Fish said the only suspect remains Garland "Joey" Nelson, who is currently jailed on one charge that he tampered with the brothers' rental truck.
The case has shocked Braymer, where several neighbors showed up to the sheriff's press conference Wednesday.
“We just want to know what’s actually going on, because all we hear are rumors and there’s nothing confirmed,” Braymer resident Destiny Cosgrove said. “We didn’t think anything could happen like that.”
This case has hit close to home for Cosgrove, who grew up in Braymer and said she was familiar with Nelson’s family.
“I just don’t believe that the family could have been involved,” she said. “We never would have thought anyone from our town could have been involved in this or capable of it. We’re just all really sorry. We’re sending all of our prayers.”
Around town, the announcement Wednesday added to the unease surrounding the case.
Inside Braymer Quick Shop, customers wondered what would be the next bombshell in the investigation.
“Everybody is asking, ‘What’s going on? Have you heard?’” cashier Kristin Rader said. “Everybody is kind of shocked that this could happen around here.”
Nicholas Diemel’s wife, Lisa, asked a Wisconsin judge Tuesday to
searched the 74-acre farm, which was once the subject of a federal investigation into illegal cattle sales, for several days.A little more than two hours after the brothers arrived at the farm, the truck was driven away from the farm and spotted by several security cameras approximately a half-hour later in Polo.
The truck was parked in a commuter lot near Interstate 35 and Missouri PP in Holt, Missouri, around 12:45 p.m. and left running with the keys in the ignition and lights on.
Nelson, who helped run farm operations at the Braymer address where the brothers went that morning, admitted driving the Diemel brothers’ truck from the farm to the commuter lot.
He was