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They had never seen alfred do any drugs. >> i still know and believe wholeheartedly that someone -- someone did this to my husband. >> despite heavy rains, thick mud, brambles, underbrush, barbed wire and wild animals that devour flesh and bones, alfreds body was found surprisingly clean and virtually intact, 19 days after he disappeared. >> if that body was there for 19 days, it would have been in a much different state than we would have found. >> alfreds body was stretched out, and he was wea...

Suspicion that this is a homicide. >> dr. leanne grossberg says contrary to the official autopsy, alfred did appear to have severe trauma to the neck and head. the missing teeth and slashed throat significant. >> i know the drugs dont cause that type of severe trauma. >> the medical examiner would not talk to us. the texas rangers acknowledged the high level of mistrust in the community, and said the autopsy is only one part of an active investigation. so why is it that so many things dont add u...

Around. >>, sir. >> have a great day. >> as for the dime and the missing tongue, the mayor may not be significant. but they add more questions to the dozens already out. this why did the sheriff call off the search so quickly? did alfred wright know something he was not supposed to, something possibly threatening, something that ultimately led to his disappearance and death? >> you ready? lets go! >> all his family knows for sure is that someone they love, someone who always tried to do the righ...

Anything that i was saying. >> his parents were still 20 minutes away, and lauren was growing frantic, sending text after text. >> at 5:57, trying to get to you. answer the phone. answer the phone. please answer. >> okay. >> and 6:16, i said please answer. and that was after i had already heard him in distress of some sort. >> when his parents got to the store, they saw alfreds truck, but no sign of alfred. only the clerk behind the counter. >> i went and asked her, had she seen a clean cut youn...

No scratches at all. >> strange if in fact alfred had been running through the underbrush as sheriff maddox alleged. the college athlete had lost 30% of his body weight. he was missing his tongue, his two front teeth, and a fingernail, and his throat appeared cut. the family wants to know why sheriff maddox gave up so quickly looking for alfred, and why he didnt do basic things like search the truck looking for clues. knowing that the watch is found here, his clothes are found here, and then the...

He refused to meet with us. but as we waited outside, he did return my call. i understand its been turned over to the texas rangers, but a lot of -- there are a lot of rumors, a lot of speculation, a lot of allegations, and we just wanted to give you -- >> before i could finish, sheriff maddox told us to call the rangers, and said he never comments on rumors and speculation. >> do you stand behind your hand. ing of the initial stages of the investigation, sir, and how it was done? >> the sheriff...

And funds. were done. >> done with the search and done with any investigation. the wrights say the sheriff concluded there was no foul play, even taking it a step further. >> the sheriff offered an explanation. that this was probably drug-related. that he was probably having some hallucination that caused him to rip off his cloet clothes. so there was no foul play. does that sound like your husband? >> no. not at all. not at all. after they found his clothing and his watch, his id, they told me ...

Voice. that it was not good. it was not good. i remember asking is it a body. someone say yes. >> in an area of the ranch supposedly already searched by deputies was the body of alfred wright, found nearly three weeks after his truck broke down. >> when i first found him, when we found him, i walked up on him. and his spirit spoke out to me and badly, i knew you were going to find me. his head was in this area. >> okay. >> and his feet were back here. he was neatly laid. >> right. >> he was neat...

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 alfreds death was an accident caused by a drug overdose from a mix of cocaine, amphetamines, and meth. yet astonishingly that same autopsy concluded that alfred wright died three hours after his family found his partially decomposed body. the official aut...

And items of clothing turned up on a ranch about a mile from the liquor store where he was last seen, his family raced there to try to find him. >> when i drove down that road, i told my daughter-in-law there is no way on gods earth that alfred wright would have came down this road. there is no way. no way. >> his body was found -- >> alfreds wife was first to spot a piece of blue cloth, the same color as the medical scrubs alfred was wearing the last time she saw him. >> it was a perfectly rect...