WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:05.599 The city of Punta Gorda in central Florida was once 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.919 listed by Money magazine as the second best place in 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:13.279 America to live. An easy going paradise known for long, 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:19.320 laid back summer days, but it's not without its night life. 5 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:23.760 How you doing over there? It's fine, really, I think 6 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:25.280 another paris. 7 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:33.119 Surrounding the city is a vast wilderness of tall trees 8 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:40.759 and thick vegetation, the perfect spot for subtropical predators, the 9 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:44.039 kinds of predators who would want to keep their activities 10 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:45.439 very secret. 11 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:50.399 If you were out there, nobody could ever hear your screen. 12 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.600 In January nineteen ninety four, two hunters head deep into 13 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.600 these woods. No one is prime hunting ground for wild hogs, 14 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.599 but it may be that hogs aren't the only thing 15 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:08.040 being hunted out here. 16 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:13.400 There's definitely foul play involved. Something really bad is going on. 17 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.079 An unidentified corpse is found in the Florida wilderness, and 18 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:19.280 it won't be the last. 19 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:22.879 We have no idea who any of these people were. 20 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:27.560 The damage to the body suggests extreme foul playing. Brutal 21 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:30.239 slaves put cops on the trail of a killer who's 22 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:31.280 one step ahead. 23 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.040 It was exactly like watching a sharp circle of prey. 24 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:36.760 To catch him, they'll use every trick in the book 25 00:01:37.400 --> 00:02:23.199 and risk the life of one of their own. A 26 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:28.479 residential development goes belly up, leaving the forests around Putta Gorda, Florida, 27 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:33.120 shot through with paved roads to nowhere. These roads give 28 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:37.319 hunters easy access to terrain known as the hog trails, 29 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.560 and today they lead Rick Hobbes of the Charlotte County 30 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:47.240 Sheriff's Department to a corpse, joining him as Jim Myers, 31 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:50.960 a state investigator with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. 32 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:53.960 The most typical things that we deal with here in 33 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:59.159 Charlotte County are generally thefts and burgeries, arguments, things of 34 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.280 that nature. We don't have that much in terms of 35 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:03.240 violent crime. 36 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:08.400 Authorities fear the status quo has just changed. But in 37 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:11.000 trying to determine if this is a case of murder, 38 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:13.759 they face an extreme uphill battle. 39 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.960 The bodies in the state of Florida, especially that in 40 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:22.560 a later time of year, they decompose rapidly because of 41 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.719 the moisture the heat out in the wooded area. 42 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:26.479 You've got. 43 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:32.120 Animals, insects, so it doesn't take very long for a 44 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:36.120 body to decompose down to skeletal remains that can happen 45 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.240 within a matter of weeks. 46 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:44.400 The lack of any clothing or personal effects on the 47 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.199 victim heightened police suspicions. 48 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:52.439 And there was just nothing there, just the body. 49 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.400 At the Charlotte County Morgue, the medical examiner seeks to 50 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:58.280 learn how the victim met his fate. 51 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:04.840 Logged the remains as a John Do because we did 52 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:09.120 not know the name, and after documenting all the external 53 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:15.879 evidence whatever was there and the remains, we performed the autopsy. 54 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.720 There were some indications during examination of strangulation. 55 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:23.399 They found some possible. 56 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:28.240 Indications of some ligature marks on the neck, in the arms, 57 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:29.279 and the legs. 58 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:35.079 Though exactly what happened is unclear, all signs point to homicide. 59 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:39.000 The next step is to identify the victim, and it 60 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:39.920 won't be easy. 61 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:44.519 When you have skeletal remains or a body that's found 62 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:49.519 in a remote area with nothing else. You have to 63 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.000 go back to the very basics. 64 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:54.120 We had to start from scratch. 65 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:56.680 We know he's a white male. 66 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.959 I believe he was around five foot nine I remember correctly, 67 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:03.319 which probably in. 68 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:05.079 His late twenties early thirties. 69 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:12.839 Dark hair investigators scour missing person's reports, the corpse's teeth 70 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:16.040 or X ray and compared to dental records, but to 71 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:17.000 no avail. 72 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:21.000 I actually had a partial fingerprint from the victim. That 73 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:24.000 was difficult though, because it was only a partial print 74 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.519 from one finger off the decomposed body. I had that 75 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:32.079 submitted to the automatic fingerprint identification system to see if 76 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.639 there was any possible matches on that. 77 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:43.680 Then the examiner finds an unusual clue, a steel pin 78 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:47.399 lodged in the victim's left leg and it's marked with 79 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:51.399 a serial number. But in the nineteen nineties, no reliable 80 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:55.360 records were kept to such implants. Having hit a dead end, 81 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:01.199 authorities now turned to a forensic skull reconstructionist. Photographs and 82 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.199 measurements of the victim's skull are entered into a computer. 83 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:10.160 The combined sciences of anatomy, osteology and anthropology are then 84 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.959 utilized to create a composite impression of the victim's facial features. 85 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:17.279 Well, you got composite. 86 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:20.560 Back, there's for supplements to show the public to try 87 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:23.399 to see if anyone wanted to recognize this individual. 88 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:32.439 The composite is circulated through the media, but no one 89 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:36.560 comes forward. After months of intense efforts, police have a 90 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:41.240 victim they still can't identify, but Rick Hobbs keeps trying. 91 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:44.879 I would physically go in and pull each piece of 92 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:48.360 evidence and examine it. I would go through each lab 93 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.439 report to see if there was anything that we may 94 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:55.040 have collected that for some reason or other, it didn't 95 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:55.879 get processed. 96 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.639 But despite his best endeavors, the case eventually goes cold. 97 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.560 At least no other bodies have turned up in the 98 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:12.120 time since John Doe was discovered, But all that changes 99 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.480 on New Year's Day nineteen ninety six. 100 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:17.399 What do you got there, boy? 101 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:22.360 When a dog owned by Northport resident Wayne Brown makes 102 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:24.399 a strange discovery. 103 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.199 His dog brought home a human head and was chewing 104 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:28.120 out on his front lawn. 105 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.959 The hog trails have offered up a second victim. How 106 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:42.839 many more may be out there? Investigation into the mysterious 107 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.319 death of a John Doe in Florida has gone cold. 108 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.360 No sooner has the case been set aside. When another 109 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:57.519 grim discovery is made in a neighboring county, Detective Tom 110 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.759 Schwineer of the Northport Police takes the call. 111 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.319 The skull, as it was found in the yard, was 112 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:07.800 missing the lower jaw portion, the upper teeth were intact, 113 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:11.600 and there was a minute amount of flesh still on 114 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.360 the skull. The first thing comes to a detective's mind 115 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:17.639 is where to come from and where's the rest of it? 116 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.240 So our first step is to find the rest of 117 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:26.920 the body. It was an area of very few houses 118 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:28.040 and there was a lot. 119 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:30.079 Of vacant roads there. We divided the. 120 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:31.120 Area up into blocks. 121 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:34.399 We had law enforcement officers from several agencies and what 122 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:36.399 we did is we did block by block grid. 123 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:42.480 Search days past with no luck. 124 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:45.639 I found something. 125 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.360 Then an officer wanders into an unsearched area. 126 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:56.000 There was bones, spine, rib cage. There was fleshy skin 127 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.120 still on the part of the rib cage and on 128 00:08:58.159 --> 00:08:59.000 the one of the arms. 129 00:08:59.000 --> 00:08:59.960 I believe it was a right arm. 130 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:02.279 We weren't really sure what circumstances we have, but we 131 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:05.240 have to treat any of these scenes as the possible 132 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:11.080 worst case scenario. We called in a FDLI forensics teams 133 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.159 that conduct their crime scene search. They put steaks up 134 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:18.559 and they go over every square inch with a fine 135 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:20.720 tooth comb to see what is exactly is mixed in 136 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:25.159 with the bones and the remains, and then they searched 137 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:30.919 the ground underneath all the remains that possible jewelry bullets. 138 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:34.039 There's no end to what may be of evidentary value 139 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:37.559 one of these scenes. And we did find a lower 140 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.000 job portion too when through were searching. 141 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.320 But what Schwentier doesn't find is also crucial to his 142 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:45.480 assessment of the case. 143 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.000 The first thing that keyed in I May was lack 144 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:51.799 of clothing. We found absolutely no evidence of that scene 145 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:55.879 other than the body and some skin on it. Somebody 146 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.240 brought him here or somebody probably killed him here. 147 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:06.360 An autopsy is conducted, though the coroner's report is inconclusive, 148 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:08.720 investigators are convinced of the worst. 149 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:11.720 We definitely felt it was a homicide. We had no 150 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.279 hard evidence to say how this person was killed, but 151 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:17.159 as investigators were leaning towards. 152 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:22.480 Homicide, investigators determine the body has been in the woods 153 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:25.360 at least six months, but in all that time, no 154 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:28.879 one matching its height or probable age has been reported missing. 155 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:32.960 Now police in two counties have anonymous victims, their cause 156 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:44.120 of death unknown. Nine weeks later, on March seventh, nineteen 157 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.360 ninety six, just three miles from where the bones of 158 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:51.000 John Doe number two were found, a motorist pulls off 159 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:56.960 the highway to relieve himself and the case takes another turn. 160 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.000 John Do number three was found in a very very 161 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:08.159 similar area as John Doe number two. This body was 162 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:12.039 mostly intact, laying on his back, his irons flailed out 163 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.480 to his side, totally naked. 164 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:20.240 There is no question this man was murdered, and Schweneer 165 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.600 gets a shocking new clue when he sees the John 166 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.200 Doe number three has been horribly mutilated. 167 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:33.480 As obvious as genitalia had been removed. Insects take the 168 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:36.159 easiest route of penetration to a body. They'll go into 169 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:41.000 any orifice, mouth, eyes, there's a gunshot, stabbing wound. This 170 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.480 is where the insects will infiltrate a body, and this 171 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:45.080 is where they were there in the groin area. 172 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:49.600 Authorities try to fathom what kind of deranged killer they're 173 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:50.120 dealing with. 174 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:53.840 Obviously, when you have a general toilt remove that was 175 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:57.399 an identifier that there's definitely some kind of a sexual. 176 00:11:58.480 --> 00:11:59.879 Deviancy invall. 177 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.480 A search of the crime scene soon sheds light on 178 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:05.679 a psychopath's terrifying mo. 179 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.200 There was a ligature mark around the tree, a throat level. 180 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:14.679 There was some hand level, and it was also some 181 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:15.720 about where. 182 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:17.440 The ankles and chins would be on the tree. 183 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.480 Very obvious when you look at him as to what 184 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:27.519 happened there. This victim was tied to this tree. Now 185 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:29.519 we have two naked dead men out in the woods. 186 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:32.799 There's definitely foul play involved. Something really bad is going on. 187 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:40.399 When Rick Hobbs gets wind of the murders in Northport County, 188 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:43.080 his cold case suddenly warms up. 189 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:45.399 I grabbed my case file and I went up to 190 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:47.120 Northport and sat. 191 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:48.679 Down with Tom and. 192 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:50.840 We started comparing our cases. 193 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:56.240 That's a little different than the other one, still an 194 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:56.799 adult fail. 195 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:01.039 Now we could see the similarities between not only John 196 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.720 Done number one and John Done number three, but it 197 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:07.159 also brought in John Done number two, and we were 198 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:10.240 looking at one another's crime scene phones. If you didn't 199 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:14.200 know which scene you were looking at, you couldn't tell 200 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:14.679 them apart. 201 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:20.120 Hobbs and Schwineer revisit the first two crime scenes only 202 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.000 five miles apart. In both cases, they find the link 203 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:24.759 they're looking for. 204 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:28.519 We started seeing as the striation marks on the trees, 205 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:30.840 and I suspect we have a problem. 206 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:36.519 Yeah, The investigators are forced to confront the obvious they're 207 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:40.559 dealing with a serial killer. When the story breaks in 208 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:43.960 the media, the entire region is gripped in fear. 209 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:48.320 When we have a death, an unusual death in this area, 210 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:50.360 I mean it's going to be on the front page. 211 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.120 The community is not used to the crimes like this 212 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.879 being committed, and there was a lot of worried and 213 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:59.200 nervous citizens out there. 214 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.799 Pressure mounts on authorities to stop a madman before he 215 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:09.080 kills again. Unable to identify their latest victim, police seek 216 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.679 another way to move things forward. They turn to profilers 217 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:17.039 Wayne Porter for help in the case the investigation. The 218 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:20.519 brutalized state of the corpses convinces Porter that they're dealing 219 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:24.120 with a particularly vicious criminal, a sexual sadist. 220 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:28.440 A sexual sadist is an individual that would in fact 221 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:32.840 do harm to the individual while they are still alive, 222 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:37.039 and that harm, many times is to the genitalia. 223 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:39.639 Wayne, if you can give us a read. 224 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.720 On that you know and the ligature marks on the trees, 225 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.279 give Porter an idea of a killer's motivation. 226 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:52.759 Bondage with sexual sadists is a very common characteristic. You 227 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:58.799 will find bondage magazines in their mass history bondage is 228 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.759 one of the fast of the fantasy. This is part 229 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:10.159 of the gasoline that runs the fantasy. One of the 230 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:14.919 commonalities of sexual sadism is these individuals like to document 231 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:20.000 their crimes. They will videotape, they will take photographs. 232 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:33.879 To stop a monster in their midst, law enforcement agencies 233 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.639 from all over the state band together and create a 234 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:40.000 task force. They take over a vacant store in a 235 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.639 shopping mall and centralize operations. 236 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:46.279 We had upwards of fifteen sixty people working. 237 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:47.960 Out of there. I didn't say. 238 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.399 It's another one, so I had myself and then Jim 239 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:57.600 Myers from FDLA, Tom Swanier from Northport. 240 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:07.120 Now no sooner has the task force established itself. When 241 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.519 Hobbes receives disturbing. 242 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:15.279 News, Sheriff's office received a call early on the morning 243 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:20.279 of April seventeenth from a county survey crew. 244 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:21.240 Yeah, we'll be right there. 245 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:26.399 Okay, they discovered part of a human body lying back 246 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:26.960 in the woods. 247 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:28.039 Guys, let's go. 248 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:32.279 Something's up for the Hog Trail murder investigators. It seems 249 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.600 the woods of central Florida are full of dead bodies, 250 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:44.480 Only this time dead men will start telling tales. Three 251 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.519 men have been found dead in the Florida Hog Trails, 252 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:51.799 killed by the same deranged sexual sadist. Now police are 253 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:54.120 back investigating John Doe number four. 254 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:58.799 We saw something kind of round laying on the ground, 255 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.480 and looking closer, it was definitely a human head. 256 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:09.759 Among the other remains is the victims decomposed Torso it's 257 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:13.920 this grizzly fine that provides investigators with their first break. 258 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:17.519 It was a very noticeable tattoo from the shoulder area. 259 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.880 It was a very good clue as far as identifying 260 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.359 so many tattoos, just like almost like a fingerprint, note 261 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.279 toh alike. I'll use different dyes, different colors, and we 262 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:29.960 felt this will help us identify this individual. 263 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:35.960 Hobbs walks deeper into the woods in search of more evidence. 264 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:39.559 Off in the distance, I can see something. 265 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.000 As I start getting a little closer, now I can 266 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:47.279 see it's carpet padding. So my first thought is. 267 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:53.279 Do I have a homeless guy sleeping in the woods. 268 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:58.680 But the thing that really said oh was I could 269 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:04.319 see blood over here. Lifted up the carpet padding and 270 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:13.079 there we had the remains of a white male, and 271 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:16.200 he didn't appear like he had been there very long. 272 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:20.079 Maybe twelve hours. He was really fresh, so to speak. 273 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:24.559 We could clearly see the. 274 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:28.119 Ligature marks on the neck, ligature marks on the arms, 275 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:29.920 around the biceps. 276 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:35.440 And along the calfs. I like to say it, but 277 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:38.039 this helps his cause him. 278 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:41.039 Death was suffocation, probably most likely from the you know, 279 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:44.160 the strangulation from via the ligature marks that were discovered 280 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:49.680 around the neck. The removal of the Jennifer's would appear 281 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:50.680 to be postmortem. 282 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:01.000 Not only has the serial killer struck again, his spree 283 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:05.160 appears to be escalating. Authorities now have two new bodies 284 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:08.480 from which to glean evidence. They begin with the tattoo 285 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:10.319 found on John Doe number four. 286 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:19.240 We decided to take that piece of skin and photograph it. 287 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.680 The tattoo was released to the news media, and it 288 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:26.119 was on the television stations, and it was printed in 289 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:26.880 the newspapers. 290 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:30.240 Hobb's tactic pays off. 291 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:33.559 Hi, this is Teresa Smith. 292 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:37.279 Is there someone I can talk to you about tattoo 293 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:37.960 in the newspaper. 294 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.240 Once we had John Doe number four identified as Kenny 295 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:45.559 Smith from Naples and Callier County, Florida, that gave us 296 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.279 a whole new avenue of investigation. We could go and say, well, 297 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:50.079 who knows him, who hangs out with him? 298 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:50.599 What's he do? 299 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:51.720 Where's he work? 300 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:58.559 Kenny Smith was basically the street person. 301 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.559 He he went from shell to sheltered, job to job, 302 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:04.599 did a lot of drinking, a lot of party and drugs. 303 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:09.000 Authorities take another look at the first three victims and 304 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:10.400 a pattern emerges. 305 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:14.799 When the medical examiner examines the body, he can tell 306 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:18.559 a lot about how a person lives. By the conditions 307 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:22.519 of the organs and the teeth and everything indicated that 308 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:24.480 these were people lived on the street. 309 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.839 Could it be that the killer deliberately targets the down 310 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:33.680 and out in hopes of keeping his victims nameless. Further 311 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:39.000 investigation of Kenny Smith yields no answers. Police now pin 312 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:41.519 their hopes on John Doe number five. 313 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:49.920 We took some latent fingerprints from Hell and ran them 314 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:52.799 through the automated print identification system. 315 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:54.720 He had some pass arrest. 316 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:01.240 John Doe number five is id'd as Rich Montgomery, also 317 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:05.680 a street person. Hobbes tracks down Montgomery's mother, who happens 318 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:10.079 to have some very interesting information about her son's final hours. 319 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:13.759 He said something about somebody offering him some money to 320 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:17.720 pose news, something about the man driving a Capria, a 321 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:18.400 blue Capri. 322 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:24.119 She tells police that Montgomery went to meet this man 323 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:26.359 and was never seen again. 324 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:30.880 The person was selecting Transiencent panhandlers. 325 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:33.000 For one reason. 326 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:36.680 It's because there's no one to witness the fact that 327 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:37.519 she picked him up. 328 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:47.640 After more than two years of investigation, the task force 329 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:52.960 has an mo and a profile of their killer. What 330 00:21:53.079 --> 00:22:00.799 they don't have is a suspect. Now, a man who 331 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:04.480 took a ride with death is about to provide them 332 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:04.880 with one. 333 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:07.720 I'll talk to you for a minute. 334 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:20.039 Five men of no fixed address are murdered within a 335 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:23.400 ten mile radius of each other, and police still have 336 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:27.359 no suspect. But when news of the homicides reaches state 337 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:31.279 prison and made David Peyton, he contacts authorities with an 338 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:32.519 astonishing tale. 339 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:40.839 Mister Peyton and myers, won't you go ahead and tell 340 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:41.400 me your story? 341 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:47.000 So there's this guy pulls up to me in a blue. 342 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:49.599 Cor Yeah, this will be fun, lul little kickback. 343 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:54.400 I have a few cold beers, a little weed that 344 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:55.200 sounds good to me. 345 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:58.359 Hey, you care for some of these? He's right here. 346 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:01.599 Him, sweet man. 347 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:06.200 He drives out sort of into the woods, almost in 348 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:09.359 the middle of nowhere. Guy offers being more money. He says, 349 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:11.319 if he can tie me up take pictures of me 350 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:14.400 for some men's magazine, how'd. 351 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:17.279 You feel about if we get a little more creative 352 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:18.559 with the photographs. 353 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:22.519 I agree to it, but I'm feeling a little nervous 354 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:26.480 about this whole situation. He gets the car stuck in 355 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:26.960 a ditch. 356 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.319 Man, It's okay, I'll get him. NU give us a push. 357 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:33.599 Shoo, you stay here, I push. 358 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:37.839 All right, Well, I'll just I'll drive it then, yeah, yeah, yeah. 359 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:38.119 You drive. 360 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.799 During the course of the time he was in the vehicle, 361 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:47.720 he started looking around and saw a bag that was 362 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:51.039 in the back seat that had items like duct tape, 363 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:55.480 some ropes, a blue park a large. 364 00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:58.839 Tight knife, and with what he had seen inside the 365 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:02.200 vehicle and the way the guy had acted when he 366 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:04.279 had the opportunity, he was behind the wheel of the 367 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:07.480 car when they got it free, he took off in 368 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.400 the car, leaving the guy out there. 369 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:11.799 In the woods. 370 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:21.759 Peyton may have cheated death, but he couldn't outrun the law. 371 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:26.119 He got the vehicle and went back to Fort Myers. 372 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:27.799 By this time, the drug and the. 373 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:32.720 Booze was really acting on him, and he actually fell 374 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:37.200 asleep and by this time, the subject had filled out 375 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:40.680 a stolen vehicle report with Charlotte County Shriff's Office. To 376 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:44.960 Fort Myers Police Department found the vehicle and mister Peyton 377 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:49.000 was arrested for grand theft auto and that's what he 378 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:51.200 was serving time on. It was a grand theft auto 379 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:52.359 from the subject's vehicle. 380 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:57.079 He provided some very specific information. 381 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:01.640 Which allowed us to go back through records and get 382 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:05.279 an identity on the person that he said took him 383 00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:09.160 out into the woods. That person was found to be 384 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:11.279 a guy by the name of Daniel Conahan. 385 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:20.599 Police soon locate Conahan and put him under surveillance. A 386 00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:22.680 background check proves very revealing. 387 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:27.240 Reviewing his records from the Armed Services the Navy, he 388 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:30.599 was determined that he was discharged for trying to commit 389 00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:32.559 accescidomy and other sailors. 390 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:37.160 Conahan later moved to Chicago, where authorities tracked down and 391 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:38.839 interview an old roommate. 392 00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:43.680 He actually was able to identify to us what mister 393 00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:47.839 Conahan had stated as one of his fantasies, and that 394 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:52.640 fantasy is to pick up an individual like a hitchhiker 395 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:57.039 and take him to a wooded area, tie him up, 396 00:25:57.119 --> 00:25:58.279 and have sex with him. 397 00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:02.200 Leaving a trail of devi and sexual behavior in his wake. 398 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:06.279 Conahan moves from Chicago back to Punta Gorda. 399 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:08.359 Experience were elderly and they weren't in the best of health. 400 00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:10.920 He moved back to health care for his parents. 401 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:17.680