UNDER THE GUN

Her husband was surprised to see her--partly because where he's being kept is "so hard to find," Ingrid says. She didn't ask her husband anything about the shooting, she says.

Since returning from Washington, though, Ingrid has started to blame her husband's actions on radio talk-show hosts and "those men. Those other guys should have been punished, too," she told a friend. "Frank is just the fall guy...it wasn't his fault that he fell into this group. They influenced him."

According to Gutierrez, the men who influenced Duran were "righteous, pious, holier than thou." The situation reminds him of kids in elementary school, he says. "The boys make a plan to all stand up for something, but when the time comes, only one boy stands up--the others just sit there like they don't know what's going on. That one boy is Frank."

Leslie Jorgensen is a Colorado Springs-based freelance journalist who has covered Colorado politics since 1984. Sherry Keene-Osborn works for Newsweek and has been a journalist in Denver since 1970.