WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:05.080 This program contains dramatizations of real people and events. Some 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:10.560 names have been changed. This program is for mature audiences only. 3 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:14.960 It contains graphic images which may be disturbing to some viewers. 4 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:22.800 Viewer discretion is advised. A grizzly double murder in New 5 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:31.920 York leaves family stunned and a psychic afraid for her life. 6 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:36.439 So he knew he was going to keep killing, He 7 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:38.479 might come after me if he found out I worked 8 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:38.759 on it. 9 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:48.520 In Oklahoma, a family trip becomes a nightmare, their children missing. 10 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:51.920 Terrified parents seek the vision of a psychic. 11 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:56.960 I've worked through some cases that this child tore me 12 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:00.799 to shress this little girl just puckman. 13 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:11.760 When klus are scarce and answers elusively, investigators sometimes turned 14 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:26.840 to a psychic witness. Albany, New York, November twenty third, 15 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:33.840 nineteen seventy six, The day before Thanksgiving, in a rundown 16 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.959 section of the business district, Albany resident Oscar Ramsay enters 17 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:43.439 the religious store his family owns. His son Curtis, should 18 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:51.400 be working with longtime employee dedra Upton in the bathroom. 19 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:56.760 A body. He doesn't know who it is or what's wrong. 20 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:09.960 Vagrants often wander into the store. Oscar tells police he 21 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:19.879 thinks one is sick in the bathroom. All ben he 22 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.240 Detective Jim Candling is among the first on the scene. 23 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.199 Right, this man came to the store and we confronted 24 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.039 the an elderly gentleman, and we asked off was going on. 25 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.240 He said he was like a confused state. He says, 26 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:32.719 I don't know who he is, but he's in my 27 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:34.759 bathroom back there, and I think he's sick coming out 28 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:41.599 the street or something. Yes, but I went over, God, 29 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:43.960 went into the bathroom, went over the top of the 30 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:46.039 body that was laying there, put my flashlight that and 31 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:49.240 the chief says to me, what's it look like? Jim, 32 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:51.319 I says, he's dead. 33 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:55.400 Yeah. 34 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:57.319 I said, his throats cut from here the air and 35 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:02.240 he said he got a multiple stab wound in his chest. 36 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.400 What Oscar doesn't realize is that the body is that 37 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:13.199 of his son, fifty five year old Curtis Ramsay, and 38 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:17.280 he's not the only victim. 39 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:19.080 I looked it around and I said, oh my god, 40 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:21.479 there's another one. It was the woman that worked there also, 41 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:24.639 and she was gonna supply cloudset on her floor and 42 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.719 she appeared to have multiple stab wounds and her chest also, 43 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:31.400 and uh, she was only a frail little thing, you know. 44 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:37.400 Really it's sixty two year old store employee dedra Upton, 45 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:40.759 who could've done this? 46 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:46.759 We went up the street there was a woman standing 47 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:49.759 on a corner and I said, did you see anybody 48 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:54.240 go buy you? This is a big guy came running 49 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.080 down the street a little while ago, and he was 50 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.159 carrying something, but he had stuff wrapped in his hand, 51 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.879 bloody stuff. He went up the street of Broadway and 52 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.599 he dumped something in a barrel up there and kept 53 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:05.039 on going. 54 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:12.719 She describes him as an African American male, tall and 55 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.719 powerfully built, but she didn't get a good look at 56 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:32.800 his face inside the barrel. Among the trash, investigators discover 57 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:37.480 a priest's vestment and a glove, both soaked in what 58 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:45.759 appears to be blood, nearby a trail of blood drops. 59 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:54.959 The assailant evidently cut himself. Also because in standing people 60 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:56.639 a lot of times with a knife, if you come 61 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.480 down hard and hit bone, your hand will come off 62 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.839 the handle and get down a blade, and that's apparently 63 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:02.279 what he did. 64 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:12.560 Investigators follow the blood trail, but soon it ends. They 65 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:20.560 call for a canine unit. It's a horrific crime, a 66 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:25.360 savage attack by a knife wielding killer, and for what 67 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:33.199 The cash register is open but missing only a few dollars. 68 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:39.399 The canine unit arrives to try to track the killers. 69 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:59.519 The dog follows the scent for several blocks, yet the 70 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:08.399 trail near a furniture outlet store. Detectives talked to employees there, 71 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:16.720 but they didn't see a thing. With no other evidence, 72 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.680 investigators check local arrest records for similar crimes, according to 73 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.519 District Attorney saw Greenberg, and. 74 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:28.600 They wanted to know who were the recent parole lees. 75 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.360 And what were their ms, what was the nature of 76 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:34.560 the crimes they committed. 77 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:41.000 One parole officer calls in with a good lead. According 78 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.639 to New York State Police Senior investigator Richard Gannon. 79 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:51.720 When he heard about the furniture outlet store, put it 80 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:55.439 together that a recent parole ee by the name Alemuel 81 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:57.480 Smith was working there. 82 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:02.399 Yeah, thirty seven years old. Lemuel Smith has spent several 83 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:07.560 years in prison for violent crimes, but now he's out. 84 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.720 Smith has been free for several months and so far 85 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:33.839 he stayed clean. Hello, and he's fully cooperative, explaining he 86 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.000 was having lunch with two friends at the time of 87 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:36.560 the murders. 88 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:39.639 Yeah, I was working at the Actually. 89 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:48.120 The friends later confirm his story. Officers check Smith's hands 90 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:52.279 for cuts, anything, all right. 91 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:56.120 They assumed that they had to be quite a gish 92 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.839 for it to bleed so much, and they saw nothing, 93 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:07.040 So that kind of took Smith out of the picture. 94 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.959 A brutal killer is still out there, but a psychic 95 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:18.160 is about to join the search for him. 96 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:22.279 I saw it and felt it. I knew this man 97 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:25.160 was a killer and would kill more and more. This 98 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:27.639 is why I was happy they let me help them. 99 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.839 Together, the cops and the psychic will chase a serial 100 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:37.519 killer who's just getting started. After a gruesome double murder 101 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:42.320 in Albany, police cleared their first suspect, Lemuel Smith, when 102 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:47.440 his alibis corroborated with a killer on the loose. The 103 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:54.600 city's terrified forensic anthropologist and author Dennis Foley. 104 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:57.720 Albany didn't have murders like this. This was horrendous. It 105 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:03.039 was in a religious store. His throat was slashed, almost decapitated, 106 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:05.519 and she had numerous stabunds. 107 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:11.559 Rumors swirl that it was a cult killing. Albany police 108 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:17.799 must uncover the truth. Officers find new witnesses, two local 109 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:20.799 vagrants who say they saw a man running from the store, 110 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.360 a man who does not resemble the first suspect. According 111 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:28.960 to senior investigator Richard Gannon. 112 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:31.840 The one person they did see come out at a 113 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:38.320 store was a white man. He was moving quite fast 114 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.320 up the street running. 115 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:50.759 The witnesses know the man. He's Freddie Baker, another vagrant, 116 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:55.200 I don't know. He swears he didn't do it. 117 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.639 So they gave him a polygraph test when they sobered 118 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:04.960 him up, and he passed the polygrasses. But they also 119 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:07.679 proved conclusively that he was in the store. 120 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.120 Baker says he went in that day to buy a 121 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.919 card for his mother. He heard something in back. 122 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:23.679 He saw this huge man with the eyes of the 123 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:27.360 devil is the way he described him. And he just 124 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:30.480 turned around and ran out of the store as fast 125 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:32.120 as he could, and he never stopped. 126 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.799 The description of the man he saw leads police back 127 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:44.320 to Lemuel Smith about the same time. Lab results come in. 128 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:49.080 The killer's blood is type OH, the same as Smith's. 129 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:55.360 The lab tests also reveal a strange detail. Lama hairs 130 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:58.639 were found at the crime scene. It's a type of 131 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:04.480 hair used in furniture upholstery smith works at a furniture 132 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:14.679 outlet store. Still it's not enough for an arrest. A 133 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:18.360 month after the killings in the religious store, a young 134 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:25.120 woman is found nearby with her throat slashed. District Attorney 135 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:26.559 saw Greenberg. 136 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:32.840 It appeared based upon the throat sledding, is that possibly. 137 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:37.159 There could have been a similarly the same individual may 138 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:38.559 have perpetrated this crime. 139 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:44.600 Once again, few clues left behind what we want. With 140 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:48.440 no leads, Albany's assistant police chief takes a new tack 141 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.000 and calls in psychic and Fisher. 142 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:57.840 He is at wits end, so he brings in a psyche. 143 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:02.080 His deputy chief, his sergeants, they're appalled by this. This 144 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:06.000 is so unprofessional, but they'll go along with it because 145 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:07.360 they have nothing to lose. 146 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.120 And agrees to accompany detective to the crime scene at 147 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:11.919 the religious store. 148 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.720 They were desperate, they didn't know what to do, and 149 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:19.519 I think it's because they didn't know where to go, 150 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.679 and they had heard about me and felt that maybe 151 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:25.759 I could help them. 152 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.279 The psychic ass that they tell her nothing about the case. 153 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:32.399 All she knows is someone was killed. 154 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.480 When I walked in. Oh, it was terrible. 155 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:38.159 She sees the killer. 156 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:42.440 My impression was he came in to sell something. He 157 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:46.039 needed money, and I see the woman to not be 158 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:51.279 willing to do it, and so he went into a 159 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:53.600 fit of anger, dragged her into the back room and 160 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:57.960 stabbed her fifteen times. 161 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.559 And knows exactly where Deirdre Upton was killed. 162 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:08.919 Stab While he was doing this, the owner of the 163 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:13.600 store came in and he tried to stop him, and 164 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:14.919 he was killed two. 165 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.720 She said he almost was beheaded, which they didn't really 166 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.120 put that in the newspapers. 167 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:24.600 I can see it. 168 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:27.519 Detectives ask about the killer. 169 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.639 I feel so sorry, and I said, well, he's about forty, 170 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.679 he's black and about six foot. 171 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:44.840 But then a confusing image sometimes and sees two killers. 172 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:50.919 The second assailant is smaller. She sees him committing the 173 00:13:51.000 --> 00:14:00.000 same acts with a larger man watching, but the second 174 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:05.039 silent is not always there and doesn't understand exactly what 175 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:13.639 it all means. The procession continues outside and feels the 176 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:17.240 killer or killers fleeing the scene, and knows in which direction. 177 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:21.519 In this direction, I. 178 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:24.000 Walked out of the store in this sort of a 179 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:28.960 semitrans state, and I just pointed and I turned left. 180 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:35.120 The psychic goes right to the place the evidence was found. 181 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:37.120 They're covered with blood. 182 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:41.039 She says, whoever did it through something in the trash barrel, 183 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:47.440 bloody clothes. Then Ann leads detectives along the route they 184 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.080 followed before when they found the blood trail. 185 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:54.240 I was in a semi trans not a trance. I 186 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.720 was able to walk and still talk to them and 187 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:00.559 answer them, but I started to see so much, feel 188 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:01.039 so much. 189 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:08.240 She senses a building where the suspect lives or works. 190 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:14.320 I said, it's screen. It's around here, I. 191 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:21.000 Know it is. She spots the building, Yes, yes, the 192 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:29.799 furniture outlet store where suspect Lemuel Smith works. Then and 193 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.279 gets a different sort of vision of the future. 194 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.600 I said, I think you'll catch him, but I feel 195 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:40.759 he's going to kill a woman soon. And don't ever 196 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:43.120 tell anybody I ever worked on this case, because I 197 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:44.240 don't want it to be me. 198 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.320 The psychic knows the killer's not finished, but his next 199 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:56.679 victim is impossible to predict. After a double murder in Albany, 200 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:01.240 New York, psychic Anne Fisher has visions that implicate suspect 201 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:06.519 Lemuel Smith, though she also sees a possible second assailant, 202 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:16.679 and she predicts the killer will strike again. Senior investigator 203 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:21.279 Richard Gannon believes Smith is guilty, but he needs proof. 204 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:27.639 Oh, we were all very sure. There was no question 205 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.480 in any of our minds. It was just a case 206 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:33.000 of getting that piece of evidence that would tie him up. 207 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:38.639 Police search Smith's locker at the store where he works, 208 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:45.480 collecting hair samples. Lab tests reveal the hair is microscopically 209 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:49.519 similar to victim dedra Upten's, but this is before DNA 210 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.320 analysis and no exact match can be made. 211 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:56.360 You have to realize that you might arrest them, but 212 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.159 then you have to go to court and you have 213 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:02.759 to try him, and if your evidence is such that 214 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.480 the defense attorney's going to knock you out of the box, 215 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:07.599 it's feudal. 216 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:17.799 At the store, officers also spot Smith's paintings. 217 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:21.799 And he left the eyes blank and put foiled paper 218 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:25.079 behind the paintings, and it showed true. 219 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:34.119 It was very vivid, creepy, but certainly not evidence. Six 220 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:40.559 months past with no developments. July twenty second, nineteen seventy seven, 221 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:46.599 in nearby Schenectady, New York, residents discover the body of 222 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:52.680 twenty two year old Janet Tolliver again of violent stabbing, 223 00:17:54.119 --> 00:18:03.799 and again no good evidence. One witness reports seeing Lemuel 224 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:08.200 Smith near the victim before her death, but police find 225 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:13.960 nothing solid to tie him to any crime. Then a 226 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:19.960 month later, a local attorney notices something's wrong. His usually 227 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:24.839 reliable secretary has not returned for lunch. He calls her 228 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:33.720 parents right away. The family's worried, but it's only been 229 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:36.759 a few hours, too soon for police to investigate. 230 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:45.000 The family had good friends who were c beers. They 231 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:50.400 arranged to put out a bulletin or notice every fifteen 232 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:54.640 minutes describing her car. 233 00:18:55.920 --> 00:19:01.839 Amazingly, the system worksterist who heard the bulletin spots the 234 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:15.000 Secretary's car and contacts police on his CBU. Inside the car, 235 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:19.880 officers find the secretary and Lamuel Smith. 236 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:26.799 He was on the passenger side said to the police 237 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.400 that he was with his fiance and they were going 238 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:31.200 into Albany. 239 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:38.559 She's got a different story. He abducted and assaulted her 240 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:42.160 and was forcing her to drive when. 241 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:44.000 They arrested Smith at that point. 242 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:53.759 Finally, Smith is off the streets, and finally police discover evidence. 243 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:59.039 A Schenectady detective checking crime scene photos from the janet 244 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:01.359 Tolliver murder notices something. 245 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:11.400 Something that looked like teeth marks were Subsequent to that, 246 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:14.920 we got molds of Lemuel Smith's teeth. 247 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:20.640 A forensic odontologist compares the molds to the bite marks 248 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:23.799 an exact match. 249 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:32.039 As a result, we indicted him. 250 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:36.920 Police first charged Smith with Tolliver's murder. When they book him, 251 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:42.240 they noticed something detectives missed earlier. According to author Dennis Fowley. 252 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:49.880 Initially the detectives who were looking at his hands, they 253 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:52.359 looked at the front of his hands, in the back. 254 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:52.880 Of his hands. 255 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.279 They didn't look at the side. 256 00:20:57.160 --> 00:20:58.680 Now police see a scar. 257 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.839 He had cut himself on the side by his knuckle. 258 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.440 Investigators confront Smith on the double murder in the religious store. 259 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:19.400 Actually he now admits he was there, but he's got 260 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:22.240 a bizarre story about that day. 261 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:27.200 Lemuel Smith never admitted to any of these homicides. He 262 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:31.079 said it was done by his brother John, and that 263 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:34.039 he watched and in some cases he's to try to 264 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:35.200 stop the homicides. 265 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:37.839 Actually, it's really interesting. 266 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:41.480 But he watched from afar while his younger brother, the 267 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:45.240 little brother killed John. 268 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:46.759 Actually looks like. 269 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:51.799 Psychic. Anne Fisher saw a second assailant in some of 270 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:57.079 her visions, though he was unclear to her. Police learn 271 00:21:57.160 --> 00:22:02.519 a startling fact Smith's brother died when he was a child, 272 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:08.359 his involvement in the killings only in the mind of 273 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:15.319 Lemuel Smith. Investigators believe Smith is displacing blame, and Anne 274 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:19.640 picked up on the killer's dual personality later. 275 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:23.000 There is a picture that Lemuel Smith drew for his 276 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:27.480 defense attorney in which he depicts his self portrait just 277 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:31.720 two people in it, Lemuel and a small brother John. 278 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:35.319 So this is how Lemuel Smith saw himself. He saw 279 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:36.519 himself as two people. 280 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:43.839 Basically, Smith explains why he was in the store, and 281 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:45.559 his story matches Anne's vision. 282 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:51.440 Lemuel Smith did a lot of paintings, and he tried 283 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:54.599 to sell him at the religious shop because the paintings 284 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:58.160 were of a religious nature, but they. 285 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.680 Were very stark under somewhat. 286 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:05.039 Police believe. When the owners declined to buy, Smith became 287 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:10.839 enraged and attacked. Lemuel Smith is sentenced to twenty five 288 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:13.799 years to life for each of the religious store murders. 289 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:17.759 He earns ten to twenty years for the attack on 290 00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:23.079 the legal secretary, Janet Tolliver's family declines to press charges 291 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:28.759 to avoid the pain of a trial. Smith will never 292 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:33.519 leave prison alive, thanks in part to a psychic. 293 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:41.720 Ann Fisher essentially identified Lemuel Smith. She also provided information 294 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:45.480 about that he would strike again, so she gave the 295 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:47.240 idea of a serial killer. 296 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.759 Ann Fisher helped all the need police know they were 297 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:57.759 on the right track to stop a serial killer and 298 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:05.200 put him away forever. In Oklahoma, the killer is the 299 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:09.640 force of nature, and the psychic must somehow connect with 300 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:16.160 a terrified little girl. Nestled in the hills of southern 301 00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:21.400 Oklahoma lies the small town of Davis and one of 302 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:26.680 the best swimming holes in the nation, Turner Falls Park. 303 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:31.799 In the summer, families from all over travel to Turner 304 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:37.920 Falls to relax in its cool waters. To get there, 305 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:42.680 cars flash through Honey Creek, normally little more than a trickle. 306 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:52.079 The creek adds charm to a beautiful place. Usually on 307 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:56.680 July eighth, nineteen ninety four, the Saddler family heads to 308 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:06.400 Turner Falls for the weekend. The two kids, Nathan and Wendy, 309 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:09.920 have never been camping before and love it. 310 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:15.799 When all I lost. 311 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:27.880 That night, the Saddlers enjoy their first campfire together. I've 312 00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:37.960 had eventually worn out from swimming and hiking, they turn 313 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:45.079 into sleep, but at one am, a violent rainstorm begins 314 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:53.359 to pound the area. At three am, runoff water seeps 315 00:25:53.359 --> 00:26:02.079 into the family's tent. The worried mother and father decide 316 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:19.920 to drive into Davis to find a motel. When they 317 00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:23.799 approach the crossing at Honey Creek, it's no longer a trickle. 318 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:31.960 Dark water covers the road, no telling how deep it is. 319 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:39.319 Mister Saddler edges along, hoping for the best. Okay, back there, Well, 320 00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:42.640 what's about to happen to his young family couldn't get 321 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:53.480 any worse? At Davis, Oklahoma's turner falls. The Saddler family's 322 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:57.640 camping trip turns dangerous when a heavy rainstorm batters the area. 323 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.119 To make it to a motel, the family drives toward 324 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:08.079 a creek crossing, but in the darkness, mister Sadler can't 325 00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:13.920 see the normally shallow creek is raging. Suddenly, the water 326 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:23.359 lifts the car and pushes it sideways. Slowly, the relentless 327 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:27.440 flood bulldozes the car off the road and into the 328 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:36.400 rushing waters below them. Luckily, a campground worker sees the 329 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:43.480 car swept away and calls Davis police officers assigned to 330 00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:50.240 the ranger station race to help. They search the water 331 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:59.640 and spot the family. The cars come to rest in 332 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:04.240 the middle of the creek, which is running hard and 333 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:11.799 rising fast, the water pinning the car doors closed. An 334 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:23.920 officer bravely wades out to get the kids, but with 335 00:28:24.039 --> 00:28:27.799 a roar, the water shows the car loose and pushes 336 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:32.519 it one hundred yards downstream. The officers scramble to find 337 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:46.279 another position for rescue. By now other campers arrived to help. 338 00:28:48.759 --> 00:29:04.720 They'll do anything, but it's just too much. Mister Sadler 339 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:07.559 manages to crawl out his window and tries to free 340 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:12.079 his family, but the powerful current rips him away and 341 00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:20.079 sweeps him downstream. He disappears into the darkness, and then 342 00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:25.720 a flood surge tears the car loose again. Those watching 343 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:34.599 are helpless as the rest of the family vanishes. Within minutes, 344 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:41.440 additional police and firefighters arrive. They must reach the family somehow, 345 00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:50.119 Davis Police Assistant Chief Daryl McCurtain, it. 346 00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:54.400 Was real tough. You're stomping through brush and trees and 347 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:57.200 and rocks and wet rainy weather and middle of the night. 348 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:09.640 The car is no longer visible. The first good news 349 00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:17.759 comes when mister Sadler is washed ashore, but he doesn't 350 00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:31.200 know where his wife and kids are. The small rescue 351 00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:34.880 team fans out downstream looking for any sign of them. 352 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:37.680 According to fire Chief Norman Shiplet. 353 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:43.119 Maybe heard somebody holler around about where blue Hole is, 354 00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:45.359 so we went around there and she was on the 355 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:46.920 east bank of the creek. 356 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:53.960 It's missus Sadler, bruised, disoriented. 357 00:30:54.640 --> 00:31:03.079 Alone, and then she went to screaming babies were gone. 358 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:06.119 She says. The flood tore them out of her arms. 359 00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:12.240 At least the children got out before the car sank. 360 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.519 We felt like they was probably alive because they were young, 361 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:20.720 and we figured they would be fighting and try to, 362 00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:23.880 you know, stay up on the water or try to 363 00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:25.599 get to the side of the creek. 364 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.160 E nts rushed the parents to the hospital for treatment 365 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:36.920 while firefighters and police continue hunting for the kids. 366 00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:45.119 We'd had a clothing description of the children and just 367 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.279 began walking up and down creek banks hoping that they've 368 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:50.119 made it to safety. 369 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:58.640 They searched throughout the night, no sign of the children. 370 00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:07.039 By dawn, the rain has stopped, but Honey Creek is 371 00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:08.000 still dangerous. 372 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:14.160 The water in the creek was still rise and it 373 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:18.359 was still getting deeper and within a little small creek 374 00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.400 like that, the water is real swift. 375 00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:21.039 And to find his kids. 376 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:23.119 For the Ferman, you need to find his children exactly. 377 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:28.720 The search team is determined to find those kids. Studying 378 00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:32.000 the flow of the creek, they plan a methodical drag dat. 379 00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:36.119 Our goal was to try to locate the children, so 380 00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:38.519 we organize some search parties. 381 00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:41.960 We couldn't search the creek out too much. We could 382 00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:44.160 just go down side of its first day because it 383 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:45.160 was running too fast. 384 00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:50.079 They hope to find the kids on the banks, cold 385 00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:55.480 and wet, but alive. The search party swells to nearly 386 00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:03.480 one hundred, including civilian volunteers and officers from Navy in counties. Yet, 387 00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:07.880 despite their efforts, another night passes with no sighting of 388 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:15.519 the children. On the second day, the number of searches 389 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:18.839 grows to more than two hundred, a huge outpouring for 390 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:19.880 such a small town. 391 00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:25.039 I've been on that department for twenty years and I'd 392 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:29.640 never seen anything like that, never had to do any rescued, 393 00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:35.000 and to that degree. 394 00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:36.960 The search now includes the Oklahoma National Guard and the 395 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:38.440 Oklahoma Highway Patrol. 396 00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:45.599 That's one of the amazing parts of the case that 397 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:49.240 everybody from different areas could come together and work together. 398 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:53.880 Different organizations were assigned to different task and just the 399 00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:57.559 way people communicated, the way we work together. It's remarkable. 400 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.039 The flood has there hundreds of items out of the campground, 401 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:03.359