Dave Davies

But he doesn't show up for trial, which means that he's technically a federal fugitive, right?

And so it's something for the US Marshals to handle.

And so for a year and a half, he and the family go to the cabin up the hill and stay there.

Now, you know, the Marshals could have at least tried going up and knocking on the door.

Why didn't they do that?

And again, there's this fascinating contrast in that the marshals think they're trying to sort of execute a fairly simple arrest warrant.

But for the weavers, this is part of a coming battle, the tribulation, the biblical prophecy coming true, right?

So eventually the marshals decide to take a more, as you say, dynamic approach to resolving this.

They bring in this special operations group, this sort of elite tactical unit.

They set motion-activated cameras in trees around the cabin.

And it was when some of these marshals went in to kind of service them that this first confrontation happened that begins with a dog from the Weavers, ends up a marshal shooting the dog, and then their 14-year-old son, Sam...

firing a weapon and then a marshal shooting and killing this 14-year-old son who was armed.

And then Kevin Harris, this 24-year-old man who lived with the Weavers, fired and killed a deputy U.S.

marshal named William Deegan.

So now this is a completely different situation.

It's a huge national story.

The Weavers are alone and isolated in their cabin tending to their son's body but talking to no one.

How is this situation characterized by the government and the media at this point?

Well, and the other piece of information that nobody had at that point was that gunfire by the marshals had killed a 14-year-old boy, right?

That was not known because the Weavers weren't talking to anybody and the marshals didn't report it.