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True Crime Documentary - Senseless Murders： 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 1: get to see all of your lovely faces there.
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Speaker 2: A string of lethal carjackings terrorized the Washington DC 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 3: In the early nineties, the serial killers stock loaned victims
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Speaker 3: in the dead of night. His hunting ground the suburbs
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Speaker 3: of Washington, d C. His target anyone who owned a car.
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Speaker 3: I'm Jim Cowstrom Farm ahead of the FBI's New York office.
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Speaker 3: The government was as elusive as he was deadly. He
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Speaker 3: struck quickly and without mercy. Now the FBI must follow
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Speaker 3: the twisted path of a killer wherever it leads.
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Speaker 2: November thirteenth, nineteen ninety one, Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb
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Speaker 2: north of Washington, d C. Montgomery County police respond to
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Speaker 2: a report of shots fired at a car dealership. Officers
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Speaker 2: discover the body of a woman shot in the chest
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Speaker 2: and forehead and another gun shot victim nearby. He's got
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Speaker 2: a clue. The man is breathing but unconscious. Paramedics rush
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Speaker 2: him to the hospital. Montgomery County Homicide Detective Ed Day
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Speaker 2: coordinates his department's swift response to the slang.
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Speaker 4: You saturate the case as fast as you can, work
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Speaker 4: on as fast as you can, get as much information
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Speaker 4: as fast as you can, and try to resolve it
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Speaker 4: as fast as you can. Unfortunately, the homicides time is terrible.
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Speaker 4: The more time goes by, the less your odds are
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Speaker 4: that you're going to have a satisfactory conclusion of the investigation.
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Speaker 2: Investigators learned 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: ten pm 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 5: You don't overlook the obvious.
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Speaker 4: You have a shooting like this at a car a lot,
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Speaker 4: is that a possible motive for the.
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Speaker 5: Killing the theft of a car?
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Speaker 4: Of course, I had representatives from the auto dealer come
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Speaker 4: out do an inventory. There was no vehicles missing, there
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Speaker 4: was no 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 4: Nothing was taken, they had money on them.
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Speaker 5: It was when a single thing missing.
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Speaker 6: Us just as the tendant position.
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Speaker 2: If 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 3: He's innovative, he's also on a coma, and he's just.
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Speaker 4: Not We do that with all any kind of a
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Speaker 4: shooting that's potentially fatal. There's a rule of law that
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Speaker 4: a dying declaration does not have to be corroborated. It's
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Speaker 4: not hearsay because as a person knows he's going to die,
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Speaker 4: he's seemed to be able to be telling the truth.
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Speaker 4: So if you can get a statement from somebody in
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Speaker 4: really serious circums stances and it's always a very very
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Speaker 4: powerful piece of evidence.
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Speaker 2: I gotta check on it. But the victim dies nine
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Speaker 2: days later without ever regaining consciousness. During the autopsy, the
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Speaker 2: medical examiner recovers the only piece of physical evidence, the
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Speaker 2: bullets that killed the victims. At the Maryland State Police
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Speaker 2: Crime Lab, ballistics expert Joe Kopera examines the evidence to
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Speaker 2: determine if there was more than one shooter.
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Speaker 7: There was a microscopic comparison don the determined if these
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Speaker 7: bullets were fired from the same gun, and indeed, as
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Speaker 7: a conclusion to these examinations, I concluded that these bullets
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Speaker 7: were fired from the same event.
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Speaker 2: Examining the scratch patterns on the bullets, Kupara determines the
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Speaker 2: make and model of the murder weapon.
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Speaker 7: I was able to assertain first of all the caliber
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Speaker 7: of the gun, which was a three point fifty seven,
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Speaker 7: and then through the measurements of the unique landing groove areas,
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Speaker 7: I was able to ascertain that was a Ruber three
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Speaker 7: point fifty seven.
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Speaker 2: With no obvious motive for the slams. Detectives explore the
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Speaker 2: victim's personal lives for clue mans.
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Speaker 4: If you work inside out, you try to find out
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Speaker 4: if these people had any enemies, if there was any
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Speaker 4: triangle in a thwarted lover or something like that. These
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Speaker 4: things take you in a hundred different directions, and you
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Speaker 4: just have to You have to take care of one
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Speaker 4: thing at a time. You eliminate something and you move
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Speaker 4: on to the next issue, and you just go from there.
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Speaker 5: Oh what.
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Speaker 2: Detectives find nothing in the victims 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
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Speaker 2: slayings as a failed car theft. With that possible motive
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Speaker 2: in mind, detectives speculate how the crime might have occurred.
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Speaker 4: They were cleaning business was closed for the night, they
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Speaker 4: were taking the trash out.
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Speaker 2: Hey Detectives 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.
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Speaker 4: Run, and you have to make the assumption that he
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Speaker 4: lost control of the situation as to kill the two
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Speaker 4: of them before he identified what car belonged to them.
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Speaker 4: He escalated an attempt theft and a murder for no
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Speaker 4: good reason.
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Speaker 2: With little evidence to go on the case grows cold.
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Speaker 2: Then three months later, investigators respond to the scene of
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Speaker 2: another homicide. They find the body of psychology professor doctor
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Speaker 2: Shaheen Hastrudy lying in a parking lot in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Speaker 2: Unable to locate her car, Detectives believe she was the
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Speaker 2: victim of a fatal car jacking. Noting the lack of
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Speaker 2: blood spatter evidence near the body, They suspect his Trudi's
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Speaker 2: assailants shot her while she was still inside her car.
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Speaker 2: Through interviews with her colleagues, authorities determined doctor Hirstrudi left
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Speaker 2: her office around eight pm.
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Speaker 5: She's obviously UH accosted by Don't.
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Speaker 4: At some point gets in her car.
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Speaker 6: Should not car start, Let's just start the car.
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Speaker 5: Don't start the car starting the car. When she's already
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Speaker 5: in the car, she shot.
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Speaker 4: She's taken out of the car, jumped on the on
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Speaker 4: the lock, and UH suspect steals her car. Gunshot wounded,
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Speaker 4: 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.
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Speaker 5: We get a couple of crimes here.
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Speaker 2: Homicide detectives begin examining unsolved cases involving similar circumstances. One
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Speaker 2: detective recalls a recent homicide which occurred a month before
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Speaker 2: his Trudy was killed. That victim was also shot at
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Speaker 2: the head with a large caliber gun, as in the
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Speaker 2: Silver Spring double homicide. Responding officers found the victim's keys
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Speaker 2: near his body. Marge call the weapon. But this victim
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Speaker 2: didn't own a car, which leads investigators to question whether
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Speaker 2: car theft was the motive, or if the case is
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Speaker 2: even connected to the other shootings.
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Speaker 4: But we said, you know, this is looking like there
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Speaker 4: definitely links for some reason, So let's go get some
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Speaker 4: get somes on.
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Speaker 2: So I sorities locate the bullet from that case and
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Speaker 2: send it to be tested. Ballistics expert Joe Kupera compares
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Speaker 2: the bullets from the four homicides.
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Speaker 7: I did a cross comparison examination to the previous bullets,
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Speaker 7: and as a result of that examination, I found that
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Speaker 7: that all the bullets were fired from the same weapon.
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Speaker 5: So I was going to see a pattern.
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Speaker 2: You guys, investigators have connect did the four homicides through
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Speaker 2: the ballistic evidence and an apparent car theF motive, but
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Speaker 2: they cannot understand why the killer chose to murder his victims.
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Speaker 4: None of these people were armed stature wise, none of
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Speaker 4: these people I thought were particularly a threat to UH.
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Speaker 4: The suspect two possibilities that he lost control of him
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Speaker 4: and felt the best way to regain control of the
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Speaker 4: situation was to kill him, or there was some psychological
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Speaker 4: reason that he didn't like these particular people.
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Speaker 2: Detectives believe they're dealing with an extremely violent and unpredictable
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Speaker 2: criminal and suspect he may still be in the area.
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Speaker 4: Montgomery County was his basis of operation. That's where he
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Speaker 4: felt most comfortable. That's where he did all his murders.
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Speaker 4: That's where he did his in his most risky business.
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Speaker 4: That's where he laid in wait for people. So there
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Speaker 4: was obvious he had some strong tie to Montgomery County.
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Speaker 2: Investigate his suspect he will strike again, and hope to
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Speaker 2: stop him before he does. But they have no clues
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Speaker 2: that can help identify him, and the killer's weapon is
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Speaker 2: the only thing that can connect him to the murders.
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Speaker 4: The best evidence we got is bullets and if we
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Speaker 4: can get him and get the gun, then we have
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Speaker 4: definitely 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 they're 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 4: If we supply the information of the press that all
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Speaker 4: the bullets came from the same gun, be a good
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Speaker 4: likelihood that he would dispose of the weapon, or he would,
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Speaker 4: in the worst case scenario, obtaining a different weapon and
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Speaker 4: keep committing the crown.
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Speaker 2: More than a week after the Hastrudi killing, a man
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Speaker 2: wearing a stocking mask in latex gloves robs a bank
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Speaker 2: in Chantilli, 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 Hustrude, attracting the attention of Montgomery
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Speaker 2: County detectives, but the license plate is not Hisstrudie'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 watched 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.
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Speaker 8: Coffee, we had a great piece of video that actually
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Speaker 8: showed the individual the handgun. That picture was actually put
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Speaker 8: on the news locally and regionally to try to see
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Speaker 8: if we could spark.
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Speaker 9: Some interest as far as someone identifying them.
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Speaker 2: Investigators also release information that they're suspected the money he
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Speaker 2: stole and the vehicle he was driving may be covered
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Speaker 2: in red dye.
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Speaker 4: The tailor managed to slip die packs into the bag
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Speaker 4: of money, and a die pack is a device that
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Speaker 4: once it goes through the door of the bank, it's
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Speaker 4: electronically activated. There's a timer on it. It gives a
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Speaker 4: person a little bit of time to get away from
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Speaker 4: the bank, and then it explodes, spewing this terrible red dye.
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Speaker 4: It stains. It's very difficult to get off. It gets
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Speaker 4: on the money and it can't will not come up
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Speaker 4: off the money. It takes a while to get it
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Speaker 4: off 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. The check of the vehicle identification number proves
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Speaker 2: that it is a Strude's car. The officer peers inside,
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Speaker 2: examining the interior.
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Speaker 8: We had the red dye stain center from the die
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Speaker 8: packs from the bank.
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Speaker 2: We had proof positive that had.
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Speaker 9: 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 hisstrudis. It is
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Speaker 2: a match.
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Speaker 6: The bank.
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Speaker 2: Finally, investigators are able to look at the various crimes
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Speaker 2: and understand there's suspects overall plans.
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Speaker 5: It's gelled into something that makes a little bit of sense.
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Speaker 4: You went from a situation where he had a whole
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Speaker 4: bunch of motives that really didn't make sense to now
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Speaker 4: a concrete motive. This person is killing people, to steal cars,
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Speaker 4: to commit bankrupts.
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Speaker 2: Although authorities now understand whether 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 bobbery. 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 Coffee.
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Speaker 8: One of the main roles of the FBI, specifically in
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Speaker 8: this type of a crime is that we work with
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Speaker 8: many different agencies to corral all of the investigators and
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Speaker 8: 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. From
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Speaker 2: Montgomery County Homicide Detective ed Day.
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Speaker 4: When you start working with multiple jurisdictions different cases, well,
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Speaker 4: the more jurisdictions are involved. The more gyuristics have an interest,
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Speaker 4: the more assets you can draw from.
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Speaker 2: The task force now understands the suspects 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. This investigators continued
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Speaker 2: to look for past unsolved cases that involved a similar pattern.
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Speaker 4: Here, nothing occurs in a vacuum. Somebody doesn't just start
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Speaker 4: killing people. 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.
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Speaker 10: It's your car that was not dark.
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Speaker 5: Our victim was a maintenance man and the Hispanic mail.
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Speaker 4: He was accosted by a white male carrying a large
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Speaker 4: caliber dark handgun.
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Speaker 2: The car masked gunman asked for the victim's car keys.
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Speaker 2: The man claims he didn't own a car.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 4: The suspect demanded to know which car belonged to him.
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Speaker 4: He was told to turn around, face away from the suspect.
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Speaker 5: He down on his knees and put his hand behind
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Speaker 5: his pit.
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Speaker 9: Where's your car?
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Speaker 10: Where is your car?
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Speaker 4: Our victim at that time felt quite certain that he
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Speaker 4: was going to be executed. Suspect fired three shots. One
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Speaker 4: 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 4: And spent some minutes there waiting for the situation to
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Speaker 4: calm down.
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Speaker 2: After ten 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 neighborhood
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Speaker 2: 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 examined the evidence gathered at
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Speaker 2: the scene of the car jacking. All they have is
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Speaker 2: a bullet fragment that was lodged in the victim's arm.
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Speaker 2: Ballistics expert Joe capera.
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Speaker 7: One does not necessarily need the whole bullet as long
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Speaker 7: as the fragment that is left that he is examining
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Speaker 7: 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's not getting anything out
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Speaker 2: of his and these cars are with little hard evidence.
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Speaker 2: Investigator's study, the killer's behavior is exhibited through his actions
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Speaker 2: searching for clues to his identity. This guy, the authorities
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Speaker 2: examined the newly linked case and determine he is unusually
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Speaker 2: bold and cocky whom.
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Speaker 8: The investigators got together and discussed the commitment level of
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Speaker 8: this individual to stay at a crime signal for Kennet's
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Speaker 8: waiting for a witness to come back raised our level
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Speaker 8: of concern about the subject himself.
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Speaker 5: He's not in a big hurry.
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Speaker 4: It feels pretty comfortable that the police aren't going to
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Speaker 4: be there anytime soon.
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Speaker 2: Investigators also believe the suspect has a quick, temperate, vengeful personality.
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Speaker 4: He's very upset with his victim. He's decided that he
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Speaker 4: has been himself wronged in some way and he's going
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Speaker 4: 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 4: It does not make sense to kill somebody in the
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Speaker 4: least risky part of the crime.
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Speaker 5: The biggest risk he's.
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Speaker 4: Taken is when he goes into those banks, as far
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Speaker 4: as getting captured, being identified, or running into any real obstacles.
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Speaker 4: Taking these people, in innocent people off in the middle
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Speaker 4: of the night and in the ground of his own
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Speaker 4: choosing where he can isolate him. I mean, he's safer
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Speaker 4: that location that he is anywhere else and anything else
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Speaker 4: he does. It just doesn't make sense why he chose
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Speaker 4: 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 2: pulling years.
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Speaker 8: One of the more interesting parts of them that this
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Speaker 8: individual used was the number of jurisdictions through which he
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Speaker 8: 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 8: We have a car jacking in one jurisdiction, We have
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Speaker 8: a stolen tag from a second jurisdiction, We have a
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Speaker 8: bank robbery and a third jurisdiction, and then we have
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Speaker 8: the car abandoned in a fourth jurisdiction.
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Speaker 2: The gunman's efforts to stemy 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 plane view.
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Speaker 8: One of the difficult parts of recovering the vehicles following
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Speaker 8: the robberies is.
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Speaker 9: That they were being driven by other people.
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Speaker 8: By leaving the vehicle with the keys in it, the
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Speaker 8: vehicles were then subsequently restolen, leaving the vehicles to be restolen,
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Speaker 8: destroying whatever forensic evidence would have been off behind it.
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Speaker 8: So the only thing we had to match all of
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Speaker 8: 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 8: A woman was walking out of a doctor's office and
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Speaker 8: realized that she was being followed. She turned to try
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Speaker 8: to go back to the doctor's office, but was confronted.
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Speaker 9: By the individual.
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Speaker 8: And then asked for her keys.
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Speaker 11: They walked over to the car. The car, Come on,
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Speaker 11: come on, come on, started, start the car, Start.
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Speaker 2: Down, car or stop right. A woman to start a car,
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Speaker 2: and upon starting a vehicle at her get out and
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Speaker 2: kneel down next to a wall. All you need upon
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Speaker 2: kneeling down, he had her weight there first shore.
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Speaker 5: Period of time she described as thirty or forty seconds passed.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, if it was, you.
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Speaker 4: Have to wonder is how long that much of that
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Speaker 4: time did he spend thinking about whether or not he.
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Speaker 5: Was gonna shoot her.
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Speaker 4: She was very compliant that everything she was told to
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Speaker 4: do right when she was told to do it.
28:19
Speaker 5: That might have saved her.
28:23
Speaker 2: The next day, her vehicle was used in a bank robbery,
28:29
Speaker 2: and this was his latest one. The investigators wondered why
28:32
Speaker 2: their suspect allowed this woman to list had killed the others.
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Speaker 5: Anybody had the idea.
28:37
Speaker 2: They come up with several theories his next move, as
28:40
Speaker 2: they had the fact that she was a Caucasian female
28:43
Speaker 2: might have had something to do with it.
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Speaker 5: He might have had uh.
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Speaker 4: Harbored some malice towards uh Hispanic people or foreign people
28:51
Speaker 4: or uh. It could be something simple about he lost
28:54
Speaker 4: control and those situations and fat the best way to
28:57
Speaker 4: get gain control was to kill.
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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 4: Now we're trying to figure out how can we get
29:10
Speaker 4: ahead of him, How can we be in a position
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Speaker 4: where we can be waiting for him when he does something,
29:17
Speaker 4: or we can be prepared to mobilize very quickly with
29:20
Speaker 4: the resources necessary to get him.
29:25
Speaker 2: To investigate his focus on the one aspect of the
29:27
Speaker 2: suspect's crime pattern that they can anticipate.
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Speaker 9: We could not predict when a car jacking would take place.
29:36
Speaker 5: They were too random.
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Speaker 8: We did, however, no that following the carjacking we would
29:41
Speaker 8: have a bank robbery.
29:43
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 massive gunman strikes again and
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Speaker 2: again in suburban Maryland, just north of the nation's cabinet.
30:05
Speaker 2: He shoots his victims while stealing their cars.
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Speaker 6: Which he later uses to rob banks.
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Speaker 2: In the spring of nineteen ninety two, the FBI and
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Speaker 2: Montgomery County Police analyze their suspects happens in hopes.
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Speaker 5: Of tracking why this guy's picking these banks.
30:33
Speaker 2: Homicide detective ed Day.
30:36
Speaker 4: We had people take aerial photographs of every crime scene
30:39
Speaker 4: and the different escape rots and things of that nature,
30:42
Speaker 4: trying to find some logical pattern to what he was doing,
30:46
Speaker 4: something that would maybe give us a clue. What are consistencies,
30:50
Speaker 4: what are inconsistencies? Is there anything like that that we
30:53
Speaker 4: can use to our advantage to to foretell what he
30:58
Speaker 4: might 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.
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Speaker 5: Trait everywhere he went.
31:14
Speaker 4: He had access to a major roadway, they would take
31:18
Speaker 4: him pretty quickly to a thoroughfare like four ninety five
31:21
Speaker 4: or two seventy or something like that.
31:25
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.
31:43
Speaker 2: FBI Special Agent Robert Coffee.
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Speaker 8: So we developed a plan where we would cast a
31:50
Speaker 8: net using all of the jurisdiction's law enforcement within the
31:54
Speaker 8: Washington area to where once the bank robbery were to
31:58
Speaker 8: take place, he would have to pass through some points
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Speaker 8: 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 suspects m A Officers from
32:19
Speaker 2: each jurisdiction will then prepare for a quick response if
32:22
Speaker 2: a bank is subsequently robbed. They will immediately stake out
32:28
Speaker 2: pre assigned highway exit ramps, targeting the stolen car here.
32:33
Speaker 4: Once he saw jack the vehicles, there was enough support
32:37
Speaker 4: at each particular location that he could be followed. We
32:42
Speaker 4: could bring to bear enough additional manpower to make a
32:46
Speaker 4: stop of our choosing and of course affect on arrest
32:51
Speaker 4: if we were lucky enough to spot.
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Speaker 2: Them, ready to cast their net. Investigator's weight for the
32:57
Speaker 2: suspect to steal a car the plan, let's get up
33:03
Speaker 2: at five am each morning. Special Agent Coffee begins his
33:07
Speaker 2: day by reviewing the reports of all the area of
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Speaker 2: car thefts from the night before. He looks for the
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Speaker 2: one that matches their suspects.
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Speaker 5: M O take a look at it.
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Speaker 2: If the suspects stole a car, the task force needs
33:22
Speaker 2: to identify it. But four banks open at nine at
33:27
Speaker 2: But months pass with no sign of their suspect. Investigators
33:33
Speaker 2: begin to worry that the killer is gone underground and
33:35
Speaker 2: may never be caught.
33:39
Speaker 4: We assume he's obviously stressed at this particular point. He's
33:43
Speaker 4: feeling the heat of the notoriety of what he's done.
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Speaker 2: October ninth, nineteen ninety two, Special Lady Coffee, eight months
33:57
Speaker 2: after the killer's most recent slaying.
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Speaker 8: I get notification from her Baltimore agents. Then another car
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Speaker 8: jacking has taken place. We've got a white male with
34:07
Speaker 8: the ski mask, latex gloves and a handgun has taken place.
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Speaker 9: All the way up in Baltimore.
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Speaker 2: At approximately seven am, a fifteen year old girl walked
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Speaker 2: to her mother's car. Suddenly, an armed man approached her
34:24
Speaker 2: and demanded the keys.
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Speaker 5: What brought you?
34:42
Speaker 8: Stupid housing police officer heard this and came to her aide, gona.
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Speaker 3: Way, rent a car, you gotta work, rent a guard,
34:54
Speaker 3: gotta work at a.
34:55
Speaker 2: God gonna work for the car.
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Speaker 8: There was an exchange of gunfire and the carjacker took
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Speaker 8: the vehicle and fled the city.
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Speaker 2: I think that.
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Speaker 10: That's something we have our carson.
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Speaker 4: We were feeling very good because we had uh very
35:28
Speaker 4: very fresh information and we knew he was on the move,
35:33
Speaker 4: and he was in Baltimore and more than likely on
35:36
Speaker 4: the way back here.
35:38
Speaker 2: Barjackt The task force determines there is no need to
35:41
Speaker 2: wait for a bank robbery.
35:45
Speaker 8: Based on that information, the task Force casts the net
35:48
Speaker 8: around the Washington metro area, hoping that he's going to
35:51
Speaker 8: come back through that net.
35:54
Speaker 2: Patrol mon of SWAT units from jurisdictions throughout the Maryland,
35:57
Speaker 2: Washington DC, and Northern Virginia race to pre arrange locations
36:02
Speaker 2: on freeway exit rams to watch for the stolen car.
36:10
Speaker 2: Since police cannot be sure if the suspect has had
36:13
Speaker 2: time to switch the license plates, they pull over every
36:16
Speaker 2: vehicle matching its description. Each time they know they may
36:27
Speaker 2: face a shooter who has already taken four lives. The
36:39
Speaker 2: FBI and police departments throughout the Washington DC area hunt
36:43
Speaker 2: a suspected killer. They stop every vehicle matching the description
36:48
Speaker 2: of the one they believe he stole. An hour earlier.
36:53
Speaker 2: Police pull over dozens of cars would come up empty.
36:57
Speaker 5: Why not you got a girl?
37:02
Speaker 2: As the search continues, Fifteen miles away in western Maryland,
37:07
Speaker 2: Brunswick police officer Gary Klein is on routine patrol.
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Speaker 10: I observed a small, black and colored passenger vehicle. I
37:18
Speaker 10: saw that there was no front license plate on it,
37:22
Speaker 10: and as the vehicle passed me, I looked over and
37:25
Speaker 10: observed the driver had a nylon stocking and pulled down
37:27
Speaker 10: over his face. Kind of shocked me, and I was like,
37:30
Speaker 10: I'm not really sure what's going on here, but kind
37:33
Speaker 10: of drew my attention real quick. I turned around, caught
37:38
Speaker 10: backed up to the car, radioed my dispatchers and the
37:43
Speaker 10: nomenon one center and requested UH information on the tag,
37:48
Speaker 10: and the subject in the small black car sped off.
37:51
Speaker 2: And wouldn't pull over for me.
37:53
Speaker 4: I mean to get away.
37:54
Speaker 10: Then, I'm informed by our dispatchers that this subject is
37:58
Speaker 10: wanted for shooting at a Baltimore city of.
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Speaker 2: The hundreds of officers mobilized in the DC area are
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Speaker 2: too far away to assist. The officer clinging is a
38:11
Speaker 2: long against a ruthless killer.
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Speaker 10: The adrenaline's pumping now because I'm pursuing this vehicle, knowing
38:20
Speaker 10: somewhere in there I'm gonna have to confront this individual.
38:24
Speaker 10: The speeds that we maintain in some places were ninety
38:28
Speaker 10: mil per hour to UH a little over one hundred
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Speaker 10: mile per hour.
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Speaker 2: Officer Cline chases the suspect from Maryland into Virginia.
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Speaker 10: He was very intent on getting away from me.
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Speaker 5: Just as you were getting ready to go right on Interstate.
38:43
Speaker 10: Seventy one, he just went straight down the middle of
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Speaker 10: the bridge, just forcing people east and westbound out of
38:52
Speaker 10: his way. I had to back off because I didn't
38:56
Speaker 10: want to danger my stuff where the Dennis and people
38:59
Speaker 10: or citizens out on the street where he was actually
39:02
Speaker 10: able to gain a good bit of distance on me.
39:06
Speaker 10: But once the roadway cleared up a little bit where
39:08
Speaker 10: I could safely get through the vehicles, I was able
39:10
Speaker 10: to catch back up to him.
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Speaker 2: Kind pursues, the suspect into West Virginia.
39:18
Speaker 10: Made a right off of arout three forty and he
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Speaker 10: went down this small asphalt road and when he hit that,
39:25
Speaker 10: he was going too fast with the rain and everything,
39:28
Speaker 10: and lost control and struck the curb. Stepped out of
39:34
Speaker 10: the vehicle with my weapon drawn, and I seen him
39:40
Speaker 10: kind of lean over in the car towards the passenger seat,
39:42
Speaker 10: and I seen the gun come up inside the car.
39:47
Speaker 2: Officer Klient is concerned about firing his gun in a
39:51
Speaker 2: public place.
39:53
Speaker 10: Well, when you discharge your weapon, you just don't want
39:56
Speaker 10: to around just going out there somewhere and you could
39:59
Speaker 10: strike some body innocent. You have a split second to
40:02
Speaker 10: make this decision, and whatever decision you make can affect
40:05
Speaker 10: you for the rest of your life. At that point,
40:08
Speaker 10: he placed the car reverse and sped backwards quickly towards
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Speaker 10: my cruiser, and what I believe was an attempt to
40:14
Speaker 10: ram my car or strike me. He proceeded down a
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Speaker 10: small access road and I proceeded after him. He sped
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Speaker 10: into the little dead end dirt gravel area, and he
40:37
Speaker 10: tried to go behind his bulldozer and wrecked into it.
40:42
Speaker 10: There's nowhere for him to go, and now I have
40:44
Speaker 10: to confront him. At that time, I see the gun
40:52
Speaker 10: coming up, which just kind of made my heart jump
40:55
Speaker 10: out of my chest.
40:58
Speaker 2: While the suspect ducks, recover Officer Klein strategically moves to
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Speaker 2: his right.
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Speaker 10: He didn't want to stay in one position, especially after
41:07
Speaker 10: 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.
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Speaker 10: Be, actually fired more shots than him as he ran
41:20
Speaker 10: 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
41:32
Speaker 2: vicious killer. A suspected killer is in a desperate shootout
41:43
Speaker 2: in Harper's Ferry, West, Virginia with lone police officer Gary Klein.
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Speaker 10: I see him start to come up from behind his
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Speaker 10: car through the passenger side window with the gun raised
41:56
Speaker 10: and he's coming up. I remember from fire and nighting
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Speaker 10: and striking the car, and he ducked down behind the
42:03
Speaker 10: car again. Several seconds past he raises back up. You
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Speaker 10: can't hear it, the actual sound of the bullet striking
42:15
Speaker 10: the car, the metal, and he ducks back down behind
42:17
Speaker 10: the car again.
42:22
Speaker 2: Finally backup arrives.
42:25
Speaker 10: When they put their hand on my shoulder and I
42:27
Speaker 10: knew who they were. It was this big relief burden
42:31
Speaker 10: was lifted off my shoulders because now I knew I
42:34
Speaker 10: had fellow officers there. Within the next ten minutes, police
42:41
Speaker 10: officers from several jurisdictions were on the scene.
42:46
Speaker 9: At card in the car.
42:48
Speaker 2: The gunman realizes he is out the numbered.
42:52
Speaker 10: Then the suspect stood up and walked out in front
42:56
Speaker 10: of myself and my cruise are probably about fifteen yards
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Speaker 10: and put the gun to his head. And I continued
43:05
Speaker 10: to yell at him to drop the gun, to throw
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Speaker 10: the gun on the ground, which time he told me
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Speaker 10: he wouldn't do that.
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Speaker 5: I listened. Hold on about it, Hold on about it.
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Speaker 2: West Virginia State for the least, Corporal John Jefferies begins
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Speaker 2: negotiating with the gunman. Where can work this? Let me
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Speaker 2: help you.
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Speaker 10: After several minutes of negotiation, the suspect then pulled the
43:27
Speaker 10: nylon stocking up on the top of his head. Still
43:30
Speaker 10: wasn't able to really get a good clear look at him.
43:34
Speaker 2: The suspect begins to talk. He says he's an unemployed
43:39
Speaker 2: house painter.
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Speaker 10: He said that he was just upset. He had had
43:44
Speaker 10: some relation problems with his girlfriend, that he had done
43:48
Speaker 10: some things he wasn't real happy about, and just all
43:51
Speaker 10: these things had powered up and just troubled him, and
43:54
Speaker 10: he didn't know why he was doing the things he
43:56
Speaker 10: was doing.
43:58
Speaker 2: After a forty five minutes stand off, the gunman makes
44:02
Speaker 2: an unusual demand.
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Speaker 10: I remember him saying he wanted to talk to his mother,
44:14
Speaker 10: so he gave up his mother's name and phone number.
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Speaker 2: Several ten minutes past his police attempt to reach the suspect's.
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Speaker 10: Mother, He advised the suspect that they had his mother
44:29
Speaker 10: on the phone.
44:31
Speaker 2: The woman on the line asks the negotiator for the
44:34
Speaker 2: suspect's name.
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Speaker 10: He identified himself as Alan Newman. He wasn't real sure
44:41
Speaker 10: of the police. He didn't know if we were just
44:43
Speaker 10: lying to him or what we were doing. Were your
44:49
Speaker 10: top he said, well, ask my mom, what my favorite
44:53
Speaker 10: cookie is. I remember Corporal Jeffreys saying, your mom said
44:58
Speaker 10: your favorite cookie is chocolate chip, and he started crying.
45:04
Speaker 10: It really shocked me because I thought he was just
45:06
Speaker 10: going to drop the gun and give up. You see
45:12
Speaker 10: the hammer coming back, and everything's like slow motion. You
45:16
Speaker 10: see the hammer drop. You're waiting for the gun to
45:19
Speaker 10: go off, and it didn't.
45:24
Speaker 2: Seizing the opportunity, officers rush in and subdue the gunman,
45:29
Speaker 2: ending the standoff.
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Speaker 10: After it was all over and done, very relieved, very
45:36
Speaker 10: appreciative of all of the guys that were there that day.
45:41
Speaker 10: I was able to help to get this person off
45:45
Speaker 10: the street and putting where he needed to be so
45:48
Speaker 10: that nobody else would be would be hurt.
45:52
Speaker 2: Police take Alan Newman into custody, didn't confiscate his Ruger
45:55
Speaker 2: three point fifty seven is evidence. It is the same
45:59
Speaker 2: amount used in the murders. According to FBI Special Agent
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Speaker 2: Robert Coffee.
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Speaker 9: From the prior ballistics, we knew what type of gun
46:08
Speaker 9: it would be.
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Speaker 8: It would have been a specific Ruger make, and in
46:12
Speaker 8: fact that's what he was carrying, the same types of
46:15
Speaker 8: bullets that were used in the shootings and the homicides.
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Speaker 9: Were in fact still in the weapon.
46:22
Speaker 10: You havefl is that over and over.
46:24
Speaker 2: After nearly a year of hard work, investigators finally meet
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Speaker 2: the killer face.
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Speaker 8: To face, where we no longer have someone running throughout
46:34
Speaker 8: the counties killing people for cars. We were very excited
46:39
Speaker 8: about getting the chance to talk to the individual to
46:43
Speaker 8: 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 ed.
46:53
Speaker 4: Day, throughout the interview process, he remained pretty and he
47:03
Speaker 4: thought he was pretty cool.
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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 eight hundred
47:18
Speaker 2: gallon tank of water. The examiner compares the unique markings
47:24
Speaker 2: on the fired bullet to those on the bullets recovered
47:27
Speaker 2: from the four murders and the attempted homicide. Ballistics expert Joe.
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Speaker 12: Kupera, it is a scientific certainty that this is the
47:41
Speaker 12: firearm that fired these bullets, and no other firearm could
47:47
Speaker 12: possibly do that.
47:50
Speaker 2: To hear it again, after hours of interrogation, investigators received
47:55
Speaker 2: the ballistics report.
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Speaker 4: That's like the magic piece of evidence. So that's the
48:04
Speaker 4: one that you really knew would seal the whole case.
48:09
Speaker 4: Views We had physical, undeniable evidence that we could put
48:15
Speaker 4: in front of a jury that he could not refute
48:17
Speaker 4: in any way, shape or form. We could convict him
48:24
Speaker 4: without much trouble, and we could have gotten the death
48:26
Speaker 4: sentence with the information that we had, which put it
48:30
Speaker 4: over the top, and he decided it was best to
48:33
Speaker 4: make a deal for life rather than take the chance
48:36
Speaker 4: 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
48:49
Speaker 2: one hundred years for handgun violations.
48:53
Speaker 8: Looking back, it was the collective efforts of more than
48:56
Speaker 8: a dozen police agencies, contributing interviews, evidence that led to
49:01
Speaker 8: the successful conclusion of this case.
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Speaker 4: The accomplishment for all police officers and all investigators is
49:08
Speaker 4: to arrest the bad guy and put them in jail.
49:11
Speaker 4: And when you do that, you get a nice warm
49:13
Speaker 4: feeling for about ten minutes until the next case comes
49:16
Speaker 4: in and you have to start all over again.
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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 ramp
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