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[Eleanor] The first thought of course is, the murderer.
He's back.
What's gonna happen next?
I mean, a hundred things go through your head.
He had to be stopped, he had to be stopped.
He could get up, you know?
You don't know what he's gonna do.
[theme music playing]
Welcome to Very Scary People.
I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
From the late 1960's until 1980,
a sadistic predator was on the loose in New York and New Jersey.
By all appearances, he seemed like an unassuming family man.
Just a regular guy.
But he was preying on young women.
Abducting them then torturing and killing them.
His victims were suburban housewives, teenage girls and sex workers.
Some of his high profile murders occurred around Manhattan's Times Square.
But as it turned out, his hunting ground extended much further.
This is part one of The Times Square Killer.
[suspenseful music playing]
[sirens wailing]
[Dr. Melinda] Whether it were the girls and boys
coming from the Midwest, the south, etcetera.
Times Square was a destination
you could come drink, you could be an adult, you could have fun.
[siren wailing]
[Dr. Melinda] In the early 1970's,
Times Square allowed for a lot
of people to engage in street sex work
as well as to engage in other kinds of hustles.
What is happening in the 1970s is that
serial killers target sex workers because
they are marginalized and vulnerable.
They are a part of what is called, "The missing missing."
In other words, they're already missing
often from their families
and therefore when they go missing,
they are not reported.
[indistinct conversation]
[Steve] It was a busy morning like any other in New York City.
Around 9:00 a.m., the fire department got a call
from the Travel Inn Motor Hotel
on 42nd Street in Times Square.
Employees had noticed smoke pouring out
of room 417 out into the corridor.
[news woman 1] Firemen, went into a fourth floor motel room here
to find the source of smoke.
That source was two fires, one on each bed.
[Steve] A fireman thought he saw people lying on each bed.
They, uh, took their bodies out
as best they could with some help.
I was prepared to take the... take them
and give them mouth to mouth respiration,
uh, recovery and discovered they were without heads.
At first, since they were headless,
he thought they were just mannequins.
Then he realized that it was two naked young females.
Their corpses have been set on fire.
[Larry] The, uh, heads and the hands of both victims
had been cut off.
They were bleeding profusely.
[Rod] It was just a really horrible scene.
[news woman 2] This killer went to great lengths
to destroy the women's identities.
[Louis] Arson is a method
of impairing the investigation.
Set the room on fire.
Fire destroys all the evidence.
[Larry] On November 29th, 1979, a man identifying himself
as a Carl Wilson of Berlin, New Jersey.
Checked in at The Travel Inn
near Times Square, was given a key to room 417.
At some point after he checks into the hotel,
he reaches out to contact a couple of sex workers.
He ended up bringing two young women upstairs with him.
[Larry] In the early morning hours,
smoke started coming out of room 417.
When Mr. Wilson leaves the, uh, the hotel,
he has a duffle bag.
And he wanders through The Old Crossroad of the World,
the neon of, uh, Times Square
at about 3:30 in the morning.
And he's stopped by two police officers
who were concerned for his safety
as he walked through Times Square,
And he just explained to the two cops that he was staying at a nearby hotel.
Everything was good, he was getting something to eat
and he walked away.
If only police had asked to see
what was inside the duffle bag.
[news woman 3] A lot of people figured a psycho was on the loose.
[Rod] They called him The Times Square Killer.
[Brenna] He likes Times Square,
where he could wander around
in the middle of the night and no one noticed.
He would just kind of turned into an animal
when it was night time,
and he would start hunting women.
It was chilling, horrifying what he did to people.
[Steve] What nobody knew at the time of the Travel Inn double murder
was that the killer had been hunting women for more than a decade.
And he wasn't just doing it in Manhattan,
he was operating across the river in New Jersey.
[John] Bergen County, it's the north eastern corner of New Jersey.
It exist right across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan.
It has a couple of smaller cities
but is predominantly suburban.
[John] Little Ferry, New Jersey. Small, blue collar town.
Good people, hard working people.
And obviously what we know is,
it doesn't matter how small the town is,
how quiet it is, how bucolic.
It can always be a location
where a homicide could occur.
[Brenna] Nancy Vogel was 29 years old.
Nancy was married, two kids
and she told her family she was going out
to play bingo in the local church.
She stopped at a discount store called Valley Fair
and she purchased some items.
When she didn't return home at her usual time,
her husband became concerned.
As the hours passed it seemed more and more
out of character for the young mother.
So, she went missing, her husband,
-called the police. -[siren wailing]
There was a search rather widely publicized.
There were BOLOs as we call them put out beyond lookout.
Neighborhoods were canvassed, areas were searched.
After two or three days the concern then changes to,
"Well, you know, maybe she just didn't run away."
You rarely, rarely, rarely ever see
a mother run away from their children.
They don't.
[Steve] Three days after Nancy Vogel disappeared
two catholic school girls were looking out from a upstairs window
and they saw what looked like a mannequin in a parked car.
They went out to investigate and
they realized that what they thought was a mannequin
was actually the missing woman.
[Steve] Nancy Vogel's killer didn't just stick to the suburbs of New Jersey.
[Larry] The killer was in Manhattan.
He went into a bar and ran into a woman there
She starts to feel dizzy maybe as if something was slipped in her drink.
She passes out.
[Steve] Three days after Nancy Vogel, a young mother disappeared,
two school girls came across her body.
She was lying in a parked car on the street.
Her body was discovered in her own vehicle.
She was in the back of the vehicle.
She was naked and bound.
[John] She had been sexually assaulted,
she had been beaten predominantly on one side.
Nancy Vogel's cause of death was strangulation
and also significant blunt trauma.
[Luis] The primary way serial sexual murderers kill is by strangulation.
The most efficient way to kill somebody is with a gun
but they don't wanna kill somebody efficiently with a gun.
They wanna control their death and control their agony,
so that the victim is aware of the power
and control and domination
that the offender has over her.
This is arousing to the serial sexual murderers.
[John] Her clothes were perfectly folded underneath her.
Inside the trunk of her car were shopping bags.
Those bags had come from a popular store in the area.
[John] It was known as the Valley Fair.
Big super market, everybody in the area would shop there.
So that would have indicated
that she had done some shopping.
[John] Which then immediately brought us to the point.
What happened at Valley Fair?
Was there somebody in the store?
Was there somebody in the parking lot?
Was there somebody that she met?
And I know law enforcement worked very hard.
What happened at the bingo hall? What happened at Valley Fair?
[Mike] Don't forget, there was no cellphones.
There was no cameras.
Okay and, you know cellphones and cameras
play a huge role today in solving crimes
because wherever you are, you're on camera, pretty much.
So, you know, law enforcement now
has a lot of tools,
they have a lot more technology
and crimes could be solved in different ways than years ago.
[John] So, it's a matter of just trying to canvas
who were the check out people working that night.
Was there a security detail?
One of the leads, uh, back then was that someone
allegedly saw her talking with somebody that was a hippie.
He had long hair and I believe he wore bell bottoms.
But back in 1967 there were a lot of hippies,
so that kind of a lead wasn't really gonna help you too much.
There were other leads
and they were all focused on
apparently people seeing her speaking with others.
[Steve] But the fact she was at the store,
might have been friendly with people who were there,
uh, didn't raise any red flags.
No one person stood out suspicious.
But detectives did notice something odd about the crime scene.
One of the things that was gnawing at police
was that the vehicle was locked
that Nancy Vogel's body was found in
and that the keys were missing.
Were nowhere to be found inside
nor were they found outside the vehicle.
So the killer took the time to lock the vehicle.
[John] Whoever committed this crime
took the car keys most likely because
they didn't want some random person opening up the car door.
And this took the investigation in a direction
that the detectives had never expected.
On the day following the report of her being missing,
her brother showed up at Little Ferry police
and said, "My sister is missing
but I found her car keys."
And gave the police the keys to her car.
[Steve] This was shocking.
Investigators knew that whoever killed Nancy Vogel
locked the car and took her keys.
They knew that the keys were missing
and when they saw that
here's her brother with the car keys,
immediately that makes him a suspect.
Police thought how could he have his sister's keys
if he didn't have something to do with the murder?
But there was nothing else indicating that he was guilty.
[John] So he was a suspect?
Nowhere near enough to charge him
Now, some police officer made a mistake back then
and shared that with
one or more of the family members
which they should not have done.
[Steve] Even though her brother was cleared,
some of Nancy's relatives were convinced he was guilty.
They wouldn't find out the truth for more than 40 years.
[Steve] Nancy Vogel's killer continued to work in the shadows.
He didn't just stick to the suburbs of New Jersey.
[Larry] The killer was in Manhattan
and he went into a bar to have a drink and ran into a woman there.
A waitress, named Karen Schlip.
She was leaving to go meet with her boyfriend
and she was approached by a... a stranger wearing
some sort of shaggy wig.
He asked if she was a hooker.
Uh, she didn't really
notice that he looked a little off,
you know and, uh...
She said she was not a prostitute, they continued to talk
and he identified himself as Joseph Schafer.
So after the two are having a drink at the bar,
she starts to feel dizzy maybe as if something was slipped in her drink.
She walks out and starts to, uh, wobble back home.
At this point, Mr. Schafer
as she knew him, asked if she needed a ride.
She gets in the car and she passes out.
When she wakes up, they're on the New Jersey Turnpike
at which point, Schafer as she knew him
shoved tuanols, they're a barbiturate and used as a date rape drug
into her mouth and she passed out again.
The next morning, Karen woke up in a drainage ditch
up in Bergen County, New Jersey.
She was revived by a police officer who performed CPR on her.
When she finally stabilized,
police had a lot of questions about exactly what had occurred.
She's taken to the hospital and, uh, they're looking for a description
but she's not really able to give them anything specific
it's just sort of a vague description of this guy,
and it leaves police with little to chase.
Police soon realize the name Joseph Schafer was an alias.
[Mike] In the 70's what was very
normal was hitchhiking.
A lot of these young kids did it.
That was the fatal mistake they made that day.
[Steve] He is known as The Times Square Killer
but it really is a New Jersey story because
he was raised here and a lot of his victims were from here
Basically his comfort zone was right in Bergen County.
In fact that's where he lived this very
unassuming, suburban home life.
[Larry] He's living in Lodi, New Jersey
up in Bergen County kind of a small,
I guess bedroom community for lack of a better term.
He was a average guy who had a family.
He had a wife and three children, two boys and a girl.
Had a home, had a job.
And he was very disarming to people
because he didn't look abnormal
or disturbed or deviant in any way.
It was his averageness,
his normalness that made him particularly treacherous.
[Louis] Many serial sexual murderers are married or in committed relationships
at the time they're going out murdering people
and they'll interview
the wife and the wife will say,
"I knew something was a little odd about the person but I never ever thought
in a million years that he was going around killing people."
[Steve] I don't even know if it's cognitive dissonance or something like that,
I mean it's some kind of remarkable compartmentalization
that it would take to separate those two lives.
[Brenna] Teenage, Mary Ann Pryor and Lorraine Kelly
were going to the Jersey Shore and they wanted to get bathing suits.
[Rod] Neither of them are old enough to have a motor vehicle licence.
[Brenna] So they were hitchhiking to the Paramus mall.
[Rod] That was a way of getting around.
These are kids and, uh, they figured they can get away with it.
[Mike] Now, you gotta remember in the 70's,
what was very normal was hitchhiking.
I mean, you would drive down the street
and everybody would be hitchhiking.
It was absolutely dangerous
for anyone to hitchhike because you didn't know who was picking you up.
But a lot of these young kids did it,
and that was the fatal mistake they made that day.
[Steve] When Mary Ann Pryor missed her 10 p.m. curfew, her parents got worried.
They start calling her friends and then they realize that
Lorraine has also not come home.
So, now there's two missing teenagers.
They call the North Bergen County police
and they have to wait 24 hours to file a police report.
At that point, Mary Ann was actually still alive.
From what I know about it, he could come to a hotel.
And he had forced them in by saying, you know, that
go into the hotel room or else I'm gonna hurt you.
He's menacing, he's an adult, he's pretty strong
and basically forces himself on them.
They were tied to beds so they couldn't escape during the night.
And eventually, he drowned them in the hotel bathtub.
[girl screaming]
This is really the prototypical serial sexual murder.
The more excruciating the pain,
the more suffering the victim experiences,
the more arousing it is for the offender.
Marry Ann's family was listening to the radio when something shocking came on.
So they hear that they found these two bodies.
There was a knock on the door
and it was the worst news any family could get.
Your daughter is missing with her friend and it's days on end.
And then you hear on the radio that they found two bodies.
I mean, it is. It is a scene from an awful movie.
Their bodies were discovered in a construction site in Montvale.
They had both been sexually assaulted.
They had both been beaten badly.
They had to identify the girls by jewelry that was found on their body.
The scene was a very difficult one to process.
You're not coming up with fingerprints.
Scene was not laned with blood or other things that could somehow give you clues.
There's no evidence of dragging.
You know, when you're on a construction site, it's hard to tell.
The murder of these two children disrupted the sense of security
the people felt in the New Jersey suburbs.
When people in New Jersey watched the news every night
and they hear murder after murder occurring in Manhattan,
New Jersey seems pretty safe.
The last thing you expect to see, you know,
cops finding bodies on your doorstep.
Those two girls were my age, were found not far from where I grew up in Bergen County.
And I actually remember when the bodies were discovered.
The New York Daily Newsran their pictures on the front page.
And I remember that stuck with me.
And I remember seeing both of their eyes and it made and impact on me.
The law enforcement had no idea whether the killer had struck in this area before.
It's strange because there's a lot of deaths in this area.
He's not really travelling that far,
and there's all these unsolved murders.
But no one, at least at the time, seems to be putting them together.
It would be decades before anyone realized
that the man who killed the two teenagers was actually the Times Square Killer.
Welcome back to Very Scary People.
The Times Square Killer continues to claim the lives of innocent victims,
leaving a trail of horrific crimes in his wake.
Meanwhile, police have no idea
there's a serial killer crisscrossing the Hudson River,
slaughtering women in Manhattan and suburban New Jersey.
And this man has no intention of stopping.
He killed a 29 year old women
and he killed 13-year-olds.
It's just this weird bottomless pit of horror.
He could be today responsible for anywhere between 85 and 100
of these types of homicides.
In 2009 French documentary, the killer seemed to take pride
in the way that he evaded authorities.
[killer's voice]
Maryann Carr lived in an apartment complex
in Little Ferry, New Jersey.
She had been divorced and recently remarried.
She was an X-ray technician.
She was planning that day to meet her mother-in-law and just never appeared.
So family members became frantic, particularly because her husband was out of town.
They reached out to the police.
And it appears that she was abducted.
She was seen having a confrontation with a man in the parking lot.
And then she was taken away by the killer.
He dumped her body in the parking lot, I believe, of the Quality Inn
between a van and a fence.
The hotel in suburban Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey
was considered a safe place by the guests and by the workers.
[Eleanor] The Quality Inn in Hasbrouck Heights, where I worked.
My father was a maintenance man.
I was looking for a part time job, 'cause now the kids were in school and all.
He used say, need help with the Quality Inn.
I said, okay...
Doing what?
Cleaning rooms. Oh, all right.
I could do that. Clean my house, clean rooms.
My best friend worked there.
My sister-in-law worked there.
We were just a big family.
Some of our guests were the Giants football players.
And they would watch cartoons before they went to play their game.
I used to talk to them.
Wrestlers would stay there,
businessmen.
Now, the hotel was thrown into disarray.
My father saw it.
And he was telling me, "Elly, they found a body in the parking lot."
That was just... that's all we knew about Maryann Carr.
When she was found dead, Carr also had marks around her wrists and her ankles,
which indicated that she was probably handcuffed at some point.
There was a ligature mark around her neck
and traces of adhesive tape around her mouth.
She had been bitten all over the body, sexually abused.
We thought it was just some nut, murderer, whatever dumped the body there.
We did not expect the person to come back.
But as time went on,
authorities would realize that the killer was a creature of habit.
And the Quality Inn at Hasbrouck Heights was one of his favorite stops.
He keeps coming back to the Quality Inn.
And used it not only for his deeds of murder and mayhem,
but he also was dating a woman and brought her there a couple of different times.
It is very, very typical for any criminal
to operate where they feel comfort and they feel comfortable by familiarity.
As detectives retraced the killer's steps, they came up with a clue.
There was an eyewitness who was driving past the apartment complex
where the abduction took place,
who thought that he had actually seen the victim's husband
in the rereview mirror.
Detectives questioned the husband
to see if he was actually on a business trip as he claimed.
But he was later able to produce an alibi and clear himself of any
wrongdoing or involvement at all in the case.
What detectives didn't realize was that Maryann Carr
and another victim had lived in the same place.
Like the Quality Inn, this was another example of
the killer returning to places that he was familiar with.
Two of his victims Nancy Vogel and Maryann Carr
both lived in the same apartment complex,
even though the murders occurred 10 years apart.
They were sporadic events.
It wasn't like...
these things were happening every week,
and they would say, "Hey, this is the same guy."
Because you have couple of years later a different detective.
Maybe some of these detectives were transferred out.
Okay, so...
could somebody say, it is similar to something we had a couple of years ago, yes.
But the technology wasn't in place back then that it is now.
DNA would've made a difference but obviously it wasn't there.
Many homicides are... there's a family or familial connection.
Many of them are based up on crimes of passion.
But the ones that where the victims
don't have a connection to the murderer,
those are the ones that are difficult to really pinpoint.
It makes them also very difficult to solve.
You have all these very tiny police departments who may not be tying things together.
Law enforcement has always been a tribal sort of thing.
And the communication isn't always there.
In Bergen County, there are 73 independent and separate police departments,
69 municipals and at the time, you had county police and sheriff's department.
So communicating between independent departments was even more problematic.
Things back then were much more manual, much more written.
They had detective bureaus and they would have detective associations.
These detectives from multiple towns would get together and share notes.
But that was about it.
It was hard. It was hard, it was much more challenging.
There was no internet. There was no way for the jurisdictions to communicate
and be like, maybe we've got a serial killer here,
maybe this is one person committing all these crimes.
The killer identifies where he works and says he has a computer job
and his house in the suburbs.
He was revealing facts about his life.
Doesn't make any difference really what he tell them,
cause his plan is to kill them.
In October 1978, as police were trying to find out the identity of a man
who left a body outside a New Jersey hotel,
the Times Square Killer was back in Manhattan doing what he always did.
A sex worker named Susan Geiger, who was working the streets
when a stranger who identified himself as Jim approached and offered her $200 for a date.
She said she was booked up, but gave him a phone number to contact her at.
This guy just seemed like a nice person that needed company.
And they met in an Irish bar in Manhattan
in the shadow of the Queensborough Bridge.
Jim whipped out a big wad of cash.
Claimed that he had won the money gambling.
He then,
bizarrely,
identifies where he works and says that he has a computer job
and his house in the suburbs.
All of which is true.
In fact, the killer had been working in computer technology for more than a decade.
He was employed as a mainframe computer operator at a major insurance company.
He was largely living and doing his thing out in New Jersey.
Although, the whole time he was employed, he was working in New York City.
And he began to get active with prostitutes, sometimes two or three times a week.
He likes to get away with things he's not supposed to of.
He would, apparently while he was working at the insurance company, just leave,
go to sex clubs, do his thing and then come back.
And despite being married, he was also dating a nurse.
She was somebody that he met when he was out carousing.
He met her at a bar.
And they had a fling.
He actually stayed with her as a boyfriend-girlfriend for a period of time.
In the meantime, he still got his hobby,
his extracurricular activity while he's out, you know, murdering women.
For a guy to be in the computer business in 1960s is an anomaly, right?
There weren't that many computers.
He's on the cusp of the cutting edge, you know, at that point.
And he's pretty bright, and he knows it.
This is a guy who walked around in a suit and tie,
business person with a family and a home in a New Jersey suburb,
and came and went and nobody suspected him.
But look at the monster that he really was.
To this point, he had been meticulous.
But now, as he is sitting in a Manhattan bar with a sex worker named Susan Geiger,
he was giving away information that could lead to his arrest.
It does seem strange that he's revealing facts about his life.
He's trying to make the victim feel comfortable, relax them.
He knows in his mind what he's gonna do, but he doesn't want them to be frightened.
So he tells them about himself and so on.
From his perspective, it doesn't make any difference really what he tells them,
because his plan is to kill them.
Susan and a customer were talking in the bar,
that's when he began to put his plan into action.
Susan gets up to go to the bathroom,
he orders a round of screwdrivers
hoping that the juice would hide the taste of the pills he wanted to slip her.
It did, she passed out.
It doesn't surprise me that he would drug sex workers.
It's interesting.
Some serial sexual murderers avoid prostitutes, why?
Because prostitutes tend to be street people, they're strong,
they can take care of themselves.
And if you feel weak inside, as so many of them do,
they don't wanna tussle with a prostitute.
Because they may be overpowered by the person.
So what did he do, he drugged them. Got them drowsy and groggy.
So he can dominate them, so he can control them.
As with other victims, Susan Geiger was taken out of Manhattan
and brought to New Jersey.
She recalls being driven in a dirty, green Thunderbird
and then waking up in a hotel room.
She had been tortured and left for dead.
But when the killer left,
she managed to call the police and describe what happened to her.
In 2009 documentary, he explained how excited he got
during these violent encounters.
[killer's voice]
But at this point, the authorities still did not see any pattern
among all the suspect's crimes.
And at the insurance company where he worked,
he behaved as if he didn't have any care in the world.
He would disappear.
You know, he'd be gone for hours at a time.
And his bosses didn't seem to mind or do anything about it.
There again, he's a pretty bright guy.
And when he did show up, he was supposedly a good worker.
Even at the office, parts of his real personality were coming through.
He always seem to have a lot of money.
And it was never clear where he got the money from.
But he bragged about being a very successful gambler.
Some coworkers accused him of stealing keys to their desks
and taking things that didn't belong to him.
I don't whether he was actually a loan shark,
but he was loaning money to coworkers.
He was known to have extra cash.
So he'd be somebody that they would go to, you know, for this.
At his job, he was talking to his friends
about prostitutes and women and this sort of things.
It's a little bit off color.
Now, after his coworkers found out what he did,
they now look back and see it in much different way.
He loved the cat and mouse game.
He said to his coworkers when they discussed the murders,
he said, it could be you, could be me, could be anybody.
In 1979, the vicious assaults against women in New York and New Jersey
only seemed to be getting worse.
His attacks appeared to ramp up in terms of violence
and maybe leaving little clues behind for investigators.
People lived in fear and the Times Square Killer's exploits were splashed across the
front pages of the tabloids.
He loved the cat and mouse game.
He definitely did.
In 2009, in the documentary, he told journalist Nadia Fezzani
about his compulsion to continue his spree.
[killer's voice]
[Nadia Fezzani]
[killer]
[news reporter] Around 2 o'clock this morning, this young woman
dressed in a beige skirt and jacket
checked into a room on the 11th floor of the Seville Hotel on East 29th Street.
[man] He was with a sex worker by the name of Jean Marie Reyner.
[news reporter] Shortly after 8 a.m., a hotel employee
discovered her room filled with smoke.
She's found in the room strangled. And now, unlike the previous case,
where he'd killed two women in a hotel in the Times Square area,
her head and her hands were intact.
Yet, the killer still mutilated the body.
Before he departed the room, he lit the mattress on fire.
In the 2009 documentary,
journalist Nadia Fezzani asked the killer, why he decided to mutilate the body.
[killer] I mean, she was already dead.
I mean, it wasn't something that she was alive.
[killer continues speaking]
The killer said that he wanted sensationalism and now he was getting it.
This was exactly the kind of crime that the tabloids existed to cover.
Right near Wheelhouse,
he's in Times Square all of a sudden.
You know, the bright lights of Broadway or whatever.
There's more attention, more media.
For a brief period, it seemed like everyone in New York
was talking about the Times Square Killer.
It's interesting that he said to his coworkers,
when they discussed the Times Square murders and so on,
it could be you, it could be me, it could be anybody.
A housekeeper walked into room 132.
She says, I hit something under the bed and it was an arm.
Not just an arm, it's a whole body.
He was above the law.
It was going to be his show.
He wanted to see what it felt like to have someone under his control.
It comes down to him being a control freak
and doing whatever he wants to do and getting away with it.
And this car pulls up. And this guy with this stupid, smirky smile.
I just got this weird danger feeling.
Stranger danger. And he kept looking at me.
It was horrifying, horrifying.
They're looking around and they stumble upon a trophy room.
He's got a place where he's keeping these little trinkets
to stimulate his fantasies in the future.
One of the police came in the side door with a shotgun
and they were aiming it at this guy.
There's tons of unsolved crimes in New Jersey and New York.
These are names that I will never forget.
We're gonna be hearing about victims of his for decades.
As the Times Square Killer continued his deadly campaign,
detectives were wondering when he would slip up.
And who exactly was this man?
What could possibly drive someone to such a level of evil and depravity?
Sinister double life,
shocking confessions
and dark secrets revealed in part two of
the Times Square Killer.
I'm Donny Wahlberg, thanks for watching, good night.
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