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Ruby Ridge: Eleven Days. Three Dead. One Mountain.

Heists, Hustles, and Homicide·Steve W·15 October 2026·35 min

About this episode

At the end of a remote road in northern Idaho, the Weaver family believed they could keep the outside world at a distance. Then a federal firearms case, a wrong court date, and a surveillance mission brought that world to their doorstep.In August 1992, Ruby Ridge became an eleven-day standoff that left three people dead. But what happened on the mountain was disputed from the first gunshot. Who fired first? Why did an FBI sniper shoot as people ran toward the cabin? And how did a case that should have gone to court end in a siege?Steve takes you through the story as it unfolded, from the family’s life on the ridge to the shootings, surrender, and trial that forced the country to reckon with what went wrong.