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A string of lethal carjackings terrorize the Washington, D.C. area.
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Ballistics reveal that it's the work of a serial killer
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who tries to run over one victim with his own car.
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The FBI and police set a clever trap, but the
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killer insists on a violent shootout.
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In the early 90s, a serial killer stalked lone victims
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in the dead of night. His hunting ground, the suburbs
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of Washington, D.C. His target, anyone who owned a car.
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I'm Jim Kallstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office.
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The gunman was as elusive as he was deadly. He
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struck quickly and without mercy. Now the FBI must follow
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the twisted path of a killer wherever it leads.
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November 13th, 1991. Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb north of Washington, D.C.
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Montgomery County Police respond to a report of shots fired
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at a car dealership. Officers discover the body of a
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woman shot in the chest and forehead.
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Call the medical examiner.
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And another gunshot victim nearby. He's got a pulse! The
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man is breathing but unconscious. Paramedics rush him to the hospital.
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Montgomery County Homicide Detective Ed Day coordinates his department's swift
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response to the slaying.
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You saturate the case as fast as you can, work
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on it as fast as you can, get as much
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information as fast as you can, and try to resolve
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it as fast as you can. Unfortunately, homicides, time is terrible.
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The more time goes by, the less your odds are
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that you're gonna have a satisfactory conclusion in the investigation.
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Investigators learn the two victims are janitors. They were cleaning
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the building that night and would have come outside around
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10 p.m. to dump the garbage. The detectives work to
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determine a motive for the attack.
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You don't overlook the obvious. You have a shooting like
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this at a car lot. Is that a possible motive
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for the killing, the theft of a car? Of course,
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they had representatives from the auto dealer come out, do
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an inventory. There was no vehicles missing. There was no
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property missing from the inside of the establishment.
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Investigators locate the victim's car keys nearby and determine neither
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of their personal vehicles are missing. Robbery does not seem
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to be the motive.
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Nothing was taken. They had money on them. There wasn't
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a single thing missing.
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Are you Mr. S.
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As far as the tenant position?
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Yes, I am. With almost no evidence to go on,
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Detective Day hopes to learn more from the critically wounded man.
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We do that with any kind of a shooting that's
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potentially fatal. There's a rule in law that a dying
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declaration does not have to be corroborated. It's not hearsay
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because if the person knows he's going to die, he's
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assumed to be able to be telling the truth. So
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if you can get a statement from somebody in really
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serious circumstances, then it's always a very, very powerful piece
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of evidence.
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But the victim dies nine days later without ever regaining consciousness.
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During the autopsy, the medical examiner recovers the only piece
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of physical evidence, the bullets that killed the victims. at
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the Maryland State Police Crime Lab, ballistics expert Joe Capera
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examines the evidence to determine if there was more than
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one shooter.
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There was a microscopic comparison done to determine if these
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bullets were fired from the same gun. And indeed, as
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a conclusion to these examinations, I concluded that these bullets
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were fired from the same gun.
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Examining the scratch patterns on the bullets, Capera determines the
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make and model of the murder weapon.
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I was able to ascertain, first of all, the caliber
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of the gun, which was a.
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357, and then through the measurements of.
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The unique landing groove areas, I was able to ascertain
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that it was a Ruger.
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357.
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With no obvious motive for the slayings, Detectives explore the
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victims' personal lives for clues.
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You work inside out. You try to find out if
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these people had any enemies, if there was any triangle,
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you know, thwarted lover or something like that. These things
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take you in a hundred different directions, and you just
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have to take care of one thing at a time.
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You eliminate something, and you move on to the next
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issue and just go from there.
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Detectives find nothing in the victim's backgrounds that could have
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led to their murders. Since investigators found the victim's car
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keys near the bodies, they decide to re-examine the slayings
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as a failed car theft. With that possible motive in mind,
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detectives speculate how the crime might have occurred.
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They were cleaning. The business was closed for the night.
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They were taking the trash out.
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Hey! Detective suspect the gunman demanded the victim's car keys.
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Based on the position of the woman's body relative to
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her keys, they believe she tried to run.
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And you have to make the assumption that he lost
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control of the situation and decided to kill the two
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of them before he identified what car belonged to them.
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He escalated an attempt theft into a murder for no
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good reason.
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With little evidence to go on, the case grows cold. Then,
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three months later, Investigators respond to the scene of another homicide.
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They find the body of psychology professor Dr. Shaheen Hastroudi
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lying in a parking lot in Bethesda, Maryland. Unable to
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locate her car, detectives believe she was the victim of
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a fatal carjacking. Noting the lack of blood spatter evidence
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near the body, They suspect Hestruti's assailant shot her while
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she was still inside her car. Through interviews with her colleagues,
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authorities determined Dr. Hestruti left her office around 8 p.m.
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She's obviously accosted. At some point gets in her car.
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Get in the car! Just start it.
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Just start the car.
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Just start the car. Just start the car.
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Don't touch her!
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Once she's already in the car, she's shot. Don't! She's
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taken out of the car, dumped on the lot. And
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the suspect steals her car. Gunshot wound to the head.
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large caliber, no witnesses.
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The only solid evidence is a pair of bullets recovered
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from the victim's body. Investigators send the bullets to the
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Maryland State Police Crime Lab to compare them with the
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bullets from the double homicide. It is a match. the
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two crimes are connected. Homicide detectives begin examining unsolved cases
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involving similar circumstances. One detective recalls a recent homicide which
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occurred a month before his Trudy was killed. That victim
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was also shot in the head with a large caliber gun.
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As in the Silver Spring double homicide, responding officers found
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the victim's keys near his body. But this victim didn't
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own a car, which leads investigators to question whether car
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theft was the motive, or if the case is even
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connected to the other shootings.
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But we said, you know, this is looking like they're
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definitely linked for some reason.
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So authorities locate the bullet from that case and send
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it to be tested. Ballistics expert Joe Capera compares the
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bullets from the four homicides.
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I did a cross comparison examination to the previous bullets.
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And as a result of that examination, I found out
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that all the bullets were fired from the same weapon.
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Investigators have connected the four homicides through the ballistic evidence
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and an apparent car theft motive, but they cannot understand
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why the killer chose to murder his victims.
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None of these people were armed. Stature-wise, none of these
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people I thought were particularly a threat to the suspect.
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two possibilities, that he lost control of them and felt
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the best way to regain control of the situation was
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to kill them, or there was some psychological reason that
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he didn't like these particular people.
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Detectives believe they are dealing with an extremely violent and
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unpredictable criminal and suspect he may still be in the area.
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Montgomery County was his basis of operation. That's where he
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felt most comfortable. That's where he did all his murders.
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That's where he did his in his most risky business.
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That's where he laid in wait for people. So it
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was obvious he had some strong tie to Montgomery County.
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Investigators suspect he will strike again and hope to stop
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him before he does. But they have no clues that
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can help identify him. And the killer's weapon is the
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only thing that can connect him to the murders.
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The best evidence we got is bullets. And if we
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can get him and get the gun, then we definitely
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have a very, very strong case.
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Authorities don't want to give the killer a reason to
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destroy his gun, and with it, their only evidence. so
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they decide to keep the ballistics match away from the media.
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If we supplied the information to the press that all
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the bullets came from the same gun, it would be
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a good likelihood that he would dispose of the weapon
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or he would, in the worst-case scenario, obtain a different
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weapon and keep committing the crime.
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More than a week after the Hastruti killing, a man
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wearing a stocking mask and latex gloves robs a bank
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in Chantilly, Virginia. The bank's video security system captures his image.
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A witness tells the FBI that the bank robber fled
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in a late model white vehicle and gives them the
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license plate number. The description of the getaway car matches
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the vehicle stolen from Hostruti, attracting the attention of Montgomery
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County detectives. But the license plate is not Hostruti's. Investigators
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trace the plate and discover it had been stolen from
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a vehicle in Annandale, Virginia. For detectives, this leaves open
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the possibility that Hastrudi's car was used in the bank robbery.
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The Montgomery County Task Force, which now includes agents from
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the FBI, requests copies of the bank's surveillance tapes to
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learn what they can about the robber. Investigators watch the
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crime unfold and notice the robber is carrying a revolver
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of the same make and caliber used in the four homicides.
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They think he could be the killer. The footage is
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the best lead they have in identifying a suspect, according
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to FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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We had a great piece of video that actually showed
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the individual the handgun. That picture was actually put on
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the news locally and regionally to try to see if
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we could spark some interest as far as someone identifying him.
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Investigators also release information that their suspect, the money he stole,
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and the vehicle he was driving may be covered in
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red dye.
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The teller managed to slip dye packs into the bag
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of money. And a dye pack is a device that,
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once it goes through the door of the bank, it's
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electronically activated. There's a timer on it. It gives a
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person a little bit of time to get away from
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the bank. And then it explodes, spewing this terrible red dye.
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It stains, it's very difficult to get off. It gets
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on the money and it can't, will not come off
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the money. It takes a while to get it off
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you personally.
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Five days after the bank robbery, police in Northern Virginia
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find an abandoned car bearing the stolen plates reported by
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the witness. A check of the vehicle identification number proves
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that it is a Strudy's car. The officer peers inside,
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examining the interior.
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We had the red dye stains in it from the
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dye packs from the bank. We had proof positive that
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it had been used in the bank robbery.
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Officers impound the vehicle and transport it to the police
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garage for processing. Technicians find bloodstains inside the car and
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collect samples as evidence. But they do not find anything
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that can identify the killer. Lab examiners extract DNA from
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the blood evidence and compare it to Hastroudi's. It is
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a match. Right over on the bank. Finally, investigators are
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able to look at the various crimes and understand their
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suspect's overall plan.
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It's gelled into something that makes a little bit of sense.
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You went from a situation where you had a whole
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bunch of motives that really didn't make sense to now
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a concrete motive. This person is killing people to steal
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cars to commit bank robberies.
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Although authorities now understand why the suspect is murdering innocent people,
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they have no clue who he is. Investigators face the
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nearly impossible challenge of identifying and catching a ruthless gunman
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before he kills again. The FBI and Maryland's Montgomery County
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Police are hunting a killer who has already committed four
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homicides as well as a bank robbery. Several FBI agents
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are part of the task force pursuing the gunman, including
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Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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One of the main roles of the FBI, specifically in
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this type of a crime, is that we work with
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many different agencies to corral all of the investigators and
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bring forth the information in one kind of a think tank.
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This multi-agency approach is an invaluable investigative resource for Montgomery
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County Homicide Detective Ed Day.
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When you start working with multiple jurisdictions on different cases, well,
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the more jurisdictions that are involved, the more jurisdictions have
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an interest, the more assets you can draw from.
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The task force now understands their suspect's crime pattern. He
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steals a person's car at gunpoint, killing his victim, then
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uses the vehicle in a bank robbery. Investigators continue to
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look for past unsolved cases that involved a similar pattern.
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Nothing occurs in a vacuum. Somebody doesn't just start killing people,
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so that's when we really started doing the research.
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They identify an incident that occurred in their county almost
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a year earlier. Is this your car? No, it's not
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my car.
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Our victim was a maintenance man, an Hispanic male.
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Give me your keys!
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He was accosted by a white male carrying a large
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caliber dark handgun.
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Where's your car? When the masked gunman asked for the
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victim's car keys, the man claimed he didn't own a car.
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Oh.
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The suspect demanded to know which car belonged to him.
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He was told to turn around and face away from
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the suspect, get down on his knees and put his
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hand behind his head.
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Where's your car?
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Where is your car?
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Our victim at that time felt quite certain that he
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was going to be executed. Suspect fired three shots. One
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of the shots hit him in the forearm.
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The victim managed to flee down an alley and hide
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behind a bush.
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And spent some minutes there waiting for the situation to
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calm down.
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After 10 minutes, the victim returned to the street and
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waved down the first car he saw, hoping for assistance.
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To his horror, it was the gunman. an alert neighbor
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had called police. The victim's life was spared. The following day,
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a witness reported seeing a masked gunman leaving the scene
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of a bank robbery in Centerville, Virginia. Police later recovered
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the getaway vehicle and determined it was the car stolen
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from the maintenance man. Investigators examine the evidence gathered at
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the scene of the carjacking. All they have is a
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bullet fragment that was lodged in the victim's arm. Ballistics
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expert Joe Capera.
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One does not necessarily need the whole bullet as long
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as the fragment that is left that he is examining
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has enough ballistic evidence on it that he can use.
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He tests the fragment against the other recovered bullets to
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determine if that case is connected to their current investigation.
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The bullet fragment matches, but the task force is still
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no closer to identifying their suspect. With little hard evidence,
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investigators study the killer's behavior as exhibited through his actions,
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searching for clues to his identity. Authorities examine the newly
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linked case and determine he is unusually bold and cocky.
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When the investigators got together and discussed the commitment level
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of this individual to stay at a crime scene for
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10 minutes waiting for a witness to come back, raised
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our level of concern about the subject himself.
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He's not in a big hurry. It feels pretty comfortable
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that the police aren't going to be there anytime soon.
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Investigators also believe the suspect has a quick-tempered, vengeful personality.
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He's very upset with his victim. He's decided that he
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has been himself wronged in some way, and he's going
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to make him pay for it.
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But authorities cannot understand why the suspect uses what appears
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to be an unnecessary level of violence during the carjackings.
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It does not make sense to kill somebody in the
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least risky part of the crime. The biggest risk he's
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taken is when he goes into those banks, as far
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as getting captured, being identified, or running into any real obstacles.
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Taking these people, you know, innocent people off in the
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middle of the night in a ground of his own
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choosing where he can isolate them. I mean, he's safer
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at that location than he is anywhere else and anything
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else he does. It just doesn't make sense why he
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chose to kill these people.
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Your suspect is not only dangerously disturbed, but also clever.
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One of the more interesting parts of the M.O. that
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this individual used was the number of jurisdictions through which
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he perpetrated his crimes.
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He exploits the fact that no single police department can
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readily see his entire crime pattern.
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We have a carjacking in one jurisdiction. We have a
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stolen tag from a second jurisdiction. We have a bank
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robbery in a third jurisdiction. And then we have the
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car abandoned in a fourth jurisdiction.
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The gunman's efforts to stymie police do not stop there.
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Each time he abandons a stolen car, he leaves it
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unlocked with the keys in plain view.
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One of the difficult parts of recovering the vehicles following
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the robberies is that they were being driven by other people.
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By leaving the vehicle with the keys in it, the
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vehicles were then subsequently re-stolen, leaving the vehicles to be
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re-stolen destroyed whatever forensic evidence would have.
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Been left behind.
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So the only thing we had to match all of
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the crimes was the forensic evidence from the ballistics.
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Investigators continue to look for additional unsolved carjackings in which
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the vehicle was later used in a bank robbery. They
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identify a case that occurred within miles of the other thefts.
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A woman was walking out of a doctor's office and
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realized that she was being followed. She turned to try
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to go back to the doctor's office but was confronted
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by the individual and then asked for her keys.
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They walked over to the car. Come on, come on,
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come on.
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Start it. Start the car.
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Start the car. The gunman forced the frightened woman to
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start her car.
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And upon starting the vehicle, had her get out and
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kneel down next.
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To a wall.
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No, no, no.
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On your knees.
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Get your hands up.
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There you go.
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Upon kneeling down, he had her wait there for a
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short period of time.
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She's described as 30 or 40 seconds past. You have
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to wonder, how much of that time did he spend
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thinking about whether or not he was going to shoot her?
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She was very compliant, did everything she was told to
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do right when she was told to do it. That
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might have saved her.
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The next day, her vehicle was used in a bank robbery.
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The investigators wonder why their suspect allowed this woman to
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live yet killed the others. They come up with several theories.
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The fact that she was a Caucasian female might have
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had something to do with it. He might have had
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harbored some malice towards Hispanic people or foreign people. It
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could be something simple about he lost control in those situations.
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In fact, the best way to gain control was to
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kill him.
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The task force has little to work with, but is
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determined to go on the offensive.
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Now we're trying to figure out how can we get
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ahead of him? How can we be in a position
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where we can be waiting for him when he does something?
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Or we can be prepared to mobilize very quickly with
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the resources necessary to get him.
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The investigators focus on the one aspect of the suspect's
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crime pattern that they can anticipate.
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We could not predict when a carjacking would take place.
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They were too random. We did, however, know that following
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the carjacking, we would have a bank robbery.
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If authorities can only predict which banks he will rob
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or where he will be traveling, they might have a
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chance to catch him. A masked gunman strikes again and
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again in suburban Maryland, just north of the nation's capital.
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He shoots his victims while stealing their cars, which he
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later uses to rob banks. In the spring of 1992,
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the FBI and Montgomery County Police analyzed their suspect's habits
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in hopes of trapping him. Homicide detective Ed Day.
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We had people take aerial photographs of every crime scene
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and the different escape routes and things of that nature,
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trying to find some logical pattern to what he was doing,
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something that would maybe give us a clue What are consistencies?
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What are inconsistencies? Is there anything like that that we
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can use to our advantage to foretell what he might
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do next?
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On the surface, the list of crime scenes appears random.
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But a closer look by investigators reveals all the banks
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he robbed share a single trait.
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Everywhere he went he had access to a major roadway
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that would take him pretty quickly to a thoroughfare like
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495 or 270 or something like that.
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The task force shifts their focus from predicting where the
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suspect will strike next to catching him when he makes
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his escape after a bank robbery. They decide they will
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cast a dragnet on all highway exit ramps in the area.
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FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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We developed a plan where we would cast a net
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using all of the jurisdictions, law enforcement within the Washington area,
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to where once the bank robbery were to take place,
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he would have to pass through some points of the net.
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Meeting with officers from every police department in the area,
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the task force details their plan. They will watch for
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any carjacking reports resembling their suspect's M.O. Officers from each
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jurisdiction will then prepare for a quick response if a
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bank is subsequently robbed. They will immediately stake out pre-assigned
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highway exit ramps targeting the stolen car.
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There was enough support at each particular location that he
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could be followed. We could bring to bear enough additional
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manpower to make a stop of our choosing and, of course,
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affect an arrest if we were lucky enough to spot him.
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Ready to cast their net, investigators wait for the suspect
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to steal a car.
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At 5 a.m.
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Each morning, Special Agent Coffey begins his day by reviewing
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the reports of all the area car thefts from the
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night before. He looks for the one that matches their
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suspect's M.O. If the suspect stole a car, the task
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force needs to identify it before banks open at 9.
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But months pass with no sign of their suspect. Investigators
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begin to worry that the killer has gone underground and
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may never be caught.
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We assume he's obviously stressed at this particular point. He's
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feeling the heat of the notoriety of what he's done.
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October 9th, 1992. Eight months after the killer's most.
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Recent slaying, I get notification from our Baltimore agents that
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another carjacking has taken place. We've got a white male
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with a ski mask, latex gloves, and a handgun. It's
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taken place all the way up in Baltimore.
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At approximately 7 a.m., a 15-year-old girl walked to her
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mother's car. Suddenly, an armed man approached her and demanded
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the keys.
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You pick them up or I'll kill you, you stupid.
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A housing police officer heard this and came to her aid.
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Get away from the car! Get away from the car!
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Get away from the car!
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Get away from the car!
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There was an exchange of gunfire.
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And the carjacker took her vehicle and fled the scene.
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We were feeling very good because we had very, very
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fresh information and we knew he was on the move
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and he was in Baltimore and more than likely on
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the way back here.
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The task force determines there is no need to wait
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for a bank robbery.
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Based on that information, the task force casts the net
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around the Washington metro area, hoping that he's going to
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come back through that net.
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Patrolmen and SWAT units from jurisdictions throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C.,
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and Northern Virginia race to prearranged locations on freeway exit
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ramps to watch for the stolen car. Since police cannot
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be sure if the suspect has had time to switch
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the license plates, they pull over every vehicle matching its description. Driver,
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cut the car off! The car off! Each time, they
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know they may face a shooter who has already taken
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four lives.
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Slowly!
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Let me see your hands!
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Let me see your hands!
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Driver, walk back!
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Driver, hope you go slowly! The FBI and police departments
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throughout the Washington, D.C. area hunt a suspected killer. They
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stop every vehicle matching the description of the one they
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believe he stole an hour earlier. Police pull over dozens
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of cars that come up empty. What's going on?
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We got a girl.
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As the search continues, 50 miles away in Western Maryland,
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Brunswick police officer Gary Klein is on routine patrol.
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I observed a small black and color passenger vehicle. I
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saw that there was no front license plate on it.
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And as the vehicle passed me, I looked over and
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observed the driver had an eye on stopping, pulled down
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over his face. Kind of shocked me and I was like,
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I'm not really sure what's going on here, but kind
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of drew my attention real quick. I turned around, caught
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back up to the car, radioed my dispatchers and the
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911 center and requested information on the tag. And the
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subject in the small black car sped off and wouldn't
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pull over for me. Then I'm informed by our dispatchers
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that this subject is wanted for shooting at a Baltimore
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City officer.
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The hundreds of officers mobilized in the D.C. area are
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too far away to assist. Officer Klein is alone against
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a ruthless killer.
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The adrenaline's pumping now because I'm pursuing this vehicle. Knowing
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somewhere in there I'm going to have to confront this individual.
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The speeds that we maintained in some places were 90
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mile per hour to a little over 100 mile per hour.
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Officer Klein chases the suspect from Maryland into Virginia.
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He was very intent on getting away from me. He
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just went straight down the middle of the bridge, just
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forcing people east and westbound out of his way. I
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had to back off because I didn't want to endanger
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myself or the innocent people or citizens out on the streets.
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where he was actually able to gain a good bit
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of distance on me. But once the roadway cleared up
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a little bit where I could safely get through the vehicles,
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I was able to catch back up to him.
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The client pursues the suspect into West Virginia.
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Made a right off Route 340 and he went down
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this small asphalt road and when he hit that he
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was going too fast with the rain and everything and
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lost control and struck the curb. Stepped out of the
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vehicle with my weapon drawn and I seen him kind
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of lean over in the car towards the passenger seat
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and I seen the gun come up inside the car.
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Officer Klein is concerned about firing his gun in a
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public place.
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When you discharge your weapon, you just don't want a
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round just going out there somewhere, and you could strike
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somebody innocent. You have a split second to make this decision,
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and whatever decision you make can affect you for the
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rest of your life. At that point, he placed the
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car in reverse and sped backwards quickly towards my cruiser
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in what I believe was an attempt to ram my
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car or strike me. He proceeded down a small access road,
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and I proceeded after him. He sped into this little
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dead-end dirt gravel area, and he tried to go behind
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this bulldozer and wrecked into it. There's nowhere for him
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to go, and now I have to confront him. At
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that time, I see the gun coming up. which just
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kind of made my heart jump out of my chest.
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While the suspect ducks for cover, Officer Klein strategically moves
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to his right.
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You don't want to stay in one position, especially after
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he already knows where you're at.
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Klein's tactic works. The suspect fires at the position where
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Klein used to be.
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I actually fired more shots at him as he ran
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to get to the backside of his car for cover.
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With backup units still minutes away, the lone officer fights
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to stay alive in a violent face-off with a vicious killer.
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A suspected killer is in a desperate shootout on Harpers Ferry,
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West Virginia, with lone police officer Gary Klein.
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I see him start to come up from behind his car.
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through the passenger side window with the gun raised and
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he's coming up. I remember firing at him and striking
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the car and he ducked down behind the car again.
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Several seconds passed, he raises back up. You can hear it,
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the actual sound of the bullet striking the car, the metal,
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and he ducks back down behind the car again.
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And finally, backup arrives.
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When they put their hand on my shoulder and I
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knew who they were, it was this big relief. Burden
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was lifted off my shoulders because now I knew I
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had fellow officers there. Within the next 10 minutes, police
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officers from several jurisdictions were on the scene.
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The gunman realizes he is outnumbered.
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Then the suspect stood up and walked out in front
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of myself and my cruiser, probably about 15 yards, and
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put the gun to his head. And I continued to
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yell at him to drop the gun, to throw the
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gun on the ground. There was a time he told
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me he wouldn't do that.
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West Virginia State Police Corporal John Jeffries begins negotiating with
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the gunman.
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We can work through this.
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Let me help.
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After several minutes of negotiation, the suspect then pulled the
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nylon stocking up on the top of his head. Still
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wasn't able to really get a good, clear look at him.
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The suspect begins to talk. He says he's an unemployed
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house painter.
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He said that he was just upset. He had had
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some relation problems with his girlfriend. That he had done
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some things he wasn't real happy about and just All
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these things had piled up and just troubled him, and
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he didn't know why he was doing the things he
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was doing.
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After a 45-minute standoff, the gunman makes an unusual demand.
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I remember him saying he wanted to talk to his mother.
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So he gave his mother's name and phone number.
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Several tense minutes pass as police attempt to reach the
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suspect's mother.
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He advised the suspect that they had his mother on
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the phone.
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The woman on the line asks the negotiator for the
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suspect's name.
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He identified himself as Alan Newman. He wasn't real sure
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of the police. He didn't know if we were just
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lying to him or what we were doing.
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Yes, it is.
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He said, well, ask my mom what my favorite cookie is.
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I remember Corporal Jeffries saying, your mom said your favorite
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cookie is chocolate chip. And he started crying. It really
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shocked me because I thought he was just going to
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drop the gun and give up. You see the hammer
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coming back and everything's like slow motion. You see the
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hammer drop. waiting for the gun to go off.
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And it didn't. Seizing the opportunity, officers rush in and
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subdue the gunman, ending the standoff.
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After it was all over and done, I'm very relieved.
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I'm very appreciative of all the guys that were there
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that day. I was able to help to get this
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person off the street. put him where he needed to
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be so that nobody else would be hurt.
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Police take Alan Newman into custody and confiscate his Ruger.
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357 as evidence. It is the same model used in
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the murders, according to FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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From the prior ballistics, we knew what type of gun
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it would be. It would have been a specific Ruger make,
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and in fact, that's what he was carrying. the same
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types of bullets that were used in the shootings and
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the homicides were, in fact, still in the weapon.
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You have told us that over and over. After nearly
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a year of hard work, investigators finally meet the killer
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face to face.
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We no longer have someone running throughout the counties killing
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people for cars. We were very excited about getting the
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chance to talk to the individual to find out why.
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While Newman admits to the Baltimore carjacking, he refuses to
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admit to any of the murders, according to homicide detective
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Ed Day.
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Throughout the interview process, he remained pretty cocky, and he
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thought it was pretty cool.
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Investigators continue to press Newman while at a firearms laboratory.
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A ballistics expert fires Newman's gun into an 800 gallon
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tank of water. The examiner compares the unique markings on
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the fired bullet to those on the bullets recovered from
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the four murders and the attempted homicide. Ballistics expert Joe Capera.
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It is a scientific certainty that this is the firearm
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that fired these bullets.
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And no other firearm could possibly do that.
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After hours of interrogation, investigators received the ballistics report.
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That's like the magic piece of evidence. That's the one
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that you really knew would seal the whole case. We
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had physical, undeniable evidence that we could put in front
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of a jury that he could not refute in any way, shape,
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or form. We could convict him without much trouble, and
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we could have gotten the death sentence with the information
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that we had, which put it over the top, and
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he decided it was best to make a deal for
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life rather than take the chance on being executed.
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Alan Newman pleads guilty to all the charges against him
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and is sentenced to five life terms without parole, plus
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100 years for handgun violations.
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Looking back, it was the collective efforts of more than
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a dozen police agencies contributing interviews and evidence that led
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to the successful conclusion of this case.
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The accomplishment for all police officers and all investigators is
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to arrest a bad guy and put him in jail,
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and when you do that, You get a nice warm
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feeling for about 10 minutes until the next case comes
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in and you have to start all over again.
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But for now, every investigator who worked this case is
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content to know they have ended one man's violent rampage.
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A string of lethal carjackings terrorize the Washington, D.C. area.
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Ballistics reveal that it's the work of a serial killer
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who tries to run over one victim with his own car.
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The FBI and police set a clever trap, but the
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killer insists on a violent shootout.
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In the early 90s, a serial killer stalked lone victims
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in the dead of night. His hunting ground, the suburbs
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of Washington, D.C. His target, anyone who owned a car.
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I'm Jim Kallstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office.
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The gunman was as elusive as he was deadly. He
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struck quickly and without mercy. Now the FBI must follow
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the twisted path of a killer wherever it leads.
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November 13th, 1991. Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb north of Washington, D.C.
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Montgomery County Police respond to a report of shots fired
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at a car dealership. Officers discover the body of a
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woman shot in the chest and forehead.
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Call the medical examiner.
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And another gunshot victim nearby. He's got a pulse! The
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man is breathing but unconscious. Paramedics rush him to the hospital.
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Montgomery County Homicide Detective Ed Day coordinates his department's swift
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response to the slaying.
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You saturate the case as fast as you can, work
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on it as fast as you can, get as much
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information as fast as you can, and try to resolve
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it as fast as you can. Unfortunately, homicides, time is terrible.
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The more time goes by, the less your odds are
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that you're gonna have a satisfactory conclusion in the investigation.
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Investigators learn the two victims are janitors. They were cleaning
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the building that night and would have come outside around
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10 p.m. to dump the garbage. The detectives work to
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determine a motive for the attack.
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You don't overlook the obvious. You have a shooting like
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this at a car lot. Is that a possible motive
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for the killing, the theft of a car? Of course,
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they had representatives from the auto dealer come out, do
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an inventory. There was no vehicles missing. There was no
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property missing from the inside of the establishment.
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Investigators locate the victim's car keys nearby and determine neither
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of their personal vehicles are missing. Robbery does not seem
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to be the motive.
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Nothing was taken. They had money on them. There wasn't
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a single thing missing.
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Are you Mr. S.
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As far as the tenant position?
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Yes, I am. With almost no evidence to go on,
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Detective Day hopes to learn more from the critically wounded man.
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We do that with any kind of a shooting that's
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potentially fatal. There's a rule in law that a dying
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declaration does not have to be corroborated. It's not hearsay
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because if the person knows he's going to die, he's
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assumed to be able to be telling the truth. So
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if you can get a statement from somebody in really
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serious circumstances, then it's always a very, very powerful piece
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of evidence.
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But the victim dies nine days later without ever regaining consciousness.
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During the autopsy, the medical examiner recovers the only piece
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of physical evidence, the bullets that killed the victims. at
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the Maryland State Police Crime Lab, ballistics expert Joe Capera
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examines the evidence to determine if there was more than
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one shooter.
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There was a microscopic comparison done to determine if these
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bullets were fired from the same gun. And indeed, as
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a conclusion to these examinations, I concluded that these bullets
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were fired from the same gun.
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Examining the scratch patterns on the bullets, Capera determines the
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make and model of the murder weapon.
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I was able to ascertain, first of all, the caliber
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of the gun, which was a.
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357, and then through the measurements of.
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The unique landing groove areas, I was able to ascertain
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that it was a Ruger.
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357.
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With no obvious motive for the slayings, Detectives explore the
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victims' personal lives for clues.
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You work inside out. You try to find out if
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these people had any enemies, if there was any triangle,
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you know, thwarted lover or something like that. These things
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take you in a hundred different directions, and you just
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have to take care of one thing at a time.
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You eliminate something, and you move on to the next
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issue and just go from there.
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Detectives find nothing in the victim's backgrounds that could have
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led to their murders. Since investigators found the victim's car
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keys near the bodies, they decide to re-examine the slayings
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as a failed car theft. With that possible motive in mind,
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detectives speculate how the crime might have occurred.
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They were cleaning. The business was closed for the night.
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They were taking the trash out.
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Hey! Detective suspect the gunman demanded the victim's car keys.
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Based on the position of the woman's body relative to
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her keys, they believe she tried to run.
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And you have to make the assumption that he lost
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control of the situation and decided to kill the two
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of them before he identified what car belonged to them.
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He escalated an attempt theft into a murder for no
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good reason.
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With little evidence to go on, the case grows cold. Then,
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three months later, Investigators respond to the scene of another homicide.
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They find the body of psychology professor Dr. Shaheen Hastroudi
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lying in a parking lot in Bethesda, Maryland. Unable to
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locate her car, detectives believe she was the victim of
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a fatal carjacking. Noting the lack of blood spatter evidence
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near the body, They suspect Hestruti's assailant shot her while
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she was still inside her car. Through interviews with her colleagues,
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authorities determined Dr. Hestruti left her office around 8 p.m.
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She's obviously accosted. At some point gets in her car.
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Get in the car! Just start it.
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Just start the car.
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Just start the car. Just start the car.
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Don't touch her!
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Once she's already in the car, she's shot. Don't! She's
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taken out of the car, dumped on the lot. And
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the suspect steals her car. Gunshot wound to the head.
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large caliber, no witnesses.
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The only solid evidence is a pair of bullets recovered
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from the victim's body. Investigators send the bullets to the
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Maryland State Police Crime Lab to compare them with the
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bullets from the double homicide. It is a match. the
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two crimes are connected. Homicide detectives begin examining unsolved cases
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involving similar circumstances. One detective recalls a recent homicide which
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occurred a month before his Trudy was killed. That victim
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was also shot in the head with a large caliber gun.
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As in the Silver Spring double homicide, responding officers found
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the victim's keys near his body. But this victim didn't
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own a car, which leads investigators to question whether car
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theft was the motive, or if the case is even
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connected to the other shootings.
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But we said, you know, this is looking like they're
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definitely linked for some reason.
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So authorities locate the bullet from that case and send
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it to be tested. Ballistics expert Joe Capera compares the
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bullets from the four homicides.
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I did a cross comparison examination to the previous bullets.
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And as a result of that examination, I found out
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that all the bullets were fired from the same weapon.
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Investigators have connected the four homicides through the ballistic evidence
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and an apparent car theft motive, but they cannot understand
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why the killer chose to murder his victims.
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None of these people were armed. Stature-wise, none of these
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people I thought were particularly a threat to the suspect.
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two possibilities, that he lost control of them and felt
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the best way to regain control of the situation was
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to kill them, or there was some psychological reason that
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he didn't like these particular people.
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Detectives believe they are dealing with an extremely violent and
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unpredictable criminal and suspect he may still be in the area.
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Montgomery County was his basis of operation. That's where he
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felt most comfortable. That's where he did all his murders.
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That's where he did his in his most risky business.
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That's where he laid in wait for people. So it
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was obvious he had some strong tie to Montgomery County.
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Investigators suspect he will strike again and hope to stop
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him before he does. But they have no clues that
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can help identify him. And the killer's weapon is the
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only thing that can connect him to the murders.
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The best evidence we got is bullets. And if we
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can get him and get the gun, then we definitely
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have a very, very strong case.
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Authorities don't want to give the killer a reason to
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destroy his gun, and with it, their only evidence. so
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they decide to keep the ballistics match away from the media.
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If we supplied the information to the press that all
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the bullets came from the same gun, it would be
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a good likelihood that he would dispose of the weapon
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or he would, in the worst-case scenario, obtain a different
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weapon and keep committing the crime.
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More than a week after the Hastruti killing, a man
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wearing a stocking mask and latex gloves robs a bank
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in Chantilly, Virginia. The bank's video security system captures his image.
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A witness tells the FBI that the bank robber fled
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in a late model white vehicle and gives them the
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license plate number. The description of the getaway car matches
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the vehicle stolen from Hostruti, attracting the attention of Montgomery
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County detectives. But the license plate is not Hostruti's. Investigators
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trace the plate and discover it had been stolen from
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a vehicle in Annandale, Virginia. For detectives, this leaves open
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the possibility that Hastrudi's car was used in the bank robbery.
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The Montgomery County Task Force, which now includes agents from
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the FBI, requests copies of the bank's surveillance tapes to
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learn what they can about the robber. Investigators watch the
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crime unfold and notice the robber is carrying a revolver
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of the same make and caliber used in the four homicides.
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They think he could be the killer. The footage is
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the best lead they have in identifying a suspect, according
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to FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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We had a great piece of video that actually showed
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the individual the handgun. That picture was actually put on
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the news locally and regionally to try to see if
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we could spark some interest as far as someone identifying him.
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Investigators also release information that their suspect, the money he stole,
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and the vehicle he was driving may be covered in
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red dye.
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The teller managed to slip dye packs into the bag
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of money. And a dye pack is a device that,
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once it goes through the door of the bank, it's
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electronically activated. There's a timer on it. It gives a
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person a little bit of time to get away from
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the bank. And then it explodes, spewing this terrible red dye.
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It stains, it's very difficult to get off. It gets
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on the money and it can't, will not come off
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the money. It takes a while to get it off
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you personally.
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Five days after the bank robbery, police in Northern Virginia
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find an abandoned car bearing the stolen plates reported by
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the witness. A check of the vehicle identification number proves
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that it is a Strudy's car. The officer peers inside,
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examining the interior.
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We had the red dye stains in it from the
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dye packs from the bank. We had proof positive that
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it had been used in the bank robbery.
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Officers impound the vehicle and transport it to the police
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garage for processing. Technicians find bloodstains inside the car and
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collect samples as evidence. But they do not find anything
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that can identify the killer. Lab examiners extract DNA from
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the blood evidence and compare it to Hastroudi's. It is
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a match. Right over on the bank. Finally, investigators are
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able to look at the various crimes and understand their
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suspect's overall plan.
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It's gelled into something that makes a little bit of sense.
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You went from a situation where you had a whole
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bunch of motives that really didn't make sense to now
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a concrete motive. This person is killing people to steal
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cars to commit bank robberies.
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Although authorities now understand why the suspect is murdering innocent people,
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they have no clue who he is. Investigators face the
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nearly impossible challenge of identifying and catching a ruthless gunman
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before he kills again. The FBI and Maryland's Montgomery County
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Police are hunting a killer who has already committed four
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homicides as well as a bank robbery. Several FBI agents
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are part of the task force pursuing the gunman, including
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Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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One of the main roles of the FBI, specifically in
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this type of a crime, is that we work with
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many different agencies to corral all of the investigators and
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bring forth the information in one kind of a think tank.
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This multi-agency approach is an invaluable investigative resource for Montgomery
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County Homicide Detective Ed Day.
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When you start working with multiple jurisdictions on different cases, well,
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the more jurisdictions that are involved, the more jurisdictions have
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an interest, the more assets you can draw from.
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The task force now understands their suspect's crime pattern. He
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steals a person's car at gunpoint, killing his victim, then
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uses the vehicle in a bank robbery. Investigators continue to
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look for past unsolved cases that involved a similar pattern.
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Nothing occurs in a vacuum. Somebody doesn't just start killing people,
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so that's when we really started doing the research.
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They identify an incident that occurred in their county almost
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a year earlier. Is this your car? No, it's not
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my car.
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Our victim was a maintenance man, an Hispanic male.
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Give me your keys!
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He was accosted by a white male carrying a large
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caliber dark handgun.
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Where's your car? When the masked gunman asked for the
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victim's car keys, the man claimed he didn't own a car.
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Oh.
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The suspect demanded to know which car belonged to him.
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He was told to turn around and face away from
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the suspect, get down on his knees and put his
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hand behind his head.
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Where's your car?
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Where is your car?
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Our victim at that time felt quite certain that he
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was going to be executed. Suspect fired three shots. One
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of the shots hit him in the forearm.
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The victim managed to flee down an alley and hide
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behind a bush.
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And spent some minutes there waiting for the situation to
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calm down.
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After 10 minutes, the victim returned to the street and
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waved down the first car he saw, hoping for assistance.
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To his horror, it was the gunman. an alert neighbor
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had called police. The victim's life was spared. The following day,
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a witness reported seeing a masked gunman leaving the scene
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of a bank robbery in Centerville, Virginia. Police later recovered
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the getaway vehicle and determined it was the car stolen
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from the maintenance man. Investigators examine the evidence gathered at
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the scene of the carjacking. All they have is a
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bullet fragment that was lodged in the victim's arm. Ballistics
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expert Joe Capera.
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One does not necessarily need the whole bullet as long
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as the fragment that is left that he is examining
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has enough ballistic evidence on it that he can use.
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He tests the fragment against the other recovered bullets to
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determine if that case is connected to their current investigation.
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The bullet fragment matches, but the task force is still
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no closer to identifying their suspect. With little hard evidence,
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investigators study the killer's behavior as exhibited through his actions,
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searching for clues to his identity. Authorities examine the newly
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linked case and determine he is unusually bold and cocky.
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When the investigators got together and discussed the commitment level
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of this individual to stay at a crime scene for
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10 minutes waiting for a witness to come back, raised
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our level of concern about the subject himself.
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He's not in a big hurry. It feels pretty comfortable
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that the police aren't going to be there anytime soon.
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Investigators also believe the suspect has a quick-tempered, vengeful personality.
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He's very upset with his victim. He's decided that he
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has been himself wronged in some way, and he's going
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to make him pay for it.
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But authorities cannot understand why the suspect uses what appears
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to be an unnecessary level of violence during the carjackings.
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It does not make sense to kill somebody in the
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least risky part of the crime. The biggest risk he's
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taken is when he goes into those banks, as far
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as getting captured, being identified, or running into any real obstacles.
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Taking these people, you know, innocent people off in the
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middle of the night in a ground of his own
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choosing where he can isolate them. I mean, he's safer
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at that location than he is anywhere else and anything
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else he does. It just doesn't make sense why he
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chose to kill these people.
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Your suspect is not only dangerously disturbed, but also clever.
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One of the more interesting parts of the M.O. that
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this individual used was the number of jurisdictions through which
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he perpetrated his crimes.
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He exploits the fact that no single police department can
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readily see his entire crime pattern.
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We have a carjacking in one jurisdiction. We have a
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stolen tag from a second jurisdiction. We have a bank
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robbery in a third jurisdiction. And then we have the
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car abandoned in a fourth jurisdiction.
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The gunman's efforts to stymie police do not stop there.
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Each time he abandons a stolen car, he leaves it
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unlocked with the keys in plain view.
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One of the difficult parts of recovering the vehicles following
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the robberies is that they were being driven by other people.
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By leaving the vehicle with the keys in it, the
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vehicles were then subsequently re-stolen, leaving the vehicles to be
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re-stolen destroyed whatever forensic evidence would have.
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Been left behind.
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So the only thing we had to match all of
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the crimes was the forensic evidence from the ballistics.
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Investigators continue to look for additional unsolved carjackings in which
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the vehicle was later used in a bank robbery. They
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identify a case that occurred within miles of the other thefts.
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A woman was walking out of a doctor's office and
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realized that she was being followed. She turned to try
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to go back to the doctor's office but was confronted
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by the individual and then asked for her keys.
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They walked over to the car. Come on, come on,
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come on.
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Start it. Start the car.
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Start the car. The gunman forced the frightened woman to
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start her car.
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And upon starting the vehicle, had her get out and
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kneel down next.
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To a wall.
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No, no, no.
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On your knees.
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Get your hands up.
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There you go.
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Upon kneeling down, he had her wait there for a
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short period of time.
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She's described as 30 or 40 seconds past. You have
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to wonder, how much of that time did he spend
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thinking about whether or not he was going to shoot her?
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She was very compliant, did everything she was told to
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do right when she was told to do it. That
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might have saved her.
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The next day, her vehicle was used in a bank robbery.
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The investigators wonder why their suspect allowed this woman to
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live yet killed the others. They come up with several theories.
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The fact that she was a Caucasian female might have
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had something to do with it. He might have had
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harbored some malice towards Hispanic people or foreign people. It
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could be something simple about he lost control in those situations.
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In fact, the best way to gain control was to
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kill him.
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The task force has little to work with, but is
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determined to go on the offensive.
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Now we're trying to figure out how can we get
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ahead of him? How can we be in a position
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where we can be waiting for him when he does something?
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Or we can be prepared to mobilize very quickly with
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the resources necessary to get him.
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The investigators focus on the one aspect of the suspect's
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crime pattern that they can anticipate.
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We could not predict when a carjacking would take place.
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They were too random. We did, however, know that following
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the carjacking, we would have a bank robbery.
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If authorities can only predict which banks he will rob
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or where he will be traveling, they might have a
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chance to catch him. A masked gunman strikes again and
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again in suburban Maryland, just north of the nation's capital.
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He shoots his victims while stealing their cars, which he
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later uses to rob banks. In the spring of 1992,
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the FBI and Montgomery County Police analyzed their suspect's habits
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in hopes of trapping him. Homicide detective Ed Day.
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We had people take aerial photographs of every crime scene
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and the different escape routes and things of that nature,
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trying to find some logical pattern to what he was doing,
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something that would maybe give us a clue What are consistencies?
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What are inconsistencies? Is there anything like that that we
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can use to our advantage to foretell what he might
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do next?
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On the surface, the list of crime scenes appears random.
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But a closer look by investigators reveals all the banks
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he robbed share a single trait.
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Everywhere he went he had access to a major roadway
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that would take him pretty quickly to a thoroughfare like
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495 or 270 or something like that.
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The task force shifts their focus from predicting where the
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suspect will strike next to catching him when he makes
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his escape after a bank robbery. They decide they will
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cast a dragnet on all highway exit ramps in the area.
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FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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We developed a plan where we would cast a net
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using all of the jurisdictions, law enforcement within the Washington area,
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to where once the bank robbery were to take place,
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he would have to pass through some points of the net.
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Meeting with officers from every police department in the area,
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the task force details their plan. They will watch for
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any carjacking reports resembling their suspect's M.O. Officers from each
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jurisdiction will then prepare for a quick response if a
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bank is subsequently robbed. They will immediately stake out pre-assigned
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highway exit ramps targeting the stolen car.
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There was enough support at each particular location that he
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could be followed. We could bring to bear enough additional
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manpower to make a stop of our choosing and, of course,
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affect an arrest if we were lucky enough to spot him.
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Ready to cast their net, investigators wait for the suspect
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to steal a car.
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At 5 a.m.
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Each morning, Special Agent Coffey begins his day by reviewing
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the reports of all the area car thefts from the
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night before. He looks for the one that matches their
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suspect's M.O. If the suspect stole a car, the task
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force needs to identify it before banks open at 9.
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But months pass with no sign of their suspect. Investigators
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begin to worry that the killer has gone underground and
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may never be caught.
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We assume he's obviously stressed at this particular point. He's
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feeling the heat of the notoriety of what he's done.
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October 9th, 1992. Eight months after the killer's most.
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Recent slaying, I get notification from our Baltimore agents that
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another carjacking has taken place. We've got a white male
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with a ski mask, latex gloves, and a handgun. It's
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taken place all the way up in Baltimore.
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At approximately 7 a.m., a 15-year-old girl walked to her
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mother's car. Suddenly, an armed man approached her and demanded
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the keys.
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You pick them up or I'll kill you, you stupid.
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A housing police officer heard this and came to her aid.
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Get away from the car! Get away from the car!
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Get away from the car!
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Get away from the car!
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There was an exchange of gunfire.
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And the carjacker took her vehicle and fled the scene.
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We were feeling very good because we had very, very
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fresh information and we knew he was on the move
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and he was in Baltimore and more than likely on
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the way back here.
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The task force determines there is no need to wait
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for a bank robbery.
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Based on that information, the task force casts the net
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around the Washington metro area, hoping that he's going to
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come back through that net.
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Patrolmen and SWAT units from jurisdictions throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C.,
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and Northern Virginia race to prearranged locations on freeway exit
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ramps to watch for the stolen car. Since police cannot
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be sure if the suspect has had time to switch
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the license plates, they pull over every vehicle matching its description. Driver,
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cut the car off! The car off! Each time, they
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know they may face a shooter who has already taken
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four lives.
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Slowly!
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Let me see your hands!
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Let me see your hands!
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Driver, walk back!
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Driver, hope you go slowly! The FBI and police departments
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throughout the Washington, D.C. area hunt a suspected killer. They
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stop every vehicle matching the description of the one they
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believe he stole an hour earlier. Police pull over dozens
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of cars that come up empty. What's going on?
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We got a girl.
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As the search continues, 50 miles away in Western Maryland,
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Brunswick police officer Gary Klein is on routine patrol.
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I observed a small black and color passenger vehicle. I
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saw that there was no front license plate on it.
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And as the vehicle passed me, I looked over and
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observed the driver had an eye on stopping, pulled down
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over his face. Kind of shocked me and I was like,
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I'm not really sure what's going on here, but kind
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of drew my attention real quick. I turned around, caught
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back up to the car, radioed my dispatchers and the
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911 center and requested information on the tag. And the
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subject in the small black car sped off and wouldn't
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pull over for me. Then I'm informed by our dispatchers
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that this subject is wanted for shooting at a Baltimore
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City officer.
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The hundreds of officers mobilized in the D.C. area are
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too far away to assist. Officer Klein is alone against
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a ruthless killer.
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The adrenaline's pumping now because I'm pursuing this vehicle. Knowing
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somewhere in there I'm going to have to confront this individual.
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The speeds that we maintained in some places were 90
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mile per hour to a little over 100 mile per hour.
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Officer Klein chases the suspect from Maryland into Virginia.
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He was very intent on getting away from me. He
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just went straight down the middle of the bridge, just
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forcing people east and westbound out of his way. I
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had to back off because I didn't want to endanger
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myself or the innocent people or citizens out on the streets.
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where he was actually able to gain a good bit
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of distance on me. But once the roadway cleared up
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a little bit where I could safely get through the vehicles,
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I was able to catch back up to him.
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The client pursues the suspect into West Virginia.
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Made a right off Route 340 and he went down
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this small asphalt road and when he hit that he
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was going too fast with the rain and everything and
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lost control and struck the curb. Stepped out of the
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vehicle with my weapon drawn and I seen him kind
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of lean over in the car towards the passenger seat
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and I seen the gun come up inside the car.
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Officer Klein is concerned about firing his gun in a
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public place.
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When you discharge your weapon, you just don't want a
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round just going out there somewhere, and you could strike
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somebody innocent. You have a split second to make this decision,
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and whatever decision you make can affect you for the
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rest of your life. At that point, he placed the
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car in reverse and sped backwards quickly towards my cruiser
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in what I believe was an attempt to ram my
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car or strike me. He proceeded down a small access road,
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and I proceeded after him. He sped into this little
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dead-end dirt gravel area, and he tried to go behind
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this bulldozer and wrecked into it. There's nowhere for him
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to go, and now I have to confront him. At
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that time, I see the gun coming up. which just
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kind of made my heart jump out of my chest.
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While the suspect ducks for cover, Officer Klein strategically moves
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to his right.
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You don't want to stay in one position, especially after
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he already knows where you're at.
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Klein's tactic works. The suspect fires at the position where
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Klein used to be.
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I actually fired more shots at him as he ran
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to get to the backside of his car for cover.
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With backup units still minutes away, the lone officer fights
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to stay alive in a violent face-off with a vicious killer.
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A suspected killer is in a desperate shootout on Harpers Ferry,
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West Virginia, with lone police officer Gary Klein.
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I see him start to come up from behind his car.
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through the passenger side window with the gun raised and
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he's coming up. I remember firing at him and striking
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the car and he ducked down behind the car again.
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Several seconds passed, he raises back up. You can hear it,
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the actual sound of the bullet striking the car, the metal,
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and he ducks back down behind the car again.
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And finally, backup arrives.
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When they put their hand on my shoulder and I
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knew who they were, it was this big relief. Burden
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was lifted off my shoulders because now I knew I
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had fellow officers there. Within the next 10 minutes, police
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officers from several jurisdictions were on the scene.
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The gunman realizes he is outnumbered.
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Then the suspect stood up and walked out in front
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of myself and my cruiser, probably about 15 yards, and
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put the gun to his head. And I continued to
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yell at him to drop the gun, to throw the
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gun on the ground. There was a time he told
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me he wouldn't do that.
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West Virginia State Police Corporal John Jeffries begins negotiating with
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the gunman.
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We can work through this.
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Let me help.
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After several minutes of negotiation, the suspect then pulled the
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nylon stocking up on the top of his head. Still
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wasn't able to really get a good, clear look at him.
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The suspect begins to talk. He says he's an unemployed
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house painter.
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He said that he was just upset. He had had
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some relation problems with his girlfriend. That he had done
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some things he wasn't real happy about and just All
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these things had piled up and just troubled him, and
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he didn't know why he was doing the things he
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was doing.
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After a 45-minute standoff, the gunman makes an unusual demand.
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I remember him saying he wanted to talk to his mother.
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So he gave his mother's name and phone number.
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Several tense minutes pass as police attempt to reach the
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suspect's mother.
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He advised the suspect that they had his mother on
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the phone.
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The woman on the line asks the negotiator for the
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suspect's name.
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He identified himself as Alan Newman. He wasn't real sure
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of the police. He didn't know if we were just
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lying to him or what we were doing.
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Yes, it is.
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He said, well, ask my mom what my favorite cookie is.
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I remember Corporal Jeffries saying, your mom said your favorite
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cookie is chocolate chip. And he started crying. It really
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shocked me because I thought he was just going to
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drop the gun and give up. You see the hammer
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coming back and everything's like slow motion. You see the
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hammer drop. waiting for the gun to go off.
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And it didn't. Seizing the opportunity, officers rush in and
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subdue the gunman, ending the standoff.
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After it was all over and done, I'm very relieved.
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I'm very appreciative of all the guys that were there
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that day. I was able to help to get this
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person off the street. put him where he needed to
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be so that nobody else would be hurt.
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Police take Alan Newman into custody and confiscate his Ruger.
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357 as evidence. It is the same model used in
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the murders, according to FBI Special Agent Robert Coffey.
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From the prior ballistics, we knew what type of gun
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it would be. It would have been a specific Ruger make,
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and in fact, that's what he was carrying. the same
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types of bullets that were used in the shootings and
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the homicides were, in fact, still in the weapon.
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You have told us that over and over. After nearly
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a year of hard work, investigators finally meet the killer
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face to face.
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We no longer have someone running throughout the counties killing
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people for cars. We were very excited about getting the
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chance to talk to the individual to find out why.
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While Newman admits to the Baltimore carjacking, he refuses to
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admit to any of the murders, according to homicide detective
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Ed Day.
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Throughout the interview process, he remained pretty cocky, and he
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thought it was pretty cool.
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Investigators continue to press Newman while at a firearms laboratory.
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A ballistics expert fires Newman's gun into an 800 gallon
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tank of water. The examiner compares the unique markings on
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the fired bullet to those on the bullets recovered from
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the four murders and the attempted homicide. Ballistics expert Joe Capera.
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It is a scientific certainty that this is the firearm
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that fired these bullets.
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And no other firearm could possibly do that.
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After hours of interrogation, investigators received the ballistics report.
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That's like the magic piece of evidence. That's the one
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that you really knew would seal the whole case. We
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had physical, undeniable evidence that we could put in front
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of a jury that he could not refute in any way, shape,
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or form. We could convict him without much trouble, and
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we could have gotten the death sentence with the information
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that we had, which put it over the top, and
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he decided it was best to make a deal for
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life rather than take the chance on being executed.
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Alan Newman pleads guilty to all the charges against him
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and is sentenced to five life terms without parole, plus
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100 years for handgun violations.
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Looking back, it was the collective efforts of more than
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a dozen police agencies contributing interviews and evidence that led
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to the successful conclusion of this case.
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The accomplishment for all police officers and all investigators is
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to arrest a bad guy and put him in jail,
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and when you do that, You get a nice warm
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feeling for about 10 minutes until the next case comes
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in and you have to start all over again.
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But for now, every investigator who worked this case is
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content to know they have ended one man's violent rampage.
