the arian brotherhood calls him too white. for more on this i caught up with myself and bankman-fried earlier today. tyrus live, sam how are you getting ready for the big house. i ve been playing video games so i can relate to the other prison guests and studying music with guitars and huckabee collection. shave your head, do some push-ups, give me this, listen to rap music. i ll be back in three hours. you are ready. i m hard i just need this tear drop drawn on dog. i can t draw that for you. all right my don t you ever, ever say that. back to me.
enemies. reporter: it was another bold attack. this time, inside the front door. instead of outside the courthouse. evidence pointed to a former inmate named evan ebol, he was a member of a white supremacist gang in colorado similar to the arian brotherhood and now he was on the run from colorado authorities armed and dangerous. two days after the murder, a sheriff s deputy in texas would find out just how dangerous. a violent attack caught on a dashboard camera. the deputy stopped this quarterback, because the license plate did not match the vehicle. he no idea that the driver was evan ebol, as are you about to see, he no hesitation about using his gun again. the unsuspecting deputy shot in the face would survive. ebol was quickly chased down by law enforcement. and died in an explosive shootout in wise county, texas.
no luck. that s because the system is set up to protect the anonymity of all tipsters. when a message comes in, the sender is identified only by a unique number. after 12 hours of nail-biting, there was finally a response that told investigators this person was the real deal. mark hasse was killed with 38 caliber ammunition fired from a three-fifty-seven, five-shot revolver. would anyone other than the killer have known that? no. this person knew way more than anybody would have. reporter: the killer also wrote your act of good faith will result in no other attacks this week. in return for that pledge, the killer made a demand. they wanted one of the judges in kaufman county to step down by the end of the week. or the killings would resume. so, the fact that this tip came in and named these specific judges in kaufman told us it was somebody local. reporter: that all but ruled out the aryan brotherhood, drug cartels and those old cases from dallas.
three months before mark s murder, they announced that 34 gang members had been indicted for racketerring and thanked the kaufmann county d.a. office for their role in the investigation. people were trying to put two and two together with the arian brotherhood. reporter: it s one thing if it s one individual that went after mark and it s another thing if it s the arian brotherhood. oh, yeah, prosecutors across the state were terrified. hey, if this is the arian brotherhood, we are all targets. reporter: and then seven weeks later, another assault on law enforcement. it looked like it was open season on the criminal justice system. the colorado head of the department of corrections was shot here at his front door on tuesday night. reporter: the man s name was tom clements. the highly regarded head of colorado s prison system. and like mark hassie, a public servant. with more than 20,000 inmates in the colorado prison system, he may have had a lot of
county, where county district attorney mike mclelland and his wife cynthia have been found shot to death. reporter: the news touched off a firestorm of public concern. tips started flooding into the re-opened kaufman county sheriff s command post. some tips still cited the aryan brotherhood of texas. with the added media attention after the mclellands were murdered, we got hundreds of tips a day. it was like drinkin out of a fire hose durin this whole thing. reporter: lt. jolie stewart of the sheriff s department was right in the middle of it. hundreds of investigators from multiple agencies had swooped in. this was all hands on deck. uh-huh. this became the number one case in the bureau at that time. reporter: fbi special agents michael hillman and laurie gibbs were coordinating teams from the task force, each team looking into different aspects of the case. you have to look at everything. so you decided to just divvy it up everyone could focus on their individua