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