A bionic arm, a chicken coop and three botched arrests.

As Kash Patel's reputation as FBI chief hung in the balance following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the alleged assassin's father turned him.

Donald Trump on Friday announced that the suspect was finally in custody - 44 hours after the fatal shot that killed Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

In the immediate hours after the carnage, law enforcement went after a man with a bionic arm, chaotic radio chatter has revealed. Suspects with bionic or prosthetic arms were plot threads in both David Lynch's Twin Peaks and the 1993 film The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford.

Law enforcement also honed in on a man in a suit, another person who was going to hospitals looking for Kirk, and another who removed an anti-Kirk online post.