WEBVTT - Hell and Gone Murder Line: Tripp Brazeale [From the Archives] 0:00:46.480 --> 0:00:51.960 School of Humans. Helen Got Murder Line actively investigates cold 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.360 case murders in an effort to raise public awareness invite 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.760 witnesses to come forward and present evidence that could potentially 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.960 be further investigated by law enforcement. While we value insights 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.160 from family and community members, their statements should not be 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.960 considered evidence and point to the challenges of verifying facts 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.000 inherent in cold cases. We remind listeners that everyone has 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.160 presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 0:01:17.960 --> 0:01:20.840 Nothing in the podcast is intended to state or imply 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.600 that anyone who has not been convicted of a crime 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.120 is guilty of any wrongdoing. Thanks for listening. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.840 On Saturday, November two, twenty twenty four, fifteen year old 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.760 Trip Brazil headed out of his house in Forest City, 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.360 Arkansas on a four wheeler. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:40.280 Trip grew up and. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.840 When he had been hanging around with his uncle and 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:47.600 aunt that day, His mother, Jennifer Brazil, told us that Trip, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.840 her brother, and her sister in law went to a 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.800 party at a friend's house. They were in the area 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.000 of Saint Francis County Road four O nine, near Forest 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.360 City after dark and into the early morning hours of Sunday, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.640 November three, They continued to hang out in a part 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:07.360 of the woods called Crow Creek, riding ATVs, which are 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.400 also called four wheelers. Trips aunt and uncle were on 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.760 one four wheeler, Trip was on the other. One of 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.120 his friends was also there at some point riding another atv. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.320 Now it's mostly illegal. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.680 To ride four wheelers on paved roads in Arkansas and 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.640 in many other places, but out there in the country 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.080 it is a common mode of transportation for teens. His mother, 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.400 Jennifer Brazil, told us that Trip was homeschooled and also 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:37.960 had a job at a carpet store. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:43.560 They love being outside, sweet, respectful kids. He knew how 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:48.320 to actus his elders. They had been riding fullers all day. Actually, 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.280 his brother and sister. I'm glad that they got to 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.320 send the day with him. Then he went by our 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.160 friend's house, so they were having a party. And if 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.680 it comes back you had alcohol in this system, that's 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.600 not going to shock me. But as far as drugs, no, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.440 Trip was not a drug user. He told his friends 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.600 to try to stop smoking weeds. Trip was very scared 0:03:10.640 --> 0:03:11.480 of drugs. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.760 There were police officers near the teens in the woods 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.360 that night. Deputy Tray Bonham and Sergeant David Kenney from 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.520 the Saint Francis County Sheriff's Office had been out there 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.800 responding to a call dealing with a missing eleven year 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.720 old and twelve year old girl and boy from Cross County. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.000 So Sergeant Kenny and Deputy Bonham got called out to 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.560 an area near Highway three eight because one of the 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.680 missing Cross County kids phones was. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.600 Pinging in that area. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.720 Deputy Bynham wrote in his report that while they were 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.360 checking out a residence in the woods, they heard ATVs 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.680 driving around erratically. When they finished up and got back 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.200 to their vehicles, Sergeant Kenney went to. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.640 Go find those ATVs. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.600 He was the first one to make contact with Trip 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:00.120 and his family members. In his report, he said that 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.640 he was talking to the people who were on one 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.800 of the four wheelers, basically telling everyone to slow down. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.400 As Deputy Bontam approached, he saw one of the four 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.520 wheelers slow down like it was about to stop, but 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.280 then he said, the four wheeler took off and passed 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.680 him at a high rate of speed. The driver of 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:25.520 that ATV was Trip Brazil. The police started. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.360 Talking to Trip's aunt and uncle and one of Trip's friends. 0:04:29.280 --> 0:04:33.080 Then he was riding with my brother and sister in 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.760 law who her dad is a state trooper, and the 0:04:36.840 --> 0:04:39.720 cop pulled up to the stop sign and said what 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.680 are y'all doing? They said, oh, we'll just stop riding. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.600 Looks a little way y'all need to go. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.720 Sergeant Kenny was interviewed about this incident. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:53.240 There's two four wheelers and four individuals there. They all 0:04:53.280 --> 0:04:57.200 looked to be leaked teen's early twenties. As I got 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.000 out of my truck and walked around in front of 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.000 my vehicle, one of the four wheelers took off going 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.760 south on two eighty four. He went a couple hundred 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.360 yards and stopped, looked over his shoulder. I said, where's 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.920 he going. One of the kids popped up and said, 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.160 we don't know, sir. I said, so he's just going 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.320 to leave y'all here. He said, that's what it looks like. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.000 Will he come back by? And he was approaching. He 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.000 was slowing down like he was going to stop. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.080 At that point, Deputy Bonham started his pursuit of the 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:26.680 four wheeler. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.760 He was trying to pull trip over. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.520 Sergeant Kenny said he just wanted the driver of that 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.720 ATV to slow down. He said he called out on 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.800 the radio to the driver, telling him to watch the 0:05:38.840 --> 0:05:40.520 hairpin turns on the roadway. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.200 Trip didn't stop. 0:05:42.840 --> 0:05:46.400 Instead, he turned onto another road, Highway four O nine, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:51.320 and sped away, so Deputy Bottom followed him. This high 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.240 speed chase went on up a hill and back down 0:05:54.280 --> 0:05:57.040 a hill. Technically it was a dirt burm, but that's 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.440 how the deputies described it. And that's when something happened, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.000 something that caused Trip to abruptly stop and jump off 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:11.000 his four wheeler at twelve forty two am. This is 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:18.960 the bodycam footage of that chase. In real time. You 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.920 can hear the deputy yell at Trip, but he'd already 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:26.200 gotten off the four wheeler and was running. Trip was 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.640 wearing a camouflage hoodie, blue jeans, and boots as he 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.440 took off through the woods. In that bodycam footage, it 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.280 looks like he jumped over a barbed wire fence and 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:37.680 took off across a field. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.720 Trip didn't stop or turned back. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.440 He fled into the woods and kept on running, and 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.160 then he disappeared. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.080 I'm Catherine Townsend. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.400 Over the past five years of making my true crime podcast, 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.400 Helen Gone, I've learned that there is no such thing 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.800 as a small town where murder never happens. I've received 0:06:59.960 --> 0:07:02.960 hundreds of messages from people all around the country asking 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.280 for help with an unsolved murder that's affected them, their families, 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.000 and their communities. If you have a case you'd like 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.400 me and my team to look into, you can reach 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.880 out to us at our Helen Gone Murder Line at 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.400 six seven eight seven four four six one four five. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.840 That's six seven eight seven four four six one four five, 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.880 Or you can send us a message on Instagram at 0:07:27.080 --> 0:08:14.160 Helen Gonepod. This is Helen Gone Murder Line. In that 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:18.640 police bodycam footage, you can see trips abandoned yellow and 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.920 dark gray four wheeler. Deputy Bottom runs up to the 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.920 barber Ware fence where he stops with his gun drawn, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.280 but there's no sign of trip. He'd already run into 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.760 the dark woods. So Deputy Bottom goes back to his 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.080 vehicle and gets on the radio. Now some parts of 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.000 this are kind of hard to understand, but he's saying 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.840 that they wrecked and that he had the four wheeler 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:42.520 he wrecked out. 0:08:42.560 --> 0:08:43.920 I got the fooler. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.880 I'm good, but we went up the ditch. I said, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:49.440 I'm good, but we went up that ditch right there, 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.240 both of us, me and him both. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.600 The second officer on the scene, Sergeant Kenny, shows up. 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:57.560 They start talking about what happened. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.600 There's gonna be a white male on a cam flies 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.840 hoodie and blue jays. Looked like he went off that way. 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:03.560 Did he roll it or something? 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.800 Hey turned it and jumped off and took off running 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:07.520 across the field. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.440 At this point, it doesn't seem like they believed that 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.960 this was a super serious situation. The deputy later said 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.040 that he had followed his partner so that he would 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.120 have backup if needed, but at this point they had 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:21.160 no weapons drawn. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:27.840 He had jumped over the fence and we looked called out, hey, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.000 come back to the road. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.200 You've been fire a weapon or anything. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:32.960 No sir, No sir. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.520 Later police were able to figure out through examining the 0:09:36.560 --> 0:09:40.160 four wheeler that the connection to the battery was lost somehow. 0:09:40.680 --> 0:09:44.480 There was damage to the hot battery cable. Basically, something 0:09:44.560 --> 0:09:47.720 happened that made the battery die. This was a high 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.840 speed chase, and both the police and trip went over 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.320 a hill, so it might have happened. Then. The impact 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.600 was enough that the officers did check for damage on 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.000 his truck, but they said they did not find any 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:06.160 significant damage. It turned out that after Trip came off 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:10.120 that four wheeler and ran away, he started making phone calls. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.600 He called his mother, Jennifer, and was also in touch 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.800 with his father, but at some point his phone died. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.640 Deputy Bottoms secured the four wheeler and Sergeant Kenny got 0:10:27.680 --> 0:10:30.640 a trailer to take it back to the station. Once 0:10:30.680 --> 0:10:33.160 they got there, they were looking for a VEN number 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.480 on that vehicle. Sergeant Kenny said they couldn't find one. Later, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.240 he said they figured out that the vehicle had been stolen. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.920 There is nothing else about that in the reports, so 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.840 I need to say I have no idea if the 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.120 four wheeler was stolen or who allegedly stole it, but 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.960 from the reports, it does not look like that was 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:58.520 the police priority. They were focused on finding Trip. When 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.480 Deputy Bynum and Sergeant Kenny were trying to pull over Trip, 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.640 they said they didn't know who he was, but they 0:11:05.680 --> 0:11:06.680 didn't know his family. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.920 This late at night would allowed for their waking folks. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.640 And I know his dad, I know his mom, and 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.280 I know his brother, but I wouldn't know him if 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.480 he walked up and spit on it. And I don't 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.320 know if he recognized me, and that's why he took 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.280 off and wanted. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.800 To be the chasing Deputy Bonum said that another deputy, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.760 Deputy Bridshaw, reached out to Tripp's father. This would have 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.160 been at around one am. According to the incident report, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.320 Tripp's parents said he had still not come home and 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.800 that they were going out to look for him, and 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.400 according to Sergeant Kenney's report, Jennifer was in touch with 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.480 Trip during this time and pleading with her son to 0:11:47.560 --> 0:11:50.600 come out and turn himself in, while at the same 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.960 time trying to calm him down. Both of Tripp's parents 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.000 were trying to reassure him that they were on their 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.360 way to find him. Jennifer said that after Trip was 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.480 thrown off his four wheeler and walked through the woods 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.880 for a period of time, that he called her to 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.960 come and pick him up. So Jennifer and Gil headed 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.360 out to Highway four oh nine to the area where 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:11.280 Trip was last seen. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.160 When they arrived, deputies were still there. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.640 Trip talked to other people too, and one of his friends, 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.960 who was interviewed by police, said that Trip's location could 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:26.760 be viewed on Snapchat live. At some point Sergeant Kenney 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.480 said that he got Trip's phone number. He said he 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:34.800 sent Trip a text himself, but Trip never responded. He said, quote, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.520 I only wanted to tell the kids to not drive 0:12:37.560 --> 0:12:41.120 reckless at night. If he had only stopped, then I 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.840 would have just called his dad. His mother showed me 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.520 a text where I was telling her that he was 0:12:45.560 --> 0:12:48.240 a screw up and apologies to both parents. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:49.440 End quote. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.200 That text was sent at one forty one am, but 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.400 a few minutes after that, sometime around two am, Trip's 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:01.480 phone went dead. Meanwhile, an anonymous phone call was placed 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.120 to the Sheriff's office. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.200 We got an unknown anonymous phone call, and the phone 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.480 call whoever it was, stated that he was in the woods. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.600 He was behind the church on Sec. Four O nine 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:14.320 in that area. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.240 Deputy Bonhams said that an anonymous caller told him that 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.520 Trip had been driving the four wheeler. He said that 0:13:22.560 --> 0:13:24.920 some deputies went out to that area behind the church 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.880 and looked for Trip, but couldn't find him. Police talked 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.080 to one of Trip's friends. This is from Deputy Tray 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.320 Bonham's body camp. You can hear him talking to the 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.120 friend asking him if he knows anything about Trip's whereabouts 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:40.400 all right. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.280 Man, you've been bored for a while. He's up. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:43.520 Tell me the truth. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.960 That's the truth. You know what, Trips, I ain't a 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:46.640 fucking clue with Trip. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.240 I've been trying to find Trip, my damn hill to him. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.720 Get the fuck home, not being a dat When I 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.720 say this, ranning, it's rains, ran out of his shoes. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.680 It's fourteen years old and nobody's seen him or heard. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:02.680 Trip's friend shows the deputy where Trip's last location pinned. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.200 Trip was on Snapchat and his friend used a live 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.360 location video to show the deputy trips last location. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.840 So look right here, you got where four or nine splits. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:14.680 That's four or nine goes two ways. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.320 That's where it was three hours ago. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:17.840 I'm sure that's where he left. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.520 The fool was right there over there and took off 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.040 front of him for at the end of this day, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.760 end or one of the others. That's fourteen minute drive 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:24.120 from here. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.000 My main concern is if he's hurting. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.080 Yeah, I mean the way y'all said. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.600 He jumps ran from the politics. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.320 I got Toldkay when he walked in, it's like a 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:33.920 little brother to me. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.240 I got his back like I got had my little 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:35.760 brothers back. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.720 But in this situation, I tell where my little brother was. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.240 I have what tripple was. I tell you well, I'm. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.360 Heard a bug out there. If you hear anything, lemon know. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.960 Jennifer was also upset that, in her words, that the 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.840 police seemed to be more concerned with securing and taking 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.120 the four wheeler than they were about finding her son. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.680 I last talked the trip at one, and I made 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.000 it to the woods at two o'clock, where his phone 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.880 went dead and the full wheeler was already gone. There 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.960 were no cops out theirs. I hollered, went in the woods, 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.880 hollowed for trip nothing but within that amount of time 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.840 that foll whelller was already gone. They weren't looking for 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.760 my kids. They wanted the full wheeler. He followed his 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.360 vehicle up on the embankment after the trip, where it 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.320 looked like he could I possibly use the vehicle as 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:28.760 a deadly weapon. Actually called me and said they got 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.400 the full wheeler because he was hiding. Apparently that's what 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.840 it sounded like. And I said, Okay, I'm coming to 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.680 get you. He said, well, my phone's about to guy. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.400 I said, I've got your fans location on all my 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.640 way she said, okay, I said I love you. He 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.120 said love you too. So it wasn't like guy who 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.720 was arguing with him or killing him on the feature 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.600 foot when you get home. It was just coming to 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.520 get you. One I got a weird text message with 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.640 another County Talk who at this time we found out 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.600 was not even on night shift. Pe' dayshift, so why 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.720 did you call my husband's phone at one nine? At 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.840 the same time, I got a weird text on my 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.160 phone from Trip and said they got tripped with then 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:15.240 one until ocock the foiler was gone. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.480 Jin and her husband kept searching for Trip throughout the night. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.840 The police search also went on late into the night 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.800 and into the next day. At four twenty am, Sergeant 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.720 Kenney asked the fire department to send out drones with 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:34.040 thermal and night vision, but they found no trace of Trip. Later, 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.680 Jen posted on social media that she found that suspicious 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.760 the fact that the drones found no trace of Trip, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.440 even though he was supposed to have. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:43.720 Been running through the woods. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.080 But drones that respond to body heat can have lots 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.760 of obstacles. They don't always work perfectly. They can be 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.840 impeded by trees or outdoor temperature wind, and a lot 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:59.600 of other factors. At seven twenty am, the East Arkansas 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.920 Department of Corrections brought in their tracker dogs. The dogs 0:17:04.120 --> 0:17:06.880 were released where Trip had been when he fled the 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.800 Saint but they were unable to get a tracking sent 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.480 on him. Then they were taken to the area where 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.200 Trip's cell phone had last panned. 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:15.800 Still no luck. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.520 The Arkansas State Police were called in to assist. So 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.360 now you have the ASP, the Saint Francis County Sheriff's office, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:29.240 the Game and Fish Commission, and multiple other organizations, plus 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.840 tons of local volunteers. Everyone in that county was looking 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:38.280 for Trip Brazil. Local news crews were talking to Tripp's family, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.960 and word got out fast, both on the news and 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.440 on social media, and a lot of people were asking 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.400 how this happened. This was a kid who knew the 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.520 area well, so they couldn't figure out how he had 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:55.040 gotten lost out there and just disappeared, and why with 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.840 all the people searching for him, he hadn't been found. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.680 Searchers fanned out all over the area where Trip was missing, 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.040 a part of the woods near Crow Creek. The area 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.040 near where Trip went missing is basically on the edge 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.320 of Crowley's Ridge, which is a continuous range of rolling 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.880 hills that goes from Missouri across eastern Arkansas. The area 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.240 got its name from the first white settler to reach 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.200 the area, Benjamin Crowley. The ridges happened when the Mississippi 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.960 River changed course at one point and kept cutting into 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.160 the terrain, so you have this really unique geographical feature. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.440 It goes from flat delta country to an elevation of 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.640 two hundred and fifty feet really quickly. This terrain can 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.520 be pretty unforgiving even for people who know it well, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.760 and it's very easy to get lost up there. And 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.800 told the local wrig news channel that she thought that 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.280 maybe Trip would walk back to where he believed he 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.000 had left the ATV, and then because the police had 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.120 taken his vehicle, she said maybe he couldn't find it, 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.640 So she reasoned that he may have started walking into 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:05.520 the woods, gotten disoriented somehow, and gotten lost. His mother 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.800 said that Trip had last been in touch with him 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.920 in the early morning hours on Sunday, that Trip was 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.920 talking about the police chasing him, that he was scared, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.080 and that he wanted his parents. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:17.000 To come get him. 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.440 She said she believed that Trip jumped off his atv 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.600 and over a barb wire fence in order to escape 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.520 the officer who was pursuing him. She was basing that 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.720 on the fact that near that fence they found Trip's 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.680 hat in his shoe. This was just a few feet 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.280 from where he came off as four wheeler and started 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.360 running from police. They found something else on Monday too. 0:19:40.120 --> 0:19:44.520 Searchers found more of Trip's clothes, his other boot, his hoodie, 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:48.680 his cell phone, and his wallet, and Jennifer said the 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:52.520 way that his clothing was found was odd. His sweatshirt 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.280 was lying on some leaves and his phone, wallet, screwdriver, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.760 and phone charger were laying on top of the sweatshirt. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:04.240 So she wondered, why would Trip have left his stuff 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.600 out there in the dark like that, or could something 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.400 else have happened to him? Did someone else leave the 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:11.040 stuff out there? 0:20:11.120 --> 0:20:15.200 Later well, Monday morning, we mysteriously find his other boot 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.720 and his hoodie and siphon and wallet. It wasn't their Sunday, 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:26.360 but it was their Monday some reason. His sweatshirts, phone wallet, screwdriver, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.120 and phone charger were laying on top of his sweatshirt. 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.840 But then he hundred yards up the other side of 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.360 the ridge he found his boots. I don't understand that, 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.600 because if I'm gonna go ahead and take off my 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:41.720 sweatshirt that I have, I'm going to take off my 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.320 last boot that I had on. Anyway, I'm not gonna 0:20:45.360 --> 0:20:48.440 go further up and then put my boot there and 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.480 then continue to walk. Because we found his boot and hat, 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.680 and they brought dogs in and the dogs never hit 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:56.440 on anything. 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.520 So now she was thinking that this was seriously odd. 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.640 Why would he start taking off clothes in the middle 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:07.440 of the night and keep running. And Jennifer said this 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.440 wasn't the first time that Deputy Bonham had gotten into 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.000 some kind of a confrontation with her son and his 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.840 friends over riding four wheelers in that area. 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.800 Just because Tripp had out Randim on the four wheeler before, 0:21:19.120 --> 0:21:22.520 and he told people that he would get him, and 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.120 he made sure that Trip was aware of that that 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:29.160 he told people. It was supposedly said that this other 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.600 boy he was chasing he pulled up in their driveway 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.240 one day and Trip his name was mentioned in that 0:21:35.360 --> 0:21:38.080 conversation that if he'd seen him again, he would kill him. 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:42.400 But Deputy Bonham stated in his report that he had 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.120 no idea that the driver who had doubled back and 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.760 passed back by him and turned into a highway four 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:50.680 O nine was Trip, even when he was close to it. 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:56.000 On Monday, November fourth, the Arkansas State Police were called 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.560 in to assist. They found Trip's iPhone in the woods. 0:21:59.960 --> 0:22:02.640 It had died, and it was turned over to police 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.680 and taken in for data extraction. Later that afternoon, at 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:10.280 around four thirty pm, an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:13.640 officer saw something north of Benner State forty, near the 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:18.960 two hundred and forty three point seven mile marker. It 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:40.040 was Trip's body. He was hanging from a tree at 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.360 around four thirty in the afternoon on Monday, November fourth, 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:47.160 thirty six hours after fifteen year old Trip Brazil got 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.520 into a high speed chase with a police officer in 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:53.560 Saint Francis County, Arkansas, his body was found hanging from 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:57.560 a tree. We filed freedom of information requests and we 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:00.720 were able to get copies of the incident report, though 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:05.080 parts of it were redacted, probably due to Trip's age. 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:05.920 I wanted to. 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.040 Cover this case because we get a lot of calls 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:11.560 from parents and from other family members who believed that 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.480