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100 Officers, 3 Days, One Wyoming Rancher: How the Charles Moses Manhunt Ended

For three days in February 2000, more than 100 officers, airplanes, and military helicopters searched the frozen plains of western Nebraska. Schools closed. A farmer was dead, and two officers had been shot.

The man they were looking for, Charles Lannis Moses Jr., a Texas survivalist wanted on warrants for probation violation and explosives, had vanished across the state line into Wyoming. It wasn't a SWAT team that ended the hunt. It was a rancher named Jim Kremers, his son, a standoff in a muddy yard, and a deal made at gunpoint.

This episode traces the shootout, the killing of farmer…

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