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The Hunt for Americas Most Violent Ideological Killers The FBI Files · FBI Files

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  Speaker 1: In the United States, violent extremists embark on a campaign
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  Speaker 1: of terror nearly two decades before the Oklahoma City bombing.
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  Speaker 1: Bank robberies, bombings, escalating acts of destruction. When their agenda
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  Speaker 1: turns to murder, FBI counterterrorism experts team up with state
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  Speaker 1: police to stop a group of violent radicals before they
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  Speaker 1: strike again.
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  Speaker 2: In the 1970s, a string of bank robberies and bombings
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  Speaker 2: spread fear and destruction along the East Coast. The FBI
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  Speaker 2: faced a new breed of criminal, the domestic terrorists. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Jim Kallstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office.
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  Speaker 2: For nearly a decade, these self-proclaimed revolutionaries operate underground. Law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement vowed to unearth them once and for all.
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  Speaker 1: Interstate 80 is an isolated stretch of highway in northern
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. On December 21st, 1981, Trooper Philip LaMonaco of
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  Speaker 1: the New Jersey State Police makes a routine traffic stop.
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  Speaker 1: The driver seems nervous. LaMonaco sees that he has a gun.
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  Speaker 1: Put your hands up on the stairwell! Put your license
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  Speaker 1: up on the dash! Step out of the vehicle, now!
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  Speaker 3: Keep your hands up!
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  Speaker 1: Back up against the car, now! Stay there!
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  Speaker 3: Don't move, just stay there!
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  Speaker 1: Got any more weapons on you? Keep staying there! Don't
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  Speaker 1: you move! Yes, sir, stay in the car! Stay in
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  Speaker 1: the car, sir! Stay in the car! Stay in the car, sir!
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  Speaker 1: A passing motorist spots the empty police cruiser and stops.
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  Speaker 1: He checks to make sure everything is all right. In
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  Speaker 1: the snow, he sees the road trooper bleeding and motionless.
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  Speaker 1: He uses the police radio to call for help.
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  Speaker 4: State Trooper Barretts, go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: I'm here on I-80. I've met a patrol car.
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  Speaker 4: What's your name, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Troopers on duty at the Blairstown State Police Barretts are
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  Speaker 1: surprised to hear a civilian voice on their radio.
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  Speaker 4: Trooper's on the ground.
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  Speaker 6: He's emotional. He makes a good shot.
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  Speaker 7: He's not moving at all.
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  Speaker 8: Stay in the car, sir.
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  Speaker 9: We're on the way.
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  Speaker 1: All available troopers respond to the report of the shooting.
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  Speaker 4: We have an officer shot.
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  Speaker 1: Officer down. Charles Coe is a major with the New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey State Police.
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  Speaker 6: Virtually every road trooper that was on duty that day
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  Speaker 6: responded to the scene. We're all basically road troopers to
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  Speaker 6: start with. That's where we started from. We all knew
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  Speaker 6: the dangers involved, and of course you never think it's
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  Speaker 6: going to happen to you, and you really don't think
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  Speaker 6: it's going to happen to someone like a Phil LaMonica.
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  Speaker 1: LaMonica is a legend in the department. Arriving at the scene,
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Richard Ryan can't believe he's been shot.
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  Speaker 10: Mission shots struck Phil in his chest area. He was
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  Speaker 10: wearing a bulletproof vest, but the impact of the shots
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  Speaker 10: kind of turned him a little, and one of the
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  Speaker 10: shots went in under his armpit and went directly into
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  Speaker 10: his heart and basically killed him at one shot.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators find LaMonaco's service revolver empty. All six rounds fired,
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  Speaker 1: indicating the trooper had gone down fighting. Lieutenant John Mendrez
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  Speaker 1: processes the crime scene finding further evidence of the gun battle.
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  Speaker 9: I obtained pieces of glass fragments, 12 9mm bullet casings
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  Speaker 9: at the scene.
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  Speaker 11: They were in a snowbank and in a general area.
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  Speaker 1: From the size and number of bullet casings, Mendrez believes
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  Speaker 1: the murder weapon is a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. He searches
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  Speaker 1: for the gun, but it is nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 1: EMTs transfer Philip Lomonaco's body to the hospital as 250
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  Speaker 1: police officers go after his killer. New Jersey and Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 1: State Police stop and question motorists. One man remembers seeing
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  Speaker 1: two men as they left the scene. They were driving
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  Speaker 1: a 1977 Chevy Nova with Connecticut license plates. Police set
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  Speaker 1: up checkpoints along the Delaware River. Officers searched miles of
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  Speaker 1: highway and back roads looking for the killers.
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  Speaker 5: The response was overwhelming.
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  Speaker 10: People were coming out of the woodwork to help us
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  Speaker 10: and offer leads and try to help us find the car,
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  Speaker 10: find the people responsible for this.
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  Speaker 1: Hours later, a narcotics detective and a state trooper find
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  Speaker 1: the Nova. The car has been abandoned on a rural
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  Speaker 1: road three miles from the crime scene. Detectives find an
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  Speaker 1: empty holster. Troopers search the vehicle for clues. They find
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  Speaker 1: several bullet holes in the car's exterior.
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  Speaker 10: It was a shot pattern into the hood of the car,
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  Speaker 10: into the windshield and the right front passenger window. which
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  Speaker 10: indicates that he was shooting at the passenger.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators suspect it was likely the passenger of the car
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  Speaker 1: who murdered Phil Lomonaco. The driver was in such a
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  Speaker 1: hurry to ditch the vehicle, he left behind a crucial
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  Speaker 1: piece of evidence.
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  Speaker 10: On the dashboard in plain sight was a Connecticut driver's
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  Speaker 10: license and the name of Barry Eastbury.
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  Speaker 1: For now, Eastbury's name and address are investigators only linked
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  Speaker 1: to LaMonaco's killer.
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  Speaker 10: And I actually left that scene with another trooper and
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  Speaker 10: immediately drove to Connecticut to follow up that lead that night.
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  Speaker 10: And we proceeded to the address that was in downtown
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  Speaker 10: New Haven, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: The address on the Eastbury driver's license turns out to
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  Speaker 1: be a hotel rather than a residence.
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  Speaker 10: So it was turning out to be a dead end lead.
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  Speaker 10: We met with the FBI later in the morning and
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  Speaker 10: they told us that they had been at that same
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  Speaker 10: hotel a few months earlier following the lead up on
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  Speaker 10: an individual by the name of Raymond Luke Levasseur.
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  Speaker 1: Levasseur is one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives.
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  Speaker 1: Agents believe he is the leader of a violent radical
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  Speaker 1: group called the Sam Melville Jonathan Jackson Unit. The FBI
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  Speaker 1: suspects the group of masterminding a series of bank robberies
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  Speaker 1: and bombings. Now investigators wonder whether the group is also
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  Speaker 1: responsible for the murder of trooper Phil Lamonaco.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to take those prints and see if we
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  Speaker 4: can match them up.
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  Speaker 1: Agents send Lavasser's file to the state lab in New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey to compare his fingerprints with those found in the Nova.
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  Speaker 10: Unfortunately, none of them matched, which we could not believe.
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  Speaker 10: It just didn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan takes a closer look at Lavasser's wanted flyer.
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  Speaker 10: I reread the flyer, and on the bottom in small print,
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  Speaker 10: right at the last line, it said, may be accompanied
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  Speaker 10: by Thomas William Manning.
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  Speaker 1: FBI agents pull Manning's file. The photo on his wanted
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  Speaker 1: poster is the man they know as Barry Eastbury. Examiners
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  Speaker 1: match Manning's file fingerprints to those lifted from the Nova,
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  Speaker 1: confirming that Barry Eastbury is an alias for Thomas Manning
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  Speaker 1: If Manning is involved in the murder of Philip Lamonaco,
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  Speaker 1: investigators are up against a dangerous fugitive. According to FBI files,
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  Speaker 1: Manning met Levasseur in prison, where they both served time
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  Speaker 1: on drugs, weapons, and robbery charges. Two men formed a
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  Speaker 1: radical group called the Melville Jackson Unit, according to Special
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  Speaker 1: Agent Leonard Cross.
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  Speaker 12: They were well-versed. in a lot of guerrilla tactics. They
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  Speaker 12: studied guerrilla manuals. They studied a lot of the radical
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  Speaker 12: left literature from the late 60s, the mid 60s, and
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  Speaker 12: the early 70s.
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  Speaker 1: The group began a reign of terror, claiming responsibility for
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  Speaker 1: seven bombings in Massachusetts and New York between 1976 and 1979,
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  Speaker 1: including the bombing of two courthouses, the Middlesex County Courthouse
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  Speaker 1: in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: where 20 people were injured. According to their propaganda, The
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  Speaker 1: Melville Jackson Unit targets institutions and businesses to protest government
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  Speaker 1: and corporate policies they believe are unfair. FBI Special Agent
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  Speaker 1: Ed Peterson is investigating the radical group.
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  Speaker 13: I think they viewed themselves as some champion of the downtrodden,
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  Speaker 13: the poor. Actually, they never did anything for the poor. And,
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  Speaker 13: you know, all they were committed to were acts of violence.
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  Speaker 1: Agents believe the group funds its violent political agenda with
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  Speaker 1: bank robberies, carefully planned operations that are executed with military precision.
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  Speaker 10: It was obvious that these people were not your everyday criminals.
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  Speaker 10: They were an organized criminal group who were traveling the
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  Speaker 10: New England states and committing numerous crimes, the most serious, obviously,
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  Speaker 10: the murder of Trooper LaMonica.
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  Speaker 1: On Christmas Eve, 1981, 2,000 law enforcement officers from several
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  Speaker 1: states attend the funeral of Trooper Lamonaco. The wave of
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  Speaker 1: support overwhelms his wife, Donna.
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  Speaker 8: I was just amazed that all the way up, it
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  Speaker 8: was a good half mile from the church, cars had
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  Speaker 8: started to park to come to the funeral.
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  Speaker 1: Phil Lamonaco was one of the most respected troopers in
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  Speaker 1: the state of New Jersey.
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  Speaker 14: He was a great trooper. He really, really was. And
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  Speaker 14: I think one of the main things that.
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  Speaker 8: Made him a great trooper was he really, really loved
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  Speaker 8: and respected his job.
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  Speaker 14: He was one of the good ones.
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  Speaker 5: He was the idol of a lot of young troopers.
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  Speaker 10: He had trained a lot of young troopers in the
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  Speaker 10: tactics of stopping cars and looking for contraband and vehicles
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  Speaker 10: on the highway.
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  Speaker 1: Superintendent Clinton Pagano makes Donna LaMonaco a solemn promise. The
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey State Police will do everything in their power
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  Speaker 1: bring her husband's killers to justice.
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  Speaker 8: I just could see in his eyes the sincerity, and
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  Speaker 8: I just knew. I just knew he would make sure.
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  Speaker 8: From that point is where I grew confidence in knowing
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  Speaker 8: they're going to get caught. Whoever they are, they're going
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  Speaker 8: to be found, and they're going to get caught, because
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  Speaker 8: he promised me.
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  Speaker 1: At a nearby municipal building, New Jersey and Pennsylvania State
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  Speaker 1: Police work closely with the FBI to find the men
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  Speaker 1: who murdered Trooper Lamonaco. The task force follows up on
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  Speaker 1: dozens of leads. Firearms investigators ask gun shop owners in
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  Speaker 1: the area if anyone has sold nine millimeter ammunition to
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  Speaker 1: a man named Barry Eastbury.
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  Speaker 6: They got a hit in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, which is right
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  Speaker 6: across the river from the shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Three months earlier, a Barry Easterly, not Eastbury, had purchased
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  Speaker 1: nine millimeter ammunition at a gun shop in Stroudsburg. The
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  Speaker 1: name seems too close to be a coincidence. If these
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  Speaker 1: were the bullets used in the killing, the three month
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  Speaker 1: time span is an important clue.
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  Speaker 6: We felt that these people resided in this general area.
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  Speaker 6: They weren't just passing through. were working very closely with
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  Speaker 6: the Pennsylvania State Police at that time.
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  Speaker 14: We notified them about this find.
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  Speaker 1: Two days later, the Pennsylvania State Police receive an unusual
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  Speaker 1: phone call. A local landlord calls with a complaint.
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  Speaker 6: The Pennsylvania State Police was notified by a fellow by
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  Speaker 6: the name of Charles Miller, who lived in Marshalls Creek, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 6: directly across the river in the greater Stroudsburg area.
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  Speaker 1: Miller owns several rental properties in the area. A dog
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  Speaker 1: has been abandoned inside one of his houses. He's not
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  Speaker 1: seen the tenants for nearly two weeks. According to Miller,
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  Speaker 1: the house was rented by a man named Barry Easterly.
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  Speaker 1: SWAT teams converge on the rented farmhouse. They searched the
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  Speaker 1: house from room to room. Whoever lived there left in
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  Speaker 1: a hurry. The occupants of the house had abandoned clothing,
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  Speaker 1: personal photos, and even their dog. In one room, police
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  Speaker 1: find radical literature and a sketch featuring an AK-47 assault rifle.
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  Speaker 1: In the bedroom, they find the tools of domestic terrorists.
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  Speaker 6: We found all types of paraphernalia, information on how to
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  Speaker 6: make bombs, bomb-making material.
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  Speaker 1: Police also find nine millimeter bullets, the same caliber that
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  Speaker 1: killed Trooper Phil Lomonaco. They believe the rented property is
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  Speaker 1: a safe house, where Thomas Manning, his wife and children,
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  Speaker 1: lived at the time of the Lomonaco shooting. Investigators find
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  Speaker 1: documents that offer fresh insight into the radical group's operations.
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  Speaker 6: They apparently were planning to pull a bank robbery in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 14: We had those schematics.
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  Speaker 6: We also found a critique of the bank robbery where
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  Speaker 6: several policemen were killed a few years before that. And
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  Speaker 6: all of these things they had to leave behind because
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  Speaker 6: they left in such haste.
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  Speaker 1: In another bedroom, Sergeant Tom Evans finds a small phone book.
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  Speaker 4: We began to write down all the phone numbers were
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  Speaker 4: in that book. There were no names, there were nicknames,
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  Speaker 4: and there was no area code.
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  Speaker 1: Police also find a photograph of a man they can't identify.
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  Speaker 1: According to the landlord, the man in the picture lived
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  Speaker 1: in the Mannings' guest room. The family referred to him
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  Speaker 1: as Uncle David. Investigators wonder if Uncle David was Manning's
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  Speaker 1: passenger the night of the shooting and whether he is
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  Speaker 1: responsible for the murder of Trooper Philip Lamonaco. The search
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  Speaker 1: for a cop killer evolves into a manhunt for a
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  Speaker 1: group of domestic terrorists A raid when an abandoned Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 1: farmhouse yields two important clues. A mysterious photograph. And a
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  Speaker 1: book of telephone numbers. Dozens of phone numbers are listed.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Evans of the New Jersey State Police notes that
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  Speaker 1: none of them have area codes.
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  Speaker 9: Troopers said to me, those look like Boston phone exchanges.
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  Speaker 9: Next morning, we went to Boston. We started to run
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  Speaker 9: down the phone numbers to see who we could come
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  Speaker 9: up with. There were at least 100 phone numbers in there.
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  Speaker 9: One of them had a little note on it that
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  Speaker 9: said rent.
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  Speaker 1: Telephone number belongs to a company in Boston that rents
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  Speaker 1: out apartments. Investigators meet with the manager.
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  Speaker 9: I showed him the picture. He said to me, Trooper,
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, but I hardly ever see these people. They
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  Speaker 9: just mail in their checks.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like another dead end. The police give the
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  Speaker 1: phone book another look. Next to the rental company's phone number,
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  Speaker 1: someone has written a figure, $ 275. So I said to
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  Speaker 1: the guy, do.
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  Speaker 9: You have any apartment building or apartments that rent for $ 275?
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  Speaker 1: The manager tells them the company has only one apartment
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  Speaker 1: that rents for that amount. It is currently vacant and
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  Speaker 1: being renovated.
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  Speaker 4: So we rushed up there and stopped them from repainting
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  Speaker 4: the apartment.
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  Speaker 9: Massachusetts State Police got their forensic people in there.
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  Speaker 1: The apartment has been thoroughly cleaned. But investigators find fingerprints
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  Speaker 1: in obscure places, on a light bulb, and behind the
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  Speaker 1: toilet in the bathroom. The tenant left no forwarding address,
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  Speaker 1: according to the building supervisor.
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  Speaker 4: So at that point, the guy said to me, well,
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  Speaker 4: you ought to talk to his girlfriend.
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  Speaker 1: At 2 o'clock in the morning, police interview the suspect's girlfriend.
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  Speaker 5: Is there any information or anybody that you know?
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  Speaker 1: Although she does not tell investigators who her boyfriend really is,
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  Speaker 1: she gives them the name of his stepfather. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Evans drives to the suburbs outside Boston to question
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  Speaker 1: the suspect's stepfather.
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  Speaker 4: I showed him the picture, and he said, what has
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  Speaker 4: Dickie done now? And I said, Dickie who? And he said,
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  Speaker 4: Dickie Williams. We called the command post, gave them Richard
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  Speaker 4: Charles Williams' name.
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  Speaker 9: They ran that name against the fingerprints that we had,
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  Speaker 9: and bingo, it was him. So we had the second
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  Speaker 9: person identified.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Williams was Thomas Manning's passenger the night Phil LaMonaco
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  Speaker 1: was murdered. The violent radical is now wanted as a
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  Speaker 1: cop killer. Investigators on the case face an extraordinary challenge,
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  Speaker 1: finding a group of fugitives who are as elusive as
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  Speaker 1: they are dangerous. New England authorities and the FBI join
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  Speaker 1: ranks to track down Manning, Levasseur, and Williams. Special Agent
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  Speaker 1: Ed Peterson is assigned to assist the New Jersey police
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  Speaker 1: in the manhunt.
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  Speaker 13: It was really important, as far as the FBI and
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  Speaker 13: all of the law enforcement, to put them under a
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  Speaker 13: magnifying glass and to look at every possible contact, you know,
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  Speaker 13: to try to think like they would think. to try
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  Speaker 13: and get into that mindset and to understand what motivated
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  Speaker 13: them and where they would look to go.
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  Speaker 1: The task force sifts through hundreds of hours of intelligence
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  Speaker 1: on the Melville Jackson unit. According to their files, the
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  Speaker 1: fugitives have a history of using different aliases to conceal
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  Speaker 1: their identities and various mail drops to hide their locations.
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  Speaker 13: We knew that we had a tough job because They
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  Speaker 13: did not remain in one place. They didn't do the
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  Speaker 13: conventional things that fugitives generally do. They went to such
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  Speaker 13: extremes to hide their identities.
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  Speaker 1: In 1981, a man walks into the town clerk's office
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  Speaker 1: in Brattleboro, Vermont, with an unusual request. He needs a
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  Speaker 1: copy of a birth certificate for an infant who died
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  Speaker 1: in the early 1950s. The clerk becomes suspicious. Brattleboro is
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  Speaker 1: a small town and she knows the infant's family.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 7: Do you have any ID on you?
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  Speaker 4: No problem, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I just need to see your ID.
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  Speaker 4: Police later identify the man.
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  Speaker 1: As Raymond Levasseur after finding his fingerprints in an abandoned
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  Speaker 1: vehicle nearby. They suspect he was trying to establish a
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  Speaker 1: new identity by stealing the birth certificate of a dead infant.
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  Speaker 1: In January 1982, Thomas Manning joins Levasseur on the FBI's
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  Speaker 1: 10 Most Wanted list. Authorities turn up the heat on
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  Speaker 1: the fugitives. Four months later, FBI agent John Markey responds
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  Speaker 1: to the scene of a bank robbery. Two masked gunmen
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  Speaker 1: had stolen $ 60, 000 from a bank in Burlington, Vermont. According
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  Speaker 1: to agent Markey, the precision of the operation points to
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  Speaker 1: the Melville Jackson unit.
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  Speaker 15: All three individuals that went into the bank went in
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  Speaker 15: right after an armored car delivery. One man stood in
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  Speaker 15: the lobby, The other two vaulted the counter. One of
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  Speaker 15: them took the money from the teledraws. The other one
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  Speaker 15: took the money that had just been delivered.
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  Speaker 1: The money in the teledraws was rigged with dye packs.
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  Speaker 7: They look like a stack of money. When you take
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  Speaker 7: them out of a.
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  Speaker 15: Bank, there's an electronic sensor that causes them to activate.
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  Speaker 15: And then within seven seconds, they go off, letting off
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  Speaker 15: tear gas and a red dye, which dyes the money.
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  Speaker 15: They threw about $ 20, 000 out the window because it had
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  Speaker 15: dye packs in it. It was apparent to me that
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  Speaker 15: we ought to consider Raymond Lavasser and Thomas Manning and
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  Speaker 15: maybe his associate, Richard Williams, as possible suspects in that
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  Speaker 15: bank robbery.
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  Speaker 1: Two months later, three men rob a bank in Syracuse,
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  Speaker 1: New York, netting $ 195, 000. The ammo is nearly identical to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the Burlington robbery, but with one exception.
• 24:08
  Speaker 15: They only took the money that was delivered by the
• 24:11
  Speaker 15: armored car. They did not take any of the money
• 24:13
  Speaker 15: out of the teledraws. That way they eliminated the possible
• 24:16
  Speaker 15: dye packs. It was my opinion that we were dealing
• 24:20
  Speaker 15: with the same people who robbed the South Burlington branch,
• 24:24
  Speaker 15: and you could account for the change of not taking
• 24:27
  Speaker 15: money from the teledraws because they would have discussed the
• 24:29
  Speaker 15: dye packs.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: In just two months, over $ 235, 000 has been stolen from
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: area banks. Authorities are concerned that the Melville Jackson unit
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is amassing a war chest to finance a new wave
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: of terror. With the threat of more bombings looming, investigators
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: make a difficult decision. They will try to find the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: terrorists by looking for their children. Pictures of the Manning
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and Levasseur children are distributed to schools, sport clubs, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: pediatricians in the area.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Can you take a look at this to see if
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: you recognize any of these children? That was very controversial.
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: We've had a lot of conversations as far as distributing
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: the pictures of the children, because the children were innocent
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: in this. They just were living with the parents. They
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: were 8, 9, 10, 11, 12-year-old kids.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Investigators feel they have no choice. The group is deadly,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and lives are at stake.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: You don't know any of the parents of your baby?
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the gamble does not pay off. The fugitives have
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: hidden their children well.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: To make matters worse, the gang launches a series of
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: new attacks. On December 16th, police in White Plains, New York,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: receive a frantic call. An unidentified man has phoned in
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: a bomb threat to a local newspaper. According to the caller,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: The bomb has been planted in an office building. Fortunately,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: dozens of employees had evacuated before the building exploded. The
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: blast destroyed nearly every window in the building. Inside, investigators
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: find a communique from a group calling themselves the United
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Freedom Front. The UFF claims responsibility for the bombing. Agents
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: on the case recognize the UFF's distinctive assault rifle logo.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: It is nearly identical to a sketch they found in
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Manning's safe house.
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: We actually compared those side by side. We decided that
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: the logo looked enough, in our opinion, that it was them.
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: We thought that the United Freedom Front, who took credit
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: for that bombing, was in fact the new name for
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: the people involved in the LaMonica killing.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Over the next year, the UFF claims responsibility for four
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: more bombings. On December 14th, 1983, they call the press
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: to issue a chilling statement. They intend to destroy the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: offices of a national defense contractor in Queens, New York.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: The caller indicates that a statement from the group can
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: be found in a Manhattan mailbox. The letter denounces U.S.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: involvement in Central America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: The bomb squad recovers two suitcase bombs before they can detonate.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Finding an intact bomb is an important break for Special
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Agent John Markey.
• 27:46
  Speaker 15: The materials used in that bomb were very similar to
• 27:49
  Speaker 15: the materials used in the Sam Melville-Jonathan Jackson unit bombings
• 27:54
  Speaker 15: in the 70s. The elements of the bomb that was
• 27:58
  Speaker 15: similar was the type of clock used, that the crystal
• 28:03
  Speaker 15: on top of the clock hole was melted into the
• 28:06
  Speaker 15: crystal and a brass screw was screwed in to the crystal.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Leonard Cross is familiar with the design. He
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: investigated the group's early bombings in the 1970s. In February 1984,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Cross becomes the coordinator of the task force hunting the killers.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: The investigation into the radical group is now in its
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: eighth year. The terrorists have stayed a step ahead of
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: authorities by repeatedly assuming new identities. Agent Cross and the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: FBI task force decide to take a new approach.
• 28:47
  Speaker 12: What we tried to do was plot where we knew
• 28:50
  Speaker 12: they had lived, safe houses, where they had bombed, where
• 28:54
  Speaker 12: they had committed bank robberies. So we started putting this all.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Up on a map. Slowly but surely, a pattern emerges.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: The group's activities are concentrated in a four-state area that
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: includes New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut. In the spring
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: of 1984, the FBI launches Operation Western Sweep A mission
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: designed to close in on the dangerous fugitives. In 1984,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the FBI launches Operation Western Sweep, a mission to apprehend
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: three key members of a violent radical group. Agents believe
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the group has orchestrated numerous acts of domestic terrorism. The
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: New Jersey State Police suspect one of the terrorists also
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: murdered Trooper Phil Lamonaco. Hundreds of investigators comb areas where
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the group is known to operate. As agents uncover the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: group's safe houses, the FBI deploys SWAT teams to search them.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: But the fugitives are always one step ahead, according to
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Detective Richard Ryan.
• 30:27
  Speaker 10: It was frustrating because we couldn't apprehend them. but we
• 30:30
  Speaker 10: felt as long as they kept committing crimes, they were
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: still out there, they hadn't gone into total hiding, there
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: was a better chance we could catch them.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Agent John Markey tries to predict when the terrorists will
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: strike again. Based on the group's unique lifestyle, he develops
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: an ingenious theory.
• 30:48
  Speaker 15: There were a series of four bank robberies in 1982
• 30:51
  Speaker 15: and 1983 in Upper State New York along Interstate 90
• 30:56
  Speaker 15: between Syracuse and Albany, New York.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Markey divides the total amount of money stolen by the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: number of days between robberies. He calculates that the group
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: is operating on a budget of about $ 737 per day.
• 31:13
  Speaker 15: Based on that, you could predict when the next robbery
• 31:16
  Speaker 15: would occur. I was predicting that the next robbery would
• 31:20
  Speaker 15: be between June.
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: 1st and June 14th of 1984. Markey's predictions.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Is right on target. On June 9th, the gang hits
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: a bank in Norfolk, Virginia. The ammo is familiar. Three
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: armed men enter the building. Two of them jump the counter.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: They subdue bank personnel at gunpoint. Ignoring the cash in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the drawers, they grab bags of money that have just
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: been delivered by an armored car service.
• 32:00
  Speaker 14: They did not take any of the money out of
• 32:02
  Speaker 14: the teledraughts.
• 32:04
  Speaker 15: That way they eliminated the possible dye packs, bait money,
• 32:08
  Speaker 15: and sounding the alarm.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: The gang seems to be getting smarter with each new robbery.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Investigators need a lead, however small, to break the case
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: wide open. Special Agent Ed Peterson.
• 32:26
  Speaker 13: We knew no matter how good any fugitive thinks he
• 32:30
  Speaker 13: or she is, no matter how good they think they are,
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: some point and some time, they're gonna make a careless mistake.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: In the summer of 1984, the fugitives make that crucial mistake.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: On August 4th, the owner of a storage facility in Binghamton,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: New York, contacts the FBI. One of his customers hasn't
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: paid his bill in two years. The manager opened the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: storage unit so he could auction off the contents. What
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: he found inside terrified him.
• 33:04
  Speaker 12: The contents in there included materials on how to make bombs,
• 33:12
  Speaker 12: how to handle firearms training, research on various corporations, and
• 33:18
  Speaker 12: a lot of radical material, and a lot of Marxist-type literature.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Agents find bomb-making diagrams in the storage unit. They show
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a timer assembled with brass screws. Earlier in the investigation,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: agents found an unexploded bomb with similar brass screws at
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: one of the group's targets. The bomb is designed to
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: detonate a massive bundle of dynamite with a single electric charge.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: The distinctive design links Levasseur and his gang to bombings
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: all over the Northeast. There are hundreds of pieces of
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: evidence in the storage unit. Investigators follow up on every clue,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: no matter how obscure.
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: The magazine's taken out of the storage bin in Binghamton,
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: New York.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: At first, nobody thought there would be of any value.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: But an address label on an old seed catalog... reveals
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: a new name in the investigation, Jack Horning. Investigators trace
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the address to Ansonia, Connecticut. According to neighbors, the Horning
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: family moved away years earlier.
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: The trooper that was assigned to this lead felt, again,
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: we have another dead end lead. However, he continued to
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: interview people in the neighborhood and he developed a babysitter
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: who had lived a few houses down and she babysat
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: for the Horning children.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Teenager remembers the Hornings well. She tells the trooper that Mrs.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Horning was a normal mom. The kids were well-behaved. The
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: entire time she worked for the Hornings, nothing out of
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the ordinary happened. But then she remembers one small incident.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: One day she was out with Mrs. Horning and had
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: a motor vehicle accident.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: On a hunch, the trooper follows up with the Connecticut
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Department of Motor Vehicle. he is unable to find an
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: accident report involving a Mrs. Horning. But one report does
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: match the time and location of the incident.
• 35:32
  Speaker 10: The key was that the babysitter was listed on the
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: accident report as a passenger in that vehicle.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: The name the driver gave police at the time was
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: not Horning, but Himes.
• 35:44
  Speaker 13: This is interesting.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Judy Himes' Connecticut license has since expired. was traded for
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: a New York license in 1980. Later, the New York
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: license was turned in for an Ohio license. According to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: DMV records, the Ohio license is still current. Judy Heim's name,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: along with her address in Columbus, is forwarded to Sergeant
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Tom Evans.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: I called the Columbus Police Department.
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: I said, What is at that address? And the guy
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: said to me, it's a mail drop. And mail drop
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: meant that's them, that that's their M.O. That's what they use.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: They didn't have mail sent to their home.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: In Columbus, the FBI rents a vacant house across the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: street from the mail drop. There, agents can monitor the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: facility with video cameras.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: The mail drop is a 24-7 operation. So this was
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: gonna be difficult to surveil.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: On November 3rd, three and a half weeks into the stakeout,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: a woman arrives at the mail drop. Investigators visually identify
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: her as the wife of Raymond Levasseur.
• 37:06
  Speaker 10: It's the first time now in probably over 10 to
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: 12 years that any law enforcement agency had any of
• 37:13
  Speaker 10: these people actually in sight under surveillance.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: So you can imagine how the adrenaline was pumping.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: The fugitive's wife is law enforcement's only link to the terrorists.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Rather than making an arrest, agents follow her, hoping she
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: will lead them to her husband. In 1984, The FBI
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and a multi-state task force trail a group of domestic terrorists.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: The violent radicals are suspected of a series of bank
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: robberies and bombings. And the murder of a New Jersey
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: state police trooper. Investigators track the group from a safe
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: house in Connecticut to a mail drop in Columbus, Ohio.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: After nearly a decade, their only lead to the terrorist's
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: location is the wife of gang leader Ray Levasseur. Agents
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: follow her as she leaves the mail drop. They know
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: that like the rest of the group, Levasseur's wife is
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: skilled at covering her tracks and at spotting a tail.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: They're careful to keep their distance, using aerial surveillance as
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: a backup in case she slips away. Detective Richard Ryan.
• 38:42
  Speaker 10: She was on and off the highway numerous times, stopping, starting,
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: looking around, taking local roads back onto the interstate, back off.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: So it was a difficult surveillance.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Two and a half hours later, the target stops at
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: a house in Deerfield, Ohio.
• 39:00
  Speaker 10: Once she arrived at the house, a surveillance was set
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: up in the area from different locations as best as
• 39:05
  Speaker 10: they could. And it was a very rural area. There
• 39:07
  Speaker 10: were farmer's fields, corn fields, things of that nature.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: New Jersey State Trooper Richard Tao watches the house from
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a distance.
• 39:20
  Speaker 16: Approximately 20 minutes later, a male subject left the house
• 39:27
  Speaker 16: and got in his car and left the area.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: The male subject is Richard Williams, the man wanted for
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Philip Lamonaco. FBI
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: agents follow Williams to a safe house in Cleveland. They
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: now have two houses under surveillance, 60 miles apart.
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: In one location, we had the suspected murderer of Trooper
• 39:56
  Speaker 10: Phillip LaMonica. In the second location, we had top 10
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: FBI fugitive Ray Lavasser. Surveillance has continued through the night
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: and into the morning.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Around 9.40 a.m., the Lavassers leave their house.
• 40:14
  Speaker 17: Hi, fellas.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Go, go, go, go, go. The SWAT team moves in.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: They arrest Ray Levasseur along with his wife.
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: The call then immediately went out to Ohio, up to Cleveland,
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: that Levasseur was in custody, so now a decision was
• 40:39
  Speaker 10: made to raid the Cleveland, Ohio house.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: In Cleveland, agents and police surround the home of Richard Williams. Williams,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: a suspected murderer and terrorist, gives up without a fight.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: After years of work, the task force has captured two
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: of the group's three key men in less than an hour.
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: We had Ray LaWasser and his wife.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: We had Dickie Williams.
• 41:14
  Speaker 12: The only remaining fugitives that we had was Tom Manning
• 41:17
  Speaker 12: and his wife.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Agents question Richard Williams about Thomas Manning's location Williams stalls
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: for hours. With every passing moment, the fugitives have more
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: time to escape. Finally, Williams breaks down and reveals the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: addresses of three safe houses located in Jefferson, Ohio. One
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: of them belongs to Thomas Manning.
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: We proceeded to that location and conducted a very extensive search.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: William's stall tactics have given the Mannings enough time to flee,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: but not enough time to cover their tracks. Inside their
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: safe house, investigators find handguns, fake IDs, and $ 32, 000 in cash.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: They also find a thousand page record of the group's activities.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: In one room, agents find a police scanner tuned to
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: a frequency used by the FBI. In another room, they
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: find explosives and bomb-making supplies. They also find a bomb
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: kit that contains distinctive brass screws that match unexploded bombs
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: recovered in 1976 and 1983. they recover a nine millimeter
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: semi-automatic pistol. At the FBI forensics lab, technicians analyze the gun.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: They compare the bullet that killed Trooper Philip Lamonaco to
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: bullets fired from the nine millimeter handgun.
• 43:22
  Speaker 12: We were able to determine that that was the weapon
• 43:25
  Speaker 12: that was used to kill Phil Lamonaco.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Although they have finally found the murder weapon, tracing the
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: owner of the gun will be difficult. The serial number
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: has been filed off. Technicians use a chemical solution to
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: raise the number. It is barely legible beneath the surface
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: of the metal. Agents trace the nine millimeter to a
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: gun shop in Norfolk, Virginia. There it was purchased by
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: a woman named Deborah Ann Fury. Fury had listed an
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: address in Virginia Beach. Investigators check out the location. It
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: turns out to be another mail drop. The surveillance team
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: waits to see who will collect the mail. When a
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: woman arrives and opens the box, agents identify her. Deborah
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Ann Fury is in reality Thomas Manning's wife. The FBI
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: has finally found a link to the last member of
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: the radical terrorist group. In Ohio, the FBI and police
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: have arrested key members of a violent radical group charged
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: with robbery and domestic terrorism. One of them, Richard Williams,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: is suspected of killing a police officer. Two of the
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: group's members, Thomas Manning and his wife, are still at large.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: It has been five months since Manning and his family
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: fled their safe house in the rural town of Deerfield.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: The FBI traces a gun found in the safe house
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: to an address in Virginia Beach, Virginia. As it turns out,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the address is another mail drop. After weeks of surveillance,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: agents spot the fugitive's wife picking up the mail. Special
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Agent Leonard Cross.
• 45:37
  Speaker 12: We knew she had a scanner and she'd be scanning
• 45:39
  Speaker 12: for police radio frequencies as well as FBI frequencies. We
• 45:44
  Speaker 12: had special radios that were all encrypted that could not
• 45:46
  Speaker 12: be picked up. And the surveillance at this point took
• 45:51
  Speaker 12: us north.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Manning's wife leads investigators to a safe house in Norfolk
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: about 20 miles away. They do not want to arrest
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: her until they can be sure her husband is at home.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: An hour later, investigators follow her to a nearby shopping center.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: As an arrest team takes her into custody. The second
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: team moves in on the safe house. Manning is now outside,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: unaware he's being watched.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: He had no weapons.
• 46:31
  Speaker 12: A decision was made so no one would get hurt.
• 46:34
  Speaker 12: This would be the time to.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Make the arrest.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Thomas Manning, the last of the terrorists, is arrested in
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: his own backyard. In 1987, Thomas Manning and Richard Williams
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: stand trial in Somerville, New Jersey. Donna Lamonaco, the widow
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: of Trooper Phil Lamonaco, attends the trial.
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: It was very important for me to be a part
• 47:06
  Speaker 8: of the trial. I needed to be there. I needed
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: to know exactly what went on. I wanted to make
• 47:12
  Speaker 8: sure they were the two that killed Phil.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: The two self-proclaimed revolutionaries are sentenced to life in prison
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: for the murder of Trooper Philip Lamonaco. They receive additional
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: sentences for their roles in a series of bank robberies
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: and bombings starting in 1975. In separate trials, the wife
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: of Thomas Manning is found guilty of conspiracy and sentenced
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: to 15 years. Raymond Levasseur receives 45 years in prison
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: for his role in the group's terrorist activities. His wife
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: is released after spending several months in custody.
• 47:53
  Speaker 13: I think it's really important to set the record straight
• 47:56
  Speaker 13: that these individuals, Levasseur, Manning, Williams, they were nothing but criminals.
• 48:05
  Speaker 13: These guys want to call themselves as freedom fighters, revolutionaries.
• 48:10
  Speaker 14: At the end of the day, they were criminals.
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: And that's the bottom line.
• 48:14
  Speaker 13: I mean, when you commit bank robberies, when you set
• 48:18
  Speaker 13: off bombs, when you kill a police officer who was
• 48:22
  Speaker 13: only out there doing his job.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: They were nothing more than criminals.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: After the trials, members of the New Jersey State Police
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: visit Phil Lomonaco's grave for the very first time.
• 48:37
  Speaker 18: We went as a group to his gravesite. We felt
• 48:41
  Speaker 18: that we had the respect of Phil. He would know
• 48:48
  Speaker 18: that we had done our best.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Two decades after Philip Lamonaco's death, people still leave flowers
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: and flags on the side of the New Jersey highway
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: he protected. A string of lethal carjackings terrorize the Washington, D.C. area.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Ballistics reveal that it's the work of a serial killer,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: who tries to run over one victim with his own car.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: The FBI and police set a clever trap, but the
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: killer insists on a violent shootout.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: In the early 90s, a serial killer stalked lone victims
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  Speaker 2: in the dead of night. His hunting ground, the suburbs
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  Speaker 2: of Washington, D.C. His target, anyone who owned a car.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jim Kallstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office.
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  Speaker 2: The gunman was as elusive as he was deadly. He
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  Speaker 2: struck quickly and without mercy. Now the FBI must follow
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  Speaker 2: the twisted path of a killer wherever it leads.
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  Speaker 1: November 13th, 1991. Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb north of Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery County Police respond to a report of shots fired
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: at a car dealership. Officers discover the body of a
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  Speaker 1: woman shot in the chest and forehead.
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  Speaker 3: Call the medical examiner.
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  Speaker 1: And another gunshot victim nearby. He's got to pull off.
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  Speaker 1: The man is breathing but unconscious. Paramedics rush him to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. Montgomery County Homicide Detective Ed Day coordinates his
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: department's swift response to the slaying.
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  Speaker 19: You saturate the case as fast as you can, work
• 51:33
  Speaker 19: on it as fast as you can, get as much
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  Speaker 19: information as fast as you can, and try to resolve
• 51:38
  Speaker 19: it as fast as you can.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, homicides, time is terrible.
• 51:43
  Speaker 19: The more time goes by, the less your odds are
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  Speaker 19: that you're gonna have a satisfactory conclusion in the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators learn the two victims are janitors. They were cleaning
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  Speaker 1: the building that night and would have come outside around
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  Speaker 1: 10 p.m. to dump the garbage. The detectives work to
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  Speaker 1: determine a motive for the attack.
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  Speaker 19: You don't overlook the obvious. You have a shooting like
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  Speaker 19: this at a car lot. Is that a possible motive for.
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  Speaker 4: The killing, the theft of a car?
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  Speaker 19: Of course, they had representatives from the auto dealer come out,
• 52:24
  Speaker 19: do an inventory.
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  Speaker 4: There was no vehicles missing.
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  Speaker 19: There was no property missing from the inside of the establishment.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators locate the victim's car keys nearby and determine neither
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  Speaker 1: of their personal vehicles are missing. Robbery does not seem
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: to be the motive.
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  Speaker 19: Nothing was taken. They had money on them. There wasn't
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  Speaker 19: a single thing missing.
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  Speaker 1: Are you Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Eskimo?
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  Speaker 14: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 1: With almost no evidence to go on, Detective Day hopes
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  Speaker 1: to learn more from the critically wounded man.
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  Speaker 19: We do that with any kind of a shooting that's
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  Speaker 19: potentially fatal. There's a rule in law that a dying
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  Speaker 19: declaration does not have to be corroborated. It's not hearsay
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  Speaker 19: because if the person knows he's going to die, he's
• 53:21
  Speaker 19: assumed to be telling the truth. So if you can
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  Speaker 19: get a statement from somebody in really serious circumstances, it's
• 53:30
  Speaker 19: always a very, very powerful piece of evidence.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: But the victim dies nine days later without ever regaining consciousness.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: During the autopsy, the medical examiner recovers the only piece
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  Speaker 1: of physical evidence, the bullets that killed the victims. At
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: the Maryland State Police Crime Lab, ballistics expert Joe Capera
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: examines the evidence to determine if there was more than
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  Speaker 1: one shooter.
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  Speaker 20: There was a microscopic comparison done to determine if these
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  Speaker 20: bullets were fired from the same gun. And indeed, as
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  Speaker 20: a conclusion to these examinations, I concluded that these bullets
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  Speaker 20: were fired from the same gun.
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  Speaker 1: Examining the scratch patterns on the bullets, Capera determines the
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: make and model of the murder weapon.
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  Speaker 20: I was able to ascertain, first of all, the caliber
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  Speaker 20: of the gun, which was a. 357, and then through
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  Speaker 20: the measurements of the unique landing groove areas, I was
• 54:45
  Speaker 20: able to ascertain that it was a Ruger.
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  Speaker 1: 357. With no obvious motive for the slayings, Detectives explore
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  Speaker 1: the victims' personal lives for clues.
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  Speaker 4: You work inside out.
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  Speaker 19: You try to find out if these people had any enemies,
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  Speaker 19: if there was any triangle, you know, thwarted lover or
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  Speaker 19: something like that. These things take you in a hundred
• 55:13
  Speaker 19: different directions, and you just have to take care of
• 55:16
  Speaker 19: one thing at a time. You eliminate something, and you
• 55:19
  Speaker 19: move on to the next issue and just go from there.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives find nothing in the victims' backgrounds that could have
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  Speaker 1: led to their murders. Since investigators found the victims' car
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  Speaker 1: keys near the bodies, they decide to reexamine the slayings
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: as a failed car theft. With that possible motive in mind,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: detectives speculate how the crime might have occurred.
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  Speaker 4: They were cleaning. The business was closed.
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  Speaker 7: For the night.
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  Speaker 19: They were taking the trash out.
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  Speaker 6: Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Detective suspect the gunman demanded the victim's car keys. Here.
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  Speaker 1: It's right here. Don't hurt me.
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  Speaker 14: I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: Based on the position of the woman's body relative to
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  Speaker 1: her keys, they believe she tried to run.
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  Speaker 19: And you have to make the assumption that he lost
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  Speaker 19: control of the situation and decided to kill the two
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  Speaker 19: of them before he identified what car belonged to them.
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  Speaker 19: He escalated an attempt theft into a murder for no
• 56:39
  Speaker 19: good reason.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: With little evidence to go on, The case grows cold. Then,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: three months later, investigators respond to the scene of another homicide.
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  Speaker 1: They find the body of psychology professor Dr. Shaheen Hastroudi
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  Speaker 1: lying in a parking lot in Bethesda, Maryland. Unable to
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  Speaker 1: locate her car, detectives believe she was the victim of
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  Speaker 1: a fatal carjacking. Noting the lack of blood spatter evidence
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: near the body, they suspect Hestruti's assailants shot her while
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: she was still inside her car. Through interviews with her colleagues,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: authorities determined Dr. Hestruti left her office around 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 19: She's obviously accosted. At some point gets in her car.
• 57:57
  Speaker 19: Once she's already in the car, she's shot. She's taken
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  Speaker 19: out of the car, dumped on the lot. and the
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  Speaker 19: suspect steals her car. Gunshot wound to the head. Large caliber.
• 58:30
  Speaker 19: No witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: The only solid evidence is a pair of bullets recovered
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: from the victim's body. Investigators send the bullets to the
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  Speaker 1: Maryland State Police Crime Lab to compare them with the
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: bullets from the double homicide. It is a match. The
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: two crimes are connected. Homicide detectives begin examining unsolved cases
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: involving similar circumstances. One detective recalls a recent homicide. which
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: occurred a month before his Trudy was killed. That victim
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: was also shot in the head with a large caliber gun.
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  Speaker 1: As in the Silver Spring double homicide, responding officers found
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: the victim's keys near his body. But this victim didn't
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: own a car, which leads investigators to question whether car
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  Speaker 1: theft was the motive or if the case is even
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: connected to the other shootings.
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  Speaker 19: But we said, you know, this is looking like they're
• 59:48
  Speaker 19: definitely linked for some reason.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: So authorities locate the bullet from that case and send
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: it to be tested. Ballistics expert Joe Capera compares the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: bullets from the four homicides.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 20: I did a cross-comparison examination to the previous bullets. And
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 20: as a result of that examination, I found out that
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 20: all the bullets were fired from the same weapon.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: We're starting to see a pattern here, guys.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: Investigators have connected the four homicides through the ballistic evidence
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: and an apparent car theft motive, but they cannot understand
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: why the killer chose to murder his victims.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: None of these people were armed.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 19: Stature-wise, none of these people I thought were particularly a
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 19: threat to the suspect. Two possibilities, that he had lost
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 19: control of them and felt the best way to regain
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 19: control of the situation was to kill them, or there
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 19: was some psychological reason that he didn't like these particular people.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: Detectives believe they are dealing with an extremely violent and
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: unpredictable criminal and suspect he may still be in the area.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 19: Montgomery County was his basis of operation. That's where he
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 19: felt most comfortable. That's where he did all his murders.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 19: That's where he did his most risky business. That's where
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 19: he laid in wait for people. said it was obvious
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 19: he had some strong tie to Montgomery County.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Investigators suspect he will strike again and hope to stop
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: him before he does. But they have no clues that
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: can help identify him. And the killer's weapon is the
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: only thing that can connect him to the murders.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: The best evidence we got is the bullets.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 19: And if we can get him and get the gun,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 19: then we definitely have a very, very strong case.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Authorities don't want to give the killer a reason to
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: destroy his gun, and with it, their only evidence. So
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: they decide to keep the ballistics match away from the media.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 19: If we supply the information to the press that all
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 19: the bullets came from the same gun, be a good
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 19: likelihood that he would either dispose of the weapon or
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 19: he would, in worst-case scenario, obtain a different weapon and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 19: keep committing the crime.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: More than a week after the Hestruti killing, a man
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: wearing a stocking mask and latex gloves robs a bank
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: in Chantilly, Virginia. The bank's video security system captures his image.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: A witness tells the FBI that the bank robber fled
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: in a late model white vehicle. and gives them the
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: license plate number. The description of the getaway car matches
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: the vehicle stolen from Hastruti, attracting the attention of Montgomery
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: County detectives. But the license plate is not Hastruti's. Investigators
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: trace the plate and discover it had been stolen from
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: a vehicle in Annandale, Virginia. For detectives, this leaves open
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: the possibility that Hashtruti's car was used in the bank robbery.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: The Montgomery County Task Force, which now includes agents from
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: the FBI. requests copies of the bank's surveillance tapes to
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: learn what they can about the robber. Investigators watch the
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: crime unfold and notice the robber is carrying a revolver
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: of the same make and caliber used in the four homicides.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: They think he could be the killer. The footage is
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: the best lead they have in identifying a suspect, according
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: to FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 21: We had a great piece of video that actually showed
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 21: the individual the handgun. That picture was actually put on
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 21: the news locally and regionally to try to see if
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 21: we could spark some interest as far as someone identifying him.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Investigators also release information that their suspect, the money he stole,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: and the vehicle he was driving may be covered in
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: red dye. If you do anything, a phone call, anything,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to shoot somebody.
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  Speaker 19: The teller managed to slip dye packs into the bag
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 19: of money. And a dye pack is a device that
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 19: once it goes through the door of the bank, it's
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 19: electronically activated. There's a timer on it. It gives a
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 19: person a little bit of time to get away from
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 19: the bank. And then it explodes, spewing this terrible red dye.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 19: It stains, it's very difficult to get off. It gets
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 19: on the money and it can't, will not come off
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 19: the money. It takes a while to get it off
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 19: you personally.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Five days after the bank robbery, police in Northern Virginia
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: find an abandoned car bearing the stolen plates reported by
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: the witness. A check of the vehicle identification number proves
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: that it is a Strudy's car. The officer peers inside,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: examining the interior.
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  Speaker 21: We had the red dye stains in it from the
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 21: dye packs from the bank. We had proof positive that
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 21: it had been used in the bank robbery.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Officers impound the vehicle and transport it to the police
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: garage for processing. Technicians find blood stains inside the car
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: and collect samples as evidence. But they do not find
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: anything that can identify the killer. Lab examiners extract DNA
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: from the blood evidence and compare it to Hastroudi's. It
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: is a match.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: The right over on the bank.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: Finally, investigators are able to look at the various crimes
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: and understand their suspect's overall plan.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: It's gelled into something that makes a little bit of sense.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 19: You went from a situation where you had a whole
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 19: bunch of motives that really didn't make sense to now
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 19: a concrete motive. This person is killing people to steal
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 19: cars to commit bank robberies.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: Although authorities now understand why the suspect is murdering innocent people,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: they have no clue who he is. Investigators face the
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: nearly impossible challenge of identifying and catching a ruthless gunman
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: before he kills again. The FBI and Maryland's Montgomery County
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Police are hunting a killer who has already committed four
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: homicides as well as a bank robbery. Several FBI agents
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: are part of the task force pursuing the gunman, including
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Robert Coffey.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 21: One of the main roles of the FBI, specifically in
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 21: this type of a crime, is that we work with
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 21: many different agencies to corral all of the investigators and
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 21: bring forth the information in one kind of a think tank.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: This multi-agency approach is an invaluable investigative resource for Montgomery
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: County homicide detective Ed Day.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 19: When you start working with multiple jurisdictions on different cases, well,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 19: the more jurisdictions that are involved, the more jurisdictions have
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 19: an interest, the more assets you can draw from.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: The task force now understands their suspect's crime pattern. He
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: steals a person's car at gunpoint, killing his victim. then
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: uses the vehicle in a bank robbery. Investigators continue to
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: look for past unsolved cases that involved a similar pattern.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 19: Nothing occurs in a vacuum. Somebody doesn't just start killing people,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 19: so that's when we really start doing the research.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: They identify an incident that occurred in their county almost
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: a year earlier. Is this your car? No, it's not
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: my car.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 12: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 19: Our victim was a maintenance man, an Hispanic male. He
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 19: was accosted by a white male carrying a large caliber
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 19: dark handgun.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: When the masked gunman asked for the victim's car keys,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: the man claimed he didn't own a car.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: The suspect demanded to know which car belonged to him.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 19: He was told to turn around and face away from
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 19: the suspect. down on his knees and put his hand
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 19: behind his head.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 14: Where's your car?
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Where is your car?
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 19: Our victim at that time felt quite certain that he
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 19: was going to be executed. Suspect fired three shots. One
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 19: of the shots hit him in the forearm.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: The victim managed to flee down an alley and hide
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: behind a bush.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 19: And spent some minutes there waiting for the situation to
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 19: calm down.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: After 10 minutes, the victim returned to the street and
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: waved down the first car he saw, hoping for assistance.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: To his horror, it was the gunman. an alert neighbor
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: had called police. The victim's life was spared. The following day,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: a witness reported seeing a masked gunman leaving the scene
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: of a bank robbery in Centerville, Virginia. Police later recovered
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: the getaway vehicle and determined it was the car stolen
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: from the maintenance man. Investigators examine the evidence gathered at
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: the scene of the carjacking. All they have is a
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: bullet fragment that was lodged in the victim's arm. Ballistics
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: expert Joe Capera.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 20: One does not necessarily need the whole bullet as long
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 20: as the fragment that is left that he is examining
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 20: has enough ballistic evidence on it that he can use.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: He tests the fragment against the other recovered bullets to
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: determine if that case is connected to their current investigation.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: The bullet fragment matches, but the task force is still
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: no closer to identifying their suspect. With little hard evidence,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: investigators study the killer's behavior as exhibited through his actions,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: searching for clues to his identity. Authorities examine the newly
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: linked case and determine he is unusually bold and cocky.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 21: When the investigators got together and discussed the commitment level
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 21: of this individual to stay at a crime scene for
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 21: 10 minutes waiting for a witness to come back, raised
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 21: our level of concern about.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: The subject himself.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 19: He's not in a big hurry. It feels pretty comfortable
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 19: that the police aren't going to be there anytime soon.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: Investigators also believe the suspect has a quick-tempered, vengeful personality.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 19: He's very upset with his victim. He's decided that he
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 19: has been himself wronged in some way, and he's going
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 19: to make him pay for it.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: But authorities cannot understand why the suspect uses what appears
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: to be an unnecessary level of violence during the carjackings.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 19: It does not make sense to kill somebody in the
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 19: least risky part of the crime.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: The biggest risk he's.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 19: Taken is when he goes into those banks, as far
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 19: as getting captured, being identified, or running into any real obstacles.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: Taking these people, you know, innocent people off in the middle.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 19: Of the night in a ground of his own choosing
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 19: where he can isolate them. I mean, he's safer at
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 19: that location than he is anywhere else and anything else
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 19: he does.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: It just doesn't make sense why he chose to kill
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: these people.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Your suspect is not only dangerously disturbed, but also clever.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 21: One of the more interesting parts of the M.O. that
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 21: this individual used was the number of jurisdictions through which
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 21: he perpetrated his crimes.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: He exploits the fact that no single police department can
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: readily see his entire crime pattern.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 21: We have a carjacking in one jurisdiction. We have a
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 21: stolen tag from a second jurisdiction. We have a bank
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 21: robbery in a third jurisdiction. And then we have the
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 21: car abandoned in a fourth jurisdiction.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: The gunman's efforts to stymie police do not stop there.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: Each time he abandons a stolen car, he leaves it
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: unlocked with the keys in plain view.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 21: One of the difficult parts of recovering the vehicles following
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 21: the robberies is that they were being driven by other people.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 21: By leaving the vehicle with the keys in it, the
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 21: vehicles were then subsequently re-stolen, leaving the vehicles to be
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 21: re-stolen destroyed whatever forensic evidence would.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: Have been left.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 8: Behind.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 21: So the only thing we had to match all of
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 21: the crimes was the forensic evidence from the ballistics.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: Investigators continue to look for additional unsolved carjackings in which
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: the vehicle was later used in a bank robbery. They
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: identify a case that occurred within miles of the other thefts.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 21: A woman was walking out of a doctor's office and
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 21: realized that she was being followed. She turned to try
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 21: to go back to the doctor's office but was confronted
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 21: by the individual.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: And then asked for her keys.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: They walked over to the car.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 14: Come on, come on, come on.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: Start it.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 7: Start the car. Start the car.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: The gunman forced the frightened woman to start her car.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 21: And upon starting the vehicle, had her get out and
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 21: kneel down next to a wall.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: On your knees.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: Get your hands up.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 21: Upon kneeling down, he had her wait there for a
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 21: short period of time.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 4: She described as 30 or 40 seconds passed.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 19: You have to wonder, how much of that time did
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 19: he spend thinking about whether or not he was going
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 19: to shoot her? She was very compliant, did everything she
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 19: was told to do right when she was told to
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 19: do it.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 4: That might have saved her.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: The next day, her vehicle was used in a bank robbery.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: The investigators wonder why their suspect allowed this woman to live,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: yet killed the others. They come up with several theories.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 19: The fact that she was a Caucasian female might have
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 19: had something to do with it.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: He might have harbored some malice.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 19: Towards Hispanic people or foreign people. It could be something
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 19: simple about he lost control in those situations. In fact,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 19: the best way to gain control was to kill him.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: The task force has little to work with, but is
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: determined to go on the offensive.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 19: Now we're trying to figure out how can we get
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 19: ahead of him? How can we be in a position
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 19: where we can be waiting for him when he does something?
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 19: Or we can be prepared to mobilize very quickly with
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 19: the resources necessary to get him.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: The investigators focus on the one aspect of the suspect's
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: crime pattern that they can anticipate.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 21: We could not predict when a carjacking would take place.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: They were too random.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 21: We did, however, know that following the carjacking, we would
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 21: have a bank robbery.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: If authorities can only predict which banks he will rob
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: or where he will be traveling, they might have a
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: chance to catch him. A masked gunman strikes again and
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: again in suburban Maryland, just north of the nation's capital.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: He shoots his victims while stealing their cars, which he
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: later uses to rob banks. In the spring of 1992,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: the FBI and Montgomery County Police analyzed their suspect's habits
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: in hopes of trapping him.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 4: Homicide detective Ed Day.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 19: We had people take aerial photographs of every crime scene
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 19: and the different escape routes and things of that nature,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 19: trying to find some logical pattern to what he was doing,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 19: something that would maybe give us a clue. What are consistencies?
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 19: What are inconsistencies? Is there anything like that that we
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 19: can use to our advantage to foretell what he might
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 19: do next?
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: On the surface, the list of crime scenes appears random.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: But a closer look by investigators reveals all the banks
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: he robbed share a single trait.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 19: Everywhere he went, he had access to a major roadway.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 19: They would take him pretty quickly to a thoroughfare like
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 19: 495 or 270 or something like that.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: The task force shifts their focus from predicting where the
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: suspect will strike next to catching him when he makes
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: his escape after a bank robbery. They decide they will
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: cast a dragnet on all highway exit ramps in the area.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 21: We developed a plan where we would cast a net
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 21: using all of the jurisdictions, law enforcement within the Washington area,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 21: to where once the bank robbery were to take place,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 21: he would have to pass through some points of the net.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: Meeting with officers from every police department in the area,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: the task force details their plan. They will watch for
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: any carjacking reports resembling their suspect's M.O. Officers from each
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: jurisdiction will then prepare for a quick response if a
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: bank is subsequently robbed. they will immediately stake out pre-assigned
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: highway exit ramps targeting the stolen car.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 19: There was enough support at each particular location that he
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 19: could be followed. We could bring to bear enough additional
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 19: manpower to make a stop of our choosing and, of course,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 19: affect an arrest if we were lucky enough to spot him.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Ready to cast their net, investigators wait for the suspect
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: to steal a car. At 5 a.m. each morning, Special
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: Agent Coffey begins his day by reviewing the reports of
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: all the area car thefts from the night before. He
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: looks for the one that matches their suspect's M.O. If
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: the suspect stole a car, The task force needs to
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: identify it before banks open at nine. But months pass
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: with no sign of their suspect. Investigators begin to worry
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: that the killer has gone underground and may never be caught.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 19: We assume he's obviously stressed at this particular point.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: He's feeling the heat of the notoriety of what he's done.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: October 9th, 1992. Special aid and coffee. Eight months after
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: the killer's most recent slaying.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 21: I get notification from our Baltimore agents that another carjacking
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 21: has taken place. We've got a white male with a
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 21: ski mask, latex gloves, and a handgun.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: It's taken place all the way up in Baltimore. At
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: approximately 7 a.m. A 15-year-old girl walked to her mother's car. Suddenly,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: an armed man approached her and demanded the keys. Pick
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: up the keys.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: Pick them up or I'll kill you, you stupid.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 21: A housing police officer heard this and came to her aid.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: Get away from the car! Get away from the car!
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: Get away from the car! Get away from the car!
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: There was an exchange of gunfire.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 21: And the carjacker took her vehicle and fled the scene.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 19: We were feeling very good because we had very, very
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 19: fresh information.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 4: And we knew he was on the move and he
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: was in Baltimore and more than likely on the way
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: back here.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: The task force determines there is no need to wait
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: for a bank robbery.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 21: Based on that information, The task force casts the net
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 21: around the Washington metro area, hoping that he's going to
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 21: come back through that net.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: Patrolmen and SWAT units from jurisdictions throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C.,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: and Northern Virginia race to prearranged locations on freeway exit
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: ramps to watch for the stolen car. Since police cannot
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: be sure if the suspect has had time to switch
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: the license plates... they pull over every vehicle matching its description.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: Each time, they know they may face a shooter who
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: has already taken four lives. The FBI and police departments
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: throughout the Washington, D.C. area hunt a suspected killer. They
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: stop every vehicle matching the description of the one they
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: believe he stole an hour earlier. Police pull over dozens
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: of cars that come up empty.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: What's going on?
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: We got a girl. As the search continues, 50 miles
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: away in Western Maryland, Brunswick police officer Gary Klein is
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: on routine patrol.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 22: I observed a small a black and color passenger vehicle.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 22: I saw that there was no front license plate on it.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 22: And as the vehicle passed me, I looked over and
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 22: observed the driver had an nylon stocking pulled down over
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 22: his face. It kind of shocked me and I was like,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 22: I'm not really sure what's going on here, but it
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 22: kind of drew my attention real quick. I turned around,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 22: caught back up to the car. I radioed my dispatchers
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 22: and the 911 center requested information on the tag. And
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 22: the subject in the small black car sped off and
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 22: wouldn't pull over for me. Then I'm informed by our
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 22: dispatchers that this subject is wanted for shooting at a
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 22: Baltimore City officer.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: The hundreds of officers mobilized in the D.C. area are
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: too far away to assist. Officer Klein is alone against
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: a ruthless killer.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 22: The adrenaline's pumping now because I'm pursuing this vehicle. Knowing
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 22: somewhere in there I'm going to have to confront this individual.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 22: The speeds that we maintained in some places were 90
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 22: miles per hour to a little over 100 miles per hour.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: Officer Klein chases the suspect from Maryland into Virginia.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 22: He was very intent on getting away from me. He
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 22: just went straight down the middle of the bridge, just
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 22: forcing people east and westbound out of his way. I
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 22: had to back off because I didn't want to endanger
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 22: myself or the innocent people or citizens out on the
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 22: street where he was actually able to gain a good
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 22: bit of distance on me. But once the roadway cleared
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 22: up a little bit where I could safely get through
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 22: the vehicles, I was able to catch back up to him.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: The client pursues the suspect into West Virginia.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 22: Made a right off Route 340, and he went down
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 22: this small asphalt road, and when he hit that, he
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 22: was going too fast with the rain and everything and
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 22: lost control and struck the curb. Stepped out of the
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 22: vehicle with my weapon drawn, And I seen him kind
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 22: of lean over in the car towards the passenger seat,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 22: and I seen the gun come up inside the car.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: Officer Klein is concerned about firing his gun in a
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: public place.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 22: When you discharge your weapon, you just don't want a
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 22: round just going out there somewhere, and you could strike
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 22: somebody innocent. You have a split second to make this decision,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 22: and whatever decision you make can affect you for the
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 22: rest of your life. At that point he placed the
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 22: car in reverse and sped backwards quickly towards my cruiser
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 22: in what I believe was an attempt to ram my
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 22: car or strike me. He proceeded down a small access road.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 22: and I proceeded after him. He sped into this little
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 22: dead end dirt gravel area and he tried to go
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 22: behind this bulldozer and wrecked into it. There's nowhere for
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 22: him to go and now I have to confront him.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 22: At that time I see the gun coming up, which
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 22: just kind of made my heart jump out of my chest.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: While the suspect ducks for cover, Officer Klein strategically moves
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: to his right.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 22: You don't want to stay in one position, especially after
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 22: he already knows where you're at.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: Klein's tactic works. The suspect fires at the position where
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: Klein used to be.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 22: I actually fired more shots at him as he ran
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 22: to get to the backside of his car for cover.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: With backup units still minutes away, the lone officer fights
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: to stay alive in a violent face-off with a vicious killer.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 23: The suspected killer is in a desperate shootout in Harpers Ferry,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 23: West Virginia, with lone police officer Gary Klein.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 22: I see him start to come up from behind his car.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 22: through the passenger side window with the gun raised and
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 22: he's coming up. I remember firing at him and striking
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 22: the car and he ducked down behind the car again.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 22: Several seconds passed, he raises back up. You can hear it,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 22: the actual sound of the bullet striking the car, the metal,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 22: and he ducks back down behind the car again.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: And finally, backup arrives.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 22: When they put their hand on my shoulder and I
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 22: knew who they were, it was this big relief. Burden
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 22: was lifted off my shoulders because now I knew I
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 22: had fellow officers there. Within the next ten minutes, police
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 22: officers from several jurisdictions were on the scene.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: The gunman realizes he is outnumbered.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 22: Then the suspect stood up and walked out in front
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 22: of myself and my cruiser, probably about 15 yards, and
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 22: put the gun to his head. And I continued to
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 22: yell at him to drop the gun, to throw the
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 22: gun on the ground. There was a time he told
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 22: me he wouldn't do that.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: West Virginia State Police Corporal John Jeffries begins negotiating with
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: the gunman.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 17: We can work through this.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 4: Let me help.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 22: After several minutes of negotiation, the suspect then pulled the
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 22: nylon stocking up on the top of his head. Still
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 22: wasn't able to really get a good, clear look at him.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: The suspect begins to talk. He says he's an unemployed
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: house painter.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 7: He said that he was just upset.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 22: He had had some relation problems with his girlfriend. That
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 22: he had done some things he wasn't real happy about
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 22: and just... All these things had piled up and just
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 22: troubled him, and he didn't know why he was doing
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 22: the things he was doing.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: After a 45-minute standoff, the gunman makes an unusual demand.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 22: I remember him saying he wanted to talk to his mother.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 22: So he gave his mother's name and phone number.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: Several tense minutes pass as police attempt to reach the
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: suspect's mother.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 22: He advised the suspect that they had his mother on
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 22: the phone.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: The woman on the line asks the negotiator for the
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: suspect's name.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 22: He identified himself as Alan Newman. He wasn't real sure
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 22: of the police. He didn't know if we were just
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 22: lying to him.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 12: Or what we were doing.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 22: He said, well, ask my mom what my favorite cookie is.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 22: I remember Corporal Jeffries saying, your mom said your favorite
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 22: cookie is chocolate chip. And he started crying. It really
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 22: shocked me because I thought he was just going to
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 22: drop the gun and give up. You see the hammer
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 22: coming back and everything's like slow motion. You see the
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 22: hammer drop. you're waiting for the gun to go off.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: And it didn't. Seizing the opportunity, officers rush in and
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: subdue the gunman, ending the standoff.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 22: After it was all over and done, I'm very relieved,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 22: very appreciative of all the guys that were there that day.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 22: I was able to help to get this person off
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 22: the street and, um, put him where he needed to
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 22: be so that nobody else would be hurt.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: Police take Alan Newman into custody and confiscate his Ruger.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: 357 as evidence. It is the same model used in
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: the murders, according to FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 21: From the prior ballistics, we knew what type of gun
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 21: it would be. It would have been a specific Ruger make,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 21: and in fact, that's what he was carrying. the same
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 21: types of bullets that were used in the shootings and
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 21: the homicides were in fact still in the weapon.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 4: You have told us that over and over.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: After nearly a year of hard work, investigators finally meet
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: the killer face to face.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 21: We no longer have someone running throughout the counties killing
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 21: people for cars. We were very excited about getting the
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 21: chance to talk to the individual to.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: Find out why. While Newman admits to the Baltimore carjacking,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: he refuses to admit to any of the murders, according
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: to homicide detective Ed Day.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 19: Throughout the interview process, he remained pretty cocky, and.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 4: He thought it was pretty cool.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: Investigators continue to press Newman while at a firearms laboratory.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: A ballistics expert fires Newman's gun into an 800 gallon
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: tank of water. The examiner compares the unique markings on
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: the fired bullet to those on the bullets recovered from
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: the four murders and the attempted homicide. Ballistics expert Joe Capera.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 20: It is a scientific certainty that this is the firearm
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 20: that fired these bullets.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 14: And no other firearm could possibly do that.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: After hours of interrogation, investigators received the ballistics report.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 19: That's like the magic piece of evidence. That's the one
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 19: that you really knew would seal the whole case. physical,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 19: undeniable evidence that we could put in front of a
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 19: jury that he could not refute.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 4: In any way, shape, or form.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 19: We could convict him without much trouble, and we could
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 19: have gotten the death sentence with the information that we had,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 19: which put it over the top, and he decided it
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 19: was best to make a deal for life rather than
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 19: take the chance on being executed.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: Alan Newman pleads guilty to all the charges against him
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: and is sentenced to five life terms without parole, plus
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: 100 years for handgun violations.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 21: Looking back, it was the collective efforts of more than
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 21: a dozen police agencies contributing interviews and evidence that led
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 21: to the successful conclusion of this case.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 19: The accomplishment for all police officers and all investigators is
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 19: to arrest a bad guy and put him in jail,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 19: and when you do that, You get a nice warm
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 19: feeling for about 10 minutes until the next case comes
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 19: in and you have to start all over again.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: But for now, every investigator who worked this case is
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: content to know they have ended one man's violent rampage.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: Deep in the hills of Arkansas, an army of extremists
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: plot to overturn the US government. They spread a doctrine
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: of hate, murder, and genocide, launch death raids on churches
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: and synagogues, bomb public utilities, and gun down a state trooper.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: Federal agents must dismantle the radical renegades without inciting a
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: bloody war.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: In 1984, a tragic murder led agents into the frightening
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 2: world of domestic terrorism. Law enforcement vowed to dismantle the
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: violent faction that claimed responsibility. I'm Jim Kallstrom, former head
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: of the FBI's New York office. The radical group pursued
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: a doctrine of racial cleansing, an attack on basic American freedoms.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: The FBI's quest for justice escalated into a brutal showdown,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: pitting agents against terrorists fueled by hate.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: June, 1984, Sevier County, Arkansas, a rural area along the
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma border. Winona Bryant drives south on US Highway 71.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: Winona is a teacher at a local high school. She's
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: traveling with her children and her nephew to meet her
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: husband for lunch. He is Louis Bryant, an Arkansas state trooper.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: He patrols this stretch of highway. Along the way, Winona
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: spots a police cruiser on the side of the road.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: She recognizes the ID number. That's Dad's car. Louis is
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: nowhere in sight. Something's wrong. Winona tells the children to
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: stay in the car. Then she sees him. Covered with blood.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: Winona struggles to stay calm as she uses the police
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: radio to call for help. Officer down.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 3: Officer down.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 24: Police.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 8: Somebody.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 17: Officer down.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: Somebody. She tells the dispatcher that Lewis is unconscious. It
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: looks like he's been shot. Let's get somebody here.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 3: He's been shot. Please.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: The Arkansas State Police dispatcher alerts all police frequencies that
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: an officer is down. Passing motorists stop to help. Winona
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: can feel a faint heartbeat, but her husband isn't breathing.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: She administers CPR until county authorities respond. Paramedics rush Bryant
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: to a nearby hospital where he is pronounced dead. Trooper
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: Louis Bryant was a respected veteran of the Arkansas State Police.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: He leaves behind his wife, Winona, and their two children.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: Within minutes of the shooting, The Dequeen, Arkansas Sheriff's Department
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: receives a frantic call. A driver on Highway 71 reports
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: seeing a brown and white van leaving the scene. He
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: was pulling a homemade trailer. Police in Broken Bow, Oklahoma
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: spot the van heading west. The driver refuses to stop,
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: but police force him to the side of the road.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: As officers converge on the van, the driver pulls out
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: a rifle and starts shooting. Police strike the suspect in
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: the shoulder. He pulls out a. 45 caliber pistol and
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: continues firing. Officers hit him four more times, finally forcing
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: him down. Police search the wounded suspect and find a
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: driver's license identifying him as Richard Wayne Snell of Stephenville, Texas.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: At a nearby hospital, Police question Snell. The suspect confesses
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: to shooting the state trooper. Snell tells police he has
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: outstanding warrants in Texas and he was trying to escape arrest.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: As Bryant approached the car, Snell opened fire. Yeah, what
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: went on in Oklahoma? Agents from the Oklahoma State Bureau
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: of Investigation search Snell's van. They discover a metal box
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: containing a. 22 semi-automatic pistol and a grenade.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 7: Can we get a shot of that?
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: They also find suspicious wires attached to the underside of
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: the steering wheel column, leading to the air conditioner vent.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: They fear the van is booby-trapped. Investigators call in a
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: bomb squad from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Technicians carefully examine
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: the vehicle. After several tense moments, they conclude the van
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: is not rigged to explode. The search of the vehicle resumes.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: Investigators find several more weapons, including a MAC-10 machine pistol.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: They also find literature printed by a group of white
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: supremacists called the CSA, the Covenant, the Sword, and the
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: Arm of the Lord. The group advocates the violent overthrow
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: of the United States government. In their literature, they call
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: for the murder of government agents and the extermination of
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: Jews and blacks. Police call in Agent Bill Buford of
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: the ATF. Along with other federal investigators, Buford has been
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: trying to establish a criminal case against the CSA for
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: nearly two years. Looking for evidence, Buford makes a chilling discovery.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 17: In the van was a briefcase. And in the briefcase
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 17: was a lot of notes that this individual had put together,
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 17: different maps. And one of the things that I noticed
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 17: immediately was a map, apparently, of my house. The street
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 17: it was on, the different houses that surrounded my place.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: And that caused me a little consternation, to say the least.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 17: It was later established that they had also been doing
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 17: surveillance on a federal judge, a U.S.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: Attorney, an FBI agent.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 17: For whatever reason, whether they just wanted to know where
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 17: we lived or whether they were anticipating retaliation for some whatever.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 17: That's just left up to one's own imagination, I guess.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: Buford examines the weapons retrieved from the van.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 17: One of the things that came to my attention almost
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 17: immediately was that the MAC-10 had a silencer on it.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: The silencer is homemade but sophisticated. Bill Buford believes he
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: has seen one just like it, confiscated just three months earlier.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: In early April, Missouri police caught three men stealing a
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: flatbed trailer. In their possession were three. 45 semi-automatic pistols.
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: one sawed-off shotgun, and one MAC-10 converted to fully automatic
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: with a homemade silencer. According to an informant, all three
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: men are members of the C.S.A., The.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 17: Two silencers looked exactly the same. And I felt like
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 17: this might be a break if we could determine that
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 17: these two silencers were made by the same people and
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 17: were able to establish that they had come from the
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 17: CSA compound.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: Five days after the shooting, on July 5, 1984, Trooper
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: Louis Bryant is laid to rest. The funeral is attended
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: by then-Governor Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton, and over a thousand
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: police officers. Governor Clinton makes the investigation of extremist groups
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: a priority.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 22: State and federal agents probe deeper into Snell's connection to
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 22: the CSA.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 4: The murder weapon in the Bryant case was a.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: 45 caliber Colt Commander 18 months earlier, the gun had
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: been stolen in a deadly pawn shop holdup in Texarkana, Arkansas.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: The owner had been shot three times in the back
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: of the head. Ballistics analysis shows a bullet recovered from
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: the victim had been fired by a. 22 caliber Ruger,
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: the same. 22 Ruger found in Snell's van. According to records,
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: the leader of the CSA purchased that Ruger four years
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: earlier Okay, thank you. Agents now have enough evidence to
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: subpoena the leader of the CSA to appear before a
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: federal grand jury on gun charges. Bill Buford heads to
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: Mountain Home, Arkansas to deliver the subpoena to the CSA
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: leader at his 200 acre compound. Informants and surveillance indicate
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: that the compound is heavily fortified Several structures dot the
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: surveillance photos. Agents know the compound is inhabited by the
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: CSA leadership and approximately 65 men, women, and children. They
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: know little else. ATF investigators had become aware of the
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: CSA several years earlier. The organization had evolved from a
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: religious group into a violent right-wing militia.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 17: When ATF began to really think that this was more
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 17: than just a Bible study group was when we were
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 17: aware of the large number of right-wing organizations that were
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 17: coming in and doing the paramilitary training there.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: According to informants, extremist groups such as the Aryan Nation,
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: the Posse Comitatus, and the Order frequently visited the compound.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: They're watching us tight, so... A few low-level members of
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: the CSA had been arrested for firearms violations, but the
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: leadership of the group had always managed to evade prosecution
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: for all but misdemeanor offenses. Buford hoped today would mark
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the end for this dangerous organization. Agent
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: Buford meets a man at the front gate who identifies
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: himself as Cary Noble, the group's second in command.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 17: He went into the compound, and a short time later
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 17: he came back and said, well, the leader of the
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 17: group will meet with you, but only you, and you
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 17: have to go down unarmed, and I have to search
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 17: you to make sure you haven't got a gun on you.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: Buford agrees to turn his weapon over to another ATF agent.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: He allows himself to be searched. He knows that going
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: into the compound alone and unarmed is dangerous, but there's
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: no other choice.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 17: If one of the people that was working for me
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 17: or one of the agents under my supervision had wanted
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 17: to do it, I wouldn't have let him do it.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 17: But at the time, it seemed like the right thing.
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: The stakes are too high. The group is too dangerous.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: Buford needs to show the C.S.A. that federal agents will
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: not be intimidated. In Arkansas, state trooper Louis Bryant is
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: gunned down during a routine traffic stop. Investigators discover weapons
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: connecting Bryant's killer to a group of violent white supremacists
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: calling themselves the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: the Lord. ATF agent Bill Buford enters the group's heavily
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: fortified compound to deliver a subpoena, ordering the group's leader
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: to appear before a federal grand jury. The ATF agent
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: enters alone and unarmed.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 4: It was kind of an awesome sight.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 17: At first glance, it looked like just a community there
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 17: with a number of buildings. But as you looked closer,
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 17: you saw that these buildings were all rock structures, very
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 17: well made. If you looked closely, you could see that
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 17: there were bunkers dug around the compound itself.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: Buford confronts the CSA leader face-to-face.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 4: I got a subpoena in my jacket.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 17: I explained to him that I had a subpoena from
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 17: a federal grand jury.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: In Muskogee, Oklahoma.
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 17: And that he would need to appear on the date
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 17: on the subpoena.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: The subpoena concerns weapons involved in the murder of a
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: state trooper. Investigators have traced some of the weapons back
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: to the CSA. He asked if he would be arrested.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 17: I assured him that the grand jury appearance was all
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 17: this was. It was not an arrest warrant that he
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 17: wouldn't be arrested.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: The leader takes the subpoena. His men escort Buford out
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: of the compound. When the CSA leader eventually appears before
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: the grand jury, he denies knowing Richard Wayne Snell, the
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: man who confessed to the murder of Trooper Louis Bryant.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: He also claims no knowledge of how weapons traced to
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: him ended up in Snell's possession. On November 1st, 1984,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: Richard Wayne Snell is found guilty of capital murder in
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: the shooting death of state trooper Louis Bryant. He is
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. On
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: the same day, Snell is charged with the murder of
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: a pawn shop owner in Texarkana, Arkansas. In the winter
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: of 1985, The FBI, the ATF, and the Arkansas U.S.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office turn up the heat on the CSA. FBI
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Jack Knox has developed a key informant who
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: claims the CSA is involved in acts of domestic terrorism.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 11: He outlined what he referred to as road trips in
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 11: which he and two other members of the CSA were
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 11: assigned by the leader of the CSA to take in
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 11: search of businesses or establishments to plunder or Jewish establishments
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 11: which they might attack.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: According to the informant, two years before the murder of
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: the Arkansas state trooper, several CSA members had set fire
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: to a Jewish community center in Bloomington, Indiana. The informant
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: claimed that at about the same time, the CSA firebombed
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: a church in Springfield, Missouri that welcomed gay members. He
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: also claimed that three months later, the CSA attempted to
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: bomb a major natural gas pipeline in Fulton, Arkansas, to
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: disrupt supplies across the Midwest. They were unsuccessful. The pipeline
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: was not damaged. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Snyder could
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: see a dangerous pattern emerging.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 25: There were what appeared to be random acts of violence.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 25: After this individual talked, They no longer became random acts
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 25: of violence.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 4: They became part of a plan.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 25: To strike out against the United States and attempt to
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 25: disrupt the activities of the United States and its citizens.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: The CSA had evolved from a religious cult into a
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: group of domestic terrorists that had declared war on the
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: United States. In March 1985, a second informant, a former
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: member of the CSA, provides more information about the organization.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: He gives details about firearms and explosives being manufactured and
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: used by the group. He tells investigators there is a
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: machine shop in the compound where the CSA makes grenades
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: and silencers and illegally converts semi-automatic weapons to fully automatic.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: He also claims the group has obtained a powerful anti-tank rocket,
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: commonly called a LAW. The FBI informant reports that the
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: CSA is building an armored tank and that landmines have
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: been placed around the perimeter of the compound. He also
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: provides a laundry list of interstate offenses committed by the group.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: including transportation of stolen vehicles, mail fraud, and theft of
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: government property. Based on the informant's statements, the U.S. attorney
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: pursues a warrant to search the CSA compound for illegal
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: weapons and explosives. Assistant U.S. Attorney Snyder intends to use RICO,
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: a federal racketeering statute, to prosecute the CSA. The statute
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: enables authorities to arrest and convict leaders of criminal organizations
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: based on a pattern of illegal activities.
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 25: The RICO statute carried a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years,
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 25: as opposed to the weapons and firearms violations, which carried
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 25: a lesser penalty. So it was a more severe crime.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: Investigators discuss how to best serve the warrant. Bill Buford
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: opposes a kick-in-the-door approach.
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 17: It was obvious to me that we were dealing with
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 17: a very militant organization.
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: They were not, in fact, going to just roll over.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 17: If we walked in and say, hey, we're the federal government,
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 17: we're here to look at your compound, they weren't going
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 17: to allow us to do that.
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: To reduce the risk of a violent battle, the FBI
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: would employ the newly formed hostage rescue team to serve
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: the warrants. The HRT was established in 1982 as a
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: counterterrorism unit to work both inside and outside the borders
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: of the United States. In 1985, Special Agent Danny Colson
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: is the commander of the HRT.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 14: The HRT basically are assaulters. It's their job to go
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 14: into a crisis point and neutralize terrorists and rescue hostages.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 14: But this was not that type of situation. These people
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 14: were very well armed. They were very formidable. And we
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 14: wanted to avoid a shootout.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: Colson establishes a command post in nearby Branson, Missouri. The
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: HRT is composed of two elite teams.
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 14: Basically, you had a sniper element and you had an
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 14: operator element. The snipers were responsible for gathering intelligence to
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 14: give cover to the operators, and the bulk of the
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 14: team was made up of operators.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: Agent Buford, who has been inside the compound, briefs Colson
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: on the layout, the main gravel access road, the front gate,
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: and where the property borders the shore of a man-made lake.
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: The first phase of the operation is a reconnaissance mission.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 14: You cannot command and control a crisis situation unless the
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 14: commander's done a recon. He has to go in and
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 14: see the ground. He has to know what the structures
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 14: are like, where they are relative to each other, and
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 14: what the best avenue of approach to get there in
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 14: the shortest period of time is.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: Tonight, Colson and his team will be the uninvited guests
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: of the CSA. In Arkansas, local and federal authorities believe
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: an extremist group is involved in domestic terrorism. They call
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: themselves the CSA, the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: of the Lord. The FBI's hostage rescue team prepares to
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: enter the terrorist's heavily fortified compound.
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 14: Where the compound is or anything else, last chance.
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: HRT Commander Danny Colson briefs the reconnaissance team before they
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: go in. The recon team's job is to gather intelligence
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: on the group's infrastructure, its buildings, manpower, and weapons, while
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: avoiding the CSA's armed patrols. ATF agent Bill Buford will
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: act as the HRT's guide. He's been inside the compound
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: and knows the layout.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 17: I had been doing so much work on the CSA
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 17: and had spent so much time in the woods out
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 17: around the compound that I had a good idea of
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 17: the terrain, the fortifications on the compound, and had drawn
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 17: up a rate plan myself as to what I felt
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 17: should be done in order to execute this safely.
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent Danny Colson knows the CSA is well-armed
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  Speaker 1: and dangerous.
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  Speaker 14: These individuals had assault rifles. They had night vision capability.
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 14: They had an excellent communication system. They were well-trained. They
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 14: practiced their tradecraft, which means marksmanship.
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  Speaker 1: Still, Colson has every faith in his team.
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 14: The HRT has excellent patrolling skills, and it was just
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 14: a matter of relying on our training. You move very quietly.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 14: You move very slowly. You crawl on your stomach. You
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 14: stop and you listen. You look and you rely on
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 14: your senses. We would send a person on point. He
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 14: would scour the area and glass it with thermal imaging gear.
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 14: You listen to the noise of the forest. If something
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 14: interrupts that, you know somebody's there that's not supposed to
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 14: be there.
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  Speaker 1: The team spots CSA guards patrolling the compound. They're armed
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: with assault rifles.
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  Speaker 14: We finally signaled it was safe, and we moved the
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 14: rest of the patrol in. And we sort of leapfrogged
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 14: in and out. We had a rear guard to be
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 14: sure that nobody came around behind us. The thing that
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 14: was concerned most about, of course, was the Law rocket.
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 14: You don't have to be a real good shot with
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 14: a Law rocket to kill a lot of people. It'll
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 14: take out a light tank or a bunker, fire them
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 14: to my perimeter, could have killed my agents.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: The recon team finally makes its way to the main compound.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: CSA members, as well as their families, are asleep inside
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: some of the buildings.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 14: The assault team leader needed to know what the structures
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 14: looked like in case we had to breach them. So
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 14: you have the possibility that there could be a suicide
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 14: pact with these people. They might start killing their children.
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 14: That's happened before, it's happened since then. And so we
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 14: had to be prepared to go in there to rush
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 14: in and save innocent lives.
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: From the reconnaissance missions, Colson now knows exactly how the
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: CSA compound is laid out and what needs to be done.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 14: Well, the thing that the recon really reinforced was that
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 14: we don't want to assault these guys. I mean, if
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 14: we had to, we could do it, but there would
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 14: be great loss of lives on their side and possibly
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 14: on our side.
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: The compound sits on over 200 acres of land. If
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: Colson hopes to resolve this without bloodshed, he'll need a
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: lot more men.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 14: After we saw how expansive this facility was there, I
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 14: knew that 50 men could not hold that perimeter.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: Colson calls for an additional 200 FBI agents from field
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: offices across the country. He needs to sneak them into
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: the small community without tipping off the CSA. Knowing Mountain Home,
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: Arkansas is famous for its sports fishing, FBI agents disguise
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: themselves as fishermen. They check into fishing camps located along
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: the river. The plan is to use fishing boats to
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: approach the compound at its weakest point, from the lake.
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: As agents prepare to move on the compound, Colson briefs
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Clint Van Zandt of the FBI's hostage negotiation unit.
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 24: You've got about Five options in any type of situation.
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 24: You can contain, isolate, and negotiate. You can contain and
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 24: demand surrender. You can use snipers, you can use tear gas,
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 24: or you can use a direct tactical assault and just
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 24: overwhelm them with manpower and firepower.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 7: In these last three, people die.
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: The decision is made to contain, isolate, and negotiate. Danny
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: Colson is the point man on all three phases of
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: the operation.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 24: I came to believe rather quickly that the leader of
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 24: CSA is not going to want to negotiate with a
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 24: lower-ranking FBI negotiator. He's going to want to talk to
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 24: his tactical equivalent. In this case, it's going to be
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 24: Danny Colson.
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 14: And I wasn't comfortable with that. I'm a tactical person.
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 14: I had been a sniper and I'd been a SWAT
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 14: team member and a SWAT team leader and trained as
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 14: an operator. And I was not trained to be a negotiator.
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 14: And I didn't know that I could pull that off.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 14: I had much more comfortable going in after the guy
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 14: than trying to talk him out.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: But Van Zandt convinces Coulson that he's the right man
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: for the job.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 14: I had viewed a lot of negotiations. I mean, every
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 14: time a tactical team is deployed, a negotiator is deployed
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 14: with them. So I'd seen it done. And basically, Clint
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 14: Manzant taught me some negotiation strategies and techniques.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: After 10 days of reconnaissance and planning, Special Agent Danny
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: Colson and the FBI hostage rescue team are ready. Over
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: 200 law enforcement agents prepare to surround one of the
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: most dangerous and heavily armed outlaw militias in the country.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: In 1985, the FBI closes in on the CSA, a
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: paramilitary organization in Arkansas. Members of the group are suspected
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: of domestic terrorism and murder. Over 200 agents led by
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: the FBI's hostage rescue team make their move. HRT snipers
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: and operatives deploy across a lake that borders the compound.
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: Their mission is to establish a rear perimeter. Additional HRT
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: units fan out in the woods, flanking the main compound.
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: The ATF, along with the Arkansas State Police and the
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: Missouri Highway Patrol, set up roadblocks. Their job is to
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: prevent any CSA supporters from entering or leaving the compound. Overhead,
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: an FBI surveillance aircraft called the Night Stalker cruises at
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: an altitude of 50,000 feet. The plane's onboard thermal imaging
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: system monitors movement throughout the compound. FBI Special Agent Danny Colson.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 14: You could see everything going on on the ground. CSA
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 14: people standing and talking to each other in little groups
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 14: around the compound. We could see every animal, every deer,
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 14: every coyote, rabbits running around on the ground, which gave
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 14: me a tremendous, tremendous advantage because I could use this vehicle,
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 14: this airplane, to help me set my perimeter. They could
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 14: maneuver my people around listening posts. They could maneuver my
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 14: people around patrols.
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: Colson directs the mission from a command and control vehicle
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: near the front gate of the compound. Special Agent Clint
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: Van Zant, an FBI hostage negotiator, advises Colson.
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 24: It was very prudent to go in at night and
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 24: to have them wake up the next morning and find
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 24: that we had walked literally right up to them without
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 24: them knowing it. We could have come all the way in,
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 24: but we didn't do it because we want to resolve
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 24: this peacefully.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: HRT snipers surveil the compound from positions inside and near
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: the main gate. Within 10 minutes, they report that two
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: men are exiting the compound and approaching their position.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 7: Sniper 1 to command post.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: Roger.
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 4: Instructions, please. I have individuals coming out of the compound gate.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 4: Stand by.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: Standing by for instructions.
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 14: And I radioed back and said, do they know you're there?
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 14: He said, no, they haven't seen us yet.
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: The sniper tells Colson that one man has an assault rifle,
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: the other has a sidearm. Individuals getting closer, command post, instructions, please.
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: Colson instructs his men to confront the CSA guards.
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 14: I said, you hail them, you yell at them and
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 14: tell them you're the FBI, tell them to go back inside.
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: You copy?
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 24: Tell them to get back inside the compound. The message
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 24: it sends is that we could have got you, but
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 24: we chose not to do it.
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 4: Basically.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 7: We are here in force, but we come in peace.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: FBI, stay in the compound now!
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 3: FBI, get back in.
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: The compound!
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 7: Move, move!
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 14: Move, move! I wanted to get in the habit of
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 14: following my orders, or the orders of my team, and
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 14: to show them that we weren't.
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 4: There to hurt them.
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 24: We're hearing from the tactical agents that there are lights,
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 24: that there are activities within the compound.
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 4: We'll go with you. No, you better stay back here.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: Moments later, another man walks out of the compound.
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 4: Who's out here?
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 14: I instructed them to let him get close, and I
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 14: wanted two operators to take him into custody.
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: FBI, freeze!
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 3: Don't move!
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: Freeze!
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 14: I didn't order him back in because I wanted to
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 14: start the dialogue.
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 7: It's time to talk now.
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 14: Sometimes, one of the most difficult things about a standoff
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 14: situation is finding somebody to talk to. You don't always
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 14: get them to talk to you initially.
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: The man identifies himself. He's Cary Noble, the deputy commander
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: of the CSA.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 14: The first thing I said to him is, we need
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 14: to start a dialogue and talk about resolving this thing peacefully.
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 14: We're not here to hurt anybody. But you're not getting out.
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 7: If you start a war, we're going to end it.
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: Noble says he will convey the FBI's request to talk
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: with his commander. At daybreak, federal agents and local police
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: have completely surrounded the compound. The news media somehow gets
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: hold of the story and converges along access roads. agents
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: establish a direct telephone line into the compound. A short
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: time later, Agent Colson receives a call.
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 14: The operator called me over and said, it's him. And
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 14: it was the leader. Essentially said the same thing that
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 14: I'd said to his deputy, is that this is the FBI.
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 14: My name is Danny Colson. We have a warrant for
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 14: your arrest.
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: The leader agrees to come out and talk on one condition.
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: that he will not be arrested. Otherwise, his people will
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: put up a fight. Colson agrees to the terms.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 4: Five minutes.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 3: I'll see.
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 16: You then.
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: Van Zandt prepares Colson for the meeting. As an expert
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: in behavioral science, Van Zandt believes the CSA leader will
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: only respond to another commander.
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 24: As a military commander, I said, you wouldn't be carrying
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 24: a long gun or rifle in this type of meeting,
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 24: but you'd have your 9mm pistols. You'll meet his expectation
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 24: as to what our FBI tactical commander should look like.
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 24: He'll be more open to dialogue, more open to negotiations.
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: Colson approaches the main gate.
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 14: You should always look like you're in charge. But also,
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 14: you have to bring him out. You have to get
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 14: him to talk. It's not just you walk up and
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 14: give demands. You get him to talk to you.
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: Tensions mount for a possible violent confrontation. FBI snipers train
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: their sights on the CSA leader and his guards.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 14: And you have to understand that this is a man
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 14: who thought we were literally from the devil, that we
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 14: were agents of the devil. So trying to create a
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 14: bond of trust on a road with two armies facing
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 14: each other with awesome firepower is a difficult thing to do.
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: Colson tells the CSA leader that the FBI is there
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: to confiscate grenades, assault rifles, the law, anti-tank rocket, all
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: illegal weapons stored in the compound.
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 14: I really didn't describe the forces. I just said, we're here,
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 14: we've been here, we know what's going on in there.
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 14: And at this point, I wanted to remain the faceless enemy.
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 14: What I got from him was dialogue, which is the
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 14: most important thing. But what I didn't get was capitulation.
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 14: He didn't agree to do anything. He just agreed that
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 14: they would go back in and pray about it.
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I respect that.
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 14: We'd agreed earlier, if he came out, that he could
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 14: go back in. And that's very important. You have to
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 14: keep that trust.
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: Colson and Van Zandt have no choice but to honor
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: their agreement. They allow the leader to go back inside
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: the convent. The first day and night of the siege
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: passes without incident or resolution. On day two of the siege,
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: the CSA commander requests another meeting. This time, he appears
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 1: in full battle dress.
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 7: Changing clothing is a big deal.
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 24: When the leader of CSA puts on tactical clothes, he's
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 24: taking the presence of a tactical commander The.
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: Leader of the CSA tells Colson that there are people
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: inside the compound who are prepared to launch an assault
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: and break out.
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 14: My patience was wearing really thin this time. And I
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 14: said to him, who are you going to fight? You've
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 14: not seen us. You don't know where we are. We
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 14: are going to use deadly force on you if you
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 14: come out with weapons and come onto my perimeter. Who
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 14: are you going to shoot? You haven't even seen us yet.
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 14: How are you going to shoot us? It's like you're
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 14: fighting ghosts, and you won't even know who kills you.
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 14: You need to come out of there.
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 9: Now, you get in there and convince them to get
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 9: out of here right now.
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: The leader tells Coulson he is prepared to come out,
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: but he can't control everyone in the compound.
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 14: And he said to me, I need help. He said,
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 14: there's a man that's our spiritual leader, and I need
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 14: his advice, and I need his help to convince people
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 14: that's the thing to do, come out. And I said,
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 14: who is this? He said, it's Robert Millar.
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: Robert Millar is a well-known figure in the secretive world
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: of right-wing extremists. It's an unusual demand. But to Van Zandt,
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: it's a turning point in the negotiation.
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 24: This situation was either going to be resolved by bullets
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 24: or it was going to be resolved by trust. Bullets
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 24: or trust, what's it going to be?
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: For Coulson, it is the moment of truth. He knows
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: that if the shooting starts, there is no telling when
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: it will stop. In the mountains of Arkansas, over 200
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: law enforcement agents surround an armed compound. Inside are a
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: group of violent right-wing extremists, the Covenant, the Sword, and
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: the Arm of the Lord. The leader of the CSA
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: demands to see Robert Millar, their spiritual leader. FBI Special
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: Agent Danny Coulson decides to use Millar to help persuade
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: CSA members to leave the compound.
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 14: This is something totally against FBI policy, to bring in
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 14: a Confederate into a crisis situation, not just to negotiate,
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 14: but to go inside. And this is a huge risk.
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 14: And I thought it was worth taking, given the risk
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 14: that we were facing.
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: The FBI flies Millar in from Oklahoma. Special Agent Clint
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: Van Zant tries to convince Millar that it will be
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: in the group's best interests if he helps bring the
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: standoff to an end.
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 24: I said, you know, if you're able to do this,
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 24: if you're able to resolve this peacefully, you'll be known
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 24: as the peacemaker within your movement. I said, I don't
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 24: say that to win you over. I say to tell
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 24: you that you've got a lot riding on this. And
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 24: you could see the wheels turning. It was at that
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 24: moment I thought, he's flipped over on our side. He's
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 24: on our side. He's going to do it. This was
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 24: all the chips. We're saying, we're going to bet on
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 24: this guy that he's going to drive home the message
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 24: that Danny and myself and everybody else has been delivering
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 24: for the last four days.
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 7: Now, he's got to close the deal. And he called
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 7: on the field phone.
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 24: And Millar said, well, I'm in here talking to them,
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 24: but I really haven't got anything resolved.
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 7: They said, okay, you got another hour. Well, really, we
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 7: couldn't control him.
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 24: What are we going to do, go in and grab
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 24: him by the neck and rip him out of that
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 24: compound where there was 50 people with guns inside? So
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 24: you had to be real careful of not, you will
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 24: be out of there, because then it would have been
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 24: apparent we were an empty suit. We were a paper tiger,
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 24: and we couldn't be perceived as that. So it had
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 24: to be, well, I really need you out of there
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 24: in an hour. And he called back in an hour,
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 24: and he said, I need more time with these folks.
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 24: I think I can do it. I've got them coming along,
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 24: but I need more time. And we just reconciled ourselves
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 24: that he's going to stay there the night.
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: On the morning of April 22nd, day four of the siege,
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: Millar and the CSA leadership exit the compound. For the
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: first time since the beginning of the standoff, there are
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: no armed men with the CSA leader.
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 14: They came out and they said, we have an agreement
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 14: that we will surrender. We will come out and we'll
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 14: give up our arms and walk out peacefully.
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: Colson receives the news with guarded optimism.
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 14: And I said to them, That's a great decision, but
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 14: I want you to understand that this better not be
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 14: a ruse for an escape attempt because you will not
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 14: survive it. This better be a surrender.
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 1: Coulson gives the leader 15 minutes to gather his people
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: and bring them out.
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  Speaker 14: And very shortly after, I get a communication from my
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 14: sniper team that they're coming.
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 7: They're coming out.
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  Speaker 14: The snipers report that they're in civilian attire. There's no camis.
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 14: There's no battle gear. There's no weapons they can see.
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: The siege is over. Not a single shot has been fired.
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 14: It was an ending that we had all prayed for
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 14: and one that we were very fortunate that we had.
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: ATF and FBI agents carefully search the compound, accompanied by
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 1: the deputy commander of the CSA, Cary Noble. Over the
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: course of several days, they recover hundreds of automatic weapons,
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: homemade hand grenades and land mines, as well as detonator
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: boxes and plastic explosives. Agents find a long anti-tank rocket
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: near the leader's house. They find 30 gallons of cyanide
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: stored inside steel drums. Agents believe the CSA intended to
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: use it to pollute municipal water supplies. Investigators also find
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: a steel-plated armored car equipped with a fully automatic machine gun.
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 1: At trial, the leader of the Covenant, the Sword, and
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: the Arm of the Lord is sentenced to 20 years
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: in prison for federal RICO violations. Cary Noble, the CSA's
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: deputy commander, receives a five-year sentence for firearm violations. Today,
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: he speaks publicly about the dangers of hate groups and
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: destructive cults. Richard Wayne Snell, already serving a life sentence
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: for the murder of Arkansas State Trooper Louis Bryant, is
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: found guilty of murdering a pawn shop owner. He is
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: sentenced to death. On April 19, 1995, at 9.16 p.m.,
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: Snell is executed by lethal injection. Today, the CSA compacts.
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: is little more than a collection of abandoned shacks and
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: stone ruins.