WEBVTT - Hell and Gone Murder Line: Brooke Allensworth 0:00:08.245 --> 0:00:17.285 School of Humans. On July twelfth, twenty eighteen, somewhere around 0:00:17.285 --> 0:00:20.845 the tiny town of Oltrough, Arkansas, a thirty seven year 0:00:20.885 --> 0:00:25.725 old mother of three named Brook Allensworth disappeared. Oil Trough 0:00:25.845 --> 0:00:28.805 is in eastern Arkansas, in the flats. As soon as 0:00:28.805 --> 0:00:31.085 you drive out of the Ozark Mountains and cross over 0:00:31.125 --> 0:00:35.565 the White River, you can see for miles nothing but flat, 0:00:35.605 --> 0:00:39.885 delta and farmland. French hunters were in the area in 0:00:39.925 --> 0:00:43.805 the early eighteen hundreds. They extracted oil from the Bears 0:00:43.845 --> 0:00:47.365 who lived in limestone caves around there. So, according to 0:00:47.405 --> 0:00:50.165 my dad and a local legend, the name of the 0:00:50.205 --> 0:00:53.045 town Oltrough came from the wooden troughs that these hunters 0:00:53.045 --> 0:00:56.165 would store their barre oil in. These days, it's a 0:00:56.205 --> 0:00:59.365 quiet town, not the kind of place where a young 0:00:59.485 --> 0:01:02.365 mother could vanish in the middle of the afternoon, But 0:01:02.445 --> 0:01:06.525 that's exactly what happened to Brook Allensworth. Sheared without a trace, 0:01:07.205 --> 0:01:10.725 and her family, including her three children and a father 0:01:10.805 --> 0:01:15.165 and sister, who were still searching for answers, never saw 0:01:15.205 --> 0:01:20.885 her alive again. I'm Catherine Townsend. This is Helen Gone 0:01:21.165 --> 0:01:25.565 Murder line. Over the past five years of making my 0:01:25.645 --> 0:01:29.125 true crime podcast, Helen Gone. I've learned that there is 0:01:29.205 --> 0:01:32.685 no such thing as a small town where murdered never happens. 0:01:33.405 --> 0:01:36.325 I have received hundreds of messages from people all around 0:01:36.365 --> 0:01:39.285 the country asking for help with an unsolved murder that's 0:01:39.285 --> 0:01:43.205 affected them, their families, and their communities. If you have 0:01:43.285 --> 0:01:45.725 a case you'd like me and my team to look into, 0:01:45.965 --> 0:01:47.845 you can reach out to us at our Helen Gone 0:01:47.925 --> 0:01:51.285 Murder line at six seven eight seven four four six 0:01:51.445 --> 0:01:55.485 one four five. That's six seven eight seven four four 0:01:56.045 --> 0:02:46.005 six one four or five. I first heard about Brook's 0:02:46.085 --> 0:02:49.685 case back in twenty eighteen. Back then, she had only 0:02:49.725 --> 0:02:52.725 been missing for a few months, but her family already 0:02:52.765 --> 0:02:55.805 had questions about how the case was being handled and 0:02:55.845 --> 0:02:58.605 why there was so little information made public about the 0:02:58.605 --> 0:03:02.485 search for her. The last known sighting of Brooke Allensworth 0:03:02.645 --> 0:03:07.405 was on July twelfth, twenty eighteen. Just over two weeks later, 0:03:07.685 --> 0:03:11.165 on July twenty seventh, the police found Brook's car, a 0:03:11.205 --> 0:03:14.485 black two thousand and seven Toyota Camry. The car had 0:03:14.485 --> 0:03:17.445 been abandoned just off Arkansas Highway one twenty two at 0:03:17.485 --> 0:03:21.405 the White River access point in Ultrough. The bottom of 0:03:21.445 --> 0:03:24.965 the car was muddy, like Brook might have been driving 0:03:25.005 --> 0:03:27.445 through some rough road which is not by the way, 0:03:27.525 --> 0:03:31.125 uncommon for that area. The front right tire of the 0:03:31.165 --> 0:03:34.925 car was completely flat. The car looked like it had 0:03:34.965 --> 0:03:38.725 been left there for days or possibly weeks. It was 0:03:38.805 --> 0:03:44.125 parked near a boat ramp. Brook's family said that Brooke 0:03:44.165 --> 0:03:47.965 had been having multiple unexplained flat tires and the days 0:03:48.005 --> 0:03:51.685 and weeks before she went missing. The doors of the 0:03:51.685 --> 0:03:55.205 car were locked, the keys were missing. The sheriff at 0:03:55.245 --> 0:03:59.045 the time, Sean Stevens, told reporters quote, someone called in 0:03:59.085 --> 0:04:01.405 about a vehicle sitting under a bridge. It was like 0:04:01.485 --> 0:04:04.125 it was just parked there and walked away from The 0:04:04.205 --> 0:04:06.845 keys were not in the car. Have no information on 0:04:06.845 --> 0:04:11.925 who put it there. Inside the car, police found Brook's 0:04:11.965 --> 0:04:16.565 personal effects, her wallet with money still inside, her cell phone, 0:04:16.965 --> 0:04:19.405 a can of fix a flat, and a pack of cigarettes, 0:04:19.765 --> 0:04:23.285 but there was no sign of Brook now from what 0:04:23.365 --> 0:04:27.565 they've said, although police haven't revealed much information, they seemed 0:04:27.605 --> 0:04:30.325 to believe that Brooke was planning to meet someone at 0:04:30.325 --> 0:04:33.205 that location and that after she got out of her car, 0:04:33.445 --> 0:04:36.405 she took her keys, locked it and went with that person. 0:04:37.165 --> 0:04:40.045 And again, although this is technically an open case, which 0:04:40.165 --> 0:04:42.645 means that the information in the case file has not 0:04:42.685 --> 0:04:45.045 been made public, so I have no access to it. 0:04:45.845 --> 0:04:48.485 From what I know of Brooke, I find it very 0:04:48.485 --> 0:04:50.645 hard to believe that she would have just locked up 0:04:50.685 --> 0:04:53.965 and left all of her personal items behind. At the 0:04:54.005 --> 0:04:56.445 time when she went missing, Brooke had a lot to 0:04:56.485 --> 0:05:00.365 look forward to. In twenty twelve, she graduated from the 0:05:00.445 --> 0:05:03.925 University of Arkansas Community College with an Associate of Applied 0:05:03.965 --> 0:05:07.565 Science degree in nursing. She worked as an LPN or 0:05:07.605 --> 0:05:12.925 a licensed practical nurse. Brooke was divorced from her ex husband, Dustin. 0:05:13.805 --> 0:05:17.165 She had three children, two from her first marriage and 0:05:17.205 --> 0:05:21.165 one with her current partner, Brad. At the time of 0:05:21.205 --> 0:05:24.565 her disappearance, her two older children were in their teens. 0:05:25.245 --> 0:05:27.485 She and Brad had a son who was four years old. 0:05:28.485 --> 0:05:31.085 Brooke was living in Sarce and working as a nurse 0:05:31.125 --> 0:05:35.885 at Newark Medical Clinic, so that route from Circe to Oltrough, 0:05:36.085 --> 0:05:39.205 which Brooke drove right before she disappeared, was one that 0:05:39.285 --> 0:05:44.165 she knew very well. I've been in contact with Brooke's sister, 0:05:44.525 --> 0:05:47.645 Kelly Avensalindsworth for a couple of years now, and I 0:05:47.765 --> 0:05:51.325 followed everything that Kelly has done. She has never stopped 0:05:51.365 --> 0:05:56.525 fighting to get answers about what really happened to Brooke. Now, 0:05:56.725 --> 0:05:59.445 some people have suggested that Brooke, like a lot of 0:05:59.485 --> 0:06:02.605 people in the region, had used some drugs in the past, 0:06:02.845 --> 0:06:06.485 including methamphetamines. But as I've sad said many times in 0:06:06.525 --> 0:06:09.725 this podcast, drug use or actually anything in a person's 0:06:09.765 --> 0:06:12.965 life does not define them and it should never affect 0:06:13.085 --> 0:06:18.685 how diligently someone's case is pursued. Everyone deserves justice. In 0:06:18.765 --> 0:06:22.005 my opinion, from what the police said when Brook first 0:06:22.045 --> 0:06:25.565 went missing, it appeared that they did not treat this 0:06:25.645 --> 0:06:30.085 incident as possibly involving foul play. Some of that is understandable. 0:06:30.685 --> 0:06:33.765 Police pointed out there was no sign of foul play 0:06:34.325 --> 0:06:36.845 in or around Brook's car, no sign of a struggle, 0:06:36.925 --> 0:06:41.205 and it's not illegal for someone over eighteen to voluntarily 0:06:41.245 --> 0:06:47.045 go missing. However, Brook's family was adamant she never would 0:06:47.045 --> 0:06:49.165 have dropped out of sight and left her children for 0:06:49.205 --> 0:06:52.845 this long. Leaving all of her personal belongings behind, including 0:06:52.845 --> 0:06:55.645 her cell phone and her money, does not make sense. 0:06:56.405 --> 0:06:59.765 Brook's family insists it was completely out of character for 0:06:59.805 --> 0:07:02.645 her to go off somewhere without contacting her father or 0:07:02.845 --> 0:07:07.685 staying in touch with her children. W Brook's father, Aubrey Allensworth, 0:07:08.165 --> 0:07:10.645 said she always stayed in touch with him and with 0:07:10.685 --> 0:07:16.045 her kids. He said, quote, She's a kind, gentle, wonderful, 0:07:16.085 --> 0:07:19.365 loving person. She's the type of person who, if she 0:07:19.445 --> 0:07:22.405 saw a straight dog running by the highway, would stop 0:07:22.445 --> 0:07:24.725 and pick it up and take care of it. End quote. 0:07:26.245 --> 0:07:29.925 Though Brooke had faced demons in the past, she adored 0:07:29.965 --> 0:07:34.005 her children. At the time of Brook's disappearance, things were 0:07:34.045 --> 0:07:37.685 complicated for her at home. Friends and family say she 0:07:37.805 --> 0:07:40.365 was worried about arguments she had been having lately with 0:07:40.405 --> 0:07:43.805 the father of her four year old son, Brad. Brooke 0:07:43.925 --> 0:07:47.565 was worried about getting custody of her young son. Before 0:07:47.605 --> 0:07:52.165 she disappeared, Brooke also had other suspicions. She believed that 0:07:52.205 --> 0:07:56.325 she was being followed. Now, some people seemed to have 0:07:56.365 --> 0:08:00.285 written this off as possibly being paranoid, but from what 0:08:00.365 --> 0:08:03.165 I have learned about Brook's life from her family and 0:08:03.205 --> 0:08:06.885 people who knew her, she had value reasons to be worried. 0:08:08.245 --> 0:08:12.285 I've put together a timeline of Brook's last movements. There 0:08:12.285 --> 0:08:14.005 are a lot of things I'm going to mention here 0:08:14.045 --> 0:08:16.725 that you will not see on the news. I did 0:08:16.725 --> 0:08:19.325 this with help from Brook's sister Kelly, who has never 0:08:19.365 --> 0:08:21.525 given up on trying to get answers and justice for 0:08:21.605 --> 0:08:24.565 her sister and to find out what really happened to Brook. 0:08:25.605 --> 0:08:28.125 I keep looking back at Brook's Facebook page, the one 0:08:28.125 --> 0:08:31.605 whose cover quote reads, speak the truth even if your 0:08:31.645 --> 0:08:36.045 voice shakes, all of Brook's photos or Brooke smiling with 0:08:36.085 --> 0:08:40.165 her children. I also notice we have two mutual friends, 0:08:40.765 --> 0:08:44.085 which confirms my long held belief that in many ways, 0:08:44.165 --> 0:08:48.005 the state of Arkansas is one big small town. As 0:08:48.045 --> 0:08:51.445 you know, in this podcast, we try to focus on victimology, 0:08:51.485 --> 0:08:54.485 what Brooke was doing, what her state of mind was 0:08:54.565 --> 0:08:56.765 at the time of her disappearance, and what was going 0:08:56.765 --> 0:09:00.525 on in her life. So let's go back to July tenth, 0:09:00.565 --> 0:09:04.245 two days before Brook disappeared. That day, she sent her 0:09:04.325 --> 0:09:08.885 sister Kelly a message saying, hey girl, what's up. Kelly 0:09:08.885 --> 0:09:11.605 said it was a while before she responded because it 0:09:11.645 --> 0:09:15.325 seemed like a completely normal message. When she did get 0:09:15.365 --> 0:09:17.765 back to Brook, Brooke wrote back saying don't worry, I've 0:09:17.805 --> 0:09:20.925 got it taken care of. Much later, when she reflected 0:09:20.965 --> 0:09:24.525 back on that message, Kelly thought maybe her sister needed something, 0:09:24.565 --> 0:09:27.085 maybe she was trying to tell her something. But again, 0:09:27.165 --> 0:09:29.205 at the time, it didn't seem like a big deal. 0:09:30.125 --> 0:09:33.485 On that day, on July tenth, Kelly said that Brooke 0:09:33.605 --> 0:09:35.445 was with Brad, her partner and the father of her 0:09:35.445 --> 0:09:38.405 four year old child. They were together at Brad's home 0:09:38.445 --> 0:09:41.565 in Sarcy, Arkansas, which again is about forty four miles away. 0:09:42.205 --> 0:09:44.165 It takes a little less than an hour to make 0:09:44.165 --> 0:09:47.685 that trip by carr. Brooke and Brad went to Newport 0:09:47.725 --> 0:09:50.045 for the day, then back to his place in Sarce 0:09:50.165 --> 0:09:54.285 that night. Kelly said she believes on that day Brooke 0:09:54.325 --> 0:09:56.925 and Brad did have some kind of argument. Now I 0:09:57.005 --> 0:09:59.565 want to make absolutely clear here I am not in 0:09:59.685 --> 0:10:03.045 any way suggesting that Brad or anyone else had any 0:10:03.085 --> 0:10:06.445 part in Brook's disappearance. I don't know what happen, but 0:10:07.085 --> 0:10:09.765 because there is no information out there and it's been 0:10:09.805 --> 0:10:12.205 so many years, I want to go through all the 0:10:12.285 --> 0:10:16.245 known facts and hopefully, working together, we can close any 0:10:16.285 --> 0:10:19.965 of these gaps in time. I have reached out both 0:10:20.045 --> 0:10:22.765 to Brad and to Dustin in the past, I have 0:10:22.805 --> 0:10:25.285 not heard back. I would love to talk to both 0:10:25.285 --> 0:10:29.645 of them. As we all know, the tiniest detail can 0:10:29.685 --> 0:10:33.485 sometimes be the missing piece that helps break a case. Now, 0:10:33.485 --> 0:10:36.125 apparently while Brad was in the shower, Brooke left the 0:10:36.165 --> 0:10:39.845 residence with the couple's son. After Brooke made the decision 0:10:39.885 --> 0:10:42.125 to leave home, she went to stay with a female friend, 0:10:42.605 --> 0:10:45.165 a person who lived in Newport, and then she stayed 0:10:45.205 --> 0:10:49.045 with that female friend overnight. Again. All of this information 0:10:49.205 --> 0:10:53.045 is according to Brook's sister, Kelly. Just to clarify some 0:10:53.165 --> 0:10:58.525 geography here, we talk about Newark, Newport, and Oltrough. Those 0:10:58.565 --> 0:11:02.485 three towns are all very close together. Newark is right 0:11:02.525 --> 0:11:06.765 across the bridge from Oltrough across the White River. Newport 0:11:06.925 --> 0:11:10.085 is about ten miles from Oltrough up Arkansas Highway fourteen. 0:11:10.805 --> 0:11:15.805 All of these places were locations where Brook frequented. So 0:11:15.885 --> 0:11:18.925 now we go to the next day, July eleventh. Brooke 0:11:19.045 --> 0:11:22.285 called her two older children, who I believe were in 0:11:22.365 --> 0:11:24.285 their teens. At least one of them must have been 0:11:24.285 --> 0:11:27.165 old enough to drive. She arranged for them to come 0:11:27.205 --> 0:11:30.005 pick up her little son, her youngest son, in Oltrop. 0:11:30.685 --> 0:11:33.525 She told her kids she had a hair appointment in Newport, 0:11:33.805 --> 0:11:36.445 so they did. They took brook Son with them. She 0:11:36.525 --> 0:11:39.765 went on to her hair appointment. Brooke went into the 0:11:39.765 --> 0:11:43.445 Allure beauty salon. When she went in, she was a brunette. 0:11:43.645 --> 0:11:47.205 She came out of Platinum Blonde on that same day. 0:11:47.205 --> 0:11:50.125 I believe she also had her nails done at a different, 0:11:50.205 --> 0:11:54.805 separate appointment. That night, Brook stayed with the same female 0:11:54.885 --> 0:11:57.885 friend she'd stayed with the previous night, And this was 0:11:57.925 --> 0:12:00.325 around the time when Brooke had been telling people she 0:12:00.485 --> 0:12:03.405 was having these car issues. She said she had been 0:12:03.405 --> 0:12:07.365 getting a lot of unexplained flat time. On the morning 0:12:07.405 --> 0:12:10.485 of July twelfth, Brooke left her friend's residence pretty early 0:12:10.485 --> 0:12:14.845 in the morning. Her sister, Kelly, said that Brook's plan 0:12:15.045 --> 0:12:17.245 was to go back to Sircy and talk to Brad 0:12:17.445 --> 0:12:19.965 to see if they could work things out. She told 0:12:20.125 --> 0:12:23.285 friend she was going to face the music to work 0:12:23.325 --> 0:12:26.845 out her issues with him. Kelly said Brooke did seem 0:12:26.885 --> 0:12:29.885 to be worried about the arguing with Brad, but Brooke 0:12:29.925 --> 0:12:32.165 appeared to have other things on her mind, things that 0:12:32.205 --> 0:12:37.005 were bothering her even more. Kelly said, quote, she was scared. 0:12:37.605 --> 0:12:42.005 She said that a brown truck was following her. End quote. Now, 0:12:42.045 --> 0:12:45.005 at some point it seems like Brooke got another flat. 0:12:45.125 --> 0:12:47.165 They're a report she was seen on the side of 0:12:47.205 --> 0:12:49.605 the road and that she was using fix a flat, 0:12:49.765 --> 0:12:52.285 which if any of you've never seen fix a flat. 0:12:52.325 --> 0:12:56.045 It's basically compressed air in a can. She was using 0:12:56.085 --> 0:12:58.645 it to put air into her tires. But fix a 0:12:58.685 --> 0:13:01.765 flat is really just a quick fix. If you've got 0:13:01.765 --> 0:13:03.965 a leak, you still have to go get it fixed somewhere, 0:13:04.165 --> 0:13:08.365 which Brooke apparently just do. At eight thirty am, after 0:13:08.445 --> 0:13:11.805 leaving her friend's house, Brook stopped in at Grady's Auto 0:13:11.845 --> 0:13:15.205 Repair in Newport. The mechanic there, a local guy named 0:13:15.205 --> 0:13:18.925 Grady Henson, put oil in her car. I'm not exactly 0:13:18.965 --> 0:13:21.005 sure what else he did to her car. He may 0:13:21.085 --> 0:13:23.045 or may not have done something about the flat tire. 0:13:23.125 --> 0:13:27.045 It's unclear. In all the reports I've seen, it has 0:13:27.085 --> 0:13:30.925 been reported police did ping Brook's cell phone. They figured 0:13:30.965 --> 0:13:33.205 out that at some point during her drive to Circe, 0:13:33.765 --> 0:13:37.005 she made a fateful decision. She chose to turn around 0:13:37.125 --> 0:13:40.605 and drive back toward Olstrough. We do know once she 0:13:40.685 --> 0:13:43.405 got there, she went to the residence of her first husband, 0:13:43.525 --> 0:13:47.765 Dustin and his wife. Brook's family has said they don't 0:13:47.805 --> 0:13:51.405 really know why Brooks stopped there. They have a theory 0:13:51.565 --> 0:13:54.325 that Brooke may have gone there in order to get 0:13:54.405 --> 0:13:59.085 Dustin and his wife to help her with a potential 0:13:59.165 --> 0:14:02.285 custody issue with her four year old son, maybe even 0:14:02.325 --> 0:14:05.205 to ask Dustin and his wife if they could take 0:14:05.205 --> 0:14:08.765 cut of her son. Now, this is all pure speculation. 0:14:08.965 --> 0:14:12.125 This is something that Brook's family, knowing the situation she 0:14:12.205 --> 0:14:14.405 was in, believes might have happened, but we don't know 0:14:14.525 --> 0:14:19.685 for sure. And again it's unclear exactly what the relationship 0:14:19.725 --> 0:14:22.445 between Brook and Dustin was because it's all second and 0:14:22.525 --> 0:14:25.685 third hand. Some people say there had been friction in 0:14:25.725 --> 0:14:28.485 the past between Brooke and Dustin and that they had 0:14:28.605 --> 0:14:32.005 argued over child support payments. Then again, for whatever reason, 0:14:32.125 --> 0:14:34.765 on that day, she felt comfortable enough to stop at 0:14:34.805 --> 0:14:38.805 his house. Dustin told police that Brooke did stop by, 0:14:39.045 --> 0:14:41.085 they spoke for a while, and then she left his 0:14:41.165 --> 0:14:45.165 house that morning. He said that after Brooke left the house, 0:14:45.405 --> 0:14:50.245 he never saw her again. Brook's father said that apparently 0:14:50.325 --> 0:14:52.765 Dustin had a step son who was in the house 0:14:53.285 --> 0:14:56.165 who saw a digital clock right when Brooke left, and 0:14:56.205 --> 0:15:01.765 apparently that clock read ten thirty eight am. It's my understanding, 0:15:01.845 --> 0:15:05.325 from Brook's family and the limited information I've read so far, 0:15:05.605 --> 0:15:08.245 that Dustin and the people in his home were the 0:15:08.325 --> 0:15:14.485 last known people to have seen Brooke after Brook disappeared, 0:15:14.525 --> 0:15:18.645 her family began to get seriously worried for her. At first, 0:15:18.725 --> 0:15:20.845 they might have thought maybe she was just with a friend, 0:15:21.405 --> 0:15:24.845 but as the days went on with zero contact, they 0:15:24.925 --> 0:15:29.885 knew that something must be seriously wrong. On July twenty sixth, 0:15:30.005 --> 0:15:32.845 her dad, Aubrey, filed a missing persons report in White 0:15:32.845 --> 0:15:36.645 County because that was where Brook lived. They gave police 0:15:36.645 --> 0:15:40.965 photos and went through her identifying characteristics. She was five 0:15:41.045 --> 0:15:44.125 foot eight, weighing one hundred and eight pounds. She had 0:15:44.205 --> 0:15:47.165 brown hair that had recently been dyed blonde, and Brook 0:15:47.245 --> 0:15:51.005 also had a very distinctive tattoo on the left side 0:15:51.045 --> 0:15:53.805 of her stomach. She has a tattoo that has GPS 0:15:53.885 --> 0:15:59.045 coordinates for a specific location in Newport Now. Brook's father 0:15:59.245 --> 0:16:01.725 apparently felt that the police were kind of giving him 0:16:01.765 --> 0:16:04.725 the run around. At this point, White County put out 0:16:04.765 --> 0:16:07.525 a bolo or be on the lookout, but then apparently 0:16:07.605 --> 0:16:09.245 they told him he had to talk to police in 0:16:09.285 --> 0:16:11.765 Independence County, where she was last seen, So there was 0:16:11.805 --> 0:16:14.565 a little bit of a delay before the boo actually 0:16:14.605 --> 0:16:18.405 went to Independence County. Then on July twenty seventh, the 0:16:18.525 --> 0:16:21.885 day after Brook's dad reported her missing, police found her 0:16:21.925 --> 0:16:25.405 car As we mentioned before, the black two thousand and 0:16:25.405 --> 0:16:29.445 seven Toyota Camery was under that bridge in Altrop. Again, 0:16:29.645 --> 0:16:32.445 the tire was flat, and actually looking at the pictures, 0:16:32.485 --> 0:16:34.485 it looks like more than one of the tires was 0:16:34.525 --> 0:16:38.205 pretty low. But it's very obvious that the front right 0:16:38.285 --> 0:16:41.485 tire was completely flat. All the doors of the car 0:16:41.565 --> 0:16:43.845 were locked, all of brooks stuff was inside it, but 0:16:43.845 --> 0:16:47.525 there was no sign of brook So here's something else 0:16:47.565 --> 0:16:51.205 about the car that is a little bit strange. Remember, 0:16:51.325 --> 0:16:54.405 Dustin's young step son said the clock read ten thirty 0:16:54.405 --> 0:16:57.165 eight am when Brooke left the house on July twelfth. 0:16:57.765 --> 0:17:00.925 Now I have multiple media reports that say someone saw 0:17:01.085 --> 0:17:04.805 brooks abandoned car that same day, around forty five minutes 0:17:04.885 --> 0:17:08.765 later un to the bridge. Brooks's dad said there was 0:17:08.805 --> 0:17:12.205 a guy on his lunch break who saw the car. Unfortunately, 0:17:12.285 --> 0:17:16.445 though that person didn't immediately report it to police. Someone 0:17:16.485 --> 0:17:20.165 described as a family friend of the Allensworth family told 0:17:20.205 --> 0:17:23.725 the news channel Fox sixteen quote it sat out here 0:17:23.765 --> 0:17:25.925 for about three weeks with a flat tire before it 0:17:25.965 --> 0:17:29.605 was picked up. End quote. I got more details on 0:17:29.645 --> 0:17:33.685 the timeline when the Independence County Sheriff Sheriff Stevens did 0:17:33.805 --> 0:17:37.125 a Monday Night mystery program. Now this was in twenty 0:17:37.165 --> 0:17:40.445 twenty one, but in an interview, he said one of 0:17:40.485 --> 0:17:42.885 his deputies had noticed the car under the bridge and 0:17:42.925 --> 0:17:46.405 logged it, but since there was no sign of foul play, 0:17:47.085 --> 0:17:49.765 the deputy didn't connect that car to a missing person 0:17:50.005 --> 0:17:52.845 because the missing person's report, remember, wasn't filed until the 0:17:52.845 --> 0:17:56.765 twenty sixth, so for a couple of weeks. The sheriff 0:17:56.805 --> 0:18:00.085 actually said roughly two weeks, they just kept an eye 0:18:00.125 --> 0:18:03.245 on it. The exact timing here would seem to me 0:18:03.365 --> 0:18:06.405 to be really crucial because if it's true that Brook's 0:18:06.525 --> 0:18:09.645 car was definitely seen by someone on that same day 0:18:09.645 --> 0:18:12.605 when she went missing on July twelfth, and it never 0:18:12.685 --> 0:18:15.645 moved after that, that would mean the window of time 0:18:15.685 --> 0:18:20.125 when Brooke could have disappeared would be considerably shorter. I 0:18:20.205 --> 0:18:23.445 made a freedom of information request for any information pertaining 0:18:23.445 --> 0:18:26.685 to Brooks car from both the Independence County Sheriff's Department 0:18:26.765 --> 0:18:31.085 and the Arkansas State Police. The Independence County Sheriff's Department 0:18:31.165 --> 0:18:34.925 did get back to me. Sheriff Sean Stevens was helpful 0:18:35.085 --> 0:18:39.005 and released the information that they were allowed to release. 0:18:39.925 --> 0:18:42.885 So I have the incident report pertaining to Brook's car. 0:18:43.645 --> 0:18:47.845 There was some information there. Unfortunately, the report did not 0:18:48.085 --> 0:18:52.165 confirm which day the car was first seen. It said 0:18:52.205 --> 0:18:55.365 that on Friday, July twenty seventh, the Sheriff's office was 0:18:55.445 --> 0:18:57.605 notified of a vehicle that had been sitting under the 0:18:57.645 --> 0:19:00.645 bridge for a couple of weeks, But it wasn't any 0:19:00.725 --> 0:19:05.725 more specific than that. It didn't say July twelfth, So 0:19:05.845 --> 0:19:08.045 I'm still looking for a way to narrow down that 0:19:08.085 --> 0:19:11.445 timeline to know for sure what happened to Brook on 0:19:11.525 --> 0:19:14.925 July twelfth, what happened when she was finished at Duston's house. 0:19:16.805 --> 0:19:19.965 As you may remember from Ebbie Steppek's case, often when 0:19:20.005 --> 0:19:23.045 there's an open case like this, the police will write 0:19:23.085 --> 0:19:26.565 back and normally they'll say no information is available. But 0:19:26.845 --> 0:19:30.565 sometimes in a case where something occurred, like an abandoned 0:19:30.565 --> 0:19:34.365 car being logged before it officially became a missing person's case, 0:19:35.005 --> 0:19:37.725 sometimes we can get more information, which is what I'm 0:19:37.725 --> 0:19:42.605 trying to do. After the car was found and linked 0:19:42.605 --> 0:19:47.365 to Brook, several police agencies got involved, including the Arkansas 0:19:47.405 --> 0:19:51.405 State Police. According to Brooks family, the Arkansas State Police 0:19:51.405 --> 0:19:54.765 investigators have conducted dozens of interviews and they have searched 0:19:54.805 --> 0:19:58.005 a large area. They dragged the White River and did 0:19:58.045 --> 0:20:01.965 a comprehensive search that covered eleven miles. Police did a 0:20:02.085 --> 0:20:04.805 ground search, They had a dive team out there, they 0:20:04.925 --> 0:20:07.725 used boat and they used cadaver dogs to search the 0:20:07.765 --> 0:20:10.565 banks around the White River, but never found any sign 0:20:10.565 --> 0:20:14.965 of Brook. Of course, police did consider the theory because 0:20:15.005 --> 0:20:18.485 of where Brook's car was, that brooks remains could have 0:20:18.525 --> 0:20:21.525 been in the White River, either because perhaps she was 0:20:21.565 --> 0:20:24.845 in a depressed state of mind and decided to wander 0:20:24.885 --> 0:20:28.045 in herself somehow, or because someone who she met at 0:20:28.045 --> 0:20:31.645 that scene did something to her and then put her 0:20:31.725 --> 0:20:34.405 in the water. I do want to back up and 0:20:34.405 --> 0:20:37.805 say that there's absolutely no indication of Brook being suicidal 0:20:37.885 --> 0:20:40.165 at all. In fact, she was making plans for the future, 0:20:40.685 --> 0:20:43.485 So I think that theory should have been eliminated pretty 0:20:43.525 --> 0:20:46.805 quickly if I were an investigator. However, they do have 0:20:46.845 --> 0:20:51.445 to consider that possibility. According to Brooks family, Arkansas State 0:20:51.485 --> 0:20:55.285 Police investigators explored the idea that maybe Brook left the 0:20:55.325 --> 0:20:58.005 area with a friend, or that maybe her tire was 0:20:58.085 --> 0:21:01.125 running flat so she drove down the ramp to that 0:21:01.205 --> 0:21:05.405 access point and parked there and again over the years, 0:21:05.605 --> 0:21:08.885 the police have shared very little information except what the 0:21:08.885 --> 0:21:12.565 sheriff told reporters back in twenty eighteen, which again was 0:21:12.685 --> 0:21:15.765 quote it looks like she broke down, had a flat 0:21:16.005 --> 0:21:18.685 left the car, and someone came through and she left 0:21:18.805 --> 0:21:22.885 end quote. Sheriff Smith did clarify on that Monday Night 0:21:22.925 --> 0:21:26.765 Mystery program that the police have taken other steps. He 0:21:26.885 --> 0:21:29.805 said they had swabbed the car for DNA and that 0:21:29.845 --> 0:21:32.845 they had sent the evidence from the car to the 0:21:32.925 --> 0:21:36.965 state crime lab. And this was pretty shocking to me. Actually, 0:21:37.485 --> 0:21:40.085 I know the Arkansas State Crime Lab has some pretty 0:21:40.085 --> 0:21:44.405 long delays, but in twenty twenty one, when this interview 0:21:44.445 --> 0:21:47.325 was done, the samples that were taken from the car 0:21:47.525 --> 0:21:49.565 still had not come back from the crime lab. And 0:21:49.605 --> 0:21:53.245 I find that pretty shocking. Actually, Brook's family had hoped 0:21:53.285 --> 0:21:56.605 that law enforcement would find answers and that they would 0:21:56.645 --> 0:21:59.445 be able to bring her home, but it's been years 0:21:59.525 --> 0:22:04.485 and there's still nothing. In twenty twenty, Brook's case did 0:22:04.525 --> 0:22:09.125 make headlines again after another young woman was viciously murdered 0:22:09.125 --> 0:22:14.045 in Arkansas. In August of twenty twenty, twenty five year 0:22:14.045 --> 0:22:16.125 old Sidney Sutherland was out for a jog near her 0:22:16.165 --> 0:22:19.325 home in Grubbs which is right outside of Newport l 0:22:19.405 --> 0:22:22.525 Like Brook, she vanished without a trace. This was in 0:22:22.565 --> 0:22:26.405 an area that Brooke regularly passed through. It was very 0:22:26.405 --> 0:22:30.285 close to Brook's father's house. Like Brook, Sidney disappeared in 0:22:30.405 --> 0:22:33.805 broad daylight. But unlike Brook, law enforcement found out what 0:22:33.845 --> 0:22:37.765 happened to Sidney Sutherland very quickly. I'm sure that many 0:22:37.805 --> 0:22:39.765 of you are familiar with this story because at the 0:22:39.805 --> 0:22:43.485 time it was everywhere. It turned out that a twenty 0:22:43.605 --> 0:22:46.245 nine year old named Quake Llewellyn, who worked on his 0:22:46.325 --> 0:22:48.965 family's farm nearby and who actually was one of Sidney's 0:22:48.965 --> 0:22:52.685 acquaintances from high school, saw Sidney while driving down the 0:22:52.765 --> 0:22:56.085 road one afternoon, and, as he would later tell investigators, 0:22:56.485 --> 0:22:59.765 he had what he called a sick urge, so he 0:22:59.885 --> 0:23:03.205 turned around and hit Sidney with his truck. Then he 0:23:03.285 --> 0:23:06.685 loaded her into the back, drove her to a secluded area, 0:23:06.765 --> 0:23:11.165 and viciously sexually assaulted her. Then he dumped her body 0:23:11.165 --> 0:23:16.085 in a shallow grave. Unlike in Brooks case, Sydney had 0:23:16.085 --> 0:23:19.445 a more regular routine, so when she didn't get home 0:23:19.525 --> 0:23:23.005 that afternoon from her run, her boyfriend reported her missing. 0:23:23.485 --> 0:23:26.645 Police immediately went out and scoured the area for her. 0:23:27.645 --> 0:23:29.965 And they did something here that has been a huge 0:23:30.005 --> 0:23:33.045 help to law enforcement, but it's rarely discussed and it's 0:23:33.045 --> 0:23:37.405 a really controversial subject. They used a technology called fog 0:23:37.445 --> 0:23:41.165 Reveal to run Sydney's cell phone number. Fog Reveal was 0:23:41.205 --> 0:23:45.725 created by a company called fog Data Science. What fog 0:23:45.845 --> 0:23:49.205 Data Science and other companies like it do is aggregate 0:23:49.325 --> 0:23:52.605 location data for mobile apps, the apps that so many 0:23:52.645 --> 0:23:55.685 of us use every single day. You know that moment 0:23:55.805 --> 0:23:58.525 when you're using an app, maybe you're waiting for a 0:23:58.605 --> 0:24:01.245 ride share to show up. That moment when it says 0:24:01.245 --> 0:24:03.325 on your phone, do you want to share location? And 0:24:03.365 --> 0:24:08.805 you click yes. Well, programs like fog reveal aggregate that data. 0:24:09.165 --> 0:24:11.645 They collect the location data and they give it to 0:24:11.725 --> 0:24:16.605 law enforcement and sometimes sell it to other entities. Normally, 0:24:16.685 --> 0:24:20.285 in a case, if law enforcement want to get access 0:24:20.325 --> 0:24:23.365