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    Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West
    Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West
    Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West
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    Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West

    Written by Dan Schultz

    Narrated by Arthur Morey

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    On a sunny May morning in 1998, in the small town of Cortez, Colorado, three “survivalists” in a stolen truck opened fire on a local policeman, shooting him 29 times as he unbuckled his seatbelt. Police chased the murderers through the searing heat into the remote wilderness canyons of the Four Corners area, thus beginning the largest manhunt in the history of the West. Dead Run is the first in-depth account of this sensational case: then story of the outlaws’ path to sudden violence, their frightening web of anti-government militia and outlaw associates, and the men who led the extraordinary effort to apprehend them. More than a modern crime story,Dead Run is also an examination of the seductive allure of outlaw culture in the West and how it continues to inform latent national attitudes towards guns, authority, and unfettered freedom.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 26, 2013
    ISBN9781469251257
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    Dan Schultz

    Dan Schultz is an award-winning writer and journalist. He received his M.A. in journalism from the University of Minnesota and worked as a reporter and feature writer for daily newspapers in Minnesota and Oregon, covering crime stories before he began writing for magazines and television. After living in Aspen, Colorado, for several years, he and his wife, Lynda, now split their time between their Chicago home and the Colorado mountains.

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    • 5/5
      this old boy has a way of writing that is divergent for true crime. the difference is what makes this book effective. careful attention is obviously paid to the construction of this book. i like it.
    • 4/5
      This a an interesting and well thought-out piece of our history. It first carefully chronicles the exciting events that began the event and then delves deeply into what had happened on a far more sinister level or levels.

      It makes one wonder what could have happened had the perpetrators been successful in their diabolical scheme. Very scary.
    • 4/5
      3.5 starsIn May 1998, a police officer, Dale Claxton, in Colorado near the desert pulled over a truck. Nothing seemed amiss until three men stepped out of the truck – all three had automatic guns. Claxton was shot numerous times and was killed. The three set off into the desert as other police tried to chase, but were gunned down themselves (others were injured, but not one else was killed). The last of the three fugitives was found in 2007; all three had died in the desert, though the other two had been found within a few weeks of the original chase. This was good. Starting off with the killing of Claxton and the chase got me into the book right away. Some of the investigation wasn’t quite as interesting, but it picked up every time one of the three killers was found. And, I found the biographical info about each of the three interesting, as well. The three men were all identified fairly quickly, but all three also had plenty of experience surviving on the desert. Because all three were found dead, it is speculation about what happened and why they did what they did, but it seems likely they were on their way to a different big crime, but got interrupted with Claxton pulled them over. The police also put out there, for all three of the gunmen, that they’d each killed themselves, but (according to the author) the evidence doesn’t really point to that. This is a good book about a crime I hadn’t heard about (though I’m sure there are plenty who llived closer to the area who would remember this). It was unfortunate there were no references included in the book, though.
    • 1/5
      I listened to this book for about three hours of it's ten plus hour length. While the initial crime was an interesting retell, the story then dived into the very boring details. I then decided that it's not my kind of book and put it aside.
    • 2/5
      Audible Daily Deal $3.95 June 27, 2017I hadn't heard of the Four Corners Manhunt previously. The 1998 story began with the stealing of a water truck by three survivalists, a fatal shootout with a sheriff that confronted them and their subsequent disappearance into the wilderness area near the intersection of the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. It had its anti-climactic resolution in 2007.This retelling contains a lot of speculation and a rather fantastical assumption for why three desert survivalists would want a water truck but not for water. There was obviously a lot of research done here but it seems the speculation was made in order to build up the story with a more monumental plot. The sadder element is the apparent infighting between law enforcement agencies some of which sounds like it borders on criminal inefficiency e.g. The Navajo Tribal Police trackers who were closing in on the villains within one day were called back so that other agencies could be in on the kill instead? The end result being that the mystery wasn't solved for 9 years.I've since found that there are a few other non-fiction accounts of the manhunt such as "Four Corners Manhunt: One Detective's Story of the 1998 Tragedy" and "FBI Diary: Home Grown Terror". Tony Hillerman's "Hunting Badger" from 1999 fictionalizes the events.