The Sixteen Seconds
He wrote a true report and somebody else changed it, and he testified twice, and he was let go from that department six weeks after the indictments for reasons the department described as unrelated.
He works for a sheriff’s office two counties over now.
He has a daughter at Sam Houston State.
Ozella Gaddis was never charged.
She made a telephone call to a man in a hospital cafeteria on day four and there is no statute in Texas that makes that a crime, and the special prosecutor told me so directly and correctly and I had to sit with it.
Tripp Gaddis, who closed a gate and stood in a driveway and went back to the yard, was never charged either, because he had no duty to act and did not assume care of my daughter at any point, and the law is the law.