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There's still
so many things

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we don't understand
about this case,

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and probably never will.

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We just had bits and pieces

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of some kind
of strange puzzle.

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And even if we could put them
all together,

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I don't know if I want to see
whatever picture they make.

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Yeah.

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Uh-huh.

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My name is Joseph Kirby.

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I'm a former
lead detective sergeant

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in San Bernardino County.

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I was supervising
the Major Crimes Unit

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between 2007 and 2015.

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San Bernardino County
is about 60 miles east

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of Los Angeles.

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It is a part of California's

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Inland Empire region.

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We have a population
of about two million.

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We've seen
our share of violent crimes,

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gang-related homicides,

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relatively large-scale
drug busts,

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what have you.

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We probably run

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upwards of 65 murders a year

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in the San Bernardino County
Sheriff's Homicide Bureau,

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which is higher
than the national average.

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But I had never seen
anything like what happened

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to the Sheridan family
on Alton Avenue.

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Nobody had.

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911,
what is your emergency?

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My name...

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My name is Kacie Porter,

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and I was friends
with Tiffany Sheridan.

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Our kids went
to the same elementary school.

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When you have kids that age,

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and you meet a lot of parents
that you don't always care for,

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but Tiff and I,
we just hit it off.

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We were supposed to meet
at this restaurant for lunch,

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but she never showed,
and I just...

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I figured she had forgotten,
so I let it go.

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But then Lauren came home,
and she said

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that Sam hadn't been
to school in a few days.

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And, um, I kept calling

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and I kept texting,
but I never got a reply back.

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And I just knew,
in the back of my head,

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that something is wrong.

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I'm Will Martinez.

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I'm a deputy sheriff

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with the San Bernardino
Sheriff's Department.

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Me and my partner
were the first officers

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to arrive on scene.

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We got a call
regarding a welfare check

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for a residence
in the Shandin Hills.

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Nice area.

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It was a gated community,
as I remember.

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The whole thing felt weird.

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Something about it
was just off.

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Police department!

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Police department!

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Anybody home?

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We need to go around.

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Police department! Anyone home?

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My partner called out,

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identified ourselves again,

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but there was no movement.

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Hello?

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Anybody home?

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Mother of God.

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This was a crime scene.

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Oh,
what happened to them...

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I think about it every day.

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I have nightmares about it.

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Why them?

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That... was a bad day.

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When I saw that, I was...

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floored.

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I looked at my partner
and I said,

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"Oh, my God, he's back."

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Hi.

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My name's Lexi Taylor.

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I'm a senior homicide detective

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for the San Bernardino P.D.

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I worked as a patrol officer
for about nine years

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before being offered
a job in the homicide bureau,

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and that's when I started
working with my partner,

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Joe Kirby.

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Growing up,
my mom worked two jobs

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to support me
and my older brother.

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There was a rotating door
of less-than-great men,

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you would say,
come and go in our life.

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I think that's
when I first started

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thinking that,
maybe, I would like

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to try to help people.

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You know,
maybe I could help someone

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like my mom
out of a tough situation.

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I actually never intended
to be a cop.

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I had aspirations of being
a drummer in a metal band.

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But one of my friend's brothers

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was in the Academy,
and I thought it sounded cool.

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I liked how you had
to think on your feet,

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use your brain
as well as your body.

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After a couple of days
in training,

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I was hooked, man.

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That is
how I have always approached

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my career in law enforcement.

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Try to be there for people
when things are at their worst.

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And, fuck, it was never worse
than on this case.

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Between 1993 and 1995,
there were three murders

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in Riverside
and San Bernardino County

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that we eventually
realized were serial murders,

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and which had
some ritualistic aspects.

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I think this is it.

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Yeah.

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Okay, she was covered
with a blue tarp.

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You could see it
easily from the road.

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This is a service road,
not a lot of people

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come down it.

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It was just horrible.
I mean, you never expect

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to see something like that.

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On August 8th, 1993,

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the torso of 24-year-old
Shifra Gutierrez

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is discovered
in San Bernardino

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National Forest.

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She had been dismembered.

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Her genitals mutilated.

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The uterus removed.

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The coroner gave
a best-guess estimate

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she had been there two weeks,

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but it's difficult to tell.

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Shifra was my best friend

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in high school.

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She was a dope bitch.

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She just had
this joy for living,

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and this lust for life,
you know?

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And she was funny as fuck.

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She wasn't a bad person.

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You know, she just...

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I don't know, she just
got into some bad shit,

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like a lot of people
out here do.

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I was always telling her,
I was like,

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"This is dangerous, Shifra.

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You know,
you gotta stop doing this."

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Oh, shit, I said
I wasn't going to do this.

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There's an area off the 91

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in the Casablanca
neighborhood,

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and that's where Shifra
was last seen.

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We do know she went up
to a room at a motel

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called Dean's Corner that was
frequented by sex workers.

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And there was
a man with her, but...

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clerk couldn't remember
what he looked like.

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He could've killed her there.

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Could've been strangulation,
for example.

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We'll probably never know.

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What we do know for sure

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is that she was somehow moved

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from that room
without anybody noticing.

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Or somebody noticed
and just didn't care.

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But we got our first lead.

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A name.

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All guests
had to fill out a ledger,

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and the suspect
had written down

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the name Albert Shiny.

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And the case went cold.

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I don't need to tell you that,
especially at that time,

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sex workers
and marginalized people

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tended to get
the short end of the stick

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in the criminal justice system.

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I'm not saying it was right.

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I'm just saying it was,

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and is the reality.

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So, it was written off
as an isolated incident.

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But we were wrong.

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A grisly crime scene
has police on high alert

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in Arlanza tonight,

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not far from the Riverside
Municipal Airport,

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where the body of 82-year-old
Ambrose Griffith

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was discovered murdered

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in his apartment
earlier today.

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Mr. Griffith was disabled
and, apparently,

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suffered from MDS,
a blood condition

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that required daily assistance
from a caretaker.

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Nine months after
Shifra Gutierrez is killed,

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Ambrose Griffith
is found murdered

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in his assisted
living facility.

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On the night of June 3rd, 1994,

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someone scaled the back side
of his building

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and entered his unit
through a sliding glass door

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that was apparently
left unlocked.

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He was bludgeoned
with an oxygen tank

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that was in his room,

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and then stabbed
more than 30 times

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with a box cutter.

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That was brutal.

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And you gotta understand,
this guy was bedbound.

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I mean, he could not walk,

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or could barely walk,
on his own.

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So, he was totally defenseless
to the attack,

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which was
obviously unprovoked.

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No one else in the building
heard so much as a peep

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from his room.

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So, it must've happened fast,
which is...

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some comfort, I guess.

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One of his eyes
was also removed.

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It was a sloppy scene.

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A murder committed
by somebody in a frenzy

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who was not thinking it
through at all.

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It's probably why we were able
to get our first real clue.

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The print was run
through the system,

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but nothing came back.

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The lab guys
stayed on it for weeks,

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but it was only a partial.

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No motive.

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82-year-old victim

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with no family and few friends,

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except the few people
that lived in his building

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who were just
as sick as he was.

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So, the police didn't make
any connection

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with the Gutierrez murder.

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Not yet.

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It's okay. It's okay.

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It's okay. It's okay.

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We want to thank everyone

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from the Riverside
Police Department

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with their continued support.

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Someone out there

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knows what happened
to our little boy, and...

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and...

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We are begging

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for you to help us

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return him home

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safely and unharmed.

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Noah Lafone
was abducted

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while walking home from school

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on October 7th, 1995.

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He was 12 years old.

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There were no witnesses,

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and pretty much
no information to go on.

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There was
a pretty extensive search

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and media effort this time
to try to find him.

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We were doing door-to-doors.

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This was the first case
I was on involving a child,

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so I really threw myself
into it.

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I'd get off work and I'd go
join Search and Rescue.

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People put
in hundreds of hours,

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but days turned into weeks

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and it gets harder and harder
to stay positive.

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Three months later, in January,

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his body is discovered
in a shallow creek

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near Silverwood Lake.

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He had been weighed down
by concrete bricks,

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and his body
was in pretty bad shape.

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There were
multiple lacerations

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to his abdomen,

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and his liver
had been removed.

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Twelve years old.

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Whole life ahead of him.

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Poof.

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We also found a box cutter,
the weapon,

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as well as Noah's
school backpack

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and all its contents.

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This is where we got
our second lead.

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It was a page
that had been written on

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and then torn out,

265
00:14:15,646 --> 00:14:17,731
but you could still see
an imprint.

266
00:14:19,608 --> 00:14:20,693
Kaliban.

267
00:14:21,735 --> 00:14:24,113
What the heck was kaliban?

268
00:14:24,196 --> 00:14:26,073
A bird from the Caribbean,
we found out.

269
00:14:26,156 --> 00:14:28,325
Or a character
from Shakespeare.

270
00:14:28,409 --> 00:14:29,994
I mean, was this
some kind of a code?

271
00:14:30,077 --> 00:14:32,746
Was this
another Zodiac Killer?

272
00:14:32,830 --> 00:14:34,707
Then, two weeks after
his body was discovered,

273
00:14:34,790 --> 00:14:36,542
the Riverside Police Department

274
00:14:36,625 --> 00:14:39,169
received a letter in the mail.

275
00:14:39,253 --> 00:14:41,505
Provided details
of the three killings.

276
00:14:41,589 --> 00:14:44,884
It was unreleased information
only the police would know,

277
00:14:44,967 --> 00:14:46,886
which basically proves
whoever wrote it

278
00:14:46,969 --> 00:14:48,596
was the killer,
or at least someone

279
00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:51,390
who had direct contact
with the killer.

280
00:14:51,473 --> 00:14:52,474
And there was a message.

281
00:14:56,061 --> 00:14:58,314
Thanks for not catching me.

282
00:14:58,397 --> 00:15:00,316
Learned a lot.

283
00:15:00,399 --> 00:15:04,028
Ten transits remain,
isn't it insane?

284
00:15:04,111 --> 00:15:06,572
I'll be back.

285
00:15:06,655 --> 00:15:09,325
Was he telling us he was
planning on killing ten more?

286
00:15:09,408 --> 00:15:10,993
Was that what he meant?

287
00:15:11,076 --> 00:15:12,453
This was the first time
we realized

288
00:15:12,536 --> 00:15:14,997
this was
an actual serial killer.

289
00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,250
It's worth mentioning
the jurisdictional problems

290
00:15:18,334 --> 00:15:19,835
that can arise when someone
commits a murder

291
00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:21,128
across county lines.

292
00:15:21,211 --> 00:15:23,631
It can make connecting them

293
00:15:23,714 --> 00:15:25,090
a lot more difficult.

294
00:15:25,174 --> 00:15:26,967
But this guy wanted us to know.

295
00:15:27,051 --> 00:15:28,218
He wanted us
to know what he did,

296
00:15:28,302 --> 00:15:31,013
and that he wasn't finished.

297
00:15:31,096 --> 00:15:32,932
And he signs the letter
with that symbol.

298
00:15:34,808 --> 00:15:35,809
Years went by.

299
00:15:35,893 --> 00:15:38,145
The cases went cold.

300
00:15:38,228 --> 00:15:40,189
Detectives at that time figured

301
00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:42,441
whoever was responsible
for the three deaths

302
00:15:42,524 --> 00:15:44,443
was either incarcerated
for another crime

303
00:15:44,526 --> 00:15:46,445
or had died,

304
00:15:46,528 --> 00:15:48,155
because they probably
wouldn't have stopped killing

305
00:15:48,238 --> 00:15:49,990
on their own.

306
00:15:50,074 --> 00:15:53,202
But as soon as I saw
that symbol on the ceiling,

307
00:15:53,285 --> 00:15:56,038
I realized that was
the killer from '95.

308
00:15:56,121 --> 00:15:57,957
He wasn't bluffing
in his letter.

309
00:15:58,040 --> 00:15:59,875
He hadn't stopped.

310
00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:03,170
He'd just taken
a 15-year break.

311
00:16:03,253 --> 00:16:04,088
Why?

312
00:16:05,673 --> 00:16:07,591
We're still trying
to figure that one out.

313
00:16:07,675 --> 00:16:09,843
One thing's for sure.

314
00:16:09,927 --> 00:16:12,012
If his first murder
spree had felt sloppy

315
00:16:12,096 --> 00:16:13,681
and unplanned,

316
00:16:13,764 --> 00:16:17,810
this new one was anything but.

317
00:16:31,615 --> 00:16:33,325
The suspect
gained entry

318
00:16:33,409 --> 00:16:35,536
through the first
floor bathroom window,

319
00:16:35,619 --> 00:16:37,621
cut through a screen
on the side of the house,

320
00:16:37,705 --> 00:16:41,375
then attacks Ted and Tiffany
sometime after 1:15 a.m.,

321
00:16:41,458 --> 00:16:44,795
after Tiffany sends
her last work email.

322
00:16:44,878 --> 00:16:46,880
There was bruising
on Ted's face.

323
00:16:46,964 --> 00:16:48,674
Struck by a blunt object.

324
00:16:48,757 --> 00:16:50,718
We think the suspect probably
roughed him up

325
00:16:50,801 --> 00:16:52,302
as a form of intimidation,

326
00:16:52,386 --> 00:16:53,929
and convinced him and Tiffany

327
00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:56,306
to go downstairs willingly.

328
00:16:56,390 --> 00:16:59,018
This little girl, Samantha...

329
00:17:00,561 --> 00:17:02,896
Yeah, it looks like she put up
more of a fight.

330
00:17:02,980 --> 00:17:04,189
Some of the furniture
in her room,

331
00:17:04,273 --> 00:17:05,733
her comforter,

332
00:17:05,816 --> 00:17:08,110
all disturbed and in disarray.

333
00:17:08,193 --> 00:17:10,362
The suspect zip-ties
their hands and feet,

334
00:17:10,446 --> 00:17:12,865
wraps duct tape
around their mouths.

335
00:17:12,948 --> 00:17:14,575
You see,
this guy had gotten smarter.

336
00:17:14,658 --> 00:17:16,910
He'd learned
from the murders in '95.

337
00:17:16,994 --> 00:17:19,246
Less sloppy, more methodical.

338
00:17:19,329 --> 00:17:21,165
I mean, the buckets?
What the fuck?

339
00:17:22,624 --> 00:17:24,752
Pardon my French.

340
00:17:24,835 --> 00:17:26,086
He ties the three of them

341
00:17:26,170 --> 00:17:29,548
to chairs
around the dining room.

342
00:17:29,631 --> 00:17:31,717
Deliberately facing each other,
do you understand?

343
00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,427
He places their feet

344
00:17:33,510 --> 00:17:36,472
in these five-gallon
painters buckets.

345
00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:38,474
He prepared these things
ahead of time.

346
00:17:38,557 --> 00:17:40,267
Like,
they had their names on them.

347
00:17:40,350 --> 00:17:41,268
Literally.

348
00:17:41,351 --> 00:17:43,353
Like, "Ted," "Tiffany,"

349
00:17:43,437 --> 00:17:45,731
"Samantha" written out.

350
00:17:45,814 --> 00:17:48,358
He draws three lines

351
00:17:48,442 --> 00:17:50,360
on each of them,
like the kind you'd find

352
00:17:50,444 --> 00:17:52,279
on a measuring cup.

353
00:17:52,362 --> 00:17:54,114
Except this wasn't
for measuring out rice.

354
00:17:55,574 --> 00:17:56,533
It was for their blood.

355
00:17:57,701 --> 00:17:58,744
By volume.

356
00:18:00,204 --> 00:18:01,080
Going.

357
00:18:02,539 --> 00:18:03,499
Going.

358
00:18:05,584 --> 00:18:07,127
Gone.

359
00:18:07,211 --> 00:18:10,297
The suspect used a box cutter

360
00:18:10,380 --> 00:18:13,509
to make a small,
six-centimeter incision

361
00:18:13,592 --> 00:18:16,095
through the skin
on each victim.

362
00:18:17,805 --> 00:18:20,224
And the result
was fatal blood loss.

363
00:18:20,307 --> 00:18:22,601
There's about a gallon
and a half of blood

364
00:18:22,684 --> 00:18:24,103
in the human body.

365
00:18:24,186 --> 00:18:26,522
It takes maybe 15 minutes
for that to drain out,

366
00:18:26,605 --> 00:18:30,067
but you can be dead
in as soon as three.

367
00:18:30,150 --> 00:18:32,277
The femoral artery
is at your groin,

368
00:18:32,361 --> 00:18:34,154
basically the top
of your thigh.

369
00:18:34,238 --> 00:18:36,240
If you're sitting upright,

370
00:18:36,323 --> 00:18:38,951
gravity just kind
of does its thing.

371
00:18:39,034 --> 00:18:42,621
The technical term
for this is exsanguination.

372
00:18:42,704 --> 00:18:44,248
Part of what really
earns that term,

373
00:18:44,331 --> 00:18:45,874
"ritualistic,"

374
00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:49,920
in my opinion,
is anything done post-mortem.

375
00:18:50,003 --> 00:18:52,172
So, in a normal homicide,

376
00:18:52,256 --> 00:18:54,383
you stab a person,
shoot a person,

377
00:18:54,466 --> 00:18:56,176
you get the heck out of there.

378
00:18:56,260 --> 00:18:57,594
You don't stick around.
Every second you wait

379
00:18:57,678 --> 00:19:00,055
is another second
to get caught.

380
00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:02,307
From what we can put together,

381
00:19:02,391 --> 00:19:06,019
our suspect hung around
another two hours at least.

382
00:19:07,020 --> 00:19:09,273
He leaves the house,

383
00:19:09,356 --> 00:19:11,775
comes back
with a 24-foot extension ladder

384
00:19:11,859 --> 00:19:13,652
that he gets from his vehicle,

385
00:19:13,735 --> 00:19:15,070
and then he goes to work

386
00:19:15,154 --> 00:19:17,239
painting this thing
on the ceiling.

387
00:19:17,322 --> 00:19:19,116
And it's not a small room,

388
00:19:19,199 --> 00:19:21,410
and he goes
almost wall to wall.

389
00:19:21,493 --> 00:19:23,829
It's almost 20 feet.

390
00:19:23,912 --> 00:19:25,581
And he does a good job.

391
00:19:25,664 --> 00:19:26,832
He's careful,

392
00:19:26,915 --> 00:19:28,125
does a couple of layers,

393
00:19:28,208 --> 00:19:30,669
almost no drips on the floor.

394
00:19:30,752 --> 00:19:32,629
Then he positions the bodies.

395
00:19:32,713 --> 00:19:34,089
And all this

396
00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:36,425
he does without any neighbors

397
00:19:36,508 --> 00:19:40,012
hearing a sound
or seeing a thing.

398
00:19:40,095 --> 00:19:42,556
No fingerprints,
no DNA left at the scene.

399
00:19:43,807 --> 00:19:45,100
No motive.

400
00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:46,894
No relation to the victims.

401
00:19:46,977 --> 00:19:47,978
Three days later,

402
00:19:48,061 --> 00:19:49,396
another letter arrives

403
00:19:49,479 --> 00:19:50,355
in the mail.

404
00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:54,276
Hope you blue baddies

405
00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,445
are having fun chasing my tail

406
00:19:56,528 --> 00:19:58,989
because the harvest
has just begun,

407
00:19:59,072 --> 00:20:01,575
and reaping's so much fun!

408
00:20:01,658 --> 00:20:04,161
A gruesome discovery
was made just this morning

409
00:20:04,244 --> 00:20:06,455
by a jogger
of a human head here,

410
00:20:06,538 --> 00:20:08,081
in Perris Hill Park.

411
00:20:08,165 --> 00:20:09,708
The jogger, Chelsea Lunsford,

412
00:20:09,791 --> 00:20:11,210
has been coming here
every weekday morning

413
00:20:11,293 --> 00:20:12,753
for two years.

414
00:20:12,836 --> 00:20:14,630
She enjoys the serenity
of the landscape,

415
00:20:14,713 --> 00:20:16,924
and was not prepared
for what she would find.

416
00:20:17,007 --> 00:20:19,343
My friend was just telling me
how I should bring a mace

417
00:20:19,426 --> 00:20:20,969
or a stun gun
or something with me

418
00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:23,472
when I go running, and...

419
00:20:23,555 --> 00:20:24,640
Yeah, I guess she was right.

420
00:20:36,652 --> 00:20:38,320
On the night
of November 8th,

421
00:20:38,403 --> 00:20:40,405
the suspect entered the home
of the two victims,

422
00:20:40,489 --> 00:20:42,074
Tamara Latour
and her boyfriend,

423
00:20:42,157 --> 00:20:43,283
Glen Sandweiss,

424
00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:44,451
through a dog door

425
00:20:44,534 --> 00:20:46,536
in the back of the house.

426
00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:48,538
They were watching TV
in the living room.

427
00:20:48,622 --> 00:20:50,999
The volume was up,
which allowed him to sneak up

428
00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:54,336
on them undetected
until the last minute.

429
00:20:54,419 --> 00:20:57,047
According to Mr. Sandweiss,
he attacks Tamara first,

430
00:20:57,130 --> 00:21:00,384
uses a stun gun
to incapacitate her.

431
00:21:00,467 --> 00:21:02,552
We think the suspect
was not expecting Sandweiss

432
00:21:02,636 --> 00:21:03,929
to be home.

433
00:21:04,012 --> 00:21:07,349
Sandweiss says
that he seems confused.

434
00:21:07,432 --> 00:21:09,142
There's a brief struggle
before Sandweiss

435
00:21:09,226 --> 00:21:10,936
is overpowered by the suspect,

436
00:21:11,019 --> 00:21:12,854
brought to the floor.

437
00:21:12,938 --> 00:21:15,023
That's when the attack
with the propane torch begins.

438
00:21:16,233 --> 00:21:18,568
He literally burns
this guy's face off.

439
00:21:21,113 --> 00:21:22,614
Is there anything else
you can remember

440
00:21:22,698 --> 00:21:24,783
that will help us
catch who did this?

441
00:21:49,808 --> 00:21:52,436
What the fuck is happening?

442
00:21:52,519 --> 00:21:54,354
Oh, God,
what am I going to do?

443
00:22:00,485 --> 00:22:01,778
What do you want to know?

444
00:22:02,988 --> 00:22:04,364
The fuck you think I haven't?

445
00:22:07,367 --> 00:22:08,535
You really think
I was going to be able

446
00:22:08,618 --> 00:22:10,329
to be a teacher
looking like this?

447
00:22:12,539 --> 00:22:14,458
Standing up in front
of a group of fifth-graders?

448
00:22:16,084 --> 00:22:17,586
They'd be terrified.

449
00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:22,174
Doing what?

450
00:22:23,925 --> 00:22:25,344
Telling my story?

451
00:22:26,553 --> 00:22:28,180
Huh?

452
00:22:28,263 --> 00:22:31,016
Trying to be inspirational?

453
00:22:31,099 --> 00:22:32,517
I can't work.

454
00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:36,271
Got no friends.

455
00:22:38,106 --> 00:22:40,442
Nerve damage.

456
00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:42,986
Feels like my face
is on fire all the time.

457
00:22:45,113 --> 00:22:46,365
I'm already dead, man.

458
00:22:47,949 --> 00:22:49,368
I'm just not in the ground...

459
00:22:50,911 --> 00:22:52,287
like Tamara is.

460
00:22:54,081 --> 00:22:55,165
Fuck!

461
00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:59,252
You... You got what you need.
I'm fucking done.

462
00:23:00,462 --> 00:23:01,838
Get my money and get the fuck
out of my house.

463
00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:06,802
Tamara's head,
the sculpture,

464
00:23:06,885 --> 00:23:08,512
the weird trinkets
on the ground,

465
00:23:08,595 --> 00:23:10,514
all of it was
carefully examined.

466
00:23:10,597 --> 00:23:13,058
And, once again,
no fingerprints,

467
00:23:13,141 --> 00:23:14,184
no DNA left behind.

468
00:23:14,267 --> 00:23:15,394
We had nothing.

469
00:23:16,561 --> 00:23:18,563
Until we got lucky.

470
00:23:18,647 --> 00:23:20,107
A woman who works
at the strip mall

471
00:23:20,190 --> 00:23:21,274
down the street from the park

472
00:23:21,358 --> 00:23:23,360
said she had seen a guy

473
00:23:23,443 --> 00:23:25,695
with a truck
unloading several garbage bags

474
00:23:25,779 --> 00:23:28,490
into a dumpster
the morning of the murder.

475
00:23:28,573 --> 00:23:31,201
White truck,
red lettering, she said.

476
00:23:31,284 --> 00:23:32,369
So, we pulled footage

477
00:23:32,452 --> 00:23:33,912
from the Credit Union's ATM

478
00:23:33,995 --> 00:23:36,039
at the strip mall and...

479
00:23:36,123 --> 00:23:38,083
It wasn't a great angle,

480
00:23:38,166 --> 00:23:39,418
but it did catch something.

481
00:23:43,922 --> 00:23:44,881
The owner
of the white truck,

482
00:23:44,965 --> 00:23:45,924
Victor Shamaz,

483
00:23:46,007 --> 00:23:47,175
was a 45-year-old man

484
00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:48,218
living in Riverside

485
00:23:48,301 --> 00:23:49,219
who had a small house

486
00:23:49,302 --> 00:23:50,387
painting business.

487
00:23:50,470 --> 00:23:51,513
He had a rap sheet.

488
00:23:51,596 --> 00:23:53,223
It was relatively clean.

489
00:23:53,306 --> 00:23:55,267
Few minor narcotics citations,

490
00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:58,186
a BandE from a decade earlier.

491
00:23:58,270 --> 00:24:00,730
But he had a restraining order
taken out against him recently

492
00:24:00,814 --> 00:24:04,401
for apparently stalking
a woman he met online.

493
00:24:04,484 --> 00:24:06,445
That didn't sit well with us.

494
00:24:06,528 --> 00:24:07,737
We called him
in for questioning

495
00:24:07,821 --> 00:24:09,573
and he agreed.

496
00:24:09,656 --> 00:24:11,324
Mr. Shamaz,

497
00:24:11,408 --> 00:24:12,701
thank you for meeting
with us today.

498
00:24:12,784 --> 00:24:14,327
Yeah. It's...

499
00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:15,370
Yeah. Just, you know,
wanted to help.

500
00:24:37,350 --> 00:24:38,351
So, just to be clear,

501
00:24:51,198 --> 00:24:53,200
Shamaz continues to claim
he has no knowledge

502
00:24:53,283 --> 00:24:56,203
of any crimes,
that he simply didn't notice

503
00:24:56,286 --> 00:24:58,121
his work truck was stolen.

504
00:24:58,205 --> 00:24:59,581
We asked him
if he'd be willing to take

505
00:24:59,664 --> 00:25:02,709
a polygraph test,
to which he agrees.

506
00:25:02,792 --> 00:25:04,503
Is your name
Victor Shamaz?

507
00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:06,588
- Yes.
- He bombs

508
00:25:06,671 --> 00:25:07,923
the polygraph test
about as badly as you can.

509
00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:09,633
Chose to be evasive,

510
00:25:09,716 --> 00:25:12,719
or lying about nearly
every question asked.

511
00:25:12,802 --> 00:25:14,429
In fact,
the only question he actually

512
00:25:14,513 --> 00:25:17,557
appears to tell the truth
on are his name and address.

513
00:25:17,641 --> 00:25:20,310
Of course, polygraph tests
aren't always accurate,

514
00:25:20,393 --> 00:25:23,188
and they're
not admissible in court.

515
00:25:23,271 --> 00:25:25,023
It's just a useful tool.

516
00:25:25,106 --> 00:25:28,235
But it was pretty obvious
Shamaz was lying.

517
00:25:29,945 --> 00:25:31,863
So, Shamaz manages
to get himself arrested

518
00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:33,448
after it's discovered
he's carrying

519
00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:35,200
a fairly large amount
of methamphetamine

520
00:25:35,283 --> 00:25:36,952
and an unregistered handgun.

521
00:25:37,035 --> 00:25:39,329
Looks like Shamaz
was trying to skip town.

522
00:25:39,412 --> 00:25:42,666
I, uh, just wanted to come
and clear the air, you know?

523
00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:56,596
I was at this Quick-N-Go...

524
00:26:15,699 --> 00:26:16,700
Okay, slow down.

525
00:26:16,783 --> 00:26:17,784
It became evident

526
00:26:17,867 --> 00:26:19,369
Shamaz wasn't our guy.

527
00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:20,370
I mean, he was a scumbag,

528
00:26:20,453 --> 00:26:22,497
but he wasn't our scumbag

529
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:25,041
and he didn't really
know anything.

530
00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:27,669
Although he did give us
one new piece of information.

531
00:26:31,172 --> 00:26:32,632
No, I... Yeah, I saw him.

532
00:26:32,716 --> 00:26:34,092
I should've mentioned
that, but...

533
00:26:44,477 --> 00:26:46,479
He started
wearing a mask.

534
00:26:46,563 --> 00:26:48,273
That meant only one thing.

535
00:26:48,356 --> 00:26:49,816
He'd seen us on the news

536
00:26:49,899 --> 00:26:52,235
and knew we were
actively pursuing him.

537
00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:55,488
Oh, he wanted to make that loud
and clear in his next letter.

538
00:26:58,033 --> 00:26:59,868
So close, yet so far!

539
00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:02,954
How frustrating that must be.

540
00:27:03,038 --> 00:27:05,999
The great Shambler
arrives at the gate.

541
00:27:06,082 --> 00:27:08,710
We will all perish
in a flesh mausoleum

542
00:27:08,793 --> 00:27:12,672
but be reborn amidst
wonder and glory forever.

543
00:27:12,756 --> 00:27:15,050
A few months go by,
nothing new happens.

544
00:27:15,133 --> 00:27:17,260
And of course,
a part of me is thinking,

545
00:27:17,344 --> 00:27:19,220
hoping, maybe that's it.

546
00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:22,974
Maybe it's already over
and this guy's finished.

547
00:27:23,058 --> 00:27:25,810
Yeah, but another part of me,
the cynical part,

548
00:27:25,894 --> 00:27:28,313
knows it can't be true.

549
00:27:28,396 --> 00:27:29,773
He'll let us know
when he's finished.

550
00:27:31,858 --> 00:27:35,070
It's about 6:00 in the morning
and I get a call from Joe.

551
00:27:35,153 --> 00:27:37,364
They found another body.

552
00:27:37,447 --> 00:27:39,366
Earlier this morning,
a horrific discovery

553
00:27:39,449 --> 00:27:41,034
was reported to police here,

554
00:27:41,117 --> 00:27:43,328
at the North Riverside
Aquatic Center.

555
00:27:43,411 --> 00:27:44,871
This was a bad one.

556
00:27:46,748 --> 00:27:48,416
A group of skate kids broke
into the building

557
00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,627
to check the place out
and smoke weed.

558
00:27:50,710 --> 00:27:52,253
You know, just a couple
of dumb teenagers.

559
00:27:56,424 --> 00:27:58,259
They're not going to be doing
that again anytime soon.

560
00:28:02,097 --> 00:28:05,141
When you first saw the body,
it looked like...

561
00:28:05,225 --> 00:28:07,727
like it was covered
in mud or slime or something,

562
00:28:07,811 --> 00:28:09,688
'cause it was so shiny.

563
00:28:12,482 --> 00:28:14,234
Coroner's official
cause of death?

564
00:28:15,902 --> 00:28:18,154
Fatal loss of blood
by leeches.

565
00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:22,409
Victim's name
was Dennis Zao,

566
00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:24,035
a 43-year-old
Chinese immigrant

567
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:25,328
living in Riverside.

568
00:28:25,412 --> 00:28:26,413
He was last seen leaving

569
00:28:26,496 --> 00:28:27,789
an apartment he shared

570
00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:30,125
with several other people
to catch a bus

571
00:28:30,208 --> 00:28:31,584
and was never seen again.

572
00:28:31,668 --> 00:28:33,628
Body's found four days later,

573
00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:35,630
and he had only been deceased
less than a day.

574
00:28:37,924 --> 00:28:40,844
Our suspect
had been breeding them, right?

575
00:28:40,927 --> 00:28:43,847
This particular type of leech
takes about three weeks

576
00:28:43,930 --> 00:28:46,307
for the eggs
to form and hatch,

577
00:28:46,391 --> 00:28:48,768
then another two weeks
to reach maturity.

578
00:28:49,936 --> 00:28:52,772
So, he'd been preparing
this thing for over a month.

579
00:28:52,856 --> 00:28:55,024
Coming here, day after day,

580
00:28:55,108 --> 00:28:57,944
checking in on his babies,
feeding them,

581
00:28:58,027 --> 00:29:00,864
keeping their water clean,
checking the pH.

582
00:29:02,282 --> 00:29:04,159
He might be a monster,

583
00:29:04,242 --> 00:29:06,578
but he does have some kind
of paternal instinct.

584
00:29:07,912 --> 00:29:09,289
Then he abducts Dennis Zao

585
00:29:09,372 --> 00:29:11,082
and brings him here,

586
00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:13,710
strips him naked,
puts him in the water.

587
00:29:13,793 --> 00:29:15,879
He creates this barrier

588
00:29:15,962 --> 00:29:18,465
around the deep end
and all along the edges

589
00:29:18,548 --> 00:29:21,593
so he can't get out
no matter how hard he tries.

590
00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:23,845
Then he begins releasing
these things in the pool.

591
00:29:25,138 --> 00:29:27,766
The species found in the pool
with Mr. Zao

592
00:29:28,683 --> 00:29:30,143
is called H. stagnalis.

593
00:29:31,144 --> 00:29:32,979
In the case of H. Stagnalis,

594
00:29:33,062 --> 00:29:35,356
it has this sucker

595
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,649
on the front of its body
that it uses

596
00:29:36,733 --> 00:29:38,485
to attach to the host.

597
00:29:39,986 --> 00:29:41,863
They have three small jaws

598
00:29:41,946 --> 00:29:43,865
that create
a Y-shaped incision.

599
00:29:43,948 --> 00:29:46,451
It's how they get
the tasty paydirt.

600
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,041
Leeches will consume up
to ten times

601
00:29:53,124 --> 00:29:55,001
their own body weight
in blood,

602
00:29:55,084 --> 00:29:58,296
which sounds like a lot
but it's really...

603
00:29:58,379 --> 00:30:00,256
It's like two teaspoons.

604
00:30:00,340 --> 00:30:02,383
This bloodletting-by-leeches

605
00:30:02,467 --> 00:30:05,804
process went on for nearly
three straight days.

606
00:30:05,887 --> 00:30:08,515
The suspect
just methodically keeps

607
00:30:08,598 --> 00:30:11,309
fishing out full leeches,
adding more empties,

608
00:30:11,392 --> 00:30:12,519
on and on...

609
00:30:12,602 --> 00:30:13,728
as Dennis Zao becomes

610
00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:17,023
more and more incapacitated.

611
00:30:17,106 --> 00:30:19,484
I've always been lousy
at math, but, basically,

612
00:30:19,567 --> 00:30:21,820
it took a shit ton of leeches
to kill Dennis Zao.

613
00:30:23,112 --> 00:30:24,489
Eventually, after he was naked

614
00:30:24,572 --> 00:30:26,115
in this filthy,
leech-filled water,

615
00:30:26,199 --> 00:30:27,867
he finally succumbed
to his injuries.

616
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,620
Oh, and the reason no one
ever hears screaming

617
00:30:30,703 --> 00:30:31,830
from the building?

618
00:30:32,956 --> 00:30:35,333
Zao's tongue was cut out.

619
00:30:35,416 --> 00:30:37,252
A leech bite

620
00:30:37,335 --> 00:30:40,088
looks a little like
the symbol, doesn't it?

621
00:30:40,171 --> 00:30:41,923
See how it's
sort of a triangle?

622
00:30:43,466 --> 00:30:44,634
But like most clues,

623
00:30:44,717 --> 00:30:45,885
this just led
to more questions.

624
00:30:45,969 --> 00:30:48,638
What do these dots mean?

625
00:30:48,721 --> 00:30:50,515
What the hell am I looking at?

626
00:30:50,598 --> 00:30:52,141
We later figured out
that the suspect

627
00:30:52,225 --> 00:30:54,185
first got in contact
with Mr. Zao

628
00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:56,938
because of a Craigslist ad
he posted.

629
00:30:57,021 --> 00:30:58,815
They had exchanged
a few messages

630
00:30:58,898 --> 00:31:00,275
and then arranged
to meet up for sex

631
00:31:00,358 --> 00:31:02,569
at a motel down the street
from the pool.

632
00:31:02,652 --> 00:31:05,280
This finally led
to the big break in the case.

633
00:31:05,363 --> 00:31:07,740
Our technicians were able
to identify the IP address

634
00:31:07,824 --> 00:31:10,785
where the Craigslist ad
was originally posted.

635
00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:13,329
The ad and subsequent
back-and-forth messaging

636
00:31:13,413 --> 00:31:14,914
had been made
from a coffee shop

637
00:31:14,998 --> 00:31:17,584
in Mission Grove
on February 11th.

638
00:31:17,667 --> 00:31:19,460
This was a huge lead.

639
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:21,671
We finally were able
to trace the suspect's

640
00:31:21,754 --> 00:31:24,132
whereabout
outside of a crime scene.

641
00:31:24,215 --> 00:31:26,384
I mean, I gotta admit,
I was really starting to think

642
00:31:26,467 --> 00:31:30,138
we were chasing a ghost
or a vampire or something.

643
00:31:30,221 --> 00:31:32,765
We did surveillance
on the place for about a week.

644
00:31:32,849 --> 00:31:34,142
The last thing we wanted to do

645
00:31:34,225 --> 00:31:35,810
was draw any attention
to ourselves.

646
00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:38,062
If this guy was a regular,
for example,

647
00:31:38,146 --> 00:31:40,481
and came in all the time...

648
00:31:40,565 --> 00:31:42,233
I mean, we were always
hoping and praying

649
00:31:42,317 --> 00:31:43,985
maybe he swings by
for a cup of coffee

650
00:31:44,068 --> 00:31:45,653
or place another ad,

651
00:31:45,737 --> 00:31:47,530
and just like that,
we'd have him.

652
00:31:48,698 --> 00:31:50,283
No such luck.

653
00:31:50,366 --> 00:31:53,161
There were three employees
working that day.

654
00:31:53,244 --> 00:31:55,079
None of them
could remember the suspect.

655
00:31:55,163 --> 00:31:56,623
It's a popular place,

656
00:31:56,706 --> 00:31:58,583
so he may have picked it
for that reason.

657
00:31:58,666 --> 00:32:01,753
No surveillance system,
no cameras anywhere at all.

658
00:32:01,836 --> 00:32:04,380
But the area does have
a large homeless population.

659
00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:08,593
Excuse me, sir.

660
00:32:08,676 --> 00:32:10,386
You mind if I talk to you
for a sec?

661
00:32:10,470 --> 00:32:12,013
That's...

662
00:32:12,096 --> 00:32:14,599
You're talking about the one
near Andulka Park?

663
00:32:14,682 --> 00:32:17,060
Yeah. Yeah, that's it.

664
00:32:17,143 --> 00:32:19,395
I'm just sitting there, right?

665
00:32:19,479 --> 00:32:21,105
And he...

666
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:22,607
He comes up to me and...

667
00:32:23,733 --> 00:32:25,360
I knew what he wanted.

668
00:32:25,443 --> 00:32:28,154
"I want to hire you
as day labor."

669
00:32:28,237 --> 00:32:29,572
Did he say
what kind of labor?

670
00:32:29,656 --> 00:32:32,283
Uh... landscaping.

671
00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:34,202
Working on the house
or something.

672
00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:36,037
And you get in his car?

673
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,414
- Yep.
- What kind of car?

674
00:32:38,498 --> 00:32:39,499
Like a...

675
00:32:40,708 --> 00:32:41,960
sedan or something.

676
00:32:42,043 --> 00:32:45,046
Like a, like a blue Camry.

677
00:32:45,129 --> 00:32:46,839
When I started
talking to this guy,

678
00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:49,175
my jaw was on the floor, man.

679
00:32:50,426 --> 00:32:53,096
I mean, if he was telling
the truth, this was huge.

680
00:32:53,179 --> 00:32:54,722
We even had
a vehicle description.

681
00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:55,974
But it gets even better.

682
00:32:56,057 --> 00:32:57,892
Mr. Johnson tells us

683
00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:00,269
he knows
where the suspect's house is.

684
00:33:00,353 --> 00:33:03,272
Apparently, the suspect
had driven him to it.

685
00:33:03,356 --> 00:33:05,900
Okay, see that?

686
00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:07,652
It wants you to go left,

687
00:33:07,735 --> 00:33:09,195
but you're going
to go straight.

688
00:33:09,278 --> 00:33:10,738
He didn't know
the street address,

689
00:33:10,822 --> 00:33:11,990
but he says
he thinks he can remember

690
00:33:12,073 --> 00:33:14,033
how to get there by memory.

691
00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:17,078
Apparently, he'd been driven
to a residence in Highgrove,

692
00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:19,080
where the suspect says
he needs to grab

693
00:33:19,163 --> 00:33:22,000
some tools before they went
to the so-called "job site."

694
00:33:25,086 --> 00:33:25,920
And that's
what brought us

695
00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:27,964
to 144 Artesian Avenue.

696
00:33:28,047 --> 00:33:30,049
After picking up a duffel bag,

697
00:33:30,133 --> 00:33:32,969
they get
on the 215 headed north.

698
00:33:33,052 --> 00:33:35,847
Mr. Johnson says
the guy seems normal, friendly.

699
00:33:35,930 --> 00:33:38,057
I mean, even conversational.

700
00:33:38,141 --> 00:33:40,351
And that brings us
to the bracelet.

701
00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:42,061
Johnson says he found
this bracelet

702
00:33:42,145 --> 00:33:44,272
in a trash container
a few years ago.

703
00:33:44,355 --> 00:33:47,650
Says he just likes to wear it,
thinks it's cool.

704
00:33:47,734 --> 00:33:49,694
Apparently,
the suspect asks him about it,

705
00:33:49,777 --> 00:33:51,195
starts grilling him.

706
00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:52,238
"How long
have you been a diabetic?

707
00:33:52,321 --> 00:33:54,490
Do you take insulin?" etc.

708
00:33:54,574 --> 00:33:56,576
Johnson tells him
the bracelet's not his.

709
00:33:57,827 --> 00:34:01,664
And then the suspect
gets very visibly angry,

710
00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:03,875
pulls off the highway,
tells him to get out,

711
00:34:03,958 --> 00:34:06,794
drives off, and that's that.

712
00:34:06,878 --> 00:34:08,046
Johnson never sees him again.

713
00:34:09,922 --> 00:34:12,175
He's incredibly lucky.

714
00:34:12,258 --> 00:34:14,218
I believe if that bracelet
had been real,

715
00:34:14,302 --> 00:34:15,887
if Johnson had fit
whatever criteria

716
00:34:15,970 --> 00:34:18,264
our suspect was looking for,

717
00:34:18,347 --> 00:34:20,600
he would most definitely
be dead right now.

718
00:34:20,683 --> 00:34:22,935
After learning
all this we go to the house.

719
00:34:23,019 --> 00:34:24,604
Just a normal house.

720
00:34:24,687 --> 00:34:26,189
We knock.

721
00:34:26,272 --> 00:34:27,899
Nobody's home.

722
00:34:27,982 --> 00:34:29,275
But we can't just kick
the door in

723
00:34:29,358 --> 00:34:31,277
without probable cause.

724
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:32,695
I mean,
all we've got is the word

725
00:34:32,779 --> 00:34:33,905
of an unemployed drifter

726
00:34:33,988 --> 00:34:35,948
with a minor criminal record

727
00:34:36,032 --> 00:34:39,202
who we also paid
for the information he gave us.

728
00:34:39,285 --> 00:34:40,495
It's not going
to get us a warrant.

729
00:34:42,330 --> 00:34:44,665
And that's when I see it
above the door,

730
00:34:44,749 --> 00:34:47,627
staring us in the face.

731
00:34:47,710 --> 00:34:51,089
We kept most of the evidence
we had, which wasn't much,

732
00:34:51,172 --> 00:34:52,298
pretty close to the chest

733
00:34:52,381 --> 00:34:54,342
as far as the media
was concerned.

734
00:34:54,425 --> 00:34:56,219
That symbol, the image,

735
00:34:56,302 --> 00:34:58,096
was never released
to the public.

736
00:34:58,179 --> 00:34:59,680
So, nobody could know about it

737
00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:01,182
unless they were involved
in one of the crimes.

738
00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:04,102
That was enough.

739
00:35:04,185 --> 00:35:05,812
We called in the cavalry.

740
00:35:20,034 --> 00:35:20,910
Big windows on left.

741
00:35:31,671 --> 00:35:33,840
All clear!

742
00:35:33,923 --> 00:35:34,924
I don't know
what I was expecting

743
00:35:35,007 --> 00:35:36,759
to find in there.

744
00:35:36,843 --> 00:35:39,011
Torture dungeon,
haunted house,

745
00:35:39,095 --> 00:35:40,138
something from a horror movie.

746
00:35:42,056 --> 00:35:43,808
But it wasn't like that at all.

747
00:35:43,891 --> 00:35:46,144
It was... banal.

748
00:35:46,227 --> 00:35:47,812
Mundane.

749
00:35:47,895 --> 00:35:49,147
That doesn't mean
it wasn't a little weird.

750
00:36:10,459 --> 00:36:12,837
But weird doesn't necessarily
make you guilty.

751
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,380
There was no evidence
the person that lived there

752
00:36:14,463 --> 00:36:15,798
was involved in anything,

753
00:36:15,882 --> 00:36:17,842
other than the symbol
over the doorway,

754
00:36:17,925 --> 00:36:19,510
and that was
purely circumstantial.

755
00:36:21,345 --> 00:36:23,431
Look at this.

756
00:36:23,514 --> 00:36:25,349
That's just lovely, isn't it?

757
00:36:25,433 --> 00:36:26,893
The property owner
was an older woman

758
00:36:26,976 --> 00:36:28,227
who lived in San Diego

759
00:36:28,311 --> 00:36:29,395
who said she'd been renting

760
00:36:29,478 --> 00:36:31,272
the house to...

761
00:36:31,355 --> 00:36:33,065
You guessed it,
someone who called themselves

762
00:36:33,149 --> 00:36:35,026
Albert Shiny.

763
00:36:35,109 --> 00:36:37,028
Apparently, Mr. Shiny
was willing to pay

764
00:36:37,111 --> 00:36:38,362
for a year upfront in cash,

765
00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:40,615
so she didn't ask
too many questions

766
00:36:40,698 --> 00:36:43,284
and had only met him twice.

767
00:36:43,367 --> 00:36:45,661
So, we start
dusting for fingerprints

768
00:36:45,745 --> 00:36:47,371
but we can't find any,
literally.

769
00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:48,748
Not one print,

770
00:36:48,831 --> 00:36:49,957
which makes no sense
for the inside

771
00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:51,167
of someone's house.

772
00:36:51,250 --> 00:36:53,294
There should be
thousands of them.

773
00:36:53,377 --> 00:36:54,754
I mean,
was this guy wearing gloves

774
00:36:54,837 --> 00:36:57,673
every second of every day?

775
00:36:57,757 --> 00:36:59,675
Finally,
we found some fingerprints

776
00:36:59,759 --> 00:37:02,303
on a telescope that was
outside, on the deck.

777
00:37:02,386 --> 00:37:03,554
We immediately
got them out to the lab

778
00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:05,765
and ran through the computer.

779
00:37:05,848 --> 00:37:09,393
And boom, we got a hit.

780
00:37:09,477 --> 00:37:10,728
The print matched the partial

781
00:37:10,811 --> 00:37:12,021
that was found in '95

782
00:37:12,104 --> 00:37:13,231
on the Noah Lafone murder.

783
00:37:14,607 --> 00:37:16,025
I couldn't believe it.

784
00:37:16,108 --> 00:37:17,652
We might have our guy.

785
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:23,783
The fingerprints belonged
to a Leslie Sykes,

786
00:37:23,866 --> 00:37:27,495
born December 20th,
1962 in Branson, Missouri.

787
00:37:29,664 --> 00:37:31,749
Homer Johnson,
the homeless gentleman,

788
00:37:31,832 --> 00:37:34,877
swore Sykes was the person
who had given him a ride.

789
00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:38,089
The woman who rented the house
also IDed him off his photo.

790
00:37:38,172 --> 00:37:40,675
Sykes had no criminal record,
no employment history,

791
00:37:40,758 --> 00:37:42,551
no current address,
no phone number

792
00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:45,096
or bank account and,
big surprise,

793
00:37:45,179 --> 00:37:48,266
the guy hadn't paid taxes
in more than two decades.

794
00:37:48,349 --> 00:37:50,476
Yeah, he really was a ghost,
but he was our ghost

795
00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:53,104
and we had to find him
before he killed again.

796
00:37:53,187 --> 00:37:55,314
Riverside police are asking
for the public's help

797
00:37:55,398 --> 00:37:57,566
in locating this man.

798
00:37:57,650 --> 00:38:00,319
Fifty-year-old Leslie Sykes
is a person of interest

799
00:38:00,403 --> 00:38:03,990
in what has been dubbed
as "the Mr. Shiny murders."

800
00:38:04,073 --> 00:38:06,367
The killer in that case
has now taken the lives

801
00:38:06,450 --> 00:38:08,744
of eight people
in both San Bernardino

802
00:38:08,828 --> 00:38:11,414
and Riverside counties,
and is still at large.

803
00:38:11,497 --> 00:38:13,624
We tried to do
a total media blitz,

804
00:38:13,708 --> 00:38:16,752
get this guy's picture in front
of as many people as possible.

805
00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:19,588
The story got carried
all over California,

806
00:38:19,672 --> 00:38:21,507
even in a few other
surrounding states,

807
00:38:21,590 --> 00:38:23,884
but no one was really
paying attention.

808
00:38:23,968 --> 00:38:25,928
But one person that did see
the coverage

809
00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:27,305
was Leslie Sykes.

810
00:38:30,016 --> 00:38:31,017
Leslie Sykes

811
00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:32,643
has been transfigured.

812
00:38:32,727 --> 00:38:35,813
You can't stop him
or what he has become.

813
00:38:35,896 --> 00:38:37,148
Hail Azragor!

814
00:38:37,231 --> 00:38:38,733
Hail Drag Aul!

815
00:38:38,816 --> 00:38:41,068
You have no idea
what I am saying.

816
00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:44,030
Five to go
and then you'll know.

817
00:38:44,113 --> 00:38:47,158
Five to go
and then we'll know...

818
00:38:47,241 --> 00:38:48,617
what?

819
00:38:48,701 --> 00:38:50,745
It was a sick game to him,

820
00:38:50,828 --> 00:38:52,413
but it was also
absolutely serious.

821
00:38:52,496 --> 00:38:55,374
Would he really stop at five?

822
00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:57,835
The next murder happened
less than a month later,

823
00:38:57,918 --> 00:39:00,171
March 19th.

824
00:39:00,254 --> 00:39:02,840
The victim was a 16-year-old

825
00:39:02,923 --> 00:39:05,801
high school student
named Victoria Macenroe.

826
00:39:07,094 --> 00:39:08,179
Sixteen.

827
00:39:10,097 --> 00:39:13,184
She was alone at her parents'
home in Hiland.

828
00:39:13,267 --> 00:39:16,479
They had gone out to visit
friends in Rancho Cucamonga.

829
00:39:16,562 --> 00:39:18,272
Sykes jumped the gate
and entered

830
00:39:18,356 --> 00:39:21,567
through a first floor window
at or around 9:21.

831
00:39:21,650 --> 00:39:23,361
And we know this

832
00:39:23,444 --> 00:39:25,446
because it was caught
on camera.

833
00:39:25,529 --> 00:39:27,948
Okay, so this is
the Color Dreams palette

834
00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:29,575
by Adorable Damage.

835
00:39:29,658 --> 00:39:31,786
I am just obsessed
with this brand lately.

836
00:39:31,869 --> 00:39:34,080
I actually reviewed
their Shimmer Shadow palette

837
00:39:34,163 --> 00:39:35,623
in my top ten video

838
00:39:35,706 --> 00:39:38,417
and they are
just killing it, okay?

839
00:39:38,501 --> 00:39:39,710
What I'm going to do

840
00:39:39,794 --> 00:39:41,629
is I'm going to go in

841
00:39:41,712 --> 00:39:44,924
for kind of a smoky look
with this one right here.

842
00:39:45,007 --> 00:39:48,302
And then, you can just go in,
like, a circular motion.

843
00:39:48,386 --> 00:39:50,221
You don't have to do
a bunch of back-and-forth

844
00:39:50,304 --> 00:39:52,390
windshield-wiper crap.

845
00:39:52,473 --> 00:39:53,808
So, start...

846
00:39:55,351 --> 00:39:57,186
"Windshield wiper,"
that sounds stupid.

847
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:01,941
Hey, I thought you were going
to text me on the way home!

848
00:40:02,024 --> 00:40:03,401
I'm starving!

849
00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:08,406
Mom? Mom?

850
00:40:09,865 --> 00:40:10,908
Dad?

851
00:40:29,343 --> 00:40:32,054
No, please! Please!
No, please! Please!

852
00:41:45,836 --> 00:41:47,713
The video glitches
pretty bad there

853
00:41:47,796 --> 00:41:49,215
and it's hard to tell
what's going on.

854
00:41:49,298 --> 00:41:51,509
We've combed
over it frame by frame,

855
00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:54,261
but it's just too messed up
to see anything clearly.

856
00:41:55,554 --> 00:41:57,014
But obviously,
Sykes was performing

857
00:41:57,097 --> 00:41:59,683
some kind of ritual.

858
00:41:59,767 --> 00:42:02,394
Ritual murder,
strictly speaking,

859
00:42:02,478 --> 00:42:05,356
is a relatively
obscure phenomenon

860
00:42:05,439 --> 00:42:08,025
not just in the United States,
but worldwide.

861
00:42:08,108 --> 00:42:12,780
It just doesn't happen
that often in its purest form.

862
00:42:12,863 --> 00:42:14,990
To this day,
people still believe

863
00:42:15,074 --> 00:42:18,702
that the Manson Family
was a satanic cult.

864
00:42:19,954 --> 00:42:21,247
It's not true.

865
00:42:21,330 --> 00:42:22,831
Of course, that's not to say

866
00:42:22,915 --> 00:42:25,251
that ritual murder
never happens.

867
00:42:25,334 --> 00:42:28,963
There were the murder-suicides
in the Solar Temple cult,

868
00:42:29,046 --> 00:42:33,008
the Fall Rivers cult,
Order of the Black Sun.

869
00:42:33,092 --> 00:42:37,388
The Mr. Shiny murders
definitely seem ritualistic,

870
00:42:37,471 --> 00:42:40,391
but I didn't recognize
any of the iconography.

871
00:42:40,474 --> 00:42:42,935
This wasn't some goetic rite

872
00:42:43,018 --> 00:42:46,480
pulled from a grimoire,
there was nothing Abrahamic.

873
00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:48,566
As I told the police
at that time,

874
00:42:49,775 --> 00:42:50,859
whatever it was,

875
00:42:52,486 --> 00:42:55,864
this guy was a true believer

876
00:42:55,948 --> 00:42:58,701
and very, very dangerous.

877
00:43:00,494 --> 00:43:03,038
And this is
all crazy in its own right,

878
00:43:03,122 --> 00:43:06,208
but what's truly unexpected
is what happens next.

879
00:43:24,685 --> 00:43:26,645
Somehow, Victoria
survives being shot

880
00:43:26,729 --> 00:43:27,646
not only in the head,

881
00:43:27,730 --> 00:43:28,981
but in the back twice

882
00:43:29,064 --> 00:43:30,608
and the shoulder.

883
00:43:30,691 --> 00:43:32,776
This is probably
because a 22-caliber weapon

884
00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:36,488
was used,
and just incredible luck.

885
00:43:38,324 --> 00:43:39,325
Victoria?

886
00:43:39,408 --> 00:43:41,744
Oh, my God!

887
00:43:41,827 --> 00:43:43,829
Emergency workers
arrive in about 15 minutes

888
00:43:43,912 --> 00:43:45,664
and they're able
to stabilize Victoria

889
00:43:45,748 --> 00:43:48,792
on her way to
St. Bernardine Medical Center.

890
00:43:48,876 --> 00:43:52,546
I wish I could tell you
the story ended there.

891
00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:54,006
After going through surgery,

892
00:43:54,089 --> 00:43:55,299
she was put
in the recovery ward,

893
00:43:55,382 --> 00:43:57,092
and I had multiple officers

894
00:43:57,176 --> 00:43:58,927
assigned to guard her room,
just in case.

895
00:43:59,011 --> 00:44:01,513
And the hospital security
was put on alert.

896
00:44:01,597 --> 00:44:03,015
It should've been enough.

897
00:44:09,396 --> 00:44:11,273
Sykes attacks
and subdues a nurse

898
00:44:11,357 --> 00:44:14,318
just getting off his shift
in the hospital parking lot,

899
00:44:14,401 --> 00:44:16,362
takes his uniform
and entry badge.

900
00:44:18,113 --> 00:44:20,407
He walks straight
through the front doors,

901
00:44:20,491 --> 00:44:21,659
right past security,

902
00:44:21,742 --> 00:44:24,119
and goes to Macenroe's floor.

903
00:44:24,203 --> 00:44:27,539
I mean, he seems to know
exactly where to go.

904
00:44:27,623 --> 00:44:29,375
He goes to the nurses' station

905
00:44:29,458 --> 00:44:31,752
and introduces himself
to the other staff,

906
00:44:31,835 --> 00:44:34,505
says he was transferred
from Pediatrics.

907
00:44:34,588 --> 00:44:35,964
They believe him.

908
00:44:36,048 --> 00:44:37,341
Says he knows
all the vernacular

909
00:44:37,424 --> 00:44:39,134
and hospital procedure.

910
00:44:39,218 --> 00:44:40,511
Sykes quite literally cares

911
00:44:40,594 --> 00:44:41,553
for three different patients

912
00:44:41,637 --> 00:44:43,847
over a four-hour period.

913
00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:46,600
He walks by police
and security several times

914
00:44:46,684 --> 00:44:48,102
and is never noticed.

915
00:44:49,770 --> 00:44:51,689
Yeah, including by Joe or me.

916
00:44:54,692 --> 00:44:55,693
He was right there.

917
00:44:57,277 --> 00:44:59,905
We practically
touched each other.

918
00:44:59,988 --> 00:45:01,490
If I'd just
been paying attention,

919
00:45:01,573 --> 00:45:03,701
if I'd just
looked into his eyes...

920
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,830
I'll never forgive myself
for not realizing

921
00:45:07,913 --> 00:45:11,917
just how bold
he might really be.

922
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,794
He waits
until there's a shift change,

923
00:45:13,877 --> 00:45:16,171
enters the room
for storing pharmaceuticals,

924
00:45:16,255 --> 00:45:19,049
and proceeds to poison an AB
negative blood transfusion bag

925
00:45:19,133 --> 00:45:21,009
with an industrial cleaner

926
00:45:21,093 --> 00:45:23,178
he finds
in a custodial closet.

927
00:45:23,262 --> 00:45:26,265
He knows that Macenroe
is the only with AB negative

928
00:45:26,348 --> 00:45:29,727
in the wing and is the only one
who will receive that bag.

929
00:45:31,228 --> 00:45:32,062
Then he leaves.

930
00:45:34,314 --> 00:45:36,191
Later that night,
a nurse comes in to rotate out

931
00:45:36,275 --> 00:45:37,735
Macenroe's backup bag

932
00:45:37,818 --> 00:45:39,445
and unknowingly replaces it

933
00:45:39,528 --> 00:45:41,530
with the poisoned one.

934
00:45:41,613 --> 00:45:43,240
Victoria was dead
within minutes,

935
00:45:43,323 --> 00:45:45,784
but Sykes was long gone
by then.

936
00:45:45,868 --> 00:45:47,202
This was a huge blow

937
00:45:47,286 --> 00:45:49,455
to everyone involved
in the case.

938
00:45:49,538 --> 00:45:51,582
The one victim that survived,

939
00:45:51,665 --> 00:45:53,834
we couldn't protect her.

940
00:45:53,917 --> 00:45:55,419
I mean, we were right there.

941
00:45:55,502 --> 00:45:57,671
We could've had him.

942
00:45:57,755 --> 00:45:59,047
Yeah, that was one
of the roughest nights

943
00:45:59,131 --> 00:46:00,632
in my entire life.

944
00:46:05,012 --> 00:46:06,513
Could we take a break?

945
00:46:06,597 --> 00:46:07,639
Yeah.

946
00:46:13,812 --> 00:46:15,022
It was a rollercoaster.

947
00:46:20,903 --> 00:46:22,279
Realizing
that she might be hurt,

948
00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:30,579
then thinking
that she might be okay...

949
00:46:33,749 --> 00:46:38,420
thinking
that she was okay, and...

950
00:46:41,465 --> 00:46:43,801
Some days I feel
like she's still here.

951
00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:02,194
Yeah.

952
00:47:02,277 --> 00:47:04,488
We couldn't touch it.

953
00:47:04,571 --> 00:47:07,115
I think about
that saying a lot,

954
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:10,202
"you really die the last time
someone says your name."

955
00:47:11,537 --> 00:47:14,748
Yeah, I guess
we kept all her stuff

956
00:47:14,832 --> 00:47:17,626
because we didn't want her
to die.

957
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,048
Even though I know she's dead.

958
00:47:25,133 --> 00:47:27,135
Victoria Macenroe was
serial killer

959
00:47:27,219 --> 00:47:29,346
Leslie Sykes' ninth
and most recent victim

960
00:47:29,429 --> 00:47:31,181
in the Mr. Shiny murders,

961
00:47:31,265 --> 00:47:33,308
a killing spree that spans
three counties

962
00:47:33,392 --> 00:47:35,227
and over 18 years.

963
00:47:35,310 --> 00:47:37,104
Authorities continue to urge
the public

964
00:47:37,187 --> 00:47:39,273
to keep a watchful
lookout for Sykes,

965
00:47:39,356 --> 00:47:41,316
who remains at large
and is considered armed

966
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,235
and extremely dangerous.

967
00:47:43,318 --> 00:47:44,862
Residents of the Hiland
neighborhood

968
00:47:44,945 --> 00:47:46,780
where Macenroe was murdered

969
00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:48,407
have expressed
their frustration at police

970
00:47:48,490 --> 00:47:50,367
for their inability
to capture,

971
00:47:50,450 --> 00:47:51,869
or even come close
to capturing,

972
00:47:51,952 --> 00:47:53,745
the elusive killer.

973
00:47:53,829 --> 00:47:55,372
It's unacceptable.

974
00:47:55,455 --> 00:47:57,249
It's insane.

975
00:47:57,332 --> 00:47:59,668
Somebody in the San Bernardino
Police Department

976
00:47:59,751 --> 00:48:01,128
should be held accountable

977
00:48:01,211 --> 00:48:03,005
for letting it get out of hand
like this.

978
00:48:03,088 --> 00:48:05,215
It's messed up how they haven't
caught the guy yet.

979
00:48:06,383 --> 00:48:08,135
This used to be
a pretty great place to live,

980
00:48:08,218 --> 00:48:10,304
but, honestly,
I'm really scared.

981
00:48:10,387 --> 00:48:12,472
And that girl,
she just lives, like,

982
00:48:12,556 --> 00:48:13,974
a couple blocks from here!

983
00:48:14,057 --> 00:48:16,685
So, I mean, who's next, right?

984
00:48:16,768 --> 00:48:17,769
We were really
feeling the pressure

985
00:48:17,853 --> 00:48:18,937
by this point.

986
00:48:19,021 --> 00:48:20,439
Macenroe's murder seemed to be

987
00:48:20,522 --> 00:48:22,608
the straw that broke
the camel's back

988
00:48:22,691 --> 00:48:25,235
in terms of public outrage.

989
00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:27,112
But I felt for all of them.

990
00:48:27,195 --> 00:48:30,282
Every single victim
deserved justice.

991
00:48:30,365 --> 00:48:33,160
And for everything
we'd done up until this point,

992
00:48:33,243 --> 00:48:36,747
until you catch your guy,
you haven't done shit.

993
00:48:36,830 --> 00:48:38,749
We'd already been offering
a cash reward

994
00:48:38,832 --> 00:48:41,585
for any lead that led
to the arrest of Leslie Sykes,

995
00:48:41,668 --> 00:48:45,047
but I convinced the D.A.'s
Office to substantially up it.

996
00:48:45,130 --> 00:48:46,340
It ended up being
one of the highest

997
00:48:46,423 --> 00:48:47,799
in San Bernardino's history.

998
00:48:47,883 --> 00:48:50,469
$80,000 for just one person.

999
00:48:50,552 --> 00:48:52,054
At the same time,
we were digging

1000
00:48:52,137 --> 00:48:53,639
into Sykes' past,
trying to figure out

1001
00:48:53,722 --> 00:48:56,975
everything we could,
which wasn't easy.

1002
00:48:57,059 --> 00:48:59,144
All his known relatives
were dead.

1003
00:48:59,227 --> 00:49:00,896
He had been
briefly married in '88

1004
00:49:00,979 --> 00:49:02,940
to a woman named
Suzanne Hemler,

1005
00:49:03,023 --> 00:49:05,108
but that was over by '91.

1006
00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:07,319
Tried to contact her,
but she committed suicide

1007
00:49:07,402 --> 00:49:09,446
in 2008.

1008
00:49:09,529 --> 00:49:10,989
We started reaching out
to people

1009
00:49:11,073 --> 00:49:12,407
Sykes went to high school with,

1010
00:49:12,491 --> 00:49:15,160
but nobody seems
to remember him.

1011
00:49:15,243 --> 00:49:17,621
Finally, we find
someone who will talk to us.

1012
00:49:17,704 --> 00:49:19,539
A guy named Jared Kelly.

1013
00:49:53,407 --> 00:49:54,950
How so?

1014
00:49:55,033 --> 00:49:57,244
Just, like, agitated,

1015
00:49:57,327 --> 00:49:58,996
distracted.

1016
00:50:04,918 --> 00:50:06,294
A cave?

1017
00:50:27,315 --> 00:50:28,233
Like what?

1018
00:50:48,837 --> 00:50:50,047
It's, like, ingrained.

1019
00:50:59,556 --> 00:51:01,058
Which is metal as fuck.

1020
00:51:15,906 --> 00:51:17,491
Police.

1021
00:51:21,870 --> 00:51:23,955
Sykes attempts
to break into the residence

1022
00:51:24,039 --> 00:51:25,499
of Miles and Kelly Harris,

1023
00:51:25,582 --> 00:51:28,168
an older couple
living in Rancho West.

1024
00:51:28,251 --> 00:51:30,420
He scaled the fence
into their backyard,

1025
00:51:30,504 --> 00:51:32,172
but is almost
immediately attacked

1026
00:51:32,255 --> 00:51:35,133
by the Harrises'
48-pound pit bull, Caesar.

1027
00:51:35,217 --> 00:51:37,219
Mr. Harris
overhears the commotion,

1028
00:51:37,302 --> 00:51:38,553
looks into his backyard

1029
00:51:38,637 --> 00:51:40,097
and sees
the struggle happening.

1030
00:51:40,180 --> 00:51:42,015
I mean, this was a big animal,

1031
00:51:42,099 --> 00:51:44,976
and it's able to physically
knock Sykes off his feet.

1032
00:51:45,060 --> 00:51:46,520
We know he was hurt pretty bad

1033
00:51:46,603 --> 00:51:47,896
because we find blood
on the ground

1034
00:51:47,979 --> 00:51:50,107
in multiple places.

1035
00:51:50,190 --> 00:51:52,109
Sadly, the dog's
only able to keep this up

1036
00:51:52,192 --> 00:51:54,945
for so long before Sykes
uses a bladed weapon

1037
00:51:55,028 --> 00:51:56,196
and stabs it repeatedly,

1038
00:51:56,279 --> 00:51:58,281
then he jumps the fence again.

1039
00:51:58,365 --> 00:51:59,950
This time,
I was not going to let

1040
00:52:00,033 --> 00:52:01,451
the same thing
happen to the Harrises

1041
00:52:01,535 --> 00:52:03,578
that happened
to Victoria Macenroe.

1042
00:52:03,662 --> 00:52:06,665
They were immediately
put into protective custody.

1043
00:52:06,748 --> 00:52:08,875
Not that it mattered,
because Sykes must have had

1044
00:52:08,959 --> 00:52:11,628
a backup plan for that night.

1045
00:52:11,711 --> 00:52:14,172
31-year-old Leo Deetz
was working the night shift

1046
00:52:14,256 --> 00:52:15,757
at a 24-hour doughnut shop

1047
00:52:15,841 --> 00:52:17,843
in La Sierra
when he was attacked.

1048
00:52:17,926 --> 00:52:19,094
Yeah, I don't
like fantasy shit,

1049
00:52:19,177 --> 00:52:21,513
but this one's
actually pretty dope.

1050
00:52:21,596 --> 00:52:25,809
It's, like,
violence and sex and stuff.

1051
00:52:25,892 --> 00:52:28,854
It's based on books,
so it seems pretty legit.

1052
00:52:31,064 --> 00:52:34,067
Yeah. Yeah, you too, man.

1053
00:52:34,151 --> 00:52:35,402
Yeah. Peace!

1054
00:53:24,159 --> 00:53:25,702
Leo Deetz
is found the next morning

1055
00:53:25,785 --> 00:53:28,288
with his heart
removed from his body.

1056
00:53:38,590 --> 00:53:41,176
A security guard sees Sykes
exit the back of the shop

1057
00:53:41,259 --> 00:53:43,678
and tries to confront him,
but Sykes flees.

1058
00:53:44,554 --> 00:53:46,473
Honestly,
I was just doing my job.

1059
00:53:46,556 --> 00:53:48,099
I was wrapping up my rounds
for the evening

1060
00:53:48,183 --> 00:53:49,684
here in this complex.

1061
00:53:49,768 --> 00:53:50,685
I was going to take
some doughnuts home

1062
00:53:50,769 --> 00:53:51,853
to me and the girlfriend.

1063
00:53:51,937 --> 00:53:53,063
I saw a man leaving the shop

1064
00:53:53,146 --> 00:53:55,690
in a very, very weird mask.

1065
00:53:55,774 --> 00:53:57,525
The guard
still manages to grab

1066
00:53:57,609 --> 00:54:00,028
his license plate number
and report it to the police.

1067
00:54:00,111 --> 00:54:01,947
I'm just bummed
I didn't get the reward money.

1068
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,282
In the surveillance video
from the doughnut shop,

1069
00:54:04,366 --> 00:54:06,660
you could tell Sykes
was in pain from the dog bite.

1070
00:54:06,743 --> 00:54:08,703
He's unfocused and unprepared.

1071
00:54:08,787 --> 00:54:10,372
Then he's forced
to ditch his car

1072
00:54:10,455 --> 00:54:11,915
after it's reported
by the guard,

1073
00:54:11,998 --> 00:54:13,333
which we find abandoned

1074
00:54:13,416 --> 00:54:16,336
near the 91
and 215 interchange.

1075
00:54:16,419 --> 00:54:17,879
The more desperate
Sykes became,

1076
00:54:17,963 --> 00:54:21,091
the more likely
he was to make a mistake.

1077
00:54:21,174 --> 00:54:22,300
That was the hope.

1078
00:54:23,468 --> 00:54:24,552
We'd
kind of hit a brick wall

1079
00:54:24,636 --> 00:54:26,137
digging into Sykes' past.

1080
00:54:26,221 --> 00:54:29,266
He just vanished
into thin air after '91.

1081
00:54:30,016 --> 00:54:31,226
That's when we realized

1082
00:54:31,309 --> 00:54:34,187
it's because he wasn't
in the country.

1083
00:54:34,271 --> 00:54:36,898
Turns out Sykes had used
his late ex-wife's credit card

1084
00:54:36,982 --> 00:54:42,279
to purchase a one-way ticket
to, of all places, Jerusalem.

1085
00:54:43,238 --> 00:54:46,032
I know, what the F, right?

1086
00:54:46,116 --> 00:54:47,826
I mean, we were just baffled.

1087
00:54:47,909 --> 00:54:50,120
And we also realized
this was beyond the scope

1088
00:54:50,203 --> 00:54:52,289
of our resources,
so we reached out

1089
00:54:52,372 --> 00:54:54,249
to the FBI
and asked for their help.

1090
00:54:54,708 --> 00:54:56,918
They, in turn, got in contact
with Interpol

1091
00:54:57,002 --> 00:54:59,212
and a whole side
investigation got underway,

1092
00:54:59,296 --> 00:55:01,506
trying to find out what Sykes
was doing over there.

1093
00:55:02,757 --> 00:55:04,301
What was found out was...

1094
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:07,971
Let's just say
it didn't clear anything up.

1095
00:55:08,305 --> 00:55:10,682
Sykes flies
to Jerusalem in '96,

1096
00:55:10,765 --> 00:55:13,184
not long after the murder
of Noah Lafone,

1097
00:55:13,268 --> 00:55:15,562
and then, evidently,
he passes into Syria.

1098
00:55:16,229 --> 00:55:18,773
Now, the information here
is sketchy at best,

1099
00:55:18,857 --> 00:55:20,859
but apparently, Sykes
was living in northern Iraq

1100
00:55:20,942 --> 00:55:22,360
for two years,

1101
00:55:22,444 --> 00:55:24,404
but then flees
after Operation Desert Fox

1102
00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:26,364
in '98.

1103
00:55:26,448 --> 00:55:29,117
As far as we know,
Sykes didn't speak Arabic,

1104
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:32,620
but apparently, he learned.

1105
00:55:32,704 --> 00:55:34,706
Sykes then crosses
the border into Turkey,

1106
00:55:34,789 --> 00:55:37,375
and then into Italy in 2001.

1107
00:55:37,459 --> 00:55:39,461
While there, he attends
a museum exhibit

1108
00:55:39,544 --> 00:55:42,756
on Etruscan pottery
in the city of Mantua

1109
00:55:42,839 --> 00:55:46,343
and gets into some sort
of altercation and is arrested.

1110
00:55:47,761 --> 00:55:48,887
I don't know
what Sykes is doing

1111
00:55:48,970 --> 00:55:50,597
looking at Etruscan pottery,

1112
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,057
but he doesn't stay
in Italy long

1113
00:55:52,140 --> 00:55:55,018
before moving
on to Germany in 2003.

1114
00:55:55,101 --> 00:55:56,853
And that's where we learn
of someone who claims

1115
00:55:56,936 --> 00:55:59,439
to have had direct contact
with him there.

1116
00:55:59,522 --> 00:56:04,027
I met Mr. Sykes
when I was living in Xanten.

1117
00:56:04,110 --> 00:56:07,030
He contacted me
through the internet

1118
00:56:07,113 --> 00:56:10,492
about several books
that I was selling.

1119
00:56:10,575 --> 00:56:12,160
Specifically,
he was looking to buy

1120
00:56:12,243 --> 00:56:17,665
my copy of a printed work
from the late Middle Ages,

1121
00:56:17,749 --> 00:56:21,503
a manuscript known
as...

1122
00:56:21,586 --> 00:56:23,713
It's a very valuable book,

1123
00:56:23,797 --> 00:56:27,384
only half a dozen copies
or something still exist.

1124
00:56:29,469 --> 00:56:31,971
It's a book of spells,
basically.

1125
00:56:32,055 --> 00:56:33,390
Witchcraft.

1126
00:56:35,308 --> 00:56:36,559
Well, he wanted to buy it
off me,

1127
00:56:36,643 --> 00:56:38,353
but I wasn't selling.

1128
00:56:38,436 --> 00:56:40,397
I don't know
if he was for real or not,

1129
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,024
but he offered
some wild prizes.

1130
00:56:43,108 --> 00:56:45,944
100, 150,000 euro.

1131
00:56:46,027 --> 00:56:48,405
The guy kind of creeped me out,
to be honest.

1132
00:56:50,323 --> 00:56:52,909
So, when my shop was vandalized

1133
00:56:52,992 --> 00:56:54,661
a couple days later
and the book was gone,

1134
00:56:54,744 --> 00:56:57,330
I immediately knew who did it.

1135
00:56:57,414 --> 00:56:59,666
To know that I came
that close in contact

1136
00:56:59,749 --> 00:57:01,292
with a serial killer...

1137
00:57:02,585 --> 00:57:04,629
The thing that gets me
more than anything else

1138
00:57:04,712 --> 00:57:06,756
though is what the hell
happened to that book.

1139
00:57:07,924 --> 00:57:10,760
We had hoped,
maybe, that Sykes

1140
00:57:10,844 --> 00:57:12,429
would be deterred
by how bungled

1141
00:57:12,512 --> 00:57:14,556
the last two attacks had been.

1142
00:57:14,639 --> 00:57:17,559
We didn't think he would stop,
but maybe just slow down

1143
00:57:17,642 --> 00:57:19,060
long enough
for us to find him.

1144
00:57:20,603 --> 00:57:23,523
If anything, it must have
reinvigorated his cause.

1145
00:57:23,606 --> 00:57:25,150
Get in the fucking car, Coby!

1146
00:57:25,233 --> 00:57:26,192
- This is not our issue.
- Wait!

1147
00:57:26,276 --> 00:57:27,318
We can't just leave him!

1148
00:57:27,402 --> 00:57:28,319
Are you fucking kidding me?

1149
00:57:28,403 --> 00:57:29,404
This is not our problem!

1150
00:57:29,487 --> 00:57:30,405
I'm leaving.

1151
00:57:30,488 --> 00:57:31,614
Emily! Wait!

1152
00:57:41,332 --> 00:57:42,667
Holy shit.

1153
00:57:45,587 --> 00:57:47,130
This is fucking crazy.

1154
00:57:59,184 --> 00:58:00,727
The victim
was Saroj Mallick,

1155
00:58:00,810 --> 00:58:02,437
the security guard
that saw Sykes

1156
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:03,771
behind the doughnut shop

1157
00:58:03,855 --> 00:58:05,732
and reported his plate
to police.

1158
00:58:05,815 --> 00:58:07,567
After leaving work
on April 2nd,

1159
00:58:07,650 --> 00:58:09,152
he was supposed to meet
his girlfriend at a bar

1160
00:58:09,235 --> 00:58:10,904
at 8:30 but never shows.

1161
00:58:10,987 --> 00:58:12,989
He doesn't show up
for work the next day either,

1162
00:58:13,072 --> 00:58:14,824
and his cell phone is off.

1163
00:58:14,908 --> 00:58:16,910
Although his coworkers
are a little concerned,

1164
00:58:16,993 --> 00:58:18,912
nothing's reported to police.

1165
00:58:18,995 --> 00:58:20,955
I guess he had a habit
of just blowing out

1166
00:58:21,039 --> 00:58:22,999
to Vegas for the weekend
without telling anybody.

1167
00:58:24,250 --> 00:58:26,961
But he didn't go to Vegas.

1168
00:58:27,045 --> 00:58:28,630
The following day
he's found hung

1169
00:58:28,713 --> 00:58:30,965
from a public playground
swing set.

1170
00:58:31,049 --> 00:58:34,135
"Displayed" is the word.

1171
00:58:34,219 --> 00:58:36,679
It was a form of torture
the ancient Vikings

1172
00:58:36,763 --> 00:58:39,807
used to use called
"blood eagle."

1173
00:58:39,891 --> 00:58:42,268
The flesh of the back
is cut open,

1174
00:58:42,352 --> 00:58:44,354
ribs are bent back,

1175
00:58:44,437 --> 00:58:46,856
then both lungs are pulled out.

1176
00:58:46,940 --> 00:58:48,525
The mutilation resembles...

1177
00:58:49,901 --> 00:58:51,110
Yeah, you guessed it, wings.

1178
00:58:51,194 --> 00:58:52,779
Blood eagle.

1179
00:58:52,862 --> 00:58:56,032
It was clearly done
for dramatic effect.

1180
00:58:56,115 --> 00:58:58,117
When the Fire Department
is getting his body down,

1181
00:58:58,201 --> 00:58:59,536
they find a CD.

1182
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:28,565
The fuck?

1183
00:59:31,025 --> 00:59:31,901
Hello?

1184
00:59:33,653 --> 00:59:35,113
Hello?

1185
00:59:35,196 --> 00:59:36,573
Anybody, help!

1186
00:59:39,450 --> 00:59:40,368
Hello!

1187
00:59:40,451 --> 00:59:41,578
Help!

1188
00:59:44,122 --> 00:59:45,206
Hello!

1189
00:59:45,290 --> 00:59:46,416
Somebody help me!

1190
00:59:48,501 --> 00:59:50,003
Yo, yo, yo, yo! Okay, okay!

1191
00:59:50,086 --> 00:59:51,004
Whoa, whoa, whoa!

1192
00:59:51,087 --> 00:59:52,005
Sir, please no, no, no!

1193
00:59:52,088 --> 00:59:53,131
Oh! Oh, shit!

1194
00:59:53,214 --> 00:59:55,091
No! No! Fuck!

1195
00:59:55,174 --> 00:59:58,219
No! Shit! Somebody!

1196
00:59:58,303 --> 01:00:00,013
Stop it! Somebody!

1197
01:00:00,096 --> 01:00:01,806
Okay, I'll do anything!
I'll do anything!

1198
01:00:01,889 --> 01:00:03,850
Please stop!
Please stop! Please stop!

1199
01:00:06,060 --> 01:00:07,228
Okay.

1200
01:00:07,312 --> 01:00:08,438
"I have been selected

1201
01:00:08,521 --> 01:00:11,149
because of my direct actions.

1202
01:00:11,232 --> 01:00:13,818
I should not have interfered
with the Great One's plan.

1203
01:00:13,901 --> 01:00:18,781
And for my blasphemies,
I will be put into transit."

1204
01:00:20,074 --> 01:00:21,075
Hello?

1205
01:00:24,579 --> 01:00:25,622
Hello?

1206
01:00:28,750 --> 01:00:29,667
Help!

1207
01:00:29,751 --> 01:00:31,419
He wanted us to know

1208
01:00:31,502 --> 01:00:33,296
he was punishing this guy

1209
01:00:33,379 --> 01:00:34,422
for trying to stop him.

1210
01:00:34,505 --> 01:00:35,882
He was saying,

1211
01:00:35,965 --> 01:00:37,675
"Stay out of his way or else."

1212
01:00:37,759 --> 01:00:39,469
He was saying,

1213
01:00:39,552 --> 01:00:41,763
"This is your fault, not mine."

1214
01:00:46,726 --> 01:00:48,019
Oh, but I do.

1215
01:00:49,270 --> 01:00:51,731
No, I'll carry his death,
and all of their deaths,

1216
01:00:51,814 --> 01:00:54,108
on my conscience until the day
I leave this planet.

1217
01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:57,111
After the Mallick murder,

1218
01:00:57,195 --> 01:00:58,279
a lot less tips came in.

1219
01:00:58,363 --> 01:00:59,739
People were afraid.

1220
01:00:59,822 --> 01:01:02,659
I guess they had
every right to be.

1221
01:01:02,742 --> 01:01:04,035
We picked apart Sykes' house

1222
01:01:04,118 --> 01:01:05,161
with a fine-toothed comb

1223
01:01:05,244 --> 01:01:06,204
and found almost nothing

1224
01:01:06,287 --> 01:01:07,955
useful at all.

1225
01:01:08,039 --> 01:01:10,041
We excavated parts
of the backyard.

1226
01:01:10,124 --> 01:01:12,502
There was nothing but dirt.

1227
01:01:12,585 --> 01:01:15,505
We knew Sykes used
Presto brand toothpaste,

1228
01:01:15,588 --> 01:01:17,340
the one DVD he owned
was season two

1229
01:01:17,423 --> 01:01:18,925
of Meet the Furballs,

1230
01:01:19,008 --> 01:01:21,260
and his favorite drink
was 2% milk.

1231
01:01:21,344 --> 01:01:22,261
Yikes.

1232
01:01:22,345 --> 01:01:23,805
He ate there,

1233
01:01:23,888 --> 01:01:25,598
he slept there,
but it didn't seem

1234
01:01:25,682 --> 01:01:26,891
like he lived there.

1235
01:01:26,974 --> 01:01:28,559
It was like a front.

1236
01:01:28,643 --> 01:01:30,353
It was like a show being put
on to pretend

1237
01:01:30,436 --> 01:01:32,689
the person that lived
there was vaguely normal.

1238
01:01:34,065 --> 01:01:35,858
After a long day
of chasing some leads

1239
01:01:35,942 --> 01:01:38,695
that went nowhere,

1240
01:01:38,778 --> 01:01:40,405
I went to the backyard
of Sykes' house

1241
01:01:40,488 --> 01:01:41,698
to get some fresh air.

1242
01:01:43,032 --> 01:01:45,952
I think I was hoping I'd have
some transcendent moment

1243
01:01:46,035 --> 01:01:47,620
a lot of profilers talk about,
you know,

1244
01:01:47,704 --> 01:01:49,122
when you enter
the headspace of the killer

1245
01:01:49,205 --> 01:01:50,707
and you start
to think like them.

1246
01:01:52,125 --> 01:01:53,167
That never happened.

1247
01:01:54,419 --> 01:01:55,920
None of it
made any sense to me.

1248
01:01:57,463 --> 01:01:58,506
So, it was
like 2:00 in the morning

1249
01:01:58,589 --> 01:02:00,425
and I'm just...

1250
01:02:00,508 --> 01:02:03,720
you know, zoning out,
looking up at the stars.

1251
01:02:05,430 --> 01:02:09,308
And then
I remember that telescope

1252
01:02:09,392 --> 01:02:11,102
that we pulled
Sykes' prints from.

1253
01:02:13,271 --> 01:02:15,523
What stars was Leslie Sykes
looking at?

1254
01:02:16,816 --> 01:02:18,985
The area in the sky
that Leslie Sykes

1255
01:02:19,068 --> 01:02:20,445
had his telescope pointed at
was interesting

1256
01:02:20,528 --> 01:02:21,863
for two reasons.

1257
01:02:21,946 --> 01:02:23,698
First, he was looking
at Ophiuchus.

1258
01:02:23,781 --> 01:02:26,200
Now, most people hadn't
even heard of Ophiuchus.

1259
01:02:26,284 --> 01:02:28,578
It's one of the 13 major
constellations

1260
01:02:28,661 --> 01:02:30,329
along the ecliptic,

1261
01:02:30,413 --> 01:02:32,957
smack in between Scorpius
and Sagittarius .

1262
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:34,208
It's also called the...

1263
01:02:34,292 --> 01:02:36,419
The so-called 13th zodiac sign,

1264
01:02:36,502 --> 01:02:38,463
although that's getting
into astrology

1265
01:02:38,546 --> 01:02:40,089
and not hard science.

1266
01:02:40,173 --> 01:02:43,134
My wife would kill me
for explaining it that way.

1267
01:02:43,217 --> 01:02:45,094
The ancient Greeks
were the one that named

1268
01:02:45,178 --> 01:02:47,096
all the constellations
as we know them today.

1269
01:02:47,180 --> 01:02:50,892
Pisces is a fish,
Taurus is a bull, etc.

1270
01:02:50,975 --> 01:02:53,686
Ophiuchus is
the serpent bearer,

1271
01:02:53,770 --> 01:02:56,856
a man battling a giant snake.

1272
01:02:56,939 --> 01:02:58,524
The reason I mention Ophiuchus

1273
01:02:58,608 --> 01:03:00,401
is because a rare
celestial event

1274
01:03:00,485 --> 01:03:02,111
was taking place
in its constellational

1275
01:03:02,195 --> 01:03:03,988
borders that exact month.

1276
01:03:04,071 --> 01:03:05,531
A planetary alignment

1277
01:03:05,615 --> 01:03:07,867
where Mercury,
Jupiter, and Saturn

1278
01:03:07,950 --> 01:03:10,244
come in earshot of each other

1279
01:03:10,328 --> 01:03:13,080
in a way that happens
once every 800 years or so.

1280
01:03:13,164 --> 01:03:15,166
This is a real thing,
you can look it up.

1281
01:03:15,249 --> 01:03:17,376
May 13th, 2011.

1282
01:03:17,460 --> 01:03:19,629
You could view it
with a naked eye.

1283
01:03:19,712 --> 01:03:22,799
But only for a few hours,
which is why it's so special.

1284
01:03:24,175 --> 01:03:26,260
The symbol.

1285
01:03:26,344 --> 01:03:27,637
A leech bite.

1286
01:03:29,806 --> 01:03:32,225
Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn.

1287
01:03:33,559 --> 01:03:36,813
The rare planetary alignment
that was only a few weeks away.

1288
01:03:38,731 --> 01:03:40,399
So, is this all
one big coincidence?

1289
01:03:41,943 --> 01:03:43,444
One thing they really drill
into your brain

1290
01:03:43,528 --> 01:03:45,321
at the Academy is
that the human mind

1291
01:03:45,404 --> 01:03:47,323
is very adept
at finding patterns

1292
01:03:47,406 --> 01:03:49,617
in things,
even if they aren't there.

1293
01:03:50,827 --> 01:03:51,911
They tell you
to watch out for it,

1294
01:03:51,994 --> 01:03:53,287
to not get carried away,

1295
01:03:53,371 --> 01:03:55,790
to remember Occam's razor.

1296
01:03:55,873 --> 01:03:58,918
The simplest explanation
is usually the correct one.

1297
01:04:01,629 --> 01:04:04,549
But sometimes,
it's actually the strangest.

1298
01:04:06,008 --> 01:04:07,885
We had brough in
these big halogen lights

1299
01:04:07,969 --> 01:04:09,387
to Sykes' house
because the place

1300
01:04:09,470 --> 01:04:11,055
was so dark at night.

1301
01:04:11,138 --> 01:04:13,975
But as soon as we turned it on,
it blew a fuse.

1302
01:04:14,058 --> 01:04:16,561
So, one of the deputies is
trying to reset the breaker

1303
01:04:16,644 --> 01:04:20,064
and realized the subpanel
in the closet wasn't working.

1304
01:04:20,147 --> 01:04:21,566
As he's messing with it,

1305
01:04:21,649 --> 01:04:23,943
the whole thing
just comes out of the wall.

1306
01:04:24,026 --> 01:04:26,904
Like everything in that house,
it was a fake .

1307
01:04:26,988 --> 01:04:29,740
Behind it, there was a space
with a lockbox.

1308
01:04:29,824 --> 01:04:31,117
Of course, we cleared the house

1309
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:32,201
and called the bomb squad,

1310
01:04:32,285 --> 01:04:33,536
just in case.

1311
01:04:33,619 --> 01:04:34,579
They used
one of those little robots

1312
01:04:34,662 --> 01:04:35,580
and everything.

1313
01:04:35,663 --> 01:04:37,123
No bomb.

1314
01:04:37,206 --> 01:04:39,584
But that didn't seem
like his style, anyway.

1315
01:04:39,667 --> 01:04:41,043
The box was just a cheapo,

1316
01:04:41,127 --> 01:04:43,754
we just pried it open
with a crowbar.

1317
01:04:43,838 --> 01:04:46,549
And inside, just two things.

1318
01:04:46,632 --> 01:04:48,134
Leslie Sykes' passport,

1319
01:04:48,217 --> 01:04:50,094
expired from 2003,

1320
01:04:51,345 --> 01:04:53,890
and a key
with an attached keychain.

1321
01:04:59,437 --> 01:05:00,771
We drove over there
straight away

1322
01:05:00,855 --> 01:05:03,024
and went inside the unit.

1323
01:05:03,107 --> 01:05:04,650
In retrospect,
it was pretty stupid of us.

1324
01:05:04,734 --> 01:05:06,235
I mean, the thing
could've been booby-trapped,

1325
01:05:06,319 --> 01:05:08,362
or he could've been waiting
in there for us.

1326
01:05:08,446 --> 01:05:10,197
Who knows.

1327
01:05:10,281 --> 01:05:11,908
But it felt like we'd run
out of time.

1328
01:05:12,867 --> 01:05:14,368
We just got lucky.

1329
01:05:14,452 --> 01:05:16,704
Everywhere my light goes,
you can go, okay?

1330
01:05:16,787 --> 01:05:21,375
Jackpot, winning-lotto-ticket,
royal-flush lucky.

1331
01:05:35,431 --> 01:05:37,475
Here's why we never
get fingerprints.

1332
01:05:37,558 --> 01:05:40,770
Guy wears
a full-on hazmat suit.

1333
01:05:40,853 --> 01:05:45,107
This is the mold, we believe,
for the mask he's been seen in.

1334
01:05:46,484 --> 01:05:48,194
Yeah, this guy
is big into space.

1335
01:05:48,277 --> 01:05:49,570
Over here.

1336
01:05:49,654 --> 01:05:50,821
Real big.

1337
01:05:54,909 --> 01:05:56,410
Oh, you gotta check this out.

1338
01:05:56,494 --> 01:06:01,624
This is...
early-childhood reading for...

1339
01:06:01,707 --> 01:06:04,418
"Celestial Witchcraft
of Early England."

1340
01:06:07,672 --> 01:06:09,090
This right here

1341
01:06:09,173 --> 01:06:11,634
we think is Dennis Zao's
tongue, alright?

1342
01:06:11,717 --> 01:06:13,552
Unless he's cut out
other tongues.

1343
01:06:15,054 --> 01:06:19,016
This here's Victoria Macenroe,
we think it is because it's...

1344
01:06:19,100 --> 01:06:20,851
We watched her hair
get cut off.

1345
01:06:20,935 --> 01:06:23,020
And that is Saroj Mallick.

1346
01:06:26,148 --> 01:06:27,525
He's been here recently.

1347
01:06:27,608 --> 01:06:28,818
Yeah.

1348
01:06:30,319 --> 01:06:32,655
Over here is what we think

1349
01:06:32,738 --> 01:06:33,990
is Sheridans' blood.

1350
01:06:37,243 --> 01:06:38,244
What's this shit up here?

1351
01:06:39,745 --> 01:06:42,289
"Hail Azragor."

1352
01:06:44,792 --> 01:06:47,545
And then this weird...

1353
01:06:47,628 --> 01:06:48,671
altar.

1354
01:06:50,089 --> 01:06:52,091
Is this Azragor?

1355
01:06:54,343 --> 01:06:56,012
Azragor? No.

1356
01:06:56,095 --> 01:06:58,597
How about Kaliban?

1357
01:06:58,681 --> 01:07:00,891
Like in Shakespeare?

1358
01:07:00,975 --> 01:07:03,102
The Thorn of Time
sounds familiar.

1359
01:07:03,185 --> 01:07:05,354
I've heard that.
Where have I heard that?

1360
01:07:05,438 --> 01:07:07,231
This is pre-cuneiform

1361
01:07:07,314 --> 01:07:10,651
so it's all very cryptic,
but here.

1362
01:07:17,116 --> 01:07:21,454
"The temple of the outer gate

1363
01:07:21,537 --> 01:07:25,207
beyond the thorn of time."

1364
01:07:26,417 --> 01:07:27,460
I've heard before.

1365
01:07:27,543 --> 01:07:29,670
That means...

1366
01:07:29,754 --> 01:07:31,130
Kronung.

1367
01:07:31,213 --> 01:07:32,506
Crowning...

1368
01:07:33,924 --> 01:07:35,051
Coronation.

1369
01:07:37,762 --> 01:07:39,722
Whereas before
we had little to no evidence

1370
01:07:39,805 --> 01:07:43,142
to go on,
we now had way too much.

1371
01:07:43,225 --> 01:07:45,019
Sykes had collected
tons of information

1372
01:07:45,102 --> 01:07:46,479
on each of his victims,
had them all

1373
01:07:46,562 --> 01:07:47,938
in a filing cabinet.

1374
01:07:48,022 --> 01:07:49,565
Criminal history,
medical records,

1375
01:07:49,648 --> 01:07:51,484
information the public
does not have access to,

1376
01:07:51,567 --> 01:07:52,943
so he must've been paying
off cops

1377
01:07:53,027 --> 01:07:54,904
or private investigators.

1378
01:07:54,987 --> 01:07:57,364
And every murder had been
meticulously documented.

1379
01:07:57,448 --> 01:07:59,033
There were photos, drawings,

1380
01:07:59,116 --> 01:08:00,910
hundreds of hand-written pages

1381
01:08:00,993 --> 01:08:03,412
by Sykes with his ramblings.

1382
01:08:03,496 --> 01:08:06,332
A pure window
into a man's madness.

1383
01:08:06,415 --> 01:08:07,833
We were pulling all-nighters

1384
01:08:07,917 --> 01:08:09,752
in that horrible space.

1385
01:08:09,835 --> 01:08:11,545
Even after
the bodies were removed,

1386
01:08:11,629 --> 01:08:13,506
the smell never went away.

1387
01:08:13,589 --> 01:08:14,673
We were going crazy.

1388
01:08:16,050 --> 01:08:17,760
On May 8th,
the manager of the place

1389
01:08:17,843 --> 01:08:19,178
comes looking for us.

1390
01:08:19,261 --> 01:08:21,847
Someone sent mail
to the office for us.

1391
01:08:21,931 --> 01:08:23,265
It was another letter.

1392
01:08:26,310 --> 01:08:27,937
The great lord

1393
01:08:28,020 --> 01:08:30,147
of the threshold
has arrived at the gate .

1394
01:08:30,231 --> 01:08:32,358
The great rectification,

1395
01:08:32,441 --> 01:08:34,944
the final extirpation.

1396
01:08:35,027 --> 01:08:36,612
The dawn of Kaliban.

1397
01:08:37,863 --> 01:08:38,989
One left for me,

1398
01:08:39,073 --> 01:08:41,367
then he's set free.

1399
01:08:57,341 --> 01:08:59,635
Around midnight on May 12th,

1400
01:08:59,718 --> 01:09:01,095
Sykes breaks into the home

1401
01:09:01,178 --> 01:09:03,055
of Glenn
and Stephanie Courtland

1402
01:09:03,139 --> 01:09:04,640
via a garage window

1403
01:09:04,723 --> 01:09:06,559
and abducts
their three-month-old baby,

1404
01:09:06,642 --> 01:09:07,768
Sawyer.

1405
01:09:45,139 --> 01:09:46,515
He could've killed that child

1406
01:09:46,599 --> 01:09:48,017
in his crib
right then and there,

1407
01:09:48,100 --> 01:09:49,393
but he was waiting.

1408
01:09:49,476 --> 01:09:50,644
I mean, he was deliberately

1409
01:09:50,728 --> 01:09:52,188
waiting for something.

1410
01:09:53,480 --> 01:09:54,440
But what?

1411
01:09:54,523 --> 01:09:56,108
But we had no idea where Sykes

1412
01:09:56,192 --> 01:09:57,651
was going
or what his plan was,

1413
01:09:57,735 --> 01:09:59,195
but it didn't seem
like a coincidence

1414
01:09:59,278 --> 01:10:01,363
that the triangle in the sky

1415
01:10:01,447 --> 01:10:04,200
was supposed to appear
that morning.

1416
01:10:04,283 --> 01:10:06,452
That was a Friday, by the way.

1417
01:10:06,535 --> 01:10:07,786
The 13th.

1418
01:10:08,954 --> 01:10:10,206
Coincidence, right?

1419
01:10:12,708 --> 01:10:15,169
I am just getting to work,
it's around 3:00 a.m.,

1420
01:10:16,253 --> 01:10:17,838
and... Let's see.

1421
01:10:17,922 --> 01:10:19,924
Okay, right here.

1422
01:10:20,007 --> 01:10:21,842
Right here, not 20 feet
from where I found

1423
01:10:21,926 --> 01:10:23,802
that woman's body,

1424
01:10:23,886 --> 01:10:26,263
I see this red SUV parked.

1425
01:10:26,347 --> 01:10:27,806
The vehicle is empty.

1426
01:10:27,890 --> 01:10:29,475
I just got a weird vibe.

1427
01:10:29,558 --> 01:10:31,018
So, I called it in.

1428
01:10:31,101 --> 01:10:33,229
I immediately got a reply

1429
01:10:33,312 --> 01:10:35,147
that the automobile
has been stolen,

1430
01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:39,026
and that the driver
is armed and dangerous.

1431
01:10:39,109 --> 01:10:40,444
Now, I...

1432
01:10:40,527 --> 01:10:42,738
I watched the news closely

1433
01:10:42,821 --> 01:10:44,365
and I was like,
"Is this Mr. Shiny?"

1434
01:10:44,448 --> 01:10:47,117
They found Sykes' SUV

1435
01:10:47,201 --> 01:10:48,702
right in the spot
of the very first murder

1436
01:10:48,786 --> 01:10:50,496
in '93.

1437
01:10:50,579 --> 01:10:52,790
He ran out of gas right there,

1438
01:10:52,873 --> 01:10:54,375
of all places.

1439
01:10:54,458 --> 01:10:55,417
What are the odds?

1440
01:10:57,503 --> 01:10:59,797
This three-planet alignment

1441
01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:03,759
was going to be visible
between 6:00 and 6:30 a.m.

1442
01:11:03,842 --> 01:11:05,511
I mean, that gave us
just a matter of hours

1443
01:11:05,594 --> 01:11:07,680
to find Sykes and baby Sawyer.

1444
01:11:07,763 --> 01:11:10,891
But one way or another,
this thing was going to end.

1445
01:11:20,651 --> 01:11:22,569
But , that...

1446
01:11:22,653 --> 01:11:25,155
That's a pretty
believable thing

1447
01:11:25,239 --> 01:11:26,949
that he died. I don't know.

1448
01:11:27,032 --> 01:11:28,284
- I...
- I don't know.

1449
01:11:28,367 --> 01:11:29,535
I believe that's the case.

1450
01:11:29,618 --> 01:11:30,828
Do you want
a marshmallow?

1451
01:11:30,911 --> 01:11:32,121
- Ready.
- Yeah.

1452
01:11:32,204 --> 01:11:33,122
Made the s'mores.

1453
01:11:33,205 --> 01:11:34,873
Oh!

1454
01:11:34,957 --> 01:11:36,250
I said I was going to do it.

1455
01:11:36,333 --> 01:11:37,960
Mm.

1456
01:11:38,043 --> 01:11:39,378
This is disgusting,
I'm so sorry.

1457
01:11:41,005 --> 01:11:42,756
We all went to UC Riverside
together,

1458
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,551
but I was moving out of state
for my Master's degree,

1459
01:11:45,634 --> 01:11:48,345
so it was sort of a last hurrah

1460
01:11:48,429 --> 01:11:49,930
with the girls.

1461
01:11:50,014 --> 01:11:51,807
We didn't even know that thing

1462
01:11:51,890 --> 01:11:54,351
with the planets
was even happening.

1463
01:11:54,435 --> 01:11:56,312
I think we're
just getting old, dude.

1464
01:11:57,646 --> 01:11:59,606
Old asses for life.

1465
01:12:02,109 --> 01:12:03,193
Do you hear that?

1466
01:12:10,534 --> 01:12:12,202
We had units
coming in from Arrowhead,

1467
01:12:12,286 --> 01:12:14,121
Crestline, even Big Bear,

1468
01:12:14,204 --> 01:12:15,748
but they were spread out
all over the place.

1469
01:12:15,831 --> 01:12:17,541
If Sykes was on foot,
he could only get so far,

1470
01:12:17,624 --> 01:12:20,044
but we still needed
a lot of manpower.

1471
01:12:20,127 --> 01:12:21,420
Best we could do
in that first hour

1472
01:12:21,503 --> 01:12:23,088
was two cars.

1473
01:12:23,172 --> 01:12:24,214
Two.

1474
01:12:25,507 --> 01:12:27,343
That park is
almost a million acres.

1475
01:12:30,846 --> 01:12:32,931
When we were
on the way out there,

1476
01:12:33,015 --> 01:12:34,850
you know,
I was actually excited.

1477
01:12:34,933 --> 01:12:36,393
Why?

1478
01:12:36,477 --> 01:12:38,812
'Cause Sykes was
the boogeyman of Berdoo.

1479
01:12:38,896 --> 01:12:41,357
I mean,
even the FBI was after him.

1480
01:12:41,440 --> 01:12:42,775
If we were
the arresting officers...

1481
01:12:44,109 --> 01:12:45,277
That would be huge.

1482
01:12:47,988 --> 01:12:49,365
So fucking stupid.

1483
01:12:51,784 --> 01:12:53,369
They started going
from campsite to campsite

1484
01:12:53,452 --> 01:12:54,370
in a grid.

1485
01:12:54,453 --> 01:12:55,662
Every tent, RV,

1486
01:12:55,746 --> 01:12:57,206
Porta-Potty out there,

1487
01:12:57,289 --> 01:12:58,582
they were shining
a light into it.

1488
01:13:01,001 --> 01:13:02,086
Who's
in there with you?

1489
01:13:02,169 --> 01:13:03,087
It's just my daughter.

1490
01:13:04,755 --> 01:13:06,006
Nobody's
being cooperative

1491
01:13:06,090 --> 01:13:07,591
or wanting to talk to us,

1492
01:13:07,674 --> 01:13:09,051
but, I mean, who would be?

1493
01:13:09,134 --> 01:13:09,885
Anybody else
here with you?

1494
01:13:09,968 --> 01:13:11,178
No.

1495
01:13:11,261 --> 01:13:12,471
Imagine you're asleep
in your tent

1496
01:13:12,554 --> 01:13:14,014
and a cop shines a light
in your face.

1497
01:13:14,098 --> 01:13:16,642
Like, I'd be pissed too.

1498
01:13:16,725 --> 01:13:18,227
You see anything
suspicious tonight?

1499
01:13:18,310 --> 01:13:19,395
You see a man with a baby?

1500
01:13:20,854 --> 01:13:22,106
A baby?

1501
01:13:22,189 --> 01:13:23,857
It was a clusterfuck.

1502
01:13:23,941 --> 01:13:27,236
Heavy brush, too dark,
lots of places to hide.

1503
01:13:27,319 --> 01:13:29,655
Even now, GPS maps
in that kind of area

1504
01:13:29,738 --> 01:13:31,573
just aren't that reliable.

1505
01:13:31,657 --> 01:13:33,200
Neither are cell phones.

1506
01:13:33,283 --> 01:13:36,245
But luckily, some places
still had landlines.

1507
01:13:50,384 --> 01:13:51,885
There's a property out there
where you can rent

1508
01:13:51,969 --> 01:13:54,805
these individual cabins
for the night.

1509
01:13:54,888 --> 01:13:57,474
Sykes forces his way
inside one of these cabins

1510
01:13:57,558 --> 01:13:59,768
where Martin and Silvia Vallejo
are staying.

1511
01:13:59,852 --> 01:14:02,062
It's about 4:00 in the morning
at this point.

1512
01:14:02,146 --> 01:14:04,106
He's able to subdue Martin,

1513
01:14:04,189 --> 01:14:05,566
but Silvia gets away

1514
01:14:05,649 --> 01:14:08,360
and calls 911
at the cabin next door.

1515
01:14:15,659 --> 01:14:16,702
Did you make
the call, ma'am?

1516
01:14:16,785 --> 01:14:17,953
Yes, he's in there

1517
01:14:18,036 --> 01:14:18,954
with my husband!

1518
01:14:19,037 --> 01:14:19,955
Where's the cabin?

1519
01:14:20,038 --> 01:14:20,956
Third cabin on the right!

1520
01:14:21,039 --> 01:14:22,124
Please help him!

1521
01:14:22,207 --> 01:14:22,958
Stay here.

1522
01:14:23,041 --> 01:14:24,126
He has a child!

1523
01:14:24,209 --> 01:14:25,127
There's a baby with him!

1524
01:14:25,210 --> 01:14:26,253
Stay here.

1525
01:14:26,336 --> 01:14:27,754
The two closest units

1526
01:14:27,838 --> 01:14:29,339
arrived at the cabin
around 4:50 a.m.

1527
01:14:29,423 --> 01:14:30,549
Backup was on the way,

1528
01:14:30,632 --> 01:14:31,967
but ended up getting lost

1529
01:14:32,050 --> 01:14:33,677
and wouldn't get there
for over an hour.

1530
01:14:34,845 --> 01:14:36,263
These guys had no idea

1531
01:14:36,346 --> 01:14:38,557
what they might be
walking into.

1532
01:14:53,614 --> 01:14:55,199
Check out
the front door.

1533
01:15:02,706 --> 01:15:03,832
Clear.

1534
01:15:03,916 --> 01:15:04,750
Come on.

1535
01:15:11,465 --> 01:15:12,299
Alright, it's clear.

1536
01:15:12,382 --> 01:15:14,218
Stand by.

1537
01:15:14,301 --> 01:15:16,428
The place was
deserted, alright?

1538
01:15:16,512 --> 01:15:18,138
Extremely bad vibes.

1539
01:15:19,890 --> 01:15:21,183
Are you seeing this?

1540
01:15:23,393 --> 01:15:24,811
I think that's...

1541
01:15:24,895 --> 01:15:26,313
that's when I started
to get scared.

1542
01:15:29,399 --> 01:15:30,526
Then we found Mr. Vallejo.

1543
01:15:32,110 --> 01:15:33,278
Looks like a bedroom.

1544
01:15:36,823 --> 01:15:37,783
We got a suspect.

1545
01:15:37,866 --> 01:15:39,117
We got a suspect!

1546
01:15:39,201 --> 01:15:40,744
Let me see your hands!

1547
01:15:40,827 --> 01:15:42,079
Hands! Hands!

1548
01:15:44,122 --> 01:15:45,249
Give it up.

1549
01:15:45,332 --> 01:15:46,083
It looks like he's duct-taped.

1550
01:15:46,166 --> 01:15:47,292
His hands.

1551
01:15:48,585 --> 01:15:49,878
What the fuck?

1552
01:15:52,089 --> 01:15:53,549
- I got him. I got him.
- Get the mask.

1553
01:15:54,550 --> 01:15:55,759
Oh my God.

1554
01:15:55,842 --> 01:15:56,760
Get medical out here!

1555
01:15:59,096 --> 01:16:01,557
Sykes essentially
lobotomizes the man...

1556
01:16:03,016 --> 01:16:04,560
leaves the body
to be found like that.

1557
01:16:10,148 --> 01:16:11,441
It was just bad,
bro, I...

1558
01:16:13,777 --> 01:16:15,696
I don't know what else to say.

1559
01:16:15,779 --> 01:16:17,739
An empty glass is found
on the kitchen counter

1560
01:16:17,823 --> 01:16:19,658
with remnants of milk
from the fridge,

1561
01:16:19,741 --> 01:16:22,869
and Sawyer's dirty diapers'
thrown in the garbage.

1562
01:16:22,953 --> 01:16:24,830
Even then, he was still
taking care of the baby.

1563
01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:30,294
After this pit stop,
he leaves into the woods.

1564
01:16:35,674 --> 01:16:37,426
Closer ETA
on RO unit, over.

1565
01:16:38,927 --> 01:16:39,845
What the hell was that?

1566
01:16:44,558 --> 01:16:45,851
We should go
check it out.

1567
01:16:45,934 --> 01:16:47,269
Shouldn't we wait
for backup?

1568
01:16:47,352 --> 01:16:48,562
But, dude, he's got a baby.

1569
01:16:48,645 --> 01:16:49,271
I didn't even want to go,

1570
01:16:49,354 --> 01:16:50,397
you know?

1571
01:16:50,480 --> 01:16:51,273
But it was a baby, right?

1572
01:16:51,356 --> 01:16:53,400
Like, what would you do?

1573
01:16:53,483 --> 01:16:54,860
Imagine that's your kid.

1574
01:16:57,821 --> 01:16:59,489
But I should've said no.

1575
01:16:59,573 --> 01:17:01,199
I should've waited at the car.

1576
01:17:04,119 --> 01:17:05,746
If that makes me a coward,

1577
01:17:05,829 --> 01:17:07,331
I don't give a shit.

1578
01:17:34,024 --> 01:17:34,900
Oh, shit.

1579
01:17:36,735 --> 01:17:38,153
You heard that?

1580
01:17:42,658 --> 01:17:44,493
He was doing witchcraft
out there, man.

1581
01:17:46,495 --> 01:17:48,497
You saw the video.

1582
01:17:48,580 --> 01:17:49,831
What else would you call it?

1583
01:17:53,460 --> 01:17:54,795
Yo, what the fuck is this, man?

1584
01:18:22,072 --> 01:18:23,949
Fuck!

1585
01:18:29,621 --> 01:18:30,747
Fuck!

1586
01:18:34,751 --> 01:18:35,711
Fuck!

1587
01:19:07,451 --> 01:19:09,286
I didn't understand
at the time

1588
01:19:09,369 --> 01:19:12,456
what exactly that wood thing
was, but...

1589
01:19:12,539 --> 01:19:15,375
You know, I found out
they have a name for it.

1590
01:19:15,459 --> 01:19:16,626
A pyre.

1591
01:19:18,587 --> 01:19:20,172
That's where the...
the crying was coming from.

1592
01:19:24,634 --> 01:19:25,677
Sykes...

1593
01:19:30,432 --> 01:19:31,391
Oh, shit.

1594
01:19:35,854 --> 01:19:37,731
What the fuck?

1595
01:19:43,737 --> 01:19:47,449
I don't know what we saw
or didn't see.

1596
01:19:48,742 --> 01:19:50,368
It was strange.

1597
01:19:50,452 --> 01:19:52,412
If you looked at it
from one angle,

1598
01:19:52,496 --> 01:19:53,872
you could see it.

1599
01:19:53,955 --> 01:19:56,041
From another,
it wasn't as clear.

1600
01:19:56,124 --> 01:19:58,084
The videos don't do it
justice at all.

1601
01:19:58,168 --> 01:20:00,420
I'm just still
not convinced any of that...

1602
01:20:00,504 --> 01:20:01,421
what do you call it?

1603
01:20:01,505 --> 01:20:02,464
Karmic phenomena?

1604
01:20:03,757 --> 01:20:05,342
Cosmic phenomena.

1605
01:20:05,425 --> 01:20:06,843
I mean, sky looked weird
that morning,

1606
01:20:06,927 --> 01:20:08,178
no doubt about that,

1607
01:20:08,261 --> 01:20:09,346
but there's plenty
of weird stuff

1608
01:20:09,429 --> 01:20:11,223
that happens in the sky.

1609
01:20:11,306 --> 01:20:13,934
Aurora borealis?

1610
01:20:16,645 --> 01:20:18,188
Okay, but you can't tell me

1611
01:20:18,271 --> 01:20:21,024
that's not some weird looking
space stuff too, right?

1612
01:20:21,107 --> 01:20:23,318
I don't remember much.

1613
01:20:23,401 --> 01:20:24,611
It gets hazy.

1614
01:20:24,694 --> 01:20:26,238
So, that...
that thing in the sky?

1615
01:20:28,406 --> 01:20:29,825
It looked like red eyes.

1616
01:20:31,368 --> 01:20:33,203
Jeez, dude.

1617
01:20:33,286 --> 01:20:34,913
Holy shit.

1618
01:20:34,996 --> 01:20:36,832
What the fuck?

1619
01:20:41,002 --> 01:20:42,921
What the fuck is that?

1620
01:20:43,004 --> 01:20:44,256
I don't know, dude.

1621
01:20:46,091 --> 01:20:48,176
Lizzie?

1622
01:20:48,260 --> 01:20:49,177
Lizzie?

1623
01:20:50,929 --> 01:20:51,847
Lizzie!

1624
01:20:53,765 --> 01:20:55,225
Liz!

1625
01:20:55,308 --> 01:20:56,434
Dude, Lizzie!

1626
01:20:56,518 --> 01:20:58,478
Lizzie! Lizzie! Lizzie!

1627
01:20:59,771 --> 01:21:01,982
Lizzie! Kate! Kate, wake up!

1628
01:21:02,065 --> 01:21:04,401
I need you to call 911!
Kate, please!

1629
01:21:30,844 --> 01:21:33,179
And just like that,
it was over.

1630
01:21:37,475 --> 01:21:38,560
We got him.

1631
01:21:41,980 --> 01:21:44,107
Don't turn away, just...

1632
01:21:44,190 --> 01:21:45,775
I'll be right...
How's the baby?

1633
01:21:45,859 --> 01:21:47,569
He's okay.

1634
01:21:47,652 --> 01:21:49,070
That was
too goddamn close.

1635
01:21:50,697 --> 01:21:52,616
- He's gone!
- What?

1636
01:21:52,699 --> 01:21:54,159
We need
some help over here!

1637
01:21:54,242 --> 01:21:55,744
You've got to be
fucking kidding me!

1638
01:22:00,373 --> 01:22:02,167
Leslie Sykes' body was found

1639
01:22:02,250 --> 01:22:04,252
about 100 yards
from the cabin, in a creek...

1640
01:22:07,130 --> 01:22:08,882
covered in leeches.

1641
01:22:08,965 --> 01:22:11,676
He'd only been in the water
for a matter of minutes.

1642
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:13,762
It's like they were
drawn to him.

1643
01:22:13,845 --> 01:22:16,556
They made any kind of visual
identification impossible,

1644
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,392
but we still confirmed it
with fingerprint and DNA.

1645
01:22:22,062 --> 01:22:23,855
It looks like Sykes
had been living out there

1646
01:22:23,939 --> 01:22:25,815
for at least a couple weeks.

1647
01:22:25,899 --> 01:22:27,651
Sleeping
in a makeshift shelter,

1648
01:22:27,734 --> 01:22:29,945
stealing food
from other people's campsites.

1649
01:22:31,321 --> 01:22:34,616
His final time on this earth
was spent hungry,

1650
01:22:34,699 --> 01:22:37,535
cold, and alone.

1651
01:22:37,619 --> 01:22:40,789
No phantoms,
no ghosts.

1652
01:22:40,872 --> 01:22:42,082
A flesh-and-blood human.

1653
01:22:43,416 --> 01:22:45,460
Piece of shit human,

1654
01:22:45,543 --> 01:22:46,711
but human nonetheless.

1655
01:23:05,438 --> 01:23:06,898
So, I was...

1656
01:23:06,982 --> 01:23:08,608
I was getting up
for work that morning

1657
01:23:08,692 --> 01:23:10,443
and I was checking my Facebook,

1658
01:23:10,527 --> 01:23:12,320
and I had, like,

1659
01:23:12,404 --> 01:23:14,406
all of these messages,
and I was like, what?

1660
01:23:14,489 --> 01:23:16,324
You know, what's going on here?

1661
01:23:16,408 --> 01:23:17,993
And then I realized
they got him.

1662
01:23:21,496 --> 01:23:23,707
Like, they really
fucking got him.

1663
01:23:27,419 --> 01:23:29,838
The Inland Empire
can breathe a sigh of relief

1664
01:23:29,921 --> 01:23:31,464
with the news just coming in

1665
01:23:31,548 --> 01:23:33,258
that the hunt
for serial killer

1666
01:23:33,341 --> 01:23:36,428
Leslie Sykes,
a.k.a. Mr. Shiny,

1667
01:23:36,511 --> 01:23:38,972
has finally come to an end.

1668
01:23:39,055 --> 01:23:40,473
Police shot and killed Sykes

1669
01:23:40,557 --> 01:23:41,891
this morning in a standoff

1670
01:23:41,975 --> 01:23:43,518
in the San Bernardino
mountains,

1671
01:23:43,601 --> 01:23:45,103
but not before ending the life

1672
01:23:45,186 --> 01:23:47,397
of one Riverside Police
Department deputy.

1673
01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:51,401
Richie...

1674
01:23:54,821 --> 01:23:56,031
I don't want to talk about it.

1675
01:23:59,868 --> 01:24:01,036
Should've been me.

1676
01:24:03,038 --> 01:24:05,457
I'm here to formally
announce that Leslie Sykes,

1677
01:24:06,708 --> 01:24:09,377
otherwise known as Mr. Shiny,

1678
01:24:09,461 --> 01:24:11,463
died this morning
at approximately 6:00 a.m.

1679
01:24:11,546 --> 01:24:13,256
Pacific standard time

1680
01:24:13,339 --> 01:24:14,883
as a result of an extended
gun battle

1681
01:24:14,966 --> 01:24:16,509
with local authorities.

1682
01:24:18,219 --> 01:24:19,345
I couldn't believe it.

1683
01:24:20,805 --> 01:24:22,474
Like, all of this...

1684
01:24:22,557 --> 01:24:24,684
This, like, weight was

1685
01:24:24,768 --> 01:24:27,145
just lifted from my chest,
you know?

1686
01:24:30,398 --> 01:24:32,901
Like Shifra could finally
rest in peace, you know,

1687
01:24:32,984 --> 01:24:35,695
'cause that fucking asshole
was dead.

1688
01:24:35,779 --> 01:24:37,989
I mean, nothing's ever going
to bring my girl back, but...

1689
01:24:39,783 --> 01:24:42,035
at least we can all,
like, start to heal now.

1690
01:24:43,953 --> 01:24:45,872
I feel no joy
in Leslie Sykes' death.

1691
01:24:45,955 --> 01:24:47,457
I really don't.

1692
01:24:47,540 --> 01:24:49,709
I did in the beginning but,
as time has gone on...

1693
01:24:52,003 --> 01:24:53,922
I wish I could've
interviewed him.

1694
01:24:54,005 --> 01:24:56,716
I wish we could've gotten
more information.

1695
01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:59,302
In the timespan that Sykes
was actively killing,

1696
01:24:59,385 --> 01:25:01,846
that we know about, there were
over 100 unsolved homicides

1697
01:25:01,930 --> 01:25:03,264
in the two counties.

1698
01:25:03,348 --> 01:25:04,808
Could some of these be Sykes?

1699
01:25:04,891 --> 01:25:06,392
We'll never know.

1700
01:25:06,476 --> 01:25:08,228
Is it possible
Sykes had an accomplice,

1701
01:25:08,311 --> 01:25:10,814
someone that helped him,
funded him?

1702
01:25:10,897 --> 01:25:12,107
We'll never know.

1703
01:25:14,317 --> 01:25:17,278
He got off too easy,
if you ask me.

1704
01:25:17,362 --> 01:25:18,905
Should've drawn and quartered
that motherfucker.

1705
01:25:20,698 --> 01:25:22,367
Sorry, is...
Was that too much or...?

1706
01:25:22,450 --> 01:25:24,285
No,
that's actually perfect.

1707
01:25:27,956 --> 01:25:29,332
Happy I could set
the record straight.

1708
01:25:33,837 --> 01:25:36,131
When we first found out
that they killed him...

1709
01:25:38,091 --> 01:25:40,426
I guess it was bittersweet.

1710
01:25:44,889 --> 01:25:47,725
I was just glad
he couldn't hurt anybody else.

1711
01:25:47,809 --> 01:25:49,769
We tried to keep
Victoria's memory alive,

1712
01:25:49,853 --> 01:25:52,147
but it gets harder
as time goes on.

1713
01:25:54,816 --> 01:25:56,151
Friends lose interest.

1714
01:25:59,279 --> 01:26:01,239
I think about that saying a lot

1715
01:26:01,322 --> 01:26:03,158
that goes

1716
01:26:03,241 --> 01:26:06,286
"you really die the last time
someone says your name."

1717
01:26:06,369 --> 01:26:07,537
Honey,
you already said this.

1718
01:26:07,620 --> 01:26:09,205
I know.

1719
01:26:09,289 --> 01:26:11,541
It's just so true.

1720
01:26:11,624 --> 01:26:14,460
Ted Bundy. Gacy.

1721
01:26:14,544 --> 01:26:16,171
These guys will live forever.

1722
01:26:17,380 --> 01:26:20,175
And now so will Mr. Shiny.

1723
01:26:21,593 --> 01:26:23,344
Eight victims
were honored today

1724
01:26:23,428 --> 01:26:26,639
at a memorial held
at Pioneer Memorial Cemetery,

1725
01:26:26,723 --> 01:26:28,516
including those
from the original crimes

1726
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:30,435
in 1995.

1727
01:26:30,518 --> 01:26:32,437
Almost 1,000 people
joined the service

1728
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:33,897
to pay their respects
to those lives

1729
01:26:33,980 --> 01:26:35,690
taken too soon

1730
01:26:35,773 --> 01:26:37,859
by serial killer Leslie Sykes.

1731
01:26:39,110 --> 01:26:41,112
Lizzie! Lizzie!

1732
01:26:41,196 --> 01:26:43,531
Kate! Kate, wake up!
I need you to call 911!

1733
01:26:45,909 --> 01:26:47,911
Yep.

1734
01:26:47,994 --> 01:26:50,371
Great place to have
your first one, right?

1735
01:26:52,874 --> 01:26:55,668
Started for the first time
that night.

1736
01:26:55,752 --> 01:26:58,922
And I wasn't the only one
who had bad luck, either.

1737
01:26:59,005 --> 01:27:02,717
Gail randomly started
having vertigo

1738
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:04,177
after that trip.

1739
01:27:09,557 --> 01:27:12,352
So, you know,
you asked me if I believe

1740
01:27:12,435 --> 01:27:15,897
in ghosts
and this paranormal stuff,

1741
01:27:15,980 --> 01:27:16,940
and I don't. But...

1742
01:27:19,776 --> 01:27:22,070
No, I don't believe
in that stuff,

1743
01:27:22,153 --> 01:27:24,405
but I still wish we never
went camping that weekend.

1744
01:27:25,990 --> 01:27:27,116
We moved to Portland.

1745
01:27:28,159 --> 01:27:29,786
I know it sounds superstitious,

1746
01:27:29,869 --> 01:27:32,497
but it just seemed like
that whole county was cursed.

1747
01:27:41,339 --> 01:27:43,049
I have no idea.

1748
01:27:46,636 --> 01:27:48,304
What do you want me to say?

1749
01:27:48,388 --> 01:27:50,682
He was part
of some apocalypse cult

1750
01:27:50,765 --> 01:27:54,310
trying to summon a
six-million-year-old leech god?

1751
01:27:54,394 --> 01:27:56,396
Thorn of Time, Kaliban?

1752
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:01,192
That's not something you put
in a police report, pal.

1753
01:28:01,276 --> 01:28:02,735
That's not going to help
the families

1754
01:28:02,819 --> 01:28:05,321
try and bring closure
and heal from this mess.

1755
01:28:07,991 --> 01:28:10,451
What I can say
for sure is this.

1756
01:28:10,535 --> 01:28:12,287
Leslie Sykes was a monster.

1757
01:28:13,538 --> 01:28:15,540
We caught him
and we killed him.

1758
01:28:21,045 --> 01:28:23,089
As Lexi likes to say,

1759
01:28:23,172 --> 01:28:25,300
same shit, different day.

1760
01:28:27,135 --> 01:28:28,344
Same shit, different day.

1761
01:28:32,348 --> 01:28:35,560
It's postdated
two days before he died.

1762
01:28:35,643 --> 01:28:37,770
If he sent it, he must've had
an inkling things

1763
01:28:37,854 --> 01:28:39,230
might not go to plan.

1764
01:28:44,610 --> 01:28:46,863
Well, if it's true,

1765
01:28:46,946 --> 01:28:49,157
I guess we'll find out
in another 800 years.

1766
01:28:53,953 --> 01:28:56,164
Rejoice for I can now learn

1767
01:28:56,247 --> 01:28:57,874
the mysteries of the world.

1768
01:28:59,250 --> 01:29:01,210
The harvest season
will return.

1769
01:29:01,294 --> 01:29:03,338
The reaping will continue.

1770
01:29:04,714 --> 01:29:05,757
I'll be back.

1771
01:29:14,682 --> 01:29:16,100
There's still
so many things

1772
01:29:16,184 --> 01:29:17,643
we don't understand
about this case,

1773
01:29:17,727 --> 01:29:19,354
and probably never will.

1774
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:23,316
We just had bits and pieces

1775
01:29:23,399 --> 01:29:26,527
of some kind
of strange puzzle.

1776
01:29:26,611 --> 01:29:30,156
And even if we could put them
all together,

1777
01:29:30,239 --> 01:29:32,367
I don't know if I want to see
whatever picture they make.

1778
01:29:50,093 --> 01:29:51,469
Yeah?

1779
01:29:51,552 --> 01:29:52,887
Got what you need?

1780
01:29:52,970 --> 01:29:53,805
I think
that's all we need...

1781
01:29:55,973 --> 01:29:58,226
Okay. Awesome.

1782
01:29:58,309 --> 01:29:59,602
Alright. Thanks, guys.

1783
01:33:33,774 --> 01:33:36,861
Okay,
August 23rd, 2023.

1784
01:33:36,944 --> 01:33:39,280
Back at Pinto again.

1785
01:33:39,363 --> 01:33:41,449
I'm a little further south
this time, but...

1786
01:33:42,783 --> 01:33:43,909
Yeah, it's a bust.

1787
01:33:45,578 --> 01:33:47,663
Something about this place
just doesn't...

1788
01:33:47,747 --> 01:33:49,540
doesn't feel right.

1789
01:33:49,624 --> 01:33:51,167
Talked to a guy
at a gas station,

1790
01:33:51,250 --> 01:33:55,046
he told me there's
a series of caves down at a...

1791
01:33:55,129 --> 01:33:56,756
Coxcomb,

1792
01:33:56,839 --> 01:33:58,257
so we're going to try
that next.

1793
01:33:59,425 --> 01:34:00,676
It's worth a shot.