[suspenseful music playing]
[narrator] In Vermont...
[Skylar speaking]
[narrator] A simple arrest...
[Skylar speaking]
[narrator] Leads to a shocking showdown.
[Gabriel speaking]
[Wayne] [indistinct] get out!
[Gabriel speaking]
I thought I was going to die.
[narrator] In Wisconsin...
[Mack speaking]
[narrator] A pastor gets a wild lesson in law enforcement.
[Jody speaking]
I am wondering, "Am I going to hear gunshots?
How's this going to end?"
[police sirens wailing]
[narrator] And in Anderson, Indiana...
-[man speaking] -[John speaking]
[man speaking]
[narrator] A citizen's tip off...
[John speaking]
[narrator] Turns deadly.
[John speaking]
[gunshots]
[John speaking]
I was shocked.
He wasn't in the same world
that I was in.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[man] Jeff [indistinct] outside.
[suspenseful music playing]
[narrator] In Vermont...
just south of the Canadian border
is Caledonia County.
This rural forest and terrain
is patrolled by the state police.
[dramatic music playing]
I've been a Vermont State Trooper since of 2020
and I can't imagine doing anything else.
I have the freedom to go wherever I want.
You can do highway enforcement
or you can take calls.
I've known Trooper Schrauf
since he's come on the job.
I still consider him a young trooper,
'cause he's only been here for a few years.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] Trooper Schrauf is called out to assist
with the arrest of 24-year-old
Brandon Tallman
for an incident two nights earlier.
[Matthew D] Brandon was driving
at an elevated speed.
An individual was outside their house,
yelled something or motioned
for Brandon to slow down.
Brandon got out of his car
and went over and physically assaulted
the individual quite violently.
Brandon then, gets back in his car
and takes off.
[narrator] Trooper Schrauf heads out
to help Trooper Velasquez locate Tallman
at his remote residence.
[Gabriel] So, a couple things that you're thinking about
while going en route to this scene is, you know,
"Safety, what's the scenario like,
and then what's the offender like.
So, does he have a history
with fighting with law enforcement?
And then where is this gonna be located?"
So when I pulled up to the property with Trooper Velasquez,
the first thing I saw was
a well-landscaped property,
a nice house, and a large piece of equipment,
and several F-350 trucks, so.
I knew they had some money or a business.
[Skylar speaking]
[Brandon speaking]
-[Skylar] All right. -[indistinct radio chatter]
[Skylar speaking]
-[Skylar speaking] -Yeah.
[Skylar speaking]
-[Brandon] Yeah. -[Skylar speaking]
Brandon was just answering questions
and didn't seem too agitated or aggravated.
I'm kinda standing back just making sure
that I don't see any other people on scene.
And then I did notice that Brandon Tallman's father,
Wayne, was there.
[Skylar speaking]
-[Brandon speaking] -[Skylar speaking]
[Brandon speaking]
[Skylar speaking]
And then the father, Wayne,
immediately ran up to us
and started pushing on both of us,
and ripped Trooper Velasquez's body camera off.
[Skylar speaking]
[Brandon speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
So when Wayne became very agitated,
he pointed at me and Trooper Velasquez and he said,
"I'm going to bore a hole through you
and then crush both of your cruisers and kill you."
In my head, initially, I was like, "With what?"
[indistinct chatter]
[Gabriel speaking]
[Wayne speaking]
So, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
He's got an excavator.
It's crazy.
[narrator] Trooper Schrauf activates
his body and dash cams.
But now, Brandon's mom,
Amy, is also getting involved.
-[Gabriel] We need to take him-- -[Amy speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
I was very surprised.
That is definitely something I have not encountered.
We're just trying to get Brandon into custody
but we've got, you know,
Amy pulling on Brandon one way
and we were both trying to, you know, wrestle him
a certain direction to try to get him into handcuffs.
-[Brandon] Dad-- -[Gabriel speaking]
[Wayne speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
-[Brandon speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
Stop.
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Brandon] [bleep].
[Wayne speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
When the excavator started coming at me,
it was a mix of between shock, confusion, and terror.
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Wayne speaking]
[Brandon speaking]
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Amy speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
-Please stop. -[Wayne speaking]
-Are you bringing-- -[Gabriel speaking]
-Do not choke him. -I'm not trying to choke him.
[Gabriel speaking]
[narrator] The situation grows
more dangerous by the minute.
The troopers need to call for back-up,
but it's not that easy.
[Gabriel] We didn't have radio service at this time.
I pushed the emergency button on our radio
that went out over the air,
so all the units in the area heard it.
-[Amy speaking] -[Brandon speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
[Skylar speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
10-10 is a police code for fight in progress.
So when an officer calls out 10-10,
a dispatcher takes that very seriously
and knows that they're in trouble and need assistance.
[Gabriel speaking]
When we randomly had a bar out of nowhere
in the middle of nowhere,
dispatch ended up calling me on my cell phone.
[phone rings]
[Gabriel] And it was like God was looking down.
It was crazy.
But back-up was gonna be anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes away.
[indistinct chatter]
[Gabriel speaking]
[Skylar speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
[indistinct chatter]
[Gabriel speaking]
-[Wayne speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
[Brandon] [bleep].
[Gabriel] When he swings the bucket towards me...
yeah, I became terrified.
At that time, I thought I was going to die.
During a situation like this,
you're constantly weighing your head,
"What's the line in the sand before I have
to escalate this to deadly force?"
Once he came at me with the excavator in that manner,
I knew that we had reached that.
If he comes another two feet closer,
I'm gonna have to pull the trigger.
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Amy] Do not choke him.
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Amy] Do not choke my son.
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Amy speaking]
-[Skylar speaking] -[Gabriel] Stop!
[Gabriel speaking]
-[Wayne speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
[Brandon] I will find you [bleep].
[Gabriel speaking]
[Brandon] I will find you [bleep].
[Gabriel speaking]
[Brandon] You're a [bleep] waste of my time.
[Gabriel] He's just kinda calm.
He's got that crazed look in his eye.
It was very bizarre. I've never seen anything like it.
[Gabriel speaking]
-[Wayne speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
They're yelling, "Let us take him to the barracks. Let us bring him."
Um, and that, you know, you're trying to reason 'em...
With them that that's not how things work.
-[Wayne speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
[Wayne speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
-[Wayne speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
[Gabriel] We're the state patrol officers.
We're the ones that take him into custody.
[Gabriel speaking]
[Wayne speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
Listen to me.
[Gabriel speaking]
The real weird thing for me
was just you couldn't believe how...
"Are they out of their mind? Are they crazy?"
We just really don't know what's going on.
-Stop! -[Amy speaking]
-[Gabriel speaking] -Well, I can do it on my own.
[Gabriel speaking]
It was just such a bizarre situation.
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Wayne] No. Put the cuffs on the ground.
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Wayne] [indistinct] cuffs right now.
[Gabriel speaking]
So at this time, I was just kind of
fed up with the situation and I said, you know,
"We're just gonna put Brandon into cuffs."
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Wayne] Now, don't do it.
[Gabriel speaking]
I thought, "Now, I might have to shoot him."
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Wayne] No, don't do it.
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Wayne] Don't do it.
[Gabriel speaking]
Get off of him, ma'am.
-No. No. Listen to me, please. -[Brandon speaking]
I thought this might actually be, you know, his last stand.
He was actually gonna do something now
because we did have his son in custody.
[Wayne speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
-[Brandon speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
[Brandon speaking]
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Brandon speaking]
[Gabriel] When we got Brandon into the Cruiser,
I was very excited because I knew that Trooper Velasquez
and I were able to focus our attention on Wayne and Amy
instead of all of them coming at us at once.
[Gabriel speaking]
-[Wayne speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
[Wayne speaking]
[Gabriel] Yeah.
[Gabriel speaking]
[Wayne speaking]
[Skylar speaking]
-[Wayne speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
I'm, like, "You just tried crushing us
with your excavator several times.
There's no way that you're just trying to turn it off."
[Wayne speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
And at this time, Hardwick PD showed up on scene.
Oh, it was a great feeling.
-[officer 1 speaking] -[officer 2] [indistinct] Yup.
Dude, you're getting--
-[Amy speaking] -[Wayne speaking]
-[Gabriel speaking] -[Wayne speaking]
[Amy speaking]
[Wayne groans, grunts]
[Amy] Wayne, stop.
[officer] Get him back up.
[Gabriel speaking]
-[Amy speaking] -[Gabriel speaking]
[Amy speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
[Amy] Do it now!
[Skylar speaking]
[indistinct] a search.
[officer] Got you.
[narrator] But in the patrol vehicle,
Brandon's not ready to give up just yet.
[Gabriel] This scenario just never stops.
Brandon was able to slip the cuffs to the front
and then pull on the lever
and open the door,
something that I had never seen before.
Amy was there beside the cruiser
telling him not to.
-[Amy speaking] -[Brandon speaking]
[Gabriel] If he was able to get out,
this would've escalated, uh, you know,
the situation to a whole another use of force again.
[Amy speaking]
[bleep].
So I didn't even think that was something that you could do.
[Brandon speaking]
[Skylar speaking]
-[Brandon speaking] -[Skylar] All right.
[Brandon] I wanna talk to somebody who is smarter first.
-[Skylar] Let's not do this again. -[Brandon] I wanna talk to...
-[Skylar speaking] -[Brandon speaking]
-[Amy] [indistinct] -[Skylar speaking]
[Brandon speaking]
[narrator] With father and son in custody,
the troopers now turn their attention
to Brandon's mom, Amy.
Do you know my name?
[Gabriel] Do not touch me.
No, I understand that you're stressed.
-[bleep]. -[Gabriel] You're the one...
Amy had a bad attitude
and was completely disrespectful, discourteous,
which was totally out of line,
and just mind-blowing, honestly.
[officer speaking]
[Skylar] I got one right here.
[Amy speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Amy speaking]
[Skylar speaking]
I have never arrested three members of the same family.
-[Gabriel speaking] -[officer speaking]
[Gabriel speaking]
I was relieved, but I was also
in a complete state of shock.
It's not something I've ever thought would even happen,
being attacked by an excavator.
Thankfully, everybody was okay.
-Get on the ground! -[Wayne] [indistinct]
[Gabriel] Sir, get on the ground right now!
Wayne Tallman pleads guilty
to one count of impeding a public officer,
and two counts of aggravated assault
on a law enforcement officer.
He is sentenced to two to four years in prison,
suspended sentence with 90 days
to serve in jail.
Amy Tallman was given a citation for obstruction.
Brandon Tallman's case still remains unadjudicated.
I thought Wayne Tallman's actions were disgusting,
childish, and totally unacceptable.
Nobody wants to be put in a situation like that
for something that would've been resolved,
literally in three hours.
Trooper Schrauf and Trooper Vasquez
did a tremendous job
of restraining themselves.
That could have turned into a deadly situation very quickly,
whether that's for the trooper or Mr. Tallman.
[Gabriel speaking]
[Matthew D] The manner in which he operated the excavator
is a... Is a deadly force situation.
[Gabriel speaking]
The aftereffects of, you know, incident
like this have definitely been
signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.
I wasn't able to sleep.
I would wake up in the middle of the night
just kind of shaking.
[Gabriel speaking]
That was a wake-up call for me.
You know, we were just over a year on the job,
but you learn from that.
There's no routine call. You can't become complacent
because you never know what you might come across.
[narrator] 1,100 miles to the west
in central Wisconsin
is the city of Marshfield.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mack] The vehicle I'm driving is an unmarked
black Dodge Charger.
A criminal may see a marked patrol vehicle
from down the street and completely avoid it.
Whereas with that unmarked vehicle,
we might be able to get upright next to them
without them knowing that we're there.
A typical strategy when I'm out enforcing traffic
is any vehicle that I get behind,
I usually run the plate on it
to find stolen vehicles, people with warrants,
or for citations they haven't paid.
[narrator] Today, Officer Scheppler is joined
by a police chaplain, Pastor Yorgey.
Being a police chaplain is something that we do
because we care about the law enforcement officers.
I'm on the ride along to know
how much these guys are dealing with,
the pressures of being an officer.
[Mack] I got myself positioned
behind a darker passenger vehicle.
I ran the plate on that vehicle
and on my computer screen
popped up a name Gerald Pearson.
A couple warrants appeared, failure to register
as a sex offender,
and fleeing from police officers.
I knew it was Pearson.
He matched the photographs that we had of him on file.
These warrants are pretty serious.
We need to have contact with this individual.
[phone buzzes]
[Mack speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Mack speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Mack speaking]
I have to keep my eyes on her.
I have to keep my eyes on him.
My attention's now being diverted.
[Mack speaking]
[tense music playing]
[officer speaking]
[police siren wailing]
[Mack speaking]
[police siren blaring]
[Mack speaking]
Anytime you're traveling at a fast speed,
it lessens your reaction time.
And also you don't know how distracted that person is
or how this guy could try to be avoiding prison
and not wanting to go back.
[Tim] I'm sure, in the police world,
things are going normally, but as me sitting there
as a chaplain, I'm going, "Well, this is the first time
I've ever been in a police chase."
[man speaking]
[tense music playing]
[Jody] I heard over the radio Officer Scheppler
was involved in a pursuit,
so I try to get ahead of him.
We constantly have to weigh
the benefits of catching the individual
versus the amount of risks that we're putting
the rest of the public in.
[Jody speaking]
[police siren blaring]
[tense music playing]
I knew that he was gonna go
either left or right at the intersection.
I just stopped traffic both ways.
[Jody speaking]
[Mack] This guy's gonna do whatever he can to evade us.
[Jody] Stop!
[suspenseful music playing]
[police siren blaring]
[Tim] Seeing guns drawn is not something
that I have seen in real life.
Is he going to shoot at the individual?
Is he gonna try to blow out his tires?
[narrator] Pearson is able to evade
Chief Geurink's stop.
[Jody] I didn't have enough time to safely administer
spike strips to try to deflate the tires.
[police siren blaring]
[officer speaking]
[narrator] The pursuit continues onto back roads.
[Mack] The dangers of driving on a dirt road
are that the visibility gets
a lot harder to see it.
It spits up that dust.
It's hard to control your vehicle.
[police siren wailing]
[Mack] I see him start to slow down,
might be my only opportunity
to reform a maneuver, which is PIT.
[police siren blaring]
[Mack speaking]
We position our vehicles next to the suspect vehicle.
We attempt to spin it out.
[Tim] Immediately in my mind, I'm going,
"Well, what side is he going to hit the guy with?
Are the airbags gonna deploy in the car when we hit them?"
[Mack speaking]
[Tim speaking]
Well, I did some praying.
I'm not saying it out loud
'cause I don't wanna distract him.
[police siren wailing]
[narrator] After 30 minutes,
the high speed pursuit is back on paved roads.
[Mack speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Mack speaking]
He's definitely getting more desperate.
He's probably gonna do whatever it takes
to evade law enforcement.
[narrator] The pursuit has now crossed into Clark County,
Sergeant Prein responds.
[Matthew P] My plan is, I'm gonna get ahead of him,
so I had time to be able to throw out spike strips
to deflate his tires to slow him down.
[officer speaking]
[Matthew P speaking]
He hits the stop sticks
and his tires start deflating.
Within seconds, Officer Scheppler was coming,
so I need to remove them quickly.
[Mack] It made it through the intersection safe and clear
and that I could keep chasing after him.
[Mack speaking]
[static]
[Mack speaking]
I know that this might be my last opportunity
to PIT him.
[police siren blaring]
[Mack] Each time I tried approaching a side of his vehicle,
he would try to block me.
He wasn't gonna just let me do it.
[police siren blaring]
[Mack speaking]
I had to start thinking of a plan.
Not sure if he's gonna be waiting there
with a firearm.
-[officer speaking] -[Mack speaking]
-[officer] Hands up. -[Mack speaking]
I see him take off on foot towards the tall grass.
What else is this guy gonna do?
[tense music playing]
[Tim] When Mack runs off, I stay in the car,
I'm wondering am I going to hear gunshots?
How's this going to end?
[Mack] I didn't want to have physical contact
with him with a gun in my hand
because I knew if it was a fight,
we'd be potentially fighting
over that firearm.
Therefore, I decided to go to a less lethal option.
[Mack speaking]
[Gerald speaks]
-[Mack speaking] -[Gerald] I'm down
[indistinct]
[Mack speaking]
-[Gerald] [indistinct] -[Mack speaking]
[officer speaking]
I wasn't gonna put it past him to potentially
pull out a weapon.
[Mack speaking]
[Gerald speaks]
-[Mack speaking] -[officer] You hurt?
-[Mack speaking] -[Gerald speaking]
[Mack speaking]
-[officer speaks] -[Mack speaking]
-[man speaking] -[Mack speaking]
He began apologizing.
[Mack speaking]
[Gerald] How bad is my car?
[Mack speaking]
[Gerald speaking]
[Mack] I can't react emotionally.
They're not running from you as a person.
They're running from me as a police officer.
[Tim] When I saw the individual come up,
it's just an average guy and in your mind,
you're going, "Why would you run?
Why run from the police?"
[officer 1] All right, guys.
[officer 2] Wherever you go, yeah.
Don't matter, pretty much. Hey, how you doing?
[Mack speaks]
I got back to the patrol vehicle,
Pastor Yorgey, he's still in good spirits.
He wasn't too mad at me that I brought him on
this wild encounter...
[Mack speaking]
[indistinct]
[Mack speaking]
[Tim speaking]
It was nice to know
that he was checking on me.
This is the first chase I've been in.
[Tim speaking]
[Mack speaking]
I went to the ER with Mr. Pearson
and we had turned him over to a transport officer
who ultimately took him to the jail.
We had the vehicle towed back to our department.
[Jody speaking]
We located some methamphetamine
and paraphernalia related to that.
[narrator] Pearson's passenger was found to be innocent.
Gerald Lynn Pearson is found guilty of fleeing
and resisting a police officer,
possession of methamphetamine,
and failure to register as a sex offender.
He is sentenced to three years in prison.
[Mack] His actions were pretty irresponsible and selfish.
He didn't really care about anyone else on the road
and other officers.
[Tim] I would say this whole incident really helped me
understand the issues law enforcement deal with,
and I think it has brought Mack and I closer together.
[Mack] Pastor Yorgey, he's a super guy,
but I think everyone doing the ride along
doesn't expect to get in a police chase.
[police siren blaring]
[narrator] 43 miles northeast of Indianapolis
is Anderson, Indiana.
[John] At the Madison County Sheriff's Department,
we have approximately 40 police officers
on the road patrol division.
It's not a big department,
so we're a pretty close knit group.
We rely heavily on tips from concerned citizens
about wanted individuals that have warrants.
They'll send us a tip of their location,
maybe what they're driving, who they may be staying with.
It's the public's way of helping us out.
[suspenseful music playing]
[John] I receive an email
about two wanted individuals.
The email stated that they were staying at the Motel 6.
-[man speaking] -[John speaking]
[man speaking]
[John speaking]
-[man speaking] -[John speaking]
[man speaking]
-[John speaking] -[man speaking]
[John] Jon Niccum, he'd had a long history with drugs.
He had recently had issues with stealing firearms.
Brooke Badger, she too had a long drug history.
I knew them to be together in a relationship.
-[John speaking] -[man speaking]
[John speaking]
[man speaking]
[John speaking]
[man speaking]
[John speaking]
-[man speaking] -[John] Okay.
[man speaking]
[tense music playing]
[John speaking]
[narrator] Deputy Vieke is accompanied
by Deputy Kollros.
[Kollros speaking]
[dispatcher speaking]
[John] When serve warrants, they double as
search warrants for the individual.
And if we hear activity,
then we can search the space for people.
[John speaking]
[indistinct chatter]
[knocks on door]
[John speaking]
[door opens]
-[John speaking] -Hi.
[John speaking]
[Brooke speaking]
[Kollros] [indistinct] your hand.
-[Brooke speaking] -[Kollros speaking]
[Brooke] Why?
[John speaking]
[Jon speaking]
[John speaking]
[gunshots]
[suspenseful music playing]
-[gunshots] -[John speaking]
[John] Shots fired. Shots fired.
[John speaking]
[Kollros speaking]
[Doug] I hear radio traffic
that Officer Vieke saying he has shots fired.
[John speaking]
[gunshots]
[John] I'm surprised
when he pulls the gun
out of the sheet and shoots it at me.
[gunshots]
[John] I was shocked.
He wasn't in the same world that I was in.
[gunshots]
[John] Shots fired. Shots fired.
-[Kollros speaking] -[Brooke speaking]
[Kollros] Get... Go inside.
[dispatcher speaking]
[Kollros speaking]
[gunshot]
[Kollros speaking]
That's when I made contact with Officer Kollros.
And he had explained that the female subject
had fled on foot.
A mantra in law enforcement is WIN,
what's important now.
And at that point, we had shots fired
at police officers.
And Brooke Badger, she was not the threat
that he needed to address.
We needed to address the shooting
that was going on.
You just wanna get as many people there
as quick as possible.
[sirens wailing]
[narrator] Backup is on the way.
But there are hotel guests to protect.
[Darren] The goal at that point is
to keep the hotel guests inside their rooms
until we can safely evacuate them.
[John speaking]
-[officer] On the right? -[John speaking]
We had officers in the hallway,
who knew that he barricaded himself in the room.
Our number one concern is
for the safety of everyone in the hotel.
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
[Doug] We relied on the Anderson Police Department.
Many of their officers that were there
were already on the Anderson SWAT team.
[officer speaking]
Rather than waiting for the sheriff's department
SWAT team to have to get called out and respond,
we decided to let their department
cover the operation as far as clearing the room
and entering the room.
[officer 1 speaking]
[John speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
[Doug] We have to get other people out of the hotel.
There's a chance that rounds could go through walls
into other rooms, and we don't want
innocent people to get injured.
[officer speaking]
[Darren] You don't know if that person has anybody else
that's related to that situation.
There could be somebody else of the same like-mind
in another hotel room.
There's a lot of unknowns there.
-[officer speaking] -[woman speaking]
[woman speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
[John] We literally went room to room,
knocking on every door,
cleared the entire floor of the hotel.
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
[officer 3 speaking]
[officer 4 speaking]
[officer 5] So we're gonna grab real quick.
[officer 6] Yup. Go for it.
[narrator] With guest evacuation over,
police can now focus on the gunman.
Yeah.
Yup.
[officer speaking]
[indistinct chatter]
[tense music playing]
[officer speaking]
[suspenseful music playing]
[officer speaking]
[Doug] They located Mr. Niccum
deceased in the bathroom.
He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Jon Niccum thought that
there was no other option left
and that he would have to take his own life.
There's going to be family members now
without a loved one.
Obviously I don't want to see anybody hurt,
especially to take their own lives.
[Doug] There was evidence of drug paraphernalia
and other drug items found throughout the room.
[narrator] With Jon Niccum deceased,
officers now focus on trying to locate his partner,
Brooke Badger, who is on the run.
[John] She was last seen fleeing out
the south door of Motel 6.
[Kollros speaking]
[officer speaking]
Yeah.
[officer speaking]
[Kollros speaking]
-[officer speaking] -[Kollros speaking]
-[officer] Uh-huh.
-[Kollros speaking] -[officer] Okay.
[Kollros speaking]
It split up the investigation into two parts.
[officer speaking]
[Kollros speaks]
[narrator] Officers search the hotel grounds.
[Kollros speaking]
[woman speaking]
[narrator] The K9 unit tracks south in nearby fields.
[Darren speaking]
We traveled almost a full mile east
into the series of fields,
tracking with K9, checking every brush pile,
checking the fence row, checking the wooded areas.
[Darren speaking]
[officer speaking]
-[officer speaking] -[Darren speaking]
We had the radio transmission,
one of the officers from Anderson Police Department
was able to look at video footage
from the neighboring hotel
and she actually went north.
Brooke Badger escapes.
That's certainly frustrating.
[suspenseful music playing]
[narrator] Brooke Badger's still on the run.
Then police get a tip-off
that she's at a house 25 miles away
from the crime scene in Elwood, Indiana.
[Jeff speaking]
[narrator] Deputy Richwine joins the officer
who was tipped off at the suspect's address.
[Jeff] Officer Jamie Crawford in Elwood
was flagged down by somebody and was given information
that Brooke Badger had been stating
at a residence on North 10th Street.
I've served a lot of arrest warrants over the years.
I was familiar with what occurred at Motel 6.
We got a job to do, we're gonna go in
and we're gonna get it done.
[officer speaking]
[Jeff speaking]
-[dog growls] -[man speaking]
[officer speaking]
-[Jeff speaking] -[man speaking]
[Jeff speaking]
-[officer speaking] -[Jeff speaking]
She was sitting there half-dressed in her T-shirt
and her underclothes.
[Jeff speaking]
[Brooke speaking]
[Jeff speaking]
[man speaking]
-[officer speaking] -[man speaking]
[Jeff] It was dirty.
A lot of clutter and trash laying everywhere.
It appeared to be somewhat of a drug house.
[Jeff speaking]
[Brooke speaking]
[Jeff speaking]
-[Brooke speaking] -[Jeff speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Jeff speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Jeff] At that point, then I placed the handcuffs on her
and escorted her to my vehicle
and transported her to the Madison County Jail.
[Jeff speaking]
It is sad because it boils down to choices
and people that you hang around.
You put yourself in a situation, you...
It's just... It's what's gonna happen.
[Jeff speaking]
[Doug] Brooke Badger pleads guilty
to attempting to escape from lawful custody,
which was a level five felony.
Her conviction will be deferred
if she successfully participates
in a drug program
through the problem solving courts in Madison County.
[dispatcher speaking]
[John] I don't have any ill will towards Brooke
and I don't think she was responsible
for any of what happened.
[gunshot]
[John] Shots fired.
[gunshots]
[John] During the weeks that I was looking
for Brooke Badger,
I learned that she had
the potential to be a good person.
She just got wrapped up in drugs.
I am not disappointed that I was not the one
that found her,
I was more concerned about her
just getting back
to where she needed to be
to get the help that she needed.
Narrator: In New Mexico...
I was like, "Oh, my gosh who steals a car with babies in it?"
No!
Narrator: In Arizona...
They were not going to come out of that room
without some kind of confrontation.
[grunt]