1 00:00:08,808 --> 00:00:10,777 >> I DON'T REMEMBER IF I CRIED 2 00:00:10,777 --> 00:00:19,753 I DON'T EVEN THINK I CRIED IT'S SHOCK, COMPLETE SHOCK 3 00:00:19,753 --> 00:00:23,490 >> OH -- I NEED MEDICAL. SEND BACKUP UNITS. 4 00:00:23,490 --> 00:00:27,027 >> THE LONGER TIME GOES ON WITHOUT HIM, IT'S REALLY HARD. 5 00:00:27,027 --> 00:00:30,864 >> THAT 'S HOW IT ENDED. THIS IS HOW IT STARTED 6 00:00:30,864 --> 00:00:37,604 >> HE TOOK A GUN AND PUT IT TO MY HEAD. 7 00:00:37,604 --> 00:00:40,106 IT WASN'T UNTIL I HEARD THE CLICK THAT I REALIZED IT WASN'T 8 00:00:40,106 --> 00:00:42,509 LOADED I LET HIM TAKE MARSHALL. 9 00:00:42,509 --> 00:00:46,312 HE HAD THE BOYS RUN DRILLS AND HEADS. 10 00:00:46,312 --> 00:00:48,381 >> Reporter: WHAT WERE THEY TURNING INTO LIVING WITH HIM 11 00:00:48,381 --> 00:00:51,117 >> MONSTERS. >> HE WAS TALKING ABOUT POLICE 12 00:00:51,117 --> 00:00:54,487 OFFICERS "IF ANY COP EVER GOT IN MY FACE, 13 00:00:54,487 --> 00:00:56,790 I'LL KILL HIM. >> LET'S CALL IT WHAT IT WAS -- 14 00:00:56,790 --> 00:01:00,126 AN EXECUTION >> I THINK HE'S ONE OF THE MOST 15 00:01:00,126 --> 00:01:02,295 EVIL PEOPLE WE'VE EVER DEALT WITH 16 00:01:02,295 --> 00:01:10,770 >> THE THREAT OF DEATH WAS VERY REAL FROM HIM. 17 00:01:10,770 --> 00:01:12,305 WOULD I END UP LEAVING, OR WOULD I END UP IN A BAG IN THE OCEAN 18 00:01:12,305 --> 00:01:14,207 >> A FATHER LEADS HIS SONS DOWN A DARK AND DEADLY PATH 19 00:01:14,207 --> 00:01:16,376 YOU'LL BE IN ON THE CHASE TO CATCH HIM BEFORE HE CAN KILL 20 00:01:16,376 --> 00:01:20,380 AGAIN. I'M LESTER HOLT, AND THIS IS 21 00:01:20,380 --> 00:01:28,888 "DATELINE. * 22 00:01:28,888 --> 00:01:39,499 * HERE'S KEITH MORRISON WITH "ON A 23 00:01:39,499 --> 00:01:44,771 DARK, DESERTED HIGHWAY." >> Reporter: IT WAS DEEP COUNTRY 24 00:01:44,771 --> 00:01:47,941 DARK, JUST AFTER 2:00 A.M, AS THE SMALL TOWN MONTANA DEPUTY 25 00:01:47,941 --> 00:01:55,915 CRUISED HOME END OF A QUIET SHIFT 26 00:01:55,915 --> 00:01:59,619 IT WAS MAY 2017, AND OUTSIDE HIS CAR, THE AIR WAS FRESH WITH THE 27 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:08,094 SMELL OF NEW PLANTING. HE WAS HAPPY 28 00:02:08,094 --> 00:02:08,628 HE WAS HAPPY HE'D BE HOME EARLY FOR ONCE. 29 00:02:14,668 --> 00:02:19,973 WHISTLED PAST HIS PATROL VEHICLE, JUST LIKE THIS. 30 00:02:19,973 --> 00:02:23,109 >> SPEED NEAR 100 MILES AN HOUR. >> 10-4. 31 00:02:23,109 --> 00:02:27,380 >> SPEEDING PAST ME. >> Reporter: HERE'S THE ACTUAL 32 00:02:27,380 --> 00:02:30,517 VIDEO, THE DEPUTY GIVING CHASE AS THE DRIVER OF THAT SPEEDING 33 00:02:30,517 --> 00:02:36,356 CHEVY SUBURBAN SEEMED TO WANT HIM TO 34 00:02:36,356 --> 00:02:41,161 AND THEN - [ GUNSHOT 35 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:43,229 >> I'M JUST TRYING TO GET SOME HELP HERE. 36 00:02:43,229 --> 00:02:45,365 MY OFFICER'S NOT ANSWERING ME NOW. 37 00:02:45,365 --> 00:02:47,467 >> WHAT? >> YEAH. 38 00:02:47,467 --> 00:02:49,569 I DON'T LIKE THAT HE'S NOT ANSWERING ME 39 00:02:49,569 --> 00:02:52,906 I HATE THAT. >> Reporter: THE REASON BECAME 40 00:02:52,906 --> 00:02:54,874 APPARENT WHEN BACKUP FINALLY ARRIVED. 41 00:02:54,874 --> 00:02:59,612 >> THE, UH, DEPUTY'S CAR, DOOR OPEN, MILE MARKER 109. 42 00:02:59,612 --> 00:03:04,918 CHECKING ON FOOT OH - 43 00:03:04,918 --> 00:03:08,621 BOZEMAN 320. I NEED MEDICAL 44 00:03:08,621 --> 00:03:13,927 SEND BACKUP UNITS. >> Reporter: AS EMTs ROARED OFF 45 00:03:13,927 --> 00:03:16,563 TO ATTEND TO THE DEPUTY, THE SPEEDING SUBURBAN VANISHED DOWN 46 00:03:16,563 --> 00:03:19,733 THE HIGHWAY AND WORD WAS FLASHED TO EVERY AVAILABLE LAW OFFICER 47 00:03:19,733 --> 00:03:22,369 FOR MILES. >> I JUST SAID, "GOD, COME RIDE 48 00:03:22,369 --> 00:03:24,471 WITH ME. >> Reporter: ALL PULLED INTO ONE 49 00:03:24,471 --> 00:03:30,844 OF THE MOST FURIOUS CHASES YOU'VE EVER SEEN 50 00:03:30,844 --> 00:03:34,080 A WILD WEST GUN BATTLE AT SPEEDS UP TO 140 MILES AN HOUR. 51 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,684 WHAT'D THAT FEEL LIKE? >> SCARIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE. 52 00:03:37,684 --> 00:03:47,193 >> Reporter: UNTIL TWO HOURS AFTER IT BEGAN - 53 00:03:47,193 --> 00:03:50,930 >> HE'S HIT. >> Reporter: IT HAPPENED JUST 54 00:03:50,930 --> 00:03:53,566 OVER YONDER, UNDER THE BIG MONTANA SKY, AND INSTANTLY 55 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:59,406 BECAME ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMES IN MONTANA HISTORY. 56 00:03:59,406 --> 00:04:06,813 BUT IT WAS MUCH MORE THAN JUST ONE CRIME OR EVEN A SERIES OF 57 00:04:06,813 --> 00:04:09,416 CRIMES THIS CRAZY TALE OF THE 58 00:04:09,416 --> 00:04:13,687 SHAPESHIFTER, MISSIONARY MAN TO MADMAN TO MONSTER. 59 00:04:13,687 --> 00:04:15,789 >> I THINK THAT THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST SAVAGE AND 60 00:04:15,789 --> 00:04:21,594 DANGEROUS PEOPLE THAT I'VE EVER SEEN 61 00:04:21,594 --> 00:04:25,865 >> I WAS IN FEAR FOR A VERY LONG TIME, A VERY LONG TIME 62 00:04:25,865 --> 00:04:30,603 I WANT TO SAY 30 YEARS >> I DON'T REMEMBER IF I CRIED 63 00:04:30,603 --> 00:04:39,079 I DON'T EVEN THINK I CRIED IT'S SHOCK, COMPLETE SHOCK 64 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:42,782 >> Reporter: BUT THE STORY -- THE STORY WE HAVE PIECED 65 00:04:42,782 --> 00:04:47,520 TOGETHER, YEAR BY YEAR, PERSON BY PERSON -- BEGINS LONG BEFORE 66 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:51,758 THE NIGHT ON THE HIGHWAY, MORE THAN 50 YEARS BEFORE, IN THE 67 00:04:51,758 --> 00:04:54,394 SMALL TOWN OF McCAMMON, IDAHO, WHERE TWO BOYS MET IN GRADE 68 00:04:54,394 --> 00:04:58,098 SCHOOL MICHAEL COBIA AND A KID NAMED 69 00:04:58,098 --> 00:05:02,369 CHIP MICHAEL REMEMBERS IT TO THIS 70 00:05:02,369 --> 00:05:07,107 DAY. >> WE BECAME FAST FRIENDS AND 71 00:05:07,107 --> 00:05:09,743 DID LOTS OF ADVENTUROUS THINGS TOGETHER 72 00:05:09,743 --> 00:05:11,878 I MEAN, DURING THE SUMMER, YOU HAD NO SUPERVISION WHATSOEVER. 73 00:05:11,878 --> 00:05:15,048 >> Reporter: AND AS TEENS, MIKE AND CHIP GOT MIXED UP IN SOME 74 00:05:15,048 --> 00:05:19,252 RATHER UNWHOLESOME ACTIVITIES. UNTIL IT WAS CHIP WHO TURNED 75 00:05:19,252 --> 00:05:25,425 THINGS AROUND. >> HE MOVED IN WITH A BISHOP IN 76 00:05:25,425 --> 00:05:28,762 CHUBBUCK, IDAHO. AND THAT BISHOP STARTED GETTING 77 00:05:28,762 --> 00:05:32,966 HIM TO READ THE BOOK OF MORMON, THE BIBLE. 78 00:05:32,966 --> 00:05:36,169 >> Reporter: CHIP FOUND RELIGION AND GOT MIKE BACK ON A RIGHTEOUS 79 00:05:36,169 --> 00:05:40,473 PATH >> IT HAD A PROFOUND IMPACT ON 80 00:05:40,473 --> 00:05:42,475 ME I THREW AWAY MY DRUGS AND WENT 81 00:05:42,475 --> 00:05:46,179 ON A MORMON MISSION WITHIN SIX MONTHS 82 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:48,848 >> Reporter: WHICH CHIP DID TOO, SET OFF ON A MISSION FOR THE 83 00:05:48,848 --> 00:05:52,552 CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS 84 00:05:52,552 --> 00:05:55,722 AND WHEN HE DID, HE SENT A NOTE TO HIS GIRLFRIEND. 85 00:05:55,722 --> 00:05:59,392 A NOTE SO REMARKABLE, SHE SAVED IT ALL THESE YEARS 86 00:05:59,392 --> 00:06:03,129 >> YOU'RE VERY SPECIAL TO ME, TRACY. 87 00:06:03,129 --> 00:06:06,299 KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. CONTINUE TO DO WHAT YOUR 88 00:06:06,299 --> 00:06:11,571 HEAVENLY FATHER WANTS YOU TO DO, AND I KNOW YOU'LL BE HAPPY 89 00:06:11,571 --> 00:06:14,741 I LOVE YOU, CHIP >> Reporter: THE WOMAN WAS 90 00:06:14,741 --> 00:06:17,911 TRACY, CHIP'S SWEETHEART >> WE HAD TALKED ABOUT GETTING 91 00:06:17,911 --> 00:06:21,114 MARRIED WHEN HE GOT BACK OFF OF HIS MISSION. 92 00:06:21,114 --> 00:06:23,216 AND IN MY CULTURE, IN THE LDS CULTURE, YOU KNOW, YOU KINDA 93 00:06:23,216 --> 00:06:26,519 WAITED FOR YOUR MISSIONARY, AND THEN YOU LIVE HAPPILY EVER 94 00:06:26,519 --> 00:06:30,623 AFTER. >> Reporter: AND SURE ENOUGH, 95 00:06:30,623 --> 00:06:35,929 WHEN CHIP RETURNED, ALL GROWN UP AND NOW GOING BY HIS GIVEN NAME 96 00:06:35,929 --> 00:06:42,802 LLOYD BARRUS, HE MARRIED TRACY IN THE IDAHO FALLS LDS TEMPLE. 97 00:06:42,802 --> 00:06:47,841 SEALED, AS THE MORMONS BELIEVE, FOR TIME AND ALL ETERNITY. 98 00:06:47,841 --> 00:06:50,176 TRACY DID HER BEST TO BE A GOOD WIFE 99 00:06:50,176 --> 00:06:56,082 SHE GAVE LLOYD TWO HEALTHY BOYS, MARSHALL AND JEFFREY 100 00:06:56,082 --> 00:06:59,686 NAMES YOU'LL WANT TO REMEMBER. >> HE WAS ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD 101 00:06:59,686 --> 00:07:04,024 DAD. HE'D PLAY WITH THE BOYS. 102 00:07:04,024 --> 00:07:06,593 HE WAS REALLY PROUD OF THEM. YOU KNOW, MARSHALL, EVERYTHING 103 00:07:06,593 --> 00:07:10,296 HE DID, HE THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY. >> Reporter: LLOYD WAS A GOOD 104 00:07:10,296 --> 00:07:12,399 PROVIDER, WORKED IN CONSTRUCTION 105 00:07:12,399 --> 00:07:15,035 AND AT THE HEART OF THINGS, HE WAS A GOD-FEARING MAN. 106 00:07:15,035 --> 00:07:19,272 HE'D BEEN A MISSIONARY, AFTER ALL. 107 00:07:19,272 --> 00:07:22,442 AND HE MADE IT CLEAR, SAID TRACY, HE WAS THE SOLE ARBITER 108 00:07:22,442 --> 00:07:26,146 OF RIGHT AND WRONG >> HE WANTED TO LET ME KNOW 109 00:07:26,146 --> 00:07:30,383 RIGHT AWAY THAT I WAS HIS WIFE, AND WIVES ARE SUPPOSED TO SUBMIT 110 00:07:30,383 --> 00:07:33,586 TO THEIR HUSBANDS. AND IF I EVEN SLIPPED UP AND 111 00:07:33,586 --> 00:07:37,257 I -- I SAID "HELL" OR "DAMN," HE'D REACH ACROSS THE TABLE AND 112 00:07:37,257 --> 00:07:40,427 SLAP ME ACROSS THE FACE. >> Reporter: BECAUSE SAYING 113 00:07:40,427 --> 00:07:43,063 "HELL" OR "DAMN" IS A BIGGER SIN THAN SLAPPING YOUR SPOUSE ACROSS 114 00:07:43,063 --> 00:07:45,198 THE FACE >> CLEARLY 115 00:07:45,198 --> 00:07:48,902 YES. >> Reporter: BUT SHE HAD EARS. 116 00:07:48,902 --> 00:07:52,072 THEY HADN'T BEEN MARRIED LONG WHEN SHE COULD TELL, SHE SAID, 117 00:07:52,072 --> 00:07:56,309 LLOYD BEGAN TO GET MIXED UP IN SOMETHING SECRET 118 00:07:56,309 --> 00:08:02,115 THE PHONE CALLS BEGAN, FROM PEOPLE SHE DIDN'T KNOW 119 00:08:02,115 --> 00:08:04,751 >> AND THEY'D TALK IN CODE IF I ANSWERED THE PHONE, THEY'D 120 00:08:04,751 --> 00:08:07,921 SAY, "THIS IS THE PASSWORD TELL HIM 7:00. 121 00:08:07,921 --> 00:08:10,557 HE'LL KNOW WHAT IT MEANS." >> Reporter: HE WOULDN'T TELL 122 00:08:10,557 --> 00:08:13,226 HER WHERE HE WAS GOING, SHE SAID 123 00:08:13,226 --> 00:08:15,862 BUT WHEN HE RETURNED, HE'D RANT LIKE SOME 19th CENTURY 124 00:08:15,862 --> 00:08:18,031 FUNDAMENTALIST PROPHET >> HE STARTED GOING ON AND ON 125 00:08:18,031 --> 00:08:20,100 ABOUT HOW THE GOVERNMENT HAD NO RIGHT TO TAX US. 126 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:23,269 LIKE, IF HE'D GET A SPEEDING TICKET, HE'D GO TO COURT SO HE 127 00:08:23,269 --> 00:08:25,939 COULD ARGUE WITH THE JUDGE OVER THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN OUR 128 00:08:25,939 --> 00:08:29,642 LIVES AND HOW, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE TRYING TO CONTROL US. 129 00:08:29,642 --> 00:08:31,745 >> Reporter: AND ALL THE WHILE, SHE SAID, SHE LIVED IN FEAR OF 130 00:08:31,745 --> 00:08:35,315 HIS MOODS, HIS SUDDEN FLASHES OF ANGER, HIS VIOLENCE. 131 00:08:35,315 --> 00:08:38,618 >> BACK THEN, WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT ABUSE. 132 00:08:38,618 --> 00:08:41,788 AND IF YOU DID, WHAT YOU WERE TOLD IS YOU NEED TO QUIT 133 00:08:41,788 --> 00:08:44,958 PROVOKING HIM. >> Reporter: UNTIL TRACY GREW SO 134 00:08:44,958 --> 00:08:50,263 DESPERATE SHE WENT, ON HER OWN, TO TALK TO HER LDS BISHOP. 135 00:08:50,263 --> 00:08:55,535 WHAT HAPPENED? >> HE CALLED LLOYD IN, AND LLOYD 136 00:08:55,535 --> 00:08:57,671 MADE IT JUST SEEM LIKE I WAS JUST HAVIN' A HORMONAL MOOD 137 00:08:57,671 --> 00:09:01,374 SWING AND THAT HE'D NEVER DONE ANYTHING BAD 138 00:09:01,374 --> 00:09:04,544 >> Reporter: MARRIAGE IS SACRED, THE BISHOP REMINDED THEM 139 00:09:04,544 --> 00:09:08,248 THEY SHOULD KEEP TRYING. HOW TRAPPED DID YOU FEEL 140 00:09:08,248 --> 00:09:10,917 >> YOU'D LIKE TO LEAVE, BUT YOU'VE BEEN SEALED IN THE 141 00:09:10,917 --> 00:09:13,653 TEMPLE >> Reporter: BUT IT DID NOT GET 142 00:09:13,653 --> 00:09:16,723 BETTER, SHE SAID FAR FROM IT. 143 00:09:16,723 --> 00:09:20,427 >> IF I DIDN'T DO EXACTLY WHAT I WAS TOLD, MY PUNISHMENT WAS 144 00:09:20,427 --> 00:09:25,198 MARITAL RAPE AND THERE WAS A TIME WHEN HE 145 00:09:25,198 --> 00:09:31,037 TOOK A GUN AND PUT IT TO THE TEMPLE OF MY HEAD AND -- AND 146 00:09:31,037 --> 00:09:33,106 FIRED IT AND IT WASN'T UNTIL I HEARD THE 147 00:09:33,106 --> 00:09:35,241 CLICK THAT I REALIZED IT WASN'T LOADED 148 00:09:35,241 --> 00:09:37,344 >> Reporter: GOOD GOD. >> THE THING THAT WAS THE MOST 149 00:09:37,344 --> 00:09:39,446 SCARY WAS WHEN HE PUT THE BULLETS BACK IN THE GUN AND 150 00:09:39,446 --> 00:09:43,283 HANDED IT TO ME AND SAID, "IF YOU HATE ME SO BAD, KILL ME." 151 00:09:43,283 --> 00:09:46,619 THAT'S WHEN I REALIZED I HAD TO GET OUT OF THERE BECAUSE ONE OF 152 00:09:46,619 --> 00:09:49,456 US WAS GOING TO DIE. >> Reporter: BUT HOW 153 00:09:49,456 --> 00:09:54,227 SHE HAD THOSE BOYS, MARSHALL AND JEFFREY. 154 00:09:54,227 --> 00:09:59,065 WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THEM -- TO ALL OF THEM? 155 00:09:59,065 --> 00:10:03,770 >>> WHEN WE COME BACK -- TRACY ESCAPES FROM ONE NIGHTMARE 156 00:10:03,770 --> 00:10:08,541 INTO ANOTHER LLOYD HAD SNATCHED THEIR BOYS. 157 00:10:08,541 --> 00:10:10,143 >> MY DOWNSTAIRS NEIGHBOR CALLED ME, AND SHE SAID, "I THINK HE 158 00:10:10,143 --> 00:10:13,279 TOOK 'EM." >> Reporter: WHAT WAS THAT LIKE? 159 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:17,050 >> CRYING AND CRYING >> AND IT WOULDN'T BE EASY TO 160 00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:38,304 GET THEM BACK. >> WOULD I END UP IN A BAG IN 161 00:10:38,304 --> 00:10:41,841 STILL WHEN TRACY FINALLY HAD HER FILL OF LLOYD BARRUS 162 00:10:41,841 --> 00:10:46,579 35 YEARS TO GO BEFORE THE GUNFIGHT ON THE HIGHWAY THAT LED 163 00:10:46,579 --> 00:10:49,783 US TO THIS TALE AND TO THIS MAN. BACK THEN, LLOYD WAS CONVINCED 164 00:10:49,783 --> 00:10:53,486 HE WAS RIGHT TRACY COULDN'T TAKE HIM ANYMORE. 165 00:10:53,486 --> 00:10:57,691 HE'D BEEN ABOUT TO TAKE A TRIP TO ALASKA TO WORK ON A 166 00:10:57,691 --> 00:11:00,360 CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SEEMED LIKE NOW OR NEVER, SO SHE 167 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:05,098 SAID IT. >> HE WAS VERY UPSET WHEN I TOLD 168 00:11:05,098 --> 00:11:08,301 HIM I WANTED A DIVORCE AND HE ASKED ME, "WOULD YOU MIND 169 00:11:08,301 --> 00:11:12,072 IF I AT LEAST TOOK MARSHALL WITH ME FOR A FEW WEEKS AND I'LL 170 00:11:12,072 --> 00:11:14,107 BRING HIM BACK?" I THOUGHT HE'D BE BACK VERY 171 00:11:14,107 --> 00:11:16,309 SHORTLY, AND I WAS WRONG HE DIDN'T COME BACK FOR A LONG 172 00:11:16,309 --> 00:11:19,379 TIME >> Reporter: A LONG TIME 173 00:11:19,379 --> 00:11:23,817 SIX MONTHS DIDN'T RETURN WITH SON MARSHALL 174 00:11:23,817 --> 00:11:27,320 UNTIL THE DIVORCE WAS FINAL. IT WAS A QUICK 20-DAY DIVORCE 175 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,923 WITH SHARED CUSTODY OF THE BOYS. TRACY SAYS LLOYD ASKED TO 176 00:11:29,923 --> 00:11:33,126 RECONCILE. SHE SAID NO. 177 00:11:33,126 --> 00:11:36,830 AND LLOYD? RANSACKED HER APARTMENT, 178 00:11:36,830 --> 00:11:39,466 THREATENED HER >> MY BOSS AT WORK WAS VERY 179 00:11:39,466 --> 00:11:42,135 CONCERNED ABOUT MY SAFETY. >> Reporter: I'M NOT SURPRISED 180 00:11:42,135 --> 00:11:44,237 >> SHE SAID, "JUST GET OUT OF TOWN FOR THE WEEKEND 181 00:11:44,237 --> 00:11:47,407 GET AWAY FROM HIM SO YOU'RE SAFE." 182 00:11:47,407 --> 00:11:52,746 >> Reporter: SO TRACY DID JUST THAT AND ALSO MADE A DECISION 183 00:11:52,746 --> 00:11:56,416 SHE WOULD FOREVER REGRET SHE ASKED A NEIGHBOR TO WATCH 184 00:11:56,416 --> 00:12:00,653 MARSHALL, NOT QUITE 4, AND JEFFREY, WHO WAS 2, WHILE SHE 185 00:12:00,653 --> 00:12:04,858 WAS AWAY >> SHE CALLED ME, AND SHE SAID, 186 00:12:04,858 --> 00:12:07,060 "I THINK I'VE MADE A MISTAKE LLOYD SHOWED UP, AND HE ASKED IF 187 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:10,130 I COULD LET HIM INTO YOUR APARTMENT TO JUST GET A JACKET 188 00:12:10,130 --> 00:12:12,265 FOR THE BOYS." AND SHE SAID, "BUT TRACY, HE 189 00:12:12,265 --> 00:12:15,435 CAME OUT WITH BAGS AND BAGS OF THEIR STUFF. 190 00:12:15,435 --> 00:12:18,304 I -- I THINK HE TOOK 'EM." >> Reporter: WHAT WAS THAT LIKE? 191 00:12:18,304 --> 00:12:20,740 >> CRYING AND CRYING AND NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO OR WHERE TO 192 00:12:20,740 --> 00:12:23,376 TURN >> Reporter: NOR DID SHE KNOW 193 00:12:23,376 --> 00:12:26,079 WHERE HE HAD TAKEN THEM. DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS NOW MORE THAN 194 00:12:26,079 --> 00:12:29,749 700 MILES AWAY IN TACOMA, WASHINGTON 195 00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:35,088 OR THAT HE'D JOINED AN LDS WARD THERE WHERE HE'D CAUGHT THE EYES 196 00:12:35,088 --> 00:12:38,191 OF SOME LADIES WHO HAD A FRIEND NAMED DEBRA, A NEWLY DIVORCED 197 00:12:38,191 --> 00:12:41,361 MOTHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS. >> THEY SAID, "THERE'S A YOUNG 198 00:12:41,361 --> 00:12:47,167 MAN AT CHURCH THAT IS SINGLE AND LOOKING. 199 00:12:47,167 --> 00:12:50,437 THEY GAVE HIM MY PHONE NUMBER. >> Reporter: HE HAD A COUPLE OF 200 00:12:50,437 --> 00:12:52,472 KIDS TOO, RIGHT? >> YEAH, UH-HUH. 201 00:12:52,472 --> 00:12:55,308 HE HAD TWO LITTLE BOYS AND THEN WE STARTED DATING 202 00:12:55,308 --> 00:13:00,180 >> Reporter: WHO CALLED WHOM >> HE CALLED ME. 203 00:13:00,180 --> 00:13:03,383 THERE WAS A LOT OF GOOD CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US 204 00:13:03,383 --> 00:13:05,518 >> Reporter: AND HE SEEMED LIKE A NICE GUY 205 00:13:05,518 --> 00:13:07,754 >> YES, HE WAS A NICE GUY, AND HE WAS A GREAT PROVIDER. 206 00:13:07,754 --> 00:13:10,623 >> Reporter: SHE KNEW ONLY THE STORY HE TOLD HER, AND SHE LIKED 207 00:13:10,623 --> 00:13:14,060 THAT STORY >> I PRAYED TO KNOW IF HE WAS 208 00:13:14,060 --> 00:13:17,897 THE ONE FOR ME AND THE ANSWER WAS YES, SO WE 209 00:13:17,897 --> 00:13:23,937 GOT MARRIED. >> Reporter: ANOTHER TEMPLE 210 00:13:23,937 --> 00:13:27,340 SEALING FOR TIME AND ALL ETERNITY, JUST FIVE YEARS AFTER 211 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:32,145 LLOYD'S FIRST ETERNAL SEALING TO TRACY, WHO HAD NO IDEA DEBRA 212 00:13:32,145 --> 00:13:35,682 EVEN EXISTED >> I WAS ELATED, AND I TOOK ON 213 00:13:35,682 --> 00:13:39,219 THOSE TWO LITTLE BOYS AND LOVED THEM AND CARED FOR THEM AS 214 00:13:39,219 --> 00:13:41,621 THOUGH THEY WERE MY OWN. >> Reporter: THEY WEREN'T, OF 215 00:13:41,621 --> 00:13:45,892 COURSE HER OWN BOYS, THAT IS. 216 00:13:45,892 --> 00:13:48,528 IN FACT, MARSHALL AND JEFFREY'S MOM, TRACY BACK IN IDAHO, WAS 217 00:13:48,528 --> 00:13:51,464 FRANTICALLY LOOKING FOR THEM UNTIL SHE FINALLY LEARNED WHERE 218 00:13:51,464 --> 00:13:54,300 THEY WERE. DID YOU ASK FOR ADVICE FROM A 219 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:57,370 LAWYER OR ANYTHING ABOUT GETTING THEM BACK? 220 00:13:57,370 --> 00:14:01,274 >> YES I WENT TO SEE AN ATTORNEY, AND 221 00:14:01,274 --> 00:14:04,778 WE WERE TRYING TO AT LEAST MAKE HIM BRING THEM BACK FOR MY 222 00:14:04,778 --> 00:14:07,147 50% CUSTODY. >> Reporter: TRACY DIDN'T CALL 223 00:14:07,147 --> 00:14:10,350 THE POLICE SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO TO CALL. 224 00:14:10,350 --> 00:14:13,787 BACK THEN THERE WERE NO AMBER ALERTS 225 00:14:13,787 --> 00:14:15,822 STATES DIDN'T COOPERATE LIKE THEY DO TODAY. 226 00:14:15,822 --> 00:14:18,491 THE FBI RARELY GOT INVOLVED IN CHILD CUSTODY CASES. 227 00:14:18,491 --> 00:14:22,829 SO TRACY'S ATTORNEY TOLD HER THIS 228 00:14:22,829 --> 00:14:24,698 >> HE SAID, "WE BRING THEM BACK, AND ALL HE HAS TO DO IS KIDNAP 229 00:14:24,698 --> 00:14:27,267 'EM AGAIN AND TAKE 'EM TO ANOTHER STATE AND WE HAVE TO 230 00:14:27,267 --> 00:14:30,070 START ALL OVER AND YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT'S 231 00:14:30,070 --> 00:14:32,972 WHAT HE'LL DO. >> Reporter: OH, MY. 232 00:14:32,972 --> 00:14:36,843 >> AND I SAID, "I THINK I NEED TO GO KIDNAP 'EM BACK. 233 00:14:36,843 --> 00:14:39,412 AND HE SAID, "DON'T DO THAT. HE SAID, "IF YOU DO THAT, YOU 234 00:14:39,412 --> 00:14:41,781 DON'T HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON LEGALLY, AND I CAN'T PROTECT 235 00:14:41,781 --> 00:14:45,318 YOU. >> Reporter: BY THAT TIME, IT 236 00:14:45,318 --> 00:14:49,089 WAS TOO LATE LLOYD HAD MOVED HIS NEW FAMILY A 237 00:14:49,089 --> 00:14:52,892 WORLD AWAY >> THEY'D MOVED TO THE ALEUTIAN 238 00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:56,162 ISLANDS IN DUTCH HARBOR, ALASKA. >> Reporter: NEARLY 4,000 MILES 239 00:14:56,162 --> 00:14:59,099 FROM TRACY IN IDAHO. >> AND THERE ARE NO COMMERCIAL 240 00:14:59,099 --> 00:15:01,334 FLIGHTS. >> Reporter: NO. 241 00:15:01,334 --> 00:15:03,770 >> I'M A WAITRESS MAKING $2.50 AN HOUR PLUS TIPS. 242 00:15:03,770 --> 00:15:08,041 NOW WHAT DO I DO >> Reporter: YEAH. 243 00:15:08,041 --> 00:15:12,445 >> AND THE TERROR ALSO OF -- WOULD I END UP LEAVING OR END UP 244 00:15:12,445 --> 00:15:14,514 IN A BAG IN THE OCEAN? >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, DEBRA, 245 00:15:14,514 --> 00:15:18,785 WITH NO IDEA AT ALL OF LLOYD'S PAST OR THAT HE HAD KIDNAPPED 246 00:15:18,785 --> 00:15:21,588 MARSHALL AND JEFFREY FROM THEIR MOTHER, GAVE LLOYD ANOTHER SON A 247 00:15:21,588 --> 00:15:25,058 YEAR LATER THEY CALLED HIM ALMA 248 00:15:25,058 --> 00:15:30,063 >> THERE IS A CHARACTER IN THE BOOK OF MORMON WHO IS A VERY 249 00:15:30,063 --> 00:15:34,067 VALIANT CHARACTER, AND THAT'S WHY ALMA IS ALMA 250 00:15:34,067 --> 00:15:37,203 >> Reporter: ALMA WOULD SOON HAVE TWO MORE SISTERS, BRINGING 251 00:15:37,203 --> 00:15:40,173 THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN -- HIS, HERS, AND THEIRS -- TO SEVEN 252 00:15:40,173 --> 00:15:44,277 LLOYD DECIDED TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR HIS GROWING FAMILY 253 00:15:44,277 --> 00:15:47,781 AND HE BOUGHT LAND IN ANCHORAGE WHERE HE BEGAN GETTING ALL 254 00:15:47,781 --> 00:15:52,252 SECRETIVE AGAIN, THIS TIME WITH ONE OF HIS NEIGHBORS 255 00:15:52,252 --> 00:15:55,188 AND PRETTY SOON, THE TWO OF THEM STARTING THUMBING THEIR NOSES AT 256 00:15:55,188 --> 00:15:59,225 LOCAL ORDINANCES AND REFUSING TO PAY TAXES, THAT SORT OF THING. 257 00:15:59,225 --> 00:16:02,896 TWO OUTLAWS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT 258 00:16:02,896 --> 00:16:06,099 >> ONCE HE MET THIS GUY, IT WAS AS THOUGH THEY HAD A MARRIAGE 259 00:16:06,099 --> 00:16:09,202 INSTEAD OF US. >> Reporter: NEARLY ALL HIS 260 00:16:09,202 --> 00:16:14,140 LIFE, LLOYD HAD BEEN, OR CLAIMED TO BE, A FAITHFUL MORMON 261 00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:17,444 BUT NOW THAT WAS CHANGING TOO. THE CHURCH WASN'T ENOUGH FOR HIM 262 00:16:17,444 --> 00:16:21,314 ANYMORE. HE STOPPED GOING TO HIS LDS WARD 263 00:16:21,314 --> 00:16:24,150 AND BEGAN ATTENDING A DIFFERENT SORT OF MEETING ALTOGETHER 264 00:16:24,150 --> 00:16:25,819 >> SOUNDS LIKE YOU DISCOVERED A BETTER LIFE. 265 00:16:25,819 --> 00:16:31,424 >> OH, WITH AMWAY. SO CAN YOU 266 00:16:31,424 --> 00:16:34,661 >> Reporter: AMWAY ADS LIKE THIS SPOKE TO LLOYD 267 00:16:34,661 --> 00:16:38,064 HE WANTED A BETTER LIFE. HE WANTED HIS OWN BUSINESS 268 00:16:38,064 --> 00:16:43,336 HE EMBRACED THE BOOMING MULTILEVEL MARKETING COMPANY 269 00:16:43,336 --> 00:16:45,605 WITH THE SAME ALL-IN FAITH HE'D ONCE GIVEN TO HIS CHURCH, AN 270 00:16:45,605 --> 00:16:48,241 ALLEGIANCE THAT SEEMED ALMOST FANATICAL TO DEBRA 271 00:16:48,241 --> 00:16:53,313 CALLED HIMSELF "DIAMOND" LLOYD BARRUS 272 00:16:53,313 --> 00:16:56,449 BUT WHEN LLOYD'S AMWAY DISTRIBUTORSHIP DIDN'T TAKE OFF? 273 00:16:56,449 --> 00:17:01,287 >> HE WAS SO ANGRY AT ME BECAUSE HE WASN'T GETTING ANY PEOPLE TO 274 00:17:01,287 --> 00:17:03,556 JOIN HIM IN HIS AMWAY BUSINESS AND IT WAS ALL MY FAULT BECAUSE 275 00:17:03,556 --> 00:17:09,662 OF THE SADNESS THAT WAS ON MY FACE 276 00:17:09,662 --> 00:17:13,600 AND HE GAVE ME THE HAND MIRROR AND MADE ME FAKE A SMILE WITH IT 277 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:19,406 IN FRONT OF MY FACE. HE SAID, "YOU WILL HOLD THAT 278 00:17:19,406 --> 00:17:21,541 SMILE ALL NIGHT LONG JUST SO THAT YOU CAN KNOW THAT THIS IS 279 00:17:21,541 --> 00:17:25,078 HOW IT HAS TO BE." AND, OF COURSE, I WAS ABSOLUTELY 280 00:17:25,078 --> 00:17:27,647 TERRIFIED. AND NEEDLESS TO SAY, THERE 281 00:17:27,647 --> 00:17:31,718 WASN'T A LOT OF SLEEP THAT HAPPENED ON MY END THAT NIGHT. 282 00:17:31,718 --> 00:17:38,425 >> Reporter: SURELY IT COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE. 283 00:17:38,425 --> 00:17:43,830 BUT, OF COURSE, IT DID >>> COMING UP -- 284 00:17:43,830 --> 00:17:45,699 >> HE SAID, "IF YOU TRY TO LEAVE, I WILL TAKE YOU OUT BACK 285 00:17:45,699 --> 00:17:48,768 AND SHOOT YOU IN THE HEAD. >> IT WAS TIME TO ESCAPE 286 00:17:48,768 --> 00:17:52,305 BUT HOW? >> THAT'S WHEN I STARTED 287 00:17:52,305 --> 00:18:13,093 DEVISING A PLAN. >> Reporter: THERE WAS A MOMENT 288 00:18:13,093 --> 00:18:15,462 THAT MIGHT HAVE SAVED THEM THE BOYS, THAT IS -- THE TWO 289 00:18:15,462 --> 00:18:19,032 SONS OF LLOYD BARRUS AND HIS FIRST WIFE TRACY 290 00:18:19,032 --> 00:18:23,036 LLOYD HAD SNATCHED MARSHALL AND JEFFREY, HAD TAKEN THEM FAR AWAY 291 00:18:23,036 --> 00:18:28,475 TO ALASKA WHERE, EVENTUALLY, LLOYD TOLD DEBRA THE TRUTH 292 00:18:28,475 --> 00:18:30,543 AND WHEN THE BOYS WERE AROUND 5 AND 3, DEBRA SECRETLY ARRANGED 293 00:18:30,543 --> 00:18:33,780 FOR THEM TO CONTACT THEIR MOTHER 294 00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:36,816 >> DEBRA WOULD SNEAK AWAY FROM TIME TO TIME AND LET THEM CALL 295 00:18:36,816 --> 00:18:41,087 ME FROM A PAYPHONE BUT SHE WASN'T ALLOWED TO SAY 296 00:18:41,087 --> 00:18:43,890 WHERE THEY WERE. >> Reporter: THEN A COUPLE YEARS 297 00:18:43,890 --> 00:18:47,327 LATER, LLOYD AGREED TO LET THE BOYS VISIT TRACY IN THE 298 00:18:47,327 --> 00:18:49,863 LOWER 48 BUT WITH A WARNING 299 00:18:49,863 --> 00:18:53,333 >> "I'LL COME DOWN THERE WITH A GUN, AND YOU GUYS WILL BE SORRY 300 00:18:53,333 --> 00:18:57,070 IF YOU PULL ANY FUNNY BUSINESS." AND I WANTED TO JUST KEEP THEM 301 00:18:57,070 --> 00:19:00,473 >> Reporter: SHE CONSULTED A CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST WHO SAID, 302 00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:02,142 "DON'T DO IT." >> WELL, WHAT SHE TOLD ME IS THE 303 00:19:02,142 --> 00:19:05,378 WORST THING I COULD DO IS KIDNAP 'EM BACK 304 00:19:05,378 --> 00:19:09,449 >> Reporter: SHE SENT THE BOYS BACK TO LLOYD, NO IDEA WHAT SHE 305 00:19:09,449 --> 00:19:13,319 WAS SENDING THEM TO. DID HE HAVE MANY WEAPONS IN THE 306 00:19:13,319 --> 00:19:18,692 HOUSE? >> HE HAD A CLOSET FULL OF 307 00:19:18,692 --> 00:19:22,162 WEAPONS AND CONSTANTLY HAD HIS EYE ON THE NEXT ONE. 308 00:19:22,162 --> 00:19:25,432 IN THE EVENINGS AFTER WE'D PUT THE CHILDREN TO BED, HE WOULD 309 00:19:25,432 --> 00:19:28,101 PRACTICE FIGHT MOVES IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR AND, YOU KNOW, TELL 310 00:19:28,101 --> 00:19:29,869 ME HE WANTED TO BECOME A MERCENARY. 311 00:19:29,869 --> 00:19:31,838 >> Reporter: HE BEGAN ACTING LIKE THE STAR OF HIS OWN ACTION 312 00:19:31,838 --> 00:19:34,874 MOVIE. HE DISAPPEARED FOR DAYS AT A 313 00:19:34,874 --> 00:19:39,346 TIME "CIA MISSIONS," HE CALLED THEM 314 00:19:39,346 --> 00:19:43,183 WHEN A NEIGHBOR REPORTED LLOYD FOR BREAKING COUNTY 315 00:19:43,183 --> 00:19:46,252 ENVIRONMENTAL CODES, A NEIGHBOR WHO HAPPENED TO HAVE A BLACK LAB 316 00:19:46,252 --> 00:19:49,956 PUPPY? >> HE CAME IN THE HOUSE AND GOT 317 00:19:49,956 --> 00:19:55,495 A PISTOL OUT OF THE CLOSET SO I PEERED THROUGH THE DOOR AND 318 00:19:55,495 --> 00:20:00,333 WITNESSED HIM PUT THAT PISTOL BEHIND THAT PUPPY'S EAR AND 319 00:20:00,333 --> 00:20:02,168 SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD AND THEN HE PICKED IT UP BY THE 320 00:20:02,168 --> 00:20:06,806 TAIL AND FLUNG IT AROUND AND TOSSED IT INTO THE WOODS 321 00:20:06,806 --> 00:20:13,179 >> Reporter: DEBRA WANTED OUT, AND LLOYD SEEMED TO SENSE IT 322 00:20:13,179 --> 00:20:17,617 >> HE SAID, "IF YOU TRY TO LEAVE, I WILL TAKE YOU OUT BACK 323 00:20:17,617 --> 00:20:19,719 AND SHOOT YOU IN THE HEAD. AND IN GOD'S WORD, IT SAYS I CAN 324 00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:21,388 DO THAT. >> Reporter: WHAT'D IT FEEL LIKE 325 00:20:21,388 --> 00:20:23,156 TO BE YOU LISTENING TO THESE THINGS 326 00:20:23,156 --> 00:20:27,394 >> THAT'S WHEN I STARTED DEVISING A PLAN. 327 00:20:27,394 --> 00:20:29,929 >> Reporter: AND THEN ONE EVENING AT SUPPERTIME, LLOYD 328 00:20:29,929 --> 00:20:33,600 ANNOUNCED HE HAD TO WORK ALL NIGHT ON A LOCAL CONSTRUCTION 329 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,301 JOB. >> HE SAID, "I'M GONNA TAKE 330 00:20:35,301 --> 00:20:39,973 MARSHALL WITH ME BECAUSE I NEED EXTRA HANDS. 331 00:20:39,973 --> 00:20:44,177 MARSHALL WAS 12 AT THE TIME. AND AFTER HE LEFT, I STARTED 332 00:20:44,177 --> 00:20:46,079 LOADING UP ALL THE THINGS. AND THEN ONE BY ONE, I TOOK A 333 00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:55,021 CHILD OUT OF THEIR BED AND PUT THEM IN THE SUBURBAN, AND OFF WE 334 00:20:55,021 --> 00:20:59,225 WENT ONE OF THE HARDEST PARTS OF 335 00:20:59,225 --> 00:21:02,829 LEAVING WAS THAT I COULDN'T TAKE THOSE TWO LITTLE BOYS THAT I HAD 336 00:21:02,829 --> 00:21:05,065 MOTHERED FOR EIGHT YEARS >> Reporter: YEAH. 337 00:21:05,065 --> 00:21:07,200 THEY WERE HIS BOYS >> AND MARSHALL, OF COURSE, 338 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,704 WASN'T THERE JEFFREY, I HAD TO LEAVE SLEEPING 339 00:21:10,704 --> 00:21:14,341 IN HIS BED >> Reporter: THERE WAS ONE BOY 340 00:21:14,341 --> 00:21:17,243 WHO LEFT THE HOUSE THAT NIGHT ALONG WITH HIS FOUR SISTERS. 341 00:21:17,243 --> 00:21:22,615 REMEMBER ALMA? HE WAS NOW 6 YEARS OLD 342 00:21:22,615 --> 00:21:25,719 >> I REMEMBER ASKING MY MOM, "CAN WE TAKE JEFFREY?" 343 00:21:25,719 --> 00:21:28,588 AND SHE WAS NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED TO 344 00:21:28,588 --> 00:21:32,559 IT WOULD HAVE ENDANGERED US TAKING HIM 345 00:21:32,559 --> 00:21:35,261 I KNOW HOW MUCH MY BROTHERS LOVED ME, AND IT WAS SO 346 00:21:35,261 --> 00:21:38,398 DIFFICULT THAT WE HAD TO LEAVE THEM 347 00:21:38,398 --> 00:21:41,501 >> Reporter: DEBRA WENT STRAIGHT TO A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER 348 00:21:41,501 --> 00:21:45,939 IN ANCHORAGE AND CALLED HER LDS BISHOP 349 00:21:45,939 --> 00:21:52,712 >> AND HE WENT TO THE AIRPORT IN A DISGUISE TO PURCHASE AIRPLANE 350 00:21:52,712 --> 00:21:54,547 TICKETS FOR ME AND MY FAMILY 'CAUSE HE KNEW THE DANGER THAT 351 00:21:54,547 --> 00:21:56,883 WAS -- >> Reporter: IN DISGUISE 352 00:21:56,883 --> 00:21:59,019 >> -- INVOLVED >> Reporter: HE HAD TO -- HE HAD 353 00:21:59,019 --> 00:22:01,621 TO ACTUALLY NOT LOOK LIKE HIMSELF FOR FEAR OF WHAT LLOYD 354 00:22:01,621 --> 00:22:03,890 MIGHT DO >> YEAH. 355 00:22:03,890 --> 00:22:09,262 AS SOON AS WE LEFT THE WOMEN'S SHELTER -- THIS IS HOW AFRAID WE 356 00:22:09,262 --> 00:22:13,133 WERE WHEN WE GOT IN THE TAXI, I SAID, 357 00:22:13,133 --> 00:22:21,508 "EVERYBODY LAY DOWN," 'CAUSE I DIDN'T WANT HIM TO RECOGNIZE US. 358 00:22:21,508 --> 00:22:25,712 SO WE RODE TO THE AIRPORT WITH EVERYBODY LAYING DOWN. 359 00:22:25,712 --> 00:22:30,850 >> Reporter: DID YOU HAVE A SENSE OF SAFETY OR FREEDOM AS 360 00:22:30,850 --> 00:22:33,520 YOU TOOK OFF AND FLEW AWAY >> YES 361 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,524 I KNEW THAT -- THAT WE WERE FINALLY SAFE FOR A WHILE, UNTIL 362 00:22:37,524 --> 00:22:41,528 HE FIGURED OUT THAT WE WERE NO LONGER IN THE STATE. 363 00:22:41,528 --> 00:22:44,698 >> Reporter: LLOYD BARRUS WAS NOT A MAN TO LET SOMETHING LIKE 364 00:22:44,698 --> 00:22:48,401 THIS GO. EVEN AFTER DEBRA FILED FOR 365 00:22:48,401 --> 00:22:51,171 DIVORCE. LESS THAN A YEAR LATER, 366 00:22:51,171 --> 00:22:55,942 THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM ALASKA, THERE WAS A KNOCK AT DEBRA'S 367 00:22:55,942 --> 00:22:59,913 DOOR >>> COMING UP -- 368 00:22:59,913 --> 00:23:03,383 >> HE HAD A KNIFE IN HIS BOOT AND A GUN IN THE SMALL OF HIS 369 00:23:03,383 --> 00:23:06,886 BACK HE PULLED ME OFF INTO THE TREES. 370 00:23:06,886 --> 00:23:10,390 >> AND WHILE IN ALASKA, LLOYD HAD BEEN TRAINING SOLDIERS FOR 371 00:23:10,390 --> 00:23:12,692 HIS OWN MILITIA. >> HE HAD THE BOYS CONVINCED 372 00:23:12,692 --> 00:23:14,661 THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE A WAR WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT 373 00:23:14,661 --> 00:23:18,131 HE'D HAVE 'EM RUN DRILLS AND SHOOT LIVE AMMUNITION OVER THEIR 374 00:23:36,349 --> 00:23:37,917 >> Reporter: CURIOUS THING ABOUT LLOYD BARRUS - 375 00:23:37,917 --> 00:23:40,887 TO SOME HE HAD NOT CHANGED AT ALL, STILL A FINE MAN, DEDICATED 376 00:23:40,887 --> 00:23:45,925 AND HARD WORKING TO HIS WIFE DEBRA, HE HAD BECOME 377 00:23:45,925 --> 00:23:51,998 FRIGHTENING. AND 28 YEARS NOW BEFORE THAT 378 00:23:51,998 --> 00:23:54,801 TERRIFYING NIGHT IN MONTANA, IT WAS TERROR SHE FELT AS SHE RAN 379 00:23:54,801 --> 00:23:58,672 FROM HIM ONLY MARSHALL AND JEFFREY WERE 380 00:23:58,672 --> 00:24:01,141 LEFT BEHIND WITH LLOYD WHO, JUST LIKE YOU'D EXPECT, WAS DOING ALL 381 00:24:01,141 --> 00:24:04,444 HE COULD TO TRACK DOWN HIS MISSING FAMILY 382 00:24:04,444 --> 00:24:07,881 >> AFTER I LEFT, HE HAD THREATENED ALL OF MY FRIENDS 383 00:24:07,881 --> 00:24:10,750 FROM CHURCH THAT IF ANYBODY HELPED ME IN ANY WAY, THAT HE 384 00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:14,054 WOULD KILL THEIR PETS AND THEIR CHILDREN 385 00:24:14,054 --> 00:24:19,092 >> Reporter: DEBRA KNEW SHE HAD TO BE EVASIVE. 386 00:24:19,092 --> 00:24:24,497 SHE WENT TO ARIZONA FIRST. THEN SHE MOVED AGAIN TO A CITY 387 00:24:24,497 --> 00:24:27,767 ON WASHINGTON'S PUGET SOUND. IT WAS WHERE HER PARENTS LIVED 388 00:24:27,767 --> 00:24:30,970 SO NOT EVASIVE ENOUGH. BECAUSE A YEAR LATER, WHO WAS 389 00:24:30,970 --> 00:24:34,174 STANDING ON HER DOORSTEP >> LLOYD WENT INTO A CAR 390 00:24:34,174 --> 00:24:37,977 DEALERSHIP AND PRETENDED AS THOUGH HE WANTED TO PURCHASE A 391 00:24:37,977 --> 00:24:44,351 VEHICLE. HE ASKED THE PERSON THAT WAS 392 00:24:44,351 --> 00:24:47,854 HELPING HIM TO -- HE GAVE HIM MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND ASKED 393 00:24:47,854 --> 00:24:51,091 HIM TO RUN IT AND FIND OUT WHERE THE PERSON WAS 394 00:24:51,091 --> 00:24:54,961 AND BECAUSE OF THAT, HE CAME KNOCKING AT THE DOOR 395 00:24:54,961 --> 00:24:59,165 >> Reporter: YUP >> I IMMEDIATELY WENT INTO 396 00:24:59,165 --> 00:25:01,901 HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS MODE AND STARTED TELLING HIM HOW SORRY I 397 00:25:01,901 --> 00:25:06,106 WAS THAT I HAD LEFT AND HOW I COULDN'T WAIT FOR US TO GET BACK 398 00:25:06,106 --> 00:25:09,209 TOGETHER, ALL OF THIS JUST SO THAT I COULD KEEP MY PARENTS AND 399 00:25:09,209 --> 00:25:11,378 MY CHILDREN SAFE >> Reporter: HOW DID HE REACT TO 400 00:25:11,378 --> 00:25:16,182 THIS >> HE BELIEVED IT. 401 00:25:16,182 --> 00:25:18,685 HE HAD A KNIFE IN HIS BOOT AND A GUN IN THE SMALL OF HIS BACK 402 00:25:18,685 --> 00:25:23,289 SO I ASKED HIM TO PLEASE TAKE A WALK WITH ME 403 00:25:23,289 --> 00:25:26,426 SO WE WALKED, YOU KNOW, A MILE OR SO DOWN THE ROAD. 404 00:25:26,426 --> 00:25:29,329 AND HE PULLED ME OFF INTO THE TREES AND PROCEEDED TO TRY TO 405 00:25:29,329 --> 00:25:33,633 UNDRESS ME AND I BEGAN TO CRY, SO HE 406 00:25:33,633 --> 00:25:38,405 STOPPED. AND WE GOT BACK TO THE HOUSE 407 00:25:38,405 --> 00:25:40,707 WITH MY PARENTS AND THE KIDS >> Reporter: AND THEN, AS IF BY 408 00:25:40,707 --> 00:25:44,678 PROVIDENCE, A VISITOR STOPPED BY 409 00:25:44,678 --> 00:25:47,380 >> THE BISHOP OF OUR CHURCH AT THE TIME NOTICED A STRANGE 410 00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:50,617 VEHICLE IN THE DRIVEWAY. AND HE STOPPED TO SEE IF 411 00:25:50,617 --> 00:25:56,589 EVERYTHING WAS OKAY, WHICH PUT A LITTLE BIT OF EXCITEMENT IN THE 412 00:25:56,589 --> 00:26:01,561 MOMENT AND HE REACHED FOR HIS KNIFE 413 00:26:01,561 --> 00:26:03,163 AND -- >> Reporter: LLOYD DID 414 00:26:03,163 --> 00:26:04,898 REACHED FOR HIS KNIFE WHEN THE BISHOP IS THERE? 415 00:26:04,898 --> 00:26:07,534 >> YEAH. 'CAUSE HE FELT THREATENED BY 416 00:26:07,534 --> 00:26:09,069 SOMEONE THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW. AND I SAID, "LISTEN, THIS IS THE 417 00:26:09,069 --> 00:26:14,174 BISHOP HE'S JUST CHECKIN' ON US." 418 00:26:14,174 --> 00:26:20,647 >> Reporter: WITH FALSE PROMISES OF A REUNION SOON IN ALASKA, 419 00:26:20,647 --> 00:26:22,349 DEBRA TALKED LLOYD INTO LEAVING. >> AS SOON AS HE LEFT THE 420 00:26:22,349 --> 00:26:25,185 DRIVEWAY, I STARTED TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE WERE GONNA DO 421 00:26:25,185 --> 00:26:30,557 NEXT BECAUSE NOW HE HAD ENTERED OUR 422 00:26:30,557 --> 00:26:34,060 SAFE PLACE >> Reporter: AND THUS BEGAN AN 423 00:26:34,060 --> 00:26:37,063 ODYSSEY ALL TOO FAMILIAR TO THE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 424 00:26:37,063 --> 00:26:41,634 A HAZE OF HOTELS, FRIENDS' HOMES, COUCH SURFING, ALWAYS 425 00:26:41,634 --> 00:26:47,741 ACCOMPANYING FEAR. >> I WOULD BE NOT SITTING HERE 426 00:26:47,741 --> 00:26:49,909 DOING THIS INTERVIEW WITH YOU IF I HADN'T HAD THE PRESENCE OF 427 00:26:49,909 --> 00:26:54,080 MIND TO GET AWAY WHEN WE GOT AWAY 428 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,416 >> Reporter: WERE YOU AFRAID OF HIM IN THE YEARS AFTER YOU LEFT 429 00:26:56,416 --> 00:27:01,888 ALASKA WITH YOUR FAMILY AND LIVED IN VARIOUS PLACES? 430 00:27:01,888 --> 00:27:04,357 >> NO. I WAS NOT SO ACUTELY AWARE OF 431 00:27:04,357 --> 00:27:07,027 THE DANGER THAT MY MOM WAS IN. HE CALLED US ONE TIME. 432 00:27:07,027 --> 00:27:09,896 I SAID, "THIS IS YOUR SON, ALMA." 433 00:27:09,896 --> 00:27:14,834 AND HE SAID, "I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU, BUT I CAN'T." 434 00:27:14,834 --> 00:27:18,438 IT CRUSHES YOUR HEART. IT WAS DIFFICULT GROWING UP 435 00:27:18,438 --> 00:27:24,377 WITHOUT A DAD. >> Reporter: OR MAYBE LUCKY. 436 00:27:24,377 --> 00:27:29,115 LLOYD WENT BACK TO ALASKA, FOUND A THIRD WIFE THROUGH AMWAY, 437 00:27:29,115 --> 00:27:33,620 FATHERED FIVE MORE CHILDREN. LATER, TRACY'S BOYS, MARSHALL 438 00:27:33,620 --> 00:27:37,891 AND JEFFREY, TOLD THEIR MOM ABOUT LIFE WITH LLOYD. 439 00:27:37,891 --> 00:27:41,661 >> THE BOYS TOLD ME THAT THEIR DAD WOULD BE GONE ON BINGES AND 440 00:27:41,661 --> 00:27:44,731 NOT COME HOME FOR DAYS, SO THEY'D ROB HOMES TO GET MONEY 441 00:27:44,731 --> 00:27:47,400 FOR FOOD >> Reporter: THE BOYS SHOULD BE 442 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,804 SOLDIERS, LLOYD DECREED. THEY HAD TO BE MADE READY. 443 00:27:50,804 --> 00:27:55,608 >> LLOYD FELT HE WAS IN A RIGHTEOUS MILITIA. 444 00:27:55,608 --> 00:27:58,144 HE HAD THE BOYS CONVINCED THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE A WAR WITH 445 00:27:58,144 --> 00:28:00,380 THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. BUT HE'D HAVE 'EM RUN DRILLS AND 446 00:28:00,380 --> 00:28:03,016 SHOOT LIVE AMMUNITION OVER THEIR HEADS. 447 00:28:03,016 --> 00:28:05,218 >> Reporter: THESE ARE THE LITTLE BOYS YOU GAVE BIRTH TO. 448 00:28:05,218 --> 00:28:07,787 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: WHAT WERE THEY 449 00:28:07,787 --> 00:28:12,292 TURNING INTO LIVING WITH HIM >> MONSTERS. 450 00:28:12,292 --> 00:28:15,929 THEY WERE CONDITIONED TO HAVE SUCH ABERRANT BELIEFS AND 451 00:28:15,929 --> 00:28:20,200 ABERRANT BEHAVIORS JEFFREY SCARES ME TO DEATH 452 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,369 JEFFREY'S EYES GLAZE OVER AND HE LOOKS AT YOU LIKE THERE'S NO 453 00:28:22,369 --> 00:28:24,637 SOUL >> Reporter: WHEN THE BOYS 454 00:28:24,637 --> 00:28:28,274 BECAME YOUNG ADULTS, THEY SCATTERED. 455 00:28:28,274 --> 00:28:31,678 BUT BEFORE LONG, LLOYD AND JEFFREY MET AGAIN. 456 00:28:31,678 --> 00:28:38,952 A LONG, SLOW, AND VIOLENT ENDGAME HAD BEGUN. 457 00:28:38,952 --> 00:28:42,489 >>> COMING UP -- A SHOWDOWN IN THE DESERT 458 00:28:42,489 --> 00:28:48,928 >> MY PHONE RANG, AND AN INVESTIGATOR TOLD ME THERE WAS 459 00:28:48,928 --> 00:28:50,296 INVESTIGATOR TOLD ME THERE WAS SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENING IN 460 00:29:11,117 --> 00:29:14,154 IN THE SUMMER OF 1999, 18 YEARS TO GO UNTIL THE NIGHT IT ALL 461 00:29:14,154 --> 00:29:18,858 CAME DOWN IN MONTANA, LLOYD WAS IN LIVING IN IDAHO WITH A NEW 462 00:29:18,858 --> 00:29:21,561 GIRLFRIEND BY THEN LLOYD HAD GONE THROUGH 463 00:29:21,561 --> 00:29:23,763 THREE WIVES AND HAD TEN CHILDREN AND TOLD HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND 464 00:29:23,763 --> 00:29:30,236 MICHAEL COBIA IT WAS ALL THE GOVERNMENT'S FAULT 465 00:29:30,236 --> 00:29:34,074 >> HE PROCEEDED TO TELL ME HOW HE'D TRIED TO BUILD A HOME IN 466 00:29:34,074 --> 00:29:36,476 ALASKA AND THEY WOULDN'T LET HIM, AND HE DID IT ANYWAY, AND 467 00:29:36,476 --> 00:29:43,383 THAT HIS WIFE GOT SCARED AND TOOK OFF WITH THE KIDS 468 00:29:43,383 --> 00:29:45,585 >> Reporter: LLOYD OPENED UP, VENTED TO HIS OLD FRIEND 469 00:29:45,585 --> 00:29:49,055 AFTER THAT WOMAN LEFT HIM, HE SAID, EVERYTHING JUST WENT 470 00:29:49,055 --> 00:29:51,458 WRONG. >> HE HAD REFUSED TO PAY CHILD 471 00:29:51,458 --> 00:29:54,361 SUPPORT AND LOST EVERY ONE OF HIS PROFESSIONAL LICENSES. 472 00:29:54,361 --> 00:29:58,064 THERE WAS A LOT MORE TO THE CONVERSATION 473 00:29:58,064 --> 00:30:00,667 >> Reporter: OH, YES, THERE WAS. LLOYD WASN'T JUST ANGRY AT THE 474 00:30:00,667 --> 00:30:04,104 GOVERNMENT >> HE WAS TALKING ABOUT POLICE 475 00:30:04,104 --> 00:30:07,807 OFFICERS THE GIST AT THE END WAS THAT, 476 00:30:07,807 --> 00:30:12,112 "IF ANY COP EVER GOT IN MY FACE, I'LL KILL HIM. 477 00:30:12,112 --> 00:30:14,481 >> Reporter: BUT JUST A FEW MONTHS AFTER THAT CONVERSATION, 478 00:30:14,481 --> 00:30:19,419 LLOYD WAS ON THE RUN SO HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO FACE THE LAW. 479 00:30:19,419 --> 00:30:24,591 IN MARCH OF 2000, HE HAD BEEN SUMMONED TO AN IDAHO COURT ON 480 00:30:24,591 --> 00:30:27,694 DUI AND OTHER CHARGES. BUT INSTEAD OF SHOWING UP, HE 481 00:30:27,694 --> 00:30:30,030 AND THE GIRLFRIEND SKIPPED TOWN. AND AT THE WHEEL OF THE GETAWAY 482 00:30:30,030 --> 00:30:32,999 CAR? LLOYD'S SON JEFFREY, THEN 483 00:30:32,999 --> 00:30:37,837 20 YEARS OLD THEY DROVE THROUGH THE NIGHT, 484 00:30:37,837 --> 00:30:42,108 AND AS MORNING APPROACHED WERE HEADING NORTH ON I-95, 60 MILES 485 00:30:42,108 --> 00:30:45,311 FROM LAS VEGAS, WHERE JOHN CUNAG, A FRESHLY MINTED 486 00:30:45,311 --> 00:30:50,016 HIGHWAY PATROLMAN, WAS ON HIS WAY TO AN OVERTIME ASSIGNMENT. 487 00:30:50,016 --> 00:30:52,485 >> I WAS PROBABLY DOING ABOUT 75, AND I SAW A CAR COMING 488 00:30:52,485 --> 00:30:54,888 UP FROM BEHIND ME. ALL I SEE WAS HEADLIGHTS 489 00:30:54,888 --> 00:30:56,723 >> Reporter: YEAH. >> THEY JUST KEPT ACCELERATING 490 00:30:56,723 --> 00:31:00,060 MY THOUGHTS WERE, "THIS GUY IS CRAZY. 491 00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:01,861 I NEED TO STOP HIM." >> Reporter: THAT WAS JUST KIND 492 00:31:01,861 --> 00:31:04,931 OF A KNEE-JERK RESPONSE. >> I WAS OUT HERE, NOT FAMILIAR 493 00:31:04,931 --> 00:31:07,634 WITH THIS AREA, DIDN'T KNOW I DIDN'T HAVE RADIO COVERAGE ON 494 00:31:07,634 --> 00:31:10,136 MY -- TO TALK TO DISPATCH. >> Reporter: OKAY. 495 00:31:10,136 --> 00:31:14,274 ALL RIGHT. NO WAY TO CALL FOR BACKUP. 496 00:31:14,274 --> 00:31:19,779 STILL, ALL ALONE, IN THE DARK, JOHN THREW HIS LIGHTS AND SIRENS 497 00:31:19,779 --> 00:31:23,583 ON AND PULLED THE CAR OVER AND THEN HE GOT OUT TO ASK THE 498 00:31:23,583 --> 00:31:27,921 DRIVER FOR HIS LICENSE AND REGISTRATION 499 00:31:27,921 --> 00:31:29,956 >> THERE WAS A FEMALE IN THE BACK SEAT BEHIND THE DRIVER. 500 00:31:29,956 --> 00:31:33,960 >> Reporter: TWO MEN IN THE FRONT. 501 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,297 >> TWO MEN IN THE FRONT. JEFFREY WAS BEHIND THE WHEEL 502 00:31:37,297 --> 00:31:40,300 LLOYD WAS IN THE PASSENGER SEAT. AND NEXT TO HIS LEG WAS A 503 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:44,237 SHOTGUN. >> SO I ASKED THE DRIVER HOW 504 00:31:44,237 --> 00:31:47,307 MANY MORE WEAPONS HE HAD IN THE VEHICLE. 505 00:31:47,307 --> 00:31:50,010 AND HE LOOKED RIGHT AT ME, WHAT WE CALL A THOUSAND YARDS STARE, 506 00:31:50,010 --> 00:31:52,712 JUST LOOKING RIGHT THROUGH YOU AND HE SAID, "AS MANY AS I 507 00:31:52,712 --> 00:31:55,382 WANT." >> Reporter: SO THIS WAS 508 00:31:55,382 --> 00:31:58,518 TROUBLE. JOHN WENT BACK TO HIS CAR AND 509 00:31:58,518 --> 00:32:01,855 TRIED AGAIN TO CALL BACKUP AND THIS TIME HE GOT THROUGH 510 00:32:01,855 --> 00:32:05,959 EXCEPT THE NEAREST OFFICER WAS 18 MILES AWAY. 511 00:32:05,959 --> 00:32:10,063 AS JOHN TOOK THAT IN, JEFFREY, STILL IN HIS OWN CAR, DID 512 00:32:10,063 --> 00:32:15,101 SOMETHING STRANGE. >> HE WAS CALLING ME, "YES, COME 513 00:32:15,101 --> 00:32:18,171 BACK UP HERE." AND AFTER I KEPT TELLING HIM I 514 00:32:18,171 --> 00:32:20,540 WASN'T COMING BACK UP, THE FEMALE IN THE LEFT REAR SEAT, 515 00:32:20,540 --> 00:32:24,744 SHE GOT OUT AND SAID SHE NEEDED TO TALK TO ME. 516 00:32:24,744 --> 00:32:29,816 >> Reporter: BY THEN IT SEEMED OBVIOUS THEY WANTED TO LURE HIM 517 00:32:29,816 --> 00:32:32,786 BACK TO SHOOT HIM. SO JOHN STAYED OUT OF SIGHT, 518 00:32:32,786 --> 00:32:35,088 KEPT ALL HIS SPOTLIGHTS POINTED AT THE BARRUS' CAR 519 00:32:35,088 --> 00:32:38,692 WHEN BACKUP ARRIVED, WHAT HAPPENED THEN? 520 00:32:38,692 --> 00:32:41,094 >> WE WENT TO MAKE A -- WHAT WE CALL A HIGH-RISK STOP, WHICH IS 521 00:32:41,094 --> 00:32:44,798 WHERE WE HAVE OUR WEAPONS OUT. GET ON THE LOUDSPEAKER AND CALL 522 00:32:44,798 --> 00:32:46,266 THE DRIVER BACK TO YOU AND WHEN WE DID THAT, THEY TOOK 523 00:32:46,266 --> 00:32:48,802 OFF. >> Reporter: HIT THE GAS 524 00:32:48,802 --> 00:32:52,005 >> CORRECT >> Reporter: BY THE TIME JOHN 525 00:32:52,005 --> 00:32:55,475 GOT BACK TO HIS CAR, LLOYD AND JEFFREY AND THE WOMAN WERE 526 00:32:55,475 --> 00:33:00,547 ALREADY OUT OF SIGHT BUT HE KNEW THE ROAD WOULD LEAD 527 00:33:00,547 --> 00:33:02,682 THEM TO A TOWN CALLED BEATTY >> IF THEY HAD TURNED RIGHT IN 528 00:33:02,682 --> 00:33:04,651 THE TOWN OF BEATTY INSTEAD OF TURNING LEFT, IT WOULD'VE STAYED 529 00:33:04,651 --> 00:33:09,255 A NEVADA PROBLEM AND NOT BECOME A CALIFORNIA PROBLEM 530 00:33:09,255 --> 00:33:11,658 >> Reporter: BUT LLOYD AND JEFFREY TURNED LEFT. 531 00:33:11,658 --> 00:33:14,394 AND THAT'S WHEN THEY STARTED SHOOTING AT THE COPS WHO WERE 532 00:33:14,394 --> 00:33:16,296 CHASING THEM AS THEY HEADED STRAIGHT INTO CALIFORNIA'S INYO 533 00:33:16,296 --> 00:33:19,899 COUNTY, DISTRICT ATTORNEY TOM HARDY'S JURISDICTION 534 00:33:19,899 --> 00:33:22,068 >> MY PHONE RANG, AND AN INVESTIGATOR TOLD ME THERE WAS 535 00:33:22,068 --> 00:33:27,874 SOMETHIN' WEIRD HAPPENIN' IN DEATH VALLEY 536 00:33:27,874 --> 00:33:30,610 >> Reporter: DEATH VALLEY. >> IT'S SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES OF 537 00:33:30,610 --> 00:33:35,081 VERY REMOTE, VERY RUGGED TERRITORY. 538 00:33:35,081 --> 00:33:37,617 AND A LOT OF VERY ODD THINGS HAPPEN OUT THERE 539 00:33:37,617 --> 00:33:39,819 >> Reporter: WASN'T CHARLIE MANSON PICKED UP IN INYO COUNTY? 540 00:33:39,819 --> 00:33:42,555 >> HE WAS. >> Reporter: SO IT CAME AS NO 541 00:33:42,555 --> 00:33:44,924 SURPRISE TO THE PROSECUTOR THAT THREE PEOPLE WITH A CARLOAD OF 542 00:33:44,924 --> 00:33:48,228 GUNS FLEEING FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT ENDED UP IN DEATH 543 00:33:48,228 --> 00:33:53,867 VALLEY >> WELL, I DON'T THINK THEY HAD 544 00:33:53,867 --> 00:34:01,041 ANY IDEA THEY KNEW WHERE THEY WERE GOING AT THIS POINT 545 00:34:01,041 --> 00:34:02,942 JEFF DRIVES THE BMW OFF INTO THE DESERT AND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY 546 00:34:02,942 --> 00:34:05,078 BECOMES STUCK. THEY BAILED OUT OF THE CAR AND 547 00:34:05,078 --> 00:34:07,047 THEY GRABBED THREE RIFLES AND THREE HANDGUNS 548 00:34:07,047 --> 00:34:09,049 >> Reporter: WAS IT ARMED FOR ARMAGEDDON OR WHAT 549 00:34:09,049 --> 00:34:10,850 >> MR. BARRUS SEEMED TO BE VERY FOND OF FIREARMS 550 00:34:10,850 --> 00:34:14,054 >> Reporter: UH-HUH. THOUGH IT WAS SPRINGTIME, IT WAS 551 00:34:14,054 --> 00:34:15,889 HOT. AND WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT NOT FAR 552 00:34:15,889 --> 00:34:27,167 BEHIND, JEFFREY, LLOYD, AND HIS GIRLFRIEND LUGGED THEIR ARSENAL 553 00:34:27,167 --> 00:34:32,806 FOR MILES ACROSS THE DESERT, AND THEN DUG A MAKESHIFT BUNKER. 554 00:34:32,806 --> 00:34:35,608 BUT THEY COULD NOT HIDE FROM THE UNFORGIVING DEATH VALLEY SUN 555 00:34:35,608 --> 00:34:37,277 >> THEY HAD LOTS OF FIREARMS, BUT THEY HAD NO WATER. 556 00:34:37,277 --> 00:34:39,646 >> Reporter: AS THE STANDOFF WENT ON, SOME OF THE COPS SAID 557 00:34:39,646 --> 00:34:41,381 THEY COULD HEAR MOANING COMING FROM THE PARCHED HOLDOUTS IN THE 558 00:34:41,381 --> 00:34:43,450 BUNKER AND THEY COULDN'T HELP BUT HEAR 559 00:34:43,450 --> 00:34:45,685 THE GUNFIRE. >> AND THEN CHP HAD A HELICOPTER 560 00:34:45,685 --> 00:34:47,987 ABOUT 11:30 THAT MORNING -- ENDED UP BEING SHOT DOWN BY 561 00:34:47,987 --> 00:34:49,823 JEFF HE FIRED A RIFLE AND WAS ABLE TO 562 00:34:49,823 --> 00:34:51,758 PUT A ROUND THROUGH THE -- THE OIL COOLER IN THE HELICOPTER AND 563 00:34:51,758 --> 00:34:53,760 BASICALLY DISABLED IT. >> Reporter: HE BROUGHT IT DOWN. 564 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,429 >> YEAH. YEAH, THEY BASICALLY HAD TO DO A 565 00:34:56,429 --> 00:34:59,299 EMERGENCY LANDING IN THE DESERT. >> Reporter: BY SOME MIRACLE, 566 00:34:59,299 --> 00:35:02,769 ALL FOUR ON BOARD SURVIVED BUT ALL WAS NOT WELL IN THE 567 00:35:02,769 --> 00:35:07,540 BUNKER 18 HOURS AFTER THE HIGH SPEED 568 00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:10,510 CHASE BEGAN IN NEVADA, THEY GAVE UP, WALKED OUT OF THEIR BUNKER 569 00:35:10,510 --> 00:35:13,747 AND STRAIGHT INTO THE LINES OF LAW OFFICERS WHO HAD THEM 570 00:35:13,747 --> 00:35:16,516 SURROUNDED LLOYD AND HIS SONS HAD HAD 571 00:35:16,516 --> 00:35:19,052 BRUSHES WITH THE LAW BEFORE. BUT THIS TIME THERE'D BE 572 00:35:19,052 --> 00:35:25,158 CONSEQUENCES BIG CONSEQUENCES 573 00:35:25,158 --> 00:35:28,928 >>> COMING UP -- LLOYD HAS A STRANGE WISH 574 00:35:28,928 --> 00:35:31,765 >> I JUST WANT TO BE DEAD. THAT'S IT. 575 00:35:31,765 --> 00:35:36,169 >> AND TURNS ON HIS OWN SON. >> "JEFF WAS THE PERSON WHO WAS 576 00:35:57,991 --> 00:36:01,261 LLOYD AND JEFFREY BARRUS LLOYD HAD OPENED FIRE ON POLICE 577 00:36:01,261 --> 00:36:05,198 DURING THAT HIGH-SPEED CHASE FROM NEVADA TO CALIFORNIA. 578 00:36:05,198 --> 00:36:08,068 IN DEATH VALLEY, SON JEFFREY HAD SHOT DOWN A CHP CHOPPER, THE 579 00:36:08,068 --> 00:36:11,271 ONLY TIME IN HISTORY THAT'S HAPPENED 580 00:36:11,271 --> 00:36:14,240 TO ANYBODY HEARING THIS STORY, IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY WERE 581 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:19,512 DESPERADOES OUT TO KILL AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY COULD AND GO DOWN 582 00:36:19,512 --> 00:36:24,150 IN -- IN A BLAZE OF GLORY. YOU DON'T SEE IT THAT WAY? 583 00:36:24,150 --> 00:36:28,121 >> I GUESS AT THE TIME, NO IN JEFF'S INITIAL INTERVIEWS, HE 584 00:36:28,121 --> 00:36:30,623 WAS ALMOST APOLOGETIC. EVERY TIME THEY ASKED, "WELL, 585 00:36:30,623 --> 00:36:33,059 DID YOU SHOOT AT THIS PERSON" -- "YEAH, BUT I HOPE I DIDN'T HURT 586 00:36:33,059 --> 00:36:35,195 ANYBODY. I MEAN, IT WAS BIZARRE BECAUSE 587 00:36:35,195 --> 00:36:38,431 YOU'RE RIGHT IT DOES -- IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE 588 00:36:38,431 --> 00:36:41,368 DESPERADOES OUT TO GET SOMEBODY. >> Reporter: BUT THAT'S NOT HOW 589 00:36:41,368 --> 00:36:44,804 IT WAS, SAID LLOYD NO 590 00:36:44,804 --> 00:36:49,175 THE REAL STORY SOMEONE, SAID LLOYD, WAS OUT TO 591 00:36:49,175 --> 00:36:52,479 GET HIM. >> I JUST THOUGHT YOU'D SHOOT 592 00:36:52,479 --> 00:36:55,348 US, YOU KNOW, BUT YOU DIDN'T FOR ME, I WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE. 593 00:36:55,348 --> 00:36:58,918 I JUST WANT TO BE DEAD THAT'S IT. 594 00:36:58,918 --> 00:37:03,189 >> Reporter: HOURS AFTER LLOYD WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN 595 00:37:03,189 --> 00:37:06,292 DEATH VALLEY, TAPES WERE ROLLING AS LLOYD WENT ON A HOT RANT. 596 00:37:06,292 --> 00:37:09,029 >> WAS THAT WHAT THIS WAS ALL ABOUT? 597 00:37:09,029 --> 00:37:11,164 YOU WERE TRYING TO COMMIT SUICIDE? 598 00:37:11,164 --> 00:37:13,533 >> I WAS TOTALLY STRESSED TO THE MAX. 599 00:37:13,533 --> 00:37:16,536 I'VE RUN IN TO TOO MANY BAD COPS OVER TOO MANY YEARS. 600 00:37:16,536 --> 00:37:18,738 WHEN YOU'RE READY TO DIE AND YOU CAN'T GET THEM TO ENGAGE - 601 00:37:18,738 --> 00:37:20,940 HOW ARE YOU GONNA GET THESE SON OF A -- TO ENGAGE, RIGHT 602 00:37:20,940 --> 00:37:23,443 >> Reporter: MUCH OF LLOYD'S INTERVIEW JUST DIDN'T MAKE 603 00:37:23,443 --> 00:37:25,912 SENSE. >> ONE TIME I WROTE A LETTER TO 604 00:37:25,912 --> 00:37:27,881 PRESIDENT BUSH >> DID YOU 605 00:37:27,881 --> 00:37:30,083 >> IT WORKED OUT GREAT >> UH-HUH. 606 00:37:30,083 --> 00:37:32,052 >> I HAD GREEN BERETS AFTER ME AND EVERYTHING 607 00:37:32,052 --> 00:37:34,054 >> SOME OF THE STATEMENTS I CERTAINLY THOUGHT WERE 608 00:37:34,054 --> 00:37:36,723 DELUSIONAL >> Reporter: DOCTORS GAVE LLOYD 609 00:37:36,723 --> 00:37:40,460 PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS AND DIAGNOSED HIM WITH PARANOID 610 00:37:40,460 --> 00:37:43,096 PERSONALITY DISORDER SO BEFORE HE COULD GO ON TRIAL, 611 00:37:43,096 --> 00:37:47,600 HE WAS SENT TO A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT 612 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,071 JEFF TOOK A PLEA DEAL AND WAS SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON 613 00:37:51,071 --> 00:37:56,276 FOR CRIMES HE SAID HE WAS FORCED TO COMMIT. 614 00:37:56,276 --> 00:38:00,280 >> JEFFREY TOLD ME WHEN THE SHOOTOUT TOOK PLACE THAT HE 615 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,083 HESITATED. AND HIS DAD SAID, "YOU'RE EITHER 616 00:38:03,083 --> 00:38:05,885 WITH ME OR AGAINST ME. AND THOSE THAT ARE AGAINST ME 617 00:38:05,885 --> 00:38:09,022 DIE. AND HE HELD THE GUN ON HIM 618 00:38:09,022 --> 00:38:13,927 WELL, THAT WAS ENOUGH TO TRIGGER JEFFREY'S WILD ANIMAL RESPONSE, 619 00:38:13,927 --> 00:38:17,163 AND HE JUST WENT CRAZY >> Reporter: WHEN LLOYD WAS WELL 620 00:38:17,163 --> 00:38:20,433 ENOUGH TO TELL HIS PART OF THE STORY, HE HAD A SLIGHTLY 621 00:38:20,433 --> 00:38:24,170 DIFFERENT VERSION. >> LLOYD WAS ALWAYS VERY COY 622 00:38:24,170 --> 00:38:27,607 ABOUT WHETHER HE FIRED ANY SHOTS OR NOT 623 00:38:27,607 --> 00:38:30,043 IT WAS LIKE, "YEAH, JEFF WAS THE PERSON WHO WAS REALLY SHOOTING, 624 00:38:30,043 --> 00:38:31,811 NOT ME." >> Reporter: DID IT STRIKE YOU 625 00:38:31,811 --> 00:38:34,414 AS A BETRAYAL OF HIS OWN SON THAT HE WOULD, FIRST OF ALL, 626 00:38:34,414 --> 00:38:37,050 ORDER HIM AROUND, GET HIM INVOLVED IN THIS PICKLE, AND 627 00:38:37,050 --> 00:38:39,386 THEN WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR HIM TO MAKE A DEAL SAY, "WELL, 628 00:38:39,386 --> 00:38:41,755 REALLY, YOU KNOW, HE DID MOST OF THE SHOOTING -- I DIDN'T"? 629 00:38:41,755 --> 00:38:44,758 >> WELL, I MEAN, SHORT ANSWER, YEAH 630 00:38:44,758 --> 00:38:48,828 >> Reporter: SO IT WAS FATHER AGAINST SON. 631 00:38:48,828 --> 00:38:52,065 LLOYD AGREED TO PLEA NO CONTEST AND WAS SENT TO PRISON FOR 632 00:38:52,065 --> 00:38:56,569 15 YEARS A DECADE LESS THAN JEFFREY 633 00:38:56,569 --> 00:39:00,707 FROM PRISON, LLOYD WROTE TO HIS OTHER SON, ALMA, AND INVITED HIM 634 00:39:00,707 --> 00:39:03,443 TO VISIT >> HE KINDA MADE IT SEEM LIKE IT 635 00:39:03,443 --> 00:39:05,779 WAS ALL JEFFREY'S FAULT. >> Reporter: I JUST WAS 636 00:39:05,779 --> 00:39:08,415 WONDERING WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN YOU -- YOU REALIZED THAT HE WAS 637 00:39:08,415 --> 00:39:10,850 BS-ING YOU >> IT'S DISAPPOINTING. 638 00:39:10,850 --> 00:39:15,288 I WAS HOPING THAT HE WOULD APOLOGIZE. 639 00:39:15,288 --> 00:39:17,791 >> Reporter: TO ALMA, THAT IS, FOR NOT BEING THERE FOR HIM. 640 00:39:17,791 --> 00:39:23,029 FOR EVERYTHING THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN 641 00:39:23,029 --> 00:39:26,800 LLOYD QUIETLY SERVED 13 OF THE 15 YEARS TO WHICH HE'D BEEN 642 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:32,772 SENTENCED. AND THEN, ON JANUARY 3rd, 2013, 643 00:39:32,772 --> 00:39:35,275 HE WAS RELEASED, WALKED OUT OF PRISON A FREE MAN. 644 00:39:35,275 --> 00:39:39,045 MOVED TO BAKERSFIELD FOUND HIMSELF ANOTHER 645 00:39:39,045 --> 00:39:45,051 GIRLFRIEND >> SOME ATTORNEYS JOKE ABOUT 646 00:39:45,051 --> 00:39:47,487 HAVING LIFE-LONG CASES, AND THIS IS ONE WHERE IT NEVER GOES AWAY. 647 00:39:47,487 --> 00:39:55,362 >> Reporter: NO, NOT THIS ONE. BECAUSE ONCE HE WAS OUT OF 648 00:39:55,362 --> 00:39:57,897 PRISON, THE OLD LLOYD BEGAN TO RE-EMERGE. 649 00:39:57,897 --> 00:40:00,100 AND THAT OLD LLOYD DISCOVERED SOMETHING NEW. 650 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:04,170 FOR HIM, AT LEAST. SOCIAL MEDIA, WHERE HE 651 00:40:04,170 --> 00:40:06,506 DOCUMENTED HIS LIFE AND BELIEFS. >> I WAS WATCHING HIS FACEBOOK, 652 00:40:06,506 --> 00:40:10,844 SEEING THE STUFF THAT HE -- HE WOULD POST 653 00:40:10,844 --> 00:40:14,014 >> Reporter: PREDICTIONS OF AN IMMINENT MILITARY COUP, FEVERED 654 00:40:14,014 --> 00:40:17,350 ALLEGATIONS OF GOVERNMENT GENOCIDE CAMPAIGNS, PHOTOS OF 655 00:40:17,350 --> 00:40:23,089 LYNCHINGS. ALMA WAS ALARMED 656 00:40:23,089 --> 00:40:28,728 >> I GOT A BAD VIBE FROM IT. AND I CALLED HIS PAROLE OFFICER, 657 00:40:28,728 --> 00:40:30,363 AND THEY SAID, "HE'S GRADUATED FROM PAROLE. 658 00:40:30,363 --> 00:40:32,265 I SAID, "WELL, CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE HE IS? 659 00:40:32,265 --> 00:40:34,367 AND THEY SAID, "SORRY, WE CAN'T TELL YOU THAT. 660 00:40:34,367 --> 00:40:36,369 WE DON'T KNOW. I WANTED TO TRY AND STOP HIM 661 00:40:36,369 --> 00:40:38,872 SOMEHOW. I WAS HOPING THERE WAS, LIKE, 662 00:40:38,872 --> 00:40:41,041 LAW ENFORCEMENT OR SOMETHING THAT COULD HELP ME 663 00:40:41,041 --> 00:40:46,613 >> Reporter: BUT NO ONE DID. MAYBE NO ONE COULD 664 00:40:46,613 --> 00:40:50,950 AND LLOYD BARRUS, AMPED UP ON DARK FANTASIES, GOT INTO HIS CAR 665 00:40:50,950 --> 00:40:58,291 AND POINTED IT NORTH, TOWARD MONTANA. 666 00:40:58,291 --> 00:41:01,461 >>> COMING UP -- A SPEEDING CAR 667 00:41:01,461 --> 00:41:03,263 >> SPEEDS NEAR 100 MILES AN HOUR 668 00:41:03,263 --> 00:41:06,433 >> AND GUNFIRE AS LLOYD'S ANTIGOVERNMENT OBSESSION COMES 669 00:41:06,433 --> 00:42:00,286 TO A DEADLY CLIMAX >> Reporter: WHAT WOULD LLOYD DO 670 00:42:00,286 --> 00:42:02,255 NOW THAT HE WAS FREE WAS THERE EVER ANY DOUBT 671 00:42:02,255 --> 00:42:04,591 IN MAY 2017, LLOYD BARRUS, FRESH OFF PAROLE IN CALIFORNIA, 672 00:42:04,591 --> 00:42:07,060 TRAVELED TO MONTANA TO SEE HIS FIRST-BORN SON, MARSHALL, NOW 673 00:42:07,060 --> 00:42:09,062 38 YEARS OLD REMEMBER HIM 674 00:42:09,062 --> 00:42:11,164 AFTER GROWING UP WITH LLOYD, HE'D MADE A MESS OF LIFE 675 00:42:11,164 --> 00:42:13,800 HIS FIVE KIDS HAD GROWN UP WITHOUT HIM. 676 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,069 HE'D STRUGGLED WITH BOOZE, HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH BURGLARY 677 00:42:16,069 --> 00:42:18,304 HE WAS WEARING AN ANKLE BRACELET FOR THAT 678 00:42:18,304 --> 00:42:20,407 BUT HAD TOLD HIS MOM, TRACY, HE WAS DETERMINED TO FINALLY TURN 679 00:42:20,407 --> 00:42:22,175 HIS LIFE AROUND. >> MARSH AND I WERE SITTING ON 680 00:42:22,175 --> 00:42:24,344 THE COUCH TOGETHER AND HE GOES, "MOM, I'VE DONE 681 00:42:24,344 --> 00:42:26,880 SOME REALLY BAD THINGS IN MY LIFE 682 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,249 BUT I NEED YOU TO KNOW SOMETHING. 683 00:42:29,249 --> 00:42:31,918 I'VE NEVER KILLED ANYONE AND I DON'T EVER INTEND TO." 684 00:42:31,918 --> 00:42:34,387 >> Reporter: YES HE'D REJOINED HIS FAMILY, TOO. 685 00:42:34,387 --> 00:42:36,723 THAT WEEKEND, THEY'D ALL GONE CAMPING TOGETHER, SOBER AND 686 00:42:36,723 --> 00:42:39,859 HAPPY. AND THEN, LLOYD JOINED THEM. 687 00:42:39,859 --> 00:42:42,729 THE CAMPGROUND WAS NEAR CANYON FERRY LAKE IN MONTANA'S 688 00:42:42,729 --> 00:42:45,165 BROADWATER COUNTY. THE COUNTY IS HUGE, THE SIZE OF 689 00:42:45,165 --> 00:42:48,101 MORE THAN 50 MANHATTAN ISLANDS BUT ONLY 7,000 SOULS ACTUALLY 690 00:42:48,101 --> 00:42:50,370 LIVE HERE, INCLUDING NOW FORMER SHERIFF WYNN MEEHAN, AND JUST 691 00:42:50,370 --> 00:42:53,106 10 SWORN OFFICERS. THIS IS A HECK OF A PLACE TO BE 692 00:42:53,106 --> 00:42:55,275 A SHERIFF. >> BEST PLACE TO BE. 693 00:42:55,275 --> 00:42:57,911 THERE'S NO BETTER PLACE THAN MONTANA. 694 00:42:57,911 --> 00:43:00,246 I ALWAYS TELL EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, MONTANA'S THE LAST BEST 695 00:43:00,246 --> 00:43:02,115 PLACE TO HIDE. TED KACZYNSKI USED IT. 696 00:43:02,115 --> 00:43:04,517 >> Reporter: YEAH, TRUE. ONE OF MEEHAN'S OFFICERS WAS 697 00:43:04,517 --> 00:43:07,454 DEPUTY MASON MOORE THE ONE WITH SOUTH CAROLINA IN 698 00:43:07,454 --> 00:43:09,689 HIS VOICE AND THE COLLEGE SWEETHEART, NOW WIFE, WHO'D 699 00:43:09,689 --> 00:43:18,064 STOLEN HIS HEART THE VERY FIRST TIME HE SAW HER, JODI. 700 00:43:18,064 --> 00:43:20,500 >> I WAS AT THIS PARTY AND HE WALKED UP. 701 00:43:20,500 --> 00:43:22,769 AND MY FIRST REACTION WAS, "WHO IS THAT? 702 00:43:22,769 --> 00:43:25,138 AND "I NEED TO FIND OUT WHO HE IS." 703 00:43:25,138 --> 00:43:28,241 AND THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH HOW THAT STARTED 704 00:43:28,241 --> 00:43:30,343 >> Reporter: SO, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU KIND OF STOLE HIM, AS 705 00:43:30,343 --> 00:43:33,480 OPPOSED TO - >> PRETTY MUCH 706 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,949 YEAH >> Reporter: YEAH. 707 00:43:35,949 --> 00:43:42,288 THE OTHER WAY AROUND, YEAH >> MY MAMA DIDN'T RAISE ANY 708 00:43:42,288 --> 00:43:44,257 FOOLS, SO -- >> Reporter: THEY HAD A YEN TO 709 00:43:44,257 --> 00:43:46,559 LIVE IN MONTANA, MOVED HERE IN 2011 710 00:43:46,559 --> 00:43:48,695 AT FIRST, MASON WAS A STAY AT HOME DAD TO THEIR THREE KIDS AND 711 00:43:48,695 --> 00:43:51,564 A VOLUNTEER FIREMAN. BUT IN HIS HEART, HE WAS A COP 712 00:43:51,564 --> 00:43:53,233 HAD ALWAYS BEEN A COP. IF YOU ASKED HIM WHY HE WANTED 713 00:43:53,233 --> 00:43:55,168 TO BE A COP, WHAT WOULD HE TELL YOU? 714 00:43:55,168 --> 00:43:58,171 >> HE WOULD SAY THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE, THAT IT WAS WHAT 715 00:43:58,171 --> 00:44:00,073 HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO. >> Reporter: MASON MOORE FIT IN 716 00:44:00,073 --> 00:44:03,243 WELL AT THE BROADWATER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE 717 00:44:03,243 --> 00:44:07,614 HE WAS A BIG BROTHER OF SORTS TO DISPATCHER, KYLIE HOWARD 718 00:44:07,614 --> 00:44:11,184 >> MASON WAS HARD TO UNDERSTAND AT FIRST OVER THE RADIO WITH HIS 719 00:44:11,184 --> 00:44:19,259 SOUTHERN ACCENT, BUT ONCE I GOT PAST THAT WE WERE A GREAT TEAM 720 00:44:19,259 --> 00:44:21,528 >> Reporter: ON MONDAY, MAY 15th, WHILE THE BARRUSES 721 00:44:21,528 --> 00:44:26,366 WERE CAMPING IN BROADWATER COUNTY, DEPUTY MOORE BEGAN HIS 722 00:44:26,366 --> 00:44:28,134 SHIFT IN THE AFTERNOON >> HE WAS SLEEPING DURING THE 723 00:44:28,134 --> 00:44:30,337 DAY, AND I WAS A CONSULTANT SO I WORKED AT HOME 724 00:44:30,337 --> 00:44:33,640 AND THEN I WENT TO PICK MY DAUGHTER UP AT SCHOOL, AND HE 725 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,677 WAS JUST KIND OF WAKING UP WHEN I WAS LEAVING THE HOUSE. 726 00:44:37,677 --> 00:44:40,714 AND I KISSED HIM GOODBYE >> Reporter: JUST A NORMAL BUSY 727 00:44:40,714 --> 00:44:44,484 DAY IN A BUSY COUPLE'S LIFE. >> NORMAL DAY. 728 00:44:44,484 --> 00:44:47,787 >> Reporter: THAT EVENING, AT THE BROADWATER COUNTY SHERIFF'S 729 00:44:47,787 --> 00:44:49,856 OFFICE, THE PHONES WERE DEAD >> IT WAS A WORD WE DON'T SAY IN 730 00:44:49,856 --> 00:44:52,125 LAW ENFORCEMENT, BUT IT WAS A VERY QUIET NIGHT 731 00:44:52,125 --> 00:44:54,761 >> Reporter: UNUSUAL >> VERY UNUSUAL. 732 00:44:54,761 --> 00:44:57,163 YES. >> Reporter: AT 2:00 A.M., 733 00:44:57,163 --> 00:45:00,934 DEPUTY MOORE MADE HIS FINAL ROUNDS 734 00:45:00,934 --> 00:45:04,170 >> HE ALWAYS CHECKED THE MAIN BUSINESSES BEFORE HE LEFT. 735 00:45:04,170 --> 00:45:07,307 >> Reporter: BY THAT TIME, THE BARRUSES' CAMPING TRIP BY THE 736 00:45:07,307 --> 00:45:11,711 LAKE HAD TAKEN A TURN. IT HAD SEEMED INNOCENT ENOUGH, 737 00:45:11,711 --> 00:45:14,414 LLOYD CATCHING UP WITH HIS NEWLY SOBER SON MARSHALL 738 00:45:14,414 --> 00:45:18,051 THEY SPENT TIME ALONE IN LLOYD'S SUBURBAN 739 00:45:18,051 --> 00:45:22,489 THEY TURNED ON THE RADIO, TUNED INTO SOME TALK SHOWS 740 00:45:22,489 --> 00:45:26,459 AND THEY STARTED DRINKING. THEY DRANK A LOT 741 00:45:26,459 --> 00:45:29,662 THEY GOT AGITATED. MARSHALL PULLED OUT HIS 742 00:45:29,662 --> 00:45:33,733 SEMI-AUTOMATIC, BEGAN FIRING IT INTO THE GROUND. 743 00:45:33,733 --> 00:45:36,970 AND THEN HE CUT OFF HIS ANKLE BRACELET 744 00:45:36,970 --> 00:45:40,140 AND BY 2:13 A.M., AS YOU CAN SEE IN THIS SECURITY VIDEO, A WHITE 745 00:45:40,140 --> 00:45:43,443 SUBURBAN WAS PARKED AT A GAS STATION CALLED THE TOWN PUMP, 746 00:45:43,443 --> 00:45:45,478 JUST A FEW BLOCKS FROM WHERE DEPUTY MOORE WAS CHECKING 747 00:45:45,478 --> 00:45:49,649 BUSINESSES LESS THAN 10 MINUTES LATER, 748 00:45:49,649 --> 00:45:53,653 AROUND 2:22 A.M, THE DEPUTY PASSED THE TOWN PUMP AND TURNED 749 00:45:53,653 --> 00:45:57,090 ONTO HIGHWAY 287 CAUGHT ON CAMERA HERE DRIVING 750 00:45:57,090 --> 00:46:00,593 PAST ANOTHER BUSINESS, HEADING HOME 751 00:46:00,593 --> 00:46:04,030 THEN, SIX MINUTES LATER, AT 2:28, THE SUBURBAN PASSED THE 752 00:46:04,030 --> 00:46:07,334 SAME CAMERA. SAME BUSINESS. 753 00:46:07,334 --> 00:46:12,305 SAME DIRECTION AS THE DEPUTY AND ON THIS DARK STRETCH OF 754 00:46:12,305 --> 00:46:15,241 HIGHWAY ABOUT 25 MILES DOWN THE ROAD, DEPUTY MOORE'S DASHCAM 755 00:46:15,241 --> 00:46:17,177 SHOWS THE SUBURBAN ROARED PAST HIS PATROL CAR 756 00:46:17,177 --> 00:46:22,082 FAST TOO FAST 757 00:46:22,082 --> 00:46:25,352 DEPUTY MOORE RADIOED IN. >> CONTROL 4-3-8 758 00:46:25,352 --> 00:46:29,789 SOUTHBOUND 287 MILE MARKER 101, WHITE TRUCK 759 00:46:29,789 --> 00:46:34,427 >> Reporter: DISPATCHER KYLIE HOWARD ANSWERED. 760 00:46:34,427 --> 00:46:37,530 >> 10-4. >> SPEED NEAR 100 MILES AN HOUR. 761 00:46:37,530 --> 00:46:40,066 >> Reporter: DEPUTY MOORE READ OFF THE LICENSE PLATE. 762 00:46:40,066 --> 00:46:43,436 >> IT CAME BACK TO A SUBURBAN REGISTERED TO LLOYD BARRUS 763 00:46:43,436 --> 00:46:48,975 HE HAD INSURANCE NO WARRANTS, NOTHING LIKE THAT 764 00:46:48,975 --> 00:46:52,245 >> Reporter: OF COURSE, IT WAS LLOYD AT THE WHEEL 765 00:46:52,245 --> 00:46:55,882 AND FIVE MILES INTO THE CHASE, HE WASN'T STOPPING AT ALL. 766 00:46:55,882 --> 00:46:58,251 INSTEAD, HE HIT THE GAS. >> COMING UP ON THE INTERSTATE 767 00:46:58,251 --> 00:47:01,021 NOW. >> COMING UP ON THE INTERSTATE 768 00:47:01,021 --> 00:47:09,329 >> SPEEDS ARE 99 MILES AN HOUR >> 99 MILES PER HOUR 769 00:47:09,329 --> 00:47:11,631 >> 97. >> Reporter: IN ANY PURSUIT, 770 00:47:11,631 --> 00:47:14,334 KYLIE KNEW SHE WAS REQUIRED TO NOTIFY A SUPERIOR OFFICER. 771 00:47:14,334 --> 00:47:16,503 >> WHEN THEY CALLED ME, I WAS LITERALLY, "LET ME KNOW WHEN 772 00:47:16,503 --> 00:47:19,039 MASON GETS HIM IN CUSTODY. >> Reporter: BUT JUST MINUTES 773 00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:24,577 AFTER THAT CALL, OUT OF NOWHERE -- 774 00:47:24,577 --> 00:47:27,781 GUNFIRE! >> 438, WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT 775 00:47:27,781 --> 00:47:32,152 LOCATION 438, CONTROL 776 00:47:32,152 --> 00:47:37,524 >> Reporter: YOU KEPT CALLING OUT. 777 00:47:37,524 --> 00:47:40,326 >> 438 >> Reporter: WHICH MEANS 778 00:47:40,326 --> 00:47:42,429 >> THAT'S HIS BADGE NUMBER >> 438 CONTROL 779 00:47:42,429 --> 00:47:44,130 I HATE WHEN THEY DON'T ANSWER ME 780 00:47:44,130 --> 00:47:46,833 I'M LIKE -- IT JUST MAKES MY HEART SINK 781 00:47:46,833 --> 00:47:49,069 I HAD THOUGHT THAT MASON HAD CRASHED BECAUSE, TYPICALLY IN 782 00:47:49,069 --> 00:47:51,271 PURSUITS, THAT'S HOW THEY CAN END. 783 00:47:51,271 --> 00:47:53,073 >> Reporter: WHAT WAS GOING ON IN YOUR MIND 784 00:47:53,073 --> 00:47:55,075 >> PANIC I'M JUST TRYING TO GET SOME HELP 785 00:47:55,075 --> 00:47:57,577 HERE I'VE GOT MASON IN A PURSUIT. 786 00:47:57,577 --> 00:48:00,213 >> WHAT? >> YEAH AND HE'S NOT ANSWERING 787 00:48:00,213 --> 00:48:02,349 ME WHEN A DEPUTY DOESN'T RESPOND TO 788 00:48:02,349 --> 00:48:05,285 YOUR STATUS CHECKS, THAT'S THE WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD 789 00:48:05,285 --> 00:48:08,154 >> Reporter: NO. IT WASN'T THE WORST FEELING IN 790 00:48:08,154 --> 00:48:12,859 THE WORLD. TURNED OUT IT WAS NOT EVEN 791 00:48:12,859 --> 00:48:15,528 CLOSE. >>> COMING UP -- 792 00:48:15,528 --> 00:48:19,265 >> I NEED MEDICAL. SEND BACK UP UNITS 793 00:48:19,265 --> 00:48:23,603 >> A DEPUTY DOWN, AND A WILD WEST GUNFIGHT. 794 00:48:23,603 --> 00:48:46,526 >> I PROPPED UP MY GUN AND I STARTED SHOOTING THROUGH MY 795 00:48:46,526 --> 00:48:50,230 MASON MOORE HAD SUDDENLY GONE SILENT 796 00:48:50,230 --> 00:48:53,133 FEAR RISING IN HER THROAT, DISPATCHER KYLIE HOWARD KEPT 797 00:48:53,133 --> 00:48:57,070 CALLING, "WHERE ARE YOU? NO ANSWER. 798 00:48:57,070 --> 00:49:00,573 >> HAVE YOU MADE CONTACT WITH 438 YET? 799 00:49:00,573 --> 00:49:03,476 >> NEGATIVE. THEY HAD A TROOPER HEADED 800 00:49:03,476 --> 00:49:06,379 POSSIBLY TOWARDS THEM. >> Reporter: WHEN THE TROOPER 801 00:49:06,379 --> 00:49:15,021 ARRIVED, HE SAW THIS >> OH -- 802 00:49:15,021 --> 00:49:18,792 BOZEMAN 3-20, I NEED MEDICAL SEND BACKUP UNITS. 803 00:49:18,792 --> 00:49:21,528 UH, DEPUTY DOWN. >> Reporter: THAT WORD REACHED 804 00:49:21,528 --> 00:49:24,297 DISPATCHER KYLIE HOWARD. >> 3-20 JUST CHECKED IN WITH ME. 805 00:49:24,297 --> 00:49:26,266 >> 10-4. >> THEY SAID TO SEND BACKUP 806 00:49:26,266 --> 00:49:28,168 UNITS. THE DEPUTY'S DOWN. 807 00:49:28,168 --> 00:49:30,203 THEY THINK HE'S BEEN SHOT. >> OH, MY GOD. 808 00:49:30,203 --> 00:49:31,871 OH, MY GOD, HE'S DOWN. HE'S DOWN. 809 00:49:31,871 --> 00:49:34,040 >> Reporter: KYLIE CALLED THE SHERIFF. 810 00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,409 >> WYNN? >> UH-HUH? 811 00:49:36,409 --> 00:49:39,913 >> UM, HE'S POSSIBLY BEEN SHOT AT MILE MARKER 109 812 00:49:39,913 --> 00:49:47,087 >> OH -- I'M ON MY WAY >> Reporter: SHERIFF WYNN MEEHAN 813 00:49:47,087 --> 00:49:50,790 GOT OUT OF BED AND ROARED TOWARD THE SCENE SOME 25 MINUTES DOWN 814 00:49:50,790 --> 00:49:53,259 THE ROAD AND AS HE DROVE -- 815 00:49:53,259 --> 00:49:55,962 >> OUR TROOPER ADVISES THAT HE HAS CALLED FOR A CORONER 816 00:49:55,962 --> 00:50:01,901 >> WHEN THEY ASKED FOR A CORONER FOR MASON, IT WAS LIKE SOMEBODY 817 00:50:01,901 --> 00:50:03,870 HIT ME WITH A TRUCK. WHEN I LOOKED INSIDE OF THE CAR 818 00:50:03,870 --> 00:50:09,009 IN -- IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT, THERE WAS MASON. 819 00:50:09,009 --> 00:50:10,844 AND A TROOPER, A FRIEND OF MINE SHOWED UP AND I SAID, "DO YOU 820 00:50:10,844 --> 00:50:14,948 HAVE A BLANKET?" AND HE'S LIKE, "YES. 821 00:50:14,948 --> 00:50:17,851 AND SO HE GAVE IT TO ME, AND I COVERED HIM UP AND REALIZED WHAT 822 00:50:17,851 --> 00:50:23,089 HAD TRANSPIRED BY THE BULLET HOLES THAT WERE ALL OVER THE 823 00:50:23,089 --> 00:50:26,893 THING. >> Reporter: BROADWATER COUNTY 824 00:50:26,893 --> 00:50:34,334 SHERIFF'S DEPUTY MASON MOORE WAS DEAD AT AGE 42 825 00:50:34,334 --> 00:50:41,374 >> IT'S MY BIGGEST FEAR. I NEVER WANT TO LOSE AN OFFICER. 826 00:50:41,374 --> 00:50:43,743 >> I MEAN, YOU KNOW GOING INTO THIS JOB IT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN 827 00:50:43,743 --> 00:50:45,278 HAPPEN BUT I GUESS YOU JUST DON'T THINK 828 00:50:45,278 --> 00:50:49,516 THAT IT'S GONNA ACTUALLY HAPPEN, I GUESS. 829 00:50:49,516 --> 00:50:52,585 >> Reporter: BUT IT WASN'T OVER. THE WHITE SUBURBAN AND THE 830 00:50:52,585 --> 00:50:57,290 KILLER INSIDE WERE LONG GONE, VANISHED IN THE NIGHT. 831 00:50:57,290 --> 00:51:00,493 AND 50 MILES WEST IN THE CITY OF BUTTE, OFFICER RICH O'BRIEN WAS 832 00:51:00,493 --> 00:51:04,397 ON THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT >> WE WERE JUST KINDA -- JUST 833 00:51:04,397 --> 00:51:06,633 CRUISIN' AROUND, MAKIN' SURE NOBODY WAS UP TO NO GOOD 834 00:51:06,633 --> 00:51:09,803 >> Reporter: AND WHAT HAPPENED THEN 835 00:51:09,803 --> 00:51:11,071 >> DISPATCH TOLD US THAT THERE WAS A DEPUTY IN BROADWATER 836 00:51:11,071 --> 00:51:12,906 COUNTY THAT HAD BEEN SHOT AND THEY WERE UNSURE OF THE 837 00:51:12,906 --> 00:51:16,343 DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF THE VEHICLE. 838 00:51:16,343 --> 00:51:19,913 >> Reporter: O'BRIEN WAS ONE OF JUST FIVE OFFICERS ON DUTY IN 839 00:51:19,913 --> 00:51:23,683 THE COUNTY THAT NIGHT, UNDER THE COMMAND OF HIS COUSIN, 840 00:51:23,683 --> 00:51:27,354 LIEUTENANT JOHN O'BRIEN. WHAT'D YOU SAY TO THEM 841 00:51:27,354 --> 00:51:31,391 >> TO MENTALLY PREPARE THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE NIGHT THAT THEY 842 00:51:31,391 --> 00:51:35,528 HAVE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES. >> Reporter: AND THEN THERE IT 843 00:51:35,528 --> 00:51:37,731 WAS -- THE WHITE SUBURBAN. >> THEY WERE DOIN' 110 MILES AN 844 00:51:37,731 --> 00:51:39,733 HOUR, COMIN' OFF OF HOMESTAKE PASS 845 00:51:39,733 --> 00:51:41,968 AND SO I HAD TO EXCEED THAT IN ORDER TO CATCH THEM UP 846 00:51:41,968 --> 00:51:43,770 >> Reporter: HOW FAST WERE YOU GOING? 847 00:51:43,770 --> 00:51:46,106 >> I THINK MY CAR HIT ABOUT 146 MILES AN HOUR. 848 00:51:46,106 --> 00:51:47,607 >> Reporter: 146 MILES AN HOUR >> YEAH. 849 00:51:47,607 --> 00:51:50,243 >> Reporter: WHAT KIND OF CAR WAS THIS 850 00:51:50,243 --> 00:51:54,481 >> IT WAS A CHEVY IMPALA IT WAS NOT THE PRIDE OF THE 851 00:51:54,481 --> 00:51:57,250 FLEET, SO I JUST -- I JUST WAS JUST HOPIN' IT STAYED ON FOUR 852 00:51:57,250 --> 00:52:02,255 WHEELS SO I COULD GET UP THERE >> Reporter: THE ODOMETER SPINS 853 00:52:02,255 --> 00:52:06,226 QUICKLY AT THOSE SPEEDS. 50, 60, 70 MILES 854 00:52:06,226 --> 00:52:07,627 AND THEY JUST WEREN'T STOPPIN' >> NO. 855 00:52:07,627 --> 00:52:10,630 THEY HAD NO INTENTION OF STOPPIN' 856 00:52:10,630 --> 00:52:13,566 >> Reporter: LLOYD, CHASED ALL THE WAY, SPED INTO A FIFTH 857 00:52:13,566 --> 00:52:17,771 COUNTY -- CAPTAIN AUSTIN MICU'S COUNTY 858 00:52:17,771 --> 00:52:21,574 >> I HEARD MY DISPATCHER SCREAM MY NAME. 859 00:52:21,574 --> 00:52:24,878 AND I JUST SAID, "GOD, COME RIDE WITH ME. 860 00:52:24,878 --> 00:52:27,881 THOSE WERE MY EXACT WORDS. >> Reporter: HIGHWAY PATROLMAN 861 00:52:27,881 --> 00:52:31,151 TIM WYCKOFF JOINED IN TOO. >> THEY HAD TO BE STOPPED. 862 00:52:31,151 --> 00:52:34,754 I MEAN, THEY HAD NO REGARD FOR ANYBODY'S LIFE, MINE OR ANYBODY 863 00:52:34,754 --> 00:52:37,691 ELSE'S >> Reporter: AND THEN, NEARLY 864 00:52:37,691 --> 00:52:40,393 90 MILES FROM THE SHOOTING OF DEPUTY MASON MOORE, LIKE 865 00:52:40,393 --> 00:52:42,228 SOMETHING STRAIGHT OUT OF A MOVIE, LAW OFFICERS DROPPED A 866 00:52:42,228 --> 00:52:45,865 SPIKE STRIP ACROSS THE INTERSTATE 867 00:52:45,865 --> 00:52:48,268 THE SUBURBAN HIT THE STRIP AT 100 MILES AN HOUR, PUNCTURED 868 00:52:48,268 --> 00:52:52,439 THREE TIRES. WHAT HAPPENED THEN 869 00:52:52,439 --> 00:52:56,476 >> THERE WAS, LIKE, A ROOSTER TAIL OF SPARKS COMING FROM -- 870 00:52:56,476 --> 00:52:58,778 FROM THE VEHICLE >> Reporter: BUT IT KEPT 871 00:52:58,778 --> 00:53:02,048 GOING -- 60, 70 MILES AN HOUR ON RIMS 872 00:53:02,048 --> 00:53:05,652 AND A DEPUTY CHASING BEHIND RADIOED A WARNING. 873 00:53:05,652 --> 00:53:08,421 >> HE JUST SAW A MALE TAKE A SNIPER POSITION IN THE BACK OF 874 00:53:08,421 --> 00:53:11,858 THE VEHICLE. >> Reporter: WHO WAS THAT? 875 00:53:11,858 --> 00:53:15,962 WITH LLOYD APPARENTLY AT THE WHEEL, POLICE HAD NO IDEA. 876 00:53:15,962 --> 00:53:18,331 BUT WHOEVER THE SHOOTER WAS -- HAD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A 877 00:53:18,331 --> 00:53:20,834 SEMIAUTOMATIC RIFLE. >> I REMEMBER GOIN' AROUND A BIG 878 00:53:20,834 --> 00:53:23,536 SWEEPIN' CORNER. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT'S JUST 879 00:53:23,536 --> 00:53:29,642 POPS AND MUZZLE FLASHES COMIN' OUT THE BACK WINDOW. 880 00:53:29,642 --> 00:53:31,378 >> IT WAS THE SCARIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE. 881 00:53:31,378 --> 00:53:35,348 >> Reporter: WERE THEY COMIN' CLOSE? 882 00:53:35,348 --> 00:53:38,251 >> OH, YEAH. I PROPPED UP MY GUN, AND I 883 00:53:38,251 --> 00:53:41,221 STARTED SHOOTIN' THROUGH MY WINDSHIELD 884 00:53:41,221 --> 00:53:45,191 THAT'S WHEN MY FRONT TIRE GOT SHOT OUT 885 00:53:45,191 --> 00:53:49,562 >> Reporter: THREE LAW OFFICERS WERE NOW LEADING THE PURSUIT AND 886 00:53:49,562 --> 00:53:54,868 TAKING FIRE. JOHN O'BRIEN, TIM WYCKOFF, AND 887 00:53:54,868 --> 00:53:56,770 AUSTIN MICU. THEN MORE MINUTES LATER, 888 00:53:56,770 --> 00:54:01,875 LLOYD BARRUS FINALLY HIT THE BRAKES 889 00:54:01,875 --> 00:54:05,078 THE SUBURBAN JOLTED TO A STOP BY THE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY, AND A 890 00:54:05,078 --> 00:54:11,584 PASSENGER JUMPED OUT, RIFLE IN HAND, FIRING 891 00:54:11,584 --> 00:54:14,254 >> YOU COULD START FEELING THE IMPACTS FROM THE ROUNDS HITTING 892 00:54:14,254 --> 00:54:17,323 MY VEHICLE >> AS I WAS GETTIN' OUT OF THE 893 00:54:17,323 --> 00:54:19,659 CAR, A ROUND WENT THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD WHERE I WAS SITTIN' 894 00:54:19,659 --> 00:54:23,063 AND -- >> Reporter: RIGHT WHERE YOU HAD 895 00:54:23,063 --> 00:54:26,066 BEEN >> RIGHT WHERE I'D BEEN SITTIN', 896 00:54:26,066 --> 00:54:28,068 YES, SIR I THREW MY A.R. UP OVER THE 897 00:54:28,068 --> 00:54:29,969 STEERING WHEEL AND STARTED TO EXCHANGE GUNFIRE 898 00:54:29,969 --> 00:54:31,338 >> Reporter: THROUGH YOUR WINDSHIELD 899 00:54:31,338 --> 00:54:33,073 >> YES >> Reporter: WHAT WERE YOU 900 00:54:33,073 --> 00:54:34,874 FIRING AT? >> MUZZLE FLASH. 901 00:54:34,874 --> 00:54:38,478 >> Reporter: COULD YOU SEE THE ACTUAL PERSON THERE? 902 00:54:38,478 --> 00:54:40,847 >> NO. I COULD SEE THE STAR-SHAPED 903 00:54:40,847 --> 00:54:42,782 MUZZLE FLASH, INDICATING THAT IT WAS A RIFLE. 904 00:54:42,782 --> 00:54:45,719 >> Reporter: AND THEN SUDDENLY IT STOPPED 905 00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:48,221 >> HE'S HIT. >> Reporter: YOU UNDERSTOOD 906 00:54:48,221 --> 00:54:50,857 YOU -- YOU HIT YOUR TARGET >> I UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE WAS 907 00:54:50,857 --> 00:54:54,361 NO LONGER MUZZLE FLASH COMIN' FROM THERE 908 00:54:54,361 --> 00:54:56,096 >> Reporter: THE PASSENGER WAS DOWN 909 00:54:56,096 --> 00:55:02,035 BUT LLOYD WAS STILL FIRING WITH A 9 MILLIMETER HANDGUN 910 00:55:02,035 --> 00:55:08,508 HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THAT WENT ON 911 00:55:08,508 --> 00:55:10,477 >> SOMETIMES THE MEMORY FEELS LIKE IT WAS AN ETERNITY, AND 912 00:55:10,477 --> 00:55:12,545 OTHER TIMES IT'S JUST GONE IN A SECOND 913 00:55:12,545 --> 00:55:16,716 >> Reporter: THEN, AS IF IN SOME OLD WEST GUNFIGHT, THE PISTOL 914 00:55:16,716 --> 00:55:26,793 WAS SHOT FROM LLOYD'S HAND AND EVENTUALLY HE COMPLIED WITH 915 00:55:26,793 --> 00:55:30,930 POLICE COMMANDS. LLOYD BARRUS WAS FINALLY IN 916 00:55:30,930 --> 00:55:33,466 CUSTODY. BUT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT 917 00:55:33,466 --> 00:55:39,939 WELL, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT FIND THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND. 918 00:55:39,939 --> 00:55:42,142 >>> COMING UP -- >> I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE 919 00:55:42,142 --> 00:55:49,549 SUPPOSED TO, LIKE, BLAST ME TO PIECES OR SOMETHING. 920 00:55:49,549 --> 00:55:52,085 >> LLOYD'S DEATH WISH. >> I DON'T BELIEVE IN GETTING 921 00:56:06,933 --> 00:56:09,436 >> ARE YOU HURT? >> I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES 922 00:56:09,436 --> 00:56:12,205 I'VE BEEN HIT! >> Reporter: LLOYD BARRUS, HIS 923 00:56:12,205 --> 00:56:14,774 PISTOL SHOT FROM HIS HAND, HAD BEEN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON THAT 924 00:56:14,774 --> 00:56:17,811 WESTERN MONTANA HIGHWAY. AND HIS PASSENGER? 925 00:56:17,811 --> 00:56:21,181 THE ONE WOUNDED WHILE FIRING A SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE AT POLICE 926 00:56:21,181 --> 00:56:23,316 >> GO CHECK ON MY SON, PLEASE! >> THAT'S YOUR SON 927 00:56:23,316 --> 00:56:25,485 >> YEAH. IT'S MARSHALL. 928 00:56:25,485 --> 00:56:30,056 >> MARSHALL, HE GOT HIT? >> YEAH. HE'S -- PROBABLY DEAD 929 00:56:30,056 --> 00:56:32,625 >> Reporter: THAT'S RIGHT. IT WAS LLOYD'S SON MARSHALL, WHO'D 930 00:56:32,625 --> 00:56:39,065 SHOT AND KILLED DEPUTY MOORE. AND WAS NOW FIGHTING FOR HIS OWN 931 00:56:39,065 --> 00:56:41,835 LIFE BUT EVEN THEN, AS THE SUN WAS 932 00:56:41,835 --> 00:56:46,873 RISING, 145 MILES DOWN THE ROAD IN THREE FORKS, MONTANA. 933 00:56:46,873 --> 00:56:50,210 A DOORBELL RANG AT THE HOME THAT DEPUTY MASON MOORE SHARED WITH 934 00:56:50,210 --> 00:56:56,549 HIS THREE CHILDREN AND HIS WIFE JODI 935 00:56:56,549 --> 00:57:00,420 >> IN MY SLEEP KIND OF FOG I THOUGHT THAT MAYBE IT WAS THAT 936 00:57:00,420 --> 00:57:03,823 MASON HAD FORGOTTEN HIS KEYS AND OUR WINDOW BY THE FRONT 937 00:57:03,823 --> 00:57:07,027 DOOR, THE BLINDS WERE HALFWAY UP 938 00:57:07,027 --> 00:57:09,596 AND WHEN I WALKED UP TO THE FRONT DOOR I SAW FEET, MULTIPLE 939 00:57:09,596 --> 00:57:16,236 FEET AND I KNEW RIGHT AWAY THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG. 940 00:57:16,236 --> 00:57:19,506 AND I HURRIED TO OPEN THE DOOR 'CAUSE I THOUGHT, "MAYBE HE'S 941 00:57:19,506 --> 00:57:22,242 JUST HURT. AND WHEN I OPENED THE DOOR, THE 942 00:57:22,242 --> 00:57:30,583 SHERIFF WAS RIGHT THERE. AND I SAW HIS FACE 943 00:57:30,583 --> 00:57:39,826 >> SHE LOOKED AT ME AND SLAMMED IT SHUT. 944 00:57:39,826 --> 00:57:42,429 >> BECAUSE I JUST WAS IMMEDIATELY ANGRY AND THEY CAME 945 00:57:42,429 --> 00:57:45,098 INTO MY LIVING ROOM, AND SAT ME DOWN, AND TOLD ME THAT MASON WAS 946 00:57:45,098 --> 00:57:47,901 GONE AND I ASKED, "WHAT HAPPENED? 947 00:57:47,901 --> 00:57:58,945 AND THEY TOLD ME THAT HE WAS SHOT 948 00:57:58,945 --> 00:58:04,117 AND I WAS JUST VERY ANGRY, -- JUST FELT LIKE I HAD LET HIM 949 00:58:04,117 --> 00:58:07,220 DOWN AND THAT -- THAT WE HAD ALL LET HIM DOWN 950 00:58:07,220 --> 00:58:09,389 I JUST WAS VERY ANGRY. >> HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE 951 00:58:09,389 --> 00:58:11,725 LET HIM DOWN >> I THINK WHEN YOU LOVE 952 00:58:11,725 --> 00:58:14,027 SOMEBODY, YOU WANT TO PROTECT THEM AND KEEP THEM SAFE. 953 00:58:14,027 --> 00:58:16,863 AND I FELT LIKE I HADN'T DONE THAT 954 00:58:16,863 --> 00:58:20,367 I REMEMBER WALKING INTO THE FUNERAL HOME AND THE FUNERAL 955 00:58:20,367 --> 00:58:25,205 DIRECTOR WAS THERE, AND SHE WAS ASKIN' ME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT I 956 00:58:25,205 --> 00:58:28,074 WANTED AND PICKIN' OUT A CASKET. AND I LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW, AND 957 00:58:28,074 --> 00:58:35,148 THIS IS MAY, AND IT'S SNOWING BIG, FAT SNOWFLAKES. 958 00:58:35,148 --> 00:58:40,553 AND I REMEMBER THINKING, "WHERE AM I? THIS IS JUST-- CAN'T BE 959 00:58:40,553 --> 00:58:47,260 REALITY. AND THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH THE 960 00:58:47,260 --> 00:58:50,463 POINT WHERE I WAS DONE WITH THAT MEETING. 961 00:58:50,463 --> 00:58:56,369 >> DID YOU GO SEE HIM? >> I SAW HIM IN THE CASKET, BUT 962 00:58:56,369 --> 00:59:04,244 HIS SHOULDERS AND HEAD WERE COVERED UP AT MY REQUEST 963 00:59:04,244 --> 00:59:11,384 SO I WAS ABLE TO PUT MY HAND ON HIS HAND, BUT THAT WAS ALL I 964 00:59:11,384 --> 00:59:15,021 COULD DO >> Reporter: WHAT FOLLOWED OVER 965 00:59:15,021 --> 00:59:18,024 THE NEXT WEEK WAS A HAZE A FUNERAL AT THE MOORE'S HOME 966 00:59:18,024 --> 00:59:25,098 CHURCH A PROCESSION TO THE AIRPORT, 967 00:59:25,098 --> 00:59:27,701 FOLLOWED BY FLIGHTS TO TAKE THE CASKET BEARING MASON'S BODY HOME 968 00:59:27,701 --> 00:59:30,603 TO SOUTH CAROLINA TO BE BURIED IN THE FAMILY PLOT 969 00:59:30,603 --> 00:59:34,908 A PLOT WHERE, WITHIN NINE MONTHS, MASON'S FATHER AND 970 00:59:34,908 --> 00:59:39,813 MOTHER WOULD JOIN HIM. >> DID HIS DEATH, DO YOU THINK, 971 00:59:39,813 --> 00:59:41,748 CONTRIBUTE TO THEIRS >> ABSOLUTELY I AM REALLY AMAZED 972 00:59:41,748 --> 00:59:45,418 THAT HIS DAD SURVIVED THE FUNERAL SERVICE. 973 00:59:45,418 --> 00:59:48,121 >> Reporter: AND WHAT HAPPENED TO MARSHALL BARRUS, THE MAN 974 00:59:48,121 --> 00:59:53,660 WHO'D KILLED MASON MOORE, AND TRIED TO KILL MORE COPS? 975 00:59:53,660 --> 00:59:57,364 HE DID NOT SURVIVE HIS WOUNDS. HIS MOM TRACY WAS ABLE TO SAY 976 00:59:57,364 --> 01:00:00,467 GOODBYE TO HIM IN THE HOSPITAL, WHERE MARSHALL WAS UNDER POLICE 977 01:00:00,467 --> 01:00:03,770 GUARD. >> THE CAPTAIN WAS SO VERY KIND 978 01:00:03,770 --> 01:00:09,275 TO ME. HE TOOK MY HAND AND HE SAID, "I 979 01:00:09,275 --> 01:00:12,212 WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT AFTER MARSHALL WAS DOWN EVERY ONE OF 980 01:00:12,212 --> 01:00:15,348 MY OFFICERS RAN TO YOUR SON TO RENDER AID." 981 01:00:15,348 --> 01:00:17,417 I DON'T HOLD ANYTHING AGAINST THOSE POLICE OFFICERS. 982 01:00:17,417 --> 01:00:20,453 THEY HAD TO ELIMINATE THAT THREAT 983 01:00:20,453 --> 01:00:22,455 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE THOSE -- THOSE TWO COULD HAVE DONE THAT 984 01:00:22,455 --> 01:00:25,458 NIGHT. >> Reporter: AND AS FOR 985 01:00:25,458 --> 01:00:27,594 LLOYD BARRUS THIS WAS HIS SELF-INTRODUCTION 986 01:00:27,594 --> 01:00:32,198 TO THE COPS WHO SET ABOUT ARRESTING HIM. 987 01:00:32,198 --> 01:00:35,001 >> YEAH, I'M JUST EVIL MILITIA YOU KNOW 988 01:00:35,001 --> 01:00:37,971 >> Reporter: THE WORST FEARS OF LLOYD'S EX-WIVES HAD BEEN 989 01:00:37,971 --> 01:00:42,275 REALIZED ONE SON DEAD IN A GUNFIGHT 990 01:00:42,275 --> 01:00:46,212 ANOTHER IN PRISON FOR SHOOTING DOWN A HIGHWAY PATROL 991 01:00:46,212 --> 01:00:48,748 HELICOPTER >> I DON'T BELIEVE IN GETTING 992 01:00:48,748 --> 01:00:51,051 LOCKED UP. >> I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO 993 01:00:51,051 --> 01:00:53,687 THAT >> I HOPE THEY COULD HANG ME 994 01:00:53,687 --> 01:00:56,089 LIKE THEM OLD VIGILANTES DO. >> Reporter: LLOYD BARRUS NEVER 995 01:00:56,089 --> 01:00:58,058 STOPPED TALKING. >> I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE 996 01:00:58,058 --> 01:01:00,960 SUPPOSED TO LIKE -- BLAST ME TO PIECES OR SOMETHING. 997 01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:04,464 >> Reporter: ALL THE WAY TO JAIL 998 01:01:04,464 --> 01:01:07,434 >> THIS IS VERY DISGUSTING NOW I GOT TO GO HANG AROUND A 999 01:01:07,434 --> 01:01:11,104 BUNCH OF CRIMINALS THEY'RE PROBABLY DOPERS AND -- 1000 01:01:11,104 --> 01:01:14,140 >> Reporter: AND IN JAIL, HE CALLED REPORTERS 1001 01:01:14,140 --> 01:01:17,110 RANTED ON AS LONG AS ANYBODY WOULD LISTEN 1002 01:01:17,110 --> 01:01:19,212 >> RIGHT NOW YOU'RE MESSING WITH THE OATH KEEPERS 1003 01:01:19,212 --> 01:01:21,848 I'M AN OATH KEEPER I'M A CUTOUT 1004 01:01:21,848 --> 01:01:24,084 WHEN I'M GONE THERE'LL BE SOMEBODY ELSE LIKE ME TO DEAL 1005 01:01:24,084 --> 01:01:27,687 WITH OUT THERE NEXT. >> WOULD YOU SAY THAT YOUR 1006 01:01:27,687 --> 01:01:31,424 POLITICAL VIEWS ARE EXTREME? >> OH, I'M EXTREME, YEAH 1007 01:01:31,424 --> 01:01:34,361 I'M EXTREME IN THAT I LITERALLY BELIEVE EVERY WORD THE 1008 01:01:34,361 --> 01:01:36,196 CONSTITUTION SAYS. >> DO YOU FEEL ANY REMORSE FOR 1009 01:01:36,196 --> 01:01:40,834 DEPUTY MOORE >> I DON'T KNOW DEPUTY MOORE 1010 01:01:40,834 --> 01:01:43,303 I DON'T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HIM YOU KNOW, HE'S JUST SOME GUY 1011 01:01:43,303 --> 01:01:47,874 THAT WAS ACTING LIKE SOME MANIAC 1012 01:01:47,874 --> 01:01:50,477 >> Reporter: LLOYD EVEN PHONED HIS ELDERLY MOTHER WHO'D NEVER 1013 01:01:50,477 --> 01:01:53,813 STOPPED COMMUNICATING WITH HIM AND HE BRAGGED ABOUT WHAT HE'D 1014 01:01:53,813 --> 01:01:55,949 DONE >> THIS IS WHAT MARSHALL AND I 1015 01:01:55,949 --> 01:01:58,451 HAVE LIVED FOR IT'S WHAT -- 1016 01:01:58,451 --> 01:02:00,487 >> WELL, DEAR -- >> -- HE DIED FOR, MOTHER. 1017 01:02:00,487 --> 01:02:03,056 I WAS BORN TO DO THIS, MOTHER, WHAT I'M DOING 1018 01:02:03,056 --> 01:02:05,692 >> Reporter: BY THE TIME LLOYD BARRUS WAS SET TO GO TO 1019 01:02:05,692 --> 01:02:10,096 TRIAL, HE WAS AMONG THE MOST HATED HUMANS IN THE STATE. 1020 01:02:10,096 --> 01:02:17,737 THE QUESTION WAS -- WOULD HE EVER BE PUNISHED 1021 01:02:17,737 --> 01:02:20,740 AND THE ANSWER WAS NOT OBVIOUS, NOT AT ALL 1022 01:02:20,740 --> 01:02:24,277 >>> COMING UP -- >> YOU HEAR THESE MEN COME BACK. 1023 01:02:24,277 --> 01:02:28,982 >> ANOTHER TAPE WOULD REVEAL THE TRUE HORROR OF THAT NIGHT. 1024 01:02:28,982 --> 01:02:50,136 >> THEY LODGED 20 ROUNDS INTO THE SIDE OF DEPUTY MASON MOORE'S 1025 01:02:50,136 --> 01:02:52,872 THE OLD WEST, FEW STATES HAVE HAD SUCH A LONG AND FABLED 1026 01:02:52,872 --> 01:02:58,111 HISTORY WITH THE HANGMAN'S NOOSE AS MONTANA 1027 01:02:58,111 --> 01:02:59,813 BUT IT MAY SURPRISE YOU TO KNOW THAT NO JUDGE HERE HAS HANDED 1028 01:02:59,813 --> 01:03:04,851 DOWN A DEATH SENTENCE IN THE 21st CENTURY 1029 01:03:04,851 --> 01:03:07,954 STILL, MANY WHO'D HEARD BARRUS BEG TO BE EXECUTED AFTER HIS 1030 01:03:07,954 --> 01:03:11,057 ARREST - >> I HOPE THEY COULD HANG ME 1031 01:03:11,057 --> 01:03:16,129 LIKE THEM OLD VIGILANTES DO! >> Reporter: -- THOUGHT WHY NOT 1032 01:03:16,129 --> 01:03:18,832 GRANT HIS WISH >> I SAID, "IF WE DON'T FILE THE 1033 01:03:18,832 --> 01:03:22,068 INTENT TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY, THEN WHAT ACTUALLY 1034 01:03:22,068 --> 01:03:25,071 JUSTIFIES IT THIS IS AN AMBUSH OF A LAW 1035 01:03:25,071 --> 01:03:28,308 ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WHO WAS JUST TRYING TO GO HOME. 1036 01:03:28,308 --> 01:03:30,677 AND THESE GUYS KILLED HIM BECAUSE OF THE UNIFORM THAT HE 1037 01:03:30,677 --> 01:03:34,080 WORE AND A CAR THAT HE DROVE AND A JOB THAT HE DID. 1038 01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:38,685 >> Reporter: SO, THE BROADWATER COUNTY ATTORNEY FILED THE 1039 01:03:38,685 --> 01:03:41,554 INTENT, TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY AGAINST LLOYD BARRUS 1040 01:03:41,554 --> 01:03:45,658 A DECISION APPLAUDED BY DEPUTY MASON MOORE'S WIDOW, JODI. 1041 01:03:45,658 --> 01:03:51,464 >> THE CRIME, KILLING A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN AN 1042 01:03:51,464 --> 01:04:00,674 AMBUSH, LET'S CALL IT WHAT IT WAS, AN EXECUTION. 1043 01:04:00,674 --> 01:04:03,777 I BELIEVE THAT WARRANTS DEATH. >> Reporter: BUT 1044 01:04:03,777 --> 01:04:06,513 A SNAG REMEMBER, IN CALIFORNIA 17 YEARS 1045 01:04:06,513 --> 01:04:09,716 EARLIER, AFTER THAT HIGH SPEED CHASE THAT ENDED IN 1046 01:04:09,716 --> 01:04:12,385 JEFFREY BARRUS SHOOTING DOWN A HIGHWAY PATROL HELICOPTER. 1047 01:04:12,385 --> 01:04:15,221 LLOYD BARRUS WAS EXAMINED BY MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND 1048 01:04:15,221 --> 01:04:21,861 DIAGNOSED WITH SEVERE PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER 1049 01:04:21,861 --> 01:04:24,764 NOW, DOCTORS IN MONTANA FOUND BARRUS SUFFERED FROM MULTIPLE 1050 01:04:24,764 --> 01:04:29,969 MENTAL ILLNESSES, INCLUDING DELUSIONAL DISORDER. 1051 01:04:29,969 --> 01:04:32,405 STEPHANIE ROBLES AND DAN GUZYNSKI FROM THE MONTANA 1052 01:04:32,405 --> 01:04:35,909 ATTORNEY GENERALS' OFFICE. >> ONCE WE OBTAINED INFORMATION 1053 01:04:35,909 --> 01:04:38,078 THAT HE HAD A MENTAL ILLNESS, WE DID NOT THINK IT WAS APPROPRIATE 1054 01:04:38,078 --> 01:04:41,614 TO GO FORWARD WITH THE DEATH PENALTY CASE 1055 01:04:41,614 --> 01:04:43,750 >> Reporter: THEN, BECAUSE OF LLOYD'S DIAGNOSED MENTAL 1056 01:04:43,750 --> 01:04:47,787 ILLNESS, A JUDGE FOUND HIM INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL 1057 01:04:47,787 --> 01:04:49,923 HE WAS SENT TO A STATE PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY UNDER 1058 01:04:49,923 --> 01:04:55,095 DOCTOR'S CARE. >> WHEN I ASKED WHY THEY FOUND 1059 01:04:55,095 --> 01:04:58,264 THAT HE WAS INCOMPETENT TO PROCEED, THEY JUST SAID HE WAS 1060 01:04:58,264 --> 01:05:00,900 TOO TANGENTIAL IN HIS THINKING, TOO TANGENTIAL IN THE WAY HE 1061 01:05:00,900 --> 01:05:03,036 CONDUCTED CONVERSATIONS. >> Reporter: WHAT THE HECK DOES 1062 01:05:03,036 --> 01:05:06,506 THAT MEAN? TOO TANGENTIAL 1063 01:05:06,506 --> 01:05:08,208 >> YEAH, THEY WERE SAYING THAT HE COULDN'T COMMUNICATE 1064 01:05:08,208 --> 01:05:10,410 EFFECTIVELY WITH HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEYS BECAUSE HE WAS SO 1065 01:05:10,410 --> 01:05:13,446 FIXATED ON THIS IDEA OF CONSPIRATORIAL THINKING OF THE 1066 01:05:13,446 --> 01:05:16,850 GOVERNMENT >> Reporter: AT THE STATE 1067 01:05:16,850 --> 01:05:19,386 HOSPITAL, LLOYD BARRUS REFUSED TO TAKE THE DRUGS THAT MIGHT 1068 01:05:19,386 --> 01:05:24,491 RESTORE HIM TO COMPETENCY. SO, THE STATE ASKED FOR 1069 01:05:24,491 --> 01:05:26,726 PERMISSION TO FORCE MEDICATION >> AND REALLY, THE WHOLE CASE 1070 01:05:26,726 --> 01:05:29,796 HINGED ON THIS IF WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO 1071 01:05:29,796 --> 01:05:31,865 FORCIBLY MEDICATE HIM WITH ANTI-PSYCHOTIC MEDICATION, THEN 1072 01:05:31,865 --> 01:05:34,267 THE CASE WOULD'VE BEEN OVER WITH 1073 01:05:34,267 --> 01:05:38,405 >> Reporter: FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS, THEY ARGUED 1074 01:05:38,405 --> 01:05:41,508 UNTIL, IN 2020, MONTANA'S SUPREME COURT FINALLY RULED IN 1075 01:05:41,508 --> 01:05:44,911 FAVOR OF THE STATE FORCIBLY MEDICATING LLOYD BARRUS. 1076 01:05:44,911 --> 01:05:52,919 AND HE WAS SOON DEEMED COMPETENT. 1077 01:05:52,919 --> 01:05:56,089 AND IN SEPTEMBER 2021, HIS TRIAL BEGAN, WITH PROSECUTORS QUOTING 1078 01:05:56,089 --> 01:05:58,858 LLOYD'S OWN WORDS. >> I WOULD ACCEPT DEATH. 1079 01:05:58,858 --> 01:06:03,096 I WISH YOU'D TAKE ME OUT AND HANG ME. 1080 01:06:03,096 --> 01:06:05,532 I'D ACCEPT IT. A FULL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE 1081 01:06:05,532 --> 01:06:08,034 CONSEQUENCES HE DESERVES >> Reporter: BUT EVEN THEN, 1082 01:06:08,034 --> 01:06:12,639 LLOYD'S STORY, HIS LONG, OFTEN VIOLENT STORY -- 1083 01:06:12,639 --> 01:06:15,542 SO, YOU'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE AN ARGUMENT THAT SAYS, 1084 01:06:15,542 --> 01:06:17,544 "LOOK AT THIS GUY. FOR HIS ENTIRE LIFE HE'S BEEN 1085 01:06:17,544 --> 01:06:20,180 INCULCATING HIS CHILDREN HE'S BEEN TRYING TO MAKE THEM 1086 01:06:20,180 --> 01:06:22,148 INTO EXTREMISTS. HE HAS MADE THEM AS EXTREME AS 1087 01:06:22,148 --> 01:06:24,150 HE IS. BUT YOU COULDN'T MAKE THAT 1088 01:06:24,150 --> 01:06:25,719 ARGUMENT >> WE COULDN'T MAKE THAT 1089 01:06:25,719 --> 01:06:28,054 ARGUMENT THE JUDGE EXCLUDED THAT FROM 1090 01:06:28,054 --> 01:06:30,123 TRIAL. AND WE HAD TO JUST GO ON WHAT WE 1091 01:06:30,123 --> 01:06:33,059 HAD. >> LADIES AND GENTLEMAN -- 1092 01:06:33,059 --> 01:06:35,462 >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS COULDN'T BRING UP THE CALIFORNIA 1093 01:06:35,462 --> 01:06:38,832 SHOOTOUT, OR MOST OF LLOYD'S PAST 1094 01:06:38,832 --> 01:06:42,302 SO THEY FOCUSED ON WHAT HAD HAPPENED JUST BEFORE THE DEATH 1095 01:06:42,302 --> 01:06:46,840 OF DEPUTY MOORE. AND THEY WERE ABLE TO CALL 1096 01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:50,176 LLOYD'S GRANDDAUGHTER, WHO WAS IN THE CAMPGROUND WITH LLOYD AND 1097 01:06:50,176 --> 01:06:53,346 MARSHALL BEFORE THEY LEFT. >> HE MADE STATEMENTS THAT I WAS 1098 01:06:53,346 --> 01:06:56,449 BORN INTO THE MILITIA AND THAT THERE WAS NO WAY OUT OF IT 1099 01:06:56,449 --> 01:07:01,755 THAT I'D MAKE A GREAT LADY SNIPER 1100 01:07:01,755 --> 01:07:05,592 AND HE ALSO TOLD ME THAT ALL POLICE SHOULD BE HUNG. 1101 01:07:05,592 --> 01:07:10,930 >> Reporter: AND THEN, SAID PROSECUTORS, BEFORE HE SET OUT 1102 01:07:10,930 --> 01:07:15,468 TO ATTACK A FEW RURAL DEPUTIES, HE PRESENTED HIS GIFT TO THE 1103 01:07:15,468 --> 01:07:18,605 MOTHER OF MARSHALL'S CHILDREN. >> HE WROTE A DOCUMENT THAT WE 1104 01:07:18,605 --> 01:07:21,474 REFERRED TO AT TRIAL AS HIS MANIFESTO, JUST TALKING ABOUT 1105 01:07:21,474 --> 01:07:24,110 ANTI-GOVERNMENT RHETORIC THE NIGHT BEFORE, HE KILLED 1106 01:07:24,110 --> 01:07:26,046 MASON MOORE WITH HIS SON HE CEREMONIOUSLY SIGNED IT AND 1107 01:07:26,046 --> 01:07:29,949 DATED IT AND IT WAS ONE OF THE LAST ACTS 1108 01:07:29,949 --> 01:07:33,053 HE DID BEFORE HE LEFT WITH MARSHALL AND KILLED DEPUTY 1109 01:07:33,053 --> 01:07:34,888 MASON MOORE. >> Reporter: OF COURSE, THEY 1110 01:07:34,888 --> 01:07:38,758 PLAYED THE TAPES YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN 1111 01:07:38,758 --> 01:07:40,427 MARSHALL AND LLOYD AT THE TOWN PUMP GAS STATION, WAITING, 1112 01:07:40,427 --> 01:07:44,364 PROSECUTORS SAID, FOR A DEPUTY TO DRIVE BY. 1113 01:07:44,364 --> 01:07:50,437 THEN FOLLOWING MASON MOORE DOWN THE HIGHWAY AND SHOOTING HIM 1114 01:07:50,437 --> 01:07:57,510 BUT THEN THEY SHOWED THE JURY SOMETHING YOU HAVEN'T SEEN 1115 01:07:57,510 --> 01:08:01,881 SOMETHING HARD TO LISTEN TO. IT WAS THIS, DEPUTY MOORE, 1116 01:08:01,881 --> 01:08:08,621 GRIEVOUSLY WOUNDED, SITTING IN HIS CAR BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, 1117 01:08:08,621 --> 01:08:12,025 STRUGGLING FOR BREATH, KEYING THE RADIO BUT UNABLE TO SPEAK. 1118 01:08:12,025 --> 01:08:14,794 >> FOUR MINUTES GO BY WHERE YOU HEAR MASON JUST AGONIZING IN THE 1119 01:08:14,794 --> 01:08:18,498 CAR. >> Reporter: THE BARRUSES HAD 1120 01:08:18,498 --> 01:08:24,237 DRIVEN AWAY. AND THEN, THEY CAME BACK 1121 01:08:24,237 --> 01:08:26,573 >> AND AFTER FOUR MINUTES, YOU HEAR THESE MEN COME BACK AND 1122 01:08:26,573 --> 01:08:31,411 DECIDE THAT THEY WERE GONNA DO WHAT THEY SET OUT TO DO. 1123 01:08:31,411 --> 01:08:40,153 AND THAT WAS TO FINISH KILLING A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. 1124 01:08:40,153 --> 01:08:43,590 THEY LODGED 20 ROUNDS INTO THE SIDE OF DEPUTY MASON MOORE'S 1125 01:08:43,590 --> 01:08:47,961 VEHICLE. >> GO, GO, GO, GO, GO! 1126 01:08:47,961 --> 01:08:50,764 >> Reporter: TO PROSECUTORS AND LAW OFFICERS, THE REASON WAS 1127 01:08:50,764 --> 01:08:54,401 SIMPLE THE BARRUSES WAITED TO RETURN, 1128 01:08:54,401 --> 01:08:56,403 HOPING MORE LAW OFFICERS WOULD SHOW UP. 1129 01:08:56,403 --> 01:09:01,107 >> THEY WERE GONNA GET AS MANY COPS AS THEY COULD 1130 01:09:01,107 --> 01:09:04,711 AND THE LORD BLESSED US, YOU KNOW IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT 1131 01:09:04,711 --> 01:09:09,015 MORE >> SO WILL THE STATE RULE OUT 1132 01:09:09,015 --> 01:09:11,618 ALL THE OTHER INNOCENT REASONS FOR THE TRIP THAN TO KILL THE 1133 01:09:11,618 --> 01:09:14,587 OFFICER? >> Reporter: LLOYD'S DEFENSE 1134 01:09:14,587 --> 01:09:17,891 ATTORNEYS DECLINED "DATELINE'S" REQUEST FOR AN INTERVIEW BUT IN 1135 01:09:17,891 --> 01:09:20,727 COURT SUGGESTED THAT MAYBE MARSHALL WAS THE GUILTY ONE. 1136 01:09:20,727 --> 01:09:24,397 MAYBE IT WASN'T LLOYD. >> MAYBE IT WAS HIS SON WHO WAS 1137 01:09:24,397 --> 01:09:26,900 SOLELY RESPONSIBLE, THAT HE WAS JUST THE PERSON DRIVING THE 1138 01:09:26,900 --> 01:09:31,338 VEHICLE. >> WHAT WAS SOMEWHAT SHAMEFUL 1139 01:09:31,338 --> 01:09:36,376 ABOUT LLOYD BARRUS' DEFENSE THAT HE AGREED TO WAS THEY MALIGNED 1140 01:09:36,376 --> 01:09:38,611 MARSHALL IN AN ATTEMPT FOR THE JURY TO SHIFT BLAME TOWARDS 1141 01:09:38,611 --> 01:09:43,149 MARSHALL AND THAT LLOYD WOULD BE SET FREE 1142 01:09:43,149 --> 01:09:44,751 BUT HERE'S A MAN THAT HIS OTHER SON IS IN PRISON IN CALIFORNIA 1143 01:09:44,751 --> 01:09:49,322 BASED ON THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LLOYD. 1144 01:09:49,322 --> 01:09:52,892 AND SO, NOW WHEN HE'S CAUGHT, HE TURNS AGAINST HIS SON THAT IS 1145 01:09:52,892 --> 01:09:55,628 DEAD AND TRIES TO MALIGN HIM AS A PERSON AND MAKE HIM SEEM A FAR 1146 01:09:55,628 --> 01:09:59,332 MORE DANGEROUS PERSON THAN HE WAS IN ORDER TO SET HIMSELF 1147 01:09:59,332 --> 01:10:01,735 FREE >> ALL RISE. 1148 01:10:01,735 --> 01:10:03,803 >> Reporter: THE TRIAL TOOK THREE WEEKS. 1149 01:10:03,803 --> 01:10:07,941 THE VERDICT? LESS THAN THREE HOURS. 1150 01:10:07,941 --> 01:10:11,711 >> ON THE CHARGE OF COUNT ONE DELIBERATE HOMICIDE BY 1151 01:10:11,711 --> 01:10:15,382 ACCOUNTABILITY, WE THE JURY FIND THE DEFENDANT GUILTY 1152 01:10:15,382 --> 01:10:20,887 >> Reporter: GUILTY OF MURDER. AND YET? 1153 01:10:20,887 --> 01:10:25,458 LLOYD BARRUS STILL MIGHT NEVER SERVE A DAY BEHIND BARS. 1154 01:10:25,458 --> 01:10:28,828 >>> COMING UP -- >> THERE'D BE A POTENTIAL FOR 1155 01:10:28,828 --> 01:10:32,999 HIM TO BE RELEASED AND A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE IS 1156 01:10:32,999 --> 01:10:36,369 HEARD IN COURT >> I HAD HOPED TO GROW OLD WITH 1157 01:10:36,369 --> 01:10:39,239 YOU AND SEE OUR GRANDKIDS. THAT IS NOT TO BE. 1158 01:10:39,239 --> 01:11:01,795 THIS IS THE MAN YOU TOOK FROM BEEN CONVICTED OF MULTIPLE 1159 01:11:01,795 --> 01:11:04,431 FELONIES FOR HIS PART IN THE MURDER OF DEPUTY MASON MOORE 1160 01:11:04,431 --> 01:11:07,901 >> I THINK HE'S ONE OF THE MOST EVIL PEOPLE WE'VE EVER DEALT 1161 01:11:07,901 --> 01:11:13,673 WITH >> Reporter: STILL, THERE WAS NO 1162 01:11:13,673 --> 01:11:16,209 GUARANTEE THAT BARRUS WOULD SPEND EVEN A DAY BEHIND BARS 1163 01:11:16,209 --> 01:11:19,079 MONTANA LAW GAVE BARRUS ANOTHER SHOT AT AVOIDING PRISON. 1164 01:11:19,079 --> 01:11:22,115 THAT IS, IF HE COULD CONVINCE A JUDGE THAT HE COULD NEITHER 1165 01:11:22,115 --> 01:11:26,486 APPRECIATE THE CRIMINALITY OF HIS OFFENSE, NOR COMPORT HIS 1166 01:11:26,486 --> 01:11:28,888 BEHAVIOR TO THE LAW, IN THAT CASE, HE'D SPEND HIS DAYS IN A 1167 01:11:28,888 --> 01:11:33,927 STATE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, INSTEAD OF PRISON. 1168 01:11:33,927 --> 01:11:37,397 AND THEN >> SO, IF HE WERE TO EVER 1169 01:11:37,397 --> 01:11:39,499 CONVINCE THE DOCTORS AT THE STATE HOSPITAL THAT HE WAS NOT A 1170 01:11:39,499 --> 01:11:43,003 DANGER TO SOCIETY, THERE'D BE A POTENTIAL FOR HIM TO BE 1171 01:11:43,003 --> 01:11:46,139 RELEASED AND, OF COURSE THE ATTORNEY 1172 01:11:46,139 --> 01:11:48,208 GENERAL'S OFFICE THOUGHT THAT HE SHOULD GO TO PRISON WITH NOT 1173 01:11:48,208 --> 01:11:53,380 EVER HAVING EVEN THE REMOTEST POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. 1174 01:11:53,380 --> 01:11:55,982 >> Reporter: FOUR MORE MONTHS, THE BATTLE WENT ON 1175 01:11:55,982 --> 01:12:00,453 THE SYSTEM LLOYD HATED GIVING HIM ONE CHANCE AFTER ANOTHER 1176 01:12:00,453 --> 01:12:04,891 AFTER ANOTHER. UNTIL APRIL 2022, THE BROADWATER 1177 01:12:04,891 --> 01:12:10,230 COUNTY COURTHOUSE IN TOWNSEND, MONTANA. 1178 01:12:10,230 --> 01:12:13,667 NEARLY FIVE YEARS AFTER THE MURDER OF DEPUTY MASON MOORE 1179 01:12:13,667 --> 01:12:15,869 >> ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY MR. BARRUS 1180 01:12:15,869 --> 01:12:18,171 >> SAY IT AGAIN? >> ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY? 1181 01:12:18,171 --> 01:12:21,474 TO ANYBODY >> NO. 1182 01:12:21,474 --> 01:12:24,644 >> Reporter: IT WAS SENTENCING DAY. 1183 01:12:24,644 --> 01:12:29,916 LLOYD BARRUS ENTERED THE TINY COURTROOM AND WALKED RIGHT PAST 1184 01:12:29,916 --> 01:12:34,854 JODI MOORE AND HER TWIN SONS THEY'D GONE THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL 1185 01:12:34,854 --> 01:12:37,724 THROUGH THIS PROCESS, RIGHT? >> THEY WERE 12, I BELIEVE, WHEN 1186 01:12:37,724 --> 01:12:40,560 MASON WAS KILLED AND THEY WERE SENIORS IN HIGH 1187 01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:45,732 SCHOOL WHEN THE TRIAL WAS FINISHED UP. 1188 01:12:45,732 --> 01:12:49,002 >> Reporter: IN THE OTHER HALF OF THE COURTROOM 1189 01:12:49,002 --> 01:12:51,971 MASON MOORE'S BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT 1190 01:12:51,971 --> 01:12:55,342 EXCEPT EXCEPT FOR ONE, WHO WAS MORE 1191 01:12:55,342 --> 01:12:57,911 THAN A THOUSAND MILES AWAY IN CALIFORNIA 1192 01:12:57,911 --> 01:12:59,846 >> Reporter: YOU WEREN'T IN THE COURTROOM FOR THE SENTENCING, 1193 01:12:59,846 --> 01:13:02,816 WERE YOU >> NO, I WASN'T. 1194 01:13:02,816 --> 01:13:06,119 >> Reporter: WHERE WERE YOU? >> I WAS SITTING IN TREATMENT TO 1195 01:13:06,119 --> 01:13:08,421 DEAL WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND DEPRESSION AND 1196 01:13:08,421 --> 01:13:11,524 ANXIETY AND -- AND THINGS OF THAT AND COEXISTING SUBSTANCE 1197 01:13:11,524 --> 01:13:14,094 ABUSE. >> Reporter: AND YOU HAVE PTSD 1198 01:13:14,094 --> 01:13:21,568 >> YES, I DO SEVERE, AND CHRONIC DEPRESSION 1199 01:13:21,568 --> 01:13:23,336 >> Reporter: YEAH. >> I STOOD IN THAT -- THAT 1200 01:13:23,336 --> 01:13:25,705 BUILDING GOING, "I SHOULDN'T BE HERE." 1201 01:13:25,705 --> 01:13:27,707 AND -- BUT I WAS LIKE, "I'M -- I'M GOING TO DO IT 1202 01:13:27,707 --> 01:13:30,643 I'M GOING TO DO IT," 'CAUSE MY LIFE WAS A WRECK 1203 01:13:30,643 --> 01:13:32,645 >> Reporter: DID IT HELP >> ABSOLUTELY. 1204 01:13:32,645 --> 01:13:34,681 BEST DECISION I EVER MADE. >> Reporter: SAVED YOUR LIFE, 1205 01:13:34,681 --> 01:13:40,086 HUH? >> ABSOLUTELY. 1206 01:13:40,086 --> 01:13:43,957 >> Reporter: AND OTHERS WHO WERE THERE TO ARGUE THAT LLOYD BARRUS 1207 01:13:43,957 --> 01:13:47,594 NEVER BE RELEASED FROM PRISON ALSO STILL CARRIED SCARS FROM 1208 01:13:47,594 --> 01:13:49,896 THAT NIGHT LIKE CAPTAIN AUSTIN MICU, WHO 1209 01:13:49,896 --> 01:13:52,665 FIRED THE SHOTS THAT KILLED BARRUS'S SON MARSHALL. 1210 01:13:52,665 --> 01:13:55,268 >> YOUR HONOR, THIS MAN WAS ONCE GIVEN A SIGNIFICANT OPPORTUNITY 1211 01:13:55,268 --> 01:13:59,372 BY THE JUSTICE SYSTEM TO CHANGE AND LEAVE EVIL BEHIND HIM. 1212 01:13:59,372 --> 01:14:01,941 HE CHOSE OTHERWISE >> Reporter: MASON MOORE'S 1213 01:14:01,941 --> 01:14:04,878 COLLEAGUES IN THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE SPOKE AS WELL 1214 01:14:04,878 --> 01:14:08,715 >> PLEASE USE ALL OF YOUR AUTHORITY TO HELP JODI MOORE, 1215 01:14:08,715 --> 01:14:11,651 HER CHILDREN AND THE MOORE FAMILY FIND PEACE BY KNOWING 1216 01:14:11,651 --> 01:14:15,255 THAT THE EVIL THAT TOOK MASON AWAY FROM THEM WILL BE LOCKED 1217 01:14:15,255 --> 01:14:18,625 AWAY FROM SOCIETY FOREVER. >> Reporter: FINALLY, WHAT 1218 01:14:18,625 --> 01:14:21,094 LITTLE AIR WAS LEFT IN THE ROOM RUSHED OUT AS JODI MOORE STEPPED 1219 01:14:21,094 --> 01:14:26,066 TO THE PODIUM. LLOYD BARRUS 1220 01:14:26,066 --> 01:14:31,838 WHAT WAS THAT LIKE >> WELL, I DIDN'T LIKE IT. 1221 01:14:31,838 --> 01:14:37,277 IT WAS REALLY HARD I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS. 1222 01:14:37,277 --> 01:14:40,280 WHAT I WOULD SAY AND HOW I WOULD SAY IT FOR A WHILE, ALMOST FIVE 1223 01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:44,684 YEARS NOW. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY SLEEPLESS 1224 01:14:44,684 --> 01:14:47,587 NIGHTS PUT INTO THIS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF TEARS. 1225 01:14:47,587 --> 01:14:51,224 >> Reporter: DID YOU LOOK AT HIM? 1226 01:14:51,224 --> 01:14:53,827 >> DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHOICE BUT TO LOOK AT HIM. 1227 01:14:53,827 --> 01:14:55,862 AND, YEAH, I LOOKED AT HIM WHEN I WAS SPEAKING 1228 01:14:55,862 --> 01:14:57,931 I LOOKED AT HIM AND TALKED TO HIM. 1229 01:14:57,931 --> 01:15:02,402 >> Reporter: DID YOU SEE ANYTHING IN HIS EYES 1230 01:15:02,402 --> 01:15:09,876 >> I NEVER SAW ANY REMORSE DIDN'T SEE ANY EMOTION, ANY 1231 01:15:09,876 --> 01:15:16,716 CARING IN HIS EYES SO, I DIDN'T REALLY HOLD BACK 1232 01:15:16,716 --> 01:15:20,453 WITH MY COMMENTS OUR DAUGHTER IS NOW IN MIDDLE 1233 01:15:20,453 --> 01:15:23,189 SCHOOL OUR BOYS DID NOT HAVE THEIR DAD 1234 01:15:23,189 --> 01:15:27,660 FOR THEIR FIRST ELK HUNT MR. BARRUS IS PURE EVIL. 1235 01:15:27,660 --> 01:15:31,765 >> Reporter: THE WORLD SEEMED TO STOP SPINNING WHEN JODI GOT TO 1236 01:15:31,765 --> 01:15:37,203 THE FINAL PART OF HER STATEMENT. IT WAS A LETTER FROM MASON 1237 01:15:37,203 --> 01:15:41,074 >> WHAT CAN I SAY? I HOPED TO GROW OLD WITH YOU AND 1238 01:15:41,074 --> 01:15:46,746 SEE OUR GRANDKIDS. THAT IS NOT TO BE. 1239 01:15:46,746 --> 01:15:50,583 >> Reporter: LIKE MANY LAW OFFICERS, MASON HAD TUCKED AWAY 1240 01:15:50,583 --> 01:15:55,955 A NOTE FOR JODI. A JUST-IN-CASE NOTE. 1241 01:15:55,955 --> 01:15:59,893 >> DON'T DWELL ON THE MANNER OF MY DEATH 1242 01:15:59,893 --> 01:16:06,566 YOU MARRIED A COP, AND COPS TEND TO DIE VIOLENT DEATHS. 1243 01:16:06,566 --> 01:16:11,037 IF IT IS A PERSON THAT GOT ME, AND HE OR SHE IS BROUGHT TO 1244 01:16:11,037 --> 01:16:13,606 TRIAL AND THEY ARE CONVICTED OR OTHERWISE, DON'T LET IT RUIN 1245 01:16:13,606 --> 01:16:19,546 YOUR LIFE. MAKE SURE YOU ENJOY LIFE 1246 01:16:19,546 --> 01:16:26,419 I ENJOYED EVERY MOMENT WITH YOU. I LOVE YOU NOW AND ALWAYS. 1247 01:16:26,419 --> 01:16:31,725 YOUR LOVING HUSBAND. THIS IS THE MAN YOU TOOK FROM 1248 01:16:31,725 --> 01:16:34,327 US YOU ROBBED ME OF BEING ABLE TO 1249 01:16:34,327 --> 01:16:37,163 SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE WITH HIM. 1250 01:16:37,163 --> 01:16:42,535 >> Reporter: AND WITH THAT, IT WAS LLOYD BARRUS' TURN TO SAY 1251 01:16:42,535 --> 01:16:47,874 SOMETHING. BUT WOULD HE 1252 01:16:47,874 --> 01:16:49,776 WHAT COULD HE SAY TO THAT? >>> COMING UP -- 1253 01:16:49,776 --> 01:16:54,914 HIS SON ALMA HAD SOMETHING TO SAY. 1254 01:16:54,914 --> 01:16:57,684 >> HE THINKS HE'S A PATRIOT, BUT HE'S JUST DOING STUFF STORE 1255 01:16:57,684 --> 01:16:59,853 HIMSELF. HE'S A COWARD.(MUSICA) 1256 01:17:15,268 --> 01:17:19,039 >> Reporter: ONE MORE TIME, IN A MONTANA COURTROOM, LLOYD BARRUS' 1257 01:17:19,039 --> 01:17:23,076 GOVERNMENT-PAID ATTORNEYS FOUGHT TO KEEP HIM OUT OF PRISON. 1258 01:17:23,076 --> 01:17:25,612 THIS IS GREG JACKSON >> WE'VE HEARD TALK ABOUT HIM 1259 01:17:25,612 --> 01:17:30,450 BEING EVIL MR. BARRUS IS SERIOUSLY MENTALLY 1260 01:17:30,450 --> 01:17:35,455 ILL. AND AS A RESULT OF THAT, HE 1261 01:17:35,455 --> 01:17:39,693 SHOULD BE -- IN SPITE OF WHAT HE HAS DONE, BE TREATED HUMANELY. 1262 01:17:39,693 --> 01:17:45,098 WE STRONGLY URGE THAT YOU CONSIDER SENDING HIM TO THE 1263 01:17:45,098 --> 01:17:47,200 CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 1264 01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,804 >> Reporter: AND ANYONE LISTENING TO LLOYD'S FINAL 1265 01:17:50,804 --> 01:17:57,577 STATEMENT COULD BE FORGIVEN FOR BEING A LITTLE UNCERTAIN OF WHAT 1266 01:17:57,577 --> 01:18:02,082 HE WAS TRYING TO SAY >> YES, YOUR HONOR, I'VE SAID 1267 01:18:02,082 --> 01:18:08,054 THROUGHOUT THE NEARLY FIVE YEARS OF DIFFERENT COURT HEARINGS I'M 1268 01:18:08,054 --> 01:18:19,899 TRULY SORRY FOR THE LOSS OF -- FOR THE MOORE FAMILY'S LOSS. 1269 01:18:19,899 --> 01:18:23,236 MY SON, I DON'T SEE HOW ANYBODY COULD BE MORE UPSET THAN I AM 1270 01:18:23,236 --> 01:18:25,338 FOR THIS, WHAT HAPPENED TOO. IT'S JUST LIKE OFFICER MOORE 1271 01:18:25,338 --> 01:18:27,340 WHAT DID HE DO TO DESERVE WHAT HE GOT 1272 01:18:27,340 --> 01:18:30,043 I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW I DON'T EVEN KNOW HIM. 1273 01:18:30,043 --> 01:18:34,114 SO I HAVE NO IDEA. I MEAN, IS IT JUST, LIKE, 1274 01:18:34,114 --> 01:18:39,519 SOMEBODY THAT GETS CANCER OR - THIS LIFE HAS A LOT OF THINGS 1275 01:18:39,519 --> 01:18:47,427 THAT ARE UNEXPLAINABLE HAPPEN TO US 1276 01:18:47,427 --> 01:18:51,131 I GUESS THAT'S ALL I GOT TO SAY. >> Reporter: MINUTES LATER, THE 1277 01:18:51,131 --> 01:18:54,434 JUDGE PRONOUNCED HER SENTENCE. >> MR. BARRUS, I'M SENTENCING 1278 01:18:54,434 --> 01:18:56,703 YOU TO LIFE IN PRISON. YOU WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR 1279 01:18:56,703 --> 01:18:59,172 PAROLE I THINK THE PROTECTION OF 1280 01:18:59,172 --> 01:19:06,813 SOCIETY REQUIRES THAT YOU NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE. 1281 01:19:06,813 --> 01:19:11,117 >> Reporter: IT WAS A SENTENCE THAT ECHOED ACROSS MONTANA, A 1282 01:19:11,117 --> 01:19:13,753 RELIEF FOR THOSE OFFICERS WHO CAPTURED LLOYD AND LATER 1283 01:19:13,753 --> 01:19:17,891 RECEIVED THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLICE 1284 01:19:17,891 --> 01:19:22,062 ORGANIZATIONS TOP COP AWARD. IT WAS ALSO A SENTENCE THAT 1285 01:19:22,062 --> 01:19:26,332 ECHOED ACROSS TIME TO LLOYD'S CHILDHOOD FRIEND, MIKE 1286 01:19:26,332 --> 01:19:32,072 >> I MEAN, I LOVED THE GUY HE WAS MY BEST FRIEND. 1287 01:19:32,072 --> 01:19:35,742 AND TO SEE HIM GO FROM A HAPPY, ACTIVE, RELIGIOUS, WANTING THE 1288 01:19:35,742 --> 01:19:39,879 BEST IN THE WORLD GUY TO A NUT, CRAZY, WHITE SUPREMACIST THAT 1289 01:19:39,879 --> 01:19:46,119 WANTED TO KILL PEOPLE, UM, IT WAS DEEPLY UPSETTING 1290 01:19:46,119 --> 01:19:51,458 >> Reporter: BUT LLOYD'S SECOND WIFE DEBRA, THE ONE WHO ALL 1291 01:19:51,458 --> 01:19:53,593 THOSE YEARS BEFORE HAD TO FLEE HIS ABUSE AND SPIRIT AWAY HER 1292 01:19:53,593 --> 01:19:57,530 CHILDREN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, HEARD THE NEWS AND 1293 01:19:57,530 --> 01:20:00,066 RELAXED A LITTLE >> LET'S JUST SAY THAT LLOYD 1294 01:20:00,066 --> 01:20:04,337 BEING IN PRISON IS THE BEST PLACE. 1295 01:20:04,337 --> 01:20:07,140 A LOT MORE PEOPLE FEEL SAFE. >> Reporter: LLOYD'S SON ALMA 1296 01:20:07,140 --> 01:20:11,778 WROTE AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF MONTANA, APOLOGIZING 1297 01:20:11,778 --> 01:20:16,349 FOR HIS FATHER'S CRIMES. ALMA HAD GROWN UP TO BECOME THE 1298 01:20:16,349 --> 01:20:19,019 ANTITHESIS OF HIS FATHER -- THE SON OF AN ANTIGOVERNMENT 1299 01:20:19,019 --> 01:20:21,454 ACTIVIST WHO JOINED THE U.S. ARMY, SERVED A YEAR IN IRAQ, AND 1300 01:20:21,454 --> 01:20:27,460 NOW WORKS FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1301 01:20:27,460 --> 01:20:31,197 HE CALLED LLOYD A FALSE PATRIOT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT 1302 01:20:31,197 --> 01:20:34,334 >> HE LIKES TO USE THE GOVERNMENT CONVENIENTLY, QUOTING 1303 01:20:34,334 --> 01:20:38,405 THE CONSTITUTION TO -- LIKE IT'S SCRIPTURE. 1304 01:20:38,405 --> 01:20:43,410 BUT PART OF BUILDING A GOOD SOCIETY IS WORKING TOGETHER. 1305 01:20:43,410 --> 01:20:45,345 AND IF IT'S YOUR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY, YOU'RE NOT -- YOU'RE 1306 01:20:45,345 --> 01:20:49,349 NOT DOING ANY GOOD FOR YOUR COUNTRY. 1307 01:20:49,349 --> 01:20:51,651 HE THINKS HE'S A PATRIOT, BUT HE -- HE'S JUST DOING STUFF FOR 1308 01:20:51,651 --> 01:20:56,523 HIMSELF. HE'S A COWARD. 1309 01:20:56,523 --> 01:21:00,960 >> Reporter: A SENTIMENT SHARED BY LLOYD'S FIRST WIFE TRACY, THE 1310 01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:05,699 MOTHER OF A DEAD SON AND OF ANOTHER STILL IN A CALIFORNIA 1311 01:21:05,699 --> 01:21:07,534 PRISON >> I HAVE THOUGHT SO MANY TIMES, 1312 01:21:07,534 --> 01:21:11,805 "MAYBE IF I HAD DONE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 1313 01:21:11,805 --> 01:21:13,773 MAYBE IF I'D GONE BACK 40 YEARS AND MADE A DIFFERENT CHOICE, YOU 1314 01:21:13,773 --> 01:21:16,609 KNOW, OFFICER MOORE WOULD STILL BE ALIVE 1315 01:21:16,609 --> 01:21:21,881 MARSHALL WOULD STILL BE ALIVE. JEFFREY WOULDN'T BE IN PRISON. 1316 01:21:21,881 --> 01:21:25,485 YOU CAN'T NOT FEEL GUILTY. >> Reporter: SHERIFF WYNN MEEHAN 1317 01:21:25,485 --> 01:21:29,155 HAS ESCAPED THE DEMONS THAT HAUNTED HIM BEFORE AND AFTER 1318 01:21:29,155 --> 01:21:31,458 DEPUTY MOORE'S MURDER THANKS TO TREATMENT. 1319 01:21:31,458 --> 01:21:35,128 THERAPY. HE EVEN LEARNED TO DO YOGA 1320 01:21:35,128 --> 01:21:38,565 >> LIKE I SAID, BEST DECISION I EVER MADE IN MY LIFE WAS TO GO 1321 01:21:38,565 --> 01:21:41,968 GET HELP, YOU KNOW, AND ACCEPT THE -- 1322 01:21:41,968 --> 01:21:44,971 YOU KNOW, JUST SEE AND UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE, 1323 01:21:44,971 --> 01:21:46,106 YOU HAVE TO BE VULNERABLE 'CAUSE, I MEAN, YOU GOTTA COME 1324 01:21:46,106 --> 01:21:48,008 CLEAN AND -- >> Reporter: AND YOU'RE A BIG, 1325 01:21:48,008 --> 01:21:50,243 TOUGH COP. YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE 1326 01:21:50,243 --> 01:21:52,545 VULNERABLE >> NO. 1327 01:21:52,545 --> 01:21:54,748 AND YOU'RE NOT BUT IT'S -- IN ORDER TO GET 1328 01:21:54,748 --> 01:21:57,150 WHERE YOU NEED TO BE, IT'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO 1329 01:21:57,150 --> 01:22:01,287 >> Reporter: AND THEN THERE'S JODI MOORE WHO DID NOT, AS MANY 1330 01:22:01,287 --> 01:22:03,256 MIGHT HAVE, RETURN TO THE CAROLINAS WHERE SHE GREW UP. 1331 01:22:03,256 --> 01:22:09,062 WHY'D YOU DECIDE TO STAY HERE IN MONTANA? 1332 01:22:09,062 --> 01:22:11,564 >> BECAUSE MY KIDS ARE MY TOP PRIORITY, AND THEY ARE - 1333 01:22:11,564 --> 01:22:14,367 >> Reporter: IT'S HOME FOR THEM NOW, HUH 1334 01:22:14,367 --> 01:22:16,970 >> -- DOING GREAT. AND ALSO MASON LOST HIS LIFE 1335 01:22:16,970 --> 01:22:23,343 HERE YOU KNOW, I MEAN, HIS BLOOD WAS 1336 01:22:23,343 --> 01:22:27,180 SPILLED HERE AND I JUST DIDN'T FEEL LIKE I 1337 01:22:27,180 --> 01:22:31,151 COULD OR SHOULD LEAVE. >> Reporter: SHE'S OPENED A 1338 01:22:31,151 --> 01:22:34,287 BOOKSTORE. IT'S CALLED BOOK THERAPY AND 1339 01:22:34,287 --> 01:22:37,624 MOORE. IT'S THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE 1340 01:22:37,624 --> 01:22:40,593 MASON MOORE FOUNDATION, A CHARITY JODI FOUNDED TO RAISE 1341 01:22:40,593 --> 01:22:44,330 MONEY FOR SAFETY EQUIPMENT FOR COPS WHO NEED IT 1342 01:22:44,330 --> 01:22:46,966 THE GROUP'S MOTTO? IT'S SOMETHING MASON SAID TO HER 1343 01:22:46,966 --> 01:22:51,538 A LONG TIME AGO. "LOVE WINS." 1344 01:22:51,538 --> 01:22:59,112 >> HE LOVED ME, AND ALL HE WANTED TO DO WAS TO TRY TO MAKE 1345 01:22:59,112 --> 01:23:07,721 THIS A BETTER PLACE AND LEAVE HIS MARK 1346 01:23:07,721 --> 01:23:10,790 AND I THINK HE DID >>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION 1347 01:23:10,790 --> 01:23:13,193 OF "DATELINE." WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY 1348 01:23:13,193 --> 01:23:15,228 AT 9:00, 8:00 CENTRAL. AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU 1349 01:23:15,228 --> 01:23:17,530 EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS."