Serial Killer Documentary - Secret Motel Killer： Florida Serial Killer Who Targeted Tourists

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The city of Punta Gorda in Central Florida was once
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listed by Money Magazine as the second best place in
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America to live. An easygoing paradise known for long, laid-back
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summer days. But it's not without its nightlife.
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So how you doing over there? Just fine, really, I think.
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Another here? Surrounding the city is a vast wilderness of
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tall trees and thick vegetation, the perfect spot for subtropical predators,
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the kinds of predators who would want to keep their
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activities very secret.
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If you were out there, nobody could ever hear you scream.
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In January 1994, two hunters head deep into these woods,
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known as prime hunting ground for wild hogs. But it
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may be that hogs aren't the only thing being hunted
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out here.
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There's definitely foul play involved, and something really bad is
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going on.
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An unidentified corpse is found in the Florida wilderness, and
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it won't be the last.
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No idea who any of these people were.
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The damage to the bodies suggests extreme foul play. Brutal
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slayings put cops on the trail of a killer who's
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one step ahead.
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It was exactly like watching a shark circle his prey.
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To catch him, they'll use every trick in the book
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and risk the life of one of their own. A
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residential development goes belly up, leaving the forests around Punta Gorda, Florida,
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shot through with paved roads to nowhere. These roads give
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hunters easy access to terrain known as the hog trails.
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And today, they lead Rick Hobbs of the Charlotte County
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Sheriff's Department to a corpse. Joining him is Jim Myers,
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a state investigator with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
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The most typical things that we deal with here in
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Charlotte County are generally thefts and burglaries, arguments, things of
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that nature.
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We don't have that much in terms of violent crime.
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Authorities fear the status quo has just changed. But in
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trying to determine if this is a case of murder,
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they face an extreme uphill battle.
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Bodies in the state of Florida, especially that and later
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time of year, they decompose rapidly. because of the moisture,
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the heat. Out in the wooded area, you've got animals, insects.
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So it doesn't take very long for a body to
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decompose down to skeletal remains.
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That can happen within a matter of weeks.
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The lack of any clothing or personal effects on the
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victim heightened police suspicions.
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And there was just nothing there, just the body.
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At the Charlotte County morgue, the medical examiner seeks to
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learn how the victim met his fate.
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We logged the remains as John Doe, because we did
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not know the name. And after documenting all the external evidence,
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whatever was there in the remains, we performed the autopsy.
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There were some indications during the examination of strangulation.
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They found some.
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Possible indications of some ligature marks.
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On the neck and the arms and the legs.
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Though exactly what happened is unclear, all signs point to homicide.
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The next step is to identify the victim, and it
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won't be easy.
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When you have skeletal remains or a body that's found
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in a remote area with nothing else, you have to
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go back to... The very basics, we had to start
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from scratch.
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We know he's a white male. I believe he was
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around 5'9, if I remember correctly. He was probably in
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his late 20s, early 30s. Dark hair.
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Investigators scour missing persons' reports. The corpse's teeth are x-rayed
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and compared to dental records, but to no avail.
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I actually had a partial fingerprint from the victim. That
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was difficult, though, because it was only a partial print
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from one finger.
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Off the decomposed body.
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I had that submitted to the automatic fingerprint identification system
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to see if there was any possible matches on that.
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Then the examiner finds an unusual clue, a steel pin
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lodged in the victim's left leg, and it's marked with
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a serial number. But in the 1990s, no reliable records
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were kept of such implants. Having hit a dead end,
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authorities now turn to a forensic skull reconstructionist. Photographs and
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measurements of the victim's skull are entered into a computer.
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The combined sciences of anatomy, osteology, and anthropology are then
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utilized to create a composite impression of the victim's facial features.
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We got composite back for something to show the public
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to try to see if anyone recognized this individual.
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The composite is circulated through the media, but no one
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comes forward. After months of intense efforts, police have a
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victim they still can't identify. But Rick Hobbs keeps trying.
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I would physically go in and pull each piece of
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evidence and examine it, I would go through each lab
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report to see if there was anything that we may
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have collected that for some reason or other didn't get processed.
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But despite his best endeavors, the case eventually goes cold.
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At least no other bodies have turned up in the
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time since John Doe was discovered. But all that changes
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on New Year's Day, 1996.
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What do you got there, boy?
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When a dog owned by Northport resident Wayne Brown makes
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a strange discovery.
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His dog brought home a human head and was chewing
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on it on his front lawn.
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The hog trails have offered up a second victim. How
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many more may be out there? Investigation into the mysterious
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death of a John Doe in Florida has gone cold.
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No sooner has the case been set aside when another
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grim discovery is made in a neighboring county. Detective Tom
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Schwanier of the Northport Police takes the call.
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The skull, as it was found in the yard, was
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missing the lower jaw portion. The upper teeth were intact,
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and there was a minute amount of flesh still on
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the skull. The first thing that comes to a detective's
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mind is, where'd it come from?
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Where's the rest of it?
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So our first step is to find the rest of
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the body. It was an area of very few houses,
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and there was a lot.
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Of vacant roads there. We divided the.
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Area up into blocks. We had law enforcement officers from
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several agencies, and what we did is we did block-by-block
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grid search.
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Days pass with no luck.
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I found something!
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Then... an officer wanders into an unsearched area.
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There was bones, spine, rib cage. There was fleshy skin
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still on part of the rib cage and on one
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of the arms, I believe it was a right arm.
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We weren't really sure what circumstances we had, but we
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have to treat any of these scenes as the possible
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worst-case scenario. We called in the FDLE forensics teams that
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conduct their crime scene search.
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They put stakes up. And they go over every square.
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Inch with a fine-tooth comb to see what exactly is
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mixed in with the bones and the remains. And then
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they search the ground underneath all the remains, possible jewelry, bullets.
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There's no end to what may be of evidentiary value
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in one of these scenes. And we did find a
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lower jaw portion, too, through our search.
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But what Schwenier doesn't find is also crucial to his
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assessment of the case.
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The first thing that keyed in on me was lack
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of clothing. We found absolutely no evidence of that scene
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other than the body and.
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Some skin on it.
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Somebody brought him here or somebody probably killed him here.
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An autopsy is conducted. Though the coroner's report is inconclusive,
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investigators are convinced of the worst.
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We definitely felt it was a homicide. We had no
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hard evidence to say how this person was killed.
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But as investigators, we're leaning towards homicide.
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Investigators determine the body has been in the woods at
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least six months. But in all that time, no one
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matching its height or probable age has been reported missing.
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Now police in two counties have anonymous victims, their cause
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of death unknown. Nine weeks later on March 7th, 1996,
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just three miles from where the bones of John Doe
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number two were found, a motorist pulls off the highway
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to relieve himself. And the case takes another turn.
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John Doe number three was found in a very, very
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similar area as John Doe number two. This body was
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mostly intact, laying on his back, his arms flailed out
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to his side, totally naked.
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There is no question this man was murdered. And Schwinier
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gets a shocking new clue when he sees that John
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Doe number three has been horribly mutilated.
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It was obvious his genitalia had been removed. Insects take
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the easiest route of penetration into a body. They'll go
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into any orifice, mouth, eyes. There's a gunshot wound, a
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stabbing wound. This is where the insects will infiltrate a body.
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And this is where they were.
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They were in the groin area.
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Authorities try to fathom what kind of deranged killer they're
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dealing with.
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Obviously, when you have genitals removed, that was an identifier
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that there's definitely some kind of a sexual deviancy involved.
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A search of the crime scene soon sheds light on
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a psychopath's terrifying M.O.
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It was a ligature mark around the tree at throat level.
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There was some at hand level, and there was also
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some about where the ankles and shins would.
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Be on the tree.
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Very obvious when you looked at them as to what
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happened there. This victim was tied to this tree. Now
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we have two naked dead men out in the woods.
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There's definitely foul play involved. Something really bad was going on.
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When Rick Hobbs gets wind of the murders in Northport County,
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his cold case suddenly warms up.
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I grabbed my case file and I went up to
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Northport and sat down with Tom and we started comparing
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our cases. Now we could see the similarities between not
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only John Doe number one and John Doe number three,
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but it also brought in John Doe number two. When
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we were looking at one another's crime scene photos, If
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you didn't know which scene you were looking at, you
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couldn't tell them apart.
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Hobbs and Schwinnier revisit the first two crime scenes, only
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five miles apart. In both cases, they find the link
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they're looking for.
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We started seeing the striation marks on the trees, and
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I suspect we have a problem.
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The investigators are forced to confront the obvious. They're dealing
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with a serial killer. When the story breaks in the media,
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the entire region is gripped in fear.
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When we have a death, an unusual death in this area,
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I mean, it's going to be on the front page.
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The community is not used to crimes like this being committed,
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and there was a lot of worried and nervous citizens
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out there.
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Pressure mounts on authorities to stop a madman before he
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kills again. Unable to identify their latest victim, police seek
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another way to move things forward. They turn to profiler
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Wayne Porter for help in the case. The brutalized state
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of the corpses convinces Porter that they're dealing with a
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particularly vicious criminal, a sexual sadist.
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A sexual sadist is an individual that would in fact
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do harm to the individual while they are still alive.
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And that harm many times is to the genitalia.
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Wayne, if you can give us a read on that,
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you know.
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The ligature marks on the trees give Porter an idea
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of a killer's motivation.
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Bondage with sexual sadists is a very common characteristic. You
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will find bondage magazines in their past history. Bondage is
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one of the facets of the fantasy. It's part of
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the gasoline that runs the fantasy.
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One of the.
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Commonalities of sexual sadism is these individuals like to document
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their crimes. They will videotape, they will take photographs.
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To stop a monster in their midst, law enforcement agencies
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from all over the state band together and create a
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task force. They take over a vacant store in a
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shopping mall and centralize operations.
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We had upwards of 50 and 60 people working out
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of there. So I had myself and then Jim Myers
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from FDLE, Tom Swarnier from Northport, No.
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Sooner has the task force established itself when Hobbs receives
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disturbing news.
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Sheriff's office received a call early on the morning of
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April the 17th from a county survey crew.
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Yeah, we'll be right there.
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Okay.
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They discovered part of a human body lying back in
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the woods. Guys, let's go.
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Something's up.
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For the hog trail murder investigators, it seems the woods
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of Central Florida are full of dead bodies. Only this time,
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dead men will start telling tales. Three men have been
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found dead in the Florida hog trails, killed by the
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same deranged sexual sadist. Now police are back investigating John
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Doe number four.
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We saw something.
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Kind of round, laying on the ground, and looking closer,
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it was definitely a human head.
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Among the other remains is the victim's decomposed torso. It's
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this grisly find that provides investigators with their first break.
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There was a very noticeable tattoo from the shoulder area.
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It was a very good clue as far as identifying somebody.
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Tattoo was just like, almost like a fingerprint, no tour alike.
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I'll use different dyes, different colors. So we felt this
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will help us identify this individual.
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Hobbs walks deeper into the woods in search of more evidence.
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Off in the distance I can see something.
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As I start getting a little closer now I can
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see it's carpet padding.
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So my first thought is.
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Do I have.
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A homeless guy sleeping in the woods? But the thing
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that really said, uh-oh, was I could see blood.
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Tom, get over here.
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Lifted up the carpet padding, and there we had the
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remains of a white male.
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And he didn't appear.
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Like he had been there very long, maybe 12 hours.
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He was really fresh, so to speak.
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We could clearly see the ligature marks on the neck,
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ligature marks on the arms, around the biceps, and along
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the calves.
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I hate to say it, but this helps.
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His cause of death was suffocation, probably most likely from
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the strangulation from the ligature marks that were discovered around
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the neck. The removal of the genitals appeared to be post-mortem.
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Not only has the serial killer struck again, his spree
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appears to be escalating. Authorities now have two new bodies
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from which to glean evidence. They begin with the tattoo
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found on John Doe number four.
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We decided to take that piece of skin and photograph it.
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The tattoo was released to the news media and it
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was on the television stations and it was printed in
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the newspapers.
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Hobbs' tactic pays off.
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Hi, this is Theresa Smith.
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Is there someone I can talk to you about a
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tattoo in the newspaper? Once we had John Doe number
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four identified as Kenny Smith from Naples in Collier County, Florida,
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that gave us a whole new avenue of investigation. We
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could go and say, well, who knows him? Who hangs
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out with him? What's he do? Where's he work?
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Kenny Smith was basically a street person.
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He went from shelter to shelter, job to job, did
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a lot of drinking, a lot of partying, drugs.
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Authorities take another look at the first three victims. and
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a pattern emerges.
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When the medical examiner examines the body, he can tell
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a lot about how a person lives by the conditions
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of the organs and the teeth. And everything indicated that
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these were people who lived on the street.
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Could it be that the killer deliberately targets the down
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and out in hopes of keeping his victims nameless? Further
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investigation of Kenny Smith yields no answers. Police now pin
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their hopes on John Doe number five.
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We took some latent fingerprints from him and ran them
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through the automated fingerprint identification system. He had some past arrests.
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John Doe number five is ID'd as Richard Montgomery, also
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a street person. Hobbs tracks down Montgomery's mother, who happens
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to have some very interesting information about her son's final hours.
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She said something about somebody offering him some money to
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pose nude.
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Something about the man driving a Capri, a blue Capri.
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She tells police that Montgomery went to meet this man
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and was never seen again.
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The person was selecting transients and panhandlers for one reason,
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and it's because there's no one to witness the fact
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that she picked him up.
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After more than two years of investigation, the task force
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has an M.O. and a profile of their killer. What
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they don't have is a suspect. Now, A man who
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took a ride with death is about to provide them
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with one. Hi there.
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Can I talk to you for a minute?
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Five men of no fixed address are murdered within a
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10-mile radius of each other, and police still have no suspect.
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But when news of the homicides reaches state prison inmate
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David Pate he contacts authorities with an astonishing tale.
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Mr.
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Peyton M. Myers, why don't you go ahead and tell
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me your story?
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So there's this guy, pulls up to me in a
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blue car.
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Yeah, this will be fun.
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We'll kick back, have a few cold beers.
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A little weed. That sounds good to me, man. Yeah, hey,
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care for some of these?
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These right here.
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I am.
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Sweet, man.
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He drives out sort of into the woods, almost in
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the middle of nowhere.
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Guy offers me more money.
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He says if he can tie me up, take pictures
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of me for some men's magazine.
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How do you feel about if we get a little
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more creative with the photographs?
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I agree to it, but I'm feeling a little nervous
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about this whole situation.
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He gets the car stuck.
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In a ditch.
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Man, it's okay.
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I'll get it, and I'll give us a push.
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No!
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No, no.
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You stay here.
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I'll push.
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All right, well, I'll just drive it then.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You drive.
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During the course of the time he was in the vehicle,
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he started looking around and saw a bag that was
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in the back seat that had items like duct tape,
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some ropes, a blue tarp, a large, tight knife.
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And with what he had seen inside the vehicle and
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the way the guy had acted, when he had the opportunity,
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he was behind the wheel of the car. When they
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got it free, he took off in the car, leaving
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the guy out there in the woods.
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Peyton may have cheated death, but he couldn't outrun the law.
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He got the vehicle and went back to Fort Myers,
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and by this time, the drug and the booze was
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really acting on him, and he actually fell asleep. And
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by this time, the subject had filled out a stolen
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vehicle report with the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office. The Fort
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Myers Police Department found the vehicle, and Mr. Payton was
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arrested for grand theft auto. And that's what he was
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serving time on. It was a grand theft auto from
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the subject's vehicle.
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He provided some very specific information, which allowed us to
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go back through records and get an identity on the
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person that he said took him out into the woods.
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That person was found to be a guy by the
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name of Daniel Conahan.
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Police soon locate Conahan and put him under surveillance. A
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background check proves very revealing.
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Upon reviewing his records from the armed services, the Navy,
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it was determined that he was discharged for trying to
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commit exosotomy on other sailors.
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Conahan later moved to Chicago, where authorities tracked down and
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interview an old roommate.
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He actually was able to identify to us what Mr.
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Conahan had stated as one of his fantasies, and that
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fantasy is to... pick up an individual like a hitchhiker
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and take him to a wooded area, tie him up
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and have sex with him.
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Leaving a trail of deviant sexual behavior in his wake,
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Conahan moves from Chicago back to Punta Gorda.
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His parents were elderly and they weren't in the best
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of health. He moved back to help care for his parents.
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Further investigation reveals that upon returning to Florida, Conahan trained
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as a nurse which could account for the skillful mutilation
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of the victims. It looks like police have their man.
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He was our key suspect at the time based on
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what we had learned.
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Now they need hard evidence to nail him.
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We started a 24-hour surveillance on him to determine, you know,
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what his patterns, his travel patterns, daily activity was.
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Cameras are mounted on telephone poles outside his residence.
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In watching the surveillance video, when Mr. Cunningham would bring
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his backpack out, and he would stop and he would
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set that backpack on top of that blue car. And
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then he would usually stand there and smoke a cigarette.
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And we believe that that backpack may contain what we
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refer to as tools of the trades, very similar to
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what Mr. Payton had described.
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Some people call it a murder kit. I call it
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a treasure chest. And this treasure chest includes the weapons
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that he's going to use, the bindings that will be used,
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any equipment that might be needed in this assault.
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Investigators follow the dutiful son as he drives his mother
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to and from her senior's home. They also track his
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less wholesome activities.
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He'd drive by one of the soup kitchens or drive
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by one of the homeless shelters, and he was like cruising.
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He was looking for exactly what we thought. He was
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looking for a homeless person or somebody who's hanging around
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the dumpsters.
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Or in one of the back alleys.
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Another term I would use is hunting. It's exactly like
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watching a shark.
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Circle its prey.
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Armed with information about the route Conahan travels, authorities make
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a bold move. They place an undercover officer disguised as
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a homeless man right in his path.
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We put undercover detective Ray Weir out on a corner
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where he would go by that location, coming back to
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or from visiting his mother.
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Weir mans his post, hoping to lure the target.
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Pull him back around.
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OK, I know. I see him coming.
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He's coming. He's back? No, he's coming your way.
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Just from here? Yeah. He's leaving.
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He's probably going to head home.
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Finally, after weeks on the job, Conahan takes the bait.
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He made contact.
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He stopped his vehicle.
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Hi.
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How are you tonight? Good.
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Good, good.
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I'm Dan.
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Dan Conahan. Nice to meet you, Dan.
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He was eerie to me, and I felt there was
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something wrong with him.
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What?
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I didn't know.
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Listen, if you're looking for work, I could probably help
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you out.
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Yeah.
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Well, listen, it'd be.
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At that point in.
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Time, he says something to the effect that, well, there'd
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be some progressive bondage shots.
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I don't know if you're into that.
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Again, I told him, well, the money talks.
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You got the cash. I need it. You know, we'll
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try it, whatever it takes. It's easy money.
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Sure.
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Yeah?
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All right.
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Come on in.
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Yeah.
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A cop drives into the hog trails with suspected serial
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killer Daniel Conahan. Will he make it out alive? Five
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corpses have been mutilated and abandoned in the Florida woods.
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After two and a half years of dead ends, police
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have zeroed in on suspect Daniel Conahan. Now, Conahan has
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another victim in his car, but doesn't know it's undercover
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cop Ray Weir.
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I told him I was staying out back in the woods.
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I told him to come out to my camp. I
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drove all the way out there, parked it, he parked
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his car, walked up, I had a couple chairs set up,
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and he sat down and we started talking.
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So when are we gonna take these pictures you were
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talking about?
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I don't know, it sounds kind of fun.
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Could it be?
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Conahan is also unaware that this location has been staked
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out by police.
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We had SWAT concealed in the woods.
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He started getting a little nervous, and he was with
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that backpack. So they were watching that, I'd hate for
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my friends to find out about this.
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But I gotta admit, I could sure use that money.
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It's not gonna hurt or anything, is it?
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I gotta go.
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Where you going?
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I can't say why he called it off. I believe
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it's because he wasn't in control. He wasn't in his element.
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Authorities missed their best chance so far to catch Conahan red-handed,
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and they're running out of options. Surveillance of this magnitude
506
00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:43.750
is too costly to sustain for long. Time for a
507
00:31:43.849 --> 00:31:44.509
new direction.
508
00:31:47.309 --> 00:31:47.509
Mr.
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00:31:47.529 --> 00:31:52.230
Conahan's been offering money. So we get his financial records.
510
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:53.819
We get his bank statements.
511
00:31:54.019 --> 00:31:55.420
We get his credit card records.
512
00:31:56.059 --> 00:32:11.130
Now we started seeing a series of purchases. of particular items, rope, tape, tarps, film, knives, pliers,
513
00:32:11.710 --> 00:32:16.890
and cameras. And there seem to be intervals on these purchases.
514
00:32:18.779 --> 00:32:23.880
Intervals that coincide with the timelines of some of the murders. Finally,
515
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:27.359
police have the compelling connection they need to execute a
516
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:29.440
search warrant on Conahan's home.
517
00:32:32.130 --> 00:32:35.009
First we photograph, then we make a sketch of the area.
518
00:32:36.210 --> 00:32:38.490
If we're gonna do vacuum sweepings, which in this case we.
519
00:32:38.390 --> 00:32:39.809
Did, that would be one of the first.
520
00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:40.359
Things we would do.
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00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.940
We did see a backpack and found a backpack we
522
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:51.779
thought was significant that matched some of the description of
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00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.099
what we had seen during surveillance when he was coming
524
00:32:54.140 --> 00:32:55.960
to and from his vehicle. A lot of times he
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00:32:55.980 --> 00:32:57.420
would have this backpack.
526
00:32:57.619 --> 00:32:59.779
The murder kit they hope to find is not in
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00:32:59.819 --> 00:33:03.930
the backpack. but a number of suspicious objects are found
528
00:33:03.990 --> 00:33:04.430
in the home.
529
00:33:04.690 --> 00:33:05.529
We did find a knife.
530
00:33:05.569 --> 00:33:07.549
We did find some rope. We did find some Polaroid
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pictures and film. We found the components, but they weren't
532
00:33:11.069 --> 00:33:11.950
in his bag.
533
00:33:13.369 --> 00:33:16.809
Meanwhile, police intercept Conahan and bring him to a second
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00:33:16.849 --> 00:33:18.190
location for questioning.
535
00:33:18.210 --> 00:33:22.069
Hello? Hi, how you doing? Wow, much better.
536
00:33:22.450 --> 00:33:22.789
Yeah.
537
00:33:23.569 --> 00:33:25.710
I'm Special Agent Porter from the governor's office.
538
00:33:27.170 --> 00:33:31.000
Do you recognize this man? I've never seen that man
539
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:31.660
before in my life.
540
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:33.880
You're quite sure about that, sir.
541
00:33:34.069 --> 00:33:37.210
Take a close look. Well, I just told you, I've
542
00:33:37.230 --> 00:33:38.849
never seen him before. You have a.
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00:33:38.869 --> 00:33:43.210
Past record of history of a molestation back in Chicago.
544
00:33:43.890 --> 00:33:46.029
Can you explain that? Well, as a matter of fact,
545
00:33:46.109 --> 00:33:47.029
I can explain that.
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00:33:47.069 --> 00:33:49.900
That involves.
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00:33:51.339 --> 00:33:52.539
A misunderstanding within.
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00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:54.980
within an existing relationship.
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00:33:55.980 --> 00:33:59.900
He was asked if he did the crime, if he
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00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:05.109
was there, if he knew the victims. He was always
551
00:34:05.230 --> 00:34:09.670
on guard during the interview, very evasive in his answers.
552
00:34:10.449 --> 00:34:12.469
Have you ever participated.
553
00:34:13.309 --> 00:34:13.929
In bonding?
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00:34:14.070 --> 00:34:14.170
No.
555
00:34:17.530 --> 00:34:18.809
I've been looking at magazines.
556
00:34:19.030 --> 00:34:20.050
I've seen some movies.
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00:34:20.650 --> 00:34:25.500
I have never tied anybody out. Porter continues to press
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00:34:25.579 --> 00:34:29.519
Conahan while the search team descends on his blue Mercury Capri.
559
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:32.199
It had a paint job that was peeling.
560
00:34:32.420 --> 00:34:38.400
We took paint samplings from the chips and did scrapings
561
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:39.079
from the paint.
562
00:34:41.079 --> 00:34:43.099
There was fibers found from his house and his car.
563
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:47.800
Fibers that may be transferable to our victims.
564
00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:52.280
Your pictures will be plastered over the paper.
565
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:53.860
Now, what do you think is going.
566
00:34:53.699 --> 00:34:56.380
To happen with all the people you may.
567
00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:59.510
Have come in contact with when they call in and
568
00:34:59.530 --> 00:35:00.989
they say, yeah.
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00:35:01.030 --> 00:35:02.210
We went out to the woods.
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00:35:02.469 --> 00:35:04.090
He said he had a fantasy.
571
00:35:04.170 --> 00:35:05.510
Yeah, he took my photograph.
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00:35:05.809 --> 00:35:07.269
If we get something.
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00:35:06.889 --> 00:35:10.239
Like that, It won't look good.
574
00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:11.519
It won't be good.
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00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:18.239
Mind your rest. Now, Mr. Conahan, you're free to go.
576
00:35:18.260 --> 00:35:21.079
So I'm free to go? Yes, sir. Thank you very much. Goodbye.
577
00:35:21.820 --> 00:35:26.380
He was pleasant, cold, and calculating.
578
00:35:27.059 --> 00:35:31.079
The interview did not seem to impress him very much.
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00:35:32.699 --> 00:35:36.110
The search of Conahan's home and vehicle yields several items
580
00:35:36.139 --> 00:35:39.989
of interest. Including unusual rope fibers police hope will match
581
00:35:40.050 --> 00:35:41.949
those recovered from the crime scenes.
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00:35:43.030 --> 00:35:46.840
We did not find any evidence that would clearly identify
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00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:48.860
him as a person responsible.
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00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:54.280
For our crimes. In this high-stakes game of cat and mouse,
585
00:35:54.900 --> 00:36:01.280
the mouse appears to be winning. Hobbs sends out a
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00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:05.929
police bulletin to all jurisdictions in Central Florida. describing the
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00:36:05.969 --> 00:36:09.489
murders and asking for any information that may help his case.
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00:36:10.550 --> 00:36:14.130
The bulletin catches the attention of Officer Pedro Soto.
589
00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:18.219
I'm in awe.
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00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:19.079
I'm in shock.
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00:36:19.179 --> 00:36:19.920
I'm looking at it.
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00:36:20.099 --> 00:36:23.699
I'm going like, oh my god. Soto immediately contacts the
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00:36:23.739 --> 00:36:24.900
Charlotte County Sheriff.
594
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:29.460
And I said, you know, this is amazing. I had
595
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:31.699
a crime scene just like this two years ago. You
596
00:36:31.739 --> 00:36:32.619
guys know about it?
597
00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:34.599
And I told him, I said, well, I had sent
598
00:36:34.659 --> 00:36:39.280
out teletypes and phone calls. Anybody that had any similar deaths,
599
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:42.010
you know, give me a call. He says, oh, our
600
00:36:42.030 --> 00:36:42.949
guy didn't die.
601
00:36:42.989 --> 00:36:44.969
He lived. I went, what?
602
00:36:47.570 --> 00:36:50.449
Officer Soto tells Hobbs of the time he was called
603
00:36:50.469 --> 00:36:52.929
to assist an assault victim who showed up at a
604
00:36:52.989 --> 00:36:53.769
local hospital.
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00:36:54.699 --> 00:36:58.119
He had obvious ligature marks around his neck.
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00:36:59.530 --> 00:37:00.969
His chest and his.
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00:37:01.090 --> 00:37:05.199
Arms and legs. The victim, Stanley Burden, told Soto the
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00:37:05.300 --> 00:37:07.900
chilling story of a man in a blue capri.
609
00:37:08.659 --> 00:37:12.760
The individual asked him if he could take naked photographs
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00:37:12.820 --> 00:37:18.550
of him tied to a tree for $ 200.
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00:37:16.869 --> 00:37:17.130
Mr.
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00:37:17.190 --> 00:37:21.630
Burden agreed and went with the individual to the wooded area.
613
00:37:22.730 --> 00:37:23.530
This will be good.
614
00:37:23.550 --> 00:37:24.269
What are you doing?
615
00:37:24.309 --> 00:37:25.369
This will be good right here.
616
00:37:25.429 --> 00:37:26.869
Let's just wait. Just wait.
617
00:37:26.889 --> 00:37:30.409
Just wait. And the individual then attempted to sodomize him.
618
00:37:33.289 --> 00:37:33.570
Mr.
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Burden stated that he resisted.
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00:37:35.250 --> 00:37:35.869
Stop it!
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00:37:36.050 --> 00:37:36.409
Stop!
622
00:37:37.289 --> 00:37:39.639
And when he was dying, the individual got angry at him.
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00:37:41.380 --> 00:37:42.929
Die, you son of a bitch!
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00:37:43.050 --> 00:37:43.510
Die!
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00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:48.480
An approaching car scared the assailant off, leaving Burden for
626
00:37:48.539 --> 00:37:51.199
dead tied to a tree in the middle of nowhere.
627
00:37:54.989 --> 00:37:58.570
He threw down a pair of pliers. Individual got into
628
00:37:58.590 --> 00:38:00.250
his van and he drove away.
629
00:38:01.070 --> 00:38:01.340
Mr.
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00:38:01.380 --> 00:38:05.039
Burden then was able to get loose, reach for the pliers,
631
00:38:05.380 --> 00:38:06.639
cut himself loose.
632
00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:12.840
Burden ran out to the highway and flagged a ride
633
00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:15.480
to the hospital. He was never able to give a
634
00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:17.739
comprehensive description of his assailant.
635
00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:22.260
There really weren't many avenues we could have followed. In
636
00:38:22.300 --> 00:38:25.019
terms of investigating the case, that's as far as we
637
00:38:25.219 --> 00:38:25.940
could have gone.
638
00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:31.650
With nothing more to go on, the unsolved crime went cold,
639
00:38:32.269 --> 00:38:34.230
was filed, and forgotten.
640
00:38:36.730 --> 00:38:39.730
So given this new information from Detective Soto, he provided
641
00:38:39.769 --> 00:38:41.670
us with copies of the pictures and a copy of
642
00:38:41.710 --> 00:38:45.670
the police report, and gave us information on the victim
643
00:38:45.690 --> 00:38:47.320
in that case, which turned out to be Stanley Burden.
644
00:38:48.150 --> 00:38:49.590
We did a background on him to find out where
645
00:38:49.610 --> 00:38:51.449
he was, and he was incarcerated in.
646
00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:52.719
Columbus, Ohio.
647
00:38:54.099 --> 00:38:57.719
He was provided a photo lineup of Daniel Conahan in
648
00:38:57.739 --> 00:39:01.239
the Correctional Institute where I interviewed him, and he immediately
649
00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:03.159
picked him out without any hesitation whatsoever.
650
00:39:03.179 --> 00:39:04.780
He said, that is the subject that did this to me.
651
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:07.690
It's like getting somebody off the autopsy table and telling
652
00:39:07.710 --> 00:39:09.750
you what happened to him. That's exactly what this guy was.
653
00:39:10.030 --> 00:39:11.309
He was somebody that should have been killed. He should
654
00:39:11.329 --> 00:39:12.949
have been laying in the woods with the bugs eating him,
655
00:39:13.210 --> 00:39:15.010
and here he was sitting there telling us exactly what
656
00:39:15.050 --> 00:39:16.460
happened to him and how he got away from this guy.
657
00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:21.659
You have the right to remain silent.
658
00:39:22.539 --> 00:39:27.130
On July 3rd, 1996, Daniel Conahan is arrested for the
659
00:39:27.190 --> 00:39:29.489
attempted murder of Stanley Burden.
660
00:39:29.900 --> 00:39:32.260
Do you understand these rights as they've been read to you?
661
00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:33.139
Yes.
662
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:39.929
And there was no surprise on his face when myself
663
00:39:40.030 --> 00:39:43.030
and Jim Myers walked in and I told him he
664
00:39:43.050 --> 00:39:43.670
was under arrest.
665
00:39:44.929 --> 00:39:47.250
And he just got in the car and away we went.
666
00:39:49.510 --> 00:39:53.829
Police have finally caught their killer. But there's no guarantee
667
00:39:54.070 --> 00:40:05.110
they can bring him to justice. After 31 months of
668
00:40:05.210 --> 00:40:10.760
intense statewide investigation, police have arrested Daniel Conahan for crimes
669
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:12.000
against Stanley Burton.
670
00:40:13.219 --> 00:40:15.400
We had a positive ID. We had a good statement.
671
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.679
We had the evidence from the crime scene.
672
00:40:19.250 --> 00:40:23.449
And ended up securing an arrest warrant for Mr. Conahan,
673
00:40:23.829 --> 00:40:37.079
attempted murder, sexual battery, and kidnapping.
674
00:40:37.539 --> 00:40:41.519
But with five men dead, investigators are determined to nail
675
00:40:41.579 --> 00:40:45.920
Conahan for full-blown homicide. Taking one last look at the
676
00:40:45.940 --> 00:40:49.960
case forensics, they re-examine hair comings from Richard Montgomery's body
677
00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:52.719
and find something extraordinary.
678
00:40:53.889 --> 00:40:57.590
There appeared to be a paint chip, a small piece
679
00:40:57.630 --> 00:41:00.969
of paint chip that was in his pubic hair area,
680
00:41:01.050 --> 00:41:06.150
remaining pubic hair area on his body. That was sent
681
00:41:06.250 --> 00:41:10.050
off along with the paint chips that we obtained from
682
00:41:10.090 --> 00:41:14.449
the Mercury Capri to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
683
00:41:14.469 --> 00:41:22.590
Crime Laboratory for analysis. See if that was a match.
684
00:41:24.829 --> 00:41:27.690
From that sample taken from the pubic area of Mr.
685
00:41:27.730 --> 00:41:33.889
Montgomery was that that match and all characteristics the paint
686
00:41:33.929 --> 00:41:36.320
standard provided from the Mercury Capri.
687
00:41:37.940 --> 00:41:41.579
This final forensic piece of the puzzle allows prosecutors to
688
00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:45.639
add a new charge against Conahan, the first degree murder
689
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:51.199
of Richard Montgomery. In court, Conahan vigorously insists he's innocent,
690
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:56.190
claiming that he's being railroaded simply because he's gay. The
691
00:41:56.269 --> 00:41:59.010
prosecution's evidence accumulates quickly.
692
00:41:59.190 --> 00:42:02.789
The area was quite densely wooded, a mixture of scrub.
693
00:42:02.449 --> 00:42:06.230
Brush and the badly decomposed body of an adult male.
694
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:08.139
That made him very nervous.
695
00:42:08.739 --> 00:42:12.559
Some rope, tarp, I believe a hunting knife that he mentioned.
696
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:14.789
And as Mr.
697
00:42:14.809 --> 00:42:19.190
Conahan... The idea of a sexual sadist is one who rapes... And.
698
00:42:19.210 --> 00:42:24.329
Finally, for good measure, prosecutors bring out their smoking gun. Mr. Burden,
699
00:42:25.030 --> 00:42:34.420
would you please show the courtroom your neck? August 17th, 1999.
700
00:42:35.179 --> 00:42:39.219
After just 25 minutes of deliberation, Judge William Blackwell finds
701
00:42:39.300 --> 00:42:44.989
Daniel Conahan guilty of kidnapping and first degree murder. He's
702
00:42:45.070 --> 00:42:51.289
sentenced to die. To this day, Conahan insists he's innocent,
703
00:42:52.369 --> 00:42:57.900
but police are satisfied they've got the right man. None
704
00:42:57.940 --> 00:43:00.719
of the photographs he's believed to have taken of his
705
00:43:00.820 --> 00:43:03.280
victims have ever been found.
706
00:43:03.300 --> 00:43:05.960
You know, it's my opinion that Daniel Cahn in hand
707
00:43:06.380 --> 00:43:11.219
doesn't have a guilt feeling in his whole body.
708
00:43:11.300 --> 00:43:12.449
There is no remorse.
709
00:43:12.590 --> 00:43:19.409
None has ever been shown that I'm aware of. This
710
00:43:19.469 --> 00:43:24.349
is a man that enjoyed the pain, the suffering, and
711
00:43:24.369 --> 00:43:29.519
the death of other individuals, human beings. Why he did this,
712
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:31.739
I don't know if we'll ever know.
713
00:43:34.630 --> 00:43:38.389
And as Conahan sits on death row, awaiting his fate,
714
00:43:39.210 --> 00:43:43.300
authorities still wonder how many more victims are yet to
715
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:59.760
be found along the hog trails of Charlotte County. California's
716
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:05.730
Yosemite National Park. a spectacular wildlife sanctuary that attracts millions
717
00:44:05.789 --> 00:44:07.829
of nature lovers every year.
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00:44:10.340 --> 00:44:13.360
Nobody thinks bad things happen in places like this.
719
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:21.699
But this year would prove otherwise. In February of 1999,
720
00:44:21.699 --> 00:44:25.650
Carol's son, her daughter, and a family friend visit Yosemite.
721
00:44:26.789 --> 00:44:27.510
Mother's spider.
722
00:44:28.070 --> 00:44:29.210
No, I'm just joking.
723
00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:35.829
They spend the 14th and 15th hiking and seeing the sights,
724
00:44:36.449 --> 00:44:41.789
returning each night to their motel. They are scheduled to
725
00:44:41.829 --> 00:44:44.550
meet up with Carol's husband the morning of the 16th.
726
00:44:49.659 --> 00:44:58.280
But they would never make it. Three missing women.
727
00:45:01.449 --> 00:45:03.309
It was as if they had fallen off the face
728
00:45:03.349 --> 00:45:04.110
of the earth.
729
00:45:04.369 --> 00:45:05.610
A desperate search.
730
00:45:05.630 --> 00:45:08.750
There were no clear clues as to what had happened
731
00:45:08.829 --> 00:45:09.489
to these people.
732
00:45:09.510 --> 00:45:13.010
A disappearance that shocks America.
733
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:19.440
It's probably the strangest and one of the most chilling
734
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:22.440
cases I've ever covered in my 20 years as a journalist.
735
00:45:23.500 --> 00:45:26.500
And puts police on the trail of a master manipulator
736
00:45:26.940 --> 00:46:16.949
determined to outsmart them. Carol's son, her 15-year-old daughter Julie,
737
00:46:17.349 --> 00:46:21.210
and family friend Silvina Peloso have failed to show up
738
00:46:21.250 --> 00:46:24.699
for a rendezvous with Carol's husband Jens at the San
739
00:46:24.739 --> 00:46:25.599
Francisco airport.
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00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:32.619
Carol's son was the type of person who kept to
741
00:46:32.659 --> 00:46:34.989
a very strict calendar. She was someone who was always
742
00:46:35.090 --> 00:46:37.190
on time, where she was supposed to be when she
743
00:46:37.230 --> 00:46:38.190
was supposed to be there.
744
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:49.550
The anxious husband and father calls room 509 of the
745
00:46:49.650 --> 00:47:00.250
Cedar Lodge Motel where the women were staying. After several
746
00:47:00.349 --> 00:47:03.780
failed attempts to reach them, he contacts local authorities.
747
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:12.050
The hotel room was found in a typical state of
748
00:47:12.110 --> 00:47:16.349
someone who's left their hotel room. They had two double beds,
749
00:47:16.630 --> 00:47:19.150
and the double beds had prepared to be slept in
750
00:47:19.250 --> 00:47:22.349
and unmade. There were bath towels that were wet and
751
00:47:22.510 --> 00:47:25.190
used on the floor and on the rack. There was
752
00:47:25.289 --> 00:47:27.210
nothing really remarkable about the room.
753
00:47:31.940 --> 00:47:36.159
Investigators quickly discover that Carol's son's rental car is gone,
754
00:47:37.980 --> 00:47:44.239
and it hasn't been returned to the agency. Police have
755
00:47:44.300 --> 00:47:48.809
room 509 sealed as a precaution. But with no apparent
756
00:47:48.929 --> 00:47:53.090
signs of foul play, they consider other possibilities.
757
00:47:53.969 --> 00:47:58.289
The theory that was most predominant would be they had
758
00:47:58.309 --> 00:47:59.190
a car accident.
759
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:04.800
It was wintertime. The roads were slick. There had been snow.
760
00:48:07.579 --> 00:48:11.199
We have had numerous vehicles that have gone off our roadways.
761
00:48:12.510 --> 00:48:16.210
We have had several deaths, so that is a very
762
00:48:16.309 --> 00:48:18.210
realistic possibility.
763
00:48:18.769 --> 00:48:22.650
Agencies across the state join forces to scour the vast
764
00:48:22.730 --> 00:48:28.360
forested area around Yosemite. At the same time, police visit Mr. Sun.
765
00:48:28.380 --> 00:48:28.519
Mr.
766
00:48:28.539 --> 00:48:29.480
Sun, good day.
767
00:48:29.659 --> 00:48:30.289
Yes, how are you?
768
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:31.159
Detective Sun.
769
00:48:31.199 --> 00:48:31.880
Good to meet you.
770
00:48:31.900 --> 00:48:33.079
Molly, I just have a few questions.
771
00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:33.199
To ask you.
772
00:48:33.699 --> 00:48:37.500
Investigators press Sun for any information that might help explain
773
00:48:37.539 --> 00:48:38.940
his wife's disappearance.
774
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:40.320
No problems, no quarrels.
775
00:48:41.090 --> 00:48:50.019
Could marital difficulties lie at the heart of things? Police
776
00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:50.699
think not.
777
00:48:51.659 --> 00:48:54.139
There was not a lot of weight given to the
778
00:48:54.179 --> 00:48:58.300
possibility that Carol would have simply disappeared of her own accord,
779
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:00.500
in part because she was traveling with the two girls
780
00:49:00.579 --> 00:49:03.039
and she had left behind her other children with Jens.
781
00:49:03.460 --> 00:49:06.480
And everything that we were learning about Carol suggested that
782
00:49:06.539 --> 00:49:10.719
she was a dedicated mother and a responsible person.
783
00:49:15.340 --> 00:49:18.380
With the clock ticking and still no sign of Carol
784
00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:22.739
Sun's car, police worry about finding the women in time.
785
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:27.519
It was just a dramatic, intense need to find these
786
00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:31.639
people before something, you know, permanent had happened to them.
787
00:49:33.510 --> 00:49:37.380
Days had passed, and there had been Large search parties
788
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:41.940
searching for any clues, and nothing was coming up.
789
00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:47.699
Could something have been missed at the Cedar Lodge? The
790
00:49:47.860 --> 00:49:52.369
FBI takes charge of the case, sending Special Agents Chris
791
00:49:52.409 --> 00:50:00.269
Hopkins and Jeff Reinick to visit the motel. Together, they
792
00:50:00.349 --> 00:50:03.750
assess room 509.
793
00:50:03.860 --> 00:50:08.289
We had a missing blanket. a missing pillowcase, items left
794
00:50:08.329 --> 00:50:12.489
behind in the rooms. But we didn't find any significant
795
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:14.880
evidence to say this is in fact a crime scene.
796
00:50:18.980 --> 00:50:23.019
The FBI now turns its attention to guests and staff.
797
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:28.340
We were working at the Cedar Lodge, interviewing employees, interviewing
798
00:50:28.380 --> 00:50:31.119
hotel guests, trying to do the best we could to
799
00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:34.909
find out whether or not anything had happened there.
800
00:50:35.210 --> 00:50:39.769
From these interviews, Agent Nick Rossi pieces together a rough timeline.
801
00:50:42.449 --> 00:50:45.800
A park ranger remembers seeing the women over the course
802
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:49.960
of two days. They appeared to be having a great time.
803
00:50:51.510 --> 00:50:55.449
They had their first excursion in the park on February 14th.
804
00:50:56.530 --> 00:50:59.070
They returned to the park on February 15th.
805
00:50:59.650 --> 00:51:02.369
We had witnesses at the Cedar Lodge that saw them
806
00:51:02.769 --> 00:51:05.699
eating their dinner there on February 15th.
807
00:51:07.019 --> 00:51:09.679
The waitress who served them recalls the trio was in
808
00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:10.679
high spirits.
809
00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:15.599
The family also rented two videos from the front desk.
810
00:51:16.099 --> 00:51:20.670
And The last time they were seen alive was at
811
00:51:20.730 --> 00:51:24.789
approximately 7.30 or so in the evening on February 15th.
812
00:51:30.099 --> 00:51:35.320
For all the FBI's questions, no unusual behavior, strange encounters,
813
00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:41.159
or anything untoward concerning the women is reported. Then, agents
814
00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:45.409
learn that someone besides Carol Sund had access to room
815
00:51:45.409 --> 00:51:49.440
509 before she and the girls disappeared. they take the
816
00:51:49.500 --> 00:51:51.579
motel locksmith into custody.
817
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:56.019
He had rekeyed the locks on the door for Carol's
818
00:51:56.239 --> 00:52:03.809
hotel room. This individual had a brother who worked at
819
00:52:03.869 --> 00:52:08.670
another nearby hotel who had a prior conviction for sexual
820
00:52:08.750 --> 00:52:10.030
assault on children.
821
00:52:12.030 --> 00:52:15.570
The employee claims his innocence and agrees to a polygraph.
822
00:52:16.610 --> 00:52:19.829
While it's being administered, Hopkins pays a second visit to
823
00:52:19.869 --> 00:52:20.469
the motel.
824
00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:28.099
And again, we didn't find any significant evidence.
825
00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:34.659
The room is clean. Maybe too clean. And when the
826
00:52:34.739 --> 00:52:39.400
polygraph reveals no evidence of deceit, agents are forced to
827
00:52:39.460 --> 00:52:42.059
release their first and only suspect.
828
00:52:44.949 --> 00:52:48.969
After February 15th, There was no established timeline. It was
829
00:52:49.090 --> 00:52:50.829
as if they had fallen off the face of the earth.
830
00:52:52.570 --> 00:52:59.230
Authorities find themselves back at square one, unaware that the
831
00:52:59.309 --> 00:53:14.800
case is about to take an alarming turn. Carol's son.
832
00:53:15.230 --> 00:53:18.900
Her daughter Julie and family friend Silvina Peloso have been
833
00:53:18.940 --> 00:53:23.619
missing for three days. Search base, team six. Search and
834
00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:28.179
rescue operations have yielded nothing, nor has an FBI investigation
835
00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:36.860
into possible foul play. But now, 100 miles away in
836
00:53:36.909 --> 00:53:40.070
the city of Modesto, the case is turned on its
837
00:53:40.130 --> 00:53:43.909
head when a student finds a wallet at a downtown intersection.
838
00:53:45.630 --> 00:53:48.969
Inside is ID belonging to Carol Sund.
839
00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:55.219
Once the wallet was found in Modesto, it opened a
840
00:53:55.219 --> 00:54:00.679
whole new range of possibilities. Everything from a possible carjacking
841
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:04.469
to a kidnapping. There were lots of different theories about
842
00:54:04.530 --> 00:54:05.429
what may have happened.
843
00:54:08.929 --> 00:54:12.449
Theories collide with reality when a car is pulled over
844
00:54:12.510 --> 00:54:17.260
for a missing license plate. The vehicle belongs to Modesto
845
00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:19.059
resident Michael Larwick.
846
00:54:27.610 --> 00:54:32.650
It was a routine traffic stop. And the question that
847
00:54:32.670 --> 00:54:35.869
it begs is, why did Larwick react the way he did?
848
00:54:42.630 --> 00:54:46.809
Larwick is arrested after an 18-hour standoff at his house.
849
00:54:51.659 --> 00:54:56.059
And while he's in custody, police receive an anonymous tip.
850
00:54:56.800 --> 00:54:57.380
Yeah, Rossi here.
851
00:54:58.260 --> 00:55:00.559
The caller tells them to take a close look at
852
00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:04.480
Larwick and his half-brother, Eugene Dykes, in connection with the
853
00:55:04.539 --> 00:55:06.019
San Peloso disappearance.
854
00:55:06.909 --> 00:55:08.849
And they were very good suspects. They had a lot
855
00:55:08.889 --> 00:55:11.969
of assaults. They had a lot of sexual assaults, kidnappings.
856
00:55:12.309 --> 00:55:12.550
Mr.
857
00:55:12.590 --> 00:55:16.010
Dykes was in custody at the time that Mick Larwick
858
00:55:16.090 --> 00:55:19.750
was engaged in his shootout with police because he had
859
00:55:19.989 --> 00:55:24.659
just recently been arrested for possession of a firearm.
860
00:55:25.610 --> 00:55:30.380
So they fit all the criteria that this investigation originally needed.
861
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:33.840
The investigation suddenly has two prime suspects.
862
00:55:34.980 --> 00:55:36.300
I need to know where these women are.
863
00:55:36.659 --> 00:55:41.679
Larwick and Dykes are subjected to non-stop interrogation by FBI agents,
864
00:55:41.719 --> 00:55:43.489
desperate to find the women alive.
865
00:55:43.510 --> 00:55:44.639
And you don't know anything about it?
866
00:55:45.260 --> 00:55:46.619
Larwick is uncooperative.
867
00:55:46.659 --> 00:55:47.889
No, I don't remember.
868
00:55:48.289 --> 00:55:52.210
And denies any involvement. That's not good enough! Now where
869
00:55:52.329 --> 00:55:56.210
are they? But after hours of grilling, Dykes starts telling
870
00:55:56.650 --> 00:55:58.489
a different story. Where?
871
00:55:59.429 --> 00:56:04.599
That's when Dykes first began speaking of what he claimed
872
00:56:04.619 --> 00:56:06.380
was his involvement in this case.
873
00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:12.670
Eventually, Dykes signs a confession admitting his participation in the
874
00:56:12.710 --> 00:56:19.349
women's disappearance. But what he doesn't tell investigators is what
875
00:56:19.389 --> 00:56:20.789
they most want to know.
876
00:56:21.329 --> 00:56:23.309
Open 12.
877
00:56:23.309 --> 00:56:33.219
Where is the missing mother and two teenage girls? Close 12.
878
00:56:33.420 --> 00:56:37.920
Agent Hopkins vacuums Larwick's car, looking for physical evidence tying
879
00:56:37.940 --> 00:56:39.500
the half-brothers to the crime.
880
00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:44.889
The FBI laboratory found hairs and fibers, one of which
881
00:56:44.949 --> 00:56:46.550
was an orange acrylic fiber.
882
00:56:49.070 --> 00:56:54.369
Unfortunately, no matching hairs or fibers are recovered from room
883
00:56:54.369 --> 00:56:55.469
509 of the Cedar Lodge.
884
00:56:59.110 --> 00:56:59.329
Then.
885
00:56:59.949 --> 00:57:04.590
On March 18th, 100 miles away from Modesto, in remote
886
00:57:04.730 --> 00:57:08.469
woods beyond the town of Long Barn, a hiker makes
887
00:57:08.530 --> 00:57:09.739
a chilling discovery.
888
00:57:11.820 --> 00:57:15.699
He noticed that the vehicle was badly burned, but he
889
00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:18.679
went down and got the license plate from the vehicle
890
00:57:19.380 --> 00:57:23.260
and called it in to the California Highway Patrol. They
891
00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:26.630
ran the license plate and immediately realized it was Carol's
892
00:57:26.650 --> 00:57:27.730
son's missing vehicle.
893
00:57:32.409 --> 00:57:35.670
There was no original surface remaining on the car, on
894
00:57:35.690 --> 00:57:38.650
the interior of the car and the exterior of the car.
895
00:57:39.789 --> 00:57:42.730
All the paint had boiled off and rolled off the
896
00:57:42.769 --> 00:57:43.489
frame of the car.
897
00:57:44.489 --> 00:57:46.449
The seats had all been burnt up.
898
00:57:47.300 --> 00:57:51.340
I could see through the passenger compartment into the trunk compartment.
899
00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:58.159
Let's try and get in the trunk. And upon opening
900
00:57:58.199 --> 00:57:58.579
the trunk.
901
00:57:59.579 --> 00:58:02.219
I could see that we had remains of human beings.
902
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:10.719
Distraught when they discover charred remains in the trunk of
903
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:12.360
Carol's son's rental car.
904
00:58:15.260 --> 00:58:18.929
I have seen lots of burned bodies, but I have
905
00:58:18.989 --> 00:58:23.170
not seen anything to the extent that was involved in
906
00:58:23.210 --> 00:58:28.570
this case. There was not a lot left. It wasn't
907
00:58:28.610 --> 00:58:31.510
like looking at a normal body that you would find
908
00:58:31.610 --> 00:58:35.329
because the intense heat had destroyed most.
909
00:58:35.190 --> 00:58:35.670
Of the body.
910
00:58:36.829 --> 00:58:40.159
It was clear that we have a homicide case working out.
911
00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:48.019
Authorities want answers. The car itself offers the first disturbing clue.
912
00:58:50.260 --> 00:58:54.570
We could tell that this vehicle was intended to be burned.
913
00:58:55.219 --> 00:59:00.019
The passenger rear door was left ajar so that it
914
00:59:00.059 --> 00:59:03.969
would create a vent so that it would help oxygenate
915
00:59:04.010 --> 00:59:04.489
the fire.
916
00:59:06.269 --> 00:59:08.309
They had placed the bodies in the trunk. They had
917
00:59:08.590 --> 00:59:11.480
taken the effort to douse the car with some kind
918
00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:14.159
of flammable material and then set it ablaze.
919
00:59:20.090 --> 00:59:22.690
The heat of the fire was so intense that picking
920
00:59:22.750 --> 00:59:26.570
up some of their remains, their skeletal remains, the bones
921
00:59:26.610 --> 00:59:28.250
would just turn to dust.
922
00:59:28.010 --> 00:59:28.530
In our hands.
923
00:59:34.710 --> 00:59:38.849
As the investigation continues in the field, the remains arrive
924
00:59:38.889 --> 00:59:44.250
at the morgue for positive identification. Pathologists analyze the many fragments,
925
00:59:44.750 --> 00:59:46.739
paying special attention to the teeth.
926
00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:50.800
We had already in our possession the dental records for
927
00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:55.980
Carol and Julie's son. We took the dental records to
928
00:59:56.000 --> 01:00:00.159
a forensic odontologist, and the forensic odontologist identified one of
929
01:00:00.219 --> 01:00:01.380
our victims as Carol's son.
930
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:08.679
Forensic experts also have the means to identify Silvina Peloso.
931
01:00:10.119 --> 01:00:15.030
We had DNA samples taken from her parents. They had
932
01:00:15.389 --> 01:00:17.269
flown up to our area.
933
01:00:19.030 --> 01:00:22.550
Authorities at the crime scene retrieve some evidence when they
934
01:00:22.650 --> 01:00:28.170
find a girl's running shoe. And something even more compelling.
935
01:00:30.070 --> 01:00:32.750
In doing the search around the vehicle, we found additional
936
01:00:32.829 --> 01:00:36.179
evidence to include Carol's son's purse and her fanny pack
937
01:00:36.409 --> 01:00:37.590
that had cameras in it.
938
01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:44.219
Investigators puzzle over their killer's profile. Was he sloppy or devious?
939
01:00:44.860 --> 01:00:48.139
This was a person who had gone to some lengths
940
01:00:48.159 --> 01:00:52.639
to destroy evidence of their crime. And yet, this was
941
01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:56.179
someone who had not gone to the pains of collecting
942
01:00:56.219 --> 01:00:58.679
and destroying other evidence that was found nearby.
943
01:01:00.050 --> 01:01:03.110
But all speculation is set aside when word comes back
944
01:01:03.170 --> 01:01:03.849
from the morgue.
945
01:01:04.070 --> 01:01:04.309
Yeah.
946
01:01:05.389 --> 01:01:07.809
It turns out only two of the victims were in
947
01:01:07.849 --> 01:01:11.820
the car. Julie Sund is still unaccounted for.
948
01:01:14.449 --> 01:01:17.769
Knowing that she may be alive and in pain or suffering,
949
01:01:20.030 --> 01:01:22.309
I don't know how to describe what it does to you.
950
01:01:27.070 --> 01:01:31.690
Every available police resource is put towards finding the 15-year-old girl.
951
01:01:32.409 --> 01:01:34.969
We were still holding on to that slim string of
952
01:01:35.010 --> 01:01:36.969
hope that she might be found alive.
953
01:01:40.269 --> 01:01:43.190
Agents used the detail that the torched car was found
954
01:01:43.230 --> 01:01:46.300
in such a remote location to try and zero in
955
01:01:46.340 --> 01:01:47.679
on the killer's MO.
956
01:01:48.579 --> 01:01:51.900
And the fact that they had destroyed their means of
957
01:01:51.940 --> 01:01:55.539
transportation suggested to us that there may have been some
958
01:01:55.599 --> 01:01:59.400
other vehicle That, of course, suggested the possibility that there
959
01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:02.869
may have been more than one person. Someone to drive
960
01:02:02.889 --> 01:02:06.250
the victim's car and set it ablaze and someone else
961
01:02:06.289 --> 01:02:10.599
to follow and provide a getaway. It suggested this was
962
01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:11.920
someone who knew the area.
963
01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.719
The prime suspects fit the bill precisely.
964
01:02:17.969 --> 01:02:22.409
We learned that Larwick had actually resided not far from
965
01:02:22.449 --> 01:02:24.929
the location where the victim's car had been found. In fact,
966
01:02:24.969 --> 01:02:29.050
he had committed a crime not far from where the
967
01:02:29.090 --> 01:02:31.110
victim's car had been found. And so there were little
968
01:02:31.139 --> 01:02:35.039
pieces of information that it may have been involved.
969
01:02:37.380 --> 01:02:41.679
But despite relentless interrogation, which results in statements from Dykes
970
01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:45.320
that he participated in the murders, feds can't get anything
971
01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:46.900
concrete out of their prisoners.
972
01:02:47.619 --> 01:02:48.239
That's not true.
973
01:02:49.219 --> 01:02:53.860
Then, on March 24th, a letter postmarked shortly after the
974
01:02:53.940 --> 01:02:59.389
women's disappearance arrives at FBI headquarters. It contains a map
975
01:02:59.909 --> 01:03:04.110
and a distressing message. We had fun with this one.
976
01:03:04.130 --> 01:03:09.170
I mean, the statement itself is one of those that
977
01:03:09.210 --> 01:03:12.769
makes you sick to hear. And it suggested that this
978
01:03:12.809 --> 01:03:16.059
was someone who took some satisfaction in their crimes.
979
01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:23.219
The map leads to a remote overlook known as Vista Point,
980
01:03:23.860 --> 01:03:30.300
only a short drive from the Cedar Lodge Motel. It's
981
01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:34.280
here that the investigators' worst fears are realized.
982
01:03:36.070 --> 01:03:40.090
We went down the hill to recover Julie Sun's body.
983
01:03:41.250 --> 01:03:46.190
She was naked, other than a two-inch black duct tape
984
01:03:46.590 --> 01:03:51.510
wrapped around her left ankle. The duct tape indicates that
985
01:03:51.670 --> 01:03:54.510
this victim had been bound up with the duct tape
986
01:03:54.550 --> 01:03:59.150
and kept hostage. Her hair was fanned out, her right
987
01:03:59.210 --> 01:04:02.409
leg was spread apart from her left leg, and her
988
01:04:02.449 --> 01:04:05.409
left leg was bent forward, and her hands were crossed
989
01:04:05.550 --> 01:04:06.269
over her chest.
990
01:04:08.010 --> 01:04:12.320
It appeared that she had been posed. And a person
991
01:04:12.719 --> 01:04:16.159
who has been posed in death by an offender indicates
992
01:04:16.320 --> 01:04:20.130
an offender who's sexually motivated and who has a fantasy,
993
01:04:20.170 --> 01:04:21.809
which is very dangerous for other people.
994
01:04:24.130 --> 01:04:27.690
There was a very large lava mass on Julie's neck,
995
01:04:28.130 --> 01:04:31.650
which indicated to me immediately that her neck had been cut.
996
01:04:33.449 --> 01:04:38.690
When they discovered Julie's body, it became even more sinister
997
01:04:38.750 --> 01:04:43.380
than everybody originally thought. I mean, it was horrible when
998
01:04:43.420 --> 01:04:47.480
they found Carolyn Silvina their charred remains in the trunk
999
01:04:47.519 --> 01:04:50.420
of their rental car. But when they found Julie in
1000
01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:55.039
the position she was, I think people started thinking serial killer,
1001
01:04:55.260 --> 01:04:58.360
started thinking, you know, this is just a crime that's
1002
01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:00.050
bigger than we ever thought.
1003
01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:04.550
The forensic analysis of the crime scene provides investigators with
1004
01:05:04.590 --> 01:05:06.650
a surprising piece of material.
1005
01:05:07.050 --> 01:05:10.590
That orange acrylic fiber was on Julie's son's body.
1006
01:05:11.230 --> 01:05:15.570
Consistent. with originating from the same source as fibers that
1007
01:05:15.590 --> 01:05:19.010
were found among the belongings of Larwick and Dykes.
1008
01:05:20.050 --> 01:05:24.000
Authorities finally have physical evidence linking the half-brothers to the
1009
01:05:24.079 --> 01:05:29.260
San Peloso murders. Tying them to the anonymous letter will
1010
01:05:29.340 --> 01:05:30.280
seal their fate.
1011
01:05:32.579 --> 01:05:37.039
The fingerprint expert found what he thought was a right
1012
01:05:37.099 --> 01:05:41.840
thumb partial print on the stamp that overlapped onto the envelope.
1013
01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:45.780
But their attempt to connect the partial print to Larwick
1014
01:05:45.820 --> 01:05:51.809
or Dykes fails. No match is found. FBI DNA expert
1015
01:05:51.849 --> 01:05:57.030
Melissa Smears now extracts DNA from saliva on the envelope seal.
1016
01:05:58.190 --> 01:06:00.710
With regards to the DNA that was obtained on the
1017
01:06:00.869 --> 01:06:03.630
envelope in this case, I was able to determine that
1018
01:06:03.690 --> 01:06:05.309
male DNA was present.
1019
01:06:05.929 --> 01:06:09.659
She compares this DNA with samples taken from the Half Brothers.
1020
01:06:15.030 --> 01:06:20.320
But once again, investigators receive shocking news. It doesn't match
1021
01:06:20.619 --> 01:06:24.059
either one of them. The weight of the evidence now
1022
01:06:24.139 --> 01:06:28.070
suggests that police have been focused on the wrong suspects.
1023
01:06:28.909 --> 01:06:31.329
I believe they were playing with the people that were
1024
01:06:31.349 --> 01:06:35.730
investigating them. And they both got really good treatment for
1025
01:06:35.869 --> 01:06:36.369
at least 10 weeks.
1026
01:06:37.389 --> 01:06:38.630
While they were.
1027
01:06:38.730 --> 01:06:42.510
Being interviewed and re-interviewed and took an opportunity to send
1028
01:06:42.570 --> 01:06:44.500
authority on a wild goose chase and had a good
1029
01:06:44.539 --> 01:06:45.119
time doing it.
1030
01:06:48.699 --> 01:07:07.210
That means a killer may still be out there. Three
1031
01:07:07.309 --> 01:07:11.670
women have been brutally murdered near Yosemite National Park. And
1032
01:07:11.690 --> 01:07:15.570
the case police have built against their prime suspects, Michael
1033
01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:22.400
Larwick and Eugene Dykes, falters when compelling forensic evidence suggests
1034
01:07:22.440 --> 01:07:28.460
some other killer. Investigators pour over the case, looking for
1035
01:07:28.559 --> 01:07:32.719
new leads. Jeff Reinick turns to the roll of film
1036
01:07:32.860 --> 01:07:36.469
found near Carol's son's burnt out rental car, hoping to
1037
01:07:36.510 --> 01:07:39.489
learn more about how the women spent their final hours.
1038
01:07:41.969 --> 01:07:46.809
The photos were of Julie and Sylvina being girls and
1039
01:07:46.869 --> 01:07:52.230
Carol being there as the parent enjoying this moment with
1040
01:07:52.269 --> 01:07:53.269
her daughter and her friend.
1041
01:07:54.230 --> 01:07:57.530
But of greater interest to Reinick is the timestamps on
1042
01:07:57.570 --> 01:08:00.860
the back of the pictures. especially the last one.
1043
01:08:03.059 --> 01:08:07.219
Those rolls of film allowed us to say with relative
1044
01:08:07.260 --> 01:08:10.090
certainty that they had been alive and well and in
1045
01:08:10.130 --> 01:08:14.250
their room at roughly 10.30 in the evening on February 15th.
1046
01:08:19.489 --> 01:08:25.619
Authorities re-examine the victims' remains in a frantic search for answers. Remarkably,
1047
01:08:25.859 --> 01:08:28.260
Carol's son's stomach survived the fire.
1048
01:08:29.229 --> 01:08:34.500
They found evidence of starchy material, broccoli, cauliflower, which was
1049
01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:38.420
very interesting because we knew on February 15th that evening
1050
01:08:38.460 --> 01:08:41.579
they had eaten a meal at the Cedar Lodge and
1051
01:08:41.640 --> 01:08:47.619
Carol had ordered a vegetarian burrito. The stomach contents suggested
1052
01:08:47.680 --> 01:08:50.960
to me that Carol's son met with her death within
1053
01:08:51.060 --> 01:08:53.880
hours after eating the burrito that she had purchased.
1054
01:08:58.750 --> 01:09:02.750
Investigators realize that Carol, at least, met her death at,
1055
01:09:03.109 --> 01:09:08.439
or in close proximity to, the Cedar Lodge. They immediately
1056
01:09:08.520 --> 01:09:11.800
return to the motel and soon have a new suspect
1057
01:09:11.859 --> 01:09:12.600
in custody.
1058
01:09:13.399 --> 01:09:17.939
It was the night cleaning man at the hotel's restaurant.
1059
01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:22.899
He had come on duty late the night that the
1060
01:09:22.979 --> 01:09:27.010
victims were last seen alive and really had no one
1061
01:09:27.050 --> 01:09:30.770
who could account for his whereabouts from late that evening
1062
01:09:30.829 --> 01:09:34.859
until early the next morning. A search that was done
1063
01:09:34.920 --> 01:09:40.500
of his workplace revealed two laundry bags that tested positive
1064
01:09:40.579 --> 01:09:41.039
for blood.
1065
01:09:45.310 --> 01:09:52.720
He was very adversarial, very belligerent, very uncooperative with law enforcement.
1066
01:09:57.579 --> 01:10:04.460
Authorities are finally closing in on their killer. Or so
1067
01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:10.720
they think. On the morning of July 22nd, a Yosemite
1068
01:10:10.800 --> 01:10:15.279
Park ranger stops by the cabin of 26-year-old Joey Armstrong
1069
01:10:15.989 --> 01:10:19.649
after friends reported her failure to meet them the previous evening.
1070
01:10:26.369 --> 01:10:29.770
Inside the cabin, he could see that a tremendous struggle
1071
01:10:29.810 --> 01:10:30.289
took place.
1072
01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:45.779
Investigators recover fingerprints and trace evidence, but it's the area
1073
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:49.680
outside Armstrong's cabin that offers the most intriguing clues.
1074
01:10:51.079 --> 01:10:55.810
We identified tire tread marks and shoe wear impressions in
1075
01:10:55.850 --> 01:10:56.350
the sand.
1076
01:10:59.210 --> 01:11:03.489
Yosemite tracker Mark Fincher makes drawings of the two distinct
1077
01:11:03.550 --> 01:11:07.489
tire treads found at the scene. He also notes a
1078
01:11:07.569 --> 01:11:14.850
clear impression of a man's sandal The depth and trajectory
1079
01:11:14.869 --> 01:11:18.449
of the footprint impressions suggest that Joey was dragged to
1080
01:11:18.470 --> 01:11:26.380
a nearby vehicle. As they follow the tire tracks, investigators
1081
01:11:26.420 --> 01:11:31.119
encounter more scuffed footprints, indicating that someone had exited the
1082
01:11:31.180 --> 01:11:37.220
vehicle and been dragged away. The prints continue to a
1083
01:11:37.300 --> 01:11:42.359
nearby creek, where a grisly find awaits.
1084
01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:51.979
And she had been placed up against the reeds and
1085
01:11:52.140 --> 01:11:58.140
concealed with vegetation. It struck me immediately that the position
1086
01:11:58.279 --> 01:12:02.220
of her body was almost identical as the position that
1087
01:12:02.239 --> 01:12:04.420
we recovered Julie's son in.
1088
01:12:05.340 --> 01:12:08.779
It triggered a concern, a fear, that perhaps these cases
1089
01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:09.640
may be connected.
1090
01:12:10.659 --> 01:12:14.600
There was evidence of a sexual assault. Her pants had
1091
01:12:14.619 --> 01:12:17.350
been unbuttoned and unzipped. Her shirt had been pulled up.
1092
01:12:17.789 --> 01:12:21.979
Most shocking of all is that Joey Armstrong has been decapitated.
1093
01:12:26.539 --> 01:12:30.539
Joey Armstrong was a naturalist, and she took young children
1094
01:12:30.600 --> 01:12:33.260
who were visiting the park on nature hikes and taught
1095
01:12:33.319 --> 01:12:36.310
them about the plants and the animals.
1096
01:12:37.189 --> 01:12:41.250
I was dumbstruck. I mean, I was devastated. This was
1097
01:12:41.329 --> 01:12:42.569
another tragic crime.
1098
01:12:45.109 --> 01:12:49.920
Authorities scour the crime scene vicinity for possible witnesses. A
1099
01:12:49.979 --> 01:12:53.579
park ranger soon encounters a man lounging in the sun.
1100
01:12:55.579 --> 01:12:58.960
At that point in time, Joey's head, as sad as
1101
01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:02.819
it sounds, had not yet been found. There was some
1102
01:13:03.340 --> 01:13:07.090
suspicion that he was hiding some evidence in his backpack.
1103
01:13:07.119 --> 01:13:08.789
Would you mind if I had a look in your backpack?
1104
01:13:10.930 --> 01:13:11.770
I would prefer if you didn't.
1105
01:13:13.489 --> 01:13:16.310
The man's reluctance causes the ranger to bring him in
1106
01:13:16.350 --> 01:13:29.729
for questioning. He is identified as Cedar Lodge handyman, Kerry Stainer.
1107
01:13:30.869 --> 01:13:34.909
Nothing of significance is found in Stainer's backpack, which leaves
1108
01:13:34.989 --> 01:13:39.439
law enforcement wondering why he didn't consent to an earlier search.
1109
01:13:39.979 --> 01:13:42.600
He acknowledged that he had been in the park, but
1110
01:13:42.619 --> 01:13:44.789
he denied being in the area of the crime scene.
1111
01:13:44.810 --> 01:13:49.609
He denied having any contact with Joey Armstrong. He provided
1112
01:13:49.630 --> 01:13:52.369
an explanation of what he had been doing.
1113
01:13:52.130 --> 01:13:52.670
In the park.
1114
01:13:53.329 --> 01:13:55.890
We asked him, will you voluntarily give us a DNA sample,
1115
01:13:55.909 --> 01:13:56.560
and he complied.
1116
01:13:57.640 --> 01:14:02.060
While Stainer's interview continues, Hopkins takes a precautionary measure.
1117
01:14:03.500 --> 01:14:07.060
I dispatched a couple FBI agents to go take Polaroid
1118
01:14:07.140 --> 01:14:10.529
pictures are the tire tread impressions of Kerry Stainer's Jeep.
1119
01:14:13.489 --> 01:14:17.869
With nothing to hold him, the handyman is released.
1120
01:14:18.850 --> 01:14:19.369
You're welcome.
1121
01:14:19.390 --> 01:14:29.159
Cheers. Meanwhile, the search for Joey Armstrong's head reaches a
1122
01:14:29.260 --> 01:14:30.359
grim conclusion.
1123
01:14:32.859 --> 01:14:34.699
I didn't know what to read into that. I didn't
1124
01:14:34.739 --> 01:14:38.529
know if this person was trying to inhibit us, our
1125
01:14:38.550 --> 01:14:41.909
ability to identify who the victim was and place the
1126
01:14:41.949 --> 01:14:44.050
head in a different location. I didn't know what to
1127
01:14:44.090 --> 01:14:44.489
make of it.
1128
01:14:47.510 --> 01:14:50.810
Another woman dead and a killer still on the loose.
1129
01:14:51.789 --> 01:14:59.020
Can police catch him before he strikes again? Five months
1130
01:14:59.119 --> 01:15:02.579
after three sightseers are found dead outside of Yosemite Park,
1131
01:15:02.600 --> 01:15:09.420
26-year-old naturalist Joey Armstrong The investigation continues on several fronts.
1132
01:15:12.060 --> 01:15:15.600
But when Nick Rossi decides to ask Cedar Lodge handyman,
1133
01:15:15.659 --> 01:15:19.729
Kerry Stainer, some more questions, he receives strange news.
1134
01:15:19.750 --> 01:15:20.829
I don't know what to say.
1135
01:15:21.090 --> 01:15:23.090
First time in two years he's missed a day of work.
1136
01:15:25.710 --> 01:15:31.609
The motel manager takes Rossi to Stainer's apartment. But Stainer
1137
01:15:31.670 --> 01:15:49.510
is gone, along with most of his possessions. A lookout
1138
01:15:49.569 --> 01:15:52.960
bulletin is issued for the handyman as a material witness
1139
01:15:53.020 --> 01:15:57.739
in the Joey Armstrong case. Authorities soon get a hit.
1140
01:15:58.399 --> 01:16:01.500
A woman who was staying at Laguna del Sol, which
1141
01:16:01.619 --> 01:16:06.850
is a resort south of Sacramento, recognized Stainer, and she
1142
01:16:06.909 --> 01:16:09.050
called the Sacramento office of the FBI.
1143
01:16:09.689 --> 01:16:12.869
Special Agent Reinick is dispatched to bring the witness in.
1144
01:16:13.829 --> 01:16:14.090
Mr.
1145
01:16:14.109 --> 01:16:14.329
Stainer?
1146
01:16:17.590 --> 01:16:20.090
And as soon as Kerry was aware I was there,
1147
01:16:20.569 --> 01:16:22.380
he stood up and put his hands on his head,
1148
01:16:22.979 --> 01:16:25.600
which is not normal behavior for a citizen.
1149
01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:30.439
Given Stainer's odd reaction, Reiner cuffs him as a precaution.
1150
01:16:35.359 --> 01:16:39.770
And while the agent transports Stainer back to headquarters, Hopkins
1151
01:16:39.850 --> 01:16:41.510
studies tire tread evidence.
1152
01:16:43.640 --> 01:16:47.239
So I compared the sketch of the tire tread impressions
1153
01:16:47.399 --> 01:16:49.739
in front of the cabin with the Polaroid pictures taken
1154
01:16:49.819 --> 01:16:52.479
from the tires on Stainer's Jeep.
1155
01:16:58.640 --> 01:16:58.920
Mr.
1156
01:16:58.979 --> 01:16:59.399
Stainer.
1157
01:16:59.739 --> 01:17:02.689
How you doing?
1158
01:17:03.310 --> 01:17:06.850
What I'm showing you are pictures of tire treads.
1159
01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:12.310
The two front tires on Stainer's Jeep did not match
1160
01:17:12.390 --> 01:17:15.170
the back two tires of his Jeep, but yet we
1161
01:17:15.189 --> 01:17:18.829
had both of those tires at that crime scene, and
1162
01:17:18.890 --> 01:17:21.069
he was telling investigators he'd never been there.
1163
01:17:22.109 --> 01:17:23.649
Can I see one of your sandals, please?
1164
01:17:30.100 --> 01:17:30.380
Sure.
1165
01:17:34.100 --> 01:17:36.939
Once we asked for his sandals, he knew that he
1166
01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:41.000
left impression evidence behind. He knew that we were going
1167
01:17:41.039 --> 01:17:43.960
to be able to forensically demonstrate that he was there
1168
01:17:44.079 --> 01:17:47.039
and he was the one responsible for killing Joey Armstrong.
1169
01:17:51.220 --> 01:17:53.779
When he asked to speak to me alone, you know,
1170
01:17:53.819 --> 01:17:55.300
I guess you could say something was up.
1171
01:17:57.319 --> 01:18:04.590
Faced with the evidence, Stainer confesses to the murder. He
1172
01:18:04.670 --> 01:18:06.989
also tells Reinach exactly what happened.
1173
01:18:08.720 --> 01:18:10.199
Excuse me, I'm just getting ready to go.
1174
01:18:17.340 --> 01:18:18.850
Okay.
1175
01:18:19.210 --> 01:18:19.350
Ah!
1176
01:18:22.609 --> 01:18:22.710
No!
1177
01:18:22.750 --> 01:18:26.229
Carrie Stainer was in a real rush to try to
1178
01:18:26.289 --> 01:18:29.470
remove her out of the cabin into his Jeep and
1179
01:18:29.510 --> 01:18:31.020
move her out of the area.
1180
01:18:31.460 --> 01:18:35.779
But Joey Armstrong resisted, even managed to escape from the
1181
01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:40.739
moving vehicle. but Stainer caught her and subdued her.
1182
01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:46.909
Joey fought fiercely against Stainer and basically forced him to
1183
01:18:46.989 --> 01:18:49.949
kill her at that scene rather than.
1184
01:18:50.140 --> 01:18:51.640
transporting her far away.
1185
01:18:51.649 --> 01:19:04.260
The handyman is officially charged with the Armstrong homicide. Now
1186
01:19:04.319 --> 01:19:06.659
the FBI wants him for three more.
1187
01:19:08.329 --> 01:19:12.729
He was implicating himself not only in Joey's death, but
1188
01:19:12.869 --> 01:19:16.539
possibly also in the Sund-Peloso homicides.
1189
01:19:17.300 --> 01:19:21.920
Back to the forensics. Stainer's DNA is compared to saliva
1190
01:19:21.939 --> 01:19:27.199
from the anonymous letter that led police to Julie Sund. Incredibly,
1191
01:19:27.579 --> 01:19:31.289
no match is found. Have they got the wrong man again?
1192
01:19:32.949 --> 01:19:36.069
Hopkins pays yet another visit to room 509 of the
1193
01:19:36.189 --> 01:19:40.729
Cedar Lodge. now looking for any trace of Carrie Stainer.
1194
01:19:42.050 --> 01:19:46.439
But none is present. Everything comes down to the partial
1195
01:19:46.539 --> 01:19:49.039
print lifted from the anonymous letter's stamp.
1196
01:19:50.260 --> 01:19:55.090
The fingerprint examiner compared those known fingerprints with that partial
1197
01:19:55.130 --> 01:19:58.130
fingerprint found on the stamp, and it was a match.
1198
01:20:03.250 --> 01:20:07.439
Now forensically tied to the murders of Carol, Julie, and Sylvina,
1199
01:20:07.840 --> 01:20:12.779
Stainer realizes he's reached the end of his road. He
1200
01:20:12.899 --> 01:20:17.060
opens up to Agent Reinach about a lifetime of twisted desires.
1201
01:20:18.079 --> 01:20:21.220
He said, I'm a bad person, I've done some bad things.
1202
01:20:22.060 --> 01:20:25.600
He has had devious sexual drives for quite a while.
1203
01:20:25.939 --> 01:20:28.100
From the time that he was young, it had been
1204
01:20:28.140 --> 01:20:29.579
important to him to try.
1205
01:20:29.380 --> 01:20:31.399
To control women.
1206
01:20:33.100 --> 01:20:37.460
Over them was central to his fantasies about killing and
1207
01:20:38.359 --> 01:20:39.279
sexual assault.
1208
01:20:40.199 --> 01:20:43.529
He recognized his fantasy. He decided he was going to
1209
01:20:43.630 --> 01:20:45.710
see it through, and he did.
1210
01:20:49.170 --> 01:20:51.329
He talked about other guests at the hotel that he
1211
01:20:51.390 --> 01:20:53.989
chose not to attack because he thought they might have
1212
01:20:54.529 --> 01:20:55.210
a man with them.
1213
01:21:01.039 --> 01:21:04.590
Good evening, ma'am. I'm maintenance. We're having a water leak problem.
1214
01:21:05.270 --> 01:21:05.710
May I come in?
1215
01:21:06.970 --> 01:21:11.470
He desensitized the victims to his approach by knocking on
1216
01:21:11.529 --> 01:21:14.930
adjacent doors and hollering maintenance and going in and sort
1217
01:21:14.949 --> 01:21:16.979
of making noises so that by the time he reached
1218
01:21:17.020 --> 01:21:19.649
their door, it would seem more routine.
1219
01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:20.399
I don't know.
1220
01:21:20.460 --> 01:21:22.359
It's a little late for maintenance work, isn't it?
1221
01:21:22.359 --> 01:21:22.819
Okay, no problem.
1222
01:21:23.319 --> 01:21:24.939
I'll go get the management if that makes you feel better.
1223
01:21:25.479 --> 01:21:26.220
No, fine.
1224
01:21:26.520 --> 01:21:26.800
Come in.
1225
01:21:27.199 --> 01:21:27.859
Great, thanks.
1226
01:21:29.500 --> 01:21:32.420
And that began an unbelievable tragedy.
1227
01:21:33.020 --> 01:21:33.720
Everybody freeze.
1228
01:21:34.359 --> 01:21:35.079
Don't make a sound.
1229
01:21:36.199 --> 01:21:36.539
Lie down.
1230
01:21:36.699 --> 01:21:37.439
And don't look at me.
1231
01:21:40.500 --> 01:21:44.199
Stainer binds all three women with duct tape. He puts
1232
01:21:44.260 --> 01:21:48.560
Julie and Sylvina in the bathroom, leaving Carol's son on
1233
01:21:48.600 --> 01:21:48.979
the bed.
1234
01:21:49.279 --> 01:21:54.010
Carol's son was killed initially. He strangled her and placed
1235
01:21:54.029 --> 01:21:54.609
her in the trunk.
1236
01:21:57.210 --> 01:22:02.109
Stainer next brings Silvina Peloso out to the bed. She
1237
01:22:02.149 --> 01:22:05.039
makes so much noise, he becomes afraid of detection.
1238
01:22:05.260 --> 01:22:12.039
And he subsequently killed Silvina Peloso and placed her in
1239
01:22:12.079 --> 01:22:12.859
the trunk of the car.
1240
01:22:14.359 --> 01:22:17.239
Julie Sund is now the only one alive.
1241
01:22:18.630 --> 01:22:23.109
For some weird reason, he developed quite an affinity for Julie.
1242
01:22:25.979 --> 01:22:33.100
First, Stainer assaults her. Then he wraps her in a blanket,
1243
01:22:33.840 --> 01:22:36.310
puts her in the car, and drives her to the
1244
01:22:36.350 --> 01:22:38.710
secluded shores of Don Pedro Lake.
1245
01:22:40.670 --> 01:22:43.989
He wants to fantasize, if you will, that they have
1246
01:22:44.010 --> 01:22:49.739
a relationship. And he convinced himself that she loved him
1247
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and he loved her. And he holds to that till
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01:22:55.039 --> 01:22:55.279
the end.
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01:23:06.369 --> 01:23:10.600
The FBI finally has the man responsible for Yosemite's reign
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01:23:10.609 --> 01:23:11.270
of terror.
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01:23:13.300 --> 01:23:19.699
Stainer was the proverbial boy next door, good-looking and unassuming,
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01:23:20.420 --> 01:23:24.119
not the typical person you would suspect of being a killer.
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01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:30.090
The remaining question is how he kept authorities off his
1254
01:23:30.170 --> 01:23:38.920
trail for so long. Cedar Lodge handyman Kerry Stainer is
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01:23:38.939 --> 01:23:43.239
the confessed killer of Carol and Julie Sund, Silvina Peloso,
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01:23:43.659 --> 01:23:47.460
and Joey Armstrong. He now tells federal agents how he
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01:23:47.600 --> 01:23:49.199
always planned to outsmart them.
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01:23:49.819 --> 01:23:53.239
Kerry Stainer had fantasized about doing this event. And all
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01:23:53.270 --> 01:23:57.050
the different types of forensic evidence investigators use to associate
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an offender to.
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A crime scene.
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01:23:59.069 --> 01:24:03.270
And he used that knowledge to basically manipulate evidence and
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01:24:03.609 --> 01:24:08.029
create misleading clues for the team investigating this case.
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01:24:10.270 --> 01:24:13.189
After killing Julie and leaving her at the lake, Stainer
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01:24:13.229 --> 01:24:16.310
sets out to lead authorities far away from his crimes.
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01:24:17.949 --> 01:24:21.789
He drives 100 miles to Long Barn and ditches the
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01:24:21.850 --> 01:24:24.850
rental car with the bodies of Carol and Sovina inside.
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01:24:26.180 --> 01:24:29.260
He then hikes to a main road, catches a cab
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01:24:29.300 --> 01:24:34.380
back to the Cedar Lodge, and thoroughly cleans room 509.
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01:24:34.869 --> 01:24:38.149
He left all kinds of signs that the women had
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01:24:38.350 --> 01:24:42.279
left that morning and were taking their drive as planned.
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01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:46.000
He had gotten rid of any kind of evidence that
1273
01:24:46.220 --> 01:24:50.060
this had been a room where two killings had taken
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01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:54.449
place and a girl had been sexually assaulted for hours.
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01:24:56.909 --> 01:25:00.170
He informs investigators that he shaved his body before he
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01:25:00.250 --> 01:25:05.560
struck in order to leave fewer traces behind. Two days
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01:25:05.699 --> 01:25:08.529
after the murders, he returns to Long Barn in his
1278
01:25:08.689 --> 01:25:13.310
own vehicle, places the women's belongings in the rental car,
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01:25:13.829 --> 01:25:23.039
and destroys the evidence. But he keeps a few select
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01:25:23.199 --> 01:25:27.539
items for his next trick, 100 miles away in Modesto.
1281
01:25:29.819 --> 01:25:33.420
He took many of the possessions of Carol, Savina, and
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01:25:33.460 --> 01:25:36.180
Julie and dumped them in Modesto.
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01:25:37.880 --> 01:25:40.659
This effort to fool police gets a major boost when
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01:25:40.739 --> 01:25:44.430
Dykes and Larwick, the perfect suspects, happen to pick up
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01:25:44.489 --> 01:25:47.430
Carol's son's wallet and take the clothes to sell on
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01:25:47.470 --> 01:25:53.050
the street. The garments are never recovered, but the orange
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01:25:53.109 --> 01:25:57.239
fibers from Julie's shirt found in the car help incriminate
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01:25:57.300 --> 01:26:02.109
the pair. Hearing about their arrests on the news, Stainer
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01:26:02.149 --> 01:26:05.529
writes the taunting letter to suggest that more than one
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01:26:05.609 --> 01:26:07.210
killer is involved in the crime.
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He knew that we could extract DNA from things like envelopes,
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01:26:13.970 --> 01:26:16.300
and the flap used to seal an envelope.
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01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:21.539
So he went down to Modesto and found a little
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01:26:21.560 --> 01:26:23.920
Hispanic boy and paid this little Hispanic boy $ 5 to
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01:26:23.960 --> 01:26:24.300
spit in a.
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01:26:24.260 --> 01:26:29.810
Cup He then uses the boy's saliva to seal the envelope.
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01:26:31.250 --> 01:26:37.880
He showed considerable intelligence and considerable planning in the way
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01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:41.560
that he concealed the crime and planted false evidence.
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01:26:43.399 --> 01:26:46.720
Confident he can get away with murder, Stainer chooses Joey
1300
01:26:46.880 --> 01:26:52.630
Armstrong as his next victim. But things go wrong this
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01:26:52.689 --> 01:26:58.020
time when Armstrong's brave struggle throws a psychopath off his game.
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01:26:58.739 --> 01:27:03.479
Joey Armstrong's lust for life, her willingness to fight, to
1303
01:27:03.520 --> 01:27:08.380
have life, is, I believe, what caused him to leave
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01:27:08.420 --> 01:27:09.380
the evidence behind.
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01:27:12.470 --> 01:27:14.489
He wanted to go back to that crime scene and
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01:27:14.510 --> 01:27:16.670
try to destroy a lot of that evidence and take
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01:27:16.710 --> 01:27:17.130
it back.
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01:27:17.750 --> 01:27:19.310
But he never had the opportunity.
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01:27:21.140 --> 01:27:25.199
He later confessed that had he not been stopped at
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01:27:25.239 --> 01:27:30.449
that point, he would have continued killing. None of us
1311
01:27:30.470 --> 01:27:34.590
would think that someone who is normal could commit these
1312
01:27:34.670 --> 01:27:35.609
kinds of crimes.
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01:27:37.170 --> 01:27:38.270
You don't know how to feel.
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01:27:40.569 --> 01:27:43.029
I like to think that I did what I did
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01:27:43.109 --> 01:27:43.930
for those victims.
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01:27:45.489 --> 01:27:51.850
At trial, Kerry Stainer pleads insanity. the jury rejects his defense.
1317
01:27:53.329 --> 01:28:07.739
On December 12, 2002, Stainer receives the death penalty. April 1992.
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01:28:07.779 --> 01:28:12.739
After battling heavy traffic, Nancy Blackburn finally arrives at her destination.
1319
01:28:13.880 --> 01:28:18.630
A weekend of peace and relaxation awaits, or so she believes.
1320
01:28:19.680 --> 01:28:22.420
For Nancy Blackburn, the trip marks the end of a long,
1321
01:28:22.560 --> 01:28:28.340
cold winter. But it also marks the beginning of a nightmare,
1322
01:28:28.359 --> 01:28:31.279
a nightmare that will yet claim many more victims.
1323
01:28:31.729 --> 01:28:35.430
He's an absolute sexual obedient. He's a predator. The viciousness
1324
01:28:36.729 --> 01:28:42.550
that he displayed, his ruthlessness, I find to be just chilling.
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01:28:43.670 --> 01:28:46.529
You clearly had someone to me to fit the category.
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01:28:46.210 --> 01:28:47.149
Of a serial killer.
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01:28:48.100 --> 01:28:52.600
Investigators must work feverishly to identify an elusive psychopath.
1328
01:28:52.699 --> 01:28:54.260
We had no idea who that person was.
1329
01:28:54.979 --> 01:28:57.859
Then hunt him down and stop his rampage.
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There would be no end to victims until he was caught.
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01:29:43.949 --> 01:29:44.529
Uncle Ian?
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01:29:45.510 --> 01:29:52.869
Auntie Nance? Monday, April 13th, 1992. In an upscale neighborhood
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01:29:52.909 --> 01:29:57.560
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Jamie Osborne checks in on his
1334
01:29:57.640 --> 01:30:00.069
aunt and uncle. after they fail to show up at
1335
01:30:00.109 --> 01:30:07.050
a weekend family party. But no one's home. Nothing in
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01:30:07.090 --> 01:30:08.890
the house suggests where they may be.
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01:30:10.470 --> 01:30:11.149
Uncle Leon?
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01:30:12.390 --> 01:30:19.380
Auntie Nancy? About 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock in the evening,
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01:30:19.920 --> 01:30:22.760
he also notices that there's keys to the vehicle in
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01:30:22.800 --> 01:30:24.279
the key container.
1341
01:30:25.279 --> 01:30:29.060
The keys are to Nancy Blackburn's car. Perhaps it holds
1342
01:30:29.119 --> 01:30:30.960
a clue to the couple's whereabouts.
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01:30:48.949 --> 01:30:52.420
He goes to the back of the car, opens the trunk.
1344
01:30:53.659 --> 01:31:08.470
Inside is a sight Jamie will never forget. Metro Toronto
1345
01:31:08.510 --> 01:31:10.149
police are soon on the scene.
1346
01:31:11.409 --> 01:31:14.979
It was called about two bodies found in the trunk
1347
01:31:14.989 --> 01:31:18.840
of a car at 3 St. Leonards in 53 Division
1348
01:31:18.859 --> 01:31:20.199
in downtown Toronto.
1349
01:31:21.479 --> 01:31:26.479
Detective Sergeant Doug Grady joins forensics expert Richard McEwen and
1350
01:31:26.520 --> 01:31:34.289
the investigation begins. An initial glance at the naked female
1351
01:31:34.369 --> 01:31:37.430
victim reveals the case's first piece of information.
1352
01:31:40.409 --> 01:31:44.850
Lividity, which is the blood flowing to the lowest possible area,
1353
01:31:45.689 --> 01:31:47.909
had set in on the victim, and she had been
1354
01:31:48.050 --> 01:31:50.710
in the position she was for some time.
1355
01:31:50.729 --> 01:31:56.510
The dead couple is quickly identified as Nancy and Ian Blackburn.
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01:31:57.529 --> 01:32:04.720
Neither have been seen for some days. As Nancy's car
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01:32:04.760 --> 01:32:08.060
is secured to protect it from the elements, Grady moves
1358
01:32:08.100 --> 01:32:19.960
his team inside the Blackburn's upscale North Toronto home. They
1359
01:32:20.000 --> 01:32:23.159
spend hours combing it for signs of foul play.
1360
01:32:25.500 --> 01:32:29.760
Nothing was found that was out of place within the house.
1361
01:32:31.619 --> 01:32:35.060
There's no signs of violence or any type of struggle
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01:32:35.119 --> 01:32:36.869
that was noticeable.
1363
01:32:39.649 --> 01:32:42.680
It becomes evident that the couple was not murdered within
1364
01:32:42.739 --> 01:32:46.739
these walls. But why were they killed at all?
1365
01:32:49.180 --> 01:32:51.939
He was the owner-broker of a business with a partner.
1366
01:32:53.020 --> 01:32:59.470
They were quite successful. The female victim was a registered
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01:32:59.510 --> 01:33:05.109
nurse who was actively involved in businesses in Toronto. So
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01:33:05.130 --> 01:33:07.449
they were well enough off.
1369
01:33:09.100 --> 01:33:13.390
Authorities wonder, was robbery the prime motive behind the murders?
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01:33:13.829 --> 01:33:15.090
They soon get their answer.
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01:33:15.489 --> 01:33:16.829
There's no way a thief could miss us.
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01:33:18.970 --> 01:33:22.090
All the Blackburn's possessions seem to be in place, but
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01:33:22.109 --> 01:33:24.090
they learn that something crucial is missing.
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01:33:24.109 --> 01:33:26.189
And then when I open up the car.
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01:33:26.310 --> 01:33:29.439
Ian Blackburn's car is not in the garage or anywhere
1376
01:33:29.520 --> 01:33:34.100
near the property. Grady issues an all-points bulletin for the
1377
01:33:34.159 --> 01:33:36.979
vehicle as the bodies are removed from Nancy's car and
1378
01:33:37.039 --> 01:33:41.199
sent to the morgue. Her vehicle is then taken to
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01:33:41.229 --> 01:33:44.149
the Center of Forensic Sciences to be investigated.
1380
01:33:49.310 --> 01:33:54.569
And then we did an extensive examination of the car. Fingerprints,
1381
01:33:55.270 --> 01:33:59.109
analysis done on all the surfaces of the car.
1382
01:34:00.449 --> 01:34:03.729
Police are hopeful the killer left behind evidence of himself,
1383
01:34:04.390 --> 01:34:05.390
but they are disappointed.
1384
01:34:05.409 --> 01:34:09.510
Unfortunately, no usable fingerprints were found on the car itself.
1385
01:34:09.989 --> 01:34:12.520
And we attribute that to the fact that it was
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01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:13.380
cold weather.
1387
01:34:14.180 --> 01:34:18.479
Sweat is necessary for a clean fingerprint. In cold weather,
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01:34:18.520 --> 01:34:21.439
the pores that provide sweat close up and leave little
1389
01:34:21.479 --> 01:34:26.510
moisture behind. In the back seat, authorities do find something interesting,
1390
01:34:27.189 --> 01:34:30.130
a thermal bag from which they recover a roasting pan.
1391
01:34:30.569 --> 01:34:33.920
Inside the pan is a fully prepared dinner of beef
1392
01:34:34.100 --> 01:34:38.659
and vegetables. Meanwhile, at the morgue, An examination of Ian
1393
01:34:38.699 --> 01:34:43.510
Blackburn's injuries raises more questions than it answers. McEwen determines
1394
01:34:43.550 --> 01:34:46.649
that he was suffocated after being severely beaten.
1395
01:34:47.329 --> 01:34:50.069
He had been punched in the face. He had bruising
1396
01:34:50.130 --> 01:34:54.779
to him. Somebody had taken control of him quite strongly.
1397
01:34:57.649 --> 01:35:00.720
A look at the victim's right leg reveals a particularly
1398
01:35:00.800 --> 01:35:01.699
intriguing clue.
1399
01:35:02.180 --> 01:35:06.039
He had an unusual, in my experience, unusual markings just
1400
01:35:06.479 --> 01:35:11.000
above his right knee. There was a ligature mark, a
1401
01:35:11.100 --> 01:35:12.920
very strong ligature mark.
1402
01:35:14.100 --> 01:35:16.659
Most captives McEwen has dealt with have been bound at
1403
01:35:16.699 --> 01:35:20.439
the wrists and ankles. Why would Ian be tied around
1404
01:35:20.479 --> 01:35:20.960
the knee?
1405
01:35:22.699 --> 01:35:30.819
He also had a cylinder mark around his skull. is
1406
01:35:30.859 --> 01:35:36.560
consistent with a firearm being placed there very strongly against
1407
01:35:36.579 --> 01:35:37.319
the side of his head.
1408
01:35:42.319 --> 01:35:47.090
McEwen now examines Nancy Blackburn. She too has been asphyxiated.
1409
01:35:47.829 --> 01:35:51.010
No evidence of sexual assault is found, but her injuries
1410
01:35:51.090 --> 01:36:04.699
paint a picture of extreme violence. Most alarming is the
1411
01:36:04.739 --> 01:36:08.199
discovery that both of Nancy's shoulders have been pulled out
1412
01:36:08.239 --> 01:36:09.079
of their sockets.
1413
01:36:09.960 --> 01:36:12.100
At first you're trying to figure out in what kind
1414
01:36:12.159 --> 01:36:14.399
of scenarios could have resulted in this.
1415
01:36:19.840 --> 01:36:23.630
At the forensic garage, investigators finally recover a piece of
1416
01:36:23.770 --> 01:36:27.250
hard evidence, a bloody Kleenex on the floor of the car.
1417
01:36:28.670 --> 01:36:31.550
Lab analysis reveals that the blood is not a match
1418
01:36:31.590 --> 01:36:36.529
to either victim. Could it be the killer's? There's no
1419
01:36:36.569 --> 01:36:41.590
way to be sure. With nothing but speculation to go on,
1420
01:36:41.729 --> 01:36:44.189
Grady and his team are in need of a break.
1421
01:36:46.210 --> 01:36:49.689
And suddenly they get one when Ian Blackburn's car is
1422
01:36:49.800 --> 01:36:53.319
located one hour north of the city at his summer farmhouse.
1423
01:36:55.000 --> 01:36:57.939
On the case is Detective Inspector Jim Hutchison.
1424
01:37:02.010 --> 01:37:05.069
The male victim's vehicle was still in the Caledon area,
1425
01:37:05.109 --> 01:37:07.689
had been parked there for considerable days.
1426
01:37:11.829 --> 01:37:20.180
But a much more compelling find awaits Hutchison inside. Police
1427
01:37:20.260 --> 01:37:27.500
believe they have just found their murder scene. The bodies
1428
01:37:27.560 --> 01:37:30.800
of Ian and Nancy Blackburn are found in Nancy's car
1429
01:37:30.840 --> 01:37:34.260
at the couple's Toronto home. The search for their killer
1430
01:37:34.300 --> 01:37:36.659
leads police one hour north of the city to the
1431
01:37:36.720 --> 01:37:42.130
Blackburn's summer farmhouse. Ian Blackburn's car has been found outside
1432
01:37:42.470 --> 01:37:46.649
and human blood on the stairs inside. Detectives Grady and
1433
01:37:46.710 --> 01:37:51.109
McEwen arrive on the scene. Together with Inspector Hutchison, they
1434
01:37:51.149 --> 01:37:53.869
seek hard evidence to prove this is their crime scene.
1435
01:37:54.989 --> 01:37:58.149
Ian Blackburn's car places him at the location within the
1436
01:37:58.210 --> 01:37:59.829
time frame when the couple died.
1437
01:38:00.289 --> 01:38:02.010
We could tell that the vehicle had been there for
1438
01:38:02.050 --> 01:38:05.189
at least a few days because there were markings around
1439
01:38:05.260 --> 01:38:08.380
the car where rain had come down and where the
1440
01:38:08.439 --> 01:38:10.859
soot had been, and there was a clear outline around
1441
01:38:10.880 --> 01:38:11.359
the vehicle.
1442
01:38:12.819 --> 01:38:16.100
Grady obtains phone records for the farmhouse and discovers that
1443
01:38:16.140 --> 01:38:18.890
the last two outgoing calls were made to the Blackburn's
1444
01:38:18.939 --> 01:38:23.970
Toronto home three days before the couple was discovered. This evidence,
1445
01:38:24.050 --> 01:38:27.229
together with the roaster from Nancy's car, suggests that Ian
1446
01:38:27.270 --> 01:38:30.439
began the day alone at the cabin and telephone Nancy
1447
01:38:30.479 --> 01:38:30.970
to join him.
1448
01:38:31.579 --> 01:38:34.840
The speculation was that she had driven up to meet
1449
01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:38.630
with her husband and had brought a prepared meal.
1450
01:38:41.130 --> 01:38:44.050
And at that point we believe both vehicles were at
1451
01:38:44.090 --> 01:38:44.710
the farmhouse.
1452
01:38:53.539 --> 01:38:57.340
Speculation becomes fact when lab results confirm the blood found
1453
01:38:57.399 --> 01:39:01.770
on the stairs is Nancy's. At the same time, the
1454
01:39:01.810 --> 01:39:07.510
investigators received some startling information from local authorities. Six months earlier,
1455
01:39:07.649 --> 01:39:11.529
another Toronto resident had been attacked only two kilometers away
1456
01:39:11.609 --> 01:39:13.060
from the Blackburn cottage.
1457
01:39:14.119 --> 01:39:15.579
A vehicle was found off the.
1458
01:39:17.500 --> 01:39:21.920
Road in the ditch in Caledon of a a store
1459
01:39:21.960 --> 01:39:25.260
owner from Toronto by the name of Carolyn Case. She
1460
01:39:25.300 --> 01:39:28.840
had disappeared from her store, downtown Toronto, and then there
1461
01:39:28.859 --> 01:39:30.960
was some blood found in the car that was identified
1462
01:39:31.020 --> 01:39:32.680
as being Carolyn Case.
1463
01:39:33.560 --> 01:39:37.850
Presumed murdered, Case's body has not been recovered. As police
1464
01:39:37.909 --> 01:39:41.029
wonder if the two crimes could be connected, the investigation
1465
01:39:41.090 --> 01:39:42.170
takes another turn.
1466
01:39:42.189 --> 01:39:43.970
Can you look out the window, gentlemen?
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01:39:44.850 --> 01:39:44.970
Yeah.
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01:39:45.010 --> 01:39:47.289
You think this is the point of entry? Looks like it, officer.
1469
01:39:47.670 --> 01:39:48.250
Flashlight, please.
1470
01:39:52.630 --> 01:39:56.689
There were small pry marks on a window that indicated
1471
01:39:56.750 --> 01:39:59.569
that there had been a forced entry to it.
1472
01:40:00.350 --> 01:40:02.510
And you made his way in with what looks like
1473
01:40:02.550 --> 01:40:03.109
what could be a knife.
1474
01:40:03.270 --> 01:40:07.550
Tool impressions are recorded, and investigators soon learn from local
1475
01:40:07.609 --> 01:40:12.109
police just how significant they are. It seems that cops
1476
01:40:12.170 --> 01:40:15.529
throughout the area are all too familiar with these impressions,
1477
01:40:15.939 --> 01:40:18.960
having seen them at a rash of unique cottage break-ins
1478
01:40:19.060 --> 01:40:22.819
over the winter. The homicide team is told all about
1479
01:40:22.840 --> 01:40:26.920
the strange and elusive intruder known as the House Hermit.
1480
01:40:27.239 --> 01:40:32.000
The press nicknamed him the House Hermit. And that's how
1481
01:40:32.039 --> 01:40:36.229
he became known. He would break into a cottage over
1482
01:40:36.270 --> 01:40:39.470
the winter and live there for a period of time
1483
01:40:39.510 --> 01:40:40.529
and then abandon it.
1484
01:40:42.149 --> 01:40:44.189
He was using the bed. He had the heat turned
1485
01:40:44.289 --> 01:40:46.590
on in the area. He had a fry pan that.
1486
01:40:46.489 --> 01:40:50.949
He was using. Evidence of a visit by the house
1487
01:40:50.989 --> 01:40:53.850
hermit includes mounds of used tea bags.
1488
01:40:54.170 --> 01:40:56.250
Our suspect liked to drink Twinings tea.
1489
01:40:57.149 --> 01:40:58.130
And that's not all.
1490
01:41:00.310 --> 01:41:05.039
He was using plastic jugs to keep his urine because
1491
01:41:05.079 --> 01:41:07.539
the water system was not turned on for the winters.
1492
01:41:10.680 --> 01:41:14.239
He also keeps a stockpile of his own feces wrapped
1493
01:41:14.300 --> 01:41:15.060
in newspapers.
1494
01:41:19.170 --> 01:41:21.970
Paper was folded in kind of a unique manner.
1495
01:41:23.270 --> 01:41:25.670
We referred to it as a fish and chip tuck.
1496
01:41:28.409 --> 01:41:32.149
What sounds merely eccentric turns possibly sinister when the team
1497
01:41:32.210 --> 01:41:34.710
is informed that one of the cottages the house hermit
1498
01:41:34.750 --> 01:41:37.109
broke into was that of a gun collector.
1499
01:41:39.050 --> 01:41:45.750
That break and enter, several handguns were taken. Newer guns,
1500
01:41:45.930 --> 01:41:51.890
older guns, automatic revolvers. And that was quite a concern.
1501
01:41:52.909 --> 01:41:58.060
Investigators wonder, could the mysterious hermit also be a killer?
1502
01:41:59.180 --> 01:42:02.739
So we had an idea that whoever was committing the
1503
01:42:02.779 --> 01:42:06.859
break and enters may be the person responsible for these murders.
1504
01:42:08.439 --> 01:42:11.170
The problem with this theory is that no evidence is
1505
01:42:11.250 --> 01:42:15.050
found inside the Blackburn farmhouse to suggest the house hermit
1506
01:42:15.090 --> 01:42:19.189
camped here. Hutchison moves the hunt for clues.
1507
01:42:19.729 --> 01:42:26.510
I had brought in the ERD team, emergency response team,
1508
01:42:26.829 --> 01:42:30.689
to search the property and also all the concession loads
1509
01:42:30.710 --> 01:42:32.250
and that leading up and down the farm.
1510
01:42:37.930 --> 01:42:40.470
The effort soon turns up exactly what the police are
1511
01:42:40.510 --> 01:42:46.609
hoping for. Garbage bags on the Blackburn property containing signs
1512
01:42:46.989 --> 01:42:53.130
of the house hermit. tea bags, urine-filled jugs, and the
1513
01:42:53.170 --> 01:42:54.949
most telling calling card of all.
1514
01:42:55.220 --> 01:42:59.180
There were human feces wrapped in the sports section of
1515
01:42:59.260 --> 01:43:01.659
a newspaper from the Toronto Star.
1516
01:43:03.159 --> 01:43:08.039
The pages are dated February 27th. Inside the farmhouse, Grady
1517
01:43:08.119 --> 01:43:12.359
finds a newspaper for the same date, missing the sports section.
1518
01:43:12.380 --> 01:43:16.380
It more or less tied in the victim's residence to
1519
01:43:16.439 --> 01:43:17.640
what we found outside.
1520
01:43:19.850 --> 01:43:23.770
In the garbage, investigators also recover ammunition they are able
1521
01:43:23.810 --> 01:43:26.970
to trace back to the break-in at the gun collector's cottage.
1522
01:43:27.909 --> 01:43:31.069
Authorities now suspect that one of those stolen guns had
1523
01:43:31.090 --> 01:43:33.609
been pressed against Ian Blackburn's head.
1524
01:43:34.850 --> 01:43:37.779
We put out the information on the firearms, all of
1525
01:43:37.840 --> 01:43:39.539
the serial numbers of the firearms.
1526
01:43:40.800 --> 01:43:44.939
In another disturbing development at the morgue, medical examiners are
1527
01:43:44.979 --> 01:43:48.819
getting an idea of just how violently Nancy Blackburn died.
1528
01:43:50.260 --> 01:43:53.930
In particular, how her shoulders were ripped out of their sockets.
1529
01:43:56.069 --> 01:43:59.529
The pathologist attributed you to that injury, to having your
1530
01:43:59.550 --> 01:44:02.090
hands behind your back and then being hung up.
1531
01:44:07.140 --> 01:44:09.979
And the pathologist described it as being hogtied.
1532
01:44:13.939 --> 01:44:16.840
Clearly, their killer enjoys extreme violence.
1533
01:44:18.260 --> 01:44:20.079
But we still had no idea who that person was.
1534
01:44:20.100 --> 01:44:26.960
Here we go. Welcome.
1535
01:44:26.979 --> 01:44:28.020
Come on in.
1536
01:44:28.380 --> 01:44:28.560
Mrs.
1537
01:44:28.640 --> 01:44:28.920
Appleton.
1538
01:44:29.699 --> 01:44:30.760
Pleasure to meet you. Jim Hutchison.
1539
01:44:31.520 --> 01:44:35.279
Then Hutchison is made aware of an extraordinary report filed
1540
01:44:35.340 --> 01:44:38.920
weeks earlier by an elderly couple, Rose and Samuel Appleton.
1541
01:44:39.579 --> 01:44:42.600
They had an encounter with the house hermit and were
1542
01:44:42.720 --> 01:44:46.640
lucky to escape with their lives. Finally, the police are
1543
01:44:46.720 --> 01:44:49.300
ready to put a face to the man they suspect
1544
01:44:49.699 --> 01:44:57.720
is their cold-blooded killer. After making a possible link between
1545
01:44:57.739 --> 01:45:01.079
the Blackburn double murder and a rash of bizarre break-ins
1546
01:45:01.140 --> 01:45:04.260
in cottage country, police have found witnesses that may help
1547
01:45:04.300 --> 01:45:09.529
them identify a mysterious drifter dubbed the House Hermit. Investigators
1548
01:45:09.590 --> 01:45:13.369
hang on every word as Rose and Samuel Appleton recount
1549
01:45:13.409 --> 01:45:15.380
the brush they had with their intruder.
1550
01:45:16.760 --> 01:45:22.300
In early March of 1992, an elderly couple from Toronto
1551
01:45:22.340 --> 01:45:25.520
came up to the Midland area out on Georgian Bay
1552
01:45:26.079 --> 01:45:29.149
to pay their taxes for their cottage, but also check
1553
01:45:29.159 --> 01:45:31.289
the cottage and make sure that everything was fine over
1554
01:45:31.310 --> 01:45:31.609
the winter.
1555
01:45:34.310 --> 01:45:35.069
So give me a second.
1556
01:45:35.149 --> 01:45:36.829
I'll turn on the power, check the pipes.
1557
01:45:36.989 --> 01:45:41.010
Are you okay, dear? Yeah, I won't be long. He
1558
01:45:41.090 --> 01:45:43.210
asked his wife to stay in the car. He walks
1559
01:45:43.810 --> 01:45:47.510
to the cottage. He opens it up. He goes in.
1560
01:45:49.090 --> 01:45:52.829
He was confronted by our suspect, who had a firearm.
1561
01:45:54.149 --> 01:45:56.510
Took control of the older gentleman and took him back
1562
01:45:56.550 --> 01:46:00.579
to the car. Told him, drive me to.
1563
01:46:00.520 --> 01:46:02.729
Toronto to your house and I'll leave you there.
1564
01:46:04.789 --> 01:46:12.060
The hour-long trip to Toronto is spent in silence and terror.
1565
01:46:16.279 --> 01:46:19.359
But once in the city, the Appletons defy the house
1566
01:46:19.399 --> 01:46:21.619
hermit's order to take him to their residence.
1567
01:46:22.479 --> 01:46:27.119
He drove this person right to Dundas and Yonge, in
1568
01:46:27.159 --> 01:46:29.899
the busiest street in Toronto, right at the busiest corner
1569
01:46:29.930 --> 01:46:36.310
of Toronto. I will not take you to our home.
1570
01:46:37.869 --> 01:46:40.810
If you're going to shoot us, shoot us right here.
1571
01:46:41.289 --> 01:46:44.640
The Appletons await their fate, but in the end, their
1572
01:46:44.699 --> 01:46:46.180
brave tactic works.
1573
01:46:47.579 --> 01:46:49.880
The suspect got out of the car and took off.
1574
01:46:51.380 --> 01:46:53.939
And I honestly believe that that action saved their lives.
1575
01:46:55.020 --> 01:46:58.420
The couple now tells police everything they can remember about
1576
01:46:58.460 --> 01:46:59.159
their assailant.
1577
01:46:59.539 --> 01:47:01.199
Both gave descriptions of.
1578
01:47:02.350 --> 01:47:04.909
of the individuals that had attacked, and a composite drawing
1579
01:47:04.949 --> 01:47:08.300
was prepared by the OPP artist.
1580
01:47:08.920 --> 01:47:11.199
We had the similarities and the break-ins, and now we
1581
01:47:11.239 --> 01:47:13.579
had a description of our suspect.
1582
01:47:13.880 --> 01:47:14.760
Yes, she was.
1583
01:47:14.779 --> 01:47:15.960
She had dark glasses on.
1584
01:47:16.689 --> 01:47:20.729
We thought of releasing composite drawings, but composite drawings give
1585
01:47:20.750 --> 01:47:26.510
you quite often a thousand names that mean nothing. Composite
1586
01:47:26.529 --> 01:47:28.380
drawing sometimes isn't exact enough.
1587
01:47:29.399 --> 01:47:33.060
Local investigation at the time of the incident revealed evidence
1588
01:47:33.100 --> 01:47:35.920
that the house hermit had camped at the Appleton Cottage.
1589
01:47:36.699 --> 01:47:40.079
Hutchison now returns there and discovers a box the hermit
1590
01:47:40.100 --> 01:47:43.619
had stashed away. Inside are alarming contents.
1591
01:47:45.359 --> 01:47:49.159
There was quite an extensive collection of porn.
1592
01:47:48.880 --> 01:47:49.640
Found at that time.
1593
01:47:52.500 --> 01:47:55.279
Much of the pornography features acts of S & M.
1594
01:47:55.779 --> 01:47:58.939
In particular, photographs of women who have been hogtied.
1595
01:47:59.819 --> 01:48:03.850
And some of it was cut out and classified. And classified,
1596
01:48:03.859 --> 01:48:08.470
I mean categorized, would keep it in different groups.
1597
01:48:09.630 --> 01:48:11.550
There'd be a whole bunch of breast pictures and then
1598
01:48:11.590 --> 01:48:13.829
there'd be a whole bunch of anus pictures. It wasn't
1599
01:48:13.850 --> 01:48:16.310
that he was cutting out the and putting them together
1600
01:48:16.329 --> 01:48:18.670
it was just that they were cutting it up and
1601
01:48:18.710 --> 01:48:20.989
categorizing it a.
1602
01:48:20.930 --> 01:48:24.350
Troubling profile of the suspected killer emerges from this.
1603
01:48:24.310 --> 01:48:27.800
Evidence he was a somebody who was good with his
1604
01:48:27.840 --> 01:48:29.060
hands somebody who was.
1605
01:48:30.760 --> 01:48:34.659
Methodical and also that he was fantasy driven I believe
1606
01:48:34.699 --> 01:48:38.390
that he could only gain satisfaction through a type of
1607
01:48:39.239 --> 01:48:41.689
bondage or violence.
1608
01:48:42.350 --> 01:48:46.970
Police now review their evidence. Ian's car, abandoned at the
1609
01:48:47.010 --> 01:48:51.189
Blackburn farmhouse. The phone records showing calls from the farmhouse
1610
01:48:51.229 --> 01:48:55.310
to his Toronto residence. The roasting pan in Nancy's car.
1611
01:48:55.770 --> 01:48:59.130
Her blood on the stairs. Signs that the house hermit
1612
01:48:59.270 --> 01:49:04.739
entered the farmhouse and camped there. His appetite for violent pornography.
1613
01:49:05.850 --> 01:49:10.630
And lastly, the vicious wounds to both Ian and Nancy.
1614
01:49:14.850 --> 01:49:19.300
Taken together, they form a picture of how and why
1615
01:49:19.939 --> 01:49:27.630
the Blackburns died. It starts with Ian arriving at the
1616
01:49:27.710 --> 01:49:37.569
farmhouse alone, having driven up in his vehicle. He's completely
1617
01:49:37.729 --> 01:49:47.000
unaware that the house hermit is residing inside. Ian enters
1618
01:49:47.039 --> 01:49:51.779
the residence, phones Nancy in Toronto, and they discuss her
1619
01:49:51.840 --> 01:49:53.039
driving up to join him.
1620
01:49:54.140 --> 01:49:55.279
Hey, sweetheart.
1621
01:49:55.399 --> 01:49:55.920
Hi, sweetie.
1622
01:49:56.199 --> 01:49:58.479
Yeah, I've got the roast in the oven, and I'll
1623
01:49:58.520 --> 01:49:59.840
probably be there in a couple hours.
1624
01:50:00.770 --> 01:50:01.090
All right.
1625
01:50:01.770 --> 01:50:03.909
OK, hon. We'll look forward to seeing you then.
1626
01:50:04.409 --> 01:50:04.770
Great.
1627
01:50:05.050 --> 01:50:21.489
Bye. By the time Nancy arrives, Ian is powerless to
1628
01:50:21.529 --> 01:50:24.199
help her. Ian?
1629
01:50:24.579 --> 01:50:29.020
Honey?
1630
01:50:31.420 --> 01:50:39.520
Please, Ian.
1631
01:50:39.720 --> 01:50:40.960
I'm scared.
1632
01:50:44.350 --> 01:50:55.899
The house hermit overpowers her. then hog ties her and
1633
01:50:55.979 --> 01:51:01.319
assaults her in accordance with his sexually sadistic fantasies. Finally,
1634
01:51:01.359 --> 01:51:03.199
he kills her and throws her in the trunk of
1635
01:51:03.239 --> 01:51:07.579
her car. The hermit now cleans up his campsite, throws
1636
01:51:07.619 --> 01:51:10.479
the garbage in the woods, and prepares to leave the area.
1637
01:51:11.439 --> 01:51:13.979
Though police can't be sure how the Blackburns ended up
1638
01:51:14.000 --> 01:51:18.239
back in Toronto, a closer examination of Ian Blackburn's injuries,
1639
01:51:18.619 --> 01:51:21.500
including the ligature mark on his right leg, point to
1640
01:51:21.520 --> 01:51:25.220
the likely circumstance. His right arm was tied to his
1641
01:51:25.300 --> 01:51:28.060
right leg with enough slack to allow him to drive,
1642
01:51:28.859 --> 01:51:32.020
while his left arm and ankle were tightly bound together.
1643
01:51:32.970 --> 01:51:36.329
And forced the male victim to drive the vehicle back
1644
01:51:36.369 --> 01:51:41.210
to Toronto, possibly not even knowing that his wife was
1645
01:51:41.229 --> 01:51:46.329
in the trunk. And probably hoping to save his own life,
1646
01:51:46.470 --> 01:51:49.170
hoping to get back to Caledon to release his wife,
1647
01:51:49.189 --> 01:51:50.850
who would be tied up back at the cottage.
1648
01:51:55.760 --> 01:51:56.279
What now?
1649
01:51:59.800 --> 01:52:02.779
And once he got into the driveway, he was asphyxiated,
1650
01:52:04.729 --> 01:52:06.550
put in the trunk of the car, and they were
1651
01:52:06.569 --> 01:52:06.970
left there.
1652
01:52:08.250 --> 01:52:11.189
But despite their theories, all police have to show for
1653
01:52:11.229 --> 01:52:14.989
the investigation is a bloody tissue and a composite sketch
1654
01:52:15.029 --> 01:52:18.829
they can connect to no one. Then they make a
1655
01:52:18.890 --> 01:52:23.750
discovery that just may turn things around. Under the pornography
1656
01:52:23.869 --> 01:52:27.859
found at the Appleton's property, are several strange lists of
1657
01:52:27.939 --> 01:52:28.979
military equipment.
1658
01:52:30.279 --> 01:52:35.670
Fulker airplanes against Sopwith Campbells, you know, like unique planes.
1659
01:52:35.689 --> 01:52:47.529
All crossed off. Firearms, rifles against cannons. It appeared to
1660
01:52:47.569 --> 01:52:50.489
be a solitary game of war.
1661
01:52:54.579 --> 01:52:57.720
But for the investigators, more important than the content of
1662
01:52:57.760 --> 01:53:00.779
the lists is the style in which they have been written.
1663
01:53:01.739 --> 01:53:05.069
The handwriting is so unique, it might prove as effective
1664
01:53:05.109 --> 01:53:09.869
as a fingerprint in identifying someone. The team goes public
1665
01:53:10.109 --> 01:53:10.909
with their manhunt.
1666
01:53:13.090 --> 01:53:17.579
We provided the media with a copy of the handwriting,
1667
01:53:18.699 --> 01:53:23.140
and it went in national media, both on television and
1668
01:53:23.199 --> 01:53:24.100
in the print media.
1669
01:53:26.260 --> 01:53:29.800
Police know all too well the risks they take releasing
1670
01:53:29.859 --> 01:53:33.380
their evidence. It may alert the suspect that they're onto him.
1671
01:53:34.079 --> 01:53:36.699
But if they don't roll the dice and take this gamble,
1672
01:53:37.180 --> 01:53:49.340
they'll never catch a killer before he strikes again. Police
1673
01:53:49.380 --> 01:53:53.020
have distributed samples of the house hermit's unique handwriting to
1674
01:53:53.039 --> 01:53:56.850
the media. in hopes that someone can help identify their
1675
01:53:56.890 --> 01:54:03.710
elusive suspect. Within hours, they hit pay dirt, courtesy of
1676
01:54:03.909 --> 01:54:04.829
Allison Shaw.
1677
01:54:07.569 --> 01:54:10.250
Well, we had a call from a female called Allison,
1678
01:54:10.310 --> 01:54:15.029
who said that she definitely knew that writing, that she
1679
01:54:15.109 --> 01:54:17.069
knew the individual for the last two or three years.
1680
01:54:19.590 --> 01:54:20.029
Come on in, Shaw.
1681
01:54:20.050 --> 01:54:20.109
Hi.
1682
01:54:20.109 --> 01:54:20.789
Pleasure to meet you.
1683
01:54:20.829 --> 01:54:21.130
Jim Hutchison.
1684
01:54:21.350 --> 01:54:22.069
Nice to meet you.
1685
01:54:22.090 --> 01:54:22.489
Have a seat.
1686
01:54:22.529 --> 01:54:22.819
Thank you.
1687
01:54:25.149 --> 01:54:28.729
Allison sits down with authorities and unfolds the story of
1688
01:54:28.789 --> 01:54:29.630
their suspect.
1689
01:54:31.069 --> 01:54:32.550
So why don't you explain to me this list that
1690
01:54:32.569 --> 01:54:33.529
we spoke about on the phone?
1691
01:54:34.090 --> 01:54:38.329
I met him in Orangeville, Ontario. He was working on
1692
01:54:38.350 --> 01:54:42.810
a building which was behind my apartment that I rented
1693
01:54:42.850 --> 01:54:44.350
with my husband at the time.
1694
01:54:45.020 --> 01:54:46.100
You need a bit of a description of him?
1695
01:54:47.140 --> 01:54:47.739
I have a picture.
1696
01:54:48.220 --> 01:54:48.640
Does that help?
1697
01:54:48.680 --> 01:54:49.579
That'd be fantastic.
1698
01:54:50.500 --> 01:54:55.409
She also provides investigators with what they want most. an identification.
1699
01:54:56.020 --> 01:54:57.039
And it was that.
1700
01:54:56.939 --> 01:54:59.920
Time that she gave us the name David Snow.
1701
01:55:03.220 --> 01:55:06.829
David Snow owned a shop called Nothing in Particular, and
1702
01:55:06.869 --> 01:55:10.810
it was a knick-knack shop. Allison worked for him in
1703
01:55:10.829 --> 01:55:11.789
the knick-knack shop.
1704
01:55:13.010 --> 01:55:17.260
Allison had seen samples of Snow's distinctive handwriting on inventory
1705
01:55:17.279 --> 01:55:24.729
lists for the store. See, this is a German Ju
1706
01:55:24.729 --> 01:55:26.310
87 Stuka dive bomber.
1707
01:55:28.779 --> 01:55:30.239
See, the thing about this plane.
1708
01:55:31.460 --> 01:55:33.220
Is it wasn't the fastest plane.
1709
01:55:35.100 --> 01:55:38.560
And it wasn't even. But what it did do.
1710
01:55:38.800 --> 01:55:42.670
He'd come over after work with Darius, who was my husband.
1711
01:55:43.829 --> 01:55:46.710
Come up to the apartment, have dinner, a.
1712
01:55:48.109 --> 01:55:48.649
Couple of beers.
1713
01:55:51.619 --> 01:55:52.460
It got to be a.
1714
01:55:52.560 --> 01:56:04.630
Daily occurrence in pretty short order. I noticed he had
1715
01:56:04.729 --> 01:56:09.130
a real problem with hygiene. He had terrible body odor.
1716
01:56:09.149 --> 01:56:15.569
It was like he hadn't showered in months. He had
1717
01:56:15.989 --> 01:56:17.029
really rotten teeth.
1718
01:56:17.060 --> 01:56:18.479
It was awful.
1719
01:56:20.029 --> 01:56:22.609
In fact, he had the kind of bad teeth that
1720
01:56:22.670 --> 01:56:27.529
are prone to bleeding. But despite his terrible hygiene, Allison
1721
01:56:27.569 --> 01:56:29.970
got along well with her eccentric employer.
1722
01:56:31.369 --> 01:56:35.810
Our relationship was okay, it was fine. It wasn't close,
1723
01:56:35.869 --> 01:56:39.560
it wasn't just in, it was just me doing my
1724
01:56:39.609 --> 01:56:40.039
thing and.
1725
01:56:40.000 --> 01:56:40.640
Him doing his.
1726
01:56:42.720 --> 01:56:46.779
That is, until Snow discovered that Allison was expecting her
1727
01:56:46.840 --> 01:56:47.500
first child.
1728
01:56:49.619 --> 01:56:50.560
David, I didn't see you there.
1729
01:56:52.000 --> 01:56:52.819
Why didn't you tell me?
1730
01:56:52.840 --> 01:56:56.270
Excuse me?
1731
01:56:56.279 --> 01:56:59.270
You told Sherry that you were pregnant and you never
1732
01:56:59.310 --> 01:56:59.789
told me.
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01:57:03.229 --> 01:57:04.590
He didn't react very well at all.
1734
01:57:04.909 --> 01:57:06.729
He said, I thought I was a better friend to
1735
01:57:06.789 --> 01:57:09.229
you than that. What?
1736
01:57:10.609 --> 01:57:11.689
I guess I don't mean anything to you.
1737
01:57:12.750 --> 01:57:14.029
And stormed off.
1738
01:57:16.170 --> 01:57:17.710
You know, like he was my husband or something.
1739
01:57:19.510 --> 01:57:20.949
It was, it just blew me away.
1740
01:57:22.329 --> 01:57:25.550
Allison had to accept that something was very wrong with
1741
01:57:25.630 --> 01:57:29.170
David Snow. But no one else in Orangeville seemed bothered
1742
01:57:29.210 --> 01:57:30.670
by his peculiar ways.
1743
01:57:32.569 --> 01:57:33.529
No one ever.
1744
01:57:33.449 --> 01:57:35.289
Said anything about any of that.
1745
01:57:36.770 --> 01:57:37.010
Ever.
1746
01:57:39.630 --> 01:57:43.600
I felt like I was, well I was the only one.
1747
01:57:45.960 --> 01:57:50.479
In her experience, Snow's behavior continued to grow increasingly strange
1748
01:57:50.729 --> 01:57:51.609
and unsettling.
1749
01:57:53.369 --> 01:57:57.470
I had seen this real change in him, this slow
1750
01:57:57.510 --> 01:58:02.409
decline over the last few months. I really got frightened,
1751
01:58:02.630 --> 01:58:05.590
you know? I don't know why, I still don't.
1752
01:58:05.529 --> 01:58:06.750
Know why, but I did.
1753
01:58:07.890 --> 01:58:12.279
Authorities ask Allison where her boss is now. She has
1754
01:58:12.340 --> 01:58:16.239
no idea. The investigation moves to the town where Snow
1755
01:58:16.279 --> 01:58:19.770
had his shop. Police inquire after the man believed to
1756
01:58:19.829 --> 01:58:22.350
be the house hermit and their killer.
1757
01:58:23.930 --> 01:58:25.829
We went around to the Orangeville area there and we
1758
01:58:25.869 --> 01:58:28.369
had officers going door to door handing out pictures of
1759
01:58:28.609 --> 01:58:29.149
David Snow.
1760
01:58:30.289 --> 01:58:31.189
Of the homicide in your area.
1761
01:58:31.789 --> 01:58:33.050
Please tell me if you've seen this man.
1762
01:58:35.090 --> 01:58:39.210
When we started doing a background history on him, we
1763
01:58:39.250 --> 01:58:41.130
found that he never drove.
1764
01:58:41.510 --> 01:58:42.310
He walked everywhere.
1765
01:58:45.970 --> 01:58:48.720
His older brother had tried to teach him to drive
1766
01:58:48.760 --> 01:58:52.079
at one point, and he just broke out into a sweat.
1767
01:58:52.119 --> 01:58:52.859
He was nervous.
1768
01:58:52.939 --> 01:58:54.600
He put the car in the ditch and jumped out
1769
01:58:54.659 --> 01:58:56.720
and said, I want to never get inside the car again.
1770
01:58:58.029 --> 01:59:02.100
Police also learned substantial details about Snow's departure from the
1771
01:59:02.260 --> 01:59:04.520
area over eight months ago.
1772
01:59:04.539 --> 01:59:06.279
October 3rd.
1773
01:59:08.180 --> 01:59:13.890
Of 1991, he went into the taxi stand in Orangeville,
1774
01:59:13.930 --> 01:59:14.729
which he used.
1775
01:59:14.930 --> 01:59:16.350
It was very, very early in the morning.
1776
01:59:17.390 --> 01:59:20.989
He was covered with mud and he was wet and
1777
01:59:21.010 --> 01:59:24.899
he got a ride and he paid cash. and jumped
1778
01:59:24.939 --> 01:59:26.859
out of the vehicle in Guelph, and that's the last
1779
01:59:26.899 --> 01:59:28.149
that he was seen in Orangeville.
1780
01:59:31.029 --> 01:59:34.850
The most alarming thing about Snow's disappearance is that it
1781
01:59:34.909 --> 01:59:37.329
occurred on the very same day that the car of
1782
01:59:37.390 --> 01:59:41.260
Toronto store owner Carolyn Case was found in a ditch
1783
01:59:41.760 --> 01:59:42.380
in Caledon.
1784
01:59:42.859 --> 01:59:47.859
Now the location of that car, if you follow the
1785
01:59:47.960 --> 01:59:52.800
county road that the car was on, slightly farther north,
1786
01:59:54.250 --> 01:59:59.170
almost runs into the area where the Snow's family home was.
1787
02:00:00.789 --> 02:00:04.699
David Snow may not be just a killer. He may
1788
02:00:04.819 --> 02:00:06.340
be a serial killer.
1789
02:00:07.539 --> 02:00:11.140
I thought somebody who's committed these type of crimes is
1790
02:00:11.180 --> 02:00:14.539
not going to stop until they're caught. They have no
1791
02:00:14.600 --> 02:00:17.979
regard for anybody else. So, yes, we were concerned.
1792
02:00:19.069 --> 02:00:23.149
Authorities put out a Canada-wide arrest warrant for their prime suspect.
1793
02:00:24.369 --> 02:00:28.229
But as they scramble to find David Snow, a predator
1794
02:00:28.609 --> 02:00:39.399
is stalking more prey. David Snow is the prime suspect
1795
02:00:39.439 --> 02:00:43.100
in the murders of Ian and Nancy Blackburn. Now, just
1796
02:00:43.159 --> 02:00:46.909
as police launch an intense search to find him, a
1797
02:00:46.930 --> 02:00:52.050
21-year-old photo store clerk goes missing on July 1, 1992.
1798
02:00:52.050 --> 02:00:54.220
No one has seen her since the previous evening when
1799
02:00:54.260 --> 02:00:57.560
she worked alone at the business. On the case is
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02:00:57.779 --> 02:01:03.180
RCMP investigator Randy Bennett. But the strange thing about this
1801
02:01:03.260 --> 02:01:06.270
crime is that it hasn't taken place in Toronto or
1802
02:01:06.329 --> 02:01:10.829
even Ontario. The victim has been abducted over 3,000 kilometers
1803
02:01:10.890 --> 02:01:15.899
away in Vancouver, British Columbia. Besides no witnesses, the scene
1804
02:01:15.939 --> 02:01:18.260
offers few clues for Bennett's investigators.
1805
02:01:18.539 --> 02:01:21.260
They had absolutely no information to work on, and were
1806
02:01:21.319 --> 02:01:24.520
relying on some public assistance to try to support their investigation.
1807
02:01:25.680 --> 02:01:29.329
Law enforcement combs the city, looking for the abducted woman.
1808
02:01:30.750 --> 02:01:35.869
Ten days later, there's still no sign of her. Then,
1809
02:01:36.310 --> 02:01:39.460
on July 11th, there's another kidnapping.
1810
02:01:44.090 --> 02:01:47.029
To have been a young lady abducted from a video
1811
02:01:47.069 --> 02:01:48.270
store in North Vancouver.
1812
02:01:48.689 --> 02:01:51.600
The only witness to the crime is a badly shaken
1813
02:01:51.689 --> 02:01:53.020
video store manager.
1814
02:01:53.479 --> 02:01:57.319
It was somewhat sketchy information that a lone male individual
1815
02:01:57.359 --> 02:02:00.720
entered the video store. The manager was tied up and
1816
02:02:01.159 --> 02:02:03.579
left in the building and a female employee was removed
1817
02:02:03.619 --> 02:02:06.979
from the building. The manager was able to free himself
1818
02:02:07.579 --> 02:02:09.800
from his ligatures and made the call in that there'd
1819
02:02:09.819 --> 02:02:13.060
been a robbery and an abduction and the employee was missing.
1820
02:02:14.729 --> 02:02:18.300
In describing the perpetrator, the manager notes that he had
1821
02:02:18.420 --> 02:02:24.720
terrible body odor and a mouthful of rotten teeth. Bennett
1822
02:02:24.760 --> 02:02:27.739
learns the victim's car is missing from the parking lot,
1823
02:02:30.020 --> 02:02:40.149
and a citywide dragnet begins. Among the cops on high
1824
02:02:40.210 --> 02:02:44.569
alert is Constable David Kwasnicka, he decides to head for
1825
02:02:44.649 --> 02:02:48.680
Mount Seymour Provincial Park, as the area best fits his
1826
02:02:48.800 --> 02:02:50.779
theory about the man they are hunting.
1827
02:02:53.460 --> 02:02:57.840
I felt that the suspect was abducting this woman in
1828
02:02:57.939 --> 02:03:03.539
order to sexually assault her and would likely take the
1829
02:03:03.579 --> 02:03:05.239
woman to a secluded area.
1830
02:03:08.760 --> 02:03:12.500
Kwasnika drives around the corner in a remote area of
1831
02:03:12.539 --> 02:03:12.939
the park.
1832
02:03:14.630 --> 02:03:16.750
And that's where we found the vehicle.
1833
02:03:16.770 --> 02:03:20.000
There they called in the location where they were at
1834
02:03:20.079 --> 02:03:22.920
and we were sending extra members to reinforce and to
1835
02:03:22.939 --> 02:03:23.920
provide backup for them.
1836
02:03:23.939 --> 02:03:33.659
Kwasnika and his partner proceed to secure the vehicle and
1837
02:03:33.680 --> 02:03:36.279
look for any clues the abductor may have left behind.
1838
02:03:38.869 --> 02:03:42.250
And at that point, that's when we heard the screaming
1839
02:03:42.390 --> 02:03:43.689
from the forest.
1840
02:03:47.560 --> 02:03:51.199
Tucked in the woods, just off the road, Kwasnika discovers
1841
02:03:51.239 --> 02:03:55.680
the badly assaulted victim from the video store. At least
1842
02:03:55.720 --> 02:03:56.399
she's alive.
1843
02:03:57.979 --> 02:04:01.909
She was in a squatting position. Her wrists were tied
1844
02:04:01.970 --> 02:04:02.829
to her ankles.
1845
02:04:04.449 --> 02:04:07.869
And just as backup arrives, Kwasnika gets another shock.
1846
02:04:11.010 --> 02:04:15.470
And I started running towards the screams.
1847
02:04:15.109 --> 02:04:15.670
That I heard.
1848
02:04:17.880 --> 02:04:21.180
Not far from the first victim, the officers discover a
1849
02:04:21.239 --> 02:04:25.420
makeshift campsite. Tied to a tree is another woman who's
1850
02:04:25.439 --> 02:04:26.859
been severely brutalized.
1851
02:04:27.600 --> 02:04:28.579
Did you see where he went?
1852
02:04:28.600 --> 02:04:33.079
Kwasnika immediately recognizes her as the victim kidnapped 10 days
1853
02:04:33.260 --> 02:04:34.739
earlier from the photo store.
1854
02:04:36.279 --> 02:04:40.460
The crime scene had some sleeping bags and personal articles
1855
02:04:40.500 --> 02:04:43.720
and personal clothing and some food garbage and debris.
1856
02:04:43.939 --> 02:04:47.460
Kwasnika and his partner try to comfort the traumatized woman.
1857
02:04:47.810 --> 02:04:55.600
What disturbed me was how this victim reacted with no reaction,
1858
02:04:55.800 --> 02:05:01.920
just like very calm, cool, collected, and monotone voice.
1859
02:05:12.520 --> 02:05:15.220
As the women are escorted out of the woods, more
1860
02:05:15.279 --> 02:05:18.460
police move in, and the hunt for the perpetrator kicks
1861
02:05:18.500 --> 02:05:19.380
into high gear.
1862
02:05:20.300 --> 02:05:24.500
They were directed that we would deploy other police cars
1863
02:05:24.560 --> 02:05:27.140
to start setting up the roadblocks and try to contain
1864
02:05:27.359 --> 02:05:29.979
a male suspect that had fled off into the bushes.
1865
02:05:31.010 --> 02:05:34.170
But given the nature of Mount Seymour Park, that's not
1866
02:05:34.229 --> 02:05:34.989
going to be easy.
1867
02:05:35.010 --> 02:05:39.850
It's very densely treed with lots of undergrowth and so forth,
1868
02:05:39.890 --> 02:05:43.010
and because it's on a mountain slope, probably hide in
1869
02:05:43.069 --> 02:05:45.449
any crevice or corner or crack or under any trees
1870
02:05:45.510 --> 02:05:48.909
or bushes and stay hidden for quite some period of time.
1871
02:05:50.659 --> 02:05:54.579
As the massive manhunt gets underway, authorities searching the second
1872
02:05:54.619 --> 02:05:56.359
victim's car find a gun.
1873
02:05:56.380 --> 02:06:00.000
The police officers called the serial numbers in to our
1874
02:06:00.079 --> 02:06:02.470
office and they ran them on the national database.
1875
02:06:03.930 --> 02:06:06.810
Bennett learns that the gun was stolen in a cottage
1876
02:06:06.890 --> 02:06:10.289
robbery in Ontario by a man wanted on a countrywide
1877
02:06:10.350 --> 02:06:14.159
murder warrant. His name is David Snow.
1878
02:06:21.319 --> 02:06:23.659
I get a call from British Columbia, and I think
1879
02:06:23.720 --> 02:06:25.100
it's your fellow they're looking for.
1880
02:06:25.119 --> 02:06:25.260
Oh, I.
1881
02:06:26.970 --> 02:06:29.909
Was totally shocked. You're serious?
1882
02:06:30.970 --> 02:06:34.489
Ontario police can only hope that BC authorities will do
1883
02:06:34.529 --> 02:06:39.930
what they could not, find and capture their killer. Concerns
1884
02:06:39.989 --> 02:06:43.210
about a psychopath loose in the park are soon compounded
1885
02:06:43.810 --> 02:06:47.109
when authorities learn that a marathon is taking place.
1886
02:06:50.609 --> 02:06:56.760
We were worried that he would grab another victim.
1887
02:06:56.800 --> 02:07:00.539
As night falls, the manhunt becomes much more difficult. But
1888
02:07:00.640 --> 02:07:02.539
failure is not an option.
1889
02:07:03.979 --> 02:07:07.399
We had one of the greatest threats to the community
1890
02:07:07.420 --> 02:07:09.119
that the community has seen in a long time.
1891
02:07:11.229 --> 02:07:14.689
And for a local restaurant owner, it's a threat that's
1892
02:07:14.869 --> 02:07:23.079
all too real. After abducting and assaulting two women in Vancouver,
1893
02:07:23.460 --> 02:07:26.699
David Snow is being hunted by police in Mount Seymour
1894
02:07:26.779 --> 02:07:31.399
Provincial Park. They don't know he's managed to flee the
1895
02:07:31.579 --> 02:07:37.789
area and choose another victim at a secluded restaurant. No! No!
1896
02:07:38.210 --> 02:07:38.390
No!
1897
02:07:40.329 --> 02:07:42.750
Snow forces the woman to the back of the building,
1898
02:07:43.489 --> 02:07:46.300
but he's unaware that she was able to trigger the
1899
02:07:46.380 --> 02:07:55.090
restaurant's silent alarm. With most law enforcement resources diverted to
1900
02:07:55.149 --> 02:07:59.430
Mount Seymour, it falls on Constable Peter Cross and his partner,
1901
02:07:59.510 --> 02:08:01.350
John Westmore, to respond.
1902
02:08:03.250 --> 02:08:06.529
We were doing what you would call standard routine police calls.
1903
02:08:07.159 --> 02:08:08.460
We got two calls for alarms.
1904
02:08:08.720 --> 02:08:11.579
One was in Edgemont Village, and the second alarm was
1905
02:08:11.659 --> 02:08:14.680
for the Bridge House restaurant. To this day, I have
1906
02:08:14.720 --> 02:08:16.520
no idea why I chose the Bridge House, because we
1907
02:08:16.539 --> 02:08:19.029
were actually driving by the other alarm to get to
1908
02:08:19.069 --> 02:08:19.909
the Bridge House for the alarm.
1909
02:08:21.130 --> 02:08:25.189
Nothing appears out of place upon their arrival. And they
1910
02:08:25.210 --> 02:08:26.369
can't hear the victim.
1911
02:08:26.449 --> 02:08:26.930
Rue!
1912
02:08:27.609 --> 02:08:51.420
Rue! Rue! Constable Cross finally arrives at the back of
1913
02:08:51.479 --> 02:08:52.020
the building.
1914
02:08:58.520 --> 02:09:00.279
Breathe!
1915
02:09:00.770 --> 02:09:02.970
And that's when he starts running.
1916
02:09:07.510 --> 02:09:10.890
In one fell swoop, Cross brings to an end Snow's
1917
02:09:11.069 --> 02:09:15.989
deadly rampage. Go back to the woman back there. She
1918
02:09:16.020 --> 02:09:16.300
needs help.
1919
02:09:20.310 --> 02:09:24.130
I said, you're the fellow we're looking for, aren't you?
1920
02:09:24.289 --> 02:09:25.430
And he said, yeah, I think so.
1921
02:09:33.569 --> 02:09:35.050
You're going to be okay. Can you hear me?
1922
02:09:35.109 --> 02:09:37.890
Snow's victim is alive, if just barely.
1923
02:09:38.229 --> 02:09:41.270
We were told by the hospital staff that she was
1924
02:09:41.270 --> 02:09:46.090
30 to 45 seconds away from dying. To come across
1925
02:09:46.149 --> 02:09:48.220
someone that is in the process of being killed is
1926
02:09:48.479 --> 02:09:51.920
extremely rare. To have the ability to stop it and
1927
02:09:51.939 --> 02:09:53.930
have the ability to catch the guy doing it, I
1928
02:09:53.970 --> 02:09:57.630
think it's, yeah, it's one of those moments in time that, yeah,
1929
02:09:57.649 --> 02:10:00.289
you're pretty proud of it when you're done.
1930
02:10:04.630 --> 02:10:07.310
Snow first stands trial in British Columbia.
1931
02:10:09.069 --> 02:10:12.449
We were able to secure convictions against David Snow for
1932
02:10:12.489 --> 02:10:18.569
several counts of abduction, forcible confinement, sexual assault, and aggravated assault.
1933
02:10:21.279 --> 02:10:25.119
After being sentenced, he's returned to Ontario to stand trial
1934
02:10:25.149 --> 02:10:26.619
for the Blackburn homicides.
1935
02:10:28.569 --> 02:10:32.710
A DNA sample is obtained from him and it's subsequently
1936
02:10:32.810 --> 02:10:36.649
matched to the blood in the Blackburn car.
1937
02:10:37.930 --> 02:10:41.329
Police see that years of neglect have left Snow's gums
1938
02:10:41.510 --> 02:10:45.529
prone to bleeding. Poor hygiene caused him to leave key
1939
02:10:45.649 --> 02:10:46.510
evidence behind.
1940
02:10:47.649 --> 02:10:50.060
On top of all the circumstantial evidence that we had,
1941
02:10:50.680 --> 02:10:55.210
That was the bonus to show that there was David
1942
02:10:55.270 --> 02:10:59.489
Snow's blood in the deceased car that was irrefutable.
1943
02:11:04.949 --> 02:11:08.449
David Snow is convicted of two counts of first-degree murder.
1944
02:11:09.210 --> 02:11:12.430
The body of Carolyn Case is eventually recovered, but for
1945
02:11:12.489 --> 02:11:15.569
lack of evidence, he's never charged with her slaying.
1946
02:11:15.909 --> 02:11:18.710
I don't believe that there's any evidence redeeming merit in
1947
02:11:18.750 --> 02:11:21.750
David Snow whatsoever. He's not an individual that could come
1948
02:11:21.789 --> 02:11:22.850
back into the community.
1949
02:11:26.390 --> 02:11:31.449
The viciousness that he displayed, his ruthlessness, I find to
1950
02:11:31.489 --> 02:11:36.380
be just chilling. I have no idea what drove him.
1951
02:11:36.619 --> 02:11:39.680
The psychiatrist will spend years studying as to what prompted
1952
02:11:39.720 --> 02:11:40.659
him to this behavior.
1953
02:11:43.680 --> 02:11:44.359
I would drive him home.
1954
02:11:44.359 --> 02:11:49.890
10 or 11 o'clock at night, two of us on
1955
02:11:49.930 --> 02:11:54.529
the pitch black dirt roads. I never thought twice about it.
1956
02:11:57.329 --> 02:12:01.609
Declared a dangerous offender, David Snow will spend the rest
1957
02:12:01.649 --> 02:12:03.829
of his life behind bars.
1958
02:12:12.899 --> 02:12:13.960
Thank you for watching.
1959
02:13:03.489 --> 02:13:06.029
Thank you for watching.
1960
02:14:26.680 --> 02:14:26.859
I'm sorry.