yarbrough. as they re driving, martinez says, i made a reservation at such-and-such a holiday inn. matthews says, don t worry about that. we ve already made reservations for you at the place we were staying. that turned out to be the capri motel. that scared tom. that was an immediate kink in the plans. he s thinking to himself, oh, man, they re going to take me someplace where the fbi won t know where i m at. but we tracked him to the motel. and we managed to get a call to him, to let him know that we knew where he was. and a raid was planned on the motel. martinez was told to stay in his room. not to leave for any reason. daylight comes. we were getting ready to make a bust. all of a sudden i hear this commotion. as it happened, matthews walked out just before the raid was to take place. i don t know what he saw. but something spooked him.
the unabomber. he didn t come close to the potential of these guys. this was probably the largest criminal spree by any gang in history for many, many years. and after it had all come to an end, there was a general belief amongst the followers of the order that the spirit of the movement represented by matthews and his followers was still very much alive. in time, with blessings, we could have been successful. we p be successful. the change will take place. lo and behold, it wasn t long before timothy mcveigh came along. with the oklahoma city bombing. and he had read the turner diaries. and he had picked up where he saw bob matthews and his group had stopped. so we are able to say with confidence today that those people no longer are a threat to our country. we re not able to say with
and i didn t know this, but on november the 25th, bob matthews had pulled all of his people together into their hideout and drafted a letter to the united states congress and it was a declaration of war. so bob matthews was permitted to fight to the end. but so were we. they were staying in two different houses. the houses were approached. people in one house all surrendered. when we approached matthews house, matthews was given an opportunity to surrender and refused to do so. come out with your hands up. we did everything we could to try to get him out of there. and when we decided that bob wouldn t come out, we made a plan to go in and get him. dozens of fbi agents armed with automatic weapons and dressed in full combat fatigues have been been at the scene.
and we had hundreds of agents working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. they couldn t even plan to do a criminal act. they were just planning how to stay out of our grasp. we were right behind them. when matthews burned up, they were looking for a leader. bob was dead and he was the absolute iron-fisted leader. he made the decisions. he was gone. they lost not only their motivational leader, but organizational leader. they had to kind of fend for themselves until we ran them all down. as we started making arrests, we d interview these people, some of them talked, some of them wouldn t. but everybody that would talk, we d get more and more information. and we were successful in locating everybody. we really break the back of the order at that point with matthews dead. and some of them already indicating that they were going to testify against their friends if it meant they would get a
around the corner, he spotted matthews and ran to a slide like they do in baseball. when he did, matthews opened up on him. the bolt went through his foot. the next pursuing agent was a shotgun fired back at matthews. and only hit his hand. matthews hand looked like a cartoon thing where you hold your hand up and you could see through it. it was just mangled. i started tracking him. i m looking for blood spatter. at that point, all i could think of is hand grenades i seen in that room. i m thinking, he s going to lob a grenade on us. but you do what you ve got to do. he goes into this heavily vegetated area. i m following him. but the last i saw of matthews was his blood trail. and i had no idea where he went. we got gary yarbrough. bob matthews escaped through us,