Ok, I am back. Final 30 min or so of the podcast.
68. Clarification - one of the vehicles is, indeed, marked. Unfound think there is evidence of two marked sheriffs vehicles and one unmarked car cruising Canadian that night.
69.What does the new information mean? It means the sheriffs were in the area and should have seen Thomas driving around for 6.5 hours in a town with two stops lights? They should have seen him.
70. At 6:23am Pine and Lewis actually parked in the parking lot of Abrahams and talk for about a min, under the camera. Pine was in an official video, coming from the south. The second vehicle came from the north. They talk, then get in their vehicle and drive off.
71. One of the deputys went down the street to where the video shows durango was at. They should have passed each other. The deputy has never admitted he saw the durango that is shown on the video.
72. Re: Texas Rangers - initially they said Rangers could investigate still but as of Jan 2018, there are two different Rangers investigating the case. Mom hasn't talked to them in several months. The first Ranger on the case told mOm to fire Private Investigator and she wasn't sure why he would give that advice. Ranger was never courteous. The two new Rangers investigating seem to take case seriously. Mom will be contacting them as well as the Attorney General with the new video.
73. The case in now being investigated by the FBI and Attorney General. The FBI refuses to talk to mom.
74. Mom feels the #1 reason the case is now at Attorney Generals office is because there are so many inconstancies from the Sheriffs Office. The story from LE changes all the time. Mom wants the Attorney General to take lead, and Lewis can participate if he would like.
75. Re: Klein (Private Investigator) - Mom found him from Houston and mom heard about him from owner of Abraham Trading. A mom of a student brought her the name of Klein within two weeks of Thomas missing. Moms experience has been positive with Klein. Klein is who found the cell phone on the roadside. Mom believes Thomas phone is at the lab. But she does not believe the phone found on the side of the road is Thomas' as it was the wrong color. Mom does not know where Thomas' phone was found. Klein does not believe it is Thomas' phone either. On the day of the search, they told Mom they did not believe it was Thomas' phone. Then all the sudden it was said to be Thomas phone.
76. Former Hemphill Deputy (unnamed) says he believes Thomas was being followed and harassed by Sheriff Lewis. Mom does not know if unnamed Deputy saw something or why deputy feels that way, but the information has been brought forward recently. Mom doesn't really have details about how credible this information is, etc.
77. Moms attorney made a request for an open records request with the county in the fall of 2017. The sheriff or county attorney did not submit any kind of sample or thing to the Attorney General. In Dec 2017 when the time was up, and the AG's office made the decision to release the information. Both Lewis and the county attorney turned around and sued the attorney general's office. After that, Mom formed a petition to petition to turn the case over to the AG's office. Petition had over 8000 signatures in a few days. Mom isn't sure why, but the decision was made to turn the case over to the AG office. Lewis went to the media saying things like 'AG probably wont take case' there is nothing AG can do to help, etc. AG office called Mom to tell her they would be taking the case, unbeknown to Lewis. Lewis said to Mom 'do you really want to do this? Re: turning case over to AG office.
78. What its like for Mom, family? Mom says if Thomas died in a wreck, they would know what happened, grieved. Mom says its hard. But not knowing is hard. No evidence if Thomas is alive or dead. Mom says its hard to be around people who could be involved. All she wants is Lewis to do the right thing. Mom would feel better if Lewis would admit they messed up. etc.
79. Rare but not unusual that Police could be involved. They do their research to check out police activity. Most police are good, but some are bad.
80. Mom gives FB page, and on Tom's webpage
www.findTomBrown.com. Final words from Mom - she just wants the truth. She wants Thomas brought home. There will be consequences, but she just wants to know what happened.
81. The video from Abrahams is now on You Tube and can be seen, so the listeners can see what they saw.