Shannen Rossmiller is a former Montana judge who hunts terrorists online. After witnessing the 9/11 attacks, she became "radicalized," deciding to learn Arabic and pretending to be an extremist to lure jihadists on the Web into revealing their plans to destroy America.
PART I
Michael Curtis Reynolds, a failure from Wilkes-Barre, leaves Room 205 of the Thunderbird Hotel in Pocatello, Idaho, in December 2005 and heads for a rest stop on a remote stretch of I-15. His agenda for the day is to pick up a bag of money from al-Qaeda so he can destroy America.
ONLINE EXTRAS
Read the e-mail exchange between Shannen Rossmiller and Ryan Anderson, and a transcript of a preliminary hearing that outlines the government case against Michael Curtis Reynolds.
Rossmiller explains to writer Alfred Lubrano why she pursues terrorists and the danger she faces.
PART 2
Michael Curtis Reynolds, the Wilkes-Barre drifter who is looking for al-Qaeda funding to help him blow up the trans-Alaska and transcontinental pipelines, is now on Shannen Rossmiller's radar.
PART 3
Spec. Ryan Anderson will be going to prison for life. Shannen Rossmiller has known this day was coming, but the severity of the verdict is still a shock. Sitting just a few feet away, Rossmiller watches his family break down.
Then Rossmiller starts sobbing herself.
PART 4
Taking a break from cyberintelligence, Shannen Rossmiller switches on Karachi Cops. It's a Pakistani version of a popular U.S. reality show, broadcast on WorldLink TV, that follows police on patrol. Rossmiller loves watching dogged officers destroy mud-brick drug houses, and seeing bad guys' rights violated.
TIMELINE
A dateline of the events that led to Michael Curtis Reynolds being convicted of four counts of terrorism.
HOW THIS SERIES WAS REPORTED
This series is based on about 18 hours of interviews with terrorist hunter Shannen Rossmiller, 10 of them conducted in person in Montana. Information was also derived from hundreds of pages of Rossmiller’s files; from military and civilian court documents from Fort Lewis, Wash., and U.S. District Courts for the District of Idaho and the Middle District of Pennsylvania; and from sworn testimony.
PART 5
Michael Curtis Reynolds wants his payday.
"I need funds," he writes to a person he thinks is an al-Qaeda operative on the Web. In exchange for information about making and placing bombs to blow up energy pipelines, Reynolds, a Pennsylvania loner whose three children live with his ex-wife in Connecticut, is expecting $40,000 in cash.
"I need funds," he writes to a person he thinks is an al-Qaeda operative on the Web. In exchange for information about making and placing bombs to blow up energy pipelines, Reynolds, a Pennsylvania loner whose three children live with his ex-wife in Connecticut, is expecting $40,000 in cash.
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