All language subtitles for Butchers.of.the.Bayou.S01E01.WEBRip.x264

- Nobody has forgotten
what it was like

to live here in that
decade where Baton Rouge

had the biggest murder
rate in the country.

- Everybody was scared.

He was going after all ages.

- Sheriff detectives say
they found a nude body

of a 43-year-old woman.

- She was stabbed ever 80 times.

- [Man] He grabbed
her, was on top of her,

was strangling her.

- [News Anchor]
The body of a woman

has been found at Whiskey Bay.

- Where they were
bleeding, chopped up.

He used like a hand blade.

- This is a white female.

- There were
approximately 60 women

who were murdered
or went missing.

- [Reporter] The mall is
another place where police

have advised women to
be especially careful.

- People were just seeing that
happen and think who's next?

- It was pretty tense
here for a while.

- I am pissed off.

[tense music]

- And then other bodies
start to turn up.

- It has happened again.

- Strangulation.

- [Man] Both were
sexually mutilated.

- [Woman] This
killer was attacking

all over south Louisiana.

- Every single day
about the serial killer

or even the potential
of another victim.

- Every day we don't
get this guy in jail

could be another
person that dies.

- To go from such a
friendly, laid-back town

to this [thunder crackles]
terrifying place to live.

Everybody in South
Louisiana had been affected

by this serial killer.

[thunder crackles]
[ominous music]

♪ They call me

♪ The butcher in the Bayou

♪ They call me

♪ The butcher in the Bayou

♪ They call me

♪ The butcher in the Bayou

♪ The butcher in the Bayou

♪ The butcher in the Bayou

[taut strings music]

- Baton Rouge was
pretty laid-back,

especially around LSU's campus.

Folks would walk to
and from Tigerland

to go to Reggie's,
to go to Fred's,

to go to some of the bars there.

- As far as I can recall,
I'd never remember

there being any
threat of any crime.

I mean, I'm sure there was
something going, you know,

always going around somewhere,
'cause they always do,

but even the areas
surrounding LSU,

I remember it being safe.

It was just a bunch of kids.

[taut music]

- My name is Susan Mustafa.

I'm a true crime author
and serial killer expert.

I moved to Baton Rouge in 2000

because my sister told me

it was a safe place to live.

[ominous music]

Charlotte Murray Pace,

or Murray, as her
family called her,

had just graduated from LSU

and was planning
to move to Atlanta

at the end of the
summer of 2002.

She had recently moved
to a new townhouse

with her roommate, Rebecca,

and on May 31st, she
was at her new home

when someone
knocked at the door.

In South Louisiana,
everybody's friendly.

If someone knocks at your door,

you don't look
through the peephole.

You answer your door,

"Hi, how you doing?"

So Charlotte Murray Pace,

on the afternoon of May 31st,

opened her door to a killer.

[suspenseful music]

[siren blaring]

- My name is Pat Englade.

I was Chief of Police for
the city of Baton Rouge,

starting in the year 2000
through to the end of 2004.

Well, I was actually, I was
leaving an event that day,

and I got a phone call from
my chief of detectives,

who told me that we had had
a female that was killed

just adjacent to the LSU campus.

While it was unusual,

it was not something
that was not heard of.

As we talked about the case,

they said it was a very
gruesome crime scene.

It was very bad.

[suspenseful music]

- There were definitely
signs of a struggle

in that apartment,

that Charlotte Murray
Pace fought back.

- She was stabbed ever 80
times in her own apartment.

[suspenseful music]

- [Woman] It was horrific.

It was one of the
most brutal things

that had ever happened in
the city of Baton Rouge.

- But she fought back.

I remember the
coroner telling me,

he was like, you
know, "I could tell

that this victim really,
really put up a fight."

- She fought for her life.

She scratched him.

She got his skin cells
under her fingernails.

[suspenseful music]

- This was a young,
beautiful woman

who this shouldn't
have happened to.

And it was in a safe area.

And police had no idea who
had committed this crime.

[suspenseful music]

- Little early in the
game at that point

to figure out whether we had
some kind of domestic issue.

At that point, we really
didn't know what was going on.

We just knew that we
had a young white female

violently killed
and probably raped.

[suspenseful music]

- For those of us that
were faculty at LSU,

I mean the thought
that a star pupil

that had performed so well

and had such a great academic
career as a young woman,

and thinking of her future,
I mean, it was very,

I mean, alarming wouldn't
be the word for it,

it was just depressing.

[somber music]

[upbeat music]

- Baton Rouge has always
been a very friendly town

and the people here have
always gotten along.

- We grew up where you
trusted your neighbors

and your kids were
able to run free.

[audience cheering]

- It's a small town atmosphere
with a city demeanor.

- Baton Rouge is pretty bad
as far as crime rate goes.

You can't turn on
TV without hearing

about some homicide
in Baton Rouge.

- Meanwhile, we have some
important new answers

about the body of a
woman found murdered

on Pride Port Hudson
Road three weeks ago.

- Sheriff detectives say
they found the nude body

of a 43-year-old woman.

- We have learned
from our own eyes

that this is a white female.

- The body was found just
south of the LSU campus.

[suspenseful music]

- Baton Rouge is
surrounded by water.

There are bayous and spillways.

So, lots of places that
you could dump a body

and not be seen.

[suspenseful music]

- And around 2002,
we start having

strange plethora of
murders taking place.

This was developing a pattern

and when it leaked
out to the public,

the public became alarmed.

And so the public became
completely astonished

to the point where the
whole metropolis area

of central Louisiana
went on lockdown.

- We had almost 30
unsolved murders,

and that's just women.

- That year, Baton Rouge

had the biggest murder
rate in the country.

[taut strings music]

For most people,
when August is over,

you think summer's over,
but in south Louisiana,

that's just not the case.

September is hot.

It is at the height
of hurricane season.

The Gulf of Mexico
is super warm,

which gives rise to hurricanes,

and people in Louisiana
leave their windows,

their doors open, to try to
combat the sweltering heat.

[suspenseful music]

Gina Wilson Green was
vivacious and beautiful.

She was a nurse,
who lived her life

to try to help people.

[suspenseful music]

She lived on Stanford
Avenue in Baton Rouge,

which is an area that's
not far from LSU.

She had a cute little
cottage that she lived in.

She enjoyed living by herself,

but in the days before
September 23rd, 2001,

she told her mother
that she felt like

someone was watching her.

[suspenseful music]

On the night of September 23rd,

Gina Wilson Green went
to bed like she did,

preparing to get
up to go to work

the next morning.

[suspenseful music]

At 3:47 a.m., her alarm
went off in her home.

The security company called.

She assured them that
everything was okay.

And she went back to sleep.

[suspenseful music]

The next morning, she
didn't show up for work.

One of her coworkers went
to her home and went inside.

And as he walked down the hall,

he saw Gina lying
face down on her bed,

with her arm hanging off.

And he called police.

When police arrived
at Gina's home,

the back door was unlocked.

They discovered
articles of clothing

along the way to her bedroom.

- Gina Green was
found in her bed.

She was naked.

She had been strangled.

It appeared that she'd
actually been strangled

in the hallway, and that
they had moved her body,

at some point, into her bed.

[suspenseful music]

- The attack seemed
personal because, you know,

she had been killed with
the killer's own hands.

So police didn't quite
know where to look

to try to find the person
who had violated Gina

in this manner.

But no clues really
emerged outside of the fact

that one of her
neighbors told police

that they saw a white man
in a white pickup truck

driving off that night
from Gina's house.

[taut strings music]

[bright strings music]

In Baton Rouge, the
Mississippi River

runs around the city,

and levees are built
to protect the city

whenever the river floods.

And joggers like to jog
along the top of the levee.

It makes a great place to
have an uninterrupted run.

And it's beautiful scenery.

- I bought the
house here because

I was a runner at that time,

and I bought the house here

so I could run around the lakes.

[taut strings music]

That's what a lot
of runners did.

Particularly, long-distance
runners would run on the levee.

And so you could go out and
then you could either run

one way to downtown,
or run the other way

into a more rural part of
River Road in the levee.

- Christine Moore was an
LSU student, very athletic,

who enjoyed jogging
down River Road,

safe area of Baton Rouge.

But on this particular day,

as she was jogging,

someone approached her.

[suspenseful music]

She parked her car at
Farr Horse Activity Center

and went off on her jog on the
morning of the 23rd of May.

And two days later, her car

would still be parked
in the parking lot.

Her attacker must have
grabbed her unexpectedly

because Christine was very fit

and she could have warded
off most offenders,

but she was unable to
get away from this one.

And he took her, he beat
her, and he killed her.

And then he left
her body in a bayou.

[suspenseful music]

- Her remains were
found down here

by Ebenezer Baptist Church,

which is a older, an
African American church

that's right on the levee,
right across from the levee.

And that was where they
found her skeletal remains.

[suspenseful music]

- Christine's body would
not be found for a month.

It was pretty brazen
for Christine's attacker

to leave her right in
that particular area,

because there was so much
traffic in that area.

And on Sunday mornings,

all of the churchgoers
gather outside.

They have dinner on the
ground, which is here.

It's a picnic outdoors
after Sunday worship.

And it was actually some
deacons at the church

who discovered a human skull
on the grounds of the church

right next to the bayou.

[pensive music]

- You know, to be
honest, I mean,

she wasn't the kind of
girl that would disappear.

And so everybody really presumed

that the killer had gotten her.

[somber music]

And so they're telling women,

"Don't run the
levees by yourself.

Don't go early in the morning.

Don't go after dark.

Don't wear earplugs
in your ears."

And it was definitely
a heightened sense

of security at that time.

I mean, everybody was scared.

We all knew we all
were in danger.

He was going after all ages.

And so even though at that time,

I was mid-40s to
late 40s, I mean,

I definitely felt that
I needed to be careful

and that I could be a victim

just like everybody
else could have been.

[mellow strings music]

[suspenseful music]

- Connie Lynn Warner
was sitting in her home,

cross stitching, which
is something that
she enjoyed doing.

Her daughter, Tracy, was
away for the evening.

That night, someone
broke into her home

and changed
everything for Connie.

Her body would be
found a few days later

by the Capitol Lake, near
downtown Baton Rouge.

- The suspect evidently
gained entry into the house.

And that's where
the attack began.

Struggle all the way
into the bedroom area.

She was carried
outside of the house.

We saw blood droplets
by the washer-dryer,

which no one ever comes in
that way or goes out that way.

Her car was used to
transport her body

to the site down in Baton Rouge,

where she was dumped out,

and brought back to the scene.

Connie Warner's body was
in terrible condition.

Hurricane Andrew had
came through Louisiana
about that time,

wiped out any evidence or
anything that could give us

a clue to what may
have happened to her.

You do not have murders
like that in Zachary.

Last one I could think
of might have been

five or six years before that.

And before that,
probably 10 to 20 years.

It just didn't
happen in Zachary.

[mellow strings music]

This town was a
small knit community,

around two or 3,000 people.

On Sundays after
church would go down

to a local watering hole,

swim, and then
get-togethers and that.

[mellow strings music]

I know this area like
the back of my hand.

So, I mean, coming
up on Highway 64

was a two-lane street now.

It has three different names,

Highway 64, Church
Street, and Main Street.

So this was two-lane
at one time.

Across the way over there
was a movie theater.

And like I said, the
fire department's there.

At one time, that
was a grocery store.

So you have a lot of traffic
coming through Zachary.

People work together
here to make sure

this is a great place to
live and to own a business.

I mean, this is what
Zachary's all about.

We're helping each other.

You know, I've lived
here since '69.

It's always been great for me.

[suspenseful music]

We're coming up on where
Connie Warner lived at.

This is the neighborhood
Oak shadows.

Most of the streets in here,
all the streets in here

are biblical names, Saul,
Eli, Leviticus, Job.

[suspenseful music]

This is where she
lived at right there.

That was her house.

Her car was parked right
underneath the carport.

You know, where the
door is right there,

that's where her
washroom was at.

That's where he
brought her body out

and put her in the
car and took off

and went dumped her
body in Baton Rouge now.

She never let
nobody in the house.

So we knew that, and that
was the scary part about it.

He evidently conned
his way into the house.

I know some of the tricks
that this suspect would use

sometimes to get
in these houses.

"My car has broke down.

I need to borrow your
phone," and stuff like that.

And that goes back to some
of the other cases we worked.

- Nobody really had any clues

as to what had happened
to Connie Lynn Warner.

The police investigated
and tried to find

who the killer was,

but he had left no
evidence behind him.

So basically, her
case went cold.

[suspenseful music]

It was a dark night.

Two teenagers were parked in
the Buhler Plains Cemetery,

which is located near
Oak Shadows subdivision.

[suspenseful music]
[rain pouring]

It was storming that night.

Louisiana has these
horrible thunderstorms

that can seem close to
hurricanes at times.

[thunder rumbling]

Teenagers were
making out in the car

when the door opens and
a man wielding an ax

began hacking at them.

[suspenseful music]

- One of our officers was
driving down the road,

saw the dome light on, drove up,

and he saw them in the car.

They were bleeding,
chopped up a little bit or,

what I mean that he used like
a hand blade to chop 'em.

It was a pretty
violent case, you know,

had a lot of cuts on
'em and stuff like that,

had cuts in the roof of the car

where he was using the
hack blade to, you know,

hack at 'em a little bit there.

They were right in this
area coming up right here

where this cross is at,
right here on the roadway.

And like I said, we
found fishing rods

and a jacket right
here in this area,

along with the blade that
he was cutting them up with.

So evidently, he was coming back

through the wood line there.

But they were parked right
in this vicinity right here.

[suspenseful music]

- [Susan] Both of
these teenagers

were deeply traumatized
by this experience.

They were just hanging out,

wanting to spend some
time with each other,

and a madman
changed their lives.

- He had cut them, one in
the head and one in the leg,

and was about to
do some more damage

and cut them up some more.

But the police car
pulled into here,

behind the two victims' car.

And the suspect saw
that, reached back in,

and grabbed the keys and ran
off into a south direction.

He saw the opportunity,
saw a female in there.

He figured he had
that hack blade.

He could overpower
'em and, you know,

kill them and get his
sexual gratification.

But for some reason,
the cop saw it,

drove up and that stopped
the whole scene there.

[suspenseful music]

- Because the police
were on the scene

as this was happening,

they took this very seriously,

but no link was made

between the attack
on the teenagers

and Connie Lynn Warner's body

that had been found
in Baton Rouge.

Even though the
cemetery was right next

to the subdivision that
Connie Lynn Warner lived in,

it seemed too different.

There was not a
lot of similarities

in what had happened
in each instance.

So police did not
link these two cases.

[suspenseful music]

Randi Mebruer was a
beautiful young woman

who lived in Oak
Shadows subdivision,

one block over from
where Connie Lynn Warner

had lived six years before.

Randi was a home
healthcare nurse.

She had a three-year-old
son named Michael.

She was recently divorced,
living by herself,

raising her son.

On the night of
April 18th, 1998,

Randi Mebruer disappeared.

The next morning, her neighbor

spotted her son, Michael,
in her front yard.

And he had blood all over him.

[suspenseful music]

- This is Randi Mebruer's house

where she was abducted
and murdered at.

Next door was the
neighbor where her child

had left out the house
and went next door,

stating, "I wanna play
with your children."

You know, the neighbor said,

"Well, let's go
talk to your mama."

And he stated that
mama was not there.

The neighbor came next door

and saw the pool of
blood on the carport,

but also saw the blood
and different things

throughout the house
that were in disarray.

The neighbor backed out and
called the police department.

That's when we arrived
on the scene here.

[suspenseful music]

- When they walked
into Randi's home,

the scene that they
found there was horrific.

There was blood in her bedroom.

There was a bloody hand
print on Michael's door,

on the door of her child.

There was blood in
the living room.

- You know, it's a
pretty violent scene.

We see the contacts of
the victim in the floor

where she was drug from
the bedroom outside.

And, of course, her car was
used to remove her body.

And also, her car
keys were missing.

[suspenseful music]

We searched the area.

We used helicopters.

We used boats.

We used trucks.

We went all out in the
back woods of these areas,

looking and searching for weeks.

Never found her body.

[suspenseful music]

- For police, this was
almost an open and shut case

because Randi had
recently been divorced

and like many people in that
situation, it wasn't amicable.

The police immediately
began looking

into Randi's
ex-husband, Michael.

They had a strange relationship.

They were divorced, but
they still saw each other.

They were occasionally
intimate with each other,

but they would also
fight with each other.

- We brought him in
and talked to him,

put him on a polygraph.

He failed the polygraph.

That was concerning to us.

My thoughts were, you know,

why would you leave
your child like that?

You know, maybe you wanna
escape the murder charge,

but why would you leave
your child like that

in that type of scene,
blood everywhere?

And to him to see all that,

what kind of trauma would
that give that child?

[suspenseful music]

- My name's Todd Morris.

I'm a major with
the East Baton Rouge

Parish Sheriff's Office.

In the early 2000s,
I was an investigator

with the Louisiana
Department of Justice.

While working cases there,

we were contacted by the
Zachary Police Department

and requested some assistance

in an unsolved missing persons,

the missing person
being Randi Mebruer,

and then an unsolved
homicide investigation

of Connie Warner,

which the Zachary Police
Department were investigating.

While looking at Randi
Mebruer and Connie Warner,

the main similarities
we were looking at

that they were both from
the same neighborhood.

Zachary's a very
small subdivision.

Both of these female victims

were both from the
same subdivision.

Randi Mebruer was
a missing person,

so her remains had
not been located.

There was an exhaustive amount
of searching, going back,

interviewing family members,
friends, acquaintances,

trying to figure out, you
know, what happened to Randi.

And so that was a
very trying also, too,

because you had the
family wanting to know

where their loved
one's remains were,

what happened to her,
and then of course,

you had to speculate,
did she just run off?

Well, we didn't believe that.

We knew that she just
didn't abandon her family.

And we felt like foul
play was involved

and something had
happened to Randi.

[suspenseful music]

- My name is Natasha
Poe and I worked

for the Louisiana
State Police Crime Lab

in Baton Rouge in
the early 2000s.

My degree is actually
in forensic science

and part of getting
a forensics degree,

you have to an internship
in a crime lab.

So I did a summer internship

in the Jackson Crime
Lab in Mississippi,

and I actually fell
in love with it.

And that was actually the
summer of the OJ Simpson trial.

And that was one of
the big, I guess,

eye-opening cases for forensics
that actually made TV,

that people actually
got to see in America.

And after that,
forensics exploded.

[suspenseful music]

When I started, I was
putting what they call

the physical evidence unit,

and that unit encompassed
what was then serology,

which is kind of the
precursor to DNA.

But we were also able
to do crime scenes.

I was qualified to do
latent print processing,

ultimately shoe prints
and tire tracks.

So kind of had a very
diverse background

in understanding
evidence, but you know,

of course, we didn't
know the power of DNA

back in the early 1990s.

Even though there
were some labs,

like maybe the FBI lab
and some of the other few,

other public laboratories
in bigger states

that already had
DNA testing online,

Louisiana just wasn't
one of those states yet.

[taut music]

- We went back
and pulled victims

that died under
certain circumstances.

We used the areas in
which those ladies died,

and we pooled all
the records to see

if we had any DNA on
any of these cases.

And Gina Green was one of them.

- My name is Angela Ross.

Back in the early
2000s, I was employed

at the Louisiana
State Police Crime Lab

as a DNA analyst.

We assumed that there
was a sexual assault.

So you processed her
sexual assault kit.

I did not get a DNA
profile from a male

on any of the evidence
from her body.

I processed her shirt.

And when I was
processing her shirt,

there was a small
blood stain on where

I would position the
elbow of the shirt.

And when I processed
that sample,

I was able to identify
a male DNA profile.

- Angela Ross and Julia
Naylor happened to be

just be sitting at
the break room table,

having coffee one morning.

And they were talking
about two of the cases

that they were working.

- Another colleague,
Jim Churchman,

who had so many
years of experience,

he asked us, "Well, did you
compare your DNA profiles?"

And I remember looking at
him thinking, "You're crazy."

- They occurred at
different years.

They were very different
situational-wise.

Whereas the MOs of the cases
were completely different,

didn't have any reason to think

that the cases
would be connected.

- Gina Green was strangled.

Charlotte Murray Pace was
stabbed over 80 times.

I really don't see the
similarities here, do you?

He goes, "Well, just
compare 'em anyway."

I'm like, "All right."

Okay, we'll do that.

So we didn't even rush.

Julie and I just
finished our coffee.

We went back to our
office and we said,

"All right, pull out
your DNA profile.

I'll pull up mine."

And one of us started
calling it out

and the other one
started looking at it.

And within a very
short amount of time,

we realized that they
were the same DNA profile.

[mellow strings music]

- My name is Archer Lee.

I'm currently the chief deputy

of the West Louisiana
Sheriff's Office.

In 1999, I'm employed

by the St Francisville
Police Department.

And I get a complainant
who comes in

and she gives a
statement about a man

peeping in her window.

Her neighbor, Diane
Holloway, told her

that she had seen this same
man on numerous occasions,

peeping in the windows and
lurking around the apartment.

- My name is Collette
Dwyer, and in 1999,

I lived north of Baton Rouge
in St. Francisville, Louisiana.

I was coming in from
work at 11 o'clock,

and as I was walking
one direction,

he was coming the other,
and we just passed by,

and he looked at me and asked me

if I wanted to go have a drink.

And introduced himself.

I told him, "No."

And I went on in my apartment

and he continued
in his direction.

I'd say it got to
where I was seeing him

at least two to
three times a week.

I got home one evening and
I was unlocking my door,

and my door opened inward.

By the time I even
realized what happened,

he was in my kitchen,

getting him a glass of
water or looking for a beer.

And I'm just standing there
looking at him like, okay.

So then he said,
"Well, can we talk?"

And I said, "Okay."

Well, my door opened and
I had a rocking chair,

so I sat in it and
he sat in the couch.

It never dawned on me to realize

really what was going
on, like how he knew

where my dishes
were, any of that.

So we sat there and
had a conversation

and he wanted to move in with me

and I never met him before.

And then he wanted to
get to know me better

and take care of
me, was his idea.

At that time, I just
got out of a divorce

and I didn't wanna have anything

to do with men at that time.

It was just me and my kids.

So, that's when I decided
to go ahead and turn him in,

just for, so the cops would
know what was going on.

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- At that point, we really

actively got
involved in the case.

So we got Collette in,

and did a formal
interview with her.

She did give us a
name of a person.

We developed a picture lineup,

showed her that
six-picture lineup.

She picked this person
out of the lineup

and we let Diane Holloway look
at a picture lineup as well.

And she picked the
same identical person
out of the lineup

as being the guy that
was seen lurking around

their apartment building
on numerous occasions.

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In August of '99, I developed

an arrest warrant
for peeping Tom,

and we encountered him
three or four days later,

somewhere around
the 19th of August.

We went to his residence,

told him I had an
arrest warrant for him.

Of course, he
resisted a little bit.

"No, you don't have
a warrant for me."

So eventually, we arrest him
and we bring him to jail.

He bonded out of jail
as the months pass.

He actually came to court
and he realized that,

you know, our case was
really solid on him.

So this is the courthouse
here in west Louisiana.

It was probably built
in the early 1900s.

This is actually the
courtroom back in late 1999.

He came in, we had
a preliminary exam.

I testified, Collette testified.

He actually elected not to go
to trial and he pled guilty.

It felt like it was the start of

his reign of terror

for the next couple of years.

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- My name is Tony Clayton.

In 2002, I was a
special prosecutor

for East Baton Rouge Parish

District Attorney Doug Moro.

Breaux, Louisiana is
about 45, 50 miles

outside of Baton Rouge.

Well, we had a lady by the
name of Dianne Alexander

who had left Walmart and
came back to her home.

And her home was at mobile home.

And someone knocked on the
door and she went to the door.

She only cracked the door
to peep at this individual.

And that guy asked her, said,
"Ma'am, I need some help.

Can you tell me if the
Montgomerys live around here?"

And she said, "Sorry, sir, I
don't know any Montgomerys."

And then he said, "Do
you know if they live

in this trailer park area?"

She said, "No, I don't."

Then he said, "Can
you ask your husband?"

And a mistake on her part,

and she said, "My
husband's not home."

And then he followed up, "Maybe
you can ask your children."

And she said, "Sir,
I'm home alone.

There are no Montgomery's here.

And I don't know anyone."

And the moment she made the
statement that no one's home...

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- He changed in an
instant from this affable,

very seemingly nice young man

into this aggressively
violent offender

who pushed his way in and
started strangling her

and beating her.

- He grabbed her,
was on top of her,

was strangling her, beating
her, trying to rape her.

- He tried to take
advantage of her sexually.

And I apologize for
what I'm about to say,

but his body wouldn't perform,

for lack of a better
way of putting it.

- Well, he was in the process.

He had taken a phone cord

and had wrapped it
around her neck.

And I assume he
was in a position

to strangle her to death.

We're assuming that.

- Dianne Alexander would've
become another homicide victim

and likely would have been
removed from the home,

but her son came home
right at that time

when she was being assaulted.

- When he heard that,
for some reason,

he took a piece of the
phone cord with him,

fled out the door.

When the son saw what
happened to his mother,

he jumped in the car and
chased him for several miles

and lost him, but he took
a good look at the car,

the color of the car, and
particularly, dent in the car.

- Dianne Alexander calls police.

And when they arrived,
they couldn't believe

how brutally she
had been beaten.

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Her eyes were swollen shut.

She was traumatized by
what had happened to her.

They brought her to the
hospital and at the hospital,

she was able to help police
create a sketch of her attacker,

which police would later
use to try to find him.

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- That report gets the
Baton Rouge police,

and we have a description
of what this guy looks like.

- They didn't really
give it much thought

because her description
of her attacker

did not match what they
had learned in Baton Rouge,

from now three of the crime
scenes where witnesses

had described the white man
in a white pickup truck.

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Two months after Murray Pace
had been so brutally killed,

a murder would
happen in the city

that would change everything.

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Pam Kinamore was the
owner of an antique store

in Denham Springs, Louisiana
called Comforts and Joys,

which pretty much
expressed her personality.

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- She was apparently
doing paperwork, whatever,

'cause somebody rode by at 10:30

and apparently saw
her still in the store

about to shut it down.

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- She closed the store and
she had a bunch of boxes

full of antiques that she
wanted to take home to price,

that she had not had
time to do that day.

Her husband, Byron,
was at the local casino

having an evening with friends,

and Pam drove to her home
in Briarwood Estates.

She picked up the
boxes out of her car

and she unlocked her door.

She walked in her house
carrying the boxes

and kicked the door behind her,

forgetting that she had left
her keys in the doorknob.

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She went into her bedroom.

She got ready to take a bath.

She climbed in the bathtub

and as she sat in that bathtub,

relaxing after a
long day of work,

a man entered her bathroom
and physically took her,

struggling, from her bathtub.

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And he carried the
struggling woman,

still alive, to his vehicle,

drove through the neighborhood,

and as he drove down
Airline Highway,

a woman that was
behind his vehicle

noticed that there was a
woman in the front seat

that had turned around, and it
was something about her eyes,

almost like she
begging for help.

The woman in the
vehicle behind them

jotted down part of
the license plate

right before the man who had
taken Pam Kinamore took off.

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- We also had a witness
that came forward,

who said, "I was driving
on the Interstate

and I was following
this white truck.

It was being driven
by a white male.

And I saw a woman who appeared

to be either unconscious
or incapacitated.

I don't know, maybe
she was asleep,

but she was slumped
down in the car."

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- The same vehicle was
spotted on Interstate 10.

An 18-wheeler was
driving alongside of it

and happened to look down
and see a naked woman

slumped over in the front seat.

The 18-wheeler
driver called police.

- So now you essentially have
three different witnesses,

all saying, essentially, white
male driving a white truck.

The witness said that the truck
got off at the Whiskey exit.

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- The killer took Pam Kinamore

through a wooded area
right next to the bay.

He raped her.

He beat her.

He stabbed her,

and he sliced her
throat so viciously

that he almost beheaded her.

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- In this area, Pam
Kinamore's body was found.

And as you can see,

it is very remote,
very desolate place.

It's a killing field.

It's isolated, it's
dark, it's dangerous,

and obviously a very good
place for criminals to operate.

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The body was somewhat
deteriorated,

but we were able, of
course, to identify her

and obtain forensic
evidence from her.

And it's a shame that
such a beautiful person

wound up in such
a horrible place.

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- I was driving in from
work and on the radio,

they had said Pam
Kinamore's murder happened.

And I had a flash,
something told me,

I thought I knew who it was.

So I called the hotline
and I told them,

"I think I know who
y'all might be interested

in just checking out."

Well, they supposed to give
you a number, to identify.

They didn't.

So I left my message.

I talked to whoever it
was and then I hung up.

Well, I never heard
back from anybody.

Nobody ever called.

- Once Pam Kinamore's
case happened,

I think that's what brought
the attention necessary

to really get the ball rolling.

But it also brought the
attention of, you know,

"Oh, my goodness, what
is going on here?"

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- We knew we had DNA from
the Murray Pace case.

So what we just
decided at that point,

we would go ahead and
volunteer that information

to the Sheriff's Office

because we were working
these cases separately

at this point in time.

I remember talking to
the sheriff and I said,

"We had another white
female that was killed.

The similarities aren't
exactly striking together."

And I said, "But it may
be worth running DNA

if you have some, and let's
see what we have here.

If there's anything, we can
make it come together that way

and see if there's any
correlation between
the two cases."

- There was a significant
amount of decomposition

with Pam Kinamore,
unfortunately,

but they were still able
to get a DNA profile

from her cervical
swab that also matched

the DNA profile
that we had obtained

already in our evidence.

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- The murders of
Gina Wilson Green

and Charlotte Murray Pace

had already been
linked by police.

Within days, Pam
Kinamore would be added

to that list, making it three,

the unfortunate number that
makes for a serial killer.

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