"Let'stakethisvideo to the Idaho side of the park." "But to get to Idaho, yougooutthe westentrance." "Thewestentrance?" "Okay." "Is that the region where, um..." "Have you heard of this constitutional loophole thing?" "Is that the region where that is?" "Constitutional loophole?" "I'm not following that." "You never read any articles about that stuff?" " No." "Okay." "Thanks a lot." " Here you go." "Thank you." "Have a great day." "I will." "Knows nothing." "No one knows anything." "Yellowstonenationalpark." "Aroundeverycorner isa reminder ofhowstilllifecanbe." "Howvastit canbe." "Howtrueit canbe." "Untilitisn't." "Yellowstonewokeup  towhathastobe theworstcrime in the national park's history." "Abizarretriplehomicide, where the murderer immediately turnedhimselfin  andconfessed." "Firstvictim wasbythefire." "The second one, I don't know, maybe 10 feet from it." "This is where the third victim was shot." "Okay." "By the back wheel?" "Ijustreally can'tunderstand howa mancancommit allthesehorrificcrimes, youknow, andthenjust..." "Talkaboutit likehe's reciting the details of a traffic violation." "Nobodycould haveexpected the side swipe that occurred." "We'retalkingabout a confessed murderer here." "Onewhoshowednoremorse, noregret." "This guy should have been put away for life." "Thereisno resolution." "Imean,it 'sjustthisthing hangingoverus ." "Ithinkmostofthecountry, mostoftheworld, hasn'tevenheardofthis ." "Well, this whole thing was swept under the rug." "It's an embarrassment." "Mynameis Julianpinder." "Asa documentaryfilmmaker," "Ibelieveanythinginlife  canbefascinating whenyoudelve intothedetails." "Ifindcharactersand I tella storythroughthem." "Theirwords,theiractions, theireyes." "Butit'sacompletely differentstory whenthecameraturnsonyou." "It's nice." "How's that?" "Ifirstheardofthis story whenI receivedan email nottoolongago ." "Threeboysweremurdered ina remotepartof yellowstonenationalpark." "Whatstruckme was thatthemurderstookplace onApril27th,2009, nearlyfiveyearsago ." "Why was I being sent this now?" "Iwasunsuccessful incontacting thesourceof theemail." "ButwhenIdid asearch, incredibleimages immediatelysurfaced of a bear chasing a burnt bison downa winterroad inyellowstone." "Incredibleandunbelievable." "Achaselikenoneother seenbefore." "Theseimageswould provetobe ametaphor fortheyellowstonemurders." "Daviddrabeck, ThomasBurnettandCodyGibbs werecampingin  yellowstonenationalpark, whentragedystruck." "Achanceencounter witha strangerprovedfatal whenwillistonresident, DwayneNelson, killedtheyoungmen  ina self-described momentofinsanity." "Shockingnewsof  athreepersonhomicide earlythismorning." "Thesuspectturnedhimselfin justafter5: 30A.M." "Inwhathastobe theworstcrime in the national park's history." "I was here, and I received a phone call." "It was our family doctor." "Therewas anemergencycontactthing inThomas'wallet." "It was the middle of the night." "Ididn'tknowwhy  Iwasgettingacall ." "I..." "I dropped to that floor." "And I didn't think I was ever going to get up again." "First thing was..." "Was violence." "Because, uh..." "Iheardthat someoneshothim..." "Intheback." "AndI ...wasangry." "Iwasveryangry." "It took a while for grief to set in." "I didn't believe it." "I thought they'd made a mistake, came to the wrong house," "hadthewrongboy ." "Ididn'tbelieveit." "Ididn'tbelieveit tillI actuallysawhis body." "Onthatday Icanremember prettymucheverything." "Iremember thecolorof thesky , thecalmnessin theair ." "I was just here at my post." "This particular ranger station, um, is the furthest south-west that you can get to by vehicle in yellowstone." "Itwasjustafter5:30  inthemorning." "I'djustmademyself acupof coffee." "Hewalkedoutofthewoods , theWestSide, theentranceside." "Helefttheweapon outside of the door, and just walked in." "Thewayit happened, you'dthinktherewould havebeensomeemotion." "But like I said before, he seemed so calm and, uh..." "Sonormal." "Right here." "This way." "It was right in here that they parked the truck." "This is where the third victim was shot," "by the back wheel." "Okay." "It's a bit of a clearing here." "And this is where the fire pit was set up." "Right around here." "This is where the other two victims were found." "First victim was by the fire, and the second one," "I don't know, maybe ten feet from it." "Never stood much of a chance." "The families..." "Come and visit them." "They bring flowers and stuff." "Buthejustwanted tobeoutside,all the time." "I mean, he's the guy that organized all those trips, every year." "Even when they weren't around, he'd grab his knapsack andbegone." "Gooffhikingbyhimself." "Hejust..." "Idon'tknowwhat itwasabouthim ." "Iguesshe found somethinginnaturethat..." "Thatputhimatpeace, Idon'tknow." "Buthelovedit." "This is, uh, Thomas and Alicia." " Great looking couple." "Yeah." "And Thomas on his wedding day." "That's a great shot." "And another one of Thomas and Alicia." "This one over here, this is, uh..." "This is all the boys together." "Thomas, Cody and David." "Oh, you know." "I'll show you this, actually." "Here's..." "I took that on the morning that they left." "They did that trip every year." "Well, David didn't actually join them until the third year." "But, uh..." "This was their..." "This was their fifth year doing the trip." "You know, they'd all come over here in the morning, and they'd have breakfast, and..." "And then they'd leave." "Thomas, he was the one with the pickup truck." "So..." "And that's that." "Sorry." "It's all right." "Okay." "Ibuiltabusiness thatI ..." "Wantedtoleavetohim." "Youknow,Irespectwhat he didandwhatheloved, butI thoughtat somepoint he'sgottagrowupandaccept whoheis and..." "Youknow?" "At least make a life for himself." "Make a career for himself." " Drive safe." "Will do." "Bye." "Love you, mom." "Bye." "Hewasgoingoff to..." "Yellowstone the umpteenth time, and it was just..." "He was on my last nerve that day." "We'dhadalittlespat  atdinnerthenightbefore, and then he go... traipse off to the..." "Tothepark, andI just,youknow..." "ThelastthingIsaid  was just, you know, "good luck finding a career." "In the woods."" "Or whatever I said." "It just..." "Thereare onlyfourpeople whotrulyknowwhat happenedthatnight." "Threeofthemare dead." "Theonlyeyewitnessaccount comesfroDwayneNelson, the man who pulled the trigger." "You know, once the suspect is talking, they don't shut up." "It'sliketheyneed togetit out." "But let me tell you something." "WithDwayne, hegaveus everything." "It was almost like the..." "It was rehearsed." "I'mstandingoutside theCheyennepolicestation, where Dwayne Nelson will soon be moved to the courthouse to attend a preliminary hearing in a case that is being dubbed "the yellowstone murders."" "Abizarretriplehomicide, where the murderer immediately turnedhimselfin  andconfessed." "I just really can't understand how a man could commit all these horrific crimes, you know." "And then just talk about it like he's, uh..." "Reciting the details of a traffic violation." "Ifyoucouldsay  somethingtoDwayneNelson, andyouhadthatopportunity, whatwouldyousay tohim?" "IfI could sayanything toDwayne," "I would say that i want my son back." "Iwouldsaythat IwantCodyback." "Out of the way." "He'sneveroffered meanapology." "He's never taken any responsibility for his actions." "What will I have to say to him?" "Nothing." "We're live now." "He will pay for the murders of these boys." "And he will understand what it feels like to have something taken away from you." "IfI couldevenjust..." "Understand why this person did this, then I could maybe move better to forgiveness, but..." "Because it's just so..." "Senseless and random." "It shook my faith for a very long time." "Cheyennepolice spentthreemonths lookingforamotive." "Theyfoundnone." "WithDwayne'sconfession, theywerecertain ofa conviction." "Therewerestillquestions thatneededanswering." "Icanceledmy flighthome andheadedto  Cheyenne,Wyoming, wherethehearing tookplaceyearsago ." "Ithinktheonly regretI haveis ..." "Ismaybethe,uh..." "The over-confidence that we were..." "That it was a done thing." "A surefire win for us." "But I, uh..." "I honestly didn't think that it would go through." "Iwouldn'tcallitarrogant, butcertainly, itseemedlike aneasycasetome." "You wanna take your feelings out of it, but we're talking about a confessed murderer here." "One who showed no remorse, no regret." "Wehadmurderweapon." "Wehadfingerprints." "Securityfootage, anda population screamingforjustice." "Andwhowantedhim  putawayforlife." "Andatthattime,therewas nodoubtin my mindwewere  gonnadojustthat." "Thefactthat IgottheNelsoncase  wasa surprise." "Myfirst,uh ..." "Murdertrial." "And I knew it was gonna be a big deal." "Uh..." "And it was a big deal." "Dwayne's case was very unique." "Okay?" "What you had here was a classic plea pardon case." "There was no logic to his motivation." "Absolutely none." "Which set it up for an insanity plea." "I wanted to change the location of the trial." "I wanted to, uh..." "Make sure that we had an impartial jury." "He wouldn't stand for it." "The loophole was brought up to me almost exactly 24 hours before we went to the hearing." "So we looked at it." "We looked at it, we danced around it, it was a conversation." "And, uh..." "And then we looked into the legalities of it." "Then we ran with it." "Willthedefendant pleaserise." "Basedonfederaland  districtlaw, theconstitutionandwithno legalprecedentto drawfrom," "Ihaveno choicebut to sidewiththedefense." "Mr. Nelson, you are free to go." "Themurdertrial inCheyennethismorning hastakenyetanother unexpectedturn." "Duringtoday's preliminaryhearing, confessedmurderer, DwayneNelson, wasacquittedof allcharges duetowhatcan onlybe describedas aflawin thesystem." "...anunusualcase." "Andfamiliesare understandablyshocked withthejudge'sdecision." "Imaginea murderer beingallowedto  walk the streets as a free man." "That'sexactlywhattook placeheretoday." "I remember there was absolute confusion and shock." "All hell broke loose." "Right?" "It was..." "Insanity." "We weren't prepared for that." "I wasn't prepared for that." "This guy should have been put away for life." "Itwasso farbeyondlogic." "Sofarbeyondreason." "Itwas...it was..." "Beyondjustice." "Andtheworstpart wasfeelingtheshift." "You know, 'cause it was like Dwayne was no longer the bad guy." "I was." "Anditwas theassistantsthatcamein and gave us the news initially." "So they could be the recipients ofallof ourgriefandall ofourangeratthat moment." "And then the head team came in and explained to us what had happened." "Theloophole in the law changed everything." "Andunlesswe couldprove thatthemurders werepremeditated, or that a felony was committed leading up to the murders, thiscrimecouldnot  andcannotbe tried." "Youneedamotive." "We need motive to move the trail, to get him out from under the protection of that goddamn loophole." "Wehad coveredallthebases." "Wehadlookedfor  anyconnection betweenDwayneNelson andhismurdervictims." "Buttherewasn'tany ." "DwaynewasfromnorthDakota, andtheboyswere fromrapidcity." "So, as Dwayne confessed, it was an isolated incident." "There was no motive." "Wewereallregular..." "Peoplewhodidn't evenunderstand halfofthesystem tobeginwith." "Andoncewe began withthewhole state line, federal, the state..." "I think we just assumed that they would work it out." "I don't think anyone really understood the ramifications of this." "I think there was a feeling, certainly in me, and I know in a few of the others, was that this was just maybe the first step in crossing this huge hurdle, andthatwe would stickwithit ," "andtherewouldbeappeals, andeveryonewouldthrow theirweightbehindthis." "And as the weeks, and eventually months, passed, andwerealized," ""no." "No,thisisn 't..." "Thisisn'tchanging." "This really is not changing in our favor."" "There was an incredible amount of anger." "I don't feel guilty for adhering to the constitution." "I don't feel guilty doing what's right according to the law." "Right?" "I don't feel guilty for letting a man walk because the constitution says that he should." "I'm doing my job." "The court did their job." "We all did our job on this." "He walks." "He's supposed to walk." "Right?" "Simple." "The fuck are we on?" "Left on the main street." "Danielmatcekwas alocalyellowstone newspaperreporter." "Hecoveredthehearings andspentalot oftime  researchingthemurders." "It'sa smalltown, andI 'velivedhere mywholelife." "Andnothinglikethishas everhappenedbefore." "SoI havearesponsibility totellthestory." "Iactuallycallmyarticle "theinconceivabletruth"." "It's so funny that it became a constitutional debate." "Three boys were shot and killed." "In cold blood." "This is not a constitutional issue." "It became a constitutional issue because Dwayne made it a constitutional issue." "There's three dead boys, and no one went to jail for it." "No one was punished for it." "What did he do?" "Six months for illegal possession of a firearm in a national park?" "It's a joke." "That is a joke to those families." "I am still angry." "I'm still in shock." "I still feel completely betrayed by a system that not only did I think that was on my side, but I was assured it was on my side." "Who came up with the loophole defense?" "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "We started throwing around..." "It was an idea that..." "Looked more and more interesting the more we looked at it." "And we started to run with it." "But you don't recall who came up with the one" "I don't recall." "I find that impossible to believe." "You find that impossible to believe?" "Yeah." "Look, uh..." "It was the basis of your entire" "I was told that you were coming in here to talk to me about practicing law in Cheyenne." "Well, this is part of it." "Not specific elements about specific cases." "Okay?" "You want that stuff?" "If you want it, you can go down to the court, there are court records, you can take a look at all that stuff." "Okay?" "It's all there for you." "Okay." "All right?" "Are we good here?" "Can we just back up a little?" "'Cause I'm good." "I'm good." "All right?" "Thank you very much." "I appreciate you coming by, i really do." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Iwent tothecourthouse, butwasdeniedaccess totherecords." "Iwastoldthe documents hadbeensealed, but they couldn't tell me why." "Investigatingtheloophole, however, wasmucheasier." "Theconstitutionis  thesupremelaw foreverycitizenliving intheUnitedStates." "Buttheconstitution thatprotectsus  alsoletamurderergofree." "Articlethree,sectiontwo  oftheconstitution..." "This, however, does not clarify wherethejury shouldcomefrom." "Sothesixthamendment waswritten, requiringthat thejurymustbe..." "Sobasedon theconstitution, any person charged with murder mustbetried beforea localjury thatcomesfrom thestateanddistrict in which the crime took place." "Yellowstonenationalpark, establishedbackin 1872, recognizedasthefirst nationalparkin theworld." "Itispredominantlysituated inthenorth-westcorner ofWyoming." "Butapproximatelynine percentofyellowstone overflowsnorthintoMontana, andwestintoIdaho." "Thestripof thepark locatedinIdaho iswherethelaw and  civilrightscollide." "Yellowstoneparkis not governedbystatelaw ." "It is ruled under federal law." "Soanycrimecommitted inthepark mustbetried atthecourthouse inmammothhotSprings." "OrinCheyenneat thefederaldistrictcourt." "Sowhatdoesthisallmean?" "Thejurorsmustbedrawn fromthissmallstripofland ofapproximately 50squaremiles." "Thereisonlyone problem." "Nooneliveshere." "You cannot select a jury of 12 fromanareathathas apopulationof zero." "Hello, sir." "Can I ask you a question?" "Sorry to interrupt you." "I know you're in the middle of your meal there." "But, uh..." "You or anyone from your herd happen to have been in the region where there's, uh, a supposed constitutional loophole, near the Idaho side?" "No?" "Or any of your family or associates?" "Nothing?" "Deutsch?" "Speak deutsch?" "It's just right up here." "So if these maps are right," "I think this is pretty much the line here." "So somewhere around here..." "Is the loophole in the constitution." "And somewhere around here is the no loophole in the constitution." "So the boundary is kind of right there." "Most people, when they hear about it, they focus on the simple matters of the case." "They..." "Broad strokes." "The murders, the hole in the constitution." "And understandably so." "I mean, these are the boldest parts of the case." "But you can't, and you really shouldn't miss the kind of mind boggling things that happened from the murders up until the court hearing." "All right?" "Number one." "Dwayne turns himself in voluntarily almost immediately." "Number two..." "He confesses, within his rights, without representation or legal counsel." "Number three..." "He refuses to plead insanity." "Number four, he refuses to move the trial." "Now if you add all those four things up, and he goes away for a triple homicide, you can say, "fine."" "But he didn't." "He got away with it." "And not because he had a fair trial, or there was reasonable doubt raised." "But that there was a hole in the constitution." "An overlap." "Now you consider those four things again." "Without them, he goes away for a very, very long time." "So you're suggesting that" "Dwayne knew exactly what he was doing?" "That's exactly what I'm suggesting." "Of course, the only person that's gonna know the answer to that is Dwayne." "Why haven't there been further investigations into this?" "Well, this whole thing was swept under the rug." "It's an embarrassment." "A hole in the constitution!" "No, I think the right people leaned in the right places to make sure that this all went away before it became a national uproar." "So the government basically helped a guilty man go free, is what you're saying?" "No." "I'm saying Dwayne helped himself." "This cover up is just a happy consequence for him." "Whenyoudig intoDwayne'spast, you'regonnafindabroken, shatteredman." "Idon'tknow." "Iwatchedhisinterrogation, hisconfession." "Wasthataman ontheedge,  ora manin completecontrol?" "Theonlypersonwho really knowswhathappenedthatday isDwayne." "Idecidedto head out to williston, north Dakota, toseewhatthe peopleof Dwayne'shometownhadtosay." "Have you heard of the yellowstone murders and Dwayne Nelson?" "Yes." "Yeah." "You have." "Can I just ask you a quick question about them?" "Oh, no." "No?" "We really don't wanna answer any questions." "Okay." "Thanks very much anyway." "No, I'm really not interested." "No?" "Okay, well, thank you." "Sorry, not right now." "I really must run." "Okay." "Thank you." "Sorry." "Ever heard of Dwayne Nelson and the yellowstone murders?" "Uh, yeah." "Sir, I don't wanna talk about that." "Can you just answer just maybe on... no?" "Fuck!" "Peopleintownwere reluctanttospeakatall." "ButthoseclosesttoDwayne beforethemurders welcomeduswithopenarms ." "Hi, Rachel?" "Hi." "Yeah." "How are you?" "Julian." "Julian?" "Hi." "Yeah." "This is Adam." "Right." "Come on in." "I'll take your coat." "Okay." "Thank you very much." "So you knew Dwayne?" "Yeah." "Yeah?" "Dwayne and Carol." "Yeah." "Okay." "They were like family." "Were they?" "Lovely couple." "Okay." "Aftergraduating highschoollate," "Dwayne married his sweetheart," "Carol harson, at the age of 23." "ShemetDwayne..." "Actually we were in the car together." "And we were going to, uh..." "To the bar and..." "It was winter and the car got stuck." "And, um..." "I was driving, and she was out trying to push the car, and Dwayne came by and he was sort of like a knight in shining armor." "I wasn't too sure about him at first." "He, uh..." "He was really quiet." "Likereallyquiet." "Andsmart." "Buthe,uh ..." "He just was..." "He wasn't what I thought Carol would go for." "Hewasagreatfamilyman." "HimandCarol,theywere ..." "Theywereclose,and ..." "You know, I..." "He's the kind of guy that you'd wanna emulate, I guess, is a good word to use." "Youprobablyhadit growingup,too,thatbuddy, youknow,thatyou could justconversatewith." "You know?" "There was no dead space when you spoke with him." "Oh, us going back." "Bear took us into yellowstone many times." "I would..." "I would tag along when my family didn't want me around, or whatever." "And Dwayne..." "Dwayne and bear, they went in pretty much all the time." "Sorry, "bear"?" "Bear,hisdad." "Hecalledbear." "Um..." "Yeah." "Yeah." "He was, uh..." "You know, sometimes you get..." "When the husband's watching TV, you know, the wife's always complaining." ""He's not with us enough." "He's not with us enough." Right?" "But you know, Carol, she just..." "She let him be him, and he let her be her." "Fiveyears intotheirmarriage," "Carolgavebirthto theirfirstchild,Lily." "However,whenLilywas only six-years-old, therewasadeadlyaccident intheirhome." "Afireerupted intheirkitchen." "Dwayneheardhischild's screamsfromoutside, andranto trytosave her." "Butthefirehad  ragedtoolong." "Lilywasalreadydead, andDwaynesuffered thirddegreeburns onhishandsand arms." "It'sdevastating when your child dies like that." "Ican'timaginemyself, butforthem..." "It was horrible." "I think Carol somehow dealt with it better than Dwayne, in a way." "The scars that he had, that was like his memory of her." "He just shut down." "It'sremarkable," "I think that their marriage survived that." "Because lots of marriages don't, you know." "When you lose a child, it's..." "It's a terrible, terrible thing." "Hewasecstatic,you know, when Carol became pregnant again." "Youknow?" "But,um..." "Hewas,um ..." "Absolutelyterrifiedof  losinganotherchild." "Ifthatwas gonnahappen,youknow, you'dwantit  tohappento like, andevilperson,you know." "ButI mean,he was..." "He was one of the good guys." "It's terrible." "Then Carol was diagnosed with cancer." "Andshewas four-and-a-halfmonths pregnant." "So..." "Shehadto makeachoice." "Take the chemotherapy and risk the health of her baby, or..." "Well..." "When Carol died, that was it for Dwayne." "He still lived in town, but he practically disappeared." "Could you tel me about how the death of Carol affected you on a personal level?" "She was my best friend." "Um..." "And I still miss her." "It was hard." "Uh..." "It was hard." "Theloss isjustso deep, thatanythingyousay  isstupid." "You know?" "It's gonna get better?" "You're gonna say that to him?" "It's gonna get better?" "'Cause it's not gonna get better." "Iwasn'tin touch withhimmuch, youknow,at thattime." "Butyouknow, that'slife,right?" "I mean, people drift apart." "That's what happens, man." "Everybody leaves everybody in the end." "Right?" "Uh, the baby was..." "It was not..." "Quite right." "It was premature." "And,uh..." "Hislittlelungs weren'tformedproperly." "It'sunderstandablethat sucha seriesof tragedies wouldchangeaperson." "For him, it..." "He had to find a reason why these things happened." "It was inconceivable that it could just..." "That that could just happen." "I don't blame him for thinking that." "What I do blame him for is what he did." "What I blame him for is the fact that he sought out a way to punish us all for what he thought happened to him." "Therewasno way ofcontactingDwayne." "Any numbers I managed to dig up rangwithoutamachine." "Therewereno  emailaddresses,nothing." "Throughfurtherresearch," "Ifoundapobox locatedinasmalltown , justoutside ofwindsor,Ontario." "HewaslivinginCanadanow." "ThemoreresearchIdid,  the more questions were raised." "Afterhiswifepassed," "Dwaynespentalot oftime  atthelocallibrary." "Wewereall sobrokenup aboutit." "AfterCarolpassed, heneverreallyrecovered, Ithink." "Ididn'twannapry too much." "Andhewasn'tthe kindof personwhomadeyou  feelcomfortable." "Helikedit here." "He didn't talk to anybody." "We just left him alone." "Quiet." "Quiet guy." "It'sa smalltown, we all go to church, and..." "I think when we found out that Dwayne had done these things, there was a real feeling of betrayal." "How could somebody that was part of our community have gone so wrong?" "I'll tell you." "It was all anyone talked about for a long time." "But nobody really wants to talk about it anymore." "Theywerethreeyoungboys , youknow,and..." "Idon'tknow,it's..." "I've got a lot of mixed feelings about the whole thing, obviously." "Why would he..." "Do that?" "You know?" "He knows what loss is." "Right?" "He knows what loss is." "He lost Carol, he lost Lily." "You know, these boys, they're someone's son." "Right?" "He knows what it's like to lose a child." "He knows." "Iwasstillconfused astowhyaseemingly goodnatured, hardworkingfamilyman  wouldbrutallymurderDavid, CodyandThomas." "Threeyoungmen, whobyallaccounts, wereinnocent." "Cody, growing up, was lovely." "He was smart and funny." "Very, uh, very happy kid." "Very open kid." "Andwonderful withotherchildren, whethertheywereyounger, older,orhisown age ." "Hewasalways..." "Averycompassionatechild." "Thomas met Cody at..." "They were doing..." "They were both going for their bronze cross." "Theyweretrying tobelifeguards." "Andtheywereboth inthesame..." "Ithinktheywereboth in thesameinstructor'sclass." "Andtheyhititoff." "And the next thing I knew, they were really good friends." "So do you remember how David met Cody and Thomas?" "Davidmet CodyandThomas in junior high." "He was, um..." "Hewasalwaysvery..." "Fulloflifeand mischief andjokes." "Helikedto pull practicaljokeson us  and things like that." "Icaughtthem tryingtotakethe canoe." "Andtheydidn'tknow howtouseit,  andtheyweren'twearing lifejackets." "I gave them a rather stern talking to, and then immediately jumped in the canoe myself to show 'em how to do it, and capsized the canoe." "That'sprobablythe..." "That'sprobablythemost I'veeverseenCodylaugh." "Theverynature ofa documentary istruthandreality." "Butwhattruth areyoupresenting?" "Amurderer's,ajudge's, yourown?" "It's a perception of the truth." "Whatwastherealstory?" "Whatreallyhappened?" "Therewasno doubtthat Dwayne'sstory washeartbreaking." "Therewasan unrelenting feelingthatsomething wasmissing." "Itwasn'tthat everythingdidn'taddup." "Itaddedup tooperfectly." "Yeah, roll it, man." "It's fine." "Yeah." "Just come over here for a minute and watch this." "Okay." "What you got?" "I want you to see this, man." "Look at this." "Whendidthey startgoingup there?" "IthinkCodyand Thomas weregoingoutthere fora fewyears beforeDavidjoinedthem." "Did David spend much time in yellowstone on his own?" "No, he didn't." "I mean, not to our knowledge." "No, he wasn't the outdoors-man that Cody was." "In Dwayne's confession he states that it was David whosuggestedthesite thattheymovedto." "Irememberthat,but ..." "LikeI toldPatrick, thathadto be amistake." "Cody must have suggested it." "I mean, our boy wouldn't have known to go to that spot." "See?" "Dwayne specifically said that it was David who suggested that site." "I mean, we've got the-- you know, he could have gotten the name wrong." "Yeah, then he might not have as well." "I've got the confession right here." "A transcript of the exact confession that Dwayne says," ""i was gathering to leave when Dave suggested something a little different." "About an hour..." And blah, blah, blah." ""...that Dave stumbled across a large area of these on previous trips."" ""Dave suggested something a little different."" "That's what Dwayne said." "Okay." "And everything Dwayne says is so precise and so specific." "So, wait." "You're thinking there's a connection between Dwayne and Dave?" "A motive?" "I'm just thinking that everything so far is so clean and so clear," "and this is really the only whisper of something that doesn't compute." "So what are we doing at 6:27 A.M.?" "We got a call from Theresa Fitzgerald." "The librarian?" "The librarian." "She received a visit last night as she was closing up, from Dwayne Nelson." "Theresa hasn't spoken to anyone in years and years." "And we go to visit her, and a few days later, suddenly Dwayne shows up?" "You think he's following us?" "Well, obviously he knows about us and he's worried about something." "He definitely worried about something." "I don't know if there's that much to tell." "So did you feel threatened at all when he came in?" "Oh, no." "No, he's very polite." "It was just a shock." "But he did ask you if you'd been talking to anyone?" "Yeah, he did." "And I told him about the documentary, but after all, I only really talked about Carol when you interviewed me." "See, what's weird is that" "I've contacted everyone we interviewed, and Dwayne hasn't tried to get a hold of any of them." "So I'm wondering what I'm missing here." "I don't know." "I don't know if there's anything more to tell." "He came in in the morning, left at night." "I told him he could..." "Sign out anything he wanted, but he said he preferred to be in the library." "Was that to be closer to his wife, do you think?" "Oh, I assumed so." "Yeah?" "The only other people spent that much time here are students doing research." "Right." "Did he ever take any of the books home that he was reading?" "Uh, nope." "Not that I can remember." "And if you don't check a book out, is there any record of what you've been reading?" "No, of course not." "Do you have any idea what he was reading?" "Like I said, he just sat in the back." "Where was that again?" "Over in the corner there." "Okay." "WhydidDwaynecomeback now?" "AccordingtoTheresa, he stopped visiting the library abouta yearbefore hecommittedthemurders, and had never been back since." "Sowhatwashedoinghere?" "Theanswerwasstaring meintheface." "Adam..." "Somethingsoobvious," "I'dmissedit on  thefirstvisit." "Ofcoursehe waslooking atthelawbooks,man." "What else are you gonna do in your local library law section?" "You don't go to the library, hoping to find an overlap in the constitution." "I mean, one that will allow you to get way with murder?" "No, you don't." "But he must have known about this loophole beforehand." "Otherwise, it's just what he says." "It's a bunch of, you know, coincidences that let a guilty man go free." "But, Julian, there are a ton of cases where people have gotten off on ridiculous technicalities." "Yeah, but if we find a motive, then we can prove Dwayne orchestrated the entire thing." "Presuming there's one to be found." "It's like what matcek said, man." "It's not a guy who's crazy." "He's in complete control." "Patrick, sorry to bother you again, but I just got back from the williston library, and it seems Dwayne was just there." "I also found out that Dwayne spent a lot of time there before the murders, in the law section." "I mean, he was looking at law books." "He was doing research there." "Doesn't that indicate some sort of premeditation, or a motive, or something suspicious?" "Okay, but he comes out of hiding, and he goes directly back to the library?" "Isn't that also suspicious?" "Okay, no." "Patrick, I get that." "But can I just ask you another question here?" "Therehadto be amotive." "There had to be a link between Dwayne and one of the boys." "Ikeptcomingback toDaviddrabeck." "AccordingtoDwayne, he was the one that took them all to the so called "zone of death"." "IhopeDavid'smother mighthavesomeanswers." "Any connection maybe through construction?" "One more quick question." "Um, did David ever go to north Dakota for any reason?" "Have any friends or family up there?" "And who are we talking about, Mrs. drabeck?" "What was her name?" "Mrs. drabeck, would you be able to send me that letter, do you think?" "Earlier today, I got this letter from Nancy drabeck." "She sent me the letter that Kayleigh Brighton sent her now Kayleigh Brighton..." "Is not a photographer." "Kayleigh Brighton..." "Is an environmental biologist, at a university that happens to be right above north Dakota." "Come around here, man." "Check this out." "I typed in Kayleigh's address earlier today." "And she lives right above Regina, saskatchewan." "The three boys are from rapid city." "Check out this route." "Look at that." "Right in the middle." "Williston, Dwayne's hometown, right where we are." "You're ready for a road trip, buddy?" "What are you hoping to find?" "There's a missing link between Dave and Dwayne." "And I know this girl's got some answers for us." "Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds?" "This one girl?" "And what does this have to do with Dwayne and Dave anyways?" "Well, you saw the map." "And I've just got a good feeling about it." "What do you think she'll tell you?" "I have no idea, man." "But I have three hours and 26 minutes to figure it out." "She knows something." "I can't see anything in there." "Whoa." "It's a fucking pig, man." "Look at this." "Hey man, we're looking for Kayleigh Brighton, actually." "What's the camera for?" "Well, we're just hoping to talk to Kayleigh here for a second." "What do you wanna talk to my wife for?" "Listen, man, we drove a long way." "I'm just wondering if i could talk to Kayleigh for a second." "Shut your camera off." "Okay." "But is she here?" "Is she... she your wife?" "Shut your camera off." "Hey, man." "Listen." "Hey, hey, buddy." "Hey." "It's up to her, you understand?" "Okay, buddy." "I don't want you going up there shoving a camera in her face." "Also, you know, when you go up there, you make sure that camera's off." "I'm sorry what happened to the guys." "But the thing is we don't have the Internet here." "We didn't." "So I just heard about it on the radio." "That's how we heard about it." " Right." "But we..." "My parents let me know." "And it was a tragedy." "Definitely devastating." "I mean, I just can't believe that happened." "Yeah, it's a real shock I'm sure, to hear that" "about a friend." "Yeah." "So, okay." "You got me alone." "I don't even know what you're looking for though." "I mean, to be honest, i don't know what I'm looking for either." "I'm just chasing every lead." "But you have no idea about who Dwayne is, or..." "No, I have no idea." "I'm sorry." "With, um..." "With David, we worked at camp together, we hung out with the same friends." "And I might have been with him for 10 days total." "And you guys never had a relationship or anything like that?" "No, we were just friends, that's it." "All right, Julian, let's get you miked up." "Here you go." "What are you doing with this?" "I watched this a bunch of times." "I know there's something..." "She's like-- she's hiding something for sure." "Dude, you're reaching, man." "Everything checks out." "It's off, man." "Something's wrong with this." "Come on, man." "It's a dead end." "You know it is." "Here, take this." "We got work to do." "Sometimes, whenyou'researchingfor  somethingsohard, you'llconnectthedots withwavylines andconvinceyourself they'restraight." "Sometimestheyjustdon 't connectatall." "There's Patrick right there." "How you doing?" "Okay, good." "You?" "Listen..." "Could I see those case files for a moment?" "I can't give you those case files." "I could look at them in your office if you want, even." "I'm sorry, but they're private files." "I know they're private files, Patrick." "But could I just look at them, maybe for a second?" "Sorry, I'm late." "I know there's something in there, man." "Patrick, maybe I can schedule something with your assistant?" "Patrick!" "Ihadactuallyaccomplished whatI hadoriginally setoutto do , whichwasto document thisbizarremurdercase." "Myopinionshadchanged, buta theoryis  justspeculation." "Withoutproof, withoutaninterview, withoutanyshredofmotive," "Iwasleftstaring attheobvious." "Thiswassimply afreakoccurrence, nothingmore." " Adam?" "Adam." "What?" "Look at this." "We got a package, man." "Wake up." "What is it?" "Wake up." "Come on." "Come on, I'm trying to sleep." "Take this." "Adam, here." "Come on." "Take the camera." "Let's go." "Come on." " You rolling." "It's rolling." "There's nothing in this." "It's a joke?" "Do you have a phone on you?" "I do." "There's two videos here." "Wait,wait, wait,wait,wait." "Iwannagetone  withallof you." "Allright." "Comeon, you guys." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Oh." "This is something." "Good?" "Yeah,great." "It'stheannualyellowstone boys'weekend." "Allright?" "Wild." "Who the fuck got this?" "Ooh!" "Holy shit." "No,no,no ." "No,no!" "Holy fuck!" "Ad, who the fuck dropped this off, man?" "Let's figure this out." "Here." "Right here." "Let's go down to the front desk..." "Hello, sir." "Hi." "How are you?" "I'm good." "Can I ask a big favor of you?" "There." "So this is this morning?" "Yeah." "Okay." "That's 5:15." "Yeah, there he is." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "He's gonna come out over there." "See?" "And this is my door here?" "Yeah." "That's number 15." "Who the fuck is that?" "You don't have any other-- nothing where we can see someone's face?" "You might catch his face on the other..." "Who is that?" "Is it Dwayne?" "Allright." "Thisgood?" "Yeah,it'sgreat." "Iwatchedthevideos fortwodaysstraight, andI didn'tcatchanything." "Butthen,anythinginlife  canbefascinating whenyoudelve intothedetails." "The director, the crew." "Kraft services..." "And beautiful America." "Come here." "Come here." "What do you need?" "Set up the camera over here and look at this." "All right, all right, hold on." "Quit fucking around." "I'm coming, dude." "Put that down and look at this." "Check it out." "You gotta see this." "Yeah." "All right." "What am I looking at?" "Just leave that alone for now-- yes, yes." "Look at this, look at this." "You gotta see this." " What am I supposed to be looking at?" "What's that?" "See that logo right there?" "Yeah, on his jacket." "Yeah, have you seen that before?" "No." "You've seen that before." "Okay." "Look." "At Dwayne's house, which is right here..." "Look at this." "What's that right there?" "That's the same logo." "Yeah, what's that?" "That's a water filtration system that every house in this area has." "It's the same company, man." "It's enrg." "Look at this." "Whoa, whoa." ""Enrg."" ""Enrg."" "So?" "That's the same company, man." "Enrg." "It's a fracking company." "Jesus!" "That's Cody's dad, man." "We might have just found the motive." "Raymond fucking Gibbs." "Wait, wait, wait." "The ceo of enrg, usa." "We were looking at the wrong guy the whole time." "Thecityof willistonhas  avoidedthecurrent economiccrisis duelargelyto thesuccess ofanoldfashionedoilboom." "Improvementsindrilling technology haveintroducedtheprocess ofhydraulicfracturing, otherwise known as "fracking."" "It'sa controversialprocess, butit'susedinabundance innorthDakota, specificallyinwilliston." "Frackingis adestructiveprocess thatisused toextractnaturalgas  fromrockthatlies deepunderground." "Awellis drilled, andmillionsof gallons oftoxicfluid isinjected." "Amixof water, sandandchemicals, ata highenoughpressure tofracturetherock andreleasethegas ." "Frackingiscurrentlyexempt from major environmental laws, includingthesafe drinkingwateract." "Toxicspillsandgas leaks arefartoocommon." "It'sa processthatdestroys ourland andputsus allatrisk ." "I recently filmed a documentary" ""trouble in the peace"." "Init,Iexaminedthis  verysameissue ina smallfarmingtown innorthernBritishColumbia." "Asinglefather'sstruggles toprotecthisdaughter fromthedangersthat afrackingcompany have brought to his community." "It'sdifficult." "Andyeah, sometimesit's reallydiscouraging andwethink..." "Whybotheranymore?" "Andit's..." "Idon 'tknow." "Idon'twannabea coward." "DwayneNelson's daughterdied fromanunexplainedfire inthekitchensink." "Dwayne's wife developed cancer afterreceivingaclean billofhealthayear  anda halfearlier." "Dwayne'ssonwasborn withseveralbirthdefects, likelycausedby harmful chemicalsingested duringpregnancy." "Wasallthis justa coincidence?" "Orwerethesemurders anelaborateact ofrevenge?" "Pleaseenteryourpassword." " Still rolling?" "" "Rolling." "Youhaveonesavedmessage." "Okay, get this." "Toreviewyourmessages-- firstsavedmessage." "Endofmessage." "Toreplaythismessage, pressone." "Isn't there some kind of law that's protecting him?" "Like a double jeopardy or something like that?" "What's "empanelled" mean?" "But with a motive, then" "holy shit." "Okay." "Yeah, unless he gave us that footage out of guilt, and he wants to confess." "Okay, thanks a lot, Patrick, I appreciate it." "Like hell." "What do you mean?" "Like hell we're gonna give the footage to the authorities" "and let them handle-- -we're gonna give the footage to the authorities." ""We" who?" "Us." "You and I." "We're gonna do the Dwayne interview because we have the opportunity to do it." "If you do this, I'm walking." "But we're here to do the Dwayne interview." "That's the whole point of this story." "Get the fuck out of my way." "Fuck off." "Come on, soldier." "Yeah, yeah." "This is insane, dude." "What do you mean this is insane?" "This is what we came here for, man." "Do you realize the guy is following us, and he's a murderer?" "We came here with a purpose." "We are following a story." "A purpose to stay alive." "You heard Patrick, all right." "If he admits to a motive, he's not protected anymore." "So we're gonna walk away now after all this time?" "Yeah, we're sitting ducks." "We came all this fucking way." "You know what?" "Fuck you." "Stop being a pussy." "Thingsfinallystarted tomakessense." "ThemoreIthoughtabout alltheevents, the more I began to comprehend how Dwayne got away with murder." "Therewastheconnection toRaymondGibbsand his son ." "ButDwaynekilledthreeboys ." "Thatwasthescarypart ." "Ingeniouslyscary." "IfhekilledCodyalone, it'sfareasiertodraw  thelinestogether." "Sohedilutedthe motive." "KillCody,youhavemurder andmotive." "Killthemall,it'sarandom actofviolentinsanity." "Adamdidhaveapoint." "Idecidedto takeacopy  ofthefootage anda letterto thecops, incaseanythinghappened." "WhenI started thisdocumentary, itwasapassionproject basedonacrazystory." "It'snotastory, it'sa tragedy." "ButI neverthought itwouldleadtothis ." "IneverthoughIwould fearformy life." "That's it, right there." "When I get there, shut that down." "He was very, very adamant about..." "The fact that he'll tell us where to set up and what to do." "You all right?" "I'm fine." "Okay." "I know you don't wanna be here." "Dude, I'm fine." "Jesus!" "Where the fuck does this man live?" "All right." "Shut it off." "Let's do this." "Where's your camera guy?" "It's just me and you." "Okay." "This isn't an interview, is it?" "No, it's not." "Where is your son?" "Oh..." "Just leave my son out of this." "Okay, you've got something to say, so why don't you just say it?" "You don't need me here." "It's not true." "I do need you." "Why?" "I think that if you see something that is completely wrong and unjust," "you have a philosophical moral obligation to speak up against it, even if you cannot change it." "You've seen my film." "Yeah." "I've seen a lot of things, Julian." "And nothing's changed." "But an eye for an eye?" "Is that really your answer?" "Are you even now with Raymond?" "Oh..." "If..." "If a child is ripped away from you like that..." "There's no replacing it." "There's no eye for an eye." "But you are a murderer now." "I didn't ask to be a part of it." "But as I man," "as a husband and as a father, you do what's necessary." "You found it necessary to kill three innocent boys?" "These people get away with murder every day." "Hell, you made documentaries about it." "But you're just sitting there..." "You're sitting there and you're judging me, just like everyone else." "Those people, they..." "They manipulate the laws." "And you can speak up, you can..." "You can protest." "It doesn't matter." "I'm just the first guy to play their..." "Their game by their rules." "Are you saying that you planned and carried out the murder of Raymond Gibbs' son?" "Julian, I'm saying" "Raymond Gibbs hasn't suffered enough." "It still doesn't hide the fact that you killed Thomas Burnett and David drabeck." "Do you think I'm a monster?" "You murdered three boys." "And you filmed it." "Yeah, I watch that film every day." "I watch that film every day." "Because if I didn't," "I would not have the strength to..." "Okay, Dwayne, we'll take a break if you want." "Dwayne!" "Dwayne!" "Jesus!" "Fuck!" "Dwayne!" "Oh, shit!" "Adam!" "Dwayne?" "Dwayne?" "Holy shit." "Oh!" "Holy shit, dude." " Call an ambulance." "Are you okay?" "Call an ambulance." "I am, I am." "What the fuck." "His kid's in the back." "What did you do, man?" "...cameraguy?" "It'sjustyouand me." "That'sgood." "This isn't an interview, is it?" "No,it'snot." "Areyousayingthat" "Iwantedsomethinggood tocomefromthis." "IthoughtthatIwould finditin thetruth." "RaymondGibbs hasn'tsufferedenough." "Somepeople congratulatedmeon  gettingtoDwayne." "Corneringhimintothe truth." " Jesus!" "Fuck!" "Dwayne!" "Holyshit!" "Adam!" "Butthere'smoretoit thanthat." "Dwayne?" "Dwayne?" "Holyshit." "Oh!" "Holyshit,dude!" "Areyouokay?" "Callanambulance." "Iam,Iam." "Whatthefuck." "Hiskid'sin theback." "Dwayne'sson haddiedtwomonthsearlier." "AboutthesametimeIhad  receivedtheanonymousemail about the yellowstone murders." "Losinghisson wasthefinalstraw." "Dwaynewasclinging tohisson'slife morethanhe was clingingtohisown ." "WhenI returnedhome, Ihadanotheremail fromchasingbisonbear." "Nosubject,no message." "Thatimagewasalways ametaphorforme." "The chase through yellowstone." "ButI neverfullyunderstood ifI wasthebear, orifIwas the bison." "Thehunteror thehunted." "NowI realizeIwas neither." "Iwasjustthe guy  withthecamera, whocapturedthestory." "...orwhatever." "AndDwayne..." "Dwayneandbear, theywentin  prettymuchallthe time." "Sorry," bear"?" "Bear, yeah." "Barry was his dad." "Yeah." "Dad's just a..." "Barrywashisdad ." "Yeah." "Unlikeme,Dwayneactually lookedupto hisfather." "Ishouldhave paidmoreattention totheemailaddress fromthebeginning." "Twonamesappearunder thehandle"bisonBarry"." "One,a sportsdirector froma university radiostationin Cleveland, theotheraparttime writer forthewestyellowstone newspaper backinthe'70s." "Hisfullname, BarryRobertNelson." "FathertoDwayneNelson." "What caught my eye most was one article in particular, writtenbackin 1978." ""Idaho- populationzero."" "...as the yellowstone murderer was found dead in his home earlythismorning." "Policehaveyettoreveal thefulldetails surroundinghisdeath, butearlyreports suggestssuicide." "Thewholetime, IbelievedthatDwayne wantedtoadmitthe truth." "But as way to cleanse his soul." "NowI knowthatthiswas allpartof hisplan." "Everythingfromtheget go hadbeenon histerms." "Everything." "Themurders,theloophole." "Eventhisfilm." "Hewantedrevenge,hegotit." "He wanted the truth out there, he got that, too." "Heusedme , heusedthejusticesystem, heusedus all." "I struggled a lot with whether I should release this film, andwhosestory Iwastryingtotell ." "Iwantedsomethinggood tocomefromthis." "I thought that I would find it in the truth." "Thetruthwasworse." "One man picked a fight with a multi-million dollar company, whosefrackingprocess waspoisoninghishome andkillinghisfamily." "Butnobodywonhere." "Notattheexpense ofa man'slife, hisfamily's, andthreeyoungmen ." "Ithinkthere'salotmore toitthaneven Dwayne'slettingon ." "You know, maybe something that canshedabetterlight." "That'sDwayne." "He'sjustgonnabottleitup  andtellyouwhatyouneed." "Byebye." "Okay." "Muah!" "Muah!" "Iloveyou,dada." "Loveyou,dada." "Oh,sosweet." "Thefactthathe couldkillthosethreeboys  seemsunrealto me ." "But..." "Youknow,youput aman throughwhathe wentthrough," "Iguesseverybodywould havea breakingpoint,so..." "Yellowstonenationalpark." "Aroundeverycorner isa reminder ofhowstilllifecanbe." "Howvastit canbe." "Howtrueit canbe." "Untilitisn't."