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Serial Killer Documentary - Secret Motel Killer： Florida Serial Killer Who Targeted Tourists · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: The city of Punta Gorda in Central Florida was once
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  Speaker 1: listed by Money Magazine as the second best place in
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  Speaker 1: America to live. An easygoing paradise known for long, laid-back
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  Speaker 1: summer days. But it's not without its nightlife.
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  Speaker 2: So how you doing over there? Just fine, really, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Another here? Surrounding the city is a vast wilderness of
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  Speaker 1: tall trees and thick vegetation, the perfect spot for subtropical predators,
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  Speaker 1: the kinds of predators who would want to keep their
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  Speaker 1: activities very secret.
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  Speaker 3: If you were out there, nobody could ever hear you scream.
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  Speaker 1: In January 1994, two hunters head deep into these woods,
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  Speaker 1: known as prime hunting ground for wild hogs. But it
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  Speaker 1: may be that hogs aren't the only thing being hunted
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  Speaker 1: out here.
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  Speaker 4: There's definitely foul play involved, and something really bad is
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  Speaker 4: going on.
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  Speaker 1: An unidentified corpse is found in the Florida wilderness, and
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  Speaker 1: it won't be the last.
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  Speaker 5: No idea who any of these people were.
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  Speaker 1: The damage to the bodies suggests extreme foul play. Brutal
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  Speaker 1: slayings put cops on the trail of a killer who's
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  Speaker 1: one step ahead.
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  Speaker 4: It was exactly like watching a shark circle his prey.
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  Speaker 1: To catch him, they'll use every trick in the book
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  Speaker 1: and risk the life of one of their own. A
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  Speaker 1: residential development goes belly up, leaving the forests around Punta Gorda, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: shot through with paved roads to nowhere. These roads give
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  Speaker 1: hunters easy access to terrain known as the hog trails.
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  Speaker 1: And today, they lead Rick Hobbs of the Charlotte County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department to a corpse. Joining him is Jim Myers,
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  Speaker 1: a state investigator with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
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  Speaker 6: The most typical things that we deal with here in
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  Speaker 6: Charlotte County are generally thefts and burglaries, arguments, things of
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  Speaker 6: that nature.
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  Speaker 5: We don't have that much in terms of violent crime.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities fear the status quo has just changed. But in
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  Speaker 1: trying to determine if this is a case of murder,
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  Speaker 1: they face an extreme uphill battle.
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  Speaker 6: Bodies in the state of Florida, especially that and later
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  Speaker 6: time of year, they decompose rapidly. because of the moisture,
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  Speaker 6: the heat. Out in the wooded area, you've got animals, insects.
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  Speaker 6: So it doesn't take very long for a body to
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  Speaker 6: decompose down to skeletal remains.
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  Speaker 5: That can happen within a matter of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: The lack of any clothing or personal effects on the
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  Speaker 1: victim heightened police suspicions.
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  Speaker 5: And there was just nothing there, just the body.
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  Speaker 1: At the Charlotte County morgue, the medical examiner seeks to
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  Speaker 1: learn how the victim met his fate.
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  Speaker 7: We logged the remains as John Doe, because we did
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  Speaker 7: not know the name. And after documenting all the external evidence,
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  Speaker 7: whatever was there in the remains, we performed the autopsy.
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  Speaker 6: There were some indications during the examination of strangulation.
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  Speaker 5: They found some.
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  Speaker 6: Possible indications of some ligature marks.
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  Speaker 5: On the neck and the arms and the legs.
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  Speaker 1: Though exactly what happened is unclear, all signs point to homicide.
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  Speaker 1: The next step is to identify the victim, and it
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  Speaker 1: won't be easy.
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  Speaker 8: When you have skeletal remains or a body that's found
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  Speaker 8: in a remote area with nothing else, you have to
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  Speaker 8: go back to... The very basics, we had to start
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  Speaker 8: from scratch.
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  Speaker 6: We know he's a white male. I believe he was
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  Speaker 6: around 5'9, if I remember correctly. He was probably in
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  Speaker 6: his late 20s, early 30s. Dark hair.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators scour missing persons' reports. The corpse's teeth are x-rayed
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  Speaker 1: and compared to dental records, but to no avail.
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  Speaker 6: I actually had a partial fingerprint from the victim. That
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  Speaker 6: was difficult, though, because it was only a partial print
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  Speaker 6: from one finger.
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  Speaker 5: Off the decomposed body.
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  Speaker 6: I had that submitted to the automatic fingerprint identification system
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  Speaker 6: to see if there was any possible matches on that.
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  Speaker 1: Then the examiner finds an unusual clue, a steel pin
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  Speaker 1: lodged in the victim's left leg, and it's marked with
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  Speaker 1: a serial number. But in the 1990s, no reliable records
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  Speaker 1: were kept of such implants. Having hit a dead end,
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  Speaker 1: authorities now turn to a forensic skull reconstructionist. Photographs and
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  Speaker 1: measurements of the victim's skull are entered into a computer.
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  Speaker 1: The combined sciences of anatomy, osteology, and anthropology are then
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  Speaker 1: utilized to create a composite impression of the victim's facial features.
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  Speaker 8: We got composite back for something to show the public
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  Speaker 8: to try to see if anyone recognized this individual.
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  Speaker 1: The composite is circulated through the media, but no one
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  Speaker 1: comes forward. After months of intense efforts, police have a
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  Speaker 1: victim they still can't identify. But Rick Hobbs keeps trying.
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  Speaker 6: I would physically go in and pull each piece of
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  Speaker 6: evidence and examine it, I would go through each lab
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  Speaker 6: report to see if there was anything that we may
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  Speaker 6: have collected that for some reason or other didn't get processed.
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  Speaker 1: But despite his best endeavors, the case eventually goes cold.
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  Speaker 1: At least no other bodies have turned up in the
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  Speaker 1: time since John Doe was discovered. But all that changes
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  Speaker 1: on New Year's Day, 1996.
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  Speaker 2: What do you got there, boy?
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  Speaker 1: When a dog owned by Northport resident Wayne Brown makes
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  Speaker 1: a strange discovery.
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  Speaker 4: His dog brought home a human head and was chewing
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  Speaker 4: on it on his front lawn.
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  Speaker 1: The hog trails have offered up a second victim. How
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  Speaker 1: many more may be out there? Investigation into the mysterious
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  Speaker 1: death of a John Doe in Florida has gone cold.
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  Speaker 1: No sooner has the case been set aside when another
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  Speaker 1: grim discovery is made in a neighboring county. Detective Tom
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  Speaker 1: Schwanier of the Northport Police takes the call.
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  Speaker 4: The skull, as it was found in the yard, was
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  Speaker 4: missing the lower jaw portion. The upper teeth were intact,
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  Speaker 4: and there was a minute amount of flesh still on
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  Speaker 4: the skull. The first thing that comes to a detective's
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  Speaker 4: mind is, where'd it come from?
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  Speaker 2: Where's the rest of it?
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  Speaker 4: So our first step is to find the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the body. It was an area of very few houses,
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  Speaker 4: and there was a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of vacant roads there. We divided the.
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  Speaker 4: Area up into blocks. We had law enforcement officers from
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  Speaker 4: several agencies, and what we did is we did block-by-block
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  Speaker 4: grid search.
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  Speaker 1: Days pass with no luck.
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  Speaker 2: I found something!
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  Speaker 1: Then... an officer wanders into an unsearched area.
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  Speaker 4: There was bones, spine, rib cage. There was fleshy skin
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  Speaker 4: still on part of the rib cage and on one
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  Speaker 4: of the arms, I believe it was a right arm.
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  Speaker 4: We weren't really sure what circumstances we had, but we
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  Speaker 4: have to treat any of these scenes as the possible
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  Speaker 4: worst-case scenario. We called in the FDLE forensics teams that
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  Speaker 4: conduct their crime scene search.
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  Speaker 2: They put stakes up. And they go over every square.
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  Speaker 4: Inch with a fine-tooth comb to see what exactly is
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  Speaker 4: mixed in with the bones and the remains. And then
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  Speaker 4: they search the ground underneath all the remains, possible jewelry, bullets.
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  Speaker 4: There's no end to what may be of evidentiary value
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  Speaker 4: in one of these scenes. And we did find a
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  Speaker 4: lower jaw portion, too, through our search.
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  Speaker 1: But what Schwenier doesn't find is also crucial to his
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  Speaker 1: assessment of the case.
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  Speaker 4: The first thing that keyed in on me was lack
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  Speaker 4: of clothing. We found absolutely no evidence of that scene
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  Speaker 4: other than the body and.
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  Speaker 2: Some skin on it.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody brought him here or somebody probably killed him here.
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  Speaker 1: An autopsy is conducted. Though the coroner's report is inconclusive,
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  Speaker 1: investigators are convinced of the worst.
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  Speaker 4: We definitely felt it was a homicide. We had no
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  Speaker 4: hard evidence to say how this person was killed.
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  Speaker 2: But as investigators, we're leaning towards homicide.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators determine the body has been in the woods at
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  Speaker 1: least six months. But in all that time, no one
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  Speaker 1: matching its height or probable age has been reported missing.
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  Speaker 1: Now police in two counties have anonymous victims, their cause
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  Speaker 1: of death unknown. Nine weeks later on March 7th, 1996,
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  Speaker 1: just three miles from where the bones of John Doe
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  Speaker 1: number two were found, a motorist pulls off the highway
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  Speaker 1: to relieve himself. And the case takes another turn.
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  Speaker 4: John Doe number three was found in a very, very
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  Speaker 4: similar area as John Doe number two. This body was
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  Speaker 4: mostly intact, laying on his back, his arms flailed out
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  Speaker 4: to his side, totally naked.
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  Speaker 1: There is no question this man was murdered. And Schwinier
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  Speaker 1: gets a shocking new clue when he sees that John
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  Speaker 1: Doe number three has been horribly mutilated.
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  Speaker 4: It was obvious his genitalia had been removed. Insects take
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  Speaker 4: the easiest route of penetration into a body. They'll go
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  Speaker 4: into any orifice, mouth, eyes. There's a gunshot wound, a
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  Speaker 4: stabbing wound. This is where the insects will infiltrate a body.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where they were.
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  Speaker 4: They were in the groin area.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities try to fathom what kind of deranged killer they're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously, when you have genitals removed, that was an identifier
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  Speaker 8: that there's definitely some kind of a sexual deviancy involved.
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  Speaker 1: A search of the crime scene soon sheds light on
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  Speaker 1: a psychopath's terrifying M.O.
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  Speaker 4: It was a ligature mark around the tree at throat level.
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  Speaker 4: There was some at hand level, and there was also
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  Speaker 4: some about where the ankles and shins would.
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  Speaker 9: Be on the tree.
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  Speaker 4: Very obvious when you looked at them as to what
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  Speaker 4: happened there. This victim was tied to this tree. Now
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  Speaker 4: we have two naked dead men out in the woods.
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  Speaker 4: There's definitely foul play involved. Something really bad was going on.
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  Speaker 1: When Rick Hobbs gets wind of the murders in Northport County,
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  Speaker 1: his cold case suddenly warms up.
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  Speaker 6: I grabbed my case file and I went up to
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  Speaker 6: Northport and sat down with Tom and we started comparing
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  Speaker 6: our cases. Now we could see the similarities between not
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  Speaker 6: only John Doe number one and John Doe number three,
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  Speaker 6: but it also brought in John Doe number two. When
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  Speaker 6: we were looking at one another's crime scene photos, If
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  Speaker 6: you didn't know which scene you were looking at, you
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  Speaker 6: couldn't tell them apart.
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  Speaker 1: Hobbs and Schwinnier revisit the first two crime scenes, only
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  Speaker 1: five miles apart. In both cases, they find the link
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  Speaker 1: they're looking for.
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  Speaker 6: We started seeing the striation marks on the trees, and
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  Speaker 6: I suspect we have a problem.
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  Speaker 1: The investigators are forced to confront the obvious. They're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a serial killer. When the story breaks in the media,
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  Speaker 1: the entire region is gripped in fear.
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  Speaker 6: When we have a death, an unusual death in this area,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's going to be on the front page.
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  Speaker 8: The community is not used to crimes like this being committed,
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  Speaker 8: and there was a lot of worried and nervous citizens
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  Speaker 8: out there.
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  Speaker 1: Pressure mounts on authorities to stop a madman before he
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  Speaker 1: kills again. Unable to identify their latest victim, police seek
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  Speaker 1: another way to move things forward. They turn to profiler
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Porter for help in the case. The brutalized state
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  Speaker 1: of the corpses convinces Porter that they're dealing with a
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  Speaker 1: particularly vicious criminal, a sexual sadist.
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  Speaker 9: A sexual sadist is an individual that would in fact
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  Speaker 9: do harm to the individual while they are still alive.
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  Speaker 9: And that harm many times is to the genitalia.
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  Speaker 2: Wayne, if you can give us a read on that,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: The ligature marks on the trees give Porter an idea
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  Speaker 1: of a killer's motivation.
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  Speaker 9: Bondage with sexual sadists is a very common characteristic. You
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  Speaker 9: will find bondage magazines in their past history. Bondage is
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  Speaker 9: one of the facets of the fantasy. It's part of
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  Speaker 9: the gasoline that runs the fantasy.
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  Speaker 2: One of the.
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  Speaker 9: Commonalities of sexual sadism is these individuals like to document
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  Speaker 9: their crimes. They will videotape, they will take photographs.
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  Speaker 1: To stop a monster in their midst, law enforcement agencies
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  Speaker 1: from all over the state band together and create a
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  Speaker 1: task force. They take over a vacant store in a
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  Speaker 1: shopping mall and centralize operations.
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  Speaker 6: We had upwards of 50 and 60 people working out
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  Speaker 6: of there. So I had myself and then Jim Myers
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  Speaker 6: from FDLE, Tom Swarnier from Northport, No.
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  Speaker 1: Sooner has the task force established itself when Hobbs receives
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  Speaker 1: disturbing news.
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  Speaker 6: Sheriff's office received a call early on the morning of
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  Speaker 6: April the 17th from a county survey crew.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be right there.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: They discovered part of a human body lying back in
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  Speaker 5: the woods. Guys, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Something's up.
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  Speaker 1: For the hog trail murder investigators, it seems the woods
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  Speaker 1: of Central Florida are full of dead bodies. Only this time,
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  Speaker 1: dead men will start telling tales. Three men have been
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  Speaker 1: found dead in the Florida hog trails, killed by the
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  Speaker 1: same deranged sexual sadist. Now police are back investigating John
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  Speaker 1: Doe number four.
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  Speaker 5: We saw something.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of round, laying on the ground, and looking closer,
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  Speaker 6: it was definitely a human head.
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  Speaker 1: Among the other remains is the victim's decomposed torso. It's
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  Speaker 1: this grisly find that provides investigators with their first break.
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  Speaker 4: There was a very noticeable tattoo from the shoulder area.
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  Speaker 4: It was a very good clue as far as identifying somebody.
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  Speaker 4: Tattoo was just like, almost like a fingerprint, no tour alike.
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  Speaker 4: I'll use different dyes, different colors. So we felt this
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  Speaker 4: will help us identify this individual.
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  Speaker 1: Hobbs walks deeper into the woods in search of more evidence.
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  Speaker 5: Off in the distance I can see something.
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  Speaker 6: As I start getting a little closer now I can
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  Speaker 6: see it's carpet padding.
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  Speaker 5: So my first thought is.
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  Speaker 2: Do I have.
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  Speaker 5: A homeless guy sleeping in the woods? But the thing
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  Speaker 5: that really said, uh-oh, was I could see blood.
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  Speaker 8: Tom, get over here.
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  Speaker 6: Lifted up the carpet padding, and there we had the
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  Speaker 6: remains of a white male.
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  Speaker 5: And he didn't appear.
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  Speaker 6: Like he had been there very long, maybe 12 hours.
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  Speaker 5: He was really fresh, so to speak.
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  Speaker 6: We could clearly see the ligature marks on the neck,
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  Speaker 6: ligature marks on the arms, around the biceps, and along
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  Speaker 6: the calves.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but this helps.
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  Speaker 8: His cause of death was suffocation, probably most likely from
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  Speaker 8: the strangulation from the ligature marks that were discovered around
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  Speaker 8: the neck. The removal of the genitals appeared to be post-mortem.
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  Speaker 1: Not only has the serial killer struck again, his spree
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  Speaker 1: appears to be escalating. Authorities now have two new bodies
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  Speaker 1: from which to glean evidence. They begin with the tattoo
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  Speaker 1: found on John Doe number four.
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  Speaker 5: We decided to take that piece of skin and photograph it.
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  Speaker 6: The tattoo was released to the news media and it
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  Speaker 6: was on the television stations and it was printed in
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  Speaker 6: the newspapers.
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  Speaker 1: Hobbs' tactic pays off.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, this is Theresa Smith.
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  Speaker 4: Is there someone I can talk to you about a
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  Speaker 4: tattoo in the newspaper? Once we had John Doe number
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  Speaker 4: four identified as Kenny Smith from Naples in Collier County, Florida,
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  Speaker 4: that gave us a whole new avenue of investigation. We
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  Speaker 4: could go and say, well, who knows him? Who hangs
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  Speaker 4: out with him? What's he do? Where's he work?
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  Speaker 5: Kenny Smith was basically a street person.
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  Speaker 6: He went from shelter to shelter, job to job, did
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  Speaker 6: a lot of drinking, a lot of partying, drugs.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities take another look at the first three victims. and
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  Speaker 1: a pattern emerges.
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  Speaker 6: When the medical examiner examines the body, he can tell
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  Speaker 6: a lot about how a person lives by the conditions
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  Speaker 6: of the organs and the teeth. And everything indicated that
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  Speaker 6: these were people who lived on the street.
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  Speaker 1: Could it be that the killer deliberately targets the down
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  Speaker 1: and out in hopes of keeping his victims nameless? Further
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  Speaker 1: investigation of Kenny Smith yields no answers. Police now pin
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  Speaker 1: their hopes on John Doe number five.
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  Speaker 8: We took some latent fingerprints from him and ran them
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  Speaker 8: through the automated fingerprint identification system. He had some past arrests.
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  Speaker 1: John Doe number five is ID'd as Richard Montgomery, also
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  Speaker 1: a street person. Hobbs tracks down Montgomery's mother, who happens
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  Speaker 1: to have some very interesting information about her son's final hours.
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  Speaker 1: She said something about somebody offering him some money to
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  Speaker 1: pose nude.
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  Speaker 6: Something about the man driving a Capri, a blue Capri.
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  Speaker 1: She tells police that Montgomery went to meet this man
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  Speaker 1: and was never seen again.
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  Speaker 8: The person was selecting transients and panhandlers for one reason,
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  Speaker 8: and it's because there's no one to witness the fact
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  Speaker 8: that she picked him up.
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  Speaker 1: After more than two years of investigation, the task force
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  Speaker 1: has an M.O. and a profile of their killer. What
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  Speaker 1: they don't have is a suspect. Now, A man who
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  Speaker 1: took a ride with death is about to provide them
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  Speaker 1: with one. Hi there.
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  Speaker 10: Can I talk to you for a minute?
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  Speaker 1: Five men of no fixed address are murdered within a
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  Speaker 1: 10-mile radius of each other, and police still have no suspect.
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  Speaker 1: But when news of the homicides reaches state prison inmate
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  Speaker 1: David Pate he contacts authorities with an astonishing tale.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Peyton M. Myers, why don't you go ahead and tell
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  Speaker 2: me your story?
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  Speaker 11: So there's this guy, pulls up to me in a
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  Speaker 11: blue car.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this will be fun.
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  Speaker 12: We'll kick back, have a few cold beers.
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  Speaker 2: A little weed. That sounds good to me, man. Yeah, hey,
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  Speaker 2: care for some of these?
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  Speaker 13: These right here.
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  Speaker 9: I am.
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  Speaker 5: Sweet, man.
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  Speaker 14: He drives out sort of into the woods, almost in
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  Speaker 14: the middle of nowhere.
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  Speaker 5: Guy offers me more money.
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  Speaker 1: He says if he can tie me up, take pictures
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: of me for some men's magazine.
• 23:13
  Speaker 15: How do you feel about if we get a little
• 23:16
  Speaker 15: more creative with the photographs?
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: I agree to it, but I'm feeling a little nervous
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: about this whole situation.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: He gets the car stuck.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: In a ditch.
• 23:28
  Speaker 16: Man, it's okay.
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: I'll get it, and I'll give us a push.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: No!
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: No, no.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: You stay here.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: I'll push.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: All right, well, I'll just drive it then.
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: You drive.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: During the course of the time he was in the vehicle,
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: he started looking around and saw a bag that was
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: in the back seat that had items like duct tape,
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: some ropes, a blue tarp, a large, tight knife.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: And with what he had seen inside the vehicle and
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: the way the guy had acted, when he had the opportunity,
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: he was behind the wheel of the car. When they
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: got it free, he took off in the car, leaving
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: the guy out there in the woods.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Peyton may have cheated death, but he couldn't outrun the law.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: He got the vehicle and went back to Fort Myers,
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: and by this time, the drug and the booze was
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: really acting on him, and he actually fell asleep. And
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: by this time, the subject had filled out a stolen
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: vehicle report with the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office. The Fort
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: Myers Police Department found the vehicle, and Mr. Payton was
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: arrested for grand theft auto. And that's what he was
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: serving time on. It was a grand theft auto from
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: the subject's vehicle.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: He provided some very specific information, which allowed us to
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: go back through records and get an identity on the
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: person that he said took him out into the woods.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: That person was found to be a guy by the
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: name of Daniel Conahan.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Police soon locate Conahan and put him under surveillance. A
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: background check proves very revealing.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Upon reviewing his records from the armed services, the Navy,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: it was determined that he was discharged for trying to
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: commit exosotomy on other sailors.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Conahan later moved to Chicago, where authorities tracked down and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: interview an old roommate.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: He actually was able to identify to us what Mr.
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: Conahan had stated as one of his fantasies, and that
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: fantasy is to... pick up an individual like a hitchhiker
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: and take him to a wooded area, tie him up
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: and have sex with him.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Leaving a trail of deviant sexual behavior in his wake,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Conahan moves from Chicago back to Punta Gorda.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: His parents were elderly and they weren't in the best
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: of health. He moved back to help care for his parents.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Further investigation reveals that upon returning to Florida, Conahan trained
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: as a nurse which could account for the skillful mutilation
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of the victims. It looks like police have their man.
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: He was our key suspect at the time based on
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: what we had learned.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Now they need hard evidence to nail him.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: We started a 24-hour surveillance on him to determine, you know,
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: what his patterns, his travel patterns, daily activity was.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Cameras are mounted on telephone poles outside his residence.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: In watching the surveillance video, when Mr. Cunningham would bring
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: his backpack out, and he would stop and he would
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: set that backpack on top of that blue car. And
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: then he would usually stand there and smoke a cigarette.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: And we believe that that backpack may contain what we
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: refer to as tools of the trades, very similar to
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: what Mr. Payton had described.
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: Some people call it a murder kit. I call it
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: a treasure chest. And this treasure chest includes the weapons
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: that he's going to use, the bindings that will be used,
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: any equipment that might be needed in this assault.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Investigators follow the dutiful son as he drives his mother
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: to and from her senior's home. They also track his
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: less wholesome activities.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: He'd drive by one of the soup kitchens or drive
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: by one of the homeless shelters, and he was like cruising.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: He was looking for exactly what we thought. He was
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: looking for a homeless person or somebody who's hanging around
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: the dumpsters.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Or in one of the back alleys.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Another term I would use is hunting. It's exactly like
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: watching a shark.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Circle its prey.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Armed with information about the route Conahan travels, authorities make
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a bold move. They place an undercover officer disguised as
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: a homeless man right in his path.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: We put undercover detective Ray Weir out on a corner
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: where he would go by that location, coming back to
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: or from visiting his mother.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Weir mans his post, hoping to lure the target.
• 28:33
  Speaker 17: Pull him back around.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: OK, I know. I see him coming.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: He's coming. He's back? No, he's coming your way.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Just from here? Yeah. He's leaving.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: He's probably going to head home.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Finally, after weeks on the job, Conahan takes the bait.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: He made contact.
• 28:56
  Speaker 18: He stopped his vehicle.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: How are you tonight? Good.
• 29:01
  Speaker 19: Good, good.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: I'm Dan.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Dan Conahan. Nice to meet you, Dan.
• 29:06
  Speaker 18: He was eerie to me, and I felt there was
• 29:09
  Speaker 18: something wrong with him.
• 29:10
  Speaker 17: What?
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: Listen, if you're looking for work, I could probably help
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: you out.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: Well, listen, it'd be.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: At that point in.
• 29:21
  Speaker 18: Time, he says something to the effect that, well, there'd
• 29:23
  Speaker 18: be some progressive bondage shots.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you're into that.
• 29:27
  Speaker 18: Again, I told him, well, the money talks.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: You got the cash. I need it. You know, we'll
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: try it, whatever it takes. It's easy money.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Come on in.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: A cop drives into the hog trails with suspected serial
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: killer Daniel Conahan. Will he make it out alive? Five
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: corpses have been mutilated and abandoned in the Florida woods.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: After two and a half years of dead ends, police
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: have zeroed in on suspect Daniel Conahan. Now, Conahan has
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: another victim in his car, but doesn't know it's undercover
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: cop Ray Weir.
• 30:10
  Speaker 18: I told him I was staying out back in the woods.
• 30:15
  Speaker 18: I told him to come out to my camp. I
• 30:17
  Speaker 18: drove all the way out there, parked it, he parked
• 30:19
  Speaker 18: his car, walked up, I had a couple chairs set up,
• 30:22
  Speaker 18: and he sat down and we started talking.
• 30:26
  Speaker 20: So when are we gonna take these pictures you were
• 30:27
  Speaker 20: talking about?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it sounds kind of fun.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Could it be?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Conahan is also unaware that this location has been staked
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: out by police.
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: We had SWAT concealed in the woods.
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: He started getting a little nervous, and he was with
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: that backpack. So they were watching that, I'd hate for
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: my friends to find out about this.
• 31:05
  Speaker 20: But I gotta admit, I could sure use that money.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: It's not gonna hurt or anything, is it?
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I gotta go.
• 31:19
  Speaker 20: Where you going?
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: I can't say why he called it off. I believe
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: it's because he wasn't in control. He wasn't in his element.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Authorities missed their best chance so far to catch Conahan red-handed,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and they're running out of options. Surveillance of this magnitude
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: is too costly to sustain for long. Time for a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: new direction.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: Conahan's been offering money. So we get his financial records.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: We get his bank statements.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: We get his credit card records.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: Now we started seeing a series of purchases. of particular items, rope, tape, tarps, film, knives, pliers,
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: and cameras. And there seem to be intervals on these purchases.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Intervals that coincide with the timelines of some of the murders. Finally,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: police have the compelling connection they need to execute a
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: search warrant on Conahan's home.
• 32:32
  Speaker 21: First we photograph, then we make a sketch of the area.
• 32:36
  Speaker 21: If we're gonna do vacuum sweepings, which in this case we.
• 32:38
  Speaker 15: Did, that would be one of the first.
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: Things we would do.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: We did see a backpack and found a backpack we
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: thought was significant that matched some of the description of
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: what we had seen during surveillance when he was coming
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: to and from his vehicle. A lot of times he
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: would have this backpack.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: The murder kit they hope to find is not in
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the backpack. but a number of suspicious objects are found
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: in the home.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: We did find a knife.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: We did find some rope. We did find some Polaroid
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: pictures and film. We found the components, but they weren't
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: in his bag.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, police intercept Conahan and bring him to a second
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: location for questioning.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Hello? Hi, how you doing? Wow, much better.
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: I'm Special Agent Porter from the governor's office.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Do you recognize this man? I've never seen that man
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: before in my life.
• 33:32
  Speaker 20: You're quite sure about that, sir.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Take a close look. Well, I just told you, I've
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: never seen him before. You have a.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Past record of history of a molestation back in Chicago.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Can you explain that? Well, as a matter of fact,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I can explain that.
• 33:47
  Speaker 21: That involves.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: A misunderstanding within.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: within an existing relationship.
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: He was asked if he did the crime, if he
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: was there, if he knew the victims. He was always
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: on guard during the interview, very evasive in his answers.
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: Have you ever participated.
• 34:13
  Speaker 19: In bonding?
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: No.
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: I've been looking at magazines.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: I've seen some movies.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I have never tied anybody out. Porter continues to press
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Conahan while the search team descends on his blue Mercury Capri.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: It had a paint job that was peeling.
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: We took paint samplings from the chips and did scrapings
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: from the paint.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: There was fibers found from his house and his car.
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: Fibers that may be transferable to our victims.
• 34:49
  Speaker 16: Your pictures will be plastered over the paper.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Now, what do you think is going.
• 34:53
  Speaker 15: To happen with all the people you may.
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: Have come in contact with when they call in and
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: they say, yeah.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: We went out to the woods.
• 35:02
  Speaker 9: He said he had a fantasy.
• 35:04
  Speaker 20: Yeah, he took my photograph.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: If we get something.
• 35:06
  Speaker 11: Like that, It won't look good.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: It won't be good.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Mind your rest. Now, Mr. Conahan, you're free to go.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: So I'm free to go? Yes, sir. Thank you very much. Goodbye.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: He was pleasant, cold, and calculating.
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: The interview did not seem to impress him very much.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: The search of Conahan's home and vehicle yields several items
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: of interest. Including unusual rope fibers police hope will match
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: those recovered from the crime scenes.
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: We did not find any evidence that would clearly identify
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: him as a person responsible.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: For our crimes. In this high-stakes game of cat and mouse,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the mouse appears to be winning. Hobbs sends out a
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: police bulletin to all jurisdictions in Central Florida. describing the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: murders and asking for any information that may help his case.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: The bulletin catches the attention of Officer Pedro Soto.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: I'm in awe.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I'm in shock.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at it.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going like, oh my god. Soto immediately contacts the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Charlotte County Sheriff.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: And I said, you know, this is amazing. I had
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: a crime scene just like this two years ago. You
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: guys know about it?
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: And I told him, I said, well, I had sent
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: out teletypes and phone calls. Anybody that had any similar deaths,
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: you know, give me a call. He says, oh, our
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: guy didn't die.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: He lived. I went, what?
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Officer Soto tells Hobbs of the time he was called
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to assist an assault victim who showed up at a
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: local hospital.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: He had obvious ligature marks around his neck.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: His chest and his.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Arms and legs. The victim, Stanley Burden, told Soto the
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: chilling story of a man in a blue capri.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: The individual asked him if he could take naked photographs
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: of him tied to a tree for $ 200.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Burden agreed and went with the individual to the wooded area.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: This will be good.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: What are you doing?
• 37:24
  Speaker 19: This will be good right here.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Let's just wait. Just wait.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Just wait. And the individual then attempted to sodomize him.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Burden stated that he resisted.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: Stop it!
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: Stop!
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: And when he was dying, the individual got angry at him.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Die, you son of a bitch!
• 37:43
  Speaker 19: Die!
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: An approaching car scared the assailant off, leaving Burden for
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: dead tied to a tree in the middle of nowhere.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: He threw down a pair of pliers. Individual got into
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: his van and he drove away.
• 38:01
  Speaker 19: Mr.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Burden then was able to get loose, reach for the pliers,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: cut himself loose.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Burden ran out to the highway and flagged a ride
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: to the hospital. He was never able to give a
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: comprehensive description of his assailant.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: There really weren't many avenues we could have followed. In
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: terms of investigating the case, that's as far as we
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: could have gone.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: With nothing more to go on, the unsolved crime went cold,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: was filed, and forgotten.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: So given this new information from Detective Soto, he provided
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: us with copies of the pictures and a copy of
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: the police report, and gave us information on the victim
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: in that case, which turned out to be Stanley Burden.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: We did a background on him to find out where
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: he was, and he was incarcerated in.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: Columbus, Ohio.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: He was provided a photo lineup of Daniel Conahan in
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: the Correctional Institute where I interviewed him, and he immediately
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: picked him out without any hesitation whatsoever.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: He said, that is the subject that did this to me.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: It's like getting somebody off the autopsy table and telling
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: you what happened to him. That's exactly what this guy was.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: He was somebody that should have been killed. He should
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: have been laying in the woods with the bugs eating him,
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: and here he was sitting there telling us exactly what
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: happened to him and how he got away from this guy.
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: You have the right to remain silent.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: On July 3rd, 1996, Daniel Conahan is arrested for the
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: attempted murder of Stanley Burden.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Do you understand these rights as they've been read to you?
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: And there was no surprise on his face when myself
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: and Jim Myers walked in and I told him he
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: was under arrest.
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: And he just got in the car and away we went.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Police have finally caught their killer. But there's no guarantee
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: they can bring him to justice. After 31 months of
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: intense statewide investigation, police have arrested Daniel Conahan for crimes
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: against Stanley Burton.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: We had a positive ID. We had a good statement.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: We had the evidence from the crime scene.
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: And ended up securing an arrest warrant for Mr. Conahan,
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: attempted murder, sexual battery, and kidnapping.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: But with five men dead, investigators are determined to nail
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Conahan for full-blown homicide. Taking one last look at the
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: case forensics, they re-examine hair comings from Richard Montgomery's body
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: and find something extraordinary.
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: There appeared to be a paint chip, a small piece
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: of paint chip that was in his pubic hair area,
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: remaining pubic hair area on his body. That was sent
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: off along with the paint chips that we obtained from
• 41:10
  Speaker 8: the Mercury Capri to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: Crime Laboratory for analysis. See if that was a match.
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: From that sample taken from the pubic area of Mr.
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: Montgomery was that that match and all characteristics the paint
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: standard provided from the Mercury Capri.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: This final forensic piece of the puzzle allows prosecutors to
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: add a new charge against Conahan, the first degree murder
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: of Richard Montgomery. In court, Conahan vigorously insists he's innocent,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: claiming that he's being railroaded simply because he's gay. The
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: prosecution's evidence accumulates quickly.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: The area was quite densely wooded, a mixture of scrub.
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: Brush and the badly decomposed body of an adult male.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: That made him very nervous.
• 42:08
  Speaker 22: Some rope, tarp, I believe a hunting knife that he mentioned.
• 42:14
  Speaker 16: And as Mr.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Conahan... The idea of a sexual sadist is one who rapes... And.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Finally, for good measure, prosecutors bring out their smoking gun. Mr. Burden,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: would you please show the courtroom your neck? August 17th, 1999.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: After just 25 minutes of deliberation, Judge William Blackwell finds
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Daniel Conahan guilty of kidnapping and first degree murder. He's
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: sentenced to die. To this day, Conahan insists he's innocent,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: but police are satisfied they've got the right man. None
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: of the photographs he's believed to have taken of his
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: victims have ever been found.
• 43:03
  Speaker 9: You know, it's my opinion that Daniel Cahn in hand
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: doesn't have a guilt feeling in his whole body.
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: There is no remorse.
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: None has ever been shown that I'm aware of. This
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: is a man that enjoyed the pain, the suffering, and
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: the death of other individuals, human beings. Why he did this,
• 43:30
  Speaker 9: I don't know if we'll ever know.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: And as Conahan sits on death row, awaiting his fate,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: authorities still wonder how many more victims are yet to
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: be found along the hog trails of Charlotte County. California's
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Yosemite National Park. a spectacular wildlife sanctuary that attracts millions
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: of nature lovers every year.
• 44:10
  Speaker 10: Nobody thinks bad things happen in places like this.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: But this year would prove otherwise. In February of 1999,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Carol's son, her daughter, and a family friend visit Yosemite.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: Mother's spider.
• 44:28
  Speaker 22: No, I'm just joking.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: They spend the 14th and 15th hiking and seeing the sights,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: returning each night to their motel. They are scheduled to
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: meet up with Carol's husband the morning of the 16th.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: But they would never make it. Three missing women.
• 45:01
  Speaker 19: It was as if they had fallen off the face
• 45:03
  Speaker 19: of the earth.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: A desperate search.
• 45:05
  Speaker 11: There were no clear clues as to what had happened
• 45:08
  Speaker 11: to these people.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: A disappearance that shocks America.
• 45:15
  Speaker 10: It's probably the strangest and one of the most chilling
• 45:19
  Speaker 10: cases I've ever covered in my 20 years as a journalist.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: And puts police on the trail of a master manipulator
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: determined to outsmart them. Carol's son, her 15-year-old daughter Julie,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: and family friend Silvina Peloso have failed to show up
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: for a rendezvous with Carol's husband Jens at the San
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Francisco airport.
• 46:29
  Speaker 10: Carol's son was the type of person who kept to
• 46:32
  Speaker 10: a very strict calendar. She was someone who was always
• 46:35
  Speaker 10: on time, where she was supposed to be when she
• 46:37
  Speaker 10: was supposed to be there.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: The anxious husband and father calls room 509 of the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Cedar Lodge Motel where the women were staying. After several
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: failed attempts to reach them, he contacts local authorities.
• 47:08
  Speaker 19: The hotel room was found in a typical state of
• 47:12
  Speaker 19: someone who's left their hotel room. They had two double beds,
• 47:16
  Speaker 19: and the double beds had prepared to be slept in
• 47:19
  Speaker 19: and unmade. There were bath towels that were wet and
• 47:22
  Speaker 19: used on the floor and on the rack. There was
• 47:25
  Speaker 19: nothing really remarkable about the room.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Investigators quickly discover that Carol's son's rental car is gone,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: and it hasn't been returned to the agency. Police have
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: room 509 sealed as a precaution. But with no apparent
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: signs of foul play, they consider other possibilities.
• 47:53
  Speaker 15: The theory that was most predominant would be they had
• 47:58
  Speaker 15: a car accident.
• 48:00
  Speaker 10: It was wintertime. The roads were slick. There had been snow.
• 48:07
  Speaker 16: We have had numerous vehicles that have gone off our roadways.
• 48:12
  Speaker 16: We have had several deaths, so that is a very
• 48:16
  Speaker 16: realistic possibility.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Agencies across the state join forces to scour the vast
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: forested area around Yosemite. At the same time, police visit Mr. Sun.
• 48:28
  Speaker 10: Mr.
• 48:28
  Speaker 21: Sun, good day.
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: Yes, how are you?
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Detective Sun.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: Good to meet you.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Molly, I just have a few questions.
• 48:32
  Speaker 8: To ask you.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Investigators press Sun for any information that might help explain
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: his wife's disappearance.
• 48:38
  Speaker 10: No problems, no quarrels.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Could marital difficulties lie at the heart of things? Police
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: think not.
• 48:51
  Speaker 11: There was not a lot of weight given to the
• 48:54
  Speaker 11: possibility that Carol would have simply disappeared of her own accord,
• 48:58
  Speaker 11: in part because she was traveling with the two girls
• 49:00
  Speaker 11: and she had left behind her other children with Jens.
• 49:03
  Speaker 11: And everything that we were learning about Carol suggested that
• 49:06
  Speaker 11: she was a dedicated mother and a responsible person.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: With the clock ticking and still no sign of Carol
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Sun's car, police worry about finding the women in time.
• 49:23
  Speaker 15: It was just a dramatic, intense need to find these
• 49:27
  Speaker 15: people before something, you know, permanent had happened to them.
• 49:33
  Speaker 10: Days had passed, and there had been Large search parties
• 49:37
  Speaker 10: searching for any clues, and nothing was coming up.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Could something have been missed at the Cedar Lodge? The
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: FBI takes charge of the case, sending Special Agents Chris
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Hopkins and Jeff Reinick to visit the motel. Together, they
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: assess room 509.
• 50:03
  Speaker 19: We had a missing blanket. a missing pillowcase, items left
• 50:08
  Speaker 19: behind in the rooms. But we didn't find any significant
• 50:12
  Speaker 19: evidence to say this is in fact a crime scene.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: The FBI now turns its attention to guests and staff.
• 50:23
  Speaker 11: We were working at the Cedar Lodge, interviewing employees, interviewing
• 50:28
  Speaker 11: hotel guests, trying to do the best we could to
• 50:31
  Speaker 11: find out whether or not anything had happened there.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: From these interviews, Agent Nick Rossi pieces together a rough timeline.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: A park ranger remembers seeing the women over the course
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: of two days. They appeared to be having a great time.
• 50:51
  Speaker 11: They had their first excursion in the park on February 14th.
• 50:56
  Speaker 11: They returned to the park on February 15th.
• 50:59
  Speaker 19: We had witnesses at the Cedar Lodge that saw them
• 51:02
  Speaker 19: eating their dinner there on February 15th.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: The waitress who served them recalls the trio was in
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: high spirits.
• 51:12
  Speaker 19: The family also rented two videos from the front desk.
• 51:16
  Speaker 11: And The last time they were seen alive was at
• 51:20
  Speaker 11: approximately 7.30 or so in the evening on February 15th.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: For all the FBI's questions, no unusual behavior, strange encounters,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: or anything untoward concerning the women is reported. Then, agents
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: learn that someone besides Carol Sund had access to room
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: 509 before she and the girls disappeared. they take the
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: motel locksmith into custody.
• 51:52
  Speaker 11: He had rekeyed the locks on the door for Carol's
• 51:56
  Speaker 11: hotel room. This individual had a brother who worked at
• 52:03
  Speaker 11: another nearby hotel who had a prior conviction for sexual
• 52:08
  Speaker 11: assault on children.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: The employee claims his innocence and agrees to a polygraph.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: While it's being administered, Hopkins pays a second visit to
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the motel.
• 52:25
  Speaker 19: And again, we didn't find any significant evidence.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: The room is clean. Maybe too clean. And when the
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: polygraph reveals no evidence of deceit, agents are forced to
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: release their first and only suspect.
• 52:44
  Speaker 19: After February 15th, There was no established timeline. It was
• 52:49
  Speaker 19: as if they had fallen off the face of the earth.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: Authorities find themselves back at square one, unaware that the
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: case is about to take an alarming turn. Carol's son.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Her daughter Julie and family friend Silvina Peloso have been
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: missing for three days. Search base, team six. Search and
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: rescue operations have yielded nothing, nor has an FBI investigation
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: into possible foul play. But now, 100 miles away in
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: the city of Modesto, the case is turned on its
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: head when a student finds a wallet at a downtown intersection.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Inside is ID belonging to Carol Sund.
• 53:51
  Speaker 11: Once the wallet was found in Modesto, it opened a
• 53:55
  Speaker 11: whole new range of possibilities. Everything from a possible carjacking
• 54:01
  Speaker 11: to a kidnapping. There were lots of different theories about
• 54:04
  Speaker 11: what may have happened.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Theories collide with reality when a car is pulled over
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: for a missing license plate. The vehicle belongs to Modesto
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: resident Michael Larwick.
• 54:27
  Speaker 11: It was a routine traffic stop. And the question that
• 54:32
  Speaker 11: it begs is, why did Larwick react the way he did?
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Larwick is arrested after an 18-hour standoff at his house.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: And while he's in custody, police receive an anonymous tip.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Rossi here.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: The caller tells them to take a close look at
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Larwick and his half-brother, Eugene Dykes, in connection with the
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: San Peloso disappearance.
• 55:06
  Speaker 15: And they were very good suspects. They had a lot
• 55:08
  Speaker 15: of assaults. They had a lot of sexual assaults, kidnappings.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 55:12
  Speaker 11: Dykes was in custody at the time that Mick Larwick
• 55:16
  Speaker 11: was engaged in his shootout with police because he had
• 55:19
  Speaker 11: just recently been arrested for possession of a firearm.
• 55:25
  Speaker 15: So they fit all the criteria that this investigation originally needed.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: The investigation suddenly has two prime suspects.
• 55:34
  Speaker 15: I need to know where these women are.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Larwick and Dykes are subjected to non-stop interrogation by FBI agents,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: desperate to find the women alive.
• 55:43
  Speaker 21: And you don't know anything about it?
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Larwick is uncooperative.
• 55:46
  Speaker 15: No, I don't remember.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: And denies any involvement. That's not good enough! Now where
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: are they? But after hours of grilling, Dykes starts telling
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: a different story. Where?
• 55:59
  Speaker 15: That's when Dykes first began speaking of what he claimed
• 56:04
  Speaker 15: was his involvement in this case.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Eventually, Dykes signs a confession admitting his participation in the
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: women's disappearance. But what he doesn't tell investigators is what
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: they most want to know.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Open 12.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Where is the missing mother and two teenage girls? Close 12.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Agent Hopkins vacuums Larwick's car, looking for physical evidence tying
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the half-brothers to the crime.
• 56:41
  Speaker 19: The FBI laboratory found hairs and fibers, one of which
• 56:44
  Speaker 19: was an orange acrylic fiber.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, no matching hairs or fibers are recovered from room
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: 509 of the Cedar Lodge.
• 56:59
  Speaker 10: Then.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: On March 18th, 100 miles away from Modesto, in remote
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: woods beyond the town of Long Barn, a hiker makes
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: a chilling discovery.
• 57:11
  Speaker 16: He noticed that the vehicle was badly burned, but he
• 57:15
  Speaker 16: went down and got the license plate from the vehicle
• 57:19
  Speaker 16: and called it in to the California Highway Patrol. They
• 57:23
  Speaker 16: ran the license plate and immediately realized it was Carol's
• 57:26
  Speaker 16: son's missing vehicle.
• 57:32
  Speaker 19: There was no original surface remaining on the car, on
• 57:35
  Speaker 19: the interior of the car and the exterior of the car.
• 57:39
  Speaker 19: All the paint had boiled off and rolled off the
• 57:42
  Speaker 19: frame of the car.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: The seats had all been burnt up.
• 57:47
  Speaker 19: I could see through the passenger compartment into the trunk compartment.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: Let's try and get in the trunk. And upon opening
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: the trunk.
• 57:59
  Speaker 19: I could see that we had remains of human beings.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Distraught when they discover charred remains in the trunk of
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Carol's son's rental car.
• 58:15
  Speaker 16: I have seen lots of burned bodies, but I have
• 58:18
  Speaker 16: not seen anything to the extent that was involved in
• 58:23
  Speaker 16: this case. There was not a lot left. It wasn't
• 58:28
  Speaker 16: like looking at a normal body that you would find
• 58:31
  Speaker 16: because the intense heat had destroyed most.
• 58:35
  Speaker 9: Of the body.
• 58:36
  Speaker 19: It was clear that we have a homicide case working out.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Authorities want answers. The car itself offers the first disturbing clue.
• 58:50
  Speaker 19: We could tell that this vehicle was intended to be burned.
• 58:55
  Speaker 19: The passenger rear door was left ajar so that it
• 59:00
  Speaker 19: would create a vent so that it would help oxygenate
• 59:04
  Speaker 19: the fire.
• 59:06
  Speaker 11: They had placed the bodies in the trunk. They had
• 59:08
  Speaker 11: taken the effort to douse the car with some kind
• 59:11
  Speaker 11: of flammable material and then set it ablaze.
• 59:20
  Speaker 19: The heat of the fire was so intense that picking
• 59:22
  Speaker 19: up some of their remains, their skeletal remains, the bones
• 59:26
  Speaker 19: would just turn to dust.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: In our hands.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: As the investigation continues in the field, the remains arrive
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: at the morgue for positive identification. Pathologists analyze the many fragments,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: paying special attention to the teeth.
• 59:48
  Speaker 19: We had already in our possession the dental records for
• 59:50
  Speaker 19: Carol and Julie's son. We took the dental records to
• 59:56
  Speaker 19: a forensic odontologist, and the forensic odontologist identified one of
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 19: our victims as Carol's son.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Forensic experts also have the means to identify Silvina Peloso.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 16: We had DNA samples taken from her parents. They had
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 16: flown up to our area.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Authorities at the crime scene retrieve some evidence when they
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: find a girl's running shoe. And something even more compelling.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 19: In doing the search around the vehicle, we found additional
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 19: evidence to include Carol's son's purse and her fanny pack
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 19: that had cameras in it.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Investigators puzzle over their killer's profile. Was he sloppy or devious?
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 11: This was a person who had gone to some lengths
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: to destroy evidence of their crime. And yet, this was
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 11: someone who had not gone to the pains of collecting
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 11: and destroying other evidence that was found nearby.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: But all speculation is set aside when word comes back
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: from the morgue.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: It turns out only two of the victims were in
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: the car. Julie Sund is still unaccounted for.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 15: Knowing that she may be alive and in pain or suffering,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 15: I don't know how to describe what it does to you.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Every available police resource is put towards finding the 15-year-old girl.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 11: We were still holding on to that slim string of
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 11: hope that she might be found alive.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Agents used the detail that the torched car was found
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: in such a remote location to try and zero in
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: on the killer's MO.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 11: And the fact that they had destroyed their means of
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 11: transportation suggested to us that there may have been some
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 11: other vehicle That, of course, suggested the possibility that there
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 11: may have been more than one person. Someone to drive
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 11: the victim's car and set it ablaze and someone else
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 11: to follow and provide a getaway. It suggested this was
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 11: someone who knew the area.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: The prime suspects fit the bill precisely.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 11: We learned that Larwick had actually resided not far from
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 11: the location where the victim's car had been found. In fact,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 11: he had committed a crime not far from where the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 11: victim's car had been found. And so there were little
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 11: pieces of information that it may have been involved.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: But despite relentless interrogation, which results in statements from Dykes
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: that he participated in the murders, feds can't get anything
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: concrete out of their prisoners.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: That's not true.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Then, on March 24th, a letter postmarked shortly after the
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: women's disappearance arrives at FBI headquarters. It contains a map
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: and a distressing message. We had fun with this one.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 11: I mean, the statement itself is one of those that
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 11: makes you sick to hear. And it suggested that this
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 11: was someone who took some satisfaction in their crimes.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: The map leads to a remote overlook known as Vista Point,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: only a short drive from the Cedar Lodge Motel. It's
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: here that the investigators' worst fears are realized.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 19: We went down the hill to recover Julie Sun's body.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 19: She was naked, other than a two-inch black duct tape
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 19: wrapped around her left ankle. The duct tape indicates that
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 19: this victim had been bound up with the duct tape
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 19: and kept hostage. Her hair was fanned out, her right
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 19: leg was spread apart from her left leg, and her
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 19: left leg was bent forward, and her hands were crossed
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 19: over her chest.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 15: It appeared that she had been posed. And a person
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 15: who has been posed in death by an offender indicates
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 15: an offender who's sexually motivated and who has a fantasy,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 15: which is very dangerous for other people.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 19: There was a very large lava mass on Julie's neck,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 19: which indicated to me immediately that her neck had been cut.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 10: When they discovered Julie's body, it became even more sinister
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 10: than everybody originally thought. I mean, it was horrible when
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 10: they found Carolyn Silvina their charred remains in the trunk
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 10: of their rental car. But when they found Julie in
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 10: the position she was, I think people started thinking serial killer,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 10: started thinking, you know, this is just a crime that's
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 10: bigger than we ever thought.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: The forensic analysis of the crime scene provides investigators with
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: a surprising piece of material.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 19: That orange acrylic fiber was on Julie's son's body.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 11: Consistent. with originating from the same source as fibers that
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 11: were found among the belongings of Larwick and Dykes.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Authorities finally have physical evidence linking the half-brothers to the
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: San Peloso murders. Tying them to the anonymous letter will
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: seal their fate.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 19: The fingerprint expert found what he thought was a right
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 19: thumb partial print on the stamp that overlapped onto the envelope.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: But their attempt to connect the partial print to Larwick
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: or Dykes fails. No match is found. FBI DNA expert
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: Melissa Smears now extracts DNA from saliva on the envelope seal.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 10: With regards to the DNA that was obtained on the
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 10: envelope in this case, I was able to determine that
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 10: male DNA was present.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: She compares this DNA with samples taken from the Half Brothers.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: But once again, investigators receive shocking news. It doesn't match
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: either one of them. The weight of the evidence now
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: suggests that police have been focused on the wrong suspects.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 15: I believe they were playing with the people that were
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 15: investigating them. And they both got really good treatment for
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 15: at least 10 weeks.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 8: While they were.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 15: Being interviewed and re-interviewed and took an opportunity to send
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 15: authority on a wild goose chase and had a good
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 15: time doing it.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: That means a killer may still be out there. Three
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: women have been brutally murdered near Yosemite National Park. And
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: the case police have built against their prime suspects, Michael
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Larwick and Eugene Dykes, falters when compelling forensic evidence suggests
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: some other killer. Investigators pour over the case, looking for
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: new leads. Jeff Reinick turns to the roll of film
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: found near Carol's son's burnt out rental car, hoping to
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: learn more about how the women spent their final hours.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 15: The photos were of Julie and Sylvina being girls and
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 15: Carol being there as the parent enjoying this moment with
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 15: her daughter and her friend.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: But of greater interest to Reinick is the timestamps on
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: the back of the pictures. especially the last one.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 11: Those rolls of film allowed us to say with relative
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 11: certainty that they had been alive and well and in
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 11: their room at roughly 10.30 in the evening on February 15th.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Authorities re-examine the victims' remains in a frantic search for answers. Remarkably,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Carol's son's stomach survived the fire.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 19: They found evidence of starchy material, broccoli, cauliflower, which was
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 19: very interesting because we knew on February 15th that evening
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 19: they had eaten a meal at the Cedar Lodge and
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 19: Carol had ordered a vegetarian burrito. The stomach contents suggested
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 19: to me that Carol's son met with her death within
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 19: hours after eating the burrito that she had purchased.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Investigators realize that Carol, at least, met her death at,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: or in close proximity to, the Cedar Lodge. They immediately
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: return to the motel and soon have a new suspect
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: in custody.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 11: It was the night cleaning man at the hotel's restaurant.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 11: He had come on duty late the night that the
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 11: victims were last seen alive and really had no one
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 11: who could account for his whereabouts from late that evening
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 11: until early the next morning. A search that was done
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 11: of his workplace revealed two laundry bags that tested positive
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 11: for blood.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 15: He was very adversarial, very belligerent, very uncooperative with law enforcement.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: Authorities are finally closing in on their killer. Or so
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: they think. On the morning of July 22nd, a Yosemite
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: Park ranger stops by the cabin of 26-year-old Joey Armstrong
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: after friends reported her failure to meet them the previous evening.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 19: Inside the cabin, he could see that a tremendous struggle
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 19: took place.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: Investigators recover fingerprints and trace evidence, but it's the area
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: outside Armstrong's cabin that offers the most intriguing clues.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 19: We identified tire tread marks and shoe wear impressions in
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 19: the sand.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: Yosemite tracker Mark Fincher makes drawings of the two distinct
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: tire treads found at the scene. He also notes a
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: clear impression of a man's sandal The depth and trajectory
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: of the footprint impressions suggest that Joey was dragged to
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: a nearby vehicle. As they follow the tire tracks, investigators
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: encounter more scuffed footprints, indicating that someone had exited the
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: vehicle and been dragged away. The prints continue to a
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: nearby creek, where a grisly find awaits.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 19: And she had been placed up against the reeds and
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 19: concealed with vegetation. It struck me immediately that the position
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 19: of her body was almost identical as the position that
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 19: we recovered Julie's son in.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 11: It triggered a concern, a fear, that perhaps these cases
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 11: may be connected.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 19: There was evidence of a sexual assault. Her pants had
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 19: been unbuttoned and unzipped. Her shirt had been pulled up.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Most shocking of all is that Joey Armstrong has been decapitated.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 10: Joey Armstrong was a naturalist, and she took young children
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 10: who were visiting the park on nature hikes and taught
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 10: them about the plants and the animals.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 11: I was dumbstruck. I mean, I was devastated. This was
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 11: another tragic crime.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Authorities scour the crime scene vicinity for possible witnesses. A
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: park ranger soon encounters a man lounging in the sun.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 11: At that point in time, Joey's head, as sad as
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 11: it sounds, had not yet been found. There was some
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 11: suspicion that he was hiding some evidence in his backpack.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Would you mind if I had a look in your backpack?
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: I would prefer if you didn't.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: The man's reluctance causes the ranger to bring him in
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: for questioning. He is identified as Cedar Lodge handyman, Kerry Stainer.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: Nothing of significance is found in Stainer's backpack, which leaves
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: law enforcement wondering why he didn't consent to an earlier search.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 11: He acknowledged that he had been in the park, but
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 11: he denied being in the area of the crime scene.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 11: He denied having any contact with Joey Armstrong. He provided
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 11: an explanation of what he had been doing.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: In the park.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 19: We asked him, will you voluntarily give us a DNA sample,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 19: and he complied.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: While Stainer's interview continues, Hopkins takes a precautionary measure.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 19: I dispatched a couple FBI agents to go take Polaroid
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 19: pictures are the tire tread impressions of Kerry Stainer's Jeep.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: With nothing to hold him, the handyman is released.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: You're welcome.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Cheers. Meanwhile, the search for Joey Armstrong's head reaches a
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: grim conclusion.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 19: I didn't know what to read into that. I didn't
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 19: know if this person was trying to inhibit us, our
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 19: ability to identify who the victim was and place the
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 19: head in a different location. I didn't know what to
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 19: make of it.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Another woman dead and a killer still on the loose.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: Can police catch him before he strikes again? Five months
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: after three sightseers are found dead outside of Yosemite Park,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: 26-year-old naturalist Joey Armstrong The investigation continues on several fronts.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: But when Nick Rossi decides to ask Cedar Lodge handyman,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: Kerry Stainer, some more questions, he receives strange news.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 5: I don't know what to say.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: First time in two years he's missed a day of work.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: The motel manager takes Rossi to Stainer's apartment. But Stainer
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: is gone, along with most of his possessions. A lookout
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: bulletin is issued for the handyman as a material witness
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: in the Joey Armstrong case. Authorities soon get a hit.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 11: A woman who was staying at Laguna del Sol, which
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 11: is a resort south of Sacramento, recognized Stainer, and she
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 11: called the Sacramento office of the FBI.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Reinick is dispatched to bring the witness in.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: Stainer?
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 15: And as soon as Kerry was aware I was there,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 15: he stood up and put his hands on his head,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 15: which is not normal behavior for a citizen.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: Given Stainer's odd reaction, Reiner cuffs him as a precaution.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: And while the agent transports Stainer back to headquarters, Hopkins
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: studies tire tread evidence.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 19: So I compared the sketch of the tire tread impressions
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 19: in front of the cabin with the Polaroid pictures taken
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 19: from the tires on Stainer's Jeep.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 10: Stainer.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 11: What I'm showing you are pictures of tire treads.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 19: The two front tires on Stainer's Jeep did not match
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 19: the back two tires of his Jeep, but yet we
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 19: had both of those tires at that crime scene, and
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 19: he was telling investigators he'd never been there.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: Can I see one of your sandals, please?
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 11: Sure.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 19: Once we asked for his sandals, he knew that he
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 19: left impression evidence behind. He knew that we were going
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 19: to be able to forensically demonstrate that he was there
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 19: and he was the one responsible for killing Joey Armstrong.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 15: When he asked to speak to me alone, you know,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 15: I guess you could say something was up.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Faced with the evidence, Stainer confesses to the murder. He
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: also tells Reinach exactly what happened.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 21: Excuse me, I'm just getting ready to go.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 10: Ah!
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 6: No!
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 19: Carrie Stainer was in a real rush to try to
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 19: remove her out of the cabin into his Jeep and
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 19: move her out of the area.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: But Joey Armstrong resisted, even managed to escape from the
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: moving vehicle. but Stainer caught her and subdued her.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 11: Joey fought fiercely against Stainer and basically forced him to
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 11: kill her at that scene rather than.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: transporting her far away.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: The handyman is officially charged with the Armstrong homicide. Now
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: the FBI wants him for three more.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 11: He was implicating himself not only in Joey's death, but
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 11: possibly also in the Sund-Peloso homicides.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: Back to the forensics. Stainer's DNA is compared to saliva
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: from the anonymous letter that led police to Julie Sund. Incredibly,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: no match is found. Have they got the wrong man again?
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: Hopkins pays yet another visit to room 509 of the
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: Cedar Lodge. now looking for any trace of Carrie Stainer.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: But none is present. Everything comes down to the partial
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: print lifted from the anonymous letter's stamp.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 19: The fingerprint examiner compared those known fingerprints with that partial
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 19: fingerprint found on the stamp, and it was a match.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: Now forensically tied to the murders of Carol, Julie, and Sylvina,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: Stainer realizes he's reached the end of his road. He
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: opens up to Agent Reinach about a lifetime of twisted desires.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 15: He said, I'm a bad person, I've done some bad things.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 15: He has had devious sexual drives for quite a while.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 11: From the time that he was young, it had been
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 11: important to him to try.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: To control women.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 11: Over them was central to his fantasies about killing and
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 11: sexual assault.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 15: He recognized his fantasy. He decided he was going to
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 15: see it through, and he did.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 11: He talked about other guests at the hotel that he
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 11: chose not to attack because he thought they might have
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 11: a man with them.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: Good evening, ma'am. I'm maintenance. We're having a water leak problem.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: May I come in?
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 11: He desensitized the victims to his approach by knocking on
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 11: adjacent doors and hollering maintenance and going in and sort
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 11: of making noises so that by the time he reached
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 11: their door, it would seem more routine.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: It's a little late for maintenance work, isn't it?
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 8: Okay, no problem.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: I'll go get the management if that makes you feel better.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: No, fine.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 19: Come in.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: Great, thanks.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 15: And that began an unbelievable tragedy.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: Everybody freeze.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: Don't make a sound.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: Lie down.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: And don't look at me.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: Stainer binds all three women with duct tape. He puts
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: Julie and Sylvina in the bathroom, leaving Carol's son on
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: the bed.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 19: Carol's son was killed initially. He strangled her and placed
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 19: her in the trunk.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: Stainer next brings Silvina Peloso out to the bed. She
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: makes so much noise, he becomes afraid of detection.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 19: And he subsequently killed Silvina Peloso and placed her in
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 19: the trunk of the car.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: Julie Sund is now the only one alive.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 19: For some weird reason, he developed quite an affinity for Julie.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: First, Stainer assaults her. Then he wraps her in a blanket,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: puts her in the car, and drives her to the
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: secluded shores of Don Pedro Lake.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 15: He wants to fantasize, if you will, that they have
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 15: a relationship. And he convinced himself that she loved him
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 15: and he loved her. And he holds to that till
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 15: the end.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: The FBI finally has the man responsible for Yosemite's reign
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: of terror.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 10: Stainer was the proverbial boy next door, good-looking and unassuming,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 10: not the typical person you would suspect of being a killer.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: The remaining question is how he kept authorities off his
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: trail for so long. Cedar Lodge handyman Kerry Stainer is
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: the confessed killer of Carol and Julie Sund, Silvina Peloso,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: and Joey Armstrong. He now tells federal agents how he
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: always planned to outsmart them.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 19: Kerry Stainer had fantasized about doing this event. And all
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 19: the different types of forensic evidence investigators use to associate
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 19: an offender to.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: A crime scene.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 11: And he used that knowledge to basically manipulate evidence and
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 11: create misleading clues for the team investigating this case.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: After killing Julie and leaving her at the lake, Stainer
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: sets out to lead authorities far away from his crimes.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: He drives 100 miles to Long Barn and ditches the
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: rental car with the bodies of Carol and Sovina inside.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: He then hikes to a main road, catches a cab
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: back to the Cedar Lodge, and thoroughly cleans room 509.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 10: He left all kinds of signs that the women had
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 10: left that morning and were taking their drive as planned.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 10: He had gotten rid of any kind of evidence that
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 10: this had been a room where two killings had taken
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 10: place and a girl had been sexually assaulted for hours.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: He informs investigators that he shaved his body before he
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: struck in order to leave fewer traces behind. Two days
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: after the murders, he returns to Long Barn in his
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: own vehicle, places the women's belongings in the rental car,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: and destroys the evidence. But he keeps a few select
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: items for his next trick, 100 miles away in Modesto.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 15: He took many of the possessions of Carol, Savina, and
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 15: Julie and dumped them in Modesto.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: This effort to fool police gets a major boost when
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: Dykes and Larwick, the perfect suspects, happen to pick up
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: Carol's son's wallet and take the clothes to sell on
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: the street. The garments are never recovered, but the orange
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: fibers from Julie's shirt found in the car help incriminate
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: the pair. Hearing about their arrests on the news, Stainer
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: writes the taunting letter to suggest that more than one
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: killer is involved in the crime.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 11: He knew that we could extract DNA from things like envelopes,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 11: and the flap used to seal an envelope.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 19: So he went down to Modesto and found a little
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 19: Hispanic boy and paid this little Hispanic boy $ 5 to
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 19: spit in a.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: Cup He then uses the boy's saliva to seal the envelope.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 11: He showed considerable intelligence and considerable planning in the way
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 11: that he concealed the crime and planted false evidence.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: Confident he can get away with murder, Stainer chooses Joey
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: Armstrong as his next victim. But things go wrong this
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: time when Armstrong's brave struggle throws a psychopath off his game.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 15: Joey Armstrong's lust for life, her willingness to fight, to
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 15: have life, is, I believe, what caused him to leave
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 15: the evidence behind.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 19: He wanted to go back to that crime scene and
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 19: try to destroy a lot of that evidence and take
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 19: it back.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: But he never had the opportunity.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 11: He later confessed that had he not been stopped at
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 11: that point, he would have continued killing. None of us
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 11: would think that someone who is normal could commit these
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 11: kinds of crimes.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: You don't know how to feel.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 15: I like to think that I did what I did
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 15: for those victims.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: At trial, Kerry Stainer pleads insanity. the jury rejects his defense.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: On December 12, 2002, Stainer receives the death penalty. April 1992.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: After battling heavy traffic, Nancy Blackburn finally arrives at her destination.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: A weekend of peace and relaxation awaits, or so she believes.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: For Nancy Blackburn, the trip marks the end of a long,
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: cold winter. But it also marks the beginning of a nightmare,
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: a nightmare that will yet claim many more victims.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: He's an absolute sexual obedient. He's a predator. The viciousness
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: that he displayed, his ruthlessness, I find to be just chilling.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 12: You clearly had someone to me to fit the category.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: Of a serial killer.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: Investigators must work feverishly to identify an elusive psychopath.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: We had no idea who that person was.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: Then hunt him down and stop his rampage.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 23: There would be no end to victims until he was caught.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: Uncle Ian?
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: Auntie Nance? Monday, April 13th, 1992. In an upscale neighborhood
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Jamie Osborne checks in on his
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: aunt and uncle. after they fail to show up at
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: a weekend family party. But no one's home. Nothing in
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: the house suggests where they may be.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 5: Uncle Leon?
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: Auntie Nancy? About 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock in the evening,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: he also notices that there's keys to the vehicle in
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: the key container.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: The keys are to Nancy Blackburn's car. Perhaps it holds
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: a clue to the couple's whereabouts.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: He goes to the back of the car, opens the trunk.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: Inside is a sight Jamie will never forget. Metro Toronto
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: police are soon on the scene.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: It was called about two bodies found in the trunk
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: of a car at 3 St. Leonards in 53 Division
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: in downtown Toronto.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: Detective Sergeant Doug Grady joins forensics expert Richard McEwen and
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: the investigation begins. An initial glance at the naked female
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: victim reveals the case's first piece of information.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: Lividity, which is the blood flowing to the lowest possible area,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: had set in on the victim, and she had been
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: in the position she was for some time.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: The dead couple is quickly identified as Nancy and Ian Blackburn.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: Neither have been seen for some days. As Nancy's car
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: is secured to protect it from the elements, Grady moves
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: his team inside the Blackburn's upscale North Toronto home. They
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: spend hours combing it for signs of foul play.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 17: Nothing was found that was out of place within the house.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 17: There's no signs of violence or any type of struggle
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 17: that was noticeable.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: It becomes evident that the couple was not murdered within
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: these walls. But why were they killed at all?
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: He was the owner-broker of a business with a partner.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: They were quite successful. The female victim was a registered
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: nurse who was actively involved in businesses in Toronto. So
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: they were well enough off.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: Authorities wonder, was robbery the prime motive behind the murders?
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: They soon get their answer.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: There's no way a thief could miss us.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: All the Blackburn's possessions seem to be in place, but
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: they learn that something crucial is missing.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: And then when I open up the car.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: Ian Blackburn's car is not in the garage or anywhere
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: near the property. Grady issues an all-points bulletin for the
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: vehicle as the bodies are removed from Nancy's car and
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: sent to the morgue. Her vehicle is then taken to
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: the Center of Forensic Sciences to be investigated.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 17: And then we did an extensive examination of the car. Fingerprints,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 17: analysis done on all the surfaces of the car.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: Police are hopeful the killer left behind evidence of himself,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: but they are disappointed.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 17: Unfortunately, no usable fingerprints were found on the car itself.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 20: And we attribute that to the fact that it was
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 20: cold weather.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: Sweat is necessary for a clean fingerprint. In cold weather,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: the pores that provide sweat close up and leave little
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: moisture behind. In the back seat, authorities do find something interesting,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: a thermal bag from which they recover a roasting pan.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Inside the pan is a fully prepared dinner of beef
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: and vegetables. Meanwhile, at the morgue, An examination of Ian
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: Blackburn's injuries raises more questions than it answers. McEwen determines
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: that he was suffocated after being severely beaten.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: He had been punched in the face. He had bruising
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: to him. Somebody had taken control of him quite strongly.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: A look at the victim's right leg reveals a particularly
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: intriguing clue.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: He had an unusual, in my experience, unusual markings just
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: above his right knee. There was a ligature mark, a
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: very strong ligature mark.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: Most captives McEwen has dealt with have been bound at
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: the wrists and ankles. Why would Ian be tied around
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: the knee?
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: He also had a cylinder mark around his skull. is
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: consistent with a firearm being placed there very strongly against
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: the side of his head.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: McEwen now examines Nancy Blackburn. She too has been asphyxiated.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: No evidence of sexual assault is found, but her injuries
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: paint a picture of extreme violence. Most alarming is the
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: discovery that both of Nancy's shoulders have been pulled out
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: of their sockets.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: At first you're trying to figure out in what kind
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: of scenarios could have resulted in this.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: At the forensic garage, investigators finally recover a piece of
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: hard evidence, a bloody Kleenex on the floor of the car.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: Lab analysis reveals that the blood is not a match
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: to either victim. Could it be the killer's? There's no
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: way to be sure. With nothing but speculation to go on,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: Grady and his team are in need of a break.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: And suddenly they get one when Ian Blackburn's car is
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: located one hour north of the city at his summer farmhouse.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: On the case is Detective Inspector Jim Hutchison.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 23: The male victim's vehicle was still in the Caledon area,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 23: had been parked there for considerable days.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: But a much more compelling find awaits Hutchison inside. Police
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: believe they have just found their murder scene. The bodies
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: of Ian and Nancy Blackburn are found in Nancy's car
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: at the couple's Toronto home. The search for their killer
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: leads police one hour north of the city to the
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: Blackburn's summer farmhouse. Ian Blackburn's car has been found outside
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: and human blood on the stairs inside. Detectives Grady and
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: McEwen arrive on the scene. Together with Inspector Hutchison, they
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: seek hard evidence to prove this is their crime scene.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: Ian Blackburn's car places him at the location within the
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: time frame when the couple died.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: We could tell that the vehicle had been there for
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: at least a few days because there were markings around
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: the car where rain had come down and where the
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: soot had been, and there was a clear outline around
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: the vehicle.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: Grady obtains phone records for the farmhouse and discovers that
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: the last two outgoing calls were made to the Blackburn's
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: Toronto home three days before the couple was discovered. This evidence,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: together with the roaster from Nancy's car, suggests that Ian
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: began the day alone at the cabin and telephone Nancy
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: to join him.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 23: The speculation was that she had driven up to meet
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 23: with her husband and had brought a prepared meal.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: And at that point we believe both vehicles were at
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: the farmhouse.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: Speculation becomes fact when lab results confirm the blood found
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: on the stairs is Nancy's. At the same time, the
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: investigators received some startling information from local authorities. Six months earlier,
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: another Toronto resident had been attacked only two kilometers away
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: from the Blackburn cottage.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: A vehicle was found off the.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 23: Road in the ditch in Caledon of a a store
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 23: owner from Toronto by the name of Carolyn Case. She
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 23: had disappeared from her store, downtown Toronto, and then there
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 23: was some blood found in the car that was identified
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 23: as being Carolyn Case.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: Presumed murdered, Case's body has not been recovered. As police
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: wonder if the two crimes could be connected, the investigation
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: takes another turn.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: Can you look out the window, gentlemen?
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: You think this is the point of entry? Looks like it, officer.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 5: Flashlight, please.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 17: There were small pry marks on a window that indicated
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 17: that there had been a forced entry to it.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: And you made his way in with what looks like
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: what could be a knife.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: Tool impressions are recorded, and investigators soon learn from local
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: police just how significant they are. It seems that cops
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: throughout the area are all too familiar with these impressions,
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: having seen them at a rash of unique cottage break-ins
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: over the winter. The homicide team is told all about
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: the strange and elusive intruder known as the House Hermit.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 17: The press nicknamed him the House Hermit. And that's how
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 17: he became known. He would break into a cottage over
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 17: the winter and live there for a period of time
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 17: and then abandon it.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 23: He was using the bed. He had the heat turned
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 23: on in the area. He had a fry pan that.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: He was using. Evidence of a visit by the house
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: hermit includes mounds of used tea bags.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 20: Our suspect liked to drink Twinings tea.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: And that's not all.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 23: He was using plastic jugs to keep his urine because
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 23: the water system was not turned on for the winters.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: He also keeps a stockpile of his own feces wrapped
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: in newspapers.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 20: Paper was folded in kind of a unique manner.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: We referred to it as a fish and chip tuck.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: What sounds merely eccentric turns possibly sinister when the team
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: is informed that one of the cottages the house hermit
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: broke into was that of a gun collector.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: That break and enter, several handguns were taken. Newer guns,
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: older guns, automatic revolvers. And that was quite a concern.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: Investigators wonder, could the mysterious hermit also be a killer?
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: So we had an idea that whoever was committing the
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: break and enters may be the person responsible for these murders.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: The problem with this theory is that no evidence is
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: found inside the Blackburn farmhouse to suggest the house hermit
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: camped here. Hutchison moves the hunt for clues.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 23: I had brought in the ERD team, emergency response team,
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 23: to search the property and also all the concession loads
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 23: and that leading up and down the farm.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: The effort soon turns up exactly what the police are
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: hoping for. Garbage bags on the Blackburn property containing signs
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: of the house hermit. tea bags, urine-filled jugs, and the
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: most telling calling card of all.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 17: There were human feces wrapped in the sports section of
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 17: a newspaper from the Toronto Star.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: The pages are dated February 27th. Inside the farmhouse, Grady
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: finds a newspaper for the same date, missing the sports section.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 23: It more or less tied in the victim's residence to
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 23: what we found outside.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: In the garbage, investigators also recover ammunition they are able
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: to trace back to the break-in at the gun collector's cottage.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: Authorities now suspect that one of those stolen guns had
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: been pressed against Ian Blackburn's head.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: We put out the information on the firearms, all of
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: the serial numbers of the firearms.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: In another disturbing development at the morgue, medical examiners are
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: getting an idea of just how violently Nancy Blackburn died.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: In particular, how her shoulders were ripped out of their sockets.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 17: The pathologist attributed you to that injury, to having your
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 17: hands behind your back and then being hung up.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 2: And the pathologist described it as being hogtied.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: Clearly, their killer enjoys extreme violence.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: But we still had no idea who that person was.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: Here we go. Welcome.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 5: Come on in.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: Mrs.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 16: Appleton.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: Pleasure to meet you. Jim Hutchison.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: Then Hutchison is made aware of an extraordinary report filed
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: weeks earlier by an elderly couple, Rose and Samuel Appleton.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: They had an encounter with the house hermit and were
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: lucky to escape with their lives. Finally, the police are
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: ready to put a face to the man they suspect
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: is their cold-blooded killer. After making a possible link between
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: the Blackburn double murder and a rash of bizarre break-ins
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: in cottage country, police have found witnesses that may help
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: them identify a mysterious drifter dubbed the House Hermit. Investigators
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: hang on every word as Rose and Samuel Appleton recount
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: the brush they had with their intruder.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 13: In early March of 1992, an elderly couple from Toronto
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 13: came up to the Midland area out on Georgian Bay
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 13: to pay their taxes for their cottage, but also check
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 13: the cottage and make sure that everything was fine over
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 13: the winter.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 2: So give me a second.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 20: I'll turn on the power, check the pipes.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: Are you okay, dear? Yeah, I won't be long. He
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: asked his wife to stay in the car. He walks
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: to the cottage. He opens it up. He goes in.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 20: He was confronted by our suspect, who had a firearm.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 2: Took control of the older gentleman and took him back
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: to the car. Told him, drive me to.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 20: Toronto to your house and I'll leave you there.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: The hour-long trip to Toronto is spent in silence and terror.
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: But once in the city, the Appletons defy the house
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: hermit's order to take him to their residence.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 2: He drove this person right to Dundas and Yonge, in
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: the busiest street in Toronto, right at the busiest corner
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: of Toronto. I will not take you to our home.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: If you're going to shoot us, shoot us right here.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: The Appletons await their fate, but in the end, their
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: brave tactic works.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: The suspect got out of the car and took off.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 23: And I honestly believe that that action saved their lives.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: The couple now tells police everything they can remember about
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: their assailant.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 2: Both gave descriptions of.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 23: of the individuals that had attacked, and a composite drawing
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 23: was prepared by the OPP artist.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 17: We had the similarities and the break-ins, and now we
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 17: had a description of our suspect.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, she was.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 15: She had dark glasses on.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: We thought of releasing composite drawings, but composite drawings give
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: you quite often a thousand names that mean nothing. Composite
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: drawing sometimes isn't exact enough.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: Local investigation at the time of the incident revealed evidence
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: that the house hermit had camped at the Appleton Cottage.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: Hutchison now returns there and discovers a box the hermit
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: had stashed away. Inside are alarming contents.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 17: There was quite an extensive collection of porn.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 20: Found at that time.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: Much of the pornography features acts of S & M.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: In particular, photographs of women who have been hogtied.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 2: And some of it was cut out and classified. And classified,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: I mean categorized, would keep it in different groups.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 23: There'd be a whole bunch of breast pictures and then
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 23: there'd be a whole bunch of anus pictures. It wasn't
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 23: that he was cutting out the and putting them together
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 23: it was just that they were cutting it up and
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 23: categorizing it a.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: Troubling profile of the suspected killer emerges from this.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: Evidence he was a somebody who was good with his
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: hands somebody who was.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 23: Methodical and also that he was fantasy driven I believe
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 23: that he could only gain satisfaction through a type of
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 23: bondage or violence.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: Police now review their evidence. Ian's car, abandoned at the
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: Blackburn farmhouse. The phone records showing calls from the farmhouse
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: to his Toronto residence. The roasting pan in Nancy's car.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: Her blood on the stairs. Signs that the house hermit
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: entered the farmhouse and camped there. His appetite for violent pornography.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: And lastly, the vicious wounds to both Ian and Nancy.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: Taken together, they form a picture of how and why
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: the Blackburns died. It starts with Ian arriving at the
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: farmhouse alone, having driven up in his vehicle. He's completely
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: unaware that the house hermit is residing inside. Ian enters
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: the residence, phones Nancy in Toronto, and they discuss her
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: driving up to join him.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 5: Hey, sweetheart.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: Hi, sweetie.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I've got the roast in the oven, and I'll
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 20: probably be there in a couple hours.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: OK, hon. We'll look forward to seeing you then.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 18: Great.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: Bye. By the time Nancy arrives, Ian is powerless to
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: help her. Ian?
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: Honey?
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 10: Please, Ian.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 3: I'm scared.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: The house hermit overpowers her. then hog ties her and
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: assaults her in accordance with his sexually sadistic fantasies. Finally,
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: he kills her and throws her in the trunk of
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: her car. The hermit now cleans up his campsite, throws
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: the garbage in the woods, and prepares to leave the area.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: Though police can't be sure how the Blackburns ended up
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: back in Toronto, a closer examination of Ian Blackburn's injuries,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: including the ligature mark on his right leg, point to
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: the likely circumstance. His right arm was tied to his
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: right leg with enough slack to allow him to drive,
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: while his left arm and ankle were tightly bound together.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 23: And forced the male victim to drive the vehicle back
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 23: to Toronto, possibly not even knowing that his wife was
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 23: in the trunk. And probably hoping to save his own life,
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 23: hoping to get back to Caledon to release his wife,
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 23: who would be tied up back at the cottage.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 2: What now?
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 23: And once he got into the driveway, he was asphyxiated,
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 23: put in the trunk of the car, and they were
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 23: left there.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: But despite their theories, all police have to show for
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: the investigation is a bloody tissue and a composite sketch
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: they can connect to no one. Then they make a
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: discovery that just may turn things around. Under the pornography
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: found at the Appleton's property, are several strange lists of
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: military equipment.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 2: Fulker airplanes against Sopwith Campbells, you know, like unique planes.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: All crossed off. Firearms, rifles against cannons. It appeared to
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: be a solitary game of war.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: But for the investigators, more important than the content of
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: the lists is the style in which they have been written.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: The handwriting is so unique, it might prove as effective
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: as a fingerprint in identifying someone. The team goes public
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: with their manhunt.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: We provided the media with a copy of the handwriting,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: and it went in national media, both on television and
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: in the print media.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: Police know all too well the risks they take releasing
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: their evidence. It may alert the suspect that they're onto him.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: But if they don't roll the dice and take this gamble,
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: they'll never catch a killer before he strikes again. Police
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: have distributed samples of the house hermit's unique handwriting to
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: the media. in hopes that someone can help identify their
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: elusive suspect. Within hours, they hit pay dirt, courtesy of
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: Allison Shaw.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 23: Well, we had a call from a female called Allison,
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 23: who said that she definitely knew that writing, that she
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 23: knew the individual for the last two or three years.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: Come on in, Shaw.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 2: Pleasure to meet you.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 16: Jim Hutchison.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 5: Nice to meet you.
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: Have a seat.
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: Allison sits down with authorities and unfolds the story of
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: their suspect.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 2: So why don't you explain to me this list that
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: we spoke about on the phone?
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 21: I met him in Orangeville, Ontario. He was working on
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  Speaker 21: a building which was behind my apartment that I rented
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  Speaker 21: with my husband at the time.
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  Speaker 2: You need a bit of a description of him?
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  Speaker 10: I have a picture.
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  Speaker 4: Does that help?
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 2: That'd be fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: She also provides investigators with what they want most. an identification.
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  Speaker 2: And it was that.
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  Speaker 20: Time that she gave us the name David Snow.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 2: David Snow owned a shop called Nothing in Particular, and
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 2: it was a knick-knack shop. Allison worked for him in
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: the knick-knack shop.
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  Speaker 1: Allison had seen samples of Snow's distinctive handwriting on inventory
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  Speaker 1: lists for the store. See, this is a German Ju
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: 87 Stuka dive bomber.
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  Speaker 5: See, the thing about this plane.
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  Speaker 2: Is it wasn't the fastest plane.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't even. But what it did do.
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  Speaker 21: He'd come over after work with Darius, who was my husband.
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  Speaker 3: Come up to the apartment, have dinner, a.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of beers.
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  Speaker 11: It got to be a.
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  Speaker 21: Daily occurrence in pretty short order. I noticed he had
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 21: a real problem with hygiene. He had terrible body odor.
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  Speaker 21: It was like he hadn't showered in months. He had
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 21: really rotten teeth.
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  Speaker 6: It was awful.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he had the kind of bad teeth that
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: are prone to bleeding. But despite his terrible hygiene, Allison
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: got along well with her eccentric employer.
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  Speaker 21: Our relationship was okay, it was fine. It wasn't close,
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  Speaker 21: it wasn't just in, it was just me doing my
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 21: thing and.
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  Speaker 13: Him doing his.
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  Speaker 1: That is, until Snow discovered that Allison was expecting her
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: first child.
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  Speaker 2: David, I didn't see you there.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you tell me?
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 4: You told Sherry that you were pregnant and you never
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 4: told me.
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  Speaker 21: He didn't react very well at all.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 2: He said, I thought I was a better friend to
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 2: you than that. What?
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  Speaker 8: I guess I don't mean anything to you.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 2: And stormed off.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 5: You know, like he was my husband or something.
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 21: It was, it just blew me away.
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  Speaker 1: Allison had to accept that something was very wrong with
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: David Snow. But no one else in Orangeville seemed bothered
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: by his peculiar ways.
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 2: No one ever.
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 21: Said anything about any of that.
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  Speaker 5: Ever.
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 21: I felt like I was, well I was the only one.
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  Speaker 1: In her experience, Snow's behavior continued to grow increasingly strange
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: and unsettling.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 21: I had seen this real change in him, this slow
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 21: decline over the last few months. I really got frightened,
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 21: you know? I don't know why, I still don't.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 8: Know why, but I did.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: Authorities ask Allison where her boss is now. She has
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: no idea. The investigation moves to the town where Snow
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: had his shop. Police inquire after the man believed to
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: be the house hermit and their killer.
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  Speaker 23: We went around to the Orangeville area there and we
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 23: had officers going door to door handing out pictures of
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 23: David Snow.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 5: Of the homicide in your area.
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  Speaker 2: Please tell me if you've seen this man.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 17: When we started doing a background history on him, we
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 17: found that he never drove.
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 2: He walked everywhere.
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  Speaker 23: His older brother had tried to teach him to drive
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  Speaker 23: at one point, and he just broke out into a sweat.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 5: He was nervous.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 23: He put the car in the ditch and jumped out
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 23: and said, I want to never get inside the car again.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: Police also learned substantial details about Snow's departure from the
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: area over eight months ago.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 2: October 3rd.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 23: Of 1991, he went into the taxi stand in Orangeville,
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 23: which he used.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 2: It was very, very early in the morning.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 23: He was covered with mud and he was wet and
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 23: he got a ride and he paid cash. and jumped
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 23: out of the vehicle in Guelph, and that's the last
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 23: that he was seen in Orangeville.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: The most alarming thing about Snow's disappearance is that it
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: occurred on the very same day that the car of
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: Toronto store owner Carolyn Case was found in a ditch
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: in Caledon.
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  Speaker 17: Now the location of that car, if you follow the
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 17: county road that the car was on, slightly farther north,
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 17: almost runs into the area where the Snow's family home was.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: David Snow may not be just a killer. He may
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: be a serial killer.
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 2: I thought somebody who's committed these type of crimes is
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 2: not going to stop until they're caught. They have no
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 2: regard for anybody else. So, yes, we were concerned.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: Authorities put out a Canada-wide arrest warrant for their prime suspect.
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: But as they scramble to find David Snow, a predator
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: is stalking more prey. David Snow is the prime suspect
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: in the murders of Ian and Nancy Blackburn. Now, just
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: as police launch an intense search to find him, a
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: 21-year-old photo store clerk goes missing on July 1, 1992.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: No one has seen her since the previous evening when
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: she worked alone at the business. On the case is
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: RCMP investigator Randy Bennett. But the strange thing about this
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: crime is that it hasn't taken place in Toronto or
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: even Ontario. The victim has been abducted over 3,000 kilometers
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: away in Vancouver, British Columbia. Besides no witnesses, the scene
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: offers few clues for Bennett's investigators.
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 22: They had absolutely no information to work on, and were
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 22: relying on some public assistance to try to support their investigation.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: Law enforcement combs the city, looking for the abducted woman.
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: Ten days later, there's still no sign of her. Then,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: on July 11th, there's another kidnapping.
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 22: To have been a young lady abducted from a video
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 22: store in North Vancouver.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: The only witness to the crime is a badly shaken
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: video store manager.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 22: It was somewhat sketchy information that a lone male individual
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 22: entered the video store. The manager was tied up and
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 22: left in the building and a female employee was removed
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 22: from the building. The manager was able to free himself
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 22: from his ligatures and made the call in that there'd
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 22: been a robbery and an abduction and the employee was missing.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: In describing the perpetrator, the manager notes that he had
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: terrible body odor and a mouthful of rotten teeth. Bennett
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: learns the victim's car is missing from the parking lot,
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: and a citywide dragnet begins. Among the cops on high
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: alert is Constable David Kwasnicka, he decides to head for
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: Mount Seymour Provincial Park, as the area best fits his
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: theory about the man they are hunting.
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  Speaker 14: I felt that the suspect was abducting this woman in
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 14: order to sexually assault her and would likely take the
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 14: woman to a secluded area.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: Kwasnika drives around the corner in a remote area of
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: the park.
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 14: And that's where we found the vehicle.
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 22: There they called in the location where they were at
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 22: and we were sending extra members to reinforce and to
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 22: provide backup for them.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: Kwasnika and his partner proceed to secure the vehicle and
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: look for any clues the abductor may have left behind.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 14: And at that point, that's when we heard the screaming
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 14: from the forest.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: Tucked in the woods, just off the road, Kwasnika discovers
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: the badly assaulted victim from the video store. At least
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: she's alive.
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  Speaker 14: She was in a squatting position. Her wrists were tied
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 14: to her ankles.
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: And just as backup arrives, Kwasnika gets another shock.
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 14: And I started running towards the screams.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 2: That I heard.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: Not far from the first victim, the officers discover a
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: makeshift campsite. Tied to a tree is another woman who's
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: been severely brutalized.
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  Speaker 11: Did you see where he went?
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: Kwasnika immediately recognizes her as the victim kidnapped 10 days
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: earlier from the photo store.
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  Speaker 22: The crime scene had some sleeping bags and personal articles
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 22: and personal clothing and some food garbage and debris.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: Kwasnika and his partner try to comfort the traumatized woman.
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 14: What disturbed me was how this victim reacted with no reaction,
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 14: just like very calm, cool, collected, and monotone voice.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: As the women are escorted out of the woods, more
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: police move in, and the hunt for the perpetrator kicks
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: into high gear.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 22: They were directed that we would deploy other police cars
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 22: to start setting up the roadblocks and try to contain
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 22: a male suspect that had fled off into the bushes.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: But given the nature of Mount Seymour Park, that's not
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: going to be easy.
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 22: It's very densely treed with lots of undergrowth and so forth,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 22: and because it's on a mountain slope, probably hide in
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 22: any crevice or corner or crack or under any trees
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 22: or bushes and stay hidden for quite some period of time.
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: As the massive manhunt gets underway, authorities searching the second
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: victim's car find a gun.
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 22: The police officers called the serial numbers in to our
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 22: office and they ran them on the national database.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: Bennett learns that the gun was stolen in a cottage
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: robbery in Ontario by a man wanted on a countrywide
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: murder warrant. His name is David Snow.
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  Speaker 23: I get a call from British Columbia, and I think
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 23: it's your fellow they're looking for.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 2: Was totally shocked. You're serious?
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: Ontario police can only hope that BC authorities will do
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: what they could not, find and capture their killer. Concerns
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: about a psychopath loose in the park are soon compounded
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: when authorities learn that a marathon is taking place.
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 14: We were worried that he would grab another victim.
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: As night falls, the manhunt becomes much more difficult. But
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: failure is not an option.
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 22: We had one of the greatest threats to the community
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 22: that the community has seen in a long time.
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: And for a local restaurant owner, it's a threat that's
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: all too real. After abducting and assaulting two women in Vancouver,
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: David Snow is being hunted by police in Mount Seymour
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: Provincial Park. They don't know he's managed to flee the
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: area and choose another victim at a secluded restaurant. No! No!
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 8: No!
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: Snow forces the woman to the back of the building,
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: but he's unaware that she was able to trigger the
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: restaurant's silent alarm. With most law enforcement resources diverted to
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: Mount Seymour, it falls on Constable Peter Cross and his partner,
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: John Westmore, to respond.
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  Speaker 12: We were doing what you would call standard routine police calls.
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 2: We got two calls for alarms.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 12: One was in Edgemont Village, and the second alarm was
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 12: for the Bridge House restaurant. To this day, I have
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 12: no idea why I chose the Bridge House, because we
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 12: were actually driving by the other alarm to get to
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 12: the Bridge House for the alarm.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: Nothing appears out of place upon their arrival. And they
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: can't hear the victim.
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 9: Rue!
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: Rue! Rue! Constable Cross finally arrives at the back of
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: the building.
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 2: Breathe!
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 12: And that's when he starts running.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: In one fell swoop, Cross brings to an end Snow's
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: deadly rampage. Go back to the woman back there. She
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: needs help.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 2: I said, you're the fellow we're looking for, aren't you?
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 12: And he said, yeah, I think so.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 5: You're going to be okay. Can you hear me?
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: Snow's victim is alive, if just barely.
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 12: We were told by the hospital staff that she was
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 12: 30 to 45 seconds away from dying. To come across
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 12: someone that is in the process of being killed is
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 12: extremely rare. To have the ability to stop it and
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 12: have the ability to catch the guy doing it, I
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 12: think it's, yeah, it's one of those moments in time that, yeah,
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 12: you're pretty proud of it when you're done.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: Snow first stands trial in British Columbia.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 22: We were able to secure convictions against David Snow for
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 22: several counts of abduction, forcible confinement, sexual assault, and aggravated assault.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: After being sentenced, he's returned to Ontario to stand trial
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: for the Blackburn homicides.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 17: A DNA sample is obtained from him and it's subsequently
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 17: matched to the blood in the Blackburn car.
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: Police see that years of neglect have left Snow's gums
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: prone to bleeding. Poor hygiene caused him to leave key
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: evidence behind.
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 2: On top of all the circumstantial evidence that we had,
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 2: That was the bonus to show that there was David
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 2: Snow's blood in the deceased car that was irrefutable.
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: David Snow is convicted of two counts of first-degree murder.
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: The body of Carolyn Case is eventually recovered, but for
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: lack of evidence, he's never charged with her slaying.
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 23: I don't believe that there's any evidence redeeming merit in
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 23: David Snow whatsoever. He's not an individual that could come
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 23: back into the community.
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 2: The viciousness that he displayed, his ruthlessness, I find to
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 2: be just chilling. I have no idea what drove him.
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 12: The psychiatrist will spend years studying as to what prompted
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 12: him to this behavior.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 11: I would drive him home.
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 21: 10 or 11 o'clock at night, two of us on
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 21: the pitch black dirt roads. I never thought twice about it.
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: Declared a dangerous offender, David Snow will spend the rest
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: of his life behind bars.
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 13: Thank you for watching.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you for watching.
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 10: I'm sorry.