All language subtitles for Very Scary People s05e01 Trailside Killer 1.eng

[eerie music playing]

[gunshot]

[theme music playing]

Welcome to Very Scary People,

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

The mountain trails
of Northern California

have always been a refuge

for those seeking
peace and tranquility.

But from 1979 to 1981,

this pristine setting

became the backdrop
to a terrifying mystery.

Women were being
targeted and killed

as they hiked
the wilderness paths in California parks.

The cold-blooded attacks
stunned the community.

Who was committing
these evil acts?

This is part one
of "The Trailside Killer."

[Robert Graysmith] Edda Kane
was a very athletic person.

She loved to hike
the trails of Mount Tamalpais.

[Greg Keraghosian] Edda Kane
was 44 years old.

She was
a Bank of America executive

living in Mill Valley.

She was known
as an avid hiker

who hiked
Mount Tam regularly.

[Esther Ludlow] Mount
Tamalpais is the highest peak in Marin County.

It's known as Mount Tam
to the locals.

[Keraghosian] It's
a very popular destination

throughout the week,
especially on the weekends.

[Graysmith] The mountain
overlooks the Golden Gate.

[Lt. Donald Besse] On a day
that's a little bit cloudy,

it's like looking out
on an ocean of clouds.

I mean it's, it's beautiful.

It's so peaceful,
it is a wonderful place to be.

[Ludlow] Edda Kane
had planned

on a four-hour hike
on Mount Tam on her own.

[Graysmith] Her husband
was an older man, 20 years older.

He was suffering
from arthritis in his knees.

Very, very serious,
so he stayed home.

[Ludlow] When Edda
didn't return home and it started to get dark,

her husband called
the sheriff's department

to report his wife missing.

He pretty much assumed

Edda Kane
had gotten on a wrong trail

and gotten lost in the dark

or had sprained an ankle
and just needed assistance.

[Graysmith] They, in the dark,
had a search party looking for her.

And it was unsuccessful.

They tried again the next day.

[Ludlow] But it wasn't
until the next night

that searchers found
the body of Edda Kane

about 60 feet
off the main trail, up a hill side.

She was found completely nude
except for one sock.

The killer
took everything but one sock.

And that was strange.

[Ludlow] There was cash
and credit cards missing from her belongings,

but she still
was wearing her jewelry, including her wedding ring.

[Graysmith] There was
no sexual assault.

None at all.
It just made no sense.

Edda was killed
with a .44 caliber gun which was really loud.

It was a big gun,
it made a big loud bang and it had a big kick to it.

[Ludlow] To find a woman
who was so brutally murdered

in this place
was just shocking.

Nobody really knew
what to make of it.

[Robinson]
That was out of character for Marin County.

That's a high rent,
very, very good area.

[Keraghosian] Marin County was
a place where people went

to get away from crime
or the bustle of the city.

It was pretty much
where you went to live a boring, safe, happy life.

[Besse] That's a first
recorded homicide on the mountain.

It was a big deal.

Who knew the murder
on the mountain?

When I saw
that come across the news,

I'm thinking to myself,
"This is just unbelievable, what's going on."

But it was just starting.

[reporter]
He came to be known as the Trailside Killer.

His victims, usually women,

were assaulted
on remote hiking trails at Mount Tam in Marin County.

If you mention
the Trailside case to anybody,

they would
know it immediately.

[Elaine Kendall] It was
the biggest news there was.

This went on for years
with the trailside killer, who was he?

Are they gonna catch him soon?

What's this all about?

For a period
of roughly 22 months,

that really destroyed
the desire of many

in the Bay Area to wanna go
up in those mountains.

[Graysmith] This murder
made all the papers...

It shook the visitors
that went to the mountains

to hike
and enjoy peaceful times.

It cast a shadow
over that mountain.

For the first time
people stopped going.

But gradually as time went on,
they began to come back again.

[Keraghosian] Ask anybody
in the Bay Area,

what's your favorite thing
about living here

and nine times out of 10

the answer will be
the outdoors.

It's what belongs
to all of us.

[Besse] 70%
of Marin County is parks.

Either city, state, county
or federal park land.

So it's really
the kind of country everybody wants to visit.

[Graysmith]
I've always thought it's nature at its rawest.

It's welcoming you.

[Besse] Mount Tamalpais
is like a holy place.

The Indians
treated it that way.

[Graysmith] The gentle tribes
that clustered at the base

all those years before
the gold hunters came,

never ventured there.
It was a place of reverence,

of danger even.

Mount Tam,
it's one of the most scenic parks

you can come up with
in the Bay Area.

[Reno Taini]
Once you got into nature,

you take a deep breath,
you get refreshed...

Physically but also mentally.
Emotionally it was, like...

[breathing deeply]

I can take a rest here.

That's nature.

And you kind of
let your guard down.

You kind of just let it be.

You let yourself be.

[Graysmith] Barbara Schwartz
was an organic bread maker.

This free spirit,
walking the mountain trails with her dog.

[Keraghosian] Barbara Schwartz
was 23 years old.

She had just moved

to Marin County
from Baltimore.

She was a baker.

She was described
as a tireless worker.

She was said to work
14, 16 hours a day,

six days a week.

That day Barbara was probably
just looking for a getaway,

like all of us are
when we hit that trail.

[Besse] She took off
to run on the trail.

She was in no fear
out there.

[Ludlow] She ended up
resting in a clearing,

a redwood grove,

and she was sitting on a rock,
her dog was next to her

and there was another hiker
just above this redwood grove

and she saw a man emerge

from behind
where Barbara was sitting...

[Besse] She heard
Barbara scream.

She looked across
and saw him with a knife making stabbing motions.

[Ludlow] Her dog
started barking frantically

and the man
just continued to stab her.

[Besse] Now this lady
really has courage because

instead of running away,

she ran up the trail

toward them
shouting to stop that.

That stopped the suspect,
who panicked and ran.

And the woman
ran off and called for help.

[Ludlow] But it was too late.

Barbara had been stabbed

multiple times
in the throat and the chest

and she was pronounced dead.

[Graysmith]
Barbara Schwartz's murder

was very close to where
Edda Kane had been murdered.

They found at the scene

a pair of glasses
that the killer had lost.

[Besse]
Heavy black frames.

They began to check
with the little serial numbers on the glasses.

[Besse] The frames
were tracked back

to the California
correctional system.

That was a clue.

[Besse]
The prison people had no way to track by prescription.

We sent out flyers
to parole officers all around the area

to see
if they had a probationer,

a parolee,
that had glasses like this.

And we...
we came up empty-handed.

[Keraghosian] Later, there was
an 11-inch knife found

not far from where
Barbara's body was found.

Two kids found it.

[Graysmith] And of course
they know about this terrible knife murder.

They know enough.
Don't touch the knife.

There's a TV crew,
they pick it up.

One of the best
clues is gone.

The news crew
picked up the knife.

It kind of contaminated
the evidence.

We all thought that there's
too much coincidence here.

Two murders
on the mountain

in a relatively
short span of time.

Even though
they're completely different,

we had to kick
around the idea

that there's
one person responsible.

[Ludlow] The police produced
a composite sketch

based on the witness's
description of the man.

[reporter] A hiker
who had come across the killer

gave the Sheriff,
under hypnosis,

the first description
of the suspect.

A white male
between 5'10" and 6',

170 pounds
in his 30s or 40s,

clean shaven with black hair.

There was heavy shadows
over the trail from the trees

so it was
kind of a darkened area.

She saw him just for a moment
as she ran up there.

He had, like,
a lumberjack shirt,

it was green
and black plaid

and slicked back hair,

kind of a beak of a nose,
sharp nose.

[Graysmith] He's tall,
he's thin, he's young and vigorous.

She was some distance away
when she saw this image

on which
they based their entire case for the longest time.

[Besse] There were
a lot of people interviewed

just because
of that composite.

[Robinson] From my experience,
people that stab with knives,

a good portion of the time

they end up cutting themselves
in the process.

[Besse] We didn't
know it at the time,

but the man went
to an emergency care place.

[Ludlow] It's about
30 miles away

from where
the attack occurred.

He had a deep cut
on his thumb and hand

and he told a story
about having been at a convenience store

and that he had
been stabbed

trying to thwart a hold-up.

Because his injury happened

during the commission
of a crime,

the doctor was required
to report this to the police.

The police did come
and interview him

but they just took the report
and left.

And they believed him.

He had lost his glasses
and went to an optometrist

to get a new pair

which coincidentally
turned out to be

the optometrist
for the victim.

[Graysmith] The most
overwhelming coincidence.

It's beyond belief.

He said, "I've got to
have these glasses now.

I can't function
without them."

[Besse]
We sent out information

on that
particular pair of glasses.

Had a picture of 'em
and an unusual prescription.

[Graysmith]
They put out a bulletin and they asked optometrists

to be on the watch out
for someone that needed this particular prescription.

For some reason,
all these optometrists got it,

but not Barbara's.

[Graysmith] Lot of the people
never got the flyer.

It was a great idea

but it didn't have
the follow through

that they really needed
for it to succeed.

[Henry Ingwersen]
It's frustrating in a sense that we have

a great many
investigative leads to try to follow down.

It's like looking for
the needle in the haystack.

We've got a lot of hay

but we haven't found
that needle yet.

[Besse]
After those two first ones,

nobody was going
on Mount Tam to hike.

The sheriff's department
had a mounted posse

as a volunteer group.

Just checking people that
were suspicious and stuff.

I think that the visualness
of our people on the mountain,

the alertness
of private citizens

will reduce the impetus
of someone to commit a crime.

At this point,
no one knew anything. None of the pieces fit.

[Ludlow] David Carpenter
was born in 1930

and was raised
in San Francisco.

David had this
crippling stutter.

He's got an alcoholic father,
an abusive mom...

[Besse] She would just
beat the heck out of him.

He would come to school
just covered with bruises.

[Brook] He was
wetting the bed,

he stuttered, he got bullied
by the other kids

so he then would
take that out on younger kids.

[Ludlow] At the age of 14,
he was committed

to the Napa State Hospital
for sexual offences.

We don't have details of that
because he was a minor

and because that is a record
that they keep sealed.

[Keraghosian] By the time
he was 17,

he was already charged

with molesting
a three-year-old girl.

[Ludlow] At that point,
he was sent to the California Youth Authority

where he would remain
until the age of 18.

And when he
aged out at 18,

they put him in
California State Hospital

for the mentally ill
for an evaluation.

[Brook] He gets married
in 1955 for the first time

to Ellen who's aged 19.

They have three kids.

The marriage had one aspect

that made it
impossible to succeed.

He demanded sex
three times a night.

Later the doctor said this man
had an overwhelming desire,

but it couldn't stay
bottled up.

It had to come out.

There's a woman that works

in the same office,
an advertising agency,

where he gets a job
delivering office mail.

[Ludlow] In 1960,
Lois DeAndrade was in her early 30s

and she was acquainted with
David Carpenter and his wife.

Lois' daughter is Lisa Rinna

who was a actress
most well known for her roles on Melrose Place

andThe Real Housewives.

[Graysmith] Lois had been
standing at a bus stop and she sees a car.

It turns out
it's David Carpenter

and he's offering her a ride.

"How did you find me?"
she says.

"I just drove
around and around.

I knew you lived
around here somewhere.

Come see the new baby.
Come see the wife."

"Um, no.
I've got to get to work."

"I'll drive you to work."

[Ludlow] He said, "You know,
she'd really love to see you.

You won't be late."

So reluctantly
she agreed to go with him.

But he said that his wife
was staying with a friend at the Presidio.

[Graysmith] The Presidio,
the oldest military base in San Francisco.

He pretends to be lost.

Goes around and around.

And they get
deeper into an area

sort of a wooded area,
where other people aren't.

[Ludlow] And she said,
"All of the sudden he became very strange."

He got very quiet.

He seemed to have
this intense look on his face.

Now she's getting
anxious and panicking.

And she says, "I really
gotta..." You know, she gets out, tries to get out.

[Ludlow] At this point Lois,

she reaches
for the door handle

and starts
to run out of the car.

He takes off after her
and drags her back.

[Graysmith] He's reached
into the glove compartment,

out comes ropes and a knife!

And out comes a hammer.

She says,
"You're my friend David. What's wrong with you?"

And he says,
"I've got this quirk.

I've gotta have sex."

[Ludlow]
She notices a movement out of the corner of her eye

and there's
a military police vehicle

that's driving in the road.

Just as the officer
pulls near the car,

Lois is able to break free

and starts running.

[Graysmith]
But he's after her. He's on her.

[Ludlow]
He hits Lois on the head.

She falls to the ground.

There's a military policeman.
His name is Jewell Hicks.

And he can't really see
what's going on.

Lois is down.

She's being beaten
with a hammer

over and over and over.

But the next thing,
out comes something from Carpenter's pocket.

Carpenter has a pen that
fires a gas-operated pellet.

[Ludlow]
And he shoots at the officer.

Just grazes him in the face.

But then the officer
shoots back at Carpenter

and hits him
in the leg and the stomach.

And he's
now taken into custody.

[Graysmith] He did
tremendous damage to Lois.

They had to reconstruct bones
and have brain operation.

I should not even be here.
You shouldn't even be here.

I know.

[Ludlow] Lois knew
that Carpenter had this persistent stutter,

but what she noticed
that was odd

was as soon as
he started the attack on her,

he didn't stutter at all.

It was almost
like it calmed him.

He was charged
with assault and kidnapping

on a military base
which is a federal crime.

He is sentenced to 14 years.

And what happens
to his marriage?

Instant divorce.

And he's gonna be gone
for a long, long time.

But in the end
it was not a full 14 years.

He keeps
chipping away at this.

He knew
how to work the system.

[Keraghosian] The psychologist
who examined Carpenter

right as he was
being released,

said that whenever this man's
under a significant stress,

the only way
for him to relieve his stress is to rape the nearest female.

David Carpenter
goes on a crime spree.

[Brook] David was raping
and burglarizing homes

and kidnapping people
and stealing cars...

Total of five women
were victimized.

He goes again to prison
for another seven years.

[Keraghosian] At this point,
you have

not only
a previous horrid crime on a woman in 1960,

you had a second spree
of sex crimes.

There should have been
alarm bells going off.

[Ludlow] He's transferred
to Vacaville State Prison

for more mental evaluation.

He's being counselled
about sexual problems.

He got help
with his stutter...

[Ludlow] He's able
to convince his therapist

that he no longer
has hostility towards women.

After he was paroled
from the state prison,

he was still facing charges

of violating his parole
from the original 1960 federal conviction.

So he was then transferred
to a federal prison

to serve out that portion
of the sentence.

[Graysmith] And he got out
of federal prison in 1979.

[Ludlow] Because he
actually was paroled from the federal prison,

not the state program.

[Keraghosian] He slipped
through the cracks of tracking him.

There were 58,000 people
I believe, on the state sex offender registry.

And Carpenter's name
was not on that list.

[eerie music playing]

[Graysmith] When Carpenter
was released,

it was not really
your standard parole.

[Ludlow] He's paroled
to a halfway house in San Francisco.

He could pretty much come
and go as he pleased.

[Keraghosian] You're allowed
to live a pretty ordinary life in lot of ways.

[Ludlow] One of the first
things he does is he decides to join the Sierra Club.

And he starts going on hikes
with the Sierra Club members.

And Edda Kane was found dead
right around this time.

He learned
from the prior two incidences

where he kidnapped
and raped women.

-Kill your victim.
-[gun fires]

Chances of you getting caught
are a lot less.

And that's what he did.

[Graysmith] These mistakes,
they taught him something.

Don't leave any witnesses.

[sinister music playing]

Welcome back
to Very Scary People.

After his release from prison
in May of 1979,

David Carpenter spent
three months in a halfway house

known as Reality House West.

Then he moved back in
with his elderly parents in San Francisco.

Carpenter
had everyone convinced

that he had turned
his life around.

But the truth was,

he was just getting started.

[Richard T. Wood]
When he was released from Reality House,

that's when
I assumed authority.

He was assigned to me.

He had
a pretty thick file

because it had been documented
for the Presidio case,

but not much after that.

[Wood] There was
a juvenile record

and there was some
sexual stuff in it.

But no details
of what the offences were.

He was a really
non-descript beige kinda guy

with a terrible stutter.

He's not somebody
you noticed.

He came across
as somebody who was just sort of a bumbling guy.

But because of his priors,

he was high supervision,
so I had to see him once a month.

But I saw him
a lot more than that.

Now, some of these meetings,
he initiated.

Some I initiated by saying,
"David, it's time."

And he never missed
a meeting.

[Ludlow] When he first gets
out of prison, he gets a job

with a company called
Gems of the Golden West.

What they do is,
they distribute and sell

souvenir items.

Anything from keys chains
to, you know, buttons and things like that.

[Wood] His concern
from early on was his future.

Because here
he was in his early 50s.

He had no social security,

he had no retirement,

he had no skills.

I never had a problem
with this guy.

Unlike many
of the other people I supervised.

[eerie music playing]

[Ludlow] The amphitheater
on Mt. Tam, it's a clearing

that's ringed
by redwood trees.

[Besse] It was really a place
where people visited

all during the year,

have picnics up there.

A wonderful
mountain home theater

where plays were held.

[Ludlow] And it had
these big stone seats that you could sit on

and from there
you had a view.

[Keraghosian]
Anne Alderson was 26.

She was an animal scientist.

Born and raised
in Marin County.

She had just gotten back
from some time with the Peace Corps.

And she was just visiting
to see her family.

[Ludlow] On this day
she decided to go visit her grandmother

who was
in a convalescent hospital.

On her way home,
she realized it was almost sunset.

And she decided that
she was gonna make a quick stop

before heading back home
for dinner.

She wanted to go
and sit in her favorite spot

and do this meditation.

[Besse] She had
hiking clothes in the car,

but she still had
her street clothes on.

[Ludlow] Anne was seen
by a jogger

who remembered
the young blonde woman sitting on the stone seat,

facing the sunset
with her eyes closed.

He had thought
about warning her.

About the attacks
on the mountain

'cause he saw her
sitting alone

and she looked
pretty vulnerable sitting there with her eyes closed.

But he decided against it.

He didn't want to intrude
on her peace.

[Graysmith] And of course,
she vanishes.

Then the next thing you know,
they're searching.

[Ludlow] It was two days
before Anne's body was discovered.

She was found about
a quarter mile up a steep craggy slope

from the amphitheater.

She was fully dressed.

[Graysmith] They found her
propped up against a grey rock.

She'd been shot in the head.

[Graysmith] She was shot
on the side of the temple.

[cameras flashing]

[Ludlow] The investigators
determined that she had been

sexually assaulted
and then redressed.

She's one half mile
from where Edda Kane was murdered.

[eerie music playing]

[Besse] That was
the first time we had a homicide with a .38 caliber.

The other gun that had been
used on Edda Kane was a .44 caliber.

Normally, a person wouldn't
use both kinds of guns.

The .44 was too much,

the knife wasn't working out,

went to the .38.

.38 fired in the woods...

[gun fires]

...it's not that loud.

It's pretty easy
to conceal that.

[Besse] He was developing
his technique.

He learned
from every mistake.

[Ludlow] Investigators
determined that all of the murders

had occurred on a weekend,

or it was on a holiday,

like Columbus Day.

And of course the suggestion
is that this man had a job,

but when he had a holiday,

he was able to go
and do his thing.

[reporter] Rangers
and the sheriff's department

closed Mt. Tam State Park
to comb the trails for clues.

[Graysmith]
The Marin officers, they were stressed.

They had
very little manpower.

But, uh, I think
at some point,

they actually frightened
the Trailside Killer.

And he left Mt. Tam.
He went somewhere else

where he wasn't say, so hot.

[soft music playing]

I would say where Mt. Tam
is your scenic beauty,

Point Reyes
is your rugged beauty.

If you're going to Mt. Tam
you simply have to stay on Highway 1

and then keep on going

to Point Reyes.

It's another
20 to 30 minute drive.

It's a very scenic road

traveled by people
all the time just for the view.

[Keraghosian] They received
two million visitors that year.

This was no
remote destination, this was very popular.

[Taini] The ocean
is right there.

And that's the fun part
about getting up there.

You can see all that.

Puts you in another spot
where you wonder, "Who am I on this place called earth?"

[soft music playing]

It was just a gorgeous day.

It was one of the best days
you could ever want.

It was one of those days
where you could see forever.

[Ludlow] Diane O'Connell
was a 22-year-old student.

She had just graduated
from Cornell.

And she was visiting friends
in Oakland

when they decided to go
on a Thanksgiving week hike.

[Keraghosian] Diane O'Connell
was hiking with two of her friends

on the Sky Trail
at Point Reyes.

But they
weren't hiking together.

They were hiking
about 100 yards apart in a single file.

The Sky Trail has these
really narrow switchbacks.

So one of her friends
was in the lead,

Diane was
in the middle position

and then the third woman
brought up the rear.

They couldn't
really see each other,

but they had planned
to meet up at the end.

One of Diane's friends
encountered this man in the bushes.

[sinister music playing]

[Ludlow] And her first thought
was that maybe he was urinating in the bushes,

which she found very odd.

[Keraghosian] And she quickly
got away from him

and kept going.

[Ludlow] When they got
to the trailhead,

the first girl got there
first of course.

Diane was in the middle
so she should have gotten there second.

But instead the friend
who was in third position

reached the trailhead
before Diane.

"Where's Diane?"

"She's not here."

"Well, you must've
passed her."

They go back looking for her.

They reported her missing
to the park ranger about 5:00 p.m.

Also on the trail that day
was a 25-year-old woman named Shauna May.

And she was walking
in the opposite direction

of Diane and her friends.
So she would have passed the trio of hikers.

Shauna was also to meet
a friend at the end of the trailhead

when she finished her hike.

[music increases in tempo]

So now park rangers
were searching for two women who had gone missing.

[Besse] I was at home
and I got paged.

So I called back
and they told me we've got these two missing girls

at Point Reyes.

And we're gonna call out
all the search teams.

The next morning
when I arrived at that parking lot,

I could hardly find
a parking place.

they had a search
and rescue group, the rangers had called them out.

We had 50 people or more

going through
all those trails.

[Taini] We were given
a briefing.

We were told as much as
they could tell us,

that they knew
about where were they on this trail.

We wanted to get out there
and get it done, you know, save them.

Everyone knows
time is of the essence.

The connection
to the Marin County killings

wasn't in my mind.
I mean, that was... that's a different place,

millions of people over there.

This was understandably
easy to get lost.

I figured we'd find them
pretty quickly.

So we divided up,

and we did what was called
a hasty search.

The trick is
to move the line

at the same time more or less.
I walked about

maybe 15 minutes
at the most.

And, uh, I just saw
a strip of white pretty far off.

And I said,

"Oh, that's something. I mean,
maybe that's some litter or something like that."

You know, so I went closer
and closer and closer and closer.

And it was off the trail,
50 yards maybe.

And it was the,
uh, the edge of these tennis shoes.

I got close enough,
I saw it and smelt it.

Two people
are dead, down.

I flagged it really quickly,

ran to my buddy

and called it in.

I said, "Yeah, two people.

And they're not the ones
we're looking for."

[sinister music playing]

They were dead

for a long time.

They were decomposed
pretty badly.

[Taini] This was a crime.

It looked like
they were executed.

The only thing that I could
tell was that size wise

looked like
it was a male and female.

I didn't see
any backpacks around.

I didn't see any other stuff.

Who did this? Why?

It stunned everybody
because they weren't even aware

that these two were missing.

[reporter] The coroner
released the names of the couple.

18-year-old Cynthia Moreland
of Cotati, California,

and 19-year-old
Richard Stowers,

a coastguardsman stationed
in Marin County.

They left for the park
on October 11th and were never seen alive again.

This couple had been reported
missing by their families six weeks earlier.

[Besse] They were killed
a couple of days before Anne Alderson.

[Taini] Meanwhile there
was some activity happening down below the same trail.

They discovered the bodies.

Fresh bodies.

[Graysmith] Shauna May
and Diane O'Connell

were shot.

That one to me was probably
one of the most,

powerful crime scenes.

You realize, here's
these two women

probably one was captured

and the other one
walks into it and gets taken prisoner.

[Besse] Shauna May
just happened on the scene,

probably maybe heard
O'Connell scream and went to her assistance.

And she became
the second victim.

The two women were found nude,
side by side, face down.

Their clothes
were in a little pile.

[Besse] We believe
that he strangled O'Connell

with a wire.

He let May watch him do this.

And then he raped May

and shot her
in the back of the head.

[gun fires]

I just can't begin
to articulate the kind of terror

that must have struck
in her heart.

And then he shot
Diane O'Connell...

[gun fires]

...to make sure she was dead.

This was so deliberate.

Just... [exhales]

This is beyond belief.

That's four bodies

on the same trail.

This is like a predator.

[reporter] Deputies plan
to conduct an aerial search

using infrared photography

to locate any other bodies
that might be in the area.

This is where
the alarm bells really rang.

That we have a crisis
on our hands here.

[reporter] The Marin County
sheriff's department

has reissued
its strong warning

for hikers to use
extreme caution

in the Point Reyes
and Mt. Tamalpais Parks north of San Francisco.

Of course, all the bodies
were taken for autopsy.

They found .38 caliber bullets
in all of them.

All the bullets
and ballistics matched.

The same gun was also linked
to Anne Alderson.

[Besse] That really made it
a serial murder case,

the only serial murderer
Marin has ever had.

[new anchor] Northern
California authorities are still searching

for the man
believed responsible for seven brutal murders

in remote wilderness areas.

The fear level in Marin County
now is through the roof.

[Besse] After the
four homicides at Point Reyes,

instead of the parking lot
being filled every weekend,

I mean, there was hardly
anybody there.

People were scared to death
to go into the camp grounds.

[Keraghosian] There were signs
posted on trails

in bright orange saying,
"Please do not hike alone."

And it really sent
a chill through the area.

[reporter]
A large contingent of volunteer deputies

will be patrolling
the trails this weekend.

[Graysmith] It completely
changed the region.

Where will he go next?
What's gonna happen?

[Keraghosian] He'd shown
that he was clearly targeting women,

but he was not afraid
to kill a man

if he happens to be
accompanying one.

[gun fires]

This was a demented
individual.

[reporter] Sheriff's deputies
had feared they might find

still more victims
in this rugged wilderness north of San Francisco.

But no bodies were discovered
in the Wednesday search.

We established
the 24-hour hotline for tips.

And we got
a lot of tips that way.

[phone ringing]

The FBI told us,
"We'll give you all help you need."

And they did.

My division went
from 12 people

to 32 people within a week.

We had more people
than space.

John Douglas was one
of the original FBI profilers,

and he was brought in.

[Besse] At that time,
profiling was relatively new.

And Douglas spent a couple
of days with us going over all the reports.

[Douglas] I told them
it would come down to having low self-esteem.

The low self esteem
is there's something about him,

there's something wrong
with him.

It's some crippling problem
in his life.

[Besse] And one
of the key things that he said

was that this guy
probably stutters.

[Keraghosian] There was a team
of three psychologists

who provided a profile
for authorities.

[reporter] Here's what
the psychologists theorize about the Marin County killer.

The suspect is believed
to be deteriorating physically and mentally.

He feels unclean
and is suffering from hyperventilation.

Hot flashes,
small anxiety attacks,

and his hands may tremble.

[Wood] When he was working
for Gems of the Golden West

we'd go have lunch together.

"Anything going on, David?"
"No."

"How's Mom and Dad?
Things going okay?

Anything you wanna
talk about?" "No." "Okay." Bam! That was it.

I'd met the people
at the Gems of the Golden West.

They liked David
a great deal.

And he was
a good worker.

I had been in his home.

I had met his parents
numerous times.

He felt some responsibility

to take care
of his elderly parents.

"David, you sure
you wanna live there?

I mean, this is like,
lot of ghosts here."

"Oh, no,
I need to do this."

He said, "I've resolved all
this stuff in therapy."

He says, "I got my therapy
and I never felt better in my life."

[Wood] Part of his
parole conditions

were he had to stay
within the jurisdiction

of the United States District
Court for the Northern District of California.

Which is like
13 California counties

stretching from Monterey

up the coast to Del Norte
at the top of California.

He had the opportunity to work
in a lot of different areas

and meet a lot
of different people.

[Besse] The parole
people said

he should not work
around women.

So what's the first job
he gets?

Gems of the Golden West.

Where there's only a couple
of guys working there, the rest are all women.

[Wood] This was a guy
who had a stable

living situation,

stable job,

always made
his appointments.

And I saw this guy
over 50 times

in the year that
I supervised him.

I was spending
a lot of time with this guy.

And he was compliant.

On the surface.

But I saw what
he wanted me to see.

[Graysmith] He was
extremely clever.

To everybody, including
his parole officer,

he was doing great.

He was
a tremendous success.

These hideous crimes
were being committed.

[gun fires]

There was no telling
what he might do next.

He had this secret life.

He just had a way
of playing people.

[Wood] He used the stuttering
to manipulate

to get people
to sympathize with him.

Physically he seemed
non-threatening,

that was his biggest weapon.

This power that he's after,
it's a hatred...

of women.

[Besse] We always said,
if he ever kills someone he's connected with,

we'll have something
to go on.

[Wood] At some point,
I looked at him, he looked at me,

I knew and he knew
that I knew.

I'm looking into the eyes
of someone who has done really horrible things.

[gunshots]

[Graysmith] This guy knew how
to make people do what he wanted them to do.

He's a very
brilliant madman.

[gun fires]

David Carpenter appeared to be
an awkward, mild-mannered, middle-aged man,

incapable of committing
the brutal crimes he would later be accused of.

But that all changed
when one of the Trailside victims survived.

And a clear picture
of the killer emerged.

That's in part two
of "The Trailside Killer."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
Thanks for watching.

Good night.

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