Ashley Flowers

The text that she got back was more of the same.

It said, End quote.

Eight minutes later, Gil and Jennifer pulled up to the woods and began walking to the exact spot where Tripp's phone last showed his location.

It wasn't actively tracking him anymore, but they knew where he was just moments ago.

Except when they got there, there was no Tripp.

And even weirder, they didn't see anyone else around.

No deputies, no patrol cars, no lights, nothing.

Just the dark and eerily quiet woods.

They tried calling Tripp, but by then his phone was going straight to voicemail.

So not knowing what else to do, they started looking for their son themselves with flashlights and an app that Gil used to make a search grid.

And they just began walking back and forth in the woods yelling Tripp's name.

And while doing this, they don't see a soul.

Again, not Tripp, but maybe more concerningly, not a single deputy.

Yeah, where is everyone who was looking for him?

So per body cam timestamps and Bynum's own narrative report,

It seems like he and Kinney are towing Tripp's four-wheeler to the sheriff's office at this point.

And the sheriff's office is like six-ish miles away.

I don't know who else is supposed to be out there looking or where exactly they are.

All I know is that Jennifer said when her and Gil arrived, they were searching by themselves for a long time.

They said hours.