Chuck Bryant

They had suitcases.

They had rental cars, like new rental cars.

They eventually were like, I think they're on to us.

So let's have a party.

And one of the Branch Davidians came to the party.

And I'm sure they were like, hey, would you like a brewski?

And the Branch Davidian went back and like, by the way, those are definitely not college students.

Right.

Well, I mean, they got a warrant.

So they had enough information to at least get like a legal warrant to search everything.

Their goal initially was to just get those illegal weapons, arrest David Koresh, who, by the way, and I think you found this, was that like he had a relationship with the local sheriff.

And at any point, the local sheriff could and I think did say like, hey, man, why don't you come in and like talk to us about what's going on?

And that happened.

So like none of this seemed to have been completely necessary.

I think they also were the under the impression that like they were bunkered in and like he never left the compound.

But upon further investigation, they found that he kind of regularly would leave the compound and they probably could have lured him out.

But they, you know, they were kind of bungling this from the beginning.

So they planned a surprise attack.

kind of raid warrant serving where they would force entry and they were like, we're going to catch them off guard.

They won't have time to arm themselves and it's going to go great.