the sheriff s department went down to the river and found, you know, a tackle box open and a rod there. it looked like mr. burgert had fallen into the river and drowned, but it was not a place where one would slip and fall so it appeared to us at that point that mr. burgert was attempting to stage his own death or disappearance, and we didn t believe that he would stay missing for very long. in february of 2002, we get a 17-year-old male individual who came to us and said that mr. burgert was not dead. he had been living up in the woods with his girlfriend, tracy brockwood. tracy brockwood was having an affair with david. and they were members of this militia group known as project 7. project 7 believed that if
plan for how he wanted it to play out. unless you go to montana, you don t really understand how vast these areas are. they searched for david burgert, but he disappeared into thin air. there are a lot of where s dave burgert theories. has he met up with militia groups that are plotting and planning other things? that would be a real possibility that he joined another group that felt he was a hero for the cause. i wouldn t be surprised that he s still in montana or idaho. this guy for his entire life could not stay out of trouble. i just don t buy that all of a sudden after decades of run-ins with law enforcement he would stay completely under cover for years. i think he s dead. there s been no sign at all that we have a dead body up in
harming himself. eventually the negotiators convince him to put the gun down and then they arrested him. once mr. burgert is arrested, more and more things came to light. project 7 had a huge stockpile of weapons and ammunition. some of these were actual machine guns that it was not legal for them to possess. additionally, we found evidence that they were compiling a list of people that they felt needed to be assassinated in local government. and they had developed the means to carry out those plans. david and the other members of the group were brought to federal court and charged with weapons violations. there were several people federally indicted. the culmination of the project 7 investigation and people did go
unless you go to montana, you don t really understand how vast these areas are. they searched for david burgert, but he disappeared into thin air. there are a lot of where s dave burgert theories. has he met up with militia groups plotting and planning other things. that would be a real possibility that he joined another group that felt he was a hero for the cause. i wouldn t be surprised that he s still in montana or idaho. this guy, for his entire life could not stay out of trouble. i just don t buy that all of the sudden after decades of run-ins with law enforcement he would stay completely under cover for years. i think he s dead. there s been no sign at all that we have a dead body up in the woods. we haven t seen any scrap of clothing, any bones.
protesters, sort of that unhinged part of montana that everybody knows is there, they co-exist with it, but it s the underbelly of this beautiful state. when he was young, david burgert cared very much about helping other people, particularly helping people whom he perceived to be weaker. i think in his mind, joining the military was a way for him to get to be a hero, to live out his fantasies of helping and saving people. and when he got there, you know, guys screaming in his face every day didn t didn t work with his chemistry. when he came back from the marine corps, violence had become a main form of expression for him. his mother says that he used to press his jeans, put on a cowboy hat and get like really gussied