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>> his interrogators did not believe him for an instant. but they had another lead to pursue. another cop, in fact. a man named bron. >> so bron how do you see his last name? >> bowler. >> bowler? never heard it say it out loud. >> he is a police officer. >> yes he is. >> he had served 11 years as a texas cop. he had worked for the cactus police department and saw most recently at sun ray after tim lost his job there. and he was a family man, a husband, a father, and a friend to tim dean. so how did officer braun come on to the police radar? >> okay. got your license and paperwork for this thing? >> well, it goes back to that rental car that tim dean put in a ditch in kansas. it was bron's name on the rental papers, not tim's.
it was more of if i could ever get into a fight with him i would fight him. >> do you think that tim is capable of this? >> i can't see it. unless it was on the job, protection. >> right. >> i can't see him. he is not that type of person. >> right. >> charlene denied knowledge of tim's murderous plans. but detectives had learned something else about her. and it went back to that rental car that he ended up crashing. charlene had driven bron to pick it up at the start of the road trip. >> did you take somebody to go around and get your vehicle? >> i took my friend to go get the vehicle. >> who is that? >> bron bow-. i can't say his last name. bron. >> bron? >> bron. >> she said she was simply doing a friend of favor. never asked him who or what it was for. >> he did it think it was
the kansas deputy picked up on that right away. >> this is bowler brown. >> he's a buddy of mine. >> that's gonna cause you more problems than anything. >> i know. >> so he rented the car for you? >> yeah. i was like at work. i wasn't going to make it in time. i'm not looking forward to that phone call. that'll bite him in the ass pretty big. >> exactly. >> when bron was interview ended those ten fallen back to his house while the authorities prepared an arrest warrant. >> he got home, we arrest him. >> your career law enforcement, tom? doesn't embarrass it ever talked about two guys were sworn officers here? >> it is embarrassing to think that they felt like they could do this and get away with it. it is a shame that i want to this point. they knew there was other options. but they want to take it the way that is going to get somebody killed. that is just not. they know that. >> that the majority of sunrays three men for, past and present, under arrest. but the investigation was far from over. someone else they had i'd all along was still in the crosshairs. >> i took it off at face value.
this is where the meetings took place. at least one of those meetings, bron was here longevity. there was a marked units sitting up front. >> i can't help thinking, your 1500 miles away, again upstate new york, who is a dead man walking. he has no idea what is coming down in this garage. the panhandle of texas. >> he knew what it. >> what is his dog in the fight? >> other than the fact that he worked as a police officer, tim was his friend and he was going to do whatever he needed to do to help them up. >> including? >> catching a bunch of cars we can drive across the country? >> exactly. exactly. >> when bron's interview ended, the lieutenant told him back to his house while the authorities prepared an arrest warrant. >> when he got home, we arrested him. >> your career law enforcement, tom. does it embarrass you that we are talking about two guys who were sworn officers here? >> it is embarrassing to think that they felt they could do this and get away with it. it is a shame that it came to
truth. >> broncos to cooperate. he told a startling story. how a murder plot came. >> you are saying you overheard dean say, what? >> he's going to die. >> he's going to die? >> yeah. >> he said the goal had never been suicide. he had gone to new york, he said, to murder josh, plain and simple. >> he's going up there to kill him. >> he said he's going to get there and kill him. >> yes, sir. >> and the chilling details. he said the murder had been planned at a meeting at tim's house inside his garage. that same houseless one team but later blow their way into to make that arrest on dean. >> the plan was to -- that you run the car, not in his name, so he wouldn't get caught? >> i'll be down. >> you're very important witness, bron. >> a witness that could describe her two cops could come to plot murder. >> and this is the garage.