not that i know of. alfred wright grew up in jasper, his dad a local pastor and gym teacher. his mom raised five children. the youngest a contestant on american idol. i m going to dedicate this to my brother. now time is standing still reporter: his family said alfred always seemed happy. alfred was a man of great faith. he loved his family, very ambitious, very driven, very hard work. so why would he run, especially alone in the texas woods when he knew help was on the way? this part of sabine county is about a 45 minute drive from jasper, the town where more than 15 years ago james berg jr. was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death by three white men. people who live in this area, black and white say racial tension is always just beneath the surface, and that things aren t always as they appear. which is why when alfred s watch
called alfred s death questionable and have asked the fbi to assist. so what about the drugs and the autopsy performed by a local medical examiner and attended by a texas ranger who was also a close friend of the sheriff s? the autopsy determined alfred s death was an accident caused by a drug overdose from a mix of cocaine, amphetamines, and meth. yet astonishingly that same autopsy concluded that alfred wright died three hours after his family found his partially decomposed body. the official autopsy found shallow puncture woods up and down the left side of alfred s body, but found no evidence of severe trauma. what is more, the autopsy attributed alfred s missing two front teach to insect activity and said the straight cut on his neck apparently was caused by animal activity. suspicious of the investigation, the family hired an independent pathologist who examined the body and reached a very different conclusion. i have a high index of
and items of clothing turned up on a ranch about a mile from the liquor store where he was last seen, his family raced there to try to find him. when i drove down that road, i told my daughter-in-law there is no way on god s earth that alfred wright would have came down this road. there is no way. no way. his body was found alfred s wife was first to spot a piece of blue cloth, the same color as the medical scrubs alfred was wearing the last time she saw him. it was a perfectly rectangular piece of fabric hanging from the barbed wire fence. and it was it was as if it was cut perfectly. for more than three day, sheriff s deputies searched the property where the belongings were discovered. his body is found here. volunteers, including wright family pastor ray lewis say they asked several times to search a barn on the adjacent property but were told no by the owner. i was very polite.
who knows i sleep on this side? who knows my habits. and an old logging trail? chastain says she has no idea who left the dimes, but found no evidence tying them to the sheriff. in the criminal world, dropping a dime means snitching on someone. and leaving a dime at a scene can be a warning to keep your mouth shut. chastain lives in a county more than an hour from sabine. she had been complaining to her local police and sheriff s deputies about suspicious behavior and what she calls a known meth house adjacent to her 63-acre property. complained to the sheriff, anybody that would listen. people in sabine county and surrounding towns say this are a lot of drugs, a lot of meth in these areas. alfred, a 28-year-old physical therapist and father of three young boys had no history of taking drugs. which is why his family was stunned when sheriff maddox concluded alfred s disappearance was likely drug-related.
clean. what about his car keys? i was told by the mortician that came to the barrier who was there at the autopsy that when they pulled off his left shoot, which did not have a sock, his keys were under his left feet in his shoe. dogs had searched that ranch area in the dates after alfred s truck broke down and after finding some of his clothing scattered around the property. at the time, there was no sign of alfred, leading the family to believe his body ended up there after the search. there is open gate here. almost a straight path. and then his body was right through, right through the gate, the fence here. the only open trails in this woods. what doesn t make sense to you what you were told by law enforcement? everything. we went to the sabine county jail to talk to the sheriff.