i went to a psychiatrist. my diagnosis is i happen to be compulsive, obsessive disorder. which is many scientists have it. but my psychiatrist says i have no delusionary characteristics at this time. investigators began to wonder, did gilbert and christy have something to do with russell s disappearance? suspicion actually was directed toward you two. yes, there was. there was a concern about possibly, if i had something to do with it. why would they think such a thing? i wish i knew. those stories about secret agents and bizarre murder plots, they were strange of course. but something more mundane aroused suspicion about this family. that family squabble that had scratched up russell a few weeks earlier. the family is somebody that you want to key on because you re able to get a lot of information from them.
i said, look, this this is a definitely should be looked into as a murder. i knew about the communists and what they were doing. you know what i mean? you felt very much like you were a threatened person and that your son was already dealt with? yeah. some people listening to these stories are apt to say, oh, please. it s made up. i went to a psychiatrist. my diagnosis is i happen to be compulsive, obsessive disorder. which is many scientists have it. but my psychiatrist says i have no delusionary characteristics at this time. investigators began to wonder, did gilbert and christy have something to do with russell s disappearance? suspicion actually was directed toward you two. yes, there was. there was a concern about
schedule s totally confusing. the jeff spicoli, you might say, of los gatos high. even though he was a classmate, taten draws a blank when it comes to russell jordan. i can t remember meeting him himself. but taten certainly remembers sean viehweg. two years older, boisterous, outgoing. viehweg was a pack leader who, nevertheless, found the time to befriend the timid russell jordan. definitely the opposite of russell jordan. russell jordan didn t seem he left an impression on anybody. and then sean left an impression on almost everybody he met. it s still true today. many of the people who went to school here back in 1982 say they remember sean viehweg, but bring up russell jordan s name and you re greeted with a blank stare. he was here at los gatos high the invisible kid. little about russell stood out. nothing unusual about the boy. until you took a look at his home life. at that time i was working in conjunction with the fbi. russell s father, gilbert, is a scientist
a knife. and here s this kid you know, trying to kill me with a knife, i mean i just got done choking him, my heart s jumping out of my chest and i grabbed it and threw it and he goes down and i grabbed him and dragged him off the trail a little bit. his story of what happened that day amounts to a confession. of murder? make it self-defense. viehweg insists he had to kill russell jordan or risk being killed himself. i didn t do that, man. i just whammed into the bushes and i got the hell out of there. finally, vindication of a sort for gilbert jordan. russell s dad, who d been telling police for years he thought sean viehweg was a suspicious character. you d been saying that for 20 years? yeah. and people thought you were crazy? yeah. and now? i rest my case. but jordan believed the killing was part of a drug-related conspiracy. viehweg, on the other hand,
those years ago. so now all the strange events just before he vanished began to play back in her mind. remember, she said, he discovered a large marijuana field near his house. and i thought that he had gone back to that marijuana field and they had found him. you thought he d been killed and buried? yeah. that s what russell s father, gilbert, thought too. for years he d been trying to persuade police that russell had been killed by some kind of marijuana mafia, maybe with kgb involvement, and maybe masterminded by one of russell s friends. and russell was going to expose them? right. and so he had to be killed? absolutely. you believe that? i know it. but gilbert had proposed strange theories for a great many things over the years. and anyway, russell s body was found ten long miles from the marijuana field he d supposedly discovered. there was also the public run-in with his own family and a sexual advance by a strange man that