> reporter: did you find some bullets around there? > they found two bullets lodged in the kitchen cupboard. blood had dropped straight down and so it was just outside the trailer. > we knew that that's where the shoot hg occurred. and then investigator thompson saw the blood drops out on the doorstep. the other was found on bryan's left foot.

it appeared to have been knocked off in the struggle. the local deputies did tell him they found a water shoe on the bunkhouse doorstep. those discarded materials were beyond recovery by the time investigator thompson arrived. rein's head without swabbing for dna, or dusting for fingerprints. you have to figure out how theyĪnd tossing into the garbage, a telephone handset found under dr. bryan always said that being a vet was way more difficult than being a doctor because an animal can't tell you where it hurts or how they feel. > i never knew bryan not wanting to be a veterinarian. and bryan knew from the very beginning there was one job he was meant to do. they raised their special animals, showed them off in fairs and exhibitions. they joined 4-h, future farmers of america. > reporter: here's what they got to do growing up in a small town. i don't need to know how the clock was made. maybe a little too smart? > i remember turning to him once and saying, i just want to know what time it is. > reporter: bryan was very smart was a given. > reporter: ornery? > we were always playing pranks on each other and especially teresa, because she didn't take them so well. so what kind of an older brother was he? > protective. > reporter: they grew up together in scott city, kansas. marlene protsman saw all this, too, same time as the deputies. 357 magnum was on the floor not far from the dead man's left hand. on one foot was a shoe of the sort people wear in the water. > reporter: when the local sheriff's deputies arrived, they found the body in the middle of the kitchen floor lying on its back. > well, if you can have somebody go check and see if he's still alive. > reporter: the sort of place a young vet could live cheap while he built his business. > is he still alive? > a there's blood everywhere. > do you know where he shot himself? > he doesn't know. > reporter: a nondescript little place out on the montana prairie. my husband just went down to check to see if he was going to pasture. > reporter: they called it the bunkhouse, though it was really just an old single-wide trailer.

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