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I wanted to be a Hells Angel

because they had that togetherness, that brotherhood.

Drinking whiskey, drinking beer.

They won't do you wrong unless you do them wrong.

In the '60s, they just had a lot of fun and games and a lot of partying.

And then in the '70s, they became gangsters.

KERRIE DROBAN: Butch Crouch was the brutal driving force

behind the Cleveland Hells Angels.

-People were getting murdered, people were disappearing. -(GUN FIRES)

The Cleveland Hells Angels moved from a motorcycle club to a murder cult.

You (BLEEP) with the Hells Angels,

they are gonna (BLEEP) stomp you.

Bomb city.

There were bombs going off everywhere.

TOM DOYLE: Killing women and children was beneath him.

Butch thought that was wrong. Totally wrong.

Butch began to question what he was doing,

and what the Hells Angels were doing.

This culminated in the most experienced member of the Hells Angels chapter

sharing their most closely-guarded secrets.

It was devastating.

He betrayed the patch.

MAN: Over and over, they say they are not criminals,

they're rebels rebelling against a society for which they have no respect.

We never gave a (BLEEP) about what anybody else thought.

We're mostly a bunch of happy-go-lucky guys

trying to make it in this world, you know.

KERRI KRYSKO: They're misfits, they're outlaws,

and they defy the laws of attraction.

I don't know, I idolize 'em, I adore 'em.

They're my whole life.

Angels forever, forever Angels.

Speaks for itself.

The Hells Angels are not a criminal organization.

Why don't you people go home!

GEORGE CHRISTIE: It's an organization with criminals in it.

The Hells Angels run a massive propaganda scheme.

And the unknowing gulped down that Hells Angels Kool-Aid.

Everybody just cool out.

Hells Angels, everybody!

JAY DOBYNS: That is all designed to hide murder, rape,

drug trafficking, gun running, extortion, assault, arson.

I'm not trying to glorify my life,

but I'm certainly not going to apologize for it.

I'm doing extreme stuff.

-For what? -I'm telling it the way it really happened.

I never thought I'd be talking openly about this stuff.

-INTERVIEWER: Ready for this? -I'm ready.

MATT ZANOSKAR: Fifty some years ago, I used to work around this neighborhood.

It used to be quite a neighborhood.

It changed.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

Yeah.

I was just going to the bike show.

Butch Crouch was in front of me,

and we were walking through the crowd

because this was our house, this was our event.

And it was obvious they come in those kind of numbers,

and they're all looking at us.

No guns.

But the knives were out.

In the Hells Angels, you can't be running your mouth.

And some things some people will not tell you

because it's none of your business.

You ain't gonna know.

If you're not a member, you're not gonna know.

Cleveland, it was a tough town,

but it was a hard-working town.

At the time, my livelihood was ironwork.

I worked hard and made myself available

to as much fun as I possibly could.

It was 1970

when I really started getting into building my bike and riding my bike.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

I wanted to ride with the best.

(MELLOW ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

They had that togetherness, that brotherhood, and they helped one another.

They won't do you wrong unless you do them wrong.

Seemed pretty exciting to me.

I want to be part of that.

Can you find me?

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

ZANOSKAR: How did you do that?

You know why? Because I'm standing next to a guy

that's, like, 6'4", 6'5".

I was standing on two telephone books, Cleveland telephone books,

because I wanted to stand with the big guys.

(LAUGHING)

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

ZANOSKAR: That's Butch Crouch.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

ZANOSKAR: In time.

I joined because of a brotherhood.

We were one family, one big family,

and we'd all help each other.

You know, it was something that we'd all grow old and be proud of,

you know, a brotherhood.

DOYLE: In 1970, Sonny Barger wanted to expand the Hells Angels nationally,

so he sent Butch Crouch to organize the Cleveland chapter,

increase the size of the Cleveland chapter

and, of course, increase their power.

And their power would come from selling drugs.

PAT MATTER: When I first met him,

I was already warned about Butch.

He had a reputation for being a very serious Hells Angel and dedicated.

He had stabbed multiple people in a bar fight.

One thing that sticks out in my mind about Butch Crouch,

Butch's girlfriend's dog was barking.

He got up out of the bed and shot him.

(GUN FIRES)

She was not happy with that.

So he took a knife, and he stabbed her foot to the floor.

Not a very nice man.

DROBAN: Butch Crouch was born in 1940 in Shreveport, Louisiana

in the sort of background that really attracted people to the biker culture

and that lifestyle.

He grew up in a dysfunctional family.

His mother was deaf, his father died.

So Butch had a very hardened view of the world.

By the time he was 19, he got into a brawl.

And he did a few years in a Texas prison.

When you grow up in a place that's economically depressed,

the Hells Angels looks very attractive.

That's their opportunity to be a part of something that promises an exciting life.

I was a detective in the Greater Cleveland area for 39 years.

Over the years, I've been involved in investigations

of the Cleveland chapter of the Hells Angels.

When Butch came to Cleveland, he came here to recruit people,

recruit good people.

He had that ability to size people up

and recognize aspects of their personality

that were beneficial to the Hells Angels.

Intelligence, cunning, loyalty.

The ability to be violent at the drop of a hat.

Fortunately, there was the Vietnam War going on.

We finally have reached the point

where we can begin to bring Americans home from Vietnam.

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

DOYLE: You had a sense when you came back...

of disappointment.

People didn't feel they fit into society anymore

after what they'd seen and done.

You could just leave adrenaline constantly every day

just to stay alive.

And come back here, and somebody wanted me to work 9:00 to 5:00 at a factory?

Or I can get a motorcycle and ride at 90 miles an hour and party my brains out.

It's a choice you gotta make.

Vietnam did help with the Hells Angels recruiting.

The bond that forms in the military, it's more than a friendship.

We're a brotherhood.

There were a number of other clubs,

but people coming from the military would want to go to the Hells Angels

because you want to join the best.

A lot of Vietnam vets were in the Hells Angels at the time.

Military, one, two, military, three, four, five.

He was in the Navy. Him.

That's about it.

DOYLE: After bringing in some new members,

Sonny wanted Butch to use the Angels

to get rid of some of the other clubs that were in Cleveland.

Because each of those clubs would be selling methamphetamine.

So it was about drugs, it was about territory.

They would beat them up, intimidate them.

They would do what they needed to do to take over their market.

One step at a time, one club at a time, one individual at a time.

The Hells Angels in Cleveland thought that they were going to dominate,

and it was just a matter of time.

In 1971, the Hells Angels got rid of most of their competition.

The one that was left,

the one that was not being intimidated was the Breed.

These Breed had been riding together for a while.

Around 1970, they came to Cleveland.

They put patches on just about every little Honda rider all over town.

They started just building up their numbers real big.

ZANOSKAR: That space there was the Polish Women's Hall.

It was a Polish neighborhood, and they would have events there.

They decided to have a bike show

to show trophy motorcycles, custom motorcycles.

The Hells Angels had several bikes in the show,

but at the time, I wasn't a member.

I was a hang-around.

I wanted to be like these guys.

We came in the front entrance, and we're there.

"Oh, we're at the bike show.

"Oh, good time. Ah, beautiful bikes.

"Look at that chick over there. Wow. Yeah. Hey."

Crouch was in front of me.

And we're walking up the steps, and we're looking around.

And the Breed first started coming in.

I'd never heard of any kind of rivalry.

I'm not a member. I'm not privy to that kind of information.

MIKE DUGAN: There was an off-duty officer working the event.

He called the district, saying, "It looks like there's going to be trouble."

I was one of those officers dispatched to help.

Upon my arrival, one thing that popped out,

there were a lot more Breed than there were Hells Angels.

You've got to understand the numbers of people.

There was one article, this guy says he lost count at 124 Breed.

And I always say that there was 32 of us there in total.

And we're going up to where the rest of the Hells Angels were.

And they're all looking at us.

As we're walking through there, walking through the crowd.

And that hall is packed now.

Butch locked eyes with some Breed member, he says,

"You know, why don't you suck my (BLEEP)? Give me some (BLEEP)", you know?

And then the (BLEEP) hit the fan.

I saw somebody jump very quickly,

and then everybody was fighting around me.

They're screaming, some crying.

The panic.

Crouch gutted somebody.

One of the Breed, he gutted him from his (BLEEP) to his teeth.

DUGAN: We called a citywide alert.

Any policeman anywhere in the city

go to Marble and Broadway, Polish Women's Hall.

There was, like, 200 people.

All that energy, all that violence.

When you're outnumbered almost eight to one,

you've got to watch your back, you've got to watch your side

and you've got to watch the guy in front of you.

DUGAN: You could see knives flashing,

people were dropping to the ground, trails of blood all over.

And the knife wounds were focused on the back.

I was a hang-around, I wasn't a member.

This was all new to me.

I mean, there was no plan.

It just happened.

We were defending ourselves.

That was planned. That wasn't self-defense.

I've heard from several people who were patch-wearing members of the Hells Angels

that it was planned ahead of time.

CROUCH: Prior to the Polish Women's Hall,

these Breed, they said that they were going to come there to that hall,

and they weren't going to leave until all the Hells Angels were down.

And we'd heard about it.

A policeman had told us about it.

DOYLE: So the Angels brought in members from other chapters,

Massachusetts, several chapters from New York,

and they prepositioned weapons

inside the hall a day or so before.

They had been in the military,

and they understood the importance of surprise.

They knew that they were going to be surrounded

by Breed members in colors, and that occurred.

But unbeknownst to the Breed,

there were a number of other Angels from other chapters

not in colors that had surrounded them.

So when it started, the Breed were taken by surprise,

and they suffered many casualties.

They were men against boys.

They didn't know what was happening.

I kept hitting this one kid, and I noticed his eyes was rolling back.

And I looked up, and there was an arm coming down with a knife in it,

and he stuck me in the chest.

So I pulled my knife, and I killed him.

That was the first person I ever killed.

Then I went on, and I got stabbed again, and I got stabbed in the back.

And I woke up on the floor with my knife sticking in some guy.

Then there's a lull.

Everybody's looking around.

And naturally, you hear police sirens.

There's cops now coming into the door.

We put some people in a car, and we took off.

DUGAN: There were policemen from all over the city grabbing bikers.

A picture emerged like something no officer ever sees in his career.

NEWSCASTER: Five persons were killed and 22 injured last night

when two motorcycle gangs fought during a motorcycle show in Cleveland.

MAN: I found one dead on arrival.

One died on the cart.

One died for me on the operating table.

Obviously, the end score is what mattered to everybody.

And there were five Breed killed and only one Hells Angel.

DOYLE: The Polish Women's Hall was about drugs.

After Polish Women's Hall, the Hells Angels took over

basically all the methamphetamine distribution in the...

In the Greater Cleveland area.

MUHIC: There was a quote from Sonny Barger that said,

"In the '60s, we just had a lot of fun and games and a lot of partying.

"And then in the '70s, they became gangsters."

After the Polish Women's Hall, People feared them.

They established themselves very firmly as "We're the boss."

Fifty-six motorcycle gang members were formally charged

with first-degree murder in Cleveland today,

following that fight between rival gangs at a cycle show last Saturday.

DOYLE: The problem was people from either side, the Breed or the Angels

would not talk to the police, would not cooperate.

They all kept their mouth shut.

They were all charged with multiple counts of murder.

Some walked away with one count of manslaughter each and probation.

They not only beat the Breed, but they beat the legal system.

(BUZZER SOUNDS)

They went to jail, and they were there for about seven, eight months.

ZANOSKAR: Day after the Polish Women's Hall, I went to go visit them.

Crouch was having a hard time walking.

He got stabbed in the back,

and it took him a while

to get the mobility back in his legs.

They were reading books.

(CHUCKLES) Yeah, The Godfather had come out.

(FLUTE MUSIC PLAYING)

DOYLE: The Godfather had a big impact on a lot of people.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

While in jail, someone obtains a copy of The Godfather,

and it's read and passed around.

They fell in love with the whole lore of the Mafia.

And they were able to take a lot of those philosophies and ideologies.

To become a made member of the Mafia,

you have to commit a murder.

They sit there and look around the cellblock,

and they realize we've already done that.

They realized if you have a organization

where everyone is bonded by murder,

the person who commits the murder

is not going to turn on the club.

That ensures silence and that ensures loyalty.

We all became secret and organized.

A new member, when he joins the club, he has to kill someone.

He has six months to roll his bones.

And if they renege on that, then they are killed,

because then he knows too much.

DOYLE: In The Godfather, they make their bones,

bikers roll their bones.

If you're willing to do this, then you're willing to be a brother for life.

DOYLE: It was a closely-guarded secret,

new members are required to roll your bones.

You're required to kill.

I was a prospect for, um, 19 weeks

before I got my patch.

When I got my patch, I became a member.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

I don't know.

MUHIC: The Hells Angels dealt with the Breed,

but their nemesis throughout the entire country would be the Outlaws.

You know, chomping at their heels.

They want to be number one.

MAN: The Hells Angels and the Outlaws

are in a bloody struggle for the drug and vice trade.

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

They are, to say the least, well-armed,

and a lot of their time is spent

going to gang members' funerals.

DOYLE: In terms of rolling your bones,

if I am going to kill for the club,

I'm going to gain status in the club by doing it.

But I'm gonna gain greater status by killing an Outlaw.

Then the Outlaw war came along.

And the killings just kind of got out of hand.

DOYLE: To go after the Outlaws, they put together a taking care of business fund. TCB.

The Cleveland chapter used that money

to travel around the country, killing for other chapters.

If you had a problem, no matter what chapter you were,

you called Cleveland, and business was taken care of.

They created a murder cult.

CHRISTIE: The Polish Women's Hall put Cleveland on the map.

After that, they had a reputation of

"You don't want to (BLEEP) with these guys."

MATTER: I knew the Cleveland Hells Angels.

They were serious individuals.

They was known well for taking care of business.

DROBAN: Murder became so normalized in the Cleveland chapter.

There were no repercussions for it.

MAN: The leader of the Outlaws found the bodies at dawn.

He described the scene as a slaughterhouse.

They began to want to monetize this particular skill set.

DOYLE: As long as I'm killing, I might as well make money for it.

So it evolved into contract murders.

DROBAN: By the mid-1970s, the Hells Angels

became much more of an organized criminal syndicate.

DOYLE: The chapters have a President, a Vice President,

a Treasury Secretary, a Sergeant at Arms.

And after the Polish Women's Hall,

they appointed someone an intelligence officer.

Intelligence officer was established back in '73,

and it was an office to gather all the information they could

on any club in the United States,

any police officer, any newsman.

Anybody that the Hells Angels had a grudge against.

And when the new member was to roll his bones,

the intelligence would set up the hit.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

Yeah, you mentioned that yesterday.

(STAMMERS) What's that about?

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

No, I never told you that.

I never referred to myself as an intelligence officer.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

-You said about... -Investigator. There you go.

DOYLE: Matt Zanoskar was viewed as one of the people

who was collecting information on us,

"us" being the police officers.

People don't understand the ability they have to collect information.

There was a Hells Angel that was married

to a Cleveland police officer.

One of them had a girlfriend who worked as a clerk of courts.

One of them had a girlfriend who worked for the phone company.

CROUCH: Hells Angels know a lot of people.

They call them spies that bring them information.

Numerous police officers, police chiefs.

They keep a record of everyone.

The person, types of cars, what girls they used to go with, families.

DOYLE: I know that they had information on my family.

They knew where my children went to school.

Some people viewed them as a group of people

that were just drinking and riding motorcycles.

What are you talking about?

You're being paranoid, but I know those files existed.

REPORTER: Another bombing here in the Greater Cleveland area,

the bombing capital of the United States.

Bomb city.

There were bombs going off everywhere.

Both his legs are blown off.

That man will never walk no more, long as he live.

There was a large number of people

that were either killed or disappeared.

And many of them were organized crime related.

Cleveland really became a war zone.

In one year alone, there were 37 bombings.

CERMAK: The most difficult part about being

the bombing capital of the country

was the fact that we were not putting anybody in jail.

We just kept knocking up against a brick wall.

DROBAN: One of the most notorious bombings

took place on January 7th, 1975.

And it will have an impact on Butch Crouch

that reverberates for a very long time.

(BOMB EXPLODING)

(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)

(BOMB EXPLODING)

DROBAN: This particular bombing really impacted the city.

A young woman by the name of Mary Ann Sigley

and her two-year-old son are killed.

DOYLE: Was this a random act?

Is this a person who was crazy out there doing something?

People were horrified.

DROBAN: After the Sigley murders,

the citizens of Cleveland were really alarmed.

It, sort of, woke the city up to,

you know, we've got a real problem here.

This is the intelligence report from the Sigley bombings.

One person reported the sky being illuminated just before the explosion.

Some of the other witnesses also reported hearing individuals laughing

and running away just before the blast.

The forensic examination showed some portions

of the explosive device had military components.

One of the components was a parachute flare.

Phosphorus flare.

That's unusual.

That's military type equipment.

There have been a number of large-scale thefts of military weapons.

DOYLE: Just before the Cleveland bombings, and shortly after Vietnam,

people were breaking into armories

stocked with military equipment.

When the girlfriend of a Hells Angel

informed Cleveland Intelligence

about a cache of weapons, a search warrant was done.

They found one anti-tank rocket,

one pound of unknown explosives, one 1.5 pound block of TNT,

different types of hand grenades,

and two signal parachute flares.

There were bombings in Cleveland

where parachute flares were involved.

It established a link between some of the Cleveland bombings and the Hells Angels.

MUHIC: These guys had armament training in Vietnam,

and they came back and used that training here to make money.

DROBAN: The evidence pointed to the Hells Angels being involved

in the Sigley bombing,

where the mother and two-year-old child were killed.

DOYLE: At a later date, I learned the real story about the Sigley bombing.

Harry Chakirelis was having a one-year anniversary

of his ascension to full patch member.

At that party, there was a cake.

And it was pointed out that he had not rolled his bones.

There was some hard feelings about it.

The cake was taken by Chakirelis, and he said,

"When I come back, I'll have rolled my bones."

The Hells Angels were at war with the Outlaws.

And they thought the Sigleys was an Outlaw Motorcycle target.

But they had bad information.

It was a mistaken identity.

Harry Chakirelis came back, and they started calling him the baby killer.

It was a running joke, and Harry Chakirelis wore this with some bravado.

Butch thought that was wrong.

Totally wrong.

Somehow he still saw himself as an honorable man.

And killing women and children was beneath him

and it was beneath the club.

Butch also identified the child victim with his daughter.

He had a young daughter of the same age.

MUHIC: He was a stone-cold criminal.

But one of the pictures I remember seeing of Butch

was with his young daughter giving him a kiss.

Somewhere deep down inside of the guy,

he had some type of conscience.

After the senseless killing of women and children,

they're not the same as they used to be.

It just kind of tore it and they got away from the brotherhood.

He's thinking about the repercussions of it.

And not criminal repercussions,

but he's thinking about the moral repercussions.

He began to question what he was doing,

and what the Hells Angels were doing.

But for Butch to betray the brotherhood would have been impossible.

He was trapped.

DOYLE: The Cleveland Hells Angels

moved from a motorcycle club to a murder cult.

To be a member of the Hells Angels in Cleveland,

you had to commit murder.

Not every chapter was that a requirement.

And the irony of all ironies, Butch helped create that requirement.

In many ways, Butch Crouch was a victim of his own creation.

It kind of evolved all into just one big organization for profit.

And it got away from the brotherhood.

And now, uh, it's nothing to kill anybody.

They've perfected it.

Their killing skills, their intelligence,

they've perfected everything.

MATTER: Someone from Cleveland had come up and stayed

with the Minnesota Hells Angels.

They was worried about Butch.

He tells me "We can't find Butch.

"We haven't seen him since, uh, USA run."

He's been gone that long.

They was very worried about it, I should say.

DOYLE: Originally, Sonny Barger had sent Butch Crouch to Cleveland.

So he seeks out his mentor, his hero in Tennessee.

And they speak.

CHRISTIE: Sonny said,

"We're all in it for ourselves now, so do what you gotta do."

Sonny tells him "There is no brotherhood.

"Take the money and run

"because one day, this is all going to collapse,

"and only those with money will not be in prison."

His world is shattered.

He's hearing from the leader of the Hells Angels

that everything that you thought you believed in,

all the ideals that you really pledged your life for

really never existed.

DOYLE: That's the thing that pushed him over the edge.

Tell the guards to let people in quick as you can.

We've got to get started.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

DOYLE: Butch Crouch turned himself in

and told of the crimes he had committed with the Hells Angels.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

It was devastating. It was devastating.

It almost started fights amongst the members

because they had faith in him, and he betrayed...

the patch and the people that wore it.

MATTER: Cleveland was very worried about Butch.

I mean, most of them would be looking at life. Everybody would.

You know, so there was real concern.

We sent an attorney and one of our members to Washington, DC

to listen for themselves.

And they had him distorted so you couldn't see his face and all this.

But it was Clarence Crouch giving testimony to Congress.

Hells Angel has a memory like an elephant.

And he never forgets.

If they have a grievance with somebody, it never ends.

He testified that drugs, torture, rape and kidnapping

are part of everyday life in the Hells Angels.

That murder is a requirement for membership.

Have you abandoned the Hells Angels now?

-CROUCH: Oh, yes. -Entirely?

-CROUCH: Oh, yes, completely. -For life?

CROUCH: Oh, yes.

Butch walked in, and he gave them everything.

They didn't have a case on him when he decided to roll.

He just rolled.

And so that's a pretty powerful statement.

DOYLE: He didn't rat anybody out.

A rat is a person who tells on somebody

to get out of the problems they're in.

He was in no problem. He told on himself.

He told about the other murders and he told on the murders he committed, too.

And he went to prison for that.

He didn't have to. He could have walked away from the club

and not said a word.

So he's not a rat.

He's a person trying to save his soul somehow, in some way.

When something of that gravity happens,

it sends ripples and rumors through the club,

and everybody starts thinking,

"If a guy like him flips, who in the hell is next?"

CERMAK: This was probably the most significant accomplishment

regarding outlaw motorcycle gangs in the country.

It helped us put together some criminal prosecutions.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

I don't know nothing about it,

except later on, some people got charged with it.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

Hells Angels were charged with it.

DOYLE: Butch testified against Harry Chakirelis in the Sigley bombing trial,

but the case was pretty strong without his testimony.

CERMAK: When the Angels were found...

not guilty, it was kind of a shock.

There wasn't enough evidence to proceed with the prosecution of the case.

DOYLE: We couldn't believe it.

We should have suspected something was afoot.

CERMAK: The presiding judge Rule 29'd the case,

which means that he determined

that there was not sufficient evidence to convict,

and he made that decision on his own.

The judge in the case was James J. McGettrick.

DOYLE: Judge McGettrick is in a bar a day or two after this trial,

this verdict.

And he's drinking.

He gets up and goes to the bathroom.

An ATF agent who worked undercover a lot,

he goes into the bathroom, and he makes a comment to the judge

"Good job you did with the Hells Angels."

To which the judge responds,

"Well, thank you, but they haven't paid me

"all the money yet." (CHUCKLES)

I'd love to say it was great planning and investigative work,

but it was sheer luck and alcohol.

REPORTER: James McGettrick is running for re-election,

and his indictment for bribery

could not have come at a worse time for him.

He's been criticized frequently for dismissing cases.

Further investigation revealed $6,500 was used by the Hells Angels

to bribe Judge McGettrick to fix the Sigley bombing case.

ZANOSKAR: The story came out about he took a bribe to make that Rule 29.

(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING)

Don't know.

-(INTERVIEWER SPEAKING) -Don't know.

But what pissed me off about that was

they shortchanged the judge.

Somebody shortchanged the judge.

And to this day, I have no idea who it was.

That would have never probably been found out

had the judge not been shortchanged.

DOYLE: Well, going back to the Polish Women's Hall,

Butch said they paid off the judges.

Yes, they'd been doing that all along.

And Judge McGettrick is the proof.

He stood in court and admitted he took bribes

to let murderers off.

The Hells Angels were getting away with murder.

DROBAN: Without Butch, we may never have learned any of this.

Butch did reveal the acts of the Hells Angels.

He did spill their secrets.

He did the right thing.

He's relocated to Texas,

and he lives a very unassuming life.

He remarries, and he suffers from ill health.

Always worried that the Hells Angels

are gonna exact revenge for his betrayal.

DOYLE: We would speak on the phone on a large number of occasions.

We were friendly.

We talked about where he was at.

He seemed to be a likable person.

At one point, we made arrangements to go fishing.

Authorities have identified the victims in an apparent double murder suicide.

85-year-old Vivian Dome and her son, 61-year-old Willard Landry,

were found Monday morning inside their burning home.

73-year-old Paul Dome was found in a nearby vehicle.

DOYLE: Before Butch Crouch came forward,

law enforcement did not understand the world of the Hells Angels.

Butch's information provided a road map,

an overview of how the Hells Angels operated.

He was the first Hells Angel to give law enforcement

a complete understanding of how this criminal organization operated.

That was his legacy.

DOYLE: When he passed,

I was told there actually was a party celebrating his, his demise

by the Hells Angels.

INTERVIEWER: How did you feel when you heard that he died?

It's over.

He killed his wife and killed himself,

and put the house on fire.

It was over. The end.