The Cowboy Fantasy That Turned Into a Killing Spree
He wore cowboy boots and carried a hunting knife on his belt, calling himself by names lifted straight from western paperback novels. Behind the costume, FBI profilers concluded, was a man acting out a violent outlaw fantasy — one that cost 22-year-old Robin Smith her life.
After Smith's remains were discovered weeks later in a rural stretch of Washington state, the case grew into a multi-state manhunt spanning the Pacific Northwest, landing Darren Dee O'Neall on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for over a year.
This episode traces the investigation, the eerie western fantasy behind O'Neall's…
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