as how he was, we handled himself kind of, he got that feeling that he was searching for a criminal and that's when he told me that my son was a drug dealer. you you're here for next semester. and she kind of told us that he wasn't just using marijuana that he was actually selling it on campus. and he had a felony against him and they haven't charged him with it yet. but he was pending to all these deliveries since they took place on campus. both on their house, so they're passing on. and then he told us that andrew was a competent short form and asked for you to do is to do some buyers for me that

were you that to where wire, you have to go buy marijuana. i didn't even know what that was, and i had no idea what he was even talking about what that meant. me each individual we do. we have do 2 deals. okay, so you have to, to your thinking. well, this is susan the andrew. how can he, how can this, how you've been talking about the same guy? i mean, just agent, whoever told us that they believe or he believed that he, andrew was on the run because he had to make these buys by may 1st and you only done half of them. you don't check with me if i lose contact with you. i'm just going to assume that you don't want to work any more than that. i'm just or the warrants or your us. and then also you're going to you, i was just blown away. i mean, here my fun is missing and, and now they tell me he's a drug deal or working on that,

or maybe didn't make sense to me. but none of that made sense. nothing made sense. i mean, tammy is didn't know what to do. i mean, as far as what even to believe really and and where to turn in. and then sergeant helgren's son wanted us to do a press conference. we love you and we want you. we need to come home. everything will be okay. we pleaded for andrew on that news. conferenced come in like they wanted us to have him turn himself in. we love you and we want you home with us. everything will be okay. mm. i frankly not recall the right

arm or anything. cuz you know, we up and left and i was kind of in freefall, it just seemed like it was snowballing, rapidly, everything seemed to be fine. i mean, there were no red flags, no, nothing. that's what's making this so difficult for us as law enforcement it's i mean the use in the school there are vigil further, students put together and they asked me to talk eric and i said some words

for a little speech and beg in time to come home like if you are in trouble or just come home, we want to help your friends most of the electrical programs, era as far as the faculty and students, you know, people are pretty generous and they're going to give up their time and they're gonna, they're going to form these search parties and they're going to go, you know, scour wherever law enforcement has identified as, as potential places to walk me. oh, campus police obviously having to go back to class. they basically turn to say where you don't want anymore. students going missing. i was like, what makes no sense? is there a black hole? the trees somewhere they didn't tell anybody about it and people were falling into it me. we went just to places that we had gone or if, when we got to go cruising or something always smell, can we drive down all the roads. we go and put our heads together and try our

hardest to find something, get some sort of clue as to what happened or where he was or, and what was going on, but didn't come up with anything and started to seem like there was something else going on and we learned that the college police department was the ones investigating this situation by campus. police are supposed to make sure that you behave, make sure you're following the rules of the campus. you snuck barony room, look out for the campus, please. that's their job. the campus police should have turned the situation over to another agency immediately. they just don't have the experience and training necessary to deal with this situation. i address static n b s. the student that disappeared on may 1st last seen leaving is dharm at the

campus of the article to state college sciences parents are john and tammy tammy. good to have you. i news in the morning give me an evaluation of where this search for andrew is that basically don cole, with the, as far as the campus police are concerned. and we're, we're not gonna stop looking for a living else in the living hell. and so why is the funds that are other so it's, it's really a bad time a year and now he's gone to how do you feel that the state college of science has been in dealing with this situation? to me, it seems like they're not doing anything. andrea case just made me feel frustrated,

but once you start hearing the other stations are having just as much difficulty getting basic answers, you realize there's something more going on. people were just trying to come up with theories and i think that's natural when you don't have a lot of answers, you want to find something me i would say probably after the 2nd week started having some notes about how tall it is and be in take care of their investigative skills were pretty limited as science when i could see, you know, we thought that they were probably doing the best they could. i don't know. i guess they didn't seem to frantic about trying to find him, i guess. but i asked him if they object of any of the other surveillance stuff in town, you know, as far as seeing him, andrew, or seeing a movement at his car moved, you know, i said,

what did you check with the train and the and tax season and any of that stuff if it's handers, gotten any about and checked in fargo, if any, anybody's seen him there or anything like that. oh no, that's a good idea. i think it was just i don't know what they were doing. i mean the other than waiting for a phone call, i guess i don't understand what you're doing. this went on for i say, weeks and not the trash news today. folks in the andrew static case, the young man we've all been searching for since he went missing on may 1st and now warrant has been issued for andrew's arrest. static is wanted on drug charges. details of these charges are still emerging, but andrew was allegedly caught selling marijuana on 2 occasions on april, 4th, and april 9th, 2013. 1 sale was for 20 bucks. the other was for $60.00. was

like, are you kidding me? all of this for $80.00 worth of pot. my son is missing for $80.00 for its of pot. i was wild. wild. show me a campus where you cannot find $80.00 worth of time with me . i remember waking up the news that he had been charged, i was like, what? because this was this even a thing they can do like this is completely or trying your friend home. and now you're going to throw some kind of bogus charge. yeah. like i had not put it together at all. how does warm does happen now that he's gone missing?

what crime did you commit? where did they see him? what? like how to, why is that happening now? so i knew it was everything was just confusing, a little mess for awhile there. like that whole month was just the most confusing thing that happened the end of the file in the war. and i think on monday and they thought the other police have to get involved, you know, just kind of everybody's looking for them. then i think that was the reasoning for filing the charges. so that kinda shut down the publics and willingness to help. nobody wants to look for a drug dealer. my own mother to this day, believe that andrew was a drug dealer. anybody that knew him knew there was more to the story. i assume that, you know, he just took off and this is more than he can handle. but at the same time i, i have this idea that yeah, but where's, where's it going?

where do you, where's it going to go on me? you're going to check it wouldn't be original often that we see that if you don't check with me and contact with you, i'm just going to assume that you don't want to work anymore in that i'm just going to the warranty. ah me, i was having a panic here, sitting in the pedicure chair with my feet in the water and surgeon helga some called. he said, what are you doing? and i said, i'm having a pedicure and he goes, are you alone? and i'm like, no the gals here, you know what? he goes. whereas john and i said he's on

a fishing trip. get him home. me . i was actually fishing with my buddy's just can i get a weekend away? ah, tammy had called me that they had found a body in the river and i knew it was, and i, i just got to the house and of course were waiting. the sheriff showed up with tammy's pastor and told me that it was andrew. ah, ah me one, no, certainly no borders and

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in a world transformed what will make you feel safer. tyson lation, whole community. you going the right way or are you being direct? what is true? what is in a world corrupted? you need to defend the join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. ah ah, no, it's like whereas the, you know, it's all different. so when you finally,

when they finally found the body and i knew that he was dead and i remember just like i couldn't keep my eyes dry because this is just like reality. now, you know me is tough to i mean, deep down, you kind of knew it has been a long time. you just didn't want to accept philip snack in the face. ah, ah, ah, in

the surgeon how hinson, calm us. i grad john. every time he spoke, he was something new and bizarre. he said andrew was shot in the head and had a backpack or rocks tied to them. that's when he told us over the phone. he believed there was a suicide. he was just waiting on the coroner. and once he found the gun, he would be confirmed that it was a suicide me. so the 1st day i met tammy, she decided i talked to the news. so i walked in, i didn't know what to expect. you know what i mean, we had heard about what was happening, but i didn't know i was just walking into this. and tammy said, my son was killed and i had to call my producers like, hey,

this is actually your story today. i know you just wanted me to get a sound by here, but this is your story. she sensor some what killed me through. sonics, mom, tammy, sad. i spoke at a local radio station today saying she believed her son was murdered. we discovered that when andrew was found on june 27th, he wasn't wearing the same clothes he might missing and cameras. in his dorm caught this footage he was last seen wearing this sweat shirt. but one is body was found. he was wearing a different jacket. ah, he was shot in the head, his backpack was weighted down and he was thrown in the river. the backpack rocks was kind of the kicker for me. and like if you're going kill

yourself, he can do that anywhere. why would you need to make your body disappear? who andrew was shot with a 22 andro went into the red river and he came up on the minnesota side of the red between him leaving that dorm. and when he was shot, there was a change of clothes, there were rocks in the backpack for me personally. andrew was murdered. makes more sense and what the cops could come up with. and all they could come up with is a suicide. like wow, that's it guys got rocks in his backpack tied to his body. that doesn't sound like a suicide. that sounds like murder one on one. in this melting story, tammy static is fighting back tears as she talks about not having answers in her son's death or just really hasn't been any effort to keep this family updated. the

static family is bringing their own attorneys to the fight and now they want the f b i to investigate. i think people knew it was a major story right away. when that happened, people knew something was going on. that just doesn't happen. a rural college student does interest get shot in the head and found in a river like that. something else had to be happening. they're not going to do their job to let the f b. i get involved, somebody that can look at this case fresh without this suicide in the back, in their minds planted by the campus police and everything. i want them to look at the whole case objectively when i met tammy that day and had a personal conversation with tammy, i thought ok, we have the power of journalism. we have the power of finding public records. we have the power of being able to hold those who are paid by tax dollars accountable . ah,

talk. have a lot of questions and can't seem to figure out where to get the answers. do you know where she should be looking? no, i really don't know where, where she should be looking on on that it. i think a lot of people have a lot of questions the understand the investigative process. you just really have to look at the timeline of events that took place when andrew was reported missing on i believe those may 2nd the campus police. the dfcs were the lead investigators by june, shortly before andrew body was found, there were, i would say 3 or 4 different law enforcement agencies that were involved. but was really still to this point, hard to tell who was actually in charge, who was actually doing anything ah,

the investigation was turned over to the b. c a in minnesota. but n dfcs was originally investigating the north dakota agee's office and b, c, i. in their report said, it was a minnesota b c, a case to be ca said that's not true. they have nothing to do with it. i was furious. sangree at the way everything was be presented from start to finish. the way the police were handling it from pretty much de one and her static death investigation is being handled by campus police. the police are not working with the campus. police cops aren't sharing information. i was absolutely lay away, very lay way of putting in the f. b. i's response was essentially that they weren't asked by local law enforcement to be involved unless they were asked by law enforcement to get involved. there was no reason for them to get involved at that

point. all due respect to the campus, police, you know, they've got a job to do and it is not investigating a potential murder. i remember asking this school official. do you feel like you're in over your head? and i don't really remember his response to that time. i don't know if he had a response or not, but that was one of the last times we ever got to talk to a school official about the case. no one wanted responsibility. and so if you didn't want responsibility in the front end by doing anything on the backend, you were taking responsibility. and so there it was much easier to use the narrative of. he took his own life because then he was responsible me the police came here. oh, i can't remember how long after his body was fond. it was a lie

a low and basically told us the progress or lack of progress that they were at what stage the investigation was. we didn't know all the particulars. they didn't tell us all the evidence of what was going on, but they weren't telling us everything. i . we were at that time just trying to find anything, any document or any video they had. tammy had told us that they had a cell phone. tammy adult had a laptop, things like that, so we were asking, okay, did you find information on his laptop? could we get a copy of that or do you have video documentation of him being interviewed today? why didn't know what i was expecting, but when i 1st pressed play,

almost felt wrong. watching him today, the jason weber's ah, yeah. it was just like, you could enact me over with this other really november 22nd 20th birthday. it starts off with smart alec comment that you don't want to spend your birth through here. very well. you expressed interest? oh, okay. like i said, you're facing 2 felonies and then this meter church from yesterday. it's a 25 minute video. it took me probably a week to get through it. that's probably not a way to start off your young adult placement. right. so the police came in and

destroyed is for why this is a college student. so i mean that got me and it inspired me to really look at the case, but look at the case, i'm not looking to hang the lease or any, but i'm looking at the fact that when i saw the fact i was scandal, i was, i'd never seen anything as bad as you know, good ways attacks me in the morning or the night before and i will use on for tomorrow while i'm off tomorrow and then you can work my alice's of it was really simple. line them up, find criminals and get evidence blind them up, let him for once a rest and the conversion to inform. it's because we have or agents that i work with. we are not like you only see we are working with other people and we work

a big area with who's there for one mission to get another informant and another arrest number. and he did it. the thing is the investigation. i want to conduct justification. what did you, for instance, when you interrogated him, find out what his source was? could it be that you didn't do it? because if you questions too much, you'd find out that it was one of the other informants who gave it to you. and if that's the case, you understand, you committed a felony, you the police office. if that's the case, just like in your situation, you have no clue who probably around you. you know, when this out. ok. you probably maybe try to think of ideas and stuff, but i'm not going to tell you if you have informal giving don't to subject subject

gives just to inform it to was the investigation. you the guy in charge of informers, you created the crime. and that's it. perfect frames. oh, [000:00:00;00] i remember that we're in the middle of an opioid, epic heretic opioid epidemic. and the 1st thing i see is they haven't made want to be able to rest, not one on no wonder you didn't tell me. or tell anyone.

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