Cops Runs Into A Man DUMPING BODY PARTS In The River

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]What up y'all? Welcome back to another reaction video. What's good gang? You feel me? Welcome back. You know what I'm saying? If this is your first video, welcome to the squad, man. Make sure y'all like the video if you like the video. Don't just like it if you don't like it, you feel me? Watch the video if you like it, like it. Subscribe if you want to be part of the family, you feel me? I'm bringing y'all a lot of more reaction videos. I love these crime videos. I sit here and watch these all day. So, today we got cop runs into a a secret killer dumping body parts in the river.

[00:00:26]Let's see how this is going to play out.

[00:00:28]Who are you?

[00:00:30]Stop right there. Go ahead and stop right there. This side of Ohio State officer is pointing his flashlight at 70-year-old Alan Bruce.

[00:00:40]70 years old.

[00:00:41]He been doing this for a while. He been doing this for a while. He has no idea that the man he just ran into was in the middle of dumping human body parts in a nearby river after murdering, dismembering, and meticulously covering up the crime scene. Okay, so what are you what are you doing?

[00:01:00]>> problem going on down here and that's what we're trying to work that out. All right, so you're just trying to keep an eye on stuff then.

[00:01:06]>> Yeah, excuse me for if I got you excited. All right.

[00:01:09]After Alan walks away, it would take investigators days to discover exactly what he dumped in the river, leading them through a twisted maze of misleading clues and disturbing discoveries, and what might be the worst crime these small-town officers will ever uncover.

[00:01:29]See, I think the crazy thing is the fact that he's 7 years old, like they probably don't think nothing of it, you feel me? Like they probably just think it's cool, old man just out here, you know, trying to patrol the streets, you feel me? He neighborhood watch, I don't know.

[00:01:46]Oh, it stinks bad. You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your family.

[00:01:52]>> There is no body down here. It's reduced down to nothing.

[00:01:58]It's a routine late spring in central Idaho, tucked deep within its mountains, >> What goes on in Idaho?

[00:02:05]What goes >> What goes on in Idaho?

[00:02:07]>> surrounded on all sides by rugged terrain and long stretches of wilderness. And at the center of it all runs the Salmon River, better known as the River of No Return. The small town of Challis is home to fewer than a thousand residents. Crime rates here are remarkably low, and serious violent homicides are unheard of. But that's about to change because a heinous crime happened somewhere in this town, and what's left of it now is in the Salmon River waiting to be found.

[00:02:42]The investigation [music] begins >> was last This was literally a year ago.

[00:02:46]less than a year ago when an elderly woman walks into the local police station to report someone missing. I mean, that said, I'm just surprised he hasn't been back to see. That's why I'm concerned. Yeah. Do you know what he was wearing last when he left?

[00:03:00]>> Pair of Bates blue jeans, and I think it was a dark [music] T-shirt and baseball cap, and he's got a little pug Rider that is with him everywhere. Who is Patrick to you?

[00:03:11]>> of my Your kids that I've taken under my wing.

[00:03:14]Okay, so not biological. Okay.

[00:03:17]>> number for the boys in This picture.

[00:03:19]>> Um Yeah, picture, okay.

[00:03:23]Does that Does this picture look resemble what he looks like right now?

[00:03:27]Um his beard is a little fuller, and his hair is better shape than that.

[00:03:33]The man in those photos is 47-year-old Patrick Shelton. His adoptive mother, Helen, goes on to explain that Patrick spends most of his time up in the mountains cutting and selling firewood often late at night. He's got a chainsaw, usually at least one weapon on him, and his dog Rider is always by his side. In most missing person cases, it takes days before investigators get a solid lead to work with, but in the town of Challis, that process is about to be cut short. I remember you mentioned something about Wait, okay, so he's 47 and clearly the old man we just saw in the beginning of the video, he's 70 years old.

[00:04:12]So, and my like he had to have used a weapon, bro. Had to. But like my thing is how did he clean up every Let me just Let me Let me watch the video. Let me watch. Is this Hold on.

[00:04:20]>> It seemed like he [music] said something to where they had some conflict recently. They have. Yeah. Okay. Do you know why he went there?

[00:04:27]>> [music] >> Allen was supposed to go move his mother homes. And when he got out there, Allen had moved them with a bulldozer. Okay.

[00:04:34]Not good. Probably screwed up the transmissions and I don't know.

[00:04:39]The name Helen mentions immediately rings a bell because officers know exactly who she's talking about.

[00:04:45]70-year-old Allen Bruce is a local resident with a rural property just out of town, working odd jobs including welding and mechanical work. But that's not what people in Challis know him for because Allen has a different reputation built on constant disputes and ongoing conflicts with other locals. Just earlier in the year, he was reported for allegedly throwing gas bombs and setting a woman's property on fire. So, based on Helen's statement, officers prepare to head out and speak with Allen. See if he can point them in the right direction.

[00:05:16]At this point, officers aren't too surprised that Allen's name came up and don't expect anything serious. In reality, something already happened between Allen and Patrick just a night ago that ended very gruesomely.

[00:05:33]This old man is throwing gas bombs.

[00:05:38]Come on, gang. Just take your retire and live your life. He Oh my gosh.

[00:05:46]Oh Oh my god.

[00:05:47]>> While officers are on their way to question him, Alan is still in the middle of covering things up. In just a few seconds, a deputy pulls up to his property. Hey Alan.

[00:05:58]How's it going?

[00:05:59]One thing after another. One thing after another? Hey, I was just coming to chat with you. We had had a report that no one knows where Pat is right now.

[00:06:08]Yeah, they don't. Okay. And I just wanted to touch bases with you cuz I know he was getting or sorry, you got the stuff off your property, but he was going to come by to pick it up, right?

[00:06:17]>> Yeah. Did you ever see him on that?

[00:06:19]>> Okay. He came by here. He was unhappy.

[00:06:22]Very unhappy. Okay, but just it was just all kind of verbal argument or something or he was just Okay. And he went and got his stuff then or Well, he still has some stuff here. He said he would wanted to go cut some wood. He needed some money. So, he's probably out somewhere out there where he broke down. And I don't know. I I'm just trying to create a timeline for so I know who last saw him. So, when when was that he showed up here?

[00:06:45]Two nights ago. Two nights ago?

[00:06:47]>> Three nights ago. Let's see. What is today?

[00:06:49]Thursday night. Okay. In the middle of the conversation, the deputy notices something off about Alan's demeanor. His responses are short, controlled, almost rehearsed. But as the deputy continues asking questions, things start to feel even more strange. And then, did he hang around here long or did he just go right over?

[00:07:10]>> Back and forth. Back and forth?

[00:07:11]>> Uh-huh. Coming back onto the property?

[00:07:13]Yeah. Does he still have stuff here then?

[00:07:16]>> He took it all out. Okay. Like that shed, that wooden shed is his?

[00:07:19]>> Yeah. Uh-huh. Okay.

[00:07:21]>> And the tires in it. I don't know if you can see there's a pickup rack just over there.

[00:07:26]Over that Ford. Oh, just the steel there poking up. Oh, okay. Oh, this is So, he wooden rack over there on the back of the tractor. Like that. This Okay. Just kind of a bunch of crap laying around.

[00:07:36]Okay. Did So, he got some of it though?

[00:07:39]Yeah. Do Do know where he was taking it to? Taking it down to his motor homes.

[00:07:43]Oh, where is motor homes? Right here you go. Walk over here. Okay.

[00:07:48]Oh, there. There's his van, charger, and another one. I don't This old man.

[00:07:54]The motor home Allan is pointing to does indeed belong to Patrick, but more importantly, it holds items that might explain what really happened to him.

[00:08:03]Allan goes on to explain that he moved Patrick's motor homes himself because of the ongoing disputes and problems between the two, which sounds normal considering they're frequent business partners. But as the conversation continues, the deputy takes note of Allan's shifting body language and quietly requests another officer to the scene. There's a noticeable tension in the way Allan carries himself.

[00:08:26]Let me give you all my theory real quick.

[00:08:30]He killed him in a motor home. Thought he cleaned up everything. There's going to be some evidence in there. He ain't cleaned up everything. I know he didn't.

[00:08:36]He killed him in his own home, his own motor home. This is because while he's speaking to the deputy, That's my theory. That's my theory. his focus is on the barrels sitting just a few feet away with Patrick's dismembered body parts hidden Uh, I was just on a phone call for a minute, so I didn't want to bring that out here, so So, did he stay here last night or Okay.

[00:08:59]Okay.

[00:08:59]>> That's why he's so fidgety. He knows they're close. I was certain that he left here, not last night. Okay. You know, does he have any favorite spots so we can just go Got you. up here at Bayhorse, pretty close to the top. You go up there before you get to Y'all see?

[00:09:14]Just notice. Just look. Just pay attention. Every time he talks, he looks straight down. Just pay attention.

[00:09:19]The rest area will probably just You should really check out and go down the hill and cross the creek. Uh-huh. Way back up in there. Watch. It's a favorite wood cutting spot for him. Watch me ask him another question.

[00:09:30]>> Is that the only one you know about?

[00:09:31]>> That's where he took me to. Okay.

[00:09:34]You may be the last person that saw him cuz he would have then gone up there that night potentially.

[00:09:38]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:09:39]Look down.

[00:09:40]>> Notably, Allen's demeanor shifts once again. With a second officer on scene, he becomes more composed and careful with how he answers questions. Despite this noticeable shift, Allen provides deputies with something useful, a location where Patrick might be. The place he mentions is a remote area about 20 mi out near the so-called River of No Return. Naturally, it's somewhere deputies need to check, but before heading out there, they decide to take a quick look around the motor home Allen pointed to earlier. A small decision that will give police something useful to work with later on.

[00:10:17]Let's see what they find.

[00:10:20]They going to find something.

[00:10:23]>> [snorts] >> The doors are ratchet strapped closed.

[00:10:30]Come on, y'all. Look. Looks like it's cut.

[00:10:33]Oh, are these your fingerprints?

[00:10:36]He got him while he was asleep. Take the photo of those.

[00:10:44]Yeah, that one looks open. That looks I think it looks cut.

[00:10:48]The lock Oh, yeah, that lock is cut.

[00:10:50]Yeah, that's an additional I'm assuming Allen had to access it to put it in neutral.

[00:10:56]Technically, you could be looking at unlawful entry.

[00:11:00]Clearly, the locks have been tampered with, consistent with Allen's explanation that he moved the motor home himself. It's a small detail, but one that could give officers grounds to detain him later on, depending on how this unfolds. But without a warrant, officers can't search inside the motor home, so they step back, leave the scene, and head towards Big Hill, [music] where Patrick might be. At this stage, there is still no confirmed crime. Allen has been forthcoming, and nothing directly points to anything serious just yet. But by the end of this night, police will have more than one suspect on their hands and what might be the worst crime this town will ever see.

[00:11:39]Oh my god.

[00:11:40]>> But before we get to that, it's important to note that cases like these can affect the mental health of both the officers and the innocent people involved.

[00:11:48]>> Normal.

[00:11:49]I believe so.

[00:11:52]Hey Pat. Pat.

[00:11:55]Bro, that there's no way I'm going to find him out there if he was out there.

[00:11:58]>> Pat, it's the Shasta County Sheriff's out there. Oh, is that his truck?

[00:12:01]>> us?

[00:12:03]Dog's in the seat.

[00:12:05]Dog's there.

[00:12:06]>> What was the dog's name? Uh, Ryder.

[00:12:09]Ryder, buddy.

[00:12:11]Ryder.

[00:12:12]Is it awake? No, it's It's not moving.

[00:12:15]Dog's been in here a while. He's messed himself.

[00:12:19]Oh.

[00:12:20]He's moving.

[00:12:22]It's definitely a he, by the way. Hey, baby.

[00:12:25]You'll be okay.

[00:12:27]We're going to get you some water, okay?

[00:12:29]So, that if the dog's still alive, he ain't been in there too, too long.

[00:12:34]Where did he go?

[00:12:35]Where did he go?

[00:12:38]Miraculously, Patrick's dog Ryder is still alive after two full days, but he's severely dehydrated. As deputies pull Ryder from the vehicle and give him water, they notice something else.

[00:12:49]Patrick's chainsaw is missing from the truck, suggesting he might still be somewhere nearby. And while they discuss their next steps, Ryder suddenly begins reacting to something in the air. Dogs like Ryder have a sense of smell up to 100,000 times more powerful than units. Without realizing it, officers have stumbled onto their strongest lead yet and Ryder might guide them directly towards the answer they're looking for.

[00:13:19]>> Come on, Ryder.

[00:13:20]>> Poor buddy. What's up?

[00:13:23]Come on, Ryder, bro. Take them to the body or something.

[00:13:26]>> makes me he could be down lower if he would cuz he's his chainsaw is not here.

[00:13:32]>> Yeah.

[00:13:33]He always has his chainsaw. I'm thinking so. I'll go with you.

[00:13:37]I kind of want to walk down there and see if his behavior still points that way.

[00:13:41]>> Right.

[00:13:42]Let's walk him. Come on.

[00:13:45]Come on, dog.

[00:13:47]Come on, Ryder.

[00:13:55]Dude, you got to give me a break.

[00:14:00]We can't go down there.

[00:14:02]That is a completely down. That is There is no way down there.

[00:14:05]>> You have to. Just trust me, dog.

[00:14:08]>> As luck would have it, the dog picks up a scent, but can't pinpoint a specific location. The reason for that is something officers haven't realized yet, because there is no single place where Patrick might be. He's already been dead for two nights, dismembered [music] with his own chainsaw, and scattered across the very mountains deputies are now searching. Some of his remains are already floating down the river of no return, just 20 miles from where they're standing.

[00:14:38]None of this is apparent to deputies yet, so they decide to take a closer look at Patrick's pickup truck for any additional clues. What they notice inside is very sketchy. Dark red staining across the interior, heavily soaked towels on the driver seat, items [music] marked with blood, and a discarded mail letter with the name Alan Bruce on it. Something violent happened here, and the more deputies [music] think about it, the more obvious Wasn't the old man named Alan, or am I tripping?

[00:15:08]Am I tripping?

[00:15:10]Or how your mail get this what happened to Patrick becomes.

[00:15:15]So, before the evening ends, they secure the scene and return to town where they talk to other acquaintances of Patrick who collectively make one thing crystal clear. Allen had an ongoing feud with Patrick who recently moved his motor home using heavy equipment and damaged it in the process. And he's the only person anyone can think of who might want to hurt Patrick. With that in mind, investigators formally identify Allen Bruce [music] as the primary suspect in Patrick Shelton's disappearance. But the reality and discoveries awaiting investigators in the coming hours are anything but straightforward. As they'll soon find themselves investigating more than one suspect. For the time being though, >> He got help. search warrants are requested for both properties [music] and Idaho State Police are called in bringing in a team of experienced detectives. However, as the multi-agency effort is underway, someone in town is simultaneously running their own homicide cover-up operation.

[00:16:13]As night falls, Allen moves quietly continuing to dump body parts and the evidence in the river. Yeah, he's not doing it by himself.

[00:16:21]>> tie him to what he's done. At the same time, police and search and rescue units are mobilized preparing to comb through the surrounding terrain for any sign of Patrick. Around midnight, Deputy Mike is sent to patrol near Patrick's truck monitoring the area in case anything changes. A few hours into his shift, something does.

[00:16:42]Yeah, there go Patrick dumping bodies.

[00:16:47]Caught him.

[00:16:49]Uh-huh.

[00:16:53]Who are you?

[00:16:55]Stop right there. Just go ahead and stop right there.

[00:17:00]Let's be honest. If you were the police I was right now, boy my heart racing.

[00:17:05]Old man walk out the woods.

[00:17:07]You know there's you know something going on around there.

[00:17:10]You by yourself. It's night time.

[00:17:13]Well, I got my gun drawn. Hey, hold on.

[00:17:14]Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

[00:17:15]Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. Woah. Woah. Woah. Hold on. Drop down, baby. Hold on. You feel me? Hold on. What are you coming out here for? I need back up. 10-4. That guy there is Stephen Pat uh Patrick Shelton. That's his stuff. I'm kind of looking after a little bit.

[00:17:30]Okay. Car down here that I come down here to investigate. You saw what they were doing.

[00:17:36]Okay.

[00:17:36]>> I didn't know it was you guys. And midnight I turned my lights on and uh you still were shining your light at me.

[00:17:43]>> Yeah, you had your lights on me. I couldn't see where I was going.

[00:17:47]Okay, I'm saying I turned my red and blue lights on. Yeah. And you were still spotlighting me and then I told you I instructed you to turn it off.

[00:17:55]I don't like lights in my eyes about as much as you don't. You know, you had yours in mine so I got to agree. No, it's not even.

[00:18:03]Okay, so what are you What are you doing? You're just keeping an eye on Patrick Shelton.

[00:18:08]Okay. Patrick Shelton.

[00:18:11]Got a people problem going on down here.

[00:18:13]That's why I'm doing what I'm doing.

[00:18:15]That guy's You having a little what problem?

[00:18:17]Theivery.

[00:18:19]What?

[00:18:19]>> Theivery.

[00:18:20]Theivery. Okay.

[00:18:21]>> Ask Chief Kelly about that. He'll tell you. Okay. All right, so you're just trying to keep an eye on stuff then.

[00:18:27]>> Yeah, they're sure nobody's ripping [ __ ] off down here. Bro, you're 70 years old.

[00:18:31]How were you even awake at midnight?

[00:18:32]Excuse me if I got you excited. All right.

[00:18:38]He didn't get too excited. He talking about excuse me if I got too excited.

[00:18:41]No, you got shook, my boy. Scared.

[00:18:45]>> Boy.

[00:18:45]>> 7240, we can calm down and go to court.

[00:18:49]Out here in complete darkness, Alan Bruce suddenly appears. Nothing about this encounter adds up because at this point Alan isn't just the last person to see Patrick alive, he's been in a dispute with him, moved his motor home after he disappeared, and now he's out here in the middle of the night claiming he's checking on Patrick's property and protecting it from theft. In reality, he came here to finish what he started, to destroy evidence he didn't have time to deal with earlier when deputies interrupted him. Worse yet, just minutes ago, he was at the river of no return a couple miles away disposing of what was left of Patrick. Deputy Mike doesn't know any of this yet, >> [music] >> but this creepy encounter makes it clear that Allen knows something police don't.

[00:19:34]Unfortunately for him, this is where things begin to crumble because [music] coming back here tonight is the mistake that's about to collapse his entire cover-up [music] operation. Aw, 3 days.

[00:19:48]It's been 3 days.

[00:19:50]>> hours of the following morning, investigators used the overnight developments and the encounter with Allen to accelerate the approval of search warrants. With everything they've seen so far, it's clear Allen knows something they don't, [music] and they need to find out what that is. To do that, they put a plan in motion. First, get Allen off the property, search it, and if any hard evidence is found, bring him back and confront him with it. So, while detectives get the search warrants approved, one deputy is sent to Allen's property with a simple objective, get Allen into the car and keep him away from the property to avoid destruction of any evidence. Allen, on the other hand, believes he's already taken care of all the incriminating evidence and that there's nothing left to find. When Deputy Kelly arrives at the lot, Allen has no clue how quickly his entire cover-up plot will come crashing down on him.

[00:20:42]>> Let's go.

[00:20:44]How's it going? Yeah, come on. Let's search that property. Hopefully your day is a little better than when I last ran into you. You said everything was Well, your truck's still broken down, I guess, so maybe that's not the case.

[00:20:54]Hopefully you don't have a problem.

[00:20:55]>> No, all right.

[00:20:57]You can just hop in the front there.

[00:21:01]I'm hoping it turns up because we've got another piece of business.

[00:21:04]Yeah, is there He's still got the stuff you >> What do you mean by that?

[00:21:09]So I mean y'all were getting along for a while there, but then what I mean what happened there even? He just started accusing you of stuff or Yeah.

[00:21:17]And there was nothing I could say to convince him that it wasn't Well, I appreciate you got him up out of here available to just chat with him a bit more there. They're the professionals. They've got they've got questions I probably didn't ask you.

[00:21:29]Okay. [laughter] Even as the deputy tries to subtly probe for more information, nothing useful comes out of it and Allen sticks to his story. Interestingly, though, Allen appears noticeably more relaxed, likely because he's confident that there is no way police can tie him to a crime.

[00:21:47]Roughly 30 minutes later >> Oh, they brought the units.

[00:21:50]>> [music] >> arrive at the property. While Allen waits inside his car, the discovery of the evidence he failed to cover up starts with Patrick's motor home. What's in there?

[00:22:08]You see how you see how quick they draw that? That'd have been me. Hustle.

[00:22:11]Sheriff's office. Make yourself known.

[00:22:17]Well, let's see what they find.

[00:22:25]this is My theory is one it might smell like a whole bunch of bleach. That's what I'm thinking cuz he's going to try to clean up. If something happened in here, he's going to try to clean up. Two, they're going to find blood somewhere.

[00:22:40]Got a gun case. Gun case.

[00:22:49]Ain't no gun in there.

[00:22:51]Patrick's empty gun box is consistent with earlier statements that he always keeps a firearm with him. The problem is that gun is nowhere to be found in the motor home and it was never found in his pickup truck the previous day. With Patrick's motor home cleared, officers move over to Allen's property. Allen owns multiple structures and vehicles on the lot and after clearing a few of them, deputies find no obvious signs of a crime. It seems like Allen's cover-up operation is successful so far, but that begins to change as deputies notice something unusual lingering across parts of the property.

[00:23:27]It already did, buckle.

[00:23:30]It smells like it stinks. Oh, it stinks bad.

[00:23:35]So, we're going to we're just going to uh So, they Look, they in Idaho. Think about it. They in Idaho, it's hot. You feel me? They in the mountains.

[00:23:42]It's hot. So, and it's been 2 days I think they would say 2 days since he went missing.

[00:23:48]Wherever he put his body, you know that smell is probably crazy.

[00:23:54]So, if a human can smell it, just imagine like a dog like if they would have brought like a canine, anything, bro, they would have smelled that for sure.

[00:24:02]>> hold on on this trailer till we can get keys. If we if he won't give us keys, then we'll go from there, but we're going to we need to hold on this until we get that. Um It's probably in that freshly moved So, do we want to call out the cadaver dog?

[00:24:18]Yeah, let's go ahead and do it while we're here.

[00:24:20]>> dog. Got it cleared. It might be the best way to get something to hold him.

[00:24:25]As the search continues, deputies can smell an odor of burnt meat across parts of the lot, but Oh, burnt meat.

[00:24:34]Oh, he burnt his body.

[00:24:37]>> clear source. After checking around the structures again and searching the open areas, they can't find anything. So, to pinpoint the source, deputies call in a cadaver dog trained to detect human remains and a few minutes later, police canine Spie arrives on scene. After running the dog across the property, Spie begins alerting to the presence of something inside a set of barrels. I'm rolling.

[00:25:02]Oh, watch out. Don't open it. It's going to stink.

[00:25:05]Ooh. Clean that up.

[00:25:08]Why am I acting smelly?

[00:25:11]Okay, so let's start looking. Yeah.

[00:25:17]Yeah. We got our We got our window.

[00:25:21]In the barrel.

[00:25:22]>> you looking at? Box.

[00:25:25]Latex gloves, windows.

[00:25:30]What are you looking at? And doggy treats.

[00:25:32]>> to get a backup picture.

[00:25:36]Inside the barrel, officers begin to uncover what Allan tried to hide. Broken window glass of a car consistent with a bullet impact, latex gloves, and traces of blood on the filter of a vacuum cleaner. After searching other barrels, officers find a night vision binoculars, Patrick's baseball cap marked with blood, and most concerning of all, bone fragments and suspected human remains on multiple pieces of clothing.

[00:26:03]>> Additional items are recovered as well, including ammunition and magazines, but no firearms, suggesting the weapons may have been moved or hidden somewhere else. Among the findings, detectives note the missing firearms, the lack of any intact remains, and the speed at which the scene appears to have been cleaned. Something particularly peculiar, leading them to consider that Allan may not have acted alone.

[00:26:28]Yeah, he ain't do all that by himself.

[00:26:31]>> property is officially treated as a crime scene. The area is secured, and forensic examiners are called in to process the evidence. Detectives now have the hard evidence they need to confront Allan. But while they prepare to do so, an unexpected development happens when Allan's younger brother Larry suddenly shows up at the There you go, your second person.

[00:26:52]Suspect number two, Larry Bruce. Mean, hours earlier, police received an oddly timed phone call from him claiming that if anything happened to Patrick, it was his own fault. Not only that, Larry made additional statements about Patrick that led detectives to question whether they might be dealing with a second suspect.

[00:27:13]Yeah, well, he's been stealing [ __ ] on my brothers and uh he said that he's threatened him. We live together, big-ass guy. And Adam, somebody else said that he's a straight-up thief.

[00:27:23]Shelton's an opportunist. He's going to take advantage of anything that he can.

[00:27:27]>> poor boy poor you ugly boy? Back up.

[00:27:30]>> concerned Pat might Patrick might uh do something stupid, use a gun or something.

[00:27:35]>> Pat's going to kill him, you know.

[00:27:36]Right. On the call, Larry made it clear that Patrick was the aggressor and the one who had been threatening Alan leading investigators to suspect he might know more than what he shared on the phone. So naturally, their suspicions rise when he arrives at the search warrant scene unannounced. Once detectives begin speaking with him, Larry seems confident he can prove that Patrick was the problem. [music] Patty, how's it going? And you are? I'm Alan's brother. Okay, I'm Sergeant Tuttle with the State Police. So obviously, your brother got himself in a lot of trouble.

[00:28:08]That's what it sounds like. Start Yeah, you want to go in the trailer? We can go sit in the trailer where we're not getting rained on.

[00:28:14]You said that Shelton? Is that the guy's name?

[00:28:18]Patrick Shelton.

[00:28:19]>> Okay.

[00:28:20]And he was threatening your brother.

[00:28:22]Call him Saint Patty. Saint Patty. And so is that something your brother told you or do you have other knowledge of that?

[00:28:28]>> That's something my brother told me. My brother said, "Hey, he pulled a pistol and waved it in my face and threatened me and And how long ago did your brother tell you that? About a week? That was probably about two weeks ago. Okay. You know, somebody was waving a gun at me, you know, I'd I'd probably be, you know, wanting to have something to defend myself, too, you know, but you know, my brother had been asking Shelton to move for months.

[00:28:54]Okay. And uh Shelton was like, "Fuck you." You know, uh basically. So, my brother took the little road grader the the little dozer and pulled his stuff and put it out here on the other side of the fence.

[00:29:13]>> Is this something your brother told you or is it something you saw?

[00:29:16]As far as moving the stuff? Yeah, I came by the day that he was moving stuff on the way home. What I didn't know when my brother had moved the stuff just to try to get the pressure off of my brother, I text Shelton and I told him, "Hey, I moved your crap off of my brother's lot." So, then he text me back when he got to town going, "I got a beef with you." I mean, Shelton's a drunk and a dope fiend. Okay, so Yeah, let's see the messages.

[00:29:47]That was um yeah, that was May 3rd. Okay.

[00:29:52]He goes, "I'm trying I'm broke >> I'm broke down trying to get a ride."

[00:29:56]Then you said, "Never mind, I moved it for you. Give Alan back whatever you took. It is Yeah, I was going, "Who is this?"

[00:30:02]And I thought If you want beef, it's beef me.

[00:30:08]I have any of his Alan kept showing me pictures of stuff that was missing, you know, where it was and missing and Patrick was like one of the only the only people in here. So, or T, I have a beef with you, too. Okay. Let's put bring your beef. We know who you are, drug addicts. Just remember you me with all of us and I taken pictures in the sheriff's parking lot thinking that well, maybe he'd think I'm a sheriff and maybe he'd back his you know, or leave Alan alone and get the [ __ ] out of town, you know? So, I put uh "If you [ __ ] with all of us, you'll you'll lose."

[00:30:48]Mess Mess with me, you mess with all of us.

[00:30:53]You'll lose.

[00:30:55]Y'all killed him in Y'all killed him together.

[00:30:58]thing for you to do is pack up and leave Custer County and don't come back.

[00:31:03]Allen's brother goes on to pull up additional messages between him and Patrick. The messages he shares show the feud escalating over time, primarily over Patrick refusing to move his property off the land and accusations that he'd been stealing from Allen. As detectives read through them, it becomes clear that Allen's brother wasn't just aware of the conflict, he was involved in it at some point. This only adds to investigators' suspicions. So, instead of continuing to circle around it, the detective says exactly what he's thinking. Yeah, it's And no sign of Shelton, though, huh? Find a body or anything? Or There's signs of Shelton, just not living signs of Shelton. One of the things I'm trying to wrap my head around is I'm like, how did he do that by himself?

[00:31:47]He's not a very big guy. Like, how would he move things around without somebody helping? Like, if he Let's just say that if he shot Shelton and took him somewhere and dropped dumped his body, who would he call to help him?

[00:32:00]I have no [ __ ] clue. I mean, he wouldn't call me. Right. That's what I'm saying. Does he have good friends?

[00:32:06]>> Cat. I don't know. I don't know what he's capable of, you know? I mean, Right. I don't know anybody that would help him move something, you know, help him commit a crime, you know? I mean, my wife would shoot me if I helped him, you know? How long you been married?

[00:32:21]Um since 2016. Yeah, she married you in 9 years.

[00:32:27]Last night, she's like, "Oh, and uh this and that, you know? And what if it was Allen? What if he comes and kills us in our sleep, you know?" I was like, you know, cuz she was watching that Criminal Minds for a long time, you know, after she retired from you know, it's like you know serial killers, you know.

[00:32:48]Um Tell her that this Custer County, you know, don't worry about serial killers.

[00:32:51]>> [laughter] >> When it's all said and done, everybody will know everything. You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your family.

[00:33:01]On that interesting note >> on.

[00:33:03]>> Larry shifts from defending his brother to no longer being certain and begins to see things the way investigators do.

[00:33:11]With nothing else to add, police wrap up the interview with Larry still uncertain of his involvement. Now, they can finally turn their attention back to Allen who's still sitting in the car completely unaware of what's just been uncovered on his lot. At this point, investigators have enough to place Allen under arrest and pursue homicide charges. The problem [music] is they don't have a body and they don't have a confession, both of which are critical in building a solid case, especially when it comes to proving exactly what happened and how. But with the evidence discovered on his property, this is their best chance to confront Allen directly and push for a confession.

[00:33:50]That's what you say.

[00:33:51]>> are extremely high. If Allen plays his cards right, a skilled defense attorney can create just enough reasonable doubt to get him out of this scot-free. We've got a cadaver dog hitting on other spots on the property that have bone fragments.

[00:34:07]And the only thing that dog is trained to hit on is dead humans.

[00:34:10]You know, there was only two people here that night, you and him.

[00:34:13]Right? There's nobody else that I can talk to.

[00:34:16]Can't find him. And if you didn't do it, then somebody else did, can you point me in the right direction?

[00:34:22]I can't do that, man.

[00:34:23]I don't know if anybody else is out here.

[00:34:25]You. Well, that's like I said, I don't either.

[00:34:29]Even after hearing this, Allen continues his denial, but this is exactly why investigators brought him back to the property. It's a part of a strategy known as crime scene exposure.

[00:34:40]Experienced detectives use this technique to confront suspects with something directly tied to the crime, like the scene itself or key pieces of evidence. This creates psychological pressure, making it harder to maintain a lie and often triggering unexpected reactions or slips in their story. So, investigators take Allen out of the car and bring him back to the center of the lodge, back to the very place where everything likely happened to see if he will finally break. Let's see. Let's see. Let's watch the video. We want to be able to tell the prosecutor you helped us every which way you could.

[00:35:16]I can accept my case and go to prison for the rest of my life. What?

[00:35:20]I don't know.

[00:35:21]I can't tell you what the prosecutor I got what the judge brought down. You know, I have to go to trial right now.

[00:35:26]Yeah.

[00:35:27]So, the way it works here is he doesn't feel like we should let you stay out free, right?

[00:35:33]>> [clears throat] >> So, we're still going to continue to investigate this case with your help or without your help. We're still going to dig through. Yeah.

[00:35:40]But, there's still some things that like concern me, like and I don't know if you asked him about like how who drove the truck up in the mountains.

[00:35:48]Nobody drove it. I towed it up there.

[00:35:50]>> towed it up there? Okay. With which vehicle?

[00:35:54]My dog's on. Okay.

[00:35:55]I told Bonnie to tow it up there. Oh, okay. What did you do with the dog? Left it in the truck.

[00:36:03]I would have contacted the police that night just to leave the truck alone.

[00:36:05]Maybe you would have figured it out.

[00:36:08]Yeah.

[00:36:09]What?

[00:36:11]I thought he didn't I didn't want to kill it. Yeah, I didn't I didn't do nothing. I didn't want to Bro, come on, bro.

[00:36:17]That's just I mean, we're we're in a rock and a hard place right now, right?

[00:36:22]Where we've been all day. Where we're going to continue to be until we can completely wrap this up and figure out what the hell happened. Well, what were you taking out of the outbuilding? Like the lock on the door or something?

[00:36:32]Yeah. Yeah, we're not going to leave this unsecured. We I mean, we'll we'll we'll lock it all up and bring you the keys.

[00:36:38]>> the gate. Yeah. I'll get the key. I'll I'm in trouble.

[00:36:43]Well, that's part of it, but you also destroyed some evidence.

[00:36:48]What would you do?

[00:36:50]I don't know. I've never been in that situation. What would you do? Dude, come on. Did you burn the body? Come on.

[00:36:55]Yeah, I did.

[00:36:58]He just Bro.

[00:37:03]What?

[00:37:04]He just asked him, Alan, did you burn the body? He said, "Yeah, I did."

[00:37:10]Wild. You didn't tell anybody. So, like look at it from from from our point of view.

[00:37:16]You know, we got to we do the right thing for for Patrick's family.

[00:37:20]You know what I mean? We got to try to find that body. You know, we got to do the right thing for his family. There is no body. No, it's reduced down to nothing.

[00:37:27]Nothing. Did you chop him up? No, I threw him in a burn barrel with lots of wood underneath him. Yeah, I chopped him up. I there's I took a chainsaw to him.

[00:37:35]Okay. Where's the chainsaw?

[00:37:37]It's gone.

[00:37:39]It's gone.

[00:37:40]Did you throw it in the river? I got rid of it completely. I burned it. You burned the chainsaw?

[00:37:44]>> Yeah. Is it in the barrel?

[00:37:47]And and I've never chainsawed a body, but I think it would be like blood and skin and gristle and stuff.

[00:37:53]You know, that was ugly. And and so like where where where's that at? Where's What? How did you clean that up? Took a shovel and a rag, brushed up everything I could, washed it down with the hose, and put Borax on it.

[00:38:06]And the chainsaw's where?

[00:38:08]It's in the burn barrel. Burn barrel is last I saw it.

[00:38:11]Alan finally cracks, admitting that he shot Patrick, dismembered him, and burned the body before disposing of the remains. With a confession now on record, investigators turn their attention to a critical question. Did Allen act alone or is there something even darker he's still hiding? But before detectives can press further, Allen makes a surprising claim. Who came up with that pistol with the Jeremy? I don't know. And and we're not we're not arguing. We're not arguing that point.

[00:38:43]We're just trying to figure out like what you did with the body, how you did it, and where it's at if there's anything left.

[00:38:50]Not much. Did you have any help with it?

[00:38:53]No.

[00:38:55]I see if there's anything shut up the problem with the box.

[00:39:00]Do you see our point I mean what we're trying to do at all, Allen?

[00:39:06]I tried to hide it and get away with it.

[00:39:09]Yeah, we see.

[00:39:10]>> Yeah.

[00:39:11]And and like I said, we're just trying to you know, get some closure for his family and and present the picture so that that that everybody understands why you did what you did.

[00:39:23]Said you better pull the trigger.

[00:39:26]Mother finished coming up with the gun.

[00:39:30]That point.

[00:39:31]It was me or Jeremy. This is Arby's quarter-pound pulled pork and chopped brisket. Both are smoked slow for up to 13 hours.

[00:39:42]He's trying to claim self-defense. that he killed Patrick in self-defense, it hardly explains the brutality and concealment that followed. Following this, Allen is arrested and charged with first-degree murder along with multiple additional charges. Later that day, dive teams and officers are sent to the river area where Allen claimed he dumped the remains, but despite extensive search efforts, nothing of evidentiary value is recovered.

[00:40:08]In the days that follow, police obtain a warrant to search Allen's phone where they find the most critical evidence in the case. On Allen's phone, detectives find a hostile exchange from May 7th where Patrick texts Allen, "You will be seeing me soon. Make your peace." And Allen responds, "Never be at my place after dark or else." But it's in the camera roll where they find what they had been unable to locate for days, a photo of Patrick dead inside the cab of his truck with his silver pistol next to him. He took a picture of the dead Bro, he is sick. The photo was taken at 6:25 a.m. on May 8th. When asked about it, Allen claims he took the photo as proof in case he ever needed it.

[00:40:58]A couple months later in July 2025, police receive a call from fishermen reporting a burn barrel floating in a different area of the Salmon River.

[00:41:07]Officers and divers recover the barrel and transport it for forensic examination, but no human remains or items linked to Patrick are found inside, likely because everything had already been destroyed or lost in the river of no return. As for the missing firearms, investigators later uncover both the rifle and Patrick's silver pistol at the residence of an associate of Allen. The man claims Allen brought the weapons to him asking him to sell them. And with no evidence tying his associates or his brother to the homicide or the cover-up, investigators determine that Allen acted alone. No, he didn't. In October 2025, Allen's initial charges were reduced to second-degree murder and destruction of evidence after Allen entered an Alford plea, meaning he maintains his innocence while acknowledging the prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him. In November 2025, a judge denies Allen's last-minute attempts to withdraw the plea and sentences him to 20 years in prison.

[00:42:07]Now, listen, I ain't going to be too crazy. He already 70 years old. But he might What if he lived till he 90?

[00:42:13]You feel me?

[00:42:14]No, not no 20 years.

[00:42:17]Bro, what are we doing? must serve at least 10 years before becoming eligible for parole, meaning he will get a chance to walk free in his 80s. But, given the severity of the crime, there is a very real possibility he never leaves prison at all. No, bro. No. No. How is How are these people getting free?

[00:42:38]Bro, that don't make no sense. He need to get Yo, listen. He old, so let me see. What should his punishment be? Let me see. Since he old, he's 70, right? We can't do nothing too crazy cuz you know what I'm saying?

[00:42:48]Let's torture him. We got to like We got to make him eat like 12 lemons a day.

[00:42:54]Like, that's the only thing he can eat.

[00:42:55]For 12 days, it's lemons.

[00:42:57]Cut up lemons. He just got to eat, swallow.

[00:43:00]That's it. And until if he stop like if he don't got a reaction to them, we got to switch to something else, limes or something. Lime juice. I don't know. He old, so his taste buds might be gone.

[00:43:09]But, I appreciate y'all for watching this video. This is crazy. Old man got to get up out of here, man. He got to get up out of here. RIP to the You know what I'm saying? To my man St. Patrick.

[00:43:18]You feel me?

[00:43:20]I know his brother had something to do with it cuz there's no way a 70-year-old man did all that by himself. His brother helped. They just couldn't prove it.

[00:43:26]But, again, I appreciate y'all. Make sure you like the video. Make sure you like the video. Make sure you subscribe cuz we dropping way more videos, bro. We We about to react to way more crime videos. And maybe some other stuff, too.

[00:43:35]I don't know. But, again, I appreciate y'all. Make sure y'all subscribe. Join the family. And I'm out.