recently retired to new mexico. the deputy had known jim huden and peggy thomas in las vegas and in october 2003, the deputy said huden had come to his house and asked to be shown how to shoot the gun. according to the deputy, the next time he saw either huden or the gun was in january 2004 when jim huden handed it to him in a paper bag and asked him to hold it for safekeeping. we took the weapon for testing, and it was matched to the shell casing from the tracker and also matched to the slug that was pulled from russel s brain. the murder weapon. that s the murder weapon. and you have a guy telling you that jim huden gave it to him. right. not just that jim huden gave it to him, but he taught jim huden to fire the weapon and that jim huden gave it back to him just a few days after the murder of
it doesn t get any better than that. josh mankiewicz: the gun came from a former las vegas sheriff s deputy who d recently retired to new mexico. the deputy had known jim huden and peggy thomas in las vegas. and in october 2003, the deputy said huden had come to his house and asked to be shown how to shoot the gun. according to the deputy, the next time he saw either huden or the gun was in january 2004, when jim huden handed it to him in a paper bag and asked him to hold it for safekeeping. we took the weapon for testing and it was matched to the shell casing from the tracker, and also matched to the slug that was pulled from russel s brain. the murder weapon. that s the murder weapon. and you have a guy telling you that jim huden gave it to him. right. not just that jim huden gave it to him, but that he taught jim huden to fire the weapon, and that jim huden gave it back to him
it doesn t get any better than that. josh mankiewicz: the gun came from a former las vegas sheriff s deputy who d recently retired to new mexico. the deputy had known jim huden and peggy thomas in las vegas. and in october 2003, the deputy said huden had come to his house and asked to be shown how to shoot the gun. according to the deputy, the next time he saw either huden or the gun was in january 2004, when jim huden handed it to him in a paper bag and asked him to hold it for safekeeping. we took the weapon for testing and it was matched to the shell casing from the tracker, and also matched to the slug that was pulled from russel s brain. the murder weapon. that s the murder weapon. and you have a guy telling you that jim huden gave it to him. right. not just that jim huden gave it to him, but that he taught jim huden to fire the weapon, and that jim huden gave it back to him
josh mankiewicz: the gun came from a former las vegas sheriff s deputy who d recently retired to new mexico. the deputy had known jim huden and peggy thomas in las vegas. and in october 2003, the deputy said huden had come to his house and asked to be shown how to shoot the gun. according to the deputy, the next time he saw either huden or the gun was in january 2004, when jim huden handed it to him in a paper bag and asked him to hold it for safekeeping. we took the weapon for testing and it was matched to the shell casing from the tracker, and also matched to the slug that was pulled from russel s brain. the murder weapon. that s the murder weapon. and you have a guy telling you that jim huden gave it to him. right. not just that jim huden gave it to him, but that he taught jim huden to fire the weapon, and that jim huden gave it back to him just a few days after the murder of russel douglas.
cigarettes. i said, it can t be. and i said you know what? just know that i love you. you ll never see me or hear from me again. with no evidence tying peggy to the murder, the detectives asked for the public s help in documents the couple s movements in 2003 where russell douglas was murdered. we put out descriptions of the vehicle he was driving. just a few days after it hit the media we got a phone call from dona ana county sheriff s office in new mexico saying someone had turned in as a firearm that they believe might have been used in a homicide on whidbey island. talk about luck. it doesn t get any better than that. the gun came from a former las vegas sheriff s deputy who recently retired to new mexico. the deputy had known jim huden and peggy thomas in las vegas, and in october 2003, the deputy said huden had come to his house and asked to be shown how to shoot the gun. according to the deputy, the