MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp Brazeale
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It's 1240 a.m. on November 3rd, 2024, and St. Francis County Deputy Trey Bynum is in hot pursuit. He's on a rural road in Forest City, Arkansas, chasing someone on a four-wheeler, and they are both booking it down this windy road in the dark. From the sound of it, Bynum is right on their tail. So when they come onto this raised dirt berm in the road, almost at once, both the four-wheeler and Bynum's truck go airborne before crashing back down to the road. Now both vehicles get turned around, but something happens to the four-wheeler and it stops suddenly. So Bynum slams on his brakes and calls out to the rider. But before he can even approach the four-wheeler, the rider is on foot. He hops a fence and darts into the woods.
It's all so fast that by the time Bynum draws his service weapon and aims for the woods, the rider is gone. Now, rather than jumping the fence and following him into the woods in the dark, Bynum decides to run back to his truck and call in the stop over his radio.
Hey, right now, I got the four-wheeler.
There was another deputy following close behind, Sergeant David Kinney. So it only takes a minute for him to pull up.
I'm good, but we went up the ditch. I said, I'm good, but we went up that ditch right there, both of us, me and him both. I need the trailer because I'm throwing that one. There's going to be a white male on a Kim Flies hoodie and blue jeans looking like he went off that way. Did he roll it or something? He turned it and jumped off and took off running across the field.
So Sergeant Kinney goes to get the trailer so that they can tow the four-wheeler while more backup begins arriving and several deputies begin to assist in this manhunt. But they're having no luck, not after 4.20 a.m. when Kinney comes back and calls the fire department and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to come and set up thermal night vision drones to assist. Or after 7.20 a.m., when the East Arkansas Department of Corrections brings tracking dogs to the scene. Though they do find signs of the man who fled on foot. Deputies locate a boot and a hat a short distance from where he entered the woods. Just one boot?
What happened during the initial pursuit of Tripp Brazeale?
Just one. But even with this physical trail, for some reason, the canines aren't able to track his path. By the time daylight breaks, authorities are no closer to finding their man. So they decide to call in even more reinforcements. By that afternoon, there's not only the sheriff's deputies searching, but also state police troopers, the state emergency response team, two local fire departments, Forest City police officers, and volunteers. They create a search grid and form eight teams to deploy in different areas. And they do end up finding a second boot, a wallet, a phone charger, and hoodie. But their man is still in the wind. And almost 19 hours after they first began their pursuit, at 7.18 p.m., the manhunt is called off due to the dark, and it is set to resume the next morning.
So they pick up again in the morning, but it's not until late afternoon, around 2.12 p.m., as their search radius widens, that one of the groups finds several footprints in a creek. A search of the creek bed comes up empty, but one game and fish warden notices a trail of broken twigs from the creek leading up to the base of a steep ridge. She follows it one step at a time. And when she looks up, she sees who they were all after. And he is hanging from a tree at the top of the ridge with a green ratchet strap around his neck. Now, his death is ultimately ruled a suicide by ligature hanging.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:05
2
What happened during the initial pursuit of Tripp Brazeale?
3:05–14:32
3
What evidence was found during the manhunt for Tripp?
14:32–21:26
4
How did Tripp's family react to the news of his death?
21:26–23:25
5
What were the findings from the interviews with law enforcement?
23:25–32:43
6
How did the community respond to Tripp's case?
32:43–48:18
7
What were the key discrepancies in the investigation of Tripp's death?
48:18–1:20:03