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Join Wondery Plus in the remote mountains of northern Idaho.

U.S. Marshal Dave Hunt barrels downhill through thick forest, clutching his rifle as distant gunshots echo

through the trees, running alongside him as one of his colleagues from the Marshal Service.

A few hours ago, Hunt, this colleague, and four other marshals hiked into the woods to conduct

a surveillance mission. They were scouting a compound owned by a fugitive named Randy Weaver.

Man Hunt has been trying to convince to surrender peacefully for months.

But the mission went disastrously wrong.

The marshals were accidentally discovered by Weaver's family and a firefight broke out.

Now, at least one person is dead, and Hunt desperately needs to summon reinforcements.

Hunt and his colleague break through the brush reaching a broad meadow. The distant gunshots

finally fall silent, and they risk slowing down to catch their breath. Across the meadow is a small wooden cabin.

It belongs to Ruth Rowe, one of the Weaver's neighbors,

who's been assisting the Marshals with this operation.

She's standing on her porch,

peering at the two men who've suddenly come out of the shadows of the forest.

Marshal, is that you?

Everything all right?

What's all that shooting? Ruth, call 911.

Get the sheriff out here now.

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