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trucks everywhere.

People trying to get

stories everywhere,

phone calls to the

police department.

Trying to get to me to find

out information

and trying to get some story

about what happened

and be the first to do it.

A lot of people that we

talked to, they said

Carlton and Patrick would

go out shooting.

With that, we started

doing some searches.

[reporter] Police helicopters

have been searching

remote areas around Waco.

[reporter] Right now, the

police are kind of

at a standstill.

They're waiting for more

tips to help them out.

It was a big story for us.

Three of us were

immediately dispatched.

We were all over it, regardless

of what else was going on.

It's just one of those

stories that is going to be

compelling no matter what.

[reporter] We've had a long

real strange week out here

and not a lot of questions

have been answered.

In fact, a lot more questions

are out there now

than there were on Monday.

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[reporter] Dennehy's SUV,

without any license plates

was found 1,000 miles away at

this shopping mall in Virginia--

no sign of the

basketball player.

[reporter] Police in Waco,

Texas fear the worst

and think that some of

Dennehy's teammates

might know something

about it.

[Fuller] After they found the

vehicle, they assigned

Clay Perry to go with me to

Virginia Beach.

Well, apparently, they deemed

it necessary to bring

the County in, in case he was

found out in the county,

then it would be in

my jurisdiction

or our jurisdiction at

the Sheriff's office.

[Fuller] So, we flew into

Virginia Beach and what we found

when we processed his car is,

the car was clean.

There were absolutely no

fingerprints on that vehicle

whatsoever.

We knew where Mr. Dotson

lived and it was

close to that location.

And we thought, "Well, since

we're going to be that close,

why waste the trip?"

We can try to set up interviews

with Carlton Dotson.

[Perry] But, once we had

finished what we were tasked

to do in Virginia Beach,

we went to Seaford, Delaware

Police Department and were

met there and greeted by

an investigation division,

who at that point,

took us to Carlton Dotson.

Where we identified ourselves

to him, he agreed to

go with us to Seaford, Delaware

and be interviewed.

[Fuller] Any interview is

90% listening and 10% talking.

I let Carlton talk,

but the more he talked,

the more relaxed he seemed.

He didn't really want to talk

about Patrick as much

as he did about drug use

at Baylor University.

[Dotson]

[Dotson]

[Fuller] I did not believe

that that was the main point

because every time I started

talking to Carlton

about Patrick,

he'd kind of get tense.

[Dotson]

[Dotson coughs]

At points during the interview,

Detective Fuller

would leave the room,

which is a common thing

for us to do.

I was outside of the interview

room monitoring it on a TV

and Dotson would mumble things.

[inaudible mumbling]

[Fuller] OK, um...

At one point during

the interview,

I was asking Carlton about

Patrick's, his personality.

[Dotson]

He said, "was"

instead of "is."

[Dotson]

He slipped up, but he caught

himself and said "is,"

you know, right away.

Why would you say was , if you

didn't already know what

the situation was with Patrick

and his current condition?

[Fuller interviewing Dotson]

[Dotson]

[Fuller]

[Dotson]

[Perry] We then took him

back to the house that

we'd gotten him from.

[Fuller] When we arrived at

his grandmother's house,

the only thing that kept popping

in my mind is this old movie

that I'd seen years ago.

And it had a song in it and

just those words kept

coming back in my mind.

Put my hand down, just

shake Carlton's hand.

"You know, no matter what the

State of Texas does,

no matter what Waco PD does,

you just need to remember

God's going to get

you for that."

God's gonna getcha for that

God's gonna getcha for that

His eyes got big around

as saucers.

Carlton's body language,

his facial expression,

all of that changed like,

"Who brought Him into this?"

He never looked back at me.

["God's Gonna Get'cha"]

God's gonna getcha for that

[reporter] Carlton Dotson,

the Baylor basketball player

and Dennehy roommate is back

in his Maryland hometown

having hired a lawyer,

but still regarded

only as a person of interest

to Waco police.

[Abar] When they made that

announcement,

it was like a gut punch

for the entire program.

Patrick had never mentioned

anything negative

about Carlton to me directly.

He never insinuated that

anything was wrong

in their friendship.

It just did not

make sense to me.

They seemed two peas in a pod.

I mean, like they were best

friends, so I would have

never thought that, you know,

Carlton would have gotten in

and done something.

I would have thought the

world did something

and they weren't able

to stop it.

The story was so bizarre,

especially coming

from members of the

Baylor basketball team.

Anybody that's played sports

knows that when your teammates

become your family and this

is an even stronger bond

because they're living

under one roof.

Nothing was adding up.

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[Abar] Coach Bliss had come

over to my office and told me

that the police officer wanted

to speak to me and that I needed

to head over to his office.

I meet Bob Fuller, the

detective, and he tells me

that he's the guy investigating

Patrick's disappearance.

And I immediately ask Coach

and the detective,

"Do I need a lawyer?"

And Coach replies to me, "Not if

you didn't do anything wrong."

Essentially, what I was asked by

Bob Fuller on that day was,

"Was I distributing drugs

via the team?"

That was a very frightening

question to me.

Am I distributing drugs

through our team?

I'd been there for 12 days.

All of that is very shocking

to me and it comes out of

left field and a few days later,

there is another question.

And that question is,

"Did I threaten Patrick or

did I threaten Carlton?"

And, "Would I take a

lie detector test,

attesting to those things?"

[Fuller] I was very pleased

with the outcome.

The polygraph test would just

eliminate him of any wrongdoing

whatsoever.

And I have no doubt in my mind,

those accusations against

the selling of drugs to the

basketball player

is totally a farce.

[Robbins] I wrote a story

about a small junior college

in Texas almost a year earlier

and I'd interviewed many

ex-coaches and Abar was one

of them and he said he was

about to go back to work in Waco

at McLennan Community College

and months later, when Patrick

went missing and Dotson

was considered a person of

interest and I was put

on the story with some

of my colleagues,

I thought about Abar.

I thought maybe he knew these

guys, maybe he knew something

because I didn't know

who these players were,

maybe he knew something.

So, I called him up and the

first words out of his mouth

were, "Do you know

where I work now?"

And I said, "No, I don't."

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