dead on the side of a rural road. 40 miles away in knoxville, her older sister britney felt a sudden wave come over her in the melg of the night. she woke her husband. and i just said, i just feel really sick. like just all of a sudden really sick at my stomach. he s like, what do you think is going on? i don t know, i just feel really nauseous. it wasn t 20 minutes later i get a phone call. sheriff s deputies were looking for her mother tina. he didn t want to tell us much until he talked to mom first. tina was at a friend s house. both chief phillips and britney headed over there. mom comes to the door, and then she looks at me and she s like, it s brooke, isn t it it? i m like, he yeyeah. how did you know? i knew it had to be because britney was there. so it had to be. i delivered more than my share of death notifications and this particular one was i ll never forget it.