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Speaker 1: On Sunday, August twenty six, a fifty six year old
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Speaker 1: woman named Patricia Powell and her husband Frank pulled into
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Speaker 1: a parking lot right outside of this beautiful three story
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Speaker 1: apartment complex in Gainesville, Florida. Gainesville is this beautiful little
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Speaker 1: town in northern Florida that is home to the massive
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Speaker 1: University of Florida, which is known for their big time
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Speaker 1: football team and their big time college party scene. Patricia
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Speaker 1: and Frank's daughter, seventeen year old Christine, was going to
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Speaker 1: be a freshman that year at the University of Florida,
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Speaker 1: and apparently she had been so excited after getting her
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Speaker 1: acceptance letter that her dad Frank, had gone out and
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Speaker 1: got a gold necklace for her that had these school's
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Speaker 1: mascot and alligator dangling from it, and Christine wore it
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Speaker 1: all the time. Two days earlier, Christine and her new roommate,
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Speaker 1: eighteen year old Sonia Larsen. The two had actually met
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Speaker 1: over the summer when they took some summer classes together.
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Speaker 1: They had actually already come to Gainesville and they had
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Speaker 1: moved in to this white apartment complex that Patricia and
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Speaker 1: Frank were now parked outside of. And after unpacking some
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Speaker 1: of their things in their apartment and Sonia had left
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Speaker 1: and gone into town and grabbed a bite to eat
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Speaker 1: at a local restaurant, and then afterwards, Christine had used
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Speaker 1: a payphone to call back home and tell her parents
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Speaker 1: how well it was going and how much she already
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Speaker 1: enjoyed her roommate and how excited she was for the year,
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Speaker 1: and she told Patricia and Frank that she would call
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Speaker 1: them the following day. But the following day came and went,
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Speaker 1: and Patricia and Frank did not hear from their daughter,
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Speaker 1: and they had no way to actually call her because
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Speaker 1: she had not set up her landline in her apartment.
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Speaker 1: But Patricia and Frank they told each other that, of
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Speaker 1: course everything was fine. You know, she just got to college,
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Speaker 1: she's excited, she's probably out having a good time, and
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Speaker 1: she just forgot to call. And anyways, Patricia and Frank
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Speaker 1: had already planned a visit to see their daughter in
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Speaker 1: Gainesville the next day, which was Sunday, And so fast
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Speaker 1: forward back to that Sunday, and Patricia and Frank are
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Speaker 1: now parked outside of their daughter's apartment complex. They still
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Speaker 1: haven't heard from her, but they're still telling themselves everything's fine.
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Speaker 3: She's probably just busy.
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Speaker 1: And so they get out of their car and they
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Speaker 1: walk over to the building and they go through one
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Speaker 1: of the front access doores.
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Speaker 3: That brings them into the building.
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Speaker 1: They find themselves inside of this carpeted stairwell where at
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Speaker 1: every level on the way up there were doors leading
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Speaker 1: off to each of the apartments. They made their way
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Speaker 1: up to the second level where they knew their daughter's
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Speaker 1: apartment was, and they walk up to her door, and
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Speaker 1: before they even knock or turn the doorknob or anything,
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Speaker 1: they notice on the door there are all these notes,
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Speaker 1: these handwritten notes that have been taped all over it,
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Speaker 1: and they read a couple of them, and they were
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Speaker 1: notes from some of Christine and Sonya's friends on campus
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Speaker 1: that apparently had tried to stop by over the last
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Speaker 1: weekend but had not been able to make contact with
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Speaker 1: Christine or Sonia. And so these notes said things like, Hey, Christine,
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Speaker 1: you know, we came over to try to get you
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Speaker 1: to come out with us, but you didn't come to
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Speaker 1: the door, so we left without youa sorry, you know,
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Speaker 1: give us a call when you get in. And so
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Speaker 1: obviously the parents are totally worried given the circumstances.
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Speaker 3: They don't know where their daughter is.
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Speaker 1: They've been telling themselves everything is fine, and now these
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Speaker 1: notes make it seem like everything is not fine.
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Speaker 3: But the parents they keep their cool and they just
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Speaker 3: start knocking on the door and calling out for.
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Speaker 1: Their but there's no answer, and so Patricia and Frank
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Speaker 1: they start to panic at this point and they leave
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Speaker 1: the carpeted stairwell. They go outside and they find a
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Speaker 1: maintenance worker that works for this building, and they explain
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Speaker 1: their situation with their daughter and how they can't get
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Speaker 1: in touch with her, and can he please let.
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Speaker 3: Them in to make sure she's okay.
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Speaker 1: The maintenance worker said he couldn't without speaking to his manager,
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Speaker 1: and so he goes to his manager, and the manager
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Speaker 1: she says, that's fine, but we need to get the
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Speaker 1: police involved. They need to escort us into the apartment.
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Speaker 1: And so the maintenance worker calls the police and requests
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Speaker 1: this escort, and a few minutes later, a single Gainsville
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Speaker 1: police officer arrives at the apartment complex and he tells
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Speaker 1: Patricia and Frank that just as a precaution, I need
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Speaker 1: you guys to stay outside. So they stay right outside
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Speaker 1: those front access stores. They're outside of the apartment building.
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Speaker 1: And then this officer, along with the maintenance worker and
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Speaker 1: the manager of the building, those three they go inside
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Speaker 1: the stairwell. They go up to the second floor, and
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Speaker 1: at that point, the maintenance worker gets at his keys.
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Speaker 1: He finds the right one and he opens Christine and
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Speaker 1: sign you. The door swings open, and immediately the police
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Speaker 1: officer yells out for the two girls, but there's no answer,
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Speaker 1: and so the officer is first into the apartment, which
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Speaker 1: basically immediately opens up to their living room, and in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the living room is a couch that's
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Speaker 1: angled towards the right side of the room where a
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Speaker 1: TV had been set up, and so the officer again
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Speaker 1: as he walks in, he's calling out trying to get
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Speaker 1: the girl's attention, but there's no answer. Behind him is
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Speaker 1: the maintenance worker and the building manager, and they begin
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Speaker 1: making their way towards the right side of the living
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Speaker 1: room over towards that TV to see if maybe someone
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Speaker 1: was laying on the couch, And as they round that
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Speaker 1: corner and can finally actually see the front of the couch,
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Speaker 1: the maintenance worker, after seeing what he saw, screams out
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Speaker 1: and runs out of the apartment. He runs down the
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Speaker 1: stairs out the access doors and begins vomiting on the
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Speaker 1: grass and sobbing right.
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Speaker 3: Next to Frank and Patricia.
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Speaker 1: Naturally, Frank and Patricia, after seeing this, are immediately concerned
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Speaker 1: that something's wrong with their daughter, and so they run inside.
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Speaker 1: They go up the stairs and they start running in
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Speaker 1: the apartment, and the police officer and the building manager.
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Speaker 1: They try to stop them from getting in, but there
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Speaker 1: was nothing stopping them. They managed to push past those two.
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Speaker 1: They get into the living room and they're calling out
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Speaker 1: for their daughter, and eventually they make their way over
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Speaker 1: to the side of the couch and they see their daughter, Christine.
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Speaker 3: She is lying on the ground in front of the couch.
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Speaker 1: She's on her back, she has no clothes on, and
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Speaker 1: she's been stabbed to death, and whoever has killed her
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Speaker 1: has positioned her in this very suggestive sexual Leod position,
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Speaker 1: as if they were trying to demean her as much
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Speaker 1: as possible and shock whoever found her. And so, after
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Speaker 1: these totally devastated and wrecked parents are escorted out of
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Speaker 1: the apartment, this one police officer he continues searching the
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Speaker 1: apartment and so he searches the rest of the first floor.
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Speaker 1: There's no sign of Sonya. He goes upstairs and he
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Speaker 1: finds Sonya. She's laying on her bed. She also has
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Speaker 1: no clothes on, she's been stabbed to death, and she's
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Speaker 1: positioned on the side of the bed in a sort
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Speaker 1: of suggestive Luod position, much like Christine downstairs. It would
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Speaker 1: later be determined that Christine had been sexually assaulted, but
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Speaker 1: Sonia had not been. The officer at this point leaves
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Speaker 1: the apartment. He goes outside, He walks past the grieving
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Speaker 1: parents who were being consoled by the building manager and
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Speaker 1: the maintenance worker, and the officer goes over to his
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Speaker 1: car and he uses his radio to call in for backup.
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Speaker 1: A forensics team comes out to the apartment and they
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Speaker 1: begin processing the scene, and right away they discover on
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Speaker 1: the outside of the doorframe of the door leading into
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Speaker 1: the apartment, there were markings on the edge that looked
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Speaker 1: like someone had used a screwdriver or some similar instrument
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Speaker 1: to pop open the door. They also found there was
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Speaker 1: a towel and some soap that was lying on the
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Speaker 1: ground near Christine's body and near the couch that had
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Speaker 1: apparently been used to both clean Christine's body and also
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Speaker 1: clean some other parts of the apartment, and so they
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Speaker 1: believe this was done to try to intentionally destroy evidence,
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Speaker 1: suggesting the killer or killers were somewhat sophisticated. They also
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Speaker 1: discovered there was some residue on Christine's risks that indicated
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Speaker 1: at some point her hands had been bound by duct tape,
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Speaker 1: but when she was found her hands were not bound
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Speaker 1: and there was no duct tape from her wrists, and
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Speaker 1: so whoever had done this had at some point removed
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Speaker 1: the duct tape and taken it away, and so investigators
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Speaker 1: believed that the killer or killers had used the duct
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Speaker 1: tape to immobilize Christine for the attack, and then after
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Speaker 1: she was deceased, they had removed that tape in order
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Speaker 1: to be able to get her arms up over her head,
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Speaker 1: which seemed to increase the shock value of this lewed
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Speaker 1: position they had put her in. Based on what they
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Speaker 1: saw inside of this apartment, the police were convinced they
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Speaker 1: were up against a group of killers or a killer
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Speaker 1: that had targeted these two girls, that this was not
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Speaker 1: some random attack, that this was calculated, this was on purpose,
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Speaker 1: and if they didn't get caught, they were going to
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Speaker 1: strike again. And so even though the police really didn't
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Speaker 1: have any leads to operate on, they just had this
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Speaker 1: crime scene and they were looking for maybe someone with
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Speaker 1: a duct tape and a knife and a screwdriver.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that was really about it at this point.
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Speaker 1: And so even though they have virtually nothing, because there
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Speaker 1: were thousands and thousands of young people flooding Gainesville for
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Speaker 1: the start of the new school year at the University
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Speaker 1: of Florida. Literally the following day, Monday, classes were starting.
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Speaker 1: Because of all these young people in town, the police
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Speaker 1: felt it was very important that they got the media
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Speaker 1: to put out a bulletin to all these people in
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Speaker 1: town that there was potentially a killer or killers on
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Speaker 1: the loose. And so that night, Sunday evening, this news
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Speaker 1: bulletin goes out and it basically just told residents of
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Speaker 1: Gainesville to stay indoors and stay in groups, and if
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Speaker 1: you needed to go outside, travel in groups, and just
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Speaker 1: overall stay vigilant until we figure out who did this.
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Speaker 3: Twelve hours before Christine.
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Speaker 1: Powell and Sonja Larsen were discovered, an eighteen year old
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Speaker 1: Gainesville woman named Krista Hoyt did not show up for work.
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Speaker 1: Christa was a student at Santa Fe Community College, which
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Speaker 1: was right down the road from the University of Florida.
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Speaker 1: That year, she was planning to transfer to the University
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Speaker 1: of Florida and then after graduation, she wanted to pursue
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Speaker 1: a career in forensics with the FBI, and so given
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Speaker 1: her interest in law enforcement. While she was a student,
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Speaker 1: she had gotten a part time job working in the
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Speaker 1: records department of the Sheriff's office, and apparently at this
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Speaker 1: sheriff's office, she was famous for always coming to work
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Speaker 1: no matter what, including the time that she got her
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Speaker 1: wisdom teeth removed, and then an.
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Speaker 3: Hour after coming home she showed up for work.
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Speaker 1: And so on this Saturday night, when Christa was supposed
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Speaker 1: to be showing up for work and she didn't, and
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Speaker 1: she didn't call ahead, and no one could get in
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Speaker 1: touch with her on her landline, everybody at the sheriff's
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Speaker 1: office was really concerned, and so they waited around for
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Speaker 1: about an hour, hoping that she might just show up
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Speaker 1: with some story about why she was late. But she
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Speaker 1: never showed up, she didn't call, they still couldn't get
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Speaker 1: in touch with her, and so in the very early
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Speaker 1: hours of Sunday morning, the Sheriff's office called the Gainesville
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Speaker 1: Police and asked them to do a welfare check on Christa.
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Speaker 1: And so two police officers from the Gainesville Police Department
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Speaker 1: they show up at the apartment belonging to Krista Hoyt.
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Speaker 1: Christa lived alone, and she lived about two miles away
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Speaker 1: from Christine Powell and Sonia Larson, and so these two officers.
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Speaker 1: They get there and they walk up to the front
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Speaker 1: door and they knock, but there's no answer.
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Speaker 3: And they try the doorknob, it's locked.
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Speaker 1: And so one of the officers walks around to the
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Speaker 1: back of this apartment and he sees there's a glass
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Speaker 1: sliding door, and so he knocks on the glass slating door.
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Speaker 1: There's no answer. He tries the door, it's locked, and
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Speaker 1: then he notices the drape that's inside the apartment that's
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Speaker 1: covering up this sliding glass door.
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Speaker 3: It reaches almost to the ground, but not all the way.
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Speaker 1: There's a couple of inches on the bottom where if
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Speaker 1: you were laying on the ground you could actually look
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Speaker 1: through this little space and see into the apartment.
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Speaker 3: And so that's what he does.
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Speaker 1: He lies down and he puts his flashlight up and
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Speaker 1: he looks through this couple inch gap on this window,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as the light illuminates what's inside of
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Speaker 1: this apartment, he finds Christa.
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Speaker 3: Christa is sitting on the.
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Speaker 1: Edge of a bed that's not that far away from
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Speaker 1: the sliding glass door, and she's facing the door. She's
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Speaker 1: kind of hunched over at the edge of the bed.
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Speaker 1: She's got no clothes on and she's got stab marks
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Speaker 1: all over her back.
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Speaker 3: And she's missing her head.
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Speaker 1: And her head was next to the bed to the left,
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Speaker 1: up on the shelf, and it was positioned in such
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Speaker 1: a way that it almost appeared like the head was
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Speaker 1: looking down at the detached body. When this crime scene
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Speaker 1: was processed, the forensics team immediately noticed there were marks
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Speaker 1: on the backsliding glass door where someone had used probably
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Speaker 1: a screwdriver or something similar to pop the door open.
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Speaker 1: And then they also found residue of duct tape on
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Speaker 1: Christa's wrists, but the duct.
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Speaker 3: Tape was gone. She was found with her hands not found.
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Speaker 1: It would later be determined that Christa had been sexually
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Speaker 1: assaulted before she had been murdered. The obvious similarities between
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Speaker 1: Christa's crime scene and Christine and Sonia's crime scene were
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Speaker 1: initially only recognized by Gainesville police because much of the
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Speaker 1: information about the two crime scenes was not public. But
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Speaker 1: that night, Sunday evening, when the police went to the
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Speaker 1: media and asked them to put out that bulletin to
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Speaker 1: all Gainesville residents to say that there could be a
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Speaker 1: killer or killers on the loose. It didn't take long
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Speaker 1: for residents of Gainesville and news anchors to begin speculating
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Speaker 1: that you have these two murders that have happened really
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Speaker 1: close together physically, they're less than two miles apart, and
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Speaker 1: they've probably occurred within the last twenty four to forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours.
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Speaker 3: So they've happened in rapid succession.
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Speaker 1: They're both unsolved, and so even without intimate details of
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Speaker 1: the crime scene, it wasn't hard to say, I think
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Speaker 1: these two are probably connected. And so that night, Sunday evening,
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Speaker 1: Gainesville really went into a state of panic. And within
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Speaker 1: hours of this news you had stores all over Gainesville
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Speaker 1: that had sold out their dead bolts and locks, their mace,
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Speaker 1: their stun guns, their baseball bats, their actual guns, their knives.
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Speaker 1: I mean, people were really trying to arm themselves to
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Speaker 1: protect themselves against this unknown threat that was murdering students
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Speaker 1: in Gainesville. And the police, even though they did not
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Speaker 1: come out and substantiate the claims that, you know, perhaps
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Speaker 1: these two homa sides are.
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Speaker 3: Connected, they did believe they were.
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Speaker 1: And so that night, Sunday night, as all this chaos
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Speaker 1: is kind of unfolding in town, the police put hundreds
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Speaker 1: of officers all over the place, on foot on every street, corner.
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Speaker 1: They had police cars and trucks parked all over the place.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the entire town was on an extreme heightened
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Speaker 1: alert because the police believed another attack was imminent and
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Speaker 1: so all they could do was try to come out
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Speaker 1: in force to try to discourage the killer or killers
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Speaker 1: from striking again. But as it would turn out, it
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Speaker 1: didn't work by the following morning. So Monday morning, what
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Speaker 1: was happening in Gainesville had gone from just being a
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Speaker 1: Florida story to a national story, and everybody all over
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Speaker 1: the country was talking about it. And one woman named
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Speaker 1: Lisa Buyers, who was in her twenties. She did not
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Speaker 1: live in Gainesville, but she had a very close friend
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Speaker 1: who did. She was twenty three year old Tracy Paullus.
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Speaker 1: Tracy had taken some years off from college, but that
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Speaker 1: year had decided to go back and give it another go,
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Speaker 1: and so she was enrolled at the University of Florida.
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Speaker 1: Lisa called Tracy and said, Hey, you know, I'm watching
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Speaker 1: the news. This is crazy. What's happening in your town.
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Speaker 1: How are you holding up? And Tracy would tell her that,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just as concerned as everybody else. It's terrifying.
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Speaker 1: To think there are killer or killers on the loose.
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Speaker 1: But I think I'm okay because I have my roommate.
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Speaker 1: Tracy's roommate was twenty three year old Manny Toboda, who
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Speaker 1: was this big, strong former football player who was very
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Speaker 1: close with Tracy. The two had never dated, but they
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Speaker 1: had been very good friends for a number of years,
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Speaker 1: and he too had taken the time off of school
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Speaker 1: and had agreed to go back because Tracy had convinced him,
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Speaker 1: you know, come back, get your degree with me, and
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Speaker 1: we'll live together. And so when the news broke about
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Speaker 1: these killings happening in their town, Manny had told Tracy
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Speaker 1: that he would protect her, that nothing would happen to her.
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Speaker 1: And so when Lisa heard this from Tracy that she
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Speaker 1: thought that she was okay because she has Manny and
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Speaker 1: you know, he'll look after her. And they were not
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Speaker 1: planning to really leave the apartment much besides classes. You know,
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Speaker 1: Lisa was reassured, but she was still worried, and so
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Speaker 1: she told Tracy, please give me a call this evening
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Speaker 1: after you come back from classes, just.
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Speaker 3: To let me know that everything is okay.
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Speaker 1: And so Tracy said she would, and then they hung
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Speaker 1: up and then that evening, Tracy did not call Lisa back,
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Speaker 1: and so Lisa tried calling Tracy, but no one picked up,
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Speaker 1: and so that night Lisa went to bed. She was
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Speaker 1: very worried, but she went to sleep, and then early
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Speaker 1: the next morning, which was Tuesday morning, she tried calling
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Speaker 1: Tracy again, but there was no answer, and so Lisa
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Speaker 1: reached out to a mutual friend of theirs that lived
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Speaker 1: in the same apartment complex in Gainesville. His name was Tommy,
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Speaker 1: and so she asked, Tommy, can you please go over
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Speaker 1: to Tracy's apartment and make sure she and Manny are okay?
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Speaker 1: And so Tommy said, no problem, I'll give you a
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Speaker 1: call from Tracy's landline once I talked to her, And
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Speaker 1: so about five minutes later, Tracy got a call. She
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Speaker 1: picked it up and it was Tommy calling from Tracy's
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Speaker 1: landline and he was just screaming. When the police arrived
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Speaker 1: at Tracy's apartment, they found Tracy in her bedroom and.
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Speaker 3: Like the other victims, she had no clothes on.
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Speaker 1: She was positioned on the side at the bed in
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Speaker 1: a very suggestive lewed position. She had been stabbed to death,
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Speaker 1: and it would turn out she had been sexually assaulted,
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Speaker 1: and then down the hall from Tracy, they found Manny.
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Speaker 1: He was in his bed and he too had been
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Speaker 1: stabbed to death, except he had his clothes on, and
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Speaker 1: he was not positioned in a suggestive position. He had
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Speaker 1: kind of died wherever he was, and that was the
17:15
Speaker 1: position they found him in the forensics team when they
17:18
Speaker 1: processed the scene, they found markings on the outside of
17:21
Speaker 1: the backsliding door where it looked like someone had used
17:24
Speaker 1: a screwdriver to pop open the door, and then on
17:27
Speaker 1: Tracy's wrists they found that residue from duct tape, but
17:30
Speaker 1: there was no duct tape that had been removed. At
17:32
Speaker 1: this point, to the police, it was undeniable that they
17:35
Speaker 1: were up against a serial killer or killers. And when
17:38
Speaker 1: the news broke that there was now a fourth and
17:40
Speaker 1: fifth victim, and they were both college students, and one
17:43
Speaker 1: of them was now this big, strapping man that apparently
17:47
Speaker 1: was taken down just as easily as these other four
17:49
Speaker 1: petit women. This threw Gainesville into an absolute state of pandemonium.
17:54
Speaker 1: Suddenly it felt like no one could protect them. The
17:57
Speaker 1: people in Gainesville, they were fair game. Didn't matter that
18:00
Speaker 1: police were out enforced in the streets and you had
18:03
Speaker 1: people walking around with guns and baseball bats and mace,
18:06
Speaker 1: and you had people locking their doors and sleeping in groups.
18:09
Speaker 1: It was like no measures were actually stopping these killings
18:13
Speaker 1: from happening. Whoever was doing it was killing with impunity.
18:17
Speaker 1: And so that day, Tuesday, you had hundreds and hundreds
18:20
Speaker 1: of students from the University of Florida just leaving.
18:23
Speaker 3: The school who just didn't come back. And as for
18:25
Speaker 3: the police, they called.
18:27
Speaker 1: In the FBI and the National Guard, and so by
18:29
Speaker 1: that night, Tuesday night, there were literally hundreds of officers
18:33
Speaker 1: and state police officers all over the place. There were
18:36
Speaker 1: helicopters overhead, both police helicopters and news helicopters with spotlights.
18:41
Speaker 1: They had National Guard military style trucks all over the place,
18:44
Speaker 1: and so Gainesville was really at the highest alert you
18:48
Speaker 1: could possibly be on. But even still, the people of Gainesville,
18:53
Speaker 1: they were not going to feel safe until the police
18:55
Speaker 1: made an arrest. And the next day, just twenty four
18:58
Speaker 1: hours after Tracy and had been found, the police did
19:02
Speaker 1: just that.
19:02
Speaker 3: After receiving dozens and dozens.
19:04
Speaker 1: Of tips about one particular individual, they were able to
19:08
Speaker 1: arrest nineteen year old Ed Humphries, who was a freshman
19:11
Speaker 1: at the University of Florida. They arrested him for domestic
19:15
Speaker 1: abuse because he had actually struck his grandmother in the face,
19:18
Speaker 1: and so they'd pick him up for domestic abuse, but
19:20
Speaker 1: they set his bail at a whopping one million dollars,
19:23
Speaker 1: which is way higher than you would normally expect for
19:26
Speaker 1: a domestic abuse charge. But this was a unique circumstance
19:29
Speaker 1: where he was being arrested for one thing, but really
19:32
Speaker 1: he was being looked at as the suspect of these
19:34
Speaker 1: five homicides, and so the police really needed him to
19:37
Speaker 1: stay behind bars, and this.
19:38
Speaker 3: Massive bail that did that, he had no way to
19:41
Speaker 3: pay it.
19:41
Speaker 1: And so while Ed was behind bars, the police began
19:44
Speaker 1: investigating him, and they found there was a lot of
19:47
Speaker 1: reasons to believe he was the serial killer. He had
19:50
Speaker 1: shown he was willing to be violent, because after all,
19:53
Speaker 1: he punched his grandmother in the face, and people that
19:56
Speaker 1: knew him said he was totally mentally unstable and that
19:58
Speaker 1: he hated women, and that he would walk around with
20:01
Speaker 1: a knife on his belt basically all the time, and
20:03
Speaker 1: at night, he was known to walk around the forests
20:06
Speaker 1: of Gainesville. There were these very thick forests that kind
20:09
Speaker 1: of butted up against the University of Florida, and he
20:12
Speaker 1: would walk through the forest at night, which put him
20:15
Speaker 1: very close to the different apartment buildings where all the
20:17
Speaker 1: victims were found. And on top of all that, Ed
20:20
Speaker 1: Humphreys just looked like what you would imagine a serial
20:24
Speaker 1: killer would look like. He had all these deep scars
20:27
Speaker 1: all over his space, and his eyes looked totally hollow,
20:29
Speaker 1: like he was permanently on drugs. And he was seen
20:32
Speaker 1: smiling at the cameras when he was led in and
20:35
Speaker 1: out of the courtroom. And to make him even more suspicious,
20:39
Speaker 1: as soon as he was arrested, the attack stopped. There
20:42
Speaker 1: were no more slayings in Gainesville, and so naturally the
20:45
Speaker 1: country believed Ed was the guy. Basically, everyone thought Ed
20:49
Speaker 1: was the guy, but it came back that his blood
20:52
Speaker 1: type was type A and the killer or killer's blood
20:55
Speaker 1: type the blood that had been found at the various
20:58
Speaker 1: crime scenes was type BE. Now, this did not clear
21:02
Speaker 1: Ed of guilt, because people believed there was a chance
21:05
Speaker 1: that he could have been involved in some way, perhaps
21:08
Speaker 1: he had an accomplice or multiple accomplices. But when this
21:12
Speaker 1: news broke, pretty much everybody was back on edge. Because
21:15
Speaker 1: clearly there's at least one or more killers that are
21:19
Speaker 1: still on the loose. Shortly after this blood type discrepancy
21:22
Speaker 1: presented itself, the FBI approached the Gainesville police and said, hey,
21:26
Speaker 1: why don't you use our VCaP program. VCaP stands for
21:30
Speaker 1: Violent Crime Apprehension Program, and what it was was this
21:33
Speaker 1: computer program where it allowed investigators to input details of
21:38
Speaker 1: their crime they were investigating, and when they submitted it,
21:42
Speaker 1: it would be compared against this huge database of other
21:45
Speaker 1: crimes in the country, and if there were any similarities
21:48
Speaker 1: with any other crime, those similar crimes would get popped
21:52
Speaker 1: on screen. And so when the Gainesville police input the
21:55
Speaker 1: information from these five student slayings in Gainesville, the computer
21:59
Speaker 1: programs spit out a single match.
22:01
Speaker 3: It was from an unsolved triple homicide in.
22:04
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty nine in Shreveport, Louisiana, which is a town
22:07
Speaker 1: located about eight hundred miles to the northwest of Gainesville.
22:11
Speaker 1: Shreveport back in the late nineteen eighties was considered so
22:14
Speaker 1: safe by its residents that many of them didn't lock
22:17
Speaker 1: their front doors and they would leave their car keys
22:19
Speaker 1: just sitting on their front dash. But in nineteen eighty nine,
22:23
Speaker 1: that would all change. On Friday, November three of that year,
22:26
Speaker 1: eight year old Seawan Grissom was dropped off at his
22:29
Speaker 1: grandfather's house in Shreveport.
22:31
Speaker 3: He was there to celebrate his eighth birthday.
22:33
Speaker 1: And so his grandfather was this fifty six year old
22:36
Speaker 1: man named Tom who was divorced and he was getting
22:38
Speaker 1: ready to retire soon, and he was also trying to
22:41
Speaker 1: spend more time with his grandson, and so he was
22:44
Speaker 1: very excited about having Sewn over. Also staying at this
22:46
Speaker 1: house with Sean and his grandfather was Shawn's aunt, twenty
22:50
Speaker 1: four year old Julie Grissom, who was.
22:52
Speaker 3: A college student.
22:53
Speaker 1: She was attending Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
22:56
Speaker 3: When Shawn was dropped.
22:57
Speaker 1: Off by his mother at his grandfather's house, the grandfather
23:00
Speaker 1: Tom yelled out to the boy's mother and said, you know,
23:03
Speaker 1: I'll have him back by Monday.
23:04
Speaker 3: I'll drop him off, you know, see you later.
23:06
Speaker 1: And so Sean's mother she leaves, and that day and
23:09
Speaker 1: the following day she doesn't hear from Shawn's grandfather or
23:12
Speaker 1: from Julie, and so comes Sunday night, she tries calling
23:15
Speaker 1: them to you know, see what's going on. She knows
23:17
Speaker 1: they're having a great time and doesn't really want to
23:19
Speaker 1: interrupt them, but she also hasn't heard from them, but
23:22
Speaker 1: they don't pick up. She convinces herself that everything is
23:25
Speaker 1: just fine, that I'm sure there's an explanation, and so
23:27
Speaker 1: she ends up.
23:28
Speaker 3: Going to bed.
23:28
Speaker 1: And so the next morning, Monday morning, when Sean is
23:31
Speaker 1: supposed to be dropped off early enough that she can
23:34
Speaker 1: take him to school, when he doesn't show up, the
23:36
Speaker 1: mother calls the grandfather back and tries to get in
23:39
Speaker 1: touch and figure out what's going on, but she can't
23:41
Speaker 1: get in touch with him, and so she's telling herself that, okay, well,
23:44
Speaker 1: you know, his grandfather must have just dropped him off
23:47
Speaker 1: at school. And so the mother calls Sean's school and
23:49
Speaker 1: the school says, no, we have not seen Sean today
23:52
Speaker 1: and we haven't heard from him, so we don't know
23:53
Speaker 1: what's going on. And so now Sean's mother is terrified.
23:56
Speaker 1: She calls the police, and the police actually get in
23:59
Speaker 1: touch with the neighbor of Tom Grissom, and they ask
24:02
Speaker 1: this neighbor, hey, can you go next door and just
24:04
Speaker 1: make sure.
24:05
Speaker 3: Tom and Sean and Julie are okay.
24:07
Speaker 1: And so this neighbor says, no problem. They leave their
24:09
Speaker 1: house and immediately they notice as they're looking at Tom's
24:12
Speaker 1: house that the two cars in the driveway had not
24:15
Speaker 1: left since Friday.
24:16
Speaker 3: It was just something the neighbor noticed.
24:18
Speaker 1: And then they also noticed that there were two newspapers
24:20
Speaker 1: at the end of the driveway.
24:22
Speaker 3: It was the Monday and Sunday.
24:23
Speaker 1: Paper, and they knew Tom always read the newspaper, and
24:27
Speaker 1: so the idea that he would just leave them sitting
24:29
Speaker 1: at the end of the driveway that didn't really add up.
24:31
Speaker 1: And so the neighbor walks around to the front door
24:34
Speaker 1: and they notice there are lights on inside, and they
24:36
Speaker 1: knock on the front door, but there's no answer. They
24:39
Speaker 1: try the front door, but it's locked, and so they
24:41
Speaker 1: end up going around to the very back of the
24:43
Speaker 1: house and they're able to get into the house through
24:46
Speaker 1: the garage, and then through the garage they open another
24:49
Speaker 1: door that leads into the main part of the house,
24:51
Speaker 1: and this neighbor they immediately see on the ground towards
24:54
Speaker 1: the back door near the kitchen is Tom. He's laying
24:57
Speaker 1: on the ground and he's obviously deceased. This neighbor they
25:00
Speaker 1: run out, they call the police. The police come back over.
25:03
Speaker 1: They go inside the house and sure enough they find
25:05
Speaker 1: Tom Grissom has been stabbed to death. He's laying on
25:08
Speaker 1: the ground near the back door. They find Sean Grissom,
25:11
Speaker 1: the eight year old. He's slouched over on the couch
25:14
Speaker 1: in front of the TV and he's been stabbed to
25:16
Speaker 1: death as well. And then upstairs they found twenty four
25:19
Speaker 1: year old Julie, the aunt and she was positioned on
25:23
Speaker 1: the edge of the bed in this very suggestive way.
25:25
Speaker 1: She had no clothes on, and she had been stabbed
25:28
Speaker 1: to death, and it would later be determined she had
25:29
Speaker 1: also been sexually assaulted before she was killed. And they
25:32
Speaker 1: also discovered there's vinegar on her body, as if whoever's
25:35
Speaker 1: done this has attempted to clean her with vinegar.
25:37
Speaker 3: There was no sign of a robbery in the house
25:40
Speaker 3: or ransacking in the house. There was no sign of
25:42
Speaker 3: forced entry overall.
25:44
Speaker 1: The investigator said this was a very neat crime scene,
25:48
Speaker 1: as if whoever did this had done this with great intentionality.
25:51
Speaker 1: And so after kind of going through the crime scene,
25:54
Speaker 1: the police really didn't have any leads to go off of,
25:57
Speaker 1: and so this crime went unsolved. So as these Gainesville
26:01
Speaker 1: police are looking at this report in this VCaP computer system,
26:05
Speaker 1: and they're reading about this unsolved triple homicide.
26:08
Speaker 3: All they can think about is how unbelievably.
26:10
Speaker 1: Similar the crime scene was to all the crime scenes
26:14
Speaker 1: of these student slayings, specifically that Julie had been arranged
26:18
Speaker 1: in this kind of suggestive pose like the other female
26:22
Speaker 1: victims in Gainesville. And on top of that, it was
26:24
Speaker 1: determined that the blood type of the killer in Shreveport
26:28
Speaker 1: was Type B, same as the killer or killers in Gainesville.
26:32
Speaker 3: So there was a match in the blood type.
26:34
Speaker 1: Somehow, after this discovery through this VCaP program, the media
26:38
Speaker 1: found out about this Shreveport unsolved triple homicide and how
26:42
Speaker 1: apparently it was incredibly similar to all these slayings that.
26:45
Speaker 3: Have taken place in Gainesville. And so before long.
26:48
Speaker 1: That was all every news network all over the United
26:51
Speaker 1: States was talking about. And at first the police in
26:54
Speaker 1: Gainesville and anybody involved in this investigation was very upset
26:58
Speaker 1: about this because one, they probably had a leak that
27:01
Speaker 1: someone was giving information to the press, But two, the
27:04
Speaker 1: press was kind of jeopardizing their investigation because by having
27:08
Speaker 1: these details leaked, the killer or killers could potentially benefit
27:13
Speaker 1: from kind of knowing what the police.
27:14
Speaker 3: Were thinking about and what they were up to.
27:16
Speaker 1: But as it would turn out, this particular leak would
27:19
Speaker 1: prove to be quite fruitful. Shortly after this news about
27:22
Speaker 1: the Shreeport.
27:23
Speaker 3: Killing and the student slayings was all over the news,
27:26
Speaker 3: this woman named Cindy who lived in Shreveport.
27:29
Speaker 1: She called the police after watching all the news like
27:32
Speaker 1: everybody else, and told the police they really ought to
27:35
Speaker 1: look at this.
27:36
Speaker 3: Guy, Danny Rawling.
27:37
Speaker 1: Danny Rawling was this thirty seven year old drifter who
27:41
Speaker 1: was in Shreveport at the time of the Grisom family
27:44
Speaker 1: murders in nineteen eighty nine, and apparently after those murders,
27:48
Speaker 1: he had told Cindy's husband that he quote had a problem,
27:51
Speaker 1: and his problem was he liked stabbing people. And Danny
27:55
Speaker 1: literally always walked around with a huge knife on his waist.
27:58
Speaker 1: He seemed totally mentally unstable, and so this claim that
28:02
Speaker 1: he liked stabbing people, Cindy and her husband took literally
28:06
Speaker 1: and basically told him to stay away from them, and
28:09
Speaker 1: so in one of their last conversations with Danny, Danny
28:12
Speaker 1: actually told Cindy that he planned to leave Shreveport and
28:16
Speaker 1: go someplace where there's lots of beautiful young women that
28:19
Speaker 1: he can just stare at all day long. When police asked, Cindy,
28:22
Speaker 1: you know, do you think he's capable of killing all
28:25
Speaker 1: eight of these people?
28:27
Speaker 3: She said, oh yeah.
28:28
Speaker 1: And so the police turned their attention to Danny and
28:30
Speaker 1: began researching his background, and they discovered he was raised
28:34
Speaker 1: in a very abusive household. Specifically, his father really couldn't
28:38
Speaker 1: stand him. They had a really bad relationship. And then
28:41
Speaker 1: when Danny got old enough, he joined the Air Force,
28:43
Speaker 1: but he was kicked out after two years for being
28:46
Speaker 1: mentally unstable. And once he was discharged, he began the
28:49
Speaker 1: string of armed robberies in the nineteen eighties, and he
28:52
Speaker 1: eventually got caught and spent the bulk of the nineteen
28:55
Speaker 1: eighties in prison. And then in nineteen eighty nine when
28:59
Speaker 1: he got out of prison and he came back to
29:01
Speaker 1: Shreveport and moved in with his parents. Now this was
29:04
Speaker 1: not a happy homecoming.
29:05
Speaker 3: His parents did not want him living with them, but
29:08
Speaker 3: Danny kind of forced the issue.
29:09
Speaker 1: He had nowhere else to go, and so he wound
29:11
Speaker 1: up living there, and as it happened, they lived less
29:14
Speaker 1: than a half mile away.
29:16
Speaker 3: From the Grissom family home.
29:18
Speaker 1: Six months after the Grissom family was murdered and three
29:21
Speaker 1: months before the Gainesville student slayings had begun, Danny gets
29:26
Speaker 1: in this huge fight with his father where his father
29:29
Speaker 1: actually draws a pistol and forces Danny to leave the
29:32
Speaker 1: house and tells him to never come back.
29:34
Speaker 3: And so Danny he runs out of the house and he.
29:36
Speaker 1: Gets his gun from his vehicle, comes back inside his house,
29:40
Speaker 1: and shoots his father point blank in the head and
29:42
Speaker 1: then in the stomach before fleeing the scene. His father
29:45
Speaker 1: would amazingly survive this attack, despite some pretty significant damage
29:49
Speaker 1: to his head, and he would tell the police, and
29:51
Speaker 1: before long there was a warrant for Danny's arrest for
29:54
Speaker 1: attempted murder, but when they went to go arrest.
29:58
Speaker 3: Him, he was gone. They had no idea where he went.
30:00
Speaker 1: And so as the Gainesville police are looking at Danny's
30:03
Speaker 1: criminal record, they're starting to say to themselves that this guy.
30:06
Speaker 3: Looks really interesting.
30:07
Speaker 1: He does seem like he could be the serial killer
30:11
Speaker 1: we're looking for. And so as they continue to dig
30:14
Speaker 1: deeper and deeper, one of the Gainesville police officers suddenly
30:18
Speaker 1: thinks of something. There was this unsolved armed robbery of
30:21
Speaker 1: this bank in Gainesville. That happened the same week where
30:25
Speaker 1: all five of these students had been killed. A lone,
30:28
Speaker 1: masked gunman walked into this bank in broad daylight and
30:32
Speaker 1: demanded money from the teller, and the teller, who thought
30:35
Speaker 1: on their feet, gave him the cash. But it was
30:38
Speaker 1: the type that was booby trapped with die packets, meaning
30:41
Speaker 1: if this robber tried to tamper with the money at all,
30:44
Speaker 1: it would detonate, sending dial over them and kind of
30:46
Speaker 1: making it obvious that this.
30:48
Speaker 3: Money had been stolen. But the robber doesn't see this.
30:50
Speaker 1: He takes the bag of cash, he leaves the bank
30:53
Speaker 1: and manages to flee and go into the forest before the.
30:57
Speaker 3: Police show up.
30:58
Speaker 1: And so the police ultimately they go and search the
31:00
Speaker 1: forest and they find this campsite deep in the woods,
31:04
Speaker 1: and at this campsite, which is abandoned, they don't find
31:07
Speaker 1: the person who robbed the bank. But at this campsite
31:10
Speaker 1: they find the bag that has the money inside of it,
31:12
Speaker 1: and the die packet has been activated, so clearly the
31:15
Speaker 1: robber had tried to fiddle with it, and then when
31:17
Speaker 1: it detonated, they had taken off and left the money.
31:19
Speaker 1: And then also at this campsite. Near this duffel bag
31:23
Speaker 1: full of ruined money, was a screwdriver, a gun, and
31:27
Speaker 1: an audio recorder. Now, at the time, the police that
31:30
Speaker 1: were seeing this, they were part of this huge effort
31:34
Speaker 1: in Gainesville to stop any more attacks on students.
31:38
Speaker 3: And catch the killer or killers. That was all they
31:41
Speaker 3: were thinking about.
31:42
Speaker 1: And so when they didn't immediately catch this robber, they
31:46
Speaker 1: kind of said, you know what, this is a lower
31:48
Speaker 1: priority item than what we're dealing with with this loose
31:51
Speaker 1: serial killer or killers, and so let's just round up
31:54
Speaker 1: the evidence, put it in storage, and somebody else can
31:56
Speaker 1: deal with this after we handle this killer situation. And
32:00
Speaker 1: so no one listened to the audio recording. They just
32:03
Speaker 1: put it in evidence. They grabbed everything else, put it
32:05
Speaker 1: in evidence, and they threw it in the storage room.
32:07
Speaker 1: And so now this Gainsville police officer that's just remembered
32:11
Speaker 1: this unsolved armed robbery, he says to the group that's
32:14
Speaker 1: investigating Danny. He says, you know, hey, since Danny has
32:17
Speaker 1: a penchant for armed robbery, clearly he has a rap
32:20
Speaker 1: sheet full of armed robberies. Maybe if he was the
32:24
Speaker 1: serial killer and he killed all these students, that would
32:27
Speaker 1: have meant he was in Gainesville, and so maybe he
32:30
Speaker 1: committed this armed robbery, and so we should go look
32:32
Speaker 1: at the evidence and listen to that tape.
32:34
Speaker 3: And so the officers they practically run.
32:36
Speaker 1: To the storage locker they get the evidence from this
32:39
Speaker 1: unsolved armed robbery. They come back and they hit play
32:43
Speaker 1: on this audio recorder, and what they hear is unbelievable.
32:46
Speaker 1: They hear on this recording a man singing a song.
32:50
Speaker 1: It's clearly a song he wrote, and he's singing about
32:53
Speaker 1: being a quote mystery killer, and then kind of segues
32:57
Speaker 1: into him talking about how to effectively kill a deer
33:00
Speaker 1: with a knife, to be really effective with a knife,
33:03
Speaker 1: and he's getting into really graphic detail of how to
33:06
Speaker 1: do that. And then, somewhat unbelievably, on this audio recording,
33:10
Speaker 1: the man identifies himself. He says his name is Danny Rawling.
33:15
Speaker 1: And so this audio recording was huge. It meant Danny Rawling,
33:20
Speaker 1: the guy they're looking at as potentially being thus serial killer,
33:24
Speaker 1: was definitely in Gainesville, in the woods near the University
33:29
Speaker 1: of Florida the same timeframe that all of the victims
33:32
Speaker 1: were killed. Also, the screwdriver that had been found at
33:35
Speaker 1: this campsite matched the markings that had been made along
33:39
Speaker 1: the outside of some of the doorframes of the victims' homes.
33:43
Speaker 1: They also went into Danny's military records and it showed
33:46
Speaker 1: he had a blood type of B. So his blood
33:49
Speaker 1: type matched the blood type that had been found in
33:52
Speaker 1: all of the victims' homes. And so just like that,
33:55
Speaker 1: Danny became the number one suspect. And when they went
33:59
Speaker 1: to figure out where he was, amazingly they found he
34:02
Speaker 1: was already in custody. He was being held in a
34:05
Speaker 1: jail cell forty miles south of Gainesville for another armed robbery.
34:09
Speaker 1: And so immediately Danny was charged in the murders of
34:12
Speaker 1: the five Gainesville students. They couldn't charge him for the
34:15
Speaker 1: three Shreveport murders because they just didn't have enough evidence.
34:18
Speaker 1: And then after that, Danny was transferred to Florida's maximum security.
34:22
Speaker 3: Prison to await trial.
34:23
Speaker 1: Initially, Danny said he was innocent, he had nothing to
34:26
Speaker 1: do with the murders, but then almost four years later,
34:29
Speaker 1: when his trial was finally starting, on the first day
34:32
Speaker 1: of his trial, he surprised everyone in the court when
34:35
Speaker 1: he stood up and said, I'm going to change my plea.
34:38
Speaker 1: I'm guilty on all five counts. I did kill all
34:40
Speaker 1: five students, he would tell the court. The reason he
34:43
Speaker 1: did this is he wanted to be a superstar like
34:46
Speaker 1: the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, who he looked up to.
34:50
Speaker 1: Danny would also at another date confess to killing the
34:53
Speaker 1: three Grisom family members in Shreveport. Because of Danny's detailed confessions,
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Speaker 1: we now know all the terrifying details of what actually
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Speaker 1: happened when he killed all eight of his victims. Back
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Speaker 1: on Friday, November third, nineteen eighty nine, Danny was fired
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Speaker 1: from his job as a waiter at a local restaurant
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Speaker 1: in Shreveport, and so he was frustrated. He was angry,
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Speaker 1: and he was kind of walking around his neighborhood when
35:17
Speaker 1: he decided the way he would kind of channel his
35:20
Speaker 1: frustration was.
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Speaker 3: He would go kill some people.
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Speaker 1: And so he was armed with his k bar knife,
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Speaker 1: which he always carried with him, and he found himself
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Speaker 1: standing in front of this little house and he saw
35:30
Speaker 1: some people moving around inside, and he looked around. There
35:33
Speaker 1: wasn't anyone watching him, and so he just walked up
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Speaker 1: to the front door. He tried the handle and it
35:38
Speaker 1: was unlocked, and so before he opened the door, he
35:41
Speaker 1: made sure his knife was in hand, he opened the door,
35:43
Speaker 1: walked right in, and he saw Sean, the eight year old,
35:46
Speaker 1: sitting on the couch watching TV, and without any hesitation,
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Speaker 1: he walked up behind him and stabbed him through the back,
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Speaker 1: killing him almost instantly. And then Danny walked into the
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Speaker 1: kitchen where he found Tom, the grandfather, who was making
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Speaker 1: steaks out on the back grill, and so he was
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Speaker 1: going back and forth between the kitchen and the grill,
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Speaker 1: kind of getting ready for dinner. And at some point
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Speaker 1: when Tom came back into the house and was holding
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Speaker 1: steaks in his hand, Danny leapt out and stabbed him,
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Speaker 1: and even though Tom put up a fight, he was
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Speaker 1: very quickly subdued as well. And then after that, Danny
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Speaker 1: made his way upstairs where Julie was that was Sean's aunt,
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Speaker 1: and she was getting ready for a wedding she was
36:21
Speaker 1: going to attend that night for one of her friends,
36:23
Speaker 1: and so she had just gotten out of her shower
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Speaker 1: and she was getting ready to put on this red
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Speaker 1: dress she had picked out, and Danny walked into her
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Speaker 1: room and she most likely saw him, at which point
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Speaker 1: Danny would have told her what he had just done
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Speaker 1: to her loved ones downstairs, and he threatened her with
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Speaker 1: the knife and said, if you don't listen to me, I'm.
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Speaker 3: Going to do the same thing to you.
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Speaker 1: And because she was terrified, she listened to him, and
36:43
Speaker 1: so he immobilized her, and then he sexually assaulted her,
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Speaker 1: and then he stabbed her to death. Afterwards, he cuts
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Speaker 1: the tape off of her wrists and puts the tape
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Speaker 1: in his pocket, and then he lays her out on
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Speaker 1: her back on her bed, and then he goes downstairs
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Speaker 1: and gets some vinegar and uses the vinegar to attend
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Speaker 1: to clean her body.
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Speaker 3: To destroy any evidence he might have left behind.
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Speaker 1: And then after cleaning her, he kind of puts her
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Speaker 1: in that lude suggestive pose with her hands up over
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Speaker 1: her head and her legs spread, and then he leaves.
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Speaker 1: Six months later, in August of nineteen ninety, after Danny
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Speaker 1: has shot his father and is on the run from
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Speaker 1: the law, he finds himself in Gainsville, Florida, and he
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Speaker 1: sets up this little camp just behind the University of
37:24
Speaker 1: Florida in this thick forest. And then on Friday, August
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Speaker 1: twenty third, as he's sitting out at his campsite, he
37:30
Speaker 1: gets this sudden urge to go kill again, and so
37:33
Speaker 1: he waits for it to get dark out, and then
37:35
Speaker 1: he gets out his audio recorder and he.
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Speaker 3: Records himself alluding to this murder. He's about to go perpetrate. Well,
37:44
Speaker 3: he shot off for a little bit. That's something I
37:46
Speaker 3: gotta do.
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Speaker 1: Then, armed with a pistol, a screwdriver, and his k
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Speaker 1: bar knife, he left his campsite and walked in the
37:53
Speaker 1: darkness in the forest about a mile away until he
37:57
Speaker 1: was looking from inside the forest out towards this three.
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Speaker 3: Story white apartment building.
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Speaker 1: And it's believed that within the last twenty four hours
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Speaker 1: he had been in that area and he had seen
38:07
Speaker 1: two young girls go in and out of this apartment building,
38:10
Speaker 1: and that was all he needed to determine who his
38:12
Speaker 1: victims were going to be. And so those victims were
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Speaker 1: Christine Powell and Sonya Larson. And so when he was
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Speaker 1: standing in front of their apartment building, he eventually strode
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Speaker 1: out of the forest. He walked up to that access
38:23
Speaker 1: door that led him into that stairwell. He made his
38:26
Speaker 1: way up to the door of Christine and Sonia and
38:29
Speaker 1: he used his screwdriver to pop the door open. He
38:32
Speaker 1: went inside and shut the door behind him and walked
38:35
Speaker 1: into the living room and he found Christine was sleeping
38:38
Speaker 1: on the couch, and so he left her be he
38:40
Speaker 1: didn't touch her. He went upstairs and he found Sonia
38:43
Speaker 1: sleeping on her bed. And so as he's standing there,
38:46
Speaker 1: realizing that he has these two girls, he needs to
38:48
Speaker 1: make a decision about which one he's going to kill
38:50
Speaker 1: first and which one.
38:51
Speaker 3: He's going to sexually assault.
38:53
Speaker 1: And so as he's standing there looking over Sonia's bed,
38:56
Speaker 1: he decides he's going to kill Sonia and then he's
38:58
Speaker 1: going to sexually assault Christine. And so very casually he
39:01
Speaker 1: walks into Sonya's room. She's fast asleep, she's on her back,
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Speaker 1: and he pulls out a piece of duct tape, and
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Speaker 1: he gets the duct tape in one hand and he
39:08
Speaker 1: pulls his knife out in the other and he presses
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Speaker 1: the duct tape over her mouth, which wakes her up,
39:13
Speaker 1: and then he drives the knife into her chest. And
39:16
Speaker 1: so Sonia would put up a pretty incredible fight, but
39:18
Speaker 1: ultimately she would succumb to her injuries, and then after
39:22
Speaker 1: she was dead, Danny just left her where she was
39:25
Speaker 1: and he went downstairs and he found Christine was still
39:27
Speaker 1: asleep on the couch. She had not woken up from
39:30
Speaker 1: the commotion upstairs, and so he walked right in front
39:33
Speaker 1: of her, and standing over her with his knife, he
39:35
Speaker 1: kind of nudged her awake, and when.
39:37
Speaker 3: She woke up, he had a piece of tape.
39:39
Speaker 1: He put it over her mouth, and he told her
39:41
Speaker 1: to be quiet and held up the knife and told
39:43
Speaker 1: her that I just killed your roommate, and if you
39:45
Speaker 1: don't listen to what I'm going to say, I'm going
39:46
Speaker 1: to kill you two. And so naturally she complied to
39:49
Speaker 1: what he wanted, and so she let her wrist be tied,
39:52
Speaker 1: and then at that point he cut her clothes off,
39:54
Speaker 1: he sexually assaulted her, and then he stabbed her to death.
39:57
Speaker 3: And so after she was dead on the ground, he
40:00
Speaker 3: and got that.
40:00
Speaker 1: Towel and that soap, and he began cleaning Christine's body
40:04
Speaker 1: to try to remove any evidence he might have left behind.
40:06
Speaker 1: And then he cut the duct tape off of her
40:08
Speaker 1: wrist and removed the duct tape from her mouth and
40:11
Speaker 1: put those in his pocket, and then he positioned her
40:14
Speaker 1: in that kind of leude suggestive position that she was
40:17
Speaker 1: found in. And then Danny went back upstairs and cut
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Speaker 1: the clothes off of Sonia and then positioned her on
40:22
Speaker 1: the side of the bed in a suggestive position as well.
40:25
Speaker 1: And then Danny leaves the apartment, so he goes back
40:27
Speaker 1: into the woods. He walks in the woodline back to
40:30
Speaker 1: his campsite, but when he got.
40:32
Speaker 3: There, he was just too jacked up.
40:33
Speaker 1: He was too excited from what he had just done
40:36
Speaker 1: that he just couldn't control himself. All he wanted to
40:38
Speaker 1: do was go out and kill again. And so he
40:41
Speaker 1: managed to sit at his campsite for a total of
40:43
Speaker 1: eight hours before he couldn't help it any longer.
40:46
Speaker 3: He had to go back out and find another victim.
40:48
Speaker 1: And so his next victim, he decided, would be this
40:51
Speaker 1: woman he just happened to see a couple of days ago.
40:53
Speaker 1: He was walking down the road near this row of
40:56
Speaker 1: apartments near the school, and he looked into one of
40:59
Speaker 1: them and he just saw there was this girl in
41:01
Speaker 1: this apartment, and he just thought, for a second, you know,
41:04
Speaker 1: I bet she lives alone there. But that was the
41:06
Speaker 1: entire interaction. He didn't know this person. He was just
41:09
Speaker 1: kind of guessing that she might be alone in there.
41:11
Speaker 1: And so here he is in the forest after killing
41:14
Speaker 1: these two teens, and he's like, Okay, I'm going to
41:16
Speaker 1: go back to that apartment because I think that woman
41:18
Speaker 1: is alone, and that woman would be Krista Hoyt. And so,
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Speaker 1: in the early morning hours of Saturday, August twenty fourth,
41:25
Speaker 1: Danny leaves his campsite with a screwdriver, his gun, and
41:28
Speaker 1: his k bar knife, and he walks about a half
41:31
Speaker 1: mile away from his campsite until he's still in the woods,
41:34
Speaker 1: but he's looking out at the back of Christa's apartment,
41:38
Speaker 1: and then at some point he walks out of the forest.
41:40
Speaker 1: He walks right up over her fence and gets up
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Speaker 1: to her back sliding door. He uses a screwdriver to
41:45
Speaker 1: pop the sliding door open. He slides it open, he
41:48
Speaker 1: steps inside, and he finds out that Christa is actually
41:52
Speaker 1: not in her apartment.
41:53
Speaker 3: There's no one in her apartment.
41:54
Speaker 1: But instead of leaving and finding another victim, he decides
41:58
Speaker 1: he'll just wait for Krista. Shuts the sliding back door,
42:01
Speaker 1: and he goes into her bedroom closet and shuts the
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Speaker 1: closet and then just waits, and he stays in her
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Speaker 1: closet for several hours until around eleven am that morning,
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Speaker 1: Christa comes home, and when she was in the house,
42:13
Speaker 1: he waited a little bit longer to make sure she
42:15
Speaker 1: didn't know he was there, and then at some point
42:17
Speaker 1: he kind of slipped out of the closet, snuck up
42:20
Speaker 1: behind her, and put her in a chokehold. Now, at
42:22
Speaker 1: first Chrisa tried to fight back, but eventually she realized
42:26
Speaker 1: she could not overpower whoever this was.
42:28
Speaker 3: And at that point she said, okay, okay, you know
42:30
Speaker 3: what do you want? And Danny would tell her you
42:32
Speaker 3: get to listen to me, or I'm going to kill you.
42:34
Speaker 1: And he showed her the knife, and so Christa said okay,
42:36
Speaker 1: and she put her wrists out. He taped her wrists
42:38
Speaker 1: with duct tape. He put tape over her mouth, and
42:40
Speaker 1: then he brought her into her bedroom where he cut
42:43
Speaker 1: her clothes off and sexually assaulted her, and then afterwards
42:46
Speaker 1: he stabbed her to death. Once she was dead, he
42:48
Speaker 1: cut the duct tape off of her wrists and pulled
42:51
Speaker 1: the duct tape off of her mouth and put that
42:52
Speaker 1: duct tape in his pocket, and then he positioned her
42:55
Speaker 1: body on the bed in a suggestive position before he left.
42:59
Speaker 3: When he got back.
42:59
Speaker 1: To his campsite, he realized he had accidentally left his
43:03
Speaker 1: wallet in Christa's apartment and so commas can be. He
43:07
Speaker 1: walked back through the forest right back into Christa's apartment.
43:10
Speaker 1: He found his wallet and he was about to leave
43:13
Speaker 1: when he thought to himself, well, wait a minute, I
43:15
Speaker 1: should mutilate her body. And so he pulled Christ's body
43:18
Speaker 1: off of the bed, and using his knife, he decapitated him.
43:21
Speaker 1: He put her head up on the shelf next to
43:24
Speaker 1: the bed, and then he repositioned her body on the
43:26
Speaker 1: edge of the bed, making it seem like she was
43:28
Speaker 1: kind of hunched over looking out the back door. And
43:31
Speaker 1: then before he left, he reached up and twisted her
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Speaker 1: decapitated head and made it seem like it was looking
43:37
Speaker 1: down at the rest of her body.
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Speaker 3: Forty eight hours later.
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Speaker 1: On the evening of Monday, August twenty seventh, Danny was
43:44
Speaker 1: back at his campsite out in the woods, and he
43:47
Speaker 1: suddenly got the urge to go kill again, and so
43:49
Speaker 1: he stood up. He grabbed his knife, his screwdriver, and
43:52
Speaker 1: his gun, and he walked away from camp made it
43:54
Speaker 1: about a mile through the woods until he was standing
43:57
Speaker 1: still in the forest looking out at this big apartment
44:00
Speaker 1: complex that was very commonly occupied by college students, and
44:04
Speaker 1: so at some point he leaves the forest and walks
44:07
Speaker 1: up to the first apartment he sees. He has no
44:10
Speaker 1: idea who's going to be in there, and he goes
44:12
Speaker 1: up to their sliding back glass door.
44:14
Speaker 3: He gets a screwdriver out and he pops it open.
44:16
Speaker 1: He slides the door open, he steps inside, and the
44:19
Speaker 1: first thing he sees is Manny Toboda, this big, strong
44:24
Speaker 1: former football player who's laying in his bed, and Danny
44:27
Speaker 1: just walks over and starts stabbing him.
44:29
Speaker 3: And Manny wakes up and puts up one heck of a.
44:31
Speaker 1: Fight, but ultimately Danny is able to overpower him and
44:35
Speaker 1: kills him. While Danny was stabbing Manny, the other resident
44:39
Speaker 1: inside of this apartment, twenty three year old Tracy Poulis.
44:43
Speaker 1: She was in the shower, and so she gets out
44:44
Speaker 1: of the shower and she hears all this commotion down
44:47
Speaker 1: the hall, and so she steps into the hall and
44:49
Speaker 1: she looks into Manny's room and she sees Danny on
44:52
Speaker 1: top of him, stabbing him, and so Danny looks back
44:56
Speaker 1: he sees Tracy. Tracy screams, she runs down the hall
44:59
Speaker 1: into her her bedroom. She slams the door behind her,
45:01
Speaker 1: she locks it and then she leans up against the
45:04
Speaker 1: door to try to keep it shut. Meanwhile, Danny just
45:07
Speaker 1: continues to stab Manny until Manny is dead, and then
45:10
Speaker 1: Danny stands up and he just walks down the hall
45:12
Speaker 1: Cammas can be.
45:14
Speaker 3: He gets to the bedroom door where he knows Tracy is.
45:17
Speaker 1: She's trapped, she can't go anywhere, and he begins to
45:19
Speaker 1: smash the door down. He's ramming over the shoulder, He's
45:22
Speaker 1: kicking it over and over again, and Tracy's screaming for
45:25
Speaker 1: him to stop. But eventually he manages to just kick
45:28
Speaker 1: the door down, and as soon as he's inside the room,
45:31
Speaker 1: Tracy kind of stands back and she says to Danny,
45:34
Speaker 1: are you the one? And Danny looks at her and says, yes,
45:37
Speaker 1: I am the one. And then he threatened her with
45:39
Speaker 1: a knife and said I'll kill you just like the
45:41
Speaker 1: guy down the hall unless you listen to me, and
45:43
Speaker 1: so Tracy listened. She got her wrists bound and her
45:46
Speaker 1: face bound, and then Danny cut the clothes off of
45:48
Speaker 1: her and then sexually assaulted her, and then he stabbed
45:51
Speaker 1: her to death, and then after she was dead, he'd
45:53
Speaker 1: cut the duct tape off of her wrists and removed
45:56
Speaker 1: the duct tape from her mouth and then positioned her
45:59
Speaker 1: body in a suggestive sexual position on the edge of
46:02
Speaker 1: the bed, and then he left. Later that day, Danny
46:05
Speaker 1: would rob that bank in Gainesville, and then one month later,
46:09
Speaker 1: Danny would be arrested for a botched armed robbery forty
46:12
Speaker 1: miles south of Gainesville, and then while he was in prison,
46:15
Speaker 1: he would find out he was being.
46:16
Speaker 3: Charged with the five murders in Gainesville.
46:19
Speaker 1: Sixteen years later, at six pm on October twenty fifth,
46:22
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, Danny Rowling was led into the
46:25
Speaker 1: execution chamber in Florida State Prison. He offered no apology
46:29
Speaker 1: to the family members of his victims that were on
46:32
Speaker 1: the other side of the glass. Instead, Danny just sang
46:35
Speaker 1: a religious hymn to himself in order to comfort himself,
46:39
Speaker 1: and then thirteen minutes later, Danny was pronounced dead.
46:42
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