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- 0:02Speaker 1: In a world that seems entirely normal. They are among
- 0:05Speaker 1: us serial killers. In the US, Richard Ramirez, a young
- 0:13Speaker 1: knight owl, anything but harmless.
- 0:16Speaker 2: For the first time, I was concerned for my family
- 0:20Speaker 2: at home.
- 0:22Speaker 1: In Ukraine, anatoly Onoprienko voices supposedly order him to wipe
- 0:28Speaker 1: out whole families. And in Brazil Pederinio Matador. He kills
- 0:36Speaker 1: about a hundred people, even behind bars.
- 0:40Speaker 3: The Matador definitely competes for the title of the worst
- 0:42Speaker 3: serial murderer and was mass murder. There was contract killing,
- 0:45Speaker 3: sort of really wide spectrum of murder motives.
- 0:48Speaker 1: And investigators devote all their resources to putting them behind bars.
- 0:53Speaker 1: The worst serial killers of all time her safe Rostov
- 1:19Speaker 1: on Don, a Russian metropolis of millions, a working class
- 1:24Speaker 1: city and the setting for the biggest killing spree in
- 1:28Speaker 1: the history of the Soviet Union. It all begins in
- 1:32Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight. Andrei Chikatillo, at first sight, a harmless
- 1:39Speaker 1: family man, begins to kill at the age of forty two.
- 1:43Speaker 4: Serial killers tend to be younger, They tend to be
- 1:48Speaker 4: physically strong. Chikatilla was neither young nor strong.
- 1:53Speaker 1: His first victim is named Eleanor, she has just termed nine.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Chikatillo discovers a girl at a bus stop and lures
- 2:00Speaker 1: her away. He takes her to his second home and
- 2:03Speaker 1: isolated ducha for investigator Amohan and def The child's abduction
- 2:12Speaker 1: is the beginning of the toughest and most brutal case
- 2:15Speaker 1: of his career.
- 2:20Speaker 2: He met her here's.
- 2:22Speaker 5: Lied that he wanted to show her a kitten, and
- 2:26Speaker 5: then took her.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Thus begins, at the end of nineteen seventy eight, an
- 2:33Speaker 1: unprecedented hunt for one of the worst serial killers ever.
- 2:37Speaker 1: It will constant d'ef fourteen years of his life. In
- 2:42Speaker 1: the ducha, Chikatillo pounces on his first victim. He tears
- 2:47Speaker 1: young Eleanor's clothes off, intending to rape her. In the
- 2:51Speaker 1: isolated cabin, no one catches wind of the brutal murder, as.
- 2:58Speaker 6: Nobody knew Chikatila lived here, not his friends.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Not his wife, no one.
- 3:03Speaker 6: He came quietly and disappeared again unnoticed. Everything was secret.
- 3:08Speaker 6: When we learned of the murder, we were shocked.
- 3:10Speaker 5: No one thought something like that could happen here.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Chikatillo doesn't actually mean to kill the girl, but the
- 3:19Speaker 1: rape doesn't go as planned, Chikatillo was not sufficiently aroused.
- 3:27Speaker 4: Clearly, what Chikatillo needed was to torture, to control, to
- 3:34Speaker 4: inflict pain, and then finally to be present at the
- 3:40Speaker 4: time the individual died.
- 3:42Speaker 1: The butcher of Rostov stabs Eleanor repeatedly in the abdomen,
- 3:47Speaker 1: then he puts her clothes back on and throws her
- 3:50Speaker 1: body in the Grushefka River. Investigators find Eleanor's body only
- 3:55Speaker 1: weeks later and start hunting for the culprit. But chikati
- 4:00Speaker 1: Tillo is a family man, a teacher, and a communist.
- 4:05Speaker 7: The general public and also law enforcement in general, tend
- 4:10Speaker 7: to think of serial killers as sort of this horrific individual,
- 4:17Speaker 7: and they want to see this individual as sort of
- 4:21Speaker 7: a monster.
- 4:22Speaker 8: The police found someone who fit the pattern and tortured
- 4:25Speaker 8: him until he confessed.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Investigators think they have the killer. This changes three years
- 4:34Speaker 1: later in nineteen eighty one. Chikatilo was now working in
- 4:39Speaker 1: a factory as a buying agent and travels almost daily
- 4:42Speaker 1: through the region by train.
- 4:48Speaker 7: Under Chikitillo. His job took him from Rostov to many
- 4:54Speaker 7: other locations where he was acting out. All these locations
- 4:58Speaker 7: were just doing individ virtual investigations, and nobody was putting
- 5:03Speaker 7: it together.
- 5:04Speaker 1: His desire to kill has returned. During one of his
- 5:07Speaker 1: business trips, Chicatillo lures a seventeen year old girl into
- 5:11Speaker 1: the woods and stabs her to death. In the following year,
- 5:14Speaker 1: he murders seven men, women and children. Investigators find the
- 5:19Speaker 1: horribly mangled bodies only days or weeks later.
- 5:25Speaker 6: It was a shark, simply awful. The bodies were ravaged.
- 5:32Speaker 5: To have this image before your eyes was horrible, simply unendurable.
- 5:41Speaker 1: Police suspect that the killer seeks his victims at bus
- 5:44Speaker 1: or train stations and monitors bus stops throughout the entire region.
- 5:49Speaker 1: In Vain, the death toll rises to at least thirty
- 5:56Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three. Thanks to minute traces of seamen on
- 6:02Speaker 1: the bodies. The police know that the killer has blood
- 6:06Speaker 1: group A, that they have no idea who he is.
- 6:14Speaker 6: The stress was almost intolerable. I dream about it.
- 6:18Speaker 5: I couldn't get the images out of my mind to
- 6:20Speaker 5: forget to process it. You can either go to a
- 6:23Speaker 5: psychologist or we found another possibility. A glass of vodka
- 6:28Speaker 5: saved me. Otherwise I would have gone mad. There was
- 6:31Speaker 5: no other option.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Eventually, Themohan and Diev launches the biggest man hunt in
- 6:39Speaker 1: the history of the Soviet Union. One hundred and twenty
- 6:43Speaker 1: seven police officers and hundreds of informers joined the search.
- 6:48Speaker 1: They arrest everyone who seemed suspicious, including Chickatillo. The police
- 6:53Speaker 1: take a blood.
- 6:54Speaker 6: Sample, but then.
- 6:58Speaker 8: They messed up the blood sample, just like all the
- 7:00Speaker 8: other documents.
- 7:02Speaker 1: That was fatal.
- 7:03Speaker 8: That's the only reason he was released. It's as if
- 7:06Speaker 8: God were protecting and helping him.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Chikatilo was released. The butcher of Rostov continues to live
- 7:16Speaker 1: his sick life, whose roots go back to his childhood.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Born in Ukraine in nineteen thirty six, Chikatillo survives famine
- 7:25Speaker 1: on the Second World War. He says that Cannibal's eight
- 7:28Speaker 1: year older brother a bedwetter until puberty. Chikatilo ultimately realizes
- 7:33Speaker 1: he is impotent.
- 7:36Speaker 4: If you look at Takatilla.
- 7:37Speaker 3: Obviously there was a sexual element in just about all
- 7:40Speaker 3: these these incidences, but sex can also be linked to
- 7:42Speaker 3: power and control. So I think for him, I would
- 7:45Speaker 3: classifying as power and control mixed with the sexual element.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Initially, Chikatillo yearns to be a normal part of society.
- 7:53Speaker 1: He goes to college, becomes a teacher, gets married. He
- 7:57Speaker 1: fathers two children, presumably by our official insemination. While his
- 8:02Speaker 1: family suspects nothing, Chickatillo's need to kill intensifies. He thinks
- 8:08Speaker 1: he's safe for investigator and dif still can't prove anything.
- 8:19Speaker 7: It's frustrating in these investigations. Sometimes we think, oh my gosh,
- 8:23Speaker 7: this guy has been contacted talked to by law enforcement
- 8:27Speaker 7: three or four times. But the reality is that what
- 8:32Speaker 7: we're looking for is hard evidence.
- 8:35Speaker 8: And they had no evidence. Today there is digital data
- 8:38Speaker 8: surveillance cameras at every train station, but those things didn't
- 8:42Speaker 8: exist back then.
- 8:42Speaker 1: But then sists it sounds incredible. Chickatillo is able to
- 8:48Speaker 1: continue his killing spree for another six years. Then he
- 8:53Speaker 1: gets sloppy. Investigators realize the murders are piling up suddenly
- 8:58Speaker 1: at one particular train story.
- 9:01Speaker 5: To finally catch the killer, we placed uniformed guards at
- 9:04Speaker 5: all the stations in the region. Only here, in lesshas
- 9:08Speaker 5: were they in plain clothes. We wanted to lure the
- 9:11Speaker 5: killer right here and catch him in the act.
- 9:14Speaker 2: You were richly.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Can this strategy finally run down the butcher? The police
- 9:23Speaker 1: officers wait for days on end, hoping that the brutal
- 9:26Speaker 1: killer will show up. Autumn of nineteen hundred and ninety,
- 9:33Speaker 1: after Chikatillo has eluded them for twelve long years and
- 9:37Speaker 1: killed fifty two people, success suddenly seems to be at handed.
- 9:43Speaker 5: A man came out of the woods and ran straight
- 9:46Speaker 5: into the Plaine clothes police. He looked suspicious, with scratches
- 9:51Speaker 5: on his face and bloodstains. The officer checked his papers
- 9:56Speaker 5: and reported it. Soon we found an another body close by.
- 10:02Speaker 6: Then we knew it.
- 10:05Speaker 5: Must be Chikatila. We arrested him the same day, and
- 10:11Speaker 5: I was so glad that my search was over.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Let them say principles a conscious a muhan, and DF
- 10:18Speaker 1: is certain they've got the serial killer. On November the twentieth,
- 10:22Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, they take the butcher of Rostov into custody.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Now they need a confession.
- 10:28Speaker 3: According to Russian lord, at the time, you had ten
- 10:30Speaker 3: days which you could once upon arrest that you had
- 10:32Speaker 3: to get enough evidence to charge a person.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Nine days of interrogation with no result. In DF's last idea,
- 10:43Speaker 1: perhaps the killer will open up to a psychiatrist. His
- 10:46Speaker 1: plan works. Chikatillo confesses describing each of his fifty three
- 10:51Speaker 1: savage murders. But when the trial begins to Catillo acts
- 11:01Speaker 1: like a madman. His plan to be declared an unsound
- 11:05Speaker 1: mind and thus avoid the death penalty a shock for
- 11:09Speaker 1: the family is concerned. People are enraged. The cage standing
- 11:18Speaker 1: in the courtroom is built in nineteen ninety two specially
- 11:22Speaker 1: for the killer for his own protection.
- 11:27Speaker 8: He realized he had two choices, either the death penalty
- 11:31Speaker 8: or several years in a psychiatric ward. For the relatives
- 11:37Speaker 8: and the victims, it was added torment.
- 11:39Speaker 9: It was a chicanery, but Chikatillo ultimately abandons his plan
- 11:46Speaker 9: and confesses once again to having brutally and viciously killed
- 11:50Speaker 9: all his victims. After six months, the judge declares him
- 11:55Speaker 9: to be of sound mind, thus ending a fourteen year manhunt.
- 12:01Speaker 9: In nineteen ninety four, Russia executes Andrei Chikatillo satisfaction for
- 12:07Speaker 9: chief investigator in.
- 12:09Speaker 5: DF Such crimes cannot be forgiven. No one forgave him,
- 12:20Speaker 5: not the state, not the people, not me.
- 12:26Speaker 1: In the end, Chikatillo himself is supposed to have said,
- 12:30Speaker 1: cut up my brain and examine it so that there's
- 12:34Speaker 1: nobody like me. Ever again a story that sounds unbelievable,
- 12:40Speaker 1: but it is not unique. Serial killers. Sometimes they kill
- 12:47Speaker 1: even in the name of the devil who singe. The
- 12:53Speaker 1: killers terrorize cities and entire nations. Their ferocious murders are
- 12:58Speaker 1: among the worst crimes of all time. Los Angeles, the
- 13:04Speaker 1: city of Angels in the summer of nineteen eighty five,
- 13:08Speaker 1: a brutal serial killer murders fifteen people.
- 13:12Speaker 2: I really think that his motivation was to kill, and
- 13:16Speaker 2: that's that's what got him off.
- 13:19Speaker 1: A metropolis of millions in dread. Even investigators fear the
- 13:24Speaker 1: killings as random as they are savage.
- 13:28Speaker 2: For the first time, I was concerned for my family
- 13:31Speaker 2: at home.
- 13:32Speaker 1: The press names the killer night stalker.
- 13:35Speaker 4: He was called the murderer with no face because there
- 13:37Speaker 4: was no apparent pattern to his killings.
- 13:40Speaker 7: All serial killers are bad, but this guy really was
- 13:43Speaker 7: kind of a very evil individual.
- 13:47Speaker 1: California in the spring of nineteen eighty five. A murderously
- 13:51Speaker 1: hot summer is around the corner. More and more people
- 13:59Speaker 1: leave their windows open at night to get some fresh air.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Easy targets for a serial killer. His name Richard Ramirez.
- 14:10Speaker 7: He was sort of a multi dimensional guy. He could
- 14:13Speaker 7: use a gun, he could use a blood force instrument
- 14:16Speaker 7: like a hammer, he could use a knife, he could strangle.
- 14:20Speaker 1: The killing spree begins in Rosemead, a small city in
- 14:24Speaker 1: Los Angeles County with a population of about fifty thousand.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Detective Frank Seleno en route to the crime scene. Entering
- 14:34Speaker 1: above the garage, the knight stalker breaks into a randomly
- 14:38Speaker 1: chosen house, shoots twenty two year old student Marina Hernandez,
- 14:43Speaker 1: and then moves on to the bedroom.
- 14:47Speaker 2: In fronts Misternandez's roommate Deolokazaki, and just puts a gun
- 14:54Speaker 2: up and shoots her once in the head and kills her.
- 14:58Speaker 1: The perpetrator leaves the valuables behind.
- 15:01Speaker 2: Nothing was stolen, just exited the front door and left,
- 15:07Speaker 2: so there was really no sense to her the sexual
- 15:10Speaker 2: assaults or secondary But I really think that his motivation
- 15:15Speaker 2: was to kill, and that's what got him off.
- 15:20Speaker 1: But investigators have a first lead. Marina Hernandez survives and
- 15:25Speaker 1: describes her attacker, a young, dark haired man. Only one
- 15:30Speaker 1: hour after the first killing, Ramirez strikes again on the freeway.
- 15:34Speaker 4: It's quite likely. It seems to me that there was
- 15:37Speaker 4: an attempt at the original killing, and the second one
- 15:40Speaker 4: happened by mistake. He'd lost a bit of control, and
- 15:44Speaker 4: the second killing was the result of that.
- 15:48Speaker 1: Near Monterey Park, Ramirez stops the car of thirty year
- 15:53Speaker 1: road sign Yan Yule and shoots her, two killings in
- 15:59Speaker 1: one night. The police soon discover the bullet casings come
- 16:03Speaker 1: from the same weapon.
- 16:06Speaker 2: So within a couple of days we were aware that
- 16:10Speaker 2: these two cases were connected. But I still don't think
- 16:13Speaker 2: anybody believed that this was going to start a series
- 16:15Speaker 2: of thirteen or fourteen fifteen murders.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Investigators do not yet understand Ramirez's motivation. The killer always
- 16:24Speaker 1: follows a specific routine. He takes drugs, watches pornography, and
- 16:29Speaker 1: goes to prostitutes. Then, jacked up on drugs, testosterone and adrenaline,
- 16:35Speaker 1: he sets out randomly to hunt for victims.
- 16:38Speaker 3: There was always a woman present in these cases, so
- 16:41Speaker 3: definitely we can say that he had to have women
- 16:43Speaker 3: present in his crimes for some reason that he needed
- 16:46Speaker 3: to satisfy. Of course, there was almost always a rape
- 16:49Speaker 3: involved or some sexual element to these crimes.
- 16:52Speaker 1: Ten days later, Ramirez strikes again in the sleepy city
- 16:56Speaker 1: of Wittier outside of La Detective Frank Selena will never
- 17:03Speaker 1: forget the crime scene Ramirees climbs in through the laundry
- 17:07Speaker 1: room window and shoots sixty four year old Vincent Sazara.
- 17:10Speaker 1: His wife reaches for a shotgun, but Ramirez is quicker
- 17:14Speaker 1: and kills her with three shots. What shocks the detective
- 17:20Speaker 1: most Ramirees disfigures his victims post mortem.
- 17:25Speaker 2: He had taken her eyes, carved him out, and he
- 17:29Speaker 2: had also made a large incision down on the chest area.
- 17:34Speaker 2: We don't know what he was doing as far as
- 17:37Speaker 2: that was concerned. He never explained that if the female
- 17:41Speaker 2: resisted then generally he would kill the female. She somehow
- 17:46Speaker 2: resisted him or said something that set him off, and
- 17:51Speaker 2: he did what he did.
- 17:53Speaker 1: But investigators also find a shoe print. A fortuitous lead
- 17:58Speaker 1: has only one single of this model was sold in
- 18:01Speaker 1: the Greater La area.
- 18:03Speaker 4: He found a shop that may have sold it, but
- 18:07Speaker 4: there was no CCTV camera in that shop in nineteen
- 18:12Speaker 4: eighty five.
- 18:13Speaker 1: The lead goes cold. The rest of the investigation also
- 18:16Speaker 1: results only in dead ends at first.
- 18:19Speaker 2: Most serial killers have a certain type of victim that
- 18:24Speaker 2: they pick on. In this case, we didn't have that.
- 18:28Speaker 2: He changed the type of killings. He used guns, He
- 18:32Speaker 2: changed the calibers he used knives, he cut throats, he strangled,
- 18:38Speaker 2: he used a hammer, So that made him totally different
- 18:41Speaker 2: than anybody that had ever been documented.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Investigators frantically trying to understand the killer's motivation. Ramirez has
- 18:50Speaker 1: a tough childhood. His violent father beats him unconscious for
- 18:54Speaker 1: the first time when he's five, and his cousin shoots
- 18:57Speaker 1: his own wife right in front of Ramires.
- 19:00Speaker 4: All of these things built together, and in addition, his
- 19:06Speaker 4: mother was a deeply religious individual. As part of his
- 19:12Speaker 4: childhood rebellion, he chose, he deliberately chose a different path.
- 19:19Speaker 1: The search for a motive bears no fruit. Two months later,
- 19:23Speaker 1: the serial killer strikes again. In a secluded mansion in
- 19:27Speaker 1: La Ramirez rapes Florence Lang, an eighty one year old
- 19:31Speaker 1: disabled woman. He subjects her thirty three year old sister,
- 19:36Speaker 1: Mabel Bell, to electroshock and beats her to death with
- 19:40Speaker 1: a hammer. Detective Selena was tormented by his failure to
- 19:44Speaker 1: catch the killer. By this point in time.
- 19:47Speaker 2: You wonder how one individual can do this to another
- 19:51Speaker 2: human being with no feelings. You don't try to dwell
- 19:55Speaker 2: on that, because it's something you can't dwell on. You
- 19:59Speaker 2: have to put that in the back of your mind
- 20:01Speaker 2: and continue to look at the evidence and see where
- 20:05Speaker 2: you're going to go in an attempt to catch this
- 20:08Speaker 2: individual before he commits another crime.
- 20:11Speaker 1: This time, investigators find a pentagram at the crime scene,
- 20:15Speaker 1: scrawled on the wall with lipstick.
- 20:17Speaker 3: Usually in all fairs, Satanism. Going around killing people isn't
- 20:20Speaker 3: really usually part of Satanic religious practices, so it could
- 20:25Speaker 3: have been just his own way of trying to justify
- 20:27Speaker 3: what he did.
- 20:27Speaker 7: I don't see any of this Satanic ritual in his killings.
- 20:33Speaker 7: I see brutality. I see a sadistic aspect of his crimes.
- 20:39Speaker 7: I see torture.
- 20:41Speaker 1: The police decide to go public and circulate the identicate.
- 20:45Speaker 1: The press dubbed the serial killer the night Stalker. August
- 20:53Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five. Ramirez has been randomly killing for five months.
- 21:01Speaker 1: Panic prevails in LA.
- 21:06Speaker 7: They're being targeted in their residences, right, so everybody felt fearful,
- 21:13Speaker 7: So there's a huge pressure on law enforcement to get
- 21:17Speaker 7: someone identified.
- 21:19Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 21:19Speaker 3: Involved in the public is always a difficult thing in
- 21:21Speaker 3: a serial murder case because it's not like a once
- 21:24Speaker 3: off murder, where usually the more information you reached the public,
- 21:27Speaker 3: the better you have a chance of solving your case.
- 21:30Speaker 3: In a serial the more you release, the more the
- 21:32Speaker 3: suspect knows you know.
- 21:35Speaker 1: The manhunt makes Ramirez nervous. After at least a dozen
- 21:39Speaker 1: murders in and around LA, the serial killer leaves his
- 21:43Speaker 1: hunting ground and shifts his location to San Francisco. There, too,
- 21:48Speaker 1: he leaves behind satanic symbols. Frank Seleno hears of this.
- 21:52Speaker 1: He travels immediately to the crime scene and shares what
- 21:55Speaker 1: he knows with a local police A mistake. The mayor
- 21:59Speaker 1: holds a press conference without consulting him.
- 22:03Speaker 8: And it's a very serious situation. There's a ten thousand
- 22:06Speaker 8: dollars reward for any information.
- 22:11Speaker 1: When speaking, she reveals sensitive details of the investigation, about
- 22:15Speaker 1: the gun, the shoeprint, and much more. The knight stalker
- 22:19Speaker 1: subsequently destroys all the evidence. A disaster.
- 22:24Speaker 2: It's hard to express what my feelings were that somebody
- 22:32Speaker 2: in this high end office could be that dumb to
- 22:36Speaker 2: do that.
- 22:38Speaker 4: If somebody tells facts out of turn, that's potentially a disaster.
- 22:46Speaker 4: It will warn the individual, or it may ruin the tribe.
- 22:51Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the manhunt proceeds at full intensity along the entire
- 22:55Speaker 1: west coast of America. Investigators hope someone will recognize Ramires,
- 23:01Speaker 1: and indeed, the teenager reports a suspicious automobile, officers secure
- 23:06Speaker 1: a fingerprint.
- 23:07Speaker 4: Fingerprint analysis had been part of police investigation since the
- 23:13Speaker 4: turn of the century.
- 23:15Speaker 3: Any forensic evidence is going to take you one step further,
- 23:18Speaker 3: and often is that very little piece of evidence that
- 23:22Speaker 3: is the one little thing that causes a massive breakthrough.
- 23:25Speaker 1: Investigators catch a break There's an old file on Ramires
- 23:29Speaker 1: for auto theft. The nightstalker finally has a name and
- 23:33Speaker 1: a face. His photo appears nationwide in the press. Six
- 23:41Speaker 1: years later the showdown. First, Ramires engages in a wild
- 23:46Speaker 1: chase with police, then bystanders subdue the killer in the
- 23:50Speaker 1: middle of the street.
- 23:53Speaker 2: I wasn't afraid they were gonna lynch him because the
- 23:56Speaker 2: police station was full of policemen. But it was a
- 23:58Speaker 2: real mob, saying something that you might see in the movies.
- 24:03Speaker 1: After the night Stalker has terrorized la for six months,
- 24:07Speaker 1: Frank Seleerno personally leads a serial killer away. Three years later,
- 24:12Speaker 1: the trial of Ramirez the Satanist begins.
- 24:17Speaker 7: You know, in court talking about Hale Satan and drawing
- 24:21Speaker 7: a pentagram on his palm and showing it. I mean,
- 24:25Speaker 7: I think he played to this to the cameras and
- 24:27Speaker 7: the media, because this was essentially a media's circus.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Fourteen months later, the sentence execution in the gas chamber,
- 24:38Speaker 1: Ramirez seems unaffected by the decision. The streets of la
- 24:49Speaker 1: are safe again, but the killings in the summer of
- 24:53Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five still haunt Detective Frank Seleno.
- 24:58Speaker 2: For the first time, I was concerned for my family
- 25:02Speaker 2: at home, and I made sure night when I went
- 25:06Speaker 2: to bed, to be honest with you, that I had
- 25:09Speaker 2: a gun nearby.
- 25:11Speaker 1: Serial killer Ramires stews for twenty four long years on
- 25:15Speaker 1: death Rowe and finally dies of liver failure in twenty thirteen.
- 25:21Speaker 1: All that remains today is the memory of six months
- 25:24Speaker 1: full of fear. But there are also killers who commit
- 25:29Speaker 1: murder for decades.
- 25:33Speaker 10: On the day we planned to arrest Padlino, our whole
- 25:36Speaker 10: team was afraid. Nobody knew what would happen.
- 25:40Speaker 1: POLICI ourself. They kill savagely. Their serial murders are among
- 25:46Speaker 1: the worst crimes of all time.
- 25:50Speaker 5: To commit such crimes, you have to have a right,
- 25:53Speaker 5: But I can't prove who gave me the right.
- 25:56Speaker 6: Maybe God gave me the.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Right Brazil in and around Sao Paulo. The serial killer
- 26:05Speaker 1: is active for decades, killing at least seventy one people
- 26:09Speaker 1: and likely even more than one hundred. His name is
- 26:12Speaker 1: Pedro Rodriguez Filo, called Pedrino Matador, notorious, ruthless, unpredictable, ad.
- 26:22Speaker 10: We were full of adrenaline and hoped we would catch
- 26:26Speaker 10: him and finally arrest him.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Whether in his youth or as an adult out in
- 26:34Speaker 1: the countryside, or even in jail. No one seems to
- 26:37Speaker 1: be able to stop the killer.
- 26:41Speaker 10: When somebody kills in prison, you're helpless. As a police officer,
- 26:47Speaker 10: you have no chance.
- 26:50Speaker 1: How do the police stop a killer who even strikes
- 26:54Speaker 1: behind bars. It all begins in nineteen fifty four. Pedrino
- 26:59Speaker 1: Matador is born in Santa Rita do Sapocaia. Violence is
- 27:04Speaker 1: part of everyday life on his parents' farm. His father
- 27:07Speaker 1: regularly beats him unconscious.
- 27:13Speaker 4: Pedrino's understanding of what was right and wrong, what was
- 27:17Speaker 4: normal and abnormal, were very distorted, and problems were resolved
- 27:23Speaker 4: in his home by violence.
- 27:26Speaker 1: Pedrino himself first becomes violent at thirteen. He gets into
- 27:30Speaker 1: a fight with his cousin and tries to kill him
- 27:33Speaker 1: with a sugar cane press. One year later, Pedrino's first killing.
- 27:39Speaker 1: His father works in the local school and is accused
- 27:42Speaker 1: of stealing. Pedrino avenges him brutally.
- 27:46Speaker 7: Killing a vice mayor in the city in which he
- 27:50Speaker 7: lives because this guy fired his father. So there's this
- 27:56Speaker 7: emotional connection and he does this killing early in his teens.
- 28:01Speaker 3: Fourteen was the first murder, and that's really unusual for
- 28:04Speaker 3: your for your serial murders in general, who tend to
- 28:06Speaker 3: start in their twenties at.
- 28:07Speaker 1: Least the beginning of a forty year killing spree. The
- 28:12Speaker 1: key role will be played by this man. Police officer
- 28:16Speaker 1: Manuel Dos Santos, the investigator is not surprised that back
- 28:20Speaker 1: then Padrino got away with his first murder.
- 28:27Speaker 10: What's good, eamis I got The biggest problem in the
- 28:29Speaker 10: nineteen seventies was that many murders remained unsolved by investigators.
- 28:34Speaker 1: Said the other vigilante justice was not unusual at this
- 28:38Speaker 1: time in rural Brazil. Police played down the case and
- 28:42Speaker 1: shelved a mistake.
- 28:47Speaker 7: When we're talking about Padrino Matador, we're talking about Brazil,
- 28:53Speaker 7: which has a very violent criminal population. These environments are
- 28:58Speaker 7: controlled by drug gangs by violent gangs. The police won't
- 29:03Speaker 7: even go into these areas.
- 29:05Speaker 1: Pedrino is far from done. He believes a colleague of
- 29:09Speaker 1: his father is a real thief. He finds him and
- 29:14Speaker 1: kills him. When police arrive at the scene, they begin
- 29:18Speaker 1: to suspect that two murders could be connected.
- 29:26Speaker 10: See for the locals, when you find two bodies within
- 29:30Speaker 10: a short space of time, you know it might be
- 29:34Speaker 10: a serial killer.
- 29:37Speaker 4: Killer.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Investigators hunt frantically for the killer, but Padrino flees unnoticed
- 29:43Speaker 1: in the direction of sau Paulo, more precisely, to Mogi
- 29:48Speaker 1: des cruzs a city of five hundred thousand people, and
- 29:52Speaker 1: continues killing.
- 29:54Speaker 4: There are people who, once they have experienced killing, who
- 29:59Speaker 4: don't have any remorse, who don't feel upset or distressed.
- 30:04Speaker 4: They in fact feel as though a good thing has happened.
- 30:07Speaker 4: It's using what he would see as a life skill
- 30:11Speaker 4: an advantage.
- 30:13Speaker 1: The police lose Pedrino's trail in the small city of
- 30:17Speaker 1: Moggid's Cruisers, the serial killer starts a new life. Soon,
- 30:22Speaker 1: murders in the region start piling up, but police are
- 30:26Speaker 1: powerless for Pedrino, just turned fourteen, has meanwhile found powerful protectors.
- 30:35Speaker 10: Once he was in Mogjidu's cruises, Petrino began killing for
- 30:39Speaker 10: a drug gangs.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Pedrino starts dealing and works now as a hit man
- 30:48Speaker 1: for the Brazilian drug Mafir. Soon he meets his first
- 30:52Speaker 1: great love, the widow of a drug lord, but the
- 30:56Speaker 1: happiness is short lived. She is killed in a street fight.
- 31:00Speaker 1: The killer seeks revenge, slaying his lover's murderers during a wedding.
- 31:07Speaker 7: He had this sort of code that said, no children,
- 31:10Speaker 7: no women. Now they're the innocence right. Everybody else's fair game.
- 31:15Speaker 4: I'm sure it was a deliberate decision. Not to kill
- 31:18Speaker 4: women and not to kill children was driven by his
- 31:22Speaker 4: belief in the South American machismo. These are people to
- 31:27Speaker 4: be cherished and to be looked after, not to be killed.
- 31:31Speaker 4: It is the man that you fight as a man,
- 31:35Speaker 4: and that is what I'm sure drove him to make
- 31:37Speaker 4: those decisions.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Pedrina once again attracts the attention of investigators and they
- 31:43Speaker 1: get lucky. The father of the killer's new girlfriend betrays
- 31:47Speaker 1: him to police.
- 31:51Speaker 10: In nineteen seventy three, Padrino was eighteen and got arrested
- 31:55Speaker 10: for the first time, and so began a series of
- 31:59Speaker 10: killings inside prison.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Investigators have the killer, but what they don't reckon with,
- 32:07Speaker 1: whether for snoring or eating Noisily, Patrino keeps killing in prison,
- 32:12Speaker 1: and for the most trivial reasons. Then he encounters his
- 32:15Speaker 1: father in prison. He's doing time for murdering Padrino's mother.
- 32:19Speaker 1: The killer takes savage revenge.
- 32:22Speaker 4: He killed his father because his father had broken his
- 32:27Speaker 4: particular rule about not hurting women and children. His father's
- 32:31Speaker 4: life was to be taken away. In revenge, he kills him.
- 32:35Speaker 7: He cuts him open, he takes his heart out. There's
- 32:38Speaker 7: some real symbology here for this, where now I essentially
- 32:43Speaker 7: own you. Right he eats. He's reported to eat a
- 32:48Speaker 7: part of his father's heart. Right, It's like I'm consuming you.
- 32:52Speaker 7: You'll always be with me, but I'm always the one
- 32:54Speaker 7: in control.
- 32:56Speaker 1: For investigators, all this is a punch in the gut.
- 33:01Speaker 1: They've caught the killer. If only they could be able
- 33:04Speaker 1: to stop him.
- 33:17Speaker 10: If he kills somebody in prison, we're powerless. We can
- 33:22Speaker 10: only intervene if it happens on the street. Once it
- 33:26Speaker 10: takes place behind bars, we can't do a thing.
- 33:31Speaker 1: Even in prison. Pedrino remains in the headlines. He kills
- 33:35Speaker 1: fifty three convicts in nine different prisons.
- 33:38Speaker 3: So I think for him it was probably a wonderful
- 33:40Speaker 3: environment because he had to worry even less about the
- 33:43Speaker 3: laws of society, because the laws became those that are
- 33:45Speaker 3: created by the individuals in the prison.
- 33:47Speaker 1: He probably thrived in that environment. Pedrino spends his final
- 33:51Speaker 1: years in solitary confinement, then he's released. According to Brazilian law,
- 33:57Speaker 1: thirty years in jail is the maximum. Perdino's case, the
- 34:01Speaker 1: court increases this by another four when the serial killer
- 34:05Speaker 1: leaves prison he's fifty two years old.
- 34:09Speaker 3: You might stop for that time in prison, like a
- 34:10Speaker 3: lot do, except Matador, but when you come out, you're
- 34:14Speaker 3: back into that environment where you used to kill previously.
- 34:18Speaker 3: So it's we expect that they were killed. The one
- 34:20Speaker 3: thing that might temper that is age. As the person
- 34:23Speaker 3: gets older. Whether you're a psychopath or have antisocial personality disorder,
- 34:28Speaker 3: a lot of those features seem to soften as you
- 34:30Speaker 3: get older.
- 34:32Speaker 1: The mass murderer moves south into the jurisdiction of Officer
- 34:37Speaker 1: Manuel Dos Santos. Soon the police are once again looking
- 34:41Speaker 1: for Pedrino for inciting prison riots and kidnapping a correctional officer.
- 34:47Speaker 1: The whole country wants to see the killer behind bars.
- 34:56Speaker 10: In twenty eleven, residents of the district of Macacu's contacted us,
- 35:01Speaker 10: saying they thought they'd seen Petrino, but we could hardly
- 35:06Speaker 10: believe this information myself.
- 35:10Speaker 1: After witnesses identify the killer from photographs, it's clear it
- 35:15Speaker 1: is indeed Pedrino. Officer do Santos organizes a special task force,
- 35:21Speaker 1: the best men available. Nevertheless, they all assume they might die.
- 35:27Speaker 2: Luckily.
- 35:28Speaker 11: Year, on the day we plan to arrest Petrino Matador,
- 35:35Speaker 11: we were scared, all of us.
- 35:39Speaker 10: We could not help it because we just did not
- 35:44Speaker 10: know what would happen.
- 35:49Speaker 1: Dosantos and Deceto officers storm the house and the armed
- 35:54Speaker 1: serial killer gives up without resistance.
- 35:57Speaker 4: Serial Killers will seldom resist when they're caught. Pedrillo was
- 36:06Speaker 4: quite proud of what he had done, so his anger
- 36:10Speaker 4: wouldn't have been directed at the police officers arresting him.
- 36:15Speaker 1: Dosantos personally put South America's most infamous serial killer back
- 36:20Speaker 1: behind bars. Brazilians celebrate him as a hero. Everyone assumes
- 36:26Speaker 1: that Pedrino will continue to kill in prison, but at
- 36:30Speaker 1: least the streets are safe again for officer Do Santos,
- 36:34Speaker 1: which is the high point of his career. May Or
- 36:41Speaker 1: sent you able to keep us.
- 36:42Speaker 10: When I realized that we finally had him, I felt
- 36:46Speaker 10: like I'd scored a major goal in the final match
- 36:49Speaker 10: of the World Cup.
- 36:51Speaker 7: It felt that.
- 36:51Speaker 1: Great, incredible back behind bars, Pedrino Matador commits no more murders.
- 37:00Speaker 1: Five years later, he is again released and since twenty
- 37:04Speaker 1: sixteen has been living an unobtrusive life somewhere in Brazil. Others, however,
- 37:10Speaker 1: are never able to stop killing. Ukraine the mid nineteen nineties,
- 37:19Speaker 1: fifty two dead women, children, even entire families. The Terminator,
- 37:26Speaker 1: a ferocious serial killer, terrorizes the country or more than
- 37:32Speaker 1: we knew.
- 37:32Speaker 12: We had to get him, but we didn't have any clues.
- 37:37Speaker 1: The killer murders in the form of a cross, using
- 37:40Speaker 1: Ukraine as his canvas.
- 37:45Speaker 4: It was symbolic that he killed in the pattern of
- 37:48Speaker 4: a cross.
- 37:50Speaker 1: His horrific clan to terminate three hundred and sixty five
- 37:56Speaker 1: human lives. Brat Kovichi, the village of three thousand people
- 38:03Speaker 1: in western Ukraine. Here, in nineteen ninety five, the Terminator
- 38:07Speaker 1: executes an entire family. Chief investigator Fyodor and Nabok is
- 38:13Speaker 1: the first of the crime scene.
- 38:16Speaker 12: I was used to going to such places, even murder scenes,
- 38:19Speaker 12: and obviously it was never easy. Every murder affects us,
- 38:24Speaker 12: people die, you always carry it with you.
- 38:27Speaker 1: But here there were four murders at once. This kind
- 38:31Speaker 1: of thing doesn't happen here.
- 38:33Speaker 12: We never would have expected anything like it and had
- 38:37Speaker 12: no idea what was still to come.
- 38:40Speaker 1: In the house, Narvolk finds z Krutshkov family, the couple
- 38:44Speaker 1: with two children brutally murdered. The killer sets fire to
- 38:50Speaker 1: the victims and tortures the crime scene, destroying all clues
- 38:55Speaker 1: except one. You're the murders. In the house, we found
- 39:02Speaker 1: a fifth body here.
- 39:05Speaker 12: I suspected these cases must be connected, as the person
- 39:08Speaker 12: another bus died shortly after the killings and house.
- 39:14Speaker 1: But further investigations lead to naught. Navok suspects these are
- 39:18Speaker 1: not standard homicides.
- 39:20Speaker 4: His aim with his murders was to kill the family.
- 39:24Speaker 4: That was the primary aim, but he was also sufficiently
- 39:29Speaker 4: aware that if there was a witness or a bystander
- 39:33Speaker 4: who could give evidence to the police, they too needed
- 39:36Speaker 4: to die.
- 39:37Speaker 1: Five days later, the killing spree continues, first in the
- 39:41Speaker 1: north of the country, two people lie dead at the roadside.
- 39:45Speaker 1: One day later, three day, this time in eastern Ukraine.
- 39:50Speaker 7: Typically, when we categorize killers who kill multiple victims, they're
- 39:58Speaker 7: generally serial killer or we have mass murderers. But our
- 40:04Speaker 7: priecos are a bit different. I would say that when
- 40:07Speaker 7: we look at his crimes, they are mass murders, but
- 40:12Speaker 7: he's sort of a repeat mass murderer.
- 40:15Speaker 1: The Terminator travels across the entire country. Investigators cannot imagine
- 40:21Speaker 1: that this is the work of a single killer. Then,
- 40:24Speaker 1: only four weeks later, another killing takes place in Bratkovici,
- 40:28Speaker 1: the scene of the first crime.
- 40:30Speaker 12: Till then, I didn't think we were dealing with a
- 40:33Speaker 12: serial killer. But from that point on we had only
- 40:37Speaker 12: one goal to catch the killer as soon as possible
- 40:41Speaker 12: and prevent any further murders.
- 40:45Speaker 1: The Terminator frustrates Navok's team of investigators. His pattern is complicated,
- 40:50Speaker 1: no one understands it. Meanwhile, the police believe they are
- 40:54Speaker 1: dealing with a gang of killers, but.
- 40:58Speaker 8: The most the way he kill, torching the homes of
- 41:01Speaker 8: his victims typical in the nineties. It was the way
- 41:05Speaker 8: underground organizations and gangs operated after the collapse of the
- 41:09Speaker 8: Soviet Union. It fit the pattern, so it was easier
- 41:13Speaker 8: to believe there was a brutal gang roam in the country,
- 41:16Speaker 8: and that it was not just one single individual.
- 41:22Speaker 1: In one month, the terminator kills twenty three people. Investigators
- 41:27Speaker 1: analyze all the crime scenes and finally discover a pattern.
- 41:34Speaker 1: They mark all the killings on a map. The result
- 41:39Speaker 1: is a gigantic cross stretching across all of Ukraine. Now
- 41:49Speaker 1: investigators know on Oprienko's pattern, but the question possists why.
- 41:55Speaker 1: Anatoly On Oprienko was born in nineteen fifty nine. His
- 42:00Speaker 1: mother dies when he's four years old. His father abandons
- 42:04Speaker 1: the family. The young boy lambs in an orphanage.
- 42:08Speaker 8: Socialization in the orphanage was affected via punishment, warnings, locking up, cruelty,
- 42:16Speaker 8: even physical violence. The older children's job was to beat
- 42:20Speaker 8: up the younger ones, and the teachers told them who
- 42:24Speaker 8: deserved it.
- 42:28Speaker 1: In college in the navy, nowhere does on Opienco find
- 42:32Speaker 1: a new home. Then a voice supposedly speaks to him.
- 42:39Speaker 5: To commit such crimes, you have to have a right,
- 42:42Speaker 5: But I can't prove who gave me the right.
- 42:44Speaker 6: Maybe God gave me the right.
- 42:46Speaker 5: How can I prove it when, for example, there are
- 42:48Speaker 5: six billion people on Earth, and those who have seen
- 42:51Speaker 5: God they can't prove it.
- 42:52Speaker 6: But maybe I've seen God.
- 42:54Speaker 5: Maybe I received a concrete task from him, but I
- 42:57Speaker 5: can't prove it.
- 43:00Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety five, Onoprienko claims a higher being ordered
- 43:05Speaker 1: him to kill three hundred and sixty five people.
- 43:11Speaker 7: Onno Prienco is saying, I'm hearing voices that are telling
- 43:16Speaker 7: me to kill, which suggests mental health problems. Yet he's
- 43:21Speaker 7: cognitive enough to try to destroy evidence, select locations where
- 43:29Speaker 7: he's not going to be discovered, and to actually create
- 43:33Speaker 7: a particular type of pattern. So I don't know, we
- 43:38Speaker 7: might say crazy like a fox.
- 43:41Speaker 1: The killing spree takes its course. In only four months,
- 43:44Speaker 1: the serial killer murders as many men, women and children
- 43:48Speaker 1: as possible. The Ukrainian people are terrified and give Onoprienko
- 43:54Speaker 1: a name terminator. The police can do nothing but search
- 43:59Speaker 1: all over you Ukraine. At the same time.
- 44:03Speaker 12: We did what we could, checked all previously convicted criminals,
- 44:08Speaker 12: everyone that seemed suspicious. We turned the entire area upside down.
- 44:15Speaker 12: Very very very many people were investigated.
- 44:23Speaker 1: To protect the population, soldiers patrol the streets day and night,
- 44:28Speaker 1: similar to wartime conditions. Everyone is anxious, still believing there
- 44:34Speaker 1: is a gang of killers. But then police find the
- 44:37Speaker 1: first decisive clue.
- 44:40Speaker 12: We found two more victims shot by the killer on
- 44:44Speaker 12: the street while he was on the run. The important
- 44:49Speaker 12: thing we found footprints. We finally had a lead right here.
- 44:56Speaker 12: There were clear footprints in the snow.
- 44:59Speaker 4: In the It became the whole country united to catch
- 45:05Speaker 4: this horrendous killer.
- 45:07Speaker 1: Investigators now know it is a single, vicious killer. They
- 45:12Speaker 1: launched the biggest manhunt in Ukrainian history. Two thousand police
- 45:17Speaker 1: officers and three thousand soldiers combed the entire country. The
- 45:24Speaker 1: police also deploy plain clothed spies. There are countless rumors
- 45:29Speaker 1: about what happens next, Informers tracking the killer down, neighbors
- 45:34Speaker 1: reporting suspicious activity, relatives blowing the whistle. One thing is certain,
- 45:40Speaker 1: the police are on the killer's heels.
- 45:46Speaker 12: I'm not allowed to give any details as how we
- 45:49Speaker 12: discovered that he lived here is classified police information. We
- 45:54Speaker 12: had possibilities, but the main thing is we found him.
- 46:00Speaker 1: After searching for four and a half months, investigators surprised
- 46:03Speaker 1: the terminator. In his home, they find the murder weapon
- 46:10Speaker 1: and stolen valuables enough evidence to be sure they've got him.
- 46:15Speaker 1: On Oprienko admits to the crimes and even shows investigators
- 46:20Speaker 1: how he killed his victims. It takes four months for
- 46:24Speaker 1: the court to decide the fate of Ukraine's most brutal
- 46:27Speaker 1: serial killer. On Oprienko barely says a word until the
- 46:32Speaker 1: verdict the death penalty. Only now does a terminator say something.
- 46:39Speaker 5: Life has treated me harshly, so I don't think about
- 46:41Speaker 5: being punished. I am a working man, I am an
- 46:43Speaker 5: execution man, and remember, punishment is up to the gods
- 46:47Speaker 5: or the devil.
- 46:47Speaker 3: The devil, I think it was a desperate attempt to
- 46:52Speaker 3: just avoid responsibility for what he's done, and nothing more
- 46:55Speaker 3: than that. We've out of all the serial Colors cases
- 46:58Speaker 3: I've ever worked on, over one hundred and ten, I
- 47:00Speaker 3: think one had mental illness. That a lot claimed, only
- 47:03Speaker 3: one was really found to be mentally Also, the ninet
- 47:05Speaker 3: nine point nine percent of serial killers are not doing
- 47:07Speaker 3: this because of a mental illness.
- 47:09Speaker 1: Shortly before the terminator's scheduled execution, Ukraine follows the lead
- 47:14Speaker 1: of the EU and abolishes the death penalty. The sentence
- 47:17Speaker 1: is converted to life in prison. Neither investigator Fyodor Navok,
- 47:22Speaker 1: nor the rest of Ukraine will ever forgive the Terminator.
- 47:28Speaker 1: The serial killer finally dies seventeen years after his conviction
- 47:32Speaker 1: of a heart attack. The worst serial killers of all
- 47:42Speaker 1: time all were caught and convicted, but only the Butcher
- 47:46Speaker 1: of Rostov is executed. The knight Stalker and the Terminator
- 47:51Speaker 1: die of natural causes before they can be executed, and
- 47:56Speaker 1: Pedrino Matador is living free again today