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I had hoped
that we would be a perfect family.

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But it seemed like he was
two different people.

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When he was nice, he was real
a nice guy. He did everything for one.

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When he was the second,
He was just awful.

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I should have been more scared
to him than I was.

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THIS IS THE FIRST TIME, SHEILA
TELLS ABOUT HER EX-HUSBAND

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It's hard to believe
that he could do that sort of thing.

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How could he do that?

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WHAT IF THE
THAT WAS CLOSEST TO YOU...

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...WAS A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING?

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WOULD YOU SEE THE SIGNS?

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This photo was taken,
when he went to prison.

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He looks like someone else
but he is not.

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He is the evil person I remember.

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IN 1993, IT WAS
HUSBAND OF SHEILA JANUTOLOS-

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-JAMES CRUZ, ARRESTED FOR
A CRUEL CRIME

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This is also Jim in prison.

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He still says,
that it wasn't him.

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SHEILA DIDN'T BELIEVE HER
MAN COULD BE SO EVIL

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I thought,
he was a family man-

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- and that everyone in the family was happy.

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BUT THERE HAD BEEN SIGNS

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SIGN

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Here you can't see how evil he is.
He smiles and looks normal.

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But I have experienced it.

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I met Jim at a country bar.

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We laughed, danced and had fun.

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We had a few drinks.
That was nice.

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He was so sweet.

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He got my number,
and we went to the cinema and out dancing.

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He was fantastic. He was
a gentleman and I fell in love.

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He treated me like a princess.

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He proposed to me.

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Of course I said yes.

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I had children
from my first marriage.

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I was looking forward to
that they should have a father figure.

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I thought,
that he would look after us all.

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AT THE START, JIM SURRENDERED
SHEILA'S EXPECTATIONS

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Carrie Anna was born,
the year after we got married.

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The twins came two years later.

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He was a good husband and father.

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He loved his children dearly.
We did everything as a family.

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It was a happy time.

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BUT SOMETIMES JIM SHOWED
ANOTHER SIDE OF HIMSELF

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THAT WORRIED SHEILA

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Thank you so much, mom.
The children will love them.

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We didn't have much money.

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Jim served the greater part of ours
income as a truck driver.

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My mother bought things for the children.

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One day he became very mad
on my parents.

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It helps a lot,
because we don't have that much money.

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My mother had bought clothes for the children.

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It drove him crazy.

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She likes blue.
She will be happy about it.

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- Give me the phone.
- Wait. I'm talking to my mother.

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Now.

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She was not allowed to buy anything for them.

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I can support my family myself.

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I got mad because it was
my mother's only grandchildren.

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We could not then decide,
that she must not give them anything.

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Stay away from my children.
Stay away from my wife.

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And stay far away from me.

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He was very mad.

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He said they didn't deserve anything
and that my mother should not buy any more.

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"If they must have something,
I buy it.”

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SHEILA THOUGHT JIM WAS
OVEREXERCISED BY THE WORK

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Jim was a truck driver and he was
only at home on Wednesdays and weekends.

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He was mostly gone.

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See you.

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i missed him
but it was manageable.

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- I'll call in a few days.
- That's all you have to do.

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He called to hear,
if we had a good time.

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We talked for a few minutes,
and then he hung up.

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BUT THEN JIM DID SOMETHING STRANGE,
THE CONTACT LOST

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When we got home, the phone was switched off.

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What's with it?

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He had
not paid the phone bill.

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Is there something wrong?

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He just hadn't paid. He meant
no, we needed it.

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You don't need to communicate
with anyone but me.

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I think he failed to pay-

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-because my friends came,
when he was not at home.

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He didn't care about that.

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I was not allowed to have contact
with others.

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I wasn't allowed to talk
with my parents or my friends.

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I was not allowed to go out
to meet with friends.

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I was pretty much isolated.

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I couldn't go anywhere
or talk to someone.

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We were supposed to be alone.

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IN HER ISOLATION, SHEILA THINKS,
WHAT JIM WAS DOING WHEN HE DRIVEN

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When he was home,
I often woke up in the middle of the night-

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-and then he was gone.

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His truck was also gone.

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He never told
about his life on the road.

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Only how far he had driven.

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I was suspicious of
what he did.

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He didn't want
that we had contact.

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When he drove,
he had another life.

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EVEN WHEN JIM WAS HOME,
DID HE SPEND MORE TIME ALONE

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When Jim was home,
he was in the shed a lot.

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He always was
doing something out there.

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I didn't really notice it.

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It was a man thing.

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I usually cleaned
or looked after the children.

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It was his place.

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I had no idea
what he was doing in the shed.

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JIMS BEHAVIOR CHANGED

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SHEILA'S CURIOSITY
GAVE HER PROBLEMS

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So leave me be.

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I didn't know what was going on.

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I am your wife.

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I guess I didn't think he could
get up to do some mischief.

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One day he came home from work,
put her bag down and took a shower.

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SHEILA THINKS THAT HER HUSBAND
JIM, BEHAVIORING SUSPICIOUSLY

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I took the laundry out of his tank.

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Then I found condoms.

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What is it?

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I asked what he was going to do with them.

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He said,
that he considered them a friend.

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I didn't believe it.

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I would never do that to you.
I love you.

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I knew something was going on
but I didn't know what.

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Don't be so paranoid.

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I thought he probably had one,
when he was driving.

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But I guess I would think
that everything was in order.

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And that it was true,
what he said.

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ACCIDENTALLY FOUND SHEILA
A DAY OUT OF WHAT WAS GOING ON

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This videotape was found by my daughter,
Jennifer, on our bed.

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Jenny called me at work.

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She said she didn't understand
that I would leave a tape there.

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I didn't know what she meant.

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She told about the tape,
and i said-

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-that she should put it back,
until I got home.

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When I got home I watched the video tape.

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I was shocked.
What was that?

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ACTUAL SEX VIDEO

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It was my friend and Jim,
who had sex.

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I was devastated. I couldn't believe
that he would do such a thing.

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I waited for Jim to come home.

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Then I asked him about it.

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He said it wasn't him.

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I asked,
how could he claim that-

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-and if he thought I was stupid.

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I said,
that there was something wrong in his head.

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Either we go to couples therapy,
or I want a divorce.

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But he didn't want to.

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I stayed with him,
because I was afraid of him.

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I was afraid to have to
manage alone with six children.

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There was a 7. On the way.
Where should we go?

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How was I supposed to take care of them?

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I stayed, even though I knew
that I should have gone.

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I should have realized
that it didn't work.

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I should have left then.

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But I did not.

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It is believed that this will change,
or that you can change someone.

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I hoped we would be
the perfect family.

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The first years
we had a good time as a family.

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Don't say it's not you.

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But after that it went downhill.

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YES SHEILA
HAD CONFRONTED JIM-

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-HE HAD DIFFICULTY
TO CONTROL YOUR TEMPERAMENT

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We argued about something,
which I no longer remember.

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He became someone he was not.

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What is wrong with you? Are you stupid?

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He belittled me.
I was fat. I had to lose weight.

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I was a whore. I had to
to find myself in it all.

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It was so bad that you didn't
wanted to be in the house with him.

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Sometimes he worked
as two different people.

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When he was cute,
couldn't wish for more.

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He was a nice guy.
He would do anything for one.

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When he was the other way,
he was terrible.

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You think about a lot, but you are
too scared to say anything.

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JIM SOON STARTED TO COME OFF
WITH ANGER IN A VIOLENT MANNER

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He got mad at me one day.

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I can not remember,
what was wrong.

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We argued and I shouted at him enough.

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Then he slapped me.

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He knocked me over into a chair.

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It was the first time
I saw that kind of temper in him.

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I couldn't believe
that he would do that sort of thing.

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I didn't give back.

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I thought,
it was best not to say anything.

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I thought it was probably my fault,
and that I had done something.

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I was afraid of him,
so I just found myself in it.

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Then he left. He walked.

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I was afraid of him,
because he could become violent.

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That part of him
I had not seen before.

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He became very violent over time.

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SHEILA FELT SHE WAS
LOCKED IN WITH A MONSTER

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I was afraid of him,
when he was at home.

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He became unbearable to live with.

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He was always shouting
because of something or other.

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When he became like that,
no one wanted to be with him.

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He made my life hell.

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But what should I do?

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I had my children,
with whom I had better stay.

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Where was I supposed to go?
I couldn't just leave.

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If it was me and a couple of kids,
could travel.

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But where do you go?
with six children?

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It was better to get used to it.

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I guess I assumed that he
would never do anything to anyone.

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SHEILA THOUGHT THAT JIM ONLY
HIDDEN HEAT AND AFFAIR

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SHE WAS WRONG

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He said it was a good place
to dispose of a corpse.

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I'm not asking for much.

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Often everyone could
in the neighborhood hear Jim shout.

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You are stupid.

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It was very hurtful.

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It was very hurtful
to see him speak to my children.

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WHEN JIM WASN'T ABUSING THE WIFE
DID IT GO OVER THE STEPDAUGHTER

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ESPECIALLY THE OLDEST TEENAGER,
JENNY

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Jim hated Jenny.

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She was commanding and rebellious.

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She didn't find herself in him.

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She said to him,
that he was not her father.

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Jenny and Lisa rebelled against Jim.

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They wanted to protect me.

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They saw how he treated me
and called me fat, etc.

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He spoke badly to me,
and they wouldn't put up with that.

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"Mom gets the hang of it,
but not us.”

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They wanted to see their friends,
but they were not allowed to do so.

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They wouldn't listen,
so they answered again.

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They were so upset to get
room arrest that they took up the fight.

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He hated them,
for they were to be seen, but not heard.

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JIM AND JENNY'S ARGUMENTS
GOT WORSE OVER TIME

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- You can not be serious.
- What is it?

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Why are you just sitting here?

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He yelled about something she had done.
She started yelling back.

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Go up and clean your room.

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You are not in charge of me.

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He threatened her.

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I asked them both to stop.

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Then they both went their separate ways.

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BUT JENNY WOULD
DON'T JUST FORGET IT

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SHE WAS SO ANGRY THAT SHE
CALLED CHILD PROTECTION

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She was so tired of him that she didn't
knew what else to do.

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So the child protection came.

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JIM CONVINCED CHILD PROTECTION
THAT EVERYTHING WAS OK

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Then it was over.
They didn't come back.

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Jim was furious.

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00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:04,360
He was very mad about,
that she could come up with that sort of thing.

242
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:11,200
IT SURPRISED SHEILA WHEN JIM
BRING GIFTS FOR THE STEPDAUGHTER

243
00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:14,320
I have something for you.

244
00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:21,000
Jim sometimes brought trinkets
and small jewelry.

245
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,960
Clothes. Everything he had found,
and as he thought they would have.

246
00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:34,880
BUT SHEILA SAW THAT JIMS WAS GIVING
NEVER WAS PACKED

247
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,600
One day Jim came home.

248
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,600
I have something for you.

249
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:48,760
He gave Jenny a tape recorder.

250
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,040
There was a young girl's voice.

251
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,200
Hello. Here is Dawn.

252
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,520
The girl said her name was Dawn.

253
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:12,400
I met a boy with dreamy
eyes on the rest area.

254
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:17,360
She talked about where she lived.

255
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,600
It was a home for disobedient children.

256
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,080
I had to
to live on your own.

257
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,520
They don't understand me.

258
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:31,320
- She had run away from home.
- I can take care of myself.

259
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,520
I didn't think about it any further.

260
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,720
He said he had found it.

261
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,200
He always said he found things.

262
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,640
I just accepted that.

263
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:59,000
JIM'S GIFTS BEGAN
BECOMING DISTURBING

264
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:06,040
Once he gave Lisa a book.

265
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:12,880
It was about murder,
and how to get rid of it.

266
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,160
It scared her a lot.
Why did he do that?

267
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,440
Then she became afraid of him.

268
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,000
It gives chills.

269
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,440
Why give that kind of thing to a child?

270
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:44,640
JIM STARTED TO COME TOO
WITH STRANGE COMMENTS

271
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:50,160
Once we were on our way to Lake Erie.

272
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:55,160
We stopped at a rest area
to get coffee.

273
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,200
There was a lake on one side.

274
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:06,960
He said it was a good place
to dispose of a corpse.

275
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:15,200
I laughed but wondered.

276
00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:19,520
I didn't think about it any further,
but saw it as a stupid comment.

277
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,880
I thought he probably didn't
meant something by that.

278
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,800
We left it at that.

279
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:40,960
ONE DAY JIM CAME HOME
WITH SPECIAL NEWS

280
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,320
- Is everything OK?
- No.

281
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:55,480
Jim said he was
been dna tested at work.

282
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,200
I asked,
why they had done it.

283
00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:04,960
Something had happened in that truck,
he was one of the drivers in

284
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,800
They harass everyone,
who has used the car.

285
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:18,040
He said,
that they had tested more people.

286
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:23,080
I didn't know why.
He didn't say that.

287
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:28,040
I shouldn't have worried
so i didn't.

288
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,280
He said everything was fine.

289
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,880
That was good enough for me.
I let it go.

290
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,280
I just want to relax with a beer.

291
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,600
Okay.

292
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:55,040
AFTER THAT DAY, JIMS STAYED
TEMPERAMENT MUCH WORSE

293
00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:01,320
After the dna test
he became very violent at home.

294
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,680
It was more than before.

295
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,000
I was very scared.

296
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,120
Jenny is naughty again.

297
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,560
I didn't want to be there alone
with the children.

298
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,480
You better put them in place.

299
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:28,160
- Otherwise I will. Are you following?
- Yes.

300
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,040
I was afraid of what he wanted
do to my children.

301
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,920
I was afraid of,
that it would click for him-

302
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,240
-so he would hurt them.

303
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:47,520
One day I came home from work.

304
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,520
Jim was out driving.

305
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:56,800
I opened the bag with the camera in it,
when I was looking for something.

306
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:03,440
I found the children's birth certificates
and health card.

307
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,320
It was not for the oldest children.

308
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,280
It was only his children,
the three smallest.

309
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,080
I assumed he wanted to travel.

310
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,320
And that he would take
the smallest children with.

311
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,720
I was afraid of,
that he would take my children.

312
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,440
Now I had had enough and wanted to leave.

313
00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:39,440
I meant,
that it was best to ask for help.

314
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,400
I traveled on a Thursday.

315
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:53,000
We went down to the courthouse too
to obtain a police order against him.

316
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,600
I got into protective custody.

317
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:02,400
I thought,
that then he could not get hold of them.

318
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,440
I knew,
that I would not go back.

319
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,440
Nothing could bring me back.

320
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:26,400
SHEILA WAS TERRIFIED OF,
HOW JIM WOULD REACT

321
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:32,160
SHE DECIDED
CALLING A NEIGHBOR

322
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,320
I feel good,
and the children are doing well.

323
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:46,400
They needed to know that we were fine,
because we were good friends.

324
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:51,080
I couldn't stay there.

325
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,800
He said,
that I shouldn't think about it.

326
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,920
I wondered why he said that.

327
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,800
What do you mean?

328
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,600
He said they had arrested Jim.

329
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,640
I was shocked.

330
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:18,480
I thought they had taken it
wrong. I couldn't listen to it.

331
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,520
I thought how that could happen.

332
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,920
How could it happen?

333
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:44,000
He said,
that they had arrested my husband.

334
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,400
They had sent a special unit.

335
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,440
I was shocked.

336
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:59,280
SHEILA WAS IN CUSTODY,
WHEN JIM WAS ARRESTED

337
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,320
He said,
that they had sent 54 officers.

338
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:09,720
They had arrested him. I asked,
what they said he had done.

339
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,200
He killed a young girl.

340
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:23,560
I didn't believe it
but it was true.

341
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,920
I hung up and started crying.

342
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,560
We didn't have a TV where we were.

343
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,280
But I heard K105.

344
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,040
They arrested Cruz this morning.

345
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,240
They talked about it.

346
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:51,840
The girl's half-naked body was found
in a snowdrift in March.

347
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:57,680
HE WAS ACCUSED OF MURDER
AND RAPE OF 17-YEAR-OLD DAWN

348
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:04,400
DAWN'S BODY HAD BEEN DUMPED
BY A ROAD IN PENNSYLVANIA

349
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:09,200
The rope with which she was strangled,
was still tied around her neck.

350
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,320
I was shocked.
It was very creepy.

351
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,840
There were signs of rape.

352
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,960
I didn't want to hear it at all.

353
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,280
I turned it off.

354
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:27,480
I couldn't stand it
to listen to it.

355
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:33,400
How could such a thing have happened?

356
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,120
How could it happen?

357
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:45,680
SHEILA WOULDN'T BELIEVE HER
MAN COULD BE SO EVIL

358
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,640
The case against
James Robert Cruz is initiated.

359
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,080
The witnesses were called to the counter.

360
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,800
I wanted to believe he was innocent.

361
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:04,440
Cruz's neighbors say they don't
can believe that he has done it.

362
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,160
I thought,
they had taken the wrong one.

363
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,880
He could be violent, but me
didn't think he could be that stupid.

364
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,480
I didn't think he could commit murder.

365
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,960
Cruz denies meeting the girl.

366
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:27,160
You don't want to believe that someone lived
along with, could do that sort of thing.

367
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:34,040
But after hearing the evidence...

368
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,160
The prosecution has damning evidence.

369
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:42,280
There was one of Jim's hairs in that rope,
she choked with it.

370
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:49,560
And they found some of her lace
hair on the truck door.

371
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,640
Then it made sense to me.

372
00:33:54,800 --> 00:34:00,440
The police were looking for dna at work.

373
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,880
So that's why they took his DNA.

374
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:09,440
They didn't test all of them, but only him.

375
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,480
That's how they hit him.

376
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:19,520
SHEILA WAS SCARED THAT
HAVE SEEN EVIDENCE OF THE MURDER

377
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:24,920
They talked about the young girl,
he had killed.

378
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,000
Her name was Dawn.

379
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:33,680
I remembered that tape recorder,
he gave Jenny.

380
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,840
I had to go away and be alone.

381
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,280
She said her name was Dawn.

382
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,960
Hi, this is Dawn.

383
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,480
I realized it was her thing.

384
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,360
He gave that to Jenny.

385
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:58,120
And then I knew he was guilty.

386
00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,880
SHEILA DIDN'T UNDERSTAND
WHY HE MURDERED DAWN

387
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,880
BEFORE SHE SAW HER

388
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,720
When I saw the picture of the girl…

389
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,000
Dawn Marie Birnbaum.

390
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,960
I was completely devastated.

391
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,960
She reminded Jenny.

392
00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:30,240
This is my daughter, Jenny.
She was probably 16 then.

393
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:38,240
This is Dawn.
They looked a lot alike.

394
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:43,760
Their eyes, face and hair.

395
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,200
Did he kill her,
because he thought it was Jenny?

396
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,520
Jim hated Jenny.

397
00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:00,960
I was afraid of,
that it would click for him-

398
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,200
- and that he had done it
by Jenny.

399
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,400
Something must have happened
so he thought it was Jenny-

400
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,480
-and he strangled her.

401
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,600
He must have thought it was Jenny.

402
00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:23,120
JAMES CRUZ JR. WAS IDENTIFIED
LIFETIME WITHOUT TRIAL RELEASE

403
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:31,320
I was so relieved,
that he was no longer there.

404
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,880
I felt safe.

405
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,880
It was a long time ago,
I had felt safe.

406
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:44,680
But it was hard to believe
that he could do that sort of thing.

407
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,160
How can you kill someone?

408
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:54,960
I was very sad,
because she was so young.

409
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,040
How could he do that?

410
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,800
I felt guilty.

411
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:16,680
Because when things started happening-

412
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:23,160
-which were wrong, I should have
said something and was not afraid.

413
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,440
Then it might have helped-

414
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:32,120
-so it hadn't gotten that far,
that he killed someone.

415
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:37,760
SHEILA'S HUSBAND, JIM, WAS CONVICTED OF
THE MURDER OF A 17-YEAR-OLD HOMELESS

416
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:42,480
BUT THE NIGHTMARE WASN'T OVER

417
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:47,920
After the trial it was believed that he
could have killed more women.

418
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,960
It was all over the place.
where he had been.

419
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:03,360
POLICE INVESTIGATED
OVER A DOZEN SIMILAR MURDER

420
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:09,720
ALL VICTIMS WERE FOUND
ALONG THE HIGHWAYS OF THE UNITED STATES

421
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:14,120
Jim drove from the East Coast
to the west coast.

422
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:22,360
Down south to Maryland
and Pennsylvania and Iowa.

423
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,200
He drove there,
where they should have delivered things.

424
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:36,480
He told that when he held
at the rest areas-

425
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:41,520
-then came whores
and knocked on his door.

426
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:48,800
All the others he was suspected of
to have murdered, were whores.

427
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:55,880
THEY ALL HAD BEEN KILLED
IN THE SAME WAY AS DAWN

428
00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,120
They all died of suffocation.

429
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,840
TRUCK DRIVER GETS LIFETIME

430
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,160
CHOKING

431
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:10,320
They thought it was him,
who had done it-

432
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,120
- because the rope was the same
and was bound in the same way.

433
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:20,360
The murders stopped,
when he was arrested.

434
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,360
SHEILA DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT SHE SHOULD BELIEVE

435
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:31,800
ONE DAY SHEILA AND HER WOULD
FRIEND SHERRIE CLEANING THE SHED

436
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,240
SHE NEVER HAD
BEEN IN THERE

437
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,240
We opened the door and went inside.

438
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,640
I looked at Sherrie and said "oh no."

439
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:59,240
The whole back was filled with stuff.

440
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,640
There was so much in there.

441
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:15,760
I found books about the murder of women.

442
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,720
And I found rope-

443
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,320
- which had been cut.

444
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:28,560
But it was the same rope,
that had been spent on Dawn.

445
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:37,080
I would never have believed
that kind of thing was in my shed.

446
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,440
Then it dawned on me and I knew-

447
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,920
- that he planned murder.

448
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,680
Why should he
otherwise do they have things?

449
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:59,040
It got me thinking
on the condoms I found in the bag.

450
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:05,640
It dawned on me that it had to
be what he had done.

451
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,880
He must have had sex with everyone
the women before he killed them.

452
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,440
Or after he killed them.

453
00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:20,680
The gifts he brought home-

454
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:28,080
-was probably from women,
whom he had murdered.

455
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,880
Why take it home?

456
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,600
Why give it to his daughter?

457
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:47,600
SHEILA SAW THAT SHE WOULD
BECOMING THE NEXT VICTIM

458
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:52,800
We found things to make a bomb.

459
00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:01,240
I think he would beat mine
three eldest children and me to death.

460
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,680
He wanted to take the little children
and blow up the house.

461
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,080
While Jenny, Joey,
Lisa and I were in it.

462
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:17,000
Then I knew
that I had been lucky-

463
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,520
-that he didn't kill us.

464
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:30,520
JAMES CRUZ JR. DID NOT BECOME
ACCUSED OF OTHER MURDERS

465
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:35,000
He had already been given a life sentence
without parole.

466
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:40,800
So it was no use
to conduct a new trial.

467
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,560
But they actually think
that he committed those crimes.

468
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,960
His job made it easy for him
to do it.

469
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,960
He was always angry when he left.

470
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,080
When I look back,
does it make sense.

471
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:05,520
He was mad at me but walked out
and let it go to someone else.

472
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,320
But there were many signs I did not see.

473
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:17,080
Otherwise I would
have acted very differently.

474
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,280
I should have left
many years earlier.

475
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:31,600
At first I didn't think
that Jim was mean but loving.

476
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:39,040
With all that has happened, I can see
that I should have been afraid.

477
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:43,040
I should have been more afraid
than I was.

478
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:50,240
I feel very lucky,
because the children and I survived.

479
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,120
He was a very
very dangerous person.

480
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,640
I am glad to be alive.

481
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,760
Simon Terp
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