Informants, Fugitives & the Shots That Killed a Family
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Informants, Fugitives & the Shots That Killed a Family
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(00:01:31) The Mountain and the Warrant
(00:02:46) August 21: The Firefight in the Woods
(00:04:27) The FBI Takes Over
(00:06:19) Eight Days with the Megaphones
(00:07:28) The Trial and What the Jury Decided
(00:08:57) What Ruby Ridge Built
The Ruby Ridge standoff of August 1992 didn't begin on a mountain. It began in a church meeting room in Idaho, where a paid ATF informant named Kenneth Fadley slowly manoeuvred Randy Weaver into selling two sawed-off shotguns with illegally short barrels. When Weaver refused to become an informant himself, the firearms charge became the weapon. When he missed a court date in 1991 — reportedly due to a paperwork error — he became a fugitive, and the U.S. Marshals launched an eighteen-month, $130,000 surveillance operation that would end in three deaths.
This episode traces the full chain of decisions that turned a legal dispute into a federal siege. On August 21, 1992, marshals conducting reconnaissance near the Weaver cabin followed the family dog into the woods. By the time the gunfire stopped, fourteen-year-old Sammy Weaver had been shot in the back while running away, and Deputy Marshal William Degan was dead. The next day, with the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team now in command, sniper Lon Horiuchi shot Randy Weaver from behind — then fired a second shot that passed through the cabin door and struck Vicki Weaver in the head as she stood holding her ten-month-old daughter.
The rules of engagement authorising that second shot were later ruled unconstitutional. The snipers followed them anyway. This episode examines how each decision — from the informant's first approach to the FBI's shoot-on-sight order — made the next tragedy more likely, and asks what accountability, if any, ever followed.
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