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Serial Killer Documentary - Serial Carjacker Killer · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, my name is Joshua Miles and I'm guessing
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Speaker 2: And I do hope that I will get to.
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Speaker 3: See all of your lovely faces there.
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Speaker 2: A string of lethal carjackings terrorize the Washington, D.C. area.
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Speaker 2: Ballistics reveal that it's the work of a serial killer
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Speaker 2: who tries to run over one victim with his own car.
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Speaker 2: The FBI and police set a clever trap, but the
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Speaker 2: killer insists on a violent shootout.
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Speaker 4: In the early 90s, a serial killer stalked lone victims
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Speaker 4: in the dead of night. His hunting ground, the suburbs
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Speaker 4: of Washington, D.C. His target, anyone who owned a car.
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Speaker 4: I'm Jim Kallstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office.
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Speaker 4: The gunman was as elusive as he was deadly. He
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Speaker 4: struck quickly and without mercy. Now the FBI must follow
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Speaker 4: the twisted path of a killer wherever it leads.
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Speaker 2: November 13th, 1991. Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb north of Washington, D.C.
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Speaker 2: Montgomery County Police respond to a report of shots fired
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Speaker 2: at a car dealership. Officers discover the body of a
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Speaker 2: woman shot in the chest and forehead.
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Speaker 5: Call the medical examiner.
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Speaker 2: And another gunshot victim nearby. He's got a pulse! The
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Speaker 2: man is breathing but unconscious. Paramedics rush him to the hospital.
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Speaker 2: Montgomery County Homicide Detective Ed Day coordinates his department's swift
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Speaker 2: response to the slaying.
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Speaker 6: You saturate the case as fast as you can, work
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Speaker 6: on it as fast as you can, get as much
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Speaker 6: information as fast as you can, and try to resolve
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Speaker 6: it as fast as you can. Unfortunately, homicides, time is terrible.
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Speaker 6: The more time goes by, the less your odds are
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Speaker 6: that you're gonna have a satisfactory conclusion in the investigation.
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Speaker 2: Investigators learn the two victims are janitors. They were cleaning
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Speaker 2: the building that night and would have come outside around
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Speaker 2: 10 p.m. to dump the garbage. The detectives work to
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Speaker 2: determine a motive for the attack.
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Speaker 6: You don't overlook the obvious. You have a shooting like
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Speaker 6: this at a car lot. Is that a possible motive
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Speaker 6: for the killing, the theft of a car? Of course,
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Speaker 6: they had representatives from the auto dealer come out, do
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Speaker 6: an inventory. There was no vehicles missing. There was no
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Speaker 6: property missing from the inside of the establishment.
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Speaker 2: Investigators locate the victim's car keys nearby and determine neither
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Speaker 2: of their personal vehicles are missing. Robbery does not seem
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Speaker 2: to be the motive.
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Speaker 6: Nothing was taken. They had money on them. There wasn't
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Speaker 6: a single thing missing.
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Speaker 7: Are you Mr. S.
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Speaker 6: As far as the tenant position?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I am. With almost no evidence to go on,
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Speaker 2: Detective Day hopes to learn more from the critically wounded man.
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Speaker 6: We do that with any kind of a shooting that's
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Speaker 6: potentially fatal. There's a rule in law that a dying
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Speaker 6: declaration does not have to be corroborated. It's not hearsay
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Speaker 6: because if the person knows he's going to die, he's
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Speaker 6: assumed to be able to be telling the truth. So
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Speaker 6: if you can get a statement from somebody in really
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Speaker 6: serious circumstances, then it's always a very, very powerful piece
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Speaker 6: of evidence.
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Speaker 2: But the victim dies nine days later without ever regaining consciousness.
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Speaker 2: During the autopsy, the medical examiner recovers the only piece
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Speaker 2: of physical evidence, the bullets that killed the victims. at
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Speaker 2: the Maryland State Police Crime Lab, ballistics expert Joe Capera
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Speaker 2: examines the evidence to determine if there was more than
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Speaker 2: one shooter.
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Speaker 8: There was a microscopic comparison done to determine if these
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Speaker 8: bullets were fired from the same gun. And indeed, as
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Speaker 8: a conclusion to these examinations, I concluded that these bullets
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Speaker 8: were fired from the same gun.
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Speaker 2: Examining the scratch patterns on the bullets, Capera determines the
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Speaker 2: make and model of the murder weapon.
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Speaker 8: I was able to ascertain, first of all, the caliber
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Speaker 8: of the gun, which was a.
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Speaker 7: 357, and then through the measurements of.
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Speaker 8: The unique landing groove areas, I was able to ascertain
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Speaker 8: that it was a Ruger.
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Speaker 7: 357.
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Speaker 2: With no obvious motive for the slayings, Detectives explore the
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Speaker 2: victims' personal lives for clues.
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Speaker 6: You work inside out. You try to find out if
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Speaker 6: these people had any enemies, if there was any triangle,
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Speaker 6: you know, thwarted lover or something like that. These things
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Speaker 6: take you in a hundred different directions, and you just
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Speaker 6: have to take care of one thing at a time.
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Speaker 6: You eliminate something, and you move on to the next
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Speaker 6: issue and just go from there.
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Speaker 2: Detectives find nothing in the victim's backgrounds that could have
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Speaker 2: led to their murders. Since investigators found the victim's car
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Speaker 2: keys near the bodies, they decide to re-examine the slayings
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Speaker 2: as a failed car theft. With that possible motive in mind,
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Speaker 2: detectives speculate how the crime might have occurred.
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Speaker 6: They were cleaning. The business was closed for the night.
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Speaker 6: They were taking the trash out.
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Speaker 2: Hey! Detective suspect the gunman demanded the victim's car keys.
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Speaker 2: Based on the position of the woman's body relative to
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Speaker 2: her keys, they believe she tried to run.
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Speaker 6: And you have to make the assumption that he lost
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Speaker 6: control of the situation and decided to kill the two
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Speaker 6: of them before he identified what car belonged to them.
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Speaker 6: He escalated an attempt theft into a murder for no
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Speaker 6: good reason.
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Speaker 2: With little evidence to go on, the case grows cold. Then,
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Speaker 2: three months later, Investigators respond to the scene of another homicide.
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Speaker 2: They find the body of psychology professor Dr. Shaheen Hastroudi
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Speaker 2: lying in a parking lot in Bethesda, Maryland. Unable to
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Speaker 2: locate her car, detectives believe she was the victim of
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Speaker 2: a fatal carjacking. Noting the lack of blood spatter evidence
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Speaker 2: near the body, They suspect Hestruti's assailant shot her while
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Speaker 2: she was still inside her car. Through interviews with her colleagues,
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Speaker 2: authorities determined Dr. Hestruti left her office around 8 p.m.
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Speaker 6: She's obviously accosted. At some point gets in her car.
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Speaker 2: Get in the car! Just start it.
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Speaker 9: Just start the car.
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Speaker 7: Just start the car. Just start the car.
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Speaker 2: Don't touch her!
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Speaker 6: Once she's already in the car, she's shot. Don't! She's
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Speaker 6: taken out of the car, dumped on the lot. And
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Speaker 6: the suspect steals her car. Gunshot wound to the head.
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Speaker 6: large caliber, no witnesses.
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Speaker 2: The only solid evidence is a pair of bullets recovered
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Speaker 2: from the victim's body. Investigators send the bullets to the
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Speaker 2: Maryland State Police Crime Lab to compare them with the
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Speaker 2: bullets from the double homicide. It is a match. the
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Speaker 2: two crimes are connected. Homicide detectives begin examining unsolved cases
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Speaker 2: involving similar circumstances. One detective recalls a recent homicide which
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Speaker 2: occurred a month before his Trudy was killed. That victim
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Speaker 2: was also shot in the head with a large caliber gun.
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Speaker 2: As in the Silver Spring double homicide, responding officers found
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Speaker 2: the victim's keys near his body. But this victim didn't
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Speaker 2: own a car, which leads investigators to question whether car
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Speaker 2: theft was the motive, or if the case is even
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Speaker 2: connected to the other shootings.
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Speaker 6: But we said, you know, this is looking like they're
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Speaker 6: definitely linked for some reason.
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Speaker 2: So authorities locate the bullet from that case and send
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Speaker 2: it to be tested. Ballistics expert Joe Capera compares the
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Speaker 2: bullets from the four homicides.
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Speaker 8: I did a cross comparison examination to the previous bullets.
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Speaker 8: And as a result of that examination, I found out
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Speaker 8: that all the bullets were fired from the same weapon.
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Speaker 2: Investigators have connected the four homicides through the ballistic evidence
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Speaker 2: and an apparent car theft motive, but they cannot understand
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Speaker 2: why the killer chose to murder his victims.
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Speaker 6: None of these people were armed. Stature-wise, none of these
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Speaker 6: people I thought were particularly a threat to the suspect.
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Speaker 6: two possibilities, that he lost control of them and felt
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Speaker 6: the best way to regain control of the situation was
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Speaker 6: to kill them, or there was some psychological reason that
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Speaker 6: he didn't like these particular people.
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Speaker 2: Detectives believe they are dealing with an extremely violent and
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Speaker 2: unpredictable criminal and suspect he may still be in the area.
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Speaker 6: Montgomery County was his basis of operation. That's where he
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Speaker 6: felt most comfortable. That's where he did all his murders.
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Speaker 6: That's where he did his in his most risky business.
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Speaker 6: That's where he laid in wait for people. So it
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Speaker 6: was obvious he had some strong tie to Montgomery County.
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Speaker 2: Investigators suspect he will strike again and hope to stop
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Speaker 2: him before he does. But they have no clues that
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Speaker 2: can help identify him. And the killer's weapon is the
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Speaker 2: only thing that can connect him to the murders.
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Speaker 6: The best evidence we got is bullets. And if we
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Speaker 6: can get him and get the gun, then we definitely
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Speaker 6: have a very, very strong case.
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Speaker 2: Authorities don't want to give the killer a reason to
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Speaker 2: destroy his gun, and with it, their only evidence. so
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Speaker 2: they decide to keep the ballistics match away from the media.
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Speaker 6: If we supplied the information to the press that all
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Speaker 6: the bullets came from the same gun, it would be
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Speaker 6: a good likelihood that he would dispose of the weapon
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Speaker 6: or he would, in the worst-case scenario, obtain a different
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Speaker 6: weapon and keep committing the crime.
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Speaker 2: More than a week after the Hastruti killing, a man
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Speaker 2: wearing a stocking mask and latex gloves robs a bank
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Speaker 2: in Chantilly, Virginia. The bank's video security system captures his image.
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Speaker 2: A witness tells the FBI that the bank robber fled
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Speaker 2: in a late model white vehicle and gives them the
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Speaker 2: license plate number. The description of the getaway car matches
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Speaker 2: the vehicle stolen from Hostruti, attracting the attention of Montgomery
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Speaker 2: County detectives. But the license plate is not Hostruti's. Investigators
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Speaker 2: trace the plate and discover it had been stolen from
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Speaker 2: a vehicle in Annandale, Virginia. For detectives, this leaves open
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Speaker 2: the possibility that Hastrudi's car was used in the bank robbery.
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Speaker 2: The Montgomery County Task Force, which now includes agents from
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Speaker 2: the FBI, requests copies of the bank's surveillance tapes to
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Speaker 2: learn what they can about the robber. Investigators watch the
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Speaker 2: crime unfold and notice the robber is carrying a revolver
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Speaker 2: of the same make and caliber used in the four homicides.
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Speaker 2: They think he could be the killer. The footage is
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Speaker 2: the best lead they have in identifying a suspect, according
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Speaker 2: to FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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Speaker 3: We had a great piece of video that actually showed
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Speaker 3: the individual the handgun. That picture was actually put on
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Speaker 3: the news locally and regionally to try to see if
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Speaker 3: we could spark some interest as far as someone identifying him.
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Speaker 2: Investigators also release information that their suspect, the money he stole,
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Speaker 2: and the vehicle he was driving may be covered in
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Speaker 2: red dye.
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Speaker 6: The teller managed to slip dye packs into the bag
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Speaker 6: of money. And a dye pack is a device that,
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Speaker 6: once it goes through the door of the bank, it's
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Speaker 6: electronically activated. There's a timer on it. It gives a
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Speaker 6: person a little bit of time to get away from
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Speaker 6: the bank. And then it explodes, spewing this terrible red dye.
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Speaker 6: It stains, it's very difficult to get off. It gets
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Speaker 6: on the money and it can't, will not come off
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Speaker 6: the money. It takes a while to get it off
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Speaker 6: you personally.
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Speaker 2: Five days after the bank robbery, police in Northern Virginia
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Speaker 2: find an abandoned car bearing the stolen plates reported by
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Speaker 2: the witness. A check of the vehicle identification number proves
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Speaker 2: that it is a Strudy's car. The officer peers inside,
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Speaker 2: examining the interior.
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Speaker 3: We had the red dye stains in it from the
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Speaker 3: dye packs from the bank. We had proof positive that
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Speaker 3: it had been used in the bank robbery.
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Speaker 2: Officers impound the vehicle and transport it to the police
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Speaker 2: garage for processing. Technicians find bloodstains inside the car and
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Speaker 2: collect samples as evidence. But they do not find anything
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Speaker 2: that can identify the killer. Lab examiners extract DNA from
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Speaker 2: the blood evidence and compare it to Hastroudi's. It is
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Speaker 2: a match. Right over on the bank. Finally, investigators are
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Speaker 2: able to look at the various crimes and understand their
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Speaker 2: suspect's overall plan.
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Speaker 6: It's gelled into something that makes a little bit of sense.
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Speaker 6: You went from a situation where you had a whole
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Speaker 6: bunch of motives that really didn't make sense to now
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Speaker 6: a concrete motive. This person is killing people to steal
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Speaker 6: cars to commit bank robberies.
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Speaker 2: Although authorities now understand why the suspect is murdering innocent people,
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Speaker 2: they have no clue who he is. Investigators face the
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Speaker 2: nearly impossible challenge of identifying and catching a ruthless gunman
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Speaker 2: before he kills again. The FBI and Maryland's Montgomery County
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Speaker 2: Police are hunting a killer who has already committed four
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Speaker 2: homicides as well as a bank robbery. Several FBI agents
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Speaker 2: are part of the task force pursuing the gunman, including
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Speaker 2: Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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Speaker 3: One of the main roles of the FBI, specifically in
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Speaker 3: this type of a crime, is that we work with
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Speaker 3: many different agencies to corral all of the investigators and
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Speaker 3: bring forth the information in one kind of a think tank.
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Speaker 2: This multi-agency approach is an invaluable investigative resource for Montgomery
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Speaker 2: County Homicide Detective Ed Day.
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Speaker 6: When you start working with multiple jurisdictions on different cases, well,
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Speaker 6: the more jurisdictions that are involved, the more jurisdictions have
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Speaker 6: an interest, the more assets you can draw from.
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Speaker 2: The task force now understands their suspect's crime pattern. He
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Speaker 2: steals a person's car at gunpoint, killing his victim, then
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Speaker 2: uses the vehicle in a bank robbery. Investigators continue to
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Speaker 2: look for past unsolved cases that involved a similar pattern.
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Speaker 6: Nothing occurs in a vacuum. Somebody doesn't just start killing people,
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Speaker 6: so that's when we really started doing the research.
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Speaker 2: They identify an incident that occurred in their county almost
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Speaker 2: a year earlier. Is this your car? No, it's not
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Speaker 2: my car.
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Speaker 6: Our victim was a maintenance man, an Hispanic male.
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Speaker 2: Give me your keys!
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Speaker 6: He was accosted by a white male carrying a large
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Speaker 6: caliber dark handgun.
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Speaker 2: Where's your car? When the masked gunman asked for the
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Speaker 2: victim's car keys, the man claimed he didn't own a car.
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Speaker 1: Oh.
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Speaker 6: The suspect demanded to know which car belonged to him.
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Speaker 6: He was told to turn around and face away from
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Speaker 6: the suspect, get down on his knees and put his
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Speaker 6: hand behind his head.
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Speaker 3: Where's your car?
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Speaker 2: Where is your car?
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Speaker 6: Our victim at that time felt quite certain that he
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Speaker 6: was going to be executed. Suspect fired three shots. One
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Speaker 6: of the shots hit him in the forearm.
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Speaker 2: The victim managed to flee down an alley and hide
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Speaker 2: behind a bush.
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Speaker 6: And spent some minutes there waiting for the situation to
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Speaker 6: calm down.
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Speaker 2: After 10 minutes, the victim returned to the street and
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Speaker 2: waved down the first car he saw, hoping for assistance.
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Speaker 2: To his horror, it was the gunman. an alert neighbor
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Speaker 2: had called police. The victim's life was spared. The following day,
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Speaker 2: a witness reported seeing a masked gunman leaving the scene
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Speaker 2: of a bank robbery in Centerville, Virginia. Police later recovered
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Speaker 2: the getaway vehicle and determined it was the car stolen
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Speaker 2: from the maintenance man. Investigators examine the evidence gathered at
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Speaker 2: the scene of the carjacking. All they have is a
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Speaker 2: bullet fragment that was lodged in the victim's arm. Ballistics
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Speaker 2: expert Joe Capera.
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Speaker 8: One does not necessarily need the whole bullet as long
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Speaker 8: as the fragment that is left that he is examining
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Speaker 8: has enough ballistic evidence on it that he can use.
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Speaker 2: He tests the fragment against the other recovered bullets to
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Speaker 2: determine if that case is connected to their current investigation.
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Speaker 2: The bullet fragment matches, but the task force is still
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Speaker 2: no closer to identifying their suspect. With little hard evidence,
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Speaker 2: investigators study the killer's behavior as exhibited through his actions,
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Speaker 2: searching for clues to his identity. Authorities examine the newly
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Speaker 2: linked case and determine he is unusually bold and cocky.
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Speaker 3: When the investigators got together and discussed the commitment level
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Speaker 3: of this individual to stay at a crime scene for
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Speaker 3: 10 minutes waiting for a witness to come back, raised
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Speaker 3: our level of concern about the subject himself.
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Speaker 6: He's not in a big hurry. It feels pretty comfortable
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Speaker 6: that the police aren't going to be there anytime soon.
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Speaker 2: Investigators also believe the suspect has a quick-tempered, vengeful personality.
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Speaker 6: He's very upset with his victim. He's decided that he
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Speaker 6: has been himself wronged in some way, and he's going
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Speaker 6: to make him pay for it.
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Speaker 2: But authorities cannot understand why the suspect uses what appears
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Speaker 2: to be an unnecessary level of violence during the carjackings.
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Speaker 6: It does not make sense to kill somebody in the
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Speaker 6: least risky part of the crime. The biggest risk he's
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Speaker 6: taken is when he goes into those banks, as far
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Speaker 6: as getting captured, being identified, or running into any real obstacles.
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Speaker 6: Taking these people, you know, innocent people off in the
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Speaker 6: middle of the night in a ground of his own
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Speaker 6: choosing where he can isolate them. I mean, he's safer
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Speaker 6: at that location than he is anywhere else and anything
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Speaker 6: else he does. It just doesn't make sense why he
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Speaker 6: chose to kill these people.
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Speaker 2: Your suspect is not only dangerously disturbed, but also clever.
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Speaker 3: One of the more interesting parts of the M.O. that
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Speaker 3: this individual used was the number of jurisdictions through which
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Speaker 3: he perpetrated his crimes.
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Speaker 2: He exploits the fact that no single police department can
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Speaker 2: readily see his entire crime pattern.
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Speaker 3: We have a carjacking in one jurisdiction. We have a
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Speaker 3: stolen tag from a second jurisdiction. We have a bank
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Speaker 3: robbery in a third jurisdiction. And then we have the
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Speaker 3: car abandoned in a fourth jurisdiction.
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Speaker 2: The gunman's efforts to stymie police do not stop there.
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Speaker 2: Each time he abandons a stolen car, he leaves it
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Speaker 2: unlocked with the keys in plain view.
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Speaker 3: One of the difficult parts of recovering the vehicles following
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Speaker 3: the robberies is that they were being driven by other people.
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Speaker 3: By leaving the vehicle with the keys in it, the
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Speaker 3: vehicles were then subsequently re-stolen, leaving the vehicles to be
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Speaker 3: re-stolen destroyed whatever forensic evidence would have.
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Speaker 7: Been left behind.
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Speaker 3: So the only thing we had to match all of
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Speaker 3: the crimes was the forensic evidence from the ballistics.
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Speaker 2: Investigators continue to look for additional unsolved carjackings in which
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Speaker 2: the vehicle was later used in a bank robbery. They
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Speaker 2: identify a case that occurred within miles of the other thefts.
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Speaker 3: A woman was walking out of a doctor's office and
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Speaker 3: realized that she was being followed. She turned to try
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Speaker 3: to go back to the doctor's office but was confronted
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Speaker 3: by the individual and then asked for her keys.
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Speaker 6: They walked over to the car. Come on, come on,
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Speaker 6: come on.
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Speaker 7: Start it. Start the car.
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Speaker 2: Start the car. The gunman forced the frightened woman to
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Speaker 2: start her car.
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Speaker 3: And upon starting the vehicle, had her get out and
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Speaker 3: kneel down next.
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Speaker 6: To a wall.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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Speaker 7: On your knees.
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Speaker 6: Get your hands up.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 3: Upon kneeling down, he had her wait there for a
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Speaker 3: short period of time.
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Speaker 6: She's described as 30 or 40 seconds past. You have
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Speaker 6: to wonder, how much of that time did he spend
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Speaker 6: thinking about whether or not he was going to shoot her?
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Speaker 6: She was very compliant, did everything she was told to
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Speaker 6: do right when she was told to do it. That
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Speaker 6: might have saved her.
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Speaker 2: The next day, her vehicle was used in a bank robbery.
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Speaker 2: The investigators wonder why their suspect allowed this woman to
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Speaker 2: live yet killed the others. They come up with several theories.
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Speaker 6: The fact that she was a Caucasian female might have
28:44
Speaker 6: had something to do with it. He might have had
28:46
Speaker 6: harbored some malice towards Hispanic people or foreign people. It
28:52
Speaker 6: could be something simple about he lost control in those situations.
28:56
Speaker 6: In fact, the best way to gain control was to
28:58
Speaker 6: kill him.
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Speaker 2: The task force has little to work with, but is
29:03
Speaker 2: determined to go on the offensive.
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Speaker 6: Now we're trying to figure out how can we get
29:10
Speaker 6: ahead of him? How can we be in a position
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Speaker 6: where we can be waiting for him when he does something?
29:17
Speaker 6: Or we can be prepared to mobilize very quickly with
29:20
Speaker 6: the resources necessary to get him.
29:24
Speaker 2: The investigators focus on the one aspect of the suspect's
29:28
Speaker 2: crime pattern that they can anticipate.
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Speaker 3: We could not predict when a carjacking would take place.
29:36
Speaker 3: They were too random. We did, however, know that following
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Speaker 3: the carjacking, we would have a bank robbery.
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Speaker 2: If authorities can only predict which banks he will rob
29:47
Speaker 2: or where he will be traveling, they might have a
29:51
Speaker 2: chance to catch him. A masked gunman strikes again and
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Speaker 2: again in suburban Maryland, just north of the nation's capital.
30:06
Speaker 2: He shoots his victims while stealing their cars, which he
30:14
Speaker 2: later uses to rob banks. In the spring of 1992,
30:22
Speaker 2: the FBI and Montgomery County Police analyzed their suspect's habits
30:28
Speaker 2: in hopes of trapping him. Homicide detective Ed Day.
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Speaker 6: We had people take aerial photographs of every crime scene
30:39
Speaker 6: and the different escape routes and things of that nature,
30:43
Speaker 6: trying to find some logical pattern to what he was doing,
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Speaker 6: something that would maybe give us a clue What are consistencies?
30:50
Speaker 6: What are inconsistencies? Is there anything like that that we
30:53
Speaker 6: can use to our advantage to foretell what he might
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Speaker 6: do next?
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Speaker 2: On the surface, the list of crime scenes appears random.
31:06
Speaker 2: But a closer look by investigators reveals all the banks
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Speaker 2: he robbed share a single trait.
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Speaker 6: Everywhere he went he had access to a major roadway
31:17
Speaker 6: that would take him pretty quickly to a thoroughfare like
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Speaker 6: 495 or 270 or something like that.
31:26
Speaker 2: The task force shifts their focus from predicting where the
31:29
Speaker 2: suspect will strike next to catching him when he makes
31:31
Speaker 2: his escape after a bank robbery. They decide they will
31:37
Speaker 2: cast a dragnet on all highway exit ramps in the area.
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Speaker 2: FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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Speaker 3: We developed a plan where we would cast a net
31:51
Speaker 3: using all of the jurisdictions, law enforcement within the Washington area,
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Speaker 3: to where once the bank robbery were to take place,
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Speaker 3: he would have to pass through some points of the net.
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Speaker 2: Meeting with officers from every police department in the area,
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Speaker 2: the task force details their plan. They will watch for
32:13
Speaker 2: any carjacking reports resembling their suspect's M.O. Officers from each
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Speaker 2: jurisdiction will then prepare for a quick response if a
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Speaker 2: bank is subsequently robbed. They will immediately stake out pre-assigned
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Speaker 2: highway exit ramps targeting the stolen car.
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Speaker 6: There was enough support at each particular location that he
32:39
Speaker 6: could be followed. We could bring to bear enough additional
32:45
Speaker 6: manpower to make a stop of our choosing and, of course,
32:50
Speaker 6: affect an arrest if we were lucky enough to spot him.
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Speaker 2: Ready to cast their net, investigators wait for the suspect
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Speaker 2: to steal a car.
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Speaker 6: At 5 a.m.
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Speaker 2: Each morning, Special Agent Coffey begins his day by reviewing
33:08
Speaker 2: the reports of all the area car thefts from the
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Speaker 2: night before. He looks for the one that matches their
33:14
Speaker 2: suspect's M.O. If the suspect stole a car, the task
33:21
Speaker 2: force needs to identify it before banks open at 9.
33:27
Speaker 2: But months pass with no sign of their suspect. Investigators
33:33
Speaker 2: begin to worry that the killer has gone underground and
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Speaker 2: may never be caught.
33:39
Speaker 6: We assume he's obviously stressed at this particular point. He's
33:43
Speaker 6: feeling the heat of the notoriety of what he's done.
33:49
Speaker 2: October 9th, 1992. Eight months after the killer's most.
33:58
Speaker 3: Recent slaying, I get notification from our Baltimore agents that
34:03
Speaker 3: another carjacking has taken place. We've got a white male
34:07
Speaker 3: with a ski mask, latex gloves, and a handgun. It's
34:11
Speaker 3: taken place all the way up in Baltimore.
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Speaker 2: At approximately 7 a.m., a 15-year-old girl walked to her
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Speaker 2: mother's car. Suddenly, an armed man approached her and demanded
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Speaker 2: the keys.
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Speaker 6: You pick them up or I'll kill you, you stupid.
34:48
Speaker 3: A housing police officer heard this and came to her aid.
34:52
Speaker 2: Get away from the car! Get away from the car!
34:54
Speaker 3: Get away from the car!
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Speaker 6: Get away from the car!
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Speaker 3: There was an exchange of gunfire.
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Speaker 5: And the carjacker took her vehicle and fled the scene.
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Speaker 6: We were feeling very good because we had very, very
35:28
Speaker 6: fresh information and we knew he was on the move
35:33
Speaker 6: and he was in Baltimore and more than likely on
35:36
Speaker 6: the way back here.
35:39
Speaker 2: The task force determines there is no need to wait
35:41
Speaker 2: for a bank robbery.
35:45
Speaker 3: Based on that information, the task force casts the net
35:48
Speaker 3: around the Washington metro area, hoping that he's going to
35:51
Speaker 3: come back through that net.
35:54
Speaker 2: Patrolmen and SWAT units from jurisdictions throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C.,
35:58
Speaker 2: and Northern Virginia race to prearranged locations on freeway exit
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Speaker 2: ramps to watch for the stolen car. Since police cannot
36:11
Speaker 2: be sure if the suspect has had time to switch
36:13
Speaker 2: the license plates, they pull over every vehicle matching its description. Driver,
36:23
Speaker 2: cut the car off! The car off! Each time, they
36:26
Speaker 2: know they may face a shooter who has already taken
36:31
Speaker 2: four lives.
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Speaker 3: Slowly!
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Speaker 6: Let me see your hands!
36:36
Speaker 7: Let me see your hands!
36:37
Speaker 6: Driver, walk back!
36:37
Speaker 2: Driver, hope you go slowly! The FBI and police departments
36:40
Speaker 2: throughout the Washington, D.C. area hunt a suspected killer. They
36:46
Speaker 2: stop every vehicle matching the description of the one they
36:49
Speaker 2: believe he stole an hour earlier. Police pull over dozens
36:54
Speaker 2: of cars that come up empty. What's going on?
36:59
Speaker 6: We got a girl.
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Speaker 2: As the search continues, 50 miles away in Western Maryland,
37:07
Speaker 2: Brunswick police officer Gary Klein is on routine patrol.
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Speaker 9: I observed a small black and color passenger vehicle. I
37:18
Speaker 9: saw that there was no front license plate on it.
37:22
Speaker 9: And as the vehicle passed me, I looked over and
37:25
Speaker 9: observed the driver had an eye on stopping, pulled down
37:27
Speaker 9: over his face. Kind of shocked me and I was like,
37:30
Speaker 9: I'm not really sure what's going on here, but kind
37:33
Speaker 9: of drew my attention real quick. I turned around, caught
37:38
Speaker 9: back up to the car, radioed my dispatchers and the
37:43
Speaker 9: 911 center and requested information on the tag. And the
37:49
Speaker 9: subject in the small black car sped off and wouldn't
37:51
Speaker 9: pull over for me. Then I'm informed by our dispatchers
37:56
Speaker 9: that this subject is wanted for shooting at a Baltimore
37:59
Speaker 9: City officer.
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Speaker 2: The hundreds of officers mobilized in the D.C. area are
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Speaker 2: too far away to assist. Officer Klein is alone against
38:12
Speaker 2: a ruthless killer.
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Speaker 9: The adrenaline's pumping now because I'm pursuing this vehicle. Knowing
38:20
Speaker 9: somewhere in there I'm going to have to confront this individual.
38:24
Speaker 9: The speeds that we maintained in some places were 90
38:28
Speaker 9: mile per hour to a little over 100 mile per hour.
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Speaker 2: Officer Klein chases the suspect from Maryland into Virginia.
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Speaker 9: He was very intent on getting away from me. He
38:47
Speaker 9: just went straight down the middle of the bridge, just
38:49
Speaker 9: forcing people east and westbound out of his way. I
38:54
Speaker 9: had to back off because I didn't want to endanger
38:57
Speaker 9: myself or the innocent people or citizens out on the streets.
39:01
Speaker 9: where he was actually able to gain a good bit
39:03
Speaker 9: of distance on me. But once the roadway cleared up
39:07
Speaker 9: a little bit where I could safely get through the vehicles,
39:10
Speaker 9: I was able to catch back up to him.
39:14
Speaker 2: The client pursues the suspect into West Virginia.
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Speaker 9: Made a right off Route 340 and he went down
39:22
Speaker 9: this small asphalt road and when he hit that he
39:26
Speaker 9: was going too fast with the rain and everything and
39:28
Speaker 9: lost control and struck the curb. Stepped out of the
39:34
Speaker 9: vehicle with my weapon drawn and I seen him kind
39:40
Speaker 9: of lean over in the car towards the passenger seat
39:42
Speaker 9: and I seen the gun come up inside the car.
39:47
Speaker 2: Officer Klein is concerned about firing his gun in a
39:51
Speaker 2: public place.
39:54
Speaker 9: When you discharge your weapon, you just don't want a
39:56
Speaker 9: round just going out there somewhere, and you could strike
39:59
Speaker 9: somebody innocent. You have a split second to make this decision,
40:03
Speaker 9: and whatever decision you make can affect you for the
40:06
Speaker 9: rest of your life. At that point, he placed the
40:09
Speaker 9: car in reverse and sped backwards quickly towards my cruiser
40:13
Speaker 9: in what I believe was an attempt to ram my
40:15
Speaker 9: car or strike me. He proceeded down a small access road,
40:29
Speaker 9: and I proceeded after him. He sped into this little
40:35
Speaker 9: dead-end dirt gravel area, and he tried to go behind
40:38
Speaker 9: this bulldozer and wrecked into it. There's nowhere for him
40:43
Speaker 9: to go, and now I have to confront him. At
40:51
Speaker 9: that time, I see the gun coming up. which just
40:54
Speaker 9: kind of made my heart jump out of my chest.
40:58
Speaker 2: While the suspect ducks for cover, Officer Klein strategically moves
41:02
Speaker 2: to his right.
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Speaker 9: You don't want to stay in one position, especially after
41:07
Speaker 9: he already knows where you're at.
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Speaker 2: Klein's tactic works. The suspect fires at the position where
41:13
Speaker 2: Klein used to be.
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Speaker 9: I actually fired more shots at him as he ran
41:20
Speaker 9: to get to the backside of his car for cover.
41:23
Speaker 2: With backup units still minutes away, the lone officer fights
41:28
Speaker 2: to stay alive in a violent face-off with a vicious killer.
41:41
Speaker 2: A suspected killer is in a desperate shootout on Harpers Ferry,
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Speaker 2: West Virginia, with lone police officer Gary Klein.
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Speaker 9: I see him start to come up from behind his car.
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Speaker 9: through the passenger side window with the gun raised and
41:56
Speaker 9: he's coming up. I remember firing at him and striking
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Speaker 9: the car and he ducked down behind the car again.
42:06
Speaker 9: Several seconds passed, he raises back up. You can hear it,
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Speaker 9: the actual sound of the bullet striking the car, the metal,
42:16
Speaker 9: and he ducks back down behind the car again.
42:21
Speaker 2: And finally, backup arrives.
42:25
Speaker 9: When they put their hand on my shoulder and I
42:27
Speaker 9: knew who they were, it was this big relief. Burden
42:31
Speaker 9: was lifted off my shoulders because now I knew I
42:34
Speaker 9: had fellow officers there. Within the next 10 minutes, police
42:41
Speaker 9: officers from several jurisdictions were on the scene.
42:48
Speaker 2: The gunman realizes he is outnumbered.
42:52
Speaker 9: Then the suspect stood up and walked out in front
42:56
Speaker 9: of myself and my cruiser, probably about 15 yards, and
43:00
Speaker 9: put the gun to his head. And I continued to
43:05
Speaker 9: yell at him to drop the gun, to throw the
43:07
Speaker 9: gun on the ground. There was a time he told
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Speaker 9: me he wouldn't do that.
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Speaker 2: West Virginia State Police Corporal John Jeffries begins negotiating with
43:18
Speaker 2: the gunman.
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Speaker 1: We can work through this.
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Speaker 3: Let me help.
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Speaker 9: After several minutes of negotiation, the suspect then pulled the
43:27
Speaker 9: nylon stocking up on the top of his head. Still
43:30
Speaker 9: wasn't able to really get a good, clear look at him.
43:33
Speaker 2: The suspect begins to talk. He says he's an unemployed
43:39
Speaker 2: house painter.
43:42
Speaker 9: He said that he was just upset. He had had
43:44
Speaker 9: some relation problems with his girlfriend. That he had done
43:48
Speaker 9: some things he wasn't real happy about and just All
43:51
Speaker 9: these things had piled up and just troubled him, and
43:53
Speaker 9: he didn't know why he was doing the things he
43:56
Speaker 9: was doing.
43:59
Speaker 2: After a 45-minute standoff, the gunman makes an unusual demand.
44:06
Speaker 9: I remember him saying he wanted to talk to his mother.
44:15
Speaker 9: So he gave his mother's name and phone number.
44:19
Speaker 2: Several tense minutes pass as police attempt to reach the
44:23
Speaker 2: suspect's mother.
44:26
Speaker 9: He advised the suspect that they had his mother on
44:29
Speaker 9: the phone.
44:31
Speaker 2: The woman on the line asks the negotiator for the
44:34
Speaker 2: suspect's name.
44:36
Speaker 9: He identified himself as Alan Newman. He wasn't real sure
44:41
Speaker 9: of the police. He didn't know if we were just
44:43
Speaker 9: lying to him or what we were doing.
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Speaker 6: Yes, it is.
44:51
Speaker 9: He said, well, ask my mom what my favorite cookie is.
44:55
Speaker 9: I remember Corporal Jeffries saying, your mom said your favorite
44:58
Speaker 9: cookie is chocolate chip. And he started crying. It really
45:05
Speaker 9: shocked me because I thought he was just going to
45:06
Speaker 9: drop the gun and give up. You see the hammer
45:13
Speaker 9: coming back and everything's like slow motion. You see the
45:17
Speaker 9: hammer drop. waiting for the gun to go off.
45:21
Speaker 2: And it didn't. Seizing the opportunity, officers rush in and
45:27
Speaker 2: subdue the gunman, ending the standoff.
45:32
Speaker 9: After it was all over and done, I'm very relieved.
45:35
Speaker 9: I'm very appreciative of all the guys that were there
45:38
Speaker 9: that day. I was able to help to get this
45:44
Speaker 9: person off the street. put him where he needed to
45:48
Speaker 9: be so that nobody else would be hurt.
45:52
Speaker 2: Police take Alan Newman into custody and confiscate his Ruger.
45:55
Speaker 2: 357 as evidence. It is the same model used in
46:00
Speaker 2: the murders, according to FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
46:06
Speaker 3: From the prior ballistics, we knew what type of gun
46:08
Speaker 3: it would be. It would have been a specific Ruger make,
46:12
Speaker 3: and in fact, that's what he was carrying. the same
46:15
Speaker 3: types of bullets that were used in the shootings and
46:17
Speaker 3: the homicides were, in fact, still in the weapon.
46:22
Speaker 2: You have told us that over and over. After nearly
46:25
Speaker 2: a year of hard work, investigators finally meet the killer
46:29
Speaker 2: face to face.
46:32
Speaker 3: We no longer have someone running throughout the counties killing
46:35
Speaker 3: people for cars. We were very excited about getting the
46:40
Speaker 3: chance to talk to the individual to find out why.
46:46
Speaker 2: While Newman admits to the Baltimore carjacking, he refuses to
46:50
Speaker 2: admit to any of the murders, according to homicide detective
46:53
Speaker 2: Ed Day.
46:56
Speaker 6: Throughout the interview process, he remained pretty cocky, and he
47:03
Speaker 6: thought it was pretty cool.
47:09
Speaker 2: Investigators continue to press Newman while at a firearms laboratory.
47:14
Speaker 2: A ballistics expert fires Newman's gun into an 800 gallon
47:18
Speaker 2: tank of water. The examiner compares the unique markings on
47:24
Speaker 2: the fired bullet to those on the bullets recovered from
47:27
Speaker 2: the four murders and the attempted homicide. Ballistics expert Joe Capera.
47:37
Speaker 8: It is a scientific certainty that this is the firearm
47:42
Speaker 8: that fired these bullets.
47:45
Speaker 7: And no other firearm could possibly do that.
47:51
Speaker 2: After hours of interrogation, investigators received the ballistics report.
48:00
Speaker 6: That's like the magic piece of evidence. That's the one
48:04
Speaker 6: that you really knew would seal the whole case. We
48:12
Speaker 6: had physical, undeniable evidence that we could put in front
48:15
Speaker 6: of a jury that he could not refute in any way, shape,
48:18
Speaker 6: or form. We could convict him without much trouble, and
48:25
Speaker 6: we could have gotten the death sentence with the information
48:27
Speaker 6: that we had, which put it over the top, and
48:32
Speaker 6: he decided it was best to make a deal for
48:35
Speaker 6: life rather than take the chance on being executed.
48:42
Speaker 2: Alan Newman pleads guilty to all the charges against him
48:46
Speaker 2: and is sentenced to five life terms without parole, plus
48:50
Speaker 2: 100 years for handgun violations.
48:53
Speaker 3: Looking back, it was the collective efforts of more than
48:56
Speaker 3: a dozen police agencies contributing interviews and evidence that led
49:01
Speaker 3: to the successful conclusion of this case.
49:03
Speaker 6: The accomplishment for all police officers and all investigators is
49:09
Speaker 6: to arrest a bad guy and put him in jail,
49:11
Speaker 6: and when you do that, You get a nice warm
49:13
Speaker 6: feeling for about 10 minutes until the next case comes
49:16
Speaker 6: in and you have to start all over again.
49:22
Speaker 2: But for now, every investigator who worked this case is
49:27
Speaker 2: content to know they have ended one man's violent rampage.