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Murder And Sexual Assault Of 15+ Girls And Women - Serial Killer Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: The perfect neighbor, the pillar of the community. Some of
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Speaker 1: history's most lethal killers have led a double life. One
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Speaker 1: part mister niss He.
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Speaker 2: Was very smiling on the cover.
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Speaker 3: He was the poster.
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Speaker 1: Board the other homicidal maniac.
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Speaker 2: I got a killer, I got a killer, I got
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Speaker 2: a killer.
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Speaker 1: Forensic psychologist Lou Schlessinger has spent decades delving into the
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Speaker 1: minds of murderers.
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Speaker 4: The notion of a serial sexual murder lives in his
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Speaker 4: mother's basement, and you know kills cats is just incorrect.
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Speaker 1: Serving Detective Jackie Seba is an expert in the mechanics
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Speaker 1: of crime.
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Speaker 5: The killer has a good working knowledge of this building.
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Speaker 1: Between them, they're dissecting a case that struck fear through
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Speaker 1: a community.
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Speaker 6: That specter, that ghost, that man without a face, It
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Speaker 6: was all back.
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Speaker 3: Angrid in his eyes.
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Speaker 1: There was one thing that stuck three years and years
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Speaker 1: and investigating if its perpetrator was born to join this
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Speaker 1: most elusive breed of killer.
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Speaker 7: Who doesn't know that woman I was going to die?
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Speaker 1: With over twenty years experience in homicide, Detective Jackie Seba
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Speaker 1: has headed up some of Britain's most high profile murder cases.
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Speaker 1: She's in the suburbs of Buffalo, the unlikely site of
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Speaker 1: a crime that sent shockwaves through Western New York.
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Speaker 5: One of the really special and exceptional things about Buffalo
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Speaker 5: is actually the stability of the community.
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Speaker 1: Here.
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Speaker 5: People feel safe, and people that grow up here often
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Speaker 5: come back here to raise their children. There's a good
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Speaker 5: standard of living, there's stable employment even through some very
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Speaker 5: difficult economic times.
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Speaker 1: And nowhere is this sense of tranquility more apparent than
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Speaker 1: in the idyllic neighborhood of Amherst.
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Speaker 8: Amherst has been voted one of the safest communities in America.
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Speaker 9: It's a picturesque community, a community of affluence. It's when
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Speaker 9: most families aspire to more over a living.
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Speaker 8: Just a very nice place to live under raise cats.
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Speaker 1: Each year. The beautiful setting also attracts over thirty thousand students.
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Speaker 6: It's home to one of the largest universities in New
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Speaker 6: York State, University of Buffalo.
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Speaker 9: As most campuses do, it has a jagging or biking
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Speaker 9: trail fixed to it. It runs along Elka Creek, and
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Speaker 9: it's a beautiful paved trail that you can run, bike, rollerblade.
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Speaker 1: During the fall of nineteen ninety, second year communications student
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Speaker 1: Linda Yalem had been making the most of the green
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Speaker 1: open space.
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Speaker 10: Wendy Alen originally came from California and she was a
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Speaker 10: marathon runner. She was training for the New York City Marathon.
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Speaker 9: She's near the end of her training. She's only five
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Speaker 9: weeks away.
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Speaker 1: On the twenty ninth of September, the twenty two year
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Speaker 1: old stuck to her fitness regime.
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Speaker 10: Wendy Allen left her dorm room that morning about nine
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Speaker 10: thirty or so. It was a nice sunny day.
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Speaker 9: She had a walkman, she popped in a cassette and
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Speaker 9: she went out to do what she did all the time.
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Speaker 6: Run.
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Speaker 10: Her roommates were expecting her back, and you know a
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Speaker 10: fair amount of time, and she just never came back.
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Speaker 1: An extensive search was launched along the bike path where
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Speaker 1: Linda was known to have been running. Major Steve Nigrelli
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Speaker 1: recalls the moment the hunt for the student came to
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Speaker 1: an end.
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Speaker 9: They stretched this whole five mile path, searching the path,
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Speaker 9: the woods and where we're staying now. Linda's body was recovered.
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Speaker 9: She was shrouded with her sweahir covering her torso underneath
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Speaker 9: the sweatshirt, her brazier and t shirt was lifted up,
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Speaker 9: explosing her breast. Her pants were pulled down off of
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Speaker 9: her one leg.
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Speaker 5: Was there any signs of defensive injuries?
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Speaker 9: She had numerous injuries upon her face, in her body,
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Speaker 9: abrasions and bruises that indicated that she did try to fight.
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Speaker 10: Her a sound.
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Speaker 1: Despite her efforts, Linda's assailant cruelly controlled her.
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Speaker 9: The sail and put duct tape over both her nose.
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Speaker 9: In her mouth, she was unable to guess any air.
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Speaker 9: In fact, she was sucking so hard at the duct
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Speaker 9: tapers actually indented into her mouth.
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Speaker 1: As the perpetrator raped his victim, he inflicted further torment
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Speaker 1: through the use of a handled garrote.
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Speaker 5: Why would someone use a garrote? That's sort of case.
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Speaker 5: What do you think he was doing with Linda?
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Speaker 9: The garage, by its very nature, where you can render
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Speaker 9: someone unconscious just with a couple of twists, is a
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Speaker 9: control mechanism. And what he did is he did a
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Speaker 9: double loop. So if I could demonstrate he just went
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Speaker 9: over yeah and back in just by one hand. Because
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Speaker 9: now we had both bomsticks in his hand. He's able
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Speaker 9: to tighten the garat and bring his victims in and
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Speaker 9: out of consciousness. They left signature Garrotner ligature rocks across
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Speaker 9: your neck.
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Speaker 5: You're very close to your victim. You're going to be
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Speaker 5: looking in their eyes, aren't you. You're going to be
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Speaker 5: able to see what you're doing to them, aren't you?
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Speaker 1: That's correct. Forensic psychologist Lou Schlessinger has analyzed the minds
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Speaker 1: of some of history's most twisted serial killers. For him,
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Speaker 1: the tortuous technique carried out on Linda Jaleen raises huge concerns.
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Speaker 4: When you use a ligature or manual strangulation to kill someone,
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Speaker 4: that tells me it's personal because it's an inefficient way
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Speaker 4: to kill somebody. It takes a long time. They could
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Speaker 4: fight their way out of it. So when you kill
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Speaker 4: with strangulation, that is almost always a sexual element because
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Speaker 4: you're seeing the victim suffer.
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Speaker 1: And strangulation has been the sordid choice for a class
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Speaker 1: of killer who only get their kicks out of this
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Speaker 1: sadistic During the nineteen eighties, Virginia's South Side strangler Timothy
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Speaker 1: Spencer created torniquets from belongings found in his victims' homes.
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Speaker 11: He had two sacks fafter on her neck and a
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Speaker 11: sixteen years sircut clean extension twisted in the ligature.
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay murderer Bobby Joe Long would bring his own
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Speaker 1: ligature to the scene of the crime.
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Speaker 3: Just left the ligature right on the victim. Why did he.
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Speaker 4: Do it because for some reason that was arousing to
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Speaker 4: him to see the victim lying there with the ligature.
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Speaker 3: Just hang an offer.
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Speaker 2: Right, and here's where I killed her.
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Speaker 1: This class of killer is perhaps topped by America's most
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Speaker 1: prolific serial murderer, five of them in there. Gary Ridgeway
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Speaker 1: was the archetypal guy next door, but in his hidden
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Speaker 1: life he strangled dozens of prostitutes.
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Speaker 2: When I got through having a climax with her, I
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Speaker 2: jumped on her. How much are you pulling.
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Speaker 6: On her neck?
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Speaker 2: I'm pulling really hard on her neck, just like this.
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Speaker 2: What are you saying to her? Don't fight? Don't fight,
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Speaker 2: don't and I'll let you go.
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Speaker 3: No, Ridgeway was never gonna let him go.
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Speaker 4: He got him in a strangulation hold and he basically
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Speaker 4: said to them, if you relax and just let me
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Speaker 4: go through my little sexual thing, I'm gonna let you go.
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Speaker 4: And when she relaxed, he then strangled her and killed her.
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Speaker 2: I'm feeling I got a kill her, I got a killer.
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Speaker 2: I got a killer.
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Speaker 4: They want to get close and touch the person as
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Speaker 4: she's dying. This is what's stimulating for all of these
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Speaker 4: individuals like Gary Ridgeway and Long and so many of
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Speaker 4: them who killed with that method.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety in Amherst, Buffalo, the community had been
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Speaker 1: shattered by the strangulation of student Linda Yalen.
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Speaker 6: She was jogging in the middle of the day. She
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Speaker 6: was attacked. No one saw coming or going. No one
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Speaker 6: saw the attacker coming and going. How does that happen?
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Speaker 1: Detective Jackie Severe is on the scene with Major Stephen
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Speaker 1: Nagrelli as he recalls the moment. Detectives received a break
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Speaker 1: in the case.
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Speaker 9: A woman called and said she saw a man behind
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Speaker 9: a woman pulling her from behind, pulling across this exact bridge.
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Speaker 1: The sighting suggested that the killer was acting with unabated confidence.
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Speaker 9: Of sara in the month of September. This path is
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Speaker 9: teeming with people. He was brazen enough during daily hours
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Speaker 9: to grab a victim dragger over the bridge in rapor
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Speaker 9: and leave her right here.
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Speaker 1: But as the investigation gathered momentum, it became clear that
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Speaker 1: the assailant's actions were far from random.
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Speaker 5: So the detectives had witnesses that suggested that he'd been
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Speaker 5: staking out the place days before.
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Speaker 1: That's correct, and one such witness was a local factory
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Speaker 1: worker who had spotted a work colleague in the vicinity
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Speaker 1: just days before Linda's death.
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Speaker 9: In his coworker saw his fellow co worker walking on
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Speaker 9: that path, thought as unusual, went to talk to him
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Speaker 9: in his coworker patently, he didn't see him acted bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Although the factory worker was brought in for questioning, no
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Speaker 1: one suspected the murderer could be this pillar of the community,
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Speaker 1: al Timio Sanchez.
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Speaker 8: He coached the boys baseball team, He played on community
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Speaker 8: baseball teams through his church.
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Speaker 10: Oh of his neighbors, so he's the greatest guy. He'll
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Speaker 10: mow your lawn for you. Is the nicest looking lawn
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Speaker 10: in the neighborhood. Invite them over to barbecues and things
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Speaker 10: like that.
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Speaker 1: Despite the model neighbor bearing a marked similarity to the perpetrator,
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Speaker 1: close colleagues on his shift at the factory didn't take
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Speaker 1: it too seriously.
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Speaker 8: There was a father and son who worked at the
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Speaker 8: plant as well, and when the composite sketch was out there.
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Speaker 8: They used to joke with them and say, hey, al,
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Speaker 8: this looks just like you, and he'd kind of chuckle.
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Speaker 1: The residents of Buffalo couldn't imagine that the perfect husband
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Speaker 1: and all round good guy was concealing a double life.
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Speaker 1: Forensic psychologist Lou Schlessinger and serving detective Jackie Sabia are
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Speaker 1: unraveling a case that rocked a suburb of Buffalo, New
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Speaker 1: York in nineteen ninety. Amherst student Linda Jaleen was sadistically
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Speaker 1: raped and strangled on a local bike path. For Jackie
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Speaker 1: saba The killer's movements reveal a meticulous operator.
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Speaker 5: This is an incredibly open public space, so for him
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Speaker 5: to have the confidence to have staked out this location
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Speaker 5: knowing that he wouldn't be disturbed, starts really raising the
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Speaker 5: levels of anxiety of the detectives. This wasn't a spontaneous assault.
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Speaker 5: This was premeditated, and it appeared the calculated killer may
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Speaker 5: have struck before.
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Speaker 1: His technique resembled anmo displayed in a series of sex
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Speaker 1: attacks perpetrated by a character dubbed the bike path Rapist.
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Speaker 6: The bipath rapist first became known to me when I
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Speaker 6: was a teenager, a girl from my high school had
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Speaker 6: gotten raped.
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Speaker 12: He would pray in areas where there were either high
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Speaker 12: schools or recreational areas that would you know, younger women
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Speaker 12: would typically utilize.
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Speaker 6: He was using a knife, he was using a gone,
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Speaker 6: and then he started using the double ligature garrett.
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Speaker 1: The period of attacks was so prolonged, Lisa Redman's childhood
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Speaker 1: memories would be brought sharply into focus as she pursued
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Speaker 1: the rapist as an investigator.
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Speaker 5: Did he cause any other injuries to the victims? Was
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Speaker 5: there any other violence other than the actual sexual offense.
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Speaker 6: One of the rape victims managed to get her fingers
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Speaker 6: underneath the garrett, and he was choking her so hard
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Speaker 6: it actually bent her fingers, And years and years later
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Speaker 6: she showed me her fingers were still bent.
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Speaker 1: The sex attacker cast his net wide over Buffalo's green
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Speaker 1: open spaces.
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Speaker 5: So we've got rapes done in this location in the south.
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Speaker 5: We've got rapes here. We've got the University of Buffalo
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Speaker 5: where Linda was killed. So we've got a homicide up here.
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Speaker 5: We've got clusters of locations where offences happened.
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Speaker 6: These you would not know unless you had knowledge of
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Speaker 6: that area. He's tailoring his crime and his location to
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Speaker 6: his victims.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty six, seventeen year old Hamburg schoolgirl Susie
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Speaker 1: Coggins would experience the terrible wrath of the rapist first hand.
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Speaker 13: I was walking till a nine o'clock class that day.
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Speaker 13: I was running late, so I had to cut through
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Speaker 13: all the bike paths to get to school so I
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Speaker 13: wouldn't be late. I heard someone running through the woods.
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Speaker 13: I turned over my shoulder to look, and I saw
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Speaker 13: this guy. I saw the rope in his hand, and
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Speaker 13: I thought he must be running his dog or something.
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Speaker 1: But the perpetrator wrapped the rope around Susie's neck, lifting
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Speaker 1: her off the ground.
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Speaker 13: When I went up in the air, I couldn't breathe.
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Speaker 13: Everything stopped in that time, in that moment, and then
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Speaker 13: he started dragging me back into the woods. And the
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Speaker 13: anger in his eyes, I I'll never that was the
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Speaker 13: one thing that stuck with me for years and years,
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Speaker 13: those eyes, the way he'd looked.
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Speaker 1: Once in a secluded spot, the rapist broke his silence.
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Speaker 13: He just asked me how old I was and if
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Speaker 13: I had ever had sex before. They just kept thinking
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Speaker 13: about my family.
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Speaker 12: I was reading like they just kept thinking, I'll never
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Speaker 12: see my family.
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Speaker 3: Gad, I'll never see my friends again.
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Speaker 8: I just know that moment I was gonna die.
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Speaker 1: Susie was then subjected to a prolonged rape.
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Speaker 13: When he was finished, and I'm like, well, what happens next,
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Speaker 13: and he says nothing. I felt like there was some
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Speaker 13: guilt in his voice. And yeah, his energy changed completely
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Speaker 13: from the beginning of it till the end of it.
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Speaker 1: As police desperately pursued the rapist. Charismatic factory worker, Altemio
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Speaker 1: Sanchez was as popular as ever.
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Speaker 9: He was a jack, so people at work love having
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Speaker 9: him on your softball team, ranting with them, golfing him.
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Speaker 9: He was an outstanding golfer. He was a guy the
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Speaker 9: guys want to hang out with.
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Speaker 1: Despite his jovial demeanor, Altemio Sanchez's start to life had
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Speaker 1: been far from happy. As a child, he struggled academically,
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Speaker 1: but Sanchez would insist his biggest challenge was out of
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Speaker 1: school living with his alcoholic mother.
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Speaker 8: She would frequently remind now, you know, you weren't wanted,
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Speaker 8: she openly told him during his life. You know, when
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Speaker 8: she was pregnant with him that she actually bought kind
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Speaker 8: of a concoction of drugs that would induce an abortion
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Speaker 8: and use those drugs during a pregnancy.
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Speaker 1: The unwanted child had been born into a turbulent home
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Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty eight in Puerto Rico.
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Speaker 8: He was one of four children. There was family tension
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Speaker 8: between mom and dad, and I believe dad left me.
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Speaker 3: He was very young.
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Speaker 8: I think he was two years old when dad left.
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Speaker 10: His mother discovered very early on that his father was
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Speaker 10: having an affair and moved the family to New York City.
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Speaker 1: However, life in the big city didn't offer a fresh
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Speaker 1: start for the Sanchez family.
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Speaker 10: It'd spent a lot of time with his mother living
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Speaker 10: with different men. At one time lived in the back
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Speaker 10: of a carror.
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Speaker 9: She allowed various men into her life. He alleges that
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Speaker 9: those men abused him physically and emotionally during that time period.
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Speaker 1: Sanchez stated he also repeatedly saw his alcoholic mother being
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Speaker 1: abused by her violent partner. For forensic psychologist lou Schlessinger,
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Speaker 1: a child witnessing aggressive behavior against his maternal figure can
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Speaker 1: have devastating consequences in later life.
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Speaker 4: The main effect that that has is it desensitizes.
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Speaker 3: The child to violence.
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Speaker 4: He sees an aggressive boyfriend and aggressive father figure who
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Speaker 4: treats women like this, and he identifies with the aggressive
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Speaker 4: person rather than identifying with the victim.
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Speaker 1: Many of history's most despicable killers have developed a dysfunctional
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Speaker 1: view of their mothers in their formative years. As a child,
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Speaker 1: the Yorkshire ripper Peter Sutcliffe regularly saw his father humiliating
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Speaker 1: his mother, Kathleen.
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Speaker 7: One time John suckliss Kathleen talking to two men in
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Speaker 7: a pot. That's all talking, and he slapped us straight
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Speaker 7: across the face. So here we have his father saying you,
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Speaker 7: this is what you do to be a man. And
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Speaker 7: you know, Peter as very much saw women as either
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Speaker 7: Madonna's or Whowes.
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Speaker 4: You're basically using your parents as a role model.
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Speaker 3: And if that's what your role model is.
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Speaker 4: Doing, it stands for the reason you're going to do very
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Speaker 4: similar sorts of things.
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Speaker 1: But this crucial mother son relationship can be affected in
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Speaker 1: other ways. Serial murderer Gary Ridgway's maladjusted view was at
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Speaker 1: the other end of the spectrum.
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Speaker 14: He having some sexual feelings towards her. He described in
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Speaker 14: some detail watching her when she was in a bathing
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Speaker 14: suit and looking at her and thinking that she dressed
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Speaker 14: pretty provocatively.
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Speaker 6: During one bath, her robe fell up and she was
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Speaker 6: naked underneath, and he felt aroused.
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Speaker 4: Gary Ridgway is an individual whose mother was very sexually
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Speaker 4: provocative in an overt sense. There's nothing more devastating psychologically
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Speaker 4: for a boy to see that type of behavior in
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Speaker 4: his mother.
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Speaker 3: It usually doesn't end well at all.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety, in Buffalo, New York, police had connected
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Speaker 1: the murder of student Linda Yaleen to a string of
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Speaker 1: brazen rapes committed along the area's bike paths and trails.
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Speaker 9: What made this so bizarre? He's a broad daylight attacks.
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Speaker 1: But then for the next two years, the brutal crimes ceased.
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Speaker 9: Pof He vanishes off the radar.
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Speaker 1: Just a short drive away from the Tranquil bike paths
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Speaker 1: Exchange Street in downtown Buffalo seemed a million miles away.
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Speaker 1: The red light district was worked by prostitute m Jane Maserm.
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Speaker 6: Jane Maser was turning tricks. Sometimes she would stand on corners.
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Speaker 6: A lot of times she would give her number two
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Speaker 6: people and they would call her.
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Speaker 1: But on an October night, the vulnerable thirty two year
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Speaker 1: old was picked up by the wrong man.
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Speaker 6: Eh John called her, She went out the curb, got
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Speaker 6: in his car, took off. She was never seen again. Okay,
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Speaker 6: so this is the actual building. Right up to the
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Speaker 6: fence line is where m Jane Maser's thought he was found.
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Speaker 6: Bless you.
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Speaker 1: Detective Jackie Seba is joining Lisa Redmond as she revisits
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Speaker 1: an industrial wasteland that in nineteen ninety two was the
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Speaker 1: site of a horrific murder.
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Speaker 6: A man actually picking wildflowers found her in the brush.
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Speaker 6: It was not clear like it is now. It was
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Speaker 6: overgrown and her body not only was it camouflaged by
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Speaker 6: the foliage, he actually put a piece of corrugated plastic
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Speaker 6: over the top of her.
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Speaker 5: When her body was discovered, what condition was her body in?
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Speaker 6: She was lying prone. There was a classic bag tied
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Speaker 6: around her head at the neck, and then another garbage
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Speaker 6: bed pulled over the top.
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Speaker 1: On closer examination, mc jane's cause of death was undeniable.
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Speaker 6: There was evidence of ligature strangulation on m Jane. She
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Speaker 6: had the double ligature marks on her neck, but due
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Speaker 6: to the circumstances that she was a prostitute, that she
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Speaker 6: was covered the way she was the investigators at the
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Speaker 6: time did not put two or two together that she
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Speaker 6: was a victim of the bike dead rapist.
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Speaker 5: Did the detectives form an impression of who could have
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Speaker 5: done this though what type of person would have done this?
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Speaker 6: They thought that it would be someone that she knew
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Speaker 6: or was familiar with, because of the way the person
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Speaker 6: had painstakingly taken the time to try to hide the body.
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Speaker 1: As police chased up leads, they were unaware that one
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Speaker 1: of m Jane Mays's regular clients was a local family
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Speaker 1: man leading a double life, Altemio Sanchez. In nineteen ninety six,
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Speaker 1: in the Green suburbs of Buffalo, New York, six years
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Speaker 1: had passed since the murder of Linda Yalen. In the
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Speaker 1: wake of her tragic death, the local community was determined
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Speaker 1: the young student would never be forgotten.
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Speaker 8: Because Linda was a runner, there was something created called
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Speaker 8: the Linda Yaleen Memorial Run. It's an annual event and
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Speaker 8: it's to raise awareness about women's safety issues.
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Speaker 10: Before the race would start, there would be a moment
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Speaker 10: of silence and then a bagpipe would lead the runners
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Speaker 10: down to the starting line.
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Speaker 1: Amongst those taking part in September ninety six was competitor
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Speaker 1: six three five local man Altemio Sanchez.
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Speaker 10: It turned out that Altimio Sanchez was a bit of
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Speaker 10: a runner. He belonged to the running club at American Brass.
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Speaker 1: It was seemingly a typical act for one of the
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Speaker 1: communities all round good guys. Detective Jackie Sebia has come
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Speaker 1: to cheek Towaga, the neighborhood in which Altimio Sanchez set
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Speaker 1: up home with his college sweetheart ten years previously.
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Speaker 5: Cheek Towaga is an incredibly safe, quiet suburb, low crime
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Speaker 5: and its great schools, and that's why Sanchez and his
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Speaker 5: wife picked this location to raise their family.
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Speaker 15: He had two sons.
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Speaker 9: He was very involved in his community.
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Speaker 6: Nothing remarkable about him.
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Speaker 12: He just seemed like.
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Speaker 9: A neighbor.
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Speaker 8: He was the guy that you know when snowfall came,
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Speaker 8: he'd be out there with his snowplow plowing out your driveway.
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Speaker 5: He was a member of his local church community, where
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Speaker 5: he was coaching the softball league. His family were well known.
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Speaker 5: He was here for a long time, so he'd established ties.
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Speaker 1: In his working life at a nearby brass factory. Sanchez
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Speaker 1: was also well liked. Fellow worker Ken Chakai would regularly
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Speaker 1: chat with the forklift driver as his night shifts drew
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Speaker 1: to a close.
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Speaker 5: And your first impressions of him, he was just a normal.
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Speaker 11: Guy, sound spoken.
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Speaker 6: I get anything there about him?
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Speaker 5: The Sanchez ever at work or were there any issues?
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Speaker 5: Was there any gossip about him or rumors he was going.
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Speaker 2: To church and community. His family belong to the judge.
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Speaker 3: The great guy.
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Speaker 1: Nobody in Buffalo believed that Altemio Sanchez had anything to
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Speaker 1: do with the murder of Linda Yoonen. Having worked extensively
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Speaker 1: with the FBI, professor lu Schlessinger is fully aware that
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Speaker 1: for many, a serial killer is hard to spot.
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Speaker 4: The notion of every serial sexual murder of being weird
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Speaker 4: and a loner lives in his mother's basement and kills
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Speaker 4: cats is just incorrect.
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Speaker 1: To further understand those capable of concealing a heenus double life.
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Speaker 1: The psychologist is meeting an offender who ruthlessly targeted women.
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Speaker 3: How did you feel when you were raping someone?
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Speaker 11: I felt powerful.
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Speaker 1: This inmate is a serial rapist who remained undetected within
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Speaker 1: his community for over a year and a half.
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Speaker 4: Someone knows very little about this topic. What could you
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Speaker 4: say to help them? Understand the mind of a serial rapist.
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Speaker 11: For me, I hated myself. I felt that I was
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Speaker 11: in adequate. The sex offense is not about sex.
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Speaker 16: It's about it's about the power and control issues. It's
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Speaker 16: about the self esteem issues. It's about a person who
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Speaker 16: is desperate to be accepted and validated as a person.
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Speaker 4: While you were raping women, you were in a relationship
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Speaker 4: with women.
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Speaker 11: Well, I was in this case, I was married.
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Speaker 3: You were married.
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Speaker 4: Did you feel you led a double life in a
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Speaker 4: sense that nobody even knew you were capable of.
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Speaker 11: Something like this? Oh?
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Speaker 16: Absolutely, I mean the I mean I had regular work,
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Speaker 16: I worked hard, I was responsible, and I enjoyed activities
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Speaker 16: with other people.
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Speaker 4: When different people that knew you from the community and
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Speaker 4: whatnot realized what had happened, were the pretty shocked.
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Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yes, I didn't.
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Speaker 3: Have a clue that you were capable of. Yes.
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Speaker 16: In fact, I remember the prosecutor during the case made
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Speaker 16: a statement in court that you know, in all other aspects.
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Speaker 11: Of my life, this is the guy you would want
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Speaker 11: your daughter to bring home.
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Speaker 16: Because I was a steady person, I write talk well, smart, right, but.
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Speaker 11: I had this dark side that I was going out
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Speaker 11: and raping.
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Speaker 1: In his work as a profiler, Professor lu Shessinger has
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Speaker 1: also experienced this chameleon likability in a class of killer
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Speaker 1: that remained invisible to all around them.
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Speaker 4: There's a large group of serial sexual murderers who have
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Speaker 4: families that are married and work and have friends and acquaintances.
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Speaker 10: She got sid, got her glass of water, offered her
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Speaker 10: a little bit and what had tied up, and then
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Speaker 10: took the bag over head and strangled her.
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Speaker 1: Over a thirty year period in Kansas, Dennis Raider murdered
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Speaker 1: ten people. All the while, the respected Scout camp leader
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Speaker 1: hid an assortment of sordid behavior, frequently tying himself up
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Speaker 1: within the local woods.
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Speaker 15: He was very big into autoerotica. What he did was
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Speaker 15: to leave the campsite where the boy Scouts were, and
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Speaker 15: then he attached a camera to on a cord and
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Speaker 15: would take photographs of his accomplishments.
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Speaker 4: Most people believe they can detect deviancy and particularly danger
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Speaker 4: in others, when they really can't.
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Speaker 1: In some cases, in Riverside County during the nineteen nineties,
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Speaker 1: model citizen Bill Suff's murderous identity was even more impenetrable.
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Speaker 4: He was supplying equipment to the police department, the same
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Speaker 4: police department that was investigating him.
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Speaker 2: A homicide victim was found One morning when two of
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Speaker 2: the investigators were with Bill and their pager went off,
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Speaker 2: and Bill made the comment to.
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Speaker 4: Them, oh, did you find another body? If a person
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Speaker 4: interacts with you and makes jokes and seems like a
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Speaker 4: normal guy, why would you possibly suspect that he's capable
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Speaker 4: of such extreme deviancy.
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Speaker 1: In two thousand and six, in Buffalo, New York, over
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Speaker 1: a decade had passed since the bike path rapist had
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Speaker 1: last struck.
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Speaker 9: As time went on and there were normal attacks, I
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Speaker 9: really believe that the community became less guarded. They believed
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Speaker 9: that maybe he left the area, was in prison or
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Speaker 9: possibly dead.
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Speaker 6: Collectively, the community still had it in the back of
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Speaker 6: our minds. That's where we pushed it because everyone wanted
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Speaker 6: to believe, deep down that we were safe.
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Speaker 1: On the sixteenth anniversary of Linda Jalem's murder, respected neighbor
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Speaker 1: and loving husband, al Temio Sanchez, had been out with
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Speaker 1: his wife at an office reunion.
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Speaker 8: He was photographed at a downtown bar at a party
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Speaker 8: with a drink in his hand with his wife, you know,
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Speaker 8: with his arm around his wife.
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Speaker 1: But amidst the celebrations, no one could have guessed how
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Speaker 1: Altemio Sanchez had spent the day. A few hours earlier,
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Speaker 1: in nearby Clarence, it had been a typical Friday morning
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Speaker 1: for mother Joan Diver and her young family.
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Speaker 8: They sat at the kitchen table and they had breakfast together.
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Speaker 8: They talked about maybe we go to a movie tonight
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Speaker 8: because it's Friday night.
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Speaker 6: She had dropped her five year old off at daycare
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Speaker 6: and decided, on a beautiful September day, took off for
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Speaker 6: a jog in Clearance.
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Speaker 1: Joan parked her car in her usual spot before heading
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Speaker 1: out along the bike path, But as the morning drew
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Speaker 1: to a close, the forty five year old didn't reappear
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Speaker 1: from her run.
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Speaker 8: At the normal time of pick up for daycare, Mom
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Speaker 8: didn't show her son kind of stood at the window
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Speaker 8: and looked out the window, Where's Mom?
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Speaker 1: With no sign of Joan, an extensive search was mounted.
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Speaker 1: Detective Jackie Severe is joining Steve Nigrelli as he retraces
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Speaker 1: its final steps.
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Speaker 9: A couple of boy Scouts and a Scout leader. They
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Speaker 9: just want to help the Diver family, so they're out
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Speaker 9: here volunteering searching. One of them kind of bent down,
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Speaker 9: peered in and he could see underneath the shrubbery in overgrowth,
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Speaker 9: he could see what appeared to be a human hand.
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Speaker 9: It was, in fact Joan Diver.
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Speaker 5: What did she actually look like when she was here
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Speaker 5: and she was.
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Speaker 9: Laying on her back, her pants were down, her shirt
35:39
Speaker 9: had been lifted up, exposing her breast. You could see
35:45
Speaker 9: that she had been in a struggle.
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Speaker 8: You could see that there was some marks on her body.
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Speaker 1: Although not witnessed for over a decade, the method of
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Speaker 1: murder had a chilling familiarity.
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Speaker 9: Distinctive double ligature marks on her neck, So.
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Speaker 5: Even after the twelve years had passed, it's almost like
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Speaker 5: a textbook copy of what happened before all.
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Speaker 9: The mr was lining up the time of day, a
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Speaker 9: secluded bike path, a white female jagger, the ligature, everything's
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Speaker 9: going down that path. It's the bike path. It's bike path,
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Speaker 9: it's bike path.
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Speaker 1: As detectives discovered the victim's car had been moved, lamp
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Speaker 1: tests cast out any doubt that the perpetrator had returned.
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Speaker 8: What came back was one droplet of sweat on the
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Speaker 8: steering column.
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Speaker 3: Where you put the key in.
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Speaker 9: They were able to obtain DNA sample from that exact
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Speaker 9: key tumbler. That DNA that was discovered was in fact
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Speaker 9: the DNA of the bike path.
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Speaker 6: Rapist, that specter, that ghost, that man without a face.
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Speaker 3: It was all back.
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Speaker 1: But as his reign of terror entered a third decade,
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Speaker 1: the identity of Buffalo's elusive serial killer was about to
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Speaker 1: be unveiled. In September two thousand and six, in Buffalo,
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Speaker 1: the murder of jogger Joan Diver had marked the return
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Speaker 1: of the bike path rapist after more than a decade's absence.
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Speaker 1: As a serving detective, Jackie Seba is in no doubt
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Speaker 1: as to the impact of this tragic development.
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Speaker 5: To come back after a twelve year break would have
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Speaker 5: been an enormous shock to this of investigators, because you
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Speaker 5: have to relive and pull all of those files again
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Speaker 5: and start practically from the beginning.
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Speaker 1: With the DNA sample indicating an hispanic mail. The list
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Speaker 1: of suspects shrank down until an historic case left just
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Speaker 1: one name.
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Speaker 6: There had been a rape and the woman had seen
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Speaker 6: the rapist a few days later at the mall followed
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Speaker 6: him out in gadders. Wesons played.
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Speaker 1: As the owner of the vehicle had a cast iron alibi.
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Speaker 1: The lead had drawn a blank, but years later, as
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Speaker 1: police recontacted him, the owner admitted a relation had borrowed
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Speaker 1: the vehicle.
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Speaker 12: We said, who was driving your car that night? And
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Speaker 12: that's when he the first time we heard this name,
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Speaker 12: and he said it was my nephew.
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Speaker 9: His nephew's name has popped up a couple of times
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Speaker 9: previous in this investigation.
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Speaker 12: He said it was Altimo Sancha.
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Speaker 6: It was like getting hit in the face with a
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Speaker 6: baseball bat, because after all these years, we finally had
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Speaker 6: a name to this faceless monster that had been terrorizing
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Speaker 6: the women of this community.
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Speaker 1: With a direct DNA match. The church going softball coach
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Speaker 1: was questioned by Detective Lisa Redmond.
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Speaker 6: At first, he didn't believe I was a police detective.
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Speaker 6: Made me show him my badge.
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Speaker 9: His attacks were about controlling women. He couldn't control her,
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Speaker 9: she was in charge. It unnerved him.
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Speaker 6: At one point he said, I think you're something else,
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Speaker 6: and I noted that he said something, not someone. You
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Speaker 6: referred to me as something.
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Speaker 1: As news of the arrest spread, local residents struggled to
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Speaker 1: comprehend the identity of the unmasked killer.
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Speaker 9: Neighbors going on TV saying that we had the wrong guy,
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Speaker 9: that we were.
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Speaker 12: Wrong Altimo Sanchez's wife, I really don't think that she
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Speaker 12: had any idea what was going on. In the morning,
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Speaker 12: he commits a murder at nineties with a work party
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Speaker 12: with her, and.
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Speaker 9: While she's pregnant with one of their children, he's out
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Speaker 9: raping or he's patronizing prostrants.
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Speaker 12: I don't think she saw any of this madness, that
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Speaker 12: dark side of him at all.
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Speaker 1: The factory night shift workers' colleagues were left equally mystified.
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Speaker 8: When the news came that the bike path rapist was arrested.
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Speaker 8: The one gentleman I interviewed said, that's great, he's off
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Speaker 8: the streets finally, and then they said you know it's
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Speaker 8: al Sanchez, and he swore and said, why are you
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Speaker 8: picking on L?
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Speaker 3: It couldn't be L.
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Speaker 1: But those who had experienced the dark side of Altemio
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Speaker 1: Sanchez were in no doubt that police had got the
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Speaker 1: right man.
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Speaker 13: I remember running as fast as I could to the
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Speaker 13: TV and I'm like, oh my god, that's him. I
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Speaker 13: saw those eyes and I just remember falling on my knees.
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Speaker 13: I just started crying. It was just it was finally over.
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Speaker 2: It was finally over.
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Speaker 12: Basically, what we had was a monster living amongst us
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Speaker 12: that we never realized was there.
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Speaker 1: In court, Altemio Sanchez would be sentenced for the murders
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Speaker 1: of Linda Jaleen m Jane Maser and Joan Diver.
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Speaker 6: He's looking like he's a broken man. You know. It
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Speaker 6: was heads bar, it was hands or clasped in front
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Speaker 6: of him. Such a slap in the face to see
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Speaker 6: him play that role because he absolutely was not sorry
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Speaker 6: for any of his victims. He was sorry was caught.
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Speaker 1: Whilst Altimio Sanchez presented himself as remorseful, Other killers who
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Speaker 1: deceived all around them have played out their final acts
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Speaker 1: of freedom in different ways. Gary Ridgeway quietly faced his victims, how.
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Speaker 2: Do you bleed to the charge of aggravated murder in
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Speaker 2: the first degree as charge in count five guilty.
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Speaker 1: Dennis Raider reveled in detailing his heenus crimes, got on.
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Speaker 4: Top of them, and then strangled her with a felt
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Speaker 4: at that life.
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Speaker 1: But to fully appreciate these cold blooded killers, Professor lu
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Speaker 1: Schlessinger believes you have to look to the past if.
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Speaker 3: You want to understand an offender.
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Speaker 4: Don't go by how he appears in court, take a
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Speaker 4: look at what he did. What he did tells you
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Speaker 4: what the offender is really.
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Speaker 1: Like, and Altemio Sanchez's brutal history undoubtedly bears the hallmarks
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Speaker 1: of this most dangerous class of killer. The guy next
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Speaker 1: door who was simply invisible.
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Speaker 4: Sanchez shares the characteristic of many serial sexual murderers. These
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Speaker 4: offenders are in a class of their own inasmuch as
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Speaker 4: those who see them in their environment and they don't
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Speaker 4: see somebody who's mentally ill, psychotic.
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Speaker 3: Yet they all have a dark side.
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Speaker 4: And they're extremely dangerous and extremely violent, although the average
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Speaker 4: person doesn't see it.
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Speaker 9: U