Fort Worth Police Department

So if you'll sign as that, that would be great.

For the Fort Worth Police Department, the final step in bringing Melissa Highsmith back from the void was one last DNA test to confirm her identity.

For Melissa, it was the first time in her life she'd ever signed her birth name.

Does that feel different, signing that? It does.

Okay.

Chris contacts me and he's like, Brandy, I've got this friend, and I was like, oh, yeah? Oh, yeah? What is it? Oh, yeah, it's just somebody that's worked with, like, the Fort Worth Police Department for, like, 34 freaking years, and then I read his stuff, and he's talking about now he's doing leadership, and he's doing keynote speaking, and the thing that got my eye was zero gray, and it talks about knowing your non-negotiables, and I'm like, what? Yes, I like feed off of this, right? Like this is, this is my people.

And so now I'm getting to do this interview.

with his name is Kirk driver.

And they both get to say, well, their mom was both a heroin addict, and that's why he's so successful, and that is why it was another sibling's demise.

So, you know, regular people... our people and we all come from all sorts of different backgrounds.

And so I'm just excited to hear about yours because let's talk about these 34 years with the Fort Worth police department and tell us what all you've done and tell me things that you miss and things that you don't miss.

All right.

This is Detective Barron.

I work for the Fort Worth Police Department.

Like I told you out at your house, you're not under arrest, okay? You're not under arrest.

Basically, what I'm trying to do is get... is get your side of things, okay? If, in fact, you are the person I'm

I don't think he was looking to take a six-year-old.

Fort Worth PD.

They tracked down this feller.

When they went to pull him over, he stopped the car, got out, and went for a run.

Interestingly, we had no one from the Tarrant County DA's office.

We had no one from Fort Worth PD.

So it was a very good class.

It was a full day.

I'm sorry,

can you tell us what is the Christy Carroll case again?

Krista Carroll case was a case I adopted from Fort Worth PD.

She was caught on video falsifying vomiting well over 20 times and breaking the GGA tube, causing another procedure.

But Tegan's a founder of Tactical Systems Network, a security, protection, and investigation firm.

Former Fort Worth Police Department officer and FBI Violent Crimes Task Force member with 13 years experience across narcotics, gangs, homicide, and high-risk investigations.

Author of the book, Life in the Fishbowl.

where he led Operation Fishbowl.

But the fact that he called her is very suspicious.

The Fort Worth Police Department sex crime unit begins the investigation.

And she goes, oh, yeah, it was a black SUV.

The license plate was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Jim, who was only 12 when the killing took place, never forgot and kept in touch with the detectives throughout the ensuing years, badgering them to look into what might have happened, keeping on at them.

Fort Worth PD had reopened the case at Jim Walker's urging.

He literally called up the cold case department and said, all right, I hear there's a new detective and I need y'all to start looking at it again.

Leah Wagner, cold case detective, received a call from Jim that was stern and pretty to

Jim, who was only 12 when the killing took place, never forgot and kept in touch with the detectives throughout the ensuing years, badgering them to look into what might have happened, keeping on at them.

Fort Worth PD had reopened the case at Jim Walker's urging.

He literally called up the cold case department and said, all right, I hear there's a new detective and I need y'all to start looking at it again.

Leah Wagner, cold case detective, received a call from Jim that was stern and pretty