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Inside the World’s Biggest Manhunts—How Fugitives Are Tracked Down · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: The two explosions that tore through the Boston Marathon nearly
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Speaker 1: a year ago were like a starting gun on a
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Speaker 1: second race against time. Unknown terrorists were on the loose,
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Speaker 1: and they had more bombs. Now, for the first time,
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Speaker 1: you're going to hear the inside story from the federal
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Speaker 1: investigators who ran the man hunt. They led a task
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Speaker 1: force of more than one thousand federal agents, state police,
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Speaker 1: and Boston cops. Tonight, they will speak of the disturbing
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Speaker 1: evidence that cracked the case, and of a debate among
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Speaker 1: the investigators that ultimately led to the dragnet's violent end.
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Speaker 1: The afternoon of April fifteenth, the FBI's man in charge
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Speaker 1: of Boston got a text two large explosions near the
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Speaker 1: finish line for Special Agent Rick D.
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Speaker 2: Laurier.
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Speaker 1: The marathon became a sprint to catch the killers before
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Speaker 1: they struck again.
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Speaker 3: I felt that week that I had the weight of
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Speaker 3: the world on my shoulders, and I'm sure I wasn't
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Speaker 3: the only one.
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Speaker 2: Did you feel if there was a third bombing, it
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Speaker 2: would be on.
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Speaker 3: You, That's everybody's fear. It would be on me, It
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Speaker 3: would be on the Joint Tism task Force. But that
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Speaker 3: wasn't what drove us. What drove us is preventing more
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Speaker 3: people from getting hurt.
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Speaker 1: Two hundred and sixty four were hurt already three killed.
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Speaker 1: Moments before, Rick d' laurier had been counting the days
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Speaker 1: to retirement twenty six years at the FBI now on
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Speaker 1: Boylston Street, he took over the biggest investigation of his life.
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Speaker 3: It was a scene of devastation. There was evidence everywhere.
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Speaker 2: And you said what to yourself? In that moment, I.
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Speaker 3: Said, we will find those responsible for these despicable crimes.
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Speaker 1: FBI Director Robert Muller ordered every office in the world
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Speaker 1: back up de Laurier. De Laurier's link to headquarters was
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Speaker 1: executive assistant director Stephanie Douglass.
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Speaker 4: We were very, very concerned about other bombs in Boston,
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Speaker 4: but we had to think beyond that. Were there other
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Speaker 4: bombs in other cities? Were US interests even abroad at risk?
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Speaker 4: So we had to consider everything. We could not eliminate anything.
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Speaker 1: First came the crime scene, twelve blocks of debris, abandoned
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Speaker 1: backpacks and bomb parts blown to smithereens.
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Speaker 3: They set up a grid pattern. Evidence could be on
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Speaker 3: window cells, evidence could be on roofs of buildings, evidence
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Speaker 3: could be anywhere.
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Speaker 2: Are they going down the street with tweezers?
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Speaker 4: Sometimes when they need to, they're doing that, But yes,
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Speaker 4: they're very carefully picking up everything they see.
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Speaker 1: They saw a battery pack for model cars and chunks
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Speaker 1: of two pressure cookers. The cookers concentrate the explosion for
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Speaker 1: maximum force. You decided to set up a warehouse near
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Speaker 1: Logan Airport, right every thing swept from the street was
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Speaker 1: processed in this forty six thousand square foot warehouse. Twice
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Speaker 1: a day a plane flew the items to the FBI
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Speaker 1: lab in Quantico, Virginia.
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Speaker 4: And you basically have almost like an assembly line of evidence.
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Speaker 4: So it gets tagged, it gets recorded as evidence, so
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Speaker 4: that you're preserving that chain of custody. But it also
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Speaker 4: for all the different parts and components that would later
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Speaker 4: go to recreating the devices themselves.
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Speaker 2: The bombs.
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Speaker 1: Yes, recreating the bombs, Yes.
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Speaker 2: From the pieces that you found.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Successful as that was, It turned out the evidence that
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Speaker 1: would solve the case had been collected before the first
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Speaker 1: bomb exploded that Monday. The FBI could travel back in
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Speaker 1: time through the lenses of dozens of security cameras up
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Speaker 1: and down Boylston.
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Speaker 4: Almost thirteen thousand different videos were obtained. One hundred and
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Speaker 4: twenty thousand, actually more than one hundred and twenty thousand
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Speaker 4: still photographs.
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Speaker 1: At the FBI lab in Virginia, one hundred and twenty analysts.
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Speaker 1: We're searching video feeds from Boston.
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Speaker 2: What are you looking for?
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Speaker 3: Somebody who just doesn't look similar to others in a
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Speaker 3: crowd who would be watching a race.
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Speaker 1: Was there a eureka moment in terms of the video.
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Speaker 1: But at some point somebody said, hey, boss, have a
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Speaker 1: look at this.
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Speaker 2: Yes it was.
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Speaker 3: It was, I believe Wednesday morning, and we watched that
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Speaker 3: video hundreds and hundreds of times.
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Speaker 4: You can see an individual, a tall man wearing a
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Speaker 4: white ball cap, walk into the frame. He has a
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Speaker 4: backpack slung over one of his shoulders. He puts the
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Speaker 4: backpack down very nonchalantly. He joins the crowd. You clearly
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Speaker 4: see everybody look very very definitely to the left, like
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Speaker 4: they've heard something, they've seen something, so you know that
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Speaker 4: first glass has gone off.
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Speaker 5: He does not do that.
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Speaker 4: He does not do what everybody else in that video does.
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Speaker 4: He does not turn to its left. He instead just
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Speaker 4: stands there for a second or two and walks very
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Speaker 4: deliberately back the same direction that he came in.
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Speaker 1: The Eureka video hasn't been seen by the public. It
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Speaker 1: is being kept for the trial. But this still photo
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Speaker 1: shows much the same view of the suspect and the
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Speaker 1: people who would be torn apart by the blast. Let
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Speaker 1: me ask you to describe what you see in that picture.
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Speaker 3: I see the subject on the individual who has been
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Speaker 3: charging investigation, and I see people who are grievously who
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Speaker 3: are grievously injured in that blast. And I see individuals
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Speaker 3: who died in that blast.
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Speaker 2: The people along the fence line there several of them.
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Speaker 3: Yes, very very emotional time when I look at that
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Speaker 3: to know what happened. A few moments afterwards, I.
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Speaker 4: Believe I see his backpack on the ground, and then
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Speaker 4: I see.
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Speaker 5: One of the people that was killed as a result
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Speaker 5: of that bomb.
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Speaker 2: Do you know their name?
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Speaker 6: Is this?
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Speaker 7: Martin Richard.
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Speaker 1: Martin Richard was eight years old, his seven year old
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Speaker 1: sister Jane lost a leg. Their father, Bill suffered hearing
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Speaker 1: damage from the bomb in the backpack laid at their feet.
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Speaker 1: In the video, the backpack explodes twenty seconds after the
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Speaker 1: man in the white hat walks away. Stephanie Douglas saw
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Speaker 1: it in the FBI's Washington command center. Nobody I've talked
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Speaker 1: to can quite find the words.
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Speaker 5: It's a horrible video to watch.
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Speaker 4: I mean, after the bomb goes off, obviously, it's a
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Speaker 4: very smoky situation. There's a lot of smoke, and the
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Speaker 4: smoke clears, and what you saw is a very happy
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Speaker 4: scene of people watching that marathon is no longer that,
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Speaker 4: even after seeing something so horrible. I remember this survivor
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Speaker 4: who unfortunately his clothes were on fire, and I just
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Speaker 4: remember this police officer getting down on his hands and
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Speaker 4: knees and putting out the flames on this person with
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Speaker 4: his bare hands. And I just thought to myself, you
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Speaker 4: know what an incredible contrast of events, something so horrific,
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Speaker 4: and then we have this person with no thought or
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Speaker 4: of his own comfort or consequences to himself Russian and
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Speaker 4: actually do something like that.
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Speaker 5: That was so brave. I still remember that very clearly.
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Speaker 1: Only two days had passed. Now they were looking for
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Speaker 1: every image of the suspect they called white hat. Massachusetts
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Speaker 1: State police analysts found him with a man in a
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Speaker 1: black hat, which turned out to be his older brother. Yes,
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Speaker 1: now you have the Sarnaya brothers. Yes, but you don't
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Speaker 1: know that.
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Speaker 5: No, I don't know that. I don't know who they are.
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Speaker 1: Then suddenly, that Wednesday confusion, when cable news channels erroneously
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Speaker 1: reported that a suspect had been arrested and was headed
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Speaker 1: to the courthouse. The error caused pandemonium. According to US
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Speaker 1: attorney Carmen Ortiz, who's leading the prosecution.
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Speaker 8: And I remember turning to my colleagues saying to my
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Speaker 8: press person saying, do we have someone in custody? And
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Speaker 8: I turned to Rick to Laurie, do we have someone
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Speaker 8: in custody? And they were like, no, we don't have
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Speaker 8: anyone in custody. I think that kind of misinformation makes
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Speaker 8: it appear as if government isn't in control of the investigation.
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Speaker 8: Is sort of confusing, and so it can be very,
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Speaker 8: very harmful.
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Speaker 1: More harm was done the next morning when The New
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Speaker 1: York Post added to the erroneous reporting by putting a
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Speaker 1: man with a white hat on its front page. The
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Speaker 1: only problem was wasn't the right man in the white hat?
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Speaker 8: That generated tremendous risk and harm. It gives people false
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Speaker 8: sense of security, thinking, oh, they've identified these suspects when
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Speaker 8: it turns out that it's wrong individuals, those individuals at tremendous.
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Speaker 1: Risk, the risk to the innocent, lent urgency, to the
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Speaker 1: debate over whether to release the real pictures. Why wouldn't
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Speaker 1: you release the pictures to the public. Isn't that the
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Speaker 1: fastest way to find the perpetrators.
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Speaker 4: Sure, but it's also gives them every opportunity to escape. Remember,
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Speaker 4: we do not have the identities of anybody.
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Speaker 1: So your concern was that if you put the pictures
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Speaker 1: out there to the public, they'd know they'd been had
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Speaker 1: and they'd run.
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: The countervailing argument is you had individuals. We had photographic
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Speaker 3: evidence of individuals who we strongly believed or responsible for
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Speaker 3: the bombings, and we needed to identify them as quickly
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Speaker 3: as possible.
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Speaker 1: So Thursday, Rick de Laurier walked out in time for
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Speaker 1: the evening news.
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Speaker 3: These images should be the only ones, I emphasized, the
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Speaker 3: only ones that the public should view to assist us.
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Speaker 1: The pictures set events in motion that de Laurier didn't predict,
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Speaker 1: in fact, didn't recognize even after they started.
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Speaker 3: My wife was watching the news that evening.
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Speaker 1: An officer has been shot, and.
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Speaker 3: There was a story about an MIT police officer who
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Speaker 3: was subsequently identified as Officer Sean Collier, who had been
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Speaker 3: murdered that evening and right on campus. My wife looked
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Speaker 3: at me and she said, I bet those are your
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Speaker 3: guys and they're on the run right now, and I
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Speaker 3: bet they've murdered this police officer. And I didn't believe her.
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Speaker 3: I said, oh, no, I don't think so, and I
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Speaker 3: went to bed.
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Speaker 2: Your wife had cracked the case, and you went to bed.
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Speaker 3: I did not believe that she had cracked the case
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Speaker 3: at the time I went to bed.
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Speaker 4: I went to bed probably around ten o'clock. And this
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Speaker 4: is probably a sad commentary in my life, but my
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Speaker 4: BlackBerry was on the pillow.
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Speaker 3: Next to me, and somewhere around twelve thirty quarter to
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Speaker 3: one in the morning, I received the phone call from
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Speaker 3: one of my assistant special Agents Agents in charge, Jeff Silette,
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Speaker 3: and my.
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Speaker 4: Phone rang about a little after one in the morning.
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Speaker 3: I woke out of a sound sleep and I said,
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Speaker 3: an MIT police officer has been murdered earlier this evening
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Speaker 3: by individuals we believe to be responsible for the bombing,
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Speaker 3: and they are on the streets of Watertown right now,
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Speaker 3: engaged in a shootout with a Watertown Police Department.
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Speaker 1: It was combat two suspects through pipe bombs and a
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Speaker 1: pressure cooker bomb at the police An officer was gravely wounded.
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Speaker 1: Those who argued that releasing the pictures would cause the
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Speaker 1: suspects to run were right.
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Speaker 2: Was putting the pictures out the right call?
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Speaker 10: Yes?
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Speaker 4: I think at the end of the day, we really
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Speaker 4: had no choice. Believe me, the death of Sean Collier
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Speaker 4: is not lost on the FBI. We consider it an
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Speaker 4: incredibly tragic event. But I think at the end of
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Speaker 4: the day, given the facts as we knew them at
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Speaker 4: the time, we made the best decision.
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Speaker 2: How do you feel about that decision now?
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Speaker 3: I stand by that decision, Scott. He could have force
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Speaker 3: reasonably foreseen that a police officer would be murdered. What
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Speaker 3: could reasonably be foreseen is that these individuals could have
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Speaker 3: had more bombs, could have set those bombs off and
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Speaker 3: caused this carnage similar or even greater to what they caused.
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Speaker 3: In April fifteenth, one suspect was killed, the other vanished
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Speaker 3: in minutes.
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Speaker 1: The FBI matched the dead man's fingerprints to Tamerlin Sarnaiev,
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Speaker 1: an immigrant from Kyrgyzstan. Other records showed he had a brother.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I remember that so clearly.
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Speaker 4: If somebody walking in with a Manila folder and said, okay,
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Speaker 4: here's his brother, and they opened it and it's his picture,
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Speaker 4: and I go, that's him, that's white hat, That's who
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Speaker 4: we should be looking for.
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Speaker 1: Friday, the governor ordered a lockdown of Boston, but a
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Speaker 1: house to house search turned up nothing.
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Speaker 4: Everybody's exhausted and deflated, you know. I mean, it's a
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Speaker 4: very sad day for Boston, day for Boston.
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Speaker 1: But then a man noticed someone in a boat in
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Speaker 1: his backyard. Joe Kar Sarnaiev was wounded but alive.
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Speaker 3: What did you think as he went into court to
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Speaker 3: be arraigned, he had a smug grin on his face.
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Speaker 3: Much of the time in the courtroom he would glance
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Speaker 3: over his right shoulder back to his relatives and smile
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Speaker 3: and smirk at them. And I found that absolutely galling,
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Speaker 3: and I found it reprehensible.
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Speaker 1: The Attorney General has decided to seek the death penalty
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Speaker 1: in this case.
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Speaker 3: Yes he has, and I support that decision.
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Speaker 1: Joekar Sarnaiyev has pled not guilty. His defense team declined
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Speaker 1: to speak with US. US Attorney Carmen Ortiz is preparing
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Speaker 1: for a November trial.
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Speaker 11: The notorious narco known as El Chapo has achieved one
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Speaker 11: of his greatest aspirations. He's the most famous drug lord
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Speaker 11: of all time. This is our fourth sixty minute story
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Speaker 11: about El Chopo, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman. Our
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Speaker 11: first story came when he was captured after thirteen years
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Speaker 11: on the run. We told you then that El Chapo
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Speaker 11: Spanish for Shorty was on Forbes list of billionaires and
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Speaker 11: had earned an outsized reputation for his worldwide smuggling empire,
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Speaker 11: his ruthless brutality, and most of all, for his daring getaways,
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Speaker 11: like the one we told you about last year, when
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Speaker 11: he vanished from a maximum security Mexican prison through one
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Speaker 11: of his trademark escape tunnels. Then there was our interview
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Speaker 11: with actor Sean who met Guzman at a hideaway last fall.
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Speaker 11: After El Chappo's stunning prison break. Many thought he'd never
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Speaker 11: get caught again, but he was. How you were about
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Speaker 11: to see.
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Speaker 10: Where in the pantheon of drug traffickers drug lords does
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Speaker 10: El Chapo fall.
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Speaker 12: El Chapo resides at the very top of that hierarchy.
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Speaker 11: Peter Vincent was a senior official and legal adviser of
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Speaker 11: both the Justice Department and Homeland Security during the international
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Speaker 11: manhunt for Guzman. He says, after the daring escape last summer,
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Speaker 11: Al Chapo became almost delusional.
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Speaker 10: So what precipitated his downfall?
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Speaker 12: He became drunk on his own wine. He started to
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Speaker 12: believe the hype that he was special, that he was
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Speaker 12: almost a demigod, that he was something truly magical, and
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Speaker 12: he became so incredibly arrogant that he thought he was untouchable.
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Speaker 11: Jim Dinkins agrees. As Chief of Homeland Security Investigations, he
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Speaker 11: was part of the US Mexico task force that nabbed
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Speaker 11: El Chapo in twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 13: He knew how he was captured last time, and so
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Speaker 13: he had the upper hand, right, he had all the
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Speaker 13: cards in his hand to go off into the sunset
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Speaker 13: and to learn from his mistake. But he just can't
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Speaker 13: help himself, and he remained in the public eye.
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Speaker 11: After his first escape from prison in two thousand and one,
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Speaker 11: Guzmand virtually disappeared from sight for thirteen years, but not
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Speaker 11: this time.
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Speaker 13: Here he gets out of prison and he's on the
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Speaker 13: road being spotted at this place, having you know, drinks,
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Speaker 13: and this place, you know, with his family members.
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Speaker 10: He invited Sean Penn and the actress Kate del Castillo
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Speaker 10: to come in to see him. Yeah. Did Mexican law
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Speaker 10: enforcement know that these two actors were going in to
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Speaker 10: see al Choppo?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 10: Absolutely.
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Speaker 13: They knew where Sean was going to go when he
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Speaker 13: was going to land. They knew right away.
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Speaker 11: How did they know because they were listening in on
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Speaker 11: the cartel's communications and watching. Mexican and US law enforcement
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Speaker 11: reformed the task force that caught al Choppo the last time.
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Speaker 11: They were tracking not just Goosemand, but everyone in his
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Speaker 11: inner circle, including his cook and everyone his lieutenants contacted,
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Speaker 11: including Sean Penn.
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Speaker 10: Did it become sloppy?
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Speaker 2: Definitely.
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Speaker 13: There was more sightings of him in the last six
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Speaker 13: months than there was in the last ten years before
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Speaker 13: he was captured in twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 10: After he escaped the last time, you told us that
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Speaker 10: you were not confident that he would ever be captured again,
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Speaker 10: that al Chopo had become a smarter criminal. Did you
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Speaker 10: overestimate his intelligence? I truly did hear?
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Speaker 2: He had over a years in prison.
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Speaker 13: I presumed he was using that same amount of time
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Speaker 13: to think about how he was going to remain a
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Speaker 13: fugitive for the rest of his life.
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Speaker 11: Mexican officials told us that only twenty days after his escape,
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Speaker 11: the Marines had picked up on Gusman's trail.
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Speaker 12: They created an even smaller team of Mexican Marines a
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Speaker 12: search block, and they focused on the prize at hand,
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Speaker 12: and that was capturing Il Chopo Guzman alive if they
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Speaker 12: absolutely could.
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Speaker 11: Their first opportunity came in early October, just days after
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Speaker 11: Sean Penn's visit. The Marines told us they waited because
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Speaker 11: they didn't want the American actor caught in the crossfire.
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Speaker 11: A team of Marines approached one of El Chopo's mountaintop
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Speaker 11: ranches by jungle road, while another group of commandos flew
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Speaker 11: in by helicopter.
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Speaker 10: So what went wrong on that October mission?
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Speaker 12: As I understand it, despite all of El Chopo Guzman's
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Speaker 12: bravado of being a macho, very powerful man, he was
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Speaker 12: running with a child in his arms.
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Speaker 10: A human shield, a baby as a shield.
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Speaker 12: That's the only way that one can rationally see it.
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Speaker 11: So once again, Al Chapo got away. In early December,
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Speaker 11: intelligence led the Marines to this house in the sleepy
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Speaker 11: coastal town of Los Mochi's in northern Sinaloa. Wiretap intercepts
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Speaker 11: talked about a visit planned by Grandma and Aunt, code
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Speaker 11: names for El Chapo and his lieutenant known as Cholo Yvonne.
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Speaker 11: The Marines watched the house for a month as painters
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Speaker 11: and construction crews came and went. Then, on the morning
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Speaker 11: of Thursday, January seventh, Grandma finally showed up. An assault
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Speaker 11: force quickly moved into position nearby. That evening, someone in
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Speaker 11: the house called out for a large order of tacos,
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Speaker 11: and this armored truck left to go pick up the food.
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Speaker 11: Chopo was having a party.
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Speaker 12: For an incredibly savvy, clever, almost a criminal genius that
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Speaker 12: El Chapo Guzman was. He ultimately was done in by
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Speaker 12: very simple tastes. What do you mean tacos, tequila and chicas.
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Speaker 11: At four forty am in the pre dawn hours of Friday,
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Speaker 11: January eighth, the Marines began battering down the gate of
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Speaker 11: Chappo's safe house. We've concealed the identities of the commando
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Speaker 11: leaders for their safety.
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Speaker 14: Nonsto's, so when we first knocked on the door of
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Speaker 14: the house, the shooting started.
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Speaker 11: A fierce gun battle erupted. The first marine through the
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Speaker 11: door was shot in the arm.
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Speaker 10: I watched the videotape. It's very intense.
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Speaker 15: Chappo's people inside the house were firing high caliber rounds grenades,
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Speaker 15: so it's like a war zone.
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Speaker 11: The Marines moved methodically through the house. Chopo's henchmen retreated
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Speaker 11: up the stairs. Just inside the door. One gunman lay
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Speaker 11: dead down the hall. Four more taken prisoner, and the
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Speaker 11: commandos quickly checked a walk in closet covered with full
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Speaker 11: length mirrors. Upstairs, the Marines find two women, one of
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Speaker 11: them the cook, cowering on the bathroom floor. Outside the house,
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Speaker 11: more commandos fought it out with gunmen who fled across
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Speaker 11: the rooftops. When it was over, there were five cartel
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Speaker 11: members dead and six in custody, but once again Choppo
21:46
Speaker 11: with Cholo Ivan had vanished. A couple of days later,
21:51
Speaker 11: the Marines took us to the safe house in Los
21:54
Speaker 11: Moches in an armed convoy. Here, just inside the gate
21:58
Speaker 11: a pool of blood where the marine was shot sangre blood,
22:03
Speaker 11: and inside the door more bloodstains. The walls pock marked
22:07
Speaker 11: with bullet holes and the scars of exploding shrapnel. And
22:11
Speaker 11: remember that walk in closet. The mirrors masked a hidden door.
22:16
Speaker 11: Behind the secret door the entrance to one of El
22:19
Speaker 11: Chopo's trademark tunnels. It's connected to a network of storm
22:24
Speaker 11: drains and sewers. It was forty five minutes before they
22:28
Speaker 11: found El Chapo's escape route. That morning the Marines gave chase.
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Speaker 15: We intensified the search inside the tunnels, opening manhole covers
22:39
Speaker 15: and inserting people into the sewers.
22:41
Speaker 11: Then it started raining hard.
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Speaker 14: This bois after twenty minutes of rain. We thought that
22:50
Speaker 14: Chapo might drown in the sewers because of the high
22:53
Speaker 14: level of the water.
22:54
Speaker 10: So he popped up out of the manhole right in
22:58
Speaker 10: the middle of a busy street.
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Speaker 14: That was his only option.
23:03
Speaker 10: So this is where he came out. He popped out
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Speaker 10: of this manhole cover, which is about a half mile
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Speaker 10: from the house, straight down the road.
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Speaker 14: There.
23:11
Speaker 11: Look carefully at the security camera footage from the gas
23:15
Speaker 11: station across the street at eight fifty five am, four
23:19
Speaker 11: hours after the first shots were exchanged. Right there you
23:23
Speaker 11: can see Chopo and Cholo Ivan climbing out of the sewer.
23:27
Speaker 11: And then in this cell phone video you can see
23:30
Speaker 11: them carjack a white VW Jetta and speed away. The
23:34
Speaker 11: fugitives got only three blocks before the Jetta broke down,
23:38
Speaker 11: so they jacked a second car, a red Ford Focus,
23:42
Speaker 11: but only a couple of miles out of town, that
23:45
Speaker 11: car broke down. Within minutes, the Federal Emergency Center got
23:50
Speaker 11: two reports of hijacked vehicles on the highway out of town.
23:54
Speaker 11: The marines found the Ford already on the bed of
23:57
Speaker 11: a tow truck, but no sign of Chopp and his lieutenant.
24:01
Speaker 11: They had been picked up by the Federal police and
24:04
Speaker 11: taken to a nearby motel. What were they doing in
24:08
Speaker 11: the backseat of the police car.
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Speaker 15: They weren't talking. They were relaxed, but they looked confused.
24:16
Speaker 11: No one knows why the Federal police took Choppo to
24:19
Speaker 11: the motel instead of to jail, but Peter Vincent has
24:23
Speaker 11: a theory.
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Speaker 12: El Choppo undoubtedly said one you let me go now,
24:29
Speaker 12: and I will make you wealthier beyond your wild imaginations.
24:34
Speaker 12: If you should choose to decline my most generous offer,
24:39
Speaker 12: I am not only going to kill you, but I
24:42
Speaker 12: am going to rape and kill your wife and your daughters,
24:47
Speaker 12: and I'm going to torture your sons.
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Speaker 10: He has behaved like that in the past.
24:51
Speaker 12: He has behaved like that virtually his entire criminal career,
24:55
Speaker 12: bribes and threats, bribes and threats, bribes and bullets. Luckily,
25:02
Speaker 12: the Mexican Marines showed up, realized what was going on,
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Speaker 12: and took control of the situation.
25:10
Speaker 11: Chopo was flown to Mexico City for booking. He was
25:13
Speaker 11: paraded before reporters and returned to Altiplano, the same prison
25:18
Speaker 11: from which he had escaped last July.
25:21
Speaker 12: This time, he is rotated from cell to cell to sell.
25:26
Speaker 12: Guards are circulated every fifteen minutes through whatever cell he
25:32
Speaker 12: happens to be occupying on that particular day.
25:35
Speaker 11: The US Justice Department, once Guzman extradited, brought here to
25:39
Speaker 11: face charges for his crimes. Seven separate jurisdictions, including New York, Chicago,
25:45
Speaker 11: and San Diego, all want to put El Chapo on trial.
25:49
Speaker 11: Juan Pedro Badillo is a lawyer who only has one client,
25:54
Speaker 11: Al Chapo. He warns extradition can be a lengthy process.
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Speaker 10: How long do you think the whole extradition legal proceedings
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Speaker 10: will go on?
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Speaker 16: Yes, gains ten, fifteen, twenty years perhaps, or it could
26:11
Speaker 16: be one or two years.
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Speaker 12: El Chapo Guzman knows that if he is ultimately extradited
26:17
Speaker 12: to the United States, it's essentially game over for him.
26:21
Speaker 11: Soon after Choppo's arrest, the US Mexico Task Force captured
26:25
Speaker 11: another two dozen Sinaloa cartel members.
26:29
Speaker 12: It sends an incredibly powerful message to current kingpins, to
26:35
Speaker 12: future Narco traffickers that you may run, you may hide,
26:41
Speaker 12: but ultimately this multinational force will track you down from
26:46
Speaker 12: the highest mountains or the deepest, darkest jungles, or through
26:49
Speaker 12: the stinking sewers of towns and cities anywhere in the
26:52
Speaker 12: world and bring you to justice.
27:03
Speaker 16: Charlie and Carol Gasco were an elderly couple who moved
27:07
Speaker 16: to Santa Monica, California, sometime in early nineteen ninety seven
27:11
Speaker 16: to begin a new phase of their life.
27:13
Speaker 7: For the next.
27:13
Speaker 16: Fourteen years, they did almost nothing that was memorable, and
27:17
Speaker 16: they would be of absolutely no interest if it weren't
27:20
Speaker 16: for the fact that Charlie Gasco turned out to be
27:23
Speaker 16: James Whitey Bulger, the notorious Boston gangster and longtime fugitive
27:28
Speaker 16: who's just beginning to serve two lifetime sentences. Carol Gasco
27:32
Speaker 16: was actually Catherine Gregg Whitey's longtime girlfriend and caregiver. The
27:37
Speaker 16: story of how they managed to elude an international manhunt
27:40
Speaker 16: for so long while hiding in plain sight is interesting Tonight,
27:44
Speaker 16: you'll hear it from the Gasco's neighbors and for the
27:46
Speaker 16: first time from the federal agents who finally unraveled the
27:49
Speaker 16: case with the help of a boob job and an
27:52
Speaker 16: alley cat. If you're forced into retirement with a comfortable
27:57
Speaker 16: nestag and a desire to be left completely alone, there
28:00
Speaker 16: is no better place than Santa Monica, California. This low
28:04
Speaker 16: key seaside suburb of la is shared by transients and tourists,
28:08
Speaker 16: hippies and hedonists, celebrities, and lots of senior citizens attracted
28:13
Speaker 16: to the climate, and an abundance of inexpensive rent control
28:17
Speaker 16: departments just a few blocks from the ocean, places like
28:21
Speaker 16: the Princess Eugenia on Third Street, which is where Charlie
28:24
Speaker 16: and Carol Gasco, a childless couple from Chicago, lived for
28:28
Speaker 16: fourteen years without attracting much attention from longtime neighbors or landlords.
28:34
Speaker 16: Josh Bond is the building manager.
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Speaker 7: What were they like?
28:37
Speaker 17: They were like the nice, retired old couple that lived
28:40
Speaker 17: in the apartment next to me. Good tenants, excellent tenants,
28:43
Speaker 17: never complained, always paid rent on time in cash and cash.
28:47
Speaker 16: Janice Good wouldn't live down the hole.
28:49
Speaker 18: They had nothing. Then they never went out. They'd never
28:53
Speaker 18: had fruit delivered. She never dressed nicely.
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Speaker 16: You thought they were poor, Yes, without a doubt. The
29:00
Speaker 16: one thing everyone remembers about the Gascos is that they
29:03
Speaker 16: loved animals and always made a fuss over the ones
29:06
Speaker 16: in the neighborhood. Barbara Gluck remembers that Carol Gasco always
29:10
Speaker 16: fed a stray cat after its owner had died.
29:13
Speaker 19: She would, you know, pet it and be sweet to it,
29:17
Speaker 19: and then she would put a plate of food like
29:20
Speaker 19: out here.
29:21
Speaker 10: And she liked the cat.
29:23
Speaker 19: Obviously she loved the cat, and we all liked the cat.
29:27
Speaker 5: But she was taking care of the cat.
29:29
Speaker 7: And what about Charlie Gascon, You.
29:31
Speaker 19: Know, he always had a hat on and dark glasses.
29:35
Speaker 19: I have to say, it was mysterious to me why
29:39
Speaker 19: a lovely woman.
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Speaker 5: Like that.
29:42
Speaker 19: Was hanging out with that guy, that old grumpy man.
29:45
Speaker 19: I never could figure that one out until I heard
29:49
Speaker 19: they had eight hundred thousand something dollars in the wall.
29:54
Speaker 5: And then I went, oh, okay.
29:56
Speaker 16: You know money wasn't the only thing found in the
29:59
Speaker 16: Gascos apartment on June twenty second, twenty and eleven, when
30:03
Speaker 16: the FBI stopped by and ended what it called the
30:06
Speaker 16: most extensive manhunt in the bureau's history.
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Speaker 20: Weapons all over the apartment, I mean weapons by his nightstand,
30:12
Speaker 20: weapons under the windowsill, shotguns, mini rugers, rifles loaded, loaded,
30:17
Speaker 20: ready to go.
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Speaker 16: What had started out as a routine day for Special
30:21
Speaker 16: Agent Scott Gariola, who was in charge of hunting fugitives
30:25
Speaker 16: in LA would turn into one of the most interesting
30:27
Speaker 16: days of his career. After getting a call to stake
30:30
Speaker 16: out of building in Santa Monica, he notified his backup
30:33
Speaker 16: team with the LAPD.
30:35
Speaker 20: Had four guys working that day, and they said, we
30:37
Speaker 20: got a tip on Whitey Bulger, and I'll see you
30:40
Speaker 20: there in about an hour, and invariably the text will return.
30:44
Speaker 10: Who's Whitey Bulger?
30:46
Speaker 2: Really?
30:46
Speaker 20: A few of them had remind him, gently, remind him
30:49
Speaker 20: who Whitey Bulger was.
30:50
Speaker 7: That he was number one on the FBI's.
30:53
Speaker 20: Number one number one big East Coast figure, but in
30:56
Speaker 20: the West Coast not so much.
30:58
Speaker 10: Imagine a cartel leader, the.
30:59
Speaker 16: Cops said in la were focused on gangbangers and cartel members,
31:03
Speaker 16: not some retired Irish mobster who hadn't been spotted in
31:06
Speaker 16: sixteen years. But then, few mobsters have ever been as
31:10
Speaker 16: infamous in the city as Whitey Bulger was in Boston,
31:14
Speaker 16: and his reputation was for more than just being grumpy.
31:17
Speaker 16: Besides extortion and flooding the city with cocaine, Bulger routinely
31:22
Speaker 16: performed or ordered executions, some at close range, some with
31:26
Speaker 16: a halo of bullets, and at least won by strangulation,
31:29
Speaker 16: after which it said he took a nap. A special
31:32
Speaker 16: agent Rich Tan, who ran the FBI's Whitey Bulger Fugitive
31:36
Speaker 16: Task Force, had hurt it all.
31:38
Speaker 7: Bulger was charged with nineteen counts of murder.
31:40
Speaker 2: He was charged with other crimes.
31:42
Speaker 9: He was scorged to the Society in South austin his
31:46
Speaker 9: own community.
31:48
Speaker 16: He was also a scourged to the FBI and a
31:50
Speaker 16: great source of embarrassment to ti In special Agent Phil
31:54
Speaker 16: Toursney and others on the FBI task force. Years earlier,
31:58
Speaker 16: Whitey Bulger had infiltrate the Boston office of the FBI
32:02
Speaker 16: and bought off agents who protected him and plied him
32:05
Speaker 16: with information including the tip that allowed Bulger to flee
32:09
Speaker 16: just days before he was to be indicted.
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Speaker 9: We really had to catch this guy to establish credibility
32:16
Speaker 9: after all the other issues, and it was just a
32:18
Speaker 9: matter of bringing this guy back to Boston to make
32:20
Speaker 9: sure this guy didn't die or you know, or get
32:23
Speaker 9: away with this thing.
32:25
Speaker 16: Torsney, who's now retired, and the agent Tommy MacDonald joined
32:28
Speaker 16: the task force in two thousand and nine. The joke
32:31
Speaker 16: was Bulger was on the FBI's least wanted list. There
32:34
Speaker 16: hadn't been a credible lead in more than a decade,
32:37
Speaker 16: and their efforts in Bulger's old neighborhood of South Boston
32:40
Speaker 16: were met with mistrust, in ridicule.
32:43
Speaker 9: Some people, they told us right out from you guys
32:45
Speaker 9: aren't looking.
32:45
Speaker 2: For that guy.
32:46
Speaker 9: People just made the assumption we had him stash somewhere.
32:49
Speaker 9: I mean, people really thought that kind of thing.
32:51
Speaker 21: Despite that mindset that we're not going to help you,
32:55
Speaker 21: the FBI still got it done.
32:57
Speaker 7: Took sixteen years. Took sixteen years.
32:59
Speaker 21: This was a typical fugitive.
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Speaker 16: The FBI says Bulger had planned his getaway years in advance,
33:05
Speaker 16: with money set aside in a fake identity for A.
33:08
Speaker 16: Thomas Baxter. During his first two years on the LAMB,
33:12
Speaker 16: Bulger was in touch with friends and family, shuttling between
33:16
Speaker 16: New York, Chicago, and the resort town of Grand Isle, Louisiana,
33:20
Speaker 16: where he rented a home, until his identity was compromised.
33:24
Speaker 16: After that, it seemed as if Bulger had disappeared from
33:27
Speaker 16: the face of the earth, except for the alleged sightings
33:30
Speaker 16: all over the world.
33:32
Speaker 7: How many of these tips do you think might have
33:34
Speaker 7: been true? Boy?
33:35
Speaker 9: There was thousands and thousands of tips, and I think
33:40
Speaker 9: I don't think any of.
33:41
Speaker 2: Them are true.
33:42
Speaker 16: One of the obstacles was there were really no good
33:45
Speaker 16: photographs of Bulger or his longtime living girlfriend, Katherine Gregg,
33:49
Speaker 16: a former dental hygienist. The FBI often noted that the
33:53
Speaker 16: couple shared a love of animals, especially dogs and cats,
33:57
Speaker 16: and asked veterinarians to be on the lookout. There were
34:00
Speaker 16: reports that greg once had breast implants and other plastic
34:04
Speaker 16: surgery in Boston, so the task force reached out to physicians.
34:08
Speaker 16: Eventually they got a call from a doctor, Matthias Donolan,
34:11
Speaker 16: who had located her files in storage.
34:14
Speaker 21: I was trying to leave the officer early to catch
34:16
Speaker 21: one of my kids' ballgames. And I said, well, listen,
34:18
Speaker 21: I'm going to swing by in the morning and pick
34:20
Speaker 21: those up. And they said to me, do you want
34:23
Speaker 21: the photos too, And they said you have photos and
34:27
Speaker 21: they said, yeah, we have photos. I said, we'll be
34:29
Speaker 21: there in fifteen minutes.
34:30
Speaker 16: The breast implant lead produced a treasure trove of high
34:34
Speaker 16: resolution Catherine greg photographs that would help crack the case.
34:38
Speaker 16: The FBI decided to switch strategies going after the girlfriend
34:42
Speaker 16: in order to catch the gangster.
34:44
Speaker 1: This is an announcement by the FBI.
34:47
Speaker 16: The FBI created this public service announcement.
34:50
Speaker 5: Sixty year old Greeg is the girlfriend of eighty one
34:52
Speaker 5: year old ballger.
34:53
Speaker 16: It ran in fourteen markets on daytime talk shows aimed
34:56
Speaker 16: at women.
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Speaker 1: Called the tip line at one eight hundred call.
34:59
Speaker 16: FBI, and it didn't take long. The very next morning,
35:03
Speaker 16: the Bulger Task Force got three messages from someone that
35:06
Speaker 16: used to live in Santa Monica and was one hundred
35:09
Speaker 16: percent certain that Charlie and Carol Gasco Apartment three to
35:13
Speaker 16: oh three at the Princess Eugenia Apartments were the people
35:16
Speaker 16: they were looking for. The descriptions and the age difference
35:19
Speaker 16: matched and Deputy US Marshall Neil Sullivan, who handled the lead,
35:24
Speaker 16: said there was another piece of tantalizing information.
35:27
Speaker 22: The tips A specifically described that they were caring for
35:30
Speaker 22: this cat and their love for this cat. So that
35:32
Speaker 22: was just one piece of the puzzle on the tip
35:35
Speaker 22: that just added up to saying if this isn't damn
35:38
Speaker 22: it's it's something we better check out immediately because it
35:41
Speaker 22: sure sounds like them.
35:43
Speaker 16: A search of the FBI's computer database for the gascoes
35:46
Speaker 16: raised another red flag, not for what it found, but
35:49
Speaker 16: for what it didn't.
35:50
Speaker 22: Basically like they were ghosts. No driver's license exactly, no
35:54
Speaker 22: driver's license, no California ID, Like they didn't exist.
35:58
Speaker 16: That's the apartment that corner the third floor on the
36:01
Speaker 16: right hand side YEP. By early afternoon, FBI agent Scott
36:04
Speaker 16: Gariola had set up a number of surveillance posts and
36:08
Speaker 16: had already met with apartment manager Josh Bond to talk
36:11
Speaker 16: about his tenants.
36:12
Speaker 17: He closed the door, threw down a folder and open
36:15
Speaker 17: it up and said, are these the people that live
36:17
Speaker 17: in a part of three oh three?
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Speaker 7: Did you say anything when you saw the pictures?
36:22
Speaker 17: Mys reaction was holy.
36:24
Speaker 7: You're living next door to a gangster.
36:26
Speaker 17: Well, I still didn't really know who he was.
36:28
Speaker 16: But it didn't take him long to figure it out.
36:31
Speaker 16: While the FBI was mulling its options, Bond logged onto
36:34
Speaker 16: Bulger's Wikipedia page.
36:36
Speaker 17: I'm just kind of scrolling down. It's like, oh, wow,
36:38
Speaker 17: this guy's serious. It's like murders and extortion. And then
36:42
Speaker 17: I get to the bottom and there's this this thing.
36:44
Speaker 17: It's like from one of his old people saying, well,
36:47
Speaker 17: the last time I saw him, he said, you know,
36:49
Speaker 17: when he goes out, he's he's gonna have guns and
36:51
Speaker 17: he's gonna be ready to.
36:52
Speaker 7: Take people with him.
36:53
Speaker 17: I was like, oh, maybe I shouldn't be involved in this, and.
36:56
Speaker 7: We were sitting here laughing about it. But he's a
36:58
Speaker 7: pretty serious guy.
37:00
Speaker 19: Yeah.
37:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've killed a lot of people, had them kill.
37:03
Speaker 17: I didn't know that at the time.
37:05
Speaker 16: Bond told the FBI he wasn't going to knock on
37:08
Speaker 16: the Gasco's door because there was a note posted expressly
37:12
Speaker 16: asking people not to bother them. Carol had told neighbors
37:15
Speaker 16: that Charlie was showing signs of dementia.
37:17
Speaker 10: So we were back there.
37:19
Speaker 16: So Garyola devised a ruse involving the gasco storage locker
37:23
Speaker 16: in the garage had the name Gasco.
37:25
Speaker 20: Across an apartment three.
37:27
Speaker 16: H three, he had the manager called to tell them
37:30
Speaker 16: that their locker had been broken into and that he
37:32
Speaker 16: needed someone to come down to see if anything was missing.
37:35
Speaker 16: Carol Gasco said her husband would be right down.
37:38
Speaker 10: We just rushed him.
37:39
Speaker 7: He mean guns out, FBI, don't move.
37:42
Speaker 23: Gave the words hey, FBI and get your hands up.
37:46
Speaker 23: Hands went up right away.
37:47
Speaker 20: And then at that moment we told him get down
37:49
Speaker 20: on his knees, and he gave us yeah. He gave
37:53
Speaker 20: us I ain't getting down on my f and knees.
37:55
Speaker 7: Didn't want to get his pantstory.
37:56
Speaker 20: You don't want to get his pants dirty, you know,
37:58
Speaker 20: wearing white and seeing the oil and ground.
38:00
Speaker 10: I guess he didn't want to get down in a will.
38:02
Speaker 16: Even at eighty one. This was a man used to
38:04
Speaker 16: being in control.
38:05
Speaker 20: I asked him to identify himself and acting to go
38:08
Speaker 20: over well. He asked me to fin identify myself, which
38:11
Speaker 20: I did, and I asked him, I.
38:13
Speaker 10: Said, are you are you Whitey Bulger? He said yes.
38:16
Speaker 20: Just about that moment, someone catches my attention from a
38:20
Speaker 20: few feet away by the elevator chef.
38:21
Speaker 16: It was Janice Goodwin from the third floor, coming to
38:24
Speaker 16: do her laundry, and I.
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Speaker 18: So, excuse me, I think I can help you. This
38:28
Speaker 18: man has dementia, so if he's acting oddly, you know,
38:33
Speaker 18: that could be why.
38:34
Speaker 20: Immediately we flashed through my mind as oh my god,
38:36
Speaker 20: I just arrested an eighty one year old man with
38:38
Speaker 20: Alzheimer's who thinks he's Whitey Bulger. What is he going
38:41
Speaker 20: to tell me next? He's Elvis, So I said, do
38:43
Speaker 20: me a favor. I said, this woman up here says
38:45
Speaker 20: you have a touch of Alzheimer's. He said, don't listen
38:48
Speaker 20: to her. She's f n nuts. He says, I'm James Bulger.
38:52
Speaker 16: A few minutes later, he confirmed it, signing a consent
38:55
Speaker 16: form allowing the FBI to search his apartment.
38:58
Speaker 20: As he's signing, he says, that's the first time I
39:01
Speaker 20: signed that name in a long time.
39:02
Speaker 7: There was a feeling of resignation.
39:05
Speaker 23: I don't think he had it.
39:06
Speaker 20: I did ask him. I said, hey, white I said,
39:08
Speaker 20: aren't you relieved that you don't have to look over
39:11
Speaker 20: your shoulder anymore? And it's come to an end? And
39:14
Speaker 20: he said, are you nuts?
39:16
Speaker 16: But in some ways Whitey Bulger and Catherine Gregg had
39:19
Speaker 16: already been prisoners in Apartment three oh three, which appeared
39:23
Speaker 16: to be a mixture of the murderers in the mundane
39:27
Speaker 16: alongside the weapons and all the money they had stockpiled
39:31
Speaker 16: the lifetime supply of cleansers, creams, and detergents. The FBI
39:36
Speaker 16: took special interest in a collection of sixty four ounce
39:39
Speaker 16: bottles with white sock stretched over the top.
39:42
Speaker 20: I said, hey, Whitey, what are these? Are some kind
39:44
Speaker 20: of Molotov cocktail you're making? He goes, No, he said,
39:47
Speaker 20: I buy tube sox from the ninety nine cent store,
39:50
Speaker 20: and the two tied of Mike Calves, so I stretched
39:52
Speaker 20: them out. I said, why are you shopping at the
39:54
Speaker 20: ninety nine cent store? You have half a million dollars
39:56
Speaker 20: under your bed, He goes, I had to make the
39:58
Speaker 20: money last.
40:00
Speaker 16: It's been said that one of the reasons it took
40:02
Speaker 16: so long to catch Whitey Bulger is that people were
40:05
Speaker 16: looking for a gangster in Bulger, whether he liked it
40:08
Speaker 16: or not, had ceased to be one.
40:10
Speaker 9: He said, it was hard to keep up that mindset
40:13
Speaker 9: of a criminal, and that's part of the reason he
40:16
Speaker 9: came down to that garage. He said, if he was
40:19
Speaker 9: on his game, you know, fifteen twenty thirty years ago,
40:22
Speaker 9: he probably would have sent something there. But it was
40:27
Speaker 9: hard to stay on that edge, that criminal edge. After
40:30
Speaker 9: being on the lamb as a regular citizen for fifteen years.
40:33
Speaker 16: The master Manipulator gave credit to Catherine Gregg for keeping
40:36
Speaker 16: him crime free, hoping it would mitigate her sentence. She's
40:40
Speaker 16: now serving eight years for harboring a fugitive. On the
40:44
Speaker 16: long plane ride back to Boston, Bulger told his captors
40:47
Speaker 16: that he became obsessed with not getting caught and would
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Speaker 16: do anything to avoid it, even if it meant obeying
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Speaker 16: the law. Whitey Bulger's biggest fear, they said, was being
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Speaker 16: discovered dead in his apartment. A plan to avoid it.
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Speaker 9: If he became ill and knew he was on his deathbed,
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Speaker 9: he'd go down Arizona, crawl down the bottom one of
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Speaker 9: these mines and die and decompose and hope, hope that
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Speaker 9: we would never find him and still be looking for
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Speaker 9: him forever.
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Speaker 1: Shortly after nine to eleven, the Pentagon ordered a top
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Speaker 1: secret team of American commandos into Afghanistan with a single
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Speaker 1: simple order, kill Osama bin Laden. It was America's best
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Speaker 1: chance to eliminate the leader of al Qaeda. The inside
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Speaker 1: story of exactly what happened in that mission and how
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Speaker 1: close it came to its objective has never been told
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Speaker 1: until tonight. The man you're about to meet was the
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Speaker 1: officer in command leading a team from the US Army's
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Speaker 1: mysterious Delta Force, a unit so secret it's often said
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Speaker 1: that Delta doesn't exist. But you're about to see Delta's
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Speaker 1: operators in action. Why would the mission commander break his
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Speaker 1: silence after seven years? He told us that most everything
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Speaker 1: he's read in the media about his mission is wrong,
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Speaker 1: and tonight he wants to set the record straight.
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Speaker 24: Our job is to go find him, catch or kill him.
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Speaker 24: And we knew the writing on the wall was really
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Speaker 24: to kill him. No one wanted to bring us on
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Speaker 24: the line back to stan trial in the United States somewhere.
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Speaker 1: In two thousand and one, just ten weeks after nine
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Speaker 1: to eleven, he was a thirty seven year old Army
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Speaker 1: major leading a team of America's most elite commandos. Even now,
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Speaker 1: we can't tell you his name or show you his face.
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Speaker 1: We hired a theatrical makeup artist to take the former
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Speaker 1: Delta officer through a series of transformations to create the
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Speaker 1: man you see now. He calls himself Dalton Fury. He's
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Speaker 1: the author of Kill Bin Laden, a new book out
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Speaker 1: this week. Dalton Fury is used to disguise as in fact,
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, his entire team transformed itself
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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 24: Everybody has their beer grown, everybody's were on local Afghan clothing,
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Speaker 24: sometimes carrying the same weapons as them.
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Speaker 1: The idea was that if this all worked out, Osama
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Speaker 1: bin Laden would be dead and no one would ever
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Speaker 1: know that Delta Force was there.
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Speaker 24: That's right, That's the plan, and that always is when
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Speaker 24: you're talking about Delta Force.
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Speaker 1: And there was no mission more important to the United States.
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Speaker 23: We'll smoke him out of his cave and we'll get
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Speaker 23: him eventually.
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Speaker 1: But the administration's strategy was to let Afghans do most
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Speaker 1: of the fighting. Using radio intercepts and other intelligence, the
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Speaker 1: CIA pinpointed Bin Laden in the mountains near the border
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Speaker 1: of Pakistan, following the strategy of keeping an apt face
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Speaker 1: on the war. Fury's Delta team joined the CIA and
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Speaker 1: Afghan fighters and piled into pickup trucks. They videotaped their
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Speaker 1: journey to a place called Tora Bora. Fury told us
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Speaker 1: his orders were to kill Ben Laden and leave the
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Speaker 1: body with the Afghans.
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Speaker 24: Right here, you're looking at basically the battlefield from the
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Speaker 24: last location that we had firm on a somber Law's location.
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Speaker 1: This ridge line is at about fourteen thousand feet and
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Speaker 1: back this way toward me is Pakistan.
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Speaker 23: That's right.
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Speaker 1: On a scale of say one to ten, ten being
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Speaker 1: the toughest. How tough a position is this.
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Speaker 23: To attack, in my experience is to ten.
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Speaker 1: Delta developed an audacious plan to come at Bin Laden
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Speaker 1: from the one direction he would never expect.
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Speaker 23: We want to come in on the back door.
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Speaker 1: You were going to come up over the tops of
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Speaker 1: the peaks.
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Speaker 23: That's right.
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Speaker 24: The original plan that we sent up to a higher headquarters,
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Speaker 24: Delta Force wants to come in over the mountain with
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Speaker 24: oxygen coming from the Pakistan side over the mountain, to
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Speaker 24: come in and get a drop on the line from behind.
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Speaker 2: Why didn't you do that?
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Speaker 24: Disapproved at some level above us, whether that was a
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Speaker 24: central command or all the way up to the president
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Speaker 24: states I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: The next option Delta wanted to employ was to drop
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Speaker 1: hundreds of land mines in the mountain passes that led
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Speaker 1: to Pakistan ben Ladden's escape route.
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Speaker 24: First, God blows his leg off. Everybelle stops. That allows
45:24
Speaker 24: aircraft overhead to find them. They see all these heat
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Speaker 24: sources out there. Okay, there's a big, large group of
45:29
Speaker 24: all Kainda moving south.
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Speaker 23: They can engage that.
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Speaker 1: Why didn't you do that?
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Speaker 23: Disapprove?
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Speaker 1: Why was it not approved?
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Speaker 23: I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: How often does Delta come up with a tactical plan
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Speaker 1: that's disapproved by higher headquarters.
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Speaker 24: In my experience, in my five years of Delta, never before.
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Speaker 1: The military wouldn't tell us who rejected the plans or why.
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Speaker 1: Fury wasn't happy about it, but he pressed on with
45:55
Speaker 1: the only option he had left, a frontal assault on
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Speaker 1: ben Ladden's dug In alcohol of fighters, the Delta team
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Speaker 1: had only about fifty men, so the mission would depend
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Speaker 1: on the Afghan militia as guides and muscle. Their leader
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Speaker 1: was a warlord, a self styled general named Ali.
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Speaker 24: Ali told us after about thirty seconds of discussion, he
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Speaker 24: kind of listened to me Arambalan, and then the first
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Speaker 24: thing he said was, I don't think you guys can
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Speaker 24: handle it.
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Speaker 23: You can't handle Al Kada in these mountains.
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Speaker 1: Ali second from the left, met with this CIA officer
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Speaker 1: and accepted millions of dollars in cash from the agency.
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Speaker 1: In short order, his muja Hadeen fighters were escorting Delta
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Speaker 1: force into the mountains. Paint the picture for me of
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Speaker 1: these Afghan muja Hadeen troops.
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Speaker 24: They ranged anywhere from maybe fourteen up to maybe eighty.
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Speaker 23: Various dress.
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Speaker 24: Basically we would probably consider it rags, which is the
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Speaker 24: standard dress for a Mujahadeen warrior.
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Speaker 1: This is video of the top secret mission, never seen
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Speaker 1: by the public. It was recorded by the Delta commandos
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Speaker 1: themselves dressed like Afghans. The Americans maneuvered up the mountains,
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Speaker 1: calling in airstrikes on al Qaeda. By day they would advance,
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Speaker 1: but at night they soon discovered that their Afghan allies
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Speaker 1: went home. Well, I have to assume that if you
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Speaker 1: started up the hills of Tora Bora and the muja
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Speaker 1: Hadeen took territory, they didn't abandon.
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Speaker 23: That at night, Oh yes they did.
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Speaker 2: They gave it up to the enemy.
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Speaker 23: Absolutely.
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Speaker 24: The Mujadin would go up, get into a skirmish, firefight,
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Speaker 24: lose a guy or too, maybe killing al Kada guy
47:37
Speaker 24: or two and then they leave. It was almost like
47:39
Speaker 24: it was an agreement in understanding between the two forces
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Speaker 24: fighting each other, almost put on a good show and
47:44
Speaker 24: then leave.
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Speaker 1: Four days after arriving in Tora Bora Dalton, Fury was
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Speaker 1: faced with a fateful command decision. Three of his men
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Speaker 1: were in trouble behind enemy lines, and at the same time,
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Speaker 1: the CIA had been listening to Ben Laden's radio transmissions
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Speaker 1: and had a breakthrough.
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Speaker 23: And this is where it gets complicated.
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Speaker 24: At about the same time the CIA George comes into
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Speaker 24: our room and he says, guys, I got a location
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Speaker 24: for sam bin Laden. That's probably the best location of
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Speaker 24: data we've had on sam Mi Lan.
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Speaker 1: Ever, it was night, so Fury was without his Afghan allies. Still,
48:21
Speaker 1: he managed to rescue his men and then found himself
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Speaker 1: approaching bin Laden's doorstep.
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Speaker 24: We're about two thousand meters away when we think Ben
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Speaker 24: Lond's at still from where we're at.
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Speaker 23: Now, we have to make a decision.
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Speaker 1: Fury had two choices. Advance his small team with no
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Speaker 1: Afghan support, or returned to camp and assault In the morning.
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Speaker 1: He was under orders to make the Afghans take the
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Speaker 1: lead and intelligence said there were more than one thousand
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Speaker 1: hardened fighters protecting ben Laden. You write in the book
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Speaker 1: my decision to abort that effort to kill or capture
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Speaker 1: Bin Laden when we might have been within two thousand
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Speaker 1: meters of him about two thousand yards still bothers me.
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Speaker 1: It leaves me with a feeling of somehow letting down
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Speaker 1: our nation at.
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Speaker 2: A critical time.
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Speaker 23: That's correct.
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Speaker 1: Why do you feel that way?
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Speaker 24: Had we gone up that ridge line towards that location,
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Speaker 24: some be Laden might have been five hundred meters away.
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Speaker 24: We might have run right into him. So there's always
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Speaker 24: that doubt that we might have run into him. We
49:29
Speaker 24: also might have got up there and found nothing. It
49:32
Speaker 24: wasn't worth the risk at that particular moment to go
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Speaker 24: up there and play cowboy. It was better to be
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Speaker 24: cautious refit, go up there with the entire force the
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Speaker 24: next day and play the battle out as we had planned.
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Speaker 1: In the morning, Ben Laden was on the radio. The
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Speaker 1: CIA Delta and their Afghan allies were listening. How did
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Speaker 1: the Afghans react when they heard from Osama Bin Laden
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Speaker 1: on the radio?
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Speaker 24: Some of Laden is many a Muslim's hero. These guys,
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Speaker 24: in my opinion, were more in awe of Osama bin
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Speaker 24: Laden than they were willing to kill him. When they
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Speaker 24: heard him talking on the radio, they would gather around
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Speaker 24: the individual to hell that handheld transistor. He would hold
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Speaker 24: it up in the air, almost as if he didn't
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Speaker 24: want the connection to break, almost like they could see
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Speaker 24: the ridge line with Lada happened to be talking from
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Speaker 24: like they could almost see him and feel his presence.
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Speaker 24: And they just stood there with white eyes and someone
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Speaker 24: in awe that here is a leader of the Jahad,
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Speaker 24: the leader of al Qaeda, and they're actually hearing his
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Speaker 24: voice over the radio.
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Speaker 1: And these were the men who were supposed to help
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Speaker 1: you capture or killing some allies.
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Speaker 23: Some were better than others.
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Speaker 1: The radio intercepts gave Delta a fix on Ben Ladden's location,
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Speaker 1: and one of the Delta soldiers narrated his own video.
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Speaker 6: This top hill, very top up there, that supposedly were
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Speaker 6: Ben Lon's hanging out. We've seen movement along this saddle
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Speaker 6: right here. We don't know if it's up friendly or not,
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Speaker 6: so we have been able caught fire on it.
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Speaker 1: And then something extraordinary happened. Fury's Afghan allies announced that
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Speaker 1: they had negotiated a ceasefire with al Qaeda, something the
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Speaker 1: Americans had no interest in. When Fury's team advanced anyway,
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Speaker 1: his Afghan partners drew their weapons on Delta. It took
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Speaker 1: twelve hours to end the bogus ceasefire, precious time for
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Speaker 1: al Qaeda to move.
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Speaker 23: So we think he's moved over here.
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Speaker 1: So Osama bin Laden starts here as far as we know,
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Speaker 1: and he's coming all the way around. Now he's doubled back.
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Speaker 2: You got to figure he's heading for the.
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Speaker 1: Valley and the pass into Pakistan.
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Speaker 23: Our assumption is he's going for the valley.
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Speaker 1: At that time, ben Laden had changed direction and the
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Speaker 1: tone of his radio calls.
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Speaker 24: Clearly under dress, clearly hurting, clearly caring.
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Speaker 1: For his men inside this building. The American team listened
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Speaker 1: to ben Laden on the radio. Fury wrote down the
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Speaker 1: translation in a notebook.
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Speaker 24: Quote, our prayers were not answered. Times are dire and bad.
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Speaker 24: We did not get support from the apostates who are
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Speaker 24: our brothers. I'm sorry for bringing you here. It is
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Speaker 24: okay to surrender. End quote.
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Speaker 1: When you heard that, what did you think?
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Speaker 23: I thought it's almost over.
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Speaker 1: Soon after that intercept, a Delta team called Jackal radioed
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Speaker 1: that they had been Laden's entourage. In sight, the.
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Speaker 24: Operation Jackal team observed fifty men moving into a cave
52:47
Speaker 24: that they hadn't seen before. The Mouja Deans said they
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Speaker 24: saw an individual, a taller fella wearing a camouflage jacket.
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Speaker 24: Everybody put two and two together. Okay, that's got to
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Speaker 24: be a Sambad lad egressing from the battlefield. They called
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Speaker 24: up every available bomba their took a toll of the
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Speaker 24: airspace and they dropped several hours of bombs on the
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Speaker 24: cave he went into. We believe it was our penny
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Speaker 24: of the time that he died inside that cave.
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Speaker 1: Ben Ladden's radio went silent, and Dalton Fury believed that
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Speaker 1: the bombs had killed him. Six months later, American and
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Speaker 1: Canadian forces came back for proof. They checked al Qaeda
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Speaker 1: fighting holes and used explosives to try to open up
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Speaker 1: collapsed caves. This is where they hoped to find Ben
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Speaker 1: Ladden's body. It's an al Qaeda graveyard rising from the
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Speaker 1: opium poppies. The troops dug up bodies and removed the
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Speaker 1: fingers for forensic analysis, but there was no luck. In
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Speaker 1: October two thousand and four, Ben Laden released a message,
53:46
Speaker 1: and Fury knew that his team had failed. Today based
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Speaker 1: on intelligence, Fury believes he knows what happened. He says
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Speaker 1: that Ben Ladden was wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel
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Speaker 1: from an American bomb and was then hidden in this
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Speaker 1: town next to the al Qaeda cemetery.
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Speaker 24: We believe a gentleman brought him in, a gentleman who
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Speaker 24: him and his family were supporting al Qadra during the battle.
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Speaker 24: They were providing food alma water. We think he went
54:13
Speaker 24: to that house, received medical attention for a few days,
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Speaker 24: and then we believe they put him in a vehicle
54:17
Speaker 24: moved them back across the pass.
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Speaker 1: This is the trail Ben Laden would have used to escape, does.
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Speaker 24: My understand They believe he got into a vehicle, he
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Speaker 24: moved as far as he could, and then got out
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Speaker 24: and walked across or was carried across the pass in
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Speaker 24: a Pakistan free and clear. When this is all over
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Speaker 24: and this all dies down, and once we finally do
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Speaker 24: grab Assamba Lauden, I think the fact that we lost
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Speaker 24: him into a bora will move out of my memory,
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Speaker 24: so to speak. Now I'm looking forward to those days