Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant

That young prosecutor Baird and the FBI said, you know, this is all we've got.

We can't move forward.

Everyone else is saying they don't know what happened.

The FBI closed their investigation on September 2nd, 1982.

And I believe the sheriff, I'm sorry, the police chief, Hal Riddle, was running the investigation.

And he said, you know, he was really trying to get this case to go to trial because he's he is a law enforcement officer.

And they weren't all like great mob justice.

You know, they were like, we we should have handled it to begin with.

Right.

But you certainly can't handle it this way.

And he said it was the most frustrating case of his career.

And basically, like this town got away with murder.

Yeah, and if the local law enforcement didn't work hard enough, that was par for the course.

Because if there was any theme to this, aside from this horrible bully, it was the local institutions failing the community time after time after time after time for any number of reasons, because they were intimidated, because they were corrupt, who knows.

But that was like the subtext of this whole thing is that this community essentially had to take action

matters into their own hands or else this guy was going to eventually kill somebody.

Yeah.

And they just decided that that was not going to happen.

They were going to stop it before it happened.

So it's tough to fault them for for what they did, even though I don't agree with that.