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It was around dark on December 3rd, 2020, when Hood County Sheriff's

Lieutenant Johnny Rose got the call. Two of his deputies had found a body in rural

Lipan, Texas. Well, it was way out the woods. It took a while just to get out there to the

scene.

The body they found was Christopher Whiteley, the guy we told you all about in the last episode.

He was 28 years old, the father of two kids. He'd just gotten out of prison, and his family said he was doing a lot better.

Now he was dead, in the woods.

He'd been there for a day and a half, just 80 yards from the house where he'd been staying

with his girlfriend, Tyler.

Right away, there were some details about the kill site that would send this case in

an unprecedented direction.

Christopher's body was underneath a lot of heavy brush, and he was

curled up in the fetal position and wasn't wearing a shirt. When investigators rolled Christopher over,

they saw that he had blood on his jeans and on the top of his boots, but not on his abdomen,

which told them that he was probably wearing a shirt when he was attacked.

Now that shirt was nowhere to be seen.

Investigators also noticed that Christopher was wearing black shorts under his jeans, but someone or something had pulled those shorts through the zipper of his jeans.

To them, it looked like something maybe was trying to drag him away.

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