Speaker 1: On the third of February nineteen ninety seven, the bodies
Speaker 1: of a thirty five year old woman and a ten
Speaker 1: year old girl were discovered by firefighters as they responded
Speaker 1: to an emergency call in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 2: They knew that they're without an autopsy, that they had
Speaker 2: been murdered. Their throats were slid.
Speaker 1: The mother and daughter had become the fifth and sixth
Speaker 1: victims of a sexual sadist named Paul Rungy.
Speaker 3: The unique mo o that he had used when he
Speaker 3: was killing his victims was using a guy's or rused
Speaker 3: to lure them or to get inside their homes, and
Speaker 3: then by the end he's sexually assaulting, killing and setting
Speaker 3: their homes on fire.
Speaker 1: Years later, Rungi would shock investigators with a detailed confession
Speaker 1: of his two year crime spree.
Speaker 4: After you port a liquid on them, what you do?
Speaker 5: I walked away to bed with the match and through
Speaker 5: around that nine real fast out.
Speaker 6: Having him walk me through the crimes, how he did
Speaker 6: each one, how he basically cased the crime scenes. You know,
Speaker 6: the thought that he put into it, the premeditation. I mean,
Speaker 6: the guy was an absolute animal.
Speaker 1: The barbaric killer had gone on record Paul Rungy had
Speaker 1: become one of the world's most evil killers. Between ninety
Speaker 1: ninety five and nineteen ninety seven, Paul Rungi raped and
Speaker 1: killed six women and a young girl in Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1: The police had suspected him in the early investigation, but
Speaker 1: lacked the evidence to make an arrest, but in two thousand,
Speaker 1: a DNA match taken from his youngest victim finally led
Speaker 1: to his conviction.
Speaker 6: They were watching him, I mean, the FBI was involved,
Speaker 6: and that doesn't happen in local murders all the time.
Speaker 6: So they were onto him, and they were watching him.
Speaker 6: But they needed a break. They needed a big break,
Speaker 6: and the big break came in the DNA.
Speaker 1: When confronted, Rungi confessed to killing thirty five year old
Speaker 1: Yolando Gutierrez and her ten year old daughter, Jessica Munis,
Speaker 1: and began to divolse the horrifying intricacies of many more murders.
Speaker 5: I want to do the right thing. Help you know,
Speaker 5: for I've been trying to do the whole time. I
Speaker 5: didn't have for recurring to that stuff you on the code.
Speaker 4: I'm guilty. I did my stuff.
Speaker 3: He was almost like gratuitous and sharing the details of
Speaker 3: these crimes, like he was proud of himself, like he
Speaker 3: was bragging, and it was almost like he wanted to
Speaker 3: show police, you know, look how look what I was
Speaker 3: able to accomplish.
Speaker 1: This killer's story begins on the twenty eighth of January
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. Paul Frederick Rungey was born in Illinois and
Speaker 1: adopted as an infant.
Speaker 6: He told me that he was raised in a very
Speaker 6: loving family in the south suburbs of Chicago, Oak Forest, Illinois.
Speaker 6: He sent to good schools. He had a younger brother.
Speaker 6: He told me that his mother was very loving.
Speaker 3: Paul Rundy was extremely close to his adoptive mother when
Speaker 3: she was the person that chose to adopt him. I
Speaker 3: think he really took to that and they had a
Speaker 3: very strong attachment.
Speaker 1: As a young boy, Rangi displayed some troubling behavior while
Speaker 1: attending the local Catholic school.
Speaker 3: Rungji had a history at a very young age of
Speaker 3: starting to show this sexual deviance towards other girls, and
Speaker 3: he would grab them touch them in appropriate ways.
Speaker 1: Around the age of eight, he was asked to leave
Speaker 1: the school.
Speaker 7: The fact that a boy of this age is actually
Speaker 7: asked to leave an educational institution shows that his behavior
Speaker 7: really walls off the scale in terms of being unacceptable.
Speaker 1: The scales would be tipped again in nineteen eighty four, when,
Speaker 1: at the age of just fourteen, Rangi was accused of
Speaker 1: raping two girls.
Speaker 3: Once they were questioned by police, they seemed to say
Speaker 3: that this was actually more consensual than the originally had claimed,
Speaker 3: and Runjie was like girl.
Speaker 7: I think it sends a very significant message out to
Speaker 7: him that actually, this kind of behavior isn't all that serious.
Speaker 1: At the age of seventeen, a traumatic event in the
Speaker 1: teenager's life would trigger an escalation in his behavior that
Speaker 1: would lead to more serious consequences.
Speaker 8: In nineteen eighty seven comes probably the most significant moment
Speaker 8: in Paul Rangy's life. His mother is suffering from cancer
Speaker 8: and she's dying.
Speaker 7: He's actually at home with her on the day that
Speaker 7: she passes away.
Speaker 3: This is extremely traumatizing, especially for a child that's already
Speaker 3: been in some ways abandoned by parents when he was
Speaker 3: put up for adoption.
Speaker 7: But one thing that we need to remember is that
Speaker 7: he was engaging in inappropriate and abusive behavior towards girls
Speaker 7: before this event actually happens, So it doesn't explain why
Speaker 7: he went on to do.
Speaker 8: What he did.
Speaker 1: In August nineteen eighty seven, whilst grieving the death of
Speaker 1: his adoptive mother, Rangi inflicted unspeakable torture on a schoolgirl
Speaker 1: three years his junior.
Speaker 6: He called a fourteen year old girl at one o'clock
Speaker 6: in the morning. His father is out of town, and
Speaker 6: he entakes the girl to meet him.
Speaker 8: But what she doesn't know is that he's going to
Speaker 8: keep her hostage for the weekend and sexually abuse her
Speaker 8: throughout that time in the most vicious, premeditated, and ruthless manner.
Speaker 7: He's lured this girl to his house. He strikes her
Speaker 7: over the head. She becomes very disorientated, and what follows
Speaker 7: on from this is is a sustained and violent and
Speaker 7: adistic sexual attack. It really was incredibly depraved.
Speaker 6: Eventually, he placed her in a sleeping bag and put
Speaker 6: her in the cross base the house, you know, and
Speaker 6: taped up and told her to shut up and stay there,
Speaker 6: and she was able to escape, run out into the
Speaker 6: street and get some help from her passer by.
Speaker 1: Seventeen year old Rangi was arrested shortly after the attack
Speaker 1: and would later plead guilty to aggravated kidnapping and sexual assault.
Speaker 6: He is sentenced to fourteen years in prison, and in
Speaker 6: Cook County you get day for day good time. So
Speaker 6: he was released seven years later in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 7: I think this sends a very important message to him
Speaker 7: again that sexual violence towards women, especially this nature, is
Speaker 7: not something that's really going to result in a massively
Speaker 7: long prison sentence.
Speaker 1: After being released from prison, twenty four year old Rungi
Speaker 1: met his girlfriend Charlene, who was known as Sherry. In
Speaker 1: late nineteen ninety four, he moved in with Sherry and
Speaker 1: her housemate Dina Bartolini, who got on well with the couple.
Speaker 9: He was funny, he was charming, you know, he laughed
Speaker 9: all the time. It was just he was just like
Speaker 9: a really kind of fun guy to be around. He'd
Speaker 9: wake up in the morning, go to work, come home,
Speaker 9: we'd do dinner or order out or whatever, and he
Speaker 9: would help clean. It's just he was a normal everyday person.
Speaker 8: Except he wasn't. He most certainly was not.
Speaker 1: On the third of January nineteen ninety five, just months
Speaker 1: after his release from prison, Paul Rangi killed for the
Speaker 1: first time. Twenty four year old Stacy Bell was an
Speaker 1: old friend who'd recently been reunited with Dina and Sherry,
Speaker 1: and the friends were looking forward to catching up.
Speaker 9: She was a friend of ours from when we used
Speaker 9: to go to the bars during on the weekends and
Speaker 9: we used to go to the forest reserves and we
Speaker 9: just hang out there, and which was kind of like
Speaker 9: part of the group that we used to hang around with.
Speaker 9: She was such a sweetheart. She had come over earlier
Speaker 9: during the day. He were kind of going through old
Speaker 9: pictures and she was having such a good time. She's like, well,
Speaker 9: let me go home. She's like, I want to come back.
Speaker 9: Maybe I have you know, have some drinks whatever, and
Speaker 9: just you know, continue this reminiscing.
Speaker 1: Years later, when recounting the events of that night, Rangie
Speaker 1: would claim that Sherry called him before Stacey returned.
Speaker 5: Calling at work and she said that she couldn't have
Speaker 5: stayre and that she probably will be a good candidate
Speaker 5: for heaven every week.
Speaker 9: Slapped and having a good time. I was actually sick
Speaker 9: that night. I was like running one hundred three fever.
Speaker 9: I think I had one wine cooler. I'm like, all right, guys,
Speaker 9: my head kind of went really warm and I went
Speaker 9: to bed.
Speaker 5: So you went upstairs to the room and uh, I
Speaker 5: want to first. Our man put some good music on
Speaker 5: and he was kind of sick or you know, kind
Speaker 5: of really drunk and that stuff, and kind sure, he
Speaker 5: went upstairs and Sherry came in and we went to
Speaker 5: our bedroom and said, well, stay, can spend the night.
Speaker 9: That's I remembered. I think I woke up to her
Speaker 9: the bathroom and Sherry said that she was gonna Stacy's
Speaker 9: gonna spend the night because she was drinking.
Speaker 1: RANGEI later claimed that Sherry was angry with Stacy and
Speaker 1: that led to him targeting his girlfriend's sleeping friends.
Speaker 10: Weight was sitting on the on the table in our bedroom,
Speaker 10: and I said okay, and I took the the waight
Speaker 10: up when I went to room, and she lay out
Speaker 10: of bed, you know, come from I went to the
Speaker 10: room and I.
Speaker 4: Hit her on the head twice.
Speaker 6: And then.
Speaker 4: We are kind await he did you know? And then
Speaker 4: she did not reply at once.
Speaker 7: He's starting off with somebody he knows. It's almost a
Speaker 7: kind of warm up killing. It's one that he feels
Speaker 7: confident that he can accomplish.
Speaker 1: When Dina woke the next morning, she was surprised to
Speaker 1: learn that Stacy had not stayed the night.
Speaker 9: I think I was halfway down the stairs and I
Speaker 9: didn't see see her. I figured she'd be a sleeping
Speaker 9: on the couch and Cirline came by. She you know,
Speaker 9: came came towards me, and I'm like, worre Stacy.
Speaker 6: You know, well she is not here.
Speaker 9: So her husband wanted her home, so she drove home.
Speaker 1: But Stacy hadn't made it home.
Speaker 5: And when Dina went to work, I brought stage in
Speaker 5: a bathroom and uh put in a bathrober.
Speaker 4: I closed the door and I saw her after he
Speaker 4: had finished.
Speaker 5: What did you do?
Speaker 4: H hearing? Get me a kitchen bags at the kitchen
Speaker 4: garbage bags, but the piece of into the garbage bay.
Speaker 1: That evening, Rungy and Sherry asked to borrow Dina's car.
Speaker 4: We couldn't put that buying parts in my car.
Speaker 9: Small boltho. They decided my vehicle to go to the
Speaker 9: store or something because there's had no gas. And then
Speaker 9: they left and came back. So it was for me
Speaker 9: it was so big deal to give them the key,
Speaker 9: saying go ahead.
Speaker 4: Find burn car.
Speaker 10: Hey did he dropped them all in one place or
Speaker 10: he scared they were all.
Speaker 1: The following day, the fifth of January, Stacey Froebel's husband
Speaker 1: reported her missing after she failed to return home from
Speaker 1: the Rangy House. Police questioned all three housemates.
Speaker 9: We found out that she never made it home, and
Speaker 9: then we found out that her car was found over
Speaker 9: in Hanover Park somewhere, I think in front of a bar.
Speaker 9: So that was really kind of creepy. It was like, Wow,
Speaker 9: what happened to Stacy. We had people, we had, you know,
Speaker 9: police over and asking us questions about you know, Stacy
Speaker 9: being there that night and if we seen anything weird
Speaker 9: or you know, and as far as I knew, of course,
Speaker 9: she went home because her husband wanted her home.
Speaker 1: The housemates were shaken by their friend's mysterious disappearance.
Speaker 9: Well, he talked about it a lot, wondering where she
Speaker 9: went after she left our townhouse when she never made
Speaker 9: it home. So we used to discuss that and what
Speaker 9: happened to her about you know who, maybe she met
Speaker 9: somebody at a bar. I mean, we had no idea.
Speaker 3: He was so arrogant and confident about his lie and
Speaker 3: trying to put her housemate off the sense that he
Speaker 3: was able to get away with it. And that's just astonishing.
Speaker 1: Two weeks after she was reported missing, police received a
Speaker 1: call from a dog walker who discovered body parts twenty
Speaker 1: miles away at the Illinois Wisconsin border. It would be
Speaker 1: many months before DNA would identify the victim of Stacy Froebel.
Speaker 1: The news came as a shock to her friend Dina,
Speaker 1: who was no longer living with Rungi.
Speaker 9: So that was really it's really quite upsetting to find
Speaker 9: out that she her party was found somewhere, just bits
Speaker 9: and pieces of it. I don't think they even found
Speaker 9: her whole party, So yeah, it was. It was weird
Speaker 9: and what happened. We didn't know why. I did know
Speaker 9: what happened to her. Nobody knew what happened to her. Well,
Speaker 9: I didn't know what happened to her.
Speaker 1: Raungi married Sherry just weeks after killing Stacy Froebel, but
Speaker 1: when investigators learned of the newlywed previous conviction for the
Speaker 1: depraved attack on a teenage girl, he became the prime
Speaker 1: suspect in Stacy's murder.
Speaker 3: They believe that Rangi had committed the murder of Froebel,
Speaker 3: but they couldn't prove it to the amount they needed
Speaker 3: to arrest him and bring charges against him.
Speaker 8: He may be a person of interest in inquiry, but
Speaker 8: nothing certain, no hard evidence. So inspired or perhaps encouraged
Speaker 8: by that success, if you like, with Stacy Froebel, Runge
Speaker 8: kills again.
Speaker 1: Years later, Rungi described how in July of nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: he and his wife had targeted two Bosnian sisters under
Speaker 1: the guise of setting up a fake cleaning company. Assistant
Speaker 1: State's Attorney General Bob Milin remembers the hallowing recollection.
Speaker 6: So Janet and Amelia Pegan Bevick came over the United
Speaker 6: States from Basnia to start a new life.
Speaker 8: They've been in the country about six months. They're twenty
Speaker 8: two and twenty looking for work, keen to establish themselves
Speaker 8: in the community.
Speaker 6: They found out through a friend that they worked with,
Speaker 6: that Paul Rangy and his wife were going to start
Speaker 6: a cleaning business. Rangy and his wife eventually brought the
Speaker 6: girls over to their house in July twelfth, nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 6: under the rules that they were going to interview them
Speaker 6: for this cleaning business.
Speaker 8: But what they don't realize, and that's the horrifying part.
Speaker 8: What they don't realize is just how much danger they
Speaker 8: are both in.
Speaker 1: The real reason for luring the women back to the
Speaker 1: house soon became clear when Rangi made them a proposition
Speaker 1: of a very different a foursome with him and his wife.
Speaker 5: He kind of looks having funny and it says off
Speaker 5: to her sister, all right about sex, and she's like,
Speaker 5: what do you mean sex? I meant the four of
Speaker 5: us having sex upstairs in the bedroom for money, and uh,
Speaker 5: you know, she looked back for her sister and said
Speaker 5: something to her sister, and her sister got out and ran.
Speaker 6: The one sister broke for the door. She actually ran
Speaker 6: and actually got outside the back door.
Speaker 5: I called by the back of the hair to pull
Speaker 5: her down the ground, wars, collars of the ground, the concrete,
Speaker 5: the driveway.
Speaker 4: Yes, what happened to her when we did that?
Speaker 5: Uh, she didn't put her hands back. She went straight down,
Speaker 5: figure out her hands on the concrete.
Speaker 6: She was hurt so badly that she was throwing up
Speaker 6: and almost unconscious, and he dragged her back in the house.
Speaker 1: When the sister saw her injured sibling, she started screaming and.
Speaker 6: Took the sister that was screaming, and he handcuffed her
Speaker 6: to a weight bench. Down in the in the basement,
Speaker 6: and then he started to assault the sister that was
Speaker 6: injured in front of the other sister.
Speaker 4: Afterwards, she said, she said, why are you doing this?
Speaker 4: You're looking guy, why are you doing this? What did
Speaker 4: you say to her? Hide and saying and thought about it.
Speaker 5: I was kind of thinking for myself. You know, I
Speaker 5: don't understand this. You know, why is why is turned?
Speaker 4: Why turnament like this?
Speaker 5: And I couldn't She was right, I didn't understand its.
Speaker 6: Fo A girl was screaming on the weight bench, trying
Speaker 6: to pull her hand away, screaming, you know my sister
Speaker 6: and my sister, please don't do that to my sister.
Speaker 6: He eventually brought the injured sister upstairs and uh drowned
Speaker 6: her in a bath tube.
Speaker 4: And you go by back downstairs. What happens? Cheers down
Speaker 4: there and the girl and that's what was that? What
Speaker 4: was that?
Speaker 5: And I said, we talked, I my sister and I said,
Speaker 5: she drowned and he took and she started screaming.
Speaker 7: You can just imagine the level of fear and just
Speaker 7: the violence that's gone on in this particular attack.
Speaker 6: He then repeatedly raped the second sister in the basement
Speaker 6: while she was handcuffed to the weight bench. Eventually he
Speaker 6: brought her upstairs and strangled her, put her in the
Speaker 6: bathtub and dismember both of their bodies.
Speaker 4: After you dismembered the bodies, what did you do with
Speaker 4: the biopat? I put him into locasing in the bags?
Speaker 4: How many garbage bags did you fill a bipart?
Speaker 5: Maybe eight to ten?
Speaker 1: It was a horrifying confession.
Speaker 4: After he ate dinner. What happened later on that night?
Speaker 4: We drove to some farmers nearby and put the bags
Speaker 4: and DULC.
Speaker 1: Detectives looking into the reported disappearance of Janet and Amila
Speaker 1: learned that a mutual friend of the Rungies and the
Speaker 1: sisters had helped set up a meeting about a cleaning job.
Speaker 1: This was later confirmed when investigators made a vital discovery
Speaker 1: in the couple's garbage.
Speaker 6: They found in there the note that he or Sherry
Speaker 6: wrote out that connected them to the Bosnian sisters. Okay,
Speaker 6: their numbers were on there.
Speaker 1: Hanover Park PD now had three women who were never
Speaker 1: seen alive again after visiting the Rungies. It was too
Speaker 1: much of a coincidence, so now.
Speaker 6: They knew the police The police knew.
Speaker 1: In search of the definitive evidence they needed to prove it,
Speaker 1: FBI approached Rungi's former housemate, Dina. I was surprised to
Speaker 1: learn that he'd become a suspect.
Speaker 9: I found out Paul was involved when the FBI came
Speaker 9: knocking out my door. For I'm like, WHOA, what do
Speaker 9: you guys want to do with me? But it was
Speaker 9: like they said, they said, you're not you know, you're
Speaker 9: not any trouble. We just want to talk to you.
Speaker 9: And basically they proposed that I try to help them
Speaker 9: try to get some information from Shirlenipaul.
Speaker 1: Dina agreed to wear a wire and visited the Rangis,
Speaker 1: who were now living with his father in Glendale Heights.
Speaker 1: The attempts proved unsuccessful.
Speaker 9: Ahead of feeling they knew something was up, though, I mean,
Speaker 9: I'm not a very good actress, so they were very
Speaker 9: very quiet. They didn't give up any information.
Speaker 1: The FBI and the police were convinced of Rungi's involvements,
Speaker 1: but had no proof. Aware that he was being watched,
Speaker 1: the sexual say this was about to change tactics and
Speaker 1: take his killing spree to another level.
Speaker 3: Renji seemed to have a slight change in his mL
Speaker 3: where he went from being almost responsive to the environment
Speaker 3: to actually going into the environment to pick his ideal victim.
Speaker 1: In January nineteen ninety seven, Rangi was working as a
Speaker 1: delivery driver when he noticed a for sale sign as
Speaker 1: he drove past the house of single mother Derota Dorothy Dubach.
Speaker 8: Now he's a very sly operator. He goes to a
Speaker 8: local payphone and rings her up and says, I see
Speaker 8: you're selling your house. I'd really quite like to see
Speaker 8: it in sense, endears himself to her using that plausible
Speaker 8: manner on surface, nothing to fear.
Speaker 1: On the tenth of January, Rangi told Dorothy to arrange
Speaker 1: a second viewing.
Speaker 3: He was playing the part of a buyer that was
Speaker 3: trying to make a decision in a short time frame
Speaker 3: and needed to see the home twice. He could have
Speaker 3: used the time in between his two showings of the
Speaker 3: home to cool off, think about his decision, decide not
Speaker 3: to commit murder, but instead, I think that time in
Speaker 3: between actually served to get him more excited about the crime.
Speaker 6: Her daughter wasn't home that day, so Dorothy called one
Speaker 6: of her very good friends and she said, I got
Speaker 6: this guy coming over he was here the other day.
Speaker 6: Is kind of weird. She said. If you don't hear
Speaker 6: from me in fifteen minutes, and she was half joking,
Speaker 6: you know, call the police.
Speaker 1: As she showed Rangi around, Dorothy explained that she was
Speaker 1: having problems with the furnace and an engineer was due
Speaker 1: to visit that day to carry out repairs. Posing as
Speaker 1: the concerned byer, Rangi wanted to inspect it himself, and I.
Speaker 5: Gor I buy he was wrong, and she came over
Speaker 5: to look, and came over to look. I pushed her
Speaker 5: on the floor anyway, as then I screamed the color show.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to her chuck and do anything required.
Speaker 4: If you want to see your daughter, don't don't do
Speaker 4: it me. I colors van up and water into.
Speaker 6: Rangi. Uh was a very disarming guy, which made him
Speaker 6: even more frightening. He he talked his way into He
Speaker 6: told me over a hundred houses. If you met him,
Speaker 6: he came to your door and asked to use the
Speaker 6: phone or ask for directions or whatever you'd let him in.
Speaker 6: Very frightening guy.
Speaker 1: After raping Dorothy, Rangi claimed he forced her to shower
Speaker 1: before taking her back into the bedroom and tying her hands.
Speaker 4: Okay, where'd you do that? Later? On her bed?
Speaker 5: And what position is the layer the bat player on
Speaker 5: his iron stomach that player based on the goal. Okay,
Speaker 5: what'd you do that?
Speaker 4: Uh? I got on proper. I lean leaned on her
Speaker 4: with my hand like this.
Speaker 5: On the high part of the backloor neck area, and
Speaker 5: I was talking to her.
Speaker 4: I said, don't say anything, don't tell my boy, you
Speaker 4: don't do anything. I'm not gonna come back. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna hurt you or you or your daugh or anything
Speaker 4: like that. Uh. That was that was pretty much. It
Speaker 4: were you leaning hard or laying stuff.
Speaker 5: I was late enough of I guess do are What
Speaker 5: do you mean by that? Because when I got out.
Speaker 4: Of her, she works more. She wanted to reason that.
Speaker 4: I realized she started hearing the cold.
Speaker 1: Paul Rangey had now cruelly taken four lives and was
Speaker 1: quick to make sure he left no evidence that might
Speaker 1: lead the police to his door.
Speaker 4: Wanted to do that, crew and crew and clothes for
Speaker 4: your reason very night the cloud. I don't all the
Speaker 4: draw attention. I don't serve there. I don't know, as
Speaker 4: he ignited the clouset. Wanted to do where did you
Speaker 4: go work?
Speaker 1: A short while later, the furnace engineer arrived to find
Speaker 1: the house ablaze. The fire department raced to the scene
Speaker 1: and discovered Dorothy's body on the bed.
Speaker 2: At first determined that you know, okay, well, maybe she
Speaker 2: died of the fire. She might have been smoking or
Speaker 2: something like that. However, when an autopsy was conducted, it
Speaker 2: was determined that number once, she had no smoke in
Speaker 2: her lungs, which means she wasn't breathing when the fire
Speaker 2: was on U two, they noticed signs of trauma.
Speaker 1: The pathologists found evidence that suggested Dorothy had been tied
Speaker 1: up and strangled.
Speaker 8: There are also signs of sexual assault. So what looked
Speaker 8: like a terrible accident is actually a cold bloody, premeditated murder.
Speaker 1: Rungi's previous victims had all visited his home and been
Speaker 1: killed there, but his change in tactics meant he was
Speaker 1: operating under the police's radar in a new area, Cook County,
Speaker 1: Paul Rangi had already killed, unbeknownst to investigators, he was
Speaker 1: now stalking his prey.
Speaker 8: Less than a month later, Rangi strikes.
Speaker 1: Again, responding to a local selling ad for a children's
Speaker 1: reading program known as Hooked on Phonics. He posed as
Speaker 1: an interested father and visited the apartment of thirty five
Speaker 1: year old Yolanda Gutierres and her ten year old daughter Jessica.
Speaker 6: Came over to her place to see it one morning,
Speaker 6: early before Jessica went to school, and he actually side Jessica.
Speaker 6: He saw Eline the goodiere is found her attractive, and
Speaker 6: he looked at hooked down Phanix and said he wanted
Speaker 6: to think about it, and he left.
Speaker 8: Why should they not think this chap is turned up,
Speaker 8: isn't a legitimate buyer? It was to cost them their lives.
Speaker 1: Rangi had assessed his potential victims, reassured that she was
Speaker 1: single and that there would be no obstacles to his attack.
Speaker 1: Three days later, on the third of February nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 1: he returned to the apartment.
Speaker 4: Amen, I turned her uncle the door. I called my
Speaker 4: bone my jacket.
Speaker 5: And grabbed her around the front and put it right
Speaker 5: to a cross.
Speaker 1: Tragically, Jessica was also home that day.
Speaker 4: Daughter say anything, no, she's doing anything. No, thanks for
Speaker 4: the shack look. And then those go tip out of
Speaker 4: pocket and I tip her hands find a bag and
Speaker 4: then the little girl can't find.
Speaker 6: A bed, got him behind the bed, he repeatedly raped them.
Speaker 7: Jessica had been subjected to quite a sustained, sadistic sexual
Speaker 7: attack at the same time her mother had, So this
Speaker 7: tells us that this killer has no boundaries. He has
Speaker 7: no limits. The fact that there's a ten year old child,
Speaker 7: there is not something that puts his brakes on or
Speaker 7: gets in his way or stops him from doing what
Speaker 7: he wants to do. If anything, she's part of the
Speaker 7: appeal for him.
Speaker 1: Rangi slashed the throats of the mother and her young daughter.
Speaker 1: The twenty seven year old killer once again set about
Speaker 1: covering his tracks. This time he'd come prepared.
Speaker 6: So he had his briefcase, and inside the briefcase he
Speaker 6: had the duct tape, He had a knife, he had
Speaker 6: the flammable substance in there, and he poured the flammable
Speaker 6: substance all over both of them.
Speaker 4: Keep pour the liquid and on what you do. I
Speaker 4: walked away to the bed with the.
Speaker 5: Match and through around that, and thegnited real fast out
Speaker 5: Why did you do that?
Speaker 4: To a high defect of where it is?
Speaker 5: The next carus I can't tell why I got next.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know I don't know why did that.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Fire Department arrived soon after being alerted by
Speaker 1: a member of the public. It was a harrowing scene.
Speaker 2: They knew that without an autopsy, that they had been murdered.
Speaker 2: Their throats were slit, and they were were partially new.
Speaker 1: Whilst Raungi remained prime suspect in the investigation into the
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five killings of three women who disappeared after
Speaker 1: visiting his home, nobody knew he was also responsible for
Speaker 1: the recent murders in Cook County. In March, investigators had
Speaker 1: another body on their hands when a female was found
Speaker 1: dead following a fire at her home.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was no doubt when they got there
Speaker 2: that there was a crime, they had been committed, that
Speaker 2: she had been murdered, and that a fire had been
Speaker 2: set to cover up.
Speaker 1: The victim was later identified as katimra Peru, and it
Speaker 1: soon emerged that just like the murder of Dorothy Dubak,
Speaker 1: the forty five year old woman had been selling her
Speaker 1: apartment and Rungi had already been to Wrecki the scene
Speaker 1: of the crime.
Speaker 6: He would go over and case the place, which he
Speaker 6: did in all three cases. Case it looked it over,
Speaker 6: made sure nobody else's around, and then he'd return to
Speaker 6: those scenes and attack.
Speaker 1: On the fourteenth of March nineteen ninety seven, Rungi returned
Speaker 1: to the apartments.
Speaker 5: I was like getting ready to leave, and I said, okay,
Speaker 5: thanking that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: I turned then I turned back.
Speaker 5: She turned around the other way, and I read it
Speaker 5: from behind him on the floor in the back of
Speaker 5: the back area. Puts her down through the ground. She
Speaker 5: started reading real bad, profusely, and that would happened. I
Speaker 5: stood up and walked her to the bathroom.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what happened in the bathroom.
Speaker 5: I laid her down on the floor in the bathroom
Speaker 5: and she was kind of kind of rioting and she's.
Speaker 4: Still waiting real bad, and I put her pans off.
Speaker 6: We raped her. She did wake up and try to
Speaker 6: fight back. She actually grabbed an iron that was nearby
Speaker 6: and tried to hit him in the head.
Speaker 4: Well, I just kind of went like, there's my arm
Speaker 4: and cowd coilet.
Speaker 6: Then he strangled her and asphyxiated her on the on
Speaker 6: the floor. After he raped her again, he took a
Speaker 6: flammable substance ordered over her body and in the bathroom
Speaker 6: and set it on fire and left the same.
Speaker 1: Chah and Mirror had been desperate to return home to
Speaker 1: her native Poland, but Rungi had cruelly snuffed out her dream.
Speaker 7: So the victims are all women who live without a
Speaker 7: male partner. They're all women who have something that they're selling,
Speaker 7: usually their home, their property. And this is just a
Speaker 7: pattern that is not going to emerge randomly. The killings
Speaker 7: are too close together, and it's just far too much
Speaker 7: of a coincidence.
Speaker 1: Chicago PD investigators now knew they had a serial killer
Speaker 1: on the loose who'd murdered four people in the space
Speaker 1: of just three months.
Speaker 6: The police were able to link the murders together because
Speaker 6: of how similar they were, well committed around the same time,
Speaker 6: in the same way, what the place has been set
Speaker 6: on fire, The police were pretty certain that who was
Speaker 6: the same actor.
Speaker 1: Investigators had no clue as to who this sadistic individual was. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: detectives over in Hanover Park investigating the murders of the
Speaker 1: three women that had visited Rungy's home, were confident that
Speaker 1: he was their killer, but had yet to find the
Speaker 1: evidence to prove it. Unbeknownst to the two investigating teams,
Speaker 1: they were seeking the same man, although without evidence connecting
Speaker 1: him to the murders of Stacy Frobel and sisters Emila
Speaker 1: and Janet Passenbegovich. Hanover Park had an ace up their
Speaker 1: sleeve that would get Rungy off the streets.
Speaker 6: Who still have pral for what he did to the
Speaker 6: little girl back in eighty seven. In nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 6: they conducted a search warrant on his father's home and
Speaker 6: they found in their weapons. They found a stun gun.
Speaker 6: They found combat knives and some other weapons in their
Speaker 6: cross that he wasn't supposed to have.
Speaker 1: The possession of weapons was a violation of his parole,
Speaker 1: and in May nineteen ninety seven, twenty seven year old
Speaker 1: Rungi was arrested.
Speaker 6: They filed a petition called the Sexually Violent Person's Petition. Well,
Speaker 6: they have evidence that a person is sexually violent and
Speaker 6: then he found these weapons and that he should be
Speaker 6: taken off the streets, so we could take our time
Speaker 6: and build a case.
Speaker 1: If investigators couldn't find something new, Paul Rungi would walk free.
Speaker 3: They are left just thinking that this person almost certainly
Speaker 3: committed this crime, but they can't actually prove it. They
Speaker 3: couldn't prove it to the amount they needed to arrest
Speaker 3: him and bring charges against him.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and three, years after he was sent
Speaker 1: back to jail, investigators were running out of options. They
Speaker 1: turned to rungis now ex wife, offering her immunity if
Speaker 1: she testified against him. Charlene took the deal and admitted
Speaker 1: to luring the sisters to their home under false pretenses,
Speaker 1: cleaning up after all three murders and helping Rungi dispose
Speaker 1: of the bodies. Whilst Hanover Park geared up to put
Speaker 1: Rungi on trial, scientists were re examining evidence from the
Speaker 1: Chicago PD fire murders. They had a breakthrough that would
Speaker 1: finally expose the full extent of the killer's actions.
Speaker 7: In September of two thousand, there is a DNA match
Speaker 7: which emerges from the body of little ten year old Jessica,
Speaker 7: and it's a match for Rungy's DNA.
Speaker 6: The DNA. It's a game changer. It was a game changer.
Speaker 7: Rungi is a killer who thinks he's incredibly smart, that
Speaker 7: he's just going to get away with it, that he's
Speaker 7: thought of everything. But the one thing that he hadn't
Speaker 7: anticipate it would be that science would catch up with him.
Speaker 1: Now investigators knew that Paul Rungi was also responsible for
Speaker 1: the four fire murders. It was a memorable moment for
Speaker 1: Assistant States Attorney Bob Mylin.
Speaker 6: When I went in, gave him his rights, introduced myself,
Speaker 6: said I understand you when I heard from me whether
Speaker 6: the DNA is yours?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: He said yeah. I said, first off, you know it's yours, right,
Speaker 6: I mean, you know what's yours. You don't need me
Speaker 6: to tell you were there. Why would we be talking
Speaker 6: to you about this unless we had your DNA right
Speaker 6: where it is. Boom, So I had went down and
Speaker 6: then I knew, and so once I showed it to
Speaker 6: him and confronted him with that, he confessed to the
Speaker 6: Good ear As mun As murders.
Speaker 1: Once the floodgates had opened, there was no holding back.
Speaker 1: Rungi shocked investigators when, over the course of ten hours,
Speaker 1: he went on to confess to all seven murders.
Speaker 5: You indicated to me that you wanted to explain why
Speaker 5: you're telling us all about the cape.
Speaker 4: I would love to tell yeah, I'm telling you the
Speaker 4: case is because I want to help the family that
Speaker 4: are I want to do this right now. I don't
Speaker 4: know what happened, curl one.
Speaker 5: I want to do the right thing and help you guys.
Speaker 5: I didn't ask for turning to that stuff, you know,
Speaker 5: because I'm guilty. I didn't stuff, and I just wanted to.
Speaker 4: I wanted I wanted done it all with.
Speaker 7: I think this is because he realizes that the game
Speaker 7: is up now and he's risking actually losing control of
Speaker 7: the story around these crimes. So this is when he
Speaker 7: starts confessing because he's trying to get ahead of that.
Speaker 7: He's trying to claim the narrative for himself.
Speaker 1: His demeanor was notable to Bob Mylin, who listened to
Speaker 1: all the horrifying details.
Speaker 6: So I asked him, how difficult is it to dismember
Speaker 6: somebody's lag or arm? How hard is it saw through memory?
Speaker 6: Tell me it's not that hard. It's like sawn through
Speaker 6: a small branch. That's how he answered the question. That's
Speaker 6: how he told me. There's no tearors, no remorse, nothing.
Speaker 3: He wanted to be known as being so bad, and
Speaker 3: that was one reason why he was willing to share
Speaker 3: all of the horrific details of the ways that he
Speaker 3: murdered these women. And I think it was really to
Speaker 3: almost get credit for it, to see himself in such
Speaker 3: a horrible manner, but to know that he was almost
Speaker 3: like an evil villain, and he was really the worst.
Speaker 9: There is.
Speaker 1: The full extent of Rangey's past, and his confession to
Speaker 1: the Heenus murder of Stacy Froebel came as a huge
Speaker 1: shock to her friend Dina, who'd been in the house
Speaker 1: on the night of the murder in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 9: I had found out that they had actually killed her
Speaker 9: in the room across the hall where I was that
Speaker 9: night sleeping upstairs in the bedroom. He killed her and
Speaker 9: caught her up in the bathroom, and then used my
Speaker 9: vehicle to dispose of her body. I just can't believe.
Speaker 9: I thank goodness I didn't hear anything, because I have
Speaker 9: a feeling if they knew I did that, I would
Speaker 9: have been dead too. I would not be sitting here
Speaker 9: talking to you guys today. But I did. It was,
Speaker 9: like I said, it was like an out of body experience,
Speaker 9: just even thinking that something like that could happen right
Speaker 9: across the hall from where I was sleeping.
Speaker 1: In January two thousand and six, Paul Rangi stood trial
Speaker 1: for the murders of Yolando Gutierrez and her ten year
Speaker 1: old daughter, Jessica Munis.
Speaker 6: Elected on which was the most evidence was the Jessic
Speaker 6: Communis Good years murders, because they had the DNA plus
Speaker 6: the confession. I actually testified not only to that case,
Speaker 6: but a number of the other ones. Rongi was convicted
Speaker 6: by the jury at the sentence in hearing, the other
Speaker 6: crimes came in to be taken under consideration, and the
Speaker 6: jury sentenced him to death.
Speaker 1: Unbelievably, Rongi was never tried for the other murders. He
Speaker 1: confessed to.
Speaker 6: How do you tell that families of the Bosnian sisters,
Speaker 6: We're not going to try this case. We're not going
Speaker 6: to reach your conviction with it. How do you tell
Speaker 6: them that? I don't get it? And when we had
Speaker 6: the note that connected him to those sisters and the
Speaker 6: people that connected him to those sisters, and then of
Speaker 6: course full confessions to the crime, so I don't get it.
Speaker 6: I wasn't for it, but it wasn't my decision to make.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and eleven, capital punishment in Illinois was
Speaker 1: repealed and Rangy's sentence changed from the death penalty to
Speaker 1: natural life in prison. Later that year, it was announced
Speaker 1: that as he had already been given the maximum penalty,
Speaker 1: the other cases against Rungi had been dropped.
Speaker 6: In reality, as a monster, he used his charm and
Speaker 6: disarming ways to get into holmes and rape and murder
Speaker 6: multiple women.
Speaker 9: I think Sacy, her family, all the things that they've
Speaker 9: got to go through, and every single woman that he
Speaker 9: has murdered, their lives have been changed forever. They'll never
Speaker 9: be the same. Nobody will in this investigation, this whole
Speaker 9: entire thing with Paul Ruggy. He's just evil. He is
Speaker 9: just plain evil.
Speaker 1: Paul Rungi was a sexual say this to who took
Speaker 1: advantage of the trust that he was afforded by the
Speaker 1: young and vulnerable women who let him into their homes.
Speaker 1: A cold and calculated deviant, he inflicted unfathomable torture on
Speaker 1: his victims. He is a dangerous predator who will forever
Speaker 1: be known as one of the world's most evil killers.