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Let's take this videoto the Idaho side of the Park.
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But to get to Idaho, you go out the west entrance.
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The west entrance? Okay.
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Is that the region where, um...
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Have you heard of this
constitutional loophole thing?
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Is that the region
where that is?
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Constitutional loophole?
I'm not following that.
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You never read any
articles about that stuff?
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- No.
- Okay.
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Thanks a lot.
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- Here you go.
- Thank you.
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- Have a great day.
- I will.
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Knows nothing.
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No one knows anything.
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Yellowstone National Park.
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Around every corner is a reminder
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of how still life can be.
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How vast it can be.
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How true it can be.
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Until it isn't.
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Yellowstone woke up
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to what has to be the worst crime
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in the National Park's history.
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A bizarre triple homicide,
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where the murderer immediately
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turned himself in and confessed.
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First victim was by the fire.
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The second one, I don't know,
maybe 10 feet from it.
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This is where
the third victim was shot.
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- Okay.
- By the back wheel?
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I just really can't understand
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how a man can commit all these horrific crimes, you know,
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and then just...
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Talk about it like he's
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reciting the details
of a traffic violation.
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Nobody could have expected
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the side swipe that occurred.
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We're talking abouta confessed murderer here.
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One who showed no remorse, no regret.
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This guy should have been
put away for life.
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There is no resolution.
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I mean, it's just this thing hanging over us.
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I think most of the country, most of the world,
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hasn't even heard of this.
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Well, this whole thing
was swept under the rug.
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It's an embarrassment.
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My name is Julian Pinder.
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As a documentary filmmaker,
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I believe anything in life can be fascinating
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when you delve into the details.
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I find characters and I tell a story through them.
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Their words, their actions, their eyes.
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But it's a completely different story
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when the camera turns on you.
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It's nice.
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How's that?
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I first heard of this story
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when I received an email not too long ago.
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Three boys were murdered
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in a remote part of Yellowstone National Park.
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What struck me was that the murders took place
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on April 27th, 2009,
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nearly five years ago.
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Why was I being sent this now?
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The email came from chasingbisonbear@gmail.com.
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I was unsuccessful in contacting the source of the email.
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But when I did a search,
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incredible images immediately surfaced
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of a bear chasing a burnt bison
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down a winter road in Yellowstone.
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Incredible and unbelievable.
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A chase like none other seen before.
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These images would prove to be a metaphor
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for the Yellowstone murders.
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David Drabeck, Thomas Burnett and Cody Gibbs
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were camping in Yellowstone National Park,
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when tragedy struck.
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A chance encounter with a stranger proved fatal
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when Williston resident, Dwayne Nelson,
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killed the young men
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in a self-described moment of insanity.
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Shocking news of a three person homicide
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early this morning.
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The suspect turned himself in
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just after 5:30 A.M.
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In what has to be the worst crime
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in the National Park's history.
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I was here,
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and I received a phone call.
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It was our family doctor.
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There was an emergency contact thing
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in Thomas' wallet.
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It was the middle of the night.
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I didn't know why I was getting a call.
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I... I dropped to that floor.
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And I didn't think I was
ever going to get up again.
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First thing was...
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Was violence.
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Because, uh...
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I heard that someone shot him...
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In the back.
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And I... was angry. I was very angry.
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It took a while for
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grief to set in.
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I didn't believe it.
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I thought they'd made
a mistake,
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came to the wrong house,
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had the wrong boy.
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I didn't believe it.
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I didn't believe it till I actually saw his body.
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On that day I can remember pretty much everything.
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I remember the color of the sky,
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the calmness in the air.
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I was just here at my post.
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This particular
ranger station, um,
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is the furthest south-west
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that you can get to by vehicle
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in Yellowstone.
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It was just after 5:30 in the morning.
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I'd just made myself a cup of coffee.
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He walked out of the woods,
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the West Side, the entrance side.
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He left the weapon
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outside of the door,
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and just walked in.
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The way it happened,
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you'd think there would have been some emotion.
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But like I said before,
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he seemed so calm and, uh...
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So normal.
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Right here.
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This way.
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It was right in here
that they parked the truck.
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This is where
the third victim was shot,
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- by the back wheel.
- Okay.
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It's a bit of a clearing here.
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And this is where the fire pit
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was set up.
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Right around here.
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This is where the other two
victims were found.
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First victim was by the fire,
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and the second one,
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I don't know,
maybe ten feet from it.
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Never stood much of a chance.
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The families...
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Come and visit them.
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They bring flowers and stuff.
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But he just wanted to be outside, all the time.
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I mean, he's the guy that
organized all those trips,
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every year.
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Even when they weren't around,he'd grab his knapsack
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and be gone.
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Go off hiking by himself.
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He just...
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I don't know what it was about him.
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I guess he found something in nature that...
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That put him at peace, I don't know.
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But he loved it.
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This is, uh,
Thomas and Alicia.
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- Great looking couple.
- Yeah.
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And Thomas on his wedding day.
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That's a great shot.
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And another one of
Thomas and Alicia.
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This one over here,
this is, uh...
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This is all the boys together.
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Thomas, Cody and David.
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Oh, you know.
I'll show you this, actually.
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Here's...
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I took that on the morning
that they left.
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They did that trip every year.
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Well, David didn't actually
join them until
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the third year.
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But, uh...
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This was their...
This was their fifth year
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doing the trip.
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You know, they'd all come
over here in the morning,
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and they'd have breakfast,
and...
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And then they'd leave.
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Thomas, he was the one
with the pickup truck. So...
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And that's that.
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Sorry.
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It's all right.
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Okay.
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I built a business that I...
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Wanted to leave to him.
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You know, I respect what he did and what he loved,
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but I thought at some point he's gotta grow up and accept
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who he is and...
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You know?
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At least make a life
for himself.
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Make a career for himself.
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- Drive safe.
- Will do. Bye.
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- Love you, mom.
- Bye.
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He was going off to...
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Yellowstone the umpteenth time,
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and it was just...
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He was on my last nerve
that day.
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We'd had a little spat at dinner the night before,
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and then he go... traipse offto the...
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To the Park, and I just, you know...
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The last thing I said
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was just, you know,
"good luck finding a career.
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In the woods."
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Or whatever I said. It just...
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There are only four people
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who truly know what happened that night.
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Three of them are dead.
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The only eye witness account
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comes from Dwayne Nelson,
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the man who pulled the trigger.
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You know, once the suspect
is talking,
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they don't shut up.
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It's like they need to get it out.
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But let me tell you something.
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With Dwayne,
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he gave us everything.
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It was almost like the...
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It was rehearsed.
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I'm standing outside the Cheyenne Police Station,
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where Dwayne Nelson willsoon be moved to the Courthouse
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to attend a preliminary hearing
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in a case that is being dubbed"the Yellowstone murders."
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A bizarre triple homicide,
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where the murderer immediately
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turned himself in and confessed.
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I just really can't understand
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how a man could commit
all these horrific crimes,
you know.
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And then just talk about it
like he's, uh...
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Reciting the details of
a traffic violation.
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If you could say something to Dwayne Nelson,
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and you had that opportunity, what would you say to him?
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If I could say anything
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to Dwayne,
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I would say that i
want my son back.
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I would say that I want Cody back.
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Out of the way.
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He's never offered me an apology.
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He's never taken anyresponsibility for his actions.
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What will I have to say to him?
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Nothing.
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We're live now.
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He will pay for the murders
of these boys.
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And he will understand
what it feels like
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to have something
taken away from you.
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If I could even just...
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Understand why
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this person did this,
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then I could maybe
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move better to forgiveness,
but...
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Because it's just so...
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Senseless and random.
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It shook my faith
for a very long time.
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Cheyenne Police spent three months
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looking for a motive.
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They found none.
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With Dwayne's confession, they were certain of a conviction.
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There were still questions that needed answering.
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I canceled my flight home
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and headed to Cheyenne, Wyoming,
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where the hearing took place years ago.
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I think the only regret I have is...
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Is maybe the, uh...
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The over-confidence
that we were...
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That it was a done thing.
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A surefire
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win for us.
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But I, uh...
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I honestly didn't think
that it would go through.
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I wouldn't call it arrogant, but certainly,
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it seemed like an easy case to me.
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You wanna take
your feelings out of it,
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but we're talking about
a confessed murderer here.
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One who showed
no remorse, no regret.
274
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We had murder weapon.
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We had fingerprints.
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Security footage,
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and a population screaming for justice.
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And who wanted him put away for life.
279
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And at that time, there was
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no doubt in my mind we were gonna do just that.
281
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The fact that I got the Nelson case was a surprise.
282
00:18:51,131 --> 00:18:52,463
My first, uh...
283
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Murder trial.
284
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And I knew it was
gonna be a big deal.
285
00:18:58,637 --> 00:18:59,604
Uh...
286
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And it was a big deal.
287
00:19:03,842 --> 00:19:05,476
Dwayne's case was very unique.
288
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Okay?
289
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What you had here was
290
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a classic plea pardon case.
291
00:19:14,453 --> 00:19:16,921
There was no logic
to his motivation.
292
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Absolutely none.
293
00:19:19,591 --> 00:19:22,827
Which set it up
for an insanity plea.
294
00:19:22,829 --> 00:19:25,429
I wanted to change
the location of the trial.
295
00:19:26,365 --> 00:19:28,499
I wanted to, uh...
296
00:19:28,501 --> 00:19:29,800
Make sure that we had
an impartial jury.
297
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He wouldn't stand for it.
298
00:19:31,304 --> 00:19:33,337
The loophole was
brought up to me
299
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almost exactly 24 hours
before we went to the hearing.
300
00:19:39,478 --> 00:19:41,279
So we looked at it.
We looked at it,
301
00:19:41,281 --> 00:19:42,847
we danced around it,
it was a conversation.
302
00:19:43,916 --> 00:19:45,416
And, uh...
303
00:19:45,418 --> 00:19:47,285
And then we looked into
the legalities of it.
304
00:19:49,321 --> 00:19:50,421
Then we ran with it.
305
00:19:52,224 --> 00:19:53,858
Will the defendant please rise.
306
00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:57,295
Based on Federal and District Law,
307
00:19:57,297 --> 00:20:00,698
the Constitution and with no legal precedent to draw from,
308
00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:02,934
I have no choice but to side with the defense.
309
00:20:02,936 --> 00:20:04,602
Mr. Nelson, you are free to go.
310
00:20:05,905 --> 00:20:09,407
The murder trial in Cheyenne this morning
311
00:20:09,409 --> 00:20:11,776
has taken yet another unexpected turn.
312
00:20:11,778 --> 00:20:13,578
During today's preliminary hearing,
313
00:20:13,580 --> 00:20:15,313
confessed murderer, Dwayne Nelson,
314
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was acquitted of all charges
315
00:20:17,850 --> 00:20:20,985
due to what can only be described as a flaw in the system.
316
00:20:20,987 --> 00:20:20,985
...an unusual case.
317
00:20:20,987 --> 00:20:24,355
And families are understandably shocked
318
00:20:24,357 --> 00:20:24,355
with the Judge's decision.
319
00:20:24,357 --> 00:20:26,891
Imagine a murderer being allowed to
320
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walk the streets as a free man.
321
00:20:28,828 --> 00:20:31,495
That's exactly what took place here today.
322
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,736
I remember there was
absolute confusion
323
00:20:38,738 --> 00:20:40,004
and shock.
324
00:20:40,006 --> 00:20:41,239
All hell broke loose.
325
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:42,974
Right? It was...
326
00:20:43,775 --> 00:20:45,643
Insanity.
327
00:20:45,645 --> 00:20:48,446
We weren't prepared for that.
I wasn't prepared for that.
328
00:20:48,448 --> 00:20:50,314
This guy should have been
put away for life.
329
00:20:52,451 --> 00:20:54,418
It was so far beyond logic.
330
00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:56,988
So far beyond reason.
331
00:20:56,990 --> 00:20:58,723
It was... it was...
332
00:21:00,292 --> 00:21:01,525
Beyond justice.
333
00:21:04,029 --> 00:21:06,330
And the worst part was feeling the shift.
334
00:21:08,333 --> 00:21:10,668
You know, 'cause it
was like Dwayne
335
00:21:10,670 --> 00:21:11,902
was no longer the bad guy.
336
00:21:13,038 --> 00:21:14,038
I was.
337
00:21:15,874 --> 00:21:19,043
And it was the assistants that came in
338
00:21:19,045 --> 00:21:21,379
and gave us the news initially.
339
00:21:22,547 --> 00:21:22,546
So they could be the recipients
340
00:21:22,548 --> 00:21:27,285
of all of our grief and all of our anger at that moment.
341
00:21:27,287 --> 00:21:29,520
And then the head team came in
342
00:21:29,522 --> 00:21:31,022
and explained to us
what had happened.
343
00:21:33,325 --> 00:21:35,426
The loopholein the law changed everything.
344
00:21:36,295 --> 00:21:38,396
And unless we could prove
345
00:21:38,398 --> 00:21:38,396
that the murders were premeditated,
346
00:21:38,398 --> 00:21:42,967
or that a felony was committedleading up to the murders,
347
00:21:42,969 --> 00:21:45,469
this crime could not and cannot be tried.
348
00:21:45,471 --> 00:21:46,537
You need a motive.
349
00:21:46,539 --> 00:21:48,806
We need motive
to move the trail,
350
00:21:48,808 --> 00:21:50,875
to get him out from under
the protection of
that goddamn loophole.
351
00:21:52,611 --> 00:21:54,378
We had covered all the bases.
352
00:21:54,380 --> 00:21:56,013
We had looked for any connection
353
00:21:56,015 --> 00:21:58,316
between Dwayne Nelson and his murder victims.
354
00:21:58,318 --> 00:21:58,316
But there wasn't any.
355
00:21:58,318 --> 00:22:00,584
Dwayne was from North Dakota,
356
00:22:00,586 --> 00:22:03,087
and the boys were from Rapid City.
357
00:22:04,589 --> 00:22:06,023
So, as Dwayne confessed,
358
00:22:06,025 --> 00:22:08,659
it was an isolated incident.
There was no motive.
359
00:22:10,429 --> 00:22:13,864
We were all regular...
360
00:22:13,866 --> 00:22:15,433
People who didn't even understand
361
00:22:15,435 --> 00:22:16,834
half of the system to begin with.
362
00:22:18,403 --> 00:22:21,839
And once we began with the whole
363
00:22:23,075 --> 00:22:26,911
State line, Federal,
the State...
364
00:22:26,913 --> 00:22:30,948
I think we just assumed
that they would work it out.
365
00:22:32,117 --> 00:22:35,586
I don't think anyone
really understood
366
00:22:35,588 --> 00:22:37,555
the ramifications of this.
367
00:22:37,557 --> 00:22:39,123
I think there was a feeling,
368
00:22:39,125 --> 00:22:41,025
certainly in me,
369
00:22:41,027 --> 00:22:43,094
and I know in a few
of the others, was that
370
00:22:43,096 --> 00:22:46,530
this was just maybe
the first step
371
00:22:46,532 --> 00:22:50,034
in crossing this huge hurdle,
372
00:22:50,036 --> 00:22:52,770
and that we would stick with it,
373
00:22:52,772 --> 00:22:52,770
and there would be appeals,
374
00:22:52,772 --> 00:22:57,842
and everyone would throw their weight behind this.
375
00:22:57,844 --> 00:23:00,678
And as the weeks,and eventually months, passed,
376
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,381
and we realized,
377
00:23:03,383 --> 00:23:07,051
"No. No, this isn't... This isn't changing.
378
00:23:07,053 --> 00:23:10,554
This really is not changing
in our favor."
379
00:23:10,556 --> 00:23:13,591
There was an incredible
amount of anger.
380
00:23:13,593 --> 00:23:15,793
I don't feel guilty for
adhering to the Constitution.
381
00:23:17,629 --> 00:23:19,163
I don't feel guilty
382
00:23:19,165 --> 00:23:20,965
doing what's right
according to the law.
383
00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:24,101
Right? I don't feel guilty
384
00:23:24,103 --> 00:23:26,437
for letting a man walk
385
00:23:26,439 --> 00:23:29,106
because the Constitution
says that he should.
386
00:23:30,041 --> 00:23:31,041
I'm doing my job.
387
00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:34,178
The Court did their job.
388
00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:35,880
We all did our job on this.
389
00:23:38,717 --> 00:23:40,184
He walks.
He's supposed to walk.
390
00:23:41,019 --> 00:23:42,186
Right?
391
00:23:45,724 --> 00:23:46,791
Simple.
392
00:23:51,563 --> 00:23:53,431
The fuck are we on?
393
00:23:53,433 --> 00:23:55,599
Left on the main street.
394
00:23:55,601 --> 00:23:59,203
Daniel Matcek was a local Yellowstone newspaper reporter.
395
00:23:59,205 --> 00:23:59,203
He covered the hearings
396
00:23:59,205 --> 00:24:02,973
and spent a lot of time researching the murders.
397
00:24:02,975 --> 00:24:04,942
It's a small town,
398
00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:04,942
and I've lived here my whole life.
399
00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:08,446
And nothing like this has ever happened before.
400
00:24:08,448 --> 00:24:11,982
So I have a responsibility to tell the story.
401
00:24:11,984 --> 00:24:16,720
I actually call my article "The Inconceivable Truth".
402
00:24:16,722 --> 00:24:19,123
It's so funny that it
became a constitutional debate.
403
00:24:19,925 --> 00:24:21,592
Three boys were shot
404
00:24:21,594 --> 00:24:22,993
and killed.
405
00:24:22,995 --> 00:24:24,829
In cold blood.
406
00:24:24,831 --> 00:24:26,797
This is not
a constitutional issue.
407
00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:28,566
It became
a constitutional issue
408
00:24:28,568 --> 00:24:31,569
because Dwayne made it
a constitutional issue.
409
00:24:31,571 --> 00:24:34,138
There's three dead boys,
410
00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:35,606
and no one went to jail for it.
411
00:24:36,508 --> 00:24:37,775
No one was punished for it.
412
00:24:38,210 --> 00:24:38,209
What did he do?
413
00:24:38,211 --> 00:24:42,246
Six months for illegal
possession of a firearm
414
00:24:42,248 --> 00:24:43,848
in a National Park?
415
00:24:43,850 --> 00:24:44,949
It's a joke.
416
00:24:44,951 --> 00:24:46,517
That is a joke
417
00:24:46,519 --> 00:24:47,985
to those families.
418
00:24:47,987 --> 00:24:50,588
I am still angry.
419
00:24:51,823 --> 00:24:52,957
I'm still in shock.
420
00:24:54,259 --> 00:24:59,029
I still feel completely
betrayed by a system that
421
00:24:59,031 --> 00:25:01,732
not only did I think
that was on my side,
422
00:25:01,734 --> 00:25:04,134
but I was assured
it was on my side.
423
00:25:04,136 --> 00:25:05,836
Who came up
with the loophole defense?
424
00:25:07,105 --> 00:25:08,239
I don't recall.
425
00:25:08,241 --> 00:25:10,007
I don't recall.
426
00:25:10,009 --> 00:25:11,275
We started throwing around...
427
00:25:11,277 --> 00:25:13,777
It was an idea that...
428
00:25:13,779 --> 00:25:16,180
Looked more and more
interesting the more
we looked at it.
429
00:25:16,182 --> 00:25:17,748
And we started to run with it.
430
00:25:17,750 --> 00:25:20,150
But you don't recall
who came up with the one--
431
00:25:20,152 --> 00:25:21,919
I don't recall.
432
00:25:21,921 --> 00:25:24,722
I find that impossible
to believe.
433
00:25:24,724 --> 00:25:26,123
- You find that
impossible to believe?
- Yeah.
434
00:25:26,658 --> 00:25:28,792
Look, uh...
435
00:25:28,794 --> 00:25:30,060
It was the basis of
your entire--
436
00:25:30,062 --> 00:25:31,262
I was told that you were
coming in here
437
00:25:31,264 --> 00:25:32,863
to talk to me
438
00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:34,598
about practicing law
in Cheyenne.
439
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:34,598
Well, this is part of it.
440
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,668
Not specific elements
about specific cases. Okay?
441
00:25:37,670 --> 00:25:39,136
You want that stuff?
442
00:25:39,138 --> 00:25:41,038
If you want it,
you can go down to the Court,
443
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,841
there are Court records,
you can take a look
at all that stuff.
444
00:25:43,843 --> 00:25:44,875
Okay? It's all there for you.
445
00:25:46,244 --> 00:25:47,611
- Okay.
- All right? Are we good here?
446
00:25:47,613 --> 00:25:48,679
Can we just back up a little?
447
00:25:48,681 --> 00:25:50,114
'Cause I'm good.
448
00:25:50,116 --> 00:25:51,982
I'm good. All right?
Thank you very much.
449
00:25:51,984 --> 00:25:53,217
I appreciate you coming by,
I really do.
450
00:25:53,219 --> 00:25:54,318
Thank you. Thank you.
451
00:26:03,962 --> 00:26:03,961
I went to the Courthouse,
452
00:26:03,963 --> 00:26:07,631
but was denied access to the records.
453
00:26:07,633 --> 00:26:09,667
I was told the documents had been sealed,
454
00:26:09,669 --> 00:26:10,901
but they couldn't tell me why.
455
00:26:21,646 --> 00:26:23,781
Investigating the loophole, however,
456
00:26:23,783 --> 00:26:24,715
was much easier.
457
00:26:28,887 --> 00:26:30,921
The Constitution is the Supreme law
458
00:26:30,923 --> 00:26:33,057
for every citizen living in the United States.
459
00:26:34,192 --> 00:26:36,126
But the Constitution that protects us
460
00:26:36,128 --> 00:26:38,128
also let a murderer go free.
461
00:26:40,732 --> 00:26:43,801
Article three, Section two of the Constitution...
462
00:26:51,276 --> 00:26:53,043
This, however, does not clarify
463
00:26:53,045 --> 00:26:54,244
where the jury should come from.
464
00:26:55,347 --> 00:26:57,381
So the sixth amendment was written,
465
00:26:57,383 --> 00:26:59,083
requiring that the jury must be...
466
00:27:06,324 --> 00:27:08,359
So based on the Constitution,
467
00:27:08,361 --> 00:27:10,194
any person charged with murder
468
00:27:10,196 --> 00:27:12,730
must be tried before a local jury
469
00:27:12,732 --> 00:27:15,132
that comes from the State and District
470
00:27:15,134 --> 00:27:16,734
in which the crime took place.
471
00:27:18,770 --> 00:27:20,871
Yellowstone National Park,
472
00:27:20,873 --> 00:27:23,374
established back in 1872,
473
00:27:23,376 --> 00:27:26,410
recognized as the first National Park in the world.
474
00:27:26,412 --> 00:27:30,314
It is predominantly situated in the north-west corner of Wyoming.
475
00:27:30,316 --> 00:27:33,183
But approximately nine percent of Yellowstone
476
00:27:33,185 --> 00:27:35,919
overflows north into Montana,
477
00:27:35,921 --> 00:27:38,122
and west into Idaho.
478
00:27:38,124 --> 00:27:40,290
The strip of the Park located in Idaho
479
00:27:40,292 --> 00:27:43,360
is where the law and civil rights collide.
480
00:27:45,397 --> 00:27:48,098
Yellowstone Park is not governed by State law.
481
00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:50,334
It is ruled under Federal law.
482
00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:53,771
So any crime committed in the Park
483
00:27:53,773 --> 00:27:56,273
must be tried at the Courthouse in Mammoth Hot Springs.
484
00:27:56,275 --> 00:27:59,043
Or in Cheyenne at the Federal District Court.
485
00:27:59,978 --> 00:28:02,012
So what does this all mean?
486
00:28:02,014 --> 00:28:05,716
The jurors must be drawn from this small strip of land
487
00:28:05,718 --> 00:28:07,818
of approximately 50 square miles.
488
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,754
There is only one problem.
489
00:28:11,823 --> 00:28:13,157
No one lives here.
490
00:28:13,992 --> 00:28:15,959
You cannot select a jury of 12
491
00:28:15,961 --> 00:28:19,763
from an area that has a population of zero.
492
00:28:33,044 --> 00:28:34,812
Hello, sir.
493
00:28:34,814 --> 00:28:36,447
Can I ask you a question?
494
00:28:36,449 --> 00:28:37,948
Sorry to interrupt you.
495
00:28:37,950 --> 00:28:39,016
I know you're in the middle
of your meal there.
496
00:28:39,018 --> 00:28:40,250
But, uh...
497
00:28:41,786 --> 00:28:43,087
You or anyone from your herd
498
00:28:43,089 --> 00:28:44,321
happen to have
been in the region
499
00:28:44,323 --> 00:28:45,756
where there's, uh,
500
00:28:45,758 --> 00:28:47,858
a supposed
constitutional loophole,
501
00:28:47,860 --> 00:28:48,892
near the Idaho side?
502
00:28:50,128 --> 00:28:51,462
No?
503
00:28:51,464 --> 00:28:53,063
Or any of your family
or associates?
504
00:28:54,299 --> 00:28:55,399
Nothing?
505
00:28:56,768 --> 00:28:58,235
Deutsch? Speak Deutsch?
506
00:29:05,510 --> 00:29:07,010
It's just right up here.
507
00:29:18,923 --> 00:29:21,125
So if these maps are right,
508
00:29:21,127 --> 00:29:23,060
I think this is pretty much
the line here.
509
00:29:24,763 --> 00:29:26,864
So somewhere around here...
510
00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:30,467
Is the loophole in
the Constitution.
511
00:29:31,302 --> 00:29:32,803
And somewhere around here
512
00:29:34,339 --> 00:29:36,006
is the no loophole
in the Constitution.
513
00:29:37,275 --> 00:29:40,043
So the boundary is
kind of right there.
514
00:29:40,045 --> 00:29:42,012
Most people,
when they hear about it,
515
00:29:42,014 --> 00:29:44,448
they focus on the simple
matters of the case.
516
00:29:44,450 --> 00:29:45,382
They...
517
00:29:46,251 --> 00:29:48,452
Broad strokes.
518
00:29:48,454 --> 00:29:50,521
The murders, the hole
in the Constitution.
519
00:29:50,523 --> 00:29:52,122
And understandably so.
520
00:29:52,124 --> 00:29:54,291
I mean, these are
the boldest parts of the case.
521
00:29:54,293 --> 00:29:56,827
But you can't,
and you really shouldn't
522
00:29:56,829 --> 00:29:59,296
miss the kind of
523
00:29:59,298 --> 00:30:01,064
mind boggling things
524
00:30:01,066 --> 00:30:03,433
that happened from the murders
525
00:30:03,435 --> 00:30:05,102
up until the Court hearing.
526
00:30:05,104 --> 00:30:06,136
All right?
527
00:30:06,138 --> 00:30:07,871
Number one.
528
00:30:07,873 --> 00:30:10,440
Dwayne turns himself in
voluntarily almost immediately.
529
00:30:10,442 --> 00:30:12,442
Number two...
530
00:30:12,444 --> 00:30:14,912
He confesses,
within his rights,
531
00:30:14,914 --> 00:30:16,547
without representation
or legal counsel.
532
00:30:16,549 --> 00:30:17,881
Number three...
533
00:30:17,883 --> 00:30:19,082
He refuses
534
00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:20,884
to plead insanity.
535
00:30:20,886 --> 00:30:22,586
Number four, he refuses to move
536
00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:25,122
the trial.
537
00:30:25,124 --> 00:30:26,390
Now if you add all
those four things up,
538
00:30:26,392 --> 00:30:28,058
and he goes away
for a triple homicide,
539
00:30:28,060 --> 00:30:29,593
you can say, "fine."
540
00:30:29,595 --> 00:30:32,029
But he didn't.
He got away with it.
541
00:30:32,031 --> 00:30:34,097
And not because he
had a fair trial,
542
00:30:34,099 --> 00:30:38,068
or there was reasonable
doubt raised.
543
00:30:38,070 --> 00:30:39,837
But that there was
a hole in the Constitution.
544
00:30:40,538 --> 00:30:40,537
An overlap.
545
00:30:44,008 --> 00:30:45,509
Now you consider those
four things again.
546
00:30:46,544 --> 00:30:48,078
Without them,
547
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,881
he goes away for
a very, very long time.
548
00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:52,049
So you're suggesting that
549
00:30:52,051 --> 00:30:56,019
Dwayne knew exactly
what he was doing?
550
00:30:56,021 --> 00:30:58,322
That's exactly what
I'm suggesting.
551
00:30:58,324 --> 00:31:00,324
Of course, the only person
that's gonna know
the answer to that
552
00:31:00,326 --> 00:31:01,992
is Dwayne.
553
00:31:01,994 --> 00:31:03,560
Why haven't there been
further investigations
into this?
554
00:31:03,562 --> 00:31:05,462
Well, this whole thing was
swept under the rug.
555
00:31:06,497 --> 00:31:07,865
It's an embarrassment.
556
00:31:08,566 --> 00:31:10,634
A hole in the Constitution!
557
00:31:12,637 --> 00:31:15,005
No, I think the right people
leaned in the right places
558
00:31:15,007 --> 00:31:16,340
to make sure that this
all went away
559
00:31:16,342 --> 00:31:18,108
before it became
a National uproar.
560
00:31:18,110 --> 00:31:20,377
So the Government basically
helped a guilty man go free,
561
00:31:20,379 --> 00:31:21,478
is what you're saying?
562
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,647
No. I'm saying
Dwayne helped himself.
563
00:31:25,016 --> 00:31:27,251
This cover up
564
00:31:27,253 --> 00:31:29,419
is just a happy consequence
for him.
565
00:31:31,589 --> 00:31:34,958