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Arrest, but he was back home, we could see him. >> eventually, im released from the halfway house to home confinement, where i can only go from home to work. so i get to walk across the alley every morning and back across the alley at night. and thats it. >> when pete got out of prison, he was not the person he was when he left. he was very reclusive. he was very withdrawn. >> he had to re-orient to normal interactions with people. >> the institute was a little gloomier. we didnt -- still didnt ...

>> this race to discover the earths past is a very exciting one and people want a piece of it. >> sue had back a living entity to me after all our work in the field and what we were finding out about her life. and i really missed her when she was gone. so one way that i was able to sort of help that was to go and visit her and to talk with her through the window, looking at the container, so i could see her, see that that container was still there. not moved to some other place in timbuktu or so...

Federal agencies, and it was the national guard. >> the u.s. attorney at the time kevin schieffer, got reporters together in the federal building in rapid city and announced that the seizure was ongoing. >> the purpose of our action this morning is to preserve the scientific knowledge and integrity of these fossils. >> then of course the entire press corps hopped in their cars and we drove to hill city. >> they were supposed to take things related to sue, but they took everything. they went thro...

Hours, i guess you might say. >> a federal judge in rapid city today sentenced peter larson to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine. larson was found guilty last year of charges connected to his commercial fossil hunting business in hill city. its the final chapter in the case that began with the discovery of sue, the most complete tyrannosaurus rex -- ♪

People crazy. >> i do have a fair amount of litigation experience. i have not had courtroom experience. >> its a little unclear as to why schieffer decided to seize sue or become interested in it at all. whether it began with morris williams or complaints from the tribe. ultimately the decision was kevin schieffers to decide that this was something they wanted to do. >> also shocking from a scientific standpoint that anybody would behave so recklessly with the greatest paleontological find of al...

Started this business called black hills minerals as this earth science supply house. eventually my younger brother neal, who was also a student at the school of mines, and bob farrar, one of his classmates, started working with us as well. with the three of us all going to the school of mines, we were problems there, because all of us chose not to go into industry. >> the first year was terrible, the second year was not so good but it was sort of turning into a business. >> as we kept going, we...

It wasnt tribal land. it wasnt federal land. it was a really -- sue came out from an absolute legal netherworld. netherworld. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. if youre a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life.

Potential criminal violations. there were so many bones, so many animals, so many vertebrates that were taken off public lands, taken internationally, sold internationally. there was way more than we could have investigated. the case was never wanting for not having sue. if yand youre talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me,

Up and bailed back to south dakota by the end of the year to cover the story and see what was gonna happen to it. >> americas indian tribes have fought the white man over many different issues through the years, but the newest fight is over a dinosaur. >> it was a big story and a very unusual story. come in and seize sue, everything exploded. >> controversy tonight. controversy surrounding the institute and their most famous discovery. >> it may be the custody battle of the century. scientists, ...

>> the federal government took the position that he had no authority himself to enter into an agreement with the black hills institute. >> peter realized that he could not have his fossil back. he was devastated. >> the judge decided that sue was real estate. sue the fossil was real estate. >> i first got involved in the dinosaur case, as we call it, sometime late 1992, early 1993. of course theyre not going to like what were doing. thats the nature of what we do. but hopefully in the broader sp...