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Welcome to Very Scary People.

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I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

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He was a long
haul truck driver
with a wife and kids

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who spent most of his time
on the road.

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Travelling state to state,
he would hear tales
of other drivers

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literally getting
away with murder.

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But that wasn't him.

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He was a family man.

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So when a young woman went
missing in 1990 on a cold day
in Portland, Oregon,

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no one would suspect
this friendly mild
mannered trucker.

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But there would be
several more bodies to come.

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This is part one
of The Happy Face Killer.

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The Colombia Gorge
is a scenic wonder.

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It draws a lot of tourists
in Oregon and Portland.

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Soaring whitecap mountains,

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huge river,

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second only to
the Mississippi
in terms of size.

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It's a kind
of a unique
geographical formation.

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100 foot high walls of rock.

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It's covering
out this wide valley.

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The carving out
of the Gorge left

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sort of a plateau and

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you have a number
of waterfalls that come
off at the plateau.

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The biggest of which is
Multnomah Falls.

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Columbia River gorge
is a very popular place for

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sight-seeing and hiking.

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It's a really beautiful place.

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Unfortunately, probably
also a good place
to get rid of a body.

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It was just a nude woman with
no clothing there and no,
um, forms of identification.

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They lift her fingerprints
and match them to a set
in the system.

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We were able
to detect her identity
as Julie Winningham.

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When they said
they found my mom,

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I had lost it.

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She was truly a kind hearted
free spirited loving
and caring person.

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She didn't do people wrong.

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I... just couldn't,
I couldn't believe it.

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The killer dumbed this woman's
body off of the highway into
the Columbia River Gorge.

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But this wasn't
the first time.

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I was her big sister.

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My family,

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you know, even though I had
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they were supposed
to babysit us. No.

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It was me and
my sister, Taunja.

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Because they were working
or my mom was working.

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We get out of school,
go home, no one's home.

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We grew up poor,
so it was oatmeal,

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cream of wheat, whatever we
had in the refrigerator,
in the cupboard I made.

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We were just always together.

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Taunja Bennett was
a 23 year old resident
of Portland.

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She lived with her mother, um
she was described as being
mildly mentally disabled.

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She was kind of slow
but she wasn't to me.

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She went all the way
to high school and graduated.

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So, she had
intelligence there.

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And she was known for walking
around with a Walkman,

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being very cheerful, kind of
a neighborhood local.

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Taunja said she had
to go to the dentist.

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I was like, on a Sunday?

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The... the dentist doesn't
open on a Sunday.

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So I said, "Oh, since you are
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could you drop off the movies?

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'Cause it's on the way."

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And she...
"Okay I will, I will."

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Instead, Taunja had
left her house

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to walk over to a local tavern
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And went by herself

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wearing a jacket
carrying her purse,

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carrying her Walkman.

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Back then, you know what
it was, Madonna.

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The tape of Madonna in 1990.

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Whenever she came out,
that was it.

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Her sister described
her as being very trusting
and maybe a little bit slow.

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But this just means that
she was very vulnerable.

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She went in and would
go around hugging people,
very social.

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She went in and was
playing with two men.

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Later the two men
that Taunja was playing
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and Taunja would leave.

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Nobody could say
for certain when she
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That was the last time
that she was seen alive.

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Her mother reported
that Taunja Bennett had
left her house

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to walk over to a local tavern
called the B and I Bar

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and then she did
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I said,
"Oh, my God,
my sister's gone."

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Where could she go?

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Said, "I went to go look
for her and she's gone, mom.

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I don't know where she went."

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I got a call from the
Chief Deputy who makes the
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that we have a body in the
Columbia Gorge,

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it looks like a homicide,
we need you to go out
to the scene.

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The location where
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was on the scenic highway
which parallels Interstate 84

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that runs east and
west out of Portland.

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I found where the police
vehicles where,

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and then, uh,
walked into the forest
I would estimate 25 feet.

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There was, uh, her body.

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She was dumped
in a very steep hillside.

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The hillside was probably
a 45 degree hillside

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of off the... of off
the paved road.

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And it was very rugged
covered with trees
and brush.

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Her body was found
partially unclothed,

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pants have been pulled down,
her top was up.

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One arm was out
of the sleeve of her jacket.

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So we, of course,
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suspected sexual assault.

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The woman had a rope
around her neck.

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And curiously somebody
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like, the button and zipper
area of the jeans, they've
been cut away.

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Because there was no
identification on the body
police had no clue as

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to who this woman was.

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The only clues were that
nearby there was a small
Swiss Army Knife

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and the headphones
to a Sony Walkman.

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She'd been strangled,

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she'd been beaten badly,

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we didn't know for sure
what race she was,

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'cause her face
was so badly beaten.

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It's hard to imagine
that you can

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kill a... a helpless person
and that you can beat
them to the point

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uh, where their face
is essentially unrecognizable.

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I have no words to describe
what kind of a...

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what kind of an
animal does that sort
of thing to another human.

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We were just
needing to gain all the
clues we could

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to help us find out
who was responsible.

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And there was a head hair
that was taken into evidence

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that was found,
I believe on her leg

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or somewhere under
the clothing.

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And the head hair wasn't hers.

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And she didn't have her purse.

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That becomes
significant later.

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This was a news story

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on the fact that a body
was found in the
Columbia River Gorge.

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The victim had been
raped and killed.
That just didn't happen.

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Now, Portland was a much more
innocent place at that time.

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Identifying bodies in
criminal investigations,
police investigations,

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uh, oftentimes clearly one
of the ways you identify

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a body is if someone
can recognize a person's face.

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Police composed
a sketch of the female victim

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and put it out on
the news media.

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The neighbor came down
and she told me
to watch the news.

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Because she's seen
something on the news about
a girl getting killed,

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I was like,

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no.

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But the portrait they have,
didn't even look like her.

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Nothing like my sister,

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but what they had her clothes,
that's what did it.

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Taunja's sister saw the
sketch on the news along with
photographs of the clothing

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and got in touch with police.

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Wanted to
identify her.

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So I had to think
of something to identify her.

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And there... at that time
all I could think of is she
had very flat feet

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and she had a
mole on her hand.

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She confirmed that
it was indeed her sister
Taunja Bennett.

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Once someone who
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then what detectives
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working closely with everybody
that knew that person.

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Whether it be a family member,
whether it be a,
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whether it be a spouse and...

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and you have to start building
the story from the ground up

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trying to determine why this
person was murdered.

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She went to a tavern
in the east Multnomah called
the B and I tavern.

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And, uh, apparently she was
a fairly regular customer
in that...

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in that particular location
because people knew her.

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People from the bar
recalled seeing her playing
pool with two men.

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Police are interested in these
two guys and are trying
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After Taunja
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the police had setup
a tip line and they
had placed,

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it was Crime Stopper, notices
in the newspaper
with her picture

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asking people about any
information about where she
might have been that night

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and who she might
have been with.

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Law Enforcement
started getting calls

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from a woman who wanted
to remain unidentified.

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And she was pointing
the fingers towards
her boyfriend.

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And her boyfriend was somehow
involved in the death
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The body of 23 year old
Taunja Bennett is found
brutally murdered

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in the Columbia River Gorge
outside of Portland, Oregon.

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Investigators are looking for
any clue from the public
as to who could've done this.

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After Taunja
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the police setup a tip line
and they had placed,
was Crime Stopper,

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notices in the newspaper
with her picture
asking people

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for any information about
where she might
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and who she might
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And a woman made a phone call
to the parole officer,
of her live in boyfriend

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a man named John Sosnovske,

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saying that she believed that
he may have been involved
in Taunja Bennett's murder.

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Police learned that
John Sosnovske, who is
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has an older girlfriend named,
Laverne Pavlinac
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And that the two of them
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possibly abusive relationship.

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A relationship that Laverne
says she wants to get out of.

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John Sosnovske works the
local lumberyard but he had
no criminal history

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other than a DUI.

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I think she kind of supported
him, it's her house
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and they had a kind
of a difficult relationship.

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He was by all accounts
a very heavy drinker.

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Police go to interview Laverne

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and she confirms that she is
the person who made that
anonymous call.

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And that she knows
John killed this girl.

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She started telling
a story about John Sosnovske,

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was a regular at J and B Lounge
and Wilsonville, Oregon.

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And that he was talking
about the fact that he had met
Taunja Bennett

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down at the J and B lounge.

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And that he had ultimately
killed her down there.

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She says that on the
night of Taunja's murder

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John came home at about
one o'clock in the morning.

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He came in and took off all
his clothes and jumped into
the shower, something that was

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very unusual for him to do.

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Police gets a warrant and
search Laverne's home,
the she shares with John.

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They find really nothing
except a piece of paper
that has the words,

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"T Bennett,
Good piece" written on it.

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The T Bennett, good piece
seem like a really an
improbable item to find.

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And then based on that,
of course, went out to
interview John Sosnovske.

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Today is Friday.
February 16, 1990.

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Time now is 6:40 p.m.

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They spend quite a bit of time
interviewing him.

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He denied.

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In fact he continued
to deny that he knew
anything about it.

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When he was confronted
with the fact that Laverne was
accusing him of doing this,

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he denied ever
meeting Taunja Bennett.

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He certainly
denied killing her.

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They didn't have
enough to arrest
John Sosnovske.

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So they let him go.

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But not before they took
a hair sample which they
tried to match

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to evidence from
the crime scene.

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Then detectives hear
from Laverne Pavlinac again.

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When he still had
not been arrested

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she continued to press
the issue and said that
she had found

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more evidence
incriminating him.

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Laverne told the
detective she'd found
some things in the trunk.

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She had found a purse
in the trunk and
a piece of fabric

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from the crotch of the jeans.

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She said that she
found a section of denim jeans

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that had been cut away.

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The button and zipper area
of a pair of jeans.

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And of course that caught
Law Enforcement's attention

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because that lined up
to the condition of
Taunja Bennett's

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jeans when her body was found.

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Subsequently that fly
was sent to the
State Police's Crime Lab.

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By then we'd know one other
piece of evidence
had developed,

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which is that his head hair
was consistent with the head
hair found on Taunja Bennett.

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It's not a fingerprint.

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It's not DNA, it doesn't have
that power to discriminate.

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But it was indication to us
to try and to look at
all the evidence,

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and see that's a piece
of evidence that supports
Laverne Pavlinac's description

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in her statement.

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Then police came back
with a decision on
the evidence

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that Laverne said she
found in the trunk of her car.

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A purse like Taunja Bennett's
missing purse,

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and a piece of denim similar
to the denim cut from
Taunja's jeans.

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The interesting this
is, the purse was not a match.

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And the denim was not a match

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to what Taunja Bennett
had on her person.

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Investigators thought what's
going on here?

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When police confront
Laverne about all of these
inconsistent evidence

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she admits that she planted
the purse and planted
the ripped out jeans

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denim fly.

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And then she tells them
a new story.

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And that's when she started
to tell them that,

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she knew that John Sosnovske
had killed Taunja Bennett,

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because she was there.

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Welcome back to
Very Scary People.

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The brutal and senseless
murder of Taunja Bennett

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devastated her family,

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and sent shockwaves
through Portland.

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With few leads, investigators
are focusing on a tip from
a 57 year old woman

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named Laverne Pavlinac
pointed the finger on her
39 year old boyfriend.

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Could this women's tip
being the key to solve this
horrific crime?

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Or was it just
another dead end?

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Laverne gave three
or four different statements.

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There was an evolution,
a progression
to her statements.

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There is no consistent
forensic evidence to prove.

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It's all just Laverne's
testimony against John.

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Now Laverne tells police
a whole new story.

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She says that she got
a call from John in the
middle of the night

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and that he head a request.

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He needed her to come down to
the J and B truck stop

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and bring a shower curtain.

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And when she got
there, there was a body lying
right there on the pavement.

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She had found him
in a dark corner of the
parking lot.

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At his feet was
Taunja Bennett's dead body.

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She says she asked
John looking at the body,

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"Is she okay?"

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And then John replied,
"It's worse than that.
She's dead."

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Laverne says that John
made her wrap that body
into the shower curtain

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and lift it and put it
into the trunk of that car

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and then together they drove
to the Columbia River Gorge

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where they threw the
body over the embankment.

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Detectives asked her,
"Could you show us
where the body was?"

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And she said she could.

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She took them out
to the Columbia River Gorge.

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They were driving on these
winding roads and,

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she told them to stop the car
and pointed and said, "This is
where we left her body."

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She pointed to the exact spot
where Taunja's
body was dumped.

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Well I have to say,
I'm not sure
I could've found it,

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I was there but there's
all these switchbacks and

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I don't know if I could've
correctly identified it.

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And that seemed,
to Law Enforcement at
the time, to really

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suddenly shore
up her credibility.

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Um, and the reliability
of her confession.

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But when that still didn't
get the result she wanted,
she went further.

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At some point she called
detectives and said
it's correction time.

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They went out to speak
with her the next day.

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She proceeded to change
her story again to say,
he called her

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she'd gone to the
J and B truck stop,

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he was there
with Taunja Bennett.

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And he'd said we're
giving her a ride home.

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They get in the car and as
she's driving,

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he directs her out to the
Columbia Gorge and to
the observation point.

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He then gets out of
the car with Taunja Bennett
and they go around the corner.

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He comes back and he's getting
something out of the trunk and
she asks him what he's doing?

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He says come see.

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And so she implicated herself
as an accomplice.

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She probably didn't
realize, she hadn't watched
enoughLaw and Order

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or taken a law school class
in aiding and abetting

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but she put herself
right there helping him

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which makes her just as
guilty as him under the law.

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And the
detectives arrested her.

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That began then the
next phase of the case,

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indicting her and
John Sosnovske.

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As Laverne Pavlinac's
jury trial was commencing,

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a truck stop reported
a disturbing piece
of graffiti.

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Somebody scrolled on the wall,

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January 21st, 1990.
Killed Taunja Bennett
in Portland.

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Two people got the blame
so I can kill again.

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Laverne Pavlinac and John
Sosnovske are charged with

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the murder of 23 year old,
Taunja Bennett.

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But as the trial of Laverne
is about to begin bizarre
messages

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stun the authorities.

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It comes to light that
graffiti was found at a

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rest stop bathroom in Montana,

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and in a remote section
of Oregon at another bathroom

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confessing to the crime
of killing Taunja Bennett.

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The one in
Livingston Montana reads,

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"I killed Taunja Bennett,
January 21st, 1990
in Portland, Oregon.

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I beat her to death,
raped her and loved it.

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Yes, I'm sick, but I enjoy
myself too.

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People took the blame
and I'm free."

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The one from Umatilla,
Oregon, which is just
east of Portland

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on that bathroom it said,
"I killed
Taunja Bennett in Portland.

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Two people got the blame
so I can kill again.

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Cut buttons
of jeans as proof."

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It's unsettling. Why would
somebody do that?

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But, you don't know what
to make of it, right?

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When the detectives
involved in this case

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were made aware
of those writings

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they immediately notified
through the District
Attorney's office

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the court that those
things have been found
because it was significant,

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that someone was writing that
on a wall.

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We did a forensic evaluation.
Didn't find anything that
would help us.

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But Wendell Birkland,
Laverne's attorney,

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moved to introduce it
into evidence.

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Of course the problem was
at that point, it could've
been any friend of Sosnovske's

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or Pavlinac's doing
that to short circuit
their own issues.

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We objected, it's
hearsay. It's the statement of
someone who is not in court,

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not subject to
cross examination,

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and it's been offered to prove
that Laverne Pavlinac didn't
commit the murder.

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A judge decided that it was
inadmissible,
because, uh, it was

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hearsay was being offered
for the truth and there was no
way to know who

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wrote it and there was
no indicia that
it was credible.

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And that made it
inadmissible in court.

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I was trying this case
and I'm going into court
and looking at this

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grandmotherly looking person
that I'm trying for murder.

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She went to trial
claiming that her confessions
had been false,

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that she was just trying to
implicate him saying that
neither of them

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had anything to
do with Taunja Bennett.

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Her defense was that she
had made this up,

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because she was in an
abusive relationship
with John Sosnovske

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and didn't know how else
to get out of it.

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This is a very unusual
circumstance where
someone does

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give a detailed
statement to the police,
then it's recorded

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and then they go into
the court room and say,
well that's all a lie.

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And of course what jurors
would think in that instance,
of course it's a lie

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at this point at time because
you just realized you're going
to go to prison for murder.

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I think the evidence was
so overwhelming of guilt

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that the jury unanimously
found her guilty.

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Of course what convicted
her in the court room
was her own

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recorded statement saying
that she was involved
in Taunja's death.

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Once she was committed
of murder, John Sosnovske
entered a no contest plea

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um, to avoid
the death penalty.

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He certainly denied
killing Taunja Bennett
but with time,

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his confidence in his
recollections started
to waver because

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he became convinced that
it was possible that he
could've met Taunja Bennett

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and even talked to her but
forgotten about it because
he was a heavy drinker.

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He had experienced
blackouts in the course
of his alcoholism

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and when Laverne told him
he had done it,

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he was so,

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I... I think impacted
by his alcohol use
that he wasn't sure.

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No contest doesn't mean
I admit that I'm guilty.

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But it says to the court
I'm choosing not to contest
the charge

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and I... I understand
I'm going to be found guilty.

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Laverne was
sentenced to a life sentence
but with a minimum

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of only 10 years,

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because the judge reasoned
that John Sosnovske had been
the major influence upon her

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contact, and then he
was sentenced, um, also to
a life sentence with

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a mandatory minimum
of at least 25 years.

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It appears that the
case of who killed Taunja
Bennett is solved and closed.

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But then in the spring
of 1994, four years after
Taunja's murder,

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The Oregoniannewspaper
receives a letter that may
change everything.

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Authorities believe
that the mystery of who killed
Portland native

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23 year old Taunja Bennett
had been solved.

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The killers had been convicted
and incarcerated.

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But then in the spring
of 1994, four years after
Taunja's murder,

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The Oregoniannewspaper
receives a letter that may
change everything.

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I remember that day,
dark, haunting but,
not forgettable.

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00:32:58,310 --> 00:33:06,103
I recall we had a news
aid who would bring me a stack
of mail every morning,

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on the top of her pile
of mail was a handwritten
letter six pages long,

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00:33:13,310 --> 00:33:18,137
stapled together, and she
plopped this on my
desk and said,

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"You've got a weird one
here today."

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And I read it,
just a few lines of it

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and realized this is somebody
trying to confess to a murder.

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00:33:33,241 --> 00:33:36,931
I'm reading a letter,
sent to The Oregonian
newspaper in Portland.

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At the top of the letter
is a happy face,

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and it says,
"All five of five.

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I would like to tell my story.
I am a good person at times.

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00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:49,034
I always wanted to be liked.

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00:33:49,068 --> 00:33:51,827
I've have been married
and divorced with children.

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00:33:51,862 --> 00:33:54,655
I didn't really want
to be married
but it happened.

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I have read your paper
and enjoyed it a lot.

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I always have wanted
to be noticed.

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00:34:00,068 --> 00:34:02,896
So I started something
I don't know how to stop."

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00:34:04,620 --> 00:34:07,689
My first thought was,
yeah, it's a hoax.

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00:34:07,724 --> 00:34:09,379
I mean... we get these.

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But I kept reading it.

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"On or around
January 20th 1990,

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I picked up Sonya Bennett
and took her home.

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I raped her and beat her
real bad.

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Her face was all broke up.

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Then I ended her life."

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He calls her Sonya Bennett.

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00:34:30,448 --> 00:34:34,310
But this letter to
The Oregonian
was very detailed

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on how he met Taunja Bennett
that night,

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00:34:37,068 --> 00:34:39,655
how exactly he killed her.

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How he left her body.

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00:34:42,517 --> 00:34:46,724
He gave information
in that letter that only
a killer would know.

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00:34:46,758 --> 00:34:50,344
"I went back home
and dragged her
out to the car.

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I want to know
that it was my crime.

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00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:57,034
So I tied a half inch
soft white rope,

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00:34:57,724 --> 00:34:59,000
cut on one end...

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00:35:01,034 --> 00:35:06,482
The further down into
this letter I went the more

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detail was provided
about crimes, horrific crimes.

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00:35:11,517 --> 00:35:15,620
He talks about how
two people are falsely
imprisoned for this killing.

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00:35:15,655 --> 00:35:17,482
But then comes
the stunning news.

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He confesses to a murder

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in California describing
exactly how he
killed this person,

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where he left the body.

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"One day in
California I picked up
a girl named Claudia.

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I took her. I taped her up.

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00:35:35,172 --> 00:35:37,586
I kept her for
four days alive.

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00:35:37,620 --> 00:35:44,068
Then I killed her and dumped
her body about seven miles
north of Blythe on 95."

447
00:35:44,103 --> 00:35:48,482
He confesses to another
murder in California.

448
00:35:48,517 --> 00:35:52,137
Once again leaves out details
that only a killer would know.

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00:35:52,172 --> 00:35:54,620
Says exactly
where he left the body.

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"This time I just
strangled her right
there without sex.

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00:35:58,620 --> 00:36:01,344
She was in my truck
only five minutes.

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00:36:01,379 --> 00:36:04,344
I dropped her body off behind
the Blueberry Hill cafe

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10 miles south on 99.

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00:36:07,724 --> 00:36:12,103
I placed her body in the dirt
and stepped on her throat
to make sure she was dead."

455
00:36:13,068 --> 00:36:15,931
Confesses to another murder?

456
00:36:15,965 --> 00:36:17,965
"I felt so much power

457
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,482
I then told her she was going
to die and slowly
strangled her.

458
00:36:22,517 --> 00:36:26,034
And dropped her off behind
GI Joe's in Salem.

459
00:36:26,068 --> 00:36:31,137
I put her against the fence
under the blackberry wines and
covered her with leaves."

460
00:36:31,172 --> 00:36:33,620
And then confesses
to a fifth murder.

461
00:36:33,655 --> 00:36:37,310
"I stopped at a rest
area near Williams
and had her.

462
00:36:37,344 --> 00:36:40,827
I put her body on or near
a pile of rocks.

463
00:36:40,862 --> 00:36:45,172
About 50 yards north of
Highway 152 West bound.

464
00:36:45,206 --> 00:36:48,000
About 20 miles from
Santa Nella."

465
00:36:48,034 --> 00:36:52,310
And perhaps the most
chilling this is, he makes
a happy face.

466
00:36:52,344 --> 00:36:55,172
I'd never seen
anything like this before.

467
00:36:55,206 --> 00:36:58,724
I read through the letter
all the way to the end
and found it

468
00:36:58,758 --> 00:37:03,620
nauseating, upsetting
and potentially credible.

469
00:37:08,551 --> 00:37:11,620
The letter to The Oregonian
was basically saying,

470
00:37:11,655 --> 00:37:15,517
"Ha ha ha. You guys are
so dumb you convicted
the wrong people.

471
00:37:15,551 --> 00:37:18,103
I'm the killer."

472
00:37:18,137 --> 00:37:23,172
The letter detailed five
homicides that they claimed
responsibility for,

473
00:37:23,206 --> 00:37:28,310
including Taunja Bennett,
all of women
in various states.

474
00:37:28,344 --> 00:37:32,275
The skeptic in me
wanted to throw it
into the recycle box,

475
00:37:33,068 --> 00:37:35,344
and the editor
part of me said,

476
00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:38,034
better check it out.

477
00:37:38,068 --> 00:37:42,862
So, I called one
of the reporters on our team,

478
00:37:42,896 --> 00:37:45,586
his name was Phil Stanford,

479
00:37:45,620 --> 00:37:49,000
and I gave him the letter
and I asked him
to check it out.

480
00:37:52,172 --> 00:37:58,137
He contacted every police
agency and talked to every
investigator he could

481
00:37:58,172 --> 00:38:02,413
on the murder cases that
could be identified
from the letter

482
00:38:02,448 --> 00:38:06,172
to try to find details that

483
00:38:06,206 --> 00:38:08,965
would corroborate
and authenticate

484
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,655
the confession letter.

485
00:38:10,689 --> 00:38:16,103
He came back to me
and he said, I don't think
it's a hoax. I think they put

486
00:38:16,137 --> 00:38:18,793
the wrong people in prison

487
00:38:18,827 --> 00:38:21,620
for the murder that
he's confessing to in here.

488
00:38:36,758 --> 00:38:38,862
So, in May of 1994,

489
00:38:38,896 --> 00:38:43,103
The Oregoniandecides to
publish the six page
handwritten letter that

490
00:38:43,137 --> 00:38:47,068
they've received
from somebody that they
call "The Happy Face Killer."

491
00:38:47,103 --> 00:38:49,137
From day one, Phil and I

492
00:38:49,172 --> 00:38:53,172
described the letters,
The Happy Face Killer, letter

493
00:38:53,206 --> 00:38:56,482
because of the happy
face at the top of it.

494
00:38:56,517 --> 00:39:00,758
So once the letter
comes out inThe Oregonian
it becomes big news.

495
00:39:02,758 --> 00:39:07,586
All the media is reporting
on the letter sent
to the newspaper

496
00:39:07,620 --> 00:39:10,896
and speculating on is this
real, is this a hoax?

497
00:39:10,931 --> 00:39:15,517
And the focus turns
to Laverne Pavlinac
and John Sosnovske

498
00:39:15,551 --> 00:39:16,724
who are sitting in prison.

499
00:39:18,896 --> 00:39:21,827
I wondered if we might

500
00:39:21,862 --> 00:39:24,068
blow the lid off
this story and get

501
00:39:24,103 --> 00:39:26,931
the investigation reopened.

502
00:39:26,965 --> 00:39:30,517
If this letter is real,
if the killer's claims
are real

503
00:39:30,551 --> 00:39:32,965
then Laverne and
John are innocent.

504
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,517
And there's a serial
killer on the loose.

505
00:39:35,551 --> 00:39:38,482
He was claiming that
he did these murders.

506
00:39:38,517 --> 00:39:40,965
There was still
no hard, hard proof.

507
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,413
They hadn't captured him.

508
00:39:42,448 --> 00:39:45,310
So there was still that doubt
that this could be a hoax.

509
00:39:45,344 --> 00:39:48,827
The Happy Face Killer
story was lurid

510
00:39:48,862 --> 00:39:53,137
and sensational and
all the things
that press critics

511
00:39:53,172 --> 00:39:56,137
like to fault the media
for doing.

512
00:39:56,172 --> 00:39:59,000
But, uh, the end of the day
this was news.

513
00:39:59,034 --> 00:40:01,689
A serial killer at large,

514
00:40:01,724 --> 00:40:06,965
killing women, that's
the newspaper's job to report
it when somebody

515
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,413
tries to confess to it.

516
00:40:20,689 --> 00:40:22,551
He was so proud of his work,

517
00:40:22,586 --> 00:40:27,241
and he really wanted
to be noted
as a serial killer.

518
00:40:27,275 --> 00:40:31,482
He basically, beat, raped
and suffocated my mother

519
00:40:31,517 --> 00:40:35,379
in the cab of his truck and
then tossed her
out of the truck

520
00:40:35,413 --> 00:40:38,103
like a piece of garbage.

521
00:40:38,137 --> 00:40:40,896
It wasn't until we
actually got into the
interview room

522
00:40:40,931 --> 00:40:42,896
that we told him
we're investigating

523
00:40:42,931 --> 00:40:44,931
the death of Julie Winningham.

524
00:40:44,965 --> 00:40:48,655
I've spent a lifetime
looking at these
kind of stories

525
00:40:48,689 --> 00:40:54,482
and I have no explanation for
how a person can be
so demented that

526
00:40:54,517 --> 00:40:56,689
that becomes a way
of life for him.

527
00:40:56,724 --> 00:41:00,034
He targeted sex
workers, prostitutes,

528
00:41:00,068 --> 00:41:03,724
people who sort of are on the
fringe of society
and are already forgotten.

529
00:41:12,655 --> 00:41:18,482
As he's talked about
how he killed these women,
how he cleaned up

530
00:41:18,517 --> 00:41:21,413
after the murders,
he became the monster.

531
00:41:31,517 --> 00:41:34,689
Two people are in
prison for the murder
of Taunja Bennett.

532
00:41:34,724 --> 00:41:36,655
Four more women are dead.

533
00:41:36,689 --> 00:41:40,137
Then an anonymous letter
arrives at The Oregonian
newspaper,

534
00:41:40,172 --> 00:41:44,827
from a man who claims
that he is responsible
for all of the murders.

535
00:41:44,862 --> 00:41:47,379
He signs the letter
with a happy face symbol.

536
00:41:47,413 --> 00:41:50,413
Is it a hoax?
Investigators aren't certain.

537
00:41:50,448 --> 00:41:53,896
If not, can they find him
before he strikes again?

538
00:41:53,931 --> 00:41:57,241
In part two of
The Happy Face Killer.

539
00:41:57,275 --> 00:42:00,448
I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
Thanks for watching.
Good night.