Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, is questioning the motive behind the Metro Nashville Police Department’s (MNPD) reported defiance to chain of custody protocols during the March 27, 2023 search of Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale’s residence.
On Saturday, Pappert reported that a source familiar with the Covenant shooting investigation told The Star that an MNPD captain, who led the department’s search of the killer’s residence, ordered police officers not to complete the required evidence documentation form for some of the items obtained during the search conducted on the day of the March 27 attack.
The source further told The Star that items not properly documented were carted away by the FBI, and that no chain of custody exists for the digital evidence associated with the undocumented items obtained during the search of Hale’s home.
