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- 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.

[suspenseful music]

- 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.

[suspenseful music]

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.

[taut strings music]

- 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...

[suspenseful music]

- 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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