in 1989 a female marine Captain disappeared from her quarters Without a Trace known for her exemplary conduct her colleagues found it hard to believe that she'd gone able military authorities suspected she'd Fallen victim to foul clay the FBI joined the investigation they would find the decorated officer or bring her ass foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Russell was a determined woman determined enough to reach the rank of Captain in the United States Marine Corps when this decorated officer turned up missing her colleagues refused to believe she'd gone AWOL it was unclear whether Captain Shirley Russell was dead or alive I'm Jim calstrom former head of the FBI's New York office when a crime is committed on a military installation it falls under Federal jurisdiction agents would have to rely on their dedication and instinct to solve the mystery of her disappearance the Marine Corps Base at Quantico Virginia is located 35 miles south of Washington DC since 1917 it has been headquarters to one of the nation's most selective branches of the military over 3 000 Marines train work and live on the 100 square mile base [Music] nearly everything in civilian life is mirrored on base from department stores to housing married officers have the option of living on base in married officers quarters which are known as moq for six months moq number 394d was the home of Captain Shirley Gibbs Russell and her husband Robert Russell [Music] by January 1989 Captain Russell decided to end the marriage for the next month she would stay with a friend off base until bachelor's housing was available Shirley packed her civilian clothes her uniforms and her Marine issue firearm Robert begged her to stay but Shirley was determined [Music] it was fine for Robert the separation meant he had to move off base as a former Marine he would be losing his last tie to the Core [Music] Captain Russell continued to advance in her career as the adjutant to the commanding officer of the support Battalion at the Marine Basic School she was in charge of all Personnel matters and administrative needs of the support battalion [Music] she was known as a dedicated marine by her peers by her commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel James Hodges when I first met Shirley Russell I was very impressed with the fact that she was a black female Captain because we just don't have that many in the Marine Corps and that she had come from a poor background and was making something of herself and she seemed so energized and so eager to uh to keep moving up the the rank structure um Captain Russell while assigned together they build a friendship based on mutual respect I can't talk to you right now [Music] I just knew that Shirley's marriage was in trouble I'll have to talk to you later Shirley Russell was very special in even though that I was a commanding officer and her her ultimate boss if you will I was very close to her as sort of a big brother mentor and we talked sometimes you know after working hours about her situation her marriage her past and so forth on Thursday March 2nd about a month after her split with Robert Shirley requested Lee from work she needed to clean her former quarters and finalize her legal separation [Music] four days later on Monday March 6th Hodges arrived at the office expecting to find Shirley at her desk [Music] he was surprised to find her office empty [Music] Shirley had a perfect work record she had never been late to report foreign and when I walked in the door I asked major Buck Bourgeois right away and I said where's Shirley and he said sir she's not here and instantly I felt like oh no something has happened to her Lieutenant Colonel Hodges investigated the unauthorized absence Captain Russell had recently moved into Bachelor officers Quarters on base Hodges hoped he would find her at home Captain Russell [Music] Camp Russell [Music] as the missing Captain's commanding officer Hodges had authorization to search the room Captain Russell there was no sign of her and no indication she had moved out [Music] the Marines returned to the office and contacted the captain's husband who now lived off base [Music] Hodges knew that Robert Russell had helped Shirley clean and paint their vacated quarters over the weekend they arranged to meet at the couple's former moq the Marine officers inspected the residents [Music] Russell told them that he and Shirley had met here around noon on Saturday to do some touch-up painting sorry and oh and I know something according to Russell Shirley volunteered to buy some paint from a base exchange at about 1 30. [Music] he claimed that she didn't take her car but walked to the PX instead Russell said he hadn't seen her since he went to get more paint Lieutenant Colonel Hodgins didn't believe Robert Russell's story it hit me as just totally a lie because the PX was probably four or five miles away there's no way in the world that she would have walked to the PX from their quarters outside the quarters the officers also inspected Russell's storage shed foreign [Music] Colonel Hodges noticed a rust-colored stain Russell dismissed it his paint Hodges was skeptical he was no expert but to him it looked like blood [Music] Lieutenant Colonel Hodges briefed the naval investigative service the NIS reported the possibility of a crime to the FBI's Washington field office the NIS briefed special agents on the case Captain Russell had been missing for three days with no indication of her whereabouts the agents followed standard procedure special agent Alan malinchak headed the case when you have somebody missing you either have a a case of an abduction you have a case of a missing person somebody who's walked away for whatever reason or you have Foul Play so the initial investigation that the FBI was involved in Ran all three of those investigative lines according to standard procedure the missing woman's husband Robert Russell was the first to be questioned thank you very much thank you he told agents that he was talking with a neighbor around 1 30 the afternoon of Shirley's disappearance when a friend of hers stopped by to pick her up for lunch [Music] at 3 30 Robert said he called her Bachelor officers quarters to see if she'd gone home the duty clerk had not seen Captain Russell so Robert left a message around 4 pm Robert borrowed his housemate's car and drove to Pennsylvania to spend the weekend with his parents feel it personally threatened by this during the first interview that I had with Robert Russell he was very calm very business-like wanted to assist the FBI in the investigation and provided me with multiple uh locations of where Shirley might be who she may be associated with what could have happened midnight phone calls Russell thought it was possible someone who abducted or harmed her foreign though surely had no enemies the couple had experienced some trouble due to their interracial marriage Russell told agents he and his wife frequently visited his hometown near mahanoi City Pennsylvania one afternoon while shopping the Russells were harassed by racists [Music] according to her husband Shirley had been frightened but another incident scared her even more online an unidentified man had called their house on base [Music] hello the caller used racial epithets and threatened to harm a couple whoever the caller was knew whether Russell's lived after the threatening phone calls Robert told officials he felt surely might need protection for the times he couldn't be with her foreign picked out a 25 caliber Raven semi-automatic just two days before Shirley disappeared [Music] Russell told agency surprised Shirley with a gift on the day they met to clean their former quarters images [Music] I want you to be safe according to Russell Shirley was appreciative of the pearl handled weapon agents were suspicious of the story as a marine Captain Shirley already had a personal sidearm if she felt unsafe why would she need another gun with Shirley and the gun nowhere to be found that question would be difficult to Marine Captain Shirley Gibbs Rusty and vanished from base housing on March 4th 1989. her husband was the last person to have seen her agents needed to corroborate his story the FBI interviewed Marine Captain Patrice Gale according to Robert Russell on the day surely disappeared Captain Gail had arrived at Shirley's former residence to pick her up for lunch at about 1 30. Gail confirmed this Robert also told her that Shirley had gone for paint and hadn't returned Captain Gail thought this was odd yeah that's probably a good idea and this has been a special needs Gail had accompanied Shirley to the base leaving office to pick up her separation papers Shirley planned to present them to Robert the day they painted their former quarters this would make their separation official and surely worried about Robert's reaction afterwards she would need a friend to talk to and ask Captain Gail to meet her when Shirley failed to show up Captain Gail worried that Robert had done something to her friend let's see what peace [Music] FBI agents checked Shirley's Bachelor officer's quarters the clerk had not seen her since Saturday March 4th the day she disappeared on that same Saturday Corporal Dan Carraway confirmed that Robert Russell had called looking for his wife the Corporal noted the time in his logbook is 3 30 pm about a half hour after he took the message Caraway thought he saw Captain Russell she was talking on the telephone he recalled that she was wearing jeans and a maroon sweater he wanted to give her the message that her husband had called but he but he distracted [Music] by the time Caraway was free the woman he thought was Captain Shirley Russell was gone his description contradicted Robert Russell's statement that Shirley had been wearing a blue jogging outfit Corporal also only saw the woman from behind he never got a good look at her face agents doubted if she ever returned to her apartment they found no Trace that surely had changed her clothes or brought back the separation papers [Music] investigators questioned Russell's old neighbors one of them said she saw a blue station wagon backed up to the Russell's shed on the day Shirley had disappeared she noted the time was 5 PM this was an hour later than Russell claimed he left for Pennsylvania investigators wondered if Robert Russell was mistaken or lying [Music] agent Alan malinchak called the FBI in Pennsylvania pinned down Russell's whereabouts the rest of that day special agent Michael Quirk of the Allentown office became co-case agent he contacted Robert's parents Robert Russell had traveled to Saint Claire Pennsylvania on March 4th 1989 and he stayed with his family the the weekend of March 4th March 5th FBI interviews with Russell's family confirmed he had arrived alone none of them had seen Shirley what you said the interviewer the FBI launched a media campaign seeking The public's help Captain Shirley Gibbs Russell's photo was featured in television and newspaper stories Leeds began to pour in midway between Quantico and Robert Russell's hometown clerk in York Pennsylvania called Federal authorities the clerk reported that a young black woman had been in the store on the afternoon of Saturday March 4th the day Captain Shirley Gibbs Russell disappeared from Quantico according to the clerk the woman bought several items and paid with a check the clerk asked the woman for identification she produced a military ID Card she resembled photos the clerk had seen in the newspaper can you mind if I look at your bank receipt the agent asked to see the checks received on that day he found that none of them were written by Shirley Gibbs Russell assistant U.S attorney Lawrence Liza worked with the FBI on the case he noted another detail that suggested the woman in the store was not Captain Russell the color of the ID and the location of the picture in the ID described as belonging to Shirley Russell was the idea of a dependent military person not of an active duty military person there had been no activity since March 4th in Captain Russell's bank or credit card accounts nor had she called her family her friends considering Shirley's stable character her disappearance didn't make sense to agent Alan malinchik she was the type of person who was going to do very well in the Marine Corps she would be promoted she had that capability she was sharp she was squared away she easy to make friends everybody that worked with her liked her she had a lot of stability in her life with regard to church and family for her to just disappear of her own accord just didn't make any logical sense thank you with no word from her or a kidnapper agents believed it was likely that Captain Shirley Gibbs Russell was dead they were Now searching for her body dozens of Marines fanned out across the huge base they searched hundreds of Acres of dense Woods the Marines used for training they found no trace of the missing captain perhaps Robert Russell knew more about his wife's disappearance than he was telling the FBI agents asked him to submit to a polygraph examination he agreed and that the last time you saw her you were painting your quarters and it was sometime prior to 3 P.M on Saturday March 4th that's correct as before agents found him to be cool and cooperative for almost three hours Robert Russell answered dozens of questions relating to Shirley's whereabouts he was subjected to three separate exams was this red spot paint Mr Russell yes it was each time Robert Russell was found to be deceptive [Music] when agents told him the results Russell seemed unfazed almost smug [Music] he even consented to be fingerprinted perhaps he was aware that polygraphs were inadmissible in a federal court of law [Music] without a body agents would need something stronger than a hunch to prove that Russell had killed his wife and disposed of her in the spring of 1989 the FBI continued to hunt for the body of marine Captain Shirley Gibbs Russell in their search for answers agents delved deeper into the background of their Prime Suspect her husband Robert Russell special agent Michael Quirk learned that Russell was already married before he met Shirley yeah he had two children with his first wife Pam [Music] the marriage only lasted six years in 1986 Russell told his wife that he wanted a divorce he left Pam and their children on Christmas Day six months later Robert married Shirley while they were both stationed at Parris Island South Carolina thank you the FBI learned that Shirley was transferred to Quantico a short time later [Music] they also learned that Robert told friends that the distance was hurting his marriage he claimed he was leaving the Marine Corps to join Shirley and Quantico in order to stabilize their relationship but agents discovered a different motive for the move [Music] agents believed it was unlikely Robert would voluntarily relinquish his rank as Captain [Music] [Applause] being in the Marine Corps was Robert's whole life and whole world military records showed that in February of 1988 while stationed at Gulfport Mississippi Robert superiors founded his passion for the corps did not seem to apply to its regulations [Music] they issued Robert a less than honorable discharge for dereliction of Duty and defrauding the government he was escorted out of his office and was prohibited from taking anything with him except his own clothing although Robert was no longer a marine he moved into offices borders at Quantico based on Shirley's rank of Captain while Shirley supported him Robert tried to get his life back on track by becoming a teacher at a nearby High School but his drinking started to become excessive he was getting drunk more often staying out later [Music] Shirley was destroyed he joined Al-Anon a support group for the loved ones of Alcoholics when Robert became physically abusive Shirley finally left him assistant U.S attorney Lawrence lizard believed that Robert's problems left surely few alternatives she realized that marriage was was going nowhere began to get counseling from a local Counseling Center that was made available to members of Marine Corps she also consulted with a navy lawyer to begin the divorce process to investigators Russell's instability in abusive Behavior reinforced their belief that he was capable of killing Shirley his personality could not tolerate the fact that this black woman his wife was a Marine Corps Captain who was successful who was succeeding in her career and to top it all off wanted to divorce him agents learned that during her separation Shirley had sought Refuge off base with her close friend fellow Marine captain and Mack [Music] Captain Mack told agent malanchek that Shirley was afraid of her husband intended to leave him but needed a place to stay she had asked Captain Anne Mack if she could stay with her at her town home in the Springfield Virginia area and Captain and Mack agreed and laid out some ground rules about Bob Russell not being there not coming into the house nothing like that whatsoever but it was not enough to keep Robert away from Shirley Mac was worried about her Mack told investigators that Robert was stalking Shirley on several occasions he showed up at the house early in the morning as Shirley was leaving he harassed his wife until she agreed to spend some time with him Max said that Robert Russell was living off base he had moved in with one of his new colleagues an FBI agent checked the address it was the home of Sandy Flint Sandy Flint offered little she said she knew nothing about Robert's missing wife on the way out the agent met Robert Flynn Sandy's father-in-law he was a retired painter who had worked at the base at Quantico for 10 years [Music] Mr Flint told the agent about a conversation he had with Robert Russell two days after Shirley's disappearance Robert Russell asked him how to clean up stains from concrete floors and the father-in-law had told Bob Russell that you could just use chlorine or soap and water and that would pretty much clean it up or dilute it and Bob had asked him what if it's blood and and the father-in-law had said well you could use muriatic acid Mr Flint told the agent something else of Interest Sandy and her husband had recently separated he suspected Sandy was now having an affair with Robert Russell with each new person agents interviewed they found more deception from Robert Russell well if Sandy was indeed involved with Russell she might know if he had killed Shirley agents would inform her it would be unwise to obstruct a federal murder case Sandy agreed to speak with the FBI this time agents found her to be far more cooperative [Music] he described her role in Robert Russell's obsession she had admitted to having a an intimate affair with Bob Russell while Bob Russell was still married she advised us that she at Bob's request she had surveilled Shirley Russell she could report to Bob Shirley's activities and whereabouts he enlisted her as his spy Sandy told the FBI Russell was convinced that Shirley was having an affair he wanted to know where Shirley went and who she met [Music] Sandy followed her everywhere but found nothing to support his delusional fixation and you're so compulsive he wanted to catch his wife cheating of course the irony of all of this is she wasn't cheating at all of us he was cheating on her Robert wasn't too far gone for logic he refused to believe the assurances of his mistress in his own mind if he was cheating so was surely and he would go to any length to prove it he told Sandy that he broke into his wife's car and planted a voice activated recorder failed to record anything incriminating he decided he needed to get closer Robert broke into Anne Mac's house to bug Shirley's bedroom what happened next told Sandy that her Lover's Obsession had completely consumed him Robert called his mistress from his wife's bedroom speaking in a whisper he won't believe where I'm at he told Sandy he was drinking Shirley's wine and reading her journal then he said something she would never forget he had informed her that if surely comes missing it'll be me I'll have taken care of her and she had said we can't do that you know she's still going to look for her says if anybody questions you on this deny it don't even admit to the conversation we're having now Sandy's statements were incriminating but it was her word against his to corroborate her story the FBI needed physical evidence [Music] we requested a consensus of Captain Anne Mac's residence and retrieved several items and and some of those items one was the telephone and one was a wine glass and when we sent those to the FBI laboratory for analysis we were able to develop Robert Russell's fingerprints on those items the FBI now had its first piece of physical evidence to corroborate at Robert Russell obsessively stalked his wife but without Shirley's body it was still not enough to charge him with murder in March of 1989 there was little evidence to link Robert Russell to the murder of his wife Marine Captain Shirley Gibbs Russell early in the investigation agents learned the suspect had been having an affair with Sandy Flint Flint now told the FBI more about the day Shirley Gibbs Russell had disappeared [Music] and Robert Russell had borrowed her car a new station wagon to drive to his parents house in Pennsylvania she remembered he left her house sometime after 4 pm Sandy thought this was strange because he could have used his own pickup truck assistant U.S attorney Lawrence lizer believed Russell borrowed her car that day to transport Shirley's body to Pennsylvania reason he asked to use that car was because he had an open bed pickup truck the body was still in the storage shed and he had to dispose of the body and he couldn't do it in open bed pickup truck so he borrowed the closed station wagon of his girlfriend to dispose of the body agents hope to substantiate this Theory they returned to Russell's former residence where his neighbor had seen the same blue station wagon backed up to his ship investigators needed to take a closer look at the floor where Lieutenant Colonel Hodges had seen the rust-colored stay ing was gone at least on the surface and as they were chiseling the whitewash pieces of the concrete up Bob Russell had asked them what's going on and they told him that they're taking these samples to determine what the substance is on the concrete and Mr Russell had voluntarily told them well I had cleaned that up with some muriatic acid the FBI lab confirmed that muriatic acid was present on the concrete same substance that Mr Flint had suggested Russell used to remove blood from cement technicians found no trace of blood or paint on the chips what could have been a key piece of forensic evidence had been destroyed agents hoped Sandy Flint's car would reveal more FBI examiners scoured the station wagon inside and out [Music] it was unusually clean for an older car that had so recently made a round trip from Virginia to Pennsylvania it turned out to be another dead end as the investigation stalled in Virginia Robert Russell split up with Sandy packed his things and moved to Pennsylvania to start a new life [Music] the FBI's investigative Focus turned North as well agents followed Robert's every move they observed that while he relied on his parents for support he was very close to his brothers Mike and Ron agents approached the brothers on several occasions [Music] Mike Russell agreed to meet with agents [Music] he told them that the day after Robert arrived in Pennsylvania following Shirley's disappearance Robert took Sandy Flint's station wagon to a nearby car wash Robert and his brother thoroughly cleaned the inside of the car vacuuming it and spraying it with deodorizers agents believed Robert's actions demonstrated his intent to remove any evidence that Shirley's body had been in the car foreign Russell told agents he never saw a body he did concede that his brother's Behavior had seemed desperate since surely left him two months before she disappeared Mike and his older brother Ron drove to Virginia to take away Robert's guns agent Quirk recalled that his brothers felt this was necessary to prevent Robert from hurting someone he was depressed in the fact that he was no longer in the Marine Corps that he loved the Marine Corps he didn't have money he was a captain in the Marine Corps now he's a special education teacher uh Shirley had removed him from her checking account so he was having problems financially circumstantial evidence was mounting but the FBI lacked one crucial piece of evidence for their case Shirley Gibbs Russell's body the first question was where to look agents learned the answer from Robert Russell's first wife Pam Robert's boyhood home was in school kill County a rural mountainous region in northeastern Pennsylvania thousands of coal mines mostly abandoned are scattered throughout the rugged County [Music] some are hundreds of feet deep and partially filled with water as a Young Man suspect Robert Russell had spent much of his time hiking and hunting in the region his family said he knew the place like the back of his hand a search conducted in this terrain would be daunting but nobody ever questioned whether it should be done 150 people participated in the extensive ground search for Shirley Gibbs Russell in early May volunteers from the FBI the Marines the naval investigative service and the Pennsylvania State Police participated [Music] none of them were more eager to find the missing Marine than her own peers from the United States Marine Corps nine helicopters and since transport trucks filled with Marines were deployed over three days they searched two thousand acres of land foreign Captain Russell's body agents would soon develop a theory as to why the search was not more fruitful [Music] agent Quirk learned about a strange phone call Ron Russell received from his brother Robert had asked Ron if he could get him some Dynamite and uh Robert had stated that it that he couldn't get dynamite in Quantico because it was too expensive and Ron had asked Robert why do why do you want Dynamite and Robert's response was I want to blow up surely Ron never bought it brother Robert Russell had thrown Shirley's body into a mine shaft then sealed her grave with an explosion the search did yield one surprising result an agent found what appeared to be the grip of a gun handle it was sent to the firearms and two marks unit of the FBI's lab in Washington DC for analysis by comparing the samples to hundreds of other guns examiners determined that it was consistent with the grip of a 25 caliber Raven semi-automatic it was the same type of gun Robert Russell had purchased from a pawn shop on March 2nd two days before his wife disappeared unfortunately the tantalizing Discovery would not help with the prosecution agents never found Robert's fingerprints on the gun part to prosecutors it looked as if the ex-marine had covered his tracks well without a murder weapon or a body it would be next to impossible to convict Robert Russell of murder very clear after an investigation spanning two months two states and thousands of man-hours the FBI was no closer to arresting their Prime Suspect Robert Russell for the murder of his wife Marine Captain Shirley Gibbs Russell though agents had gathered a significant amount of circumstantial evidence assistant U.S attorney Lawrence lizer didn't have enough physical evidence to prosecute Russell for the crime we didn't have a body we didn't have eyewitnesses we didn't have weapon and it just took a tremendous amount of investigative skill and effort to put the pieces together to go out and search out the leads tremendous amount of hours and energy that these FBI agents took to gather the evidence thank you authorities didn't even have enough evidence to make an arrest agents were frustrated as were the hundreds of Marines whose lives had been touched by Captain Shirley Russell it was like the loss of a child or a dear friend and there was nothing you could do about it and it would frustrated me so much was she was so close to being extricated from her bad marriage and for her to be killed it still bothers me to this day I mean it just it's just one of those things that you just never really totally get over it looked as if Robert Russell was going to get away with murder but Russell's past indiscretions would come back to haunt him he had been contacted by the naval investigative service at Gulfport Mississippi that there was some evidence in a um uh in a locker there that they had maintained from uh when Bob was discharged from the Marine Corps and so they sent it to us and it turned out to be a floppy disk it had been confiscated when Russell was relieved of Duty in Mississippi a year before Shirley Russell disappeared for security reasons no service member who's been relieved of Duty is allowed to go through their documents after dismissal one of Russell's former superiors found the disc and read its menu of contents one of those items that he saw on the menu was the word murder and he pushed the the mouse for that on that word murder and up came 26 steps very detailed and elaborate steps on how Robert Peter Russell was planning the murder of Captain Shirley Gibbs my movies Russell's plan clearly documented his intentions the 26 steps was a very revealing piece of evidence because it showed the man's State of Mind his willingness to to even contemplate murdering another human being let alone his wife Step One is leave Thursday January 18th for Paris Island well who is that Paris Island Shirley Russell make it look as if she left well that's exactly what he tried to do when he did murder his wife and then the last thing he says is blame it on her own kind obviously referring to her race this is a man who clearly had the the mental wherewithal and intent and motivation to do this kind of act on February 8 1991 the computer file convinced Federal prosecutors to bring charges against Robert Peter Russell for the murder of his wife Captain Shirley Gibbs Russell ironically Russell was arrested in a prison let me just left this he had recently taken a job as a substance abuse counselor at Pennsylvania's greaterford State Correctional Institution New York the prosecution would not be easy let's go make some notes assistant U.S attorney Lawrence lizer would have to assemble all the pieces of circumstantial evidence like a mosaic hopefully the jury would see the portrait of a killer emerge assistant U.S attorney and co-prosecutor Michael Rich would help to prepare the case against Russell it was clear they were going to have to make it on you know circumstantial evidence a lot of that circumstantial evidence was uh as a result of what Bobby Russell had been Shane and doing since his wife's Disappearance in 1989 So the plan was to assemble all that into some sort of coherent game and present that never before had the federal government attempted to try someone for first-degree murder based solely on circumstantial evidence trial the prosecution asserted that Robert Russell intended to commit murder when he bought the 25 caliber Raven semi-automatic on March 2nd Street how much several of his co-workers reported that he had told them a 25 caliber is a perfect weapon [Music] it leaves little evidence behind he said there's virtually no blood spanner and the bullet usually lodges in the body on Saturday March 4th when Shirley gave him the separation papers he refused to sign just afternoon that day the prosecution believed Robert Russell snuck up on Shirley in the shed foreign to establish an alibi he talked with a neighbor and lied to Shirley's friend about his wife walking to the base exchange to buy paint that's probably a good idea around 4pm he went to Sandy Flint's house and borrowed her station wagon [Music] after night fell he wrapped Shirley's body in a tarp and placed it in the back of the car their neighbor's saw it backed up to the shed [Applause] he then drove four hours to Saint Claire Pennsylvania with the body in the back of the car [Music] once there he knew exactly where to go there were hundreds of abandoned mines to choose from then Robert Russell who had once sworn to uphold honor as a member of the Marine Corps dumped his wife's body into a mine shaft he threw dynamite in to bury the evidence under thousands of pounds of Rock the jurors were convinced on May 3rd 1991 Robert Peter Russell was convicted of murdering his wife Shirley Gibbs Russell Robert Russell was sentenced to life there is no parole in the federal system he will never leave prison alive [Music] foreign