The Order Part 2
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🗓️ 28 November 2023
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Summary
Part 2: “The Names of the Dead”
The Order was a gang of white supremacists turned domestic terrorists. Based out of Washington, headed by extremist Robert Mathews and fueled by hate, The Order carried off a series of bank and armored transport robberies in an effort to fund a race war and the eventual overthrow of the government. In the midst of their crimes, they carried out an assassination- that of controversial Denver talk radio host Alan Berg, who was executed in his driveway. On the run after a shootout with the FBI at a Portland, Oregon motel, Mathews and his followers had regrouped at the secluded homes they'd rented at Smuggler's Cove on Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound. On the morning of Friday, December 7, the gang's three safe houses were quietly surrounded by the FBI. Lights and movement could be seen inside as agents prepared to engage with their targets. When they moved in, Mathews opened fire, and a standoff ensued.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Holland and Josh McCullough tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:17.0 | Murder in the Rain contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised. You're going to be. |
| 0:33.0 | You know? |
| 0:35.0 | You know? You know? |
| 0:37.0 | And you know. |
| 0:38.0 | And you're And you're And you're The Order were a gang of white supremacist turned domestic terrorists. |
| 0:50.8 | Based out of Washington, headed by extremist Robert Matthews and fueled by hate, the order carried |
| 0:56.8 | off a series of bank and armored transport robberies in an effort to fund a race war and the |
| 1:01.3 | eventual overthrow of the government. |
| 1:03.0 | In the midst of their crimes they carried out an assassination |
| 1:06.5 | that of controversial Denver talk radio host Alan Berg |
| 1:10.0 | who was executed in his driveway. |
| 1:12.0 | On the run after a shootoutout with the FBI at a Portland, Oregon motel, |
| 1:16.0 | Matthews and his followers had regrouped at the secluded homes they'd rented at Smugler's Cove on |
| 1:21.0 | Whidby Island in Puget Sound. |
| 1:25.0 | There had been no sightings of Robert Matthews since his November 23rd 1984 run-in with the FBI, |
| 1:30.8 | which saw Order Member Gary Yarborough captured and Matthews hand mangled by a shotgun blast. |
| 1:36.0 | Matthews managed to slip away from enclosing federal agents, hitchhike to his safe houses on Mount Hood, |
| 1:42.0 | and hook back up with his followers. |
| 1:45.0 | On December 3rd 1984, the FBI office in Seattle received an anonymous call informing then |
| 1:50.8 | that the order was hold up on Whidby Island. |
| 1:53.0 | 150 federal agents and Coast Guard personnel were sent there, |
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