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>> reporter: before the investigation had concluded. >> before the investigation concluded. and by the way, i dont think weve really had an investigation. >> reporter: okay. >> things that have taken place so far is to discredit my son. >> reporter: the family suspects alfred may have been held captive and tortured during the time he was missing. they want forensic evidence to determine whether the drugs entered his body before or after his disappearance. and they dont believe he left the liquor...

Handling of the initial stages of the investigation, sir, and how it was done? >> reporter: the sheriff repeated that at his request the investigation was turned over to the texas rangers. that was one month after alfreds body was found. the sheriff had told the family there was no foul play. the rangers, however, have since called alfreds death questionable and have asked the fbi to assist. so what about the drugs and the autopsy performed by a local medical examiner and attended by a texas ran...

Repeated that at his request the investigation was turned over to the texas rangers. that was one month after alfreds body was found. the sheriff had told the family there was no foul play. the rangers, however, have since called alfreds death questionable and have asked the fbi to assist. so what about the drugs and the autopsy performed by a local medical examiner and attended by a texas ranger who was also a close friend of the sheriffs? the autopsy determined that alfreds death was accidenta...

Straight cut on his neck was due to animal activity. suspicious of the investigation, the family had already hired an independent pathologist who made a different finding after examining the body herself. >> i have a high index of suspicion that this is a homicide. >> reporter: the doctor said that contrary to the autopsy, alfred did appear to have severe trauma to the neck and head. his missing ear and teeth, evidence. and it seemed his throat had been slashed. >> having seen alfreds body, i kn...

Know more than theyre saying. >> they was defining their story. >> before the investigation had even -- >> before the investigation concluded. >> -- concluded. >> by the way, i dont think we really had an investigation. >> okay. >> it seems that most thats taken place so far is to discredit my son. >> reporter: the family suspects alfred may have been held captive and tortured during the time he was missing. they want forensic evidence to determine whether the drugs entered his body before or af...

Tomorrow night, former defense secretary robert gates on his book thats rocking the white house and the beautiful jacqueline bisset on that golden globe search. the sheriff says no foul play. the dead mans family says coverup. tonight how theyre trying to prove it. part two of our exclusive investigation into the strange disappearance and suspicious death of an african-american man in texas named alfred wright. also tonight, the husband of a brain-dead pregnant woman said she never wanted it to ...

We begin tonight keeping them honest with our continuing 360 exclusive investigation into the death of 28-year-old alfred wright. hes the rural texas father of two who vanished last november. his family found his body nearly three weeks later, two weeks after local authorities gave up searching. the local sheriff told them there was no sign of foul play. the family says that virtually nothing underlying that conclusion makes any sense. not the cause of death, not the bodys condition, not the off...

Time it was happening. the third it was a vhs system and there was no videotape in place at the time. >> reporter: more than two months after alfred wright disappeared his truck had not yet been searched and no one from the family had been formally interviewed. after his death, wife lauren went through bank records and found three charges her husband made at local hotels when she and the children were away the month before he died. texas rangers are pulling video from one of the hotels to see wh...

Clothing was found scattered around the property. then there was no sign of alfred, leading the family to believe his body ended up here after the search. >> theres an open gate here, almost a straight path, and then his body was right through the gate, the fence here. one of the only open trails in this woods. >> what doesnt make sense to you about what you were told by law enforcement? >> everything. >> reporter: we went to the sabine county jail to talk to the sheriff. he refused to meet with...

Witnesses you talked to, it didnt sound like that was a body that had been left out in the woods for more than two weeks. >> reporter: well, thats exactly right. thats why the family wants to know exactly when those drugs actually entered his system. whether in fact it was during the three weeks that he had simply disappeared, he vanished. they dont believe thats where he ended up, certainly not in the days immediately after he disappeared. also the texas rangers reached out to us this evening. ...