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Secret Killer Leads Cops Into His Murder Shed · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: He was in a hurry, and because I guess it
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Speaker 1: was rain and he wanted to get this.
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Speaker 2: On the cover, So you weren't here when Dylan came
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Speaker 2: down here. He's a friend of mine. Sure he'll get
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Speaker 2: rid of friends.
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Speaker 3: This is Jim Brenner, a farmer living in the remote
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Speaker 3: Utah Desert. Police don't know it yet, but he's showing
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Speaker 3: them the exact building where a missing teenager was murdered
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Speaker 3: just days earlier. Nineteen year old Dylan Browns had left
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Speaker 3: his family to go work on his farm, but after
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Speaker 3: being spotted buying supplies at a local shop, he would
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Speaker 3: vanish without a trace. Strangely, no one in the small,
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Speaker 3: quiet town seemed surprised. Apparently this was not uncommon.
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Speaker 1: I told that kid stayed the hell out of Montella
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Speaker 1: with that whole town kitson praise some other.
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Speaker 4: Guy pointing a gun in my freaking days.
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Speaker 3: As days stretched into weeks, to tell active's chased a
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Speaker 3: mounting list of suspects, thieves, violent criminals, drug dealers. Yet
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Speaker 3: from the very beginning, the truth was there, hidden in
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Speaker 3: plain sight by someone nobody suspected. It all began on
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Speaker 3: a quiet evening when police received calls from a concerned
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Speaker 3: family member reporting their son Dylan Rounds, missing from his
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Speaker 3: farm in Utah. They hadn't heard from him in over
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Speaker 3: two days, and when they went to his property to check,
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Speaker 3: there was no sign of him anywhere. A deputy was
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Speaker 3: dispatched to Dylan's farm to meet with his family, but
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Speaker 3: on his way there, he was stopped by a neighbor
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Speaker 3: of Dylan, claiming he might know what happened to him.
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Speaker 5: He's been hanging out over that bar in Montello, and
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Speaker 5: I could give you some names with some scumbags over there.
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Speaker 5: But he's been shooting his mouth off about how much
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Speaker 5: money he's making. And there's one guy, Chase, Chase Vector Venture.
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Speaker 5: He's over there and he can do anything he wants.
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Speaker 5: You can, Robin Steele and everything. Nooko County Sheriff won't
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Speaker 5: do anything. And if you talk to his mother, she
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Speaker 5: knows more about it.
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Speaker 2: But he run into.
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Speaker 5: Chase on the Tacoma Road the other day and Chase
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Speaker 5: kind of scared him a little bit.
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Speaker 6: Won't your last name again, Jim Renner?
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Speaker 5: Jim Brenner. We'll let you get down here before they
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Speaker 5: disturbed the crime scene.
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Speaker 6: Okay, thank you.
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Speaker 3: As the conversation ended, Jim Brenner's strange remark about a
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Speaker 3: crime scene left the deputy curious, since no crime was
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Speaker 3: yet confirmed. It was an unsettling comment that would soon
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Speaker 3: become a disturbing reality.
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Speaker 7: Chad again for now, though, The deputy took note of
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Speaker 7: this information and continued towards Dylan's farm to speak with
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Speaker 7: his family.
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Speaker 8: All guns there, bell guns in there, like he said,
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Speaker 8: he carries us.
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Speaker 9: He has afforded that he puts in the door, heard
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Speaker 9: the side.
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Speaker 10: Did you just popped the back window?
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Speaker 2: I broke it out.
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Speaker 3: At first glance, Dylan's red Ford truck appeared oddly abandoned,
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Speaker 3: bearing signs of minor damage. But what concerned his father
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Speaker 3: the most was that Dylan's guns had mysteriously vanished from
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Speaker 3: the trailer, a detail that was strange on its own.
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Speaker 3: Wanting to learn more about Dylan, the deputy turned to
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Speaker 3: speak with his mother. She had her own troubling information
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Speaker 3: to share about Dylan's recent run in with a local criminal.
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Speaker 6: Here himself. What is your farm for grain?
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Speaker 11: Or?
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Speaker 10: James stopped me when you guys ordered on me?
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Speaker 2: Was stalking to me.
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Speaker 12: He said that he knew sel him about a run
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Speaker 12: and he had with a guy named Jake Yea on Wednesday.
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Speaker 13: But they told me that's normal.
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Speaker 12: So I know a lot of the people that he
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Speaker 12: named from Montello or no good people?
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Speaker 10: How I know of them from what people say.
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Speaker 3: Dylan's mother confirmed her son had in fact encountered Chase
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Speaker 3: Venstra recently, the same person Dylan's neighbor had earlier described
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Speaker 3: as a local thief and criminal. Given what the deputy
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Speaker 3: learned so far, it seemed like Dylan might have unknowingly
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Speaker 3: placed himself in danger. At just nineteen, he purchased six
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Speaker 3: hundred and forty acres of land with his grandfather for
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Speaker 3: an estimated two hundred to three hundred thousand dollars and
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Speaker 3: built a reputation for his ambitious dreams of running a
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Speaker 3: huge farm. But according to his neighbor, Dylan's confidence may
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Speaker 3: have made him a target, as he often frequented rough
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Speaker 3: local bars and talked openly about his financial success. After
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Speaker 3: rehashing some more details with Dylan's parents, the neighbor Jim
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Speaker 3: Brainer and his close friend Donald Pateley, arrived to help.
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Speaker 3: Both men knew Dylan well. Jim was living in a
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Speaker 3: trailer near Dylan's farm. And occasionally helped him with chores,
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Speaker 3: and Donald was a longtime friend of the family and
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Speaker 3: a supportive mentor to Dylan's farming ambitions. But unbeknownst to
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Speaker 3: everyone at the time, both men knew something more about
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Speaker 3: Dylan's disappearance, something they weren't ready to share yet.
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Speaker 10: I did get a feel. Okay, last location, it was
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Speaker 10: fifteen point four miles from the boat line power, which
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Speaker 10: puts him on this back road.
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Speaker 14: So I would that hit him walking? Okay, that's I really,
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Speaker 14: I know my son. And that's the shortest route.
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Speaker 6: To his camp.
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Speaker 2: If he walked, that road was right out here. If
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Speaker 2: he walked, he cut across this field.
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Speaker 13: But that's as close as cell phone. Peep not intent,
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Speaker 13: I'll not.
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Speaker 2: It's out here.
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Speaker 15: Off of that road, the back road into the compound,
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Speaker 15: and we go down to or it is.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, which time was that?
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Speaker 13: Does it tell you?
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Speaker 15: That was at fifty fourteen fifty eight, so right after
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Speaker 15: just before three o'clock.
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Speaker 14: Right after you left. So he must have pulled in
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Speaker 14: right behind you, dropped up the grain truck. And I'm
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Speaker 14: telling you, I bet you he took off walking.
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Speaker 6: How do you get to that road?
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Speaker 2: For all?
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Speaker 10: I So we don't have to go all the way
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Speaker 10: back to Lucian Pawn and over. Oh no, I guess okay.
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Speaker 3: Following this lead, they quickly headed to the shed area
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Speaker 3: to investigate. That's when they discovered the first troubling sign
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Speaker 3: of foul play. Dylan's boots were found stained with blood,
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Speaker 3: discarded about one hundred yards south of the shed. The
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Speaker 3: deputy immediately secured the boots to send them off for
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Speaker 3: DNA testing and called another deputy to help search the
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Speaker 3: shed and the surrounding property. However, they had no way
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Speaker 3: of knowing that the biggest clue they were looking for
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Speaker 3: was submerged twenty feet deep in a pond nearby.
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Speaker 9: There's just some boots out there that are still only
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Speaker 9: been out there for a day or two. You didn't
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Speaker 9: see anybody else around here. I left here about one
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Speaker 9: thirty or dons. Yeah, I was there until.
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Speaker 2: About nine o'clock at night when I come back.
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Speaker 13: That truck.
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Speaker 2: It's just one thing after the Yeah. But he's a
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Speaker 2: friend of mine. Sure, you all get rid of friends.
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Speaker 9: Those two boots out there, they're brand new, like they're
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Speaker 9: they've only been out there. They're they're the same color
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Speaker 9: leather as your boots and they're the same ones he wears.
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Speaker 9: So we're just curious of why his boots would be
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Speaker 9: out there, same size he wears. They've only been out there,
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Speaker 9: probably for a day or two. He might have threw
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Speaker 9: him out there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe he did. Well, he does he know that's
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Speaker 2: a dump out there. He does. He's got electronics and
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Speaker 2: ship in there. I'd be like, say he was here,
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Speaker 2: he had to been here, truck here. Yeah, that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: Based on Jim Brinner's timeline, whatever happened to Dylan likely
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Speaker 3: occurred between one thirty PM and nine o'clock PM, when
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Speaker 3: Jim left the shed to visit his friend Donald hate Lee.
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Speaker 3: Police quickly verified Brenner's timeline with his friend Donald, who
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Speaker 3: confirms that they had dinner together during that time. With
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Speaker 3: Dylan's exact movements still unclear, deputies requested a helicopter to
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Speaker 3: scout the area from above, looking for any trace of Dylan.
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Speaker 2: So, who owned this right here? That's the guy that
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Speaker 2: he is a partner with this Whey he dropped.
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Speaker 3: The great cook off.
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Speaker 2: Where's this great truck?
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Speaker 10: It's backed into that silver building there, So the big one, Yep,
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Speaker 10: you got to go uphire Mike or you think good,
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Speaker 10: please do the nice high army.
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Speaker 15: You can look at everything with a camera and then
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Speaker 15: we'll come back DOWNCID, we see you thing with her.
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Speaker 3: After a full sweep of the surrounding area, no sign
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Speaker 3: of Dylan or any indication of where he might have
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Speaker 3: gone was found. In the following days, the search efforts
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Speaker 3: continued and Daniel's family, alongside local volunteers, joined in, but
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Speaker 3: despite their best efforts coming through the area, they too
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Speaker 3: came up empty. Attention soon turned to the local criminal,
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Speaker 3: Chase Venstra. Both Dylan's mother and his neighbor Jim, mentioned
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Speaker 3: a recent encounter between the two, making Chase one of
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Speaker 3: the last people to see Dylan alive. Additionally, Chase already
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Speaker 3: had a history of violent run ins with the law,
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Speaker 3: including a ten hour armed stand off with police in
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Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, and was well known in the area for
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Speaker 3: all the wrong reasons. Luckily for police, Chase had an
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Speaker 3: active warrant related to domestic violence. It was their perfect
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Speaker 3: chance to bring him in for questioning. But when officers
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Speaker 3: arrived at the house to arrest him, Chase was nowhere
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Speaker 3: to be found, potentially already on the run from police.
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Speaker 3: Officers quickly began searching the town, asking if anyone had
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Speaker 3: seen Chase recently. Locals directed them to the Montello Cowboy Bar,
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Speaker 3: a place known to be frequented by Chase. Following this lead,
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Speaker 3: officers headed to check the bar, where they would soon
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Speaker 3: learn that Dylan and Chase's encounter it may have been
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Speaker 3: more dangerous than anyone realized. But before we get to that,
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Speaker 3: the officers at Montello Cowboy Bar, where a conversation with
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Speaker 3: the locals was about to reveal how Dylan's encounter with
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Speaker 3: Chase may have turned violent.
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Speaker 10: I'm the ryan a good name doing around.
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Speaker 14: Oh I know, we got locals out here.
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Speaker 10: Well, they went out that way because he was out
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Speaker 10: to loose in.
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Speaker 16: I was hearing Kurt say something about he had a
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Speaker 16: conversation with that Chase kid.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's who I'm looking forward.
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Speaker 16: We find it kind of worried about it because GIFs
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Speaker 16: Dylan did walk back from where he left the grain
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Speaker 16: track and Chase got a hold of him vulnerable, you
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Speaker 16: know what I mean.
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Speaker 6: Walk him back. Something bad to happen, because.
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Speaker 16: There was a bad injury with the kid just here
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Speaker 16: that got his stay smashed in by the butt of
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Speaker 16: the gun, and all his the whole camp or show
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Speaker 16: was all bashed in and stuff.
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Speaker 2: Where do we find Chase? Is he from here? Does
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Speaker 2: he live here?
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Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: He does, he doesn't.
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Speaker 16: He's from around here, yes, staying out here?
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Speaker 13: He was?
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Speaker 6: Where was he staying at in town?
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Speaker 14: And so everybody was after him and they finally told
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Speaker 14: him to get the hell out of town and stay.
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Speaker 6: Chris came back.
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Speaker 10: Because he was just here.
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Speaker 3: The bar owner's recap only further implicated Chase Venstra, suggesting
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Speaker 3: that a violent confrontation between Chase and Dylan was more
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Speaker 3: likely than ever. But something else caught the officer's attention
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Speaker 3: when one of the bar owners briefly mentioned another recent
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Speaker 3: incident involving Chase. Sensing there might be more to this,
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Speaker 3: the officer decided to pull her aside for a private conversation.
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Speaker 3: At this point, police still considered Dylan's case a missing person,
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Speaker 3: but what the bar owner detailed next would soon shift
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Speaker 3: this case to one of potential homicide.
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Speaker 2: Why was chasing him having an issue?
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Speaker 12: Do you know so Kurt told me, and I was
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Speaker 12: over here in part of the conversation saying that Dylan
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Speaker 12: was to drive down the road and Chase stopped it
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Speaker 12: and so Hey got some water. He was like, hey,
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Speaker 12: do you know Kurt dada? And I guess it got
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Speaker 12: an altercation about that because Chase he's like, curtsy as
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Speaker 12: welda da, And Dylan was like, no, he's not.
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Speaker 6: You know, he's a good guy.
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Speaker 17: I work for you know, I do work for hm.
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Speaker 12: Blah blah blah.
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Speaker 10: There's an altercation.
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Speaker 12: Then he went on his way, and I believe, if
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Speaker 12: I'm not.
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Speaker 18: Mistaking the conversation, that was the same day that he
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Speaker 18: drove the Greater or the Grainer over to wherever he
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Speaker 18: and then whoever was there couldn't give him a ride back,
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Speaker 18: so he possibly want That's all I know about the conversation.
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Speaker 19: How does the kid get hit with the butt of
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Speaker 19: a gun?
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Speaker 2: Does that figure into this at all?
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Speaker 12: I can get down. I think there is some because
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Speaker 12: now we're talking violence. So kid let his property go
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Speaker 12: to stop making payments on his property because he's so scared.
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Speaker 12: But he woke up to the buton of the gun
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Speaker 12: into his face. They smashed his camber. Oh, my thirties,
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Speaker 12: he has a family, has kids. He's out your boat
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Speaker 12: land out here's or I'm trying to host it.
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Speaker 11: He's not out here an imagine, no does properly go?
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Speaker 11: Who was gone?
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Speaker 3: With this troubling insight, it became clear that Chase Venstro
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Speaker 3: was fully capable of extreme violence. If he attacked someone
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Speaker 3: else recently, he easily could have done the same to Dylan.
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Speaker 3: But what no one had realized yet was that police
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Speaker 3: were looking in the wrong direction the whole time, while
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Speaker 3: someone far more dangerous and guilty was hiding right under
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Speaker 3: their noses. The next day, while the search for Chase continued,
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Speaker 3: Dylan's family reached out to police. They were conducting their
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Speaker 3: own investigation and wanted to share new information they'd uncovered,
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Speaker 3: information suggesting Chase may not have acted alone.
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Speaker 2: So this is this is the family.
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Speaker 10: Yes, okay, so tell him again what your suspicion to
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Speaker 10: believe it?
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Speaker 13: So I'm five twenty five is when Dylan ran in
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Speaker 13: the chase with the desert and call in the desert
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Speaker 13: and called me right.
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Speaker 6: After he had no shoes on.
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Speaker 13: Dylan wouldn't let him take his phone or give him
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Speaker 13: a ride, but he did allow him to call his
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Speaker 13: dad on speakerphone in Ogden, Utah. Dylan allowed Chase to
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Speaker 13: and then he gave him some coke and his and
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Speaker 13: then his dad called Dylan back and Dylan sent the
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Speaker 13: pin from his phone to where Chase was.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 13: So then we fast forward to five twenty eight, which
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Speaker 13: was Saturday. Dylan was heard from in the morning. He
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Speaker 13: talked to his grandma and he was gonna take the
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Speaker 13: green truck to the shed to put it in shelter because.
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Speaker 8: It was raining.
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Speaker 13: So at this point were assumed he was walking back
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Speaker 13: across the desert to his camper.
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Speaker 6: Because he didn't have a ride. Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
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Speaker 13: So then five point nine they continued to look for
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Speaker 13: In five to thirty we all got here to Dylan's
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Speaker 13: last and non locational loopsin filed the police support, got
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Speaker 13: search and rescue out. That's tonight we found Dylan Boots
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Speaker 13: about four hundred yards from where his last known location was,
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Speaker 13: tossed out behind a dirt pile, just out in the desert.
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Speaker 13: So then today we kept searching and that's when these
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Speaker 13: guys got to see information. What about three o'clock today,
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Speaker 13: we know that this Robert guy took Chase out to
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Speaker 13: the desert where Dylan is the day Dylan witnessing.
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Speaker 3: The man Dylan's mother mentioned would turn out to be
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Speaker 3: Robert of Vilays. He had an active arrest warrant and
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Speaker 3: reportedly gave Chase Venstra a ride to Dylan's place on
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Speaker 3: the day he disappeared. The family also suspected that Chase
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Speaker 3: could be at Robert's house, so finding him became a
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Speaker 3: priority in locating their prime suspect and hopefully Dylan himself.
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Speaker 3: Officers quickly moved to track down Robert of Vilays, and
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Speaker 3: their first stop was Robert's residence, where they came into
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Speaker 3: contact with his mother.
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Speaker 4: I don't know who that would be. Okay, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 4: but I have no idea.
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Speaker 8: He's supposed to be hanging out with a guy named
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Speaker 8: Chase and Robert and Robert.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know. Chase might have an idea, but
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Speaker 4: my son's been homesick, and he's been in bed all
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Speaker 4: day and he's been home all night. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I'm just wondering.
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Speaker 2: So, who's all in your house?
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Speaker 6: Nobody?
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Speaker 2: Nobody's in there right now.
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Speaker 4: No, my son is in his trailer and where's that
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Speaker 4: at in the backyard.
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Speaker 2: In the backyard.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, we're just trying to we're just trying to
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Speaker 6: find it.
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Speaker 4: And no, no one came home with him.
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Speaker 2: Nobody came home with him. No, okay, is Chase here?
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Speaker 4: No, I don't let Chase on my property. After I
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Speaker 4: found him inside my home.
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Speaker 20: When I was at home, we were we were told
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Speaker 20: that there's possibly a kid. Yeah, no, three look around
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Speaker 20: like he's not being there. I see, that's why we're here, man.
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Speaker 2: I not about a car.
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Speaker 4: Look around if you want to, but there's a litre
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Speaker 4: about my son, and he's sleeping.
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Speaker 3: After speaking with Robert's mother, officers conducted a thorough search
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Speaker 3: of the property. I found no sign of Dylan or Chase,
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Speaker 3: but they soon located Robert inside his trailer and he
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Speaker 3: was quickly arrested and transported to the police station for questioning.
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Speaker 3: When detectives placed Robert in the interrogation room, they expected
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Speaker 3: resistance and lies, but instead, Robert didn't hold back.
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Speaker 17: So, you said that Chase had taken guns from somebody.
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Speaker 21: Did he admit to you like where he got his gun?
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Speaker 17: No, this is what I thought.
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Speaker 11: He got arrested for the first time. What he was
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Speaker 11: in jail for. When I came back, I asked Chase that.
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Speaker 15: I was like, hey, man, I.
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Speaker 11: Heard you got arrested. He's like, Nah, that's just all
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Speaker 11: Montello gossip blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 22: Right, so I'm kind of weary after giving him a ride.
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Speaker 5: I tried to show.
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Speaker 11: One of my mom's friends sting out there in the
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Speaker 11: community for a long time. He gave me his scenario.
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Speaker 22: He thinks Chase did it too.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 11: Now I don't know the time frames because I am
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Speaker 11: not good with time.
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Speaker 22: Like I told you guys, I did the best I
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Speaker 22: could by contacting the store lady and asking her what
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Speaker 22: a day I gave Chase a ride?
19:19
Speaker 6: No, because I.
19:19
Speaker 11: Didn't even know what day I gave Chase a ride.
19:21
Speaker 6: I didn't even know a day that kids him a mission.
19:23
Speaker 6: I didn't even know there was a kid missiing until
19:26
Speaker 6: the Nevada Police.
19:28
Speaker 11: Came knocking on our door wanted to search our residents.
19:30
Speaker 6: You know what I mean.
19:32
Speaker 11: And that's the truth.
19:33
Speaker 3: Although Robert admitted giving Chase Venstra a ride, he couldn't
19:37
Speaker 3: provide any clear information on Chase's current whereabouts and maintained
19:41
Speaker 3: his innocence. Throughout the rest of his interview, however, Robert
19:45
Speaker 3: made one thing clear. He believed Chase was involved and
19:49
Speaker 3: might have even killed Dylan. The following night, something strange
19:59
Speaker 3: happened at Dylan's trailer in the Looten Desert. It seemed
20:03
Speaker 3: someone had quietly returned and tampered with items inside. An
20:07
Speaker 3: officer was quickly sent out to photograph and document the scene,
20:11
Speaker 3: accompanied by Dylan's father, who'd share more details about the
20:15
Speaker 3: troubling discovery.
20:16
Speaker 8: Okay, a shotgun is in a house in Rigby. Okay,
20:19
Speaker 8: that is my grandfather's that I bought, and he has
20:22
Speaker 8: a room up there, and that was the forty. He's
20:26
Speaker 8: not in here. We looked in his camper, didn't find it.
20:33
Speaker 8: No key fop to the trucks. When I broke the
20:35
Speaker 8: window of alarm and off, we undered the battery.
20:38
Speaker 2: No key fop.
20:41
Speaker 6: We looked in his tamper and all the cupboards and stuff.
20:43
Speaker 8: Looked in the bathroom.
20:45
Speaker 6: Nothing. My mother came here.
20:47
Speaker 8: She's real badness, right, So my sister was here. Were
20:49
Speaker 8: all out searching. She used the bathroom, Dylan had flush
20:52
Speaker 8: to the seating. Here's really nasty. So my sister went
20:55
Speaker 8: in and cleaned it. Still no gun. Later, my son
20:59
Speaker 8: and jad came in and the gun was sitting on
21:02
Speaker 8: a sink. It's outside of the bathroom, but right by
21:05
Speaker 8: the bathroom door where the toilet in the shower is.
21:08
Speaker 8: But it's not in the bathroom. The gun was sitting
21:10
Speaker 8: right there with the with the clip outside of it. Okay,
21:15
Speaker 8: sitting there, So my son and JD didn't think much
21:17
Speaker 8: of it. They grabbed the gun put it in my truck.
21:21
Speaker 8: I didn't think much of it.
21:22
Speaker 6: Although they found the gun, I don't know.
21:24
Speaker 8: Then we started realizing that it wasn't there when my
21:26
Speaker 8: sister cleaned the bathroom for my mom to use and
21:29
Speaker 8: all that, and it was there.
21:32
Speaker 3: This discovery was an alarming indication that someone was actively
21:36
Speaker 3: trying to cover up their involvement in Dylan's disappearance. But
21:41
Speaker 3: his father had one more thing to share, something about
21:45
Speaker 3: an old confrontation with someone police hadn't yet fully considered
21:49
Speaker 3: in their investigation.
21:51
Speaker 2: What was Chase's ties to out here.
21:54
Speaker 8: I don't know about Chase, Okay, hardly, but the whole
21:57
Speaker 8: town knows. In the whole town or just Gid's a
22:01
Speaker 8: crazy place. They're just all right now. They're all nuty
22:06
Speaker 8: for one thing. The only people that I know of
22:08
Speaker 8: that really were in contact with Dylan is I hear
22:10
Speaker 8: the Chase guy didn't know it, but Don and Jim.
22:14
Speaker 8: Jim was the guy you the place, you guys, you know, Okay,
22:18
Speaker 8: Jim came out here and helped. Jim came to Rigby
22:21
Speaker 8: where I live. I live at Rigby and Idol Falls area.
22:25
Speaker 8: Dylan bots like eight hundred pigs or something from the Midwest.
22:29
Speaker 8: When the pandemic hit whatever, that drona. They brought him
22:32
Speaker 8: to my farm last pissed and Jim was there and
22:36
Speaker 8: I at least told me to get the hell out
22:38
Speaker 8: of here. He called Dylan, told me blow my head off.
22:42
Speaker 8: Dylan called me.
22:42
Speaker 2: He got all mad.
22:44
Speaker 8: So when I found that he wasn't blow my head off,
22:46
Speaker 8: I had to go see. And he's walking down the
22:48
Speaker 8: lane on the farm with a big old pitch to
22:51
Speaker 8: wom My dad called it down and called me down.
22:54
Speaker 8: Then he came back to this winner to my shop
22:56
Speaker 8: to work on that sea truck. Fine, everything was fine,
22:59
Speaker 8: and I reallyzed his Stillan's friend like, I'm not going
23:02
Speaker 8: to worry about this, and what I mean, I got
23:03
Speaker 8: it bentize.
23:04
Speaker 3: This so, according to Dylan's father, there were no further
23:09
Speaker 3: escalations after his confrontation with Jim Breanner. At the time,
23:13
Speaker 3: at this point, no one had any real reason to
23:16
Speaker 3: suspect Jim Brainer or Donald Hatley. After all, they'd been
23:20
Speaker 3: actively helping the family, joining search and rescue efforts, and
23:23
Speaker 3: fully cooperating with police. However, the confrontation described by Dylan's
23:28
Speaker 3: father was serious enough for the officer to take note
23:31
Speaker 3: of it. After leaving the scene, he passed this information
23:34
Speaker 3: to detectives, prompting a deeper look into Jim Brenner's past,
23:38
Speaker 3: and what detectives uncovered wasn't entirely unexpected. A criminal past
23:45
Speaker 3: including convictions for aggravated assaults and multiple weapons charges, as
23:49
Speaker 3: well as a pre existing federal active warrant for being
23:52
Speaker 3: a restricted person in possession of a firearm. Brenner's violent
23:57
Speaker 3: history and his close proximity to Dylan's farm we're enough
24:00
Speaker 3: for detectives to flank him as a person of interest
24:03
Speaker 3: alongside their primary suspect, Chase Venstra. The following day, officers
24:13
Speaker 3: moved quickly to serve Brenner's arrest warrant and bring him
24:16
Speaker 3: in for questioning. They soon spotted him casually heading back
24:20
Speaker 3: towards the Green Shed with his close friend Donald Hatley.
24:24
Speaker 1: What could I do for you, guys, Well, we just
24:27
Speaker 1: had a couple of people wanted to talk to you about.
24:29
Speaker 9: We're still trying to figure stuff out, you know.
24:32
Speaker 2: And just have you guys heard or seen anything in
24:36
Speaker 2: these days?
24:37
Speaker 6: Anything new?
24:38
Speaker 2: This trash over here?
24:41
Speaker 1: I know names, I know people, I know they nobody
24:45
Speaker 1: seems to want to listen to me.
24:49
Speaker 2: They're the ones coming over stealing shit, are they? Yeah?
24:52
Speaker 1: Chase Vestra, Chase Vestra and Robert Ebilis are the one
24:57
Speaker 1: that robbed Michael Moore up here. But everybody keeps saying
25:01
Speaker 1: that we need willing You need to check freaking ratch
25:06
Speaker 1: that's over there.
25:07
Speaker 2: And people are going to start talking.
25:08
Speaker 1: That's the only way you're gonna find out about Dylan.
25:11
Speaker 10: There's a war he arrest and letting you know about
25:13
Speaker 10: it now from Marylands or to USOL. We're gonna pick
25:17
Speaker 10: you up, take you in jail with.
25:18
Speaker 2: Oh god damn it.
25:20
Speaker 17: So what I want to do?
25:21
Speaker 10: I know before you don't place your hands on your
25:23
Speaker 10: head for me. Interlock your fingers, okay.
25:27
Speaker 3: Jim pointing fingers that Robert and Chase was understandable given
25:32
Speaker 3: witness statements and allegations, but Jim's own criminal past and
25:36
Speaker 3: proximity to Dylan made him equally suspicious. Detectives transported him
25:40
Speaker 3: to the police station, planning to use the unrelated warrant
25:44
Speaker 3: charges as an opportunity to question him further about Dylan.
25:48
Speaker 3: Though they didn't expect much new information from Jim, this
25:51
Speaker 3: routine questioning was about to lead to an unexpected breakthrough.
25:57
Speaker 6: The war.
25:59
Speaker 23: Has an issue, and we're obbly.
26:05
Speaker 22: I don't know if you realize that there's other bigger
26:07
Speaker 22: problems going all.
26:08
Speaker 23: Over there and this not here to talk to you
26:11
Speaker 23: about about.
26:12
Speaker 11: Warns you just stop rot warrens, Okay, we would like
26:15
Speaker 11: to talk to you about the other thing considered going
26:17
Speaker 11: out when we got to you. I understand if i'm
26:21
Speaker 11: you know, I know him better than you do. I
26:23
Speaker 11: work for him. That's why you're wonder like the said,
26:27
Speaker 11: because I know he's knowing Dylan used to go in
26:30
Speaker 11: the bar, and you've been bragging about how much money is.
26:33
Speaker 11: Dylan never carried money on him what every thing would
26:36
Speaker 11: credit card, but if he.
26:37
Speaker 22: Did have one dollar in the wallet, he wouldn't give
26:41
Speaker 22: it up, and I think this is a strong arm
26:43
Speaker 22: of robbery. Somebody thought they see this little five five kids,
26:48
Speaker 22: and they think they figured out who going to.
26:50
Speaker 11: Get this guy.
26:51
Speaker 6: We're going to rob this guy.
26:52
Speaker 22: We're gonna intimidate him. Dylan's don't intimidate with the starar
26:56
Speaker 22: and robbery here.
26:57
Speaker 11: You believe it, Chase and Roberty, was there any reason
27:01
Speaker 11: that any want to say you did it? If I
27:02
Speaker 11: did this, I'd be one six. Well, there's gotten somebody
27:07
Speaker 11: that's some six cent of the somewha. What about Donald.
27:11
Speaker 11: I've known Don for over two years and Don's gone
27:14
Speaker 11: where to help Ylan just like I have.
27:16
Speaker 3: As expected, Jim Brainer's statements remained mostly consistent, and he
27:21
Speaker 3: appeared genuinely convinced Chase, Venstraw and Robert of Villas had
27:25
Speaker 3: something to do with Dylan's disappearance. But Brenner had more
27:29
Speaker 3: details to share, details about Dylan himself and the dangerous
27:34
Speaker 3: individuals he was attracting.
27:36
Speaker 11: Another one, Robert Lee, just died ten years in prison for.
27:44
Speaker 22: Shaw. I'm robbery Lane me Hole. About three weeks ago
27:49
Speaker 22: assault from Salt Lake that bought ten acres land over Montello.
27:53
Speaker 22: Two guys went into into his trailer, beat him up
27:56
Speaker 22: with a pistol, whipped him rob dn took hisself and
28:01
Speaker 22: made it so a vehicle would run. He had to
28:03
Speaker 22: walk into town to call the police. There's a lot
28:05
Speaker 22: of shit going on in Monteu.
28:07
Speaker 6: If she don't want that they talk about being pistol lo.
28:11
Speaker 6: The better down is that the one.
28:14
Speaker 22: I needed to see.
28:16
Speaker 3: Brenner would go on to mention several other people, mostly
28:19
Speaker 3: convicted criminals, from the area, who could have had strong
28:22
Speaker 3: motives to rob or even kill Dylan. Clearly he wasn't
28:27
Speaker 3: exactly narrowing things down for detectives, but at least he
28:30
Speaker 3: appeared fully cooperative. However, in just moments, Brenner would let
28:34
Speaker 3: something slip, something that would unintentionally place him right at
28:39
Speaker 3: the center of the suspect pool.
28:42
Speaker 23: Dylan is the shy kid.
28:44
Speaker 22: His world revolves around fractors, farming.
28:49
Speaker 23: I mean, he had a couple of guns as his
28:50
Speaker 23: dad gave him, and he never had a shotgun that
28:53
Speaker 23: we found that that's up in Rigby. But he always
28:57
Speaker 23: carried out of the backseat and the pist he had.
29:02
Speaker 23: They found that, and he was afraid to keep that loaded.
29:07
Speaker 23: He used to keep the gun in the console and
29:09
Speaker 23: keep the loaded magazine. And I told him, I shoul
29:12
Speaker 23: Villa needed you to learn how to use that thing
29:14
Speaker 23: or put it somewhere, Lesard, that's going to get you killed, and.
29:19
Speaker 6: Let's late for that. I was telling Hi Dad that too.
29:23
Speaker 3: Needless to say, Jim's choice of words wasn't ideal, and
29:29
Speaker 3: this wasn't the first time his statements had raised eyebrows,
29:32
Speaker 3: as he'd previously made a similar remark when Dylan first
29:35
Speaker 3: went missing, speaking about him as if he was already dead.
29:40
Speaker 3: Although several days had passed and the possibility of foul
29:44
Speaker 3: play was growing, detectives still found his comments odd, but
29:48
Speaker 3: with the rest of Branner's interview yielding nothing new, investigators
29:52
Speaker 3: booked him into jail on his unrelated firearm possession warrant,
29:56
Speaker 3: giving them time to further investigate any possible involvement. Shortly
30:04
Speaker 3: after Jim Brenner was taken into custody, officers finally located
30:08
Speaker 3: Chase Venstra and arrested him on his unrelated warrant out
30:12
Speaker 3: of Montana. Detectives wasted no time bringing him in for questioning,
30:15
Speaker 3: but in this first interview, Chase flatly denied any involvement,
30:20
Speaker 3: insisting locals were spreading false rumors to frame him. With
30:24
Speaker 3: no hard evidence, investigators booked him into jail, but with
30:27
Speaker 3: a strategy in mind. They placed him in a cell
30:30
Speaker 3: directly above Jim Brenner, quietly hoping they would interact and
30:34
Speaker 3: at one point one of them might talk or slip
30:38
Speaker 3: up pretty quickly. This tactic paid off when Chase reached
30:41
Speaker 3: out to detectives for another interview, claiming he knew exactly
30:45
Speaker 3: what happened to Dylan and could solve the entire case.
30:49
Speaker 6: To talk to you, Karas called you.
30:52
Speaker 2: She actually didn't call me.
30:54
Speaker 6: Ross called me and said that you were looking to
30:58
Speaker 6: to talk about with him? Talk about about Brenner?
31:01
Speaker 2: Was it Brenner?
31:02
Speaker 6: And uh, just a case basically right. They put me
31:05
Speaker 6: in there. I'm gonna sell above Brenner. I've gotten talked
31:10
Speaker 6: to him. I've talked to other cell mates.
31:13
Speaker 8: I know a lot.
31:14
Speaker 2: Okay, I know a lot.
31:17
Speaker 6: Well, I can put this thing to best to bed
31:19
Speaker 6: for you. Well, I mean, honestly, to be straightforward with you,
31:23
Speaker 6: I can't. I can't do anything about the charges me myself.
31:26
Speaker 6: Right there. They got to be federal, right, No, there's
31:29
Speaker 6: there's state I.
31:30
Speaker 2: Didn't even know that there were any so.
31:33
Speaker 6: I wanted to charges drop it. I'll call this case
31:36
Speaker 6: for you.
31:36
Speaker 15: I'm not able to do it, so I just came
31:39
Speaker 15: to talk to you to see if you had something
31:40
Speaker 15: you wanted to tell me.
31:42
Speaker 6: I've got everything to tell you. But when I'm out
31:45
Speaker 6: of these chains and then my clothes, and that's what
31:47
Speaker 6: I'm saying, I can't make that kind of deal with you.
31:49
Speaker 6: So that was what was fine. If you don't want to,
31:52
Speaker 6: that's what I want. That's fine.
31:53
Speaker 8: I want to.
31:54
Speaker 6: I just want to be left. I don't want. But
31:57
Speaker 6: we got an ultrasound on my new baby tomorrow. I
32:00
Speaker 6: want to go be there with her this time.
32:03
Speaker 15: Baby.
32:05
Speaker 6: I'm applying for a job with the state out there.
32:08
Speaker 6: I hope I'm dealing with this thing. I've been drugged
32:11
Speaker 6: through the mud with this thing with Dylan. I know
32:13
Speaker 6: how it happened, where it happened.
32:14
Speaker 17: When I know what was used in aware of that, Okay,
32:21
Speaker 17: I can s I put this whole thing to bed
32:22
Speaker 17: for you guys, well, okay, and I hate to.
32:26
Speaker 6: I wish you could, but there's not anything.
32:28
Speaker 2: I can offer you.
32:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, I hate to be that way with him, but
32:31
Speaker 6: I've got to look out for me.
32:33
Speaker 3: Unfortunately for detectives, their strategy backfired. Now Chase wanted to
32:38
Speaker 3: bargain his freedom in exchange for information he claimed to have,
32:43
Speaker 3: but investigators had little reason to trust Chase, and without
32:47
Speaker 3: an agreement to drop his gun charges, the interview ended
32:50
Speaker 3: without providing any new leads. On June twenty eighth, exactly
32:59
Speaker 3: I'm month since Dylan went missing, police were called out
33:02
Speaker 3: after a witness reported finding something suspicious in the desert,
33:06
Speaker 3: a burial site with clear signs of something dead inside.
33:14
Speaker 6: There's mills something.
33:19
Speaker 17: It wasn't like this.
33:20
Speaker 2: This wasn't here either. Oh okay, go ahead and step away.
33:31
Speaker 2: Yeah he killed it.
33:33
Speaker 8: He killed it.
33:35
Speaker 24: Yeah, So this is the only one that you found.
33:41
Speaker 2: It wasn't like the.
33:44
Speaker 6: Opening, Yeah, so how how did it look like? And
33:55
Speaker 6: this was flat? So this was on top and then
34:00
Speaker 6: and then there was another.
34:07
Speaker 2: So there is a grace.
34:11
Speaker 24: But there appears to be maybe two dogs, maybe two
34:19
Speaker 24: or three dogs. Yeah that's not true, Yeah, two or
34:25
Speaker 24: three dogs inside. It looks like it's been here for
34:28
Speaker 24: some time. But there the person the RP is telling
34:35
Speaker 24: me that it didn't look like this yesterday, that somebody
34:38
Speaker 24: had come over and opened it up for some reason.
34:44
Speaker 24: I will I do have some uh some footprints around
34:48
Speaker 24: this too.
34:50
Speaker 3: The burial site contained dead dogs buried beneath, not exactly
34:55
Speaker 3: what police were expecting, though it meant there still might
34:59
Speaker 3: be hope for Dylan. Just as the investigation began to
35:03
Speaker 3: settle back into a frustrating standstill, police received a call
35:07
Speaker 3: from someone they knew well, Jim Brainer's close friend, Donald Hateley.
35:13
Speaker 3: He'd been around since the early days of the search,
35:16
Speaker 3: helping the family and cooperating with officers, but now weeks
35:20
Speaker 3: into the investigation, he wanted to speak with investigators, claiming
35:24
Speaker 3: he had important information to share, something he'd kept hidden
35:28
Speaker 3: ever since Dylan vanished. Detectives immediately arranged to meet with Donald,
35:34
Speaker 3: where they would finally uncover one of the first truly
35:37
Speaker 3: dimn and clues in the case.
35:39
Speaker 25: Oh, I'll tell you so, Okay, I really don't think
35:44
Speaker 25: it as anything, can do anything. You guys found the
35:47
Speaker 25: ammunitions stuff with chios, yeah, and why powder and fusimistic king.
35:53
Speaker 25: But he figured out would be a reason day ol
35:59
Speaker 25: stick or say or so he brought his black caught
36:02
Speaker 25: to rights, his.
36:02
Speaker 10: Old black cause.
36:03
Speaker 6: Okay too, I appreciate that.
36:07
Speaker 10: Where are those?
36:09
Speaker 21: I put one buy in my bed, my bedroom, the
36:13
Speaker 21: other one's leaned up in the corner accident taking.
36:15
Speaker 6: On the couch.
36:16
Speaker 10: And when did he bring you after billing? Oh yeah,
36:21
Speaker 10: definitely after why basically safety went last time?
36:29
Speaker 21: You know, they had him in hold him for over
36:31
Speaker 21: a year and all he got out, everything he had
36:35
Speaker 21: was gone.
36:36
Speaker 10: Everything. I can't ask you what's going through gyms out
36:38
Speaker 10: of that time, but what's going through yours when he
36:40
Speaker 10: brings you his rifles and a six gun?
36:44
Speaker 21: Honestly, like he was scared that you know, he was
36:48
Speaker 21: going to be detained for six months or year? And
36:50
Speaker 21: who was everything he had? He said he had no
36:53
Speaker 21: idea what happened to his horses last time? Allway's gun,
36:57
Speaker 21: everything you own disappeared?
36:59
Speaker 10: So why do you think he's did detained here? Why
37:01
Speaker 10: does he think he's going to get detained for six months.
37:03
Speaker 21: Just because he's a fella and he could be held
37:07
Speaker 21: or so he knows he's the fella and he knows
37:09
Speaker 21: he shouldn't have him, and so.
37:10
Speaker 10: He all right, I don't know, I don't know.
37:12
Speaker 21: According to him, a black power primitive weapon has not
37:16
Speaker 21: considered firearm now if he had brought me a firearm,
37:18
Speaker 21: I have said no.
37:19
Speaker 10: Okay, so sometime after Yllan youmever, how long after, I mean,
37:24
Speaker 10: it's only been three weeks now. It seems like foreh.
37:30
Speaker 21: I wish that kid had just got walking down the
37:31
Speaker 21: roads starn to kick his.
37:32
Speaker 10: Mut I wish too. But the longer this goes, the
37:35
Speaker 10: lescted outlooks.
37:36
Speaker 17: Yeah.
37:37
Speaker 3: Donald's admission couldn't have come at a worse time for
37:41
Speaker 3: Jim Brainer. Although Donald explained that Jim hid the guns
37:45
Speaker 3: at his place out of fear of losing them, the
37:47
Speaker 3: timing was deeply suspicious, and for detectives this was enough
37:51
Speaker 3: to place Brainner at the center of suspicion alongside Chase Venstra.
37:55
Speaker 3: Following this discovery, the firearms were seized and Jim Brainer
37:59
Speaker 3: picked up in a additional firearm possession charge, keeping him
38:02
Speaker 3: in jail. As the investigation continued, but detectives still lacked
38:06
Speaker 3: concrete evidence against anyone, and crucial DNA results from the
38:10
Speaker 3: bloody boots found near the shed were yet to return.
38:13
Speaker 3: It seemed like the case might stall for a while.
38:22
Speaker 3: Over a year would pass with detectives quietly making progress,
38:27
Speaker 3: including crucial DNA results, but still no sign of Dylan himself,
38:32
Speaker 3: and no one held responsible. That is until December twenty
38:38
Speaker 3: twenty three, when investigators got a call that would change everything.
38:45
Speaker 3: Jim Brainer's cellmate, who'd spent months locked up alongside him,
38:49
Speaker 3: claimed to know exactly what had happened to Dylan. Detectives
38:55
Speaker 3: quickly arranged an interview, expecting another bargaining scenario similar to
38:59
Speaker 3: Chase Event's, but what the cell made twould reveal instead
39:03
Speaker 3: was a chilling murder confession.
39:07
Speaker 6: Sir, thank you. So they had said that you wanted
39:13
Speaker 6: us to come back, that you had more information, yeah,
39:17
Speaker 6: or did you have information before? They just didn't give
39:19
Speaker 6: us all of No, I didn't.
39:20
Speaker 15: I didn't really have I didn't really have a whole
39:22
Speaker 15: lot of Then I got plenty of information. Now I
39:28
Speaker 15: got information. It didn't probably helped maybe even keep from
39:32
Speaker 15: cutting the deal that he wants to cut deal with.
39:36
Speaker 15: On his right hand, nobody has noticed. He's got a
39:40
Speaker 15: bite mark. He got a bite from Dylan. Rounds to
39:45
Speaker 15: twenty two going till Dylan shot Yeah, the twenty two.
39:51
Speaker 6: Did he tell you that, Yeah, tell you that.
39:55
Speaker 15: Like two days ago, three days ago, go yeah, go
39:57
Speaker 15: through them. He said it was like six o'clock in
40:00
Speaker 15: the morning. He was in there taking the ship, and
40:03
Speaker 15: then he heard a decent truck drive by the place
40:08
Speaker 15: he was standing in and when he got out there,
40:11
Speaker 15: he had had his forty five, a gun that he
40:14
Speaker 15: put in a bowl over hoaster, and Dylan had picked
40:19
Speaker 15: it up off the salt horses that he had.
40:21
Speaker 6: He'd thrown his stuff all around, moved it so he
40:23
Speaker 6: could put the truck in.
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Speaker 15: The said the ship, yeah, and Dylan was holding the
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Speaker 15: forty five, and he said he got really pissed off
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Speaker 15: at him, start doelling at every tell him get the
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Speaker 15: fuck out of there. And Dylan's took the gun and
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Speaker 15: fired it right beside his ear. That's why he came
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Speaker 15: here out of his right, right right out.
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Speaker 6: Of here, he said.
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Speaker 15: He grabbed, he grabbed, He grabbed the gun and was
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Speaker 15: fighting for it, he said, and they ended up on
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Speaker 15: the ground and Dylan Dylan.
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Speaker 6: Ended up shooting himself in the leg with the with
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Speaker 6: the forty five. And then he said that while they
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Speaker 6: were fighting, the gun got fired like here three times.
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Speaker 6: He said. There's a bullet hole in the side of
40:59
Speaker 6: the started building out that you can see. He said,
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Speaker 6: when you guys, he was out there talking to him
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Speaker 6: and standing in the shed or some standing out there.
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Speaker 6: He said he was sitting there looking at it.
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Speaker 15: And then he showed me a scar on his thumb too,
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Speaker 15: where he had stuck his hand in in the gun
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Speaker 15: that was trying to keep doing from firing it again,
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Speaker 15: but he was clicking and clicking and it was in it.
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Speaker 15: His whole right hand was was dammaged at one time,
41:28
Speaker 15: but the bite markers having it very seable. And the
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Speaker 15: body is somewhere right there close by. He said, he's
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Speaker 15: seen tire marks over it where you guys have been driving.
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Speaker 15: Somebody's been driving on it.
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Speaker 6: Just give you any where there's a It's just there's
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Speaker 6: a lot of.
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Speaker 11: Country out there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he says, in the high desert. Did he say
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Speaker 6: that it was close to where he killed him. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: it's it's close. It's close somewhere there where he killed
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Speaker 6: him and gave me he gave he gave like a
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Speaker 6: twenty five mile circumference.
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Speaker 19: And by the way, yeah, okay, so he heard Dylan
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Speaker 19: dry by in his truck and deal in his back
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Speaker 19: of the truck into the green shed.
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Speaker 6: Now he said that.
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Speaker 15: He said the truck was still parked out so it
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Speaker 15: wasn't yeah, yeah, no, it wasn't back in and and
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Speaker 15: that's when they had the fight.
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Speaker 6: They had the fight and everyone on in there. He said,
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Speaker 6: that's the ground on the gun. I turned. He said
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Speaker 6: he heard it turning. Look it was a revolver. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: it was okay.
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Speaker 15: He said, you got to said the chance were dealing
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Speaker 15: and let quick biting him on his wrist.
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Speaker 6: He that latched onto him and he said. He got
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Speaker 6: up and he took off out and that's when he
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Speaker 6: got he got to twenty two. Dylan told him and
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Speaker 6: bring his aspect there or he's gonna shoot the horse.
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Speaker 6: The horse was standing outside into the green shed. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: talk about yea he did. Horse was standing out there
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Speaker 6: eating greening out of the back of the truck. And
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Speaker 6: then from what you're saying, did you run back of
42:54
Speaker 6: the trailer and getting down too, there's a there. No,
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Speaker 6: he said, it was behind the bags on the grain bags.
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Speaker 2: He said.
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Speaker 6: He took three shots at him and there all head shots.
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Speaker 6: Say one of the great grades, Dylan on side of face,
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Speaker 6: he pointed, just like this face, so it could be bred.
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Speaker 6: You know, I can tell you it was right then
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Speaker 6: he said two more shots and shout him mad, and
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Speaker 6: I killed him.
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Speaker 2: And then what did he do?
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Speaker 6: Then?
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Speaker 15: Then he got He said he burned all his clothes.
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Speaker 15: He said, after he took care of everything, he burned
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Speaker 15: all the clothes.
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Speaker 3: The revelations from Brainer's cellmate were chilling, to say the least.
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Speaker 3: According to him, the argument that ended Dylan's life stemmed
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Speaker 3: from Brainer being irritated with Dylan for repeatedly using the
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Speaker 3: shed he considered his own workspace. After killing Dylan, Brenner
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Speaker 3: attempted to cover up his crime by loading Dylan's body
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Speaker 3: onto a backo, burying him deep in a remote stretch
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Speaker 3: of the desert nearby. He then concealed the guns at
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Speaker 3: Donald Hateley's place and discarded Dylan's phone in a nearby pond,
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Speaker 3: unaware it had recorded a damning, irrefutable proof of his crime.
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Speaker 3: In addition to this confession, detectives turned back to the
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Speaker 3: bloody boot DNA evidence they received a few months earlier.
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Speaker 3: The state lab report confirms the blood belonged to Dylan,
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Speaker 3: but they also found touch DNA matching Jim Brenner on
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Speaker 3: the boots. Using this evidence, investigators then secured a search
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Speaker 3: warrant for Brenner's phone, and by analyzing its data, they
44:24
Speaker 3: confirmed his device had traveled toward a nearby pond the
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Speaker 3: day Dylan vanished. After searching the pond, they retrieved Dylan's phone,
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Speaker 3: containing crucial evidence, a video clearly showing Jim Brenner in
44:37
Speaker 3: a blood stained shirt cleaning a gun. At this point,
44:41
Speaker 3: there was no longer any doubt Jim Brenner killed Dylan
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Speaker 3: rounds and had been hiding in plain sight all along.
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Speaker 3: Despite the overwhelming evidence, Brenner still sought to negotiate. Prosecutors
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Speaker 3: were preparing for an aggravated murder trial, but still lacked
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Speaker 3: Dylan's body, so Brenner offered prosecutors a deal he would
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Speaker 3: reveal the location of Dylan's body in exchange for reduced charges.
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Speaker 3: In spring of twenty twenty four, Brenner guided law enforcement
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Speaker 3: to Dylan's remains in the loosened desert. The burial site
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Speaker 3: was several miles from the grainshed property and was so
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Speaker 3: well hidden that investigators had driven over the spot during
45:27
Speaker 3: earlier searches without noticing it. Inside the grave, they located
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Speaker 3: Dylan's skeletal remains. Only bones and fragments of his clothing survived.
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Speaker 3: On May fifteenth. That same year, Brenner pled Guilsey to
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Speaker 3: second degree murder and two counts of firearm possession in
45:46
Speaker 3: exchange for dropping charges of desecrating remains at an unrelated
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Speaker 3: aggravated assault case. On July first, Brenner was sentenced to
45:55
Speaker 3: one to fifteen years for second degree murder and two
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Speaker 3: additional one to five fifteen year sentences for the firearms charges.