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Lights, Camera, Robbery
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In this episode of Beneath the Evergreens, Ana and Jess dive into the bizarre true-crime story of the Washington bank robber known as “Hollywood.” Using Hollywood-grade prosthetics and disguises, he terrorized banks across the state and even set the record for the largest amount ever stolen from a single Washington bank. But the strangest part? He lived hidden in the woods, building his own treehouse, complete with a makeup room to prepare for his next role.
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Introduction to 'Beneath the Evergreens'
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to Beneath the Evergreens, where murder, mysteries, and mayhem lurk in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest. I'm Jess. And I'm Anna. From haunted forests and unsolved disappearances, to true crime cases buried deep in the moss and the mist, we're digging into the dark secrets hiding under the evergreens.
00:00:19
Speaker
Each episode will explore real cases, eerie encounters, and the legends that keep the Pacific Northwest up at night. So grab your flashlight, lock your doors, and join us Beneath the
00:00:52
Speaker
Welcome, everyone.
Tree Houses and Childhood Memories
00:00:53
Speaker
How are you doing? Oh, I am. doing well it is a good day i'm super excited to be here and is a good day we record on fridays which is i feel like the best day to record oh yeah it's the most relaxing way to go into the weekend which would not would have would have not thought that talking about true crime was the the way i wanted to relax but here we are what do you feel about tree houses i love tree houses when i was a kid my my parents backyard they have these really think it's just maybe just one tree, but it's it has this big it's like multiple trunks. Jesus, I have such a hard time remembering that. There's multiple trunks, but it's almost like one base of roots. So I think it might be actually like one tree, but it's humongous. And we used to put branches and twigs in between and make it a little fort. Oh, I like that.
00:01:42
Speaker
yeah it was very fun i always wanted a tree house i'm not sure i feel like i might have had one i can't remember though i my memory sucks but i love a tree have you seen those bougie tree houses that yes have you ever stayed in one i have not i've wanted to but yeah we're gonna have to look up one in washington and make put it on like our road trip list yes Yes. They also have a Hobbit house in Leavenworth that I really want to go to. And if we go, I will be wearing my Gollum shirt who's holding the Taco Bell taco.
00:02:17
Speaker
Are you going to wear it the whole weekend? Or just for one day? Well, sadly, I have three Lord of the Rings. Four Lord of the Rings shirts. don't know if I'd say sadly. It's kind of pathetic. I also have this Lord of the Rings light that I'm looking at right now.
00:02:32
Speaker
oh oh My daughter got it for me for Christmas. That's so cool. I'm asking about tree houses specifically because it's a integral part of my story today.
Who was Scott Scurlock?
00:02:44
Speaker
Oh, okay. So I'm going to tell you about a notorious bank robber that lived in a tree house. What? Yeah. Yeah. I'm okay. I'm so intrigued. I've never heard anything about this before.
00:02:57
Speaker
yeah I feel like I heard of this story before, but I didn't really know the background. So essentially I'm going to tell you the true story of Scott Scurlock, the man the FBI called Hollywood.
00:03:12
Speaker
Oh, he was a polite, intelligent bank robber from Olympia, Washington. OK, who outsmarted law enforcement for years, like multiple years and became one of the most infamous criminal criminals in Pacific Northwest history. He actually held the record for a very long time as the most money ever received in a single but bank robbery in Washington state.
00:03:35
Speaker
Wow. Interesting. He was not messing around. So let's get into it. Who was Hollywood slash Scott? I'll probably be going back between those names, so I hope you don't get lost. But Scott is is his name. Hollywood is his alias.
00:03:51
Speaker
We'll assign you this, but whatever. So he was born in 1955 and raised by a Baptist minister. father and a school teacher mother. His mom specifically taught atypical students. Is that correct politically correct term? She was very patient. She was very kind. Everyone said they loved her. Also, his father, everyone said he was he was a great dad, very great guy.
00:04:17
Speaker
But Scott himself, he was very, very smart and not necessarily like the the book smart. Like he was very book smart as well, but he used it in an interesting way. Like he was kind of, even from an early age, showed signs of maybe a little bit of manipulation. Like he was very smart in situations to think on his toes and kind of used it in that way more than just turning to books and like excelling school wise. Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:43
Speaker
But he was also very soft-spoken and was was a looker Oh, it was a very by all reports. And I was looking at pictures. He was he was kind of a good looking. He's a good looking guy.
00:04:56
Speaker
But in the late 70s, he relocated to Olympia, Washington to attend the Evergreen State College. Go gooey ducks. I don't know why they chose that as their mascot. They're the gooey ducks. Yeah, that is so on brand.
00:05:10
Speaker
It is on brand. And but why the gooey ducks? Like it's such evergreen. I understand, but like, I don't understand. I understand because I've been there and I've been on camp. almost went there.
00:05:22
Speaker
Of course you did. got to tell you that story too, because I walked out in a rage. Anyways, the geoduck. I never understood. I don't know. i don't I'm just thinking on a flag, like a big geoduck, like all the phallicness that is a geoduck. Like why? Why? Anyways, so...
00:05:39
Speaker
Scott was a gooey duck and he went to Evergreen State to become a doctor. So he was on a pre-med track and he was doing very, very well.
How did Scott's Criminal Career Begin?
00:05:48
Speaker
But in his third year of school, he found that he had a knack for chemistry.
00:05:54
Speaker
In fact, he kind of fell in love with chemistry. Interesting. And in doing that, he was simultaneously drifting into kind of a counter culture circle.
00:06:06
Speaker
And on brand for Evergreen. Yes. And, you know, he decided to use all this knowledge and access to laboratory equipment and access to chemicals to do, you know, something cool, which would be making meth and phantom beans.
00:06:23
Speaker
it's And so he started making methamphetamines. In fact, he would break into the school, climb in through the ceiling of the lab, steal all of the chemicals and equipment he needed to, you know, make methamphetamines, bring it back to his house in the shed and like make quote unquote the purest meth that Olympia has ever seen.
00:06:48
Speaker
This sounds like Breaking Bad before Breaking Bad. I know. I like i didn't quite believe it, but it's he did that. And eventually he got caught, so he did get kicked out of Evergreen State College, but that didn't stop him from mate manufacturing meth. And instead, it actually kind of spurned him on because now he needed a way to make and income. So by 1980, he had like a full-scale operation selling meth, and he was making millions of dollars a year doing this.
00:07:17
Speaker
Damn. I know, right? How this worked essentially was Scott would make the meth, give it to a middleman, and that middleman would give it to the Hells Angels. And then the Hells Angels would distribute it and then return money back to Scott. So very dangerous business to be in, but he was thriving.
00:07:35
Speaker
Well, unfortunately, well, during this time, he was very successful. Obviously, he bought property in Olympia. Okay. And he started constructing a multi-level treehouse. This thing was 1,600 square feet.
00:07:49
Speaker
What? Yes. A tree? Oh, my God. It's a big thing. It had electricity, plumbing, a living space, and friends often described it as a bohemian hideaway.
00:08:01
Speaker
He would often go to his house and like knock on the door, and he would just open the door butt naked. Kind of symbolizing how far removed he was from society. He really like dove into that counterculture.
00:08:16
Speaker
Okay. He wanted to, yeah, he, he, he built this huge house in the trees and zip lined, did all this, this stuff and kind of was just living life was going on vacations. And I mean, all of this is cash, millions of dollars in cash that you don't have to report to the IRS. So he's doing his thing.
00:08:36
Speaker
Living his best life. He's living his best life. But unfortunately in 1990, the, the middleman that I was talking about was murdered. Oh, shit. And that really scared Scott.
00:08:47
Speaker
He said, I don't want to do this anymore. i don't want to lose my life over something as stupid as mess. So I'm not going to take that risk, which is very interesting. But he still needed money, right? Because he got kicked out of school for stealing essentially paraphernalia to make drugs. He hasn't really held down a job or needed to hold down a job because he's just been manufacturing meth. So he needs to find another way to make money and support his lifestyle.
The Influence of 'Point Break' on Scott's Heists
00:09:14
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But it also has to be like a thrill because one thing about Scott that I didn't mention earlier, he's all about the thrill.
00:09:20
Speaker
When he was 15, he stole a van because he wanted to go to the beach with his friends. Yeah. He it would break into houses just because he wanted to be able to break into a house. Like he just had this like thrill seeking of, interest yeah, like deviant personality.
00:09:39
Speaker
Huh? Yes. So then we get to a very interesting part of the story. One day Scott, you know, he's, he's very, he's trying to figure out what he needs to do. So he decides to go see a movie and the movie he sees is point break.
00:09:55
Speaker
Have you Oh. Have ever? Okay. So it's like a bank robber movie. They all wear like Ronald Reagan masks. There's like a big shootout. It's like a whole thing. You know Georgetown Brewing?
00:10:06
Speaker
And they're like, they like name their beers after Point Break characters. I didn't know this. Like Bodhi Zaffa. Oh my God. And John Utah. Yeah. Yeah. This is incredible. Right? Why do it together?
00:10:21
Speaker
Sometimes I'm the smartest dumb person I've ever met. You thought Bodhi Zappa was two separate things?
00:10:28
Speaker
I'm... I'm confused. Yes. I did. My mind is just blown. Sorry. I'm about like, have a mental breakdown. Why did I never put two and two together? Well...
00:10:44
Speaker
Like the brewing company, Scott was... intrigued. And so he was like, I could do this. I could rob banks, but okay yeah.
00:10:57
Speaker
Yeah. So that's a choice that he made. And, but he's like, okay, i can't use a full face mask because you would know that I'm going to rob this bank. So I got to figure out something else to do.
00:11:10
Speaker
So he threw himself into making professional grade masks and look at This is going to be like, I don't know how many movie references, but like, I'm not doing a Mrs. Doubtfire. Literally. Literally, though. Literally, that's what he does.
00:11:26
Speaker
He had a makeup room in his treehouse. Do this. His treehouse. Yes. Crazy. So crazy. So he literally poured his own latex prosthe prosthetic...
00:11:40
Speaker
Hello? Latex, prosthetic nose, facial padding, wigs that altered his hairline. Sometimes he was bald. Sometimes he wasn't bald. Like this changed regularly. Whoa.
00:11:51
Speaker
He would make new noses. He would make new chins. He would make his own facial hair. He's committed to the bit. He's committed to the bit. And he's like so smart. I wouldn't even know how to make a latex prosthetic nose that would look real.
00:12:06
Speaker
Lots of practice. I mean, there's nothing else to do with practices, I guess. There is that. There is that. And then he would also do weird things like with his skin to make it look like he was like a burn victim or had like a lot of scars so that he wouldn't try to trigger people's emotional response to like look away.
00:12:22
Speaker
One thing that I thought was interesting too, he almost always wore a D.A.R.E. hat. Do you remember the D.A.R.E. program? Yes, I do. So he specifically wore that because he wanted the bank to peg him as like a detective or a police officer.
00:12:37
Speaker
Oh. Because during that time, it was usually only police officers that were wearing the merch from that. And so, yes, he he was able to Mrs. Doubtfire himself into his attire. And then also another thing that kind of distinguished him from other robbers is he would walk in.
00:12:55
Speaker
Very calmly and in polite language, just be like, Hey, I'm going to rob you right now. I potentially have a gun. Can you just give me the money? And that's how these interactions with a go really relaxed posture, like nothing, like almost like he was joking, but he wasn't joking.
00:13:13
Speaker
In fact, Tellers later described him as like super nice, very calm. He reduced the stress of the situation. Weird things. A gentleman robber, if you will.
00:13:26
Speaker
A gentleman robber, indeed.
00:13:31
Speaker
And once words started getting out about this Scott character, that obviously they didn't know was Scott at the time, but... Once this robber started coming up and they started connecting the dots that this might be the same person, the FBI and the the police start nicknamed him Hollywood because of how many costume changes he would do in between each robbery.
00:13:50
Speaker
who Oh, okay. That makes more sense. Yes. So now going to go into the robbery. So his first robbery was June 25th,
Escalation of Bank Robberies
00:13:58
Speaker
1992. And him and one of his good friends participated this together. His friend sat outside in a vehicle and monitored police frequency and had walkie talkie directly to Scott.
00:14:12
Speaker
they Scott walked into the Seafirst Bank in Madison Park in Seattle m and came out with $19,971, which is a lot of money.
00:14:25
Speaker
Yeah. So good first hit. But then we go to August 14th at the same bank. So he went back to the same bank. Oh. theater That's a move.
00:14:36
Speaker
Yes. Robbed them again, but this time only got $8,000. little over $8,000. a little awesome Then September through October, he hit multiple banks again. And these were three robberies between this time, which is kind of a lot for a month yeah a two month period. He got a total of 42, well, almost he wasn't.
00:14:59
Speaker
again he wasn't Violent. There was no no one shot. No one was hurt at all. And he was usually in and out of all of these places in under two minutes. So, I mean, under two minutes and you're making $8,000. I think that's a good return on investment.
00:15:12
Speaker
Well, absolutely. There's a lot of risk, but the reward seems to be going all right. But it just wasn't enough because remember, he was making millions and millions of dollars. Yeah. And so now he's kind of having to take a backseat and really like refocus, like what actually, how do I make this more financially sound?
00:15:29
Speaker
And this is where, Mustang walks in to the picture. Interesting. Okay. No one actually knows who Mustang is, but there is a woman that at some point partnered with Scott and his friend, and she actually worked at the C first bank.
00:15:47
Speaker
Oh. And so she was able to give Scott all of the ins and outs about which C-First bank had the most money, how the vaults worked, the terminology to use if you're going to rob these banks to get the most money from these individuals, oh where to stand, where the security cameras are. Literally gave the manuals for how the vaults worked.
00:16:14
Speaker
So, yeah, like he's really... He kind of hit gold with this person, right? So yeah she gives him all this information. And with this information that she received or he received, he decides, I'm no longer just going to go for bank teller drawers. I'm actually going to go for the vaults.
00:16:32
Speaker
Ooh. That's quite the escalation. huge escalation. Yeah. Okay. So what's also crazy about this is because he's still going in solo. Really? Yeah. He's going to rob a vault solo? Yeah.
00:16:47
Speaker
With only one lookout chilling outside. Oh my God. Isn't that insane? Yeah. oh He goes in solo. Then it's he he's trying this out for the first time. So it's November 19th, 1992. Again, he hits a C first bank on Northeast 55th.
00:17:04
Speaker
He gets $252,000. Whoa. Whoa.
00:17:09
Speaker
whoa So he went in there. He asked all of the, it was near closing time. He asked all of the tellers to empty their drawers, asked who the vault technician was. The person raised their hand. They went to the vault. He asked them to, to find another bag. Cause he ran out of room in his bag. And so they filled up a second big bag and they let him get away.
00:17:29
Speaker
Oh my God. no alarms were sounded. Nothing like that. He was in the bank for like five minutes. That's insane. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Then 1993 1994, hits, hollywood hits a lot of banks all across Seattle and Portland. Most are still see first banks just because he knows, he knows the terminology, he knows the layouts. He's also has an inside person that can give him the layouts of all of the banks. And each time he takes between $15,000 and $114,000 at a time.
00:18:03
Speaker
Whoa. So, and also another key here is that he intentionally was crossing jurisdictions in, in other counties. Oh. Because the police can't necessarily follow you.
00:18:16
Speaker
Yeah. So this is when... Yeah. Makes sense. He's quite bright. he's a He's a very smart guy and the most devious of the ways. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:26
Speaker
So at first, the police were kind of like, this dude... This dude, I'm not worried about him. He's only getting like $8,000 at a time. Not super big deal. We have other priorities. Also, bank robberies are really skyrocketing in the 90s just because the tech bros started moving in about that time.
00:18:44
Speaker
And so there was kind of an echo boom. Yeah. More and more banks were getting added. So more and more robberies were coming across people's desks. But after this, you know, escalation where he's getting $100,000 every time he hits a bank, they're like, okay, we ought to take this seriously. So they form a Puget Sound violent crimes task force to catch him.
The Task Force and Scott's Evasion
00:19:07
Speaker
Oh, interesting. And this is when Scott starts to feel the heat, because after every robbery, it seems like the police are just getting one step closer every time. In fact, in January 27th, 1995, he again went back to Madison Park.
00:19:25
Speaker
See what you think. And he ran away with $252,000 from that, which is huge. That's another yeah day. i Well, the cops actually saw they passed the van that he was in and they saw the condensation and him and the driver just happened to leave right before they came back to see if anyone was in the van and go into a liquor store and waited for the police to kind of lose interest.
00:19:56
Speaker
and leave before they got back into the car and drove away. Oh my God. Like it was within seconds of them getting caught. Whoa. Yes. And so now they're kind of getting a little weirded out. Also the more and more banks that they're hitting, cause he's, he's still robbing. they're starting to put trackers.
00:20:18
Speaker
into the bags now, which wasn't necessarily a thing before. And because this guy was getting away with so much money, the Puget Sound Violent Crimes Task Force decided to arm all police cars in the Seattle area with monitors. So if a bank was to be robbed, everyone turns on their monitors and can try and find the sensors.
00:20:39
Speaker
And they were, Scott and his team were, well, Scott and his one friend were successful usually. And they would immediately get in the van, start driving away. Scott would start going through the money, find the trackers and just throw out the bundles of money that had the trackers in them.
00:20:54
Speaker
He was also running tests where the die, if die exploded, he would test which banks used the die and which ones didn't. And just wouldn't go back to the ones that had the die. Oh, interesting. Okay. He was also paying people cash at bars to buy cars for him.
00:21:11
Speaker
So they would, he would give them like $10,000 and be like, Hey, go find, go buy me this random car and whatever change. And so they would buy the car for him, hand it to him. He just would never register it. And so he always had a getaway vehicle that was purchased by someone else that couldn't be leaked to him.
00:21:26
Speaker
Oh, This guy's really smart. Like, really smart. Holy shit. I know. And you got all this from watching one Point Break movie? I can barely remember anyone's name from that movie. What the heck? Like...
00:21:39
Speaker
But as time goes on, he's he's again with that close incident where he had to run into a liquor store. He's he's feeling the pressure. So he's like, OK, I just need to do one last big hit.
00:21:49
Speaker
I just need to do one more big hit and I'll be good. So in 1966, he forms a crew. So he adds one person. Nineteen nineteen nineteen ninety six or sixty six.
00:22:00
Speaker
Ninety six. Did I say sixty six? Yeah. Sorry. No, that was smart. Maybe I have dyslexia, too.
00:22:08
Speaker
I'm just kidding. In 1996, he forms a crew to do one last heist. Ooh, okay. Like an oceans a lot oceans kind of thing.
00:22:18
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It's like Ocean's 3. m he's he's He's a good-looking guy, though. I could see him. Was George oh my gosh Clooney's character based off of this guy?
00:22:30
Speaker
I wouldn't be surprised because he is he's the one that came up with all of these plans and had the brass brashness or whatever that word is to actually just walk in. consist Sometimes he would rob a bank on like a Monday and then rob it again on like a Friday.
00:22:47
Speaker
That's insane. Insane. Yes. Anyway, so one last Ocean's Eleven heist. And he pulls in one more person. So Mark, the original person that he was robbing banks with, and now there's Steve. Steve's whole job is to be the lookout and the police scanner. Mark is there because he's going to go inside the bank with Scott and be an extra set of hands because they're they're supposed to get over a million dollars with this robbery.
00:23:15
Speaker
Damn. A ton of money. So they plan it all out and they decide to do it on Thanksgiving, November 27th.
The Final Heist and Its Aftermath
00:23:23
Speaker
That's like the day before Thanksgiving, I believe. this This is, according to Mustang, this is the day where they have historically high amounts in the Lake City branch of Seafirst Bank because of just all of the holiday stuff. And they just have a record amount of money.
00:23:41
Speaker
Gotcha. And so they, on the afternoon of November 27th, just before closing, Scott and Mark go into the C first bank in Seattle's Lake city neighborhood.
00:23:55
Speaker
And they tell everyone, Hey, this is a robbery. Who's the vault technician. We need to get into the vault. As Scott is walking in to this bank, there's a large wanted poster.
00:24:09
Speaker
And he just so happened not to rearrange his facial prosthetics that day. So as he's walking by, a bank teller recognizes that this is the guy that has been robbing banks.
00:24:21
Speaker
And and o immediately sets off a silent alarm. Oh, my God. So unbeknownst to Scott, though, he's thinking everything's going good. He's still kosher. Everything's fine. He asked for the vault technician.
00:24:35
Speaker
They go to the vault. The vault technician is putting in a code, but the code this person is putting in is a code that will unlock the vault, but also set off a security alarm.
00:24:45
Speaker
Oh, so now there's two alarms going crazy and the FBI and the police have been stalking Scott because they're like, got to catch this guy. So they get the frequencies and are immediately in route.
00:24:59
Speaker
Steve is like, Hey, he gets on the radio. He's like, I heard on the police scanner. They're coming for you right now. Drop everything and get the hell out. Scott's like, nah, I'm good. Starts filing. Yes.
00:25:12
Speaker
Oh my God. He could yeah he could have escaped 1000%. Like you could, he already had the bank teller drawers. Just leave with that. yeah I would just, I'm dipping.
00:25:23
Speaker
No, he is like, this is my last job. i need to get all of the money. So he's forcing all of this money. In fact, over a million dollars worth of money into these bags. Damn. He's asking the tellers to help.
00:25:37
Speaker
And while the tellers are helping, they're slipping trackers into these bags. He just got got greedy. got sloppy. Yes. And so they finally get the enough money. They're like, okay, we got to get out. So they run out, they get in the van and Steve drives off and Steve is like, Hey, get the trackers out.
00:25:56
Speaker
And so instead of like taking the bundles out one by one and like flipping through them, they dump all of the bags, all of the cash all over the back of the van. Oh my gosh. Which I'm sorry is kind of definitely male coded.
00:26:12
Speaker
Women would be going through one by one. Okay, here's this, here's this, here's this, here's this. They're just like, and like dodging through in the back. Oh my God. Meanwhile, every police car in the city is looking for them and they all have these scanners on.
00:26:27
Speaker
And so they're like going, it's like this maze and they, the police keep getting these pings on scanners. So they're like slowly closing in The Scott was able to find one bundle of money with a tracker. So he throws it out. It diverts police for like three minutes because they, they get a solid, cause the van is moving and this solid piece of, you know, money is on the road. So they hone in on it, but they're now that's brought them and In their immediate life.
00:26:55
Speaker
Yeah. They're like leaving a a breadcrumbs. Yes. And so they can't find them. And this police officer happens to turn the corner just as the van goes by. And he immediately is like, oh, this is the van because there's condensation on the inside. They've got flashlights on the inside. So it's very suspect. Yeah.
00:27:14
Speaker
i The very least. And so the police officer calls other police because he's like, hey, I don't want to pull them over by myself. I need backup. So at some point, Scott says, actually, Steve, I'm going to need you to come back here and look for the the trackers and I need to drive.
00:27:34
Speaker
And Steve's like, no, we're not doing that. And Scott is very insistent. So they pull over on the side of the road. What? Are you kidding me? Steve gets out, Scott gets in the driver's seat.
00:27:48
Speaker
Meanwhile, a police officer is like watching this, waiting for back.
00:27:54
Speaker
And they take off again. And so now Steve is having to go through this pile of money and like try to find the trackers, which is not going well. yeah And now the police are like, these guys are idiots. And so they they they pull up. and Another person joins the first police officer. They get to the the van.
00:28:13
Speaker
Scott pulls over the van when heat when the lights go on. They ask Scott to get out of the car. And this is where stories deviate. I'm going to go with the police story and then I'll tell you what the the Steve said happened.
00:28:28
Speaker
Essentially Scott opens the door and he pulls out a gun. Oh. There's one police officer. So there's a car, there's a police officer kind of on here's the van. There's a police officer on the right side of the van right here. And there's another police car on the left side of the van.
00:28:46
Speaker
And the main driver can only see the driver's side door open. The other driver that's in the passenger seat can only see the back of the van. So their vision's blocked about what actually happened. But the the officer that could see Scott said he got out and held up a rifle and was clicking it as if to shoot it, but there was no bullets in the chamber to actually fire anything.
00:29:10
Speaker
Oh, and that's when the police officer felt like he was in danger and open fire, which triggered all of the other police officers to open fire. So bullets are flying and they're going directly into the back of the minivan.
00:29:26
Speaker
Unfortunately, who's in the back of the minivan? Mark and Steve. Steve gets shot in the arm, Mark gets shot in the stomach, and they're kind of just out of commission because when he got shot in the arm, his it like broke his elbow.
00:29:41
Speaker
So not good. And they're kind of just at now at the mercy of whatever happens. Scott decides, I got to get the hell out of here. Jumps in the driver's van. Yeah, he didn't get shot at all, in fact.
00:29:56
Speaker
Jumps back in the car, takes off again. Gets to a roundabout and decides, actually, I'm going stop here at this roundabout and I'm going get out and then I'm going open fire actually on the police.
00:30:08
Speaker
So he stops. The police are following him. He gets out. He shoots at the police officers. They shoot back. He gets back in the car. Not shot still. Gets back in the car, goes to a third location, stops the car and dips out.
00:30:25
Speaker
Just leaves them there.
00:30:28
Speaker
And not only that, but you know mind this is like Thanksgiving. So people, he's running through neighborhoods where people are eating Thanksgiving dinner with their friends and family. And they're hearing like, stop moving.
00:30:41
Speaker
Oh my God, what are you doing? we pull we see you, we see you. And they're like, there's helicopters. There's, there's literally they have canines out there. They've put out a bolo to the area. Don't leave your house.
00:30:53
Speaker
So Scott, it he's running wild. Then he makes it to a backyard where someone has a camper and he decides that he's going to break into the camper and he's going to just chill out there. The homeowner sees him breaking into the camper.
00:31:08
Speaker
cost The police surround the vehicle. they're They're negotiating for hours and hours to get him out of the camper. He's just refusing to go. So like, all right, let's just bomb it with tear gas.
00:31:22
Speaker
And then if he doesn't come out, we'll just have to go in. Throw in the tear gas and then they hear one shot. Trigger warning. Instead of surrendering, Scott decided to commit suicide.
00:31:37
Speaker
After all of that, he commits suicide.
00:31:40
Speaker
Isn't that such an unsatisfying ending? Yeah. So that's kind of where this... I mean, obviously, well, it's definitely where the robberies end and where Scott ends, but now there's Mark and Steve.
00:31:58
Speaker
They get taken immediately to the hospital and Steve and Mark got sentenced to 21 years each of federal prison time. They were recently released in the 2010s. The tree house, which is one of the most important things, in my opinion, was unfortunately dismantled.
00:32:18
Speaker
I was hoping they were going Airbnb it, even though that was in the twenty ten s But anyway, yeah, they dismantled it because people were coming over and like defacing it or became kind of like a
00:32:31
Speaker
an infamous viewpoint or whatever. So they dismantled it. And that is kind of the end of the story. It's a very... tragic and kind of like it leaves you wanting more ending but that's it for today's dive into the dark corners of the pacific northwest if you love listening to the stories or shivered a little be sure to subscribe and follow so you don't miss what's lurking beneath the evergreens next time thanks for joining us on beneath the evergreens we appreciate you diving into the mysteries with us and until next time keep your eyes open and your doors locked