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The most notoriouskillers hide in plain sight,
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free to kill and kill again.
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But most are not the criminalmasterminds of fiction.
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In their minds, theycommit the perfect murder.
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In reality, it's their foolishmistakes that get them caught.
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St. Charles County, Missouri.
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May 15th, 2001.
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A maintenance
worker cleans trash
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from the roadside ofHighway 67, 20 miles north
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of downtown St. Louis.
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Amongst the garbage and weeds,he makes a horrific discovery--
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the rotten corpse
of a young woman.
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The body that was discoveredwas of a black female.
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She was nude.
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Detective SergeantJana Walters is called out
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to investigate the crime scene.
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She was inadvanced stage of decomposition
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due to the
environmental factors.
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It looked like she had maybebeen out there for at least
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three or four days.
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The body is justyards away from the roadside
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and barely hidden from
the passing traffic.
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She was just tossed out of thevehicle, removed from a vehicle
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just like the other
debris and trash
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that's alongside the highway.
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Walters and
her team find no clues
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as to the girl's identity.
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The body undergoes an autopsy.
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We were hoping
that we were going
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to be able to gather
some type of DNA that
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would pertain to the suspect.
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But during the autopsy, whatwe did find was a dental plate.
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And inside the plate was
an inscription of a name
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and a series of numbers.
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And that was our clue tothe identity of this female.
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Walters
is able to trace
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the numbers back to adental company in St. Louis.
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After speaking
with the company that
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made this dental plate, it wasconfirmed that the female that
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was found was Teresa Wilson.
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Teresa Wilson
was a 36-year-old mother
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from a deprived
area of St. Louis
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who worked as a prostitute.
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Bill Smith, a reporter forthe "St. Louis Dispatch,"
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looks into thebackground of the victim.
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The picture that
I got was a portrait
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of a woman who had a lot
of internal struggles
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and had herself a
very difficult life,
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wanted very much to
be a good mother,
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wanted to be a productivemember of society,
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wanted everything that
anybody else would want,
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the whole American dream kind ofthing, but kept reaching for it
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and kept slipping back.
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And the main reason she wasslipping back was the drugs.
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So now
we're looking at someone
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who picks up prostitutes.
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Was it our first one,
second one, third one?
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We have no idea at this point.
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Two weeks later inan alley of the same rundown
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neighborhood that the firstvictim, Teresa Wilson,
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turned tricks, St. LouisPolice recover another body.
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She'd been run over by acar, dumped in the alley,
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and has some adhesive stickinessall over on her wrists, mouth,
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ankles.
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Supervising
the case for St.
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Louis City Metropolitan Policeis seasoned cop Major Harry
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Hegger.
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Looked like an
act of convenience
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where somebody had
disposed of a body.
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There was no real
effort to hide it.
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Hegger's detectiveslearned that the woman
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is 46-year-old Betty James.
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She, too, was a sex worker.
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The autopsy later
revealed that she died
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of suffocation, strangulation.
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Then just
one month later,
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Walters receives a calltelling her that another body
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has been found.
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It was likelooking at the same scene.
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The body has beendumped in a roadside ditch
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just yards from wherethey found Teresa Wilson.
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This is three
females, nude, that
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were tossed out of a
vehicle within hundreds
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of yards of one another.
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Walters identifiesthe victim as Verona Thompson,
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another 36-year-oldmother from the Washington
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Park area of east St. Louis.
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I really had no clue
that this was going on
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or that there was any patternto any of what was happening.
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I don't think anybody
in the community
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really had any kind of an idea.
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Again, the idea
of a woman's body
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turning up in a roadside
ditch or in an alleyway
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or something like that wasnot that unusual in St.
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Louis at that time.
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But Thompson alsoworked as a prostitute.
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This sounds alarm
bells with the police.
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So now we had identicallifestyles of the bodies.
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Coincidence?
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There's no coincidence.
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Walters asksneighboring jurisdictions
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whether they have any
unsolved murders that
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fit the pattern being revealed.
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There is an immediate match.
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A body found on the 1st ofApril in Washington Park,
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on the other side of
the Mississippi River,
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is identified as 34-year-oldAlyssa Greenwade.
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We now have four
bodies in four months.
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The similaritiesin the cases are startling.
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All four had been
tortured before being
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strangled to death.
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It was pretty clear that thesame person was responsible
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for this, even though we
had two states involved
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and there was quite a bitof difference in the areas.
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Hegger decides
to pull the cases.
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He creates a
dedicated task force
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with detectives across thedifferent jurisdictions.
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And after we sat
down and talked,
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it was fairly easy
to determine that we
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probably had a serial killer.
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And they're right.
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Over the next fourmonths, the serial killer
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claims the lives of two
more prostitutes, Yvonne
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Crues and Brenda Beasley.
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he strangles his victims
and dumps their bodies
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at regular intervals.
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You're looking at everypossibility trying to figure
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out to give yourself somedirection because nothing
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else is helping you.
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You have no idea.
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You just know that everyfour to six weeks, a body
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shows up along the roadside.
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If the police aregoing to stop the body count,
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they have to find
the killer, fast.
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St. Louis Police have aserial killer on the loose.
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Beaten and strangledwomen are being discovered
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on an almost monthly basis.
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Frustrated in their
search, the task force
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call in the help of theFBI's Violent Crime Unit.
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Special Agent Robert
Morton is an expert
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in profiling serial killers.
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What we
really do is provide
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a blueprint of
the type of person
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that is involved in the crime.
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Morton's experiencetells him that serial killers
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usually dispose of
the bodies close
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to the location of the crime.
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In this case,
he was not worried
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about geographic boundaries.
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He would go across the
bridge from one state
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into another to dump the bodies.
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He was accessing the
victims in St. Louis
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and then he would dump thebody either in Illinois
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or in Missouri.
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With bodies beingdumped in a wide rim around St.
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Louis, the task force suspectthat the killer may be someone
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who drives for a living.
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So at this point, we arestarting to look at possibly
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truck drivers and speakingwith the prostitutes
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and asking, who do youthink would be responsible?
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Have you ever had anybody
approach you, have
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you felt fear for your safety?
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That was met with, we alwaysfeel fear for our safety.
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This is our job, this is
the hazards of our job.
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We started warningmany of these prostitutes
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out there that we had possiblyhad somebody that was abducting
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them, luring them into a car,taking them to some location,
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and killing them.
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Preying on themost vulnerable in society
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means that often,
their disappearances
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go completely unnoticed.
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When these women
disappeared, nobody ever
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filed a missing persons
report because they
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were estranged from theirfamilies, they were outcasts.
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The killer
knows what he's
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doing, killing vulnerablepeople on the edge of society.
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The community is so saturatedwith that kind of thing
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at that time that it justkind of washed over them.
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These
are disposable women,
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according to a killer.
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So it gives us a
little bit of an idea
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into the mindset of
who we're looking for.
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But we still had no idea whothe identity of this person was.
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Six victims
have now been found,
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and still there are no cluesas to who the killer is.
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You're always trying tolook into the mind of who's
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doing this and why they'redoing it, how they're doing it,
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and who it is.
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In autumn 2001,the two most recent bodies
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discovered by the
police offer a clue
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that could change the courseof the investigation, DNA.
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There was DNA by
the way of semen
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in the throat of
one of the victims
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and the anus of the other.
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Investigatorscompare the two DNA samples.
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It was a perfect
match, a 100% match.
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At last, policecould link at least two
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of the victims to onekiller with hard evidence.
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We knew for sure
we had two bodies,
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two victims, same suspect.
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And based on very
strong similarities,
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how they were murdered andhow they were disposed of,
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it was pretty obvious to usthat this person was responsible
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for all the rest of them, too.
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Police check the DNAprofile against CODIS, the FBI
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database that holds the
DNA records of thousands
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of criminals in the US.
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It came back with
negative results.
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There was no match.
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The person that we werelooking at as responsible
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for the death of these womenhas not been arrested and put
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into the system.
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The DNA profileremains unidentified.
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It was very frustrating
for all investigators.
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We had no evidence
that is useful to us.
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The DNA had no known standard.
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And we investigatedhundreds of potential leads,
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but still it led us nowhere.
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And then in
late 2001, eight months
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after finding the
first body, the case
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takes an unexpected turn.
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After November of 2001,
mysteriously enough,
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no more bodies were discovered.
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Our killer was consistentwith every month,
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and now we have nothing.
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Months
go by and police
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are left speculating what couldhave happened to the killer.
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We had one of three scenarios.
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Either this guy moved
out of town, relocated;
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maybe he died; or he mighthave been incarcerated.
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With no moremurders and no fresh leads,
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the investigation losessteam and the case goes cold.
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Then in May 2002, BillSmith casts his attention
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to the unsolved murders.
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What kind of
piqued my interest
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as much as anything was the factthat some of these women who
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had disappeared and
who had been found dead
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were from this
area called Baden.
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This was an area that I
was very familiar with.
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Bill Smith wasworking the human interest
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stories for a Sunday special.
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I thought that I could
communicate something
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to our readers about
these women that hadn't
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been communicated thus far.
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Smith trawls
the streets of Baden
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searching for the story.
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He writes an article exploringthe tragic life of Teresa
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Wilson, whose body was
discovered in Charles
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County a year earlier.
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A few days after the
article is published,
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he receives a mysterious letter.
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The
first thing I noticed
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was that the stamp was upsidedown, which is very unusual.
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I opened up the envelope
and looked at it,
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and there were two
pieces of paper.
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One was a letter written
in red and it looked
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to be computer-generated.
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It said, Dear Bill, nice
sob story Teresa Wilson
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and went on to say,
write another one.
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Write a good one and I'lltell you why many others are.
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The letter claimsto be from the serial killer.
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To prove I'm real,here's directions to number 17.
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Attached is a
computer-generated map.
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A hand-drawn X
marks the location
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of the killer's 17th victim.
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I thought it was a joke.
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I thought it was either areporter pulling my leg or just
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somebody on the outside
who had read the story
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who had a sick sense of humor.
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But Smith takesthe letter to the police,
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just in case.
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And they can't
believe their luck.
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This is our lead.
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This is what we're waiting for.
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The map that was sent pinpointedan area approximately half
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a mile, 3/4 of a mile from wherethe discovery of Teresa Wilson
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and Verona Thompson were.
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This time,
X really does mark
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the spot Walters recoversthe skeletal remains
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of an unknown
woman exactly where
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the map had said they would be.
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When we discovered the skull,we saw blatantly that there
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were indentations in the skull.
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There were seven to nineblunt trauma indentations.
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We tried to match that withsome type of tool or instrument,
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and it appeared that it couldhave been done by a hammer,
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the claw end, more crowbar.
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The previouswomen were all strangled.
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Whoever was killing them
is getting more violent
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and is playing a
game with the police.
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This is somebody that istaunting law enforcement.
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He's taunting the
citizens, the people
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of this community saying,look what I can do
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and you can't catch me.
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Criminal
Psychologist David
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Holmes recognizes this as atrait common to serial killers.
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Many serial killers
become a little
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frustrated as their careeradvances considerably.
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They almost want recognition.
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They don't particularly
want to be caught,
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but they want it
recognized that they
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or someone has actually
been clever enough
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to commit these acts.
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My feeling is that he feltthat I didn't understand him,
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I didn't understand these women.
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And for me to show them ashuman beings, real people,
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was something that
irritated him.
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The
boastful letter gives
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the police a unique
opportunity to put
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an end to a sick killing spree.
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But first, they face the
challenge of identifying
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the letter's author.
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I had the stamp
and glued the label
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and everything checked forDNA, hoping it had been licked.
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No fingerprints on the envelopeor the letter, nothing.
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The killer seemsto have covered his tracks.
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He thought he'd
controlled every
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element of this letter andevery aspect, but he hadn't.
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The killer
has unwittingly
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led police right to his door.
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In St. Louis,
Missouri, police have
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received a letter from aserial murderer of prostitutes.
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He provided a map that has ledthem directly to the remains
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of one of his victims.
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Looking at the
envelope and the letter,
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there wasn't very
many leads to go on.
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There was no DNA evidenceon there or anything else
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for them to track down.
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The task force
take the killer's map
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to Mark McAmish of the IllinoisState Police Cyber Crimes Unit.
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The map that was provided wasreduced in size, the edges were
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removed, which hid any
information that would
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have been beneficial to us.
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McAmish knows
that it is printed
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from an online mapping website.
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Through some discussion in theoffice, one of the other guys
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says, it looks like
it's through Expedia.
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McAmish realizes thatthe killer must have visited
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Expedia's mapping websitebetween the date of the article
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being published and the datestamped on the envelope's
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postmark, a period of two days.
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With that information, westarted looking at how can we
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locate this map
and whether or not
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there would be logs
of IP addresses that
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had gone in and lookedat the specific location?
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IP addresses
are unique numbers that
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can identify every computerconnected to the internet
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and log their activities.
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Only one IP address
had continued to click
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in and zoom in on this map.
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It is an identicalmatch to the killer's map.
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We were lucky that it actuallycame back to a specific user
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name, M. Travis.
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It's a
stunning breakthrough
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for the investigation.
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I think that he was a littlebit unknowledgable or arrogant
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about the internet.
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And he went out
and got this map.
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He didn't think aboutbeing tracked at the time.
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The IP address
leads investigators
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to 36-year-old
waiter Maury Travis.
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A background check revealsTravis has a history of drug
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abuse and has served time forarmed robbery, an offense that
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took place just before theFBI began routinely taking
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suspects' DNA, which
explains why he
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did not appear as a DNA match.
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The records also show
that he was in prison
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for a parole violation duringthe period when the killings
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had mysteriously stopped.
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He had been incarceratedfrom the late fall
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to the early spring
on a parole violation.
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So that fit right in.
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It didn't take a rocketscientist to kind of figure
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out, we've probably
got the right guy here.
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Police track
their number one suspect
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to an address in Ferguson,a residential community
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in North St. Louis.
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We were able to set upsurveillance on his home,
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did a lot of research on him.
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He
was very paranoid,
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he was very cautious..
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He was always looking
over his shoulder.
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And I didn't want to
move on him right away,
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but I wanted to give
a 48- to 72-hour
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close look at this guy tosee what his activities were,
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what's this guy all about?
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After three daysof 24-hour surveillance,
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the police are ready
to make their move.
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Our approach is going to bekind of a just a very calm,
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laid back, non-accusatorytype approach.
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At 7:00 AM
on the 7th of June,
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detectives from the
task force and FBI
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Special Agent Robert Mortonmove in to question the suspect.
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We were able to gain
entry relatively easily.
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He opened the door
and let us in.
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He was very agitated whenwe were there at first,
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very excited, very animated.
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Travis immediatelytries to control the interview.
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He kept asking us
why we were there,
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what are you doing this tomy house, why are you here?
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We eventually were able totell him that we were there
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because we have
a search warrant.
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We asked him if he
had read the letter
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that had been posted in thenewspaper and he said, yes.
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And we said, well, we
know that that letter
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came from your computer.
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He kept asking us,
how can that happen?
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He couldn't comprehend
the fact that we
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were able to trace
the map back to him
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through his use of the computer.
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His demeanor then changedfrom that to, well, if that's
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true, then why are you here?
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Why do you want to talk to me?
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They showed him some
photos of some women
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and asked him if he'd everhad sex with these women.
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Well, he denied it.
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So they were still talking andhe kind of paused for a while
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and he said, hey, can you showme pictures of those dead women
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again?
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I want to see a picture
of those dead gals.
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And it's like, hey, wedidn't tell you they're dead.
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In this onemoment, Travis has carelessly
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incriminated himself.
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Despite this tacit admission,he stubbornly refuses
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to confess to his crimes.
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We talked with
him a long time.
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And we were trying to convincehim to take us to find
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the missing victims' bodies.
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Finally, he said,
OK, I'll do that.
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Travis' letter
boasted of 17 victims,
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but police have
only found eight.
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They are determined to
find the missing bodies.
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Travis tells them
that he will lead
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them across the MississippiRiver to east St. Louis.
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Special Agent Morton and
a St. Louis detective
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put Travis in the back ofthe car and hit the freeway.
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He was talking with usactually almost flippantly,
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joking with us at that point.
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And then when he saw
the bridge, there was
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a huge change in his demeanor.
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And he basically
said, we're not going
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to go over there because I'mnot going to show you anything.
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You might as well
just take me to jail.
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And in the end, he basicallysaid, well, if you don't arrest
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me, I'm going to run away.
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They takeTravis back to the police
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station in downtown St. Louis
for further questioning.
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But instead of answering
their questions,
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Travis continues to try andcontrol the interrogation.
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So Hegger tries a
different approach.
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I asked him if he
wanted anything--
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do you want something to drink,do you want something to eat?
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And he said he wanted a soda.
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So I got a can of soda, cleanedit up, sanitized it, brought it
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back, and gave it him.
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Travis
has inadvertently
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made his second big mistake.
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And I hadthat can taken up to our lab
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and within 12 hours, our chemistmade a positive DNA match
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off that can to
the semen that was
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recovered from the two victims.
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Police
now have to Travis
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linked to at least two murders.
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This was it, we have our man.
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He's not going anywhere.
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But the DNAmatch isn't the only proof
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linking Travis to the murders.
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The police are about to discovera treasure trove of evidence
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that will reveal thedeep depravity of Travis,
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a visual record of
how he tortured,
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abused, and killed his victimsin the most intimate detail--
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-- that he could go blindand relive for his enjoyment
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again and again.
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On June 7th, 2002,
the police and FBI
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raid the home of Maury Travis.
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They suspect the
36-year-old waiter
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of being behind the murderof several prostitutes
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in the St. Louis area.
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Once has has been
arrested, forensic teams
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move in to search his house.
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Their initial impressioncoming in, first floor
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spotless, clean, immaculate.
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Walk down to thebasement, different story.
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Bloodstained carpeting,
bloodstained walls,
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bloodstained ceiling,splatters, duct tape, handcuffs.
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Obvious a lot of
trauma had taken place.
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But he still
refuses to acknowledge
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any guilt. Police are leftwondering what kind of monster
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they have in their custody.
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The police must piecetogether his story to find
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out who Maury Travis really is.
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Our investigation did leadto speaking to different family
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members about Maury Travis.
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He had a girlfriend, he had afamily life, he had a mother,
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he had a father.
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Travis was born onthe 25th of October, 1965.
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He grows up in the
residential community
499
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,120
of Ferguson in north St. Louis.
500
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,480
He had a typical childhoodlike most people do.
501
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,400
He had a mother that was
very supportive of him.
502
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,400
All the way through
his childhood,
503
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,480
he was a controlled,
reserved individual.
504
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,400
This was consistent
throughout his life.
505
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,440
But in 1987,
aged 22, Travis' life
506
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:06,360
takes a downward spiral when heenrolls at college in Atlanta.
507
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,000
He gets hooked on cocaine.
508
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,080
For someone who enjoys
the sense of control
509
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,120
and a feeling of
being in control,
510
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,480
cocaine would have
been the perfect drug.
511
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,800
Cocaine promotes a
sense of control.
512
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,440
It gives this hyper
confidence that you
513
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,520
are in total control
of the universe
514
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,720
if you're high enough on it.
515
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,000
Unfortunately, of course,as his habit progressed,
516
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,760
he will have become
aware of the fact
517
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,440
that the cocaine was beginningto be a bit more in control
518
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,960
than he was.
519
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:46,800
In March 1988, Travisreturns home on spring break,
520
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,320
desperate for money tofeed his expensive habit.
521
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,160
Travis will have had tokind of scour every option
522
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:59,280
before he decided to takethings into his own hands.
523
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,880
In an eight-day crimespree, Travis robs five St.
524
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,760
Louis shoe stores at gunpoint.
525
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:16,000
The police soon catch up withhim, and at the age of 24,
526
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,640
Travis was sentenced
to 15 years in prison.
527
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,040
Maury Travis did
not take to prison.
528
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,080
When he was sent to prisonfor quite a long term
529
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,320
with no real sense that he wasgoing to be able to get out,
530
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,160
he went into overdrive
to try and regain
531
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:36,560
control over the situation.
532
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,200
Travis bombardsthe judge with letters
533
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,600
pleading for leniency.
534
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,360
He did everythinghe could to put pressure
535
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:52,640
on the justice system, to pleadhis case in every way and shape
536
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,400
that might have reduced
his sentence, that might
537
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,960
have got him out of there.
538
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,520
After five yearsand three months behind bars,
539
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:07,680
Travis is released from prisonon parole for good behavior.
540
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,200
He returns to St. Louis, wherehe picks up work as a waiter
541
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,240
in a downtown hotel.
542
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:16,600
Some of the people
we interviewed
543
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,160
that worked around him,
they talked about what
544
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:23,520
a nice guy he was, that he hada great pleasant personality.
545
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:29,360
He was always friendly,
very respectful.
546
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,440
But all
the time, Travis is
547
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,320
hiding his secret double life.
548
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,240
That's signs of a psychopath.
549
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:42,160
They'll give you a falsefront, but the real dark side,
550
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,480
that's the real person.
551
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,880
Mr. Nice guy next
door one minute,
552
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,280
and the next be this
savage, controlling,
553
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:59,080
wild, brutal beast.
554
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,920
Just that fast, two
very different people.
555
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,480
He loved the idea of
transiting between one
556
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:13,560
and the other, which
kind of for him
557
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,000
showed he was in controlof the different personas
558
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,200
that he was projecting.
559
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,880
In the basementof Travis' house,
560
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,840
his true persona comes to light.
561
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:33,520
Police discover a
torture chamber,
562
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,840
and they are about to
uncover the full depths
563
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:37,960
of his depravity.
564
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,800
One of the crimescene investigators located
565
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:52,320
a false wall, and
inside that false wall
566
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:53,880
where numerous VHS tapes.
567
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,040
The videotapes
reveal exactly
568
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,680
how Travis treated his victims.
569
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:13,880
He taped women who were tiedand bounded to a pole who were
570
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,800
blindfolded; he
taped women who were
571
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,560
performing sex acts on him.
572
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:23,080
And I think there weresix, eight, or 10, a bunch
573
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,280
of different women in
different states of
574
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,200
bondage, handcuffs, duct tape.
575
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,760
All them were duct tapedacross their mouth, many times
576
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,800
the wrists and ankles.
577
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,960
He was torturing them withsoda bottles, beer bottles,
578
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,000
all kinds of instruments.
579
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,760
But the physicaland sexual torture
580
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,320
is just the half of it.
581
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,880
Travis is subjecting hisvictims to psychological abuse.
582
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,320
He taped women whowere chanting what he told them
583
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:59,120
the chant, which was he wasthe king, he was the master,
584
00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:00,800
they will do everything for him.
585
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,440
He would make them saythat over and over again.
586
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:08,120
If they didn't say itright, he would hit them.
587
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:09,640
This guy was the son of Satan.
588
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,920
This guy was the devil.
589
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:17,040
He was a pure psychopath
and his excitement
590
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,040
came from torturing people.
591
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,280
But one video
shows the very moment
592
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,440
that Travis goes even further.
593
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,320
One of the tapes wasmarked "The Wedding Tape,"
594
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,080
and it started out
with a family wedding.
595
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,160
The tape broke in the
middle of the wedding
596
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,320
and what we're now
looking at is a scene
597
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:45,240
of his basement with
a nude black female
598
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,200
who was on the ground.
599
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:49,960
Into the camera
comes Maury Travis.
600
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,200
And after he has herperform a sex act on him,
601
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:58,160
he pushes her to the floor.
602
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,760
And this is a very young woman.
603
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,520
He adjusts the camera, he'sgot the video camera running.
604
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:12,320
He steps off the set,
comes back with a belt,
605
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,600
and strangles her till she dies.
606
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:22,200
He then looks into the camera,straight onto the camera,
607
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:23,600
and says, first kill.
608
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:25,680
It feels good.
609
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:31,760
This is where we knew we
had a horrendous killer.
610
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,600
Even after 12 years, thatvideo still kind of haunts me.
611
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,240
The shocking videoconfirms beyond any doubt
612
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,240
that Travis is the
serial killer that they
613
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:48,160
have been looking for.
614
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:56,960
Travis' real side was indulginghis dark, sadistic fantasies
615
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,280
with girls that hepicked up off the street.
616
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,960
Maury Travis is,
to a great extent,
617
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,120
a textbook serial killer.
618
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:08,520
It's premeditated,
he plans for it.
619
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,840
He's very careful,
he's very organized.
620
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,040
He selects the victims who arethe least likely to be missed.
621
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,240
He would
trawl St. Louis'
622
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:24,800
poorest neighborhoods lookingfor drug-addicted prostitutes.
623
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,920
He despised those women
for their lifestyle,
624
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,720
because they were prostitutes,because they were crack users.
625
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,240
There's no question
in my mind that he
626
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:40,360
saw himself as
better than they were
627
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,120
and saw them as the villains.
628
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,960
Travis would thentake them back to his home
629
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,720
and torture them
in his basement.
630
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,160
This was a horrific,
lengthy torture process
631
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,880
where the victim would slowlybut surely become aware
632
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,560
that this was not the
kind of S&M activity
633
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,920
where they may have beenused to with other clients.
634
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:18,440
Once these victims were dead,his interest in them waned.
635
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,200
At that point, he very
unceremoniously dumped
636
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,320
them at the side of the road.
637
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,920
They were no longer
any interest to him.
638
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:36,000
Eight of his
victims are recovered,
639
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,680
but now that he is in
custody, the police
640
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,680
can find answers to crucialquestions about the fate
641
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:43,920
of other possible victims.
642
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,680
But Travis will not
give them an easy ride.
643
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,320
He will take control
of the investigation
644
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,680
and seal his murderous fate.
645
00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:11,040
June 2002, St. Louis, Missouri.
646
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,400
Police have just taken
custody of suspected
647
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,080
serial killer Maury Travis.
648
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,200
In his home, they find evidenceof his shocking murder spree.
649
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,760
But that's not all.
650
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,240
It seems Travis had big plans.
651
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:32,960
We found diagrams.
652
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:37,720
He had drawn out sketchesand was making an order list.
653
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,520
He wanted to and he was gettingsome bids on what it would
654
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,120
take to expand his basement.
655
00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:47,800
It appeared like the roomwas going to be big enough
656
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,320
for maybe two or threewomen with bunks that they
657
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,200
would be restrained down.
658
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:58,120
This guy had mapped
out a course for himself
659
00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:05,320
to expand his whole torture andabduction and rape and murder
660
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,120
far beyond what he'd beendoing over the last year, year
661
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:10,400
and a half.
662
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,120
If he wasn't caught
and stopped right now,
663
00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:15,800
there would be
perhaps hundreds more
664
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,720
female said he would murder.
665
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,440
This is a man that did
not deserve to get out.
666
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,360
Thankfully,
police have
667
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,400
Travis safely off the streets.
668
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,880
He's locked up in a county jailwhile he waits to be charged
669
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,120
for his horrific crimes.
670
00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:36,720
Suddenly, from a
guy that was always
671
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,400
in control of his environment,he's lost control.
672
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,200
We've got him now.
673
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,200
So I think that's
what was obviously
674
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,720
very unsettling to him.
675
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,160
And with the mountingbody of evidence against him,
676
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,080
Travis knows that
he is almost certain
677
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,640
to face the death penalty.
678
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:01,480
As he kind of faced afuture where he was probably
679
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:06,680
going to be killed by thestate, he decided to keep
680
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,960
absolute control over himself.
681
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:14,680
And before he could everadmit to any one killing,
682
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:15,640
he took his own life.
683
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,840
Monday evening I
got a call saying,
684
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,120
hey, I've got some bad news.
685
00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:28,200
They found Travis hangingin his cell, he's dead.
686
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,120
I was stunned.
687
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:36,600
But more than stunned,
I was really angry.
688
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:41,600
Maury Travis had decided,I'm in control of everything,
689
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:46,600
including taking this to
my grave if I want to.
690
00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:49,760
Sadly, Travis
will never serve justice
691
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,400
for his horrendous crimes.
692
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,160
That was a real
disappointment.
693
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:55,960
We were looking
forward to putting
694
00:41:56,080 --> 00:42:02,640
together a very airtight,prosecutable case against him.
695
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,160
But the factthat Travis is not punished
696
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,520
is not the worst consequence
of his final act.
697
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,000
Where are the
answers of people
698
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,960
that have missing loved ones?
699
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,240
Was Maury Travis
responsible for them?
700
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,840
Why did Maury Travis
do what he did?
701
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,640
We have no one to
answer those questions.
702
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,760
He took the coward's way out.
703
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,160
He killed himself,
and in a sense
704
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,120
that's taunting us still becausenow we don't have the answers.
705
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:34,560
Travis
taunts the police
706
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:39,480
further with a suicide notethat he leaves for his mother.
707
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:44,240
The note reveals nothing aboutthe killings or his victims.
708
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:48,400
However, it did containa little bit of information
709
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,640
where he said he'd been sick inthe head since he was about 14.
710
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,480
All his life he'd beenunhappy and had a problem.
711
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,160
So I think it was
kind of an admission
712
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,600
that this wasn't just
something that happened.
713
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,600
This
quiet, unassuming man
714
00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:10,600
became one of the most brutalserial killers in US history.
715
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,680
His letter boasted
of 17 victims,
716
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,920
but the police believe Traviscould have been responsible
717
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,720
for as many as 20
murders of prostitutes
718
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,200
in the St. Louis area.
719
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,440
With Travis dead, they willnever know the full extent
720
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,480
of his murder spree.
721
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,920
It's very frustrating
for us as investigators.
722
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,480
Maury Travis claimed 17 murders.
723
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,520
We had eight bodies.
724
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:44,840
Where are the rest of them?
725
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,880
Now we'll never know.
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