Russell Shaw

The brothers went most of their adult lives without seeing each other. Colter created his rewardist job, working in the States, while Russell, unbeknownst to the family, was serving his country and then working for Horizon Group. They've only been back in contact for a couple of years.

Dory, after Ashton's death Dory went to live with her aunt and uncle. Colter was given the option to go too, but he chose to stay with his mom. Dory grew up to be a physics professor in Wyoming.

Colter, who works as a "rewardist" aka, he finds missing persons for the rewards offered, drives a black GMC Sierra pickup truck to haul his Airstream trailer that he lives in.

Russell mostly lives out of motels and short term locations, but it's slowly trying on settling down because he wants to eventually retire and have a little plot of land.

Russell loves the ladies and flirts shamelessly.

Russell is very much a protector. He's done it all his life so it's ingrained.

Russell has helped Colter with several cases in his tracking business, using his military and later acquired skills.

Colter avoided Russell for over a decade but finally agreed to meet with him when he was trying to investigate their father's death. Russell insisted he didn't push his father, that someone else was up there. Eventually, Colter discovered that his mother had talked a neighbor into confronting his father and that man admitted that Ashton had attacked him so he pushed him off the cliff.

After the military, Russell hired on with a private security company, Horizon Group, doing covert work. He is rarely all that clear about what he did but occasionally mentioned being on operations in foreign countries, but often adds in a lot of ridiculous details that seem to be meant to entertain and distract rather than truth. In late 2025 he told Colter that he and Horizon Group had parted ways.

When Mary came home, she heard from Colter that he'd seen Russell on the cliff. Russell maintained his innocence but Mary didn't appear to believe him and advised him to leave home so the police didn't find out. Russell left home to join the military and ended up in Special Forces. The family didn't hear from him for a very long time.

Ashton continued to spiral, becoming more and more unstable and paranoid. One night while his wife. Mary was gone and he was alone with his three kids, he became enraged at Dory. Russell, now eighteen, threw himself between them to protect his young sister. Ashton stormed out of their cabin into torrential rain. After a while, when he didn't return, Russell left Colter to watch Dory to find his father. When Colter got worried and went to look for his father and brother, he found Ashton's body at the bottom of a cliff he'd obviously fallen from. When Colter looked up, he saw Russell at the top of the cliff looking down.

In 1992 Russell's father, Ashton, moved his family to the wilds of California and taught the boys, Russell and his younger brother Colter, to be survivalists. Their father grew increasingly paranoid and volatile over the next few years. Russell, being the oldest, took the most flak and tried to protect his mother and younger siblings.

After getting driven from his home, Russell joined the military and ended up as a soldier in the Special Forces.