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Hagan: Does she live alone?

Does she have a roommate?

Does she have a boyfriend?

Burglarizing their home,

going through their personal possessions,

serves his fantasy

that this is actually a consensual relationship

and he's getting to know them.

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Welcome to "very scary people."

I'm Donnie wahlberg.

The norcal rapist terrorized northern California

from 1991 to 2006,

his cruel violence causing lasting trauma

and tragically altering lives.

This twisted deviant studies his victims...

Their patterns, their habits.

He slips into their homes when they're away,

memorizing the rooms and planning his ambush.

Elusive and careful, for a long time,

it seemed like norcal was unstoppable,

but he left key evidence at every scene.

Who is the norcal rapist, and how has he been able

to get away with his reign of terror for so long?

This is part one of "the phantom predator."

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Schubert: For over 27 years,

the individual who came to be known

as the norcal rapist victimized women

across northern California.

And why has he been able to get away for so long?

We want to find the bad guys, and we want to put them in jail.

It's not always that easy, unfortunately.

You always are thinking, you know,

"will they ever get this guy?"

It's something that never left my head, still to this day.

It could be 10 seconds, it could be an hour of thinking about it,

fantasizing about getting a call

that he was caught every day of my life for 27 years.

It began in 1991.

Cold cases often become a journey for justice

for law enforcement,

prosecutors, crime victims, their families,

and, in many cases, for the communities

that were so deeply affected by that crime.

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Earnest-payte: Who was I in 1991?

I was a fairly typical 21-year-old.

Had a pretty active social life.

Had a lot of friends.

I was a hairstylist.

I've always been a very hard worker,

so I worked a lot of hours,

and that was pretty much my life.

Jordan: Life was good

for 21-year-old Nicole earnest-payte.

She had a really good job.

She owned her own condo in rohnert park,

which is about 30 miles north of San Francisco.

Earnest-payte: I did not have a roommate.

My ex-boyfriend had moved out.

I had the mortgage to pay,

so I actually had put an advertisement

out for a roommate,

but I was living alone for about...

Probably about six weeks.

It was a Saturday,

and that's the biggest day of the week for hairstylists.

I had been working all day,

and I came home to my condo completely exhausted.

Jordan: Nicole gets home from her long day.

She sinks into the sofa.

She doesn't have much furniture since her boyfriend moved out,

and she just starts watching TV.

Before she knows it, she's passed out on the sofa.

Earnest-payte: I woke up to a masked man

who had his arm around my neck,

my shoulders... the top of me, like this.

And he very calmly said, "don't make a sound.

I have a gun. I'm not going to hurt you.

I just want your money."

And I was thinking in my head,

"okay, he's just here to Rob me."

Jordan: Having a gun pointed at you by a masked intruder

in your own home is terrifying,

but for Nicole, the nightmare is just beginning.

Earnest-payte: He eventually took me upstairs

and then told me to get on the bed facedown.

I was bound.

He was really careful to make sure I wasn't harmed...

You know, that my hair wasn't in the duct tape.

And then he put a pillowcase around my head.

I really did, at this point, still think he was

just there to Rob.

I could hear him rifling through stuff.

There was a specific item that he was looking for

that I had borrowed

that I no longer had in my home

and had not been in my home for weeks.

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"Where is it? I know you have it.

Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?"

And that's when I knew, "oh, my god.

He's been in my house.

He must have been, or has been watching me or something."

Arutt: Stalking is an obsessive and compulsive activity

where somebody is delving into private matters

of somebody else that are not their business,

and they create a world in their own mind

where there is much more going on between them

than the other person even knows.

He's turned on music

and started saying, "these could be our love songs.

These are our songs."

And I just thought, "oh, my god!

He actually thinks I'm his girlfriend or something."

Hagan: In his mind, he believes, because of the amount of time

he has invested in watching this woman

and being in her apartment or her house,

that he really knows her.

He has a personal relationship with her,

but she does not have a personal relationship with him.

I had been facedown the whole time,

and then that's when he cut me loose and turned me over

and started to take everything off.

And that's when I realized I wasn't getting out of it.

I was raped multiple times throughout the night.

And I thought that he was eventually gonna shoot me

and kill me.

I kept visualizing my parents getting that phone call,

which is, to this day, the only thing that makes me still cry.

I can't explain how terrifying it is as a 21-year-old woman

to think the torture my parents are gonna have to go through.

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He had stolen my atm card,

so I knew he wanted to get to the bank.

As he was leaving, he said,

"you should lock your doors from now on.

Somebody might come in and try and hurt you"

and then walked out the door.

And that was like a knife in my chest

because it was mocking me and basically laughing, like,

"what an idiot that she left her back door unlocked."

Arutt: To assault somebody and terrorize her for hours

and then say,

"you know, you really should lock your door.

Somebody might come in and try to hurt you."

That's almost gloating,

and she probably wondered for the rest of her life

whether her doors had actually been locked or not.

Earnest-payte: I called my mother. She was so calm.

She just kicked right into gear

of "I need you to call the police, sweetie."

They escorted me to the hospital.

A few days later, I had the formal sitdown

with the detectives from rohnert park.

They just didn't believe it at all.

They thought I made up the story.

The entire time they were interviewing me,

they were questioning every bit of it as though

I was this crazy person making up this horrible story.

It was the most horrendous experience

I've ever been through.

They came short of calling me, you know, a whore.

Jordan: What Nicole went through was her worst nightmare...

Being raped, but then not being believed

and then knowing that this masked intruder

was out there somewhere,

maybe ready to come back and get her,

was absolutely debilitating.

But Nicole was determined that this was not going to break her.

Earnest-payte: I wanted to make sure that I picked myself up.

I picked myself up very quickly

and marched right back into my life,

but it was very altered.

For quite a while, I wouldn't go anywhere alone

because I was convinced

that he was watching and would come back.

Jordan: December 1991, a 42-year-old woman in sonoma

was awakened at about 1:30 in the morning

by a man wearing a mask.

I thought, "oh, my god. This is the same person."

Jordan: 21-year-old Nicole earnest-payte

is sexually attacked

in her own home in rohnert park, California.

It's June of 1991,

and then, six months later, another attack.

Earnest-payte: When this happened again in sonoma,

and I read it in the paper, I thought, "oh, my god.

This is the same person."

Jordan: December 1991,

a 42-year-old woman in sonoma, California,

was awakened at about 1:30 in the morning

by a man wearing a mask.

According to the sheriff's spokesperson, Spencer crum,

he tied her up and he raped her twice.

After he raped her, detectives say that he drove her

to a local atm,

where he forced her to withdraw money,

and then took her back to her house.

Crum said that DNA evidence was collected at the scene,

and the victim said it felt like someone was stalking her

because he knew so many things about her life.

Gagliano: How do we collect DNA in rape cases?

Well, you can collect it from a lot of trace evidence

from somebody's body, whether it's a hair follicle

or whether or not it's saliva, semen, blood,

any type of bodily fluids.

And even if somebody touches something,

there is organic DNA material on a knife

or the handle of a pistol

a rapist or a murderer might use.

And if the rapist leaves his DNA at a crime scene today,

there is no doubt in my mind

that that person will be brought to justice.

Jordan: So you have these two separate sexual-assault cases,

one in June of '91 and then the next in December,

and they are both in sonoma county but 20 miles apart.

There are similarities, but there are differences,

and then you have another attack that happens in 1992.

In 1992, I was living alone in vallejo.

I was going to school to be a firefighter,

and I was working for fedex.

I also was trying to get my EMT certificate,

so I was pretty busy.

My sister had just bought a brand-new house

that just got built in vallejo and said,

"do you want to just live there by yourself?"

And I was like, "okay."

Little did she know that a sexual predator

was tracking her movements.

Lane: It was on February 13th,

around 8:20, 8:30 in the morning.

I walked out of the bedroom,

and then there is this guy in the bathroom

with the black ski mask.

So I ran into the bedroom.

He jumped on me, and I was trying to fight him,

and he had a knife, so I grabbed the knife.

I didn't know, but... You know, what I was doing

because he was on top of me and, you know...

And I just was trying to...

Just trying to do whatever I could to...

To escape, you know?

And I know he did say, you know, "you cut me."

When he put his hand over my mouth,

I couldn't breathe anymore.

I couldn't fight anymore.

And then he, um... He tied my arms and my legs up.

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You know, he raped me probably three times, for sure.

It was just like I was just, um, kind of numb, you know?

Yeah, I-I remember at times just told him to just kill me,

get it over with.

I wasn't exactly scared of dying.

I was just... just scared of, you know, what was gonna happen.

What was he gonna do next?

Because, to me, laying there and going through that...

Probably dying would have been better

than... him being there, so...

So I was just...

Doing everything I could to just...

...to survive.

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I think most of us can't even imagine what it would be like

to go through something like these victims endured

and how life-changing it is for them,

how it changes their... Their perception of the world

and that they don't feel safe anymore.

Lane: I know he was talking a lot.

He was asking me questions, but I never...

Never seen his face.

He took a shower.

He used my hairbrush.

He was going through my purse, and he had my phone book.

I remember him saying, you know, "if you call the cops,

I'm gonna call this person.

I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that."

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Jordan: Before the attacker leaves, he takes a necklace

that she's wearing off her neck.

Why?

So that he has a trophy of his conquest.

It is sick.

Trophies become memorabilia for that individual of a time

that was very important to them, very erotic for them,

very satisfying for them, so, with that in mind,

they don't easily part with their trophies.

As soon as I was able to untie myself,

I called the cops

and then I called my neighbor.

Cops came right away.

One of the cops said that he probably was

in my house before the incident.

What he did was cut a hole through the drywall

in the garage and stuck his hand through the drywall

and then opened the door, you know, and unlocked it,

'cause... 'cause it was locked.

Gagliano: This was clearly a well-thought-out crime

and one he had clearly prepared for to...

To open up a piece of sheetrock to require that sawing

and then to be able to come back in later

in order to conduct the crime

so the victim would not hear them coming in.

He literally planned it and executed it

just like it was a military operation.

Arutt: The watching and the stalking

is incredibly creepy.

It's such a violation of privacy,

and to be watching not just as a voyeur

because somebody enjoyed watching

but to be watching with the intent of figuring out

how to commit further crimes against that person

is incredibly creepy.

Lane: Every day was a struggle, but I just kept going.

I had a lot of therapy, and I said, "you know what?

This person is not going to put me in my own jail."

But what he did will always be with me.

Smith: With any crime,

there's going to be mistakes made by the suspect.

All I can say is that there was evidence left at the scene.

Gafni: It was a particularly horrific crime.

It's just the stuff that horror movies are made out of.

Police have three different rape cases

happening in three different northern California towns.

You have different agencies.

You'll have different jurisdictions

that were working these crimes in different counties

where these rapes happened.

Investigators are looking to collect physical evidence,

whether it's a rape swab it for DNA

or in the instance where he was stabbed and his blood...

There's liquid DNA

right there to help track down the perpetrator.

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[Insects chirping]

Halloween night in 1996 in Martinez,

and this involved a woman who was basically on her couch.

Just late that night, she hears the doorbell.

[Doorbell rings]

She thinks, "oh, it's probably just a straggler."

Jordan: And she gets up and answers and opens the door

because, of course, she assumes

it's just a late-night trick-or-treater.

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Gafni: She answers the door...

...and there's a man in a skeleton mask.

Totally in fitting with a Halloween costume,

and he wastes no time.

He jumps on her, attacks her.

It's just the stuff that horror movies are made out of.

It's just terrible.

Jackson: He overpowers her.

He gets inside the house.

He binds her like the other three people,

and he rapes her repeatedly.

Gafni: One thing that investigators told me

that was really of note for that case

was he was very evidence-specific.

Some people, in the heat of the moment,

are just gonna not think twice about evidence

left behind or anything like that,

where he wound up taking, like, bedding

and trying to cover up his DNA profile, potentially.

And, like the first attack,

he once again steals the victim's atm card.

Then, several weeks after the attack,

he takes his emotional torture a step further.

Police say that he actually phones the victim at work.

And he apologizes.

Calling her work to see how she was or to...

Ostensibly, to apologize was another act of terrorizing her.

It is an expression of dominance and power and control.

"See? I can find you again any time I want to."

Gafni: Once the Martinez assault happened,

they had another DNA profile, and it's at that point

where the investigators from contra costa county say,

"hey, this DNA matches another sexual assault

four years earlier in 1992."

And they had these separate individual sexual assaults

happening that had very similar kind of m.0.S...

You know, bindings, multiple sexual assaults.

But this is the first time they said,

"okay, we got a singular person doing these crimes."

Arutt: He was an intelligent criminal,

planning these assaults,

and so he would stalk in order to get enough information

to really be able to confidently go into this person's home

and stay there for hours,

knowing that he was going to be able to not be interrupted.

Gafni: This is the worst type of case

for law enforcement to solve.

Stranger rapes are very rare.

Normally, a sexual assault happens with someone you know,

which makes it easier to solve, frankly,

because you have a narrowed list of people

who could be the suspects.

But here these are total strangers.

Nothing to go on.

It starts in the early '90s,

when DNA investigation is sort of in its infancy,

and it's bouncing around from different counties,

different jurisdictions for police.

It's harder to find those common links

and those common threads.

When he went to the atm, he was caught on surveillance

wearing a clear, plastic Halloween mask.

Gagliano: Criminals... They're gonna make mistakes.

They think they're smarter than we are,

but that's not always the case.

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Investigators working the norcal rapist case

are gathering evidence left behind at the crime scenes.

Detectives are studying the similarities

in the norcal rapist's m.0...

How he threatens, the weapons he uses,

and the atm cards he steals from the women after each attack.

Investigators are building a profile

to narrow down possible suspects,

and now they've got his DNA.

But norcal is about to strike again.

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Jordan: It's January 25, 1997, when the rapist strikes again,

but this time it's different.

It's a pair of roommates

who live together in Davis, California.

They hear a noise downstairs.

[Floorboards creaking]

[Light switch clicks]

They don't make anything of it

and just go back to their individual rooms

and go to sleep.

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Lipelt: I was an investigator, detective,

at the Davis police department in 1997.

[Door creaks]

And was called to the scene the morning

of that particular sexual assault.

He was well planned when he did this violent crime.

He brought things with him, we know...

The binding materials,

most of which he took with him when he left.

He knew what he was doing, what he wanted to do,

and he carried it out in a very detailed manner.

He did a number of things, including turning on a radio

to cover any sounds that were being made.

He put a blanket over a window so nobody could see in.

He put a chair in front of the door,

wedged it in so that nobody could walk in on him...

That sort of thing.

Jordan: Something interesting is happening here

with these rapes in '96 and '97.

It would appear his m.0. Is actually evolving.

The first three of his victims were all Caucasian women,

but, starting with number four, they are petite Asian women.

He could have simply discovered a sexual preference

for Asian women.

However, Asian women are very often petite

and slight and weigh very little,

so there's a vulnerability aspect

because they tend to be so small.

He is making sure he risks nothing in being overpowered.

Lipelt: He knew how he wanted to interact with his victims

in the way he approached them and the things he said to them.

I think he had a picture in his mind of his relationship

to these victims, and I do believe, in his heart,

he wanted to leave them thinking that he was not such a bad guy.

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Jordan: The pattern does continue,

because one of the victims that he tied up and terrified...

He took her atm card

and made her give him the pin, and, remember,

that relinquishing of the security pin

is part of the power and control.

Was it about the money? I don't think so.

It was almost like adding insult to injury.

"Now not only have I been inside your body,

I'm getting inside your bank account.

There is nothing left of you

that I haven't touched, which I can't control."

And getting that card and taking her money

was really almost like the torturous icing on the cake.

"Even after I've left, I'm going to victimize you."

Lipelt: The main thing is use whatever you can to try

and identify who this guy is.

We put out a letter to all the banks stating we knew

that the victims' card were taken,

along with their pin numbers,

so first we had to find out if the cards were used

and, if so, where were they used?

So, here we worked with the banks, the security system.

We knew the cards, of course, that the victims had.

We contacted those people, and in fairly short order...

I'm talking over a two-, three-day period...

We knew where the cards were used and what was drawn out.

Jackson: So when he went to the atm,

he was caught on surveillance at that time,

at about 7:30 A.M.,

wearing a clear, plastic Halloween mask.

Reporter: Police have surveillance video

of the rape suspect using a victim's atm card.

A mask distorts his face.

So, could this be the break in the case?

Could this surveillance video help police pinpoint

the man who had been raping people

in northern California for six years?

Jordan: Not only do they have an idea what he looks like,

but they have blood from the stabbing.

Now they can check the DNA from that blood

and see if it matches the other rapes.

???

Police from all of these multiple jurisdictions

in northern California, from rohnert park to Davis,

they'd all been loosely working

to solve their individual crimes.

At one point, the norcal rapist slipped up

and allowed himself to be caught on camera.

We were able to get a photo of him while he was using the atm.

Unfortunately, he was wearing an opaque mask

that would distort the features of your face,

so we weren't able to get a clear understanding

of what this person looked like.

Jordan: The norcal rapist... What he has going for him

is that he's kind of hiding in plain sight.

He's operating in his comfort zone.

He cases these girls. He stalks them.

He knows their routines.

O'Toole: This is the kind of case,

really, from a victim's standpoint,

like, this is your worst nightmare.

Hahn: I think a lot of crimes are crimes of happenstance.

You come across it and you do something.

This is clearly not what the norcal rapist did.

He planned his crime.

He knew exactly what he was doing,

and he victimized these women

in some of the worst ways you can think.

This instilled fear in the communities.

I mean, people changed the way they lived.

They no longer felt like being at home alone or locked doors

that maybe they didn't lock before.

It's terrifying to know that somebody like that is out there

and they haven't been able to catch him.

Just shocked that it was that close to home.

Mm, it's a little scary.

And it impacted vast areas, numerous communities,

simply because of the fear instilled

by the crimes committed.

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Anderson: In 1997, I was 21,

and I was a college student at chico state.

I had a job as a counselor at that time.

I was studying psychology.

I was really close to graduating.

My life was fun.

Jordan: Maki is bright.

She loves going out and socializing with her sister...

A confident young woman.

Anderson: I was living by myself

in an apartment called paradise apartments,

and I had actually just broken up with my very first boyfriend.

And this is important because it means

he's not gonna be coming over to her apartment.

She is probably very vulnerable.

Hagan: When an offender stalks a victim,

burglarizing their home,

going through their personal possessions,

being able to look at their photographs,

it increases his comfort level because he knows the floor plan.

He knows how to get in and how to get out.

Anderson: I'd come home, and things would be out of place.

I'd notice that my photo albums would be moved

or certain things weren't exactly where I had put them.

And I thought it was my ex-boyfriend

going into my house.

The night of the attack,

me and my sister had gone to the bear in chico.

It was a really popular place to go dancing.

I actually got home late,

and then I went into the kitchen to make myself some toast,

and I looked at my sliding glass door

and felt like somebody was there,

but then just kind of dismissed it quickly, thinking,

"oh, it's nothing," and then decided I would go to bed.

???

It was only a couple hours later that I was woken up

with a gun to my head and his hand covering my mouth,

and he told me to, you know,

shut up and not scream or he'd kill me.

His hand was over her mouth,

and he very clearly threatened her

that if she screamed, if she made a sound,

he would not hesitate to kill her.

Anderson: I thought I was gonna die.

He starts tying her wrists

and her ankles with zip ties and ropes.

???

I remember when he was binding my wrists and my hands,

I'd I... I left a little bit of space

so that I had wriggle room.

I just pretended like I was holding a ball in my hand

so that I would have the ability to escape.

He covered my eyes in duct tape.

???

He kept going in and out of the room.

He was going through my things.

All I could think of was how to get free.

So every time he'd leave the room,

I'd work harder on loosening the bindings

and trying to get the tape off of my mouth.

It was a fight-or-flight response,

and I decided to fight.

Maki is determined, and she actually does succeed

in freeing herself of those restraints.

Anderson: I just kept putting saliva all over the duct tape

so that it would be easier to tear off.

I got free, but then he came in

and... and tried to make the bindings tighter.

I just remember him being really angry.

Jordan: Is he going to get his revenge

on her escape attempt by killing her now?

Some offenders will flee if the victim physically resists,

while others will increase violence

and severely injure the victim.

When something like that happens,

you just think of the worst,

and I thought for sure I would be dead.

I didn't think I would survive that night.

???

He walked into the room, and I was able to see his face,

and I just told him, "you better run.

I'm gonna get you. You better leave."

???

Jackson: 1997, maki Anderson is fighting for her life.

The norcal rapist ties her up.

Notwithstanding being tied up, she breaks free.

He finds her. He ties her up again.

But she continues to try to escape.

Anderson: The second time that I got free,

I was able to sit up. My arms were free.

My face was uncovered.

And he walked into the room, and I was able to see his face.

I just told him, "you better run.

I'm gonna get you. You better leave."

And it looked like he was going to,

and then he changed his mind and started charging me.

And I grabbed the scissors and stabbed him.

I didn't have it in me to kill him.

I could have killed him,

but I didn't have it in me to kill him.

That seemed to only upset him.

He got really angry, and...

And he was more forceful after that.

Maki is a fighter. She has tried to escape twice.

She's managed to stab her attacker.

But he still seems determined to rape her.

In order to prevent myself from getting raped,

I lied and told him I was pregnant.

I told him, "please don't hurt the baby."

I kept bringing up "the baby," and, fortunately, it worked.

I-I was... I was sexually assaulted,

which, you know, is still bad, but I was spared rape.

Arutt: In maki's case, for her to say she was pregnant,

it did humanize her for him in that moment.

People have to dehumanize their victim

in order to be able to commit crimes against them.

Whatever his association was to pregnancy,

there had to be something positive in there

that made him draw some kind of a line

in terms of what he was going to do.

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Anderson: I was so tired by then.

It had been hours.

And I started nodding off because he was gone

and I was just waiting.

I didn't know if he was gonna come back in again

or if he had left.

I just kept working on trying to get free,

and I just got the tape off of my mouth and got my hands free,

and then I got my legs free and threw on some clothes

and jumped out the bedroom window

and ran to the manager's office to get help.

And she brought me into her office

and called the police right away.

They came within seconds.

I was able to give them a good enough description

in order for them to draw a sketch

of what he could look like.

Thanks to maki's bravery and quick thinking,

police finally have a sketch of the norcal rapist.

Not only do they have an idea of what he looks like,

but they have blood from the stabbing.

Now they can check the DNA from that blood

and see if it matches the other rapes.

Gafni: It was particularly after the chico assault happened,

where he left blood DNA at the scene, where that matched up,

and then I think it was at that point they were like,

"okay, we have a serial rapist here on our hands."

Gagliano: But now that you know it's a serial rapist there,

that's why it's important, then,

to bring your resources together.

You have the information.

DNA linked the different scenes in different areas.

Now you've got to do the link analysis.

Find other things that link in.

Investigations are Jigsaw puzzles.

It's getting enough pieces

that you can identify the person responsible.

O'Toole: These offenders are not perfect 100% of the time.

They make mistakes.

Investigators are trained to look for those subtleties,

those mistakes that even serial offenders make.

There are no perfect crimes. People make mistakes.

Criminals are no different.

They think they're smarter than we are,

but that's not always the case.

I lived in fear for a really long time.

I constantly was looking in my rearview mirror

while I was driving, trying to figure out

if he was following me or not.

It was hard.

It... it hasn't been an easy journey.

But I'm glad I'm alive.

Beery: One of the victims actually told me...

She said, "every time a male

comes in to where I work,

if he's about the right age and about the right everything,"

she says, "I think to myself, 'is that him?'"

and so to have to live your life that way,

always looking over your shoulder

and always wondering, it has to be...

It has to be really difficult.

For cops, you want to bring closure for that person.

You want to arrest the bad guys.

Those victims will always be forever scarred.

Their life will never, ever, ever, ever be the same.

So, in a lot of instances where people have long crime sprees

like the norcal rapist,

they think they're safe because they haven't been arrested.

It's never too long.

It's never too late.

The long arm of the law is gonna find you.

Beery: It almost is like a ticking time bomb

because you know it's going to happen again.

You don't know where, and you don't know when.

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The norcal rapist has gotten so confident

with his 15-year rape spree

that he is beginning to screw up.

He's made a big mistake.

Right now a serial rapist is on the loose.

And Sacramento police have new evidence

this guy has been attacking women for years.

I have said many times that DNA is the greatest tool

ever given to law enforcement to find the truth.

Jackson: This technology's groundbreaking.

It's eye-opening.

It was like, "holy cow.

This is the person that I've been wondering about

for the last 12 years."

By 1997, the norcal rapist had committed

at least seven vicious attacks.

News of his rampage spread fear throughout the communities

of northern California.

Women did not feel safe in their own homes.

No one knew when he would strike next.

Could forensic science finally break the case

and give detectives the evidence they needed to make an arrest?

The hunt for the norcal rapist continues

in part two of "the phantom predator."

I'm Donnie wahlberg.

Thanks for watching "very scary people."

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