Tom Brown's Body | Trailer
Texas Monthly True Crime: The Problem With Erik
Texas Monthly
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🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you what the criminal law is not about. Disproved me. Evidence |
| 0:06.3 | proves the case. So at some point in respect for Tom, we have to say even though |
| 0:15.8 | the result is not what we want, we're gonna respect the evidence that there is. |
| 0:21.4 | You want to remember Tom put up signs to your yard that honor parts of his life. |
| 0:26.2 | That's a great football player, great family. What's church? |
| 0:30.0 | Class president, do you hear that? |
| 0:35.2 | In the tiny Panhandle town of Canadian Texas, there are two identical signs. They're |
| 0:41.1 | planted on an empty lot on Main Street, just up the road from a handful of century |
| 0:45.8 | old red brick buildings. Each one is four feet tall and eight feet wide. At the |
| 0:51.5 | very top of each sign, in bold red letters is the phrase, justice for Tom. Beneath |
| 0:57.3 | that are two sentences. There is a killer among us. Please pray that Tom's killer |
| 1:02.7 | is found and brought to justice. |
| 1:08.5 | In the fall of 2016, Tom Brown was one of the most popular kids in town, the |
| 1:15.1 | president of his senior class, a standout in the school's drama club, and an |
| 1:20.2 | offensive lineman on the football team. But on the night of November 23rd, 2016, |
| 1:26.3 | the night before Thanksgiving, he vanished. For two years and two months, the |
| 1:34.7 | residents of Canadian search for him. Finally in January 2019, a sheriff's deputy |
| 1:42.1 | made a discovery. Breaking news tonight. The 18-year-old was last |
| 1:48.3 | seen November 2016. Investigators from multiple different law enforcement agencies |
| 1:53.5 | confirm his remains have been found. Tom's disappearance and death has now been |
| 1:59.4 | investigated by four law enforcement agencies. They've given lie detector tests to |
| 2:04.9 | Canadian zone sheriff to a globe-trodding private investigator hired to work on |
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