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A gruesome discovery is made at a construction site when a man is found buried beneath a newly installed septic tank.
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00:14We've found his bag of laundry no one has heard from him. What happened? Where'd he go?
00:23He knew most of his deep, dark secrets. He knew the good, the bad, and the ugly.
00:31Used to be a city council member. Now he's paying for nude photos. Everyone was in shock.
00:38He would say, I had to get rid of him. You could hear the gasps in the room. It's almost
00:42like he's confessing when he says it.
00:45He said, I'll go get my gun and take care of you.
00:48There comes a point in the job site surveillance footage that we see one person disappear into that hole.
00:55You never see that other body reappear out of that hole.
00:59This evidence is earth shattering. We know we have a murder.
01:22Mulhall is just a tiny town with less than 300 residents.
01:28It's very, very rural. Next to nothing to do.
01:34This area has a lot of farmland. Most of the roads are not paved.
01:39Just flat with cows, farmers, and ranchers. Not much else.
01:44Not a lot of calls for service from the police department.
01:50It's a very safe area. Basically, you blink and you miss it.
02:03September 2021, a local man had gotten missing, and I was in my office at Guthrer News Page when I
02:10got a tip that police officers were searching a field up in northern Logan County for a potential body.
02:19We get out there, and we find that it's an open field in the middle of nowhere.
02:25It was a site that a house was going to be built, but the house wasn't there yet.
02:31We searched the whole property for any dirt that may have been disturbed.
02:37We could tell that there had been a septic tank recently installed there.
02:43We decided to run some cadaver dogs where the septic tank was installed, and all the dogs indicated that there
02:50was possible remains.
02:57We called some archeological specialists to come out and help us excavate the tank.
03:06Once the septic tank's out of the ground, you have a six- or seven-foot hole.
03:10The archeologists have metal probes that they stick in the ground, and then they pull them out and they smell
03:17them to try to find any type of residue or aroma of decomposition that'll point them in the right direction
03:23of specifically where to start their digging.
03:27Once we were able to find an area where we were confident there was a body, the start of it
03:32is to slowly take dirt away with the excavator.
03:42At that point, we meticulously go through the dirt.
03:48We see something down in the ground that resembles a belt.
03:55So we dig further on down, and we find a body.
04:06The body was decomposed beyond any type of recognition.
04:13It was horrible.
04:15I had never seen anything like that.
04:18Everyone was in shock.
04:19Why was he buried that way?
04:22We're going to turn over every stone to make sure that we find whoever was responsible.
04:26Get the whoa-oh-oh.
04:45Guthrie, Oklahoma is a small town.
04:49Mixed demographic wise.
04:52Used to be the first capital of Oklahoma.
04:55But geographically, it's a lot of rural areas.
05:00It's a town of 11,000 people.
05:02You don't know everybody, but you do know quite a few people.
05:06The buildings are old school, like built in the 1800s.
05:10You know, it's got some brick road.
05:15My brother Brent, he was the oldest.
05:17And then I am the middle, and then my younger brother's name is Brandon.
05:22I was born in Oklahoma City. They were born in Guthrie.
05:25But this is home for me.
05:28My brother Brent Mack, he was a comedian.
05:30He was the funniest guy he could be around.
05:33It was his spirit, his demeanor.
05:36I mean, he was just a cool guy.
05:38We'd fight and laugh right after.
05:40That's just the type of relationship we had.
05:42You know, we'd fight and be eating hot dogs the next minute.
05:48He was an athlete.
05:49If he had it in his mind he wanted to run the quarter in a certain amount of time, he'd
05:53do it.
05:54He had the potential to do anything he wanted to do.
05:58My dad Brent was charming, funny, athletic, smart, bossy.
06:07He worked on welding and things like that.
06:11Any job that he did, he made sure it was to perfection.
06:17One time, he painted my whole house for me.
06:20And he said he did professional grade.
06:24And he was bragging.
06:25He just did a wonderful job.
06:31Back in high school, he was on the track team.
06:34But then after he broke his leg, that's when his track career ended.
06:39He started taking painkillers.
06:42That's when drugs became a factor in his life.
06:50He finally checked himself into a rehab.
06:54And then after he started the program, he was doing very well.
07:00He was very happy, very healthy.
07:05He would do jobs, building things.
07:07He worked for Dan Triplett, the former city councilman, for years.
07:13My dad was living at my house maybe a year.
07:17He helped me with the grandkids from, like, potty training, learning.
07:22Just cooking breakfast for them every day.
07:26He helped me a lot.
07:28His girlfriend, she lived in Texas.
07:31And they met online.
07:34So long as he was happy, you know, I don't care.
07:37He was doing so good.
07:39He had money.
07:40He could take care of himself.
07:42And I was happy for that, so.
07:48But you never know how much you're like someone until you're living together.
07:52I am very demanding.
07:55I like to be the boss.
07:58That is where the struggle came in.
08:04He ended up moving back to Guthrie and staying in one of his boss Dan's properties.
08:17Right after that, I started calling, trying to get a hold of dad.
08:22And he did not answer me.
08:24That was very odd because he always answers.
08:29So I messaged Dan on Facebook.
08:32And I said, hey, Dan, dad isn't picking up his phone.
08:36When is the last time that you were with him?
08:39And he told me they were out that day working on a job site.
08:43And then he dropped him off at the laundromat so he could do some laundry.
08:47And then he told me that my dad said he was supposed to be leaving for Texas with his girlfriend.
08:54And that's all he could give me.
08:57We didn't know his girlfriend in Texas, so I couldn't get in contact with her.
09:05At that point, I called my uncle.
09:09Got a phone call from my niece.
09:11And she says, have you talked to dad?
09:14And I go, no, you know, I haven't talked to him.
09:17She said his phone is just going to voicemail and it has been doing that for a couple days now.
09:25So I hung up with her, called my little brother, and asked him, has he seen Big Bro?
09:32And he goes, no, I hadn't heard from him.
09:37The day goes by and I call back and I go, has anybody heard from Bro?
09:44No, nobody's heard.
09:45Well, that's unusual.
09:49Nobody has seen him and his phone is off.
09:53At this point, there was a problem.
09:57So I called every hospital, every jail.
10:01We looked everywhere.
10:03There's no trace.
10:05So we started posting pictures on Facebook just to see if someone in the community has seen him.
10:14My brother Terrell called me and he said, someone just sent me a Facebook post from a lady in Guthrie.
10:23She found a duffel bag with a hat thrown over her fence.
10:28And the inside of the hat had our dad's name on it.
10:35I knew something wasn't right.
10:45He'd had this heated conversation and there was clear threat of violence.
10:50He said, I'll get my gun and handle it.
10:54Definitely concerned about who he may have gotten into it with.
10:57That argument could be the reason that Brent Mack's gone.
11:21The weakness gone by my brother Brent Mack still hadn't been heard from or seen.
11:27This bag pops up with my brother's name inside of a hat that had been tossed over someone's fence.
11:33But there's no trace, no sign of my brother.
11:38We're just gone.
11:44My uncle told me I needed to go file a missing persons report.
11:51With Rochelle was probably six or seven family members.
11:55Her uncle Troy, a couple of Brent's sons, aunts, uncles, cousins.
12:01They were all very concerned about how long it had been since they talked to him.
12:06Nobody in the family had talked to him since September 17th.
12:11We thought it was possibly the drugs took him down again.
12:16We needed to figure out what's going on.
12:19I explained that my daddy was working for Dan Triplett.
12:23And that Dan had said that after work, he had dropped them off at the laundromat.
12:28But then I told Officer Solomon, a lady named Nancy Chappell had made a Facebook post that she had found
12:37a duffel bag of my dad's belongings.
12:41And the inside of the hat had our dad's name on it.
12:45And I just thought that would have been the same bag that was at the laundromat.
12:49That's not adding up.
12:52So I got in my car and wanted to make contact with Nancy.
12:56She found the bag.
12:59So I went to that location and Brent's brother was there.
13:03That's when we looked into the bag to see if this belonged to Brent.
13:10Brent had a pair of red and white Air Jordans that he was very fond of.
13:16They were inside the bag.
13:19And I knew if he wasn't in those shoes, there was a problem.
13:27Now, my concerns are growing.
13:30We found his bag of laundry on September 22nd.
13:34He's not in the area.
13:35No one has heard from him now.
13:39The laundromat is right across the street from where the bag was found.
13:43It has high foot traffic.
13:46I spoke with people at the laundromat.
13:49But no one has seen Brent.
13:52Then I reached out to Dan Triplett, Brent's boss.
13:56Because he had dropped Brent Mack off at the laundromat.
14:01Dan Triplett was pretty well known in town.
14:04He was a councilman back in the 1980s.
14:06He owns a backhoe service.
14:08Dan was friendly and helpful.
14:11He said that he had last seen Brent on a job site in Crescent.
14:17Brent had gotten into an argument with the customer on the job site, Ron Shipman.
14:24And Dan actually let him go.
14:26He gave him the $1,000 in severance pay and a ride to the laundromat on September 20th of 2021,
14:34probably around 7 p.m.
14:37I did try to reach out to Ron Shipman, but that day he didn't answer the phone.
14:43Dan also said that Brent had stayed at a trailer that Dan owned.
14:48The Cold Logan County Sheriff's Department.
14:50They went out to that location and looked through the entire residence, and he was not there.
14:56Brent Mack is local to our area.
14:58He's got tons of friends and family, and for no one to have heard from him is strange.
15:03So at this point, I'm definitely worried something bad could have happened to him.
15:11The Guthrie Police Department is a lot smaller than any other departments.
15:15We don't have a missing persons unit and a homicide unit.
15:19It's three detectives in one office and we do it all.
15:22So we called the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
15:28They asked me to join in on the investigation.
15:33We couldn't get Dan Triplett into the office to talk to him for an interview.
15:38Dan had been really busy on a job site.
15:40I know Dan's wife, Sharon Triplett, because Sharon Triplett's done my taxes for the last 15 years.
15:45And so I went to Sharon's office and she told me that Brent Mack had worked for him for multiple
15:51years, that he actually mows the yard at their residence.
15:55And I said, there's some reason that Brent Mack went missing. What is it?
16:01She said she remembered in the beginning of September, Brent was outside working on their yard and was having this
16:09loud verbal argument with someone else on the phone.
16:12She didn't know who he was talking to.
16:14He said, I'll go get my gun and take care of you.
16:19It was a little concerning that there was some clear threat of violence.
16:25It could be that that argument was the reason that Brent Mack's gone.
16:30He had that person on the phone. Do something to Brent Mack.
16:53At this point in the investigation, Brent Mack had been missing in eight days.
16:58Brent worked for Dan Triplett's backhoe business.
17:01And Dan had been really busy from job sites, not just in Logan County, but other surrounding areas.
17:09We know Brent Mack had the altercation on the cell phone.
17:15Could that person on the phone be the reason that Brent Mack's gone?
17:24My dad, he was on my brother's phone plan.
17:27My brother, Sorrell, he was the account holder.
17:31He was able to have access to my dad's call log and his text messages.
17:36So we forwarded everything to the police department.
17:41You could see that Brent's phone activity ceased on that evening of September 20th.
17:47It's definitely something that throws up a red flag.
17:51But when we went through Brent's call logs and his text logs, we just couldn't find anybody who had a
17:57confrontational phone call to Brent.
18:00We wanted to interview Dan a little further, get a little bit more information to narrow down when the last
18:06time Brent had been seen.
18:08So we called him on his cell phone.
18:12Dan said that he had dropped Brent off in front of the laundromat in Guthrie.
18:19We asked if he knew anything about where Brent was going to go.
18:22And Dan had mentioned that Brent had a girlfriend in Texas.
18:25And it was his assumption that Brent had just packed up and moved to Texas to be with her.
18:32We found the phone number for Brent's girlfriend through the call logs on his phone.
18:37And I called her.
18:39She told me that the last time she had talked to him was on September 20th, which is when his
18:44phone activity stopped.
18:47And I was able to confirm that through the phone logs.
18:51She had talked to him one or two times that day from the job site, but the reception was really
18:56bad.
18:58He had sent a text to her saying, I'll call you later.
19:02She said that was the last time she had talked to him.
19:06When I asked her if that was concerning to her, she had explained their relationship as kind of something that
19:11formed online.
19:12And because of that, it had never gotten too serious.
19:16She was pretty upset that in her mind, he just didn't want to talk to her anymore.
19:21I didn't have any reason to believe that she was lying.
19:24She was able to give me some pretty specific times on her text messages that matched up with the specific
19:31times that I was seeing on the phone logs.
19:34His cell phone doesn't show him going to Texas.
19:38In fact, it doesn't show anything after the 20th. It just goes off the map.
19:42So we needed more information from Dan Triplett.
19:48Dan had told us while they were out working, Dan's customer, Ron and Brent, had some type of a verbal
19:54altercation.
19:57Ron had told Dan, I don't want this guy on my property. I don't ever want him back here again.
20:02Dan, again, explained that he had to get rid of Brent.
20:06You build your suspect list by people he's talking to.
20:10We kind of tossed around the theory that if Ron was the reason that Brent was fired, did Brent go
20:16back out to confront Ron about that?
20:18Maybe Ron Shipman murdered Brent.
20:20It's possible that Brent could be buried on that job site at Ron Shipman's residence.
20:30Lieutenant Bruning contacted Ron, had a conversation with him on the phone.
20:35It was learned through that conversation that the job Dan and Brent did for Ron was actually weeks or even
20:43months prior to when Brent had gone missing.
20:47We were able to rule out Ron as being involved in any way.
20:51It didn't fit in the timeline of Brent's disappearance.
21:01At this point, I thought that if I could just find Brent somewhere at some point, I could start a
21:08timeline and find out if he had gotten into a car with somebody, where he could have went, if he
21:14had went east, west, south.
21:20So I went to the laundromat where he was last seen.
21:25The laundromat is not manned by a worker all the time, but I was able to talk to a manager
21:31and get surveillance footage.
21:33One of the internal cameras points at the front window, which you could also see a little bit of the
21:38street.
21:42But I wasn't able to find any footage of Brent walking into the laundromat.
21:47That was odd to me because Dan said that he had fired Brent, gave him $1,000 severance, and then
21:53dropped him off in front of the laundromat in Guthrie.
21:57At that point, we didn't know if Brent was in town, so I wanted to try to find as much
22:02surveillance video from as many businesses as I could find to try to find any sighting, any lead as to
22:09where he could be in town.
22:12And watching the surveillance footage from the gas station on the west side of Guthrie, you could see Dan's truck
22:19pulling a trailer with a backhoe on the trailer on September 20th at 10.36 in the morning.
22:25And then you could see Dan coming back into town, driving in front of the laundromat at 7.47 p
22:32.m.
22:32You could see the truck of Dan Triplett come by the laundromat, but it never stopped.
22:38And they were unable to see Brent Mack walking anywhere in the area.
22:45So Dan's story just wasn't adding up.
22:49And if Dan didn't stop in front of the laundromat and didn't let Brent out, what happened to Brent?
23:02While we're watching the surveillance footage, we see one person disappear into that hole, never see that other body reappear
23:11out of that hole.
23:12My daddy knew about his deep, darkest secrets, the good, the bad and the ugly.
23:19We showed up to make this arrest.
23:22We didn't do it quietly.
23:24We knew this guy had a propensity for violence.
23:40At this point in the investigation, we have confirmed that Brent Mack is not with family.
23:45And he's definitely not in Texas with his girlfriend.
23:50And then we talked to Dan Triplett, and the story that Dan told us, it just wasn't adding up.
23:57Dan was the last person that saw Brent Mack alive.
24:00We need to talk to him again.
24:03When Dan got there, he seemed just like I've known him all my life, seemed really friendly.
24:11He didn't seem outwardly upset about anything.
24:15He started telling us the story where his last job was with Brent Mack.
24:22On September 20th, he put the septic tank at a location on County Road 69.
24:28He said that it was a one-day job, and that he had dropped Brent off in front of the
24:32laundromat in Guthrie at 7.47 p.m.
24:38And we showed him the video of the laundromat.
24:42And you see him go right past.
24:45He said, oh, well, I didn't drop him off there.
24:48Where I dropped him off was, and he gave us another location.
24:51And luckily, we had that video.
24:54And so we played it on a laptop in front of Dan Triplett and said, well, here's that video, and
25:00here's your truck, and it goes by.
25:03And so each time he gave us a different location, we had video that said no.
25:11The strategy was to watch Dan's reaction as we confronted him about the inconsistencies in his story, to really see
25:19if he'll trip up on what he's saying.
25:22Dan really started to get flustered.
25:24And as he was backtracking, the story that he tried to use to explain why his first story was inaccurate
25:32was just absurd.
25:35Dan saying, well, okay, that's not what happened.
25:38What I did is I turned left here, I went back up this block, hold here, and I checked my
25:42lights there.
25:44Which happened to be where we found the duffel bag.
25:51Dan ended that conversation with, he doesn't know where Brent Mack went, but we just need to find him.
25:59I said, we will. We're going to find him.
26:03And Dan Triplett caught up and walked out of my office.
26:10Dan had given a location on County Road 69 as the last location that he had worked with Brent Mack.
26:19So at the end of September, I met with the owner of that property, Clint McHenry, trying to find the
26:26date that Dan Triplett was out there.
26:29Clint didn't know because he's not living at the residence.
26:32So he had to call the builder who's building his house.
26:35The builder told Clint it was sometime around the 10th that the septic tank was installed.
26:42He remembers getting a text message from Dan Triplett saying, I'm done with the septic tank.
26:50That's 10 days before Brent went missing on September 20th and not on the day that Dan had told us
26:57he had been out there to work.
26:59We thought maybe Dan just didn't remember it right and gave us the wrong day.
27:06So in the middle of October, we served a search warrant on Dan Triplett's residence to find any type of
27:13documentation that would indicate where they were working on September 20th, the date when Brent went missing.
27:23He opens the front door.
27:25Dan goes and sits in the living room while we conduct a search of his residence.
27:31He was sitting in his lazy boy recliner with his feet up and didn't say a word.
27:37Very odd behavior for somebody to sit there so calmly while six or seven officers are searching your entire house.
27:46His office was very much in disarray, very unorganized.
27:51We found a couple receipt books in it, but in that one we didn't have anything dated close to the
27:57date that we needed, September 20th.
28:01We then searched with Dan's truck.
28:04As we were looking through, Schmidt found a receipt book and there was a receipt for a job on County
28:14Road 69 for that September 20th.
28:20That was one of the biggest turns that we had because now we have a location different from where Dan
28:26had said they were.
28:28Dan was sitting there in his chair and he had no idea that I had bagged a pretty significant piece
28:33of evidence.
28:34We wrapped up the search warrant, took Dan's phone from him and left.
28:42When we go out to that location, written on that receipt, this site is, I can only describe as the
28:49middle of nowhere.
28:50We saw there certainly was freshly excavated dirt where the tank had been installed.
28:57We could tell how easy it would be to conceal a body under the subject tank.
29:03Brent could be buried on that job site.
29:07As we were running the cadaver dogs, there was definitely a sense of anticipation and anxiety.
29:17One of their dogs did alert, kind of went around the area a couple of times and then the next
29:22time didn't alert.
29:25Of course, it could have been just the scent of a dead animal. We didn't know.
29:30To do a dick, we need to get enough information to get enough probable cause to believe some crime happened
29:38there.
29:39We don't have that yet.
29:42Questions start arising.
29:43What is Dan Triplett not telling us?
29:49So, after seeing Dan's cell phone while we were searching the house, I was able to find conversations that were
29:56between Dan Triplett and a female that were sexual and intimate in nature.
30:02The phone number belonged to a female that I know as Trini Salazar.
30:10Trini is somebody that was well known to law enforcement.
30:13She was addicted to drugs, had a pretty rough life.
30:18And I could tell in the text message conversations that Dan was giving Trini money, probably helping feed a habit
30:27that she had in exchange for favors sexually.
30:32If Brent knew about Dan and Trini's relationship, it's possible that Brent could expose his affair to his wife.
30:42That could equate to motive for murder.
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31:14affair came to light dan had something going with a local girl named trini salazar that he
31:23definitely didn't want his wife to find out about we knew that brent had worked with dan
31:29a long time and knew dan's wife sharon triplet i told the police officers my daddy knew a lot
31:37of dan's deep darkest secrets because they spent 10 hours a day or more together monday through
31:43friday when it came to dan triplet he knew the good the bad and the ugly we were pretty confident
31:53that foul play was involved we knew that dan owned a backhoe business we were really trying to find a
32:00site where brent had possibly been buried so after everybody left the site i started neighborhood
32:09canvas now we're in rural rural area we're talking about fence lines and open fields i see a residence
32:18we're a couple hundred feet to the east we found out that the owner had a surveillance camera in the
32:24middle of molehole oklahoma pointing right at where our septic tank was installed
32:33i have three days worth of video so i take that back to my office we spent hours and hours
32:40just
32:41combing through the surveillance footage because the surveillance camera which is probably about
32:46four or five hundred yards away from the job site they were on across the street
32:51you can't distinctly make out faces it was like trying to watch two grains of rice on the screen
32:57but we know based on the investigation that dan was there we know brent was there we're able to
33:03see when they arrived at that location dan and brent they were working the whole morning digging
33:11and then you see brent was carrying the pvc pipe from the trailer that they had over to the site
33:18where
33:18they drop it in toward the end of the day we see the two of them are near the hole
33:24where the septic
33:25tank was buried we can see them using a measuring device to measure the depth of the hole while we're
33:30watching this we see one person disappear into that hole and throughout the rest of the surveillance
33:40footage that day you never see that other body reappear out of that hole we watched it over and over
33:47and
33:47over again two people arrived to work that day and only one person left this evidence is earth shattering
33:57this is the aha moment in this case at this point we believe we have enough probable cause to believe
34:06that dan triplet killed brent mack and put him in this hole underneath the septic tank
34:26we had to coordinate with the oklahoma state medical examiner's office and help us excavate the tank for a
34:32body recovery this now becomes quite a big operation in nowhere oklahoma a small town in the middle of a
34:42field
34:44we had archaeological specialists we had workers from the city with heavy machinery an excavator to get
34:53this heavy concrete tank out of the ground
34:58once the septic tank's out of the ground you have to meticulously take dirt away about eight to nine
35:05feet deep we're starting to smell decomposition
35:10we had been there since eight that morning now this is three in the afternoon when we see a belt
35:24we turn them over is a distance from the center of the house we're traveling she's a boy who's
35:29behind him and i sit behind him and he's doing the work stuff he's doing the work spent oh my
35:29God
35:29we're still wearing work gloves and work boots that correlate with what last brent mack was seen wearing
35:37we find a wallet that's in the back pocket we open the wallet
35:44but there's an ID to Brent Mack in there.
35:52Because of the state of decomposition,
35:54there was no apparent cause of death at the recovery site.
36:00We sent the body to the medical examiner's office.
36:08I went there to confirm that it was my dad
36:12because I need to see proof.
36:19I screamed.
36:21I screamed and I hollered because all I seen
36:25was his name on his arm.
36:28And it was my dad.
36:34From there, I just kind of like blacked out.
36:38I couldn't believe it.
36:49The next day, we learned from the medical examiner's office
36:52that Brent had been shot in the back.
36:55And there was a bullet still in his chest cavity.
37:01Now we believe that we have enough probable cause
37:05to arrest Dan Triplett for the murder
37:07and the jesucration of Brent Mack's corpse.
37:12We were pretty confident that Dan had a propensity for violence.
37:17We decided to activate our special response team
37:24to execute that arrest.
37:29We didn't do it quietly.
37:52We put a team together to go to Dan Triplett's residence
37:55and execute an arrest.
37:57Up!
37:59Stepping back!
37:59We pulled up to Dan's front door
38:01and called him out over a loudspeaker.
38:03Stepping back!
38:06Came out with his hands up.
38:07He was proned out onto his stomach.
38:10He was arrested just like we would any violent felon.
38:21The judge, in the end, gives Dan Triplett a $500,000 bond,
38:25which he meets and is out of jail.
38:32She put him under house arrest
38:36and he thought it was above the law.
38:43And then he's seen at the Waffle House in Oklahoma City.
38:47He's supposed to be at home
38:49and the ankle monitor captures this.
38:53Turned out, while my brother was laying up in a morgue dead,
38:56Dan Triplett was going around town
38:58eating waffles, having a good time, you know.
39:02He thought he was going to get away with it.
39:06With Dan Triplett violating his parole,
39:09the judge provoked his bond
39:10and sent him back behind bars.
39:15The Dan Triplett trial begins in April 2023.
39:21Prosecution laid out a foundation
39:23of a possible motive in this case
39:25when it was learned that Dan Triplett
39:27was paying Trina Salazar for nude photos.
39:31Investigators think Dan Triplett found out
39:32Breck Mack knew about this as well
39:35and Dan was in fear that this information
39:37was going to be shared with his wife.
39:40The prosecution shared video evidence
39:43with the jury that shows Dan Triplett
39:45get off the backhoe.
39:48There was an argument back and forth
39:50and they fought over a gun
39:53and then Dan Triplett shot Breck Mack.
40:00Dan Triplett then buried Breck Mack
40:03in the ground underneath the septic tank.
40:16The first witness that the defense team
40:18calls to the stand
40:19is Daniel Joseph Triplett.
40:23Dan Triplett says he acted in self-defense.
40:30Dan Triplett said he had checked for a pulse
40:32and that there was not a pulse
40:34and he was asked by prosecution
40:36if there was a pulse,
40:37would you have called 911?
40:39And Dan Triplett said, I'm not sure.
40:45You could hear the gasps in the room.
40:48It's almost like he's confessing
40:49when he says it.
40:56The jurors are only out
40:57for two hours and 13 minutes.
41:00They found him guilty
41:02of the homicide of Breck Mack.
41:07They recommended
41:08that he be sentenced
41:10to life without parole.
41:15You know, I just put my head up
41:17to the sky
41:18to thank God
41:19for that verdict.
41:21I gave my victim impact statement
41:23during the sentencing
41:23and
41:25I was looking at Dan.
41:26I just wanted him to feel
41:29our anger.
41:30You hurt somebody
41:31that we loved
41:32and you took him away.
41:34Some people
41:35were wanting death
41:37but I said death is too easy.
41:41let's let him stay alive
41:42and sit with his decisions.
41:54My brother was a great dude.
41:57I remember him being
41:59the guy that would make you laugh.
42:03If I could,
42:04I would tell my dad
42:05that I love him
42:06and I miss him,
42:08that his grandchildren
42:09miss him very much
42:10and love him.
42:12Mm.
42:16I just choose to remember him
42:18by his kindness.
42:21There will never be
42:23another Breck Mack.
42:25I don't know.
42:28I mean,
42:31bitch or else in your work.
42:34And I don't know why
42:43If anybody's
42:46make saiyal biker,
42:48say that in the end
42:48of a while,
42:49after I'm going to
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