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We had helicopters come over the house and he shot at the helicopters. while all this was going on, the house caught fire. the fire was from the flare that was in the bottom of the the shooting continued all night. rounds being fired by bob. and just going off indiscriminate nantly. it was a war zone. at daylight, i walked up to the cabin and i found bob's body lying in the rubble. and the entire house was destroyed. whatever evidence was there was no longer there. he came to a fiery end just like the fictional character, turner, in the book "the turner diaries." once he done that, he was ex...

>> bob was upstairs and he had multiple weapons and lots of ammunition. so we moved in, and we used sound grenades and blew the glass out and then i heard the gunfire. he began to shoot indiscriminately through the building. i remember one occasion, i was standing by the window with a weapon, and somebody yells from the wood line, look out, he's in the window above you. i crouched down and i looked up with my weapon and i realized that the bullets had just come out over my head and hit the ground next to me, but we couldn't get a view of him. so we pulled back and waited until that night. that...

I participated in the arrests of the unabomber. he didn't come close to the potential of these guys. this was probably the largest criminal spree by any gang in history for many, many years. and after it had all come to an end, there was a general belief amongst the followers of the order that the spirit of the movement represented by mathews and his followers was still very much alive. >> always blessing. we could have been successful. we will be ultimately successful. change will take place. >> lo and behold it wasn't long before timothy mcveigh came along with the oklahoma city bombing. and...

Thinking he's going to lob a grenade at us. so you do what you got to do. >> he goes into this heavily vegetated area, and i'm following him. >> the last i saw of mathews was his blood trail. i had no idea where he went. we got gary yarborough and bob matthews escaped through us because we had no idea where he would go next. it was a scary thought because somebody like matthews he might be hiding out, but he's waiting till he can get his arm together and throw the next -- so weets had to locate him and take him down fast. the lincoln summer invitation is on. it's time for a getaway. now get ou...

He was a martyr. >> just like an isis martyr. that's exactly the kind of situation we had in the order. that dedication and that kind of fervor, those people he recruited makes those people say to themselves, i'm going to be like bob mathews. >> bob deliberately sacrificed his life knowing that the blood of martyrs stirs the people. >> after bob died, there was a belief amongst the believers of the order it would only take a spark to reignite the whole thing. we began an intensified manhunt to locate the others. if we didn't do it right and if we didn't do it fast, a lot of good people were go...