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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ it was deep country, dark, just after two a.m.. as the small town montana deputy cruised home. and of a quiet shift. ♪ ♪ ♪ it was may 2017, outside his car, the air was fresh with a smell of new planting. he was happy, he'd be home early for once. [sirens] and quite suddenly, a car whistles passed patrol vehicle, just like this. speed near 100 miles an hour. ten. for speeding past me. here's the actual video.

the deputy giving chase as the driver of the speeding chevy suburban seemed to want him to. and then -- [bleep] [sound of gunfire] i'm trying to get some help here. my officers not answering me. now what? yeah, i don't like that he's not answering me. i hate that. the reason became apparent when backup finally arrived. the, but the deputy cars. open mile marker 109. checking on foot. oh -- [bleep] boseman 320. i need medical. send back a unit. as emts roared to attend the deputy, the speeding suburban vanished down the highway. and the word was flash to every available officer for miles -- i said, god, come ride with me. it was one of the most

furious chases you've ever seen. a wild west gun battle, at speeds of up to 140 miles per hour. that feeling, scariest moment of my life. until, two hours after it began. he is hit. [sound of gunfire] it happened just over yonder over the big montana sky. and instantly became one of the most notorious crimes in montana history. but it was much more than just one crime. even a series of crimes. this crazy tale of the shape-shifter, missionary man to mad man to monster. i think this is one of the most savage and dangerous people that i've ever seen. i was in fear for a very long time, a very long time. i want to say 30 years.

i don't remember if i cried, i don't even think i cried. it's shock. complete shock. ♪ ♪ ♪ but the story, the story we have pieced together, year by year, person by person, begins long before the night on the highway. more than 50 years before in the small town of but coleman, idaho, where two boys met in great school. michael colby a, and a kid named chip. michael remembers it to this day. we became fast friends and did a lot of adventurous things together. during the summer he had no supervision whatsoever. and, as teens, mike and chip got mixed up in some rather on wholesome activities. until it was chip who turn things around. he moved in with a bishop in chubbuck, idaho. and that bishop started getting

him to read the book of mormon, the bible. chip found religion and got mike back on a righteous path. it didn't have a profound impact on me. i threw away my drugs and went on a more been mission with him for six months. which chipped it to, set on a mission for the christian church for that today science, and when he did, he sent a note to his girlfriend. and note so remarkable, she saved it all these years. you're very special to me, tracey. keep up the good work. continue to do what your heavenly father wants you to do and i know you will be happy. i love you, chip. the woman was tracy, chips sweetheart. we talked about getting back together after getting in this mission. and in my culture, in this lds culture, you wait for

missionary and you live happily ever after. and sure enough, when chip returned, all grown up, and now going by his given name, lloyd burris, he married tracy in the idaho falls lds temple. sealed, as mormons believe, for time and all eternity. tracy did her best to be a good wife. she gave lloyd two healthy boys. marshall, and jeffrey. names you'll want to remember. he was actually really good that. he'd play with the boys, he was really proud of them. marshall, everything he did he thought it was funny. floyd was a good provider, worked in construction and at the heart of things, he was a god fearing man. he'd been a missionary, after all, and he made it clear, said tracey, he was the sole arbiter of right and wrong. he wanted to let me know right away that i was his wife

and wives are supposed to submit to their husbands. if i even slipped up and i said hell or dam, he'd reach across the table and stop me across the face. because sayings hell or dam is a bigger sin then stopping your spots across the face? clearly, yes. but they hadn't been married long, when she could tell, she said, lloyd began getting mixed up again in something secret. the phone calls began. from people she did not know. they would talk in code if i answered the phone. they'd say, this is a passport telma 7:00, he'll know what it means. he wouldn't tell her where she was going, she said, but when he returned he looks like some 19 century fundamentalist profit. and you start going on and on about how the government had no right to texas. like if he'd get a speeding ticket, he'd go to court so he could argue with the judge over the government's role in our lives and how they were trying

to control us. and all the while, she said, she lived in fear of his moods. his sudden flashes of anger. his violence. back then, we didn't talk about abuse. and if you did, but you are told is, you need to quit provoking him. until tracey grew so desperate, she went on her own to talk to her lds bishop. what happened? he called lloyd in and lloyd made it just seem like i was having a hormonal mood swing and he never done anything bad. marriage is sacred, the bishop reminded them. they should keep trying. how trapped did you feel? i think when you're going through it, when you're in the midst of the storm or the blender, you would like to leave but you've been sealed in the temple, so you feel like you can't leave because that ceiling is a commitment that you made to god. and there is a lot of confusion

when you're that young because the world is very black and white when you're at that age. so i felt like i had to stay because of that temple marriage. but it did not get better, she said. far from it. if i didn't do exactly as i was told, my punishment was marital rape. and there was a time when he took a gun and put it to the temple of my head and fired it. and it wasn't until that i heard the click that i realized it wasn't loaded. good god. the think that was most scary was when he put the bullets back in the gun and handed them to me and said if you hit me so bad kill me. that's when i realized that i had to get out of there because one of us was going to die. but how? she had those boys, marshall and jeffrey, what would happen to them? to all of them? coming up, tracy escapes from one nightmare into another.

after lloyd kidnaps their boys. my downstairs neighbor calls me and said, i think he took them. what was that like? crying and crying. and not knowing what to do, or where to turn. and it wouldn't be easy to get them back. but i end up in a bag in the ocean? when dateline continues. dateline continues. it's an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. and can help improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. dupixent helps prevent asthma attacks... and can even reduce or eliminate oral steroids. imagine that. dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe. get help right away if you have rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in your limbs. tell your doctor about new or worsening joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection. don't change or stop asthma medicines, including steroids,

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if i at least took marshall with me for a few weeks and i'll bring him back? i thought he'd be back very shortly. and i was wrong. he didn't come back for a long time. a long time. six months. didn't return with son marshall until the divorce with final. it was a quick 20-day divorce, with shared custody of the boys. tracy said lloyd asked to reconcile. she said no. and lloyd ransacked her apartment. threatened her. my boss at work was very concerned about my safety. i'm not surprised. she said get out of town for the weekend, get away from him, so you're safe. so tracey did just that. and also made a decision she would forever regret. she asked a neighbor to watch marshall, not quite for, and jeffrey, who was to, while she was away. she calls me and she said, i think i made a mistake. floyd showed up and he asked if

i could let him into your apartment to just get a jacket for the boys. and she said, but tracey, he came out with bags and bags of their stuff. i think he took them. but was that like? crying and crying. and not knowing what to do or where to turn. nor did she know where he had taken them. she did know he was more than 700 miles away in tacoma, washington. or that he joined and lds ward there where he caught the eyes of some ladies who had a friend named debra. a newly divorced mother of two daughters. they said there is a young man at church that is single and looking. they gave him -- a couple of kids too, right? he had to little boys. and we started dating. who called home? he called me. there was a lot of good chemistry between us. he seemed like a nice guy. yes, he was a nice guy and he was a great provider. she knew only the story he

told her. and she liked that story. i prayed to know if he was the one for me. and the answer was yes so we got married. another temple ceiling for time and all eternity. just five years after loyd's first eternal ceiling to tracey. who had no idea debris even existed. i was elated and i took on the two little boys and loved them and cared for them as though they were my own. they weren't, of course, her own boys, that is. in fact, marshall and jeffrey's mom tracy beckon idaho was practically looking for them. until she finally learned where they were. did you ask for advice from a lawyer or anything by getting them back? yes, i went to see an attorney. and we were trying to at least make him bring them back for my

50% custody. tracy didn't call the police. she didn't know who to call. back then, there were no amber alerts. states didn't cooperate like they do today. the fbi rarely got involved in child custody cases. so tracy's attorney told her this -- he said we bring them back and all he has to do is kidnap them again and take them to another state and we have to start all over, and you and i both know that's what he'll do. and i said i think i need to go kidnapped them back. and he said don't do that. he said, if you do that, you don't have a leg to stand on legally and i can't protect you. by that time, it was too late. lloyd had moved his new family a world away. they'd move to the lucian islands, and dutch harbour, alaska. nearly 4000 miles from tracey in idaho. and there are no commercial flights. no? i'm a waitress making to 50 an hour plus tips. now what do i do?

and the terror also of if i were able to charter a plane, would he know i was coming before i got there? and would i end up leaving or end up in a bag in the ocean? i mean, to me, the threat of death was very real from him. meanwhile, deborah had no idea of law it passed or that he had kidnapped marshall and every from their mother, she gave lloyd another son a year later. they called him alma. there is a character in the book of mormon who's a very valiant character. and that's why alma's alma. alma would soon have two more sisters. bringing the number of children, his, hers, and there's, seven. lloyd decided to build a house for his growing family and he bought land in anchorage. where he began getting all secretive again. this time with one of his neighbors, and produced in the two of them started their noses

at local ordinances and refusing to pay taxes. that sort of thing. to outlaws against the government. once he met this guy, it was as though they had a marriage instead of us. nearly all his life, lloyd had been, or claim to, be a faithful mormon. but now that was changing to. the church wasn't enough for him anymore. he stopped going to his lds ward and attended a different sort of meeting all together. will discover better life. so can you. amway, ads like this spoke to lloyd. he wanted a better life. he wanted his own business. he embraced the booming multi level company with the same all in faith he had once given to his church. and allegiance that seemed almost fanatical to deborah. call them self diamond lloyd barris. but, when lloyds amway

distributorship didn't take off -- he was so angry at me because he wasn't getting any people to join him in this amway business. and it was all my fault because of the sadness that was on my face. and he gave me the handed mirror and made me fake a smile with it in front of my face. he said, you will hold that smile all night long just so that you can know that this is how it has to be. and of course i was absolutely terrified, and needless to say that there wasn't a lot of sleep that happened on my end that night. surely it can get any worse as. but of course, it did. coming up -- he said, if you try to leave, i will take you out back and shoot you in the head. it was time to escape. but how? that's when i started devising a plan.

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keith morrison: there was a moment that might have saved ♪ ♪ ♪ them, the boys, that is, the two sons of lloyd barrus there was a moment that might have saved them.

the boys, that is. the two sons of lloyd barrus and his first wife, tracy. lloyd had snatched marshall and jeffrey and taking them far away to alaska where, eventually, lloyd told deborah the truth. and when the boys were around five and three, deborah secretly arranged for them to contact their mother. debra would sneak away from time to time and let them call me from a payphone. but she wasn't allowed to say where they were. then, a couple of years later, loyd agreed to let the boys visit tracy in the lower 48. but with a warning -- i'll come down there with a gun and you guys will be sorry if you pull any funny business. and i wanted to just keep them. she consulted a child psychologist who said, don't do it. what she told me is that the worst thing i could do is kidnap them back. she sent the boys back to lloyd. no idea what she was sending them to. did he have many weapons in the house?

he had a closet full of weapons. and was constantly -- had his eye on the next one. in the evenings after we put the children to bed, he'd practiced five moves in front of the mirror and, you know, tell me he wanted to become a mercenary. he began acting like the star of his own action movie. he disappeared for days at a time, cia missions, he called them. when a neighbor reported lloyd for breaking county environmental codes, a neighbor who happen to have a black lab puppy. he came in the house and got a pistol out of the closet, so i peered through the door and witnessed him put that pistol behind the puppies ear and shoot it in the head. and then he picked it up by the tail and flung it around and tossed it into the woods. and that was him getting even for what the neighbor had done, by turning him into the

government. have that make you feel? that was another huge sign to me that i needed to get out of there, because if somebody can kill a puppy, what more is to come? an innocent puppy. debra wanted out. and lloyd seemed to sense it. he said, if you tried to leave, i will take you out back and shoot you in the head and, in god's word it says i can do that. what does it feel to be you listening to these things? that's when i started devising a plan. and then one evening at supper time, loyd announced he had to work all night on a local construction job. he said i'm going to take marshall with me because i need extra hands. marshall was 12 at the time. he said, make me a pot of coffee and a couple of sundridge is and i'll be on my way. he loaded up all of his tools and everything. he made it. i never in my life made a pot

of coffee and i wanted him to be able to work all night long. so i loaded that pot with coffee. so that he could stay out all night and work. and after he left i started loading up all the things and then one by one, i took a child out of their bed and put them in the suburban and off we went. one of the hardest parts of leaving was that i couldn't take those two little boys that i had mothered for eight years. they were his boys. marshall, of course, wasn't there. jeffrey i had to leave sleeping on his bed. there was one boy who left the house that night, along with his four sisters, remember alma? he was now six years old. i remember asking my mom, can we take jeffrey? and she was not legally allowed

to. it would've endangered us taking him. i know how much my brothers loved me and it was so difficult that we had to leave them. debra went straight to a domestic violence shelter in anchorage and called her chubbuck -- lds bishop. he went to the airport in disguise to purchase airplane tickets for me and my family because he knew the danger -- in disguise? he had not look like himself for fear of what looks what lloyd may do? yes. as soon as we left the women's shelter, this is how afraid we were, when we got in the taxi, i said, everybody, lay down because i didn't want him to recognize us. so the road to the airport. with everybody laying down. did you have a set of

safety or freedom as you took off and flew away? yes. i knew that we were finally safe for a while until he figured out that we were no longer in the state. ♪ ♪ ♪ lloyd barrus was not a mental let something like this go. even after deborah filed for divorce. less than a year later, thousands of miles from alaska, there was a knock at deborah's door. coming up -- he had a knife in his boot and a gun in the small of his back, and he pulled me off into the trees and proceeded to try to undress me. and i began to cry. and while in alaska, lloyd had been training soldiers for his own militia. he had the boys convinced that there was going to be a war with the u.s. government. but he'd have them run drills and shoot live ammunition over their heads. these are the little boys who gave birth to.

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hardworking. to his wife deborah, he'd become frightening and 28 years out before the terrifying night in montana, it was terror she felt as she ran from him. only marshall and jeffrey were left behind with floyd who, just like you'd expect, did all he could to track down his missing family. after i left, he threatened all my friends from church where anybody helped me in any way that he would kill their pets and children. debra knew she had to be evasive. she went to arizona first, and then she went to washington city puget sound, it's where her parents lived. so not a base of enough because, a year later, who was standing on her doorstep? lloyd went into a car dealership and pretended as so you wanted to purchase a vehicle. he as the person that was helping him to --

he gave him my social security number and asked him to run it and find out where the person was. and because of that, he came knocking at the door. yeah. i immediately went into hollywood actress mode and started telling him how sorry i was that i had left and how i could not wait for us to get back together. all of this just so that i could keep my parents and children safe. how did he react to this? he believed it. he had a knife in his boot and a gun in the small of his back. so i asked him to please take a walk with me. so we walked, a mile or so down the road, and he pulled me off into the trees and proceeded to try to undress me. and i began to cry. so he stopped. and we got back to the house with my parents and the kids. and then, as if by

providence, a visitor stopped by. the bishop of our church at the time noticed a strange vehicle in the driveway. and he stopped to see if everything was okay. which put a little bit of excitement in the moment. and he reached for his knife -- loyd did? reached for his knife all the bishop was there? yes, because he felt threatened by someone he didn't know. and i said, listen, this is the bishop. he's just checking on us. with false promises of a reunion soon in alaska, deborah talk floyd into leaving. as soon as he left the driveway, i started trying to figure out what we were going to do next because now he had entered our safe place. and thus began an odyssey all too familiar to the victims of domestic violence. a haze of who tells and friends homes, couch surfing, always

accompany, fear. i would not be sitting here doing this interview with you if i hadn't had the presence of mind to get away when we got away. were you afraid of him in the years after he left alaska with your family and lived in various places? no, i was not so acutely aware of the danger that my mom was in. he called us one time, i said, this is your son, alma. and he said, i would like to talk to you but i can't. it crushes your heart. it was difficult growing up without a dad. or maybe, lucky. lloyd went back to alaska, found a third wife through amway. bothered five more children. later, chases boys, marshall and jeffrey, told their mom about life with lloyd. the boys told me that their dad would be gone on binges and not come home for days. so they'd rob homes to get

money for food. the boys should be soldiers, lloyd decreed. they had to be made ready. lloyd felt he was in a righteous militia. he had the boys convinced that there was going to be a war with the u.s. government. but he'd have them run drills and shoot live ammunition over their heads. those are the little boys who gave birth to. yeah. what were they turning into living with him? monsters. they were conditioned to have such aberrant believes, and aberrant behavior, jeffrey scares me to death. jeffries eyes glaze over and looks at you like there's no soul. when the boys became young adults, they scattered. but before long, lloyd and jeffrey, then again, belongs slow and violent and game. that begun. ♪ ♪ ♪ coming up -- we went to make what we

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alaska and they wouldn't let him. and he did it anyway. and that his wife got scared and took off with the kids. lloyd opened up. vented to his old friend. after that woman left him, he said, everything just went wrong. he had refused to pay child support and lost every one of his professional licenses. there was a lot more to the conversation. oh, yes. there was. law it wasn't just angry at the government. he was talking about police officers adjust to the end was if any cop got in my face, i'll kill him. a few minutes after that conversation, lloyd was on the run. so he wouldn't have to face the law. in march of 2000, he had been summoned to an idaho court on the y and other charges. instead of showing up, he and the girlfriend skip town. and at the wheel of the getaway car, lloyd son, jeffrey, then

20 years old. they drove through the night. and his morning approached heading north on u.s. 95, 60 miles from las vegas, where john coon egg had freshly admitted highway patrol, was on his way to an overtime assignment. i was probably doing about 75. and i saw car coming up from behind me. all i see is headlights. and they just kept accelerating. my thoughts were, this gets crazy, i have to stop him. it was just kind of a knee-jerk response. i was here, not familiar with this area. did know that i had radio coverage to talk to my dispatch. no way to call for backup. still, all alone, in the dark, john through his lights and sirens on and pulled the car over. and then he got out to ask the driver for his license and registration. there was a female in the backseat behind the driver. two men in the front. two men in front.

jeffrey was behind the wheel. floyd was in the passenger seat. and next to his leg was a shotgun. i asked the driver how many more weapons he had in the vehicle. and he looked right at me -- what you would call 1000 yard stare looking through you and said, as many as i want. so, this was trouble. john went back to his car and tried again to call back up. and this time he got through except, the nearest officer was 18 miles away. and as john took that in, jeffries still in his own car, did something strange. he was calling me, yes, come back up here. and, after i kept telling him i wasn't coming back up, the female in the raft rear seat, she came, out and said she needed to talk to me. by then, it seemed obvious. they wanted to lure him back to shoot him. so jon stayed out of sight and kept all his spotlights pointed

at the barrus's car. when backup arrived, what happened? there we want to make a high-risk stock that's when we get our weapons out, get on the loudspeaker, and get the driver to speak back to you. when we did, that they took off. in the desert? exactly. by the time -- were already out of sight but he knew the road would lead them to a town called biggie. if they had turned right in the town of beady instead of left, they would've stayed in the nevada problem, and not become a california problem. but lloyd and jeffries turned left. that's when they started shooting at the cops who were chasing. them as they headed straight into california is in your county. district attorney tom hearties jurisdiction. my phone rang and an investigator told me there was something weird happening in death valley. death valley. several hundred miles a

very remote, very rugged territory. and a lot of very odd things happen out. there wasn't charlie men's and picked up in your county? he was. it came as no surprise to the prosecutor, the three people with a carload of guns fleeing from law enforcement ended up in death valley. i don't think i had any idea they knew where they were going at this point. jeff drives the bmw off into the desert and almost immediately become stuck. they bailed out of the car and they grabbed three rifles and three handguns. was it arm for arm forgetting or? what mr. barrus seem to be very fond of firearms. though it was springtime, it was hot. and with law enforcement not far behind, jeffrey, lloyd, and his girlfriend loaded their arsenal for miles across the desert. and then dug a makeshift bunker. but they could not hide from the unforgiving death valley sun. they had lots of firearms, but they had no water. as the standoff went on, some of the cops said they could hear moaning coming from

the parts toll gets in the bunker, and they could not help but hear the gunfire. chp had a helicopter about 11:30 that morning in deduct being shot down by jeff. he fired a rifle and was able to put it around through the oil cooler in the helicopter. it basically disabled it. he brought it down? he basically had to do an emergency landing in the desert. by some miracle, all four on board survived. but all is not well in the bunker. 18 hours after the high speed chase began nevada, they gave up. walked out of their bunker and straight into the lines of law officers who hide them surrounded. lloyd and his sons had had brushes with the law before. but this time, there would be consequences. big consequences. coming up. lloyd has a strange wish. for me, i want to be left alone.

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keith morrison: the jig was up for lloyd and jeffery barrus. lloyd had opened fire on police ♪ ♪ ♪ during that high speed chase from nevada to california. the jig was up for floyd and jeffrey barrus. but had opened fire on police during the high-speed chase from california to nevada. death valley, son jeffrey shot down a chp chopper, the first time in history that had happened. to anyone hearing the story, it seems like they were desperado's how to kill as many people as they could and go down and in a blaze of glory. you don't see it that way? i guess at the time, no. injects initial interviews, he was almost apologetic. every time they asked why did you should at this person, yes,

but i didn't hurt anybody. and you're, right it seems like they're desperado's out to get somebody. but that's not how it was, said lloyd. no. the real story, someone, said lloyd, was out to get him. i just five to shoot us, you know. but you didn't. for me, i want to be left alone. i just want to be dead. that's it. hours after loyd was taken into custody indefinitely, -- as lloyd went on a hot. rant was that what this was all about? you are trying to commit suicide? i was really stressed to the max. i ran into too many bad cops over too many years. when you're ready to die, and you can't -- get them to engage, how are you going to get these [bleep] to engage? much of floyd's interview did make sense. one time i wrote to -- president bush. that worked out great. i had green berets after me and

everything. some of the statements i certainly thought were delusional. doctors gave floyd psychological evaluations and diagnosed him with paranoid personality disorder. so before he could go on trial, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. jeff took a plea deal and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. for crimes, he said, he was forced to commit. jeffrey told me when the shootout took place, that he has stated and his dad said, you're either with me or against me, and those who are against me die. and he held a gun on him. well that was enough to trucker jeffries wild animal response and he went crazy. when lloyd was well enough to tell his part of the story, he had a slightly different version. lloyd was always very coy about whether he fired any shots or not. he said, jeff was really the

person shooting, not me. does it strike you as a betrayal of his own son, that he would first order him around, get him involved in this pickle, and when it came time for him to make a deal say, well, really, he did most of the shooting, i didn't? well, short answer is, yes. so, it's father against son. boyd agreed to plea no contest and was sent to prison for 15 years. a decade less than jeffrey. from prison, lloyd wrote to his other son, alma. and invited him to visit. it kind of made it seem like it was all jeffries fault. i was wondering what it was like when you realize that he was bs-ing you. it's disappointing. i was hoping he would apologize. to alma for not being there for him, for everything. that didn't happen. lloyd quietly served 13 of the 15 years to which he'd been sentenced and then, on january

3rd 2013, he was released, walked out of prison a free man. we have to bakersfield. found himself another girlfriend. some attorneys joke about having lifelong cases and this is one where it never goes away. no, not this one. because once he was out of prison, the old lloyd began to reemerge. and that old lloyd discovered something new. for him, at least. social media. where he documented his life and beliefs. i was watching his facebook, seeing the stuff that he would post. predictions of an imminent military coup. fevered allegations of government genocide campaigns. photos of lynchings. alma was alarmed. i got a bad vibe from it. and i called his parole officer and they said he's graduated from parole. i said, tell you tell me where

he is? he said we can tell you that, we don't know. i wanted to try and stop him somehow. i was hoping it was law enforcement or something that i could help me. but, no ended. maybe no one could. and lloyd barrus acted up on dark fantasies, got into his car and pointed north toward montana. coming up -- patrol for 38, southbound 287, mile marker 101. white truck. ten and four. a speeding car. speed near 100 miles an hour. and gunfire. 438, what is your current location? on for 38, control. as a law it's anti government obsession comes to a deadly climax -- [sound of gunfire] when dateline continues. dateline continues.

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he was very? was there any effort out? made 2017, lloyd bears, starfish of parole in california, traveled to montana to see his first born son, marshall, now 30 years old. remember him? after growing up with lloyd, he'd make a mess of life, his five kids had grown up without him. struggled with those, he'd been charged with burglary. he was later wearing an ankle place for that. he had known his mom tracy that he was determined to finally turn his life around. >> marshall and i were sitting on a couch together. he goes, mom, afghans and really bad things in my life, but i need you to know something. i've never killed anyone. i don't ever intend to. >> yes, he'd rejoined his family. that weekend, that all gone camping together, sober and happy.

then, lloyd joined them. that campground was near canyon very like, montana's whitewater county. the county is huge. the size of more than 15 manhattan islands. at that time, only 7000 souls actually lived here, including your former sheriff meehan, and just ten sworn officers. >> this is a heck of a place to be sheriff. >> best place to be. there's no better place in montana. i've used to tell everybody, montana's the last best place to hide. >> true. >> one of many hands off a service deputy mason moore. south carolina and his voice and a college sweetheart turned wife, who had stolen his heart at the very first time he saw her, jody. >> i was at this party. he walked up and my first reaction was, who is that? i need to find out who he is.

that was pretty much how that started. >> in other words, you stole him. >> pretty much, yeah. my mom didn't raise any full, so. >> they moved to montana, moved here in 2011. mason was of state hunted but their three kids and a volunteer firefighter. in his heart, he was a cop. had always been a cop. >> if you asked him why he wanted to be a cop. what would he tell you? >> he would say that he didn't have a choice. that it was what he was supposed to do. >> recent more fit in well at the broadwater county sheriff's office. he was a big brother of sorts to dispatcher kiley howard. >> mason was hard to understand it first over the radio with his southern accent, but once i got past that, we were a great team. >> on monday, may 15th, while the bears were camping abroad by our county, deputy work

began his shift in the afternoon. >> he was sleeping during the day and i was a consultant. i worked at home. i want to pick my daughter up at school and he was waking up when i was leaving the house and i kissed him goodbye. >> a normal, busy day in a couple slides. >> normal day. >> that evening, at the broadwater county sheriff's office, the phones were dead. >> that's a word we don't say enough enforcement. it was a quiet night. >> unusual? >> very unusual, yes. >> at two a.m., deputy or made the final rounds. >> he always check the main business is before he left. >> by that time, the bears is counting trip by the lake had taken a turn. it seemed innocent enough. lloyd catching up with his newly sober son, marshall. they spent time alone in lloyd suburban, they turned on the radio. tuned into some talk shows and they started drinking.

they drink a lot. they got agitated. marshall pulled out his semi automatic, firing it into the ground. and then, he cut off his ankle bracelet. by 2:13 and, as you can see on the security video, a white suburban was parked at a gas station called the town pump, just a few blocks from where deputy war was checking businesses. less than ten minutes later, around 2:20 to 8 am, the deputy passed that town pump and turned on the highway [inaudible] caught on camera, here driving past another business, heading home. then, six minutes later, that you 28, the suburban passed the same camera, same business, same direction as the deputy. on this dark stretch of highway, about 25 miles down the road, deputy moore's dash cam shows the suburban roared past his patrol car fast, too fast. deputy more radioed it in.

>> control, four, three, eight. southbound 287, mile marker one-on-one. white truck. >> just patrick kindly howard answered. >> ten for. >> speed near 100 miles an hour. >> deputy more read off of the license plate. >> it came back to a suburban, register to lloyd barris, he had insurance. no warrants. nothing like that. >> of course, it was lloyd at the wheel. five miles into the chase, he wasn't stopping at all. instead, he hit the gas. >> coming up on the interstate no. >> speeds are 99 miles an hour. 97. >> in any pursuit, kylie knew, she was required to notify a superior officer. >> when they called me, i was literally, let me know when mason gets him into custody. >> just minutes after that call, out of nowhere --

gunfire. >> for three, what is your current location? for 38, control. >> you kept calling him. >> for 38. >> which means? >> that's his badge number. >> for 38, control. i hate when they don't answer me. i'm like -- it makes my heart sank. >> i had thought that mason had crashed. that's typically in pursuits how they can and. >> what's going on in your mind? >> panic. >> i'm just trying to get some help here. i've got mason in a pursuit. >> what? >> yeah, and he's not answering me. >> when a deputy doesn't respond to your status checks, that's the worst feeling in the world. >> now, it wasn't the worst feeling in the world. turned out, it was not even close. >> coming up -- >> i need medical. an ambulance. >> a deputy, down. >> oh, my god. oh, my god.

>> and a wild west gunfight. >> it's a scariest moment of my life. >> coming close? >> yeah. i propped up my gut that started there shooting through my windshield. >> how long do you think that went on? >> sometimes the memory feels like it was an eternity. other times, and it's caught in a second. >> when dateline continues. teline continues is not for sudden breathing problems. it's an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. and can help improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. dupixent helps prevent asthma attacks... and can even reduce or eliminate oral steroids. imagine that. dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe. get help right away if you have rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in your limbs. tell your doctor about new or worsening joint aches and pain,

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more, had suddenly gone silent. fear rising in her throat, dispatcher, kylie howard, kept calling, where are you? no answer. >> have you made contact with 438 yet? >> negative. a trooper headed possibly towards them. >> when the trooper arrived, he saw this -- >> 3:20, i need medical. some backup units. deputy down. >> that word reach dispatcher kylie howard. >> 3:20 just checked in with me they're saying back up units. the deputies down. he's been shot. oh, my gosh. well, my gosh. he's down. he's now. >> kelly called the sheriff. when? he's possibly been shot at mile

marker 109. >> i'm on my way. >> sheriff me and got out of bed, roared toward the scene some 25 minutes down the road. as he drove -- >> our trooper advises that he has called for a corner. >> they asked for a corner. for mason. he was like someone hit me with a truck. when they looked inside the car, in the driver seat, there was mason. a trooper, a friend of mine, shut up and i, said to have a blanket? he said, yes. he gave it to me and i realized what had transpired by the bullet holes that were all over the thing. >> broadwater county sheriff's deputy, mason moore, was dead at age 42. >> it's my biggest fear. i never wanted to lose an officer.

>> i mean, you know going into this job that it is something that can happen. i guess you just don't think it is actually going to happen, i guess. >> but it wasn't over. the white suburban and the killer inside were long gone, vanished in the night. 50 miles west, in the city of butte, observational bryant was on the graveyard ship. >> we are just cruising around, making sure no one was up to no good. >> what happened then? >> dispatch told us that there was i deputy in broadwater county that had been shot and they were unsure of the direction of travel in the vehicle. >> o'brien was one of just five officers on duty in the county that night, under the command of his cousin, lieutenant john ryan. >> what did you say to them? >> to mentally prepare. they might have to defend themselves. >> then, there was, the white suburban. >> they were doing 110

kilometer -- miles an hour. i had to see that in order to catch them up. >> help us re-going? >> i think my car hit 146 miles an hour. >> 146 miles an hour? what kind of carve was this? >> a chevy impala. it was not the pride of the fleet. so, i was hoping it stays on four wheels like a get up there. >> the abdominal spins quickly. 50, 60, 70 miles. and the front stopping? >> no, they had no intention of stopping. >> lloyd chased all the, way sped into fifth county. counter austin mchugh county. >> i heard my dispatcher scream my name and i just said, come right with me. those are my exact words. >> how a patrol joined into. >> they had to be stopped. i mean, they had no regard for anyone's life. mine or anyone else is. >> and then, nearly 90 miles from the shooting of deputies

mason ward, like something straight out of a movie. the officers dropped the spike strips across the interstate. the suburban city hit the strip at 100 miles an hour. punctured three tires. >> what happened that? >> it was like a rooster tail up sparks coming from the vehicle. >> but i kept going. 60, 70 miles an hour, on rims. and the deputy chasing behind radioed a warning. >> just saw a male take a sniper position in the back. >> who was that? >> floyd apparently the wheel, please had no idea. but whoever the shooter was, it sounded like a semiautomatic rifle. >> remember going around in a sweeping corner. all the sudden, pops, muzzle flashes coming out of the back window. it was the scariest moment of my life. >> did they come in close? >> oh, yeah. the propped up mika.

and started shooting through my windshield. that's what my front tire got shut out. >> three thought officers were now leading the pursuit and taking fire. john o'brien, tim, and austin mchugh. then, minutes later, lloyd bears finally hit the brakes. the suburban jilted to a stop by the side of the highway. a passenger jumped out, rifle in hand, firing. >> you start feeling the impacts from around the vehicle. >> as i was getting out of the car, around to the windshield where i was sitting. >> right where you had been? >> right where i've been sitting, yes, sir. >> i threw my ar at the steering wheel and started to exchange gunfire. >> through your windshield? >> yes. >> for a firing at? >> muzzle flash. >> could you see the actual person? >> no. i could see the star-shaped

muzzle flash, indicating it was a rifle. >> then, suddenly, it stopped. >> he said! >> you understood that you hit your target. >> i understand that there was no longer muzzle flash coming from there. >> the passenger was down. lloyd was still firing with a nine millimeter handgun. >> helen to think that went on? >> sometimes, the memory feels like it was an eternity. other times, it's gotten a second. >> as if in some of us gunfight, a person was shot from lloyd's hand. eventually, he complied with police commands. lord bears was finally in custody. but what happened next? well, some people might find that hard to understand.

coming up -- >> i knew right away that something was wrong. when i opened the door, the sheriff was right there and i saw his face. >> she looked at me and slammed it shut. >> i thought you guys were supposed to blast me to pieces or something. >> floyd's death wish. >> i don't believe in getting locked up. >> i don't know the answer to that. >> i have taken him me like them old vigilantes do. >> when dateline continues. n dateline continues

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from his hand, had been taken into custody on are you heard? that western montana highway. i don't know how many times have been hit. >> lloyd bears his pistol shot from his hand, had been taken into custody in the western montana highway. his passenger? one wounded while firing a semiautomatic rifle at police? >> go check my, someplace. >> that's your? so >> yeah, marshall. >> marshall? he got hit? >> yeah, he's probably death. >> that's right, it was ledsome, marshall, who shot and killed deputy moore and was now fighting for his own life. even then, as the sun was rising, 145 miles down the road in montana, a doorbell ring. at the home i deputy mason moore shared with his three children and his wife, jody. >> my sleep fog, i thought maybe mason had forgotten his keys and our window by the

front door, the blinds were halfway up. when i walked up to the front door, i saw feet. multiple feet. and i knew right away that something was wrong. i hurry to open the door because i thought maybe he's just hurt. and when i opened the door, the sheriff was right there and i saw his face. >> she looked at me and sundays shut. >> because i was immediately going and they came into my living room and sat me down and told me that mason was gone. i asked, what happened? they told me he was shot. i was very angry. just felt i had let him down and that we had all let him down. i just was very angry. >> how can you possibly let him

do? >> i think when you love someone, you want to protect them and keep them safe and i felt like i hadn't done that. i remember walking into the funeral home and the funeral director was there and she was asking me questions about what i wanted and picking out a casket and i looked out the window, and mrs. may, and it is snowing big, that snowflakes. i remember thinking, where am i? this just can't be reality. but was pretty much the piper i was done with that meeting. >> did you go see him? >> i saw him in the casket, but his shoulders and had recovered up that my request.

so, i was able to put my hand on his hand. but that was all i could do. >> what followed over the next week was a haze. the funeral at the mooers church, that procession to the airport. followed by flights to take the casket bearing mason's body home to south carolina, to be buried in the family plot. a plot where, with and i'm not, it's mason's farther and mother would join him. >> did his death, do you think, contribute to theirs? >> absolutely. i'm really amazed that his dad survived the funeral service. >> what happened to martial? the man who had killed mason moore and try to kill more cops? he did not survive his wounds. his mom, tracey, was able to say goodbye to him in the hospital, marshall was under police guard. >> the captain was so kind to

me. he took my hand and said, i want you to know that after marshall was down, every one of my officers ran to my your son to render aid. i don't hold anything against those police officers. they have to eliminate that. that we don't know what else those two could've done that night. >> jesper loyd, this was his self introduction to the cops, instead of inter--- arresting him. >> i'm just evil militia, you know. >> the worst fears of floyd's ex-wife had been realized. once that, dead in a gun fight. another in prison for shooting down a highway patrol helicopter. >> i don't believe in getting locked up. >> i hope they can hang. >> lloyd barest never stop talking. >> i thought you guys were supposed to blast me to pieces or something.

>> all the way to jail. >> this is disgusting. now i have to go hang around with a bunch of criminals. probably -- >> and in jail, he called reporters, ranted on as long as anyone would listen. >> right now, you're messing with oath keepers. i'm an oath keeper. i'm a cut out. one of, gondola be someone else a deal with it. >> would you say that your political views are extreme? >> i'm, extreme yeah. i'm extreme. and that i literally believe everywhere the constitution says. >> do you feel any remorse for deputy eight more? >> i don't know deputy more. i don't know nothing about him. you know, he's just some guy that was acting like some maniac. >> lloyd even phoned his elderly mother, who had never stopped communicating with him. he bragged about what he had done. >> this is what marshall i have lived for. it's what he died, 14 mother. i was born to do this, mother.

what i'm doing. >> by the time lloyd was set to go to trial, he was among the most hated humans in the state. the question was, what he ever be punished? the answer was not obvious. not at all. coming up -- >> you hear these men come back and decided they were going to do what they set out to do. >> another take would review the true horror of that night. >> they launched 20 rounds in the side of deputy moore's vehicle. >> when dateline continues. and with once-daily trelegy, it can still be beautiful. because with 3 medicines in 1 inhaler, trelegy keeps my airways open for a full 24 hours and prevents future flare-ups. trelegy also improves lung function,

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investigating. it also said that 3000 out of 13,000 core staff are still providing aid in gaza. according to the palestinian misted -- ministry of health, over 26,000 people have been killed there. now, back to dateline. since the days of the old west, you states of had such a fabled history with the hang mans news as montana. but it may surprise you to know that no judge here has handed down a death sundridge in the 20%. tarik still, many who had heard various beg to be executed after his arrest -- >> i hope they can hang, like the old vigilantes do. >> they thought, why not ground his wish? >> i said, if we don't file intend to seek the death penalty, what justifies it? this is an ambush of a law enforcement officer, who is just trying to go home. and these guys killed him

because of [inaudible] in the car that he drove and a job that he did. >> so, the broadwater counties filed to seek the death penalty against floyd barris. the decision was applauded by deputy mason moore's widow, julie. >> the crime of killing a law enforcement officer in an ambush, let's call it what it was, an execution. i believe that warren's death. >> but the snake? remember, in california, 17 years earlier after that high-speed chase and a very shouldn't down a highway patrol helicopter, lloyd bears was examined by mental health professionals and diagnosed with severe paranoid personality disorder. now, doctors and montana found bears suffered from multiple mental illnesses, including digital additional disorder.

stephanie rebels and dan from the attorney generals office in montana. >> once we turned information that he had mental on this, we didn't think it was a poor pretape move forward with the death penalty case. >> then, because of lords diagnosed mental illness, the judge found him incompetent to stand trial. he was sent to a state psychiatric desolate under doctors care. >> when i asked why they found he was incompetent to proceed, they just said he was too tangential in his thinking, to tangential in the way he conducted conversation. >> what does that? me too tangential? >> the reason he can communicate effectively with his attorneys because he was so fixated on this idea of the conspiratorial thinking of the government. >> at state hospital, boy bears refused to take the drugs that might restore him to competency. so, the state ask for permission to force medication. >> really, the whole case hinged on this. if we were not allowed to

forcibly medicaid him with anti psychotic medication, then the case would've been over with. >> for nearly two years, they argued, until in 2020, montana supreme court finally ruled in favor of the state to forcibly medicate gloried barris and he was soon deemed competent. in september of 2021, his trial began with prosecutors quoting lloyd's own words. >> i would accept it. i wish you take me out and hank me. i'd accepted. a full acknowledgment of the consequences he deserves. >> even then, loyd's story, his long, often violent, the story -- >> you like to be able to make an argument that says, look at this guy, for his entire, life he has been with his children, try to make them into extremist. he has made them as extreme as he is. but you could make that argument? >> i can make that argument. the judge excluded that from trump we had to go on what we

had. >> ladies and gentlemen -- >> prosecutors couldn't bring up that california shootout or most of law is passed. so, they focused on what had happened just before the death of deputy more. they were able to call floyd's granddaughter, who was in the campground with lloyd and marshall, before they left. >> he made statements that i was born into the militia and there was no way out of it and that i'd make a great lady slipper. and he also told me that all police should be hung. >> and then, said prosecutors, before he set out to attack a few world deputies, he presented his gift to the mother of marshals children. >> he wrote a document that we refer to a trial as his manifesto, talk about anti government rhetoric the night before he killed miss and more with his son, he signed it and dated it. one of the last acts he did

before he left with marshall and killed at the mason moore. >> of course, they played the tapes you have already seen. marshall loyd in the town pump gas station, waiting, prosecutor said, for a deputy to drive by. then, following recent work down the highway and shooting him. but then, they showed the jury something something you have not seen. something hard to listen to. it was this -- deputy more, grievously wounded, sitting in his car by the side of the road, struggling for breath, keeping the radio. but unable to speak. >> four minutes go by where you hear mason agonizing in the car. >> the bears's had driven away. that, they came back. >> after four minutes, you hear that come back and decide they were going to do what they set

out to do. that was to finish killing a law enforcement officer. [sound of gunfire] >> and they watched 20 rounds into the side of deputy mason towards vehicle. >> prosecutors and law officers, the reason was simple. the bears's waited to continue, hoping more, officers would show up. >> they're wanted as many cops as they could. lord blessed. it could've been a lot more. >> the steam rolled out all the other innocent reasons for the trip to kill the officers. >> floyd's defense attorneys declined datelines reports for an interview, but in court, suggested that marshall was the guilty one. maybe it wasn't lloyd. >> maybe it was his son who was only responsible.

maybe he was driving the vehicle. >> what was so shameful about why paris's offense that he agreed, to lose that heat maligned marshall and attended to shift blame towards marshall that light would be set free. here is a man that was in california, based on the encouragement of lloyd. so, now when he's caught, he's turned into his son and to his dad and try to align him as a person to make him seem a far more dangerous person that he was in order to set himself free. >> all right. >> the trial took three weeks. the verdict? less than three hours. >> on the charge of homicide by culpability, we the jury find the defendant guilty. >> guilty of murder. lloyd bears still might never served a day behind bars. coming up -- >> there would be potential for him to be released.

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been convicted of multiple felonies for his part in the murder of deputy mason moore. >> he's one of the most evil people we've ever dealt with. >> reporter: still there is no guarantee that barrus would spend even a day behind. bars but -- they gave barrels another shot at avoiding prison, if he could convince a job if they could not appreciate the criminality of his offense or comport his behavior to the law. in that case he would spend his days and the state psychiatric hospital instead of a prison. and then -- >> if he were to ever convinced the doctors at the state hospital that he was not a danger to society, there would be potential for him to be released. of course the attorney general office thought that he should go to prison, and not have the remotest possibility of parole. >> reporter: four more months the battle went on. this system lloyd hated giving him one chance after another,

after another. until, april 2022. the broad water county courthouse in montana, nearly five years after the murder of deputy mason moore. >> anything you want to say? but >> reporter: it was sentencing day. lloyd barrus entered the courtroom and robert wright plus jody moore and her sons. >> they had gone through high school through the process? >> they were 12 when mason was killed, and seniors in high school when the trial was finished up. >> reporter: in the other half of the courtroom, mason moore's brothers and sisters and laws, except for one, who was more than 1000 miles away in california. >> you weren't in the courtroom

for the sentencing? >> no, i was in treatment. to deal with post traumatic stress, depression and then deciding things have been close existing since. >> reporter: you have ptsd? >> yes i do. severe. chronic depression. but i stood in that filtering going, i should not be here. but i'm gonna do it, because my life was a wreck. >> reporter: did it help? >> absolutely, best decision i ever made. >> reporter: saved her life? >> absolutely. >> reporter: and others who were there to argue that lloyd barrus never be released from prison, also scare carried scars from that night. >> like captain austin mchugh that fired the shots that killed barris's son marshal. >> -- to change and the

people behind, he chose others wise. >> reporter: mason moore's colleagues in the sheriff's office spoke as well. >> please use your authority to help jody more, her children and the more family find peace, by knowing that the evil took place will be locked away from society forever. >> reporter: finally what little there was left in the room rushed out as jody more step to the podium, just a few feet from lloyd barrus. >> what was that like? >> i didn't like it but. it was really hard. >> i have thought about this, what i would say, and how i would say it for a while. for at least five years now. there have been many sleepless nights, and lots of tears [crying]. but >> reporter: did you look at him? i >> didn't have any choice, but to look at him. i looked at him when i was speaking. i looked at him and talked to

him. >> reporter: did you see anything in his eyes? >> i never saw any remorse, didn't see any emotion, any caring in a size. so i didn't really hold back with my comments. but >> our daughter is now in middle school. a boys did not have their dad. he is pure evil. >> reporter: the world seems to stop spinning when she got to the final part of her statement. it was a letter from mason. >> what can i say, i hope to grow old with you and see our grandkids, that is not to be. >> reporter: like many law officers mason had tucked away a note for jody. a just in case note. >> don't dwell on the matter of my death, you married a cop.

and cops tend to die violent deaths. it if it is a person that got me, and here she is brought to trial, and they are conducted are otherwise don't let it roll your life. make sure you enjoy life. i enjoyed every moment with you. i love you now and always. your loving husband. [crying] this is the man that you took from us. you robbed me of being able to spend the rest of my life with him. >> reporter: with that it was loyd's turn to see something. but what he? what could he say to that? >> reporter: coming up. >> part of building a good society is working to gather, if it is your way or the highway, you're not doing any

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attorneys fought to keep him out of prison. >> you hear talk of him being evil, mr. barrus is mentally ill. and as a result of that, should be, in spite of what he has done, be treated humanely. he is strongly urge that you consider sending him into the custody of the department of health. >> reporter: anyone listening to lloyd's final statement could be forgiven for being a little uncertain of what he was trying to say. >> yes your honor but, i've sat through this nearly five years but, i am truly sorry for the loss, to the more families loss. ionian could be more upset than i am for what happened.

it's what did officer moore do to deserve what he got. i don't know him. it's like someone who gets cancer, this has a life has a lot of unexplainable things happen to us. i guess that's all i have to say. >> reporter: minutes later the judge pronounced her sentence. >> mr. barrus i'm sentencing you to life in prison, you will not be eligible for parole, the protection of society requires he not be eligible for uproar. >> reporter: lloyd has appealed the sentence. it was a sentence that appealed across montana, a relief for those police officers who captured him and received the top cop award. it was a sense that echoed across time.

to lloyd's childhood friend, michael. >> i loved the guy, he was my best friend and to see him go from a happy, active religious, wanting the best in the world guy, to a not crazy white supremacy assist that wanted to kill people. it was deeply upsetting. >> reporter: but lloyd's second wife deborah, the one who's all the years of before actively abuse and spirit away her children in the middle of an ice. she heard the news and relax a little. >> let's just say that lloyd being in prison is the best place, a lot more people feel safe. >> reporter: lloyd's son wrote an open letter to the people of montano apologizing for his father's crimes. he had grown up to be the antithesis to his father, the son of an anti government activists who joined the army,

served a year in iraq and now works for the federal government. he called lloyd, a false patriot. what do you mean by that? >> he likes to use the government conveniently, quoting the constitution like it scripture, but part of building a good society, is working together, if it is your way or the highway, you are not doing any good for your country. he thinks he is a patriot, he is just doing stuff for himself. he is a coward. >> reporter: a sentiment shared by lloyd's first wife tracy, the mother of a dead sun and of another still in the prison. >> i thought so many times maybe if i had done something different, maybe if i've gone back 40 years him eat a different choice, officer moore would still be alive, marshal it still be alive. jeffrey wouldn't be in prison.

you can't not feel guilty. >> reporter: the sheriff has escaped his demons that haunted him before and after deputy moore's murder, thanks to treatment and therapy. even learn to do yoga. >> like i said, bet decision i made my life was going to get help. but just to understand that you have to come clean. >> reporter: you are tough cop you're not supposed to be vulnerable. >> no you are not. but in order to get where you need to be, it's what you need to do. >> reporter: then there is jordy moore, she returned to the carolinas where she grew up. >> reporter: why did you decide to stay in montana? >> because my kids are my top priority. >> reporter: it is home for them now? >> they are doing great. also mason lost his life here. his blood was spilled here.

i didn't feel like i could or should leave. >> reporter: she's opened a bookstore, it's called book therapy and more. it's the headquarters for the mason moore foundation, a charity jodi founded to raise money for safety equipment for cops who need it. her motto something mason said to her long time ago. love wins. >> he loved me and all we wanted to do to try to make this a better place. and leave his mark. i think he did. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, i'm andrea canning, and this is dateline. ♪ ♪ ♪ blood isn't a very good anniversary gi.