Speaker 1: And that folks, it is Wednesday, May sixth, and he
Speaker 1: is a former Special Forces medical sergeant who did four
Speaker 1: tours in Iraq and right now he is wanted for
Speaker 1: attempted murder. Catch him if you can. And with that,
Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 2: Ropes.
Speaker 1: They said, this dude has extensive training. This might take
Speaker 1: a while. And what we're up to day five now.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, he disappeared on Friday, May first, so do
Speaker 3: the math.
Speaker 4: We're at Wednesday right now.
Speaker 3: So he has been on the run for several days
Speaker 3: and there have not been any sightings of him since
Speaker 3: a camera caught him forty five minutes after the incident.
Speaker 4: He has not been seen since their creepy photo.
Speaker 1: We can talk about here in the second, but we're
Speaker 1: talking about this guy in Tennessee. This the incident was
Speaker 1: on May one, the incident which we have more details about,
Speaker 1: but basically, he did shoot his wife. According to authorities,
Speaker 1: she did survive, but he took off afterwards. His name
Speaker 1: is Craig Barry, fifty three years old. This is in
Speaker 1: an area of Tennessee northwest part of the state, right
Speaker 1: at the Tennessee Kentucky border. If I have that right,
Speaker 1: that's the area we're talking about robes. But as soon
Speaker 1: as he took off, they immediately said this might take
Speaker 1: a minute because they were almost in some of the
Speaker 1: things they put out.
Speaker 2: Impressed with his skill set.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'll get into the TikTok of what happened, but
Speaker 3: as you mentioned his skill set, we can just go ahead.
Speaker 3: You mentioned four tours in Iraq and you mentioned his
Speaker 3: official title. He was a Special Forces medical Sergeant in
Speaker 3: the Army and he was in the army from nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety two to twenty sixteen. Left the Army as a
Speaker 3: sergeant first class and he is considered armed and dangerous OBEs.
Speaker 2: That's an Army career get in and out. This was
Speaker 2: a career guy.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of years exactly.
Speaker 3: And so look, he fled into the woods after going
Speaker 3: back into the home, armed with the rifle and extra ammunition.
Speaker 3: So police are advising folks who are in this area,
Speaker 3: these communities, and he mentioned it's on the border between
Speaker 3: Tennessee and Kentucky in a town where he left was Dover, Tennessee.
Speaker 3: But this area, this is a challenging situation because we're
Speaker 3: talking about more than one hundred and seventy thousand acres
Speaker 3: of forests, wetlands, open lands. They described this terrain as
Speaker 3: steep hills, deep ravines, hollows, ticks, snakes, poison, ivy and
Speaker 3: he is very familiar with this terrain, just personally and professionally.
Speaker 3: He was trained to get as far away as he
Speaker 3: can and to survive in the outdoors.
Speaker 1: How smart was it? I think it was an accident.
Speaker 1: He left his phone behind, They said. They don't think
Speaker 1: he has a phone on him.
Speaker 4: He does not.
Speaker 3: They believe so he left his phone behind and that
Speaker 3: he made one phone call before he left to his parents.
Speaker 3: Now police say his parents are cooperating with them. They
Speaker 3: are telling him or telling them what that conversation was like.
Speaker 3: So they are fully cooperating with police. But yes, they
Speaker 3: believe he deliberately left his phone behind. How about this.
Speaker 3: They're working off of one of three scenarios. They say
Speaker 3: someone either picked him up and he's fled the area,
Speaker 3: he's still in the area and moving through the terrain
Speaker 3: because of his training, or he hurt himself. So it's
Speaker 3: one of three things. And this was the official comment
Speaker 3: from police. Barry could be located miles or states away
Speaker 3: from here. That's how unclear they are about where he
Speaker 3: may be.
Speaker 1: They do what they did want to say that he
Speaker 1: is armed. They believe he shot somebody. That means he's dangerous,
Speaker 1: But do they believe he's necessarily a.
Speaker 2: Threat generally to the community.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have other targets necessarily, but he might harm
Speaker 1: somebody who gets in his way.
Speaker 2: Okay, correct, that.
Speaker 3: Is exactly how they put it. They don't believe he
Speaker 3: has any other tar gets in mind. His sole purpose
Speaker 3: right now is to survive, to stay undetected, and yes,
Speaker 3: if anyone gets in his way. Obviously he went and
Speaker 3: got a lot of extra AMMO, so he's prepared to
Speaker 3: do what it takes they believe.
Speaker 4: To not be apprehended. And that's the concern.
Speaker 1: You said you wouldn't got extra AMMO. And yet this incident,
Speaker 1: the first we heard about it, she was shy. We
Speaker 1: weren't sure what her condition was. Hearing the details of
Speaker 1: it now, it sounds like a well horrific, no doubt,
Speaker 1: a domestic dispute robes but it also turned into a
Speaker 1: bizarre and very short chase. And then after he goes
Speaker 1: back in and kind of suits up and gets ready
Speaker 1: for whatever he's going out to prepare to do.
Speaker 3: Yes, we finally got details because for a while we
Speaker 3: only knew that it was he was being charged with
Speaker 3: second degree attempted murder, but we didn't know the wife's condition.
Speaker 3: We didn't know anything about her. So now we're finding
Speaker 3: out that reportedly, this incident happened just before midnight on Thursday,
Speaker 3: April thirty five. So according to his wife, he first
Speaker 3: started they had an argument, it turned violent. He hit
Speaker 3: her in the head repeatedly, according to her, and then
Speaker 3: strangled her. Then he shot her. As she fled from him,
Speaker 3: she ran to her car. She claims that Barry then
Speaker 3: got into his car, drove behind her, and then crashed.
Speaker 3: And then when he crashed, he got out of the vehicle,
Speaker 3: went up the driveway, went into the home to make
Speaker 3: that phone call, grab some AMMO. He actually changed his
Speaker 3: clothes into camouflage clothing, so he was prepped and ready
Speaker 3: to leave and to not be found. And so that
Speaker 3: is how she describes what happened. And she suffered one
Speaker 3: gunshot wound to the neck. So she is very lucky
Speaker 3: to be alive.
Speaker 2: Did I see she's already been released from the hospital.
Speaker 3: She has already been released and expected to make a
Speaker 3: full recovery. So that is that is the good news here.
Speaker 3: But look, they had a bloodhound trailing him, Like she
Speaker 3: called police right away. Obviously she went to the hospital.
Speaker 3: They trailed him to a road. That's the last like,
Speaker 3: I don't know how close to the road this was
Speaker 3: that they were able to track him to and then
Speaker 3: lost him from there. So that's their concern that maybe
Speaker 3: someone picked him up.
Speaker 4: They do have that concern.
Speaker 1: That concern I was to my next question. I knew
Speaker 1: they hadn't ruled it out, but in what you're seeing,
Speaker 1: how not how sure, But I'm as how much weight
Speaker 1: are they given to that theory that he is giving
Speaker 1: getting some help out there?
Speaker 3: They don't know. They just said it's one of three.
Speaker 3: Either he's surviving, he's been helped, or he is no
Speaker 3: longer with us. But they think it is one of
Speaker 3: those three scenarios and they have I mean, it's so interesting.
Speaker 4: We've talked about this.
Speaker 3: We actually were aware of the story for some time
Speaker 3: and we were waiting to see what would happen. But
Speaker 3: from the get go police, as they're warning the community,
Speaker 3: as they're warning folks, honestly, as they pointed it could
Speaker 3: be he could be states away by now. They don't
Speaker 3: know where this guy is, but they know he's armed,
Speaker 3: they know he's trained, and they know he's dangerous. He's
Speaker 3: they claim proved to be all of those things. And
Speaker 3: so they were very quick to say though this is
Speaker 3: this might take a while. They said that from the
Speaker 3: get go they didn't believe they were going to find
Speaker 3: this guy anytime soon.
Speaker 1: Well, they would certainly say that right just given the
Speaker 1: terrain we have seen some manhunts. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: remember ropes, why this just come to mind Travis Turner,
Speaker 1: the coach that he went off into the world. They
Speaker 1: still haven't found him, have any idea where he is.
Speaker 1: It's always the case this terrain can be very treacherous
Speaker 1: and challenging. Even if someone isn't as skilled at this
Speaker 1: guy as this guy, but there's nobody that's hunting him
Speaker 1: that's probably more trained and experienced in that terrain than
Speaker 1: he is.
Speaker 4: That's a challenge that certainly is.
Speaker 3: So when we come back, we're going to talk about
Speaker 3: what they are doing, what officials are doing to try
Speaker 3: and bring fifty three year old Craig Berry into custody
Speaker 3: and to finally end this man hunt that has several
Speaker 3: communities very very concerned for their own safety. And welcome
Speaker 3: back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where
Speaker 3: we are discussing an urgent manhunt that is underway along
Speaker 3: the Tennessee Kentucky border. They are looking for Special Forces
Speaker 3: medical sergeant fifty three year old Craig Barry, a highly
Speaker 3: skilled and trained Army veteran who served four times in Iraq,
Speaker 3: who is now accused of second degree attempted murder. And
Speaker 3: the details of how police say he beat, strangled and
Speaker 3: shot his wife are deeply concerning. And then the moments
Speaker 3: he took to prepare himself to leave that home and hopefully,
Speaker 3: we can only assume, to never be found again. That
Speaker 3: is what police believe his intention was. They say he
Speaker 3: was in good physical shape. He is trained to survive
Speaker 3: in the outdoor.
Speaker 4: Got this quote.
Speaker 3: There are several quotes from police, one of them this
Speaker 3: one was interesting. This guy is not just going to
Speaker 3: pop out on the side of the road. He's probably
Speaker 3: in it for the long haul. That is how police
Speaker 3: described this situation.
Speaker 2: It's almost like, all right, everybody, get comfortable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is what.
Speaker 3: It reminded me of. It was like everybody relaxed. This
Speaker 3: is gonna be a while. But look, I thought this
Speaker 3: was so interesting. I'm not familiar with this area of
Speaker 3: the country. Are you Tennessee, Kentucky? This area?
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm in western Tennessee guy, But no, I don't
Speaker 1: do any Kentucky.
Speaker 3: But this seems to be one of the most difficult
Speaker 3: terrains you could possibly imagine looking for someone who is
Speaker 3: highly skilled in navigating these exact type of terrains.
Speaker 4: But I thought this was interesting. This is the way
Speaker 4: these one hundred.
Speaker 3: And seventy thousand acres that he has disappeared into have
Speaker 3: been described as this is one of the largest areas
Speaker 3: of undeveloped forest in the eastern United States. So he
Speaker 3: disappeared perhaps into the most perfect place where it's incredibly
Speaker 3: difficult to find somebody.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can't imagine the challenge they are
Speaker 1: up against. And what is this guy's aim I mean,
Speaker 1: how far can he get?
Speaker 2: How?
Speaker 1: I mean he's gotta get water and he's gotta get food.
Speaker 1: How is he going to go about doing that? Can
Speaker 1: he survive out there? Or is he going to have
Speaker 1: to start breaking into homes of unsuspecting people somewhere who.
Speaker 3: Knows, so it's yeah, it's interesting you pointed that out
Speaker 3: because police obviously are using planes or using drones, they're
Speaker 3: using bloodhounds, they're using searchers and trackers, but they claim
Speaker 3: one of the things they're doing right now is going
Speaker 3: home to home. There are a lot of unoccupied summer
Speaker 3: homes and rentals scattered throughout this area, and so the
Speaker 3: thought is that perhaps you could have found one of
Speaker 3: those broken into them. So they are literally going from
Speaker 3: home to home to home seeing where he might possibly
Speaker 3: have found sheltered. There's been some bad weather in the area,
Speaker 3: so they're thinking he had to have found shelter at
Speaker 3: some point.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about because you and I do this often,
Speaker 1: to think you are rolling into your cabin in the
Speaker 1: woods Airbnb and this guy has set up shop.
Speaker 2: I mean, now they have to.
Speaker 1: That's when it becomes yes, Rope, it's not just this
Speaker 1: guy on the run and there's some man hunt. It
Speaker 1: does become a threat to the community. So this is
Speaker 1: a big deal.
Speaker 3: Yes, And he right now at this point doesn't have
Speaker 3: a lot to lose. He already knows if and when
Speaker 3: he has taken into custody, he is facing life changing
Speaker 3: charges his own wife is going to testify against him.
Speaker 3: She's already given her detailed explanation of what happened that night,
Speaker 3: so he knows if he's caught, his life is almost
Speaker 3: certainly over at this point. So when you have that
Speaker 3: kind of highly trained individual who is that desperate, who
Speaker 3: knows getting taken into custody is basically the end of
Speaker 3: his life, he has.
Speaker 4: Nothing to lose.
Speaker 3: And that is why police are advising communities to remain vigilant.
Speaker 3: They're telling anyone who lives in a general vicinity of
Speaker 3: this area to keep their doors locked.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is scary stuff.
Speaker 3: We talk about this as a compelling news story, but
Speaker 3: when you live in those areas or you have a
Speaker 3: home in that area, this is deeply concerning, very unnerving,
Speaker 3: and we don't know how long this is gonna last.
Speaker 3: How long are residents supposed to remain vigilant. With the
Speaker 3: way police are talking, it's indefinite, and that's concerning.
Speaker 1: They're not giving at this point, Robes, there haven't been
Speaker 1: that necessarily significant updates. The public is dying for them,
Speaker 1: but Robes, is there much that they have said or
Speaker 1: is updated other than he's out there. Here's this one
Speaker 1: picture which we talked about earlier. What was this a
Speaker 1: trail camera, they said, which essentially just picks up if
Speaker 1: there's movement, it just flashes right, takes a quick picture.
Speaker 1: That is a crazy looking photo of this shadowy, scary
Speaker 1: figure running through this high brush robes and they think
Speaker 1: it's him and looks like in full cameo.
Speaker 4: He's in full camo.
Speaker 3: He's armed, he has extra ammunition, he's highly trained and skilled.
Speaker 3: And the last time he was seen was forty five
Speaker 3: minutes after a brutal assault according to his wife, where
Speaker 3: he beat, strangled and shot her and really truly left
Speaker 3: her for dead and now is somewhere along the Kentucky
Speaker 3: Tennessee border, armed and dangerous. So we will keep our
Speaker 3: eye on this developing story. Just wanted to put that
Speaker 3: on your radar everyone. I Amy Robot alongside TJ.
Speaker 4: Holmes. We will talk to you soon.