Ashley Flowers

And Tripp's older brother was friends with Kenny's son.

Yeah, it's not weird that he calls.

But what he says kind of is weird.

Kenny called Gil to ask if he had found or heard anything more from Tripp.

And Gil's like, no.

And why are we the only ones out here looking for him?

Like he's kind of pissed at this point that they're more worried about towing the four-wheeler than looking for his 15-year-old son who is presumably lost out there in like the woods that he's not even familiar with.

So according to Bynum's report, that's when Kinney went back out to continue searching.

No, Bynum writes that during that time, he and another deputy continued working leads for that other two missing juveniles from Cross County, the whole reason that they were out there that night to begin with.

And so he basically says that he is tied up with that until like 3.45 a.m.

And then that's when he links up with the people looking for Tripp.

And we know that it's sometime after that when the search really picks up with like the drones and the dogs and everything.

Now,

I want to point out the first two really big wait what moments in this story.

When we started the story, it sounded like a manhunt.

Yeah.

They were never hunting for a criminal.

Every bit of this search was always a search for a missing kid.

The kid is missing because the ATV he was riding stopped working after he was chased on it by deputies.

He was being chased by deputies because, oh wait, apparently no one can say.