WEBVTT - Helicopter Cop 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:10.740 This is Red Pilled America. You know, there's a story 0:00:10.780 --> 0:00:13.260 that came out. We're going to get into it in 0:00:13.460 --> 0:00:16.870 our regular Red Pilled America style. But it got me 0:00:16.950 --> 0:00:21.509 thinking about my childhood and about whether I grew up 0:00:21.570 --> 0:00:25.310 with a helicopter mom or not and whether you grew 0:00:25.329 --> 0:00:27.650 up with a helicopter mom or not. I don't know 0:00:27.670 --> 0:00:29.810 about you. Well, I do know about you, but I'll 0:00:29.830 --> 0:00:32.950 let you tell your side of the things. This mom 0:00:32.970 --> 0:00:35.640 basically got arrested. It hit the news, and it was 0:00:35.659 --> 0:00:38.159 kind of a big story. And she got arrested because 0:00:38.180 --> 0:00:40.500 she let her kid kind of go off. Well, she 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.280 didn't let her kid. Her kid just went off and 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.700 did some stuff. And it got me to thinking about 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:50.319 my childhood and how much things have changed. And we've 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.200 talked about this before in various kind of formats, but 0:00:53.980 --> 0:00:57.330 how we grew up. I mean, it's so different in 0:00:57.350 --> 0:01:00.110 the 70s and early 80s than it is right now. 0:01:00.690 --> 0:01:03.980 Where we would get on our BMX bikes, we would 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.460 go out on all, you know, basically the entire day. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.940 You know, if we were thirsty, we'd literally walk up 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.560 to a house that had a hose and turn it 0:01:13.700 --> 0:01:15.119 on and drink the water out. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:15.620 Of the hose. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.180 There were like dirt bike tracks right off the freeway 0:01:20.580 --> 0:01:23.330 that we would go and, you know, it had huge 0:01:23.420 --> 0:01:25.950 dips and huge jumps. We would go do that for 0:01:26.090 --> 0:01:29.960 hours and hours and hours. really the only rule was 0:01:30.020 --> 0:01:31.600 get home before sundown. 0:01:31.620 --> 0:01:33.610 Before the streetlights came on. 0:01:33.620 --> 0:01:33.740 Yeah. 0:01:33.780 --> 0:01:36.020 And we had no cell phones. There was no way 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:37.520 to kind of get a hold of us. We were 0:01:37.540 --> 0:01:40.420 just kind of out doing our thing. Now I will 0:01:40.459 --> 0:01:43.540 say that it seemed more like a guy's thing because 0:01:43.580 --> 0:01:46.540 I don't remember my sister doing that. Although she was 0:01:46.620 --> 0:01:47.860 kind of, you know, she was a couple of years 0:01:47.890 --> 0:01:50.470 younger than me and, and we weren't in the safest 0:01:50.500 --> 0:01:52.770 of neighborhoods. And by a certain time, that kind of 0:01:52.790 --> 0:01:55.390 thing started to change. And, and so it wouldn't have 0:01:55.410 --> 0:01:57.680 been smart for her to be out, but It was 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.000 just a regular thing. We would go on the train tracks. 0:02:00.020 --> 0:02:02.180 We set up forts like right off the freeway in 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:06.530 the trees. I mean, it was just a nonstop kind 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.250 of a thing. Nowadays, when you do that kind of thing, 0:02:10.269 --> 0:02:14.230 I think people are considered kind of bad parents. 0:02:14.530 --> 0:02:14.750 Yes. 0:02:14.870 --> 0:02:19.530 And the whole helicopter mom and helicopter dad thing. became 0:02:20.730 --> 0:02:24.350 a kind of a new trend, I guess, I would 0:02:24.389 --> 0:02:26.210 throw you in the helicopter mom category. 0:02:26.230 --> 0:02:29.310 Oh, definitely. I didn't really grow up with a helicopter mom. 0:02:29.410 --> 0:02:30.910 She didn't let me do certain things when I was 0:02:30.950 --> 0:02:33.450 very young. But once I reached a certain age, I 0:02:33.470 --> 0:02:36.010 could do whatever I wanted, no questions asked, and nobody 0:02:36.050 --> 0:02:38.770 was policing me other than myself. I learned that very, 0:02:38.810 --> 0:02:43.130 very quickly. But yeah, I grew up and I became 0:02:43.180 --> 0:02:45.780 a helicopter mom. I am a helicopter mom. I'm a 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:51.579 proud helicopter mom. And our daughter is safe and perfect. 0:02:51.700 --> 0:02:52.220 Thanks to it. 0:02:52.260 --> 0:02:53.640 See, I wonder if we would have had a boy 0:02:54.090 --> 0:02:55.280 if you would have been that way. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:55.530 No. 0:02:56.340 --> 0:02:56.930 I don't think so. 0:02:57.030 --> 0:02:59.610 I mean, I think there is a difference between boys 0:02:59.669 --> 0:03:01.630 and girls. I mean, did you walk to school? I 0:03:01.669 --> 0:03:06.930 walked to school pretty much my entire elementary phase. I mean, 0:03:07.290 --> 0:03:12.570 probably not kindergarten, but maybe third grade or so and on, 0:03:12.650 --> 0:03:13.910 I was walking to school. 0:03:14.110 --> 0:03:14.390 Oh, no. 0:03:14.590 --> 0:03:15.570 I never walked to school. 0:03:15.830 --> 0:03:18.500 I walked to school once. I walked home from school 0:03:18.660 --> 0:03:22.510 one time and there was an incident. An old gentleman, 0:03:22.650 --> 0:03:26.250 as I came to the streetlight, the light turned green 0:03:26.290 --> 0:03:29.230 and he said, you want to hold my hand and 0:03:29.250 --> 0:03:30.970 I'll help you cross the street? And I thought, this 0:03:31.070 --> 0:03:34.040 guy wants to kidnap me. I was six years old. 0:03:34.460 --> 0:03:36.460 I was walking home from first grade. I'll never forget it. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.119 And I just started running and I ran the rest 0:03:39.180 --> 0:03:41.300 of the way home. And then I got home and 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.200 I told my mom that she was a bad parent 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:44.160 for letting me walk home. 0:03:44.180 --> 0:03:44.680 How old were you? 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:45.020 Six. 0:03:47.180 --> 0:03:50.160 I was already a helicopter mom in the making. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.640 I remember my sister walked to, I think it was 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.680 school as well, and she might have been by herself 0:03:57.220 --> 0:04:00.760 on this day. I'm not sure why. And some guy 0:04:00.930 --> 0:04:03.690 cruised up in a car next to her and tried 0:04:03.710 --> 0:04:05.130 to get her into the car. And she was pretty 0:04:05.170 --> 0:04:06.910 shook up by it, if I remember correctly. 0:04:07.270 --> 0:04:09.970 That happened to me as well. One time when I 0:04:10.230 --> 0:04:13.570 went bike riding with my friend, her name was Anjanette Higgins. 0:04:14.290 --> 0:04:16.609 She sadly passed away, by the way. We went bike 0:04:16.669 --> 0:04:19.070 riding and I followed her and she was a latchkey kid. 0:04:19.570 --> 0:04:22.650 And she took me far into the neighborhood of West Covina. 0:04:23.170 --> 0:04:25.230 And a man pulled up to us in a car 0:04:25.910 --> 0:04:29.180 and he was masturbating. And I thought, I'm never doing 0:04:29.220 --> 0:04:31.720 this again. And I just got on my bike. I 0:04:31.779 --> 0:04:33.740 rode home and I never broke that rule again. 0:04:34.210 --> 0:04:35.960 See, I can remember another time I went to– and 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:37.740 we talk about this in one of our episodes. I 0:04:37.740 --> 0:04:39.320 think it was the minority where I went to the 0:04:39.380 --> 0:04:42.500 local mall, which was, I don't know, maybe a mile 0:04:42.540 --> 0:04:44.740 away or so. And with a bunch of quarters and 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.580 a bunch of friends, we went to the arcade game. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.760 That's another thing. When we had the arcades back in 0:04:48.779 --> 0:04:51.529 the day, we didn't have the consoles yet. You know, 0:04:51.570 --> 0:04:54.380 we didn't have the Xboxes and the, you know, PlayStations 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:54.980 and all that kind of stuff. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:55.800 Yeah, you needed quarters. 0:04:55.820 --> 0:04:58.020 You needed quarters and you needed to go to the arcade. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:58.900 Which was a problem. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:00.880 Which parent wants to stick around at the arcade for 0:05:00.940 --> 0:05:01.700 hours on end? 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.320 Yeah, that was a problem when you didn't have any money. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.150 No, exactly. So we ran across the street with a 0:05:07.170 --> 0:05:09.110 bunch of my friends who I think they did a sleepover. 0:05:09.170 --> 0:05:11.190 We went to the arcade. We were there for hours. 0:05:11.250 --> 0:05:12.789 She was supposed to pick us up at a certain time. 0:05:12.830 --> 0:05:16.070 We waited and somebody pulled a knife on us. But 0:05:16.110 --> 0:05:19.109 I do think guys are kind of more the adventurous type. 0:05:19.690 --> 0:05:22.979 There is a a natural genetic thing happening with boys 0:05:23.020 --> 0:05:25.120 where they need to get out, they need to explore. 0:05:25.140 --> 0:05:27.720 I mean, you've seen it like when we having our 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.240 daughter and growing up and seeing these other kids that 0:05:30.260 --> 0:05:33.280 had or other parents that had boys, there is a 0:05:33.490 --> 0:05:36.429 difference between boys and girls and the way that they play. 0:05:36.950 --> 0:05:37.650 Yes, there is. 0:05:37.690 --> 0:05:39.650 And also the thing about boys is that, you know, 0:05:40.089 --> 0:05:41.890 that boy has to grow up to be a man 0:05:41.910 --> 0:05:45.330 that's one day going to take care and protect his family. Obviously, 0:05:45.350 --> 0:05:47.200 you want your daughters to be competent and able to 0:05:47.260 --> 0:05:49.840 take care of themselves as well. But You're hoping that 0:05:49.860 --> 0:05:51.300 they're going to be mothers and they're going to have 0:05:51.339 --> 0:05:53.000 a husband that's going to take care of them. So 0:05:53.050 --> 0:05:55.630 with boys and girls, you raise them different because they 0:05:55.690 --> 0:05:56.510 are different. 0:05:56.510 --> 0:05:57.130 100%. 0:05:57.130 --> 0:05:59.470 So we're going to get into this episode. We're calling 0:05:59.510 --> 0:06:04.549 it Helicopter Cop. You'll understand why soon. It's episode 202. 0:06:04.550 --> 0:06:09.310 This episode is not legal advice. We're not lawyers. It's 0:06:09.380 --> 0:06:12.340 just a story. It was originally broadcast on January 17th, 2025. 0:06:12.339 --> 0:06:12.500 Enjoy. 0:06:17.750 --> 0:06:20.549 At some point, every adult in America has an encounter 0:06:20.589 --> 0:06:25.820 with law enforcement. It may be a voluntary encounter, like 0:06:25.860 --> 0:06:34.460 a 911 call. It could also be a time when 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.460 you're a witness to an arson or some other kind 0:06:36.500 --> 0:06:36.800 of crime. 0:06:37.020 --> 0:06:39.059 I woke up to go get me a cold pop. 0:06:39.620 --> 0:06:41.599 Then I thought somebody was barbecuing. 0:06:41.620 --> 0:06:44.400 I said, oh Lord Jesus, it's a fart. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.779 And then there's the involuntary interactions with officers, the kind 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.820 where you're compelled to answer their questions. 0:06:51.180 --> 0:06:53.760 I am under the influence, but I did not drive. 0:06:54.290 --> 0:06:55.630 But you were driving. 0:06:56.130 --> 0:06:57.349 I was not. 0:06:57.610 --> 0:07:00.529 When those moments arise, what should you say when questioned 0:07:00.570 --> 0:07:05.430 by police? I'm Patrick Karelchi. 0:07:05.890 --> 0:07:07.250 And I'm Adriana Cortez. 0:07:07.670 --> 0:07:10.750 And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show. 0:07:11.830 --> 0:07:14.220 This is not another talk show covering the day's news. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.460 We're all about telling stories. 0:07:17.230 --> 0:07:19.050 Stories Hollywood doesn't want you to hear. 0:07:19.870 --> 0:07:23.910 Stories the media mocks. Stories about everyday Americans that the 0:07:23.950 --> 0:07:24.970 globalists ignore. 0:07:25.870 --> 0:07:28.710 You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries, 0:07:28.810 --> 0:07:30.270 and we promise only one thing. 0:07:30.290 --> 0:07:39.230 The truth. Welcome to Red Pilled America. 0:07:45.980 --> 0:07:48.760 What should you say when questioned by police? To find 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.600 the answer, we're going to tell the story of a 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.360 Georgia mom who went to jail for something that just 0:07:53.420 --> 0:07:57.060 about every parent in America is guilty of committing. You 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.040 may think you're a law-abiding citizen, but once you hear 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.100 this story, you may second-guess your approach to parenting. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.750 It was dusk in rural Georgia when a mother found 0:08:09.810 --> 0:08:11.110 herself in a predicament. 0:08:11.490 --> 0:08:11.869 Hey, Brittany. 0:08:12.570 --> 0:08:15.470 I need you to come out here. No, not one second. 0:08:15.490 --> 0:08:16.230 I need you to come out here. 0:08:16.570 --> 0:08:20.720 A Fannin County deputy named Kaylee Robertson arrived at the 0:08:20.780 --> 0:08:23.740 home of Brittany Patterson, and she brought with her a 0:08:23.780 --> 0:08:24.680 little surprise. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:29.060 Turn around for me. Why? Because you're under arrest. 0:08:30.790 --> 0:08:33.750 And her crime? Well, according to the police, it was 0:08:33.809 --> 0:08:36.610 for an act that just about every parent of a 0:08:36.690 --> 0:08:38.670 Gen X kid in America committed. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.079 Last time I checked, it wasn't illegal for a kid 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:41.840 to walk to the store. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.860 It is when they're 10 years old. 0:08:46.460 --> 0:08:47.500 It is? 0:08:52.010 --> 0:08:52.080 Yes. 0:08:52.630 --> 0:08:56.349 The two deputies slapped handcuffs on Brittany right in front 0:08:56.370 --> 0:08:58.730 of her kids, then hauled her off to the sheriff's 0:08:58.809 --> 0:09:02.040 office for processing. A shocking turn for a day that 0:09:02.100 --> 0:09:07.320 started off pretty normal. It all began on a Wednesday 0:09:07.410 --> 0:09:11.880 in late October 2024. The afternoon was kicking off, and 0:09:11.900 --> 0:09:14.559 the mother of four had somewhere to be. Her oldest 0:09:14.580 --> 0:09:16.800 son had an appointment with a chiropractor. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.160 I have two kids at homeschool and two kids that 0:09:19.179 --> 0:09:20.060 go to public school. 0:09:20.260 --> 0:09:21.520 That's Brittany Patterson. 0:09:21.870 --> 0:09:24.910 And for my homeschool kids, anytime I leave to run 0:09:24.950 --> 0:09:27.130 an errand or take another kid to the doctor or 0:09:27.170 --> 0:09:29.510 whatever it is, they always get the option. They can 0:09:29.610 --> 0:09:32.770 either stay at home and work on their schoolwork or 0:09:32.809 --> 0:09:34.670 do whatever they want to do, or they can come 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.820 with me. So on this particular day, I had thought 0:09:38.179 --> 0:09:40.540 that both of the kids were going to come, and 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.260 me and my younger daughter were in the car, waited 0:09:43.300 --> 0:09:44.870 a few minutes. Soren didn't come out. 0:09:45.250 --> 0:09:48.710 Soren is Brittany's son. At the time, he was days 0:09:48.770 --> 0:09:52.570 away from turning 11. Brittany says she'd seen him just 0:09:52.610 --> 0:09:53.570 a few minutes earlier. 0:09:53.890 --> 0:09:56.790 So I went back into the house, called his name 0:09:56.830 --> 0:09:59.270 a couple of times, just kind of, you know, looked 0:09:59.309 --> 0:10:02.490 around for a second, but didn't see him, didn't hear him. 0:10:02.550 --> 0:10:04.849 So I figured he just decided he didn't want to 0:10:04.910 --> 0:10:07.870 come and he'd either gone outside or he was downstairs 0:10:07.890 --> 0:10:08.790 with my dad or something. 0:10:08.929 --> 0:10:10.390 Her father lives in their basement. 0:10:10.570 --> 0:10:11.210 So I just left. 0:10:11.570 --> 0:10:15.979 Brittany says that wasn't abnormal. Like most families with four kids, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.340 they were always in and out running errands. So leaving 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.020 Soren home with his grandfather happened often. and he wasn't 0:10:23.059 --> 0:10:26.230 the only adult on site. The family lives in a 0:10:26.370 --> 0:10:30.270 small rural community in the Fannin County of Georgia, a 0:10:30.330 --> 0:10:33.810 picturesque area located in the northern part of the state, 0:10:34.170 --> 0:10:38.930 nestled within the scenic Appalachian Mountains. It's a nature enthusiast's dream. 0:10:39.470 --> 0:10:41.689 The nearest town, if you want to call it that, 0:10:42.010 --> 0:10:45.360 is made up of a Dollar General store, a Baptist church, 0:10:45.580 --> 0:10:49.170 a little gas station, a tiny post office, and a firehouse. 0:10:49.570 --> 0:10:51.780 The town doesn't even have a mayor. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.120 I don't even know if you call it a neighborhood, 0:10:54.300 --> 0:10:58.020 but there's just not much there. It's very rural and 0:10:58.059 --> 0:11:01.500 we live on 16 acres and all of our neighbors 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.270 around us have at least six to eight acres. 0:11:04.670 --> 0:11:07.750 Aside from her father living in the basement, other family 0:11:07.790 --> 0:11:10.050 members are dispersed throughout their property. 0:11:10.270 --> 0:11:13.349 My mom lives about a 30-second walk. It's like a 0:11:13.370 --> 0:11:15.439 trail through the woods, so you don't even have to 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.839 go on the road to get to her house. And 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.430 my sister and her husband also live on the property. 0:11:21.530 --> 0:11:24.670 And so within a minute or two, there's a bunch 0:11:24.710 --> 0:11:25.229 of family. 0:11:31.230 --> 0:11:34.170 Brittany has been in this type of environment since she 0:11:34.250 --> 0:11:34.990 was a child. 0:11:35.150 --> 0:11:37.880 We were always out in the woods, building forts, riding 0:11:37.900 --> 0:11:41.340 dirt bikes. And my kids have largely grown up the 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.620 same way. They have all those same things. They spend 0:11:44.660 --> 0:11:46.240 a lot of time on the property. 0:11:46.580 --> 0:11:50.060 So when it came time to leave to her son's appointment, Soren, 0:11:50.260 --> 0:11:53.230 deciding to stay behind with his grandfather or to blow 0:11:53.330 --> 0:11:55.729 off some steam in the woods, was nothing out of 0:11:55.770 --> 0:11:59.710 the ordinary. With the appointment looming, Brittany left with her daughter. 0:12:00.130 --> 0:12:02.330 They picked up her son at school and headed to 0:12:02.370 --> 0:12:06.490 his chiropractor appointment. But what Brittany Patterson couldn't have known 0:12:06.809 --> 0:12:09.809 was that while she was out, her son Soren was 0:12:09.870 --> 0:12:13.189 going to go out on a little adventure. an adventure 0:12:13.330 --> 0:12:16.459 that would land his mom in jail. 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But when he approached the 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.850 local gas station, a woman got eyes on him and 0:14:10.929 --> 0:14:13.730 thought the young boy was up to no good. So 0:14:13.809 --> 0:14:16.210 she called 911. 0:14:18.140 --> 0:14:20.320 Staten County, number one. Hi there. I was just on 0:14:20.340 --> 0:14:23.600 the phone with the Sheriff's Department. I'm at the fire station, 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.520 station number two, right here at Mineral Bluff Hospital. There's 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.240 a little boy, and he's been walking the highway. I 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.330 stopped to ask him if he was okay and if 0:14:32.370 --> 0:14:35.090 he needed help, and he lied and said that his 0:14:35.130 --> 0:14:37.550 mother worked here at the post office, and then he 0:14:37.570 --> 0:14:42.370 just took off away from me. I spoke with some 0:14:42.450 --> 0:14:46.210 of the people that run the Beehive gas station right 0:14:46.250 --> 0:14:49.230 here because he went in there too. And he told 0:14:49.270 --> 0:14:51.610 them that his parents were at the dollar store. So 0:14:51.630 --> 0:14:54.870 this kid's running around with no parents whatsoever, and he's 0:14:54.950 --> 0:14:57.050 been walking the highway, and I'm just really concerned that 0:14:57.090 --> 0:14:58.210 something's going to happen to him. 0:14:58.690 --> 0:15:02.260 Calling the authorities made sense, largely because a young kid 0:15:02.300 --> 0:15:05.180 was roaming the rural town on a school day. The 0:15:05.220 --> 0:15:06.560 Good Samaritan continued. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.660 The kid took off for me just a second ago. 0:15:09.700 --> 0:15:12.340 He's just walking around. I'm sure he's right here somewhere. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:13.870 Okay, I'll let him know. 0:15:14.020 --> 0:15:18.200 There was a Brittany Patterson when I asked him. Brittany Patterson? 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:19.380 Yes. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.140 All right, we'll let the officer know. 0:15:21.460 --> 0:15:24.680 Deputy Kaylee Robertson was the first to arrive on the scene. 0:15:25.180 --> 0:15:28.660 A plus-sized white officer with a large tattoo on her forearm, 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.800 Deputy Robertson wrangled Soren into her patrol car and began 0:15:32.900 --> 0:15:33.580 questioning him. 0:15:33.820 --> 0:15:38.400 Are you homeschooled? Yeah. Yeah? Okay. Do you know how 0:15:38.420 --> 0:15:39.840 to read? Yeah. 0:15:39.860 --> 0:15:39.940 Yeah? 0:15:40.340 --> 0:15:41.400 What grade would you be in? 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:42.480 Fifth. 0:15:42.500 --> 0:15:46.300 Fifth grade? How old are you? You're 10? No, 11. 0:15:46.300 --> 0:15:50.660 You're 11? Okay. Do you know your mom's name? Yeah. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:50.940 Yeah? 0:15:50.980 --> 0:15:52.340 Do you know your phone number for your mom? 0:15:53.180 --> 0:15:53.400 No? 0:15:54.620 --> 0:15:55.560 Where does she work at? 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:56.520 A gas station. 0:15:56.980 --> 0:15:57.260 Okay. 0:15:57.300 --> 0:15:57.820 Which one? 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.260 I don't know. It's just a gas station. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:00.940 I don't know her. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:01.510 Name or anything. 0:16:01.790 --> 0:16:02.150 Okay. 0:16:02.550 --> 0:16:05.570 That wasn't true. Brittany didn't work at the gas station. 0:16:05.790 --> 0:16:09.650 She's a real estate agent. Deputy Robertson continued her questioning. 0:16:09.810 --> 0:16:10.830 Who watches you at home? 0:16:10.850 --> 0:16:12.370 My grandpa. 0:16:12.390 --> 0:16:15.960 Your grandpa? What's your mom's name? Brittany Patterson? 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.280 The deputy decided to call a local authority with access 0:16:19.300 --> 0:16:20.140 to school records. 0:16:20.980 --> 0:16:22.280 What's that kiddo's first name? 0:16:22.540 --> 0:16:25.200 His first name is Soren. S-O-R-E-N. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.000 Yeah, I explained that just a minute ago. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.180 He said that he used to go to East Fannin, 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:31.460 but he doesn't go to school anywhere. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.680 Soren Alexander Patterson. 0:16:34.750 --> 0:16:37.150 Is he 10 years old? 0:16:37.510 --> 0:16:37.750 Yes. 0:16:39.050 --> 0:16:39.990 Mama is breathing. 0:16:40.620 --> 0:16:43.580 Deputy Robertson tried giving Brittany a call. 0:16:43.740 --> 0:16:46.690 After a few tries, she picked up. 0:16:46.770 --> 0:16:48.410 Hey, this is Deputy. 0:16:48.030 --> 0:16:51.630 Robertson, Fannie County Sheriff's Office. 0:16:51.690 --> 0:17:10.639 Hey. Do you have a son named Soren, by chance? 0:17:11.340 --> 0:17:15.119 I do. Yes, I do. So we're out with him 0:17:15.140 --> 0:17:21.619 on Railroad Avenue in Mineral Bluff. Mm-hmm. I mean, I'm 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.020 trying to figure... He's walked all the way down here 0:17:24.580 --> 0:17:25.960 from wherever y'all live? 0:17:26.380 --> 0:17:27.600 We live on Marble City. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:28.420 Okay. 0:17:28.660 --> 0:17:31.310 The deputy started with the premise that Soren walked far 0:17:31.570 --> 0:17:34.090 without knowing where he lived. He was less than a 0:17:34.130 --> 0:17:35.070 mile away from home. 0:17:35.369 --> 0:17:37.050 Is there somebody at the house that's with him? 0:17:38.420 --> 0:17:39.660 My dad was with him. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.500 Now, Brittany was answering all of the deputy's questions, as 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.840 she should have. I mean, the deputy said she had 0:17:46.859 --> 0:17:50.440 her kid, so any good mother would continue the conversation 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.310 to ensure their child returned home safe. But Brittany apparently 0:17:54.410 --> 0:17:58.109 failed to sense the nature of Deputy Robertson's questions. The 0:17:58.150 --> 0:18:01.090 mother of four got comfortable and began offering answers to 0:18:01.130 --> 0:18:02.590 questions that weren't asked. 0:18:02.910 --> 0:18:04.869 I had to leave to go pick up my other son, 0:18:05.010 --> 0:18:06.730 and he was supposed to come with me. 0:18:07.190 --> 0:18:07.320 Okay. 0:18:08.340 --> 0:18:11.480 And I couldn't find him anywhere. I guess he just 0:18:11.500 --> 0:18:13.940 decided to walk off and go for a walk. And 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:15.530 so then I had to leave to come take my 0:18:15.570 --> 0:18:20.730 other son to the chiropractor. So I just left because 0:18:20.770 --> 0:18:22.250 I didn't know if he was just back out in 0:18:22.270 --> 0:18:24.190 the woods or where he was. 0:18:24.790 --> 0:18:27.409 And this is where Deputy Robertson began to show the 0:18:27.470 --> 0:18:28.510 nature of her inquiry. 0:18:28.820 --> 0:18:30.580 Okay, you didn't think to call us? 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.440 Well, no, because I figured he'd come home. 0:18:33.460 --> 0:18:34.199 He's done this before. 0:18:34.460 --> 0:18:36.480 Walk back in the woods when he gets mad or frustrated, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.740 and then he'll come home like an hour later. So 0:18:39.980 --> 0:18:41.680 he's never walked all the way to Mineral Bluff, though. 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.960 Okay, yeah, because he's walking down the side of Mineral 0:18:44.980 --> 0:18:47.050 Bluff Highway. I mean, he's at the intersection. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.649 Now this is where we should give some context on 0:18:50.670 --> 0:18:53.550 the lay of the land, because what Deputy Robertson said 0:18:53.750 --> 0:18:56.510 could be misinterpreted by city folk. When you hear the 0:18:56.550 --> 0:19:00.280 word highway and busy intersection, one conjures up images of 0:19:00.340 --> 0:19:04.840 a multi-lane thoroughfare with vehicles chaotically whizzing by. But that's 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.440