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Leave behind our s.u.v, along with two members of the crew, and carry on in billings hummer. >> this is really hard to get around. >> yes, yeah. >> i mean, this is, sort of, at times, white knuckle driving. >> yeah, there -- >> i have to admit. >> i mean, you look straight down, you don't wanna make one wrong little turn. >> yeah, yeah, one wrong turn can be your last turn. >> this is one of the mines that was searched? >> yes. >> reporter: billings and the other volunteers checked off one dangerous mineshaft after the next. >> we're monitoring the oxygen. so it's all clear. the next step we d...

Downside. so work in that environment, you only have a limited amount of time effectiveness before you're quickly fatigued. >> what did you see? >> a -- sprite bottle -- a rope -- a tire down there propane tank -- some plastic jugs -- a lot of rock and rock debris -- some railroad ties. >> reporter: and then he saw it, a human body. that sounds like out of a horror movie. i mean, to hate to say it like that, but to rappel down and see a decomposing body. >> we see a lot of death in this line of work. over time you just develop a method where you just ignore your emotions for a little while. an...

They don't tell the family who they are or what they have done. the family agrees to take them in. but then a union patrol rides by and david harold and booth hide. that arouses suspicion. then they say, you can't sleep in our house tonight. you have to sleep in our tobacco barn. the garretts lock them in. they're trapped. >> the garretts point a cavalry to the suspicious strangers sleeping in their barn. it quickly becomes clear that they found their assassins. >> this begins a two-hour exchange because they want him alive. >> eventually david harold cracks and turns himself in. >> booth stil...

Days as oxygen ran out, one by one, they died. many asked comrades to shoot them. the bodies will be with the skin, the hair, everything. uniform will be complete. and if inside, because the fresh air was broke, it will be crazy conservations, we will find maybe old documents, ring, everything, photos and they will find that. inside, it's the biggest reserve of human materials of the first world war. finding the tunnel took years of research by pierre's father but no one was interested, so last year pierre decided to act alone. risking criminal charges, he came one night with a digger and what...

A huge explosion here trapped the men inside and over the next few days as oxygen ran out, one by one, they died. many asked comrades to shoot them. the struggle for life or death was slow and dreadful. everyone was calling for water, but in vain. death laughed at its harvest. the bodies will be with the skin, the hair, everything. uniform will be complete. and if inside, because the fresh air was broke, it will be crazy conservations, we will find maybe old documents, ring, everything, photos and they will find that. inside, it's the biggest reserve of human materials of the first world war w...