The Search for Brooke Henson

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.3 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In July of 1999, a young woman named Brooke Henson went missing from Travelers Rest, South Carolina. In this follow up episode to Deep Cover: Never Seen Again, Jake Halpern talks to Ben Ford, the chief of police in Travelers Rest about what we know and don’t know about her case, as the search continues.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	I don't want to pick fight with the cartel or the biker gangs or drug boards.
0:18.4	I'm a small town chief trying to run the department and we have one co case that we're
0:23.2	trying to solve.
0:24.2	So we just want to find the truth.
0:26.8	It's Ben Ford, the chief of police in Travelers' Rest.
0:30.6	When I was reporting for this podcast, I spent a bunch of time with Chief Ford or Ben.
0:35.6	That's what he said I should call him.
0:38.1	He's a very personable guy and he's deeply invested in Brokenson's case.
0:43.4	In fact, when I first started poking around on the story, he actually reached out to me.
0:49.0	He wanted to share what he knew in the hopes that by getting the word out there, he might
0:53.7	finally solve this case.
0:57.7	So when I first got into town, we drove around for a while.
1:00.8	He gave me a little tour and we talked about the case, about all the competing theories
1:05.8	and what happened.
1:07.4	And then we headed back to his office and talked some more.
1:10.5	Honestly, it's unusual for law enforcement to be quite this candid.
1:15.4	So today, we're sharing some of that conversation.
1:18.8	And one of the first things that Ben shared with me was that he'd grown up here.
1:23.6	Some travelers rest.
1:25.2	And so everything that happened here with Brokenson, it was personal for him.
1:34.2	I'm Jake Halpern and this is Deep Cover.
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