By David Lohr
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During the call, Pitts mentions that the victim is face down in the water. However, he is somehow able to identify her as "Amanda," a girl he just happens to know. It goes without saying that the location where he purportedly found the body is off the beaten path and not in an area where it would have typically been seen right away. Investigators had such a difficult time locating it that the dispatcher had to call Pitts back to get more detailed directions.
Pitts — "Hello?"
Dispatcher — "Hi, Jesse. When you go into the park, where is it? When you drive into the parking lot where is she?"
Pitts — "OK. Let me gather my mind here real quick. OK. When you pull into the park, you know how it's got that little split ways where you either go left or right? Go left and it's on the right-hand side. There'll be a big tree with, like, a little bit of, like, a shrub in front of it. It's probably, like, 6 foot tall."
Dispatcher — "OK. Hold on a second. You go into the park and where the drive splits you go to the left?"
Pitts — "When you drive, you go all the way down and park, and go on the trails...You're going to go to the left on the trails, and it's on the right."
Dispatcher — "How far on the trails?"
Pitts — "Um, not very, um. I don't want to say anymore than I can. There's just (unintelligible) her beat up, I believe."
Dispatcher — "This is after you leave the parking lot?"
Pitts — "OK, when you pull in...You know where the trails are? If you walk down the trail, probably about a 100 feet or so, to the right-hand side you'll see a clearing. It looks like the weeds have been pushed down...She's right down there...I went down to check on her and she's just face down and her skin was white."
Dispatcher — "OK, just a minute."
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| Amanda Brinker |
Using the information provided by Pitts, police were finally able to locate the victim's body along the banks of White River. It was immediately apparent that the victim had suffered severe blunt force trauma to the back of the head. When investigators conducted a search of the area, they found blood splatter on a nearby walkway. Not far from there, police discovered a purse and an identification card. The individual named on the card was 14-year-old Amanda Brinker.
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