i needed to get over to the island for brenna and the kids. josh mankiewicz: an alaskan bush pilot delivered the news in person to russell s father, jim who was in the wilderness hunting and unreachable by phone. he said, your son s dead. and i had to say, of course, which one? and, russell and i mean, he didn t know a whole lot about anything other than he knew it was important to get me out of there. josh mankiewicz: russell s brother, matt, was the last to know. he, too, had been out of cell phone range for several days, while vacationing in british columbia. we drove across the border in our friend s vehicle and my phone had a seizure. it started buzzing for every voicemail message and text message that had been sent. and it s, matt call, call me, matt call me, matt call me. josh mankiewicz: within days of his death, russell douglas far flung family reunited on whidbey island. we rallied around brenna.
hitch el spoke to verdict investigators 20 hours ss four days. she tells of giving matt and sweat rum and performing sexual acts on one of them. she said i enjoyed the feeling and attention both gave me and sthauth of a different life. matt and sweat gave her a list of what to bring, cell phone, gps, clothes, a shotgun, tents, sleeping bags hatchet, fishing pole, money. matt call added mitchell s husband lyle the glitch and gave joyce two white pills to drug him. the plan was for has the to kill lyle when they escaped. she couldn t go through with it and never showed up. she told investigators i m really sorry for what i ve done. what it came down to is sweat