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( female narrator ) on august 17th, 2001,

kurrie nieman and garritt anderson

were married in a small chapel

in las vegas, nevada.

by the authority vested in me by the state of nevada,

i now pronounce you husband and wife.

you may kiss your bride.

it was a simple wedding

because they couldn't afford much more.

they were happy just being together.

both kurrie and garritt had children

from previous marriages.

they had become a large family

which included five children.

kurrie's daughter, 10-month-old, ranei,

was the youngest, but they hoped not the last...

because they loved kids.

( sirens )

but less than three weeks after their wedding,

an ems unit received an emergency call

from garritt anderson.

( male ) "911."

( female narrator ) when the emergency unit arrived at the house,

they found a 10-month-old baby,

unconscious and unable to breathe.

the paramedics came and they took her...

into the ambulance, so, i ran in there.

and her eyes were rolled back and she didn't look like

there was any life to her at all.

she was in there for about 45 minutes,

and i remember an officer telling me,

"okay, she should scream now."

'cause they were going to give her an iv,

and she never screamed.

and i kept asking garritt,

"what happened while i was gone ?"

and he said, he didn't know,

that marcus my son, was in the crib with her.

by the time ranei arrived at the hospital

she was already dead.

at his home, the stepfather,

garritt anderson told detectives,

when x-rays were taken of ranei at the hospital

they revealed that the baby's skull had been fractured.

which could have only been caused

by a severe blow to the head.

they did not believe that ranei's three-year-old brother

could have caused such a severe injury.

so, the detectives decided to see if they could find out

more about what happened to the baby.

10-month-old ranei had already been prepared

for burial and embalmed,

which meant that her blood had been replaced

with a preservative called formalin.

after a body has been injected with embalming fluid,

bruises beneath the skin become more prominent,

especially when looked at under laser light,

which is hundreds of times more intense

than normal light.

so, a laser was used to examine the baby's body

and when it was focused on her feet

it revealed that there were finger bruise marks

around the baby's ankles.

when detectives measured these finger marks

they found that the span of the bruises

could've only been left by an adult hand.

and the only adult in the room that day

was the baby's stepfather.

the next day, garritt anderson

was brought into the salt lake city's sheriff's department

for questioning.

but this time detective jim vaughn

was armed with the laser evidence.

what happened with you and the baby ?

what was it that was going on that led to that ?

no, no, no, wait, don't give me that swear shit.

did you hear what i said ?

garritt, listen to me, buddy,

there is no doubt you did it !

not one doubt in 10 billion.

we know you did it !

the science is there.

it's like mathematics, pal.

two and two equal four.

and we got you.

we got you.

everybody knows and the scientists know

and the doctors know, and it's not hard to prove !

you're done for.

what i want to know is what happened ?

talk to me.

about half an hour into the interview he gave it up.

he said he wanted a cigarette and he wanted his mother there

and if those two needs were met

that he would be willing to tell us more.

eventually, he talked and described how

he was watching the five children,

he was upset.

little ranei was crying, she was crying continuously,

her cries were very bothersome to him.

and at one point, he grabbed her and shook her

and screamed in her face as loud as he could to "shut up".

he said after shaking her,

she was unusually quiet.

and then the baby came back and was screaming even more

and when he could take no more,

he said he grabbed her by the legs,

and threw her over his shoulder.

after throwing her over his shoulder,

she landed on something and he heard a "thud".

he says he didn't look to see

what the "thud" was, he didn't care what it was,

but when he did turn around and look at her,

he said that she was "fighting",

but what he was describing was a seizure.

the child was going into a seizure.

and then he said he tried to give her a bottle

and then left her.

on september 6th, 2002,

garritt anderson plead guilty to child abuse/homicide

and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

but little ranei nieman,

her life cut short

never got the chance to celebrate her first birthday.

the banff springs hotel,

situated in the beautiful canadian rockies,

attracts thousands of tourists every year.

on may 17th, 1990,

at around 1:30 in the morning,

a cab driver named lucie turmel, stopped in front of the hotel

to pick up a fare.

three people got into her cab.

a guy and two girls.

i watched them get in.

and just never heard nothing from her.

a half hour later he found her cab along a country road.

i just drove up to the car to see if she was in the car.

if she was alright and the car was empty.

early the next morning,

the body of 24-year-old lucie turmel

was found lying in the street.

she had been stabbed 17 times.

the autopsy revealed that lucie had been stabbed

a number of times in the neck area.

her carotid artery had been severed.

she also received a number of defense wounds

on her hands and arms.

this was a frenzy killing

and certainly it was a situation

where a robbery escalated into murder,

but then also escalated into a situation of overkill.

a few hours later a bloody knife was found in the driveway

about a block from the murder scene.

it was a distinctive knife in that it was 11 inches long

and had a mahogany handle and a very shiny steel blade.

but there were no markings on the knife whatsoever

that would indicate its origin.

the cab was taken to the garage at police headquarters

in order to search for forensic evidence.

when lucie's taxi was examined,

there was a small amount of blood present

in the interior of the cab.

the blood did not originate from lucie.

we began thinking that the attacker must have cut himself

and bled into the taxi.

the murder of 24-year-old lucie turmel

shocked and angered the residents of banff.

this had been the first murder in this peaceful community

in over 30 years.

this investigation became very huge very quickly,

because we didn't have a single suspect

that we were looking for.

in fact, we had the whole town site of banff,

probably the whole population of western canada,

that we were looking at.

the investigation dragged on for a year and a half.

until a woman called police and told them

that she'd recognized the knife on a wanted poster.

the owner of the knife, 22-year-old ryan love,

was brought in for questioning and admitted to detectives

that he had once owned the knife,

but said that it had been stolen months ago.

after several hours of protesting his innocence,

and with the interview nearly over,

police asked love to leave a blood sample for dna testing.

but under canadian law, at that time,

he had the right to refuse and said "no."

even though the test could help prove his innocence.

with love's refusal to provide any blood

or other bodily substance for dna testing.

we were going to have to obtain that material surreptitiously.

in a motel room outside of banff,

a sting operation was set up

in which several female undercover agents

invited love to a party.

the undercover operators and love had watched

a couple of pornographic movies and it was hoped that

perhaps love might be kind enough

to leave behind a semen deposit,

but unfortunately that was not the case.

the next night the undercover cops tried again.

he was observed to blow his nose into a piece of tissue paper

and throw the tissue paper into one of the garbage cans

in the motel room.

one of the undercover operators retrieved the kleenex

containing the mucous from the garbage can,

sealed it in a plastic bag

and the next morning turned it over to me as evidence.

tests later proved that the dna left by love on the tissue

matched the dna found in lucie's cab.

good evening.

it's an announcement that the people of banff

have been waiting a long time to hear.

rcmp have made an arrest in connection with the murder

of taxi driver lucie turmel.

the simple act of blowing his nose in a tissue

cost love his chance at freedom and in june of 1994,

he was found guilty of second-degree murder

and sentenced to life in prison.

in october of 1988,

at a hospital in winter haven florida,

a 42-year-old woman, named peggy carr lay in a coma,

she was slowly dying and no one knew why.

only one month before,

peggy had been an active, healthy woman.

she had just gotten married to a man named, pye carr,

and was looking forward to life with her new husband.

but shortly after her wedding she became deathly ill,

complaining of sharp, burning pains

in her hands and legs.

the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with her

until a neurologist decided to test her

for heavy metal poisoning.

those tests revealed that she had ingested large amounts

of a highly toxic substance

called thallium.

within weeks other members of the carr family

also fell seriously ill.

the last thing i remember i was in my bedroom.

my feet were just like they were on fire.

then the next thing i remember i woke up a couple of days later

and i was on the second floor of the pediatrics unit.

i was dead.

i looked like an alien.

i lost so much weight.

my eyes.

just bulging out.

black.

my complexion just solid white.

detectives rushed to the carr home

hoping to find out where the thallium had come from.

every item from the house was sealed and labeled.

the samples were then boxed and shipped

to the state forensic lab.

virtually, everything in that house had been tested.

every ice cube, every macaroni box, everything.

trying to find out where in the world

this thallium could have come from.

several days later, chemists at the lab,

finally came upon item number 346a,

three empty coca-cola bottles.

it was in these bottles that scientists finally found

what they were looking for.

traces of thallium nitrate.

whoever had done this

was smart enough to select a poison

that would be difficult to detect in normal lab tests

and one that wouldn't change the color

or the taste of the soda.

on march 3rd, 1989, at winter haven hospital,

peggy carr was removed from life support

and died a few hours later.

i couldn't believe that anybody would poison my family.

i racked my brain thinking, "why, how, what did we do ?

what did i do ?"

homicide detectives also wanted to know the answer

to that question

and began interviewing anyone who knew or lived near

the carr family.

they went literally i think to every house,

and asked people,

"why do you think this happened ?

"why do you think the carr family,

"who would hate 'em that much ?

who would do this to this entire family ?"

one of the people who was asked this question

was the carr's next door neighbor, george trepal.

george trepal got very dry mouthed

when they asked him that question

to the point that his tongue was sticking to the roof

of his mouth.

and his answer was,

"well, somebody probably wanted them to move out."

as they left that day, they both looked at each other and went,

"there's something about that guy.

there's just something about that guy."

authorities did a background check on george trepal

and discovered that not only was he a trained chemist,

but he had also been arrested

for running an methamphetamine lab

and one of the ingredients used to make methamphetamine

is thallium nitrate.

the authorities were convinced that this strange little man,

george trepal,

was somehow involved in the murder

of his neighbor, peggy carr.

but they needed proof,

physical evidence that would stand up in court.

so, undercover agent, susan goreck,

was assigned to befriend george trepal

and somehow gain access to his home.

i worked 15 months undercover

developing a relationship with him.

having meetings, writing letters.

talking on the phone.

it was very obvious when he talked about

the next door neighbors that he disliked them

because they were not of his intelligence.

he considered them lower intelligence.

in december of 1989, susan goreck learned

that the trepals' were moving

and persuaded them to rent her their house.

once they moved,

the fbi got a warrant to search their property.

they found that trepal's workshop

had been transformed into a sophisticated chemistry lab.

not only did agents find books and manuals about poison.

but also a diary that contained chemical formulas

for the making of poison.

most importantly, detectives discovered a small brown bottle

containing traces of thallium nitrate.

on january 7th, 1991,

george trepal went on trial for murder.

there, jurors were amazed to learn

that he had killed peggy carr simply because

he felt her sons were making too much noise.

they also learned that although he had the iq of a genius,

he lived in an imaginary world

where he believed himself to be super human.

my character is george trepal, my real name is wando the great.

often, he and his genius friends would hold parties

where they would create elaborate scenarios

for committing the perfect murder.

we have two winners.

'cause one winner is nasty and got more stuff...

unfortunately, for the carr family,

george trepal decided to make his game of murder a reality.

today george trepal sits on death row,

isolated and silent,

fantasizing about his games of death.

on january 15th, 2000,

at 2:30 in the morning

three young men were driving their jeep

through the streets of west valley city, utah.

at 3200 west street

they stopped for a red light.

but they were unaware that behind them

a two-ton ford pick up

traveling at more than 70 miles an hour,

was about to slam into their jeep.

the jeep was on fire it had three occupants.

one was thrown from the jeep and trapped under the truck.

one was trapped inside the jeep when it caught fire

and a third passenger in the vehicle

was pulled from the wreckage while it was burning.

i don't remember really anything other than

getting in the jeep and waking up in the hospital.

the first thing i asked my parents was

if chris and casey were okay.

and they started to cry and at that point i knew it was bad.

two boys, classmates and close friends of aaron's

had been burned alive in the accident.

they were both only 18 years old.

probably the most shocking aspect of this case

is that the driver of the truck climbed over

one of the victims who was trapped under the truck,

screaming for help,

and ignored those cries and fled the scene.

the next day the registered owner of the truck

was brought in for questioning.

at his interview, paul upwall denied

ever being at the scene of the accident.

he explained to us that he had gone

to a bar with a friend

and that he had a shot of a drink called "mind eraser"

and that he had approximately two pitchers of beer.

he couldn't tell me what happened after

he arrived home from the bar.

although he was the prime suspect,

the police still had no evidence

that paul upwall was actually driving the truck that night.

the death of the two boys plagued the authorities

for over a year until someone decided

to try something different.

we came up with the idea of looking on the surface

of the airbag to see if we could find trace evidence

between mr. upwall and the airbag.

for the first time in forensic history,

laser light would be used to detect evidence from an airbag.

when we turned on that laser on for the first time

there were fibers that covered the entire surface

of that airbag.

in addition to that,

we were surprised to see a single hair.

it was obvious that where a hair had been removed

with a great deal of force

because the bulb was still intact,

which gave us the potential to do dna examination.

the fibers that we spent so much time pulling from that airbag

were matched by the crime laboratory

to mr. upwall's clothing.

there was no question that the fibers on his clothing

were imbedded in that airbag and the only possible time

that airbag could have come in contact

with mr. upwall

was at the moment of impact.

it's a perfect crime scene, it's a crime scene

that hits him in the face.

on december 4th, 2000, paul upwall,

after having been convicted of manslaughter

addressed a packed courtroom,

paul upwall received a sentence of 20 years in prison.

but for the mothers who had lost their children

upwall's punishment was not enough.

he showed no remorse when he left those three boys to die

and he hasn't shown any remorse from day one.

how can you put a price on their lives ?

highway 40.

a small stretch of road connecting delaware

to new jersey.

a place where if you had the money

you could buy just about anything.

but for some it was an easy place to die.

everyday hundreds of truckers passed along highway 40

on their way to delaware.

but it wasn't until a cold night in november

that one of them noticed the body

of 23-year-old shirley ellis

lying at a nearby construction site.

the imprints on the breast of shirley ellis

very clearly indicated use of some sort of tool,

there were lacerations on the right side

of the front of her scalp.

they were roughly semi-circular.

they had the appearance of a hammer blow.

the killing instilled fear

into the women who worked the highway,

but they hoped it was an isolated incident.

seven months went by without another murder,

but on june 29th, 1988,

workers arriving at another construction site,

found the body of catherine dimauro.

my first impression was an instant slap in the face.

we have another one.

someone had been abducted.

mutilated with tools.

the fact that she had been dumped in this place

to be discovered.

this was a signal, this was a sign.

here's my work, i'm not hiding it.

i have just killed somebody

and in this case i've killed somebody brutally.

i want you to see what i've done.

at the morgue, dr. arden first photographed the body,

then began the difficult task of examining it for trace evidence.

using a magnifying glass he meticulously examined

every part of the torso.

when he arrived at the upper portion of her left leg,

he suddenly discovered a small blue fiber.

on her arm he found another one.

by the end of his search

he had collected 13 blue fibers in all.

small, but important clues.

after weeks of investigation,

detectives finally found out that the blue fibers

had come from a carpet store in new jersey.

the fibers came from a rarely used carpet

found only in trucks and vans.

by september, the killings resumed.

two more women had disappeared.

the police searched for their bodies.

but by the time they found one of them,

margaret lynn finner.

all that remained of her body was a skeleton.

four women were dead and the only thing

police had were 13 blue fibers.

desperate, they decided to try a new strategy.

a 21-year-old rookie police officer named renee lano,

volunteered to pose as a prostitute,

hoping to lure the killer, by using herself as a decoy.

wearing a hidden microphone and packing a gun

she walked highway 40,

putting her life on the line, night after night.

we did not know if these victims were getting into a van,

a truck, a car, a motorcycle.

we had no idea at that point

what we were looking for.

one night in september,

officer lano was working a shopping center,

when she noticed she was being followed.

this guy in this blue van has been by me,

you know, five, six, seven times.

that had to be the worst moment of that whole evening actually,

because i knew then, i'm in a dark area,

this guy is back.

what does he want ?

so, he backs his van up

and we start talking.

i asked him to turn the light on in the van.

and when he turns the van's interior light on

i see just blue carpet everywhere.

my heart was in my throat at this point.

so, i asked him pretty much,

"why are you here, what do you want, do you want oral sex ?"

so, while i'm speaking to him,

i was stroking the carpet of the van

as though it were a sexual turn on.

and while i'm stroking the carpet,

i had plucked some fibers.

while the fibers were being examined

at the fbi forensic lab.

the body of a fifth victim, michelle gordon was found

washed ashore on the banks of the chesapeake canal.

unlike the other victims she had not been strangled.

after being tortured.

her heart had stopped.

she had literally been frightened to death.

only one day after her murder,

the fbi confirmed that the fibers officer lano

had taken from the van,

matched those found on the body of catherine dimauro.

the owner of the van was a 31-year-old electrician

by the name of stephen pennell.

married with two children,

he and his family lived in a trailer camp

less than a mile from highway 40.

when police searched his van, they found overwhelming evidence

to indict him for murder.

on the floor of the van was the blue carpet

whose fibers matched those found on the body of cathy dimauro.

in the sink, police found strands of hair

belonging to michelle gordon.

we believe what happened was that it was severed

during the hammer blows.

because michelle gordon had very long pretty hair

and it had actually just been cut

as though it were severed with some object.

on the floor was blood that matched two of his victims.

but the evidence that cracked the case was the blue fibers.

the fibers were just so rare and to find that rare

a carpeting in stephen pennell's van

that matched so exactly all of those fibers

found all over cathy dimauro's body

was probably the strongest evidence.

stephen pennell was found guilty of murder in the first degree.

in the aggravating circumstances of

causing the death of two persons...

at his sentencing,

pennell said he had caused his family enough anguish

and asked for the death penalty.

here was a man standing before them asking to be executed

a very articulate, intelligent man

talking in the third person about himself.

he would say things such as,

"the man who did this deserves to die.

and the man who did this should be executed."

and he was talking about himself.

i was horrified by the fact

that he just seemed to have no human feelings

and absolutely could've cared less

about these murders.

in 1992, on a cold winter morning in march,

officer lano watched as pennell was strapped to a table

and put to death by lethal injection.

he had no words to say.

he never apologized to the victims,

to the victim's families.

he went to his grave...

a coward.

recently i received an email,

at the hbo autopsy website

from a woman named donna martino.

she said that on december 30th of 2001,

she had gone to visit her parents in new york.

i knocked on the door, the door was open.

and i just held the doorknob and went in and said,

mom, dad !"

and on the kitchen floor lie my mother and father.

my mom on her back and my father face down side by side.

it looked like my mother had just blue eye make-up all over,

from her neck up, all on her face.

and my dad was face down in a puddle of blood.

the kitchen table was down on its side,

one of the legs were off.

stuff that was on like a dishwasher

was not in its place

and on to the floor and off to the side.

there were two knives recovered under my father's body,

but there was also a third knife missing.

they were never tested.

they stated that there was too much blood on them

to get proper fingerprinting.

donna went on to write that the medical examiner had explained

that her mother had died of a heart attack

and her father was so distraught

that he immediately took his own life.

when i looked at the autopsy report

the cause of death of donna's mother

was listed as

artherosclortic cardiovascular disease,

which means hardening of the arteries.

however, the autopsy report states

there was only a 50% narrowing of the heart's main artery

which is usually not enough to cause death.

and when i examined the microscopic slides,

they showed the heart muscle to be normal.

further, the autopsy showed

there was a fracture of the left horn

of the thyroid cartilage, up here, or adam's apple.

and there was hemorrhage in the nearby neck muscles.

this usually is indicative of

homicidal manual strangulation.

further, small petichial hemorrhages were present

in both eyes,

which were another indication of neck compression.

i explained to donna that her concerns were correct

that her mother did not die of a natural heart attack,

but was murdered by strangulation.

and that her father died of multiple cut wounds,

which could have been either suicide or homicide.

based on my re-evaluation of the circumstances,

of the crime scene and of the autopsy findings,

the district attorney's office

is now reinvestigating both deaths.

you should log onto hbo.com to track further developments

in this case.

whether death occurred yesterday

or hundreds of years ago,

the dead's long silent voices return to answer the questions

put to them by the forensic pathologist.

he is their interpreter

and understands their language.

for him, death is not the end of the story,

but just the beginning.

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