byron redburn: for nome. yes. that search leads here? byron redburn: it does.m, officer owens called in. the radios that he finds the vehicle at a place called the bessie pit. it's a gravel pit. it's actually just across the road from where sonya's body was found. reporter: two minutes later, owens called in again, this time, urgently. byron redburn: he radios that shots fired. and so now all the other officers are concerned. they flip on their lights. they're running code. and they're responding to the scene as quickly as they can. reporter: by the time the next officer arrived, everything was quiet. owens later recounted what happened. he says, a shot rings out and then another one. and he runs off into the tundra. after the other officers arrived, owens came out of the pit and made his way back up here to the main road. and that's when he confessed something to his chief, something that maybe a lot of other officers would not have. owens said he was really scared back there, and he thought a lot about his four-year-old son growing up without a father. owens