EXCLUSIVE - An 'affair' with white sheriff's daughter, drugs and claims of a race crime cover-up: Disturbing death of American Idol star's brother who was found naked, with his tongue missing and throat slit on Texas ranch

 

Alfred Wright's body was found half naked and mutilated in woodland 18 days after witnesses claim the 28-year-old 'ran off' from a store after his truck broke down in Hemphill, Texas.   
Police called off search after four days and claimed his death was 'classic' behavior of a meth addict. Alfred's family claim the Sheriff said the search was getting in the way of his hunting. 


The state autopsy found 'no sign of trauma' on his body from which his tongue, left ear and eyes were missing and his throat cut. 


But his devastated family believe the married father-of-three and brother of Savion Wright, American Idol finalist, was victim of a 'hate crime' and are claiming a cover-up. 

A second pathologist found 'high index of suspicion of homicide'.
Alfred has been romantically linked daughter of sheriff investigating death. She denies it. 
Such is the frenzied climate of suspicion and rumor that even a silver dime found close to Alfred's body has led some, including his family, to believe it was placed there deliberately. 
Here, MailOnline investigates this very disturbing death

When he saw the angel wings tattoo inked across his son’s lifeless back, Douglas Wright felt a twist of bitter relief. He had found him.
He turned to see a Sabine County Sheriff’s officer pushing through the small search party to take control of the scene. Rage rising up in him Mr Wright stood in the misting drizzle and blocked the officer’s path. 
‘You don’t get to touch him now,’ he said. ‘You don’t get to have him. Y’all gave up on him.’
Today, giving up remains one thing that the Wright family refuse to do as they fight for answers in 28-year-old Alfred Wright’s mysterious disappearance and death.
The older brother of Season 13 American Idol finalist Savion Wright, 21, Alfred was found dead on 25 November 2013 - face down in the Texas mud on the outskirts of the small town of Hemphill.


He had been missing for 18 days.
His clothes and possessions were scattered in nearby brush and snagged on barbed wire fencing.
His left ear was missing, his tongue cut or torn out, his eyes gouged out and his throat slit. 
Since then, his family have driven the case beyond their hometown of Jasper where he lived with wife Lauren and their two sons, to national attention.

Amid explosive allegations of racism, hate crime, murder, and cover-up the case has been taken from local law enforcement, Sabine County Sheriff Tom Maddox - who found ‘no foul play’ and branded Alfred a drug casualty - and handed to the Texas Rangers who have called the death ‘questionable.’
The US Department of Justice is keeping a ‘keen eye’ on proceedings and the FBI remains on ‘stand-by’ to assist.
In desperation the family have called in their own private investigator, Chuck Foreman, and without his efforts Alfred would never have been found. 
From the very start, Mr Foreman said, ‘This case has been just downright weird. Law enforcement here have lied, they have disregarded code and they have never once expressed condolences to this family.’


Three months after Alfred’s mutilated body was found the case remains riddled with inconsistencies and muddled with wild and competing theories.
Was Alfred’s death foul play? Did this young black married father-of-two get too close to the white Sheriff’s daughter as private investigator Chuck Foreman has been told? Was he the victim of a racially motivated hate crime as his mother asserts? 
Was he tortured then dumped in the brush? Or did animals and insects mutilate him, as he lay undiscovered for 18 days? 
Was the fitness fanatic with no history of drug abuse gripped by drug-induced psychosis that drove him to his own death as local law enforcement claim? Did the outgoing physical therapist have a secret life – secret relationships and habits – that he kept secret from even his wife?
In an emotional interview with MailOnline, Alfred’s parents and widow told of their anger and pain in their fight for the truth that began with a phone call from Alfred on Thursday 7 November.

According to his mother, Rosalind, 54: ‘There are some days I feel I might lose my mind, thinking what was done to him. But the fight keeps me going.
'I think this is a hate crime. What they did to my boy, it hurts me so much to think of it.'
Alfred, who provided homecare, had only recently started seeing patients in Hemphill, which is an hour's drive from Jasper.
Widow Lauren, 28, recalled: ‘He’d been having trouble with his truck that week. It broke down on Tuesday and he’d changed the alternator.’
The next evening, Lauren recalled, her husband wasn’t quite himself. She said: ‘It was almost like he was paranoid or something. I told him he needed to eat something and go to bed but it was like he couldn’t turn his mind off. He couldn’t settle.’
She put it from her mind, assuming that he was stressed about his truck given that he was making the trip to Hemphill the following day.
Lauren said: ‘He left for work at around 7.45am that morning and he called around 5.15pm to say the truck was running hot and he’d pulled up at CL&M Grocery.’
Both the couple’s sons Kingston, 4, and Kason, 2, were sick at home so instead of driving out to get Alfred, she called his mother. Rosalind and Douglas set out to meet their son.


Tobit 4:12 Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father's tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.


Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.


1 Esdras 8
68 Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and said,

69 The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

70 For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great men have been partakers of this iniquity.