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“A man opens fire on rush hour traffic. A terrorist organization plots to overthrow the government. A member of law enforcement guns down an innocent woman. An armed bank robber strikes again and again. And a man abducts and kills a 17-year-old girl. As violent crime terrorizes the nation, the FBI must stop these criminals before they strike again.”

“In over 100 episodes of the FBI files, we’ve witnessed criminals not only terrorizing their victims with violence but plaguing our society with fear. We look to both the experience and the courage of law enforcement to protect us and provide us with the hope that justice can and will prevail. I’m Jim Calstrom, former head of the FBI’s New York office. In this special episode, we take a closer look at cases previously featured on this series. Our goal is to explore more fully some of the investigative methods and techniques that have made the Federal Bureau of Investigation the premier law enforcement agency in the world.”

“The FBI was originally established to address crime that covered cities, counties, and spread across state lines. The country needed a federal law enforcement entity to do those investigations, and over the years as the country has grown and as the world by the same token has grown smaller, the FBI’s mission has changed to meet the various threats.”

“The Shaw family finds itself in the middle of a nightmare. Three masked gunmen have broken into their South Carolina home. Two hold several family members hostage while the leader forces Amy Shaw to let him into the vault at the bank where she works as a teller. He gets away with $80,000, allowing Amy to remain unharmed. Before leaving, he calls his accomplices to tell them the job is done and that they should flee.”

“Once their captives are gone, the Shaws call the police. Patrolling the neighborhood, police find two young men who they eventually take into custody. Since the gunmen were masked during the crime and left no fingerprints, police cannot tie these men to the scene. The two suspects give statements to the local police in which they deny taking part in the crime, but authorities doubt they are being truthful. FBI agents know they must try to get a confession. They will use interrogation techniques which require special training.”

“We graduate from a training school knowing a lot, but the real education starts when you get out and start working cases. That’s when you learn about people and you learn to ask questions a certain way and whether the answer is truthful or not.”

“Special Agent Jerry Jones chooses a suspect and begins the interrogation. Like most agents, he starts by interviewing the suspect about matters that do not pertain to the case at hand. This helps him to choose an appropriate interrogation strategy.”

“It just becomes instinct. While talking to these people, you are able to develop a concept of what their greatest fear is, some weakness they may have in their past or their family or something of that sort. And in this particular case, it was fear of the death penalty.”

“Knowing that the suspect is unaware that the teller Amy Shaw is now safe, Agent Jones sees his opportunity and decides to exploit it.”

“And what I told him was that my main concern was the safety and well-being of the victim teller. I want her back alive. If your friend kills her, had the third robber killed her, you’re going to the electric chair.”

“They would both have faced the death penalty. Jones knows that his choice to use this common technique must be measured. It could backfire. It may strengthen the suspect’s resolve not to speak at all.”

“How about coming out and tell me the truth?”

“But the agent’s plan works. Faced with the prospect of his worst fear coming true, the suspect admits his involvement in the crime and names the lead gunman, Christopher Jabberk.”

“Police quickly arrest Jabberk at his mother’s house just over the state line in Georgia. He is convicted on all charges, but Jabberk’s crime spree has just begotten. Before he can be sentenced, he escapes from jail with a bank robber named Jerome Frierson Bay.”

“Authorities immediately lock down the area. Despite a massive manhunt, they find no sign of the two escapees. Agent Jones knows that when tracking a fugitive, personal information provides important clues as to where the fugitive may go or what he may do next. During several interviews prior to trial, Jones senses a special bond in Jabberk’s life, giving him an idea.”

“It became evident to me the only real thing in the world that he cared about was his mother. I was convinced that at some point in time, he would come back to the mother.”

“We established 24-hour surveillance, but Jabber doesn’t show. Agents track numerous bank robberies committed by the two fugitives as they move up the east coast. In New Jersey, authorities finally locate and apprehend Frierson Bay. Agents are disappointed Jabber is no longer with them, but Agent Jones has a hunch.”

“I always believed that Jabber would come back home.”

“The fugitive is located in Atlanta staying under a false name. Jabber is arrested without incident, returned to jail, and later sentenced to life in prison.”

“Over the years you just develop an expertise where you can sense things about a person and his family relationships and things like that.”

“Agent Jones individual instinct and experience were critical to bringing this case to a close. Sometimes it takes the efforts of an entire team to bring criminals to justice.”

“A gun wielding man commits a string of daring bank robberies, threatening to kill anyone who gets in his way. Agents named the thief Hollywood for his use of theatrical makeup and disguises in his heists. Over the next 3 years, the gunman robs 12 banks, taking nearly a million dollars and leaving behind few clues. To take down this elusive criminal, the Seattle Police and the FBI must join several other law enforcement agencies in a unique investigative environment known as a task force.”

“And we bring together the resources of our state and local partners with the FBI and some of our federal partners so that we can get the unique skills and abilities of these agencies focused on a particular threat to get the maximum results.”

“But local law enforcement and federal agents do not always see eye to eye. FBI officials named Special Agent Ellen Glasser as the supervisor of the Puget Sound Task Force.”

“We had about a dozen different agencies, all of whom came with different missions, different intentions, and it was very interesting because we have different philosophies of how we do things, we have different policies. So it was very challenging to have everybody work together for the common good.”

“Seattle police detective Mike Megan is also a member of the task force.”

“I looked at it myself as being a guest in the FBI’s house. You know, there was a lot of respect given to them but there was hurdles to be broken down. You know, the pre-formed opinions or judging a book by its cover. We had to put things aside such as egos and attitudes and who was going to always take the lead and who was going to be the point man and are the officers going to play second fiddle? And we had to come to an understanding.”

“The task force cannot expect to accomplish their mission if they cannot work as a team.”

“We had to work on communications between task force members every day. There were very strong willed people that were on the task force and my philosophy has always been that if you put relationships first and work on relationships with people working together, then the mission will take care of itself.”

“With this philosophy, Glasser brings cohesion to the group. The task force is now working as one. Together, they determine the pattern and frequency of Hollywood’s crimes so they will be prepared to react quickly the next time he strikes. The effort pays off. On November 27th, 1996, Hollywood is the prime suspect in an armed bank robbery. Through the combined efforts of the task force, police locate and corner him in a camper.”

“Tragically, he ends his own life with a single shot to the head.”

“Even though people brought different experiences and different expertise to the task force, they were all able to blend and work extremely effectively together.”

“FBI field agents often receive the glory for solving cases, but the highly skilled technicians at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia, deserve much of the credit. They are more than scientists in lab coats; they are creative detectives whose tireless work will often decide whether or not a case is resolved.”

“I knew I wanted to be a part of the FBI laboratory because it is a world class facility and you can look in the eyes of any individual in this building and you will see people who are very dedicated to performing at the very highest levels, and our only interest is in providing the truth, providing the most accurate, reliable, and unassailable results that we can.”

“January 11th, 1982. California Highway Patrol officer George Gualtney calls in a possible suicide off Interstate 15 near Barstow. When backup officers arrive, they find 23-year-old Robin Bishop dead from a single gunshot wound to the head. Police cannot find a gun at the scene, but they do find handcuff marks on the young woman’s wrists. Clearly, this was no suicide; this was murder.”

“In 1982, California Highway Patrol officer George Gualtney reports the discovery of a suicide victim on the side of the road, but since the victim was shot in the back of the head, investigators on the scene conclude that it was murder. The victim’s driver’s license and registration are visible, as if they had been taken out for some reason. To rule out the possibility that a police officer killed the young woman, the lead investigator orders all area officers to hand in their service weapons for ballistics comparisons. One officer fails to do so: George Gualtney, who insists his gun has been stolen. Gualtney becomes a suspect when investigators find the dismantled frame of his police issued 357 in his truck. Someone has removed the barrel, the one piece that through ballistics testing can forensically tie the gun to the bullet that killed Robin Bishop.”

“Police also find a box of ammunition in Gualtney’s bedroom closet. It is the same brand of bullet that killed Robin. In late 1982, the state of California charges George Gualtney with murder, but a deadlock jury results in a mistrial. A second trial in superior court also ends in deadlock. Investigators are convinced Gualtney is guilty, but they can no longer charge him at the state level. They look to federal authorities for help. Special Agent Michael Randolph reviews the case and recognizes that Gualtney is so cunning, prosecuting him will be difficult if not impossible. Getting a conviction will take extraordinary tenacity from both the agents in the field and from the specialized examiners at the FBI’s crime lab.”

“Technology has been a great tool but what still is the most important aspect for the FBI is the human side.”

“FBI examiner Jim Katigan from the lab’s firearms and tool marks unit tries to find a link between the evidence and the suspect. Normally, he would compare the striations in the murder weapon’s barrel to those on the fatal bullet, but the barrel is missing. Katigan will need to think outside the box to find another way to the truth. He knows that investigators had confiscated vice grips and wrenches when they found the revolver’s frame. The question was could one of these tools have been used to hold the frame while the barrel of the firearm was being removed? Katigan decides to use a technique known as tool mark analysis. He notices a small impression on the gun frame then checks each of tools until he finds a pipe wrench with a broken tooth.”

“And that looked very similar to the mark that was on the frame, so using that as a pivot point, I started making impressions with that tool and comparing those impressions under a microscope. I was able to come to the conclusion that that particular tool was used to the exclusion of any other tool to make the marks that were found on the frame.”

“Although this points to Gualtney as having removed the barrel of his gun, it is not enough to prove he killed Robin Bishop. Investigators will have a case if they can find a link between the fatal bullet and the box of ammunition from Gualtney’s closet. In an unprecedented move, the lab decides to employ a new technique they’ve been developing which matches the molecular content of the bullets.”

“When a manufacturer of lead like Remington Arms makes a batch of lead, they throw things in much as you would when you’re making meatloaf. That makes each batch of lead unique.”

“In the FBI’s very first nuclear ballistics examination, scientists place a fragment of one of Gualtney’s bullets in a nuclear reactor where it absorbs neutrons and becomes radioactive. When measured, the radioactivity reveals the precise amount of each element in the lead, an atomic fingerprint. Examiners then repeat the process with a piece of the fatal bullet.”

“And lo and behold, we find approximately 27 rounds that are the exact match as the lead taken from the head of our victim.”

“In January of 1984, George Gualtney goes on trial, this time in federal court. Gualtney is found guilty and sentenced to 90 years in prison. 12 years later, George Gualtney died in prison of a heart attack.”

“There’s the unsung heroes that you never hear of, the people sitting back in the laboratory that make sense of this. This takes an awful lot of time and it takes extraordinarily talented, patient people.”

“Proving a case using hard scientific evidence is an essential tool of every law enforcement agency, but when authorities have no clear suspects and very little physical evidence, the FBI must rely on one of their most unique and least understood disciplines: profiling.”

“May 31st, 1985. On a lonely road in Lexington, South Carolina, 17-year-old Sherry Fay Smith checks her mailbox before disappearing without a trace.”

“Two days of fruitless searching leads investigators to conclude that she has been abducted. Early the next morning, their fears are realized when the missing girl’s family receives a call from the kidnapper. He explains they will eventually get their daughter back and tells them that they will receive a letter later that day. When the letter finally arrives, the family is horrified. Written in Sherry’s handwriting, the document is entitled ‘Last Will and Testament’.”

“In South Carolina, a young woman has been abducted. Her life is on the line and investigators have no idea who the suspect is. In an effort to identify what sort of man would have kidnapped Sherry Fay, investigators call upon FBI profilers at the investigative support unit in Quantico, Virginia. Profilers are veteran agents who receive specialized training in criminology and applied psychology.”

“I tapped through that memory of theirs that no one has ever tapped into before when they were perpetrating the crime. It takes time, but once I’m in there I get tremendous information.”

“Douglas and others cataloged and categorized their findings, creating a statistical database from which profilers can draw inferences about criminals based on patterns of behavior.”

“I’m very much like a doctorate in medicine where I’m trying to come up with a diagnosis and I’m going to rely on the thousands of cases that I’ve worked. I’m going to rely on the hundreds and hundreds of interviews of offenders who committed similar types of crimes.”

“When creating a profile, Douglas needs to review all investigative materials including preliminary police reports and crime scene photographs.”

“You really need to have all the information relative to the victim. You have to do an analysis profile of the victim. You ask yourself the question: ‘Why was this victim the victim of this crime?’ And then you look at the way the crime was perpetrated: low-risk crime or high-risk crime. When someone asks you for a profile, what they’re looking for are physical and behavioral characteristics which includes age, race, sometimes body typing, educational level, occupational type. Sometimes it may include the right down to the type of vehicle the person will be driving. It may include the overall behavior of the subject, whether or not he’s very rigid, obsessive-compulsive on one extreme to being very sloppy and careless on the other. And so it can include sometimes as many as a hundred characteristics in the overall profile.”

“At the request of South Carolina authorities, Douglas turns his attention to the Sherry Fay Smith case and reviews all the case materials.”

“What made the case unique was that we have a subject who’s communicating with the family, which is very rare, very unusual. I felt good about it because when you have a communique, whether it’s a written communique or a verbal communique, you can do an analysis of that, and it begins to paint a pretty nice picture of the type of person we should be looking for.”

“It was as if he followed a script that was written out beforehand. Here is someone who will be very rigid, very orderly, very tight.”

“After scrutinizing every detail of the abduction, Douglas generates a 22-point profile. The subject is likely a male with a prior criminal record and lives locally.”

“The nature of the criminal beast is that they will perpetrate crimes and they will as well as dispose of crimes in areas where there’s some type of familiarity.”

“Douglas also believes the abductor has feelings of inadequacy and compensates for that through violent actions.”

“He feels like nothing. He feels like a nobody. And how can this nobody, this personality, this person who’s probably overweight, low self-esteem, unattractive, how can he become a somebody? He’ll go after victims that there was no chance that he would ever come in contact with someone like Sherry Fay Smith, and so for the first time in their life they can be powerful.”

“2 days after the kidnapper’s last communication, he calls the family with specific directions to where they can find their daughter.”

“Listen carefully. Take Highway 378 West to traffic circle. Turn left at white frame building. Go to backyard. 6 ft beyond. We’re waiting. God chose us.”

“Investigators race to the location, hoping to find the young girl alive. When they arrive, their worst fears are confirmed. Sherry Fay Smith is dead. The body having been exposed to the extreme heat and elements for several days is so decomposed it makes determining the exact cause and time of death impossible. To the profiler, the detailed directions to Sherry’s body as well as the condition of the crime scene provides further insight into the suspect’s mind.”

“He told me that he had been out to that crime scene on several different occasions because he was very specific as to the number of miles and tens of miles and number of feet where she could be found. It also told me that he had some criminal sophistication because I believe what he did is he waited for her to go into advanced stages of decomposition which would make it more difficult for law enforcement to determine cause and method of death.”

“On the evening of Sherry’s funeral, the killer calls again and asks to speak to her sister Dawn.”

“Hello.”

“This thing got out of hand and all I wanted to do was make love to Dawn. I’ve been watching her for a couple to…”

“In a chilling moment, the killer uses Dawn’s name in place of Sherry’s. Investigators brace themselves for the possibility that this killer may be turning his murderous obsession towards Dawn.”

“After two weeks spent underground, the killer resurfaces. In a bold move, he snatches 9-year-old Deborah May Helmick from her front yard in plain view of another child. For profiler John Douglas, the killer’s shift to a riskier crime is a sign that he is under duress.”

“The crime does not reflect the stress at that time, however. What happens when you start putting it together from experience of other cases, I.e., the Ted Bundy case, kills women at the Chi Omega house and then he goes after a young child. He’s totally starting to break down under the stress of being under the scrutiny of law enforcement trying to hunt them down.”

“After kidnapping Sherry Fay Smith, the killer had repeatedly called the family, but this time he remains silent. Douglas must devise a plan to draw him out. He knows that killers will often follow their crimes in the media, so he decides to organize a memorial service that he knows will be reported in the newspapers. He hopes this will rekindle the killer’s fascination with Sherry Fay’s sister Dawn.”

“The kidnapper takes the bait and makes a call to Dawn.”

“You can’t be protected all the time, okay? You know, God wants you to join Sherry Fay. It’s just a matter of time.”

“Then, before hanging up, the killer gives Dawn a series of directions.”

“Okay, listen carefully. Go one north. Turn right. Debramay is waiting. God forgive us all.”

“Investigators follow the directions. There, they find the body of 9-year-old Deborah May Helmick. Douglas suspects the killer will likely try to abduct Dawn. Meanwhile, forensic scientists use a process known as electrostatic detection to read invisible indentations on Sherry Fay’s ‘Last Will and Testament’. The information leads investigators to a suspect, Larry Gene Bell, a local blue-collar worker. Police interview people who know Bell; in learning about him, investigators find that he matches Douglas’s profile exactly. Authorities arrest Bell. Forensic evidence and Douglas’s profile help convict Bell of both murders. He is executed on October 4th, 1996.”

“In this case, Douglas was instrumental in identifying an unknown killer. Profilers can also confirm suspicions about known suspects.”

“In 1983, Alaska state troopers are investigating the state’s first serial killer. Dozens of women, mostly exotic dancers and prostitutes, have disappeared. Many are never seen again, but some turn up in shallow graves with 223 caliber shell casings nearby. The state troopers have a suspect, a local family man, Robert Hansen. A year earlier, a prostitute had told the local Anchorage police that she had been abducted and tortured by Hansen before she was able to escape. Anchorage police officers interviewed Hansen’s friends, confirming his alibi. They searched his house and car but found no evidence, and suspended the investigation.”

“Investigators felt that Hansen, who owns a local bakery, was too unlikely a suspect. But when the state troopers learn of the prostitute’s report, they believe he may be the serial killer they are searching for. Investigators contact FBI special agent John Douglas for help.”

“And this wasn’t really to do a profile here. They have a suspect, so what you do is you do a personality assessment of this individual and some of the circumstances around him to see whether or not this person has the capability, the capacity, the propensity for violence.”

“The fact that the killer had murdered so many meant to Douglas that he has the means to function unnoticed in the community. Someone who works independently. Since the bodies were recovered in remote areas of wilderness, the killer could possibly be an avid outdoorsman. Hansen fits the profile; he is both a small business owner and a recreational hunter. Since he preyed on prostitutes and exotic dancers, Douglas concludes the killer would have low self-esteem and had probably grown up feeling like an outcast.”

“Hansen was unattractive, his face was all pockmarked, had a speech impediment, which probably caused him a lot of problems as a kid growing up.”

“After reviewing all the case materials, Douglas concludes that Hansen was indeed capable of murder. If investigators are to prove Hansen’s guilt, they’ll need physical evidence. To obtain a search warrant for Hansen’s home, they’ll have to convince a judge of what they will find there.”

“Do you want us to ask a question?”

“The profiler’s role now switches from confirming suspicions about a suspect to helping investigators develop a search warrant. Authorities know they need to look for the gun that left the 223 caliber shell casings found near the bodies. They ask Douglas if there is anything else to list in the warrant.”

“We’re dealing here with a serial killer. It starts off as fantasy and one of the things to keep the fantasy going after the crime is they take some type of momento. We call them either souvenirs or trophies, something belonging to the victims. Doesn’t have to be anything expensive, it could be a cheap watch or costume jewelry. And what they’ll do is they’ll keep this. They’re not going to keep this out in open view. They’re going to secrete this in places within the house, under a crawl space if they have it, or up in the attic under insulation.”

“Douglas helps prosecutors write the affidavit which swells to 48 pages. A judge approves the warrant. During the search of Hansen’s house, investigators find the trophies Douglas suggested would be there, including the business cards of some of the victims. They also find several weapons; among them is a 223 Ruger rifle. Ballistics testing proves it is the gun that fired the shells found near several of the crime scenes. Confronted with all the evidence, Hansen finally breaks. He confesses to murdering four women and is sentenced to 461 years with no chance of parole.”

“While a profiler provides a psychological picture of a criminal, agents in the field use their instincts, experience, and deductive reasoning to get inside the mind of a suspect to uncover motive. On the morning of January 25th, 1993, a lone gunman opens fire in front of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, killing two CIA employees and injuring several others.”

“In 1993, a gunman unleashes his fury with an AK-47 outside CIA headquarters, killing two and wounding others in a hail of gunfire. FBI special agent Brad Garrett arrives on the scene and attempts to piece together a motive for the attack.”

“The first thing you do when you walk into a crime scene is, what’s the obvious? Well, the obvious is this appears to be directed towards the CIA. It might be directed towards the individuals that were shot, but it was clearly somebody wanted to make a public statement during a rush hour traffic, so that sort of gives you a shell at least to start from.”

“In any case you investigate, you always look for a link between the victim and the subject because if you have a link it tends to make it a lot easier in solving the case versus strangers who commit crimes against other individuals. But once we started looking at the backgrounds of the individuals that were shot and we looked at the circumstances as to why they were at that intersection, it didn’t appear at least to me that there probably was a link between those particular individuals being shot and the person that shot them. So we immediately started looking at who within the CIA, in other words, disgruntled employees, present employees that may have had a relationship with these people that could have retaliated for whatever reason. But after spending some time doing that, there was really nothing in there that jumped at us either, so I said, ‘Where do we go from here?’”

“Well, you start looking at the logical things. You have a description of an individual who did this shooting, brought an assault rifle up to shoulder and started shooting down range, and so you’re looking for somebody that appears to have a real issue with the CIA.”

“By cross-referencing the killer’s physical description with a database of recent purchases of AK-47s, investigators identify a suspect. He is 28-year-old Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani immigrant. Garrett’s initial assessment of motive is confirmed during interviews with people who know Kansi, including his roommate. They revealed that he was becoming enraged by US foreign policy and was planning something sinister against the CIA, White House, or the Israeli embassy. Unfortunately, Kansi has fled to either Pakistan or Afghanistan.”

“To bring the fugitive back to the United States for trial, Garrett must utilize what is arguably an agent’s most important skill: his ability to anticipate obstacles and to devise ways around them. After 4 and a half years of pursuit, Agent Garrett receives information that Kansi is hiding in a Pakistani hotel, but when they apprehend him, there is a problem.”

“One of the fears I had when we went in the room and looked at him is that he didn’t look like his picture. He gained weight, he had a beard. And so I looked at the other three agents and I said, ‘You know, I’m not sure if this is the right guy.’”

“Agent Garrett must be absolutely positive.”

“Go out this door.”

“Without properly identifying the suspect, he cannot bring him back to the United States.”

“I did not want to leave that room without being convinced in my own mind that the individual that was handcuffed on the bed was in fact Mir Aimal Kansi.”

“The only way for Agent Garrett to make a positive ID is through fingerprint analysis, typically the job of highly skilled lab specialists who are thousands of miles away in Washington.”

“Fortunately, Agent Garrett had thought ahead.”

“I went to FBI headquarters to the latent fingerprint section and worked with one of the experienced latent fingerprint examiners who actually took the 10 fingerprints of Mr. Kansi and we actually studied them over several days and learned all the unique characteristics so that I would be able to identify him by fingerprints once we found him.”

“Beautiful. Beautiful work.”

“Now Garrett must put that training to use.”

“He was handcuffed face down on the bed and I took a fingerprint ink pad and hit his thumb with the ink. Then I took a white piece of paper and then hit his thumb onto the white piece of paper. So then I hit his thumbprint. I got on the floor of the hotel with a flashlight, a magnifying glass and his prints.”

“It’s a match. Thanks to Agent Garrett’s foresight, he can now bring a suspected terrorist back to the United States for prosecution. Mir Aimal Kansi is found guilty of murder, malicious shooting, and using a firearm in the commission of a felony. He is sentenced to death and is executed in 2002. Special Agent Brad Garrett’s unique training and experience helped him close this case. But sometimes an agent’s greatest asset is his ability to adapt to new situations and think on his feet.”

“These are people that want to win. They aren’t here just to get a paycheck.”

“1985 in the hills of Arkansas, an army of extremists plot to overthrow the US government. They spread a doctrine of hate, murder, and genocide, launching death raids on churches and synagogues. Federal agents must dismantle this heavily armed militia without igniting a bloody war.”

“The FBI follows a trail to the compound of the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord or CSA, a violent group of white supremacists. The compound is heavily fortified and the men inside are armed with grenades, dozens of automatic weapons, and even a powerful anti-tank rocket. Investigators need to serve arrest and search warrants, but unlike most circumstances where a SWAT team would be utilized, this situation is more delicate. Reports confirm that innocent women and children are inside the compound. With hundreds of lives in the balance, there can be no margin for error.”

“Authorities working the case do not have the expertise or manpower to take on the CSA, and the US Constitution bars the military from aiding in a civil investigation. The FBI decides to send a highly trained tactical group called the Hostage Rescue Team or HRT, the bureau’s equivalent of the Army’s Delta Force. The HRT acts as a counterterrorism unit within the borders of the United States.”

“In 1985, Special Agent Danny Coulson is the commander of the HRT.”

“The HRT basically are assaulters. It’s their job to go into a crisis point and neutralize terrorists and rescue hostages. But this was not that type of situation. These people are very well armed and they were very formidable and we wanted to avoid a shootout.”

“To serve the arrest and search warrants safely, Coulson needs to adapt to the circumstances. With their traditional method of attack out of the question, they devise a different approach.”

“All right, folks. The very reputation of the FBI was dependent upon this case, and we believe that without any doubt, the best way to do this was to surreptitiously set a perimeter, which would be very dangerous and difficult, but certainly less dangerous and difficult than doing an assault on that compound.”

“During the first phase of the operation, reconnaissance teams penetrate the compound’s perimeter in the dead of night. Using handheld and airplane-based sensors, they avoid roaming CSA patrols.”

“After 10 days of scouting, an HRT sniper team reports a CSA patrol is about to unwittingly stumble across their position.”

“Sniper one.”

“As team leader, Coulson must make a split-second decision that could affect the lives of hundreds of people.”

“In 1985, the FBI is closing in on the CSA, a right-wing paramilitary organization based in Arkansas. Over 200 agents secretly surround their compound. FBI snipers report a CSA patrol is about to discover them.”

“Sniper one.”

“FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader Danny Coulson must act quickly. He knows if he makes the wrong move, a bloody war could ensue. His decision is surprisingly bold.”

“You hail them. You yell at them and tell them you’re the FBI and tell them to go back inside.”

“And everybody kind of looked at me like, ‘Why don’t we grab these two guys?’ And I didn’t want to do that.”

“Coulson’s tactic is calculated for maximum effectiveness.”

“I wanted to scare the daylights out of these guys, but I also wanted them to understand that if I gave them an order, they had to follow it. I wanted them to get in the habit of following my orders or the orders of my team. And secondly, to show them that we weren’t there to hurt them.”

“The sniper alerts the roaming patrol and orders them back inside. They comply, but now the CSA knows the FBI is outside their compound. The standoff begins.”

“Now someone must negotiate the surrender of the CSA’s leader. Well, the HRT doesn’t have a negotiating element, but they work very closely with the behavioral science group at Quantico. The FBI tries to determine the most effective way to deal with the CSA leader, who they suspect will be unwilling to speak with a negotiator. He would only talk to the HRT commander; it would be commander to commander or general to general.”

“The FBI’s policy on negotiations has always been that leaders never negotiate. The leader of the HRT, an on-scene commander, never ever ever negotiates. To have the leader negotiate takes away some of your techniques; you can’t stall for time, you can’t play good guy and bad guy between the negotiator and the commander.”

“Nevertheless, the FBI decides they want Coulson to take on the role of negotiator since that is their only option.”

“I wasn’t comfortable with that. I’m a tactical person. I’d been a sniper and I’d been a SWAT team member and a SWAT team leader and trained as an operator, and I was not trained to be a negotiator. I didn’t know that I could pull that off. I’d been much more comfortable going in after the guy than trying to talk him out, but they were adamant that it had to be done like that.”

“Through his experience in observing negotiations and some quick on-site training, Coulson is able to adapt to his new position.”

“The CSA leader makes first contact when he calls the FBI’s command post and speaks with Agent Coulson.”

“We talked on the phone for a few minutes about things we wanted to do. He offered to me that he’d be allowed to come out because he wanted to personally talk to me and see me, but he’d also be allowed to go back in, which I agreed to, which was a total departure from FBI policy.”

“And we made a quick contact with FBI headquarters because I was getting ready to violate FBI policy by having a badly wanted fugitive, a terrorist, in my hands essentially, and they let him leave. And went up and went to the assistant director of the criminal division; in a word, he approved it, said ‘Yes, do it.’”

“After a series of face-to-face meetings, the CSA leader emerges from the compound. He tells Coulson that while he and many of his followers are ready to surrender, there are those who wish to fight and he cannot control them.”

“I need help. There’s a man that is our spiritual leader and I need his advice and I need his help to convince people that’s the thing to do, to come out.”

“Who is this?”

“It’s Robert Milar.”

“This again is something totally against FBI policy to bring in a confederate into a crisis situation, not just to negotiate, but to go inside. That’d never been done in the history of the FBI; they’d never allowed that to happen, to allow a third-party individual who was sympathetic to the people we were dealing with to go inside, to be a part of the negotiation, whether or not they came out. This is a huge risk, and I thought it was worth taking.”

“Coulson gets approval to allow Mr. Milar to negotiate with CSA members.”

“Nice to see you again.”

“He remains inside the compound for nearly 24 hours. The next morning, day four of the siege, Milar and the CSA leadership finally emerge.”

“We have an agreement that we will surrender. We will come out and we’ll give up our arms and walk out peacefully.”

“As commander of HRT, Coulson receives the news with guarded optimism.”

“You’re constantly thinking about the worst case scenario. Even good things have to be looked at with some suspicion. Was it a diversion to get to get out the backside and start a firefight? So we had to be very careful.”

“Coulson gives the leader 15 minutes to gather his people and bring them out.”

“And very shortly after, I get a communication from a sniper team that they’re coming. They’re coming out.”

“The snipers report that they’re in civilian attire. There’s no cammies, there’s no battle gear, there’s no weapons they can see.”

“Miraculously, the HRT accomplishes its mission without a single shot fired.”

“It was an ending that we had all prayed for and one that we were very fortunate that we had.”

“If not for Agent Coulson’s quick thinking and ability to adapt intense situations, the standoff would likely have had a much bloodier conclusion.”

“It shows what the FBI can do in a major crisis situation. It shows the number of different disciplines it has at its disposal, how they can bring unlimited resources on the focus of a problem. It’s a great big machine. It grinds you up if you’re a bad guy, and it’s what happened here. This wasn’t an HRT story; it’s an FBI story.”

“We have seen just a few of the many ways in which the FBI works to solve cases. With each new investigative challenge they face, we can rest assured that the bureau will dedicate itself to doing whatever it takes to protect the American public.”

“On the glittering streets of Las Vegas, ruthless gunmen overpower defenseless victims and haul away a motherload of cash. Following a trail from exotic dance clubs to the tranquil suburbs, authorities finally put down the reckless robbers, but a daring jailbreak leads the FBI to a violent showdown with a man so desperate he’ll risk his own family to get what he wants.”

“In Las Vegas, a gang of robbers target an ATM repository and hit the jackpot. They take over a million dollars in cash, the largest heist in Las Vegas history. I’m Jim Calstrom, former head of the FBI’s New York office. The robbery was well planned and precisely executed. The FBI and local police struggled to identify and track a desperate criminal whose tendency for violence turned a robbery into a case of murder.”

“Las Vegas, a gambler’s paradise where even criminals sometimes try their luck.”

“On the night of December 21st, 1998, a Las Vegas couple and their 18-year-old sister-in-law prepare to go to work. The family owns a janitorial service that cleans commercial buildings. Suddenly, two masked gunmen rush up and force them inside their own van.”

“With a cleaning crew, an ordinary workday has just become a night of terror.”

“The gunmen blindfold and tie up their three captives.”

“Set her up. What are you looking at? Sit, sit still. Sit still. Don’t move.”

“They can hear the gunman talking to a female accomplice on a radio.”

“Let’s go. Let’s go. Cartoon, are you in position?”

“The gunman seemed to know the janitors’ routine.”

“They drive around until 11 p.m., the time they are scheduled to begin work at the Bank of America building. The gunman even park where the janitors routinely park their van.”

“Let’s go. Your feet down. Let’s go, girl.”

“The building is Bank of America’s central ATM repository in Las Vegas.”

“Let’s go.”

“Cash from 1,200 automated teller machines, often totaling more than a million dollars, is delivered there each night.”

“Fuck it.”

“The gunman forced the janitors to use their key card and access code to unlock the door. This bypasses the bank’s alarm system.”

“Get in there.”

“Come on, come on. Sit, sit right here. Sit down. Turn around. Turn around.”

“The gunman release the couple and order them to clean the building as they normally would.”

“Turn around. Go, get out.”

“They keep the wife’s sister hostage to ensure the couple complies with their orders.”

“She is dead, you hear me? She’s dead. Act like you’re clean. Get out now. Get out.”

“At 11:30 p.m., an armored car arrives to pick up the night’s cash deposit.”

“Following a standard security protocol, the two guards first call the bank security company to ask if there have been any unauthorized entries.”

“We’re checking out the parking lot, though, I think.”

“The alarm company reports that the only people inside are the janitors.”

“The only vehicle the guards see in the parking lot is the janitor’s van.”

“Inside everything seems completely normal.”

“The janitors are too terrified to say anything. The life of an 18-year-old girl is at stake.”

“The guards open the vault containing $1,088,000, shrink-wrapped and ready for pickup. Suddenly.”

“Get down. Get down. Get on the floor. Get your hands out.”

“As the gunman disarm the guards.”

“Two guns, stay down.”

“One of them accidentally discharges his weapon.”

“Come on.”

“Bullet ricochets off the floor and hits one guard in the chest.”

“Come on, let’s go.”

“What happened?”

“Shot.”

“Hang on.”

“One of the guards calls for an ambulance.”

“12, my partner’s down. He’s been shot. I need an ambulance, quick, please, please.”

“FBI special agent Henry Schlump arrives at the scene. He heads the investigation.”

“Everybody was very scared and you know, it took a little while to calm everybody down and to get a story as to what exactly happened. And the descriptions that we got, because the subjects were masked, were very general in nature. We were looking for two males who were either white, black, or Hispanic, six foot, six foot three, and about 200 lb. That was basically all the description that we had.”

“With little to go on, every detail is important.”

“The janitors told us that when the subjects first entered the bank, they were a little taken aback at the number of video cameras that were in the bank. That indicated to us that they had not been inside before. This suggests that the robbery may not have been an inside job.”

“Agents interview a truck driver who witnessed the robbers leaving the depository.”

“Turned over to here, outside, two guys.”

“The truck driver was making a late night delivery to a nearby store. He saw two men run out of the depository and throw some bags in the back of a white Chevy S10 pickup truck.”

“And they just took off in that direction.”

“Authorities begin searching for the getaway truck.”

“I put out the announcement for all responding units to look for a white Chevy S10 pickup truck. It wasn’t very long after that the vehicle was found about a quarter of a mile from the depository, just parked on a residential street.”

“Investigators run the truck’s plates. Ironically, the truck is a police maintenance vehicle that was stolen from a Las Vegas Metro Police one week earlier. Investigators begin questioning neighbors, including a woman whose home is closest to where the truck is parked.”

“Why do you see?”

“She hadn’t seen anybody get out of the pickup truck, but earlier in the evening there had been another truck parked in the same place, and she described that as a white GMC Dually, which is a pickup truck with four wheels on the back axle. Agents believe the woman saw the robbers switch vehicles, a common MO for bank robbers. They issue an APB for the white GMC truck.”

“Hours later, they receive the welcome news that the wounded guard has undergone surgery and will survive.”

“The next day, the bank determines that a total of $1,088,000 has been stolen. To date, it is the largest bank robbery in Las Vegas history.”

“Although FBI agents believe this was not an inside job, they cover all their bases by interviewing the armored car guards and all bank employees.”

“In this, you know, we didn’t have a lot to go on. We ended up interviewing everybody who worked at the branch and everybody who worked at the armored car company and polygraphing some of them.”

“Although agents do not find any new information, they do rule out the employees as suspects.”

“Thank you.”

“The subjects who committed the robbery could have found out everything they needed to find out by following the armored truck around and following the guards around, and we surmised early on that that’s probably exactly what they did.”

“With the investigation running out of leads, executives from Bank of America and the Armored Car Company decide to offer a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the robbers. Agent Schlump advises them on how large the reward should be.”

“He and I said $50,000, which was quite a lot for a bank robbery, but we were going to need to generate some public interest in this case.”

“Okay.”

“Agents asked local authorities for their cooperation.”

“We notified the airport that we were looking for someone carrying large amounts of money. We notified all the jails to advise us if anyone tried to bail someone out with large amounts of cash.”

“A week after the million-dollar robbery, the FBI receives a call from security at Las Vegas’s McCarron Airport.”

“They got a telephone response from someone asking if large amounts of currency would set off the metal detectors, and they took the number down on caller ID and gave it to us.”

“Investigators use a reverse telephone directory to find the caller’s address. Agents set up surveillance on that address, a home in the suburbs of Las Vegas.”

“There were people going in and out of the house about every half hour. Someone would arrive and someone else would leave, but it’s curious and you kind of like to know what’s going on.”

“After several hours, agents decide to interview the people in the house.”

“Hello, how are you? I’m investigator Davis, the Las Vegas Police Department. This is Special Agent Reed, and I just…”

“It was just a piano teacher who was giving half hour lessons, and she was going to be going to Utah with about $3,000, and so she had called McCarron Airport to find out if that would set off the detectors.”

“The lead is a dead end. Agents are back where they started, but later that day, a woman responding to the reward poster calls the Las Vegas Metro Police. She claims to have key information about the bank robbery.”

“So tell me about this stripper friend of yours. Wow, her name is John.”

“The tipster tells agents about a dancer she knows who works at a local strip club.”

“Oh, fuzzy bottom, you know, over on Tampa. Her name is Jennifer Ardan.”

“My name is Jennifer.”

“She says Jennifer has been spending a lot of cash lately.”

“He was able to give us a telephone number. We traced that number to a rented trailer.”

“The FBI sets up surveillance on the trailer. Agents watch for any clue to the identity of the two gunmen or the location of the stolen million dollars. In a matter of minutes, a white GMC truck pulls into the driveway. It’s the same make model the robbers used as their getaway vehicle. Agents run the license plates. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, the truck is registered in Las Vegas to Timothy Blackburn.”

“The driver enters the house and leaves minutes later.”

“The surveillance team immediately notifies Agent Schlump.”

“The sighting of the GMC pickup gave us enough probable cause to get a warrant for the trailer.”

“Moments later, a SWAT team surrounds the trailer to serve the warrant.”

“We brought a lot of people with us because we knew we were looking for armed and dangerous subjects. They had already shot one person. We knocked on the door of the trailer and nobody answered, so we kicked the door open and served a search warrant.”

“The SWAT team finds one man in the trailer. He identifies himself as Riley Bates. He reveals that Jennifer is his girlfriend. One team of agents begins searching the trailer for evidence while another heads to the strip club to question Jennifer.”

“FBI. I’d like to ask you a few questions, please, about why you’ve been spending an awful lot of money.”

“The exotic dancer told us that the money was her money that she had made over the past four years dancing, and that she didn’t know anything about a robbery or anything else.”

“Back at the trailer, agents continue to search for clues. In the bedroom, they find a heavy-duty combination safe. It looks brand new.”

“What’s the combination?”

“The trailer was filled with trash and it was not the kind of place where you would expect anybody with any money to be, and yet here they had this brand new safe they had bought.”

“What’s the combination?”

“Riley claims the safe belongs to his girlfriend and only she knows how to open it.”

“We’ll find out.”

“Agent Dur, can I help you?”

“Jennifer, what’s the number to the combination of the safe?”

“The agent asks Jennifer for the combination.”

“It’s not my safe. It’s my boyfriend.”

“But she says Riley would know the combination.”

“Did you hear that? She says she doesn’t know. What the safe belongs to her boyfriend? So we go back to Riley Bates and tell him that his girlfriend said he had the combination. So then he told us the combination.”

“Yep, that’s it.”

“Inside the safe, the FBI finds $50,000 in cash and bags of marijuana.”

“Man, I was selling pot.”

“Riley insists that he made the money by selling marijuana and claims he knows nothing about the robbery. Agents strongly suspect he is lying, but with over a million dollars missing, where is the rest of the money?”

“Where did it come from?”

“Las Vegas, December 1998. A team of violent bank robbers shoot an armored car guard and flee with more than a million dollars. The tip leads the FBI to a rented trailer and a brand new safe containing $50,000.”

“Bunch of cash in here.”

“Jennifer Ardan, an exotic dancer, claims she earned the money dancing. Her boyfriend, Riley Bates, says he made the money selling marijuana. Now agents must find the rest of the money, over a million dollars in cash. The FBI calls in one of their top interviewers, Special Agent Brett Shields, to try to get the truth from Riley.”

“Where’s that money from? In a lot of trouble here.”

“We tried to remove him from his comfort zone and took him out to my car where he’s a little bit more on edge rather than at the comfort of his own home.”

“You’re going to get in a lot of trouble here.”

“Yeah.”

“Riley Bates was a shifty little guy. He knew he was in a tough position because we’d found the money in the trailer.”

“What about your brother?”

“He tried to maintain that it was profits from the marijuana that was found in the safe. It was unbelievable that he was that successful and he’s still living in a single wide trailer.”

“You’re going to be in a lot of trouble here, you know that?”

“I don’t know.”

“We had gotten convinced that we can help him out on the marijuana charges, and he doesn’t want to get tied up into the million-dollar bank robbery.”

“He said, ‘I didn’t commit any robbery.’”

“So now Agent Shields and I know, you know, we’re probably about two questions away from finding out who did. So we said, ‘Okay, Riley. You didn’t commit the robbery, but I believe you know who did commit the robbery.’”

“And he said, ‘My brother Robert and his friend Tim.’”

“It’s my brother and his friend.”

“Really? Well, where is Tim right now?”

“I don’t know where they are right now.”

“Riley claims that he doesn’t know where his brother Robert is.”

“Where are they?”

“But I don’t know where they are.”

“But inside the trailer, agents find gaming chips and receipts from the Luxor, a casino on the Las Vegas strip.”

“So we sent a couple agents to the Luxor, and they contacted management, and sure enough, Robert Bates was staying there.”

“The hotel’s head of security tells agents that Robert Bates has been spending heavily, paying for everything in cash.”

“Okay.”

“Where, sir? That’s in the southeast town.”

“To see the types of items that they’re purchasing. Judging from his guest portfolio at the Luxor, Robert Bates had been just partying constantly since the night of the robbery.”

“The two agents stake out Bates’s hotel room until he returns.”

“The wrong way.”

“He was on some kind of drugs. There’s no point in trying to interview someone if they’re stoned on whatever he was on.”

“Bring your hand back inside.”

“In Bates’s hotel room, agents find drugs, a gun, and $5,000 in cash. With nearly a million dollars still missing, agents now concentrate on the second suspect named by Riley Bates: his brother’s friend, Tim Blackburn. We set out surveillance on Timothy Blackburn’s house.”

“So we had police and FBI agents surrounding the house.”

“They decide to approach Blackburn but proceed cautiously. He’s been investigated for armed robbery in the past and is considered highly dangerous.”

“Tim Blackburn was about 26 years old, 6′ 3″, 230 lb. He was a martial arts expert and he liked fighting and he liked guns. He was an accomplished marksman.”

“The FBI’s criminal apprehension team moves into position. Special Agent Castle Nishimoto is a member of this elite tactical unit.”

“My job was to watch the streets. I knew he was armed, but I wasn’t particularly scared at that point because I felt confident that I would be able to spot him.”

“And from where I was watching, the agents were just approaching the house to make contact with the people inside when a car comes driving down the road. The SUV suddenly accelerates towards the driver, loses control, and the vehicle stops, and the man jumps out and runs away.”

“We assumed it was Blackburn who had run out of the car. He was jumping the fence, the walls in the back of the house, and so forth and trying to get away. And so from that point on, we began to search the area.”

“The driver of the vehicle is Blackburn’s sister-in-law. Authorities take her into custody.”

“The FBI and Las Vegas police launch a house-to-house search for Blackburn.”

“Two blocks away, a canine unit picks up the fugitive’s scent.”

“Come out with your hands up. Come on out. Hands, don’t leave me now. Come on.”

“Blackburn was found by a K9 unit hiding under a deck in someone’s backyard. He had a mask and he had an ankle holster. Fortunately for the K9 officer, the holster was empty.”

“Nothing in it, man.”

“Blackburn had lost his gun jumping over fences.”

“Sorry, we got him. We’re taking him inside for questioning.”

“I don’t have…”

“We’re going to find…”

“Investigators search the suspect’s home while agents question Tim Blackburn and his wife Sophia.”

“Because I know that, you know, what’s going on. I know that you know where the money is. Can you tell us where the money is now? Where’s the money?”

“They offer Blackburn a reduced sentence if he will admit to the robbery.”

“I don’t have any money. You don’t see it. It’s not here.”

“He refuses. Investigators continue to search the house.”

“An evidence response search is very methodical. It’s not just everybody running around to where they think something might be hidden. Everything is photographed first and then the search progresses room by room and then the outside is usually done at the end.”

“They find some flex cuffs like were the same type that the janitors had been bound with and they found some walkie-talkies and some other surveillance equipment.”

“I got something here.”

“Early that morning in Blackburn’s backyard, they find several duffel bags inside the doghouse.”

“I just couldn’t believe that he put the money in the doghouse. And then on second thought, I thought, well, maybe that might not be a bad place to put the money since nobody looks there. It’s just an innocuous place.”

“Investigators recover more than $900,000, 90% of the stolen money.”

“It took about 10 hours to count it. So by 4:00 that afternoon and we knew we had the money from the Bank of America robbery.”

“The US District Court charges Tim Blackburn and Robert Bates with bank robbery, kidnapping, carjacking, and using a firearm in the commission of a violent crime. They are held at the North Las Vegas detention center, but the FBI’s work is unfinished. They believe that Blackburn and Bates were not working alone.”

“We knew that there was probably someone else involved in the robbery, that it was too much logistically for only two people to do.”

“You know, your husband was…”

“Agents suspect Sophia Blackburn might be involved because her story does not seem credible.”

“I was at the house several times to talk to Sophia Blackburn.”

“Sophia claimed to have no knowledge of the robbery, and in fact, she provided an alibi for Tim Blackburn on the night of the robbery. She said she was with him the whole night. She couldn’t account for the money that they found or the other items that were in the house. She was worried because her husband was in jail and she had two young daughters to raise herself. So she was claimed to be cooperative, but she would have these stories that were in no way even close to plausible, but that’s what she was going to stick with. And you know, there was not going to be really any way to talk her out of them. There was no way that she was ever going to give us any information that would implicate Tim Blackburn.”

“On August 11th, 1999, 7 months after the million-dollar robbery.”

“They’re asking about…”

“Sophia visits her husband in jail.”

“You can’t tell them we’re at.”

“She secretly uses a tiny tool on her keychain to loosen the screws securing the divider window.”

“That’s good. So my babies are doing all right?”

“As the visiting room guard leaves to escort a prisoner.”

“Blackburn removes the bulletproof glass.”

“Tim Blackburn climbed through the window and dived into this sally port. The one door closed and the second door opened before anybody realized what he had done. As soon as the second door opened, he was just climbing over everybody in the sally port and he ran outside.”

“Sophia retrieves a gun she had hidden earlier and tosses it to Blackburn.”

“All the alarms are going off and guards outside knew that there was a jailbreak.”

“As the Blackburns try to get away, they face startled guards in a violent shootout.”

“August 11th, 1999. Timothy Blackburn, accused of the biggest bank robbery in Las Vegas history, breaks out of jail with the help of his wife Sophia.”

“They tried to arrest Blackburn but he shoots at them. This pickup truck that’s sitting in the lot was going to be his escape vehicle, but the guards are returning fire.”

“Blackburn is forced to abandon the truck. Suddenly his wife Sophia roars up in an Isuzu Rodeo.”

“In a matter of seconds they are out of range.”

“It was hard to believe that Blackburn had actually escaped from the jail because although a lot of people want to escape from the jail and many attempted, very few actually get away. But it just pointed out again how unpredictable Blackburn was.”

“Looking for leads, FBI agents Henry Schlump and Brett Shields tracked down the suspect’s relatives.”

“Blackburn was going to have to go someplace to get some help.”

“Agents check out an apartment building where Blackburn’s sister-in-law lives. Parked out front, they find the same Isuzu Rodeo used in the jailbreak. They run the plates and discover it belongs to Blackburn’s wife, Sophia.”

“We see the truck in the parking lot, so now our heart’s racing just a little bit more. Adrenaline’s pumping.”

“Since he was in federal custody, it falls under the US Marshal’s jurisdiction as well, so I called some Marshall friends of mine. We’re sitting on this truck not knowing if he’s going to come out back out to this truck and we’re going to have a confrontation right there before the marshals get there.”

“After a few tense moments, US marshals arrived to help FBI agents raid the apartment.”

“Step outside. Can we go inside search your premises?”

“But Blackburn isn’t there.”

“May have been used in the commission of a crime.”

“Agents ask the fugitive’s sister-in-law where Tim Blackburn is. She says she doesn’t know.”

“This could be extreme.”

“They ask why Sophia’s Isuzu is there and not her own car, which authorities know as a Nissan Pathfinder. She claims it’s in the shop, but her story does not check out. Days ago, agents suspect Blackburn is on the run with her Pathfinder.”

“The vehicle, can you tell us where it is?”

“No, I have no idea where it’s at.”

“For the next week, the FBI searches for Blackburn, his wife, and their two little girls. They come up empty. Then, 9 days after the jailbreak, a Las Vegas police helicopter spots a Nissan Pathfinder parked in the desert. A family of four is nearby.”

“The FBI and Las Vegas police arrive in force.”

“Now we have no shot.”

“Special Agent Castle Nishimoto leads the FBI SWAT team.”

“We were located on a ridge line, quite a bit above them, and there was a valley between us. We can see some people about half a mile away, too far away to identify them.”

“If law enforcement tries to move any closer, they will have to move through an unprotected open space.”

“We got to keep our distance from these people because if it was Blackburn, he is a marksman.”

“Nevertheless, Agent Schlump daringly volunteers to drive down for a closer look.”

“It did take some courage because the only coverage she had would have been the snipers and they had at least three or 400 yard shot as I recall.”

“As Agent Schlump gets nearer, he can finally make out faces.”

“I could recognize that it wasn’t Blackburn. It wasn’t anybody who we were looking for.”

“Authorities have hit another dead end, but Agent Schlump also realizes that authorities cannot continue to respond on such a massive scale.”

“There must have been a hundred vehicles in this valley, all the SWAT vehicles and evidence response team vehicles and police cruisers. And I’m thinking to myself, you know, we can’t be doing this every time someone says Tim Blackburn. I mean, nobody’s got the resources, and we’re going to burn ourselves out.”

“The next night, law enforcement pursues the dangerous fugitive with every available resource.”

“We had about 40 agents, police, marshals, Henderson Police Department, detention center people. We got everybody together, we divided up into teams, and what we were going to do was interview every one of Blackburn’s associates, search every house, find every vehicle that he could possibly have access to.”

“US Marshals tell the FBI they have spotted the fugitive.”

“We arrived right as they’re taking down what they believe is Tim Blackburn. I could tell right away it wasn’t Tim Blackburn. It was his brother. His brother is a younger, slightly smaller version of Tim Blackburn, very similar in appearance.”

“As we’re IDing him, what we notice is that his driver’s license was brand new; he had just gotten it the day before. So we asked them, ‘Well, what happened to your old license?’”

“Hood.”

“Blackburn’s brother claims he lost his license, but agents suspect he gave it to the fugitive to use as a fake ID.”

“What do you got in the car?”

“Agents find a note from Tim Blackburn. In it, he asks his brother to get him some money.”

“Get this check cashed.”

“A man who once had a million dollars in his possession now needs a loan to survive.”

“We decided to arrest him for aiding and abetting a fugitive, so that’s what we did. We arrested Tim Blackburn’s brother.”

“Authorities also arrest Blackburn’s sister-in-law for lying to federal authorities when she said her Nissan Pathfinder was in the shop. With two of his family members in custody, agents develop an ingenious plan to lure Tim Blackburn into the open.”

“In Las Vegas, a violent bank robber breaks out of jail with the help of his wife. After 3 days of eluding authorities, agents decide to turn up the heat on the dangerous fugitive.”

“One of the people we wanted to talk to that night was a close friend of Blackburn’s who worked as a bouncer at a local gentleman’s club. Most people who knew Blackburn either liked him or were afraid of him, and neither opinion was really conducive to providing information to us. His friend was really no exception. He didn’t want to tell us anything, but eventually what he told us was that Tim Blackburn had called him at the time he was escaping.”

“Blackburn had called up and said, ‘I’m out. I’m out.’”

“And this friend could hear the sirens and stuff in the background.”

“You’re the last guy that we know about, so I told this friend, ‘You are the last person who Tim Blackburn talked to that we know about, and I think he’s going to call you again. And when he does, we want you to tell him that we’ve arrested his brother and that the people who have assisted him are going to have to pay for what they did to help him.’”

“This putting pressure on Blackburn was an effort to try to get him to realize he couldn’t really escape, to get him to turn himself in wherever he was at.”

“The next morning, this friend called me up and told me that sure enough, Tim Blackburn had called him again, and that he had told him that I’d arrested his brother and his sister-in-law. And you know, I asked him, ‘What did Blackburn say?’ And he just said he was mad.”

“2 and a half weeks after the jailbreak, FBI agent Henry Schlump learns that Blackburn may have returned to Las Vegas.”

“I got a phone call from a Las Vegas SWAT officer. He had just met someone who gave him some information regarding Blackburn’s whereabouts in Las Vegas, which to my mind was doubtful. I doubted Blackburn was in Las Vegas, but I told the, I asked the officer to ask this fellow if he knew the names of Blackburn’s daughters, and sure enough, this informant did know the names. So at least we knew he did know Blackburn.”

“The informant claims Blackburn is staying at a motel that caters to long-term guests. Agent Schlump and two Las Vegas SWAT officers rushed to the location.”

“You seen these two before?”

“The manager says he’s never seen the Blackburns before, and they are not registered at the motel.”

“Okay, that’s your register right there. You have a key?”

“Still, Agent Schlump decides to rent a room so he can surveil the facility.”

“Okay.”

“SWAT officers call in the license plates of every vehicle in the parking lot. None of them are reported as either stolen or owned by any of Blackburn’s relatives. The motel tip is beginning to look like another false lead. The FBI does not give up. They begin checking every apartment.”

“So what we decided to do was to perform a ruse. We would have a complex security guard just start knocking on doors and notifying the residents of noise complaints.”

“I’m there watching, and the door opens, and Sophia Blackburn comes out to talk to the guard. I couldn’t believe it. There she was. She looked happy and smiling and well-rested, better than I’d ever seen her. She did not look like she’d been on the run for 17 days.”

“Suspecting that Blackburn is hiding in the apartment, Agent Schlump calls for immediate backup. The criminal apprehension team in Las Vegas SWAT arrived within minutes.”

“SWAT responded right away, more agents came, and a lot of patrol units. The marshals came, and what we did was we started evacuating the complex. Every apartment was evacuated except of course for the one where we thought Blackburn might be. And then we did what we do in 99% of our fugitive cases. Our criminal apprehension team placed a call into the apartment.”

“I need to talk to Timothy Blackburn.”

“What they do is they tell the person in there, ‘Look, we know you’re there, you’re surrounded, there’s no way that you can get out. So come on out. We just want to find a nice peaceful way to end this whole thing.’”

“So I’m waiting for Blackburn to come out, and I’m deciding, you know, where are we going to take him back to the jail he escaped from or to a different facility? And that was my mindset, you know, if he was in there he was going to come out. But he doesn’t.”

“Agent Schlump, the apprehension team person was on the phone and she says he wants to talk to you.”

“Hello, Tim.”

“And sure enough, it was Tim Blackburn. And my job was just to keep him talking on the phone, because as long as he’s talking on the phone, he’s not shooting anybody.”

“When I first started talking with Blackburn, I had was kind of commiserating with him, telling him, you know, it must have been hard to be on the run for the last three weeks.”

“Hey, I took the kids to San Diego, have you ever been?”

“So here he was maybe 10 minutes from Mexico and he didn’t go there. He came back to Las Vegas.”

“Agent Schlump cannot understand why Blackburn has returned but is even more concerned that his children may be with him.”

“Why don’t we just talk about…”

“Then his worst fears are realized. He hears the two little girls laughing in the background.”

“Two kids inside the room?”

“Yes, children inside the room. Repeat, there’s children inside the room.”

“The SWAT team set up outside the apartment and they were there to initiate a hostage rescue if Blackburn turned violent and started hurting any of the people in the apartment, Sophia and their two little girls.”

“I don’t suppose you can just…”

“He says, ‘Henry, I don’t suppose you can just let us go.’”

“And you know I told him, you know, you know I can’t do that.”

“I’m not going back to jail, man. I’m not going back to jail. Look, I don’t want my kids to visit me in jail.”

“Tim was set on not going back to jail. He said he just wasn’t going to go back, and you know, after shooting a guard, I mean there’s no way any of that is going to go away.”

“Schlump worries that Blackburn may be suicidal.”

“Hey Tim, you know it’s time to come in, buddy.”

“Authorities now face a dangerous scenario: a hostage barricade situation involving an armed man, his wife, and two small children.”

“Look, I’m not going back, man. That’s just it. I’m not going back to jail. I’m not going back.”

“The FBI and police SWAT team surround a motel just off the strip in Las Vegas. A violent bank robber has barricaded himself inside one of the apartments.”

“I’m not going back, man.”

“Tim Blackburn is armed and emotional. Inside the room with him are his wife Sophia and his two daughters.”

“Oh, you came back.”

“FBI agent Henry Schlump tries to talk the desperate man into surrendering.”

“Come on out.”

“Although negotiators are present, Blackburn refuses to talk with anyone but Agent Schlump, who months earlier had arrested him for bank robbery.”

“I’m not going back to jail, man. I don’t want my kids to visit me in jail.”

“Agent Schlump pleads with both Blackburn and Sophia to let the children leave the apartment.”

“Slow it all down. Sometimes I talk with Sophia and sometimes with Blackburn. It seemed like maybe we were getting a little farther ahead talking with Sophia, but then when we take a break and she talked to Blackburn, we kind of have to start over again. He had a lot of influence with her, because he’s her husband. She was afraid that if she were to leave with the children that Blackburn would kill himself, and you know, she certainly didn’t want that to happen.”

“We’d take breaks and then I’d call in again. You know, there were highs and lows. Sometimes it seemed like we were making progress, other times, you know, we took a couple of steps backward.”

“Hey Tim, you know it’s time to come in, buddy.”

“So, Henry, what’s the best place to shoot myself in the head, huh?”

“He asked me what I thought would be the best place for him to shoot himself, and I told him that we had a lot of other things that we could talk about and try to work out before it came to that.”

“How are the kids doing?”

“Blackburn says he put his daughters in the bathtub to protect them.”

“For their own protection.”

“But the SWAT commander is concerned confining them could also be the prelude to a murder-suicide pact.”

“All right.”

“The SWAT team prepares to blow the door in case they need to rescue Sophia and the children.”

“The SWAT team placed a explosive charge on the door, an entry charge, so to be able to breach the door very quickly if they needed to.”

“After four long hours of negotiation.”

“They had to go clear to the back into the bathroom to try and rescue the children. And in this case, seconds, fractions of seconds, count. They got there just in time to see Blackburn falling down from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

“They find Sophia dead. Both the children have been shot in the head and are barely alive.”

“I saw them running very quickly to try to save the children. The SWAT team got them to the paramedics, but they died in their arms.”

“I felt quite saddened that my fellow SWAT officers tried their best and yet weren’t able to save the children. Our mission was to save lives and we were not able to accomplish that. It was just devastating. It was the worst possible outcome.”

“The coroner later determines that the shots that killed Blackburn, Sophia, and their two little girls were all fired by Blackburn himself.”

“A few months later in federal court in Las Vegas.”

“Riley Bates and his girlfriend plead guilty to possessing stolen money. Because of their cooperation, they are sentenced to only a year.”

“Blackburn’s sister-in-law is sentenced to one year for lying to federal agents and impeding their investigation.”

“Robert Bates pleads guilty to bank robbery and is sentenced to 24 years in prison.”

“Today, Agent Henry Schlump has made his own peace with the tragic events caused by Tim Blackburn.”

“He’s ultimately responsible for everything that happened. He came back to Las Vegas to do exactly what he did. He came back to die. I don’t think he was going to ever come out of that apartment or let anybody else come out of it either.”

“Las Vegas law enforcement will never forget the deaths of two innocent children. For them, the Blackburn case is all about lost hope and the tragedy of a desperate agenda.”

“Heat.”

“Heat.”