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Serial Killer Documentary - John Eric Armstrong · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: In the summer of 1999, 26-year-old John Eric Armstrong was
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  Speaker 1: honorably discharged from the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Navy.
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  Speaker 1: He settled in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, with his wife and
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  Speaker 1: their new baby.
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  Speaker 3: He was a nice neighbor, a good friend, a good father, apparently,
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  Speaker 3: according to his neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: But Armstrong wasn't the loving family man that people believed.
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  Speaker 2: Him to be.
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  Speaker 4: Armstrong was, in my humble opinion, the personification of evil.
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong was using the services of sex workers, many of
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  Speaker 1: whom he then brutally murdered.
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  Speaker 5: He's killed multiple women. It was natural to him.
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  Speaker 6: Only person that that type of lifestyle that could be
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  Speaker 6: natural to is a monster.
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  Speaker 1: As more details emerged, police realized that these murders went
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  Speaker 1: far beyond their local area.
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  Speaker 7: You're talking Singapore, Hong Kong, and all these exotic locales
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  Speaker 7: that his boat traveled to while he was.
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  Speaker 8: In the Navy.
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  Speaker 9: He's going to be one of the most prolific, well-traveled
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  Speaker 9: serial killers in history.
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  Speaker 1: John Eric Armstrong had gone global and been unveiled as
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  Speaker 1: one of the world's most evil killers. On April the 10th, 2000,
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit, Michigan, police were alerted to an alarming discovery.
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  Speaker 1: The bodies of three sex workers had been found near
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  Speaker 1: some railway tracks in varying states of decomposition.
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  Speaker 2: This was the work of a serial killer.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't try and conceal his crimes. He just discarded
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  Speaker 4: the bodies, didn't try and hide them. He just came
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  Speaker 4: back to visit and abuse. and then move on to
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  Speaker 4: the next murder and dispose of that one and roll
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  Speaker 4: it downhill and find another one.
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  Speaker 1: With no leads, the police were under pressure to find
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  Speaker 1: the unknown killer before he could strike again. Then a
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  Speaker 1: chance traffic stop and subsequent arrest of 26-year-old John Eric
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong led to more revelations than they could ever have expected.
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  Speaker 7: In the patrol car, one of the patrolmen could hear
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  Speaker 7: Armstrong in the back muttering something under his breath. I'm
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  Speaker 7: glad it's over. I'm glad you guys got me.
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  Speaker 1: This killer's story begins on the southeastern coast of America.
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  Speaker 1: John Eric Armstrong was born on November the 23rd, 1973.
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  Speaker 7: Armstrong was born and raised in New Bern, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 7: and by all accounts had a very normal upbringing, very
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  Speaker 7: normal childhood.
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  Speaker 3: I think the most important point in his early life
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  Speaker 3: was the death of a younger brother, Michael, who died
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  Speaker 3: of sudden infant death syndrome at barely two months old.
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  Speaker 3: And this had an impact on the young John Eric Armstrong.
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  Speaker 10: Armstrong was five years old at the time, and at
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  Speaker 10: five years old, I'm not sure that children fully understand
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  Speaker 10: the concept of death and dying and perhaps how permanent
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  Speaker 10: it is. So it's quite possible that it impacted him
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  Speaker 10: in a way that made him feel completely powerless.
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  Speaker 7: He was so distraught over that, that he deliberately rode
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  Speaker 7: his bicycle out in traffic, almost like, you know, with
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  Speaker 7: the intention of joining his baby brother.
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  Speaker 1: The loss of the baby had a major impact on
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong's parents.
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  Speaker 7: Shortly after his baby brother Mikey died in the crib,
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  Speaker 7: his biological father left the family.
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  Speaker 1: After his father left, young Armstrong stayed in the family
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  Speaker 1: home with his mother. Towards the end of the 1970s,
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong started school, and his classmates saw nothing unusual about him.
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  Speaker 7: The people who went to school with him, for instance,
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  Speaker 7: his fellow students, they saw him as just a normal kid.
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  Speaker 7: He was a little quiet. He seemed pretty meek. One
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  Speaker 7: person described him as aloof, but really nothing unusual about
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  Speaker 7: his childhood, nothing that would make someone ill at ease.
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  Speaker 9: Armstrong felt that he was kind of an underachiever and
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  Speaker 9: being bullied, and a lot of this behavior impacted him psychologically.
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  Speaker 10: We've got somebody whose whole identity is being formed around
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  Speaker 10: this victimhood, this powerlessness, this, the world is against me.
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  Speaker 10: And I think that internal anger, rage, revenge is more
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  Speaker 10: what drove him as he went into adulthood.
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  Speaker 3: There was a strange incident in his life. At school,
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  Speaker 3: he said, one of his classmates, a girl, was trying
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  Speaker 3: to persuade him to have sex with her, and he
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  Speaker 3: didn't want to.
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  Speaker 7: And he locked himself into a bathroom and threatened to
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  Speaker 7: kill himself.
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  Speaker 11: This led to a month-long stay in a mental health facility.
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  Speaker 7: So he obviously had issues with sex.
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  Speaker 10: A simple pressure for sex is not going to put
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  Speaker 10: you into psychiatric care.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot more going on here.
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  Speaker 9: At the age of 16, Armstrong felt that he was
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  Speaker 9: still dealing with the negative impact of his brother's death,
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  Speaker 9: and so he went for additional psychiatric counseling.
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  Speaker 10: To seek psychiatric care at age 16, when he's just
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  Speaker 10: had care for another incident, this is somebody who's really,
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  Speaker 10: really struggling to function in the world.
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  Speaker 1: By his late teens, despite his problems, Armstrong had managed
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  Speaker 1: to start a relationship with a girl. But when his
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  Speaker 1: high school sweetheart left him for another boy, Armstrong was devastated,
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  Speaker 1: especially when he saw his love rival shower his ex-girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: with gifts.
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  Speaker 9: Armstrong interpreted this as her prostituting herself for her affections
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  Speaker 9: in exchange for these gifts that this other new suitor
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  Speaker 9: was providing her.
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  Speaker 10: This guy sees women, sex, relationships, transactional. And even he
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  Speaker 10: said that this.
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  Speaker 3: Was like she was a prostitute.
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  Speaker 10: What an awful way to see relationships.
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  Speaker 1: In April 1992, when Armstrong was 18 years old, he
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  Speaker 1: signed up with the U.S. Navy.
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  Speaker 10: He joined the military, which is, I don't think, an
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  Speaker 10: unusual thing for somebody like him who feels, you know,
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  Speaker 10: like he needs to be in a big gang because
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  Speaker 10: he feels like the world's against him and he needs
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  Speaker 10: control and he needs power.
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong was assigned to the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, then
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  Speaker 1: the largest sailing vessel in the world.
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  Speaker 11: Life aboard the Nimitz, it would be pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 9: It can go anywhere in the world, and often did,
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  Speaker 9: and Armstrong would have enjoyed that life.
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  Speaker 7: He worked in the barbershop, it was said, and then
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  Speaker 7: he had one or two other jobs on the boat.
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  Speaker 7: And he had a good record, by all accounts, aboard
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  Speaker 7: the boat. Nothing really stood out.
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  Speaker 3: At one point, he was nicknamed Babydoll. He had this
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  Speaker 3: very childlike face, this very innocent approach. which didn't really
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  Speaker 3: make him look like a grown-up man at all.
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  Speaker 1: Despite his youthful features, Armstrong was over six foot tall
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  Speaker 1: with a large build. It was while aboard the USS
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  Speaker 1: Nimitz that Armstrong met the woman he would go on
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  Speaker 1: to marry. After both being honorably discharged in 1999, the
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  Speaker 1: couple moved to Michigan to start their married life and
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  Speaker 1: raise their first child.
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  Speaker 7: And so they settled into a city in Metro Detroit,
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  Speaker 7: on the west side of Metro Detroit, called Dearborn Heights,
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  Speaker 7: and they lived with her parents for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong started working for a chain of retail stores, then
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  Speaker 1: later as a security guard, and then refueling airplanes at
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  Speaker 1: Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
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  Speaker 9: It seems like Armstrong may not have been able to
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  Speaker 9: find his way, at least vocationally, in a career.
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  Speaker 1: Those around Armstrong just saw him as any other guy
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: One lady said, I used to get a ride home
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  Speaker 4: with him or a ride to work, and she said
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  Speaker 4: he was just the nicest guy.
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  Speaker 3: He was a nice neighbor, a good friend, a good father, apparently,
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  Speaker 3: according to his neighbors. and yet he had this completely
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  Speaker 3: other side, this classic Jekyll and Hyde approach, particularly to women.
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  Speaker 9: Beyond this normal life appeared to be a facade, and
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  Speaker 9: behind that facade, Armstrong was going out and engaging in
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  Speaker 9: activity like having sex on a regular basis with sex workers.
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  Speaker 10: He has got a bad attitude, misogynistic attitude towards women,
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  Speaker 10: so I think we can kind of see where it's
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  Speaker 10: coming from with him.
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  Speaker 1: John Eric Armstrong wasn't the loving family man he was
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  Speaker 1: portraying to those around him. He was living a double
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  Speaker 1: life filled with dark secrets, one that would soon be exposed.
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong's preferred haunt for picking up sex workers was in
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  Speaker 1: downtown Detroit, around 10 miles from his family home.
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  Speaker 7: Unfortunately, prostitution has always thrived in Detroit, and the area
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  Speaker 7: of Michigan Avenue has always been a hot spot for prostitution.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle James Casares was a child when his mom, Kelly
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  Speaker 1: Jean Hood, began working on the streets in the 1990s.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly started taking drugs following the death of her father
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  Speaker 1: and was trying to fund her addiction through sex work.
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  Speaker 6: She was actually very close to my grandfather, and when
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  Speaker 6: he passed away, she couldn't deal with the pain.
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  Speaker 5: My mom, before the drugs.
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  Speaker 6: And even after the drugs, was one of the most
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  Speaker 6: kind-hearted person you could ever meet. We were her world.
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  Speaker 6: She made sure we had a good childhood. best she could,
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  Speaker 6: giving her what she could.
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  Speaker 9: It's, you know, a very common motivation of sex workers
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  Speaker 9: is to engage in prostitution to raise money to support
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  Speaker 9: their drug habit.
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  Speaker 1: Despite his young age, Kyle worked out how his mom
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  Speaker 1: was earning the money to pay for her addiction.
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  Speaker 6: I was with her all the time and I knew
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  Speaker 6: the people she hung out with and I would just
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  Speaker 6: see them around the neighborhood and what they were doing,
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  Speaker 6: and I just connected the dots. I was worried, but
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  Speaker 6: it was nothing I couldn't do. She was a grown woman,
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  Speaker 6: and she was my mother. I felt like I needed
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  Speaker 6: to protect her all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly Jean Hood was one of many women selling sex
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  Speaker 1: in the Detroit area at the time. Natasha Olenichak was
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  Speaker 1: also working in the same area.
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  Speaker 12: I wasn't in the streets for the drugs. I was
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  Speaker 12: in the streets for money, fast money. seeing nice cars, clothes,
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  Speaker 12: mink coats, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 8: And I don't know, I just fell in the trap.
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  Speaker 12: I always had jobs and everything.
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  Speaker 8: I just wanted to do something to get quicker money,
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  Speaker 8: and I did.
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  Speaker 1: The nature of the industry means that sex workers often
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  Speaker 1: operate in secluded and dark areas, making them extremely vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: to predators.
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  Speaker 10: Sex workers are... at a huge risk of serious harm
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  Speaker 10: and homicide. I mean, mainly because of their accessibility. Sex
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  Speaker 10: workers are easy to get into a place on your own,
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  Speaker 10: no questions asked.
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  Speaker 7: And because they want the money, they'll go with you
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  Speaker 7: to a dark place where no one else is around.
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  Speaker 7: It is a very risky business. They're living a very
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  Speaker 7: high-risk life.
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  Speaker 1: One night in August 1999, Natasha was working a shift
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  Speaker 1: on the usual streets. Unbeknown to the sex workers in
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  Speaker 1: the area, there was a deadly predator on the loose,
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  Speaker 1: and he was out that night looking for his next victim.
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  Speaker 8: I was on 8 Mile Road.
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  Speaker 12: He was in a Jeep, and he circled one time,
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  Speaker 12: then he circled again.
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  Speaker 8: He pulled up.
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  Speaker 12: And he asked me for a date, and I said, yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Then I got in the truck. He was big. He
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  Speaker 12: was bald-headed at the time. He was tall. He wore glasses. Yep,
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  Speaker 12: and he was a big guy.
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  Speaker 9: He wasn't little.
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  Speaker 12: I didn't feel uncomfortable with him or anything, you know?
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  Speaker 8: I wasn't nervous or nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Natasha was staying in a motel room close to the
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  Speaker 1: red light area.
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  Speaker 2: So the pair headed there.
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  Speaker 7: He got inside the room and he just was feeling uneasy.
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  Speaker 7: He asked to use the bathroom. He used the bathroom.
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  Speaker 7: He came out and he said, I just don't really
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  Speaker 7: feel right.
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  Speaker 3: I got to leave.
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  Speaker 11: And he leaves.
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  Speaker 9: She goes into her room. A little while later, there's
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  Speaker 9: a knock on her door. She opens the door. It's
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  Speaker 9: that guy.
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  Speaker 12: I should've never opened the door. I should've just said,
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  Speaker 12: never mind. But I didn't think he was gonna come back.
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  Speaker 1: Opening the door to let the client back in turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be a decision that Natasha would soon regret.
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  Speaker 12: He came in, then that's when he slammed my door,
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  Speaker 12: and he was like, don't scream, don't yell, because that's when.
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  Speaker 8: He had the knife, them sharp, big ones.
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  Speaker 12: And I was like, oh, my God, you can have
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  Speaker 12: all my money, whatever, my whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But the attacker wasn't interested in taking Natasha's money.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to take her life.
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  Speaker 12: He said he was going to kill me. And I
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  Speaker 12: was like, don't kill me. I got kids. He came
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  Speaker 12: in with his knife at me. My neck, my eyes,
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  Speaker 12: my toes, my fingers.
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  Speaker 8: He had just blood everywhere because he cut me. Then
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  Speaker 8: I was on the bed, like, laying down.
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  Speaker 12: He had his body on me, and then he grabbed
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  Speaker 12: the telephone cord and wrapped it around my neck like
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  Speaker 12: five times and was like choking.
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  Speaker 1: The asphyxiation caused Natasha to pass out. When she regained consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: her attacker was gone.
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  Speaker 12: I went out to the, ran out of the motel
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  Speaker 12: room and said, I need help, I need help. I
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  Speaker 12: was almost, this guy just tried to kill me and
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  Speaker 12: And that's when the police came.
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  Speaker 1: The police interviewed Natasha, but her description of the attacker
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  Speaker 1: wasn't enough on its own.
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  Speaker 9: It's very difficult for the police to follow up on
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  Speaker 9: any kind of attack like this because there's so little
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  Speaker 9: to go on about who this person is.
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  Speaker 8: And after that happened, I said, I got to get
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  Speaker 8: out of this.
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  Speaker 12: I had to get counseling and stuff because I got
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  Speaker 12: diagnosed with PTSD.
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  Speaker 8: PTSD.
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  Speaker 1: Less than four months later, on December 2, 1999, another
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  Speaker 1: woman was targeted. 31-year-old sex worker Monica Johnson was driven
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  Speaker 1: to work on Michigan Avenue by her boyfriend. The couple
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  Speaker 1: parked up on a side street just off the notorious
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  Speaker 1: red light strip.
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  Speaker 9: And he stayed in his car while she walked down
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  Speaker 9: Michigan Avenue to do some business, and that's the last
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  Speaker 9: he ever.
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  Speaker 5: Saw of her.
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  Speaker 1: Monica had been picked up by a man on Michigan Avenue,
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  Speaker 1: and they'd driven away from the area to have their
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  Speaker 1: sexual encounter.
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  Speaker 7: And it was just a short little kind of secluded area,
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  Speaker 7: a short little service drive, and they parked along there
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  Speaker 7: near an alley, and they carried out a transaction.
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  Speaker 1: But then things took a dark turn when the man
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  Speaker 1: Monica was with attacked and strangled her. A passerby found
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  Speaker 1: her still alive hours later and called for an ambulance.
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  Speaker 7: And the ambulance came and they picked her up and
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  Speaker 7: they took her to the hospital. But by the time
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  Speaker 7: they got there, she had died.
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  Speaker 1: With no eyewitnesses or CCTV of the attack on Monica Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: the police had no leads and very little to progress
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  Speaker 1: their investigation. Nor had they identified any suspects for the
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  Speaker 1: attacks on several other sex workers in Detroit in 1999.
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  Speaker 1: Monica's killer was still on the loose in Detroit and
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  Speaker 1: he could strike again at any moment.
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  Speaker 3: So when we get... into the beginning of 2000, the
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  Speaker 3: turn of the millennium, he escalates really quite quickly. He
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  Speaker 3: cannot give up the compulsion to have sex with sex
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  Speaker 3: workers and kill.
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  Speaker 2: Them.
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  Speaker 1: 39-year-old Wendy Jordan was known to the police as a
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  Speaker 1: sex worker in the red light area of Detroit. On
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  Speaker 1: January the 1st, 2000, Wendy got into the car of
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  Speaker 1: a man who wanted to pay for her services.
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  Speaker 7: He was on Warren Avenue in Detroit, and he picked
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  Speaker 7: Wendy up, and he took her to this side street
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  Speaker 7: that was right next to a funeral home, and they
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  Speaker 7: parked in the parking lot of this funeral home. And
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  Speaker 7: they proceeded with their transaction, and then he killed her,
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  Speaker 7: and he drove with her in the Jeep a few
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  Speaker 7: miles away. And he pulled over and dumped her over
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  Speaker 7: a bridge into the Rouge River on Ann Arbor Trail.
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  Speaker 7: And then he went home.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy's body had been left in Dearborn Heights, the home
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  Speaker 1: of John Eric Armstrong and his family. Since leaving the
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  Speaker 1: Army less than a year earlier and moving to the area,
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong had changed jobs a number of times. On January
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  Speaker 1: the 2nd, 2000, Armstrong set off for work at a
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  Speaker 1: retail store.
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  Speaker 9: At some point in the morning, Armstrong reported feeling sick
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  Speaker 9: and told his boss he had to leave work, at
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  Speaker 9: which time he drove away.
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  Speaker 11: Apparently on his way home.
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  Speaker 5: Home.
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  Speaker 11: On his way home, Armstrong.
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  Speaker 9: Pulls over on the bridge over the Rouge River and
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  Speaker 9: says he did that because he felt so ill he
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  Speaker 9: was going to vomit over the bridge.
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  Speaker 2: Armstrong looked down at the River Rouge below.
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  Speaker 4: It's maybe, at that point, 50 yards wide. six, eight
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  Speaker 4: feet deep at the most. And it runs for miles,
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  Speaker 4: but there's not a real strong current.
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  Speaker 5: It was January and it was still frozen.
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  Speaker 7: And so he looks over the bridge and he sees
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  Speaker 7: this woman.
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  Speaker 1: It was the body of Wendy Jordan who'd been left
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  Speaker 1: there the previous day. Armstrong flagged down a passerby to
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  Speaker 1: call the police.
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  Speaker 11: I'm on the Rouge River and there's a dead body
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  Speaker 11: in the river.
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  Speaker 3: He phones them up and, of course, the body is discovered.
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  Speaker 3: It is indeed Wendy Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: The police arrived at the scene and Armstrong told them
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  Speaker 1: that he'd left work early because he was feeling ill
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  Speaker 1: and had been driving home.
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  Speaker 3: But the police regarded, and I quite agree with them,
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  Speaker 3: as most peculiar. He just happened to stop on the
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  Speaker 3: bridge and he just happened to look over and he
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  Speaker 3: just happened to see a body. Goodness me. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it almost defies belief, doesn't it, to be honest?
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  Speaker 1: Detectives wondered if there was more to the discovery than
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Armstrong had told them. But if he was involved in
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: any way, why would he have alerted the police?
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: He said he could see a body floating in the
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: river and it was all innocent.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: Why would he do that?
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: This really, it seems like it would go against everything
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: that you think that he would do. You would think
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: that he would want to get away with it. You
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: think he'd want to stay under the radar.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: Based on the unusual nature of Armstrong being in that
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: place at that time, the police bring him down for
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: additional questioning to the police station, during which he maintains
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: that he has no connection to this person. He didn't
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: know who they are or why they were there. And
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: he stuck to his story that he felt sick and
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: left work.
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: I leaned over to vomit.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: And then when I leaned over, my.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Eye caught something.
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: I looked over, and there she was.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: It seems unusual that you picked the exact spot that
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: would lead you to be looking over.
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: The edge of where she was.
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: Tell you right now, I wasn't with her.
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: I never saw her.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: I'd never seen her.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be sorry.
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: If I'm not knowing anything, I guess.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: Armstrong had placed himself directly into the murder inquiry, but
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: with no grounds.
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: To detain him, police let him leave. His account of
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: what happened had raised their.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: Suspicions, and they decided to investigate Armstrong further. Dearborn Heights
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: had him pegged and they don't get a whole lot
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: of homicides like Detroit does. And so they dug into
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: this one and they hung on. They followed him around.
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: They even asked to search his car, which he consented to.
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: So they did a forensic examination of his car, which
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: they do. Tape lifts of, they try to see if
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: there's fingerprints or DNA or blood inside the car.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: And one of the officers happened to notice in the
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: search of the Jeep that he saw what he believed
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: were little specks or residue that were gold in color
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: that matched the shoes that Wendy was wearing.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Within the car, there was forensic evidence that Wendy Jordan
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: had been in it. which pointed even more conclusively to
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: the fact that he'd not only known her, had her
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: in the car, and thrown her out into the river.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: They got a warrant for his blood and saliva, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: they did DNA testing, and then they did DNA testing
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: from Wendy's body.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Conclusive DNA evidence could give the police enough to link
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Armstrong to the murder of Wendy Jordan, but this wouldn't
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: be a quick process.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: DNA really came onto the criminal investigation scene in the
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: late 80s.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: So it was relatively new.
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: They didn't have the technology that we have today to
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: both get DNA and analyze even a good DNA sample.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: It could take months for the DNA results to come back.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: The police would have to wait for those before they
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: could take any further action against Armstrong.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: And the prosecutor ordered him released until such time as
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: they had the results from the DNA lab.
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: At this point, the police look at Armstrong, and he's
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: a former military service member who got out of the
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: service and got a decent job and settled with a
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: wife and family, and so his daily life doesn't seem
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: to indicate, you know, a killer.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It would be an agonizing wait for investigators. Meanwhile, John
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Eric Armstrong remained free to roam the streets of Detroit.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Three months after Wendy Jordan's body was discovered... 42-year-old Wilhelmina
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Drain was on Michigan Avenue.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: She said she was trying to catch a bus home,
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: and she was an older lady.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: A vehicle pulled up alongside her, and the man driving
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: asked her if she needed a lift.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: And they start to travel along, and she instructs him
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: how to take her home, which was north of Michigan.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: She lived like off Joy Road, and he traveled north.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: But he didn't make the turn he was supposed to make,
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: and he turned somewhere else, and he pulled over, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: he reached for her.
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: She sprays him with mace, and she's able to escape.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Five days later, on April the 7th, 2000, sex worker
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Devin Marcus survived an attack and reported the incident to
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the police. Around the same time, another sex worker called
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Cynthia was attacked by a man fitting the same description
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: as the other two incidents.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: He left her for dead, but in fact, she wasn't dead.
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: She survived.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: The attacker was showing no signs of slowing down.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: We've got Wilhelmina, we've got Devin, we've got Cynthia, who
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: were attacked and survived, and he was escalating. He was
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: definitely escalating. I mean, once he kicked back into gear
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: in mid-March, he escalated. Boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: On April the 10th, 2000, the police received a phone call.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Somebody thought they saw a body on the side of
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: a railroad track as they were passing through.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I was the commanding officer of the violent crime section
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: of the Detroit Police Department, composed of the Violent Crime
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Task Force, the Fugitive Apprehension Team, and the Crime Analysis
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Team of the Detroit Police Department. Every Monday morning, we
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: would have a briefing. While we were in that meeting,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: the head of the Homicide Division got a message to
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: call the office.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Jerry Cliff passed the news on to his colleague Del Christian,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a team leader on the Violent Crime Task Force.
• 27:23
  Speaker 13: The commander from the Detroit Police Department came through and said, hey,
• 27:27
  Speaker 13: they found a body over by the railroad tracks.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: It's just a track that just goes through.
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: It's a single track in that area that's used by
• 27:35
  Speaker 13: one of the passenger rails and also freight.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: And a passenger.
• 27:40
  Speaker 13: on the train that looked out the window and saw
• 27:43
  Speaker 13: the body, told the conductor, I think I just saw
• 27:47
  Speaker 13: a body on the track, and the conductor contacted the
• 27:49
  Speaker 13: police department.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Not long after this report came through to the police,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: there was more news to follow.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: As they walk around the area, they discover a second body.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: And he came back and he said, there's two bodies
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: at the scene, and they're in different states of decomposition.
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: They walk around further, and unfortunately, third body. And so
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: they realize, okay, this is very bad. These three females
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: were probably left here by the same person.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: With three dead bodies found in the same location, police
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: had to act fast to establish what had happened to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: these women.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: There was one victim. She was lying 10 to 15
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: yards away from the tracks themselves. on grass and gravel,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: but not concealed at all in brush or anything like that.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: She had her pants down around her ankles. She had
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: her legs had been spread in a revealing manner, I
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: guess you would say. There was what appeared to be
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: tights of some sort wrapped around her neck. So you
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: could tell that she'd obviously been raped and strangled. As
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: we walked further down the street, It would have been north.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: There was a lot of brush. And that's where the
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: second and the third bodies were found.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: The bodies weren't very well hidden.
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: So this isn't somebody who's done what they've done and
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: they're leaving the scene. So we have to assume that
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: the killer knows these bodies will be found, wants them
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: to be found, in fact. They want to display what
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: they've done to the world.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: The victims all had ligature marks around their necks, showing
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: that they'd been strangled. Their bodies had also been posed
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: by their killer.
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: I don't think that somebody who does that to women
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: has got great relationships with women. probably struggles in relationships
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: with them and feels an awful lot of resentment towards women.
• 30:05
  Speaker 10: I mean, the misogyny of it just is probably the
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: loudest message that you can get from something like that.
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: It's wanting to degrade and humiliate the victims.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: This was a man taking pleasure in killing and demeaning women.
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: Once we realised, oh, we have a, what, what I
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: would call a dumping ground for the bodies.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: We knew we had a serial murderer.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: We mobilized pretty much everybody that we had. Didn't take
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: us long to realize that this guy was a very
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: prolific killer and that we needed to get him off
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: the street as soon as humanly possible before somebody else died.
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: Now you have multiple victims.
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: You have future victims that may happen unless you catch
• 30:48
  Speaker 9: this person because they're not going to stop killing until
• 30:51
  Speaker 9: you catch them.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Over eight months in 1999 and 2000 a spate of
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: attacks and murders had happened in the detroit area of
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: michigan it was clear to police that a serial killer
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: was loose on the streets attacking and murdering women at
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: an increasing rate detectives knew they needed to act.
• 31:15
  Speaker 9: Fast now this ups everything in the police mind the
• 31:20
  Speaker 9: investigation immediately takes on a different tenor.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: This is obviously a serial, because you could tell by
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: looking at the three bodies that they were in differing
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: states of decomposition, and it's going to be the only
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: case we're going to be dealing with for the next
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: few days until we get the bad guy.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: The race to catch the killer was on, but with
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: limited evidence and no leads, the investigators had little to
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: go on. They needed to identify the three women and
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: work out a possible connection between them in the hope
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: that it might lead the police to their killer.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: As we were able to identify the victims, we also
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: found out that there had been previous arrests for or
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: encounters with the law concerning prostitution and whatnot.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: One was called Robin Brown, also known as Nicole Young.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: One was Rosemarie Felt, and the last was called Kelly Hood.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: For Kelly Hood's son, Kyle, his worst fears for his
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: mother had come true.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: I heard my grandmother coming up the stairs.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: And the first thing she told me before anybody, she said, Miko,
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: they found your mom.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: She's not here with us anymore. They found her. She's gone.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Then I knew then that she meant she was dead.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: She became addicted to drugs. The only way that she
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: could support herself after her family broke up was to
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: work the street. She didn't become addicted because she wanted to.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: She wasn't working the street because she wanted to. She
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: was working the street to support a habit she had
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: no control over.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Police had identified the victims were all sex workers, but
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: specialist help would be needed to track down their killer.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: FBI profilers got to work on building a picture of
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the offender.
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: The profiler will come in and look at all the victims,
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: look at the victimology, what commonalities among these victims, among
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: the way they were posed. among the way they were killed,
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: and maybe even if you can figure out the way
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: they met the person that killed them.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Looking at the crime, the FBI's behavioral science unit suggested
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: that the crimes had been committed by a white man,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: comparatively young, 25 to 30.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: They told us, you're looking at his successes. You need
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: to look for a failure. And by that, they meant
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: somebody got away. And if we could find that somebody,
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: we would get a physical description, maybe a vehicle description,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: so on and so forth.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Having identified the women as sex workers, police knew they
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: needed to interview women in the red light area in
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: the hope of getting much needed information.
• 34:11
  Speaker 13: Well, from two or three of the girls that were interviewed,
• 34:15
  Speaker 13: They mentioned that, yes, a guy tried to kill me.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: He was driving a Jeep.
• 34:19
  Speaker 13: Another one said that he had a tiger tattoo on
• 34:22
  Speaker 13: his arm, that he was a white male with reddish hair.
• 34:26
  Speaker 13: Another one said he had a work shirt with the
• 34:28
  Speaker 13: name Eric on it.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: The reports all seem to point to the same offender.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: So we realized that the next thing that he would
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: do is find another victim.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: In the hope of stopping the killer in his tracks,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Detroit's Violent Crime Task Force set up covert surveillance on
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Michigan Avenue and the surrounding streets.
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: Now you have potentially a predator hunting victims through this area,
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: and you can't afford to miss that.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: We basically flooded the area with surveillance crews and detectives
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: in plain clothes, not business suits, but you know, jeans
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: and jackets and basically patrolled looking for someone fitting his description.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: They didn't want the killer to realize that the police
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: were onto him. Any suspicion they were looking for him
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: could scare the killer off and prevent him from being caught.
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: So during this time in this area, an actual police,
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: marked uniform patrol car noticed a car with a guy in.
• 35:31
  Speaker 11: It that might have matched the description of the profile.
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: And so they do a routine car stop so they
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: can identify him, get his driver's license, get his date
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: of birth, run him through the system to see if
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: anybody's looking for him, who is this guy.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: The driver of the vehicle was John Eric Armstrong. Dearborn
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Heights were waiting for DNA results to establish a link
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to the murder of Wendy Jordan. But Armstrong was unknown
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to the officers in neighboring Detroit.
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: He said he was coming home from work. Well, his
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: work was in the other direction. He lived in Dearborn Heights.
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: He worked over in that direction. He was a long
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: way from home.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Based on the matching description and Armstrong's story not adding up,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: police arrested him for further questioning. But before they could
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: get to the station, there was a shock in store
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: for the officers.
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: The officers that are driving him hear him muttering in
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: the back seat under his breath, and he's saying kind
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: of in a low voice, I'm just glad it's over.
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: I'm glad you got me.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: He was taken straight down to the fifth floor police headquarters,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: and that's when the interviews began.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: As the officers talked to Armstrong, one of them leaned
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: forward and put his hand on top of Armstrong's.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: He says, I just touched you.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: He says, I left my DNA on your body simply
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: by laying my hand on yours. And that's when they
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: began to explain to him, you know, if.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: If you had anything to do with these murders and
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: you touched them in any way, we're going to be
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: able to tell. There is absolutely no way that you're
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: going to plead that you didn't touch them if we
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: get this DNA analysis that proves that you did.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: And all of a sudden, he just started, OK, I
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: did it, I did it, I did it. Then he
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: started making all of his confessions, and one right after another,
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: a lot of confessions for several hours.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: John Eric Armstrong confessed to the murders of the three
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: women found at the rail yard, Nicole Young, Rosemary Felt,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and Kelly Jean Hood.
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: Also during this time and this confession, he confessed to
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: the murder of Wendy Jordan off the Rouge Bridge. He
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: knew that he was a suspect in that case, so
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: it was time to confess to that.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: But Armstrong's confessions... had only just begun.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: He actually went through a list of a number of
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: females that he had murdered while he was on the
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in multiple foreign countries. Anytime he
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: was on shore leave, he would go ashore and quite
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: often he would find a prostitute and.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: Go through his routine, rape.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Murder, and sometimes he would dispose of the bodies, and
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: sometimes he would just leave them.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: You're talking Singapore, you're talking Hong Kong, and all these
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: exotic locales that his boat traveled to while he was
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: in the Navy.
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: At this point, FBI officials begin to investigate Armstrong's claims
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: of all these other murders internationally, because if it is true,
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: He's going to be one of the most prolific, well-traveled
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: serial killers in history. And so they start to look
• 39:00
  Speaker 9: into all of these things that he's telling them in
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: other jurisdictions. Some of his descriptions aren't definitive enough, so
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: when they look, the dates don't match up.
• 39:09
  Speaker 11: It could be he's telling the truth, he just didn't
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: give them enough details.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: In March 2001, 27-year-old John Eric Armstrong went on trial
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: for the murder of Wendy Jordan at the Frank Murphy
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Hall of Justice in downtown Detroit. To the surprise of
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: those involved... in the investigation, and despite his earlier confessions,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Armstrong changed his story.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: By the time he was brought up on charges and
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: things were proceeding through the court system, he was maintaining
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: his innocence.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: During the trial, DNA and forensic evidence was presented to
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the jury. Fibers from Wendy Jordan's clothes had been found
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: in Armstrong's vehicle, and the results of the DNA taken
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: by the Dearborn Heights police had come back. The semen
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: found inside Wendy's body was John Eric Armstrong's.
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: And so in the case of Wendy Jordan, his attorney,
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: one of the tactics he tried was that, okay, You
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: got DNA evidence, and it's linked my client to Wendy Jordan.
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: So yeah, they had sex that night, but it was consensual.
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: And when he left her, she was alive. So somebody
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: else killed her.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: The jury didn't believe this excuse. On the 3rd of April, 2001,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: after a two-week trial, John Eric Armstrong was found guilty
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: of the first-degree murder of Wendy Jordan and given a
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: life sentence. On the 18th of June, 2001, he was
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: also found guilty of the first degree murder of Kelly
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Jean Hood and given another life sentence.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: She was a wife, a mother, a daughter, and she
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: was a human being that deserved to live and deserved
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: to come back from her addiction.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: If he didn't take her life, I know she.
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: Would have came around because everybody can overcome an addiction.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: On July the 4th, 2001, Armstrong pleaded guilty to the
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: second-degree murder of Robin Brown, Rosemary Felt, and Monica Johnson.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: He was sentenced to an additional 31 years. Armstrong was
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: never charged with the attack on Natasha Olenichak, but she
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: is certain he was the man who attacked her in
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: August 1999. He was wrong for doing what he'd done,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: and period.
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  Speaker 12: I don't even know how someone can just be at
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: home with their wife and killing women.
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  Speaker 8: How can you just go out and do that?
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong was taken to the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility
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  Speaker 1: in Michigan to serve his sentence.
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  Speaker 4: I've worked other serial investigations, and one of the things
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  Speaker 4: that you learn when you're doing that is serial criminals
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  Speaker 4: don't just stop. When and if they get back into
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: polite society, they're going to start up all over again.
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: If he could, he would still be doing it. If
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: they let him out, he would do it again.
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  Speaker 4: Armstrong was, in my humble opinion, the personification of evil.
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  Speaker 4: He had no remorse whatsoever for what he was doing.
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  Speaker 3: He knew what he was.
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  Speaker 4: Doing was wrong. He knew he was taking lives. He
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: was a manipulator.
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  Speaker 5: And he would do it until we stopped him.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: The lives that Armstrong took before being caught will always
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: be remembered by their loved ones, who bear the pain
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to this day.
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: My impression of John Eric Armstrong, he's just a monster.
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: He's killed multiple women. So it was natural to him.
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: Only person that type of lifestyle that could be natural
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: to is a monster, plain and simple.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Armstrong killed five women in Michigan and violently attacked many more.
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  Speaker 1: He also claims to have murdered women all over the
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: world when he was in the Navy. If true, John
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Eric Armstrong is one of the most globally prolific serial
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  Speaker 1: killers to ever exist and will forever be
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  Speaker 2: Known as one of the world's most evil killers.