1 00:00:06,131 --> 00:00:08,425 [music playing on car radio] 2 00:00:10,885 --> 00:00:12,887 [tires crunching on gravel] 3 00:00:14,139 --> 00:00:16,141 [engine stops] 4 00:00:24,065 --> 00:00:27,944 [Toby] When I was growing up, I loved and respected my mother so much, 5 00:00:29,863 --> 00:00:33,533 I didn't wanna do anything that would make her think bad of me. 6 00:00:37,328 --> 00:00:40,331 My mom always told me, "Be modest." 7 00:00:43,877 --> 00:00:46,838 Don't go around bragging on yourself and all that. 8 00:00:51,301 --> 00:00:53,386 Humility, you have to have that. 9 00:00:55,388 --> 00:00:58,016 If you let all that other stuff go to your head… 10 00:00:58,099 --> 00:01:00,310 [pistol firing] 11 00:01:01,436 --> 00:01:03,396 …look how that's got some people. 12 00:01:05,148 --> 00:01:08,193 [reporter 1] It's been nearly a month and a half since Buffalo Trace distillery 13 00:01:08,276 --> 00:01:11,488 reported the theft of bottles of 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle. 14 00:01:11,571 --> 00:01:13,656 The sheriff's office is adding incentive, 15 00:01:13,740 --> 00:01:17,994 a $10,000 reward for any information that brings an arrest in the case. 16 00:01:18,453 --> 00:01:23,666 We used that to put pressure on the folks that were doing it. 17 00:01:23,750 --> 00:01:27,670 That's a lot of bourbon. If they try to move it, we'll find out. 18 00:01:27,754 --> 00:01:30,590 [Toby] One of the deputies in the sheriff's office, 19 00:01:30,673 --> 00:01:33,301 he was like, "The media loves stuff like this." 20 00:01:33,384 --> 00:01:34,469 I said, "They do?" 21 00:01:34,552 --> 00:01:36,096 [rock music playing] 22 00:01:36,679 --> 00:01:39,307 "So what? That ain't no big deal." 23 00:01:39,390 --> 00:01:41,476 ♪ I'm a big man ♪ 24 00:01:42,310 --> 00:01:44,896 ♪ Have the heart of a baby ♪ 25 00:01:45,647 --> 00:01:48,483 [reporter 2] The sheriff was confident he'd solve this case, 26 00:01:48,566 --> 00:01:50,401 and this here is a big reason. 27 00:01:50,485 --> 00:01:52,946 A $10,000 reward is now being offered… 28 00:01:54,155 --> 00:01:58,451 When you make it as hot as we made it, you get a lot of information. 29 00:01:58,535 --> 00:01:59,536 [phone chimes] 30 00:02:02,747 --> 00:02:04,749 [rock song continues] 31 00:02:06,251 --> 00:02:09,337 [Toby] It got to the point, it was getting crazy, man. 32 00:02:09,420 --> 00:02:12,799 Everybody's like, "I need this." "Hey, he can get us this." 33 00:02:15,718 --> 00:02:18,888 When you look at these movies and they say, "I know a guy," 34 00:02:20,390 --> 00:02:21,724 I was that guy. 35 00:02:24,269 --> 00:02:27,230 Just like with the steroids. If you come in the gym 36 00:02:27,313 --> 00:02:29,899 and say, "I need something, can you help me out?" 37 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,235 Yep, I know somebody can help you out. 38 00:02:33,903 --> 00:02:37,866 You can get anything in Mexico. You just raise your arm up, go like that 39 00:02:37,949 --> 00:02:39,450 if you couldn't speak Spanish. 40 00:02:39,534 --> 00:02:43,371 They'd send it through the mail, it'd have "dog vitamins" wrote on it. 41 00:02:44,455 --> 00:02:45,707 [rock song continues] 42 00:02:45,790 --> 00:02:47,542 ♪ I'm a big man ♪ 43 00:02:48,334 --> 00:02:52,005 [Toby] But state police, city police, everybody knew it was going on. 44 00:02:52,088 --> 00:02:54,591 Steve Oliver works with the state police. 45 00:02:54,674 --> 00:02:58,011 Ninety percent of law enforcement and firemen take steroids. 46 00:02:58,136 --> 00:03:02,265 But who cares, man? You take steroids for looking good. 47 00:03:02,348 --> 00:03:03,933 [phone chimes] 48 00:03:04,017 --> 00:03:08,479 [Pat] We had a lot of tips. A lot of it had some credibility. 49 00:03:11,024 --> 00:03:13,985 You never know which one is gonna be the one. 50 00:03:15,987 --> 00:03:19,073 ♪ I'm gonna take you to the woodshed ♪ 51 00:03:19,157 --> 00:03:21,826 ♪ And drop a couple of planks on you ♪ 52 00:03:23,745 --> 00:03:25,413 [Toby] What good is carry and conceal 53 00:03:25,496 --> 00:03:27,790 if I've got an unloaded gun? My gun was always loaded. 54 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,134 I got Bella a pink .22 Crickett. She liked shooting it. 55 00:03:40,053 --> 00:03:42,180 [reporter 3] Four months and still no answers, 56 00:03:42,263 --> 00:03:46,476 but authorities remain optimistic that they will solve the case. 57 00:03:47,101 --> 00:03:49,646 [Pat] We had one that said, "This was loaded on a truck, 58 00:03:49,729 --> 00:03:53,316 truck took it to New Orleans." We couldn't prove that. 59 00:03:54,692 --> 00:03:58,196 The thing is, man, I was rubbing elbows with Frankfort's elite. 60 00:03:58,988 --> 00:04:04,118 Judges, lawyers, country club rich people. 61 00:04:04,827 --> 00:04:08,331 I'm protected. Nothing gonna happen to you if you're rubbing with them. 62 00:04:08,915 --> 00:04:11,167 [reporter 4] It's been one year since a large amount 63 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:14,170 of one of the world's finest bourbons disappeared. 64 00:04:14,254 --> 00:04:16,881 Investigators are still no closer to answers. 65 00:04:17,465 --> 00:04:21,219 There was a ton of stuff that came in. None of it panned out. 66 00:04:21,302 --> 00:04:24,555 ♪ If you break your word You'll wish you never had ♪ 67 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:26,099 ♪ I'm a big man ♪ 68 00:04:41,364 --> 00:04:42,657 [Pat] The case went cold. 69 00:04:44,867 --> 00:04:48,246 But I still felt like we were gonna solve the case. 70 00:04:54,294 --> 00:04:57,213 [Mike] A lot of people knew and didn't say nothing about it, 71 00:04:58,047 --> 00:05:02,760 then you're a well-loved person, and people respect you. 72 00:05:03,761 --> 00:05:06,055 Or they're scared of you. [chuckles] 73 00:05:08,891 --> 00:05:10,101 [Pat] If I was Toby, 74 00:05:10,184 --> 00:05:13,938 I could definitely see myself getting all puffed up 75 00:05:14,022 --> 00:05:16,691 and saying, "Man, look at me." 76 00:05:17,358 --> 00:05:20,695 "I can afford this big truck, I can afford this and that, 77 00:05:20,778 --> 00:05:23,698 I can do this and I can do that, I've got power behind me." 78 00:05:28,369 --> 00:05:31,164 [Toby] It's pretty amazing how it comes full circle. 79 00:05:31,247 --> 00:05:33,708 You grow up, you're watching people… 80 00:05:33,791 --> 00:05:37,378 "Man, look at this dude." Then it comes around, 81 00:05:37,462 --> 00:05:39,839 and you're that dude these other guys are looking at. 82 00:05:40,882 --> 00:05:43,801 But when you're out there, you gotta watch 83 00:05:43,885 --> 00:05:47,597 because there's always another set of eyes watching you. 84 00:05:55,146 --> 00:05:59,817 You can only puff your chest out so long before somebody punches you in the face. 85 00:06:01,152 --> 00:06:02,779 This is just a simple fact. 86 00:06:12,538 --> 00:06:13,539 [chiming] 87 00:06:18,252 --> 00:06:20,963 [Jeff] I remember being at my desk and the phone beeped. 88 00:06:21,047 --> 00:06:25,009 It said, "Want to know where some stolen whiskey is?" 89 00:06:28,554 --> 00:06:32,016 [Pat] We wound up getting a break in 2015. 90 00:06:33,643 --> 00:06:35,686 We got a tip on our text-a-tip phone, 91 00:06:36,396 --> 00:06:40,566 and it was very specific with the information that we got. 92 00:06:41,359 --> 00:06:44,654 I immediately send detectives down there, I said, "Go do your thing." 93 00:06:48,991 --> 00:06:51,744 [Jeff] There's a cell phone tower way behind their house, 94 00:06:51,828 --> 00:06:53,746 there's a little access road. 95 00:06:53,830 --> 00:06:56,457 We're trying to get as close as we could to see 96 00:06:56,541 --> 00:06:59,710 these barrels of bourbon that were supposedly there. 97 00:07:01,629 --> 00:07:03,339 Tried to stand on top of the SUV. 98 00:07:03,423 --> 00:07:06,300 Looked from every angle, other people's property. 99 00:07:07,802 --> 00:07:09,887 [Jeff] Behind the house there was a shed, 100 00:07:10,888 --> 00:07:12,932 and then there was something behind the shed. 101 00:07:13,015 --> 00:07:14,934 Couldn't really tell what it was. 102 00:07:16,519 --> 00:07:20,648 We went down into the wooded area and started coming up the other side. 103 00:07:21,190 --> 00:07:23,192 [suspenseful music playing] 104 00:07:28,364 --> 00:07:31,242 Ron was walking in front of me, and he stopped. 105 00:07:32,702 --> 00:07:34,871 About that time, the wind shifted. 106 00:07:36,789 --> 00:07:39,250 He said, "Holy shit, do you smell that? 107 00:07:40,501 --> 00:07:43,004 [Ron] If you grew up in Kentucky you know what it smells like. 108 00:07:43,629 --> 00:07:44,839 It's a sweet smell. 109 00:07:47,842 --> 00:07:52,555 When it's in the barrel like that… there's no doubt in your mind. 110 00:07:55,183 --> 00:07:56,601 You could smell bourbon. 111 00:08:03,316 --> 00:08:05,318 [gentle folk music playing] 112 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:13,784 [Julie] It was beautiful outside. 113 00:08:13,868 --> 00:08:16,704 A little windy, a little chilly, but the sun was out. 114 00:08:16,787 --> 00:08:18,456 For a March day, it was beautiful. 115 00:08:22,376 --> 00:08:23,669 I felt good. 116 00:08:31,093 --> 00:08:33,429 And then I got a text from Mom. 117 00:08:35,723 --> 00:08:38,893 She said, "There's been weird activity at your property." 118 00:08:38,976 --> 00:08:41,771 'Cause they live next door and can see my house. 119 00:08:42,396 --> 00:08:46,734 She said, "I'm not sure what's going on, be careful if you come home." 120 00:08:48,694 --> 00:08:52,740 I didn't think about it. We have radio towers behind my house, 121 00:08:52,823 --> 00:08:56,410 I thought, "They're working on the tower, doing something behind my house." 122 00:08:57,411 --> 00:09:01,123 I finished my run, pick up the kids, and we head to the gym. 123 00:09:03,876 --> 00:09:06,546 I look at Ron, he had this look on his face 124 00:09:06,629 --> 00:09:08,381 like, "Shit, I can't believe this." 125 00:09:12,593 --> 00:09:15,805 It had, like, a neon light over it. 126 00:09:17,139 --> 00:09:20,059 [Ron] We looked at the barrel heads but it had been obliterated 127 00:09:20,142 --> 00:09:23,688 with either paint or some other masking substance. 128 00:09:23,771 --> 00:09:25,982 They have a stamp and it'll tell you 129 00:09:26,065 --> 00:09:28,693 what kind of bourbon it is, or who it's made by. 130 00:09:28,776 --> 00:09:31,904 This one had that, but it had been spray painted and we couldn't tell. 131 00:09:32,613 --> 00:09:35,366 [Ron] That's a clear indication that they're stolen. 132 00:09:36,075 --> 00:09:38,953 [Pat] So, they call and said, "Hey, we see the barrels." 133 00:09:39,036 --> 00:09:41,455 Said, "Okay, let's get search warrants." 134 00:09:42,206 --> 00:09:44,292 This could be it. This could be it. 135 00:09:44,375 --> 00:09:47,169 [rock music playing] 136 00:10:14,697 --> 00:10:18,200 [Toby] I was working out in the gym, and my phone rang. 137 00:10:19,285 --> 00:10:22,580 It was a constable that grew up with my wife and her family. 138 00:10:22,663 --> 00:10:26,292 He said, "I'm at your house. Somebody wants to talk to you." 139 00:10:26,375 --> 00:10:27,627 I said, "Yeah?" 140 00:10:27,710 --> 00:10:31,213 He said, "Toby, this is Pat Melton. You need to get on home." 141 00:10:36,886 --> 00:10:38,888 [ominous music playing] 142 00:10:44,935 --> 00:10:47,396 [Julie] There's three or four sheriff's department cars 143 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,357 right in front of the house. 144 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,692 I still didn't know what was going on. 145 00:10:56,947 --> 00:10:59,742 [Toby] I don't know, man, it was just a numb feeling. 146 00:11:01,077 --> 00:11:05,373 Not shock, but it was just like… It was trying to process everything. 147 00:11:06,957 --> 00:11:09,794 [Kade] He says, "I think I know what this is over." 148 00:11:10,878 --> 00:11:16,008 [voice breaking] And that he's sorry for what's about to happen. 149 00:11:19,095 --> 00:11:21,555 [Julie] I walked in the back door with Isabella, 150 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:24,100 the house was destroyed, stuff everywhere. 151 00:11:26,477 --> 00:11:29,939 They had taken every drawer in my bedroom and dumped it out. 152 00:11:32,942 --> 00:11:34,193 It was a nightmare. 153 00:11:36,028 --> 00:11:37,738 [Toby] Pat… They all surrounded me. 154 00:11:38,572 --> 00:11:42,743 It was… What do they call it, the Germans? A blitzkrieg. It was just on. 155 00:11:43,411 --> 00:11:47,373 [Julie] They were questioning Toby for the combination to the safe. 156 00:11:47,456 --> 00:11:50,000 [safe keypad beeping] 157 00:11:54,046 --> 00:11:56,257 I got a lot of guns. He had a bunch. 158 00:11:59,427 --> 00:12:03,556 Assault-type rifles and weapons and some silencers. 159 00:12:05,433 --> 00:12:07,685 [Jeff] The steroids caught my eye. 160 00:12:10,479 --> 00:12:14,066 It looked like quite a bit of steroids, more than personal use. 161 00:12:17,695 --> 00:12:21,365 Then it took a different turn. "What are we dealing with here?" 162 00:12:22,116 --> 00:12:25,369 [Pat] We wound up with stolen bourbon and a bunch of steroids. 163 00:12:26,537 --> 00:12:28,748 I'm like, "Golly, you can't make this up." 164 00:12:29,915 --> 00:12:34,879 The date is March the 11th, with Gilbert "Toby" Curtsinger. 165 00:12:34,962 --> 00:12:37,256 You've got the right to remain silent… 166 00:12:37,339 --> 00:12:40,760 Pat was like, "You have the right to remain silent," this and that. 167 00:12:40,843 --> 00:12:43,596 Then Ron Wyatt was like, "Before you start, 168 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,850 we know that you got the barrels." I said, "They're not Buffalo Trace." 169 00:12:47,933 --> 00:12:50,352 He said, "We know. They're from Wild Turkey." 170 00:12:50,436 --> 00:12:53,898 "You got 'em from Sean Searcy, and selling 'em for $3,000 apiece." 171 00:12:53,981 --> 00:12:56,817 -[Pat] Where do you work? -[Toby] I work at Buffalo Trace. 172 00:12:56,901 --> 00:13:00,488 [Pat] Were you working there when the Pappy Van Winkle was missing? 173 00:13:00,571 --> 00:13:03,407 [Toby] Yes, I was working in processing, I wasn't in shipping. 174 00:13:03,491 --> 00:13:06,160 [Pat] Do you have any knowledge of what took place? 175 00:13:06,243 --> 00:13:07,661 [Toby] No, sir. I have no idea. 176 00:13:08,204 --> 00:13:12,583 Pat sits there and he looked at me, he said, "You got any Van Winkle here?" 177 00:13:12,666 --> 00:13:13,667 I went, "No." 178 00:13:14,251 --> 00:13:16,962 He said, "If you know anything about that 2013, 179 00:13:17,046 --> 00:13:19,632 and you tell me, I can make this disappear." 180 00:13:19,715 --> 00:13:23,969 I said, "You can make all this disappear?" He said, "Disappear, just like that." 181 00:13:25,387 --> 00:13:28,724 [Jeff] And Julie piped up and told him to shut his mouth. 182 00:13:29,517 --> 00:13:30,810 He was talking. 183 00:13:30,893 --> 00:13:34,230 Then Julie looked at him and said, "You need to shut the eff up." 184 00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:37,191 "Don't say anything." And he did. 185 00:13:37,858 --> 00:13:40,903 [Julie] There was a look on Toby's face that I've never seen before. 186 00:13:41,570 --> 00:13:44,615 It was a face of fear. 187 00:13:44,698 --> 00:13:47,743 I think, at that point, I realized he was in trouble. 188 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:49,829 [ominous folk music playing] 189 00:13:58,921 --> 00:14:01,465 [Toby] That day was… a bad day. 190 00:14:04,510 --> 00:14:07,555 It really hurt, watching what I'd done to my family. 191 00:14:09,390 --> 00:14:13,102 [Julie] It was the destruction of the kids' home. It was destroyed. 192 00:14:14,144 --> 00:14:17,314 And they took him to jail. It was awful. 193 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:24,738 [Toby] I was in a holding cell with a little sheet and a little thin mat. 194 00:14:24,822 --> 00:14:27,867 I hear all these guys talking, "Hey, what's up?" All this. 195 00:14:27,950 --> 00:14:31,078 "What they got you for?" "I'm in for this heroin." 196 00:14:31,161 --> 00:14:33,581 And I'm going, "I cannot believe I'm sitting here." 197 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,461 Initial search warrant for my house was stolen Wild Turkey barrels. 198 00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:42,631 "Did you check with Wild Turkey, do they have anything missing?" 199 00:14:44,508 --> 00:14:47,887 It wouldn't matter if there was 1,000 barrels behind my house. 200 00:14:47,970 --> 00:14:50,723 If there's nothing missing, how are you charging me? 201 00:14:53,851 --> 00:14:55,811 Where's the report of it missing? 202 00:14:59,315 --> 00:15:01,233 [reporter 1] The Franklin County Sheriff's Office 203 00:15:01,317 --> 00:15:04,111 says it's one of the biggest cases they've ever worked, 204 00:15:04,194 --> 00:15:08,616 involving guns, steroids, and stolen barrels of bourbon. 205 00:15:08,699 --> 00:15:12,286 I've never seen anybody with five barrels of bourbon. 206 00:15:13,829 --> 00:15:17,374 [Brad] I was the former political reporter at the State Journal, 207 00:15:17,458 --> 00:15:20,252 and fortuitously this thing fell into my lap. 208 00:15:21,629 --> 00:15:25,174 When this guy's busted, he has five barrels behind his house 209 00:15:25,257 --> 00:15:27,760 that Wild Turkey didn't know was gone. 210 00:15:28,385 --> 00:15:29,762 How could that be? 211 00:15:29,845 --> 00:15:32,389 [reporter 2] Curtsinger pleaded not guilty at his arraignment. 212 00:15:32,473 --> 00:15:36,268 He will be released from Franklin County Jail after posting bond. 213 00:15:36,352 --> 00:15:41,065 Then the big question was, is this related to the Buffalo Trace incident? 214 00:15:41,148 --> 00:15:43,692 Is this related to Pappygate? 215 00:15:43,776 --> 00:15:46,737 Sheriff Melton is not ruling out whether or not this case 216 00:15:46,820 --> 00:15:50,783 could be connected to the 2013 theft of Pappy Van Winkle. 217 00:15:51,283 --> 00:15:54,078 [Pat] Soon as we found out he was an employee, 218 00:15:54,161 --> 00:15:55,746 and a long-term employee, 219 00:15:55,829 --> 00:15:59,875 it was clear that it was an inside job. 220 00:16:01,627 --> 00:16:06,382 They wanted me to name everybody that I knew that had ever done anything. 221 00:16:06,465 --> 00:16:09,802 They wanted me to rat on everybody. You gotta be crazy. 222 00:16:11,261 --> 00:16:13,639 I know these people personally. 223 00:16:13,722 --> 00:16:16,850 Parties, birthday parties, I know their kids. 224 00:16:16,934 --> 00:16:18,686 Why do I want to do that? 225 00:16:23,190 --> 00:16:24,942 But when they took my phone… 226 00:16:29,321 --> 00:16:30,906 that's gonna kill me. 227 00:16:31,532 --> 00:16:32,408 My phone. 228 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:37,788 [Jeff] Once we got the download back, we were all kind of surprised. 229 00:16:41,583 --> 00:16:43,210 [Ron] It was a deluge of information. 230 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:48,173 Selling bourbon, selling steroids. A lot of information. 231 00:16:48,257 --> 00:16:50,050 [Jeff] "I'll take two." 232 00:16:50,134 --> 00:16:52,052 "I sold those two." "I need four more." 233 00:16:52,136 --> 00:16:53,679 "How much can we make off this?" 234 00:16:55,389 --> 00:16:58,142 So, we knew Toby had people helping him. 235 00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:00,686 We started lining the names up. 236 00:17:01,645 --> 00:17:05,899 Toby at the top, come down and it had what we call distributors. 237 00:17:07,943 --> 00:17:10,195 We had the steroids on the other side. 238 00:17:13,991 --> 00:17:16,368 There was some familiar names on there. 239 00:17:18,495 --> 00:17:21,957 Sheriff Melton contacted me and said he needed to come see me, 240 00:17:22,041 --> 00:17:24,001 which wasn't uncommon. 241 00:17:24,084 --> 00:17:29,548 He came in and served me with a subpoena for Officer Wells's personnel file. 242 00:17:32,843 --> 00:17:35,429 And when I asked him what was going on, 243 00:17:35,512 --> 00:17:38,932 that seemed like a legitimate question from a police chief… 244 00:17:39,016 --> 00:17:43,062 Something to the effect of he wasn't at liberty to divulge why. 245 00:17:43,145 --> 00:17:47,107 [Pat] When you have to investigate an officer with another agency, 246 00:17:47,191 --> 00:17:48,901 it's not a good position to be in. 247 00:17:48,984 --> 00:17:53,781 But at the end of the day, my motto was always do the right thing. 248 00:17:54,656 --> 00:17:57,451 -[Pat] It's a weird predicament to be in. -[Wells] It is. 249 00:17:57,534 --> 00:18:00,329 I apologize for my involvement. 250 00:18:00,412 --> 00:18:05,084 They were arranging with Toby to put money in on steroid shipments. 251 00:18:05,542 --> 00:18:09,671 Uh, Toby mostly would put in. Sean has. 252 00:18:09,755 --> 00:18:12,633 -[Pat] Anybody else at the police put in? -Steve Oliver. 253 00:18:13,842 --> 00:18:18,555 [Brad] Between Toby's friendship with Mike Wells, Steve Oliver, 254 00:18:19,348 --> 00:18:24,144 Toby probably felt like he doesn't have to worry about people looking at him 255 00:18:24,228 --> 00:18:25,479 and what he's doing. 256 00:18:26,021 --> 00:18:28,732 But that didn't protect him from the sheriff's department. 257 00:18:29,274 --> 00:18:34,696 After deliberation, Officer Wells elected to resign with the Frankfort Police Dept. 258 00:18:35,364 --> 00:18:41,328 The local news coverage was relentless that we were hiding something. 259 00:18:43,872 --> 00:18:45,624 That ruffled some political feathers. 260 00:18:46,291 --> 00:18:49,545 [Brad] After pissing off the city police force, 261 00:18:49,628 --> 00:18:53,465 Pat needed to leave no doubt in the citizens of Frankfort's minds 262 00:18:53,549 --> 00:18:55,134 that justice was brought. 263 00:18:55,759 --> 00:19:00,430 I think he was looking at reelection and thinking, "Shit, I need a win here." 264 00:19:05,602 --> 00:19:08,605 We knew if we could get all the information on Toby, 265 00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:11,108 we could put a stop to it all and wrap it up. 266 00:19:11,692 --> 00:19:13,777 You want to cut the head off the snake. 267 00:19:14,903 --> 00:19:16,947 [Ron] Through the course of the investigation, 268 00:19:17,030 --> 00:19:19,825 it became clear that a lot of the distribution 269 00:19:19,908 --> 00:19:23,787 was done by people that played softball together. 270 00:19:29,418 --> 00:19:31,879 So they were very reluctant to cooperate. 271 00:19:33,255 --> 00:19:35,465 [Dusty] I got plenty of phone calls saying, 272 00:19:35,549 --> 00:19:38,802 "Come down here to the sheriff's office, let's talk." 273 00:19:38,886 --> 00:19:40,387 I just didn't answer. 274 00:19:40,971 --> 00:19:43,599 [Jeff] One of those things, "Hear no evil, see no evil." 275 00:19:43,682 --> 00:19:46,643 We knew who he was, what he was doing, we just had to find him. 276 00:19:46,727 --> 00:19:48,395 [producer] Were they following you around? 277 00:19:48,478 --> 00:19:50,022 To numerous places. 278 00:19:52,858 --> 00:19:55,944 How hard is it to know somebody's following you? 279 00:19:57,404 --> 00:19:59,531 You see that same car at your office, 280 00:19:59,615 --> 00:20:02,659 you're like, "Okay. Let's play with these guys a little bit." 281 00:20:03,243 --> 00:20:04,786 [engine revving] 282 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:07,164 I get on the interstate, they go to the interstate. 283 00:20:07,247 --> 00:20:10,042 They followed me all the way to eastern Kentucky. 284 00:20:10,709 --> 00:20:14,171 ♪ Well, I gotta get the world Off of my back ♪ 285 00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:17,090 ♪ Somehow ♪ 286 00:20:17,174 --> 00:20:19,509 [Dusty] I went, "Let's see how long they follow us." 287 00:20:20,093 --> 00:20:22,012 [music continues] 288 00:20:23,096 --> 00:20:25,474 They followed me all the way to Pippa one time. 289 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:30,812 To a place I promise you they didn't want to be. 290 00:20:33,398 --> 00:20:36,568 ♪ So I gotta get the world Off of my back ♪ 291 00:20:37,694 --> 00:20:39,029 [laughing] 292 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,409 Thinking back, I should have been a cop. I would have been a good cop. 293 00:20:45,619 --> 00:20:49,206 I'm sure Dusty was trying to stay one step ahead, 294 00:20:49,289 --> 00:20:52,459 but little did he know he was five steps behind. 295 00:20:53,293 --> 00:20:56,922 Because the cell phones and downloads brought it all together. 296 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:04,513 [Ron] In Kentucky, we have a statute called "Engaging in Organized Crime." 297 00:21:06,473 --> 00:21:08,016 So, from top to bottom, 298 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:11,812 if all they did was distribute one barrel, they're still responsible 299 00:21:11,895 --> 00:21:15,732 for anything that happens as a result of that criminal enterprise. 300 00:21:18,193 --> 00:21:21,738 The saying we use is, "Do you want to be a teammate or an inmate?" 301 00:21:21,822 --> 00:21:22,990 When they find out 302 00:21:23,073 --> 00:21:27,202 what they've done is a Class B felony, most people pick teammate. 303 00:21:28,036 --> 00:21:30,372 -[Pat] What's your name? -Mitchell R. Osborne. 304 00:21:30,455 --> 00:21:32,249 -[Pat] Ray Osborne? -[Ray] Yes. 305 00:21:34,209 --> 00:21:36,795 [Pat] Toby and a few others are gonna be indicted 306 00:21:36,878 --> 00:21:39,381 for what's called "operating in a criminal syndicate." 307 00:21:39,464 --> 00:21:42,551 The kingpin at the top and the lowest man on the pole 308 00:21:42,634 --> 00:21:45,304 get the same charge. That's ten years. 309 00:21:45,387 --> 00:21:48,432 Now, let's ask one more time. If you lie to me again, 310 00:21:48,515 --> 00:21:51,268 I'm walking out, what happens to you, happens to you. 311 00:21:51,351 --> 00:21:54,062 'Cause it's hotter than frig in this office right now. 312 00:21:54,146 --> 00:21:56,773 And I'm starving, and I'm fat. I like to eat. 313 00:21:57,316 --> 00:21:59,693 Did you know anything about Eagle Rare? 314 00:21:59,776 --> 00:22:01,445 -Yes, sir, I did. -[Pat] All right! 315 00:22:01,528 --> 00:22:03,613 [Jeff] There you go. That's what I need to know. 316 00:22:03,697 --> 00:22:06,199 [Pat] We're not here to hammer you, I promise you. 317 00:22:06,283 --> 00:22:08,702 I helped him get Eagle Rare out of there. 318 00:22:08,785 --> 00:22:11,288 I loaded it up for him, and he took off. 319 00:22:11,371 --> 00:22:15,292 [Jeff] We asked people to come forward and help us with the investigation, 320 00:22:15,375 --> 00:22:20,339 and if you did that, then we basically offered 'em immunity. 321 00:22:23,216 --> 00:22:26,803 [Austin] I heard that he was going to try to rat everybody out, 322 00:22:26,887 --> 00:22:29,681 and try to make himself look good. 323 00:22:29,765 --> 00:22:31,516 But that's bullshit. 324 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:35,228 Toby Curtsinger had a whole slew of people that he dealt with. 325 00:22:36,104 --> 00:22:38,523 You see that there's this bond of people, 326 00:22:38,607 --> 00:22:42,903 whether it's through softball, steroids, bourbon, 327 00:22:42,986 --> 00:22:48,575 and there seems to be this level of trust and loyalty with each other, 328 00:22:48,658 --> 00:22:50,619 until people start getting busted. 329 00:22:53,663 --> 00:22:56,291 [Pat] It ain't about diming anybody out or nothing like that. 330 00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:57,501 You have immunity. 331 00:22:57,584 --> 00:23:00,420 [Ronnie Lee] I don't wanna be diming my buddy out, period. 332 00:23:00,504 --> 00:23:02,255 Me and Toby were good friends. 333 00:23:02,339 --> 00:23:04,132 [Pat] He put you in this situation. 334 00:23:04,216 --> 00:23:05,884 [Ronnie Lee] I know that. 335 00:23:08,804 --> 00:23:11,139 [Pat] Tell me more about the barrel exchange. 336 00:23:11,223 --> 00:23:12,557 How did that come about? 337 00:23:12,641 --> 00:23:15,894 Did Toby call? Tell me how that happened. 338 00:23:18,647 --> 00:23:23,610 Once everybody started to fall, people started coming out of the woodwork. 339 00:23:23,693 --> 00:23:26,321 "I've talked to my attorney, I'd like to come 340 00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:28,907 and turn in these nine bottles that I have." 341 00:23:28,990 --> 00:23:30,951 [Pat] Did you buy them by the bottle or the case? 342 00:23:31,034 --> 00:23:32,828 [Shaun] No, but he had some cases. 343 00:23:32,911 --> 00:23:34,663 [Pat] Was he wearing a Buffalo Trace uniform? 344 00:23:34,746 --> 00:23:36,498 [Shaun] Yes. I thought it was legit. 345 00:23:36,581 --> 00:23:40,669 [Brad] From 20-year Pappy Van Winkle to 12-year to 15-year… 346 00:23:40,752 --> 00:23:42,712 [Shaun] Dusty Adkins brought it to my house. 347 00:23:42,796 --> 00:23:45,799 He said he knew a guy that worked in the distillery. 348 00:23:45,882 --> 00:23:47,759 [Dusty] One day, I finally answered. 349 00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:51,555 I said, "Come here. I'm in Scott County, come and get me." 350 00:23:51,638 --> 00:23:54,808 They couldn't do it. They didn't have jurisdiction. 351 00:23:54,891 --> 00:23:58,562 In the parking lot, you look over and see the Franklin County line. 352 00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:02,858 Just 'cause I talk funny doesn't mean I'm ignorant. 353 00:24:02,941 --> 00:24:05,527 We could've arrested him right there. 354 00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:09,739 [Brad] This isn't Dukes of Hazzard, this isn't, "We'll chase 'em to the bridge 355 00:24:09,823 --> 00:24:11,741 and if we don't catch 'em before then, 356 00:24:11,825 --> 00:24:14,286 we won't be able to charge 'em with anything." 357 00:24:14,369 --> 00:24:16,621 That's not how it works in the real world. 358 00:24:17,706 --> 00:24:20,167 [Dusty] When it become real is when I saw 359 00:24:20,250 --> 00:24:23,795 a list of all the text messages on Toby's cell phone. 360 00:24:23,879 --> 00:24:26,298 All these things sitting in front of you, 361 00:24:26,381 --> 00:24:29,301 how do you deny it? You can't deny it. 362 00:24:29,384 --> 00:24:31,678 'Cause it's right here from me to him. 363 00:24:32,387 --> 00:24:35,974 Dusty Adkins, just like the others, they admitted to… 364 00:24:36,558 --> 00:24:38,727 facilitating the sale of the barrels. 365 00:24:44,566 --> 00:24:47,277 [Toby] They turned every one of my friends against me. 366 00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:51,490 You know, Ronnie Lee, Dusty… 367 00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:54,784 All those guys, man. I played ball with them for years. 368 00:24:58,455 --> 00:24:59,789 I miss those guys. 369 00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:04,503 I love 'em. 370 00:25:08,715 --> 00:25:10,091 [classical music playing] 371 00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:28,693 [Brad] We were just told there was gonna be a press conference 372 00:25:28,777 --> 00:25:30,278 from Pat Melton. 373 00:25:31,238 --> 00:25:35,242 We knew, off the record, that it involved some of the stolen bourbon 374 00:25:35,325 --> 00:25:38,620 from allegedly Buffalo Trace. That's all we knew at that point. 375 00:25:39,788 --> 00:25:42,082 I said, "I wanna go. I'll go to that." 376 00:25:43,959 --> 00:25:47,712 I'm thinking there might be the local television crews. 377 00:25:53,510 --> 00:25:58,139 There were over 20 reporters, camera crews, from all over the world. 378 00:25:59,641 --> 00:26:03,770 I had said it was an inside job. And obviously that's what happened. 379 00:26:03,853 --> 00:26:05,855 Call it the case of the missing cases. 380 00:26:06,189 --> 00:26:08,316 [reporter 1] A heist dubbed Pappygate. 381 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,902 Officials say they've arrested the man responsible. 382 00:26:10,986 --> 00:26:12,445 [reporter 2] Cops claim this man, 383 00:26:12,529 --> 00:26:15,657 Gilbert "Toby" Curtsinger, was the ringleader. 384 00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:18,159 [Toby] It wasn't just statewide. 385 00:26:18,243 --> 00:26:19,244 Some anonymous tips… 386 00:26:19,327 --> 00:26:20,912 It wasn't regional. 387 00:26:20,996 --> 00:26:22,622 Black market bourbon. 388 00:26:22,706 --> 00:26:23,915 It wasn't national. 389 00:26:23,999 --> 00:26:25,041 A big crack in the case… 390 00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:28,420 It wasn't northern hemisphere. It was worldwide. 391 00:26:28,503 --> 00:26:31,798 [reporter 3] The case has gotten attention as far away as Pakistan. 392 00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:33,466 Think about that. 393 00:26:33,550 --> 00:26:35,635 This is the tip of the iceberg. 394 00:26:35,719 --> 00:26:38,680 They hammered him constantly. Four times a day. 395 00:26:38,763 --> 00:26:42,267 A hundred ninety-five bottles walked out the door? Didn't happen. 396 00:26:42,350 --> 00:26:44,227 -Six o'clock, twelve o'clock… -There's tentacles… 397 00:26:44,311 --> 00:26:46,813 -Million dollar question. -Justice will be served. 398 00:26:46,896 --> 00:26:48,398 Eleven o'clock… 399 00:26:48,481 --> 00:26:50,567 We indicted him for engaging in organized crime. 400 00:26:50,650 --> 00:26:52,110 It's whiskey, for God's sake. 401 00:26:52,736 --> 00:26:55,864 It's pretty gutsy to say, "We're gonna solve this case." 402 00:26:55,947 --> 00:26:58,742 But we did. We got him. 403 00:26:58,825 --> 00:27:01,828 By God, don't ever doubt my team. 404 00:27:01,911 --> 00:27:03,371 -Congratulations. -Thank you. 405 00:27:03,455 --> 00:27:06,291 You did it. Pappy has been solved. 406 00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:09,669 -[Pat] We brought Pappy home. -[man] Brought Pappy home. 407 00:27:11,379 --> 00:27:14,299 Curtsinger and his alleged accomplices have been indicted 408 00:27:14,382 --> 00:27:17,677 on several charges including engaging in organized crime. 409 00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:20,805 Their lawyers did not respond to calls from CBS this morning… 410 00:27:20,889 --> 00:27:25,143 I didn't know what to think. I just was expecting the worst of the worst. 411 00:27:25,852 --> 00:27:27,562 And basically it was. 412 00:27:32,734 --> 00:27:35,070 [Julie] I got indicted for everything he was, 413 00:27:35,153 --> 00:27:37,072 they got me on every charge. 414 00:27:38,031 --> 00:27:40,283 That he masterminded this, 415 00:27:40,367 --> 00:27:44,621 and that I was a part of the plot to steal bourbon, steroids, and guns. 416 00:27:47,832 --> 00:27:51,127 I remember being at the attorney's office with him the first time, 417 00:27:51,211 --> 00:27:53,546 and the more he was saying that he was doing, 418 00:27:53,630 --> 00:27:56,341 from paying a guard to get through the gates, 419 00:27:56,424 --> 00:27:58,927 it seemed like there was so much involved. 420 00:28:00,095 --> 00:28:02,013 [Toby] I didn't say a lot, for a while. 421 00:28:02,138 --> 00:28:04,724 I didn't want to fight, there was too much going on. 422 00:28:08,269 --> 00:28:12,023 It's not that he cheated, but it was a sense of lying to me, or… 423 00:28:12,107 --> 00:28:13,900 It was a letdown. Huge. 424 00:28:16,069 --> 00:28:17,904 [man] I'm happy to pronounce to you… 425 00:28:17,987 --> 00:28:20,156 [Julie] That's not the kind of man I married. 426 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,242 [man] …Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Thomas Curtsinger. 427 00:28:22,325 --> 00:28:24,077 [Julie] We were on the news every day. 428 00:28:26,913 --> 00:28:31,209 I had to sit for a while and think, "Dang, am I that bad of a person?" 429 00:28:34,295 --> 00:28:39,801 He just sat down on the couch, he had his face in his hands like that, 430 00:28:39,884 --> 00:28:42,387 and he was crying. 431 00:28:43,555 --> 00:28:46,391 [voice breaking] It was awful 'cause I'd never seen Dad like that. 432 00:28:49,144 --> 00:28:51,062 [Kade] "Ringleader caught…" 433 00:28:53,189 --> 00:28:55,775 [tearfully] "Is my dad a mobster or something?" 434 00:29:00,196 --> 00:29:04,492 He'd come in the room and I'd get so mad. I just didn't want to be around him. 435 00:29:05,618 --> 00:29:08,621 Then it was, "Do you rip the kids away from him?" 436 00:29:09,873 --> 00:29:11,541 [Toby] Kade had a girl that he liked. 437 00:29:11,624 --> 00:29:14,711 Her dad googled us, found out who it was, told his daughter, 438 00:29:14,794 --> 00:29:17,130 "I don't want you seeing him 'cause of his dad." 439 00:29:19,632 --> 00:29:24,179 [cries] How am I supposed to feel on that? He should not have to pay for what I done. 440 00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:31,019 He got on his knees and said he was sorry, he'd be better off if he killed himself. 441 00:29:36,441 --> 00:29:39,694 You think, "If I could take myself out of the equation, 442 00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:43,031 they'd leave my family alone and everybody'd go back to whatever." 443 00:29:44,532 --> 00:29:49,829 My response to him was, "You did this, you're not gonna take the easy out 444 00:29:49,913 --> 00:29:52,707 and commit suicide and leave me with two kids." 445 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:56,252 "If I'm willing to walk this with you, you'll walk it, too." 446 00:30:09,349 --> 00:30:12,268 [judge] All right. You ready to be sentenced, Mr. Curtsinger? 447 00:30:12,352 --> 00:30:13,186 [Toby] Yes, sir. 448 00:30:13,269 --> 00:30:16,189 [judge] You have anything to state before the court pronounces sentence? 449 00:30:16,272 --> 00:30:17,106 [Toby] No, sir. 450 00:30:17,190 --> 00:30:20,777 Okay. 15CR101, theft by unlawful taking, 451 00:30:20,860 --> 00:30:24,322 two counts of receiving stolen property… 452 00:30:31,371 --> 00:30:34,833 Possession of a controlled substance, second degree, first offense, 453 00:30:34,916 --> 00:30:39,546 I sentence you to five years on each count, to run consecutively. 454 00:30:45,009 --> 00:30:48,304 You are sentenced to 15 years in the state penitentiary, 455 00:30:48,388 --> 00:30:50,473 you may be taken into custody at this time. 456 00:30:53,268 --> 00:30:56,646 [Jeff] It's very sad that it had to go to that level. 457 00:30:57,438 --> 00:31:01,860 A man makes a mistake, you don't have… Not everything's a hanging offense. 458 00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:05,280 [Pat] I haven't said that he's a bad guy. 459 00:31:06,489 --> 00:31:09,534 I think he made some poor decisions, I think he got greedy. 460 00:31:10,243 --> 00:31:12,620 [reporter 1] It is a bourbon heist in Kentucky 461 00:31:12,704 --> 00:31:14,080 that comes tonight with a cost, 462 00:31:14,163 --> 00:31:16,499 jail time for the so-called mastermind. 463 00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:19,294 [reporter 2] Today he learned his fate, 15 years behind bars 464 00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:21,880 for his role in the case known as Pappygate. 465 00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:30,138 They led the public to believe he had taken that 2013. 466 00:31:30,221 --> 00:31:32,265 That's all you heard, was the 2013. 467 00:31:33,141 --> 00:31:35,184 When they knew all along… 468 00:31:36,352 --> 00:31:37,645 that that wasn't true. 469 00:31:41,190 --> 00:31:43,818 [producer] Do you remember any other significant conversations 470 00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:45,778 -in your investigation? -Greg Anglin. 471 00:31:52,327 --> 00:31:54,954 [Jeff] Tell me your involvement with Toby Curtsinger. 472 00:31:55,788 --> 00:32:01,085 My involvement with him? I have no involvement on bourbon barrels, 473 00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:04,839 nothing like that, of any kind, degree, shape, or form. 474 00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:07,967 [Jeff] Just like with everybody else that cooperated, 475 00:32:08,051 --> 00:32:10,762 we offered him, "If you come in and talk to us, 476 00:32:10,845 --> 00:32:13,348 tell us the truth, we won't prosecute you." 477 00:32:13,431 --> 00:32:16,976 After we talk today, any kind of deal or anything we talked about, 478 00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:20,146 not being prosecuted, if you lie, that's out the door. 479 00:32:20,229 --> 00:32:22,106 With Toby Curtsinger? No, sir. 480 00:32:25,652 --> 00:32:27,403 Now, did you steal anything? 481 00:32:28,196 --> 00:32:30,657 Yes, sir. This is way before. 482 00:32:30,740 --> 00:32:31,950 [Jeff] What'd you take? 483 00:32:32,033 --> 00:32:34,577 Oh, probably a case of 20-year, I'd say. 484 00:32:38,665 --> 00:32:40,166 [Jeff] One case? 485 00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:42,877 Maybe two. No more than two. 486 00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:44,754 -[Pat] Of Pappy? -[Greg] Yes, sir. 487 00:32:45,380 --> 00:32:49,092 [Jeff] This is where you need to be the most honest you've ever been. 488 00:32:49,175 --> 00:32:52,220 -Before you say anything-- -This is five years ago. 489 00:32:52,303 --> 00:32:53,513 [Jeff] Right, exactly. 490 00:32:53,596 --> 00:32:56,683 If there was 35 cases or there was six, 491 00:32:56,766 --> 00:33:00,228 I need you to give me a number. And you gotta stick with it. 492 00:33:01,562 --> 00:33:05,274 -I need-- -Maybe eight or ten, honestly. Total. 493 00:33:05,358 --> 00:33:07,735 -You're talking about 12-bottle cases? -Yes, sir. 494 00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:11,990 -[Pat] I'm talking about ten cases-- -[Jeff] So, 120 bottles. 495 00:33:13,866 --> 00:33:16,369 When he said that it was like a gut punch. 496 00:33:16,452 --> 00:33:20,248 [Brad] He admits that he probably took about 17 cases of Pappy Van Winkle 497 00:33:20,331 --> 00:33:22,959 during this time at Buffalo Trace. 498 00:33:23,042 --> 00:33:25,086 [Pat] It's the danger of offering immunity. 499 00:33:25,169 --> 00:33:27,213 Every now and then, you have something like this 500 00:33:27,296 --> 00:33:29,841 where the guy says, "By the way, I did this." 501 00:33:29,924 --> 00:33:32,135 [dramatic music playing] 502 00:33:33,803 --> 00:33:36,431 ♪ I have immunity ♪ 503 00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:38,683 ♪ I'm stronger each day ♪ 504 00:33:38,766 --> 00:33:40,977 ♪ My weakness is fading ♪ 505 00:33:41,477 --> 00:33:45,356 ♪ Ever since you went away ♪ 506 00:33:48,276 --> 00:33:51,320 ♪ Told me you would always love me ♪ 507 00:33:52,321 --> 00:33:55,950 ♪ Now I know that it was just a lie ♪ 508 00:33:56,743 --> 00:34:03,416 ♪ I was drinking water When I could be drinking wine ♪ 509 00:34:29,942 --> 00:34:34,614 [Pat] He said that he had been in and had stolen the original case, 510 00:34:34,697 --> 00:34:38,493 that he had stole several bottles of the Pappy then, it was him. 511 00:34:43,706 --> 00:34:48,002 [Brad] It wasn't Toby Curtsinger that was stealing Pappy Van Winkle 512 00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:52,340 at the very timeframe of this 2013 Pappygate heist. 513 00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:56,469 We would love to say, "Here it is, 514 00:34:56,552 --> 00:34:59,472 Toby was the ringleader, let's put him in a box." 515 00:35:00,389 --> 00:35:03,101 It's convenient, it's clean, 516 00:35:04,727 --> 00:35:05,853 but it's not true. 517 00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:14,737 [reporter] There were several upsets in today's primary, 518 00:35:14,821 --> 00:35:17,907 we're following the results in central and eastern Kentucky. 519 00:35:19,742 --> 00:35:24,163 [Brad] I think Pat did everything in his ability to solve the case 520 00:35:24,247 --> 00:35:25,998 to secure his reelection. 521 00:35:28,417 --> 00:35:32,630 [Dusty] Five hundred times he was on the news trying to promote his name. 522 00:35:33,548 --> 00:35:35,758 He was the one wanting to get it done. 523 00:35:36,926 --> 00:35:39,637 Any time you come in and you're the new guy 524 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:43,724 and you upset the apple cart, you'll have people that don't like that. 525 00:35:45,059 --> 00:35:47,728 [Pat] I should have handled a couple things differently 526 00:35:47,812 --> 00:35:50,481 as far as coming forward pretty strong. 527 00:35:51,315 --> 00:35:54,944 In hindsight, it probably wasn't a smart thing to do. 528 00:35:55,570 --> 00:35:58,990 But we had a job to do, we did it, we did it very well. 529 00:35:59,782 --> 00:36:03,035 And solved a case people thought would never be solved. 530 00:36:04,370 --> 00:36:09,792 [Brad] Pat's eagerness to promote himself and the county sheriff's office 531 00:36:09,876 --> 00:36:12,670 probably rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. 532 00:36:14,213 --> 00:36:17,967 In a small town, sometimes if you try to be a boy scout, 533 00:36:18,050 --> 00:36:20,303 that just bugs the shit out of people. 534 00:36:20,386 --> 00:36:24,307 [reporter] And Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton lost by 3,300 votes 535 00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:27,143 to Chris Quire, a captain with Frankfort Police. 536 00:36:28,603 --> 00:36:30,771 [Brad] He flew too close to the sun, 537 00:36:30,855 --> 00:36:36,861 and in the end it didn't matter that Pat tried to impress the public 538 00:36:36,944 --> 00:36:39,572 and that Toby tried to impress his friends. 539 00:36:41,449 --> 00:36:42,867 They both went down. 540 00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:49,624 The ringleader in a bourbon heist in central Kentucky 541 00:36:49,707 --> 00:36:51,334 will leave prison this weekend. 542 00:36:51,417 --> 00:36:54,587 A Franklin County judge granted shock probation today. 543 00:36:54,670 --> 00:36:57,840 [reporter] Now after serving 30 days, he will soon be free. 544 00:36:57,924 --> 00:37:02,094 Defense attorney argued Curtsinger was a good candidate for shock probation 545 00:37:02,178 --> 00:37:04,513 as a first time felony offender 546 00:37:04,597 --> 00:37:07,850 with a family, a job, and ties to the community. 547 00:37:08,684 --> 00:37:11,270 [Brad] If you're a nonviolent offender, 548 00:37:11,354 --> 00:37:14,023 if you don't have an extensive criminal case, 549 00:37:14,106 --> 00:37:18,027 and you, basically, are not a risk to society, 550 00:37:18,110 --> 00:37:21,072 you could be a candidate for shock probation. 551 00:37:21,906 --> 00:37:24,617 [Toby] People go, "You got lucky!" I say, "Really?" 552 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:26,494 I say, "I always had a plan." 553 00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:32,041 Work, build up a 401k, retirement, I had everything set, 554 00:37:32,124 --> 00:37:33,793 that just got smashed. 555 00:37:37,004 --> 00:37:40,841 I gotta live with what I put my kids through, my mom and dad through. 556 00:37:41,634 --> 00:37:43,052 Everybody that I know. 557 00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:46,764 [preacher] If you show love, then you need to rejoice. 558 00:37:47,765 --> 00:37:50,101 It says love bears all things. 559 00:37:50,851 --> 00:37:53,479 A husband and wife go through a lot of difficulty 560 00:37:53,562 --> 00:37:55,398 to bear all things, don't they? 561 00:37:55,481 --> 00:37:58,276 [Julie] My wedding rings, I took them off five years ago. 562 00:37:58,359 --> 00:38:00,903 I don't think I said it, they just came off my hand 563 00:38:00,987 --> 00:38:02,655 and I've never put 'em back on. 564 00:38:02,738 --> 00:38:05,574 There may be a day they go back on. Not now. 565 00:38:06,158 --> 00:38:08,703 [preacher] A lie is hard to deal with, isn't it? 566 00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:13,124 But when the sin is removed, can we put love in the place of it? 567 00:38:14,333 --> 00:38:16,085 [Toby] By doing what I was doing, 568 00:38:16,168 --> 00:38:21,299 I was jeopardizing my marriage, both of my kids. 569 00:38:22,174 --> 00:38:26,262 When you take a couple that's been together for years and years, 570 00:38:26,345 --> 00:38:29,056 and they still love each other, that's a miracle. 571 00:38:30,891 --> 00:38:34,437 [Toby] When all the smoke clears of friends, and friends of friends, 572 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:39,692 and ball teams, and coworkers, what's left standing? Family. 573 00:38:41,652 --> 00:38:45,239 Man, I don't know if-- Y'all deserve all that? Look at all those gifts. 574 00:38:45,865 --> 00:38:48,909 [Kade] I tell him every single time he tells us sorry, 575 00:38:48,993 --> 00:38:51,370 it's not something you should say sorry for. 576 00:38:51,454 --> 00:38:56,083 People make mistakes, but me and Bella still love you. 577 00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:59,378 [Toby] Well, let's see, show everybody what you got. Look. 578 00:38:59,462 --> 00:39:01,464 [Toby laughing] 579 00:39:02,882 --> 00:39:06,802 He'll say, "I guarantee you would sell me out for a new dad." 580 00:39:06,886 --> 00:39:10,890 It's just stuff like that, it breaks my heart to hear him say that. 581 00:39:10,973 --> 00:39:15,311 'Cause, like, he's my world. [chuckles] Like, he's my world. 582 00:39:15,394 --> 00:39:18,856 -What in the world? [laughs] -[Bella] We thought you would like 'em. 583 00:39:19,815 --> 00:39:22,109 -[Kade] Will you wear 'em? -Sure, I'll wear 'em. 584 00:39:22,234 --> 00:39:23,152 [Julie] They fit him. 585 00:39:23,235 --> 00:39:27,031 [Toby] It's supposed to be really good stuff, if you read the reviews. 586 00:39:27,114 --> 00:39:29,784 [all laughing] 587 00:39:32,411 --> 00:39:34,872 [Julie] I feel like we have more healing to do. 588 00:39:34,955 --> 00:39:38,376 I feel like that we're going to be better in years to come. 589 00:39:39,085 --> 00:39:40,795 I think we're gonna be okay. 590 00:39:40,878 --> 00:39:42,129 [chuckles] 591 00:39:44,423 --> 00:39:46,425 [upbeat music playing] 592 00:39:57,770 --> 00:39:59,355 [Mike] Everybody's heard about it. 593 00:39:59,438 --> 00:40:01,482 [man] Especially anybody who lives in Kentucky. 594 00:40:01,565 --> 00:40:03,984 [Mike] He's done the distillery a favor, in a way. 595 00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:08,531 Just the folklore around it, that boosted the price up immensely. 596 00:40:08,614 --> 00:40:12,284 After the heist and everything, the prices have skyrocketed. 597 00:40:12,368 --> 00:40:14,787 You're looking at $5,000 a bottle. 598 00:40:17,456 --> 00:40:24,046 I don't know how easy it is to find, but I know if you wanted to, you could. 599 00:40:26,757 --> 00:40:30,636 -A snitch is what got him caught, though. -Yep. The text message. 600 00:40:32,847 --> 00:40:34,849 [Producer] Who was it that gave that tip? 601 00:40:34,932 --> 00:40:37,393 I don't think I'm supposed to say that. [chuckles] 602 00:40:39,770 --> 00:40:41,397 Toby stole a lot of Pappy, 603 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:46,277 but maybe unfairly, he's lumped into what Greg Anglin did. 604 00:40:47,069 --> 00:40:50,239 [Pat] There's a bunch of people that stole Pappy Van Winkle. 605 00:40:50,322 --> 00:40:52,867 Including Toby Curtsinger. 606 00:40:56,287 --> 00:40:58,956 I have no idea. I don't, I really don't. 607 00:40:59,039 --> 00:41:02,960 [Brad] Well over a million dollars. And that's just what we know about. 608 00:41:03,043 --> 00:41:06,672 Who knows? It could be close to double that, close to triple that. 609 00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:12,011 [Dusty] What we done, man? I mean, what was it? 610 00:41:12,094 --> 00:41:15,264 It's like stealing a piece of bubble gum from the supermarket. 611 00:41:15,347 --> 00:41:18,642 [Toby] Think about it. If you worked at Buffalo Trace right now, 612 00:41:18,726 --> 00:41:22,563 and you had an opportunity to stick two 20-year-old Van Winkles 613 00:41:22,646 --> 00:41:26,192 down your pants, walk out with nobody seeing you, 614 00:41:26,775 --> 00:41:29,111 are you gonna do it if you don't get caught? 615 00:41:34,283 --> 00:41:36,285 [upbeat music playing]