Aug 31, 2022 · 40 min · 10 segments
Marty tells his version of events leading to what officials have deemed a tragic accident. However, some key details don’t add up. The former prosecutor and TBI supervisor confront the inconsistencies…
He died of natural causes in the spring of 2021, so we can't ask him about any of this.
As with Nicky, we have his written statement from the night of the shooting, an interview at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and an interview from a couple of years after that.
Okay, Mr. Carson, we're on the record.
You were sworn yesterday, is that correct? Yes.
You understand you're under oath today? Yes.
The rougher one you'll hear is from his TBI interview a few months after he shot John John.
They called me at home and said, hey, this has got something going on.
In both interviews, he wears his uniform, khaki on top with dark pants, a baseball cap, and he always has this thick mustache that stops at the corners of his mouth.
They each had their own way of doing things, but they worked well together, complimented each other.
John John, for instance, could be better at talking his way into a house they wanted to search.
Sometimes he was better doing knock-and-talks than I was.
Here's how he told the story, the whole thing, of how he ended up shooting his partner.
On Thanksgiving, which was the night before John John died, they were already trying to track down this guy who was supposedly on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
Marty said the tip was from an informant and that the fugitive was at a meth lab on Williams Creek Road.
On Thanksgiving night, Marty and John John, in separate cars, staked out the main road, watching for a yellow truck this marked guy was supposed to be driving.
That's what the informant told them, that he was bringing ingredients to make meth.
Later that evening, Marty drove the length of Williams Creek Road in case the yellow truck had slipped by them.
He died of natural causes in the spring of 2021, so we can't ask him about any of this.
As with Nicky, we have his written statement from the night of the shooting, an interview at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and an interview from a couple of years after that.
Okay, Mr. Carson, we're on the record.
You were sworn yesterday, is that correct? Yes.
You understand you're under oath today? Yes.
The rougher one you'll hear is from his TBI interview a few months after he shot John John.
They called me at home and said, hey, this has got something going on.
In both interviews, he wears his uniform, khaki on top with dark pants, a baseball cap, and he always has this thick mustache that stops at the corners of his mouth.
They each had their own way of doing things, but they worked well together, complimented each other.
John John, for instance, could be better at talking his way into a house they wanted to search.
Sometimes he was better doing knock-and-talks than I was.
Here's how he told the story, the whole thing, of how he ended up shooting his partner.
On Thanksgiving, which was the night before John John died, they were already trying to track down this guy who was supposedly on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
Marty said the tip was from an informant and that the fugitive was at a meth lab on Williams Creek Road.
On Thanksgiving night, Marty and John John, in separate cars, staked out the main road, watching for a yellow truck this marked guy was supposed to be driving.
That's what the informant told them, that he was bringing ingredients to make meth.
Later that evening, Marty drove the length of Williams Creek Road in case the yellow truck had slipped by them.
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