did you start to think that there was a list? no, sure. i don t think there was any doubt in my mind this was a serial killer we were dealing with. someone had declared war on law enforcement and their families. i have kids. my husband, i can t keep putting them at risk. my wife had two guns out. i said unless you know it s me coming through the door, be ready to use them. is there some sort of antigovernment militia group? i had no idea what we were dealing with. before leading investigators back home. was he living a double life? i think he was. you re making him sound like hannibal lector. it s just wild. the courthouse. the moral center of every american city and town. the place we go to settle differences, resolve disputes, find justice. it is the place where the story usually ends, but not this time. not in rural kaufman, texas, where life is leisurely and no one is a stranger. oh my god, someone just shot someone. they are laying on the ground.
will be stepped up security here at the county courthouse today. the district attorney s office will be close to the public. this entire community is on high alert. that morning, when chad and came to her office, she had an armed escort. there is no leader at your office anymore? no one. no one. when you come into work, how do you go forward? we had to move forward. we couldn t let them win. we couldn t. and we had to fight for the honor of mike and mark. everyone in the office was on edge. my husband, he stayed up all night with a gun in his hands. i know that i started carrying a gun. sleep with a gun under my pillow. even shannon, who wouldn t carry a gun before, now slapped with protection nearby. we had a big old shark and sitting on our dresser. waiting to go. just in case. the killers threat to unleash more violence in kaufman county. kept the task force working around the clock. a special teams scoured this surveillance video get collected near the mclella
and those old cases from dallas. the killer s message ended this way, we are not unreasonable, but we will not be stopped. it s almost sounding like a game now. i think in his mind it was a big chess game. i think it was just for fun, to see if he could really exert complete and total control over the criminal justice system in kaufman county. by monday morning the story was topping the national news. perhaps that s exactly what the killer wanted. nbc s gabe guttierez is in kaufman, texas for us this morning. gabe, good morning to you. savannah, good morning. there will be stepped up security here at the county courthouse today. the district attorney s office will be closed to the public. this entire community is on high alert. that morning when shannon hebert came to her office, she had an armed escort. there s no leader at your office anymore. there s nothing. no one. when you come into work, how do you go forward? we had to move forward. we couldn t let them win. w
it s almost sounding like a game now. i think in his mind it was a big chess game. i think it was just for fun, to see if he could really exert complete and total control over the criminal justice system in kaufman county. by monday morning the story was topping the national news. perhaps that s exactly what the killer wanted. nbc s gabe gutierrez is in kaufman, texas, for us this morning. gabe, good morning to you. savannah, good morning. there will be stepped up security here at the county courthouse today. the district attorney s office will be closed to the public. this entire community is on high alert. that morning when shannon hebert came to her office, she had an armed escort. there s no leader at your office anymore. there s nothing. no one. when you come into work, how do you go forward? we had to move forward. we couldn t let them win. we couldn t. and we had to fight, and for the honor of mike and mark. everyone in the office was on edge. my husband. i
the killer s message ended this way, we are not unreasonable, but we will not be stopped. it s almost sounding like a game now. i think in his mind it was a big chess game. i think it was just for fun, to see if he could really exert complete and total control over the criminal justice system in kaufman county. reporter: by monday morning the story was topping the national news. perhaps that s exactly what the killer wanted. nbc s gabe gutierrez is in kaufman, texas for us this morning. gabe, good morning to you. savannah, good morning. there will be stepped up security here at the county courthouse today. the district attorney s office will be closed to the public. this entire community is on high alert. reporter: that morning, when shannon hebert came to her office, she had an armed escort. there s no leader at your office anymore. there s nothing. no one. when you come into work, how do you go forward? we had to move forward. we couldn t let them win. we couldn