and as they got there, chris said he could see some boots sticking out of the shrubs that were placed on top of russell. and then sean asked chris to hand him some brush to cover up the boots. how much of a burden do you think that was for him? i think it was huge. he made several comments about he was very afraid that sean would kill him if he ever said anything. so chris fisher kept quiet. he was not involved in the direct killing of russell. he covered it up, had knowledge of it, and kept it secret for 21 years or 22 years. he s never told anybody. not any of his friends, not his girlfriends or wife, nothing. he s never said a word. but viehweg never told fisher how or why he killed russell jordan. he said that russell was took a long time for him to stop breathing, or making gurgling noises. he did, however, describe the killing graphically to taten. what did he tell you he did? he told me that he just kept
of a sudden we have some substantial leads and the ability maybe to even solve it. things began to happen very quickly at that point? very quickly. sean viehweg, morgan soon discovered, was living in klamath falls, oregon, with a wife and daughter. time has not been kind. nor life for him successful. viehweg did serve in the u.s. military. went to the gulf war. but his two previous marriages failed. his dead-end jobs here petered out. and now it s an out of work, paunchy, balding viehweg who agrees to talk to police. tell me about russell. he was a friend of mine for a while. what is this about? how did you hear about this? i didn t. i don t remember! i don t buy that. the reason i m getting irritated with you is because this is [ bleep ] you re not going to forget. i don t remember, man, that was 20-some-odd years ago. and then the story begins to unravel. if you know me, you know i m
betrayed a friendship based on a tale that sounded like a wild, drug-induced horror fantasy. but confused and plagued by doubts, taten says he promised himself this. and if i could ever, you know, put this together as some way that it was reality, that you know, that i m going to have to do something about it. so now, finally and obviously, he knew that his friend s boast about what happened out here in the woods that day had been true. the one buddy he d always looked up to, the guy who had affected the dangerous attitude was truly a killer. who was it? it was sally s ex-boyfriend and russell s old pal sean viehweg. jeff taten finally put together what viehweg had said to him many years ago. so he picked up the phone. within a matter of days we received a call. i was pretty shocked that all of a sudden information that we thought a case was going to go nowhere for so many years, all
on stabbing him and he wouldn t stop. i guess he kept on stabbing him so much, hoping that it would stop him from making any noises, or whatever. and i guess he just kept on getting worse or he kept on staying at the same thing, staying at the same breathing rate or his blood was still pumping at the same rate that it was no matter what he was doing. so i guess he was starting to panic or something to that nature. so did sean take some other action? yeah, he started to throw dirt on him. i guess trying to cover him up, leaves and stuff of that nature. and trying to stop him from making the noises. i mean, he told me that he just wouldn t be quiet. and he kept on throwing rocks and stuff on him to stop him and he just wouldn t stop. do you worry that sean viehweg may come after you for the fact that you told the truth? i just hope i did the right thing, but i mean, i just hope he sees it that way, too. it was odd, this part of our conversation. taten, the whistle-blower, told
he said that he hit the guy in the leg with the knife. and then rolled out the car? and then rolled out of the car. no one disputes that on this trail sean viehweg killed russell jordan. what was left of him, his skeleton, was found right over there, not six feet off the path. but there are so many unanswered questions. why were they here in the first place? it was the middle of a school day, a 30-minute hike from campus. did they really come all this way just to play some sort of childish squeezing game? why do you think he did it? it s probably the ultimate thing that a human can do to another person, is to kill somebody. i mean once you kill somebody, that s like the most ultimate thing, rush, you can get. taten recalls that viehweg also had a disturbing reputation for sadistic behavior. he used to put cats in the microwave. cats in the microwave? yeah. i mean, i thought it was one of the most strangest things i had ever heard. would he kill them? no, he wouldn