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His victims had to play his evil game ( MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY ) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: On September 12th, 1982, two off-duty Alaska police officers were
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  Speaker 1: off hunting in a very remote section of Alaska, about
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  Speaker 1: 20 miles away from Anchorage. The only way to get
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  Speaker 1: out to this area was by plane or by boat,
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  Speaker 1: and so generally speaking, the only people that came into
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  Speaker 1: this area were big-time hunters. After a long day, the
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  Speaker 1: two men realized it was starting to get dark and
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  Speaker 1: they were still deep in the woods, and so they
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  Speaker 1: decided it was time to turn around and start heading
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  Speaker 1: back to camp.
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  Speaker 2: The journey through the woods was challenging. And so the
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  Speaker 2: men walked.
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  Speaker 1: Down to the nearby Kinnick River and walked across an
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  Speaker 1: exposed sandbar. And as they walked, they noticed up ahead,
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  Speaker 1: there was a boot sticking out of the sand. And
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  Speaker 1: as they got closer, they realized it wasn't just a boot.
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  Speaker 1: There was also a human leg bone still in the boot.
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  Speaker 1: Being police officers, they knew the importance of not disturbing
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  Speaker 1: a potential crime scene. And so instead they marked on
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  Speaker 1: the map where they were, They left the area and
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  Speaker 1: they reported the body to their department.
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  Speaker 2: The following day, crime.
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  Speaker 1: Scene technicians came out to that remote area and they
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  Speaker 1: very carefully unearthed the remains, which still had women's clothing
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  Speaker 1: on them, and then afterwards they began searching for evidence
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  Speaker 1: in the area and eventually they discovered a single shell
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  Speaker 1: casing that was a. 223 caliber round, which is a
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  Speaker 1: common caliber for hunting rifles. The remains were sent back
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  Speaker 1: to the lab for an autopsy. And it was revealed
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  Speaker 1: this person was a female and she had most likely
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  Speaker 1: died at least six months earlier. And she had almost
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  Speaker 1: certainly been the victim of a homicide because she had
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  Speaker 1: died from three gunshot wounds. Also during the autopsy, it
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  Speaker 1: was discovered that there were no bullet holes on any
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  Speaker 1: of her clothing. And so it appeared that she had
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  Speaker 1: been shot without her clothes on and then her killer
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  Speaker 1: presumably redressed her. Also they found a hospital bandage wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up in her clothing that.
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  Speaker 2: Appeared to have been wrapped around her head.
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  Speaker 1: Leading some to speculate that she had been blindfolded before
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  Speaker 1: she was shot.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of weeks after the.
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  Speaker 1: Autopsy, dental records came back and they identified the body
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  Speaker 1: as belonging to 23-year-old Sherry Morrow. Sherry was an exotic
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  Speaker 1: dancer from Anchorage who had been reported missing 10 months earlier.
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  Speaker 1: In her missing persons report, it was stated that the
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  Speaker 1: last thing she told her friends was she had been
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  Speaker 1: offered $ 300 to have pictures taken of her by a
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  Speaker 1: professional photographer, and she was going to meet this man
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  Speaker 1: right before she disappeared. While police were fairly certain that
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  Speaker 1: Sherry's killer was this so-called photographer, they had no evidence
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  Speaker 1: that would allow them to search for this person.
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  Speaker 2: They had nothing.
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  Speaker 1: All they had was this shell casing that was commonly
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  Speaker 1: used amongst hunters.
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  Speaker 2: And there's lots of hunters in Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: So the police reported the finding of Sherry's body to
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  Speaker 1: the media in hopes that when they put that out
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  Speaker 1: to the world, that someone from the public would reach
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  Speaker 1: out with more information. During the police's press conference, one
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  Speaker 1: of the reporters asked them, you know, do you think
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  Speaker 1: Sherry's death is connected to the other unsolved deaths in
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  Speaker 1: that part of Alaska. What they were referencing was two
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  Speaker 1: years earlier, two other women's bodies had been discovered in
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  Speaker 1: that rough area where Sherry had been found. One of
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  Speaker 1: the women was so badly decomposed, there was no way
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  Speaker 1: to identify her.
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  Speaker 2: However, it was revealed she was probably in her late teens.
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  Speaker 1: Or early 20s. The other woman was able to be identified.
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  Speaker 1: It was 24-year-old Joanne Messina, who was an exotic dancer
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  Speaker 1: from Anchorage. But there was virtually no evidence at either
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  Speaker 1: of the two women's gravesites, and so their deaths remained
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  Speaker 1: a mystery. Publicly, at this press conference, the police told
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  Speaker 1: reporters that they did not believe Sherry's death was connected
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  Speaker 1: to those two other women.
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  Speaker 2: But privately, some officers have their suspicions.
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  Speaker 1: Not only had these three women met similar fates in
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  Speaker 1: a similar area, but over the past couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: there had been a significant increase in missing people out
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  Speaker 1: of Anchorage, Alaska. and most of these missing people were
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  Speaker 1: young women that were either exotic dancers or prostitutes. This
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  Speaker 1: convinced many officers that they were dealing with a serial killer,
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  Speaker 1: but there just wasn't any evidence to actually prove it,
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  Speaker 1: so they.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't come out and say it publicly. Over the following year,
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  Speaker 2: no new.
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  Speaker 1: Information came out about Sherry Morrow or the other two
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  Speaker 1: deceased women that had been found in that same area,
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  Speaker 1: and so all three of their cases just continued to languish.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, more and more exotic.
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  Speaker 1: Dancers and prostitutes were going missing out of Anchorage, and
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  Speaker 1: no one knew why. Then on June 13th, 1983, the
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  Speaker 1: police got a break. Early that morning, a man driving
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  Speaker 1: a truck turned onto a quiet Anchorage highway, and as
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  Speaker 1: he was making his way down the road, he saw
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  Speaker 1: up ahead on the side, there was this woman running
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  Speaker 1: towards him, screaming with her hands over her head, and
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't wearing pants or shoes. And so obviously he
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  Speaker 1: knew something was wrong. And so he pulled over and
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  Speaker 1: as this woman is charging up towards him, he notices
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  Speaker 1: she has a handcuff on one of her wrists and
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  Speaker 1: she appears to be a lot younger than he initially thought.
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  Speaker 1: She's probably in her late teens. And so she comes
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  Speaker 1: running up to his car. He unlocks the passenger side door.
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  Speaker 1: She flings herself inside without even asking for permission. She
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  Speaker 1: slams the door behind her and then ducks down to
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  Speaker 1: keep her head out of the window like she's trying
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  Speaker 1: to hide from something out there. Now this man looked
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  Speaker 1: out and he didn't see anyone or anything. But he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't going to wait around for whatever it was she
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  Speaker 1: was scared of. And so he just made a gut
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  Speaker 1: decision to take this girl away from here. And so
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  Speaker 1: he peeled off and drove down the road. And the
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  Speaker 1: girl who was very shaken up couldn't even tell this
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  Speaker 1: guy what was going on. She just asked him to
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  Speaker 1: please drop her off at a nearby motel. And the
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  Speaker 1: man didn't ask any questions. He drove her to the
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  Speaker 1: motel and he dropped her off. The girl ran inside
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  Speaker 1: and up to her room. And when she ran inside,
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  Speaker 1: the motel receptionist sees this girl running in. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't have her pants on. She's got a handcuff on.
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  Speaker 1: She looks terrified. And so she called the police. A
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  Speaker 1: few minutes later, the police showed up. They went up
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  Speaker 1: to this girl's room. They knocked on the door. The
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  Speaker 1: girl opened it up and she was obviously very scared.
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  Speaker 1: And she allowed the police inside and she told them
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  Speaker 1: her name was Cindy Paulson and she was 17 years old.
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  Speaker 1: The police recognized this girl is terrified. She's not a threat.
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  Speaker 1: And so they removed the one handcuff that was still
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  Speaker 1: on her. And then they asked her, you know, what happened?
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  Speaker 1: And the police officers would say her story was just horrible.
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  Speaker 1: But what stood out to them was not how disturbing
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  Speaker 1: the story was. It was how composed and brave this
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  Speaker 1: girl was as she told it. This is her story.
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  Speaker 1: The night before, Cindy was working the streets of Anchorage.
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  Speaker 2: She was a prostitute.
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  Speaker 1: And a car pulled up, and inside was this wiry,
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  Speaker 1: bearded guy with glasses who seemed kind of slight and harmless.
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  Speaker 1: he asked to buy her services and because she didn't
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  Speaker 1: view him as a threat she agreed and hopped in
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  Speaker 1: his passenger seat and as soon as she sat down
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  Speaker 1: he reached over and put a handcuff on one wrist
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  Speaker 1: and then drew a gun on her and told her
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  Speaker 1: to be quiet and then he drove her to this
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  Speaker 1: fairly nice neighborhood pulled into a driveway he got her
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  Speaker 1: out of the car and led her into this house
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  Speaker 1: and he brought her along downstairs into the basement where
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  Speaker 1: as soon as she got down there there was a
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  Speaker 1: dim light and she saw there was a chain swinging
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  Speaker 1: from the ceiling and he strung her up onto that
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  Speaker 1: chain and for hours he assaulted her And then after
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  Speaker 1: he grew tired of doing that, he told her he
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  Speaker 1: was going to go take a nap. And when he
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  Speaker 1: came back, they were going to leave this house and
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  Speaker 1: go out to his cabin in the woods. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: she begged him to let her go, but he really
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  Speaker 1: didn't care. He just told her that if she made
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  Speaker 1: any noise or tried to escape at any point, he
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  Speaker 1: would have to kill her.
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  Speaker 2: And then he walked out of the room.
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  Speaker 1: And for the next several hours, Cindy remained chained to
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling with half of her clothes off. wondering what
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  Speaker 1: horrible thing was going to happen to her next. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: her attacker came back in the room, and he untied
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  Speaker 1: her from her chain, and he walked her upstairs to
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  Speaker 1: his living room, where he very proudly showed her a
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  Speaker 1: number of hunting trophies he had, and he began telling
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  Speaker 1: her about how much he loved hunting and where he
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  Speaker 1: went hunting, and it was at this point that Cindy realized,
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  Speaker 1: this guy has no intention of keeping her alive. He's
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  Speaker 1: shown her his face, his house, his car. He's told
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  Speaker 1: her about places he likes to go and things he
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  Speaker 1: likes to do. He's given her all this information about himself.
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  Speaker 1: She is a huge liability to him. And so it
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  Speaker 1: dawned on her that if she didn't find a way
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  Speaker 1: to escape, she was going to die. After the trophy tour,
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  Speaker 1: the man led Cindy back out to her car. He
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  Speaker 1: put her inside and then he drove to a nearby
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  Speaker 1: small airport where he said his plane was. And so
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  Speaker 1: he pulled over to their hangar. He got her out
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  Speaker 1: of the car and he put her inside of the plane.
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  Speaker 1: And as Cindy is sitting in the plane, she's watching
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  Speaker 1: this guy load gun after gun and bag after bag
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  Speaker 1: of what looks like military supplies into this plane. And
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  Speaker 1: so she knows that this is the moment. I have
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  Speaker 1: to escape right now because as soon as this plane
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  Speaker 1: takes off, I'm done for. And so at some point
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  Speaker 1: when this guy went over to his car to get
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  Speaker 1: something and his back was turned to her, she jumped
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  Speaker 1: out of the cockpit of this plane. She fell to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. She got up and just began running out
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  Speaker 1: of the hangar. And she managed to get out of
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  Speaker 1: the hangar and began turning the corner and running towards
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  Speaker 1: this forest.
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  Speaker 2: Right as she.
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  Speaker 1: Hears this guy charging after her, screaming that he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: catch her and kill her. And so she just keeps
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  Speaker 1: running for her life all the way into this forest,
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  Speaker 1: all the way to that highway before she finally stopped
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  Speaker 1: and turned around and she saw the man had stopped
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  Speaker 1: following her. This is when she went onto the highway
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  Speaker 1: and she flagged down the guy in the truck who
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  Speaker 1: brought her to the motel. The police were shocked by
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  Speaker 1: her story. It sounded totally unbelievable, but she was so
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  Speaker 1: genuinely scared and so detailed that they believed her. And
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  Speaker 1: so they told her they would have to bring her
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital and on their way to the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: she demanded they go back to that airport that she
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  Speaker 1: had been held at so she can try to identify
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  Speaker 1: the hangar she had been in, and hopefully the.
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  Speaker 2: Plane would still be in there.
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  Speaker 1: And so the police comply, they go into the airport,
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  Speaker 1: and Cindy points out the hangar she believes she was in,
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  Speaker 1: and when they get there, the plane she had been on.
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  Speaker 2: Was still there, but the man, her attacker, was not there.
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  Speaker 1: And so the police got out and they began taking
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  Speaker 1: down notes about the plane, it's different tag numbers and
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  Speaker 1: what it looked like and while they're standing there the
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  Speaker 1: security guard from the airport came over because he saw
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  Speaker 1: the police cars and he told the officers that the
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  Speaker 1: night before he had seen the owner of the plane
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  Speaker 1: they're looking at acting very suspiciously with something inside of
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  Speaker 1: his car and so on a hunch he had recorded
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  Speaker 1: that man's license plate number and he gave that number
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  Speaker 1: to police. And so the police were able to use
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  Speaker 1: that license plate number and some of the numbers on
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  Speaker 1: the plane to figure out who owned both vehicles. And
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  Speaker 1: it was a local man named Robert Hanson who owned
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  Speaker 1: a very successful bakery downtown. After dropping Cindy off at
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  Speaker 1: the hospital, the police officers decided to pay a visit
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  Speaker 1: to Robert Hanson at his house. When they got there,
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  Speaker 1: Robert was actually pulling into his driveway right at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, and they saw his car matched the description
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  Speaker 1: that Cindy had given of his car. And then when
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  Speaker 1: Robert got out of his car, he matched the description
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  Speaker 1: that Cindy had given of her attacker. When Robert saw
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  Speaker 1: the police parked outside of his house, he immediately invited
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  Speaker 1: them over and said, you know, what can I help
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  Speaker 1: you with?
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  Speaker 2: And the police said, we'd like to talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: Can we go inside? Robert invited them inside.
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  Speaker 1: And when the police went into his house, it matched
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  Speaker 1: the description that Cindy had given of his house with
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  Speaker 1: all the hunting trophies everywhere. And so they sat down
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  Speaker 1: and they asked him what he was doing the night before.
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  Speaker 1: And he said he had spent the night with some
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  Speaker 1: friends and he had their contact information and If you
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  Speaker 1: needed to talk to them, you could, but they would
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  Speaker 1: say he was with them. When the police asked if
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  Speaker 1: they could have a look around his property, Robert immediately
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  Speaker 1: consented and said, you can look anywhere you want. And
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  Speaker 1: so the police searched his property, but found no signs
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  Speaker 1: that Cindy had been attacked there. And so they thanked
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  Speaker 1: him for his hospitality and they left. Once they got
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  Speaker 1: back to their station, they checked in with Robert's two
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  Speaker 1: friends he claimed he was with the night before, and
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  Speaker 1: they each independently corroborated Robert's story, saying that, yes, he.
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  Speaker 2: Was with them from this time to this time.
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  Speaker 1: And so it appeared as unlikely as it seemed that
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  Speaker 1: Robert was telling the truth. And so the police went
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  Speaker 1: back to Cindy and they said, you know, are you
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  Speaker 1: sure that everything you told us is exactly as you
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  Speaker 1: remember it? You didn't exaggerate anything. You know, this is
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  Speaker 1: the truth. And Cindy said, absolutely. And they said, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: are you prepared to take a lie detector test to
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  Speaker 1: prove that you're telling the truth?
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  Speaker 2: And Cindy said, no. Now it's unclear why she said no.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it was a general distrust of the police, but
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  Speaker 1: either way, when she said no, it immediately cast an
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  Speaker 1: enormous amount of doubt on her story in the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of the police. And when Cindy started to pick up
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  Speaker 1: that the police really didn't believe her anymore, she got
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  Speaker 1: spooked and just left town. And after that, her case
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  Speaker 1: and Robert Hansen were largely forgotten about.
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  Speaker 2: But three months later, on September 2nd, all of that changed.
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  Speaker 1: On that day, a construction crew was doing some work
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  Speaker 1: on a backcountry road not far from where those three
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  Speaker 1: women's bodies had been found. And at some point, one
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  Speaker 1: of their machines uncovered some human remains. The police were
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  Speaker 1: called in, who pulled up the rest of the remains,
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  Speaker 1: and then just like in Sherry Morrow's case, when they
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  Speaker 1: looked for evidence around this new body, they found a
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  Speaker 1: single shell casing from a.
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  Speaker 2: 223 caliber round.
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  Speaker 1: The remains were brought back for an autopsy, where it
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  Speaker 1: was determined that the body was female and she had
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  Speaker 1: died from several gunshot wounds. Using dental records, they were
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  Speaker 1: able to identify this woman as being 17-year-old Paula Goulding.
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  Speaker 1: who was an exotic dancer who had gone missing five
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  Speaker 1: months prior from Anchorage. The police sent the. 223 shell
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  Speaker 1: casing found in Paula's gravesite, along with the other. 223
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  Speaker 1: shell casing found in Sherry Morrow's gravesite, to a lab
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  Speaker 1: to be analyzed, and it was quickly determined that both
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  Speaker 1: of these rounds had been fired from the same rifle,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore both women had most likely been killed by
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  Speaker 1: the same person.
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  Speaker 2: This was the moment the police knew they were dealing.
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  Speaker 1: With a serial killer. And many police officers wanted it
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  Speaker 1: to be Robert Hansen. He seemed like the guy, but
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  Speaker 1: he had a rock-solid alibi and they had no hard
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  Speaker 1: evidence against him. And so without any other suspects, the
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  Speaker 1: police turned to a famous FBI profiler, a guy by
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  Speaker 1: the name of John Douglas, and they asked him to
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  Speaker 1: build a profile of who he think killed Sherry Morrow
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  Speaker 1: and Paula Goulding. And when John's report came back, the
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  Speaker 1: police were shocked. The profile described a man in his
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  Speaker 1: 40s who blended in easily with society, He was well-liked
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  Speaker 1: and got along with people and was just a normal guy.
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  Speaker 1: And he was successful, probably because he owned a successful business.
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  Speaker 1: He was an avid outdoorsman and hunter, and he most
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  Speaker 1: likely had a significant speech defect, like a lisp or
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  Speaker 1: a stutter. The profile was perfectly describing Robert Hansen. And
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  Speaker 1: because of John Douglas' prolific success in correctly identifying killers
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  Speaker 1: based on his profiles, When a judge saw this particular
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  Speaker 1: profile and saw how neatly it lined up with Robert Hansen,
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  Speaker 1: he gave the FBI a search warrant for Robert's house.
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  Speaker 1: And this time, they would find very damning evidence, like
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  Speaker 1: a map of the local area. It was a hunting map.
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  Speaker 1: and on it, there were 37 Xs marked off. And
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  Speaker 1: some of those Xs coincided with the same area where
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  Speaker 1: those four women's bodies had been found.
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  Speaker 2: They also found a.
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  Speaker 1: 223 caliber rifle, along with a bag of women's jewelry
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: that contained a necklace belonging to Sherry Morrow. As the
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: FBI was carrying evidence out of Robert's house into their truck,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: a neighbor walked over after seeing all the commotion, and
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: she walked up to one of the agents, and she
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: was very skittish and anxious, and she said, you know,
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: my husband, he's friends with Robert, and he recently pretended
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: to be an alibi for Robert. He had no idea
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: how much trouble he was in, and I certainly didn't know,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: but I want you guys to know that my husband
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: was lying. He was not with Robert on the night
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: that he said he was. This was the proverbial nail
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: in the coffin for Robert Hansen, because now, without this alibi,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: he had nothing to hide behind. And so when the
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: police approached Robert with their overwhelming evidence against him between
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: what they found in his house and this now recanted
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: statement from his former alibi, Robert said, okay, I'm going
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: to confess.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: But there was a catch.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: He was only willing to confess to murdering the four
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: women whose bodies had already been found by police. Now,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the police knew Robert had almost definitely killed more people.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: And so at this point, they just wanted to know
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: who the other victims were and where they were. And
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: so they offered Robert a deal where he would confess
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: to those four murders and then give additional information about
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: other victims, where they were located, who they were, what
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: happened to them. In exchange, they would not prosecute him
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: on any other victims he named. And so Robert agreed
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: to these terms, he signed the deal, and then he
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: gave a full, horrifying confession. He said he would drive
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: around Anchorage at night and look for young, vulnerable women
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: that were all alone. These were usually prostitutes out on
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: the street, or they were exotic dancers he would try.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: To befriend inside of clubs.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: And when he approached these women, he would tell them
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: he was a professional photographer, and he thought they were beautiful,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: and he wanted to take photos of them, and he
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: would pay them for the photo shoot. And many of
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: these women were aspiring models and they were really excited
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: at this idea and so they would.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Agree to go.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: And so Robert would tell them to meet him the
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: next day at a particular location, which was usually a
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: fast food restaurant. And Robert would show up much earlier
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: and he would hide in his car and he would
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: wait to see when they showed up if they were
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: alone or not. And when he saw they were alone
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: and they had no one to help them, he would
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: drive up and he would ask them to get in
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: his car. What these women couldn't see was on the
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: inside of the passenger side door was a handcuff that
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: was already latched on to the door itself, and there
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: was an open cuff waiting for them as soon as
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: they got in. They would get in the car, he
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: would reach over them and act like he was helping
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: them put on their seatbelt, and then as they're kinda
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: looking at him, wondering what he's doing, he would grab
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: their wrist, throw it in the open handcuff, and then
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: he would draw a pistol and hold it against their
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: head and say, be quiet. During his confession, Robert bragged
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: to police that he had done this so many times
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: putting the handcuff on and drawing the pistol, that it
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: was like muscle memory for him. Once he had the
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: women handcuffed inside of his car, he would drive them
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: back to his house and he would bring them into
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: his basement and he would chain them up to the
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: ceiling just like Cindy had described. And then after assaulting
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: them for hours, he would take them out of his basement,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: put them in his car, drive out to the airport.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: He would put them in his plane, but unlike Cindy,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: these women didn't escape. And he would take off and
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: he would fly them out to his cabin, which was
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: not far from where those four bodies had been found.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Once he got the women into his cabin, he would
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: undress them and put a blindfold on them. And then
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: with their handcuffs still on, he would assist them out
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the front door and tell them to run.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: And they would.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: They would take off as fast as they could into
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the woods, running into trees, falling over, but just running
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: for their lives, believing their ordeal was now over. They
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: just had to get away from this guy. But what
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: they didn't know is their ordeal was just starting. Robert
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: had no intention of allowing them to escape. He knew
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: there was deep water that surrounded his cabin and so
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: if they actually made it that far to the water's edge,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: they would drown. And so Robert would give these women
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a significant head start to give them the sense that
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: they actually might escape. And then Robert would grab his
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: knife and his hunting rifle and he would head out
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and begin stalking his prey. And for the next several
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: hours or days, he would walk around the woods looking
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: for these women And he would just stay off watching
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: what they were doing. And at some point, he would
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: sneak up on them and he would wound them intentionally,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: usually with his knife. And then he had a blood
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: trail to follow. And he would follow these dying women
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: who were screaming out for help. And at some point,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: these women would know they were going to die. There
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: was no hope for them. And they would collapse or
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: they would stop. And at that point, Robert would walk
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: up to them and he would shoot them. Afterwards, he
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: would remove their handcuffs. He would redress them. And then
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: he would bury them in a shallow grave. Before he
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: was carted off to prison to serve a life sentence
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: without the possibility of parole, he was brought out by
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: authorities to help identify where other grave sites were in
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that hunting area. But he was only able to find
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: eight additional victims because he would go to different grave
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: sites and the remains would not be there anymore, most
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: likely because animals had ransacked the area, or he just
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: simply forgot where it was, or he didn't want to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: share any more information with police. Robert never confirmed if
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: all 37 of those Xs on that map that was
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: found are actual sites of victims that he buried. But
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: investigators say that's exactly what they were. And in fact,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: many believe there are other maps with more Xs on them.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: But the police could only confirm 17 victims. If there
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: were more, we probably will never know because in 2014,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Robert died in prison and he took those secrets to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the grave.
• 19:52
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• 19:54
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• 19:56
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• 19:58
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