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Unimaginable to me that dogs would not have found his body. >> tom maddox, a sheriff in the county was on scene during the search. >> he showed me the circumference of the area. he showed me this whole circular piece here had been searched. he told me numerous times if he was in the area, that he would -- they would find him. the sheriff's daughter and alfred wright were friendly and knew each other in their health care jobs. they told the family. >> your son is just a missing person. my guys are tired. we have exhausted our resources and funds. we are done. >> reporter: done with the search a...

15 years ago, james bird jr. was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death by three white men. people who live in this area, black and white, say racial tension is always just beneath the surface and that things aren't always as they appear. which is why when alfred's watch and items of clothing turned up on a ranch near the liquor store where he was last seen, his family raced there to try to find him. his wife was the 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 rectangular piece of fabr...

>> reporter: 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 said, daddy, i knew you were going to find me. he was in this area and his feet were back here. he was neatly laid, he was neatly laid. >> reporter: wearing only boxer shorts, his shoes, and a single sock with his cell phone tucked inside, it wasn't just the position, but the condition of the body that also seemed strange. >> this is the first thing i noticed, how sm...

Questions like, how did searchers miss alfred wright's body, even though it was found just up the road from where he vanished. also, what makes authorities so sure he died of a self-inflicted drug overdose when his family says he did not do drugs. and how can they rule out foul play when one autopsy says that alfred wright's throat had been cut and an ear was missing. why was he undressed when he was found. those and other questions are casting doubt on the official version, so is the fact that alfred wright was a young african-american in a part of texas with a history of racial tension and o...

In his system. what kind of drugs? >> reporter: the coroner found a combination of three different drugs, cocaine, meth and also amphetamin amphetamines, and concluded that the death was accidental, caused by drug intoxication, anderson. >> in that coroner's report, did it indicate how long the drugs had been in his system? >> reporter: no, it did not, and that's a very big question that the family wants answered. they want to know whether, in fact, those drugs entered alfred wright's system during his disappearance, and that's a big part of the investigation that the family wants answered. >>...