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the deputy turned on his body cam. what happened? well. i was trying to turn around. he was sitting in a ditch. about two feet off the roadway. and he got out, and told me that he was making a u-turn. and, hit something. okay. got your license and paperwork for this thing? this is gonna be fun. it s a damn, rental car. you got your rental agreement? yeah. go ahead and jump in here with me real quick. okay, jump into the front passenger seat. tim explained that he was lost and looking for a gas station. and you try to turn around? yeah. try to turn around out here. you just made a big flip around? yeah. we don t really do that around here. as you see why. yeah. the deputy requested a tow. then asked him where he was headed. honestly man, i was just driving. my whole life is kind of gone to lately. more or less living out of my car. but you had money to get a rental? yeah. i still work. just off this weekend.
reason that charlene was divorcing him. maybe tim dean had a reason to what and josh and amber dead. maybe he could save his marriage, if he helped charlene get his kids back. one way to do that? kill their dad, josh. courts would have no choice but to return the kids to the mom in texas. their question, is this guy, timothy dean, our guy in the driver with a gun? exactly. is this it? exactly. so we try to piece it together. they obtained a warrant for the cell phone records. squirrel through, it found something intriguing. two days before the murders. tim dean wasn t at home in texas. he was 400 miles away in kansas. and he placed a call to 9-1-1. deputy, cory nicholette, of the line county sheriff s office. where the officer who responded to the call. he had called it in. that he had had a wreck. and was reporting a wreck. it was 4 am when the deputy came upon tim dean by the side of a dark highway.
listed vest. and a 12 gauge shotgun. the garage crew wondered among themselves what the sky was doing with an arsenal in his car. i m glad you guys are following up on this. because i even told him i had weird vibes about all of this. where did tim dean go next. the deputy learned he had an uber waiting and tracked on the driver at her office. she said before trump got into a car he warned her about the goods he was carrying. you know, he won t, he goes to shock. and as it is loaded? he said no, i said that s fine. i m not scared of guns. she dropped him off at a local hotel. that s last you saw him? tim dean had left the hotel and got out of town. but how? the deputy assume tim read to a new car after a wreck dispersed. and so he went over to the main car rental company in town, enterprise. you see what i m talking about? sure enough, the rental
but that is my win a few days later the deputy got a surprise call from the fbi. asking about that traffic accident. the kansas 9-1-1 call had popped up during the search of tim dean s cell phone records. and the fbi was trying to create a timeline for tim dean and a murder investigation. i thought, wow, okay, i don t know what i have to offer for this but here s everything i ve got. to try to help. so now, deputy nikolette from cline county s sheriff s department in kansas found himself called into a growing multi state multi agency investigation. they want to hear everything. he is asking me if i worked this wreck and who was there, and where was he going. without of state investigators eager to hear more of the deputies decided to backtrack and try to figure out where dean had gone after the accident. the deputy visited the garage where the car had been towed. he, again, turn his body come on to report. thanks for coming your day off.