Speaker 1: The city of Punta Gorda in central Florida was once
Speaker 1: listed by Money magazine as the second best place in
Speaker 1: America to live. An easy going paradise known for long,
Speaker 1: laid back summer days, but it's not without its night life.
Speaker 2: How you doing over there? It's fine, really, I think
Speaker 2: another paris.
Speaker 1: Surrounding the city is a vast wilderness of tall trees
Speaker 1: and thick vegetation, the perfect spot for subtropical predators, the
Speaker 1: kinds of predators who would want to keep their activities
Speaker 1: very secret.
Speaker 3: If you were out there, nobody could ever hear your screen.
Speaker 1: In January nineteen ninety four, two hunters head deep into
Speaker 1: these woods. No one is prime hunting ground for wild hogs,
Speaker 1: but it may be that hogs aren't the only thing
Speaker 1: being hunted out here.
Speaker 4: There's definitely foul play involved. Something really bad is going on.
Speaker 1: An unidentified corpse is found in the Florida wilderness, and
Speaker 1: it won't be the last.
Speaker 5: We have no idea who any of these people were.
Speaker 1: The damage to the body suggests extreme foul playing. Brutal
Speaker 1: slaves put cops on the trail of a killer who's
Speaker 1: one step ahead.
Speaker 4: It was exactly like watching a sharp circle of prey.
Speaker 1: To catch him, they'll use every trick in the book
Speaker 1: and risk the life of one of their own. A
Speaker 1: residential development goes belly up, leaving the forests around Putta Gorda, Florida,
Speaker 1: shot through with paved roads to nowhere. These roads give
Speaker 1: hunters easy access to terrain known as the hog trails,
Speaker 1: and today they lead Rick Hobbes of the Charlotte County
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department to a corpse, joining him as Jim Myers,
Speaker 1: a state investigator with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Speaker 5: The most typical things that we deal with here in
Speaker 5: Charlotte County are generally thefts and burgeries, arguments, things of
Speaker 5: that nature. We don't have that much in terms of
Speaker 5: violent crime.
Speaker 1: Authorities fear the status quo has just changed. But in
Speaker 1: trying to determine if this is a case of murder,
Speaker 1: they face an extreme uphill battle.
Speaker 5: The bodies in the state of Florida, especially that in
Speaker 5: a later time of year, they decompose rapidly because of
Speaker 5: the moisture the heat out in the wooded area.
Speaker 6: You've got.
Speaker 5: Animals, insects, so it doesn't take very long for a
Speaker 5: body to decompose down to skeletal remains that can happen
Speaker 5: within a matter of weeks.
Speaker 1: The lack of any clothing or personal effects on the
Speaker 1: victim heightened police suspicions.
Speaker 5: And there was just nothing there, just the body.
Speaker 1: At the Charlotte County Morgue, the medical examiner seeks to
Speaker 1: learn how the victim met his fate.
Speaker 7: Logged the remains as a John Do because we did
Speaker 7: not know the name, and after documenting all the external
Speaker 7: evidence whatever was there and the remains, we performed the autopsy.
Speaker 5: There were some indications during examination of strangulation.
Speaker 6: They found some possible.
Speaker 5: Indications of some ligature marks on the neck, in the arms,
Speaker 5: and the legs.
Speaker 1: Though exactly what happened is unclear, all signs point to homicide.
Speaker 1: The next step is to identify the victim, and it
Speaker 1: won't be easy.
Speaker 8: When you have skeletal remains or a body that's found
Speaker 8: in a remote area with nothing else. You have to
Speaker 8: go back to the very basics.
Speaker 9: We had to start from scratch.
Speaker 6: We know he's a white male.
Speaker 5: I believe he was around five foot nine I remember correctly,
Speaker 5: which probably in.
Speaker 6: His late twenties early thirties.
Speaker 1: Dark hair investigators scour missing person's reports, the corpse's teeth
Speaker 1: or X ray and compared to dental records, but to
Speaker 1: no avail.
Speaker 5: I actually had a partial fingerprint from the victim. That
Speaker 5: was difficult though, because it was only a partial print
Speaker 5: from one finger off the decomposed body. I had that
Speaker 5: submitted to the automatic fingerprint identification system to see if
Speaker 5: there was any possible matches on that.
Speaker 1: Then the examiner finds an unusual clue, a steel pin
Speaker 1: lodged in the victim's left leg and it's marked with
Speaker 1: a serial number. But in the nineteen nineties, no reliable
Speaker 1: records were kept to such implants. Having hit a dead end,
Speaker 1: authorities now turned to a forensic skull reconstructionist. Photographs and
Speaker 1: measurements of the victim's skull are entered into a computer.
Speaker 1: The combined sciences of anatomy, osteology and anthropology are then
Speaker 1: utilized to create a composite impression of the victim's facial features.
Speaker 9: Well, you got composite.
Speaker 8: Back, there's for supplements to show the public to try
Speaker 8: to see if anyone wanted to recognize this individual.
Speaker 1: The composite is circulated through the media, but no one
Speaker 1: comes forward. After months of intense efforts, police have a
Speaker 1: victim they still can't identify, but Rick Hobbs keeps trying.
Speaker 5: I would physically go in and pull each piece of
Speaker 5: evidence and examine it. I would go through each lab
Speaker 5: report to see if there was anything that we may
Speaker 5: have collected that for some reason or other, it didn't
Speaker 5: get processed.
Speaker 1: But despite his best endeavors, the case eventually goes cold.
Speaker 1: At least no other bodies have turned up in the
Speaker 1: time since John Doe was discovered, But all that changes
Speaker 1: on New Year's Day nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2: What do you got there, boy?
Speaker 1: When a dog owned by Northport resident Wayne Brown makes
Speaker 1: a strange discovery.
Speaker 4: His dog brought home a human head and was chewing
Speaker 4: out on his front lawn.
Speaker 1: The hog trails have offered up a second victim. How
Speaker 1: many more may be out there? Investigation into the mysterious
Speaker 1: death of a John Doe in Florida has gone cold.
Speaker 1: No sooner has the case been set aside. When another
Speaker 1: grim discovery is made in a neighboring county, Detective Tom
Speaker 1: Schwineer of the Northport Police takes the call.
Speaker 4: The skull, as it was found in the yard, was
Speaker 4: missing the lower jaw portion, the upper teeth were intact,
Speaker 4: and there was a minute amount of flesh still on
Speaker 4: the skull. The first thing comes to a detective's mind
Speaker 4: is where to come from and where's the rest of it?
Speaker 4: So our first step is to find the rest of
Speaker 4: the body. It was an area of very few houses
Speaker 4: and there was a lot.
Speaker 9: Of vacant roads there. We divided the.
Speaker 6: Area up into blocks.
Speaker 4: We had law enforcement officers from several agencies and what
Speaker 4: we did is we did block by block grid.
Speaker 1: Search days past with no luck.
Speaker 2: I found something.
Speaker 1: Then an officer wanders into an unsearched area.
Speaker 4: There was bones, spine, rib cage. There was fleshy skin
Speaker 4: still on the part of the rib cage and on
Speaker 4: the one of the arms.
Speaker 6: I believe it was a right arm.
Speaker 4: We weren't really sure what circumstances we have, but we
Speaker 4: have to treat any of these scenes as the possible
Speaker 4: worst case scenario. We called in a FDLI forensics teams
Speaker 4: that conduct their crime scene search. They put steaks up
Speaker 4: and they go over every square inch with a fine
Speaker 4: tooth comb to see what is exactly is mixed in
Speaker 4: with the bones and the remains, and then they searched
Speaker 4: the ground underneath all the remains that possible jewelry bullets.
Speaker 4: There's no end to what may be of evidentary value
Speaker 4: one of these scenes. And we did find a lower
Speaker 4: job portion too when through were searching.
Speaker 1: But what Schwentier doesn't find is also crucial to his
Speaker 1: assessment of the case.
Speaker 4: The first thing that keyed in I May was lack
Speaker 4: of clothing. We found absolutely no evidence of that scene
Speaker 4: other than the body and some skin on it. Somebody
Speaker 4: brought him here or somebody probably killed him here.
Speaker 1: An autopsy is conducted, though the coroner's report is inconclusive,
Speaker 1: investigators are convinced of the worst.
Speaker 4: We definitely felt it was a homicide. We had no
Speaker 4: hard evidence to say how this person was killed, but
Speaker 4: as investigators were leaning towards.
Speaker 1: Homicide, investigators determine the body has been in the woods
Speaker 1: at least six months, but in all that time, no
Speaker 1: one matching its height or probable age has been reported missing.
Speaker 1: Now police in two counties have anonymous victims, their cause
Speaker 1: of death unknown. Nine weeks later, on March seventh, nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six, just three miles from where the bones of
Speaker 1: John Doe number two were found, a motorist pulls off
Speaker 1: the highway to relieve himself and the case takes another turn.
Speaker 4: John Do number three was found in a very very
Speaker 4: similar area as John Doe number two. This body was
Speaker 4: mostly intact, laying on his back, his irons flailed out
Speaker 4: to his side, totally naked.
Speaker 1: There is no question this man was murdered, and Schweneer
Speaker 1: gets a shocking new clue when he sees the John
Speaker 1: Doe number three has been horribly mutilated.
Speaker 4: As obvious as genitalia had been removed. Insects take the
Speaker 4: easiest route of penetration to a body. They'll go into
Speaker 4: any orifice, mouth, eyes, there's a gunshot, stabbing wound. This
Speaker 4: is where the insects will infiltrate a body, and this
Speaker 4: is where they were there in the groin area.
Speaker 1: Authorities try to fathom what kind of deranged killer they're
Speaker 1: dealing with.
Speaker 8: Obviously, when you have a general toilt remove that was
Speaker 8: an identifier that there's definitely some kind of a sexual.
Speaker 9: Deviancy invall.
Speaker 1: A search of the crime scene soon sheds light on
Speaker 1: a psychopath's terrifying mo.
Speaker 4: There was a ligature mark around the tree, a throat level.
Speaker 4: There was some hand level, and it was also some
Speaker 4: about where.
Speaker 5: The ankles and chins would be on the tree.
Speaker 4: Very obvious when you look at him as to what
Speaker 4: happened there. This victim was tied to this tree. Now
Speaker 4: we have two naked dead men out in the woods.
Speaker 4: There's definitely foul play involved. Something really bad is going on.
Speaker 1: When Rick Hobbs gets wind of the murders in Northport County,
Speaker 1: his cold case suddenly warms up.
Speaker 5: I grabbed my case file and I went up to
Speaker 5: Northport and sat.
Speaker 6: Down with Tom and.
Speaker 5: We started comparing our cases.
Speaker 6: That's a little different than the other one, still an
Speaker 6: adult fail.
Speaker 5: Now we could see the similarities between not only John
Speaker 5: Done number one and John Done number three, but it
Speaker 5: also brought in John Done number two, and we were
Speaker 5: looking at one another's crime scene phones. If you didn't
Speaker 5: know which scene you were looking at, you couldn't tell
Speaker 5: them apart.
Speaker 1: Hobbs and Schwineer revisit the first two crime scenes only
Speaker 1: five miles apart. In both cases, they find the link
Speaker 1: they're looking for.
Speaker 5: We started seeing as the striation marks on the trees,
Speaker 5: and I suspect we have a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, The investigators are forced to confront the obvious they're
Speaker 1: dealing with a serial killer. When the story breaks in
Speaker 1: the media, the entire region is gripped in fear.
Speaker 5: When we have a death, an unusual death in this area,
Speaker 5: I mean it's going to be on the front page.
Speaker 8: The community is not used to the crimes like this
Speaker 8: being committed, and there was a lot of worried and
Speaker 8: nervous citizens out there.
Speaker 1: Pressure mounts on authorities to stop a madman before he
Speaker 1: kills again. Unable to identify their latest victim, police seek
Speaker 1: another way to move things forward. They turn to profilers
Speaker 1: Wayne Porter for help in the case the investigation. The
Speaker 1: brutalized state of the corpses convinces Porter that they're dealing
Speaker 1: with a particularly vicious criminal, a sexual sadist.
Speaker 10: A sexual sadist is an individual that would in fact
Speaker 10: do harm to the individual while they are still alive,
Speaker 10: and that harm, many times is to the genitalia.
Speaker 6: Wayne, if you can give us a read.
Speaker 1: On that you know and the ligature marks on the trees,
Speaker 1: give Porter an idea of a killer's motivation.
Speaker 10: Bondage with sexual sadists is a very common characteristic. You
Speaker 10: will find bondage magazines in their mass history bondage is
Speaker 10: one of the fast of the fantasy. This is part
Speaker 10: of the gasoline that runs the fantasy. One of the
Speaker 10: commonalities of sexual sadism is these individuals like to document
Speaker 10: their crimes. They will videotape, they will take photographs.
Speaker 1: To stop a monster in their midst, law enforcement agencies
Speaker 1: from all over the state band together and create a
Speaker 1: task force. They take over a vacant store in a
Speaker 1: shopping mall and centralize operations.
Speaker 5: We had upwards of fifteen sixty people working.
Speaker 6: Out of there. I didn't say.
Speaker 5: It's another one, so I had myself and then Jim
Speaker 5: Myers from FDLA, Tom Swanier from Northport.
Speaker 1: Now no sooner has the task force established itself. When
Speaker 1: Hobbes receives disturbing.
Speaker 5: News, Sheriff's office received a call early on the morning
Speaker 5: of April seventeenth from a county survey crew.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be right there.
Speaker 5: Okay, they discovered part of a human body lying back
Speaker 5: in the woods.
Speaker 6: Guys, let's go.
Speaker 1: Something's up for the Hog Trail murder investigators. It seems
Speaker 1: the woods of central Florida are full of dead bodies,
Speaker 1: Only this time dead men will start telling tales. Three
Speaker 1: men have been found dead in the Florida Hog Trails,
Speaker 1: killed by the same deranged sexual sadist. Now police are
Speaker 1: back investigating John Doe number four.
Speaker 5: We saw something kind of round laying on the ground,
Speaker 5: and looking closer, it was definitely a human head.
Speaker 1: Among the other remains is the victims decomposed Torso it's
Speaker 1: this grizzly fine that provides investigators with their first break.
Speaker 4: It was a very noticeable tattoo from the shoulder area.
Speaker 4: It was a very good clue as far as identifying
Speaker 4: so many tattoos, just like almost like a fingerprint, note
Speaker 4: toh alike. I'll use different dyes, different colors, and we
Speaker 4: felt this will help us identify this individual.
Speaker 1: Hobbs walks deeper into the woods in search of more evidence.
Speaker 6: Off in the distance, I can see something.
Speaker 5: As I start getting a little closer, now I can
Speaker 5: see it's carpet padding. So my first thought is.
Speaker 6: Do I have a homeless guy sleeping in the woods.
Speaker 5: But the thing that really said oh was I could
Speaker 5: see blood over here. Lifted up the carpet padding and
Speaker 5: there we had the remains of a white male, and
Speaker 5: he didn't appear like he had been there very long.
Speaker 6: Maybe twelve hours. He was really fresh, so to speak.
Speaker 6: We could clearly see the.
Speaker 5: Ligature marks on the neck, ligature marks on the arms,
Speaker 5: around the biceps.
Speaker 6: And along the calfs. I like to say it, but
Speaker 6: this helps his cause him.
Speaker 8: Death was suffocation, probably most likely from the you know,
Speaker 8: the strangulation from via the ligature marks that were discovered
Speaker 8: around the neck. The removal of the Jennifer's would appear
Speaker 8: to be postmortem.
Speaker 1: Not only has the serial killer struck again, his spree
Speaker 1: appears to be escalating. Authorities now have two new bodies
Speaker 1: from which to glean evidence. They begin with the tattoo
Speaker 1: found on John Doe number four.
Speaker 5: We decided to take that piece of skin and photograph it.
Speaker 5: The tattoo was released to the news media, and it
Speaker 5: was on the television stations, and it was printed in
Speaker 5: the newspapers.
Speaker 1: Hobb's tactic pays off.
Speaker 5: Hi, this is Teresa Smith.
Speaker 11: Is there someone I can talk to you about tattoo
Speaker 11: in the newspaper.
Speaker 4: Once we had John Doe number four identified as Kenny
Speaker 4: Smith from Naples and Callier County, Florida, that gave us
Speaker 4: a whole new avenue of investigation. We could go and say, well,
Speaker 4: who knows him, who hangs out with him?
Speaker 6: What's he do?
Speaker 9: Where's he work?
Speaker 6: Kenny Smith was basically the street person.
Speaker 5: He he went from shell to sheltered, job to job,
Speaker 5: did a lot of drinking, a lot of party and drugs.
Speaker 1: Authorities take another look at the first three victims and
Speaker 1: a pattern emerges.
Speaker 5: When the medical examiner examines the body, he can tell
Speaker 5: a lot about how a person lives. By the conditions
Speaker 5: of the organs and the teeth and everything indicated that
Speaker 5: these were people lived on the street.
Speaker 1: Could it be that the killer deliberately targets the down
Speaker 1: and out in hopes of keeping his victims nameless. Further
Speaker 1: investigation of Kenny Smith yields no answers. Police now pin
Speaker 1: their hopes on John Doe number five.
Speaker 8: We took some latent fingerprints from Hell and ran them
Speaker 8: through the automated print identification system.
Speaker 9: He had some pass arrest.
Speaker 1: John Doe number five is id'd as Rich Montgomery, also
Speaker 1: a street person. Hobbes tracks down Montgomery's mother, who happens
Speaker 1: to have some very interesting information about her son's final hours.
Speaker 5: He said something about somebody offering him some money to
Speaker 5: pose news, something about the man driving a Capria, a
Speaker 5: blue Capri.
Speaker 1: She tells police that Montgomery went to meet this man
Speaker 1: and was never seen again.
Speaker 8: The person was selecting Transiencent panhandlers.
Speaker 9: For one reason.
Speaker 8: It's because there's no one to witness the fact that
Speaker 8: she picked him up.
Speaker 1: After more than two years of investigation, the task force
Speaker 1: has an mo and a profile of their killer. What
Speaker 1: they don't have is a suspect. Now, a man who
Speaker 1: took a ride with death is about to provide them
Speaker 1: with one.
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you for a minute.
Speaker 1: Five men of no fixed address are murdered within a
Speaker 1: ten mile radius of each other, and police still have
Speaker 1: no suspect. But when news of the homicides reaches state
Speaker 1: prison and made David Peyton, he contacts authorities with an
Speaker 1: astonishing tale.
Speaker 2: Mister Peyton and myers, won't you go ahead and tell
Speaker 2: me your story?
Speaker 12: So there's this guy pulls up to me in a blue.
Speaker 2: Cor Yeah, this will be fun, lul little kickback.
Speaker 13: I have a few cold beers, a little weed that
Speaker 13: sounds good to me.
Speaker 2: Hey, you care for some of these? He's right here.
Speaker 6: Him, sweet man.
Speaker 14: He drives out sort of into the woods, almost in
Speaker 14: the middle of nowhere. Guy offers being more money. He says,
Speaker 14: if he can tie me up take pictures of me
Speaker 14: for some men's magazine, how'd.
Speaker 15: You feel about if we get a little more creative
Speaker 15: with the photographs.
Speaker 14: I agree to it, but I'm feeling a little nervous
Speaker 14: about this whole situation. He gets the car stuck in
Speaker 14: a ditch.
Speaker 16: Man, It's okay, I'll get him. NU give us a push.
Speaker 2: Shoo, you stay here, I push.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'll just I'll drive it then, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: You drive.
Speaker 8: During the course of the time he was in the vehicle,
Speaker 8: he started looking around and saw a bag that was
Speaker 8: in the back seat that had items like duct tape,
Speaker 8: some ropes, a blue park a large.
Speaker 5: Tight knife, and with what he had seen inside the
Speaker 5: vehicle and the way the guy had acted when he
Speaker 5: had the opportunity, he was behind the wheel of the
Speaker 5: car when they got it free, he took off in
Speaker 5: the car, leaving the guy out there.
Speaker 6: In the woods.
Speaker 1: Peyton may have cheated death, but he couldn't outrun the law.
Speaker 9: He got the vehicle and went back to Fort Myers.
Speaker 9: By this time, the drug and the.
Speaker 8: Booze was really acting on him, and he actually fell
Speaker 8: asleep and by this time, the subject had filled out
Speaker 8: a stolen vehicle report with Charlotte County Shriff's Office. To
Speaker 8: Fort Myers Police Department found the vehicle and mister Peyton
Speaker 8: was arrested for grand theft auto and that's what he
Speaker 8: was serving time on. It was a grand theft auto
Speaker 8: from the subject's vehicle.
Speaker 6: He provided some very specific information.
Speaker 5: Which allowed us to go back through records and get
Speaker 5: an identity on the person that he said took him
Speaker 5: out into the woods. That person was found to be
Speaker 5: a guy by the name of Daniel Conahan.
Speaker 1: Police soon locate Conahan and put him under surveillance. A
Speaker 1: background check proves very revealing.
Speaker 4: Reviewing his records from the Armed Services the Navy, he
Speaker 4: was determined that he was discharged for trying to commit
Speaker 4: accescidomy and other sailors.
Speaker 1: Conahan later moved to Chicago, where authorities tracked down and
Speaker 1: interview an old roommate.
Speaker 8: He actually was able to identify to us what mister
Speaker 8: Conahan had stated as one of his fantasies, and that
Speaker 8: fantasy is to pick up an individual like a hitchhiker
Speaker 8: and take him to a wooded area, tie him up,
Speaker 8: and have sex with him.
Speaker 1: Leaving a trail of devi and sexual behavior in his wake.
Speaker 1: Conahan moves from Chicago back to Punta Gorda.
Speaker 4: Experience were elderly and they weren't in the best of health.
Speaker 4: He moved back to health care for his parents.
Speaker 1: Further investigation reveals that upon returning to Florida, Conahan trained
Speaker 1: as a nurse, which could account for the skillful mutilation
Speaker 1: of the victims. It looks like police have their man.
Speaker 9: He was our key suspect at the time based on
Speaker 9: what we had learned.
Speaker 1: Now they need hard evidence to nail them.
Speaker 8: We started a twenty four hour surveillance on him to
Speaker 8: determine you know what is patterns as tribal powers stay
Speaker 8: activity was.
Speaker 1: Cameras are mounted on telephone poles outside his residence.
Speaker 5: In watching the surveillance video kind of hand, he'd bring
Speaker 5: his backpack out and he would stop and he would
Speaker 5: set that backpack on top of that blue car, and
Speaker 5: then he would usually stand there and smoke a cigarette.
Speaker 8: And we believe that that backpack may contain what we
Speaker 8: refer to as tools or the trades for a very
Speaker 8: similar to what mister Peyton had described.
Speaker 10: Some people call it a murder kid I call it
Speaker 10: a treasure chest. And this treasure chest includes the weapons
Speaker 10: that he's going to use, the bindings that will be used,
Speaker 10: any equipment that might be needed in this assault.
Speaker 1: Investigators follow the dutiful son as he drives his mother
Speaker 1: to and from her senior's home. They also track his
Speaker 1: less wholesome activities.
Speaker 4: He drive by one of the soup kitchens or drive
Speaker 4: by one of homeless shelters, and he was like cruising.
Speaker 4: He's looking for exactly what we thought. He was looking
Speaker 4: for a homeless person or somebody who's hanging around the
Speaker 4: dumpsters or in one of the back alleys.
Speaker 6: My views is hunting.
Speaker 4: It's exactly like watching a shark.
Speaker 9: Circle of prey.
Speaker 1: Armed with information about the root, Conahan Travels authorities make
Speaker 1: a bold boom. They place an undercover officer disguised as
Speaker 1: a homeless man right in his path.
Speaker 9: We put an uncover detective ray. We're out on a
Speaker 9: corner where he.
Speaker 8: Would go buy that location, coming back or from our
Speaker 8: tour from visiting his mother.
Speaker 1: Weir Man's his post, hoping to lure the targets.
Speaker 2: How about.
Speaker 1: What fit from here? Believe it is probably gonna head home. Finally,
Speaker 1: after weeks on the job, Conahan takes the bait.
Speaker 9: He made contact, he stopped, stopped his vehicle.
Speaker 2: How are you gonna get good?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 2: I'm Dan, Dan Conahan. Nice to meet to Dan.
Speaker 17: He was eerie to me and I felt there was
Speaker 17: something wrong with him.
Speaker 9: What I didn't know?
Speaker 7: Uh listen, if you're looking for work, I could probably
Speaker 7: help you out.
Speaker 15: Yeah, eh, well listen, it'd be uh well, basically it's at.
Speaker 13: That point in time.
Speaker 17: He says something to the effect that, well, there'd be
Speaker 17: some progressive bondage shots. I don't know if you're into that.
Speaker 17: And again I told him, all the money toss you
Speaker 17: got the cash, I need it. You know, we'll try
Speaker 17: it whatever, whatever it takes.
Speaker 2: It's easy money. Sure, Yeah, all right?
Speaker 13: Come on.
Speaker 1: A cop drives into the Hog Trails with suspected serial
Speaker 1: killer Daniel Conahan. Will he make it out alive? Five
Speaker 1: corpses have been mutilated and abandoned in the Florida Woods.
Speaker 1: After two and a half years of dead ends, police
Speaker 1: have zeroed in on suspect Daniel Conahan. Now Conahan has
Speaker 1: another victim in his car, but doesn't know it's undercover
Speaker 1: cop Ray Weir.
Speaker 17: I told him I was staying out back in the woods.
Speaker 17: I told him to come out to my camp. I
Speaker 17: go all the way out there, parked it. He parked
Speaker 17: his car, walked up. I had a couple of chairs
Speaker 17: set up and he sat down. We started talking.
Speaker 5: So what are we going to take these pictures you
Speaker 5: were talking about?
Speaker 17: I don't know.
Speaker 18: It sounds kind of.
Speaker 9: Fun with the.
Speaker 1: Conahan is also unaware that this location has been staked
Speaker 1: out by police.
Speaker 9: We had swat concealed in the woods.
Speaker 5: They started getting at nervous and he was with that backpipe,
Speaker 5: so they were watching that.
Speaker 19: I had for my friends to find out about this,
Speaker 19: you know, but I got to admit I I could
Speaker 19: change that money.
Speaker 6: It's not gonna hurt or anything.
Speaker 2: Isn't gotta go.
Speaker 1: Where you going.
Speaker 5: I can't say why he called it off. I believe
Speaker 5: is because he wasn't in control.
Speaker 6: He wasn't in his element.
Speaker 1: Authorities missed their best chance so far to catch Conahan
Speaker 1: red handed, and they're running out of options. Surveillance of
Speaker 1: this magnitude is too costly to sustain for long time.
Speaker 5: For a new direction, just high Hand's been offering money,
Speaker 5: So we get his financial records, we get his bank statements,
Speaker 5: we get his credit card records. Now we started seeing
Speaker 5: a series of perches of particular items wrote tape, tarps, film, knives, flyers,
Speaker 5: and cameras, and there seemed to be intervals on these.
Speaker 1: Purchases, intervals that coincide with the timelines of some of
Speaker 1: the murders. Finally, police have the compelling connection they need
Speaker 1: to execute a search warrant on Conahan's home.
Speaker 20: First, we photograph, then we make a sketch of the area.
Speaker 20: If we're going to do vacuum sweepings, which in this
Speaker 20: case we did, that would be one of the first
Speaker 20: things we would do.
Speaker 8: We did see a backpack and found the backpack we
Speaker 8: thought was significant that matched some of the description of
Speaker 8: what we had seen during surveillance.
Speaker 9: When he was coming to and from his vehicles. A
Speaker 9: lot of times he would have this backpack.
Speaker 1: The murder kit they hoped to find is not in
Speaker 1: the back, but a number of suspicious objects are found
Speaker 1: in the home.
Speaker 4: We did find a knife, we did find some rope,
Speaker 4: We did find some polaroid pictures and filmed.
Speaker 2: We found the components, but they weren't in this bag.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, police intercept Conahan and bring him to a second
Speaker 1: location for questioning.
Speaker 21: Hi, how you doing?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How special agent for from the Governor's office. Do you
Speaker 2: recognize this man? I've never seen that man before in
Speaker 2: my life. You're quite sure about that, sir, c Well,
Speaker 2: I just told you I've never seen him before.
Speaker 11: You have a past record of history of a molestation
Speaker 11: out in Chicago.
Speaker 15: Can you explain that well, as a matter of fact,
Speaker 15: I can't explain that that that all that involves a
Speaker 15: misunderstanding within within an existing relationship.
Speaker 10: And he was asked if he did the crime, if
Speaker 10: he was there, if he knew the victims. He was
Speaker 10: always on guard during the interview, very evasive in his answers.
Speaker 10: Have you ever participated in body.
Speaker 1: I with the magazines, I've seen some movies.
Speaker 2: I have never taught anybody out of the very tally.
Speaker 1: Re porter continues to press Conahan while the search team
Speaker 1: descends on his blue Mercury Capri that.
Speaker 9: Had a paint job that was peeling.
Speaker 8: We took paint samplings from the chips, uh and then scrape.
Speaker 6: Beings from the paint.
Speaker 4: There was fibers found from his house and his car,
Speaker 4: fibers that may be transferable to our victims.
Speaker 2: Your picture's gonna be plastered over the paper. Now, what
Speaker 2: do you think is going to happen with all the
Speaker 2: people you may have come in contact with when they
Speaker 2: call in and they say, yeah, we went.
Speaker 1: Out of the woods.
Speaker 10: He said he had a fantasy my photograph if we
Speaker 10: did something.
Speaker 20: Like that, Yeah, it won't look good.
Speaker 16: It won't be good.
Speaker 2: Mind arrest, How must to come ahead? You're free to go,
Speaker 2: So I'm free to go, sir, Thank you very much, goodbye.
Speaker 10: He was pleasant, cold, and calculating. The interview did not
Speaker 10: seem to impress him very much.
Speaker 1: The search of Conahan's home and vehicle yields several items
Speaker 1: of interest, including unusual rope fibers police hope will match
Speaker 1: those recovered from the crime scenes.
Speaker 8: We did not find any evidence that would clearly identify
Speaker 8: him as a person responsible for our crimes.
Speaker 1: In this high stakes game of cat and mouse, the
Speaker 1: mouse appears to be winning. Hobbs sends out a police
Speaker 1: bulletin to all jurisdictions in Central Florida, describing the murders
Speaker 1: and asking for any information that may help his case.
Speaker 1: The bulletin catches the attention of Officer Pedro Soto. I'm
Speaker 1: in awe.
Speaker 9: I'm in shock. I'm looking at it. I'm going like,
Speaker 9: oh my god.
Speaker 1: Soto immediately contacts the Charlotte County Sheriff.
Speaker 3: And I said, you know, this is amazing. I had
Speaker 3: a crime scene just like this two years ago. You
Speaker 3: guys know about it.
Speaker 6: And I told him.
Speaker 5: I said, well, I had sent out teletypes and phone calls.
Speaker 5: Anybody'd had any similar similar desks, you know, give me
Speaker 5: a call. He says, Oh, our guy didn't die, let
Speaker 5: he lived.
Speaker 6: I went watch.
Speaker 1: Officer Soto tells Hobbes of the time he was called
Speaker 1: to assist an assault victim who showed up at a
Speaker 1: local hospital.
Speaker 3: And he had obvious ligature marked around his neck, on
Speaker 3: his arms and legs.
Speaker 1: The victim, Stanley Burden, told Soto the chilling story of
Speaker 1: a man in a blue capri.
Speaker 3: The individual ask him if he could take naked photographs
Speaker 3: of him tied to a tree for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Mister Burden agreed. When with the individual through the wooded area,
Speaker 3: the individual then attempted to sudimize him. Mister Burden stated
Speaker 3: that he resisted, I was steying. The individual got angry
Speaker 3: at him.
Speaker 1: An approaching car scared the assailant off, leaving Burden for dead.
Speaker 1: Tied to a tree in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 3: He threw down a pair of flyers. Individual got into
Speaker 3: his van and he drove a way. Mister Burden then
Speaker 3: was able to get loose, reached for the pliers, cut
Speaker 3: himself loose.
Speaker 1: Burden ran out to the highway and flagged a ride
Speaker 1: to the hospital. He was never able to give a
Speaker 1: comprehensive description of his assailants.
Speaker 3: They really weren't many avenues we could have follow in
Speaker 3: terms of investigating the case.
Speaker 1: That's as far as we could have gone. With nothing
Speaker 1: more to go on, the unsolved crime went cold, was
Speaker 1: filed unforgotten.
Speaker 4: So given this new information from Detective Soto, he provided
Speaker 4: us with the copies of the pictures and a copy
Speaker 4: of the three report and gave us information on the
Speaker 4: victim in that case, which turned out to be Stanley Burden.
Speaker 4: We did a background on him to find out where
Speaker 4: he was and he was incarcerated in Columbus, Ohio. He
Speaker 4: was provided a photo lineup of Daniel Conahan in the
Speaker 4: correctional institute where I interviewed him, and he immediately picked
Speaker 4: him out without any hesitation whatsoever. He said, that is
Speaker 4: a subject that did this to me. It's like getting
Speaker 4: somebody off the autopsy table and telling you what happened
Speaker 4: to him. That's exactly what this guy was.
Speaker 18: He was somebody that should have been killed.
Speaker 4: He should have been laying in the woods with the
Speaker 4: bugs eating him, and here he was sitting here telling
Speaker 4: us exactly what happened to him and how he got
Speaker 4: Awakeness guy.
Speaker 8: Daniel Conahan, you have the right to remain silent.
Speaker 1: On July third, nineteen ninety six, Daniel Conahan is arrested
Speaker 1: for the attempted murder of Stanley Burden.
Speaker 12: Do you understand these rights that they've been read to you?
Speaker 5: Yes, And there was no surprise on his face when
Speaker 5: myself from Jim Myers walked in and I told him
Speaker 5: he was underrest. They just got in the car on
Speaker 5: the way we went.
Speaker 1: Police have finally caught their killer, but there's no guarantee
Speaker 1: they can bring him to justice. After thirty one months
Speaker 1: of intense statewide investigation, police have arrested Daniel Conahan for
Speaker 1: crimes against Stanley Burton.
Speaker 6: We had a positive ida, we had a good statement,
Speaker 6: we had.
Speaker 5: The evidence from the crime scene, and ended up securing
Speaker 5: an arrest warrant from mister Conahan attempt to murder sexual battery.
Speaker 1: In Kinnappy, but with five men dead, investigators are determined
Speaker 1: to nail Conahan for full blown homicide. Taking one last
Speaker 1: look at the case forensics, they re examined hair combings
Speaker 1: from Richard Montgomery's body and find something extraordinary.
Speaker 8: There appeared to be a paint chip, a small piece
Speaker 8: of paint chip that was in his puba care area,
Speaker 8: a remaining pupic care.
Speaker 9: Area owner his body that was sent off along with
Speaker 9: the paint chips that we obtained.
Speaker 8: From the Mercury Capri to the Florida Department of All
Speaker 8: Law Enforcement Crime Laboratory for analysis.
Speaker 9: See if that was a match.
Speaker 8: From that sample taken from the pubic area of mister Montgomery.
Speaker 8: Was that that match in all characteristics the paint standard
Speaker 8: provided from the Mercury Caprix.
Speaker 1: This final forensic piece of the puzzle allows prosecutors to
Speaker 1: add a new charge against Conahan, the first degree murder
Speaker 1: of Richard Montgomery. In court, Conahan vigorously insists he's innocent,
Speaker 1: claiming that he's being real roaded simply because he's gay.
Speaker 1: The prosecution's evidence accumulates quickly.
Speaker 11: The area was quite densely woulded a mixture of scrub
Speaker 11: brashdown the.
Speaker 22: Badly decomposed body of adults male things that made him
Speaker 22: very nervous, some rope tarp I believe a hunting knife
Speaker 22: that he mentioned.
Speaker 23: And as mister Conahan, the idea of a sexual sadist
Speaker 23: is one who wraps.
Speaker 1: And finally, for good measure, prosecutors bring out their smoking gun.
Speaker 1: Mister Burdon, would you please show the courtroom your neck.
Speaker 1: August seventeenth, nineteen ninety nine, after just twenty five minutes
Speaker 1: of deliberation, Judge William Blackwell finds Daniel Conahan guilty of
Speaker 1: kidnapping and first degree murder. He's sentenced to die. To
Speaker 1: this day, Conahan insists he's innocent, but police are satisfied
Speaker 1: they've got the right man. None of the photographs he's
Speaker 1: believed to taken of his victims have ever been found.
Speaker 10: You know, it's my opinion that Daniel connaugh hand doesn't
Speaker 10: have a guilt feeling in his whole body. There is
Speaker 10: no remorse. None has ever been shown that I'm aware of.
Speaker 10: This is a man that enjoyed the pain, the suffering
Speaker 10: and the death of other individuals, human beings. Why he
Speaker 10: did this, I don't know if we'll ever know, And.
Speaker 1: As Conahan sits on death row awaiting his fate, authorities
Speaker 1: still wonder how many more victims are yet to be found.
Speaker 1: Along the Hog Trails of Charlotte County, California is Just
Speaker 1: National Park, a spectacular wildlife sanctuary that attracts millions of
Speaker 1: nature lovers every year.
Speaker 24: Nobody thinks bad things happen in places like.
Speaker 1: This, but this year would prove otherwise. In February of
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, Carol's son, her daughter, and a family
Speaker 1: friend visit Yosemite. Still they spend the fourteenth and fifteenth
Speaker 1: hiking and seeing the sights, returning each night to their motel.
Speaker 1: They are scheduled to meet up with Carol's husband the
Speaker 1: morning of the sixteenth cod but they would never make it.
Speaker 1: Three missing women.
Speaker 13: Those as if they had fallen off the face of
Speaker 13: the area, a death research.
Speaker 23: There were no clear clues as to what had happened
Speaker 23: to these people.
Speaker 1: A disappearance that shocks America.
Speaker 24: It's probably the strangest and one of the most chilling
Speaker 24: cases I've ever covered in my twenty years as a journalist.
Speaker 1: It puts police on the trail of a master manipulator
Speaker 1: determined to outsmart them. Carol's son, her fifteen year old
Speaker 1: daughter Julie, and family friend Sylvina Paloso have failed to
Speaker 1: show up for a rendezvous with Carol's husband ends at
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Airport.
Speaker 24: Carol's son was the type of person who kept to
Speaker 24: a very strict calendar. She was someone who was always
Speaker 24: on time where she was supposed to be when she
Speaker 24: was supposed to be there.
Speaker 1: The anxious husband and father calls room five oh nine
Speaker 1: of the Cedar Lodge motel where the women were staying.
Speaker 1: After failed attempts to reach them, He contacts local authorities.
Speaker 13: The hotel room was found in a typical state of
Speaker 13: someone who left their hotel room that had two double beds,
Speaker 13: and the double beds had appeared to be slept in
Speaker 13: and unmade. There were bath towels that were wet and
Speaker 13: used on the floor and on the rack. There was
Speaker 13: nothing really remarkable about the room.
Speaker 1: Investigators quickly discovered that Carol's son's rental car is gone
Speaker 1: and it hasn't been returned to the agency. Police have
Speaker 1: room five h nine sealed as a precaution but with
Speaker 1: no apparent signs of foul play, they consider other possibilities.
Speaker 18: The theory that was most predominant would be they had
Speaker 18: a car accident.
Speaker 24: It was wintertime, the roads were slick, there had been snow.
Speaker 25: We have had numerous vehicles that have gone off our roadways.
Speaker 25: We have had several deaths, so that is a very
Speaker 25: realistic possibility.
Speaker 1: Agencies across the state joined forces to scour the vast
Speaker 1: forested area around Yosemite. At the same time, police visit mister.
Speaker 18: Son aast have a few questions about you.
Speaker 1: Investigators press Son for any information that might help explain
Speaker 1: his wife's disappearance.
Speaker 18: No problems, no quarrels.
Speaker 1: Could marital difficulties lie at the heart of things, police
Speaker 1: think not.
Speaker 23: There was not a lot of weight given to the
Speaker 23: possibility that Carol would have simply disappeared of her own accord,
Speaker 23: in part because she was traveling with the two girls,
Speaker 23: and she had left behind her other children with YenS,
Speaker 23: and everything that we were learning about Carol suggested that
Speaker 23: she was a dedicated mother and a responsible person.
Speaker 1: With the clock ticking and still no sign of Carol's
Speaker 1: son's car, police worry about finding the women in time.
Speaker 18: It was just a dramatic, intense need to find these
Speaker 18: people before something you know, permanent, had happened to them.
Speaker 24: Days had passed and there had been large search parties
Speaker 24: searching for any clues, and nothing was coming up.
Speaker 1: Could something have been missed at the Cedar Lodge? The
Speaker 1: FBI takes charge of the case, sending special agents Chris
Speaker 1: Hopkins and Jeff Reinick to visit the motel together. Did
Speaker 1: they assess Room five oh nine.
Speaker 13: We had a missing blanket, a missing pillowcase, items left
Speaker 13: behind in the rooms, but we didn't find any significant
Speaker 13: evidence to say this is in fact a crime scene.
Speaker 1: The FBI now turns its attention to guests and staff.
Speaker 23: We were working at the Cedar Lodge, interviewing employees, interviewing
Speaker 23: hotel guests, trying to do the best thing could to
Speaker 23: find out whether or not anything had happened there.
Speaker 1: Do you remember anything from these interviews? Agent Nick Rossi
Speaker 1: pieces together a rough timeline. A park ranger remembers seeing
Speaker 1: the women over the course of two days. They appeared
Speaker 1: to be having a great time.
Speaker 23: They had their first excursion in the park on February fourteenth.
Speaker 23: They returned to the park on February fifteenth.
Speaker 13: We had witnesses at the Cedar Lodge that saw them
Speaker 13: eating their dinner there on February fifteenth.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the waitresses served them? Recalls the trio
Speaker 1: was in high spirits.
Speaker 16: Hi go Hi.
Speaker 13: The family also rented two videos from the front desk.
Speaker 2: Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 23: And the last time they were seen alive was said
Speaker 23: approximately seven thirty or so in the evening on February fifteenth.
Speaker 1: For all the FBI's questions, no unusual behavior, strange encounters,
Speaker 1: or anything untoward concerning the women is reported. Then agents
Speaker 1: learned that someone besides Carol's son had access to room
Speaker 1: five oh nine before she and the girls disappeared. They
Speaker 1: take the motel locksmith into custody.
Speaker 23: They had re keyed the locks on the door for
Speaker 23: Carol's hotel room. This individual had him brother who worked
Speaker 23: at another nearby hotel, who had a prior conviction for
Speaker 23: sexual assault on children.
Speaker 1: The employee claims his innocence and agrees to a polygraph.
Speaker 1: While it's being administered, Hopkins pays a second visit to
Speaker 1: the motel.
Speaker 13: And again we didn't find any significant evidence.
Speaker 1: The room is clean, maybe too clean, and when the
Speaker 1: polygraph reveals no evidence of deceit. Agents are forced to
Speaker 1: release their first and only suspect.
Speaker 13: After February fifteenth, there was no established timeline. It was
Speaker 13: as if they had fallen off the face.
Speaker 2: Of the earth.
Speaker 1: Authorities find themselves back at square one, unaware that the
Speaker 1: case is about to take an alarming turn. Carol's son,
Speaker 1: her daughter Julie, and family friend Sylvina Paloso have been
Speaker 1: missing for three days. Search Base Team six search and
Speaker 1: rescue operations have yielded nothing, nor has an FBI investigation
Speaker 1: into possible foul flight. But now one hundred miles away
Speaker 1: in the city of Modesto, the case is turned on
Speaker 1: its head when a student finds a wallet at a
Speaker 1: downtown intersection inside is ID belonging to Carol's son.
Speaker 23: Once the wallet was found in Modesto, it opened a
Speaker 23: whole new range of possibilities, everything from a possible car
Speaker 23: jacking to a kidnapping. There were lots of different theories
Speaker 23: about what may have happened.
Speaker 1: Theories collide with reality when a car is pulled over
Speaker 1: for a missing license plate. The vehicle belongs to Modesto
Speaker 1: resident Michael Larwick.
Speaker 23: It was a routine traffic stop, and the question that
Speaker 23: it begs is why did Larwick react the way he did.
Speaker 1: Larwick is arrested after an eighteen hours standoff at his house,
Speaker 1: and while he's in custody, police receive an anonymous.
Speaker 2: Tip Yeah Russia.
Speaker 1: The caller tells them to take a close look at
Speaker 1: Larwick and his half brother Eugene Dikes in connection with
Speaker 1: the sun Puloso disappearance.
Speaker 18: And they were very good suspects. They had a lot
Speaker 18: of assaults, they had a lot of sexual assaults, kidnappings.
Speaker 23: Mister Dikes was in custody at the time that Mick
Speaker 23: Larwick was engaged in his shootout with police because he
Speaker 23: had just recently been arrested for possession of a firearm.
Speaker 18: So they fit all the criteria that this investigation originally needed.
Speaker 1: The investigation suddenly has two prime suspects. I need to
Speaker 1: know where these women are. Larwick and Dykes are subjected
Speaker 1: to NonStop interrogation by FBI agent. We're desperate to find.
Speaker 12: The women alive and you don't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: Larwick is uncooperative, No, I don't remember, and denies any involved.
Speaker 24: That's not good enough.
Speaker 1: Now where are they? But after hours of grilling, Dyke
Speaker 1: starts telling a different story where.
Speaker 18: That's when Dyke's first began speaking of what he claimed
Speaker 18: was his involvement.
Speaker 9: In this case.
Speaker 1: Eventually, Dike signs a confession admitting his participation in the
Speaker 1: women's disappearance. But what he doesn't tell investigators is what
Speaker 1: they most want to know. Where is the missing mother
Speaker 1: and two teenage girls.
Speaker 9: Post Law.
Speaker 1: Agent Hopkins vacuums Larwick's car looking for physical evidence tying
Speaker 1: the half brothers to the crime.
Speaker 13: The FBI laboratory found Harrison fibers, one of which was
Speaker 13: an orange chrolic fiber.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, no matching hairs or fibers are recovered from room
Speaker 1: five h nine of the Cedar Lodge. Then, on March eighteenth,
Speaker 1: one hundred miles away from Modesto, in remote woods beyond
Speaker 1: the town of Longbarn, a hiker makes a chilling discovery.
Speaker 25: He noticed that the vehicle was badly burned, but he
Speaker 25: went down and got the license plate from the vehicle
Speaker 25: and called it into the California Highway Patrol. Then ran
Speaker 25: the license plate and immediately realized it was Carol's son's
Speaker 25: missing vehicle.
Speaker 13: There was no original surface remaining on the car. On
Speaker 13: the interior of the car and the exterior of the car,
Speaker 13: all the paint had boiled off and rolled off the
Speaker 13: frame of the car. The seats had all been burnt up.
Speaker 13: I could see through the passenger compartment into the trunk compartment.
Speaker 2: Let's try and get in the trunk.
Speaker 13: And mucallin opening the truck that we had remains of
Speaker 13: human beings.
Speaker 1: Destraught. When they discover charred remains in the trunk of
Speaker 1: carol Son's rental car.
Speaker 25: I have seen lots of burned bodies, but I have
Speaker 25: not seen anything to the extent that was involved in
Speaker 25: this case.
Speaker 9: There was not a lot left.
Speaker 25: It wasn't like looking at a normal body that you
Speaker 25: would find because the intense heat had destroyed most of
Speaker 25: the body.
Speaker 13: It was clear that we have a homicide case working out.
Speaker 1: Authorities want answers. The car itself offers the first disturbing clue.
Speaker 13: We could tell that this vehicle was intended to be burned.
Speaker 13: The passenger rear door was left a jar so that
Speaker 13: it would create event so that it would help oxygenate
Speaker 13: the fire.
Speaker 23: They had placed the bodies in the truck. They had
Speaker 23: taken the effort to douse the car with some kind
Speaker 23: of flammable material and then set in a blaze.
Speaker 13: The heat of the fire was so intense that picking
Speaker 13: up some of their remains, their skeletal remains, the bones
Speaker 13: would just turned to dust in our hands.
Speaker 1: As the investigation continues in the field, the remains arrive
Speaker 1: at the morgue for positive identification. Pathologists analyze the many fragments,
Speaker 1: paying special attention to the teeth we.
Speaker 13: Had already in our possession. The dental records were Carol
Speaker 13: and Julie's sun. We took the dental records to a
Speaker 13: forensical ontologist and the forensicalontologists identified one of our victims
Speaker 13: was Carol's son.
Speaker 1: Forensic experts also have the means to identify Sylvina Paloso.
Speaker 25: We had DNA samples taken from her parents. They had
Speaker 25: come had flown up to our area.
Speaker 1: Authorities at the crime scene retrieved some evidence when they
Speaker 1: find a girl's running shoot and something even more compelling.
Speaker 13: In doing the search around the vehicle, we found additional
Speaker 13: evidence to include Carol's purse and her fanny pack that
Speaker 13: had cameras in it.
Speaker 1: Investigators puzzle over their killer's profile. Was he sloppy or devious?
Speaker 23: This was a person who had gone to some lengths
Speaker 23: to destroy evidence of their crime. And yet this was
Speaker 23: someone who had not gone to the pains of collecting
Speaker 23: and destroying other evidence that was found nearby.
Speaker 1: But all speculation is set aside when word comes back
Speaker 1: from the morgue. It turns out only two of the
Speaker 1: victims were in the car. Julie's sun is still on account.
Speaker 18: Knowing that she may be alive and in pain or suffering.
Speaker 18: I don't know how to describe what it does to you.
Speaker 1: Every available police resource is put towards finding the fifteen
Speaker 1: year old girl.
Speaker 23: We were still holding on to that slim string of
Speaker 23: hope that she might be found alive.
Speaker 1: Agents used the detail that the torch car was found
Speaker 1: in such a remote location to try and zero in
Speaker 1: on the killer's mo and.
Speaker 23: The fact that they had destroyed their means of transportation
Speaker 23: suggested to us that there may have been some other vehicle.
Speaker 23: That of course suggested the possibility that there may have
Speaker 23: been one person, someone to drive the victim's car and
Speaker 23: set out a blaze, and someone else to follow and
Speaker 23: provide a getaway. It suggested this was someone who knew
Speaker 23: the area.
Speaker 1: The prime suspects fit the bill precisely.
Speaker 23: We learned that Larwick had actually resided not far from
Speaker 23: the location where the victim's car had been found. In fact,
Speaker 23: he had committed a crime not far from where the
Speaker 23: victim's car had been found, and so there were little
Speaker 23: pieces of information that they may have been involved.
Speaker 1: But despite relentless interrogation, which results in statements from Dykes
Speaker 1: that he participated in the murders, FEDS can't get anything
Speaker 1: concrete out of their prisoners that's not true. Then, on
Speaker 1: March twenty fourth, a letter postmarked shortly after the women's disappearance,
Speaker 1: arrives at FBI headquarters. It contains a map and distressing message.
Speaker 23: We had fun with this one, I mean the statement
Speaker 23: itself is one of those that makes you sick to hear,
Speaker 23: and it suggested that this was someone who took some
Speaker 23: satisfaction in their crime.
Speaker 1: The map leads to a remote overlook known as Vista Point,
Speaker 1: only a short drive from the Cedar Lodge motel. It's
Speaker 1: here that the investigator's worst fears are realized.
Speaker 13: We went down the hill to recover julie'sun's body. She
Speaker 13: was naked other than a two inch black duct tape
Speaker 13: wrapped around her left ankle. The duct type indicates that
Speaker 13: this victim had been bound up with the duct tape
Speaker 13: and kept hostage her heroes fanned out. Her right leg
Speaker 13: was spread apart from her left leg, and her left
Speaker 13: leg was bent forward, and her hands were crossed over
Speaker 13: her chest.
Speaker 18: It appeared that she had been posed, and a person
Speaker 18: who has been posed in death by an offender indicates
Speaker 18: an offender who sexually motivated and who has a fantasy
Speaker 18: which is very dangerous for other people.
Speaker 13: There was a very large lava mass on Julie's neck,
Speaker 13: which indicated to me immediately as her neck had been cut.
Speaker 24: When they discovered Julie's body, it became even more sinister
Speaker 24: than everybody originally thought. I mean, it was horrible when
Speaker 24: they found Carol and Salvina their charred remains in the
Speaker 24: trunk of their rental car, But when they found Julie
Speaker 24: in the position she was, I think people started thinking
Speaker 24: serial killer, started thinking, you know, this is just a
Speaker 24: crime that's bigger than we ever thought.
Speaker 1: The forensic analysis of the crime scene provides investigators with
Speaker 1: a surprising piece of material.
Speaker 13: That orange crolic fiber was on Julie's son's.
Speaker 23: Body consistent with originating from the same source as fibers
Speaker 23: that were found among the belongings of Larwick and Dykes.
Speaker 1: Authorities finally have physical evidence linking the half brothers to
Speaker 1: the son Paloso murders. Tying them to the anonymous letter
Speaker 1: will seal their fate.
Speaker 13: The fingerprint expert found what he thought was a right
Speaker 13: thumb partial print on the stamp that overlapped onto the envelope.
Speaker 1: But their attempt to connect the partial print to Larwick
Speaker 1: or Dyke's fails. No match is found. FBI DNA expert
Speaker 1: Melissa Smears now extracts DNA from saliva on the envelope seal.
Speaker 20: With regards to the DNA that was attained on the
Speaker 20: envelope in this case, I was able to determine that
Speaker 20: male DNA was present.
Speaker 1: She compares this DNA with samples taken from the half brothers,
Speaker 1: but once again investigators received shocking news it doesn't match
Speaker 1: either one of them. The weight of the evidence now
Speaker 1: suggests that police have been focused on the wrong suspects.
Speaker 18: I believe they were playing with the people that were
Speaker 18: investigating them, and they both got really good treatment for
Speaker 18: at least ten weeks while they were being interviewed and reinterviewed,
Speaker 18: and took an opportunity to send authority on a wild
Speaker 18: goose chase and had a good time doing it.
Speaker 1: That means a killer may still be out there. Three
Speaker 1: women have been brutally murdered near Yosemite National Park, and
Speaker 1: the case police have built against their prime suspects, Michael
Speaker 1: Larwick and Eugene Dykes falters when compelling forensic evidence much
Speaker 1: suggests some other killer investigators pour over the case looking
Speaker 1: for new leads. Jeff Reinick turns to the role of
Speaker 1: film found near Carol's sons burnt out rental car, hoping
Speaker 1: to learn more about how the women spent their final hours.
Speaker 18: The photos were of Julie and Sylvina being girls, and
Speaker 18: Carol being there as the parents enjoying this moment with
Speaker 18: their daughter and her friend.
Speaker 1: But of greater interest to Reinick is the time stamps
Speaker 1: on the back of the pictures, especially the last one.
Speaker 23: Those roles of film allowed us to say, you know,
Speaker 23: with relative certainty that they had been alive and well
Speaker 23: and in their room at roughly ten thirty in the
Speaker 23: evening on February fifteenth.
Speaker 1: Authorities re examined the victim's remains in a frantic search
Speaker 1: for answers. Remarkably, Carol's son's stomach survived the fire.
Speaker 13: They found evidence of starchy material broccoli cauliflower, which was
Speaker 13: very interesting because we knew on February fifteenth that evening
Speaker 13: that eaten a meal at the Cedar Lodge, and Carol
Speaker 13: had ordered a vegetarian burrito. The stomach contents suggested to
Speaker 13: me that carolsn met with her death within hours after
Speaker 13: eating the burrito that she had purchased.
Speaker 1: Investigators realized that Carol at least met her death at
Speaker 1: or in close proximity to the Cedar Launch. They immediately
Speaker 1: returned to the motel and soon have a new suspect
Speaker 1: in custody.
Speaker 23: It was the night cleaning man at the hotel's restaurant.
Speaker 23: He had come on duty late the night that the
Speaker 23: victims were last seen alive and really had no one
Speaker 23: who could account for his whereabouts late that evening until
Speaker 23: early the next morning. A search that was done of
Speaker 23: his workplace revealed two laundry bags that tested positive for blood.
Speaker 18: He was very adversarial, very belligerent, very uncooperative with law enforcement.
Speaker 1: Authorities. Are finally closing in on their killer, or so
Speaker 1: they think. On the morning of July twenty second, a
Speaker 1: Yosemite Park ranger stops by the cabin of twenty six
Speaker 1: year old Joey Armstrong after friends reported her failure to
Speaker 1: meet them the previous evening.
Speaker 13: Inside the cabin, she could see that a tremendous struggle
Speaker 13: took place.
Speaker 1: Investigators recover fingerprints and trace evidence, but it's the area
Speaker 1: outside Armstrong's cabin that offers the most intriguing clues.
Speaker 13: We identified tire tread marks and shoe wear impressions in
Speaker 13: the sand.
Speaker 1: Mark Fincher mixed drawings of the two distinct tire treads
Speaker 1: found at the scene. He also notes a clear impression
Speaker 1: of a man's sandal. The depth and trajectory of the
Speaker 1: footprint impressions suggest that Joey was dragged to a nearby vehicle.
Speaker 1: As they follow the tire tracks, investigators encounter more scuffed footprints,
Speaker 1: indicating that someone had exited the vehicle and been dragged away.
Speaker 1: The prints continued to a nearby creek, where a grizzly
Speaker 1: find awaits.
Speaker 13: And she had been placed up against the reeds and
Speaker 13: concealed with vegetation. It struck me immediately that the position
Speaker 13: of her body was almost identical as the position that
Speaker 13: we recovered Julie Sunden.
Speaker 23: It triggered a concern, a fear that perhaps these cases
Speaker 23: may be connected.
Speaker 13: There was evidence of a sexual assault, or pants had
Speaker 13: been unbuttoned and on zipped, her shirt had been pulled up.
Speaker 1: Most shocking of all is that Joey Armstrong has been decapitated.
Speaker 24: Joey Armstrong was a naturalist, and she took young children
Speaker 24: who were visiting the park on nature hikes and taught
Speaker 24: them about the plants and the animals.
Speaker 9: I was dumbstruck.
Speaker 23: I mean I was devastated and this was another tragic crime.
Speaker 1: Authorities scour the crime scene vicinity for possible witnesses. A
Speaker 1: park ranger soon encounters a man lounging in the sun.
Speaker 23: At that point in time, Joey's head, as sad as
Speaker 23: it sounds, had not yet been found.
Speaker 1: There was some.
Speaker 23: Suspicion that he was hiding some evidence in his backpack.
Speaker 24: Would you mind if I had a look in your backpack?
Speaker 2: I would prefer if you didn't.
Speaker 1: The man's reluctance causes the ranger to bring him in
Speaker 1: for questions.
Speaker 6: Here, thank you.
Speaker 1: He has identified as Cedar Lodge handyman Kerry Stainer. Nothing
Speaker 1: of significance is found in Stainer's backpack, which leads law
Speaker 1: enforcement wondering why he didn't consent to an earlier search.
Speaker 23: He acknowledged that he had been in the park, but
Speaker 23: he denied being in the area of the crime scene.
Speaker 23: He denied having any contact with Joey Armstrong. He provided
Speaker 23: an explanation of what he had been doing in the park.
Speaker 13: We asked him, will you voluntarily give us a DNA sample?
Speaker 1: And he comply. While Stayner's interview continues, takes a precautionary measure.
Speaker 13: I dispatched a couple FBI agents to go take polaroid
Speaker 13: pictures of the tire tread impressions of carry Stanner's jeep.
Speaker 1: With nothing to hold him, the handyman is released. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the search for Joey Armstrong's head reaches a grim conclusion.
Speaker 13: I didn't know what to read into that. I didn't
Speaker 13: know if this person was trying to inhibit us our
Speaker 13: ability to identify who the victim was and place the
Speaker 13: head in a different location. I didn't know what to
Speaker 13: make of it.
Speaker 1: Another woman dead and a killer still on the loose.
Speaker 1: Can police catch him before he strikes again? Five months
Speaker 1: after three sites are found dead outside of Yosemite Park,
Speaker 1: twenty six year old naturalist Joey Armstrong. The investigation continues
Speaker 1: on several fronts, but when Nick Rossi decides to ask
Speaker 1: Cedar Lodge handyman Carrie Stainer some more questions, he receives
Speaker 1: strange news. I don't know what to say. First time
Speaker 1: in two years he's missed a day of work. The
Speaker 1: motel manager takes Rossi to Stayner's apartment, but Stayner is gone,
Speaker 1: along with most of his possessions. A lookout bulletin is
Speaker 1: issued for the handyman as a material witnessing the Joey
Speaker 1: Armstrong case. Authority soon get a hit.
Speaker 23: A woman who was staying at Laguna del Soul, which
Speaker 23: is a resort south of Sacramento, recognized Stayner and she
Speaker 23: called the Sacramento office.
Speaker 1: In the FBI, Special Agent Ryanick is dispatched to bring
Speaker 1: the witness in.
Speaker 18: Mister Stayner, and as soon as Carrie was aware I
Speaker 18: was there, he stood up and put his hands on
Speaker 18: his head, which does not normal behavior for a citizen.
Speaker 1: Given Stayner's odd reaction, Rhynick cuffs him as a precaution,
Speaker 1: and while the agent transports Stainer back to headquarters. Hopkins
Speaker 1: studies tire tread indents, so.
Speaker 13: He had compared the sketch of the tire tread impressions
Speaker 13: in front of the cabin with the polaroid pictures taken
Speaker 13: from the tires on Stayner's jeep.
Speaker 2: What are showing you our pictures of tire treads?
Speaker 13: The two front tires and Stainer's cheep did not match
Speaker 13: the back two tires of his cheap But yet we
Speaker 13: had both of those tires at that crime scene, and
Speaker 13: he was telling investigators he'd never been there.
Speaker 2: Can I see one of your sandals place?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 13: Once we asked for his sandals, he knew that he
Speaker 13: left impression evidence behind. He knew that we were going
Speaker 13: to be able to forensically demonstrate that he was there
Speaker 13: and he was the one responsible for killing Joey Armstrong.
Speaker 18: When he asked to speak to me alone, you know,
Speaker 18: I guess you could say something was up.
Speaker 1: Faced with the evidence, Stainer confesses to them. He also
Speaker 1: tells Ryannick exactly what happened.
Speaker 16: Excuse me, I'm just getting ready to go.
Speaker 13: Okay, Kry Stainer was in a real rush to try
Speaker 13: to remove her out of the cabin into his jeep
Speaker 13: and move her out.
Speaker 1: Of the area, but Joey Armstrong resistant even managed to
Speaker 1: escape from the moving vehicle, but Stainer caught her and
Speaker 1: subdued her.
Speaker 23: Joey fought fiercely against Stayner and basically forced him to
Speaker 23: kill her at that scene rather than transporting her far away.
Speaker 1: The handyman and is officially charged with the Armstrong homicide.
Speaker 1: Now the FBI wants him for three more.
Speaker 23: He was implicating himself not only in Joey's death, but
Speaker 23: possibly also in the Sunned Puloso homicides.
Speaker 1: Back to the forensics, Stainer's DNA is compared to saliva
Speaker 1: from the anonymous letter that led police to Julie Sound. Incredibly,
Speaker 1: no match is found. Have they got the wrong man again?
Speaker 1: Hopkins pays yet another visit to room five oh nine
Speaker 1: of the Cedar Lodge, now looking for any trace of
Speaker 1: Carrie Stainer, but none is present. Everything comes down to
Speaker 1: the partial print lifted from the anonymous letter's stamp.
Speaker 13: The fingerprint examiner compared those known fingerprints with that partial
Speaker 13: fingerprint found on the stamp, and there was a match.
Speaker 1: Now forensically tied to the murders of Carol, Julie and Sylvena.
Speaker 1: Stayner realizes he's reached the end of his road. He
Speaker 1: opens up to Agent Reinick about a lifetime of twisted desires.
Speaker 18: He said, I'm a bad person. I've done some bad things.
Speaker 18: He has had devious sexual drive for quite a while.
Speaker 23: From the time that he was young, it had been
Speaker 23: important to him to try to control women. Mastery over
Speaker 23: them was central to his fantasies about killing and sexual assault.
Speaker 18: He recognized his fantasy, he decided he was going to
Speaker 18: say it through, and he did.
Speaker 23: He talked about other guests at the hotel that he
Speaker 23: chose not to attack because he thought they might have
Speaker 23: a man with them.
Speaker 12: Good evening, ma'am, my maintenance, we're having a water leak problem.
Speaker 2: May I commit?
Speaker 23: He desensitized the victims to his approach by knocking on
Speaker 23: adjacent doors and hollering maintenance and going in and sort
Speaker 23: of making noises, so that by the time he reached
Speaker 23: their door it would seem more routine.
Speaker 12: I don't know, it's a little late for maintenance work.
Speaker 2: Is there no problem? I'll go get the management if
Speaker 2: that makes.
Speaker 1: You feel better, No fine, come in grit thanks.
Speaker 18: And that began an unbelievable tragedy.
Speaker 1: Everybody freeze, don't make a sound, let out, don't look
Speaker 1: at me Stayiner binds all three women with duck games.
Speaker 1: He puts Julie and Sylvina in the bathroom, leaving Carol's
Speaker 1: son on the bed.
Speaker 13: Carol Son was killed. Initially, he strangled her and placed
Speaker 13: her in the trunk.
Speaker 1: Stainer next brings Sylvina Paloso out to the bed. She
Speaker 1: makes so much noise he becomes afraid of detection it, and.
Speaker 13: He subsequently killed Savina Peloso and plays her in the
Speaker 13: trunk of the car.
Speaker 1: Julie's sun is now the only one alive.
Speaker 13: For some weird reason, he developed quite an affinity for Julia.
Speaker 1: First, Stainer assaults her, then he wraps her in a blanket,
Speaker 1: puts her in the car, and drives her to the
Speaker 1: secluded shores of Don Pedro Lake.
Speaker 18: He wants to fantasize, if you will, that they have
Speaker 18: a relationship, and he convinced himself that she loved him
Speaker 18: and he loved her, and he holds to that till
Speaker 18: the end.
Speaker 1: The FBI finally has the man responsible for Yosemite's reign
Speaker 1: of terror.
Speaker 24: Stayner was the proverbial boy next door, good looking and unassuming,
Speaker 24: not the typical person you would suspect of being a killer.
Speaker 1: The remaining question is how he kept authorities off his
Speaker 1: trail for so long. Cedar Lodge handyman Carrie Stainer is
Speaker 1: the confessed killer of Carol and Julie sund Silvina Paloso,
Speaker 1: and Joey Armstrong. He now tells federal agents how he
Speaker 1: always planned to outsmart them.
Speaker 13: Carry Stanner had fantasized about doing this event and all
Speaker 13: the different types of forensic evidence investigators use to associate
Speaker 13: an offender to a crime scene.
Speaker 23: And he used that knowledge to basically manipulate evidence and
Speaker 23: create misleading clues for the team investigating this case.
Speaker 1: After killing Julie and leaving her at the lake, Stayner
Speaker 1: sets out to lead authorities far away from his crimes.
Speaker 1: He drives one hundred miles to Longbarn and ditches the
Speaker 1: rental car with the bodies of Carol and Silvina inside.
Speaker 1: He then hikes to a main road. He catches a
Speaker 1: cab back to the Cedar Lodge and thoroughly cleans Room
Speaker 1: five oh nine.
Speaker 24: He left all kinds of signs that the women had
Speaker 24: left that morning and were taking their drive as planned.
Speaker 24: He had gotten rid of any kind of evidence that
Speaker 24: this had been a room where two killings had taken
Speaker 24: place and a girl had been sexually assaulted for hours.
Speaker 1: He informs investigators that he shaved his body before he
Speaker 1: struck in order to leave fewer traces behind. Two days
Speaker 1: after the murders, he returns to Longbarn in his own vehicle,
Speaker 1: places the women's belongings in the rental car, and destroys
Speaker 1: the efforts, but he keeps a few select items for
Speaker 1: his next trick. One hundred miles away in Modesto, he.
Speaker 18: Took many of the possessions of Carrel, Slovina and Julie
Speaker 18: and dumped them in Medesto.
Speaker 1: This effort to fool police gets a major boost when
Speaker 1: Dyke's in Larwick. The perfect suspects happened to pick up
Speaker 1: Carol's son's wallet and take the clothes to sell on
Speaker 1: the street. The garments are never recovered, but the orange
Speaker 1: fibers from Julie's shirt found in the car help incriminate
Speaker 1: the pair. Hearing about their arrests on the news, Stainer
Speaker 1: writes the taunting letter to suggest that more than one
Speaker 1: killer is involved in the crime.
Speaker 23: He knew that we could extract DNA from things like
Speaker 23: envelopes and the flap used to seal it.
Speaker 13: Envelope, So he went down in the dusk stop and
Speaker 13: found a little Hispanic boy and paid this little Hispanic
Speaker 13: boy five dollars to spit in a cup.
Speaker 1: He then uses the boys saliva to seal the envelope.
Speaker 23: He showed considerable intelligence and considerable planning in the way
Speaker 23: that he concealed the crime and planted false evidence.
Speaker 1: Confident he can get away with murder, Stayner chooses Joey
Speaker 1: Armstrong as his next victim, but things go wrong this
Speaker 1: time when Armstrong's brave struggle throws a cycle path off
Speaker 1: his game.
Speaker 18: Joey Armstrong's for life, her willingness to fight to have
Speaker 18: life is I believe what caused him to leave the
Speaker 18: evidence behind.
Speaker 13: He wanted to go back to that crime scene and
Speaker 13: try to destroy a lot of that evidence and take
Speaker 13: it back, but he never had the opportunity.
Speaker 23: He later confessed that had he not been stopped at
Speaker 23: that point, he would have continued killing. None of us
Speaker 23: would think that someone who is normal couldn't commit these
Speaker 23: kinds of crimes.
Speaker 6: You don't know how to feel.
Speaker 18: I like to think that I did what I did
Speaker 18: for those victims.
Speaker 1: At trial, Carrie Stainer bleeds insanity. The jury rejects his defense.
Speaker 1: On December twelfth, two thousand and two, Stainer receives the
Speaker 1: death penalty. April nineteen ninety two, after battling heavy traffic,
Speaker 1: Nancy Blackburn finally arrives at her destination. A weekend of
Speaker 1: peace and relaxation awaits, or so she believes. For Nancy Blackburn,
Speaker 1: the trip marks the end of a long cold winter,
Speaker 1: but it also marks the beginning of a nightmare, a
Speaker 1: nightmare that will yet claim many more victims.
Speaker 11: He's an absolute sexual obevient.
Speaker 9: He's a predator.
Speaker 11: The viciousness that he displayed, his ruthlessness, I find to
Speaker 11: be just chilling.
Speaker 26: You clearly had someone to me to fit the category
Speaker 26: of the serial killer.
Speaker 1: Investigators must work feverishly to identify an elusive psychopath.
Speaker 11: We had no idea who that person was.
Speaker 1: Then hunt him down and stop his rampage.
Speaker 22: There would be no end of victims until he was caught.
Speaker 13: Uncle Ann Auntie Nance.
Speaker 1: Monday, April thirteenth, nineteen ninety two, in an upscale neighborhood
Speaker 1: in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Jamie Osborne checks in on his
Speaker 1: aunt and uncle after they failed to show up a
Speaker 1: weekend family party. But no one's home. Nothing in the
Speaker 1: house suggests where they may be.
Speaker 16: I'll go in as a nats.
Speaker 11: About eleven o'clock twelve o'clock in the evening. He also
Speaker 11: notices that there's keys to the vehicle in the key container.
Speaker 1: The keys are to Nancy Blackburn's car. Perhaps it holds
Speaker 1: a clue to the couple's whereabouts.
Speaker 11: He goes to the back of the car, opens a trunk.
Speaker 1: Inside is a site Jamie will never forget. Metro Toronto
Speaker 1: Police are soon on the scene.
Speaker 11: It was called about two bodies found in the trunk
Speaker 11: of a car at three Saint Leonard's in fifty three
Speaker 11: Division in downtown Toronto.
Speaker 1: Detective Sergeant Doug Brady joins forensics expert Richard McEwan and
Speaker 1: the investigation begins. An initial glance at the naked female
Speaker 1: victim reveals the case's first piece of information.
Speaker 11: Lavidity, which is a blood flowing to the lowest possible area,
Speaker 11: had set in on the victim and she had been
Speaker 11: in the position she was for some time.
Speaker 1: The dead couple is quickly identified as Nancy and Ian Blackburn.
Speaker 1: Neither have been seen for some days. As Nancy's car
Speaker 1: is secured to protect it from the elements, Grady moves
Speaker 1: his team inside the Blackburn's upscale North Toronto home. They
Speaker 1: spent hours combing it for signs of foul play.
Speaker 19: Nothing was found that was out of place within the house.
Speaker 19: There's no signs of violence or any type of struggle
Speaker 19: that was noticeable.
Speaker 1: It becomes evident that the couple was not murdered within
Speaker 1: these walls. But why were they killed at all?
Speaker 11: He was the owner broker of a business with a partner.
Speaker 11: They were quite successful. The female victim was a registered
Speaker 11: nurse who was actively involved in businesses in Toronto, so
Speaker 11: they were well enough off.
Speaker 1: Authorities wonder was robbery the prime motive behind the murders.
Speaker 1: They soon get their answer.
Speaker 2: There's no way a thief could miss us.
Speaker 1: All the Blackburn's possessions seem to be in place, but
Speaker 1: they learned that something crucial is missing.
Speaker 16: And when I opened off the car.
Speaker 1: Ian Blackburn's car is not in the garage or anywhere
Speaker 1: near the property. Grady issues in all points bulletined for
Speaker 1: the vehicle. As the bodies are removed from Nancy's car
Speaker 1: and sent to the Morgue. Her vehicle is then taken
Speaker 1: to the Center of Forensic Sciences to be investigated.
Speaker 19: And then we did an extensive examination of the car.
Speaker 19: Fingerprints analysis done on the all the surfaces of the car.
Speaker 1: Police are hopeful the killer left behind evidence of himself,
Speaker 1: but they are disappointed.
Speaker 19: Unfortunately, low usable fingerprints were found on the car itself,
Speaker 19: and we're going to attribute that to the fact that
Speaker 19: it was cold weather.
Speaker 1: Sweat is necessary for a clean fingerprint. In cold weather,
Speaker 1: the pores that provides sweat close up and leave little
Speaker 1: moisture behind. In the back seat, authorities do find something interesting,
Speaker 1: a thermal bag from which they recover a roasting pan.
Speaker 1: Inside the pan is a fully prepared dinner of beef
Speaker 1: and vegetables. Meanwhile, at the Morgue, an examination of Ian
Speaker 1: Blackburn's injuries raises more questions than it answers. McEwan determines
Speaker 1: that he was suffocated after being severely beaten with them.
Speaker 11: He had been punched in the face, he had bruising
Speaker 11: to him. Somebody had taken control of him quite strongly.
Speaker 1: A look at the victim's right leg reveals a we
Speaker 1: particularly intriguing clue.
Speaker 11: But he had an unusual, in my experience, unusual markings
Speaker 11: just above.
Speaker 6: His right knee.
Speaker 11: There was a ligature mark, very strong ligature mark.
Speaker 1: Most captains Machewen has dealt with have been bound at
Speaker 1: the wrists and ankles. Why would Ian be tied around
Speaker 1: the knee.
Speaker 11: He also had a cylinder mark around his skull, is
Speaker 11: consistent with a firearm being placed there very strongly against
Speaker 11: the side of his head.
Speaker 1: A Quan now examines Nancy Blackburn. She too has been asphyxiated.
Speaker 1: No evidence of sexual assault is found, but her injuries
Speaker 1: paint a picture of extreme violence. Most alarming is the
Speaker 1: discovery that both of Nancy's shoulders have been pulled out
Speaker 1: of their sockets.
Speaker 11: At first, you're trying to figure out in what kind
Speaker 11: of scenarios could have resulted in this.
Speaker 1: At the forensic garage, investigators finally recover a piece of
Speaker 1: hard evidence, a bloody kleenex on the floor of the car.
Speaker 1: Lab analysis reveals that the blood is not a match
Speaker 1: to either victim. Could it be the killers? There's no
Speaker 1: way to be sure. With nothing but speculation to go on,
Speaker 1: Grady and his team are in need of a break,
Speaker 1: and suddenly they get one when Ian Blackburn's car is
Speaker 1: located one hour north of the city at his summer farmhouse.
Speaker 1: On the case is Detective Inspector Jim Hutcheson.
Speaker 22: The male victims vehicle was still in the Caldon area
Speaker 22: had been parked there for considerable days, but.
Speaker 1: A much more compelling find awaits Hutchison inside. Police believe
Speaker 1: they have just found their murder scene. The bodies of
Speaker 1: Ian and Nancy Blackburn are found in Nancy's car at
Speaker 1: the couple's Toronto home. The search for their killer leads
Speaker 1: police one hour north of the city to the Blackburn's
Speaker 1: summer farmhouse. Ian Blackburn's car has been found outside and
Speaker 1: human blood on the stairs inside. Detectives Grady and McEwan
Speaker 1: arrive on the scene together with Inspector Hutchison. They seek
Speaker 1: hard evidence to prove this is their crime scene. Ian
Speaker 1: Blackburn's car places him at the location within the timeframe
Speaker 1: when the couple died.
Speaker 11: We could tell that the vehicle had been there for
Speaker 11: at least a few days because there were markings around
Speaker 11: the car where rain had come down and where the
Speaker 11: soot had been, and there was a clear outline around
Speaker 11: the vehicle.
Speaker 1: Grady obtains phone records for the farmhouse and discovers that
Speaker 1: the last two outgoing calls were made to the Blackburns
Speaker 1: Toronto home three days before the couple was discovered. This evidence,
Speaker 1: together with the roaster from Nancy's car, suggests that Ian
Speaker 1: began the day alone at the cabin and telephone Nancy
Speaker 1: to join him.
Speaker 22: The speculation was that she had driven up to meet
Speaker 22: with her husband and had brought a prepared meal.
Speaker 11: And at that point we believe both vehicles were at
Speaker 11: the farmhouse.
Speaker 1: Speculation becomes fact when lab results confirmed the blood found
Speaker 1: on the stairs is Nancy's. At the same time, the
Speaker 1: investigators received some startling information from local authorities. Six months earlier,
Speaker 1: another Toronto resident had been attacked only two kilometers away
Speaker 1: from the Blackburn cottage.
Speaker 22: A vehicle was found off the road in the ditch
Speaker 22: in Caledon of a store owner from Toronto by the.
Speaker 1: Name of Caroline Case.
Speaker 22: She had disappeared from her store downtown Toronto, and then
Speaker 22: there was some blood found in the car that was
Speaker 22: identified as being Caroline Case.
Speaker 1: Presumed murdered case's body has not been recovered. As police
Speaker 1: wonder if the two crimes could be connected, the investigation
Speaker 1: takes another turn.
Speaker 9: Ah, you think that's the point of.
Speaker 27: Entry or how it looks like an officer's actually, please,
Speaker 27: there were small prim marks on a window that indicated
Speaker 27: that there had been a forced entry to it.
Speaker 4: In here, and he made his way in with them
Speaker 4: looks like what could be a fuel.
Speaker 1: Impressions are recorded, and investigators soon learned from local police
Speaker 1: just how significant they are. It seems that cops throughout
Speaker 1: the area are all too familiar with these impressions, having
Speaker 1: seen them at a rash of unique cottage break ins
Speaker 1: over the winter. The homicide team is told all about
Speaker 1: the strange and elusive intruder known as the house Hermit.
Speaker 19: The press nicknamed him the house Hermit, and that's how
Speaker 19: he became unknown. He would break into a cottage over
Speaker 19: the winter and live there for a period of time
Speaker 19: and then abandon it.
Speaker 22: He was using the bed, he had the heat turned
Speaker 22: on in the area. He had a fry pan that
Speaker 22: he was using.
Speaker 1: Evidence of a visit by the house Hermit includes mounds
Speaker 1: of used tea bags.
Speaker 19: Our suspect like to drink Twining's tea.
Speaker 1: And that's not all.
Speaker 22: He was using plastic jugs to keep his urine because
Speaker 22: the water system was not turned on for the winners.
Speaker 1: He also keeps a stockpile of his own feces wrapped
Speaker 1: in newspapers.
Speaker 19: Paper was folded in a kind of a unique manner.
Speaker 22: We referred to it as a fish and chip tucket.
Speaker 1: What sounds merely eccentric turns possibly sinister when the team
Speaker 1: is informed that one of the cottages the house hermit
Speaker 1: broke into was that of a gun collector.
Speaker 11: That breaking inner several handguns were taken, newer guns, older guns,
Speaker 11: automatic revolvers, and that was quite a concern.
Speaker 1: Investigators wonder could the mysterious hermit also be a killer.
Speaker 11: So we had an idea that whoever was committing the
Speaker 11: break and enters may be the person responsible for these murders.
Speaker 1: The problem with this theory is that no evidence is
Speaker 1: found inside the Blackburn farmhouse to suggest the house hermit
Speaker 1: camped here. Hutchison moves the hunt for clues outside.
Speaker 22: I had brought in the urd Team Emergency response team
Speaker 22: to search the property and also all the concession mo
Speaker 22: It's not leading up and down the farm.
Speaker 1: The effort soon turns up exactly what the police are
Speaker 1: hoping for. Garbage bags on the Blackburn property containing signs
Speaker 1: of the house hermit, tea bags, urine filled jugs, and
Speaker 1: the most telling calling card of all.
Speaker 19: There were human feces wrapped in the sports section of
Speaker 19: a newspaper from the Toronto Star.
Speaker 1: The pages are dated February twenty seven. Inside the farmhouse,
Speaker 1: Grady finds a newspaper for the same date, missing a
Speaker 1: sports section more or.
Speaker 22: Less tied in the victim's residents to what we found outside.
Speaker 1: In the garbage, investigators also recover ammunition they are able
Speaker 1: to trace back to the break in at the gun
Speaker 1: collector's cottage. Authorities now suspect that one of those stolen
Speaker 1: guns have been pressed against Ian Blackburn's head.
Speaker 11: We put out the information on the firearms, all of
Speaker 11: the serial numbers of the firearms.
Speaker 1: In another disturbing development at the Morgue, medical examiners are
Speaker 1: getting an idea of just how violently Nancy Blackburn died,
Speaker 1: in particular how her shoulders were ripped out of their sockets.
Speaker 19: The pathologist attributor to that injury to having your hands
Speaker 19: by your back and then being hung.
Speaker 11: Up, and the pathologists described it as being hogtied.
Speaker 1: Clearly their killer enjoys extreme violence, but we.
Speaker 11: Still had no idea who that person was.
Speaker 9: Here we go.
Speaker 11: Welcome, come on in, thank you, This is Upton, Please
Speaker 11: meet s your Jim Hutchinson.
Speaker 1: Then Hutchison is made aware of an extraordinary report filed
Speaker 1: weeks earlier by an elderly couple, Rose and Samuel Appleton.
Speaker 1: They had an encounter with the house Hermit, and we're
Speaker 1: lucky to escape with their lives. Finally, the police are
Speaker 1: ready to put a face to the man they suspect
Speaker 1: is their cold blooded killer. After making a possible link
Speaker 1: between the Blackburn double murder and a rash of bizarre
Speaker 1: break ins in cottage country, police have found witnesses that
Speaker 1: may help them identify a mysterious drifter dubbed the house Hermit.
Speaker 1: Investigators hang on every word as Rose and Samuel Appleton
Speaker 1: recount the brush they had with their intruder.
Speaker 22: In early March of nineteen ninety two, an elderly couple
Speaker 22: from Toronto came up to the Middland area. I went
Speaker 22: on Georgie and Bay to pay their taxes for their cottage,
Speaker 22: but also checked the cottage and make sure that everything
Speaker 22: was fine over the winter.
Speaker 1: So I'll give me a second.
Speaker 13: I'll turn on the power, check the pipes New York.
Speaker 2: I won't be longer.
Speaker 11: He asked his wife to stay in the car. He
Speaker 11: walks to the cottage, He opens it up, he goes in.
Speaker 19: He was confronted by our suspect, who had a firearm.
Speaker 11: Took control of the older gentleman and took them back
Speaker 11: to the car.
Speaker 19: Told them I mean to Toronto, to your house and
Speaker 19: I'll leave you there.
Speaker 1: The hour long trip to Toronto is spent in silence
Speaker 1: and terror, but once in the city, the Appletons defy
Speaker 1: the house hermit's order to take him to their residence.
Speaker 11: He drove this person right to Dundas and Young, the
Speaker 11: busiest street in Toronto, right at the busiest corner of Toronto.
Speaker 11: I will not take you to our home. If you're
Speaker 11: going to shoot us, shoot us right here.
Speaker 1: The Appletons await their fate, but in the end, their
Speaker 1: brave tactic works.
Speaker 11: The suspect got out of the car and took off,
Speaker 11: and I honestly believe that that auction saved their lives.
Speaker 1: The couple now tells police everything they can remember about
Speaker 1: their assailant.
Speaker 22: Both gave descriptions of the individuals that had attacked, and
Speaker 22: a composite drawn was prepared by the opp artist.
Speaker 19: We had the similarities in the break ins, and now
Speaker 19: we had a description of our suspect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she was.
Speaker 18: She had dark glasses on us.
Speaker 11: We thought of releasing composite drawings, but composite drawings give
Speaker 11: you quite often a thousand names that mean nothing. Composite
Speaker 11: drawings sometimes isn't exact enough.
Speaker 1: Local investigation at the time of the incident revealed evidence
Speaker 1: that the house hermit had camped at the Appleton cottage.
Speaker 1: Hutchison now returns there and discovers a box the hermit
Speaker 1: had stashed away inside our alarming contents.
Speaker 19: There was quite an extensive collection of porn found at
Speaker 19: that time.
Speaker 1: Much of the pornography features acts of s and m
Speaker 1: in particular photographs of women who have been hog tied.
Speaker 11: Someone was cut out and classified and classified, I mean categorized,
Speaker 11: would keep it in different groups.
Speaker 22: There'd be a whole bunch of breast pictures, and then
Speaker 22: there'd be a whole bunch of and his pictures. Wasn't
Speaker 22: that he was cutting out the and putting them together.
Speaker 22: It was just that they would be cutting it up
Speaker 22: and categorizing.
Speaker 1: A troubling profile of the suspected killer emerges from this evidence.
Speaker 11: He was somebody who was good with his hands, somebody
Speaker 11: who was.
Speaker 22: Methodical, and also that he was fantasy driven. I believe
Speaker 22: that he could only gain satisfaction through a type of
Speaker 22: bondage or violence.
Speaker 1: Police now review their evidence. Ian's car abandoned at the
Speaker 1: Blackburn farmhouse, the phone records showing calls from the farmhouse
Speaker 1: to his Toronto residence, the roasting pan in Nancy's car,
Speaker 1: her blood on the stairs signs that the house hermit
Speaker 1: entered the farm house and camp there, his appetite for
Speaker 1: violent pornography, and lastly, the vicious wounds to both Ian
Speaker 1: and Nancy. Taken together, they form a picture of how
Speaker 1: and why the Blackburns died. It starts with Ian arriving
Speaker 1: at the farmhouse alone, having driven up in his vehicle.
Speaker 1: He's completely unaware that the house hermit is residing inside.
Speaker 1: Ian enters the residence, phones Nancy in Toronto and they
Speaker 1: discuss her driving up to join him.
Speaker 5: Hey sweetheart, I sweetie, Yeah, I've got the rose of
Speaker 5: the oven, and I'll probably be there in a couple hours.
Speaker 6: All right, Okay, we'll look forward to seeing you.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 28: By the time Nancy arrives, Ian is powerless.
Speaker 1: To help her.
Speaker 16: Yeah, honey, I'm scared.
Speaker 1: The house hermit overpowers her, then hog ties her and
Speaker 1: assaults her in accordance with his sexually sadistic fantasies. Finally,
Speaker 1: he kills her and throws her in the truck of
Speaker 1: her car. The hermit now cleans up his campsite, throws
Speaker 1: the garbage in the woods, and prepares to leave the area.
Speaker 1: The police can't be sure how the Blackburns ended up
Speaker 1: back in Toronto. A closer examination of Ian Blackburn's injuries,
Speaker 1: including the ligature mark on his right leg, point to
Speaker 1: the likely circumstance. His right arm was tied to his
Speaker 1: right leg with enough slack to allow him to drive,
Speaker 1: while his left arm and ankle were tightly bound together.
Speaker 22: And forced the male victim to drive the vehicle back
Speaker 22: to Toronto, possibly not even knowing that his wife was
Speaker 22: in the trunk, and probably hoping to save his own life,
Speaker 22: hoping to get back to Calden to release his wife.
Speaker 9: Who would be tied up back at the cottage.
Speaker 1: What now.
Speaker 22: That once he got into the driveway, was affixiated, put
Speaker 22: in the trunk of the car and they were left there.
Speaker 1: But despite their theories, all police have to show for
Speaker 1: the investigation is a bloody tissue and a composite sketch
Speaker 1: They can connect to no one. Then they make a
Speaker 1: discovery that just may turn things around. Under the pornography
Speaker 1: found at the Appleton's property are several strange lists of
Speaker 1: military equipment.
Speaker 11: Fulker airplanes against sopwith Campbell's, you know, like a unique
Speaker 11: planes all crossed off, firearms, rifles against canons. It appeared
Speaker 11: to be a solitary game of war.
Speaker 1: But for the investigators, more important than the content of
Speaker 1: the lists is the style in which they have been written.
Speaker 1: The handwriting is so unique it might prove as effective
Speaker 1: as a fingerprint in identifying someone. The team goes public
Speaker 1: with their manhunt.
Speaker 11: We provided the media with a copy of the handwriting
Speaker 11: and it went in national media, both on television and
Speaker 11: in the print media.
Speaker 1: Police know all too well the risks they take releasing
Speaker 1: their evidence. It may alert the suspect that they're onto him.
Speaker 1: But if they don't roll the dice and take this gamble,
Speaker 1: they'll never catch a killer before he strikes again. Police
Speaker 1: have distributed samples of the house hermit's unique handwriting to
Speaker 1: the media in hopes that someone can help identify their
Speaker 1: elusive suspect. Within hours, they hit paydirt. Courtesy of Alison shaw.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 22: We had a call from a called Alison who said
Speaker 22: that she definitely knew that, writing that she knew the
Speaker 22: individual for the last two or three years.
Speaker 2: Pleasure to meet you, Jim Hodgson.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Alison sits down with authorities and unfolds the story of
Speaker 1: their suspect.
Speaker 11: So why don't you explain to me this list that
Speaker 11: we spoke about on the phone.
Speaker 20: I met him in Orangeville, Ontario. He was working on
Speaker 20: a building which was behind my apartment that I rented
Speaker 20: with my husband at the time.
Speaker 2: You a bit of a description of them, I have
Speaker 2: a picture?
Speaker 6: Does that help?
Speaker 2: It'd be fantastic.
Speaker 1: She also provides investigators with what they want most, an identification,
Speaker 1: and was that time she gave us the name David Snow.
Speaker 11: David Snow owned a shop called Nothing in Particular and
Speaker 11: it was a knickknack shop. Alison worked for him in
Speaker 11: the knickknack shop.
Speaker 1: Allison had seen samples of Snow's distinctive handwriting on inventory
Speaker 1: lists for the store. See this is a German JU
Speaker 1: eighty seven stucid die bomber.
Speaker 6: Let's see. The thing about this plane.
Speaker 12: Is it wasn't the fastest plane.
Speaker 16: It wasn't even what did he do?
Speaker 20: He'd come over after work with Daris, who was my husband,
Speaker 20: come up to the apartment, have dinner, a couple of beers.
Speaker 16: It got to be a daily occurrence.
Speaker 20: In pretty short order. I noticed he was I had
Speaker 20: a real problem with hygiene. He had terrible body odor,
Speaker 20: like he had showered in months. It really rotten teeth,
Speaker 20: It's awful.
Speaker 1: In fact, he had the kind of bad teeth that
Speaker 1: are prone to bleeding. But despite his terrible hygiene, Alison
Speaker 1: got along well with her eccentric employer.
Speaker 20: Our relationship was okay, it was fine. It wasn't close,
Speaker 20: it wasn't just stand. It was just me doing my
Speaker 20: thing and him doing his.
Speaker 1: That is until Snow discovered that Alison was expecting her
Speaker 1: first child.
Speaker 16: David, I didn't see the.
Speaker 11: Idn't you tell me?
Speaker 16: Excuse me?
Speaker 12: He told Sherry that you were pregnant, and you never
Speaker 12: told me.
Speaker 20: He didn't react very well at all.
Speaker 11: He said, I thought I was a better friend to
Speaker 11: you than that.
Speaker 9: What I guess, I don't mean anything to you.
Speaker 12: Yeah, stormed off, you know, like he was my husband
Speaker 12: or something.
Speaker 13: It was.
Speaker 1: It just blew me away. Allison had to accept that
Speaker 1: something was very wrong with David Snow, but no one
Speaker 1: else in Orangeville seemed bothered by his peculiar ways.
Speaker 20: No one ever said anything about any of that.
Speaker 16: Ever, I felt like I was while I was the
Speaker 16: only one.
Speaker 1: In her experience. Snow's behavior continued to grow increasingly strange
Speaker 1: and unsettling.
Speaker 20: I had seen this real change in him, this slow
Speaker 20: decline in over the last few months, that I really
Speaker 20: got frightened.
Speaker 8: You know, I don't know why.
Speaker 17: I still don't know why.
Speaker 27: But I did.
Speaker 1: Authorities ask Alison where her boss is now. She has
Speaker 1: no idea. The investigation moves to the town where Snow
Speaker 1: had his shop. Police in choir after the man believed
Speaker 1: to be the house hermit and their killer.
Speaker 22: We went around with the Orangeville area there and we
Speaker 22: had aucers going door to door.
Speaker 11: Hanne O pictures of David Snow the homicide. Your area
Speaker 11: just told me, if you've seen this moment.
Speaker 27: When we.
Speaker 19: Started doing a background history on him.
Speaker 11: We found that he never drove.
Speaker 9: He walked everywhere.
Speaker 22: His older brother had tried to teach him to drive
Speaker 22: at one point and he just broke out into a sweat.
Speaker 6: He was nervous.
Speaker 22: He put the car in the ditch and jumped out
Speaker 22: and said, I want to never get inside the car again.
Speaker 1: Police also learned substantial details about Snow's departure from the
Speaker 1: area over eight months ago.
Speaker 22: October third of nineteen ninety one, he went into the
Speaker 22: taxi stand in Orangeville.
Speaker 11: Which he used, was very, very early in the morning.
Speaker 22: He was covered with mud and he was wet, and
Speaker 22: he got a riot and he paid cash and jumped
Speaker 22: out of the vehicle and wealth and that's the last
Speaker 22: that he was seen in Orangeville.
Speaker 1: The most alarming thing about Snow's disappearance is that it
Speaker 1: occurred on the very same day that the car of
Speaker 1: Toronto store owner Carolyn Case was found in a ditch
Speaker 1: in Caladen. Now the location of that car.
Speaker 19: If you follow the county road that the car was
Speaker 19: on slightly farther north, it almost runs into the area
Speaker 19: where the Snow's family homeless.
Speaker 1: David Snow may not be just a killer he may
Speaker 1: be a serial killer.
Speaker 11: I thought somebody who's committed these type of crimes is
Speaker 11: not going to stop until they're caught. They have no
Speaker 11: regard for anybody else. So, yes, we were concerned.
Speaker 1: Authorities put out a Canada wide arrest warrant for their
Speaker 1: prime suspect, But as they scramble to find David Snow,
Speaker 1: a predator is stocking more prey. David Snow is the
Speaker 1: prime suspect in the murders of Ian and Nancy Blackburn. Now,
Speaker 1: just as police launch an intense search to find him,
Speaker 1: a twenty one year old photostore clerk goes missing on
Speaker 1: July one, nineteen ninety two. No one has seen her
Speaker 1: since the previous evening when she worked alone at the business.
Speaker 1: On the case is RCMP investigator Randy in it. But
Speaker 1: the strange thing about this crime is that it hasn't
Speaker 1: taken place in Toronto or even Ontario. The victim has
Speaker 1: been abducted over three thousand kilometers away in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Speaker 1: Besides no witnesses, the scene offers few clues for Bennett's investigators.
Speaker 29: They had absolutely no information to work on, and we're
Speaker 29: relying on some public assistance to try to support their investigation.
Speaker 1: Law enforcement combs the city looking for the abducted woman.
Speaker 1: Ten days later, there's still no sign of her. Then
Speaker 1: on July eleventh, there's another kidnapping.
Speaker 29: There have been a young lady abducted from a video
Speaker 29: store in North Vancouver.
Speaker 1: The only witness to the crime is a badly shaken
Speaker 1: video store manager.
Speaker 29: It's somewhat sketchy information that lone mail individual entered the
Speaker 29: video store. The manager was tied up up and left
Speaker 29: in the building, and a female employee was removed from
Speaker 29: the building. The manager was able to free himself from
Speaker 29: his ligatures and made the call in that there had
Speaker 29: been a robbery and an abduction and the employee was missing.
Speaker 1: In describing the perpetrator, the manager notes that he had
Speaker 1: terrible body odor and a mouthful of rotten teeth. Bennett
Speaker 1: learns the victim's car is missing from the parking lot
Speaker 1: and a city wide dragnet begins. Among the cops on
Speaker 1: high alert is Constable David Kwasnika. He decides to head
Speaker 1: from Mount Seymour Provincial Park as the area best fits
Speaker 1: his theory about the man they are hunting.
Speaker 12: I felt that the suspect was abducting this woman in
Speaker 12: order to sexually assault her and would likely take the
Speaker 12: woman to a secluded area.
Speaker 1: Quasnika drives around the corner in a remote area of
Speaker 1: the park.
Speaker 12: And that's where we found the vehicle.
Speaker 29: They called it in the location where they were at,
Speaker 29: and we were sending extra members to reinforce and to
Speaker 29: provide backup for them.
Speaker 1: Quasnika and his partner proceed to secure the vehicle and
Speaker 1: look for any clues the abductor may have left behind.
Speaker 12: And at that point, that's when we heard the screaming
Speaker 12: from the forest.
Speaker 1: Tucked in the woods just off the road, Kwasnika discovers
Speaker 1: the badly assaulted victim from the video store. At least
Speaker 1: she's alive.
Speaker 12: She was in a squatting position, her wrists were tied
Speaker 12: to her ankles, and just.
Speaker 1: As backup arise, Quasnika gets another shot.
Speaker 12: And I started running towards the screams that I heard.
Speaker 1: Not far from the first victim, the officers discover a
Speaker 1: makeshift campsite. Tied to a tree is another woman who's
Speaker 1: been severely brutalized.
Speaker 11: Did you see where he was?
Speaker 1: Was Nica immediately recognizes her as the victim kidnapped ten
Speaker 1: days earlier from the photo store.
Speaker 29: Then crime scene had some sleeping bags and personal articles
Speaker 29: and personal clothing and some food, garbage and debris.
Speaker 1: Quasnika and his partner try to comfort the traumatized woman.
Speaker 12: What disturbed me was how this victim reacted with no reaction,
Speaker 12: just like very calm, cool, collected and monotone voice.
Speaker 1: As the women are escorted out of the woods, more
Speaker 1: police move in and the hunt for the perpetrator kicks
Speaker 1: into high gear.
Speaker 29: They are directed that we would deploy other police cars
Speaker 29: to start setting up for robblocks and try to contain
Speaker 29: a male suspect that had flat off into the bushes.
Speaker 1: But given the nature of Mount Seymour Park, that's not
Speaker 1: going to be easy.
Speaker 29: It's very densely treed with lots of undergrowth and so forth,
Speaker 29: and because it's on a mountain slope, you can probably
Speaker 29: hide in any crevice or corner, or a cracker under
Speaker 29: any trees or bushes and stay hidden for quite some
Speaker 29: period of time.
Speaker 1: As the massive manhunt gets under way, authorities searching the
Speaker 1: second victim's car find a gun.
Speaker 29: The police officers call the serial numbers into our and
Speaker 29: the round him on the national database.
Speaker 1: Bennett learns that the gun was stolen in a cottage
Speaker 1: robbery in Ontario by a man wanted on a countrywide
Speaker 1: murder warrant. His name is David Snow.
Speaker 22: I get a call from a British Columbia and I think,
Speaker 22: as your fellow looking for.
Speaker 11: Oh, it's totally shocked.
Speaker 6: You're serious.
Speaker 1: Ontario police can only hope that BC authorities will do
Speaker 1: what they could not find and capture their killer. Concerns
Speaker 1: about a psychopath loose in the park are soon compounded
Speaker 1: when authorities learn that a marathon is taking place.
Speaker 12: We were worried that he would grab another victim.
Speaker 1: As night falls, the manhunt becomes much more difficult, but
Speaker 1: failure is not an option.
Speaker 29: We had one of the greatest threats to the community
Speaker 29: that the community has seen in.
Speaker 1: Your long time, and for a local restaurant owner, it's
Speaker 1: a threat that's all too real. After abducting and assaulting
Speaker 1: two women in Vancouver, David Snow is being hunted by
Speaker 1: police in Mount Seymour Provincial Park. They don't know he's
Speaker 1: managed to flee the area and choose another victim at
Speaker 1: a secluded restaurant Snow forces the woman to the back
Speaker 1: of the building, but he's unaware that she was able
Speaker 1: to trigger the restaurant's silent alarm. With most law enforcement
Speaker 1: resources diverted to Mount Seymour, it falls on Constable Peter
Speaker 1: Cross and his partner John Westlock to respond.
Speaker 26: We were doing what you would call standard routine police calls.
Speaker 26: We got two calls for alarms. One was an Edgemond
Speaker 26: village and the second alarm was for the Bridgehouse restaurant.
Speaker 9: To this day, I have no.
Speaker 26: Idea why I chose the Bridge House because we were
Speaker 26: actually driving by the other alarm to get to the
Speaker 26: Bridge House for alarm.
Speaker 1: Nothing appears out of place upon their arrival, and they
Speaker 1: can't hear the victim. Constable Cross finally arrives at the
Speaker 1: back of the building.
Speaker 26: Three and that's when he starts running.
Speaker 1: In one fell swoop. Cross brings to an end Snow's
Speaker 1: deadly rampage.
Speaker 2: I'll go back to the woman back there.
Speaker 9: She needs help.
Speaker 26: I said, you're a fellow we're looking for, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 26: I think so.
Speaker 9: You're gonna be okay. Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Snow's victim is alive, if just bare.
Speaker 26: We were told by the hospital staff if she was
Speaker 26: thirty to forty five seconds away from dying. To come
Speaker 26: across someone that is in the process of being killed
Speaker 26: is extremely rare. To have the ability to stop it
Speaker 26: and have the ability to catch the guy doing it.
Speaker 26: I think is yeah, it's one of those moments in
Speaker 26: time that, yeah, you're pretty proud of it when you're done.
Speaker 1: Snow first stands trial in British Columbia.
Speaker 29: We were able to secure convictions against David Snow for
Speaker 29: several counts of abduction, forceable confinement, sexual assault, and aggravated assault.
Speaker 1: After being sentenced, he's returned to Ontario to stand trial
Speaker 1: for the Blackburn homicides.
Speaker 19: A DNA sample is obtained from him and it's subsequently
Speaker 19: matched to the blood in the Blackburn car.
Speaker 1: Police see that years of neglect have left Snow's gums
Speaker 1: prone to bleeding. Poor hygie caused him to leave key
Speaker 1: evidence behind.
Speaker 11: On top of all the circumstantial evidence that we had.
Speaker 11: That was the bonus to show that there was David
Speaker 11: Snow's blood and the deceased car that was irrefutable.
Speaker 1: David Snow is convicted of two counts of first degree murder.
Speaker 1: The body of Carolyn Case is eventually recovered, but for
Speaker 1: lack of evidence, he's never charged with her slaying.
Speaker 22: I don't believe that there's any redeeming merit and David
Speaker 22: Snow whatsoever. He's not an individual that could come back
Speaker 22: into the community.
Speaker 11: The viciousness that he displayed, his ruthlessness, I find to
Speaker 11: be just sure.
Speaker 9: I have no idea what droll from.
Speaker 26: Said psychiatrist will spend years studying as to what prompted
Speaker 26: him to this behavior.
Speaker 16: We're driving home.
Speaker 20: Ten or eleven o'clock at night, two of us on
Speaker 20: the Peach Block dirt roads. I never thought twice about it.
Speaker 1: Declared a dangerous offender. David Snow will spend the rest
Speaker 1: of his life behind bars.
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