Autopsy: Oklahoma father shot from behind before being buried

LOGAN COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) – Months after an Oklahoma man’s physique was present in Logan County, extra particulars are being launched about his homicide.

Brent Mack, 50, was reported lacking to the Guthrie Police Division on Sept. 29, 2021 after his daughter stated that nobody had seen or heard from him since Sept. 20.

Mack’s daughter instructed detectives when she couldn’t attain her father, she messaged his boss, Dan Triplett.

In accordance with the possible trigger affidavit, Triplett instructed her that he fired Mack and dropped him off in entrance of a laundromat. He additionally stated that he gave Mack $1,000 as a severance.

The affidavit states that detectives obtained surveillance footage from the realm however they are saying Triplett by no means stopped to drop Brent Mack off on the laundromat.

Though Triplett insisted that the final place the pair labored collectively was in Crescent, investigators had been capable of decide that was not the case.

As a substitute, they realized that Mack and Triplett labored collectively at a house in Mulhall on Sept. 20, which is the day he stopped responding to cellphone calls and textual content messages.

After watching surveillance footage from the house, “it was obvious that two individuals arrive on the job web site on 09/20/2021 in Dan’s automobile, however just one particular person is seen leaving.”

The affidavit states that the video confirmed Brent Mack getting right into a gap that was dug for a septic tank, however he’s by no means seen once more on the digital camera footage.

On Oct. 21, authorities eliminated the septic tank and discovered the stays of Brent Mack.

On account of the investigation, Triplett was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide and desecration of a human corpse.

On Friday, the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Workplace launched further particulars about Mack’s loss of life.

The post-mortem report states that Mack died from a gunshot wound to the higher again.

Officers famous that the bullet broken Mack’s ribs and his left lung.

His explanation for loss of life was dominated a murder.