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The Tube Sock Killer · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: today's story. In 1985, 36-year-old Michael Reamer was a roofer
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  Speaker 1: in Tacoma, Washington, and his boss described him as being
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  Speaker 1: a work hard, play hard type of guy. In the
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  Speaker 1: winter months when there really wasn't any roofing to be done,
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  Speaker 1: Mike would supplement his income by trapping coyote, mink, and
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  Speaker 1: muskrat in the forest that butted up against the Nisqually River,
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  Speaker 1: which was an 80 mile stretch that ran right near
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  Speaker 1: his home. Most of the traps Mike would set would
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  Speaker 1: be far away from any actual trail because wherever there
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  Speaker 1: was a trail, you would have human foot traffic and
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  Speaker 1: that would scare away the animals that you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: catch in your trap. And so as a result, he
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  Speaker 1: would place his traps in very remote you know, isolated
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  Speaker 1: sections of the forest, which meant he needed to know
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  Speaker 1: where those sections were, and so over the 15 years
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  Speaker 1: he spent trapping in this forest, he got really, really
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  Speaker 1: good at navigating it. It was like he had a
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  Speaker 1: map in his head of where everything was in this forest. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: Mike was already an avid outdoorsman, and so navigating a
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  Speaker 1: forest and being out in the wild was something that
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  Speaker 1: just kind of came naturally to him. Mike's girlfriend was
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  Speaker 1: a 21-year-old woman named Diana Robertson and they had a
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  Speaker 1: two-year-old daughter named Crystal. Mike and Diana had a rocky
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  Speaker 1: relationship to say the least. In fact, in October of
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  Speaker 1: that year, Diana had filed a restraining order against Mike
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  Speaker 1: after he had kicked in the door and thrown her
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. Mike also always carried a gun on
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  Speaker 1: him and he had a very quick temper. But despite
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  Speaker 1: their significant relationship issues, the one thing they could always
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  Speaker 1: see eye to eye on was their daughter, Crystal. They
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  Speaker 1: adored her, and when it came to decisions about her,
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  Speaker 1: they were always on the same page. It was whatever
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  Speaker 1: is in the best interest of Crystal. In December of
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  Speaker 1: that year, Diana and Mike were able to reconcile, and
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  Speaker 1: so Diana threw the restraining order out. And in fact,
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  Speaker 1: she and Crystal moved back in with Mike, which made
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  Speaker 1: Crystal very, very happy. Just a couple of days after
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  Speaker 1: moving back in, they decided they wanted to go out
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  Speaker 1: and go camping together as a family, and then also
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  Speaker 1: pick out a real Christmas tree they could bring back
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  Speaker 1: for the holidays. And so they settled on an area
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  Speaker 1: that was going to be in the same forest where
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  Speaker 1: Mike had all of his traps at, and they figured
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  Speaker 1: they could, you know, get their family time in, they
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  Speaker 1: could get their Christmas tree, and Mike would be able
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  Speaker 1: to check his traps, saving himself from making another trip
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  Speaker 1: later on. So on December 12th, the three of them
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  Speaker 1: loaded up into Mike's red pickup truck, and they drove
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  Speaker 1: the 30 minutes down towards Nisqually River, where there was
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  Speaker 1: this logging road that Mike would use to park his
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  Speaker 1: truck and then walk in to check his traps. So
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  Speaker 1: Mike pulls over on the side of the road, they
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  Speaker 1: all hop out, and Mike leads the way right into
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the woods. There's no trail, Mike is
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  Speaker 1: just bringing them to an area where, one, his traps
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  Speaker 1: will be, and two, he thinks is suitable for camping
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  Speaker 1: and for looking for a Christmas tree. Later that afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: Crystal was spotted walking around a parking lot of a
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  Speaker 1: Kmart 20 miles away from where Mike had parked the
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  Speaker 1: car near Nisqually River. And she's just walking around, she
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  Speaker 1: looks totally confused, she's all alone, And the employees of
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  Speaker 1: the Kmart are looking out and they see this girl
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  Speaker 1: and they're all watching, waiting for her parents or a
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  Speaker 1: guardian or someone to walk over and show that they
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  Speaker 1: are with this girl. But after a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 1: when no one does that, one of the employees goes
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  Speaker 1: out and tries to talk to her. And this employee
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  Speaker 1: would say when she talked to the girl, she kept
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  Speaker 1: looking over her shoulder and she was just terrified the
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  Speaker 1: whole time. And so this employee asked her, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's your name? And she didn't say anything. She asked her,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where are you coming from? Where are your parents?
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  Speaker 1: Who's looking after you? And to all the questions she
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  Speaker 1: was asked, she didn't say anything. She just looked terrified
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  Speaker 1: and was looking over her shoulder. And so this employee
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  Speaker 1: brings the girl back inside and they call the police.
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  Speaker 1: And so the police show up and they ask the
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  Speaker 1: girl the same questions that the employees have been asking
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  Speaker 1: her and the girl's still not speaking. And so after
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  Speaker 1: they made an announcement inside to say, hey, is anybody
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  Speaker 1: in here the parent or guardian of this child? And
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  Speaker 1: no one came forward. They said, okay, well, we have
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  Speaker 1: no other choice, but we're going to have to move
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  Speaker 1: her to temporary foster care. And so they move her
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  Speaker 1: to a foster home and then they put an ad
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  Speaker 1: out in the newspaper that day with a picture of her,
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  Speaker 1: basically saying, if you know me, contact this number. Two
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  Speaker 1: days later, Crystal's maternal grandmother would see the picture in
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  Speaker 1: the newspaper and the ad did not have a description of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how she was discovered. It just said she
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  Speaker 1: had been found at this particular Kmart and if you
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  Speaker 1: know who she is, please contact this number. Even without
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  Speaker 1: the details, the grandmother knows something has gone wrong. Because
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  Speaker 1: there's no reason in the world those two parents would
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  Speaker 1: abandon their beloved Crystal. And so she calls Diana. She
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  Speaker 1: calls Mike. They don't pick up the phone. That's when
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  Speaker 1: she calls the number and she says, what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: I'm her grandmother. Where is she? The police tell her
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  Speaker 1: to go to the foster home and they will meet
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  Speaker 1: her there and they're going to talk about what happened.
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  Speaker 1: So the grandmother flies to the foster home and she
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  Speaker 1: arrives there before the police. She goes inside and Crystal
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  Speaker 1: is so happy to see her. It's the first time
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  Speaker 1: Crystal has really broken out of that kind of catatonic
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  Speaker 1: state she had been in. ever since she was found
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  Speaker 1: at the Kmart. And so she runs up to her grandmother,
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  Speaker 1: they have this reunion, and the grandmother's so happy to
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  Speaker 1: see Crystal, but she's also thinking, where are your parents?
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  Speaker 1: Where are Diana and Mike? And so she asks Crystal,
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  Speaker 1: where are they, honey? Where is your mom? Where's your dad?
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  Speaker 1: And Crystal would speak to her grandmother, and she would say,
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  Speaker 1: mommy's in the trees. Her grandmother didn't know what this meant,
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  Speaker 1: and so she tried to ask clarifying questions, but Crystal
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  Speaker 1: was not very verbal, she was not able to articulate
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  Speaker 1: more than what she was saying, So she just kept
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  Speaker 1: repeating it saying, mommy's in the trees, mommy's in the trees.
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  Speaker 1: And so then the police show up and the grandmother
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  Speaker 1: turns to them and she says, where are her parents?
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  Speaker 1: Where are Mike and Diana? And the police turned to
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  Speaker 1: her and they're like, we don't know. We found her
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  Speaker 1: abandoned in this parking lot and she wasn't speaking and
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  Speaker 1: no one knew anything about her. And so until right now,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't even know her parents' names. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: any idea where they might be? And the grandmother's like,
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. I mean, I'm just learning about
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  Speaker 1: all of this stuff now, but When I came over here,
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  Speaker 1: Crystal said to me, mommy's in the trees. And she's
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  Speaker 1: not very verbal, so she can't explain much more than that.
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  Speaker 1: But she just kept saying, mommy's in the trees. And
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  Speaker 1: I know Mike liked to go camping in this one
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  Speaker 1: area near the Nisqually River. He keeps traps out. near
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the water. He catches some small animals
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  Speaker 1: out there. So I know he goes out there and
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  Speaker 1: goes camping. And so maybe that's what Crystal's referencing, that
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  Speaker 1: they were in the trees. So they were in that
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  Speaker 1: forest over there. The grandmother also gave the police the
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  Speaker 1: address to Mike's house. And the police used that information
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  Speaker 1: to launch their search for the parents. And so the
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  Speaker 1: first place they go is Mike's house. And all the
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  Speaker 1: lights are off. The door is locked. And his red
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  Speaker 1: pickup truck, because the grandmother said he drove a red
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  Speaker 1: pickup truck, his red pickup truck is not there. And
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  Speaker 1: so they rule out his house. They're not there. And
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  Speaker 1: they begin flying a plane not only over Tacoma, which
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  Speaker 1: is the area where they were living, but also over
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  Speaker 1: that forest that was right up against the Nisqually River.
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  Speaker 1: And as they're flying, they're looking for campsites that could
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  Speaker 1: potentially be Mike and Diana, but they're also looking for
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  Speaker 1: the red pickup truck, which is fairly distinctive. And after
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days of flying all over the forest
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  Speaker 1: and looking around the side streets and putting people in
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  Speaker 1: the forest walking on foot, they couldn't find anything and
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  Speaker 1: they turned the search off. And they would tell the
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  Speaker 1: grandmother and the rest of the family on Diana's and
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  Speaker 1: Mike's side that they really just needed to wait for
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  Speaker 1: more information to come in because they couldn't just spend
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  Speaker 1: an indefinite amount of time scanning a fairly large area.
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  Speaker 1: They have all of Tacoma in this huge forest. And
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  Speaker 1: so everyone just had to wait. Two months later, a
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  Speaker 1: man and his dog were out walking on this logging
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  Speaker 1: road that was about 10 miles away from the Nisqually
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  Speaker 1: River and 30 miles away from the Kmart where Crystal
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  Speaker 1: was found. And they're walking on this road, and they
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  Speaker 1: see way off in the distance there's this truck that's
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  Speaker 1: pulled over to the side of this road. And even
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  Speaker 1: from a distance, they can tell it's covered in snow.
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  Speaker 1: But it hasn't snowed recently. There's snow on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: but the amount of snow that is on this truck
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  Speaker 1: indicates it's been sitting here for quite a while. And
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  Speaker 1: so as they get closer to the truck, this man
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  Speaker 1: is looking around, seeing if maybe the owner is nearby,
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  Speaker 1: even though it seemed unlikely given the fact that it
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  Speaker 1: looks like it's been sitting here a while. And so
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  Speaker 1: after he stands there for a minute, looking around, feeling
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  Speaker 1: pretty confident there's no one in the area, he brushes
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  Speaker 1: the snow off the passenger side window and he looks
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  Speaker 1: inside and he doesn't see anything at first, but he
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  Speaker 1: notices on the passenger front seat, there's a significant amount
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  Speaker 1: of blood on the seat or what appears to be blood.
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  Speaker 1: And this startles the guy. So he backs up from
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  Speaker 1: it and he and his dog very quickly leave this
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  Speaker 1: area because they're in this kind of desolate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: logging road. He's pretty isolated. And so he gets out
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  Speaker 1: of there as quickly as he can. And when he
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  Speaker 1: gets to a phone, He calls the police. Police show
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  Speaker 1: up and they brush the rest of the snow off
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  Speaker 1: and they find it is a red pickup truck. It's
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  Speaker 1: Mike's red pickup truck. Mike and Diana's case had been
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  Speaker 1: very big news in the area when it happened and
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  Speaker 1: the news had really not gone away. People were out
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  Speaker 1: there looking for this couple. And so as soon as
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  Speaker 1: they saw this was Mike's truck, they start fanning out
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  Speaker 1: and searching the area, seeing if they can find any
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  Speaker 1: other clues about what happened to Mike and Diana. And
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  Speaker 1: very quickly they discover Diana's body. She was located not
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  Speaker 1: far from the red truck, just barely off the road
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  Speaker 1: in the forest. She was under several inches of snow
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  Speaker 1: and she had been stabbed 17 times and there was
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  Speaker 1: a tube sock wrapped around her neck. There was no
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  Speaker 1: sign of Mike, but once they got inside the truck,
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  Speaker 1: there was a manila folder that had been tucked up
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  Speaker 1: on the dashboard that just said, I love you, Diana.
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  Speaker 1: When police showed that message to Diana's family, they all said,
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  Speaker 1: that looks like Mike's handwriting. He used to send us
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  Speaker 1: handwritten Christmas cards and that looks exactly the way he writes.
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  Speaker 1: As for the blood that was on the passenger seat
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  Speaker 1: inside the truck, it had been sitting out for too
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  Speaker 1: long so they weren't able to determine whose blood it was,
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  Speaker 1: but they were able to determine it was human. So
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  Speaker 1: between the blood on the front seat, the note that
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  Speaker 1: was left on the dashboard, the personal furious nature of
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  Speaker 1: the way in which Diana was killed, combined with Mike's
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  Speaker 1: history of violence and his disappearance because he's not here anymore,
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  Speaker 1: That all made it seem an awful lot like Mike
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  Speaker 1: was the guy that did this. In fact, this made
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  Speaker 1: for a very tidy ending to a mystery that had
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  Speaker 1: actually started before Diana had been killed. On August 10th, 1985,
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  Speaker 1: so four months before Mike, Diana, and Crystal ventured off
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  Speaker 1: into the woods near Nisqually River, 27-year-old Stephen Harkins and
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriend, 42-year-old Ruth Cooper, were going camping near Nisqually
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  Speaker 1: River in the same forest. They were actually about 15
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  Speaker 1: miles from where Diana's body was ultimately found. and they
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  Speaker 1: were very close to a number of Mike's traps, although
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  Speaker 1: they probably didn't realize they were near them. During their trip,
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  Speaker 1: an unknown assailant walked up to their campsite in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night and shot them both to death.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen was found right away, and he was found inside
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  Speaker 1: of a sleeping bag at their campsite, indicating he had
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  Speaker 1: been killed in his sleep. Ruth wasn't found for months,
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  Speaker 1: and when she was, she was found a mile and
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  Speaker 1: a half away from the campsite, and she had a
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  Speaker 1: tube sock tied around her neck, the same way Diana had.
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  Speaker 1: And the knot that was used on the tube sock
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  Speaker 1: was even the same as the knot used on Diana's
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  Speaker 1: tube sock. So the similarity was just too much to overlook.
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  Speaker 1: And so to the police, they're thinking Mike has to
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  Speaker 1: be the guy in both of these cases. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he attacked Ruth and Stephen, perhaps because they were on
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  Speaker 1: his territory where his traps were and he didn't like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he has a history of violence and so
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  Speaker 1: he attacks them. And then a couple months later, he
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  Speaker 1: attacks Diana, and then he flees. As for his daughter
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  Speaker 1: being found alive at the Kmart, it would seem he
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  Speaker 1: just did not have it in him to harm his
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  Speaker 1: own child, and so he dropped off at the Kmart
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  Speaker 1: before he ultimately fled. Despite everything seeming to fit just
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  Speaker 1: perfectly to where, yep, Mike is definitely the guy, not
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  Speaker 1: only for Diana, but for Ruth and for Steven, we
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  Speaker 1: figured it out, despite that being the overwhelming feeling, there
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  Speaker 1: were a couple of questions that remained unanswered, like, The FBI,
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  Speaker 1: they were unable to confirm the handwriting on that folder
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  Speaker 1: that said, I love you, Diana. They were unable to
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  Speaker 1: confirm that that, in fact, was Mike's handwriting. Diana's family
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  Speaker 1: was really convinced it was his, but the FBI said
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  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily a match. And then you have the
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  Speaker 1: motives for the two crimes. We can understand one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Him attacking Diana, unfortunately, people attack their partners all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and so we can understand that. We can rationalize that.
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  Speaker 1: But for him to attack Ruth and Steven, two total strangers,
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  Speaker 1: because what, they encroached on your land, even though it's
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  Speaker 1: not your land, it's public land, and you just happen
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  Speaker 1: to put your traps out there, that didn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: a strong enough reason for him to want to kill them.
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  Speaker 1: But the circumstantial evidence was overwhelmingly pointing at Mike being
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  Speaker 1: the guy. You have the fact that he's this violent
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  Speaker 1: guy with a history of domestic abuse, he knows this
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  Speaker 1: area well where both crimes were committed, You have the
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  Speaker 1: tube sock tied around Diana the same way it's tied
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  Speaker 1: around Ruth. It just had to be Mike. And so
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  Speaker 1: because the police felt so strongly it had to be Mike,
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  Speaker 1: they were willing to overlook these lingering questions. And so
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  Speaker 1: the police wanted to issue an arrest warrant for Mike,
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  Speaker 1: but they needed to be able to prove he was alive.
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  Speaker 1: Because if he was dead, then that calls into question
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  Speaker 1: his ability to have committed these two crimes. And so
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have proof he was alive. And so very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: this story faded out of the headlines because basically everybody
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  Speaker 1: believed Mike had done it and he had run off
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  Speaker 1: somewhere and maybe someday we'll figure out where he went
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  Speaker 1: and we'll bring him to justice. But until then, we
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  Speaker 1: know he's the guy. For years, no one heard from Mike,
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  Speaker 1: no one saw Mike. It was like he had just
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  Speaker 1: totally vanished. Crystal was raised by relatives and many of
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  Speaker 1: the detectives that were working on these cases eventually retired
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  Speaker 1: or moved on. Then 25 years later in March of 2011,
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  Speaker 1: a hiker was walking through the forest near the Nisqually River,
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  Speaker 1: about one mile from where Diana's body was found, and
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  Speaker 1: they would stumble upon a piece of a human skull.
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  Speaker 1: She calls the police, police show up, they search the area,
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  Speaker 1: and they discover another bone, a human jawbone, and it
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  Speaker 1: would turn out it was Mike's. The rest of Mike's
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  Speaker 1: remains were never found, and because there was so little
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  Speaker 1: of him to work with, police were not able to
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  Speaker 1: determine a cause of death. However, they were able to
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  Speaker 1: date his death, back to almost exactly the same timeframe
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  Speaker 1: that Diana had died. Additionally, investigators believe the reason they
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  Speaker 1: did not find more of Mike's remains is because he
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  Speaker 1: had been buried. The two bones that were found, the
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  Speaker 1: skull and the jawbone, they were located within one mile
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  Speaker 1: of where Diana's body had been found. And that area,
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  Speaker 1: after Diana had been found, had been scoured. They looked
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  Speaker 1: everywhere for clues. And because he apparently died at the
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  Speaker 1: same time she did, he would have been out there
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  Speaker 1: and they would have found him. So the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't find him can only mean he was underground.
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  Speaker 1: So this all meant Mike could not have been the killer,
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  Speaker 1: because in order for him to have been the killer,
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  Speaker 1: he not only would have had to attack Diana and
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  Speaker 1: then drive his daughter to the Kmart and then drive
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  Speaker 1: back to the forest, he would then need to take
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  Speaker 1: his own life and then also somehow bury himself. Some
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  Speaker 1: of the police officers that had worked that case were
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  Speaker 1: still on the police force, and so when they heard
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  Speaker 1: this news about Mike not being the killer, they were like,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you know, it never really made any sense that he
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: would attack Ruth or Stephen. unless he was a serial killer.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: And then it clicked. They probably were dealing with the
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: serial killer. It just wasn't Mike. And their only eyewitness
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: was the toddler, Crystal, who apparently the serial killer could
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: not bring themselves to harm. And so as a result,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Crystal just sat there and watched these horrible things happen
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: to her parents and then probably spent a fair amount
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: of time with the serial killer afterwards because they needed
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: to drive her to the Kmart. Investigators and her family
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: had tried to get her to give more information about
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: what she had witnessed, but all she could say was,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Mommy's in the trees. And so there are really only
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: two interpretations of what that means. Either one, she was
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: just stating that her mother was in the forest and
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: that would have been accurate, or she's remembering her mother
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: trying to escape a serial killer by climbing up into
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: a tree. Or maybe even that she was in the
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: tree with her mother as they both were trying to
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: escape a serial killer with a knife. So when the
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: police have this revelation that Mike was not the killer,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: that in fact, was probably a serial killer, and we
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: know nothing about this serial killer besides what Crystal had
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: to say as a toddler, and that didn't provide any
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: sort of real clarity on who this person was or
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: what their MO was. They went back and looked at
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: all the unsolved murders in the Pacific Northwest, specifically around
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: this forest. They discovered that in addition to Mike and
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Diana and Ruth and Steven, there were four other sets
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: of couples that were killed in and around this forest,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: and all of them bared striking resemblances to one another.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: The most recent attack that is associated with the Tube
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Sock Killer occurred in 2006, but the reality is police
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: don't really know anything about the Tube Sock Killer. All
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: they know is that they're probably in the Pacific Northwest,
• 16:59
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