Sergeant Brandon Hauptman of the Hays Police Department vividly remembers the dark, cold Halloween morning as he arrived at Kristen Trickle‘s home.
And he remembers the moment he found the 26-year-old near death in bed.
Sgt. Brandon Hauptman: I could see the firearm. … From what I could tell initially, a larger caliber revolver, and laying across her abdomen … about like this.
Erin Moriarty: How was she dressed?
Sgt. Brandon Hauptman: Uh, almost fully undressed. She was just wearing underwear.
After Kristen Trickle showed signs of life, the sergeant quickly moved the revolver away from her and carried her into the living room for CPR.
Sgt. Brandon Hauptman: The only injury that I could see at that point was the entrance wound.
Erin Moriarty: And where was that entrance wound?
Sgt. Brandon Hauptman: Underneath her, uh, chin here (pointing a finger under his chin).
There was nothing the first responders could do for Kristen.
Sgt. Brandon Hauptman: I went out to Colby on the porch … and told him that she had died.
COLBY TRICKLE (police bodycam audio): Hello.
SGT. HAUPTMAN: My name is Brandon Hauptman … I’m the sergeant working today.
Hauptman’s body camera was only recording audio that day.
SGT. HAUPTMAN (police bodycam audio) She died, and I’m so sorry.
COLBY TRICKLE (crying): Are you sure? Are you sure?
THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS
Hauptman says he asked Kristen’s husband Colby Trickle to go to the police station so he could tell investigators what happened.
Erin Moriarty: Did he seem to be cooperative?
Sgt. Brandon Hauptman: He was, yep. Agreed to go up, we got him some shoes.
At the station, Colby Trickle said that hours earlier Kristen Trickle had come home from Walmart, where she worked in the gardening center, and the couple had played video games. He went to bed before his wife, he said, and woke up to his ears ringing — and then found Kristen Trickle, lying next to him, with a gunshot wound to her head.
COLBY TRICKLE (police interview): I (crying) — I ran up to her and — and she — she was just looking at me.
DETECTIVE #1: And what did you do?
COLBY TRICKLE (crying): I ran over to my phone and I called 911.
Colby Trickle told investigators that while he was on the phone with 911, he checked his wife’s pulse but felt nothing — and then picked the…
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