[2] William Scott Scurlock was born in Maryland and grew up in Reston, Virginia, the son of a minister.
After Meyers' scholarship ended, the two friends moved to the North Shore of Oahu, where they lived on a five-acre tomato farm.
They worked in Honolulu for a company called Hawaii Plant Life and Privacy Fences four days a week and the rest they spent on the North Shore.
Though he had not planned on becoming involved in the drug trade, Scurlock liked having his own marijuana plants hidden on the tomato farm.
When the farm's owner found out, Scurlock was kicked off the property, and Meyers moved to Banff National Park in Canada soon thereafter.
As a result, Scurlock began sneaking into the school chemistry lab at night through the ceilings to make methamphetamine, which he subsequently sold.
With the money made from dealing, he owned 20 acres (8.1 ha) of secluded land near Olympia that had a small house on it.
Scurlock bragged that he and others built the tree house two weeks, working day and night "due to being high on meth."
[3] The tree house included an extra-large fireplace, outdoor bathtub, and an emergency escape using rope lines to zip through the woods.
Scurlock hired Steve Meyers — Kevin's brother, a successful sculptor who was struggling after a bitter divorce — to come to Washington and do work on his tree house.
Scurlock had an open and free demeanor, which included an exhibiting a nudist lifestyle while at the treehouse, and was videotaped often while nude.
[citation needed] Scurlock was eventually kicked out of school when a professor caught him misusing lab equipment to make meth.
[3][5] According to Steve Meyers, Scurlock had told him that he always had dreams, even as a child, of robbing banks with a "Robin Hood" ethic, kind of like re-appropriating money.
[citation needed] In 1992, Scurlock robbed six banks, leaving few or no clues for the FBI, who subsequently gave him the pseudonym "Hollywood" for the theatrical make-up he wore during the robberies.
The duo used many tricks to throw off police and even paid off bank employees to find out information that would aid them in the robberies.
Steve, on 48 Hours, praised Scurlock for his professional approach, saying, "His whole point was if you go in crazy with violence and waving a gun and something does happen, what do you do then?
On a rainy dark Thanksgiving eve, 1996, at around 5:30 PM, they hit the Seafirst Bank, which they learned was going to have $3–4 million on hand that day.
A group composed of FBI Supervisory Special Agent Ellen Glasser, Seattle Police Detective Mike Magan, Mercer Island Detective Pete Erickson, Seattle Police Officers Tom Mahaffey, Curt Gerry, and Michael Thomas, then surrounded the van, which had stopped on a side street.
Howard Monta, Officers Joe Dittoe, Mike Cruzan, Jim Johnson, Jr, and Sjon Stevens — arrived.
After four hours passed without any further response, authorities fired more tear gas into the camper before entering it, upon which they found Scurlock dead of a self-inflicted gun wound[3][5] to the head,[2] which had been the single gunshot that authorities heard when they first attempted to induce Scurlock to exit the camper.