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David Parker Ray The Sadistic 'Toy Box Killer' That Preyed On Women Serial Psyche @RealCrime · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

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  Speaker 1: They are the deadliest predators on the planet.
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  Speaker 2: This was somebody that was interested in inflicting pain, and
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  Speaker 2: I was sure people had died there.
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  Speaker 1: No killer is as cold, cunning, or bloodthirsty.
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  Speaker 3: Police think they may be the remains of 15 victims
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  Speaker 3: of yet another so-called serial killer.
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  Speaker 1: And they may be closer than you think.
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  Speaker 4: He's the guy who's behind you on the supermarket line.
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  Speaker 1: These killers don't hunt in search of food. They pursue
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  Speaker 1: perverted fantasies.
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  Speaker 5: He became sexually aroused when he watched his grandmother kill
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  Speaker 5: a chicken, and he wanted to replicate that.
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  Speaker 1: And they lust for power and control.
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  Speaker 6: The death is prolonged in such a way that every
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  Speaker 6: excruciating pain that is imaginable is part of the thrill.
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  Speaker 1: What creates these cold-blooded monsters? What drives their warped psyches?
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  Speaker 7: There's the fusion of a sexual thought with violence, and
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  Speaker 7: it becomes sexually arousing to them.
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  Speaker 1: Now, rare recordings of the voices and visions of serial killers.
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  Speaker 8: I got the hand on her and got a nylon
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  Speaker 8: sock and started strangling her.
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  Speaker 1: Plunges deep inside their complex and twisted minds. Serial Psyche
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  Speaker 1: March 22nd, 1999. A terrified woman runs down a country road.
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  Speaker 1: She's naked, except for a metal dog collar attached to
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  Speaker 1: a six-foot chair. The young woman barges into a double-wide trailer,
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  Speaker 1: screaming for help. The homeowner calls 911.
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  Speaker 4: 911.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I'm calling for a young lady that ran into
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  Speaker 9: the house saying she'd been raped. She's got a chain
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  Speaker 9: on her and everything. Please send someone right away. This
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  Speaker 9: lady is naked and everything else. She said they'd been
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  Speaker 9: holding her for three days.
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  Speaker 2: And she told this amazing story, and the story was
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  Speaker 2: that she had been abducted in Albuquerque, that she had
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  Speaker 2: been chained up and kept in a sunken room in
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  Speaker 2: this man's house, chained to a post. She had a
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  Speaker 2: bed and she had a bucket, for a toilet and
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  Speaker 2: she had been systematically raped and tortured over a period
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  Speaker 2: of three days.
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  Speaker 1: The woman's name is Cynthia Vigil. It's clear she has
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  Speaker 1: looked into the eyes of pure evil. Cynthia directs police
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  Speaker 1: to the home of David Parker Ray. And what they
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  Speaker 1: find there leads them to one of history's most horrifying
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  Speaker 1: series of crimes.
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  Speaker 2: So when the sheriff's department responds into this house, they
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  Speaker 2: discover everything is exactly supports what Cindy V. Hill's account
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  Speaker 2: of events were.
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  Speaker 1: They find a room in disarray with clear signs of
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  Speaker 1: a struggle. Rich Leibeser is the lead case agent for
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  Speaker 1: the New Mexico State Police.
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  Speaker 2: They soon went down one of the short hallways into
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  Speaker 2: another room, which they thought was a bedroom.
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  Speaker 10: And discovered.
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  Speaker 2: All kinds of sadomasochistic sexual devices, the likes of which
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  Speaker 2: nobody had ever seen, that did not appear designed for pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: They definitely appeared designed to inflict pain. They had all
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  Speaker 2: been modified. Some had nails melted into the plastic and bent.
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  Speaker 1: Then police find a trailer next to the house. And
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  Speaker 1: none of them are prepared for what they discover.
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  Speaker 2: So when you walk in the trailer, the first thing
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  Speaker 2: you're going to see is the centerpiece, which is a
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  Speaker 2: gynecological chair. A black gynecological chair. And immediately suspended above
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  Speaker 2: it is this rack of harnesses and pulleys and trusses,
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  Speaker 2: all of which had manacles on them. On the walls
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  Speaker 2: adjacent to it are devices that made the devices inside
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  Speaker 2: the house look.
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  Speaker 11: Like kids' toys.
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  Speaker 2: These were obviously painful kind of implements. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 2: never seen anything like it. This space was evil. This
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  Speaker 2: space was sinister and mean.
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  Speaker 1: David Parker Ray calls this $ 100, 000 soundproofed torture chamber his
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  Speaker 1: toy box.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I went into the trailer and saw
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  Speaker 2: what was inside the utility trailer, I had two reactions.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I knew we were dealing with somebody
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  Speaker 2: that was very, very accomplished at this behavior, whatever it was.
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  Speaker 2: They were obviously consumed by this. This was very important
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  Speaker 2: to them, whatever was going on in this trailer. Second
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  Speaker 2: of all, I was sure people had died there.
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  Speaker 1: David Parker Ray is a serial killer. This label places
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  Speaker 1: him in the most heinous category of these offenders. He's
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  Speaker 1: a psychopathic serial sexual sadist. Dr. Michael Stone and Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Gary Brucato are experts on violent crime, including serial sexual homicide.
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  Speaker 1: Together they authored the book, The New Evil, Understanding the
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  Speaker 1: Emergence of Modern Violent Crime.
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  Speaker 12: David Parker Ray being an example of a charming man
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  Speaker 12: would go to bars and lure either prostitutes or other
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  Speaker 12: women who would be willing to go with him for
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  Speaker 12: a night of drinking to his house, only to then
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  Speaker 12: end up in an infamous toy box mobile home that
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  Speaker 12: he converted into a torture chamber.
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  Speaker 1: Cynthia V. Hill is a 21-year-old prostitute and heroin addict.
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  Speaker 1: Ray knows her disappearance is unlikely to arouse suspicion. He
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  Speaker 1: can take his time with his victim. And she will
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  Speaker 1: experience unspeakable torture.
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  Speaker 2: Hanging on the wall inside the utility room was a checklist.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a how to handle a captured victim.
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  Speaker 2: And it had check boxes next to it, but it
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  Speaker 2: was an instruction manual how to deal with an abducted
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  Speaker 2: woman who was being tortured.
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  Speaker 10: But before the.
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  Speaker 6: Torture began, the woman might be drugged and chained and
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  Speaker 6: hoisted to the ceiling and forced to listen to an
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  Speaker 6: extremely long droning tape of Ray describing in detail all
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  Speaker 6: of the acts to which she was going to be subjected.
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  Speaker 1: Commander Vernon Gebreth is a world-renowned homicide investigator. He trains
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement on how to deal with these extreme killers.
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  Speaker 1: Ray's introductory tape is a powerful element in his lectures
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  Speaker 1: to police officers.
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  Speaker 13: This is probably one of the most horrendous tapes I've
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  Speaker 13: ever heard. And there's a few, I've heard some bad ones.
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  Speaker 13: I've heard of tapes of people being tortured, sexually tortured,
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  Speaker 13: but this one is terrible because you have that psychopathic,
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  Speaker 13: monotone voice talking about what he's going to do to
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  Speaker 13: this party.
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  Speaker 14: And it's outrageous. and the tape describes what's going to
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  Speaker 14: happen to them. I'll play a segment.
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  Speaker 10: Hello there, bitch.
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  Speaker 15: Are you comfortable right now?
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  Speaker 3: I doubt it. Wrists and ankles chained, gagged, probably blindfolded.
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  Speaker 3: You are disoriented and scared too, I would imagine. Perfectly
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  Speaker 3: normal under the circumstances. For a little while at least,
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  Speaker 3: you need to get your s * * t together.
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  Speaker 3: It is very relevant to your situation. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: tell you in detail why you have been kidnapped, what's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen to you, and how long.
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  Speaker 6: He'll be here.
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  Speaker 14: That is scary. Did you hear that voice?
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  Speaker 13: He recorded that tape in July 23rd, 1993. I can't
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  Speaker 13: imagine how many women heard.
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  Speaker 14: That tape before they were tortured and or killed. It's horrible.
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  Speaker 1: Ray's tape is carefully designed to induce maximum terror and
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  Speaker 1: strip away any last shred of power, hope, or personal identity.
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  Speaker 1: This is key in satisfying the sexual sadist.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's an interesting thing.
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  Speaker 14: This one piece will make 52 layers.
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  Speaker 10: Watch on mobile devices or the big screen. All for free.
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  Speaker 16: No subscription required.
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  Speaker 2: This is another part of that kind of meticulous behavior.
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  Speaker 2: But he had crafted this kind of ominous welcome to
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  Speaker 2: them just to put them in a psychological state of terror.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's a method of control. But it's also,
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  Speaker 2: I think, because David enjoyed seeing fear and pain in
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  Speaker 2: another person.
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  Speaker 12: Important element in a sadistic man committing serial sexual homicide
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  Speaker 12: is the reveling the joyfulness in causing intense pain and
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  Speaker 12: humiliation to another human being.
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  Speaker 6: The torture of that individual becomes sometimes a means in
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  Speaker 6: and of itself. The death is prolonged in such a
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  Speaker 6: way that every excruciating pain that is imaginable is part
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  Speaker 6: of the thrill.
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  Speaker 13: David Parker Ray didn't want to kill him. He wants
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  Speaker 13: to cause them pain. It's the infliction of pain and
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  Speaker 13: watching the victim suffer that was exciting for him.
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  Speaker 1: The tape offers insight into David Parker Ray's motives.
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  Speaker 3: In my case, I cannot get off with a girl
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  Speaker 3: unless I hurt her first. That's basically the reason I'm
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  Speaker 3: into rape and slavery. And the reason that you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be subjected to a certain amount of pain. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: that pretty well covers it.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, instilling the fear, psychologically breaking them down, making them compliant.
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  Speaker 13: And if you hear what he says, is that he
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  Speaker 13: is basically telling them, if you are docile and you
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  Speaker 13: work and you go along with this, you may eventually
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  Speaker 13: be released.
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  Speaker 14: So there's that hope.
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  Speaker 13: There's that piece of hope out there that maybe I'll
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  Speaker 13: get out of this, but it's going to hurt.
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  Speaker 1: For Ray, prolonging the torture is critical.
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  Speaker 6: He had knowledge of things like medical techniques where he
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  Speaker 6: would bring a person close to the brink of death
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  Speaker 6: and then revive them with medical equipment so that the
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  Speaker 6: individual did not die during the act as much as
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  Speaker 6: they may have wished at the moment that they would have.
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  Speaker 3: Died well I believe I've told you about everything that
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  Speaker 3: I can I cannot predict the future I can't predict
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  Speaker 3: changes of procedure and I can only give you advice
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  Speaker 3: be smart and be a survivor Don't ever scream. Don't
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  Speaker 3: talk without permission. Be very quiet. Be docile and obedient.
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  Speaker 3: And by all means, show proper respect. Have a nice day.
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  Speaker 1: David Parker Ray's crimes span more than 40 years. He's
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  Speaker 1: believed to have brutally tortured and killed more than 50 women.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, investigatively speaking... I'd call him a human predator.
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  Speaker 13: Clinically speaking, I'd say he's a psychopathic sexual sadist. Theologically speaking,
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  Speaker 13: I'd call him the devil on earth. He's like a ghost,
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  Speaker 13: not looking for fame and glory or recognition, simply slipping
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  Speaker 13: through society like a dark cloud.
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  Speaker 1: The most heinous breed of serial killers are identified as
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  Speaker 1: psychopathic sexual sadists. For them, murder is not enough. These
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  Speaker 1: monsters are addicted to rape and torture before they kill.
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  Speaker 1: At the core of their evil is that they are psychopaths.
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  Speaker 1: This is the diagnosis of 95% of serial killers.
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  Speaker 10: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Brianna Fox is an expert on psychopaths, serial killers, and
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  Speaker 1: violent offenders.
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  Speaker 17: A psychopath is somebody who is narcissistic, cold, and callous.
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  Speaker 17: They have very low empathy for others, and they're very
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  Speaker 17: willing to break laws and norms to do exactly what
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  Speaker 17: they want. This is somebody who doesn't have a lot
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  Speaker 17: of emotion and who doesn't really feel bad when they
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  Speaker 17: commit crimes or hurt others. All of that is very
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  Speaker 17: characteristic of someone who's willing to commit crimes against other people,
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  Speaker 17: including murder.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly, not all psychopaths are criminals, but it's frequently a
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  Speaker 1: trait of serial killers. And what makes them extraordinary... is
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  Speaker 1: just how ordinary they appear. David Parker Ray is a
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  Speaker 1: master mechanic for the New Mexico State Parks Department.
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  Speaker 13: He was very clever, if you think about it. Here
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  Speaker 13: he is, a state employee. I believe in 1995 he
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  Speaker 13: got an Employee of the Year award, okay? Because nobody
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  Speaker 13: knew what he was doing back in his little compound.
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  Speaker 13: He's a reliable employee. We don't need to supervise him.
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  Speaker 13: So here's a guy who's operating separately from everybody else,
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  Speaker 13: And on the surface, everything looks fine.
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  Speaker 1: Ray uses his psychopath's charm to convince victims to come
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  Speaker 1: to his home, only to end up in his so-called
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  Speaker 1: toy box. One of Ray's favorite tricks is to pose
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  Speaker 1: as a police officer. Investigators find authentic uniforms, gear, and
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  Speaker 1: badges in his home. Cynthia Vigil, the escapee from the
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  Speaker 1: toy box, had been lured in by this deceit.
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  Speaker 7: One morning I was walking to a restaurant, and this
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  Speaker 7: guy came up to me and told.
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  Speaker 18: Me that he had asked for me.
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  Speaker 9: So I went over there, and he acted like a
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  Speaker 9: cop and told me I was under arrest.
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  Speaker 18: And he put his handcuffs on me. And he had
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  Speaker 18: me in his trailer, and he drove me to Elk.
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  Speaker 15: And Bee.
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  Speaker 18: And he did a lot of sick stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Bee Hill quickly becomes one of David Parker Ray's sex slaves.
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  Speaker 1: He is now her master. She's horrified to find out
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  Speaker 1: that Ray has an accomplice. The toy box is also
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  Speaker 1: ruled by a mistress. New Mexico State Police investigate the
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  Speaker 1: home of 59-year-old David Parker Ray, a suspected sadistic serial killer.
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  Speaker 1: They find a soundproofed trailer outfitted as a torture chamber.
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  Speaker 1: The tools they discover inside the dungeon offer clear evidence
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  Speaker 1: of acts of unimaginable cruelty and terrifying insight into the
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  Speaker 1: mind of a psychopathic serial sexual sadist. But meanwhile, to
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  Speaker 1: his neighbors and coworkers, Ray is just a friendly, regular guy.
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  Speaker 2: When you spoke to David, the David that you got
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  Speaker 2: was an intelligent, articulate, kind of wry.
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  Speaker 10: Sense of humor.
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  Speaker 2: You never got the feeling when you were talking to
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  Speaker 2: him that you were dealing with somebody that was inherently
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  Speaker 2: evil or was capable of this kind of behavior. He
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  Speaker 2: was excellent at shielding that part of himself from anybody.
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  Speaker 1: David Parker Ray's charm not only attracts victims. In a
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  Speaker 1: shocking revelation, investigators discover that he has convinced accomplices to
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  Speaker 1: assist in his heinous acts, including his own daughter, Jessie Ray.
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  Speaker 11: Also, he had a daughter that lured women.
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  Speaker 6: To the toy box, but there was one incident where
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  Speaker 6: she bopped a woman over the head in a bar
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  Speaker 6: with a beer bottle after drugging her, and they brought
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  Speaker 6: her home, and she was tortured.
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  Speaker 1: Ray also has a live-in girlfriend who becomes his partner
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  Speaker 1: in crime for several years. Named Cindy Hendy, Ray is
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  Speaker 1: the dungeon master. Hendy is the mistress. Shockingly, Cindy Hendy
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  Speaker 1: and Jesse Ray lure in victims. And Hendy also participates
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  Speaker 1: in the torture of the young women.
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  Speaker 13: The fact that he incorporated a female accomplice, that's not
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  Speaker 13: very common. Not many serial killers have a female accomplice
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  Speaker 13: that actually participates in the sexual assault.
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  Speaker 14: Of another woman.
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  Speaker 13: While she was with him, she talks about doing 18 packages.
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  Speaker 14: Those are victims.
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  Speaker 1: During this time, Ray also persuades a friend of Jesse's
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  Speaker 1: named Roy Yancey to join the group. Ray convinces Yancey
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  Speaker 1: to murder one of their torture victims, Marie Parker. Together,
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  Speaker 1: they dump her body in the desert, outside of truth
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  Speaker 1: or consequences.
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  Speaker 2: David seemed to have this ability to manipulate people and
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  Speaker 2: he would surround himself with people who were easily controlled
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  Speaker 2: and easily manipulated and who were much less intelligent than
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  Speaker 2: he was. In a manner of speaking, he's brainwashing them.
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  Speaker 2: He's providing them with the things they want. He's making
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  Speaker 2: them feel good about themselves. He's filling a hole somehow
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  Speaker 2: in their life and out of gratitude for that or
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  Speaker 2: whatever that is or out of this idea that they
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  Speaker 2: have this meaningful relationship with him, they'll basically do whatever
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  Speaker 2: he wants them to do.
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  Speaker 1: After Cynthia Vigil's escape and the discovery of the toy box,
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  Speaker 1: David Parker Ray and Cindy Hendy are arrested. Ray claims
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  Speaker 1: he was just helping Vigil detox from her heroin addiction
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  Speaker 1: and all the rough sex was consensual.
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  Speaker 2: That was David's whole story, that any sex that they
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  Speaker 2: would have had during that time was consensual. She was
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  Speaker 2: a prostitute. He would pay her for that. This was
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  Speaker 2: his approach, and he was very, very confident in this
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  Speaker 2: kind of approach.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the state police and the FBI set up a
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  Speaker 1: task force in nearby Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. They
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  Speaker 1: are convinced there must be more victims.
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  Speaker 2: So what we were interested in doing was trying to
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  Speaker 2: kind of co-locate David with known missing persons. So if
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  Speaker 2: we could put David in the vicinity at the time
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  Speaker 2: that a particular person was reported missing, we could make
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  Speaker 2: some kind of a connection there and maybe follow that
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  Speaker 2: up as a lead and see if we could develop
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  Speaker 2: any evidence. What we were able to do was to
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  Speaker 2: show the possibility of upwards of 90 to 95 potential events,
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  Speaker 2: missing person events, that David Parker Ray was in that
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  Speaker 2: vicinity at the time. We can place him.
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  Speaker 10: There at the time that person was reported missing.
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  Speaker 1: But Ray's victims are tough to track. Typically, they are
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  Speaker 1: prostitutes or runaways, young women who won't be missed. After
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  Speaker 1: torturing and killing them, he cleverly hides the corpses in
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  Speaker 1: the vast New Mexico desert or in Elephant Butte Lake
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  Speaker 1: next to his home. Investigators can't find any bodies, despite
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  Speaker 1: finding Ray's hand-drawn treasure map.
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  Speaker 2: This is Elephant Butte Lake, Elephant Butte Reservoir, and it's
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  Speaker 2: 42 miles long. When we found a map that had
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  Speaker 2: X's on it, for example, one X would be up
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  Speaker 2: there at what we call Kettletop, the large plateau off
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  Speaker 2: in the distance. And then there would be other X's
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  Speaker 2: like over here by Rattlesnake Island. There would be an
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  Speaker 2: X down here in this part of the lake, which
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  Speaker 2: leads down to the Elephant Butte itself. And we had
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  Speaker 2: dive missions in all of those places, but you kind
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  Speaker 2: of get an idea of the challenge you're facing. Even
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  Speaker 2: in the best of conditions, it's very, very difficult to
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  Speaker 2: locate something underwater.
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  Speaker 1: David Parker Ray has operated under the radar for decades.
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  Speaker 1: The number of victims is unknown. He skillfully hides his crimes,
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  Speaker 1: and law enforcement doesn't even realize there is a serial
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  Speaker 1: killer on the loose. But not all psychopathic serial sexual
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  Speaker 1: sadists enjoy lurking in the shadows. Some crave the media spotlight,
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  Speaker 1: like the brutal serial murderer known as Bind, Torture, and Kill.
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  Speaker 1: Law enforcement is searching for more victims of one of
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  Speaker 1: history's most horrific and cunning serial killers, David Parker Ray.
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  Speaker 1: They developed leads on a possible 95 victims that could
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  Speaker 1: have been abducted by the prolific murderer. Ray has operated
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  Speaker 1: totally under the radar for over 40 years. But meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a different breed of sadistic serial killer is on the loose.
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  Speaker 1: One who craves the spotlight. January 15, 1974. It's a
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  Speaker 1: quiet morning in this Wichita neighborhood. An armed invader cuts
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the phone line and forces his way into this home.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Joseph Otero, his wife Julie, their 9-year-old son Joseph II,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and 11-year-old daughter Josephine all hope this is only a robbery.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: The Oteros are bound and strangled to death. and there
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: is clear evidence of sexual violence and torture. The young
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: girl is hung on a pipe in the basement. The
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: murderer masturbates on her lifeless body. The killer leaves no
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: concrete leads, and the case goes cold. Then, in October,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: three suspects are taken into custody for the crime. And suddenly,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: A chilling letter arrives at the Wichita Eagle newspaper. The
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: letter declares, Those three dudes you have in custody are
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: just talking to get publicity for the Otero murders. They
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: know nothing at all. I did it by myself and
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: with no one's help. Let's put it straight.
• 23:35
  Speaker 13: This was his homicide. He wanted credit for that. So
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: he sends a letter to the press. Those three dudes...
• 23:42
  Speaker 13: that you are in custody, did not do it.
• 23:44
  Speaker 14: I did this.
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: And then he begins to articulate that only someone who
• 23:48
  Speaker 13: was at the crime scene would know the location and
• 23:52
  Speaker 13: position of each.
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: Of the bodies.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: The writer signs the letter, yours truly, guiltily, with a postscript.
• 24:00
  Speaker 13: He then concludes with the fact that he will continue
• 24:03
  Speaker 13: to kill, and he wants to be called BTK for bind, torture.
• 24:09
  Speaker 14: And kill. And from now on, when you hear from me,
• 24:12
  Speaker 14: it will be B-T-K.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: The killer's real name is Dennis Rader. He's a church-going
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: family man, respected in the community. Rader brutally murders at
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: least 10 people. The hunt to find him will last
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: over 30 years. Like David Parker Ray, he is also
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: a psychopathic serial sexual sadist. But Dennis Rader is fueled
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: by somewhat different desires. While David Parker Ray makes every
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: effort to hide his crimes, Dennis Rader lobbies for publicity.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Rader is thought to have been driven by narcissism. That
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: means he feels he possesses unique talents and believes he's
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: entitled to special treatment.
• 24:58
  Speaker 13: When he's a malignant narcissist, he gets off on the
• 25:00
  Speaker 13: thrill that he's a threat, that he's somebody. In real life,
• 25:03
  Speaker 13: he's nobody. But in this persona of the BTK, he's
• 25:08
  Speaker 13: somebody to be reckoned with. And that's what's driving him.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Ray and Raider hunt for two different types of prey.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: David Parker Ray's anonymous victims go missing completely. But Dennis
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Raider targets ordinary citizens. And then he poses the corpses
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: in provocative positions.
• 25:31
  Speaker 13: These victims were everyday people, residents of Wichita, Kansas. And basically,
• 25:37
  Speaker 13: he had literally terrorized the city of Wichita because nobody
• 25:41
  Speaker 13: knew where he would come in.
• 25:42
  Speaker 14: People would come in.
• 25:43
  Speaker 13: The first thing he would do is they'd go to
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: their phone and pick it up to see if it
• 25:45
  Speaker 13: was dead. That's how paranoid people became because in the
• 25:49
  Speaker 13: newspapers reported that he would cut the phone lines of
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: each of these victims' houses. So that was one of
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: his signatures.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: After three more murders, Rader sends his next letter, asking,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: How many do I have to kill before I get
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: a name in the paper or some national attention? David
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Parker Ray and Dennis Rader may be two different types
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: of sexual sadists, but at their core, both are lethal psychopaths.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: So the key questions that still puzzle experts are, How
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: do people become psychopaths? And then, How do they go
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: on to be sadistic serial killers?
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: It's very important to make a distinction between what we
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: would call primary and secondary psychopathy. It's certainly understood that
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: the vast majority of serial killers are going to demonstrate
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: some degree of psychopathy.
• 26:43
  Speaker 10: But when we talk about.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: Primary psychopathy, we're referring to hereditary psychopathy, what we might
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: call a bad seed. Secondary psychopathy is where an individual
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: is so badly maltreated, neglected, abused.
• 26:55
  Speaker 14: that.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: The individual looks an awful lot like a person who
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: from birth has this kind of proclivity, and it's sometimes
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: difficult to tease them apart.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Dennis Rader had a fairly normal upbringing without any evidence
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of abuse, but he developed a fascination with torturing and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: killing animals.
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: If you look at his.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: History, it would lead you to believe that this was
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: a kid that had some issues when he was young.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: When he was a child, he admitted that he became
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: sexually aroused when he watched his grandmother kill a chicken,
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: and he wanted to replicate that. Children that do certain
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: kinds of things, the killing of animals, those are kids
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: that need watching, and those are kids that you need
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: to attend to. But that never happened to Dennis Rader.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: It appears David Parker Ray did suffer a cruel childhood.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: He grew up in an abusive, broken home. The socially
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: awkward child was bullied in school and in adolescence developed
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: a fascination with drugs, pornography, sadomasochism, and murder. Ray claimed
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: to have committed his first sadistic attack when he was
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: a young teen, and he bragged about it in his journal.
• 28:17
  Speaker 13: Now you link psychopathy with sexual sadism. and what you
• 28:21
  Speaker 13: have is a human predator.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Ray had a very peculiar split in his personality that
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: seems to have developed in adolescence, where he was capable
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: of viewing a woman as a good object that he
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: could incorporate into his crimes, idealize a little bit, or
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: view her as garbage. There's an infamous incident in the
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: life of David Parker Ray where he told one of
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: the female captives that he did not kill, if I recall,
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: He turned to her and he said, you know, if
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: I had known that you were such a good woman,
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't have thought of you as the type of
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: person that I would torture in the toy box.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Another common trait of sadistic serial killers is their engagement
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: in paraphilia, defined as abnormal sexual behaviors or impulses that
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: play out through intense and recurring sexual fantasies and urges.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: The BTK strangler always strives to perfect his techniques. He
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: creates gruesome sketches and builds models of his fantasies.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: He used a ball to strengthen his fingers because you
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: have to keep your fingers very strong because it takes
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: a lot to strangle someone.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Dennis Rader methodically scouts his victims and plans his attacks,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: all while carrying on with his normal life.
• 29:47
  Speaker 13: So in addition to being a church leader and a
• 29:50
  Speaker 13: government worker for the city, he also was a Boy
• 29:53
  Speaker 13: Scout leader, and they would go on camping trips. And
• 29:56
  Speaker 13: he would use the camping trips as cover for him
• 29:59
  Speaker 13: to go out and do a hit because his wife
• 30:02
  Speaker 13: believed he was on.
• 30:02
  Speaker 14: A camping trip. The kids were sleeping.
• 30:05
  Speaker 13: He would leave the campsite, take a cab, go to
• 30:08
  Speaker 13: the location that he had pre-surveilled, and attack his victim.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: This aspect of planning their crimes is one area where
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Rader and Ray are alike.
• 30:19
  Speaker 17: In the case of BTK Dennis Rader and David Parker Ray,
• 30:24
  Speaker 17: we see there's these tendencies to journal, to sketch things out.
• 30:28
  Speaker 17: to plan out their future crimes. And this is both
• 30:31
  Speaker 17: a way to relive the crimes that they committed in
• 30:33
  Speaker 17: the past, to get pleasure out of it, much like
• 30:36
  Speaker 17: we would look through a photo album of happy moments
• 30:39
  Speaker 17: from the past, or to plan out the future crimes.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: David Parker Ray even uses Barbie dolls in his planning.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: He had taken these dolls and perverted them and turned
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: them into dolls kind of an action figure for S
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: & M. I mean, they were naked. He had manufactured
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: little devices to put on them, and they were decorations
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: in his utility trailer.
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: What his disturbingly vivid diaries record is years of fantasies
• 31:15
  Speaker 11: of torture that were worsened by the fact that he
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: had an incredibly brilliant knack for creating devices, sort of
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: technical devices.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Ray is a skilled mechanic and builder. At work, he
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: is known to be a pack rat, bringing home scrap
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: items to use on personal projects.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: So this is the headquarters for the state park of
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Elephant Butte. David was employed here. He was employed with
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: state parks as a mechanic. If there were things that
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: were left over, little bits and pieces that he could use,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: he would pack those away. We found a garage filled
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: with it, just scrap and old tools and scrap metal.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: And that's some of the material he would use to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: create his devices. He had a ready supply of it right.
• 32:00
  Speaker 19: Here at work.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: For decades, Rader and Ray carried out their gruesome attacks,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Ray feeling he's invincible and can't be caught, while Rader
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: thinks he's smarter than the police and dares them to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: stop him before he kills again. Sadistic serial killers are
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the most brutal predators on the planet. David Parker Ray
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: and Dennis Rader are two of history's most horrific examples
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: of this kind of murderer. They both carry on their
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: monstrous acts for decades. Their crimes are similar, but their
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: motives and methods are very different. Often these crimes worsen
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: over time as the killers habituate to the experience and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: need to intensify the sadistic acts to get the thrill
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: they crave.
• 33:03
  Speaker 17: There are times where a sexually sadistic killer will jump
• 33:06
  Speaker 17: immediately into serial killing. And in those cases, we tend
• 33:11
  Speaker 17: to see where there's a slight escalation in the severity
• 33:13
  Speaker 17: of their crimes. But more often we see it where
• 33:17
  Speaker 17: They keep trophies of their offenses, and that helps them
• 33:20
  Speaker 17: to relive the fantasy, to keep that high going that
• 33:23
  Speaker 17: they had, and also the premeditation of their next crime.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Dennis Rader exhibits a rare behavior for a serial murderer.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: He is able to completely stop killing for long stretches
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: of time. He takes five victims in 1974, two in 1977.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: then one a year in 1985, 1986, and 1991. His
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: last correspondence with the press is received in 1988. Commander
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Vernon Gebreth is brought in as a consultant on both
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the Wray and BTK cases.
• 34:04
  Speaker 13: So he remained dormant, if you think about it, from
• 34:08
  Speaker 13: 1988 to 2004.
• 34:11
  Speaker 14: Nobody heard anything about him.
• 34:12
  Speaker 13: Now, the old ad caveat says In cases like this
• 34:16
  Speaker 13: is that the serial killer is either in jail or
• 34:18
  Speaker 13: has died.
• 34:19
  Speaker 14: Well, guess what?
• 34:21
  Speaker 13: BTK just rewrote the book. It changed all the rules.
• 34:25
  Speaker 13: He actually remained dormant all these years.
• 34:27
  Speaker 14: Now, how did he do that?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Dennis Rader stashes away trophies taken from his victims and
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: uses them to play twisted autoerotic games. He engages in self-bondage.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and takes selfies.
• 34:45
  Speaker 13: So Dennis Rader in some instances would actually wear the
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: clothing of the victim or dress like the victim and
• 34:51
  Speaker 13: put a mask over his face, okay, and put himself
• 34:55
  Speaker 13: in the same position as the victims he had killed.
• 34:59
  Speaker 13: And he was able to relieve himself sexually like that.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: In one photo, he digs a shallow grave and wraps
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: himself in plastic and wears a frightening mask. In another,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: he suspends himself upside down from the trees, all keeping
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the memories of his victims alive, fulfilling his fantasies, and
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: allowing him to stop killing. By 2004, the case goes cold.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It's assumed BTK is in jail or dead.
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: 2004, he announces that he's back. And why is he
• 35:35
  Speaker 14: making that announcement?
• 35:37
  Speaker 13: Because the Wichita Eagle had a special front-page edition 30-year
• 35:41
  Speaker 13: anniversary of the BTK killings, which basically sent him out
• 35:48
  Speaker 13: again to come forth.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Over the next 12 months, BTK sends 11 communications confirming
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: his role in several earlier murders with gruesome photos and
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: victims' driver's licenses and ID badges. One chilling letter confirms
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: BTK's new intentions.
• 36:09
  Speaker 13: This letter says, was more intense. It was scary because
• 36:13
  Speaker 13: he ends up with a threat. I have spotted a
• 36:16
  Speaker 13: spoiled latchkey kid. Just have to work out the details.
• 36:19
  Speaker 13: I think fall or winter would be just about right
• 36:21
  Speaker 13: for the hit. So now he's doing, he's putting the
• 36:24
  Speaker 13: authorities on alert that he is now about to strike.
• 36:26
  Speaker 13: He's identifying his possible victim and this is putting a
• 36:29
  Speaker 13: whole new spin on it. The pressure on the authorities
• 36:31
  Speaker 13: is unbelievable.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Now in Wichita, 30 years after BTK first appears, a
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: long dormant horror is about to rear its head once again.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: David Parker Ray, the toy box killer, and Dennis Rader,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: the BTK strangler, are two of the most evil serial
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: killers in the annals of crime. Both remain on the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: loose for decades. After three days of torture, Cynthia Vigil
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: manages to escape, While David is out, she's able to
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: overcome Cindy Hendy and get free. Finally, Ray's reign of
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: terror comes to an end. Police find incriminating evidence at
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the crime scene, but the few victims that survive were
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: so heavily drugged and brainwashed that their testimony is not
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: considered credible. Investigators hunt for definitive evidence of murder They
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: continue to scour the desert and the lake for bodies.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: But they still come up empty. In the courtroom, the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: judge rules against playing Ray's introductory audio tape. And in
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the first trial, there's a hung jury. Prosecutors cannot let
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: this monster go free, so they retry the case. Still,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: they can't convict Ray of murder without a body. But
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: this time, the tape is played for the jury. And finally,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: in 2001, he is convicted for kidnapping and torture and
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: is sentenced to 224 years in prison.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: David showed zero remorse for anything. It wasn't that he
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: didn't understand the ramifications of what he's doing. He just
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: didn't care.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: His daughter, Jessie Ray, cooperates with the prosecution and only
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: receives probation. Cindy Hendy is sentenced to 36 years. She
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: is released on probation in 2019 after serving half her sentence.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Roy Yancey also cooperates and agrees to take Felice to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the site of Marie Parker's body, but the body isn't there.
• 38:55
  Speaker 13: He realized that more than he knew where that body was,
• 38:59
  Speaker 13: he went back, dug that body up, and put it
• 39:02
  Speaker 13: someplace else.
• 39:05
  Speaker 14: Very smart, very clever, very evil.
• 39:08
  Speaker 13: So when Roy Yancey, who was arrested, admitted that what
• 39:11
  Speaker 13: he had done, he actually brought the authorities out there.
• 39:14
  Speaker 14: This is where the body was. But the body wasn't
• 39:17
  Speaker 14: there anymore.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Roy Yancey is sentenced to 22 years for the murder
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: of Marie Parker. David Parker Ray is sent to prison,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: but just eight months later... he dies of a heart attack.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: So he dies eight months into his sentence at a
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: prison facility in Hobbs, New Mexico.
• 39:42
  Speaker 10: And it was....
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: It was frustrating for us because that ended... any possibility
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: we had or the best possibility we had of being
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: able to take something to the families of his victims
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: and say, here's what happened. These people are still at
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: home with pictures of their daughters somewhere in that house.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: And that daughter is dead. She's gone. And we couldn't
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: do anything about that. That is what was the frustration
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: with David's death, for all of us.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: By 2004, three decades after Dennis Rader's first murder, the
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: case had been declared cold. But then the letters and
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: other correspondence flood into Wichita media outlets. The BTK Strangler's
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: ego and narcissism are his downfall. Eventually, the police trick
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: him into sending a floppy disk to the newspaper. Officers
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: are able to trace the computer files to a desktop
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: machine located at Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita. Quickly, they
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: identify the source. Dennis Rader, President of the Congregation Council.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: BTK is finally stopped. In BTK's shocking courtroom confession, he
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: describes his methods of trolling, then stalking his victims. Coldly,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: he refers to his targets as projects, like Catherine Bright,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: his sixth victim.
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: I had many, what I call them, projects. They were
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: different people in the town that I followed, watched. Catherine
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: Bright was one of the next targets. Anyway, it was
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: basically a selection process, worked toward it. If it didn't work,
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: I'd just move on to something else.
• 41:44
  Speaker 13: That part of the plea agreement was that he had
• 41:46
  Speaker 13: to admit to each of these cases in front of
• 41:48
  Speaker 13: the families of the victims, which he did. And when
• 41:52
  Speaker 13: he articulated that, it was almost.
• 41:54
  Speaker 14: Like he was reading a laundry list.
• 41:56
  Speaker 9: No emotion.
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: No emotion.
• 41:59
  Speaker 13: He talked about, well, I realized they saw me, so
• 42:04
  Speaker 13: I had to put them down. That's an expression used
• 42:07
  Speaker 13: for animal control, putting them down. That's what he said,
• 42:11
  Speaker 13: I had to put them down.
• 42:13
  Speaker 14: Just like that.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: The psychopath's lack of sympathy is clearly evident through BTK's
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: 45-minute statement.
• 42:20
  Speaker 18: I strangled her with a belt.
• 42:22
  Speaker 10: I took the belt off and retied that with pantyhose
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: real tight. At that time, I masturbated, sir.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: In August 2005, 60-year-old Dennis Rader receives 10 consecutive life sentences.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Sadistic serial killers may carry no remorse or sympathy for
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: their prey, but concern for the victims and their families
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: must never be ignored.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: I think that when we talk about serial killing, mass killing,
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: spree killing, and we become interested in understanding how people
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: can do these things and so forth, fascinated, horrified, sometimes simultaneously,
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: what I have found often gets lost is the fact
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: that what we're talking about are crimes that involve real
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: human beings.
• 43:12
  Speaker 17: Given the fact that so many victims of serial killers
• 43:15
  Speaker 17: are females and they're younger women, I find it really
• 43:20
  Speaker 17: difficult to dissociate from that. When I see these crime
• 43:24
  Speaker 17: scene photos, when I read about what had happened to
• 43:26
  Speaker 17: these women, oftentimes I think that could have been me
• 43:30
  Speaker 17: or that woman looks like me. And it's really difficult
• 43:32
  Speaker 17: to not feel the pain, feel the fear that they
• 43:36
  Speaker 17: must have felt when they were about to go through
• 43:38
  Speaker 17: these horrible experiences. And I just want to be able
• 43:41
  Speaker 17: to prevent this type of thing from happening in the future.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I think the right way to present these kinds of
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: cases is to see if there's something to learn from them.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I would like to see, whether it's David or BTK
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: or anything else, a presentation of how does somebody evolve
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: into this? How does that happen? And is there anything
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: that can be done to prevent it? Because by doing so,
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: you're literally saving somebody's life somewhere. You don't know them,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: but they have a family. They're important in their world,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: and they don't deserve to die the way these women die.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: What motivates a serial killer? For some, it's sheer hatred
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: against humankind.
• 44:28
  Speaker 12: He was punishing those who had the good fortune to
• 44:33
  Speaker 12: be raised in the warm, loving homes.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Some of these murderers seek revenge for an abusive childhood.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: They're destroying him out of a need for vengeance.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: And then there are others who just simply love to kill.
• 44:52
  Speaker 20: Israel Keyes killed because he enjoyed it. He got the
• 44:55
  Speaker 20: adrenaline rush from it. He loved the thrill of it.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: What creates these cold-blooded monsters? What drives their warped psyche?
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: The actual voices and visions of serial killers.
• 45:12
  Speaker 15: Once I started, you know, there was nothing else like it.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Plunge us deep inside their complex and twisted minds. February 1st, 2012.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: It's a cold winter's night in Anchorage. A heinous crime
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: is about to be committed. 18-year-old Samantha Koenig is working
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: alone at the Common Grounds coffee hut.
• 45:56
  Speaker 20: A little bit before closing time that night, a tall
• 46:00
  Speaker 20: man in a dark coat walked up to the window.
• 46:04
  Speaker 20: And he ordered an Americano coffee. And he stood there
• 46:07
  Speaker 20: and watched as Samantha turned.
• 46:09
  Speaker 10: Around and made it.
• 46:10
  Speaker 21: When she turned back around, he had pulled a gun
• 46:12
  Speaker 21: on her.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Shocked and surprised, Samantha raises her hands as if being
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: held up.
• 46:19
  Speaker 20: He tells her it's a robbery. She kind of steps back, surprised.
• 46:22
  Speaker 20: He then ends up coming in through the window, climbs
• 46:25
  Speaker 20: in through the window, and ties her up with some
• 46:28
  Speaker 20: zip ties and then forces her at gunpoint. out of
• 46:31
  Speaker 20: the coffee stand and walks her back to his car.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: The abductor's name is Israel Keyes. He is a serial
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: killer responsible for a steady string of brutal murders for
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: more than a dozen years.
• 46:49
  Speaker 20: Keyes didn't have a real victim profile. He was pretty
• 46:52
  Speaker 20: unusual for serial killers. He didn't have a certain race
• 46:56
  Speaker 20: or a certain age or a certain.
• 46:58
  Speaker 10: Sex that he targeted. Much more random.
• 47:01
  Speaker 20: There's more opportunity crimes with him. Just who happened to
• 47:05
  Speaker 20: be at the wrong place at the wrong time. And
• 47:07
  Speaker 20: for Samantha Koenig, she was at the wrong place at
• 47:09
  Speaker 20: the wrong time. Keyes had decided that he was going
• 47:15
  Speaker 20: to rob this particular Common Grounds coffee shop. That's originally
• 47:19
  Speaker 20: what he planned on doing, just robbing it. But when
• 47:21
  Speaker 20: he got to it, when he saw Samantha, he changed
• 47:25
  Speaker 20: his mind and decided to take her.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Gies tries to keep his captive calm by telling her
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: it's only a kidnapping. He's going to hold her for ransom.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: He takes Samantha Koenig to the shed next to his
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: home and binds and gags her. Incredibly, his live-in girlfriend
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: and 10-year-old daughter are in the house just several feet away.
• 47:53
  Speaker 20: He took her into the shed, closed it up, tied
• 47:56
  Speaker 20: her up in there, left her in the shed. He
• 47:59
  Speaker 20: then actually got information from her and went to her
• 48:03
  Speaker 20: house where her truck was parked outside to get her wallet,
• 48:08
  Speaker 20: to get her ATM card and some other things. Came
• 48:11
  Speaker 20: back to the shed where she was still subdued.
• 48:13
  Speaker 10: And then that's when he raped her.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Still, Samantha prays she will survive this horror. Hoping it's
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: only a kidnapping, she gives Keys her ATM PIN number.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: But she never had a chance once Keyes made up
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: his mind back at the coffee hut. Keyes strangles the
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: helpless young woman.
• 48:38
  Speaker 20: Well, he enjoyed the thrill, the adrenaline rush of it.
• 48:42
  Speaker 20: He enjoyed having control over his victims. He enjoyed seeing
• 48:46
  Speaker 20: their fear. He raped his victims, we know that.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Astoundingly, after the murder, Keyes immediately returns to his normal life.
• 48:57
  Speaker 20: So after he kills Samantha, he drank a glass of
• 49:01
  Speaker 20: wine calmly, went back into the house where his daughter
• 49:04
  Speaker 20: was sleeping and his girlfriend was sleeping. And later on
• 49:08
  Speaker 20: that very morning, they all leave for a preplanned vacation.
• 49:11
  Speaker 20: They fly to Houston and then drive to New Orleans
• 49:15
  Speaker 20: for a cruise, for a one-week cruise.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Keyes doesn't have time to dispose of Samantha's body prior
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: to the trip.
• 49:25
  Speaker 20: Before leaving, he had put Samantha's body in a cabinet
• 49:28
  Speaker 20: in the shed. The thought being that it's so cold
• 49:32
  Speaker 20: in Anchorage in the middle of winter that her body
• 49:35
  Speaker 20: would be perfectly preserved there while.
• 49:37
  Speaker 15: He was gone.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, a frenzied hunt begins for Samantha. Her dad launches
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: a grassroots campaign to find his daughter. Upon returning home,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Israel Keys calmly checks back on Samantha's corpse.
• 49:57
  Speaker 20: When he gets back, Samantha's body's frozen solid in the
• 50:00
  Speaker 20: cabinet there.
• 50:01
  Speaker 10: He has some difficulty getting it out, actually.
• 50:03
  Speaker 20: He takes the body out, thaws it out with heaters,
• 50:07
  Speaker 20: has sex with the corpse.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Then, in a horrifying turn, Keyes makes a successful ransom
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: demand by sending a photo of the young woman made
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: up to appear alive. He applies makeup, sews her eyes
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: open with fishing line, and poses the body alongside an
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: edition of the Anchorage Daily News from four days earlier.
• 50:35
  Speaker 20: And then ultimately ends up cutting her up into pieces.
• 50:40
  Speaker 21: Dismembering the body to get rid of it. Puts the body.
• 50:42
  Speaker 20: Parts in trash bags and hauls them to a lake,
• 50:47
  Speaker 20: a frozen lake near Anchorage, and cuts a hole in
• 50:51
  Speaker 20: the ice, drops the bags into the water, weighs them down,
• 50:55
  Speaker 20: and lets them sink to the bottom of the lake.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: On March 6th, with her ATM card in hand, Israel
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Keyes flies to Las Vegas and rents a car. and
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: a dramatic chase begins. At this point, police think they
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: are tracking a kidnapper. They have no reason to believe
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: he is a serial murderer. They have no clues to
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: his identity and no concept of the enormous depth of
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: his crimes. Keyes is a 34-year-old psychopathic serial killer, and
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: like so many of these monsters, he's able to commit
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: these grisly crimes while still carrying on a normal life.
• 51:39
  Speaker 20: Somehow he was able to just maintain this dual existence,
• 51:43
  Speaker 20: having these two separate identities, the one of the family man,
• 51:47
  Speaker 20: the devoted father, and the one as the killer.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Detective Malcolm Ryman encountered these types of violent psychopaths for
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: over 30 years as a New York City Police Department
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: homicide investigator. He specialized in sexual predator and serial killer cases.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: People expect to see serial killers as being some type
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: of drooling, maniac, creepy, maniacal person. And it's not really
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: the case. And what you'll often find is they're charming, articulate, friendly,
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: normal people.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: The FBI defines psychopathy as a personality disorder manifested in
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: people who use a mixture of charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: sometimes violence, to control others and satisfy their own selfish needs.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Psychopathic serial murderers have no empathy for their victims and
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: no remorse for their crimes. And sadly, they're surprisingly hard
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: to spot.
• 53:03
  Speaker 20: Israel Keyes had his own business, he had a construction business.
• 53:07
  Speaker 20: All his clients reported that he seemed very normal. He
• 53:10
  Speaker 20: seemed very friendly most of the time. He seemed nothing
• 53:14
  Speaker 20: unusual about him. The neighbors reported he just seemed like
• 53:17
  Speaker 20: a normal, friendly guy from all appearances.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: But Israel Keyes is far from normal. He sets out
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: from Las Vegas on a determined drive across the Southwest.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: He heads through Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Along the way,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: he stopped several times to withdraw ransom money from Samantha's
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: ATM account.
• 53:40
  Speaker 20: When he made the withdrawal, there would be a ping, basically,
• 53:44
  Speaker 20: on the investigator's system. They would know the card's been
• 53:48
  Speaker 20: used at this location. So they would rush to the location.
• 53:51
  Speaker 21: But, of course, by the time they got there, Keyes
• 53:53
  Speaker 21: was long gone.
• 53:54
  Speaker 10: He was off in another town somewhere else.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Investigators still have no idea who the kidnapper is, what
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: kind of car he's driving. or if Samantha is with
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: him on his journey. Meanwhile, Samantha's disappearance has now gained
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: national attention, fueled by her father's relentless efforts to save
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: his daughter. Israel Keyes is cleverly staying one step ahead
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: of law enforcement. But then, the man known as the
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century makes an
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: uncharacteristic mistake, and police uncover shocking truths about this heartless
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: serial killer. Alaska serial killer Israel Keys abducts 18-year-old Samantha
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Koenig and brutally rapes and murders the young woman. He
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: stashes her body in a cabinet and calmly leaves on
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: a family vacation. Upon his return, he dismembers the corpse
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: and drops the remains in a frozen lake. but still
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: convinces her father and the police she's only been kidnapped. Now,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: law enforcement is tracking Keyes through the southwest United States
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: by the use of Samantha's ATM card, hoping she is
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: still alive. What's going on inside the warped mind of
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: this killer, and what drives him towards these heinous acts?
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Keyes is energized by his crime and craves more thrills.
• 55:29
  Speaker 20: Well, in addition to using the ATM card while he
• 55:31
  Speaker 20: was in Texas, Keyes also decided he was going.
• 55:33
  Speaker 10: To rob a bank.
• 55:34
  Speaker 20: This is something he'd done before. He'd robbed several banks
• 55:37
  Speaker 20: before in the past. He found a house in a
• 55:39
  Speaker 20: small town in Texas, Salado, Texas. He broke into the house,
• 55:45
  Speaker 20: burglarized it for what he could, and then set it
• 55:47
  Speaker 20: on fire. And the point of setting it on fire
• 55:50
  Speaker 20: was for diversions. So, in other words, he planned on
• 55:54
  Speaker 20: the fire drawing out the police from the nearby town
• 55:58
  Speaker 20: so that he could then go to the town and
• 56:00
  Speaker 20: rob the bank, which he did.
• 56:01
  Speaker 10: He went and robbed the bank in Oliko, Texas.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: The anonymous murderer continues across the Southwest. But finally, investigators
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: catch a break. It's an uncharacteristic slip-up for a killer
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: whose precise planning has kept him under the radar for
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: many years. At one of his ATM withdrawals, the security
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: camera catches a glimpse of Key's rental car. It's a
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: white 2012 Ford Focus.
• 56:35
  Speaker 20: And it wasn't until they got the video of his
• 56:37
  Speaker 20: rental car that they had something concrete they could actually
• 56:41
  Speaker 20: search for. So then the FBI put out a bolo
• 56:44
  Speaker 20: beyond the lookout for this 2012 white Ford Focus.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: On March 13th, A Texas highway patrolman spots the white
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Ford in the parking lot of a Quality Inn motel
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: in Lufkin, Texas.
• 56:58
  Speaker 21: He's got in the car, drove off, and they pulled
• 57:01
  Speaker 21: him over.
• 57:02
  Speaker 20: In the car, they found, in addition, obviously, to the
• 57:05
  Speaker 20: strangeness of this driver having an Alaska driver's license, they
• 57:10
  Speaker 20: also found Samantha Koenig's cell phone, they found Samantha Koenig's ATM.
• 57:14
  Speaker 10: Card, a gun, cash with an ink stain on it
• 57:19
  Speaker 10: from robbery. And they knew they had their guy.
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: Before we ask any questions, we must understand your rights.
• 57:36
  Speaker 15: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say
• 57:38
  Speaker 15: can be used against you in court.
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice.
• 57:42
  Speaker 15: Before we ask you questions. You have the right to
• 57:45
  Speaker 15: have a lawyer with you during questions. If you cannot
• 57:48
  Speaker 15: afford a lawyer, we will be appointed for you before
• 57:50
  Speaker 15: any question.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: The Anchorage police and the FBI interrogate Keyes, still having
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: no idea he may be involved in any other murders. Sadly,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: on March 31, 2012, he gives a gruesome confession of
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Samantha Koenig's torture and murder. And then, the complex psychology
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: of Israel Keyes begins to unveil. He hints that there
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: are other victims, many other victims.
• 58:22
  Speaker 22: There is no one who knows me or who has
• 58:25
  Speaker 22: ever known me who knows anything about me, really. They
• 58:30
  Speaker 22: know they're going to tell you something that does not
• 58:32
  Speaker 22: line up with anything I tell you.
• 58:34
  Speaker 18: Because I'm two different people, basically.
• 58:38
  Speaker 22: And the only person who knows about what I'm telling you,
• 58:41
  Speaker 22: the kind of things.
• 58:42
  Speaker 18: I'm telling you, is me.
• 58:44
  Speaker 10: How long have you been two different people? Long time.
• 58:50
  Speaker 13: 14 years.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Over the next nine months, investigators attempt to piece together
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: other crimes Keyes may have committed. More than 40 hours
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: of complex interrogation and psychological maneuvering reveals a killer with
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: a shockingly precise method. for serial murder.
• 59:15
  Speaker 17: In the case of Israel Keyes, even after he was arrested,
• 59:19
  Speaker 17: he still felt the need to try to control the situation,
• 59:22
  Speaker 17: control law enforcement, and make the situation as beneficial for himself,
• 59:27
  Speaker 17: despite the fact that he was apprehended as a serial killer. So,
• 59:30
  Speaker 17: for example, he was only willing to give very limited
• 59:33
  Speaker 17: information to police, even though they had arrested him. So
• 59:37
  Speaker 17: he was willing to negotiate, but he had very specific
• 59:40
  Speaker 17: stipulations associated with all of the information he was willing
• 59:43
  Speaker 17: to give out, and he was only willing to give
• 59:45
  Speaker 17: out more once the stipulations were fulfilled.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Investigators hope he'll cooperate and help bring closure to the
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: victims' families. While Keyes often focuses on receiving coffees... and cigars.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 18: First of all, do I get a cigar today? What
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 18: I can do is I can give you something.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 16: We'll get that as a cigar.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 18: There was a bank robbery in Tupper Lake. That was
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 18: me and.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 23: I'm sure it was probably the only bank robbery in
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 23: that town for a while.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Security cam photos confirm Keyes' account. The investigators and Keyes
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: share a laugh about using real hair for his disguises.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Keyes' response is chilling.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 10: You use real hair.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 15: Where do you buy real hair?
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 18: You don't have to buy real hair to get real hair.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 18: Fair enough.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 12: You just take it, don't you?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 18: Hair is free. Everything's free if you take it.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 20: He wanted to have control. He seemed to enjoy toying
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 20: with the investigators as well. He would generally allude to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 20: certain crimes without giving details or specifics, leaving the investigators
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 20: wanting more and more from him and kind of drawing
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 20: them along that way.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Interrogating these cunning serial killers can be very challenging for investigators.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Detectives call the interrogation room the box.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: When I'm in the interview room, when I'm in the
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: box with the serial killer, Before I go in there,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: I want to know everything about that person. I want
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: to know every intricate detail about that person's life. I
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: want to know about the traumatic things that happened in childhood.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: I want to know about previous crimes. I want to
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: know everything about them. I want them to feel transparent.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: I want them to feel like there's nothing that they
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: can hide from me that either I know or I'm
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: going to find out.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: Experienced detectives learn how to read nonverbal cues and how
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: to manipulate the suspect to get the information they need.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Investigators notice that Israel Keyes gets physically excited when he
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: talks about his kills, rapidly tapping his hands and feet
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: and jangling his shackles. It's a way detectives know when
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: he is telling the truth. With Israel Keyes, this process
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: is extremely difficult. Keyes agrees to continue to cooperate on
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: the condition that they keep his name out of the press.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 19: We could work out some sort of agreement that, you know,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 19: I give you all the answers on these cases, and.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 20: Families get closure, and you find as many.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 10: Of them as possible, and.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 15: And in return for that, you know, I.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 19: Don't plan on being around a whole lot longer, but
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 19: a really big concern to me is, you know, my.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 18: Kid's going to be around.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 7: I don't want her to, like.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 24: Type my name in the computer and have it pop up.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: He doesn't want his 10-year-old daughter to hear about his
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: grisly crimes.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 18: I'm not in this for the glory. And I don't
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 18: see why the media has to get involved at all.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent Jolene Godin is part of the interrogation team.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 25: He wanted the death penalty and he wanted it fast.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 25: Speaking generally, that was what he wanted. There were little
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 25: things along the way that he wanted. He wanted evidence
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 25: returned to family members and things like that. But big picture,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 25: what he wanted, he wanted to avoid trials. He wanted
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 25: to avoid publicity and media. He wanted to avoid being
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 25: taken from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and tried in multiple places.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 25: He wanted the death penalty, and he wanted it quickly.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 25: He didn't want to sit in jail for a long
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 25: period of time.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: Investigators tell Keyes he won't get the death penalty without
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: other victims. He slowly begins to reveal information about others
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: he murdered. They learn that Keyes has been eluding capture
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: through brilliant planning. He has studied the serial killers of
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: the past and idolizes Ted Bundy. But they're shocked to
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: discover that there's never been any serial killer quite like
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Israel Keyes. The FBI and the Anchorage, Alaska Police Department
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: are deep into the interrogation of serial killer Israel Keyes.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Keyes has already confessed to one heinous murder. But now
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: investigators are unraveling horrifying layers of complex and unspeakable crimes.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 10: So Keyes viewed the entire country as his hunting grounds.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 20: So what he would do is, even though he was
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 20: based out of Alaska, out of Anchorage, he would fly
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 20: to another city. Say, for example, he'd fly to Chicago.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 20: Once he got there to Chicago, he would rent a car.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 20: He'd then drive that car to a different state or
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 20: through multiple states, putting on hundreds, even thousands of miles
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 20: before he got to where he actually committed the crime.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 20: So the crime was committed thousands and thousands of miles away,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 20: multiple jurisdictions. So it made it very difficult to try
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 20: to track him or come up with any sort of
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 20: suspect in the crimes.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 25: Everything was meticulously planned, and our interviews with him were
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 25: the same from his standpoint. I mean, I never got
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 25: the sense that he accidentally told us something or got
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 25: angry and riled up and then something flew out of
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 25: his mouth. My sense was that he knew every time
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 25: he came in kind of what he was going to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 25: give us that day.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: In the chilling interview, Keyes talks about his inspirations and
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: his motives.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about other people like that?
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 18: I probably know.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 19: Every single serial killer that's ever been written about.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 18: It's kind of a hobby of mine.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 19: I don't really consider myself all that different or all
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 19: that special.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 18: From hundreds of thousands of other people.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 19: All you have to do is type in a word
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 19: search on any given porn site and, you know, there's
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 19: all kinds of people who have fantasies about rape and
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 19: bondage and, you know, kinds of things that I.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 18: Take to another level. I think with me, it's a
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 18: combination of things.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 10: It's not, you know, it's.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 18: Not just about the sexual.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 10: Fantasies and it's not, it's.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 19: Definitely not just about the money and it's not just about.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 10: The adrenaline, but it's all of those things together.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 15: And, and that's what I get.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 10: Out of it.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 19: And once I started doing, you know, once I did it,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 19: once I started, you know, and there was nothing.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 15: Else like it.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: In his intricate planning, Keyes even goes so far as
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: to bury pre-packed murder kits in at least five states
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: around America.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 20: Israel Keyes put so much thought and preparation and planning
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 20: into his crimes, he would use what he called kill kits.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 20: These were five-gallon plastic buckets. He would then put certain
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 20: things in the buckets that he wanted to use for
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 20: his crimes.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 10: He would put guns in the buckets. He would put
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 10: ammunition in the buckets. He would put zip ties in
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 10: the buckets.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 20: He would put tape in the buckets, flashlights, whatever he
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 20: thought he would need. He'd then seal up the bucket
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 20: and bury it in the ground. He did this in
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 20: multiple states.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 10: He did it in New York. He did it in Vermont.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 10: He did it in Washington. He did it in Alaska.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 10: Then he would.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 20: Return to these sites, sometimes years later, and dig up
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 20: the bucket, get the items out, and then use them.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 11: For the crimes.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: He even included caustic chemicals like Drano and lye to
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: help dispose of the bodies. The kids allowed him to
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: travel without any weapons or tools to avoid security concerns
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: at airports. Keyes referred to his kids as buried treasures.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: Investigators find that Keyes uses guns to control his victims,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: but that's not how he likes to kill. Keyes takes
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: investigators through the killing of Bill and Lorraine Currier in Essex,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: Vermont in June of 2011, 4,000 miles from Anchorage. It's
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: a typical stalk and kill murder for this ruthless predator.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 20: The Curriers were chosen mostly at random, and I say
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 20: mostly at random because there was a little bit of
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 20: a criteria involved, not for the victims themselves, not for
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 20: the couriers themselves, but for their home. Keyes had certain
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 20: things he was looking for that particular night. He wanted
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 20: a one-story building. He wanted a home with an attached garage.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 20: He wanted a home that it looked like there weren't
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 20: any children there. And unfortunately for the couriers, their home
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 20: fit the profile.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 15: To a T.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 20: He called it a blitzkrieg attack. Broke in through the garage.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 20: No one could see him. It was an attached garage,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 20: so he broke in the window in the garage door,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 20: broke into the kitchen of the house, immediately stormed into
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 20: the Keys' bedroom and surprised them, subdued.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 10: Them, and took them away.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: But Keys says he was unhappy. It didn't go according
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: to his plan, and he had to shoot Bill Currier.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 10: He typically liked to strangle his victims to death. It
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 10: was kind of a more personal murder. Hands-on, bitterly. killing.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 20: So in the case of Bill Currier, the murder victim
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 20: in Vermont, he was shot and killed, which is very
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 20: unusual for Keyes to do. And the reason why Keyes
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 20: did it is Bill Currier was not cooperating, not following directions. Ultimately,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 20: it was the loss of control of the situation. There
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 20: was screaming and shouting and was not following instructions, not
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 20: following directions from Keyes. And this loss of control angered Keyes.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 20: It pissed him off.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 21: And he reacted violently, shot him multiple times.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Keyes states he was disappointed because he had other plans
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: for Bill Currier.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 20: He never specified what the other plans were, but implied
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 20: in that is that there was definitely some sort of
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 20: torture that was in mind.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: This idea of power and control often runs through the
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: motives of many serial killers. For years, researchers have tried
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: to identify and categorize what creates and drives these monsters.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Israel Keyes fits in the categories of seeking power and
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: control as well as the sheer thrill of killing. Sex
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: and torture are also common elements of serial murders, but
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: these components are not always involved.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: I see really two basic types that I've dealt with.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: and the first type being a sexual predator hunter. He's
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: going out and hunting down victims, seeking them out and
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: deriving some type of sexual pleasure in victimizing them. And
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: then you have another type of serial killer who's exacting
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: some type of revenge.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 14: It's a revenge killer.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 4: They're getting revenge from rejection, alienation. perceived slights against a
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: group of people, and they're destroying them out of a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: need for vengeance.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Keys seems to fit into the sexual predator hunter category,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: while another brutal serial killer from the Ukraine falls into
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: the revenge category. Anatoly Onoprienko took the lives of at
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: least 52 innocent victims. A 12-gauge shotgun was his weapon
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: of choice.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 12: A serial killer who was not oriented toward sexual homicide
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 12: so much as just plain misanthropic killing of one person
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 12: after the other would be this fellow, Anatoly Onoprienko, from
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 12: the Ukraine.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Onoprienko's grisly crime scenes appear to express pathological rage against families,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: a hatred spawned by his own troubled childhood. When Onoprienko
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: was just four years old, his mother died. His older
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: brother stayed on with his father, but Anatoly was placed
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: in an orphanage. Apparently, this abandonment fuels his homicidal rage.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 12: He developed a hatred for how he was raised and
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 12: for mankind in general. He would often invade a house
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 12: in these small town places. and kill all the people
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 12: in the house, sometimes several older ones, and then burn
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 12: the house down in order to further get back at
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 12: the people who had the advantage of living in a
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 12: nice home, which he never could do, so that he
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 12: was punishing those who had the good fortune to be
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 12: raised in a warm, loving home.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Many serial killers claim they are on some kind of
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: mission driven by psychotic visions or voices. To commit such crimes,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: you have to be given the right.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 10: But I can't prove who gave me the right.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe God gave.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 10: Me the right.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: How can I prove it when, for example, there are
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: six billion people on earth who claim to have seen God,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: but they can't prove it. But maybe I've seen God.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Maybe I've received a concrete task from him, but I
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: can't prove it.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 7: Well, psychosis is more of a break with reality. The
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 7: person views reality in a significantly different way than persons
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 7: around them they may have delusions which are beliefs that
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 7: have no basis in reality they may experience voices that
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 7: no one else around them hears they may see things
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 7: that no one else around them sees they may be
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 7: actually very disorganized in their thought there's a clear break
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 7: with reality they're generally they're seen as mentally ill.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: Serial killers sometimes fake psychosis in order to escape the
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: death penalty. Onoprienko tried to use insanity as his defense.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: But the courts felt he was faking his mental illness,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: and he was sentenced to death.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 7: There's no one course that makes an individual turn into
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 7: or become a criminal. There's no one individual path. There's
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 7: different things you want to look at, and one is
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 7: the family dynamics, the relationship with the family, the mother,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 7: the father. of the relationship the mother and the father
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 7: have with themselves.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: Some experts believe Keyes' unconventional childhood played a role in
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: fueling his desire to kill. Israel Keyes grew up in
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: a remote forest outside the small town of Colville, Washington.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: He was one of nine children. His family belonged to
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: a strict religious group called the Ark, a church associated
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: with racist and anti-Semitic theology. He was homeschooled and had
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: little chance to socialize with other kids. He insists he
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: wasn't abused or neglected as a child. But could the
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: extreme isolation in his childhood be what transformed him into
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: a monster? Serial killer Israel Keyes has operated completely under
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: the radar for decades. His precise planning has allowed him
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: to murder an untold number of victims without leaving a
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: hint of a trail. Now investigators are interrogating the killer
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: to attempt to determine the depth of his crimes and
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: the motives behind his depravity. It seems a strange childhood
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: may have played a role. Keys grew up in the
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: isolated woods outside of the small town of Colville, Washington.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: He enjoyed hunting and once remarked he would kill anything
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: with a heartbeat.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 15: I know since I was 14 that there was things that.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 23: that I thought were normal and that were okay that
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 23: nobody else thought were normal or okay. There were some
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 23: friends came with us and there was a cat of
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 23: ours that was already getting into.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 15: The trash and we all went up into the woods
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 15: and took a piece of parachute cord, tied it to
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 15: this tree and I shot it in the stomach.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 20: Well, when he was young, when he was about 19
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 20: or 20, he's committed his first violent crime against another person.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 20: He was watching a girl tubing on a river in
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 20: Oregon from the woods, and he decided that he was
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 20: going to take her and kill her. And he took
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 20: the girl... Grabbed her when she was separated from the
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 20: people she was with. We grabbed her off the tube,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 20: dragged her up and raped her, but then decided to
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 20: let her go.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: Is it just a dreadful childhood that turns these people
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: into serial killers? The often asked question is whether it's
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: nature or nurture. Is it a result of their upbringing
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: or are they born to kill?
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 10: That's a great question.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 7: I think that question is currently hotly debated. And it's
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 7: something that's been questioned now over 250 years. Is someone
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 7: born a criminal? Is someone made a criminal?
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: Behavioral studies theorize that the serial killer's dysfunctional childhood may
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: lead to this, a cold-hearted lack of empathy.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 17: Most research that I've seen has suggested it's the interaction
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 17: between nature and nurture. It's the biological tendencies that combined
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 17: with the right environment to allow them to act out
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 17: on those tendencies. If they have a predisposition to, let's say,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 17: be impulsive or be unempathetic or to commit crimes, parents
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 17: could help neutralize that. But if they have that tendency
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 17: and they have very bad parents, you can imagine that
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 17: that tendency could just run wild and be exacerbated.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 4: I think absolutely that there is something innate there is
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: something intrinsic something that's in within somebody to become a
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 4: serial killer i think that that an environmental uh stimuli
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 4: certainly can trigger it and there are certain um traits
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 4: or occurrences that will happen to somebody.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: That may trigger it.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 4: But the bottom line is it's got to be something
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 4: within them to make them that way.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: Israel Keyes develops his love for killing very early in life.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: And he continues honing his murderous craft. Understanding Israel Keyes'
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: motives for killing presents a complex puzzle for law enforcement.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: Another notorious serial murderer from Great Britain displays a similar
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: psychopathic love of killing.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 26: We understand that the police called on the owners of No.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 26: 163 Melrose Avenue today because they own two dogs, and
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 26: those two dogs might have picked up some of the
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 26: bones from 195 Melrose Avenue and buried them in their
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 26: back garden. Police described it tonight as only a cursory
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 26: search and said they will be checking other gardens in
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 26: the street as well.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 24: And I think it's right to say that we have
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 24: found a significant amount of human bones and also a
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 24: part of a jaw with teeth attached to it.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: Dennis Nielsen is one of Great Britain's most notorious serial killers,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: claiming at least 12 young men as victims. Like Keyes,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: his murders are motivated by the thrill of killing. But
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: Nilsen's crimes appear to be driven by a morbid fascination
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: with death and extreme loneliness. He would lure young male
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: victims back to his home, strangle them, and plunge their
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: heads underwater to be certain they were dead. He'd sometimes
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: commit sex acts with his dead victims. Nielsen said he
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: saved the corpses for a while to keep him company.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 8: But at least 15 people paid the ultimate price for
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 8: Dennis Nielsen's hospitality.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 21: He killed them, he chopped up.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 26: Their bodies, and he then burned, boiled or buried the pieces.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 16: Twelve of the 16 murders happened at Nielsen's flat in
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 16: Melrose Avenue, North London. Each time he hid the body
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 16: under the floorboards, Nielsen was asked by police how many
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 16: bodies were under the floorboards at any one time. He replied,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 16: I didn't do a stock check or anything. It's all
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 16: a bit of a jumble.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: Like Israel Keyes, Nielsen shows no mental break with reality.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: He displays clear and calculating thought. In 1983, after five
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: years of killing, plumbing clogged with human remains and the
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: body parts found by the dogs lead to Nielsen's capture.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: When asked about his motive for murder, Nielsen says, well,
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: enjoying it is as good a reason as any. In 1998,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: after his troubled childhood, Israel Keyes joins the army. He
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: starts to drink heavily and enjoys the company of prostitutes.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: But he also learns more valuable skills to help him
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: intensify his experiences.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 20: He's enlisted in the army when he was about 20
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 20: years old. He was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, and
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 20: so he learned survival skills during the Army.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 10: He learned how to handle.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 20: Weapons in the Army, these sorts of skills that he
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 20: would then put to use for committing his crimes later on.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: It was during this time he meets Tammy Hawkins, and
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: together they have a daughter. After the Army, he lives
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: with Tammy and his daughter in the lush forests of
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and it's thought that there he puts
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: his hunting skills to the test. on human beings.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 20: So Keyes would typically try to find areas that were isolated.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 20: Parks were one of his favorite areas to scout, to
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 20: stalk people. He would then wait for people to show up.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 20: He would follow them, he would track them as necessary,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 20: and then surprise them.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: It appears Keyes murders four victims in the forests of
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: Washington state, often disposing of the bodies in remote mountain lakes.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: His murders continue for more than 14 years, and law
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: enforcement has no idea there's even a killer at large.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: Then in February 2012, Keyes kills Samantha Koenig close to
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: home in Anchorage, Alaska. A rare impulsive decision for this
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: calculating murderer.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 20: So one of his rules, one of his primary rules was,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 20: not to commit these crimes where he lived.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 10: And with Samantha, he broke his own rule.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: This mistake of temptation has now led to his downfall.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: He's now under arrest and heading for trial. In Anchorage,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: the negotiations continue to try to get more information from
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: Israel Keyes. Then suddenly, during a court appearance, he once
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: again shocks law enforcement.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 10: During one of the hearings in court for Keyes, he...
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 10: decided he was going to try to escape.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 20: And while the attorneys were up arguing before the judge,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 20: he bolted, tried to run out of the courtroom. But
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 20: before he could even clear the aisle there, the courtroom
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 20: deputies tackled him and subdued him.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: In typical fashion, Keyes shows no remorse for his escape attempt.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 15: I mean, come on, let's face it. Yeah, what happened yesterday? Ooh,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 15: I'm a bad guy.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 4: I tried to escape, but let's be honest.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 15: Nobody really thought I was a good guy before that, so.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: During months of interrogation, Israel Keyes admits to killing at
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: least nine people. But investigators fear the actual total is higher.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 25: He was very evasive at times during interviews, and he
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 25: told us... When we tried to pin him down on
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 25: a number, he would say it was less than 12.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 25: But then there were things that he would say.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 25: That led us to believe that by Lesson 12, he
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 25: simply meant 11. And so he was quick to correct
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 25: us in interviews if we had something wrong. So there
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 25: were several times where we just threw out statements like,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 25: you are 11 victims or things like that, and he
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  Speaker 25: didn't correct us. So based on that and some additional
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  Speaker 25: things that he said, we believe the number is 11.
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  Speaker 10: He traveled so extensively, both in the U.S.
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  Speaker 20: And in other countries, for such long periods of time,
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  Speaker 20: long periods of time that authorities haven't been able to
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  Speaker 20: pinpoint where he was oftentimes.
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  Speaker 10: So the number of victims is going to be much
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  Speaker 10: higher than 11 in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Israel Keyes begs the FBI for a quick death sentence,
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  Speaker 1: but the agents continue to press for information on other victims.
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  Speaker 1: Keyes grows impatient with the process and decides to take
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  Speaker 1: matters into his own hands.
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  Speaker 20: On December 1st, 2012, while he was in prison awaiting
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  Speaker 20: trial in the Koenig case, He slid his wrists and
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  Speaker 20: also used his head sheet to strangle himself as insurance
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  Speaker 20: to make sure he got the job done. So as
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  Speaker 20: he bled out and as his body shifted, relaxed from
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 20: the bleeding, he rigged the sheets so that they would
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  Speaker 20: strangle him to make sure he did the job.
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  Speaker 10: So he committed suicide while in prison.
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  Speaker 4: In many cases with serial killers, they start at a
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 4: very young age. They often start in their teen years.
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  Speaker 4: And I think historically, they never stop. The only way
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  Speaker 4: that a serial killer stops historically is if they're incarcerated
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  Speaker 4: or they kill themselves, which somewhat often they do commit suicide.
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  Speaker 1: Crumpled inside the blanket on Key's deathbed is a blood-stained
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  Speaker 1: suicide note. The case of Israel Keyes reinforces the immense
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  Speaker 1: challenges facing law enforcement in their efforts to apprehend serial killers.
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  Speaker 4: When you take a common murder case, you start at
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  Speaker 4: the nucleus of that person's life. Then you work your
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  Speaker 4: way out from there. With a serial killer, they're often
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  Speaker 4: just a random person, and that person does not even
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  Speaker 4: figure into that investigation. And it's somebody who's completely off
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  Speaker 4: the radar.
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  Speaker 14: How are you going to find them?
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  Speaker 4: You have to use modern technology, and you have to
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  Speaker 4: use old-fashioned police work, and you have to be absolutely relentless.
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  Speaker 4: You just got to keep on plugging.
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  Speaker 20: Keith is really unique in the world of serial killers
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  Speaker 20: in the amount of preparation and planning he put into
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  Speaker 20: his crimes.
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  Speaker 10: He was so meticulous in his.
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  Speaker 20: Crimes that he's really a new breed of serial killer.
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  Speaker 20: He was extremely deceptive, extremely cunning.
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  Speaker 10: He got adrenaline rush from it. He loved the thrill
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  Speaker 10: of it.
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  Speaker 21: If he hadn't been caught, Keyes would still be out
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  Speaker 21: there doing it today.
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  Speaker 20: As a serial killer and as an individual, Keyes was
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  Speaker 20: deceptive and cunning as the devil.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.