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- 0:12Speaker 1: How do you do, sir?
- 0:13Speaker 2: Sir.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Here's Morgan. Good to see you.
- 0:15Speaker 3: I'm hard of hearing. You've got to speak real loud.
- 0:18Speaker 2: OK.
- 0:18Speaker 1: In both ears, or? Both ears.
- 0:20Speaker 3: OK.
- 0:20Speaker 4: OK.
- 0:20Speaker 1: You can hear me OK?
- 0:22Speaker 2: Yes.
- 0:22Speaker 1: OK.
- 0:23Speaker 3: I don't know how we were going to do it.
- 0:27Speaker 1: I'm just going to go through everything that's happened to you.
- 0:30Speaker 1: And I just want you to be as honest as
- 0:32Speaker 1: you want to be.
- 0:33Speaker 3: That's what I'd like, to get the truth out. That's
- 0:35Speaker 3: what I want.
- 0:36Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 0:39Speaker 6: I've been granted a rare interview with a serial killer.
- 0:44Speaker 6: Mark Reby confessed to murdering 13 women. He later retracted
- 0:49Speaker 6: those confessions. Detectives believe he is a serial killer, even
- 0:56Speaker 6: though he's only been convicted of a single murder. Is
- 1:05Speaker 6: this man one of America's most prolific killers?
- 1:09Speaker 7: Mark will try to control you. He'll try to manipulate
- 1:12Speaker 7: you and control your interview. He's going to paint himself
- 1:17Speaker 7: out to be the victim. He's going to make himself
- 1:20Speaker 7: to be the most misunderstood person in the world.
- 1:24Speaker 8: When you tell a lie and it's so convincing and
- 1:28Speaker 8: you have the ability to believe the lie you tell,
- 1:30Speaker 8: it makes for a very dangerous person.
- 1:34Speaker 1: You've been obsessively trying to nail this guy for a
- 1:38Speaker 1: quarter of a century now, it's become a personal thing
- 1:43Speaker 1: for you, hasn't it?
- 1:43Speaker 7: What becomes personal to me is these people.
- 1:46Speaker 3: These people are important to me.
- 1:50Speaker 1: When I see Mark Riebe, what would you like me
- 1:53Speaker 1: to say to him?
- 1:56Speaker 7: It's time. It's time to give it up, Mark. It's
- 2:00Speaker 7: time to bring this all to an end. It's time
- 2:05Speaker 7: to give their family some sort of answers. And if
- 2:09Speaker 7: there's any decency in you, this is the time.
- 2:13Speaker 3: To do it.
- 2:44Speaker 6: One night in August 1989, Mark Reby and his brother
- 2:48Speaker 6: Alex pulled into this convenience store. Behind the counter was
- 2:54Speaker 6: Donna Callahan, a young mother pregnant with her second child.
- 3:00Speaker 9: When she looked up and saw him, he pulled the
- 3:03Speaker 9: gun out and he grabbed her by.
- 3:05Speaker 10: The arm and come straight out the door. Then she
- 3:13Speaker 10: started crying. She asked why was we doing it and
- 3:19Speaker 10: what had she done to us. Said she was pregnant
- 3:23Speaker 10: and that she had a little girl. She didn't want
- 3:28Speaker 10: to be hurt.
- 3:33Speaker 6: This confession led to the arrest of Mark Reby. Alex
- 3:39Speaker 6: had pinned the murder on his brother.
- 3:42Speaker 11: Mark, did you kill Donna Callaghan?
- 3:59Speaker 6: After Donna Callaghan went missing, her father launched a tireless
- 4:03Speaker 6: three-year campaign to find her. He petitioned the US president,
- 4:11Speaker 6: and eventually a team of special agents were assigned to
- 4:13Speaker 6: the case. One of them, Dennis Haley, has now been
- 4:21Speaker 6: engaged in a battle of wills with Mark Reby for
- 4:24Speaker 6: almost 25 years.
- 4:29Speaker 1: So Dennis, we are about an hour from where Donna
- 4:33Speaker 1: Callaghan was taken.
- 4:35Speaker 7: Yes, we are.
- 4:36Speaker 1: And it took seven years to find her body, and eventually...
- 4:41Speaker 1: you managed to locate what was then the remains of
- 4:45Speaker 1: her body just up here, right?
- 4:48Speaker 7: Actually, it's right in this area right here, about 20 feet,
- 4:53Speaker 7: about right in there. And this used to be a
- 4:55Speaker 7: clay road here. This wasn't a blacktop. And all the
- 4:59Speaker 7: clay dirt ran off in here, which made the grave
- 5:01Speaker 7: quite deep.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Of all the places to put a body, can you
- 5:07Speaker 1: offer some rationale for why they would choose somewhere like this?
- 5:12Speaker 7: When I've talked to the profilers, they tend to believe that,
- 5:15Speaker 7: that this is something every time he drives by he
- 5:17Speaker 7: can think about. This was convenient. It was in sight
- 5:22Speaker 7: of their home. Their home's just right up the road here.
- 5:24Speaker 7: It's someplace they can drive by every day and know
- 5:27Speaker 7: where that body's at. He can think about that night.
- 5:30Speaker 7: He can think about the thrill of the kill. It's
- 5:34Speaker 7: something they can check on almost daily.
- 5:39Speaker 1: He confessed to killing 13 women. Do you believe that
- 5:42Speaker 1: the bodies of the other women might be somewhere in
- 5:45Speaker 1: this area, buried away in these kinds of trees?
- 5:48Speaker 7: Pierce, that's what's always been so frustrating because I do
- 5:51Speaker 7: believe that. We have evidence at at least four other
- 5:55Speaker 7: dig sites that there was human decomposition there. And we
- 5:59Speaker 7: know that Donna Callahan's body was never moved. I mean,
- 6:03Speaker 7: it was here since 1989, so who was at these
- 6:05Speaker 7: other sites? And Mark often talked about there being a
- 6:11Speaker 7: graveyard out here with four to five bodies in it. So, yes,
- 6:15Speaker 7: I truly believe that there's more bodies out here.
- 6:23Speaker 12: Bay County Sheriff's Office investigators say they're getting closer to
- 6:28Speaker 12: charging someone in the murder of 18-year-old Jacqueline Brandt. Investigators
- 6:32Speaker 12: say 46-year-old Mark Rebe is a person of interest in
- 6:35Speaker 12: Brant's murder. Rebe is currently serving a life sentence for
- 6:39Speaker 12: the 1989 murder of Donna Callahan.
- 6:42Speaker 5: Beach police, along with FDLE agents, have Mark Rebe's confession.
- 6:46Speaker 5: Rebe confessed to killing Pamela Ray and burying her on
- 6:50Speaker 5: this land. Investigators, along with cadaver dogs.
- 6:53Speaker 12: There have been reports that Rebe is also responsible than
- 6:55Speaker 12: many others, but investigators won't confirm that information.
- 7:01Speaker 6: If Mark Reby finally tells the truth about these murders,
- 7:05Speaker 6: it would make him one of America's worst serial killers.
- 7:12Speaker 1: How long have you been in prison?
- 7:13Speaker 2: 21 years.
- 7:14Speaker 13: 21 years.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Because you took part in the brutal murder of a
- 7:21Speaker 1: young woman called Donna Callahan.
- 7:23Speaker 3: Donna Callahan, yes, sir.
- 7:24Speaker 1: That's why you're here?
- 7:26Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
- 7:27Speaker 1: With Special Agent Haley... Right. to him over a period
- 7:34Speaker 1: of time that you killed 13 women.
- 7:38Speaker 3: This is what Detective Haley has put out.
- 7:42Speaker 1: He believes that you killed eight. I just want to
- 7:47Speaker 1: go through why he thinks you killed them. And I
- 7:50Speaker 1: want to give you the chance to respond to each
- 7:54Speaker 1: of these cases and explain why he's wrong. The first
- 8:00Speaker 1: lady is this woman here.
- 8:04Speaker 3: I don't even know who that lady is.
- 8:06Speaker 1: This is Bonnie Ryther. She was found buried after missing
- 8:10Speaker 1: for a week in 1978. The reason that... In what year?
- 8:13Speaker 8: 1978.
- 8:13Speaker 14: 1978.
- 8:13Speaker 1: I was 17 years old.
- 8:14Speaker 2: Right.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Special Agent Haley believes this was your first victim. Absolutely not.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Lindsay Sams, she was a 35-year-old woman.
- 8:33Speaker 3: I don't even know who that is.
- 8:35Speaker 1: You don't dispute at the time. You confessed to Special
- 8:38Speaker 1: Agent Haley.
- 8:39Speaker 3: I did confess it.
- 8:40Speaker 1: You did confess to her. This is Andrea Durham. She was.
- 8:44Speaker 3: I don't know who that girl is. I did not
- 8:47Speaker 3: confess to that one.
- 8:48Speaker 1: You never met Andrea Durham?
- 8:49Speaker 8: No.
- 8:50Speaker 1: Andrea Durham was 14. I know, and I never confessed
- 8:53Speaker 1: to that crime. I'm just going to finish. She went
- 8:55Speaker 1: missing in 1990. abducted from her home. Now, both of
- 9:00Speaker 1: your stepchildren knew Andrea, they were friends.
- 9:03Speaker 3: They may have been friends, but I didn't know all
- 9:05Speaker 3: my kids were friends. They didn't hang around my, she
- 9:08Speaker 3: didn't hang around my house, I'll put it this way.
- 9:10Speaker 3: They may have knew her, but she didn't come to
- 9:13Speaker 3: my house, never been to my house.
- 9:16Speaker 1: You told Special Agent Haley I like to drink.
- 9:19Speaker 3: Keep going with Special Agent Haley.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Well, I'm just going to go through what they claim.
- 9:22Speaker 3: No, you're back in his story.
- 9:24Speaker 1: No, no, Mark. No, no. Wait a second.
- 9:26Speaker 3: No, no. Stop this right here.
- 9:27Speaker 1: No, no, Mark, Mark. Let me explain to you. No, no, no, no.
- 9:29Speaker 5: Mark.
- 9:30Speaker 3: This was supposed to be.
- 9:31Speaker 1: I understand.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Nothing like this. I see where you've been and got
- 9:35Speaker 3: all your information.
- 9:36Speaker 1: No, Mark, Mark.
- 9:36Speaker 3: Captain, we're through here.
- 9:38Speaker 1: No, Mark, Mark, Mark. Let me explain.
- 9:39Speaker 3: Mark.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Mark, let me explain. Can I explain to you? Let
- 9:42Speaker 1: me try again. Let me try again. I'm not judging
- 9:45Speaker 1: you at all.
- 9:46Speaker 3: No, yes you are, because the way you keep saying, why.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Would he have a reason to lie? No, all I'm doing,
- 9:50Speaker 1: all I'm doing, you don't deny that you admitted at
- 9:54Speaker 1: one stage.
- 9:55Speaker 3: You didn't let me finish, go on either. You keep
- 9:57Speaker 3: wanting to go back to this.
- 9:58Speaker 1: I understand, let me give you the chance to respond
- 10:00Speaker 1: to each of these cases.
- 10:01Speaker 3: There's no responding. I didn't do those cases. But you're
- 10:05Speaker 3: not listening. You keep saying, but yes, you did.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Then I will show you more respect and I will
- 10:09Speaker 1: listen properly to what you're saying. Okay.
- 10:11Speaker 3: Let's go through them because I want to get to
- 10:13Speaker 3: the port. I'll tell you how I shut this down.
- 10:16Speaker 3: And this office is still good today.
- 10:18Speaker 1: This is Donna Callahan.
- 10:19Speaker 3: I know who Donna Callahan is.
- 10:21Speaker 1: She's the woman that you're in prison for. She's the
- 10:24Speaker 1: woman that you are accused with your brother of killing,
- 10:27Speaker 1: brutally killing. She was pregnant. She was a young mother.
- 10:31Speaker 1: But when you look at that picture, what do you feel?
- 10:34Speaker 13: Sir?
- 10:34Speaker 1: When you look at her picture, what do you feel?
- 10:36Speaker 3: I don't know what to say.
- 10:38Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 10:39Speaker 3: My heart goes out to her, her daughter, her mom
- 10:42Speaker 3: and dad, her family, and to her. I just blurted
- 10:44Speaker 3: it out. You know what? I was there that night.
- 10:47Speaker 1: But nobody, Mark, no innocent person is going to admit
- 10:52Speaker 1: to being party to the murder of a pregnant mother.
- 10:55Speaker 3: There's been a lot of people who have made mistakes
- 10:59Speaker 3: and said they committed crimes they didn't and got out
- 11:01Speaker 3: of prison.
- 11:04Speaker 1: Who actually killed Donna Callaghan?
- 11:06Speaker 3: My brother killed Donna Callaghan.
- 11:18Speaker 15: So you drive along and all of a sudden Mark
- 11:22Speaker 15: climbs over the back seat, gets on top of Donna
- 11:26Speaker 15: and starts to strangle her.
- 11:34Speaker 2: What did you hear?
- 11:34Speaker 9: I heard her saying no and don't do this to
- 11:39Speaker 9: me at first and then I don't know how to
- 11:43Speaker 9: describe the sound.
- 11:44Speaker 10: It was like a, it sounded like to me, it
- 11:47Speaker 10: sounded like he'd cut her throat or something.
- 11:50Speaker 3: I didn't know.
- 11:50Speaker 1: It just sounded like a real fleshy sound.
- 11:55Speaker 9: Because when I heard that, I turned around and she
- 11:58Speaker 9: had foam in her mouth.
- 12:03Speaker 15: How long did that go on?
- 12:06Speaker 10: It took a while.
- 12:08Speaker 1: Before she quit.
- 12:15Speaker 4: Mark Reby went to trial and was convicted of this crime.
- 12:18Speaker 4: He could have gotten the death penalty. With this morning's agreement,
- 12:21Speaker 4: his life is spared. Reby admitted that both he and
- 12:25Speaker 4: Alex Wells kidnapped and killed Donna Callahan after robbing the
- 12:29Speaker 4: convenience store where she worked in Gulf Breeze.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Reby pleaded guilty to what he had done.
- 12:36Speaker 7: I am pleased, and my daughter is pleased, Donna, who's
- 12:39Speaker 7: going to rest in peace now.
- 12:48Speaker 16: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- 13:17Speaker 1: Mark, if you could just do me one favor. You
- 13:20Speaker 1: keep tapping your foot.
- 13:21Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.
- 13:22Speaker 1: It's just, it's making a bit of a noise. So
- 13:24Speaker 1: if you could try and keep your feet, just be
- 13:26Speaker 1: helpful for the recording.
- 13:32Speaker 6: Mark Reby is serving life here in Florida's Blackwater River
- 13:37Speaker 6: Correctional Facility. He was just months into his sentence when
- 13:45Speaker 6: he started to make a series of extraordinary confessions.
- 13:47Speaker 7: Raise your right hand for me.
- 13:49Speaker 17: You solemnly swear or affirm the statement you're about to
- 13:51Speaker 17: give will be the truth, the whole truth, and.
- 13:53Speaker 9: Nothing but the truth.
- 13:53Speaker 15: Say what you got.
- 13:57Speaker 6: Over a period of four years, he told detectives gruesome
- 14:00Speaker 6: details of how he killed 13 women.
- 14:04Speaker 18: Let me ask you this one question, Mark.
- 14:07Speaker 1: Did you abduct and kill Adela Rae?
- 14:10Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
- 14:14Speaker 10: There's no doubt in your mind whatsoever.
- 14:28Speaker 6: Many of these women went missing not far from a
- 14:31Speaker 6: sleepy railway town in northern Florida. Mark Reby spent his
- 14:40Speaker 6: teenage years here, This is the house he lived in
- 14:45Speaker 6: with his mother, sisters, and brother. Donna Callahan's body was
- 14:54Speaker 6: discovered in Woodland, just 350 yards from here.
- 15:01Speaker 19: So we had an indirect personality assessment questionnaire completed by
- 15:04Speaker 19: some family members on Mark Reby. And one of the
- 15:08Speaker 19: things we noted was he had no life goals or ambitions.
- 15:12Speaker 19: And you could see him going from job to job
- 15:14Speaker 19: to job. I mean, he was just an insignificant man
- 15:21Speaker 19: who didn't really amount to much in his life. And
- 15:24Speaker 19: I think he was very self-aware in terms of that.
- 15:30Speaker 8: If you're a serial killer, you like power and control, manipulation.
- 15:37Speaker 8: They're plain-looking. They're average-looking people. And they're a charmer. I'm
- 15:42Speaker 8: not saying that Mark has a magnetic personality, but I
- 15:45Speaker 8: have seen him do the charmer thing with women.
- 15:52Speaker 1: Mark, do you like women?
- 15:55Speaker 3: Do you like women? I'm not a rapist, nothing like that.
- 16:01Speaker 3: I respect, I see nothing, they're my equal. When I
- 16:07Speaker 3: was into a relationship, I didn't want somebody to subvert me,
- 16:10Speaker 3: I wanted somebody to It was my partner who lived life.
- 16:15Speaker 3: I wanted somebody to enjoy life.
- 16:18Speaker 1: You've been married four times or five? Four times. Why
- 16:23Speaker 1: do you think the marriages never really worked?
- 16:26Speaker 3: Oh, well, that was easy. On the first three, it
- 16:29Speaker 3: was always me. As far as being faithful, that word
- 16:34Speaker 3: didn't enter in the picture with me. It wasn't the ladies.
- 16:39Speaker 3: All three of my first wives were very Good ladies.
- 16:42Speaker 3: Loved them to death. Afterwards, not while we was together,
- 16:45Speaker 3: because I was too busy. I was partying. I was drinking.
- 16:49Speaker 3: One big party.
- 16:50Speaker 1: And you cheated on all of your wives?
- 16:53Speaker 3: Always, yeah. I always had another lady on the side.
- 16:57Speaker 3: That's the way it went. Then my fourth wife. That
- 17:02Speaker 3: one paid me back for everything that I did.
- 17:05Speaker 1: In what way?
- 17:06Speaker 4: How?
- 17:07Speaker 3: By cheating, yeah. And she's the one I stayed with
- 17:10Speaker 3: the longest. I stayed with her for years.
- 17:13Speaker 1: Do you respect women?
- 17:14Speaker 3: Yes, I believe I do. I'm not going to put
- 17:18Speaker 3: my hands on a lady physically, you know, beat her.
- 17:21Speaker 3: Didn't believe in that.
- 17:22Speaker 1: So you don't think you're a violent person?
- 17:25Speaker 3: I'm not a violent person. If I was confronted the
- 17:29Speaker 3: wrong way, yes, I could be. I think that's anybody
- 17:32Speaker 3: that would defend herself. But as far as go looking
- 17:34Speaker 3: to cause problems for somebody, no.
- 17:40Speaker 7: I've seen him get really angry one time. He'd been drinking.
- 17:44Speaker 7: He was at a bar up in Decatur, Illinois. I'm
- 17:47Speaker 7: up there interviewing him, and he got really, really angry
- 17:50Speaker 7: at his wife. And he instantly went from zero to, like,
- 17:56Speaker 7: ready to kill somebody.
- 17:57Speaker 1: Something just completely trivial.
- 17:59Speaker 7: Yes. It shocked me that he got so angry so quick.
- 18:02Speaker 7: I thought he was going to attack her that night.
- 18:05Speaker 7: And the only reason I don't think he did attack
- 18:07Speaker 7: her that night is because he was in a public place.
- 18:11Speaker 1: In terms of motivation for Mark Reby to be a
- 18:15Speaker 1: serial killer, what do you think it is?
- 18:20Speaker 3: Power.
- 18:22Speaker 7: Overpowering somebody.
- 18:23Speaker 3: Control.
- 18:24Speaker 7: I don't think it's sexually motivated.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Yet all his victims are young women between the ages
- 18:31Speaker 1: of 13 and 35, 36. I mean.
- 18:35Speaker 1: It's a very specific category.
- 18:37Speaker 7: And they're all small, petite, not more than 110 pounds
- 18:43Speaker 7: at the most.
- 18:43Speaker 1: Any of them?
- 18:44Speaker 7: They're all small, small ladies. Even all his wives were
- 18:48Speaker 7: that way.
- 18:55Speaker 6: Pamela Ray fitted Mark Reby's victim profile perfectly. In the
- 19:03Speaker 6: spring of 1999, One year into his life sentence, Reby
- 19:07Speaker 6: made an astonishing phone call. He spoke to Pamela Ray's father,
- 19:15Speaker 6: who was still searching for his daughter almost seven years
- 19:18Speaker 6: after she'd gone missing. Reby told him that he had
- 19:26Speaker 6: killed her.
- 19:36Speaker 5: Front Beach Road wasn't anything like this on that early
- 19:39Speaker 5: morning in August when Pamela Ray pulled up to this
- 19:41Speaker 5: motel parking lot and tried to check in.
- 19:43Speaker 2: I went out there to begin with thinking, oh, we're
- 19:48Speaker 2: going to cover a news story about a lady who
- 19:51Speaker 2: took a walk on the beach.
- 19:53Speaker 1: She's going to return.
- 19:56Speaker 2: By the end of the night, by 10 o'clock, we'll
- 19:58Speaker 2: find out what really happened. And we didn't. And that's
- 20:03Speaker 2: when I realized when I went out there, this isn't
- 20:05Speaker 2: just a story about a missing person.
- 20:10Speaker 6: Pamela Ray had taken her two children on holiday. Leaving
- 20:16Speaker 6: them asleep in her car, she went to check into
- 20:19Speaker 6: a motel, but one stood on this site.
- 20:25Speaker 20: This is Pamela Ray's vehicle as she had parked it
- 20:29Speaker 20: 25 years ago. We know that a police officer with
- 20:35Speaker 20: the Panama City Beach Police Department saw Pamela Ray and
- 20:40Speaker 20: she was talking to an unknown individual that was standing
- 20:44Speaker 20: between the motel office and this pool fence. After that time,
- 20:51Speaker 20: we have no visual of her ever again.
- 20:58Speaker 17: I slipped my knife out of my pocket and popped
- 21:02Speaker 17: it open real quick, and.
- 21:02Speaker 2: I grabbed her.
- 21:06Speaker 17: She made what you call a real loud.
- 21:08Speaker 3: Scream, but she made some noise.
- 21:11Speaker 7: I told her to shut up.
- 21:13Speaker 3: She made another sound. I killed her right.
- 21:14Speaker 20: Then and there. Around 8.30 the following morning, the office
- 21:22Speaker 20: motel calls in reference to the two children being in
- 21:25Speaker 20: the car crying.
- 21:29Speaker 2: The daughter was very, very young and cheerful, and that's
- 21:34Speaker 2: why I knew she didn't understand what had just taken
- 21:37Speaker 2: place with her mom. And her son, of course, he
- 21:40Speaker 2: started and crying, you know, please come home, Mama, bring
- 21:44Speaker 2: my mom home.
- 21:44Speaker 3: Mark, try to think of something, tell us something that.
- 21:54Speaker 10: We can go back with that leaves no doubt in
- 21:58Speaker 10: anyone's mind that this happened.
- 22:00Speaker 8: I don't think I can think of a single key
- 22:05Speaker 8: that I picked up.
- 22:08Speaker 16: Where did that key come from?
- 22:10Speaker 1: I don't know. Could he be a complete fantasist? Could
- 22:19Speaker 1: he be making the whole thing up?
- 22:22Speaker 7: I don't think so. I struggled with that at one time.
- 22:26Speaker 7: I thought, could this all be a bunch of crock
- 22:29Speaker 7: of crap, as we say? But, no, there's just too
- 22:35Speaker 7: many details about certain murders. He had information that only
- 22:40Speaker 7: the killer would have had.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Give me some examples of the detail of killings where
- 22:46Speaker 1: only the killer could have known that information.
- 22:49Speaker 7: Jackie Brandt, this girl right here, she went missing in
- 22:54Speaker 7: April of 1986 out of Panama City Beach, Florida. When
- 22:57Speaker 7: she went missing, nobody really even reported her missing. I
- 23:02Speaker 7: get Reby out of prison and I take him over
- 23:04Speaker 7: to Panama City. He takes me to a bar over
- 23:08Speaker 7: there called The Playground. That was a place she used
- 23:10Speaker 7: to frequent. How would he have known that? From the playground,
- 23:14Speaker 7: he says that he met her there in the bar.
- 23:17Speaker 7: They came out of the parking lot. They smoked a
- 23:19Speaker 7: joint together, and he got mad at her, and he
- 23:22Speaker 7: strangled her to death and killed her inside his car.
- 23:25Speaker 7: And then he drove from there, and he wanted to
- 23:27Speaker 7: get rid of her body. He then takes it up
- 23:30Speaker 7: the road, and he was within 100 feet of where
- 23:32Speaker 7: he dumped the body. How would he know that? This
- 23:35Speaker 7: is what he enlisted as a homicide.
- 23:38Speaker 3: I just.
- 23:40Speaker 7: I don't believe in coincidence. I believe that he killed her.
- 23:43Speaker 7: And it's just sad that we don't have the evidence
- 23:47Speaker 7: to support that.
- 23:52Speaker 5: Reby confessed to killing Pamela Ray and burying her on
- 23:56Speaker 5: this land. Investigators, along with cadaver dogs, will be spending
- 23:59Speaker 5: at least a week combing through the thick brush and
- 24:02Speaker 5: woods for Pam's remains or any evidence that could link
- 24:05Speaker 5: Reby to her.
- 24:09Speaker 6: Pamela Ray's disappearance has been continually investigated since 1992. Her children,
- 24:18Speaker 6: who were five and 12 years old at the time,
- 24:21Speaker 6: may never have the comfort of knowing what happened to
- 24:24Speaker 6: their mother. Her sister Rhonda has helped look after them
- 24:31Speaker 6: for much of their lives.
- 24:34Speaker 1: Pamela was your oldest sister. She was my oldest sister.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Five years older than you.
- 24:39Speaker 3: Five years older.
- 24:40Speaker 18: She loved me. We used to do everything together.
- 24:44Speaker 1: Everything.
- 24:45Speaker 3: With our children.
- 24:48Speaker 18: Wherever she went, I was there.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Your father died believing that Mark Raby had killed your sister.
- 24:55Speaker 18: He told me that Mark had confessed to him. And
- 25:01Speaker 18: at that time, you know, I thought, Very well. Sure,
- 25:05Speaker 18: he could have done it.
- 25:07Speaker 1: But if it's the case that he lied to your
- 25:10Speaker 1: father about killing your sister, what kind of person would
- 25:15Speaker 1: do that?
- 25:17Speaker 18: The worst of the worst. I don't even understand how
- 25:23Speaker 18: you could do something like that to another person.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Your father sadly died a few months later, as it
- 25:29Speaker 1: turned out.
- 25:30Speaker 18: He fell out of his bed, had a heart attack,
- 25:35Speaker 18: And he was dead just like that.
- 25:40Speaker 1: Do you think that the strain of what happened to
- 25:44Speaker 1: Pamela contributed to his death?
- 25:46Speaker 11: Absolutely.
- 25:47Speaker 3: I absolutely do.
- 25:50Speaker 1: You think he may have died of a broken heart?
- 25:52Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 25:53Speaker 14: I know he did.
- 26:01Speaker 18: It breaks my heart.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Now, Pamela Ray was 36 years old, and she.
- 26:13Speaker 3: I know the story.
- 26:14Speaker 1: She was... Do you know what happened to her?
- 26:17Speaker 3: No, I do not know what happened to her.
- 26:18Speaker 1: Do you know she was abducted, murdered?
- 26:21Speaker 3: She was abducted.
- 26:22Speaker 1: You confessed to killing her. I did.
- 26:23Speaker 3: I said I did, yes.
- 26:25Speaker 1: But when you made the confession, a confession you've now retracted,
- 26:30Speaker 1: you gave them no information, along with the confession?
- 26:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I told them... I think I stabbed her. That's
- 26:36Speaker 3: what I told them.
- 26:38Speaker 1: I think I stabbed him.
- 26:39Speaker 3: I think I said that. I'm not sure. That's what
- 26:41Speaker 3: I told him.
- 26:41Speaker 2: How?
- 26:43Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
- 26:44Speaker 1: But you also, and this is unique in this case,
- 26:47Speaker 1: you also spoke on the telephone to Pamela Ray's father.
- 26:51Speaker 1: Do you remember that conversation?
- 26:52Speaker 3: Mr. I remember talking to that man.
- 26:56Speaker 1: What do you remember telling him?
- 26:57Speaker 3: I don't remember exactly what I told him. I told
- 27:00Speaker 3: him I was responsible. And that was it.
- 27:03Speaker 1: You told him you killed his daughter.
- 27:04Speaker 3: I think I did. And I... What really bothered me
- 27:09Speaker 3: was I never got the chance to tell that man
- 27:12Speaker 3: that I wasn't the one responsible.
- 27:14Speaker 1: He died soon after.
- 27:15Speaker 3: Yes, he did. I have to live with this stuff.
- 27:20Speaker 1: Right.
- 27:21Speaker 3: It's not easy.
- 27:22Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to be unfair on you, Mark,
- 27:23Speaker 1: but at the same time, I do want to try
- 27:27Speaker 1: and understand the mentality of a man who would tell
- 27:30Speaker 1: a grieving father who's lost his daughter.
- 27:33Speaker 3: If I could tell these people, make them understand... that
- 27:37Speaker 3: it wasn't done out of malice towards him.
- 27:39Speaker 1: How much more malicious could you have been than to
- 27:42Speaker 1: tell a grieving father that you killed his daughter?
- 27:43Speaker 3: I wasn't thinking like that at the time. That wasn't...
- 27:47Speaker 3: I put their feelings aside.
- 27:49Speaker 1: When you heard that he died, did you feel... What
- 27:52Speaker 1: did you feel? Did you feel anything?
- 27:54Speaker 3: He died because of me. I don't feel like he
- 27:56Speaker 3: died before. I don't know how the man died, but no.
- 27:59Speaker 1: But he died believing that you had told him.
- 28:02Speaker 3: And I just told you. That's what a thing that
- 28:06Speaker 3: really eats at me. I never got a chance to
- 28:08Speaker 3: tell this man the truth.
- 28:14Speaker 1: Here's what I don't understand, Mark. I want you to
- 28:17Speaker 1: explain to me. In 1998, you confessed to Special Agent
- 28:22Speaker 1: Haley that you killed 13 women. Why?
- 28:27Speaker 3: He led me in to give me the information for
- 28:30Speaker 3: these confessions. because he wanted to make his career off
- 28:33Speaker 3: of me.
- 28:35Speaker 1: So an investigating agent gives you all this information, and
- 28:40Speaker 1: now he says you gave it to him.
- 28:43Speaker 3: I've been saying it for a while. Why would you?
- 28:46Speaker 3: I was trying to get some help from my son
- 28:47Speaker 3: at the time. I call it the deal with the devil.
- 28:53Speaker 16: MUSIC PLAYS.
- 29:05Speaker 17: The confession you have just heard is a lie. That's
- 29:08Speaker 17: what Mark Reby is now telling.
- 29:10Speaker 5: Me.
- 29:37Speaker 6: He made a deal, he says, with Special Agent Dennis Haley.
- 29:43Speaker 6: In return for Haley protecting his son from what he
- 29:45Speaker 6: felt was a threatening situation, Reby would admit to multiple murders.
- 29:52Speaker 6: Haley broke this agreement, according to Reby, so in return,
- 29:57Speaker 6: he withdrew all his confessions.
- 30:01Speaker 1: You see why I would be skeptical?
- 30:04Speaker 3: I'm not asking you to believe me.
- 30:05Speaker 1: I don't care if you believe me. I'm looking at
- 30:07Speaker 1: a man that has admitted to me telling a special
- 30:11Speaker 1: agent and his colleague that you killed.
- 30:14Speaker 3: I don't care what you believe or anybody believes.
- 30:17Speaker 1: Let me finish. It's not about what I believe.
- 30:19Speaker 3: I had to maintain that. I could not come out
- 30:22Speaker 3: of that character.
- 30:23Speaker 1: You were prepared to admit you were one of the
- 30:26Speaker 1: worst killers killing all these women in the most heinous way.
- 30:31Speaker 1: You were prepared to admit that just to try and
- 30:34Speaker 1: help your son.
- 30:34Speaker 3: I didn't see what they did with me. They could
- 30:36Speaker 3: have put me on death row at the time. I
- 30:38Speaker 3: told him if that's what they wanted to do, I
- 30:40Speaker 3: would go that route. I would maintain that thing.
- 30:43Speaker 1: Until the end. What doesn't stack up to me in
- 30:47Speaker 1: your position is if you admit you confessed to all
- 30:52Speaker 1: these murders to Special Agent Haley, why he would then
- 30:58Speaker 1: feel the need to invent All this detail that he
- 31:02Speaker 1: says you gave him.
- 31:03Speaker 3: He wanted to make his career. He wanted his limelight.
- 31:06Speaker 1: He doesn't need to make a career out of you.
- 31:09Speaker 1: He's just a special agent investigating crime all day, every day.
- 31:13Speaker 3: He told me what I had to do.
- 31:20Speaker 19: If Mark Reby is claiming that he was confessing to
- 31:26Speaker 19: a number of crimes in order to protect... His son,
- 31:31Speaker 19: my advice would be to view it the way his
- 31:35Speaker 19: family members would view it, in that he claims to
- 31:40Speaker 19: be the protector father, very engaged with his children, when
- 31:45Speaker 19: in fact their perception of him is he has nothing
- 31:50Speaker 19: to do with them. He is not engaged with them.
- 31:53Speaker 19: He is an absentee father and didn't really care about them.
- 31:57Speaker 19: That's their words, not ours.
- 32:04Speaker 6: I'm struggling to get much in the way of truth
- 32:07Speaker 6: from Mark Reby. But at least the victims' families can
- 32:14Speaker 6: now judge for themselves. For Dennis Haley, trying to bring
- 32:24Speaker 6: them closure has been his life's work.
- 32:29Speaker 7: We have a subject confessing to several abductions and murders.
- 32:35Speaker 7: It's hard to judge because at times I sit there
- 32:38Speaker 7: and I'll be honest with you, I believe him, but
- 32:39Speaker 7: then nothing checks out.
- 32:41Speaker 14: Dennis has worked on a lot of these death cases
- 32:47Speaker 14: for 20 years.
- 32:49Speaker 3: If not more.
- 32:50Speaker 14: He thinks, dreams, sleeps, eats these cases because he cares
- 32:56Speaker 14: a lot about the victim himself. and their families, they
- 33:00Speaker 14: become so important to him that makes him even more
- 33:05Speaker 14: so wanting to solve the case, and so he never
- 33:08Speaker 14: gives up.
- 33:17Speaker 6: Reby insists he was given all the details in his
- 33:20Speaker 6: confessions by Dennis Haley. But in the case of Rhonda Taylor,
- 33:30Speaker 6: a 23-year-old brutally stabbed to death in 1990, this could
- 33:34Speaker 6: not have been possible. Reby talks about an African-American man
- 33:41Speaker 6: being present in the car when he killed Rhonda. This
- 33:46Speaker 6: detail could not have been known by detectives until years later,
- 33:52Speaker 6: when DNA testing became widely used and evidence from the
- 33:55Speaker 6: car was examined.
- 33:58Speaker 7: Mark describes killing Rhonda with two black guys there. We
- 34:04Speaker 7: have blood in Rhonda's car that comes back to a
- 34:06Speaker 7: black male. I mean, how would he have known that?
- 34:11Speaker 7: He had information that only the killer would have had.
- 34:22Speaker 1: This is Rhonda Taylor. She was found naked and stabbed
- 34:24Speaker 1: to death at the back of a car.
- 34:27Speaker 3: Yes, one of the ones, Dennis.
- 34:30Speaker 1: You told the police at the time that you believed
- 34:34Speaker 1: that she had had sex with an African-American man and
- 34:37Speaker 1: DNA was found which confirmed she had had sex with
- 34:41Speaker 1: an African-American man. I was never a rapist.
- 34:42Speaker 3: I'm not a rapist.
- 34:43Speaker 1: No, not you, that somebody else, another man, an African-American,
- 34:47Speaker 1: had had sex with her that night.
- 34:50Speaker 3: No, sir.
- 34:51Speaker 1: You never told police that?
- 34:52Speaker 3: No, sir.
- 34:55Speaker 1: Why would you confess to killing Rhonda Taylor if you.
- 34:57Speaker 3: Didn't kill her? I told you why I confessed. I
- 35:00Speaker 3: felt I had to, this was one of the cases
- 35:02Speaker 3: he led me to.
- 35:04Speaker 1: You also confessed to your sister that you killed her.
- 35:07Speaker 13: Who?
- 35:08Speaker 1: You also told your sister.
- 35:10Speaker 3: I told my, when it started, I had to go
- 35:14Speaker 3: to roll. I couldn't tell one thing and then be
- 35:17Speaker 3: telling somebody else something.
- 35:19Speaker 1: Why would you tell your own sister that you had
- 35:21Speaker 1: killed a young woman?
- 35:21Speaker 3: Because they'd come to the prison and ask me about it.
- 35:24Speaker 3: I had to. Dennis had me. I was already doing it.
- 35:28Speaker 3: Trying to get my son's thing. I can't. I had
- 35:32Speaker 3: to do it. I felt like I had to tell him.
- 35:34Speaker 1: So you had to maintain the lie.
- 35:36Speaker 3: I maintained the lie, basically.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Even to your own family?
- 35:40Speaker 3: To anybody. Even my kids. You don't think that hurt?
- 35:43Speaker 3: That killed me.
- 35:45Speaker 1: You told your children?
- 35:46Speaker 3: My children were sitting there in the BP when it
- 35:48Speaker 3: was said.
- 35:49Speaker 1: When you admitted killing these women?
- 35:53Speaker 3: My mom and my sister was talking about it. They're
- 35:55Speaker 3: always talking about it.
- 35:56Speaker 1: So your mother and your sister and your children all
- 35:59Speaker 1: heard you confess to killing 13 women?
- 36:03Speaker 3: Well, they were not all just confession, but they would
- 36:05Speaker 3: ask me, you know, they didn't ask me details like that.
- 36:08Speaker 3: They said, did you say you did that?
- 36:10Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, how did your family react to hearing
- 36:15Speaker 1: you say that you were a serial killer?
- 36:19Speaker 3: It wasn't good.
- 36:20Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 36:21Speaker 3: I really don't have a lot of contact with any
- 36:24Speaker 3: of them.
- 36:25Speaker 1: Here's what I would say to you, Mark. You weren't
- 36:28Speaker 1: just hurting your family when you made these confessions. You
- 36:32Speaker 1: were obviously causing enormous hurt to the families of women
- 36:39Speaker 1: like Rhonda Taylor.
- 36:41Speaker 3: Yes, I thought about them families, but I put my
- 36:44Speaker 3: son before them families.
- 36:46Speaker 1: What do you say to the family of Rhonda Taylor who...
- 36:49Speaker 1: What would you say to the family of Rhonda Taylor?
- 36:51Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I made those confessions.
- 37:01Speaker 17: My last wife, ex-wife, she made a comment about what
- 37:05Speaker 17: I had done prior to these other people. She brought
- 37:09Speaker 17: up precisely Rhonda Taylor, for one. And she asked me
- 37:14Speaker 17: how could I do something like that, you know. I
- 37:17Speaker 17: told her I had nothing I was proud of. It's
- 37:20Speaker 17: hard to live with. It tears you out a little
- 37:24Speaker 17: bit every day. Like I said, I'm not asking for
- 37:30Speaker 17: pity from nobody. What I did, I'm not proud of
- 37:32Speaker 17: what I did. I did it. I didn't intend to
- 37:35Speaker 17: do it, but I did do it.
- 37:41Speaker 1: This potential serial killer, Mark Reby, by not telling the truth,
- 37:47Speaker 1: has really caused so much more hurt to so many
- 37:51Speaker 1: people like yourself by just not telling the truth. The
- 37:55Speaker 1: police believe he's guilty.
- 37:57Speaker 21: Right.
- 37:59Speaker 1: He just refuses to come clean about exactly what he did.
- 38:05Speaker 1: What do you think of that refusal, to be honest?
- 38:12Speaker 1: To me, if you.
- 38:16Speaker 21: Never admit it, never regret it, never sorry, never ask forgiveness,
- 38:30Speaker 21: then you're really worse off than we are.
- 38:50Speaker 6: This is the scene of the only murder Mark Reby
- 38:53Speaker 6: has been convicted of. Almost 30 years ago, Donna Callaghan
- 39:00Speaker 6: was working here. She was a young mother expecting her
- 39:05Speaker 6: second child.
- 39:08Speaker 1: What is so horrifying to me about all this is
- 39:11Speaker 1: the utterly random nature of these killings. This woman, Donna Callaghan...
- 39:18Speaker 1: was minding her own business, just working hard, let it night.
- 39:22Speaker 1: She could have been anybody.
- 39:23Speaker 7: They're random victims, but they're also victims of convenience. They
- 39:26Speaker 7: tried to make it that he was coming back to
- 39:28Speaker 7: rob the store, but no, he came back just to
- 39:31Speaker 7: get her. They never got in the cash register. They
- 39:33Speaker 7: never took any money. They never took one thing out
- 39:35Speaker 7: of the store but her.
- 39:37Speaker 1: Has Mark Reby ever shown a shred of remorse for anything?
- 39:44Speaker 7: Not to me, he hasn't. To me, he's never shown.
- 39:48Speaker 7: He claims he feels bad about it, But you don't
- 39:51Speaker 7: see it in him.
- 39:51Speaker 3: You don't really see him. You don't see the emotions.
- 39:54Speaker 7: You know, he'll say that, but there's no emotions there.
- 39:58Speaker 1: You've been working on this serial killer for 25 years.
- 40:03Speaker 1: Are you any nearer to really understanding him than you
- 40:07Speaker 1: were at the start?
- 40:09Speaker 7: I don't... In one way, I don't want to understand him.
- 40:12Speaker 7: I don't want to be that.
- 40:16Speaker 7: No, I don't believe I ever will understand why... Somebody
- 40:20Speaker 7: wants to kill someone.
- 40:24Speaker 1: Special Agent Haley's position about this is that in the
- 40:28Speaker 1: eight cases that I went through in detail.
- 40:30Speaker 3: You keep going with Special Agent Haley. I've done explained
- 40:33Speaker 3: to you.
- 40:33Speaker 1: You mentioned him too, so... No. It's not just me
- 40:36Speaker 1: mentioning him.
- 40:36Speaker 3: You keep bringing up Special Agent Haley.
- 40:37Speaker 1: You keep talking about him as well. Here's what I
- 40:39Speaker 1: want to say to you. He believes in the eight cases.
- 40:42Speaker 3: I wouldn't care what Dennis Haley believes. He doesn't believe it.
- 40:44Speaker 3: He knows I didn't.
- 40:45Speaker 1: Do the eight cases. I understand your position. but you
- 40:48Speaker 1: keep mentioning him too. And I'm just saying, he believes
- 40:51Speaker 1: of the 13 confessions that you made, which would have
- 40:55Speaker 1: made you one of the worst serial killers in the
- 40:57Speaker 1: history of the United States of America, you were placing
- 41:00Speaker 1: yourself up with Ted Bundy and the others, right?
- 41:03Speaker 3: I didn't care where I was placing myself at that time.
- 41:05Speaker 3: My main objective and main goal was my son.
- 41:08Speaker 1: You see, Mark, I don't believe you. I don't believe you.
- 41:13Speaker 3: I don't care.
- 41:14Speaker 1: I think you are a serial killer.
- 41:15Speaker 3: You're wrong.
- 41:16Speaker 1: I think you did kill these women.
- 41:17Speaker 3: No, sir.
- 41:18Speaker 1: I think these families of these women, they need justice.
- 41:24Speaker 3: Captain, we're done.
- 41:25Speaker 1: Why can't you answer these questions?
- 41:27Speaker 3: I answered your question.
- 41:28Speaker 1: Why are you running away? Why are you running away?
- 41:33Speaker 3: I answered your question.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Why don't you sit here like a man and answer
- 41:37Speaker 1: these questions?
- 41:37Speaker 3: There was something about this to begin with.
- 41:39Speaker 1: Why don't you sit here like a man?
- 41:41Speaker 3: I'm not sitting here, nothing.
- 41:42Speaker 1: I know I'm not a 110-pound woman that you can kill.
- 41:45Speaker 3: Huh?
- 41:47Speaker 1: You did kill them, didn't you? You killed them all.
- 42:12Speaker 6: We may never know whether Mark Reby did kill the
- 42:14Speaker 6: women Special Agent Haley and others suspect him of. For
- 42:23Speaker 6: the victims' families, the not knowing is like an extra
- 42:27Speaker 6: dagger in their hearts. And in the end, their loved
- 42:35Speaker 6: ones may have died for no other reason than simply
- 42:39Speaker 6: the thrill of the kill.
- 42:48Speaker 1: The case is now closed.
- 42:50Speaker 7: In court this morning, Mark Reby pleaded guilty to the
- 42:52Speaker 7: murder of Donna Callaghan.
- 42:58Speaker 6: Donna Callaghan's daughter, Angie, regularly visits her mother. She was
- 43:08Speaker 6: two at the time of the murder. She has no
- 43:17Speaker 6: memories of her.
- 43:22Speaker 1: Why me? Why my mother?
- 43:24Speaker 3: Why that night? Why did it have to happen?
- 43:31Speaker 9: What did my mother do so wrong to deserve something
- 43:35Speaker 9: so cruel?
- 43:38Speaker 13: They took everything from us. When we go to visit Donna,
- 43:45Speaker 13: we go to a grave site. They sit in prison.
- 43:50Speaker 13: get letters, phone calls. They get visits if they be.
- 43:56Speaker 1: Not us.
- 43:58Speaker 6: Not us.
- 43:58Speaker 13: We don't get phone calls. We don't get letters. We
- 44:05Speaker 13: go to a grave site and talk to a headstone.
- 44:21Speaker 12: That I wish she was here to see me grow
- 44:24Speaker 12: as a person and
- 44:26Speaker 3: To see things that I have accomplished.