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Taking Down the Kehoe Brothers： Deadly Mission · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: There's a way to make an entrance my destiny. It
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Speaker 1: was now a conspiracy of.
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Speaker 2: Which download VLI. Today a family vanishes without a trace.
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Speaker 2: Local authorities find no leads to the identity of their abductors.
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Speaker 2: When stolen weapons began to surface, investigators realized the perpetrators
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Speaker 2: were part of a nationwide rampage of violence. They were
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Speaker 2: dangerous men who had stop at nothing to a speak justice.
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Speaker 3: When a family was murdered Knarkansas, it seemed like an
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Speaker 3: isolated event, but soon the crime was revealed to be
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Speaker 3: part of an ever widening circle of violence. But to
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Speaker 3: find a new age of domestic terrorism, I'm Jim Calstrom
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Speaker 3: Farm ahead of the FBI's New York office.
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Speaker 2: For the killers, the triple.
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Speaker 3: Homicide Knarkansaw was simply a means to an end. They
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Speaker 3: made their way across the country, letting nothing stand between
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Speaker 3: them and their twisted mission, and we would stop at
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Speaker 3: nothing to prevent their rampage.
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Speaker 2: January nineteen ninety six, Tilly, Arkansas, a rural neighborhood, was
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Speaker 2: home to William Mueller. Mueller was a gun enthusiast and
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Speaker 2: self employed electrician. His wife, Nancy, homeschooled their eight year
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Speaker 2: old daughter Sarah. Returning from a day of work, the
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Speaker 2: Muellers were confronted by two men in their home. They
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Speaker 2: were dressed as FBI agents, but they were impostors. They
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Speaker 2: were after the large supply of weapons and cash that
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Speaker 2: Mueller had in his home. When the fifty two year
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Speaker 2: old Mueller refused to cooperate, the intruders separated the family
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Speaker 2: and tortured them. Nancy Muller's mother, Arlene Branch, grew concerned
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Speaker 2: when she hadn't heard from her daughter in two weeks.
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Speaker 2: She turned to the sheriff for help.
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Speaker 4: I usually hear from or at least.
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Speaker 2: She explained that the family often traveled to gun shows,
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Speaker 2: yet her daughter always called when they returned on you.
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Speaker 2: Although the Muellers lived in a neighboring county, the sheriff
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Speaker 2: knew the family and agreed to look into the matter.
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Speaker 2: He checked with local authorities and talked to Mueller's neighbors.
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Speaker 2: Though Sheriff Jay Winters found no trace of the family,
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Speaker 2: people who knew them weren't concerned.
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Speaker 5: For the most part, there wasn't a lot of fear.
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Speaker 5: Most people thought, you know, maybe they had had just
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Speaker 5: gone off somewhere and wanted to be on their own
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Speaker 5: for a while.
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Speaker 2: On February eleventh, a month after their disappearance, a farmer
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Speaker 2: found the Mueller's jeep concealed and abandoned off the highway
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Speaker 2: miles from their horn. Detective Aaron Duval from the Pope
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Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Office was sent to investigate.
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Speaker 6: It was approximately twenty miles north of Russville, off the
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Speaker 6: State Highway seven. Hid behind a brush pile. I was
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Speaker 6: called out that day when up there took pictures of
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Speaker 6: the vehicle and the trailer.
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Speaker 2: Inside the jeep, Duval found Nancy Mueller's purse. It held
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Speaker 2: her wallet and id. The trailer, used by Bill Muller
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Speaker 2: to transport munitions to gun shows empty. Several more months
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Speaker 2: passed and the Muellers were still missing. Forty miles from Tilley,
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Speaker 2: an elderly couple enjoyed a day of fishing in a
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Speaker 2: bayou near Russellville. While waiting for a fish to bite,
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Speaker 2: the woman snagged her line. She pulled up an old
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Speaker 2: tennis shoe. A leg bone jutted out of it. Horrified,
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Speaker 2: she cut it loose and went for help. Within hours,
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Speaker 2: search teams cornered the byo organized by Sheriff Winters. They
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Speaker 2: used large metal hooks to drag the Buyo divers swammed
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Speaker 2: the depths. By day's end, parts of a single body
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Speaker 2: were recovered a murder victim.
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Speaker 5: And the torso had a rock attached to it. There
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Speaker 5: was a lot of tape on it. The head had
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Speaker 5: a bag of some type on it. Duct tape around
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Speaker 5: the head. Very disturbing dust because it was obvious, you
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Speaker 5: know that this was a different type of thing than
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Speaker 5: we typically deal with. It was an obvious execution. It
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Speaker 5: was just some cold hearted people.
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Speaker 2: Investigators determined it was the body of a small female.
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Speaker 2: They thought it might have been a six year old
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Speaker 2: girl who had been abducted several counties away the previous year.
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Speaker 2: When the clothing and size didn't match her description, another
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Speaker 2: possibility became apparent. It could have been Sarah Mula. The
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Speaker 2: next day, two more partial bodies were found. All three
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Speaker 2: torsos had been weighed down with rocks and each head
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Speaker 2: was covered with a plastic bag secured with duct tape.
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Speaker 2: Dental records, DNA and clothing confirmed the identity of the bodies.
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Speaker 2: They were William Mueller, his wife Nancy, and their daughters Sarah.
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Speaker 2: The missing person's case was now a grisly triple homicide investigation.
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Speaker 6: It was bad for Bill and Nancy to have to
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Speaker 6: die the way they did, but for a seven year
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Speaker 6: old girl to die that way, to be wrapped with plastic,
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Speaker 6: to be wrapped with duct tape, to have a sixty
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Speaker 6: pound rock strapped to her body and throat into a
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Speaker 6: like there was no excuse.
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Speaker 2: During the autopsy, the coroner determined that the three had
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Speaker 2: probably been in the water since January eleventh, the last
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Speaker 2: day they were seen. A later examination revealed several specs
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Speaker 2: of blue paint stuck to the tape that bound the bodies.
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Speaker 2: The investigators sent the paint specs to the FBI lab
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Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. For analysis. A forensic chemist determined
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Speaker 2: that they were consistent with auto paint. The challenge was
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Speaker 2: to match them to a specific make and model. Using
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Speaker 2: infra red light, the examiner established the chemical composition of
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Speaker 2: the paint. This chemical signature was fed into a computer
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Speaker 2: database containing similar information from every automake, model and color
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Speaker 2: dating back to nineteen thirty four. The results gave the
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Speaker 2: Arkansas investigators their first lead.
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Speaker 6: So we thought that the vehicle that the bodies were
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Speaker 6: transported in possibly was blue. It was determined a particular
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Speaker 6: blue color, metallic blue. The FBI even narrowed it down
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Speaker 6: that it was a general motors vehicle.
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Speaker 2: Investigators reasoned that they were looking for at least two perpetrators.
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Speaker 2: One must have driven the blue car with the bodies
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Speaker 2: in it to the water, while the other followed in
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Speaker 2: the Muller's cheek. By the time they dumped the bodies,
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Speaker 2: the Mullers were probably already dead, suffocated by the plastic bags.
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Speaker 2: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from Little Rock,
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Speaker 2: Arkansas was called in. ATF Agent Glenn Jordan headed the case.
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Speaker 7: Our jurisdiction lay in the fact that Mueller was a
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Speaker 7: former federal farms licensee, that is, firearms were missing, and
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Speaker 7: the fact that mister Mueller and his family had been murdered.
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Speaker 2: The ATF had a complete record of Mueller's gun inventory
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Speaker 2: before he forfeited his federal license, with no reports of
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Speaker 2: gun sales since then. Agents figured the missing weapons had
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Speaker 2: been stolen.
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Speaker 7: Our goal was to enter the serial numbers of those
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Speaker 7: firearms into the National Crime Information Computer in case those
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Speaker 7: firearms turned up later, that would give us a lead
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Speaker 7: to follow in the investigation.
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Speaker 2: Jordan was already familiar with Bill Muller's name, since the
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Speaker 2: family had been the victims of a theft one year earlier.
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Speaker 2: At the time of that robbery, Mueller reported forty thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars worth of merchandise stolen, including five firearms and ammunition.
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Speaker 2: Since the Muellers had been victims of a robbery and
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Speaker 2: homicide within the same year, agents believed that the family
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Speaker 2: had been targeted by a group who used and sold
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Speaker 2: stolen weapons, perhaps members of an anti government militia. Investigate
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Speaker 2: his return to inspect the mule's belongings. After the family
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Speaker 2: had disappeared, relatives had taken most of their valuable items.
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Speaker 2: The landlord stored the remaining possessions in his garage. They
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Speaker 2: found a Colt forty five gun case labeled with a
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Speaker 2: serial number, but the gun was missing. They also found
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Speaker 2: a picture of the family with some friends. The ATF
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Speaker 2: entered the serial number of the Colt forty five into
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Speaker 2: the NCIC, the National Crime Information Center. They got a hit.
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Speaker 2: The handgun had been traced to a man named Travis Brake.
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Speaker 2: He had been arrested five months earlier in Seattle, Washington
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Speaker 2: for carrying a concealed weapon. Because the gun he was
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Speaker 2: carrying was now linked to another crime, Brake was arrested
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Speaker 2: again by the Seattle police, this time for possession of
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Speaker 2: a stolen weapon murder.
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Speaker 8: What do you mean about it?
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Speaker 2: Jordan and Duval flew to Washington State to question him.
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Speaker 7: Mister Brake was interviewed and advised the Seattle Placed Department
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Speaker 7: that he had purchased this handgun at a gun show
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Speaker 7: in Seattle, Washington, and he described two individuals that he
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Speaker 7: had purchased the fim from, one in particularly that he remembered.
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Speaker 2: Investigators showed him the photograph found among the Muller's possessions.
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Speaker 2: Brake identified one of the men who sold him the gun.
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Speaker 7: That's him.
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Speaker 2: His name was Keith Collins. Agents asked Bill and Nancy
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Speaker 2: Mueller's friends if they had ever heard of him. Collins
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Speaker 2: had once been close with the Muellers. They had attended
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Speaker 2: gun shows together. Investigators discovered that Keith Collins's real name
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Speaker 2: was Kirby Keyho. The ATF learned that Kirby Keyhoe had
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Speaker 2: an extensive record for firearms violations. Kehoe was also actively
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Speaker 2: involved in the White supremacist movement. Members of this growing
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Speaker 2: faction are strongly anti government, heavily armed, and considered dangerous.
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Speaker 2: Kirby Keyhoe became a prime suspect in the Mueller triple homicide.
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Speaker 2: Investigators needed more evidence before they moved in for an arrest.
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Speaker 2: Almost a year after the triple murder and robbery of
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Speaker 2: Bill Nancy and Sarah Mueller, investigators were still hunting for
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Speaker 2: the killers, believed to be militant white supremacists. In Sioux Falls,
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Speaker 2: South Dakota, eleven months after the crime, the trooper noticed
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Speaker 2: a blue Chevy suburban parked in a handicapped space. He
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Speaker 2: found a young couple sleeping inside. The man said his
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Speaker 2: name was Sean Haynes, got any coat and his pregnant
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Speaker 2: girlfriend had pulled over to rest for a while. From
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Speaker 2: the bumper stickers on his truck, the trooper believed he
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Speaker 2: was a white supremacist. He asked Haines if he was
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Speaker 2: carrying any weapons. Haynes showed him two guns in the
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Speaker 2: back of his vehicle. The trooper called in the serial
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Speaker 2: numbers and discovered they had been stolen. One, an AR
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Speaker 2: fifteen rifle, had been taken from the Mueller's house in Arkansas.
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Speaker 2: Haines was arrested. Alerted that one of Mueller's guns had
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Speaker 2: turned up in South Dakota, investigators from Arkansas went there
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Speaker 2: to interview Haines. Haines revealed that he had traded another
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Speaker 2: firearm for the AR fifteen rifle at a Washington State
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Speaker 2: motel six months earlier.
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Speaker 1: Can explain how they got there.
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Speaker 2: The name of the man he swapped with was Chevy
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Speaker 2: Keyho Kirby, Kejo's eldest son. Now Chevy was also connected
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Speaker 2: to the Mueller murders. Investigators weren't through with Haines, though
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Speaker 2: they took a paint sample from his blue Suburban. They
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Speaker 2: determined that the sample did not match the paint found
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Speaker 2: on the duct tape wrapped around the murmers. Haines had
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Speaker 2: nothing more to offer. The investigation turned to Chevy Keyhole,
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Speaker 2: but he was nowhere to be found. Several weeks later,
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Speaker 2: Ohio State Highway Patrol officer Harold Harker had a routine
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Speaker 2: assignment to catch speeders in the small town of Wilmington,
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Speaker 2: not far from Cincinnati. While observing traffic, he noticed a
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Speaker 2: blue Chevy suburban going slower than the speed limit. Parker,
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Speaker 2: a twenty five year veteran who was now retired, recalled
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Speaker 2: how he thought the people inside were acting strangely as
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Speaker 2: they drove by.
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Speaker 9: As it approached, I saw it did not have a
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Speaker 9: front license plate, and as it passed me past, the
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Speaker 9: driver didn't acknowledge my presence in any way, didn't look
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Speaker 9: at the patrol car, just kept both hands on the wheel,
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Speaker 9: fixed straight ahead. However, the passenger not only looked at
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Speaker 9: me as he went by, he actually turned in the
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Speaker 9: seat and looked out the rear window to watch me.
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Speaker 2: Parker knew that Washington State required vehicles to have license
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Speaker 2: plates on both front and back. He pulled in the
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Speaker 2: plate number and followed the suburban while waiting for his
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Speaker 2: dispatcher to come back with some information.
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Speaker 9: And they returned and told me that the plate apparently
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Speaker 9: did match the vehicle, however, it was expired. So at
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Speaker 9: that point I made the determination that once we got
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Speaker 9: into Wilmington, where the berms were wider, I would initiate
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Speaker 9: a traffic stop there.
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Speaker 2: Parker's car was equipped with a video camera mounted on
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Speaker 2: the dashboard. The microphone was fastened to Harker's shirt. Harker
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Speaker 2: asked the passenger and driver for ID while talking to
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Speaker 2: the men Harker became more troubled. Neither had any id.
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Speaker 2: The driver was speaking in a very animated fashion while
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Speaker 2: the passenger looked straight ahead.
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Speaker 9: At this point, I was concerned enough with my safety
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Speaker 9: and so on. I wanted to get the people away
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Speaker 9: from the vehicle, and I wanted to hear again, get
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Speaker 9: them separated, get the passage, to get the driver into
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Speaker 9: my car so that I'm a little more in control
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Speaker 9: of their actions put back paper.
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Speaker 2: The driver eventually followed Harker to his patrol car.
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Speaker 9: Say you borrowed the vehicle, Say you borrowed the vehicle.
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Speaker 7: It's I actually want to hope they involvement, okay.
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Speaker 2: When the officer tried to frisk it, the driver quickly
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Speaker 2: stepped back and became defensive, and.
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Speaker 9: He actually moved away from me and used the terminology
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Speaker 9: I don't want to be violated like that. In twenty
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Speaker 9: five years of criminal control operations, I had never had
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Speaker 9: anyone use that particular terminology. And that coupled with the
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Speaker 9: appearance of the two young men, the fact that they
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Speaker 9: had close cropped military style haircuts, very clean cut, and
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Speaker 9: the driver had a Marine Corps type cover, I felt
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Speaker 9: comfortable that I was probably dealing with militia personnel.
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Speaker 2: At that point, across the highway, a fellow officer, Deputy
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Speaker 2: Sheriff Robert Gates, saw Harker talking with the driver and
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Speaker 2: turned around to assist him. This was a common practice
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Speaker 2: since officers often worked alone in rural sections of the state.
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Speaker 9: His whole purpose is to monitor the entire situation. He
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Speaker 9: doesn't get involved with answering questions, giving direction.
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Speaker 2: That's my job.
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Speaker 9: His job is purely to watch and observe.
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Speaker 2: The men told him they were looking for work on
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Speaker 2: construction sites. Harker told the driver that if he or
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Speaker 2: his passenger could not provide identification, their vehicle would be confiscated.
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Speaker 2: The driver attempted to escape dispose officers tried to apprehend it,
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Speaker 2: and the passenger jumped from the vehicle and started firing.
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Speaker 2: The passenger fled the scene while Harker tried to steal
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Speaker 2: the driver, His arm became caught in the door. When
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Speaker 2: he managed to free himself, the other suspect escaped into
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Speaker 2: the wood gates pursuiting. He feared an ambush among the
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Speaker 2: dense trees, so he turned around, parking back at his garb,
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Speaker 2: and he shot out tire call frail. Within moments, the
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Speaker 2: rest of the Wilmington, Ohio Police Department was notified about
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Speaker 2: the shootout. Officer Robert Martin heard the bulletin and then
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Speaker 2: observed a suburban in an electrical supply company parking lot.
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Speaker 2: He called in his location. As he went to investigate.
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Speaker 7: All the tenants of best suspect Eagle behind the police appartment.
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Speaker 2: The suburban's driver opened fire. Another policeman arrived to a
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Speaker 2: system the suspect had disappeared into the industrial area. He
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Speaker 2: shot thirty two rounds, one wounded a bystander back at
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Speaker 2: the first shootoutside, investigators were trying to piece together what
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Speaker 2: happened and to learn the shooter's identities. Using metal detectors,
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Speaker 2: they searched for shell casings. The entire area was meticulously
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Speaker 2: photographed and all evidence collected. The small town of Wilmington
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Speaker 2: had never seen anything like this. Police mobilized a man
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Speaker 2: hunt for the two armed suspects. The search continued into
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Speaker 2: the night. Reinforcements were brought in from neighboring counties. Police
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Speaker 2: knew the suspects would resort to violence in order to escape.
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Speaker 2: They had to find them before anyone was kicked. The
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Speaker 2: suspects in the shootout were still at large. The ATF
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Speaker 2: and Ohio State Police examined the second gunfight location in
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Speaker 2: the Chevy suburban. The entire crime scene was processed for
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Speaker 2: fingerprints in hopes of determining the shooter's identity. Inside the
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Speaker 2: vehicle were assault rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, military supplies,
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Speaker 2: and medical packs. Investigators traced the munitions through receipts supplied
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Speaker 2: by the manufacturers. Much of the ammo and gun parts
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Speaker 2: belonged to the murdered Arkansas gun dealer, William Mueller. The
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Speaker 2: extent of the military supplies suggested the shooters were violent
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Speaker 2: members of an anti government group. Ohio investigators notified the FBI.
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Speaker 2: FBI agent Bill Hargraves from the Cincinnati Field Office spearheaded
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Speaker 2: the investigation.
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Speaker 10: The case became a domestic terrorism case basically because of
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Speaker 10: the items that were found in the suburban. They had
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Speaker 10: numerous weapons, ammunition, law enforcement clothing and equipment, law enforcement identification.
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Speaker 2: Yes this is trouper. Herman with the Ohio State Troopers
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Speaker 2: traced the suburman's registration to a man named Jacob Settle
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Speaker 2: from Spokane, Washington State. The day of the shootout. Settle
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Speaker 2: told the trooper he was with friends in Washington State,
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Speaker 2: more than two thousand miles from Ohio. He also claimed
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Speaker 2: that he had sold the vehicle to a man named
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Speaker 2: Chevy Keho. It would take several days for authorities to
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Speaker 2: corroborate Settle's story. Ohio State troopers compared a copy of
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Speaker 2: Settle's driver's license photo against images of the fugitives caught
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Speaker 2: on tape. The picture didn't match. The videotape was their
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Speaker 2: best clue. Ohio State Police released the tape nationwide to
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Speaker 2: try to find the shooter's identities. The shootout video made
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Speaker 2: prime time news around the country and produced the break
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Speaker 2: investigators needed. A Washington State TV reporter recognized the driver
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Speaker 2: as a white supremacist she had interviewed several years earlier
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Speaker 2: for the t V show Hard Copy. His name was
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Speaker 2: Chevy Kiho. Several cops and residents confirmed the identification. Back
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Speaker 2: in Arkansas, Pope County investigators working on the Mueller triple
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Speaker 2: homicide also watched the video for the first time they
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Speaker 2: saw chevy Kiho. They assisted Ohio state and federal investigators
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Speaker 2: in the manhun since chevy was also a suspect in
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Speaker 2: the Arkansas writers, Duval and Jordan traveled to Ohio to
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Speaker 2: meet with FBI agent Hargraves to share information. They told
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Speaker 2: Hargraves that the killers used a blue General Motors vehicle
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Speaker 2: to transport the victims, and our Grave thought the connection
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Speaker 2: was strong since the truck abandoned after the shootout was
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Speaker 2: a blue Chevy suburban and more of Mueller's property was
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Speaker 2: found inside of the team agreed that if paint scrapings
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Speaker 2: from the suburban matched the blue paint specks found on
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Speaker 2: the victims, they would have forensic evidence tying Chevy Keyhole
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Speaker 2: to the Arkansas crimes. At the FBI lab in Washington,
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Speaker 2: d C, examiners determined that the paint sbecks did not
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Speaker 2: match the sample found in Arkansas. FBI agent Jim Shannandor
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Speaker 2: was called in a specialist in tracking domestic terrorists like
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Speaker 2: Chevy Keyhole.
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Speaker 4: We found out that they had engaged in militia type activities,
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Speaker 4: that they had anti government views. They were very anti
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Speaker 4: law enforcement at the time, so it really heightened the
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Speaker 4: security in terms of what these suspects were going to
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Speaker 4: do next.
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Speaker 2: Seeking more information on Chevy Keyhole, the Washington State Trooper
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Speaker 2: interviewed his father, Kirby, at his home in Colesville. The
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Speaker 2: trooper asked him if he recognized the men in the video.
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Speaker 2: Kirby did not identify his son Chevy, but he said
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Speaker 2: the second man was his younger son, Shane.
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Speaker 10: We found this unusual because the video made it fairly
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Speaker 10: easily to identify the driver, who was Chevy, but not
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Speaker 10: quite as easy to identify Shane. We thought that perhaps
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Speaker 10: there might have been some favoritism for one son over
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Speaker 10: the other.
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Speaker 2: The FBI looked into the background of twenty three year
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Speaker 2: old Chevy and twenty one year old Shane Kehoe.
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Speaker 4: Chevy Keyho was linked to a variety of crimes. In
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Speaker 4: addition to the three murders in Arkansas, he was linked
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Speaker 4: to a murder in Washington State and a murderer and
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Speaker 4: we believe in Idaho. He also committed a series of burglaries, robberies,
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Speaker 4: and extortions, and also interstate transportation is stolen property.
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Speaker 2: Apbs were issued for the key Oh brothers. On February eighteenth,
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Speaker 2: investigators picked up the key Host trail in Frankfort, Ohio,
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Speaker 2: forty five miles from the shootout side in Wilmington, a
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Speaker 2: Chevy Monte Carlo was found abandoned in a grocery store
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Speaker 2: parking lot. It had been reported stolen a mile from
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Speaker 2: where the shootout had come. Authority suspected at least one
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Speaker 2: of the keyholes had stolen it to escape the man
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Speaker 2: hunt the keys where all the robber had left. Investigators
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Speaker 2: feared the desperate brothers would stop at nothing to escape custody.
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Speaker 2: State police fanned out to canvass the area, hoping some
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Speaker 2: one may have seen one of the fugitives. A mile away,
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Speaker 2: at the Lake Hill Campground, the Keyhose path re emerged.
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Speaker 2: Investigators learned that the pair had camped there with their
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Speaker 2: families in an RV, but authorities arrived too late. Just
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Speaker 2: two days earlier, the motor home had pulled out. No
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Speaker 2: one knew if the brothers were on board. The FBI
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Speaker 2: released a nationwide ap B for the vehicle. As the
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Speaker 2: weeks passed, people reported sightings of the r V. They
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Speaker 2: had also seen women and children in the camper. Each
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Speaker 2: time authorities responded, the camper was gone. The Keyhose trail
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Speaker 2: heated up again one hundred and fifty miles away in Indianapolis, Indiana,
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Speaker 2: where another stolen vehicle was recovered inside, investigators found clothing
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Speaker 2: and a gas receipt signed by Chevy Keiho, but no
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Speaker 2: trace of his brother Shane. The van had been stolen
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Speaker 2: thirteen miles from where Chevy fled the blue suburban after
31:43
Speaker 2: firing on Ohio officers. The Kios were still one step ahead.
31:51
Speaker 2: The trail of plundered cars signaled that the Keyhose crime
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Speaker 2: spree would not cease until authorities stopped them.
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Speaker 4: There is we felt early on that if confronted again
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Speaker 4: by law enforcement, that there would be a great probability
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Speaker 4: that there would be another shooting involved in that innocent
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Speaker 4: people would be heard.
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Speaker 2: Across the country. Local and federal investigators were put on
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Speaker 2: a high alert. They needed to find the keyho brothers
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Speaker 2: before they struck again. In Arizona, a state trooper came
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Speaker 2: upon an RV that fit the description of the key
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Speaker 2: Hoose camper. It had no license plates and its shades
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Speaker 2: were drawn. He called in reinforcements after the gay work,
32:53
Speaker 2: he knew the brothers were armed and dangerous and would
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Speaker 2: shoot to kill. Within moments, a swat team surrounded the RV.
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Speaker 2: They hoped the nighttime assault would catch the Kios off
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Speaker 2: guard and lessen the chances of another armed confrontation. An
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Speaker 2: Arizona's SWAT team was on the move to catch the
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Speaker 2: Keyhole Grids, armed fugitives wanted in two states for murder
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Speaker 2: and attempted murder. They thought they had them cornered. It
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Speaker 2: was the wrong r V. Several days later, Wyoming highway
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Speaker 2: patrolman found the Keyho's mobile home broken down and abandoned
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Speaker 2: on a desolate stretch of road. The FBI was informed
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Speaker 2: and asked that the RV be towed into town for inspection.
33:58
Speaker 2: The Wyoming State Police obtained aimed a warrant and documented
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Speaker 2: its contents. This vehicle, like the suburban, held a large
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Speaker 2: cache of ammunition, guns, several fake FBI jackets, and US
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Speaker 2: Marshall's badges. One discovery stopped the officers in their tracks.
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Speaker 10: He can take a look at this.
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Speaker 2: A box of explosive components, including batteries used to detonate bombs.
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Speaker 2: Fearing a booby trap, the troopers called in the ATF
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Speaker 2: bomb squad. Nearby business and government offices were evacuated inch
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Speaker 2: by inch. The bomb squad probe THERVA. The thorough investigation
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Speaker 2: revealed no live devices, but the danger wasn't over. According
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Speaker 2: to atf F agent Jordan, the Keihle brothers had a
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Speaker 2: well equipped bomb factory, which increased their potential for violence.
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Speaker 7: The bomb making components that we found consisted of some
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Speaker 7: metal cylinders, several types of chemicals, mixing bowls, hot plate
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Speaker 7: coffee filters, instructions for making homemade blasting caps. Quite an
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Speaker 7: assortment of bomb making components.
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Speaker 2: Receipts on board revealed the family's path since leaving Ohio.
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Speaker 2: They traveled through West Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Texas, and
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Speaker 2: Montana before ditching the mobile home in Wyoming. The vehicle
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Speaker 2: offered few clues to the keyho's current location.
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Speaker 10: All we knew was that Chevy was less known to
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Speaker 10: be in Indian Apple Plus, where the stolen van was recovered.
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Speaker 10: We presumed that Shane and the families had made it
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Speaker 10: as far as Casper, where the camper had broken down.
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Speaker 10: From that point on, we basically had a cold trail.
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Speaker 2: To entice the public's health, The FBI and ATF announced
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Speaker 2: that they had joined to offer a reward for the
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Speaker 2: pair's arrest and conviction.
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Speaker 4: The fact that it was a serious matter involving law enforcement,
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Speaker 4: the fact that they had some affiliation to supremacy groups,
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Speaker 4: and the fact that they were dangerous individuals. We were
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Speaker 4: able to obtain a sixty thousand dollars reward for their apprehension.
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Speaker 2: More than one hundred tips came history. The local leads
36:53
Speaker 2: were handled by the Ohio State Police, while the FBI
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Speaker 2: and ATF pursued those from out of state. On June sixteenth,
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Speaker 2: investigators got the news they were hoping for a sheriff
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Speaker 2: in Stephens County, Washington, received a call from a friend
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Speaker 2: of Shane Keyhole. Shane wanted to turn himself in. The
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Speaker 2: twenty one year old surrendered to the authorities and informed
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Speaker 2: them where he and his brother had been for the
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Speaker 2: last few months. After the Wilmington shootout, Shane had stolen
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Speaker 2: a car and returned to the campground. There, he gathered
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Speaker 2: his and his brother's families and drove to Wyoming, where
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Speaker 2: he met Chevy. Soon after the key host were reunited,
37:49
Speaker 2: the RV broke down. Chevy told investigators that he and
37:54
Speaker 2: his brother had finally found refuge with their families on
37:57
Speaker 2: a remote ranch in rural southern Utah. The farmer and
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Speaker 2: his wife had taken them in and offered them room
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Speaker 2: and board In exchange for doing work on the ranch.
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Speaker 2: Soon the situation began to deteriorate, Chevy couldn't control his
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Speaker 2: explosive temper. Both Shane and his wife Tana grew concerned.
38:28
Speaker 2: Chevy talked of building his own white supremacist order. He
38:32
Speaker 2: thought of killing his wife Karina because of Native American
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Speaker 2: ancestry and her family. He even talked of murdering his
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Speaker 2: own parents, Kirby and Gloria, in order to raise his
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Speaker 2: six younger brothers with his beliefs. On June twelfth, almost
38:49
Speaker 2: four months after the shootouts in Ohio, Chevy finally turned
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Speaker 2: his growing paranoia on his own brother.
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Speaker 10: Shane explained to us that they had recently gotten into
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Speaker 10: a fight and that he feared for his life as
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Speaker 10: well as the lives of his family.
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Speaker 2: Shane also told investigators that Chevy had several items in
39:12
Speaker 2: his possessions that belonged to the Muellers. Chevy had also
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Speaker 2: admitted to suffocating the Mueller family. Not knowing what Chevy
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Speaker 2: would do next, Shane and his family fled Utah in
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Speaker 2: the middle of the night, driving almost one thousand miles
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Speaker 2: back to Washington. State authorities inspected the truck. Shane drove
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Speaker 2: looking for additional evidence. Lab examiners discovered that the vehicle
39:43
Speaker 2: which belonged to chevy Kiho had been repainted from its
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Speaker 2: original blue color. FBI forensic chemist Ron Metal explains.
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Speaker 1: We often see repainted vehicles in the laboratory here and
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Speaker 1: we can determine how it was originally painted. The layers
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Speaker 1: of a paint can many times be thought of as
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Speaker 1: a stack of cards that is loosely adhered to each other, okay,
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Speaker 1: and anyone card can be withdrawn from the layer and
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Speaker 1: sampled individually, So the acid diamonds, which is a primer layer,
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Speaker 1: would be different in chemistry and color from the King
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Speaker 1: of Spades, which would be on top.
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Speaker 2: The test results were conclusive. The composition of the blue
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Speaker 2: paint found on the Keyhos vehicle matched the specs found
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Speaker 2: on the Mueller's bodies. The evidence against chevy Kiho was compelling,
40:38
Speaker 2: but capturing it would be no easy task. The investigators
40:43
Speaker 2: would have to travel to Chevy's remote hideout in Utah,
40:46
Speaker 2: where an arrest team could be seen approaching from miles away.
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Speaker 2: Wanted for triple homicide in Arkansas and attempted murder in Ohio,
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Speaker 2: the white supremacist Chevy Keiho was heavily armed and hiding
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Speaker 2: with his family on an isolated ranch. Apprehending the criminal
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Speaker 2: in the wide open spaces of southern Utah would be
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Speaker 2: dangerous for agents and Chevy's family. The FBI and ATF
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Speaker 2: needed an arrest plan that minimized the risk. Agent will
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Speaker 2: Long was in charge of coordinating the plan. He is
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Speaker 2: in shadow in order to protect the sensitive nature of
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Speaker 2: his current case.
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Speaker 8: Chevy's children and his wife were there, and we certainly
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Speaker 8: didn't want to get involved in a situation where they
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Speaker 8: were in the middle of a shooting situation or possible
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Speaker 8: hostage situation.
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Speaker 2: Long enlisted the help of Rodney Levitt, the farmer on
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Speaker 2: whose land the brothers had been living. Levitt agreed to
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Speaker 2: help the FBI due to his concern for Chevy's children.
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Speaker 8: He told us that on a regular basis, Chevy Keyho would,
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Speaker 8: at his request, travel into Cedar City to run errand
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Speaker 8: for him related to the farming operation, and in this case,
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Speaker 8: they had previously talked about Chevy coming into town on
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Speaker 8: this day to pick up some feed from the local
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Speaker 8: feed store, and we decided that we could use that
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Speaker 8: as an opportunity to take him at the feed store
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Speaker 8: in an environment that we could control.
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Speaker 2: That left agent's only two hours to get into position
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Speaker 2: before Chevy arrived in town with Levitt.
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Speaker 8: Two hours is a short amount of time. We placed
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Speaker 8: surveillance units along the road that would be in a
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Speaker 8: position to call out the location of Chevy, Keyho and
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Speaker 8: mister Levitt as they made their way into town.
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Speaker 2: The plan was working perfectly until Chevy Keho made an
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Speaker 2: unscheduled stop. The FBI didn't know if Kehole was onto
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Speaker 2: them and was making a run for it. The agent
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Speaker 2: on location radioed in for assistance. He waited for instructions
43:09
Speaker 2: to apprehend Keyhole or get Levit to safety. For a
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Speaker 2: few breathless moments, no one knew what would happen next.
43:21
Speaker 2: Chevy returned to the truck with a silo. To the
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Speaker 2: undercover agent, it seemed that Chevy had no suspicions and
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Speaker 2: returned to the road. Back in town, more than twenty
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Speaker 2: five agents waited for the arrival of Chevy and Levin.
43:43
Speaker 2: Snipers were positioned on the rooftops and the feed store
43:46
Speaker 2: was surrounded. Agents were also located in the nearby neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: Their objective was to prevent Chevy from escaping and taking
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Speaker 2: hostages while Agent Long loaded Hay in front of the
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Speaker 2: feed store. His plan nearly went awry.
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Speaker 8: As we were listening to the radio, we heard one
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Speaker 8: of the surveillance units call out that Chevy had crossed
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Speaker 8: a landmark that was approximately one minute away from the
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Speaker 8: feed store.
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Speaker 2: At that very moment, the farmer unwittingly pulled into the
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Speaker 2: parking spot the FBI was holding for Chevy. Agent Long
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Speaker 2: had a split second, two act, Sir Well.
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Speaker 8: I ran across the parking lot with my badging crnentials
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Speaker 8: in my hand. I told this man that a dangerous
44:36
Speaker 8: fugitive was about to pull into the parking lot and
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Speaker 8: that we were going to arrest him right here, and
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Speaker 8: then he needed to immediately get in his vehicle and
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Speaker 8: and get out of the parking lot.
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Speaker 2: The farmer complied and Long returned to his position. Seconds later,
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Speaker 2: Chevy Keto pulled into the parking lot on the ground,
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Speaker 2: Long and his team pounced on the suspected murder, leaving
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Speaker 2: him no time to reach for a concealed weapon. After
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Speaker 2: five months of a nationwide manhunt, the FBI had finally
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Speaker 2: captured Chevy keyho back at the ranch. There was still
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Speaker 2: the matter of taking Chevy's wife, Karina and their three
45:38
Speaker 2: kids into custody. Once again, Levitt offered his health.
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Speaker 8: Apparently, mister Levitt had an injured back, and Karina would
45:51
Speaker 8: routinely come out and open the gate for mister Levitt
45:53
Speaker 8: to let him into the property as a courtesy to him.
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Speaker 2: Because of his injury to open the gate, Karina had
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Speaker 2: to leave the house, giving agents the opportunity to arrest her.
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Speaker 2: Long hid in the back of the truck with two
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Speaker 2: other agents.
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Speaker 8: Just as we anticipated, Karina came out and opened the gate,
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Speaker 8: and as she was looking at the gate and concentrating
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Speaker 8: on manipulating the latch, we jumped out of the back
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Speaker 8: of the truck and immediately searched her and found a
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Speaker 8: loaded nine milimeters pistol in her back pocket.
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Speaker 4: Get out on the ground, Get out on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Right your right, burn your wrong.
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Speaker 2: Long obtained a search warrant for the key host trailer
46:42
Speaker 2: on the Levit property. Before inspecting it. The FBI safely
46:46
Speaker 2: escorted the children outside and entrusted them to the farmer.
46:56
Speaker 2: Back inside, Long discovered a well stocked armory. Chevy Kiho,
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Speaker 2: anticipating a siege, had stationed loaded guns at every window.
47:09
Speaker 2: With both brothers finally in custody, the pair was transported
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Speaker 2: back east to face sixteen state and local charges. Chevy
47:20
Speaker 2: would first be tried in Arkansas on federal charges. With
47:26
Speaker 2: the Keyhos lockdown. US Attorney PAULA. Casey had several months
47:29
Speaker 2: to prepare a solid case.
47:31
Speaker 11: The federal agents and Errand of all Jay winners came
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Speaker 11: here and they laid out the evidence they had of
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Speaker 11: all the various crimes that had been committed. And after
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Speaker 11: we examined everything that was there, it was sort of
47:45
Speaker 11: this growing realization as we reviewed these things that it
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Speaker 11: was a racketeering.
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Speaker 2: Case, placing Chevy's illegal activities under a racketeering umbrella. Casey
47:57
Speaker 2: needed to demonstrate that crimes were committed in order to
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Speaker 2: to expand his white supremacist movement.
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Speaker 11: The racketeering statute lets us give a jury the complete
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Speaker 11: picture of what happened.
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Speaker 8: It.
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Speaker 11: Lets us put that together so that all of the
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Speaker 11: evidence can be placed before the jury for their decision.
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Speaker 2: Chevy Keijo was ultimately charged with fifty seven federal crimes,
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Speaker 2: including the brutal murder of Bill and Nancy and their
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Speaker 2: eight year old daughter, Sarah.
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Speaker 11: Chevy Kehoe was tried and following a three month jury trial,
48:33
Speaker 11: he was found guilty of racketeering and as a result
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Speaker 11: of his conviction, he received a sentence of life without
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Speaker 11: the possibility of parole because in the federal system there
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Speaker 11: is no parole.
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Speaker 2: As for Brother Shane, despite his claims of self defense,
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Speaker 2: he was found guilty of the state charges brought against him,
48:57
Speaker 2: among them attempted murder for the shootout in Wilmington. He
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Speaker 2: is currently serving twenty four and a half years.
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Speaker 5: The reason I think every agency was so cooperative in
49:09
Speaker 5: working on this was just that it was it was
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Speaker 5: a horrible crime. It was a crime that was obviously
49:16
Speaker 5: hard for anybody to figure out why it happened, uh
49:20
Speaker 5: exactly how it would happen. It was just one of
49:22
Speaker 5: those things that everybody wanted to help out, and they
49:25
Speaker 5: knew that we couldn't do it all ourselves, and if
49:27
Speaker 5: it had been their case, they wouldn't have been able
49:29
Speaker 5: to do it by themselves either. So it was just
49:31
Speaker 5: a matter of everybody getting together because the bottom line
49:35
Speaker 5: was there were some bad people out there and everybody
49:40
Speaker 5: just needed to get involved in for a common cause,
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Speaker 5: and that was to put the bad guy behind bar,