin Counties. Brittany was a happy child, and she flourished even
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after the separation and divorce of her parents. Her sister Hope, with whom
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Brittany shares a father looked up to her big sister. Hope admired many things
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about Brittany. Her refusal to cave to peer pressure for one her sister's eventual
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journey into adulthood without leaving behind the joy and innocence of childhood and adolescence also
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inspired Hope. Brittney was happy, Hope said to stay a little girl until
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she felt good and ready to grow up. Brittany was the kind of sister
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all her siblings looked up to. By the time she graduated high school,
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Brittany was ready to realize her dreams of going to college to become a nurse,
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settling down and perhaps getting married and starting a family of her own.
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The last big chunk of time that I spent with her was the summer of
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two thousand and five, and me, my younger brother, and I spent
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at the summer down there. A huge chunk of memories I have is from
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that summer, and there was a huge shoese lake. So pretty much every
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day we were going to the week driving around, we'd stay up all night
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until the fund came up, playing video games. I was just the best
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time of my life and I'm really, really really grateful that I had that
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many months and was able to make those memories. We just had a lot
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of fun. She was oh when I shake you as a goose and shoes.
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She lived always always made you laugh. Almost seemed like she never had
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that day and the little time that she was here, she definitely definitely made
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an impact on everybody that knew her. An amazing person, good grade,
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wasn't a troublemaker, wasn't you know, didn't really go out or anything like
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that. She mainly it was a family that she hung out with and suck
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around. That was her friends and family. Brittany's personality was huge and she
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was comfortable in her own skin. One day she might be wearing a Metallica
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T shirt that she cut the sleeves off of herself, and the next day
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a preppy, striped polo style shirt. Since she was a country girl to
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her core, you might even catch Brittany in a forest camo T shirt or
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baseball cap. In fact, she wasn't afraid of getting dirty or diving into
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an adventure head first. Brittany's brother Brandon, like her sister Hope and her
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mother Patricia, also remembered Brittany as a country girl first and foremost, and
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like Hope, he remembers the importance in which Brittany held her family. Very
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very family oriented individual. You know, family in the world to her,
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especially her sibling through younger siblings, very close. She's one of the most
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outgoing people, you know. I mean, she grew up in a small
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town, always lived in small town, so she's definitely a tomboy. But
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I mean she would give you the show off her back, you know,
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the Uxorivers. She was nineteen Oneths she left us, so you know,
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I mean typical teenager stuff. We grew up around horses and stuff, so
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she really enjoyed riding horses in Laura. And you know, because she was
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into anything outdoors. You know, she always loved camping. You know,
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she's being outside. Definitely, definitely horses, She's shed. She definitely had
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a soft spot for all animals because she could just be on a horse and
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fly forever, and you know the kind of her happy place. After graduating
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with honors from Winnsboro High in two thousand and six, Brittany was keeping busy.
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She began an extended break from school to save money before heading to the
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big city Dallas, so she could attend Baylor University's School of Nursing. To
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do that, Brittany was working at a Lowe's Home Improvement stores distribution center in
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nearby Mount Vernon, and also keeping a second job in Winnsboro at an Alco
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store, a now defunct small retail chain. But that wasn't all Brittany had
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on her platter. She also helped care for her blind grandmother and was often
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charged with keeping her younger brothers in line. More big sister stuff. It's
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hard to imagine where she found the time, but Brittany was also seeing a
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young man named Jeff Stagner, a fellow Winsborough High alum. Brittany was pretty
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sure she was in love. That took the family by surprise. Britney's mother,
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Patricia, said she'd never been boy crazy. Also, according to her
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sister Hope, Brittany had never pursued a relationship with any of the boys she
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hung around, not even the guy who took her to prom. She was
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seemingly head over heels for Jeff, but her family, pretty much all of
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them didn't think he was the right fit for her. For starters, Brittany
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loathed cigarettes and drug use, but Jeff smoked and experimented with various narcotics.
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We knew that they argued and thought a lot. Jeff, you know it
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wasn't a really good relationship. I mean, be different. Was the psychological
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and and verbal abuse there don't. I don't know if there was any physical
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but I know, just like I said from speaking of the family members in
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small town talked that he wasn't He definitely wasn't mister charming. I mean,
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he has a history a very different odd individuals. As Hope got to know
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her sister's boyfriend, she began to feel a sense of foreboding, a feeling
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that the relationship would end badly, something terrible Hope felt was going to happen
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to her sister. In April of two thousand and seven, Hope was secretly
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relieved, but nonetheless saddened over her sister's first experience at suffering love lost.
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When Brittany and Jeff broke up, the entire family in fact, was relieved,
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but it didn't last long. Even after parting ways, Brittany and Jeff
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were still communicating, and they were on again before the breakup even had the
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chance to cool off They're on again off again romance was no anomaly as far
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as young love is concerned, of course, and perhaps Brittany's heartbreak during the
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off again period was the reason for her sister Hope's sense of foreboding when she
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and Jeff's relationship began, or perhaps what Hope felt foreshadowed something unequivocally worse.
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On Friday, May fourth, two thousand and seven, Brittany mcloone's boyfriend,
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Jeff Stagner, and his stepfather left their home on the two hundred block of
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Country Road forty eight thirty seven to travel to the cleburn area to pick up
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Jeff's maternal grandmother. The time was just after eight thirty a m. Cleburne
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is located about thirty two miles due south of Fort Worth. The one hundred
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and forty five mile drive there from the Stagner home in Wood County takes about
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two hours and forty minutes in non rush hour traffic. Jeff's mother was at
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work at the local Alco store, and his brother and sister in school.
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Brittany, who had just finished her shift early that morning, went straight to
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Jeff's after and stayed there while everyone was gone, getting some rest. Early
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that afternoon, Jeff Stagner phoned Patricia, Britney's mother from his cell phone and
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asked if Brittany was home. Brittany was not home, and since she had
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told her mother that she'd probably go straight to Jeff's after work, Patricia figured
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her daughter had gone to sleep while Jeff and his parents were away. She'd
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be heading home soon enough, Patricia thought. Almost an hour later. However,
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at about two twenty pm, Brittany still hadn't made it home. Patricia
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called Brittany's cell phone. It went straight to voicemail. Patricia was already passively
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worried, but at this point a feeling of dread was bubbling to the surface.
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It wasn't like Brittany to leave her mother hanging as far as her whereabouts
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or movements were concerned, and anyway, the nineteen year old's cell phone was,
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as her mother put it, like an extension of her arm. She
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always had it nearby and always answered it never went straight to voicemail. Brittany
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going to her boyfriend's right after work two factored into Patricia's worry. She knew
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that was her daughter's plans that day, but she hadn't known her daughter to
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do that before generally as her regular routine, Brittany came home, took a
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shower, and slept for a bit before going to Jeff's. His calls to
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Brittany as he, his dad, and grandmother made their way back to Wood
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County, he later said, had also gone straight to voicemail. Patricia called
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Jeff back and asked him if he'd found Brittany yet, and as they pulled
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up at the Stagner home, Jeff replied that he had. She was at
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his house sleeping, He presumed, because as they returned home at about three
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pm, Brittany's truck was still in the driveway. When Patricia asked him why
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Brittany didn't answer her call, Jeff told her that she must be sleeping hard
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and must not have heard the ring. That certainly did not explain why Patricia's
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calls went straight to voicemail, but knowing that her daughter worked hard and a
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lot, that answer satisfied Patricia. She asked Jeff that he tell Brittany she
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loved her and to give her a call when she woke up. Jeff told
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Patricia he would, and as he ended the call with his girlfriend's mother,
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Jeff walked into his room where he thought Brittany was sleeping, However, she
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was not. When he entered, Brittany was there, but she was battered
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and bloodied. She'd been badly beaten, brutally murdered Britney's face, and had
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bludgeoned with a blunt object. Jeff Stagner called nine one one, but did
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not call Patricia back to tell her about her daughter. Soon after, two
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Wood County Sheriff's deputies appeared at Patricia's doorstep. Patricia's mother, who also lived
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at the home, and son answered the door. Patricia began to approach,
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but when she heard the deputy's ask for Brenda or Debbie, which no one
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in the house was named, she figured the deputy's visit was a mistake.
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She turned around and left her mother and son to speak with the officers.
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The lawman left a few moments later. When Patricia's mother told her that the
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deputies were referring to the last name McLoone, she immediately panicked as she realized
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that they had the right place after all. Patricia decided she'd head to Jeffs
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to make sure Brittany was okay, but before doing so, she picked up
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the phone and called the Sheriff's office to inquire as to why the deputies had
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visited. Sheriff Dwayne Dougherty got on the line and told Patricia not to leave.
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He was sending the deputies back out right away. When they arrived back
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at Patricia's house, the he's asked her to speak with them in private,
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and upon settling in the dining room, they told her about Brittany. They
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would not, however, disclose to her the manner in which Brittany died.
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There that words, where your daughter is deceased, and you know, I
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lost it. They wouldn't tell many issue had died in a car accident.
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They wouldn't tell me anything. So they left, which I don't They shouldn't
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have, I think in most circumstances, some you know, police officer stage
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with the family, you know. But I decided to call first, and
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he told me Brittany's body was already on its way to Dallas without anybody having
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identified her or said it was okay. And the funeral home director is the
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one that told me that Brittany had been murdered, that it had been not
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force trauma to head the news. Of course, was devastating. The shock,
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trauma, and grief stopped time for Britney's loved ones. As they learned
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more, it only got worse. Her sister Hope described to us what the
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family has been told about Britney's murder and the crime scene. There's no forced
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entry. Whoever when in there either knew that she was alone, or they
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were home to keep the one of their back doors, and it was known
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that it would be left a lot, so it was someone that frequented the
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house. They knew that it might not be secure. The Attorney General's office
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physically told us that when when the fault occurred, that it's in a very
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small area of the event. It's not there was like a big sign of
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struggle or anything. Um. They tend to believe that she was asleep,
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went to the faulted and never came to or never knew what happened. We
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have copies of her autopsy reporter and from me and breathing the AUTOPSI sport and
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you know, trying to understand it as much as I can. She had
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some appreti major wounds to her forehead, some pretty big ones to the back
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of her head, and some smaller smaller moves to the turn her temples and
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kind of the tide her head, and in my opinion, she didn't show,
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but then two wounds from her hands. They've always told us that she
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didn't, but there's a lot of breathing that covered her left hands and she
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was she was left handed, So that's there's a personal opinion. I always
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kind of thought that, you know, maybe she was aware at least a
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little bit of what was going on. Those are fault. Her work clothes
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were folded neatly beside the bed, and then her clothing that she was wearing
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while she was asleep. They never found. Britney's mother, Patricia, also
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said that she's been told conflicting information about whether or not her daughter was sexually
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assaulted. Wood County Sheriff Dwayne Dougherty assigned Brittany mclowe's case to Lieutenant Miles Tucker.
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Britney's underwear were missing. She was discovered completely unclothed, which was unusual.
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Brittany's boyfriend, Jeff, told investigators since she never slept in the nude
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at his house, Brittany felt it would be disrespectful to his mother. Jeff
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told police. As the cops investigated the crime scene. Jeff's sister, who
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will call Melba, and her boyfriend, twenty five year old chatter Old car
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pulled up to the house. Deputy Mark Miller stopped, identified and briefly questioned
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them car. Deputy Miller noted seemed very nervous. He was visibly shaken,
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king both physically and audibly, and even had to be calmed down by his
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girlfriend. She told him to relax and that Deputy Miller was a nice guy.
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The two were released from questioning a short time later. The Wood County
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Sheriff's office was certainly used to crime, but not a crime like the savage
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attack against nineteen year old Brittany McLoone. They had no witnesses, and one
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state Attorney General's Office investigator told the family that it was as if the perpetrator
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had entered the home, possibly sexually assaulted and killed Brittany while covered in plastic
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wrap, an analogy meaning that he left no physical evidence. However, years
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later, on a social media thread of all places, Wood County Sheriff Tom
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Castelow, who was not sheriff at the time of Britney's murder, admitted that
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officers who were unfamiliar with proper investigative techniques had contaminated the crime scene. Wood
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County Sheriff's Office deputies too, let the family back into the house the crime
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scene the same evening. Brittany was found slain there just hours later. This
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almost certainly resulted in further contamination. Even still, an affidavit years later states
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that numerous items of evidence were collected there. A later Wood County sheriff revealed
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that there were multiple sources of DNA bagged for evidence items taken from Jeff's bedroom
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in areas such as the bed, the wall, the carpet, and from
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clothing. Besides strange comments from a Texas Attorney General's Office investigator and improperly trained
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sheriff's deputies bumbling around the murder, other investigative oddities occurred, such as law
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enforcements failure to drag Lake Winsborough to look for the murder weapon, which was
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determined to be a heavy tea or cross shaped metal object like a tire iron.
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A detail to keep in mind. Lake Winsboro is directly behind Jeff's house
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where Brittany was found, only about one hundred and fifty feet away. A
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few days after Brittany mcloone's body was discovered through the media. Sheriff Doherty asked
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for someone to come forward with information and stated that they had a few suspects
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they were looking into. Britney's death was estimated as occurring sometime between eight am
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and three pm, a timeframe based not on scientific analysis. Rather, it
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is simply based on when she was last seen alive and when she was found.
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Forensic pathology in two thousand and seven might not be what it is today
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in twenty twenty three, but it certainly was not the stone age of the
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practice, and this extremely large gap of time leaves much to be desired as
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far as determining who could have committed the crime. Britney's boyfriend, Jeff was
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scrutinized for obvious reasons. He was the last known person to see Brittney alive,
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he found her body, and the two had recently gotten back together after
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a pretty intense breakup. Jeff's DNA was all over the scene. Of course,
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it was his room, so it meant little in terms of evidence that
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he was involved in Brittany's murder in any way. The families and Likelywood County
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Sheriff's Office Investigator's first reaction was that Jeff was involved in Britney's death when sheriff's
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deputies told Patricia that Brittany was deceased. In fact, it was her first
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reaction when the props told me. My reaction that kind of a bitch killed
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her, didn't me? And I thought it was Jeff. Now, two
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officers came back later that night, you know, to interview me and you
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know, ask me specifics about Jeff, you know, because I had said
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that, and they did arrest him, take him to jail on an outstanding
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moore and of course suspicion that he had murdered Brittany. On Tuesday, May
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eighth, two thousand and seven, Brittany Danielle McLoone was laid to rest at
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Lee Cemetery in Winnsboro following us service at Baby Funeral Home. Britney's casket remained
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closed due to the severe injuries inflicted upon her by her killer. The services
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did not go without incident, as Britney's brother explained to us, to kind
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of tell you a little about his character or him and his family's character.
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Today the funeral, the family kind of asked them to stay away from the
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funeral home. You know, family only, especially in a homicide case.
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We don't know what happened. Everything super fresh at the time. You know,
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we respectfully asked them to not come, and him and his family and
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his mom and his aunt, they showed up at the funeral home. I
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was at the funeral home basically yelling and cursing us out because we aren't going
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to come in. If I always asked that from somebody, you know,
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under those circumstances, I definitely would respect those decisions. You know, they
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definitely did. Jeff Stagner and his family's actions that day only fueled their suspicions
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about him, adding to speculation. Patricia also felt like Jeff hadn't been completely
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honest with her about that day. Yeah, yet I had some very any
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good confrontations with Jeff about you know, like the day she was murdered,
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when he called me and told much she was they're sleeping. You know that's
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a lie. Why did he lie to me? Why did you send that?
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Need said, just because her truck was there? According to him,
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he hadn't at coin in the house to discover Brandy, and then once he
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discovered her law, the law wouldn't let him call me back and tell me.
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So that was his excuse for that. But yes, Jeff and I
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have had some very angry encounters. We left the Winnsboro area now about two
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years after Britney's murdered because it was just too hard to be an account around
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that family, not knowing Pail Britney could be the person standing Britney in the
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grocery store. Such a small town, one grocery store, you know.
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Jeff and his stepfather were thoroughly questioned. Their stories matched and made sense.
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The trip to Cleburne, at least two hours and forty minutes each way,
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plus time to load Jeff's grandmother in the car, also accounted for the estimated
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window of time Brittany was believed to have been killed, But again it should
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be noted that window of time appears to have no basis in scientific estimation.
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On May eleventh, two thousand and seven, five days after Brittany was brutally
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murdered, both Jeff and his stepfather underwent and passed polygraph examinations. Law enforcement
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cleared both men their alibi of going to cleburn that day to pick up Jeff's
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maternal grandmother, checked out not only by their matching accounts and witness accounts,
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but also verified by phone records and video surveillance. Jeff, by many indications,
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was not present to kill Brittany. More than a dozen years later,
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however, after three different Sheriff's office administrations had treated Jeff Stagner as if he
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was eliminated as a suspect, a new sheriff assured various media outlets that he
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was not. Brittany's family has had issues with the Wood County Sheriff's Office and
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the way they handled Brittany's case since the beginning up until the latest administration came
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in and began reinvestigating with care and fervor. I don't want to believe that
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a monster that could hurt beautiful young corovit Brittney so horribly smarter than the law
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enforcement Linton, Texas. I don't want to believe that it's hard to have
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any help, you know, when you wake up every day, there was
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no answers. I had one law enforcement officer compare for it, Andy to
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still and law nowhere. And I want to call, you know, Yatny's
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matches, what's going on? Because you know the guy who had his lawnmow
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still and last you know, I lost my daughter. I have to fight
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these people to make sure she gets justice. We've gone through four or five
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sheriffs over the kind of decade, and none of them have really brought in
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light or done anything about the case. One of them has actually threatened us
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and threatened our family and my dad and told us to learn our position and
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we shouldn't be saying anything. So as far as law enforcement, it really
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feels like something getting done. I mean, the d a kind of steps
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in, you know, from Austin, They kind of help out with the
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agency. Even still to that degree I mean is honestly, there's not a
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lot of hope there, unfortunately, and that's the hardest part of all this
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is, you know, not known if soling off. It seems unfathomable that
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a professional law enforcement agency would become argumentative and condescending on social media to families
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of victims, but would county authorities have done so with members of Britney's family.
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I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing this for justice. Ex
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Sheriff Jim Brown, who would later face charges of abuse of official capacity and
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official oppression, replied to Ron McGlone, Britney's father on Facebook. Perhaps the
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controversies surrounding the department that have come to light in recent years, most notably
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the aforementioned indictment in twenty seventeen of Sheriff Brown and the indictment of Deputy Miles
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Tucker for tampering with physical evidence official oppression and of aggravated perjury, can shed
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some light on why Brittany's case remains unsolved. But those are an entirely different
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and convoluted story altogether. Both men, it should be noted, were eventually
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acquitted of the charges. They say, everything happens for a reason and God
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has a plan. But I have a real hard time seeing this one,
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Brittany's father, Ron McLoone told an East Texas News reporter in twenty ten.
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Turn your own self in, he continued. You want to go to heaven.
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I'm sure everybody does, but at this point it don't look good for
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you. Brittany's family has struggled to make sense of her murder, but of
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course there's no sense to be had. The person responsible for the savage attack
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being held accountable is really the only relief hope describe to us. The effect
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that her sister's murder has had on her family. To put it in words,
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and you know, to try to explain it to people that haven't been
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through something like this, you know, your your world kind of stops and
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you take a look back, and while your world is no longer spanding,
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you see that the rest of the everybody else's world is going on, and
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you're just kind of stuck in this in this time of torture, is what
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it feels like. And you know, a lot of people didn't even know
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that she had a sister, because you know, I looked over here and
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she was definitely my best friend and one of the closest people. But I
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wanted too And you know, I was sixteen on that happened. She was
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nineteen, and not that at any age you're prepared to go through anything like
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that, because there is no way to prepare for that. But basically,
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I just had to grow up and there was something as a kid that you
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know, not even a lot of adults still was, and anything is.
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I just really want people to know how great of a person she was,
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and for people that have gone through something similar, you know, they know
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they know the feeling well. But she was the most innocent person that anything
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like this could happen to do. And that's the worst part of it is
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because that anybody deserves anything like this, but she definitely did not deserve.
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Yeah, you know, a good person wasn't with the wrong people, didn't
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do the wrong thing you think of innocent, She was that exactly. Brittany's
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brother, Brandon, too, has struggled with the reality that changed for him
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when she was taken away, you know, and then she's been murdered,
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or it's hard for a sixteen year old to kind of graph that at the
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time. You know, that's that's just stuff you see on movies and on
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TV. Or you never think it's just happened to you or a loved one,
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So kind to let that sink in it. Definitely, I don't think
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it's still full of seeking in well, thirteen years later. Obviously didn't get
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a whole lot of information as far as like crime scene and stuff like that.
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Up until just recently, everything's been so you know, we've had to
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walk on eggshells because nobody wants us to jeopardize the case or anything, or
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so they say. Patricia Britney's mother longs for answers for justice. I like
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up every day, which that paying in my heart. Someone hurt my baby
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so and there's never going to be a bit reason for it. But you
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don't know who the heck or who did be mad at I mean get mad
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at the whole people. No, so horrifict and she had so much tough
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in the world. In twenty twenty one, after almost fourteen years had passed
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since the murder of nineteen year old Brittany McLoone, Kelly Cole became Sheriff of
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Wood County, things began to look up. Justice finally seemed in sight.
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Sheriff Cole was more determined to solve Britney's case than any of the county's previous
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top lawman had been, though he insisted Jeff Stagner had indeed not been eliminated
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from the suspect pool. There was someone connected to Jeff, or Jeff's sister,
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more specifically, who eventually became the Wood County Sheriff's office prime suspect.
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In fact, this person, Chatteral Carr, had become a person of interest
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within an hour of the discovery of Britney's body. It wasn't simply because the
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man was visibly nervous when Deputy Mark Miller spoke with him at the scene that
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made him look suspicious. Rather, it was the combination of that, a
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criminal record that included violent offenses that mirrored Brittany slang lies he told regarding his
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alibi, and strong, circumstantial and physical evidence that pointed to him collected not
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long after the heinous crime was committed. That's next time on Gone Cold.
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If you have any information about the murder of Brittany Danielle McGlone, please contact
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the Wood County Sheriff's Office at nine zero three seven to sixty three two two
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same time, called Wood County Crime Stoppers at nine zero three seven sixty three
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