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to see if james would chase me. >> he did not. but where was he? no one seemed to know. was sarah close enough so they could actually see her, investigators tried to track her husband's phone. >> you're sitting in homeland security's office and you're listening to them ping him across the state, and he's on the run, he's on the move. i think a car backfired in the parking lot, and all the agents pull their guns out and run to the windows because they don't know if james is in town. it's a surreal thing. >> even if they found him, they couldn't charge with murder or conspiracy, didn't have enough evidence of that. but they did have something quite useful. a few days earlier, search warrant in hand, state and federal agents, including homeland security's derrick trudel descends on james and sarah's empty house. >> what did you find? >> some financial records, some
a few days earlier, search warrant in hand, state and federal agents, including homeland security's derrick trudel descends on james and sarah's empty house. >> what did you find? >> some financial records, some firearms. >> some firearms? >> yeah, i can't remember the exact number of them. >> if there's one there, he's a convicted felon right? >> grounds for immediate arrest. >> agents fanned out around north dakota and in a few days later in a mill place called mandan, there he was. >> what was he doing? >> he was over at his girlfriend's friend's apartment. >> the apartment of a friend of payton, the chief's daughter. >> we had guys staked out around it doing surveillance on it, and as we drove by, i recognized him. and that was him. >> on the street. >> walking on the street, yeah. he hopped out, told him to turn around, show me his hands. >> he was surrounded by cops, guns drawn and pointed, so what happened then was very odd. >> he had his hands in his pockets and so kept telling him to show me his hands. he wouldn't show me both hands at the same time, he's got a