>> they were the poor mountain kid, you know, the hicks. >> sally upton was city.sell jordan, mountain. his house was up here back then, a shack at the end of a dirt road. yet russell and sally became a pair. neither one popular, nor wealthy in a school culture that taten says prized both. >> it was a pretty high pressure school to fit in. >> by his own admission, taten was a loopy kid. easygoing, lots of friends, just not a serious student. >> sorry i'm late. it's just like this new schedule's totally confusing. >> the jeff spicoli, you might say, of los gatos high. even though he was a classmate, taten draws a blank when it comes to russell jordan. >> i can't remember meeting him himself. >> but taten certainly remembers sean viehweg. two years older, boisterous, outgoing. viehweg was a pack leader who, nevertheless, found the time to befriend the timid russell jordan. >> definitely the opposite of russell jordan. russell jordan didn't seem he left an impression on anybody. and then sean left an impression on almost everybody he met. >> it's still true today. man