it was Mother's Day May 13th 1984 a warm spring afternoon near Tampa Florida after spending time with their months two boys raced off to fly parachutes made from plastic bags it was the perfect way to spend a Sunday but soon the wind brought a foul smell they went off to investigate and found a sight they would remember for the rest of their lives [Applause] [Music] [Music] in 1984 in South Florida a rapist and murderer was on the loose the killer was a ruthless and terrifying Predator the newest member of an Infamous group known as serial killers he kills just for the sake of it and though his acts at first seemed random his choice of victims is fiercely selective a woman's occupation or even her hairstyle may be enough to make her a Target it takes time at least two kills before the patent emerges I'm Jim cstom former director of the FBI's New York office the serial killer world is a delicate balance on one side is a threat of capture on the other is his overwhelming need to publicize his crime our job is to use everything at our disposal to tip the balance in in our favor what the boys found was the body of a nud woman lying in the roadside [Music] weeds the medical examiner determined she'd been there for about 3 [Music] days her wrists were bound behind her back and a rope with a trailing extension was tied around her neck like a leash bruises blisters and insects covered their body but it was the position of the corps that told detectives this was not a typical murder case major Gary Terry then Lieutenant Terry had just been appointed head of the Hillsboro County Major Crimes unit when he got the call but the unique thing about the the body to me was the fact that her legs were spread about 5 foot 5' 1 in apart from heel to heel uh a scene that I'll never forget and a scene that I've never seen before the pose was so grotesque the body seemed to have been positioned that way deliberately had the killer meant to shock whoever found it CRI scene technicians photographed the body and measured its distance from the road they carefully packaged what little evidence was left some cloth tied in a knot detective pops Baker of the Hillsboro County Sheriff's Department also found tire tracks he worked that night to make plaster [Music] cks Tire cks can reveal the make and size of tires to help experts deduce the size and type of car a criminal is driving they can also link him to a crime scene [Music] meanwhile the body was brought to the medical examiner's office with the ligatures in place for him to study and [Music] photograph [Music] really the medical examiner determined the victim had been raped then strangled to death the brutality of the the crime brought a sense of urgency to the investigation fearing this would not be an isolated case Lieutenant Terry immediately contacted the FBI's forensics lab in Washington DC Terry had a detective hand carry the evidence to the FBI lab he had learned during an earlier case that doing so expedited the processing of evidence and brought the FBI in as an immediate active partner [Music] the FBI lab is one of the foremost forensics Laboratories in the country there are experts on every type of evidence from bullets to fibers to vehicle parts to [Applause] nuts the FBI's not expert analyzed the ligatures from the tamper victim's wrists and throat they had been removed intact in hopes they'd tie the killer to his deed they might also say something about his past specialized knots might reveal that he had been a Merchant Marine were in the [Music] military but the ligatures turned out to be tied in granny knots simple functional knots that anyone might have tied an FBI fiber expert analyzed the fabric found near the [Music] body he brushed particles from the cloth onto a sterile [Music] sheet what traces had the Killer Left Behind the analyst scanned the particles with a magnifier but he didn't expect to find much such evidence is easily lost through weather or other contamination of the crime scene in fact the rule of thumb for fiber evidence is in 4 hours 80% is lost in 48 hours it's 96% after 3 days the chance of finding anything is almost nil so he was a amazed when he found a small Speck of red nylon fiber it was trilobal meaning it consisted of three loes and had a lustrous or shiny coating from its size type and shape he guessed it was a carpet fiber maybe from the Killer's car the fact that it was there at all was a minor miracle the analyst from the FBI lab told the Hillsboro detectives to keep the discovery secret he If This Were a serial killer publicizing fiber evidence could make him change his pattern or his vehicle so he'd be harder to find the FBI's Tire lab also scored from the tire casts they determined the tires were of two different brands all were well worn and mounted reversed with the Black Walls facing out an irregularity like that could be powerful incriminating [Music] evidence back in Tampa Police identified the victim from a fingerprints the day after her body was found she was Lana long a 20-year-old Le ocean woman a popular exotic dancer in Tampa's red light district her boyfriend had recognized her from a newspaper photo and had called police he became the prime [Music] suspect officers questioned the girls on The Strip but received no information implicating the boyfriend or anyone else they were stomped okay I'll meet you up here at the table then just 2 weeks later the Cal of another holiday weekend was broken you on Memorial Day Sunday detective pops Baker and Lieutenant Gary Terry of the Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office were called to a second urgency again in an isolated rural area off an interstate uh young female late 18 1920 range like Lana long this victim was female in her late teens to early 20s and nude [Music] she was also bound at the hands and throat and had a knot at her neck with a leash likee extension but this knot was different it was a hangman style Noose I can remember driving all the way to the crime scene and saying to myself please don't let this victim be bound in 19884 we very rarely had homicide victims bound that's the first thing I asked the officer protecting the crime scene when I drove up is she bound and he said yes sir she is so we've gone from very rarely having victims bound two within 2 weeks so we knew we had a problem this woman had not been dead long she's still warm because the crime scene was fresher than the last more evidence remained detectives found a man's olive green t-shirt and some strands of hair which they determined were not the victims hanging from a bush a few feet away from the woman's head were her white panty hose and white jumpsuit both covered with blood down a little bit from the brutality of her wounds detectives knew she had fought for her life and that it had been a Savage struggle kind of bald just as the other she had been raped strangled beaten and her throat had been cut almost from ear to ear the medical examiner reported three causes of death asfixiation head injuries and a lacerated throat as before Baker found tire tracks casks were taken for analysis and comparison to the ones found at the first murder sin once again the crime scene evidence was hand delivered to the FBI lab in Washington analysts found the same red lusted trilobal carpet fibers as at the first scene and this time there were red trilobal delustered fibers too with the shiny coating absent it said fiber evidence is the Silent Witness but this match seemed to scream that the cases were linked Lana Long's boyfriend could not be tied to the second murder and he was cleared as a suspect the items found at the scene also provided other Clues the green t-shirt was a size large suggesting a person of medium build and chest size the head hairs were medium brown from a male caucasian these two pieces of information began a physical evidence profile which are shared with other law enforcement agencies FBI Tire expert Sandy wora analyzed the tire Impressions and made another match the tracks were the same as those from the first murder scene now she knew the position of each tire on the car and that they were mounted on a midsized vehicle the advantage of having a cast Over the photograph is that I can actually pick the cast up I can light it from different angles and different directions and hopefully if there are any Cuts or Nicks or um rocks that are caught in the tire I'll be able to see that in the cast but perhaps the best clue came from what she didn't know she knew knew two of the tires with a common Goodyear Viva brand but a third wasn't on the FBI's extensive reference list one of the tire Impressions they could not identify from their files but what they did was gave us the name of a tire expert a manufacturer out in akan Ohio and we actually flew a detective Corporal Baker flew out there personally with the tire Impressions met with the old salts out there the Tire Factory and they actually were able to Iden if that tire force and that was the Vogue tire and in 1984 was a handmade tire that comes as standard equipment on Cadillacs we had never even seen a tire like that before to the left police were told that if they found the car with that tire mounted black walls out it would be as positive an ID as a fingerprint analysis of the victim's knife wound revealed that the killer had a knife with a 3-in blade now we've got two victims both bound and both connected forensically so we knew we had a serial killer on our hands at that time it's just a gut feeling that I get it Lieutenant Terry began to track the killer strikes on a map hoping they reveal a pattern of behavior DP the bodies off he put out the word to patrol officers look for a white male with brown hair of medium build driving a midsize car with the tires reversed he may be carrying a knife with a 3-in blade following the FBI's recommendation Terry didn't mention the fiber evidence or the ligatures from a composite drawing released to the media the second victim was identified 22-year-old Michelle Sims had a criminal history of prostitution she'd been reported missing the day [Music] before a key member of the Hills burough County investigative team was detective Randy laimer at this point though we realized we're dealing with a serial killer that it looked like he was uh probably uh praying on prostitutes so uh we went out into to the areas of the known prostitute areas and and started contacting the girls and and let them know what was going on giving them our business cards that if they saw something strange to contact us let us know we're looking for information we were frustrated that we couldn't we couldn't get any leads we couldn't get anything to go on [Music] hey B what do we got well I've got a body then on June 24th Another Sunday Terry Baker and ladimer responded to a third murder scene a worker had found a body in an Orange Grove got aimet set up it was another female but the pattern seemed different this one was fully clothed and there were no ligatures so there was no reason to believe it was linked well as you can see but detectives didn't rule it out looks like it's been undisturbed for quite [Music] some they delivered the victim's clothing to the FBI lab just in case a connection could be found this time the fiber expert they had worked with before was not available and someone else was signed he wasn't asked to compare the new evidence to the old so he didn't nor did he begin the analysis immediately doesn't look like the body was so badly decomposed it only weighed 25 lb including clothes it took some time to get an ID and when it finally came the victim's lifestyle didn't fit the pattern either [Music] 22-year-old Elizabeth luden backck of Tampa was a shy assembly line worker who lived with her family she had no criminal history and was not a prostitute although she did frequent bars on Tampa's strip slave here a note in Elizabeth's room said to find her boyfriend if anything happened to her so detectives ordered a polygraph test I'm going to ask you a series of questions and you just need to answer to yes or no to those person do you understand [Music] yeah did you know Elizabeth luden yes [Music] did you have a relationship with Elizabeth luden [Music] yes did you ever harm Elizabeth luden back [Music] no he failed the polygraph test making him the prime [Music] suspect it wasn't until mid-september 3 months after the discovery of Elizabeth's body in the Orange Grove that the results came in yeah the FBI had a match they found red carpet fibers identical to those found in the first two murders looks like luden is ours they found red fibers it connected up now they had three related killings Terry entered the new scene on the map any kind of significant difference every detective on the homicide Squad was working the case the nature of the investigation began to change instead of focusing on boyfriends and neighbors detectives pursued an unknown killer terrorizing the women of Tampa we've taken the entire homicide unit now are concentrating on these cases and we're running down leads we're getting telephone calls about different people and we're checking those leads out we're doing a background investigation of these particular victims and we're coming up empty and all we have to do is unfortunately and then there's another victim is discovered and that is victim number four after a lull of more than 3 months the calm of yet another Sunday was shattered on October 7th a worker found a body near the entrance to the kar Ranch in Northern Hillsboro County this time detective Steve crib was assigned to help process the scene he Terry Baker and vladimer didn't have to look far for the first Grim piece of evidence the victim's bra hanging from the entrance gate the nude body of a young black woman was nearby her clothing was beside her most of the detectives ruled her out as a serial victim she had been raped but unlike the others she had been shot not strangled and there were no ligatures also she was African-American and usually serial killers don't cross racial boundaries get her into a controlled environment we'd be able to really inspect while the FBI analyzed the evidence detectives identified the victim from fingerprints 18-year-old Chanel Devon Williams had just recently been released from jail on a prostitution arrest when she [Music] disappeared she was last seen working the red light district along Nebraska Avenue with a friend another prostitute a few days before she had been dead about 6 days the FBI's hair and fiber analysis revealed it was the work of the serial killer both types of red fibers were found on Chanel's clothing along with a Brown Caucasian pubic air by Crossing racial bounds and using a different weapon the killer had changed his routine shifting from a pattern is very rare in serial killers and would make this one more difficult to capture Chanel was added to the map near the Pasco Hillsboro County Line with four dead detectives were desperate to find the Killer and obsessed with the case you don't work these cases you live and breathe these types cases you go home at night you dream about this case you eat and sleep it I would go home at night and just look at the telephone waiting for it to ring every Sunday for some reason the first series of bodies were discovered on Sunday on Sunday I didn't plan anything I said at [Music] home indeed the Sunday after Chanel's body turned up Terry Baker vladimer and crib were called to another murder scene this one was near Lake thot assassin Northeast of Tampa a couple of amateur archaeologists had uncovered a morbid fine at the side of the road was a woman's body wrapped in a gold colored bed spread tied with a blue jogging suit now take we need [Music] inside her lower legs and ankles were bound with common white [Applause] string her hands were tied in front of her with a red bandana she had been bound raped strangled hit on the forehead and dragged through the dirt it seemed the killer was back to his old pattern the woman was quickly identified from fingerprints as 28-year-old Karen D's friend raised in an affluent Suburban household she had died a drug ravaged prostitute she was last seen alive in the early hours of the day she was killed as if there weren't enough to link the killer to the crime investigator Steve crib actually saw red trilobal carpet fibers on Karen's Body by now he developed a sixth sense for them when you know what you're looking for they almost look like gloworms on the on the victims but for the average person to walk up and find them even the other investigators who weren't looking for this type they wouldn't see them but uh they became such a key point of the investigation that when we went to a crime scene that's one of the first things we would look for with the carpet fibers at the FBI lab the fiber expert compared these fibers to the ones from the other crime scenes they matched there were now five cases linked to a single killer but there was still no name no face and no one under arrest it becomes very frustrating that you know someone else is going to die because you haven't stopped the suspect um you have enough information to know that he's doing it but not enough information to pick him out of the crowd if he were to bump into you walking down the mall cuzz you have to remember in this series of cases our concern is if we don't stop this guy if we don't find him today he's going to kill somebody tomorrow or the next day and in fact he did two weeks later on Halloween another victim emerged a contractor digging a ditch found the mummified remains of a woman's body Terry Baker laimer and crib arrived at the scene [Music] the medical examiner estimated the body had been there for about a month the body was badly decomposed and ID would require special measures the FBI lab needed to soften the skin on the hands in order to get fingerprints as hard as the victim was to identify Detectives instantly recognized the killer the body had been completely mummified the head had been separated by animal activity uh there were no ligatures attached no clothing and again you just look at the body and you realize it's him again you just have that feeling by now of the crime scenes of seeing body after body after body that it should be the same killer and in fact it was [Music] then at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday November 4th A call came in to Tampa Police that seemed unrelated a man reported his daughter had been abducted and [Music] raped 17-year-old Lisa McVey was leaving work at a Crispy Cream donut shop on her bicycle it was around 2:30 a.m. the man snatched her off her bike threw her into his car and drove off he held her at gunpoint reclined her seat so no one would see her and told her to remove all of her clothes [Applause] he took her to his apartment bound and gagged she'd been sexually abused before and she knew how to read the moods of an abuser Lisa sensed resistance might send this man into a rage so she quietly did what he wanted Lisa memorized all she could about her surroundings At first she peaked out from beneath her blindfold then when he uncovered her eyes she saw everything including his face she was certain that now he'd never let her leave alive he took her to his bedroom and repeatedly raped her for 24 hours sometimes he slept but she knew he was armed and that he'd kill her if she tried to leave after a full day of captivity the man told Lisa to take a shower then he gave her some clothes and made her a sandwich to her amazement he said he would take her home at around 3 a.m. they drove toward her [Music] neighborhood on the way he stopped at a 24-hour teller machine to withdraw money to get gas peing under her blindfold Lisa continued to memorize details [Music] the Howard Johnson's road signs the word Magnum on the dashboard of his [Music] car he finally released her near her home after Lisa's adoptive father reported the abduction she was interviewed by Tampa police officers okay I want to ask you everything that happened um the night when you left work and and I'm going to record you they were Amazed by her almost Total Recall and fierce resolve to catch the rapist um I always leave work about 12:00 I got on my bike although Lisa had not been killed there were many similarities to the Hillsboro cases the Abduction the rape the man's build and hair color and even the red interior of his car Tampa Police sent Lisa's sweater to the FBI lab we were inundating the fbib lab with things to compare for fiber samples rape cases assault cases anything sexually related and a violent crime we were sent to the FBI lab for fiber comparison meanwhile just a week after the last body was found Pasco County detectives were called to another murder scene on November 6th 1984 a woman's body was found on the same road as the fourth victim Chanel Williams only this time it was to the north in in neighboring Pasco County Pasco detectives called Hillsboro detectives to a vacant lot near a mobile home park if you look right here the body was in a different County but the ligatures and fibers were all too familiar although the body had decomposed to mainly bones The Telltale leash was still attached around the neck little bit of shoelace right around there was another ligature on an armb bone near the body with a woman's tattered blouse and patties and some jewelry be careful that we get around the neck just leave that there the bones were scattered over almost an acre when the medical examiner pieced them together they seemed to belong to a young white female she was later identified as 18-year-old Virginia Johnson jinny divided her time between Connecticut and Florida where she worked as a prostitute she disappeared on her way to buy cigarettes about 3 weeks earlier after all that time it seemed impossible but the FBI lab found a single red lustrous fiber in Jenny Johnson's hair within the week on November 12th another jurisdiction fell prey to the killer a body was found on an incline off North Orient Road within Tampa City Limits when Terry and Baker arrived they found a young white woman nude but for kneehigh stockings she was face down when they turned her over police knew from her blooded face that she had been savagely beaten and that she had [Music] struggled there were ligature marks on the front of her neck and on both wrists and arms but no rope was found her wed up blue jeans and flowered top were near her body detectives Baker and crib immediately saw something stuck to the blue jeans tiny red fibers in the pocket of the jeans was the victim's driver's license Kim Marie Swan was a 21-year-old part-time student who sidelined as an exotic dancer she was last seen leaving a convenience store near her parents' home the previous [Music] afternoon it seemed the killer had pulled off the road and thrown the body out of his car there were faint Tire impressions in the grass near the roadway they would match the casts made earlier the killer was picking up the pace of his killings and the body count stood at 8 Terry and Baker were desperate they drove to Atlanta to meet with a detective who helped Crack the Case of Wayne Williams a serial killer believed to be responsible for 27 murders because something we did really want to share publicly in 1984 what do you do when you're 10 bodies 15 or 20 bodies down and you don't have the suspect in custody what do you do we were sitting down in their office discovering and during the course of that conversation the telephone ran and the the telephone call was from the FBI in Washington and the FBI lab says we have just had a match on a piece of fiber evidence submitted from a rape case and I was blindfolded that case turned out to be the abduction and rape of Lisa McVey only a week earlier Tampa Police had rushed Lisa's clothing to the FBI lab and experts there had found matching red trilobal carpet fibers on her sweater it was the break they'd been waiting for want play Terry flew back to Tampa immediately he formed a task force of officers from the Hillsboro and Pasco County Sheriff's Office the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI along with a Tampa police detectives already working the rape case then he divided them into teams each with a different assignment they initiated a massive Manhunt patrol cars fanned out across North Tampa they were looking for the Killer's apartment and his red Dodge Magnum the information from Lisa McVey was their road map the additional personnel and resources brought in by the task force stepped up the search for Lisa mcvey's abductor because the perpetrator used an ATM one team of investigators subpoenaed the November 4th bank records for all local automatic teller machines another team ped a select list of all the Dodge Magnums in Hillsboro County almost 500 cars then they compared the bank records and the list of Magnum owners looking for a name that matched and the unique thing when you looked at both list is that one name jumped out at you is Robert Joe long he had a money transaction from the money teller machine early morning hours he also was a registered owner a Dodge Magnum in addition earlier that day a task force team from Tampa spotted a red Dodge Magnum on Nebraska Avenue the Killer's hunting ground the detectiv stopped the car they told the driver they were looking for a robbery suspect from his license they identified him as Robert Joe long they photographed him and rode up a field report he was cooperative but wouldn't let them search his car of course they contacted the task force uh headquarters uh when they made the Stop and we told him go ahead and stay with it at that particular time stay with the car once it left and we put a surveillance team together then to stay on him at that time a photo pack was assembled a line up of photographs in which he was placed in that photo pack that photo pack was shown or displayed to Lisa she looked at it and said that's the guy that kidnapped me she pointed out Bobby Joe long Lieutenant Terry had his man but he couldn't risk making a mistake with a quick arrest he needed time to obtain warrants and organize his team to ensure Public Safety Terry ordered non-stop surveillance of long units followed Long's every move than unmarked cars maybe he sensed they were on his Trail because he started cleaning house officers cleaned up right behind him even when he vacuumed his car police seized the vacuum they retrieved everything long thought he was destroying after months of tracking a phantom killer the task force was not about to let him slip away less than 24 hours after Lisa McVey identified Bobby Joe long the arrest plan was firmly in place the task force moved in they had followed along to a movie theater I'm right over here Ste as he watched the film undercover detectives watched him long seemed unaware he was surrounded we're sitting at the war room we had constructed down to the Operation Center we and everything is just going 90 M an hour we have a surveillance team on the inside of the theater watching it there's a surveillance team outside watching the car and that nagging doubt comes to you is this really the guy you've been chasing for eight months is this really the guy that you has been killing these women so we tell the surveillance team outside listen whatever you do get up to his car I don't care if you have to low crawl whatever you have to do get to the car and tell us what kind of tires are on the car and the surveillance team came back and said hey there's there's Goodyear via tires on the car they're all black wall and he said there's some Oddball Tire here named Vig Vogue something like that on the car soon as he said that we knew when we pulled up and saw the car saw the tire the Vogue tire that had had been described from one of our uh Tire Impressions when we saw the seat that were that revolved that that laid back the red carpet fiber they would a doubt in our mind that we had the right suspect Terry gave the order to arrest detectives followed long as he left the few he was never out of their sight they didn't know if he was armed so as he approached his car they jumped him and brought him to the ground he didn't resist I'm not moving I'm not moving he was on the ground when I walked up to him and placed my badge next to his face and identified myself as a deputy sheriff advising him he was under arrest [Music] they took Long's car to the Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office garage Steve crib immediately tore out a piece of carpeting and rushed it to an FBI fiber expert flown in from [Music] Washington statement from you all right meanwhile Randy Latimer and members of the task force interviewed Bobby Jo Long who had declined his right to on the street that you got some cuts and stuff on your hands and arms did they take care of all that for you oh yeah justst they were well prepared having consulted the Behavioral Science unit at the FBI Academy on how to conduct the interview detective price um just where do you want to start the game plan was to start by addressing only Lisa McVey long confessed immediately well uh went down there and uh parked my car after he admitted to the rape and adduction of Lisa McVey and we talked about why he let her go uh and what went through his mind and what went on um I I rolled into questioning him about prostitutes have you ever picked up any prostitutes um he told me he had in Miami I asked him about here um and and he said well he might have then they began talking to him about the murders he initially denied it committing any of the murders [Music] as the interview continued the FBI fiber expert examined the carpet from Long's car he compared this sample to the [Music] others it was the moment of truth [Music] soon as they look put them on the comparison microscope the FBI agent called back and said Bingo it's a match the carpet fiber from the car matches the carpet fiber from the different homicide scenes probably helping me out at this point Terry told laimer the news [Music] then Latimer explained it to La I mean we just got inform he told them about the fibers and their significance and about Long's brown head hair found at the crime scene and the Vogue tire vladimer let long know that by the time they found the second body they were already on his Trail can I say the evidence was overwhelming and he looked he looked down he had he had his legs kind of his knees spread apart he looked down between his feet and I said yeah I did it I said did what he says I killed him killed who he says I killed all those girls all those girls in the paper I killed um and and then we just started going through them one by one after that but then it just became more and more you know long described each murder in a taped confession the interview lasted 5 and a half hours Bobby Long showed no emotion no remorse uh it was it was just a an everyday conversation like you and I are having here at the end uh I don't know if it was myself or Bob Price had asked him why he did it and he said that that was his secret and he was going to take it to the Grave with him during the interview long also confessed to a ninth murder go go left go left when detectives found her remains they also found more of the tiny red carpet fibers the victim was identified through records as 21-year-old Vicky Elliott a waitress long also helped identify his sixth victim whose body had been found on Halloween 22-year-old Kimberly hops was known by the street name of sugar she was last seen by her boyfriend getting into a maroon Chrysler Cordoba probably Long's red Dodge Magnum I'd like to thank the members of the press late that night Lieutenant Terry called a press conference has for months been investigating a probable serial killer the media thought police would announce yet another B County Pasco County they were shocked by the arrest how long did you had this suspect Bobby Joe long and he's presently been charged with 10 homicides that have occurred over the course of the past 6 months within Hillsboro County Pasco County and the City of Tampa he was arrested without incident and is subsequently confessed to several of the homicides under investigation you have evence homicide did [Music] you open five in the coming days Hillsboro detectives learned they weren't the only ones tracking law Task Force member Charles Troy a Pasco County detective stumbled upon the truth he realized that long fit the description of a man who had raped a pastor woman months ago [Music] Troy scoured Long's apartment for evidence he found a photo album filled with photographs of nude women including the rape victim in jail long confessed and bragged about the crime detectives had also found clothing and jewelry from Long's other victims it's a common Quirk of serial killers to keep photos or other trophies of those they [Music] kill detectiv soon realized that long was the classified ad rapist named for his Mo he canvased the classified for women selling beds and other furniture and when they let him in he brutally raped them he had never been apprehended long may have raped more than 50 Florida women in the 1970s and 80s some even injuring his murder spree now with long finally in jail detectives reflected on Lessons Learned it just shows the importance of physical and trace evidence shows the importance of the cooperation with the laboratory and what they can do for you and the effort that you have to put at a crime scene there the hours you need to spend there you don't you can't rush you just have to be delivered take your time and be professional in what you're doing cuz often times the answer is sitting right there in front of you and the smallest spec the smallest little piece of information may be the one key that breaks this case uh as detectives got ready for the Thanksgiving weekend they thought the horrifying 8-month string of killings was finally behind them they packed up the boxes of evidence and hoped some semblance of normaly would finally return but even then a quiet holiday seemed to evade [Music] them on Thanksgiving Thursday a couple out walking found a skull bones and some clothes as well as three pieces of rope including a leash type ligature and what he really enjoyed was the pain the torture and the torment and the control he exercised over these victims you can see that in the early crime scene with with the leader the leash like attached to their neck where he choked them out of Consciousness then the victim wakes up and he's still there arride her raping her torturing her that's where Mr long got his enjoyment his kicks killing just eliminate a witness he could do that without any compunction without any any trouble at all when a forensic dentist linked the body to a missing person's report long confessed the victim was Artisan Wick an 18-year-old bride to be who had vanished from a Northeast Tampa street corner on March [Music] 28th she had been missing for eight months ironically Wick was the first victim taken though the last one found she brought the known death toll to 10 but Terry has always believed there were more I'm confident he's killed other women other people uh are we going to find those bodies or discover those other cases I don't know that we ever will Bobby Joe long was never convicted in the classified ad rapes in part because the statute of limitations had expired by the time he was caught he did receive six life sentences in 693 years for attacks on women in 1984 and 85 for the Hillsboro murders and the rape of Lisa McVey long received 33 life sentences he was sentenced to death for the killings of Virginia Johnson and Michelle Sims after sentencing long left the courthouse whistling a tune Mr long is is a killing machine he became very proficient in what he was doing very skillful at it and if Mr long ever sees the light a day all you going to have to do is follow the trail of his other bodies of his other victims cuz he will kill again he enjoyed it long remains on Florida's death rad with no date set for his [Music] execution the dense and rugged Alaskan Wilderness provided the perfect cover for a Fierce and sadistic [Music] killer he prayed on women kidnapping them raping them torturing [Applause] them he hunted them like animals for his own Twisted pleasure [Applause] [Music] in the 1970s and ' 80s people went to Alaska looking for a fresh start to reinvent themselves or to disappear for a while some of those disappearances weren't by choice I'm Jim calom former head of the FBI's New York office a serial killer Rampage was exposed when the bodies of young women began turning up in Shallow Graves that dotted the Alaskan Wilderness the killer was at home in the rugged terrain but the hunt for him began 3,000 Mi away where FBI profilers mapped the criminals mind she was a hopeful young model looking for her break [Music] she accepted a job with a man who claimed to be a photographer but turned out to be a merciless [Music] killer she wasn't his first victim or his last [Music] from the 70s through the mid 80s the Wilderness of Alaska became a popular destination as people flowed North to construct the Alaskan Pipeline the population boomed on August 13th 1982 two off-duty Anchorage police officers were hunting moose near the kic river in A wilderness about 20 mi from anchorage's not really Holding Out for us either [Music] yeah as they made their way through the dense forest they happened upon partially buried human remains they left it undisturbed the next day crime scene technicians from the Alaska State Troopers arrived at the scene crimes out here fell under State jurisdiction besides clothing and an elastic bandage Troopers found a 223 caliber shell casing in the shallow grave conven here in the sand dental records identified the remains as 23-year-old Sher Marl an exotic dancer reported missing a year earlier by her boyfriend Troopers called him in to break the news her clothes matched the ones he reported her missing in but her good luck charm the gold Arrowhead pendant she never took off gone we talked but uh I Maro was probably murdered shortly after she disappeared giving the killer more than a year to cover his tracks finding him would be next to [Music] Impossible in the year following the discovery of Sher marrow's body more women began turning up it's a sad truth that finding bodies in the Alaskan Wilderness wasn't all that unusual two or three times a year some novice hiker or Hunter would get lost and succumb to the [Music] elements but a growing number of bodies had a different story to tell during new road construction on September 2nd 1983 a cre Unearthed human skeletal remains not far from where Sher marrow's body had been found one year earlier the bones had obviously been here for some time yet until recently this area of the KCK River was so remote that it could only be accessed by boat or light plane [Music] The Remains were identified as 17-year-old Paula ging an outof work secretary who had moved to Alaska from Hawaii she had been missing for 5 months like Sherry Marl she had taken a job as an exotic dancer to make ends meet and like Sher Marl a 223 caliber cartridge was found at the site for Alaska State Trooper Wayne van Clawson the connection was frightening and that's about when everything started to become kind of scary for everybody because the the profile was the same they were they were topless uh dancers from from the clubs downtown uh but that was certainly when there was the belief that there was a Serial murderer out there two bodies had been found but now Troopers believed there were more they began to revisit missing persons reports many of those reports missing were exotic dancers but in Alaska their disappearance Was Not Unusual missing persons was a relatively low priority um statutorily if you're an adult you have a right to be missing and there were a lot of instances where these girls would just jump on a plane and go away between 1980 and 1983 12 women had been reported missing that was only a fraction of the unreported total Troopers now wondered how many of the missing women were victims of the killer that would be difficult to determine the Alaska State Troopers sent the evidence from the Sher Maro and Paula guling crime scenes to the FBI's laboratory and Washington DC for analysis the FBI ran ballistics tests on both shell casings to see if they were shot from the same gun state troopers hoped the results could provide them with strong evidence that the same person committed both murderers ERS the lab results were conclusive both women were killed by the same high powerered rifle it was little doubt Alaska troopers were dealing with a serial [Music] killer while they began their hunt for him in the wilderness the Anchorage police were dealing with their own problems [Music] every city has its dark side and Anchorage is no different except that in Alaska the nights are longer and darker in the 70s and ' 80s Anchorage was a Frontier Town men came here to work hard and women followed to ease their loneliness some women were lured to the strip clubs hoping to earn equipment Buck others looking for more respectable opportunities worked in the clubs until something better came up for many it never [Music] did and in the city's streets roamed a stalker he chose carefully his vict victims were hardly missed for in a city made up largely of strangers it's difficult to be a missing person some of the women who disappeared from Anchorage turned up safely some didn't turn up at all but disappearances weren't the only crimes being reported on the early morning of June 13th 198 83 Cindy pson aged 17 ran down an Anchorage Highway she was partially dressed and in handcuffs she managed to flag down a passing truck she was running for her life the motorist dropped her off at her motel apartment the desk clerk had called the Anchorage police Mr Paulson an officer removed her handcuffs and tried to calm her you all right here let me get this Anchorage police officer Greg Baker recalls the incident uh we found her in handcuffs with very little clothes on she was real credible she was very scared she's very frightened and uh she told us her story Paulson The Prostitute told Baker that she picked up a trick the night before she described him as wiry scruffy about 6 ft tall with glasses and a stutter it was not the kind of person she thought of as threatening but as soon as she stepped into his car he handcuffed her and put a wood handled revolver to her [Music] head they drove to a respectable residential neighborhood he pulled her into his [Music] house the place was well kept and full of hunting trophies he had a chain hanging from the ceiling of his den he chained her up and stripped [Music] her and there she was tortured and raped repeatedly for [Music] hours then he went to take a nap leaving her there put my but he wasn't through yet he said he was going to take her to his cabin in the wilderness he said if she tried to get anyone's attention he'd kill her and them as well he told her he already had his Alibi worked out his friends were willing to lie for him no one would believe her story they ended up at the airport she could see him loading a weapon into a small aircraft she also saw her chance for escape her one chance to save her [Music] life the story sounded outrageous but her genuine Terror compelled officer Baker to check it out yep I had a very Street Smart female scared to death with a story about being taken at gunpoint and held prisoner at a specific location that she described where it was so she knew where it was she described the interior of the location she described the den up to it including various animals were M posted on the mounted on the wall and in route to the hospital for an examination Paulson insisted on stopping at the airport to show police the airplane she had seen earlier she positively identified it while we were in there we had a security guard stop us and described the car the same way that cindia described the car and in fact gave us a license number uh that license number confirmed the address or the area at least that Cindy had given us uh regarding where the house was police went to the address to speak to the owner of the car they arrived moments before he pulled up driving the vehicle described by Cindy pson so far everything pson said and checked out but the suspect had his own story to tell sir according to the motor vehicle records the car that Cindy pson was abducted in belonged to Robert Hansen a baker in Anchorage Hansen who fit the description of the man Paulson described calmly answered questions he said he was at a friend's house from 5:00 p.m. to 11:30 :0 p.m. repairing a seat for his airplane afterward he went to the home of another friend and stayed until around 5:30 that morning then he went to the airport and installed the [Music] seat Hansen gave police his consent to search his [Music] house again his home was exactly as pson had described that only proved she'd been in the house not that Hansen had raped and tortured her there they could find no evidence of that they did notice a loose fitting wall panel behind it they found a collection of weapons but that wasn't surprising Hansen was an avid Hunter they did find a revolver but it didn't match the one that pulson described the gun the chain and the blanket she was wrapped in were nowhere to be found Hansen's car appeared equally clean Anchorage police found nothing in his car that fit Paulson's story those aliis were corroborated verified and Mr Hansen was released after a consent search of his house and Paulson still shaken from her ordeal was able to pick Hansen's picture out of out of a photo lineup but when given the chance to take a lie detector test she refused her occupation gave her an inherent distrust of the police and gave police an inherent distrust of her she felt she'd never be taken seriously soon after she left town for a while to try to put the nightmare behind her Anchorage authorities were willing to let it drop too I found out because the uh alibi were corroborated and because they had a problem with Cindy Paulson appearing and disappearing and of course her lifestyle left a lot to be desired that the case had been suspended at the Anchorage Police Department my and it was already police had gathered no solid evidence linking her story to Robert Hansen but for officer Greg Baker it wasn't over he was one officer who believed Paulson's story and wouldn't let it go the predator roaming the streets of Anchorage was still out there free to claim more victims Robert Hansen the most likely suspect in the abduction and rape of Cindy pulson had been released for a lack of solid Evidence Officer Baker was still curious lately the Anchorage police had been grappling with what seemed like more than their share of missing persons reports involving prostitutes like P or exotic dancers or women out by themselves Paulson's assertion that she was about to be put on a plane only reinforced his creeping suspicions about Hansen he had taken her to the airport where he was going to fly her out with the story that if she maintained her her helpfulness that uh he'd bring her back and let her go well Cindy was bright enough to know that she was on a one-way trip and uh so was I and so I kind of just put two and two together and figured that he was a very good suspect for the uh Missing dancers Baker's supervisor had suspended the investigation into Robert Hansen but Baker couldn't Let It Go Cindy polson's nightmarish story had too much detail to not have some basis in truth but no one except Baker would listen to her he continued his investigation on the surface Baker found nothing in Hansen's record to arouse suspicion he had moved to Anchorage from Iowa 16 years earlier and opened a bakery it was a huge success he had a wife and children and except for his stutter he fit in completely when he wasn't in the kitchen Hansen enjoyed flying his small airplane a Super Cub Piper back on the ground he took to the woods he was a solid citizen he just didn't fit the model of a serial killer there were plenty of others drifting through Alaska more suited to that role they didn't have businesses they didn't have families Hansen did he had everything to lose Frank Roth's child was a prosecutor involved in the pson case Bob the baker the Troopers and the police used to go to his doughnut shop all the time was a very popular place to go uh he was he had a a bakery people knew him he was friendly uh he was just a hardworking guy unaware of Officer Greg Baker's local investigation in Anchorage state troopers were still trying to find their serial killer bodies continued to be Unearthed in the Alaskan Wilderness Troopers set up a task force to study the similarities between the missing women and the murder victims they hoped to find a Common Thread that would lead to a suspect until authorities knew more they did their best to educate dancers and prostitutes about playing safe for the first time police and prostitutes were on the same side according to Rothchild the goal was preservation law enforcement were then and had been for a Time advising young women who were working in some of these clubs and who were working the streets to be careful and to advise them there was um a maniac out there who was who seem to be abducting and killing people a little digging revealed that Hansen's criminal history was extensive 12 years earlier in 1971 he'd been arrested twice for kidnapping rape and assault with a deadly weapon they were crimes that bore an eerie resemblance to what Cindy pson had endured Baker couldn't bring this information to his supervisor the pulson case had been officially suspended and Baker was bucking Authority that left him no alternative and at that time I gathered up all the reports and background that I could find on Mr Hansen and for carried it over to the Troopers when the Troopers received the file from officer Baker they were optimistic Paulson's testimony along with Hansen's police record from Anchorage made him a prime suspect in the state case the Troopers investigation dovetailed with Bakers they were both dealing with the same Maniac Robert Hansen was their best suspect I think every everybody was looking at him real seriously because he made a good suspect when you looked into him he had uh a pretty extensive criminal background including some sexual assaults the only problem was the proof though Hansen was a violent sex offender his record indicated nothing about being capable of homicide nor was there any direct link from him to Sher Maro Paula ging and the other missing women at this point Troopers didn't even have enough for a search warrant they knew only that three women were dead and 12 were missing out there lurked a serial killer Troopers needed to catch him before he killed again they needed help we knew we had a mass murder on our hands that was not something Alaska had any experience with somebody obviously knew that the FBI not only had experience with it but had set out this unit that was designed specifically to try to assist in discovering who these people were to catch a killer in their own backyard the Troopers called on help from over 3,000 Mi away only the FBI had the resources needed to get inside a Killer's head when the Alaska State Troopers determined they had a serial killer on their hands they realized they didn't have the expertise to stop him but they knew who who did quano Virginia is home to the FBI's investigative support unit here agents attempt to predict behavioral patterns by analyzing a criminal's actions retired FBI agent John Douglas helped Pioneer behavioral profiling and still works as a consultant his profiles are based on 25 years interviewing convicted killers they taught Douglas how to think like they do he's learned that serial killers are acting out their fantasies of control and Conquest as Douglas slowly wins their trust he takes them back to the scene of their crime you finally get them talking they start giving you that thousand yard stare they're back they're back 10 years ago 20 years ago when they were perpetrating uh the crime and they kind of lock into that thousand yard stare and their memory is is just so precise and the fantasy is what keeps them going uh over and over and enables them to survive when they're incarcerated so I got to tap into that it takes time but once I'm in there I get tremendous information from these interviews he distilled a checklist of traits and habits that serial killers share they start young with lesser crimes such as arson or cruelty to animals okay take care now over the years their violence builds to every new case profilers bring the knowledge of how Killers evolve to understand the criminal you must look at the crime you just want to see if you can come up with an analysis based upon preliminary police reports crime scene photographs a profile of the uh the victim autopsy protocol reviewing that re review the autopsy photographs do a an analysis of the overall crime the risk level that the subject took uh the victim risk level analysis of the the area the maybe the crime scene maybe have multiple crime scenes and then uh based upon that uh you attempt now to come up with a specific type of uh type of profile by examining every aspect of an unsolved crime a profiler can determine specific characteristics of that killer such as age occupation and physical characteristics the Troopers contacted the FBI to see if the bureau could work up an analysis of the Anchorage killer they hoped the profile would sharpen the investigation and bring overlooked Clues to light the Troopers gave the FBI what they needed to build the behavioral profile for a scrupulous accurate profile they required only facts from the Troopers no analysis or [Music] theories Trooper Wayne van Clawson didn't want to lose any time the information he received from officer Baker aroused his suspicions about Robert Hansen but he needed more information criminal records were just beginning to be computerized and he didn't have access to them all in Anchorage while the profile was being developed he went to Juno to collect Hansen's records from the superior and Supreme Court archives in his fact-f finding Mission van Clawson researched every town that Hansen had ever lived in he found reports on Robert Hansen dating back to 1961 he gathered all that he could carry sent the Rest by truck then headed home while he was in Juno the FBI had come through with a Criminal profile of the serial killer the fact that the killer was so prolific meant to Douglas that he could function unnoticed within the community someone who worked independently most likely a business owner the killer would be an avid Outdoorsman since the bodies were recovered in remote areas of [Music] wilderness since he prayed on prostitutes Douglas concluded the killer had difficulty talking to women had low self-esteem and grew up feeling like an outcast based on Killers with similar profiles Douglas provided a specific characteristic to explain the cause of those feelings of inadequacy a feature that bore an eerie resemblance to Robert Hansen the one that totally blew us all away I think is that when they when they said he's either going to be a stutterer or someone who has a lisp a speech defect how do you figure that but that was one of the things that they suggested might show up I got it got the FBI profile pointed to Robert Hansen but the depths of Douglas's Insight were about to be known upon van clawson's return Troopers studied the files the record showed that Hansen had spent 3 years in a Reformatory for setting fire to his old High School's bus garage based on their work with previous Killers the FBI profilers said the killer would have a history of arson have a boy friend Yes actually I do yeah cu the profile painted the Killer is a social misfit Hansen's court-ordered psychiatric reports from his days at the Reformatory bore this out girl gu I'm really busy right now you know I don't I don't mean anything like I mean you know his stutter was a social barrier that undermined his selfconfidence whenever he tried to assert himself he'd be slapped down a lot of work to do or I'm going to call Security on [Music] him he never forgot the Sting the profile said the killer would learn to function as a normal member of society while his perversions festered Within his record showed that in his 30s Hansen began working at a bakery he would brag to co-workers about his kleptomania and the sense of power it gave him he also bragged about his love of hunting he took great pleasure in exerting power over his prey stalking it then wounding it and he became good at the kill winning prestigious Awards in 1967 he moved to Alaska to start a new life and for better hunting 3 years after moving there his record showed he was arrested for the attempted rape of a young receptionist at gunpoint he pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon [Music] a little more than a month later he was indicted for the attempted assault of an 18-year-old woman he' followed home as soon as the man got to Alaska he was involved in Theft cases he was involved in abductions he uh had Psy psychiatric evaluations showing him to be really unstable and having all kinds of weird sexual fantasies and the rest true to the profile Hansen seemed a respect citizen so the courts were lenient in one case he claimed to have memory lapses and was given psychiatric treatment in 5 years in a work release program he abducted one of his early victims outside a coffee shop took her to a cabin in the wilderness and raped her at gunpoint she was 17 at the time he told me of course if I called the police that he would hunt me down and kill me he told me he was a fine outstanding businessman he had never mentioned at any point when during the rape time or or before or after that he was married but he said he's a fine outstanding businessman and that I was just a kid and nobody would believe me and he was right everything the profilers said about the perpetrator of the serial killings Fitz suspect Robert Hansen a truly dangerous man who was passing as a nondescript face in the crowd while Trooper zeroed in on Hansen they spread out to search for more victims in the KCK River area where three bodies had been found they believed that the daners who were still missing may have been buried close to the other grave sites but Troopers came up empty the area was too large and remote to cover completely despite desite the compelling FBI profile and the past police records Troopers lacked anything tangible to link Hansen to the killings his police records were too stale the evidence too circumstantial to hold any weight in a court of law investigators hoped that Cindy pson could help she was the only surviving victim to Hansen's current wave of violence perhaps she could remember something else from her ordeal Paulson gave another statement if you can remember but this time she was able to ID one of the guns Hansen had in his possession that was aside from pulson Hansen had not been implicated in a rape or abduction for more than 10 years but in the hopes of strengthening their case and establishing a pattern of behavior investigators searched for another of Hansen's victims from years earlier whose experience matched pulson although this prior victim no longer lived in the area Troopers tracked her down and asked for her help I had gotten a call from Alaska asking if I would like to maybe help with a conviction for Mr Hansen uh they had explained to me that he had killed to the best of their knowledge seven women and they explained to me that the last woman had broken free she agreed to testify when the time came but Troopers still had a weak [Music] case the Troopers felt confident they were on the right track they didn't have enough to prove that Hansen was a serial killer according to Anchorage police officer Greg Baker Hansen knew that authorities were on to something one morning I was driving by and I needed to get some donuts for the shift Mr Hansen was there and he had a uh a window that he stood in and decorated cakes and cupcakes and cookies and I remember watching him he kept looking up at me and you could tell he was nervous and he kept putting frosting on his thumb and I like that what we do although investigators had Hansen in their sights they still lacked the evidence to connect him directly to the crimes all the inform but because Hansen matched the profile so closely Douglas flew to Alaska to review the case and to brief the Troopers and prosecutor Frank Rothschild on how to proceed with the suspect information already in of Douglas was confident that Hansen was their serial killer the hunter was now the hunted so the mission was to provide a a analysis for them does he have the capability to commit a crime like this and the answer was was yes I believe this prostitute and uh I believe he's capable of perpetrating these crimes is not Douglas's idea was to bring Hansen in for questioning while simultaneously searching his house to obtain a warrant investigators needed to list specific items they believed to be in the house they knew to look for the gun that Cindy pson described and the one that fired the bullets found in the graves of Sher marrow and Paula ging the room that wasn't enough they needed a home run something that would prove Hansen's guilt in no uncertain terms they asked Douglas if there was anything else to list in the warrant yes some of the research findings is we're dealing here with a serial killer and serial killers uh it starts off as fantasy and one of the things to keep the fantasy going after the crime is is because they're on the hunt nightly looking for victims is they take some type of momento we call them either souvenirs or trophies something belong to the victims Douglas helped prosecutors write the affidavit based on the likelihood of finding momentos mentioned in the profile okay anything else I've got those two anything from a piece of the victim's jewelry to a driver's license we don't have but a behavioral profile had never been used as the basis of a search warrant in the United States before Roth child knew he'd need to back it up with more conventional information obviously the district attorney's office wanted this search warrant to be bulletproof they wanted it to be absolutely positively without flaw because they knew this was a big big case the last thing they wanted was to have something wrong with the search warrant and have all the evidence thrown out the affidavit swelled to 48 pages the judge granted eight search warrants for Hansen's property now they just needed hansome they had learned his pattern knew his schedule on October 23rd 1983 they went to pick him up at his Bakery but hansome wasn't there he'd gotten off to a late start unwittingly keeping the Troopers waiting 20 t0 minutes Robert Hansen sir you step away from your car when asked to come in for questioning he didn't resist the interrogation room was ready for him the goal was to keep him off balance hoping to elicit a confession and avoid a lengthy legal case Douglas helped the Troopers design the interrogation room for the biggest psychological impact crime scen photos and related materials were strewn everywhere for Hansen to to contemplate before his interview at the appointed moment the Troopers arrived and the mind game began Mr Hansen the FBI coached Rothchild on how to play it ask him questions in a way that would prompt more discussion so that that's game plan number one then obviously we've got all of these cases that have been investigated and to get him to talk specifically about those he's trying to search us out what do we know so I could see his game plan was to kind of find out what we knew and uh play off of that and my game plan of course is to find out what he knew while Roth's child tried to get Hansen to open up and confess Troopers served the search warrants Hansen's wife who home the troopers were extra cautious videotaping the entire procedure what they were looking for could be anywhere even in plain sight Hansen knew the Troopers had access to his police and psychological records he didn't tell authorities anything they didn't already know he spoke of his painful upbringing his strict family his anger he admitted to picking up dancers and prostitutes in the early '70s and how enraged he became when they tried to raise their prices but he denied threatening any of them he admitted nothing while Hansen told his story and his house was being turned inside out other Troopers headed to his Bakery and to the airport to search his plane both were clean the house became the focal point of the investigation a careful search of the upstairs bedroom finally yielded a curious and Eerie Discovery an aerial map of the region peppered with 37 X's they seem to be clustered mainly around the area where bodies had been found but there were dozens more marks than bodies at least so far the Searchers continued up to the attic under insulation the Troopers found weapons among the items found were a 223 Ruger mini14 rifle like the one used to kill Sher marrow and Paula ging and a wood- handled revolver resembling the one described by Cindy pson y the search team let van Clawson know the good news sounds good these women look familiar you ever seen the net was closing on Hansen and he knew it but he wasn't ready to talk just yet take another look the interview dragged on for hours it didn't seem like a confession was likely I I I haven't never seen while Troopers collected the evidence the cas Unwound even further Hansen's friend and neighbors stopped by curious about the activity she was stunned by the news then made a confession that demolished the last of Hansen's story she told Troopers that her husband provided Hansen with his Alibi on the night of Cindy Paulson's abduction he'd lied to protect his friend not realizing how serious Hanson's charges were the husband later called police and retracted his statement Hansen's Alibi evaporated as the search continued the Troopers found the most incriminating evidence so far evidence that Douglas knew had to be there somewhere they found Sher marrow's necklace and other personal property belonging to the dead or missing women they had found Hansen's stash of trophies yeah this is Baker here investigators called the station though they had Hansen where they wanted him still he wouldn't confess but they had enough to lock him up on the Cindy pson case baale was set at $500,000 investigators now had time to build their case against Hansen as a serial killer they called the prior victim to see if she was still on board and at that time they thought he had killed 11 women and was I still interested in being a witness they they really felt that they may need me cuz he hadn't confessed all what you got three points on the map found in his bedroom match the locations of bodies recovered by the Troopers another X marked the location of a body recovered by sew police years earlier the remaining X's presumably marked the graves of more victims dozens of them so looking at the map obviously was pretty chilling because because we believed the map the map was a body count as far as we were concerned the man had kept track he didn't have newspaper clippings he had the map when the Troopers believed they had enough to convict Hansen on at least four murders they confronted him and his lawyer with the evidence Hansen couldn't refute it he had no place left to hide [Music] I I finally it was time to confess time for Hansen to cut a deal Hansen said he would confess to the murders that could be proven as long as the trial was given no publicity and that his family be left [Music] alone he demanded that he be imprisoned outside of Alaska when the trial was over in exchange for only four convictions he agreed to show the Troopers where more bodies were [Music] buried investigators called the prior victim to tell her the good news the third time they called back and said that he had confessed and they wouldn't need me so um I hung up the phone when we were done talking I got my son off to school got my husband at the door and um proceeded to fall apart I started crying I couldn't stop I had no control over it it controlled me I could see each and every one of those women how they died probably hunted down like dogs wounded and then hunted more in his confession Hansen described how he would take his victims into the woods and hunt them as prey over the Dozen Years that he lived in Alaska he'd raped more than 30 women and developed many strategies for capturing [Music] them once he found a likely Target a solitary woman like Sheri marrow he would befriend her and arranged to meet her at a fast food place if they were dancers or Aire iring models he'd offer to pay to photograph them he'd arrive early and stay in his car that way he'd be certain the woman arrived alone and had no one waiting for her in the parking lot no Witnesses then he'd go in and meet his new victim [Music] one half of the Handcuff was already fastened to the seat Hansen boasted that snapping the other half onto his victim's wrist while reaching for his gun became like a reflex then he would take them home or to a remote Motel to rape and torture them afterwards he'd blindfold them and drive or fly them to the outskirts of town until he arrived at a secluded spot his hunting ground sh up his habit was to toy with his prey before he made the kill Hansen confessed that in the summer of 83 he devised what he called his summer plan he sent his family away so he could bring his victims home when he was done with them he'd dispose of them in the wilderness close 26 on February 27th 1984 Robert Hansen was convicted of murdering Four Women and sentenced to 461 years plus life with no chance of parole after his sentencing Hansen accompanied Troopers into the field to find more of his victims represented by x's on his map a total of eight victims were found some places on the map went unexplored Bears scavenged others scattering The [Music] Remains investigators will never know how many of the 37 X's represented one of Hansen's victims according to John Douglas the map might have depicted only a small part of his hunting grounds Killers like H will come into contact with a lot of women but fantasy is everything and they may not like the way the the The person talks or the person dresses uh style and um so they'll make a decision well this one will live this one over here will you know will die I believe he was good for a lot more cases and I still believe there there was a chance that one of the reasons that caused him to go up to Alaska he was running away from homicides back in a lower 48 in the United States an estimated 35 to 50 serial killers are active at any given time profiling has made them easier to spot and apprehend each time one is captured investigators learn more about their Twisted motivations making it easier to catch the next [Music] one one by one prostitutes die across Central Europe Austrian authorities believe one man is responsible but they have no experience hunting serial killers they turn to an FBI profiler for help he finds the same killer has come to America and the death count keeps Rising until the FBI stops him [Applause] [Music] [Music] beginning in 1990 Europe found itself in the clutches of a serial killer he became an international Outlaw hopping from country to Country to evade capture and to kill again I'm Jim krom former head of the FBI's New York office legal cooperation between countries and continents is not common but neither are serial killers in Europe desperate to apprehend him Austrian authorities called on the FBI for help in Austria the exchange of sex for money has been legal for years here prostitutes walk the streets for men willing to pay for their services throughout most of the 1980s haid Marie hammerer worked in the city of Bri as a prostitute a licensed professional for almost 10 years she was used to unusual requests but on the night of December 5th 1990 a customer went too [Music] far the killer hurriedly redressed his victim then he dragged her through a secluded Forest some 10 Mi away and left her body the crime went undiscovered for 3 weeks on the morning of New Year's Eve 1990 a pair of hikers stumbled upon Hammer's body though the body had been left exposed to the elements the winter temperatures helped preserve the remains Austrian authorities determined that hammer had been strangled with her own panty hose her risks were bruised from restraints at the autopsy they found no sexual discharge on her body but they did find fibers that were inconsistent with her clothing she was only the first victim over the next several months three more prostitutes died violently throughout Austria brunilda Masa was recovered in a streamed near Gratz Alfreda shrimp also from Gratz was found nearby in the woods near Vienna Sylvia zagler was discovered in a stand of trees the women had all been bruised strangled with their panty hes and left in various states of undress lying face down in wooded areas the Austrian public was shocked on April 4th 1991 the authorities gathered their most experienced investigators to focus on the slams because of the similarities in the four cases investigators reasoned that one person was [Music] responsible Austria had its first serial killer in modern history they had no experience investigating these offenders Dr Ernst Gyer one of Austria's leading detectives was assigned to coordinate the hunt no lead was promising all all the the leads U ended nowhere we had no will suspect the first break came when a retired policeman read of the murders in a salsburg newspaper they reminded him of a case he solved in 1974 [Music] ah detective guer received a phone call from the retired officer 15 years earlier he told guer a young woman had been strangled with one of her undergarments and dumped in the woods just like the present victims the killer was caught and convicted but had recently been paroled detective guer took the name of the ex-convict Johan Jack uner Jake uner was pered after 15 years uh because he had murdered a young girl before and while uh he was in prison uh he became a writer uh quite the famous writer but was it possible that this famous writer could be a killer guer and his team began looking into the journalist's background until 1990 Jack uner had led a difficult life he was born to a German prostitute who quickly abandoned him he suffered neglect and abuse shuttling between various Foster situations as a teenager Jack began to play out the Rage of his dismal childhood by age 25 that Fury earned unterer a life [Music] sentence wer continued his education and started writing while in [Music] prison don don he published letters plays short stories and an autobiography in the book that became a best seller wter vager painted a tragic tale of himself as victim critics in the public alike embraced the author for the apparent honesty with which he confronted his past the literary Community suggested that art had redeemed him eventually the press and the public at large demanded that his life sentence be commuted on May 12th 1990 Austrian authorities agreed The 40-Year-Old austri and walked out of prison he was a free man determined never to spend another minute of his life Behind [Music] Bars shortly after his release he was hired by a major German magazine to cover the prostitute murders he promised to use his writing in a socially conscious way he told his editor that he wanted to give voice to the dispossessed caught in the underbelly of society as he once was by July 1991 after two more prostitutes were found strangled psychologist Tom Mueller of Austria's criminal investigation division joined the team when we started the investigation against sh it was pretty hard because all his friends were within the media and they couldn't understand that he could be um the B guy it's good even among investigators only a hand considered this celebrity journalist a possible suspect through receipts and travel records guer and Mueller learned that uner had been at each murder location this was not suspicious in itself since he was covering the story as an investigative journalist yet he always reached those destinations before the murders took place investigators also discovered that oner had visited Prague in September 1990 just before a Czechoslovakian woman Blanca Bova was strangled with her panty hose she was the earliest victim in the string of murders that now totaled seven and what was outstanding for us that exactly at any time where CCH hang out at any place in prag in the western part of Austria in the sou in the southern part of Austria exactly in that time period there was always a dead body somewhere in the [Music] words in Austria another woman Regina Prem had been missing for months and presumed dead her family waited desperately for news of her fate in October of 1991 the grief stricken husband and son received a chilling phone call to their unlisted number hello yeah the caller told him that he was Regina's killer and described what she was wearing the night she [Music] disappeared the caller claimed that he was the Executioner that God ordered him to do it that she was left lying on the place of sacrifice with her face turned towards hell the phone call was cruel torture to an already traumatized family when police recovered her body they confirmed Regina Prem was the Killer's eighth victim to date the discovery put them no closer to stopping the killer Vienna October 22nd 1991 Austrian authorities questioned uner for the first time with no hard evidence to connect him to the crimes they hoped for a [Music] confession he admitted to consorting with prostitutes for his writing assignments and for sex but he denied knowing the victims although his Alibis were weak investigators were forced to release [Music] him their evidence was merely circumstantial and his public support was growing but Mueller and guer still believed uner was a strong suspect and continued digging into his past they tracked down the car jack drove when he was first released from prison but it had been a year since he sold it and the likelihood of finding any usable evidence was slim the team uncovered little except a hair fragment he SCS Goods although it was a long shot investigators sent the hair fragment to the University of burn for analysis enough of the hair root remained for lab technicians to extract a DNA sequence that sequence was compared to those of the victims of the eight women slain the DNA from the hair matched the earliest victim from Prague Blanca Bova killed in September 1990 it was a breakthrough but that only proved the woman was in the car when Jack owned it investig tigators needed stronger evidence now back at Police Headquarters guer questioned Austrian [Music] prostitutes they recognized uner as a regular customer who insisted they wear handcuffs during sex more importantly one recalled seeing him approach her friend hiid Marie hammerer the first victim discovered in br she also remembered he wore a brown leather jacket on that [Music] night on the strength of this identification and the hair fragment found in his car guer obtained a warrant to search un veer's apartment Jack Wier P [Music] time when the police arrived uner was was nowhere to be found they took away clothing including a brown leather jacket for forensic examination then one of the detectives discovered some receipts in a trash can they were from a seaf frood restaurant in Malibu California dated 9 months earlier Jack uner had been to the United States but the apartment search yielded less than the investigators had hoped they found no hard evidence that directly tied uner to the slayings since their case was still to week to issue an arrest warrant the investigation stalled Jack unterer was still one step [Music] ahead to stop him guer needed help from those more experienced with catching serial killers he needed the FBI the Austrian investigators visited the US Embassy us they met with legal attache Julianne Sisco an FBI agent stationed in Vienna we were hoping you could help us with the FBI certainly Sisco called the criminal profiling unit in quao Virginia hi agent MCC she was patched through to special agent Greg MCC kill here in Austria now retired mccre spent the last 10 of his 25 years in the FBI pioneering the science of profiling the austrians contacted the FBI uh because they were trying to tap into our experience of dealing with serial homicide investigations uh this was the first serial murder investigation in modern history in Austria McCary agreed to assist the austrians he would help them determine if one perpetrator could have committed all the murders when Gyer told Sisco that oner had traveled to La the previous Summer She authorized aelex to be sent to California to inform local authorities over the next several days guer and Mueller prepared for their trip to the FBI packing crime scene reports autopsy protocols and photos then they received a call from LA detective Fred Miller Miller had received their T and said that California had suffered a similar pattern of killings during the prior summer yeah good now investigators turned their attention to La 6,000 Mi away in the hunt for the Austrian serial [Applause] killer by the fall of 1991 eight women had been found dead in Central Europe the prime suspect was Austrian celebrity writer Jack uner but little forensic evidence tied him to the crimes and the public believed the police were pursuing an innocent [Music] man an FBI Telex from Vienna to California caught the attention of Los Angeles detective Fred Miller he and his partner Jim Harper had been working for months on a series of unsolved murders in style and pattern the LA crimes resembled the ones that uner was suspected of in Austria this immediately lit the fires and uh it was just unbelievable to go all these eight months and and without the suspect turning up or another murder this was uh quite a boost to the investigation the American and Austrian investigators compared notes the cases were clearly similar the victims were prostitutes all had been strangled using Intimate Apparel and all the bodies were left in remote locations now Miller and Harper began to reconstruct un's visit to California they checked the Airlines car rental agencies and hotel logs from these they created a timeline of his movements we learned that he came to Los Angeles in June of 91 on vacation uh before right around June the 2nd or 3rd and that he' left around the 17th of July in the summer of 1990 uner visited LAPD headquarters and I'm a journalist and I he strolled into the public relations office presented his press credentials and signed up for the Ral program aan police this program allows civilians to tag along with police and their Cruisers as they Patrol the city tonight at 8:30 as all Jack's credentials were in order the request was accepted Jack Jack un [Music] Vega unaga claimed he was writing a German magazine story contrasting American and European prostitution somewh over there we got he asked to be shown where the city's prostitutes hung out iing article the officers introduced him to the seedier areas of Los Angeles detective Jim Harper explains I mean if you come to a city as big as Los Angeles you know prostitutes don't hang out everywhere you got to you got to know where they hang out what better way to do that than get a ride line with the police department Witnesses last Saw 21-year-old Shan and Exley in the vicinity of 7th Street in Main Street what's that you saying she hadd been working the streets and she'd run away from home at [Music] 16 her life ended on June 20th 1991 her nude body was found with her bra wrapped around her neck marks on her feet told investigators she had already been strangled when she was dragged some 50 ft to where she was found foundations acoss her neck medical technicians were able to isolate DNA sequences from the seen of seven men noticing but La detectives had no suspects with whom they could compare the samples 10 days later investigators discovered a second prostitute Irene Rodriguez she was found behind a tractor trailer only a mile and a half from where exley's body had been dumped both women had been strangled with their bras and both were last seen in the vicinity of sth and Main Street the detectives discovered that unva was living nearby we learned that he stayed at the CE hotel which is located at 643 South Main which is right on the corner of 7th of Main Street and that's the location where close proximity where both our victims were last seen a third victim Sher long was was found near Malibu less than 2 weeks later once again unva was staying at a hotel in the vicinity long was last [Music] seen around her neck her bra was tied tightly detective Jim Harper remembers the unique method of strangulation the way the bras were tied around their neck was nothing that I had seen before looks to me took a lot of intricate time to to really take time with the victim and and put it around her necks and tie it Los Angeles criminalist Lynn Harold compared the knots to see if there was a pattern in the way each had been made and tied in order for the knots to be made the wearing apparel had to be dismantled in some form it's not like the bras were just taken and tied in a square knot but they were stripped of the elastic always on the left side and if three people randomly went out and strangled three people it is extremely unlikely that all three of them would come up with this same scenario now dger and Mueller added the information from the Los Angeles murders to their own case and headed to Virginia they hoped that the FBI could determine whether one man had indeed killed all 11 women back in Austria Jack uner maintained a high profile the celebrity journalist continued to publish his articles and appeared on television to talk about the murders he told audiences that the Austrian police were inept at finding the real killer and had singled him out as a scapegoat when winterer claimed that the authorities were determined to send him back to prison even if that meant framing him for the grizzly crimes uner remained popular with the public at large and in the nightclubs where he was irregular and to his fans and especially women he was still Charming he boasted the police had no evidence only theories and they would never be able to send him back to prison in August 1992 Austrian detectives arrived at quano [Music] Virginia they needed an experienced FBI profiler to help them capture the serial killer that had left 11 women dead in Central Europe and [Music] California the austrians came with 12 boxes of evidence right here on report on that special agent Greg mccre refused to look at any information on the prime suspect Jacker he didn't want any preconceived notions to interfere with his analysis be in touch instead MCC wanted to focus on the victims I wanted all the case materials on all of the homicides uh victimology a lot about the victims and their background their history uh the method and manner of death all tosy reports crime scene photos uh everything that uh was available from an investigative point of view what we didn't want is suspect information we just wanted to take an objective look at all of the cases to see what we thought if they might be related or not and the type of offender that we thought might be most probably involved in committing these crimes let's get to work mccre did not presuppose that the crimes were linked he examined the similarities among the cases to see if they were unusual enough to have been committed by one perpetrator he began to look for a behavioral thumbprint a criminal signature in each of the murders a signature crime analysis is an assessment uh of the behavioral aspects of the crime which can in some cases be a single event but more often it's a constellation of behaviors that are cons assistant from crime to Crime to crime and this allows us to link crimes together behaviorally based on the behavior of the offender back mcra looked for patterns he examined everything known about the 11 women how similar were their Lifestyles almost all the women were prostitutes except for the first woman slain in Prague Mr M this is a map of fenna [Music] a companion last Saw Blanca Bova on September 14th 1990 leaving a bar in Prague [Music] Czechoslovakia Bova worked as a sales clerk at a butcher shop but was known to trade sex for [Music] favors her body was left on the bank of the vatva river in a stretch of wood near bova's home the killer had strangled her with her own nylon stockings he left her naked covered with sticks and twigs he threw her clothes and identification in the river right the first victim Austrian police found had been a registered prostitute for 10 years hi to Marie hammerer in the early part of her career she had suffered several violent attacks from customers so she was known to be cautious hamro was last seen outside a parking garage on December 5th 1990 like the first five victims Hammer was found in the woods close to water they all had restraint bruises on their arms and wrists and autopsies found no seen on any of the European victims to the profiler this suggested that the killer struck out of impotence he was terribly insecure about his masculinity when he could not perform after being sexually stimulated the killer lashed out in anger he strangled the women he blamed for shaming him then he left their bodies in humiliating [Music] positions D was out the yeah next they focused on the LA murder victims did they fit the pattern that had been established in Europe also noce took place to have the St Shannon Exley was found face down in a grassy area near a freeway exit she was nude except for a T-shirt and a pair of socks she had been dragged 50 ft from the pavement to the location where she was discovered after being strangled with her bazer [Music] again this crime like the others in LA and Europe showed the killer had preferences and that the violence itself had become erotic to him it became clear that there was a pattern uh to these homicides uh that there was sort of a ritualistic behavior that occurred in each of these crime scenes each woman was similar in nature either a prostitute or a woman who traded sex for favors they were a uh on the street when they were contacted when they were picked up very usually very surreptitiously no one really saw these women get into a car uh they were transported out to an area they were murdered uh liage is strangled with an article of their own clothing disposed in a similar manner in an outdoor setting uh absence of sexual assault all right roughly from where she was last after a week the study of the victimology convinced mccre that there had indeed been only one killer behind the 11 h Ides the FBI agent and the Austrian detective spent the following week drawing up a profile of the as salant the evidence suggested that killer had a good degree of Mobility he was older intelligent sophisticated and an organized offender to criminal psychologist Tom Mueller this described Jack uner I would J Jack was a a very very good example for a typical type of organized offender and I would say he was a typical uh example for natural psychologist he was able to understand the needs of other people he was able um to come close to other people to listen to other people and then to manipulate them and we will put it in but the geography worked against the theory that there was one killer the murders had occurred in Czechoslovakia Austria and Los Angeles with minor exceptions most serial killers stay Regional and pre within a comfort [Music] zone but enough time had elapsed between the slayings to permit one culprit to move around now the profiler compared oner's travels to the chronology of the murders and when I overlaid jack huna's timeline on the timeline of the crime s they fit perfectly and that was really a Dawning moment the the aha moment the moment that's really exciting in analysis like this because now you have a suspect whose movements correlate perfectly with each of the homicides as well as his prior homicide that he had been convicted for bearing a lot of similarities to these homicides we can put them in each place at each time these crimes occurred and uh either uh Jack underager was the unluckiest man in the world to have been there or he was an excellent suspect in Austria uner continued to enjoy his freedom and notoriety some women still found him appealing even though the former convict was a prime murder suspect this perplex detective Fred Miller one of the interesting uh facets of Jack under was that he could carry on a normal relationship with a female and still be this cruel and murder uh other [Music] females high school student Bianca mck was one of those that fell under his [Music] charm the impressionable 18-year-old met oner in a wine bar where she worked as a waitress she was flattered by the attention from the celebrity writer he told her he was tiring of all the publicity in Austria and might leave the country maybe to Switzerland she agreed to go with him wherever he went and August 1992 agent Greg mccre of the FBI worked with Austrian detectives to solve a series of 11 murders eight women were killed in Central Europe three more in Los Angeles so he all circumstantial evidence pointed to celebrity journalist Jack uner as the culprit yeah exactly then they received a phone call from the University of [Music] burn Austrian lab technicians had completed the fiber analysis of clothing confiscated from un's apartment weeks before the inspection had yielded results fibers from the lining of the brown leather jacket matched those on the body of Haida Marie Hammer the first prostitute found it was hard forensic evidence that tied uner to one of the victims but investigators wanted to conclusively link the suspect to all the victims the FBI had another tool that could do just that vicap the violent criminal apprehension program the computer database holds the details of 10,000 solved and unsolved us homicides a programmer inputed the particulars of the European and Los Angeles cases hey no problem I'm details of the victims their manner of death locations where they disappeared and where they were found were all fed into the computer mccre ordered an extensive breakdown a multi-dimensional search with 15 cross criteria that could show if the crimes were connected I certainly will Mr mccar 48 hours later the detectives were called back to the viap room to hear the answer the results were stunning the computer statistically linked all 11 slangs Jack uner was the killer I hope it's names for you the FBI had given the austrians solid proof of their case buter was still at large the Austrian detectives immediately returned to to Vienna armed with the FBI profile authorities issued an arrest warrant for Johan Jack oner again the police descended upon the writer's residence but Jack was gone he had abandoned his flat guer called his office ordered his team to check all of Austria's ports of exit within hours all train stations and airports were canvased but they found no sign of underager the serial killer was [Music] gone moner had already fled with Bianca morak beyond the reach of Austrian authorities enot bian Jack U aner is uh a very good representative of an intelligent psychopath he became an award-winning author and playwright but psychopaths are very very manipulative and they they have a supreme ability to con other people hello hello yeah yeah you been here on a stop in Paris Jack called into television shows and protested his [Music] inocence yeah he said his flight was not an admission of guilt but an attempt to evade a frame of by the police he promised to return to Austria and answer all questions if the arrest warrant was withdrawn despite his media appearances the Austrian police had no idea where onter veger was hiding in Vienna in investigators interviewed eger's friends Jacka they were unfazed by the fact that he had been indicted for multiple murders they said the Jack had run off for a holiday in America with Bianca morak a former waitress from the wine bar Bianca was known to live with her mother so guer paid a visit to Mrs morac uh mid yeah she acknowledged that she had been in contact with a fugitive couple sending them money via wire transfers they were in New York and heading down to Florida guer told her to contact him if her daughter called again Mrs Mor just days later she got a call from Miami her daughter needed more money [Music] Mrs Mor promptly informed the Austrian police US Marshals were waiting at the Western [Music] Union the marshals ided the couple as they drove up US Marshal us Marsh Mona was quickly apprehended [Music] he was jailed in Miami to await extradition both the nation of Austria and the state of California wanted to prosecute him LAPD detective Fred Miller began conferring with his Austrian counterparts after Jack's arrest uh in Miami we dealt almost on a daily schedule with the Austrian authorities uh trying to put the information they had on their murders together with the information on the California murders uh the Austrian authorities made trips to Los Angeles they provided us with uh whatever materials we needed photographs of their crime scenes information on their victims information on Jack about 2 miles the austrians wanted to prosecute oner in their court for all 11 [Music] murders but they knew that would be difficult the Austrian public perceived Jack as a cele how many miles detectives would have to convince them that Jack's private evil side was the reality special agent Greg mccre explains what's interesting with Jack if you look at different pictures from different parts of his life many times he's Natalie attired with a bow tie and has this almost young innocent looking face uh but then if you see him with his shirt off and you look at these really diabolical involved uh prison tattoos that are typical of the more violent Psychopathic offenders you have in prison you you see the dichotomy between Jack's outward appearance and and the the inner Psychopathology becomes uh becomes more apparent I've always tried to the LAPD detectives obtained a search warrant for tissue samples from the prisoner in Miami a technician drew blood took hair samples and swabs of saliva for DNA testing the samples were sent back to a Los Angeles lab for analysis his DNA matched that found in the seamen from Shannon Exley but exley's body contained seen from six other men what's her last and there was no sexual discharge found in the other two La prostitutes Jack uner worried that he would be transferred to California where a death penalty was possible he did not want to die in the gas chamber but if he went back to Austria he could be tried for the crimes on both continents criminal psychologist Tom Mueller explains if an Austrian citizen is committing a crime wherever in the world uh the Austrian law is responsible for that guy so um the American authorities uh gave the clearance to bring Mr uh uner here back to Austria but uner could this by fighting extradition going to Austria you know ja La detectives pressured him they assured uner that he would be found guilty in California and reminded him of the state's death Bal scene of these crimes fearing the gas chamber he agreed to deportation you sign the extradition despite the evidence he still enjoyed popular support at home and uner believed he could persuade a jury that the authorities were wrong but the austrians were betting on the FBI profile when Jack Gava returned to his native Austria he faced 11 counts of murder seven women were killed on Austrian soil but the laws of the central European country allow its citizens to be tried for crimes committed anywhere in the [Music] world the murder indictment had done done little to diminish The Writer's support in the media as he sat in jail awaiting trial Jack continued to Lobby the press that the police had framed him his case saturated the news in this highly charged environment Austrian prosecutors prepared for trial if they wanted to win they had to present an airtight case LAPD detective Jim Harper journeyed to Vienna for the trial the OJ case here in La is the only thing I can kind of equate it to it was that big over there it was all over the newspapers headlines I mean and when we came into into this town to testify uh it was a big deal we were all over the front page of the paper the whole deal the trial was held before a three-judge tribunal the prosecution argued their case with minimal physical they were counting on agent mcc's behavioral profile could say why there's so many different places so it became increasingly important uh to link these crimes together behaviorally uh that really was the only way that Jack could be linked to this this entire series of crimes so that became the critical uh component in the prosecution of Jack and where we were most able to assist the Austrian authorities take them to a different spot mccre related to the Jud judges what he had deducted at quano not going the killer always chose prostitutes or those who traded sex for [Music] favors he was criminally sophisticated older at least in his late [Music] 30s he wasn't panicky nor disorganized he possessed inner rage but it was very controlled the victims had bruises on their wrists as if they had been restrained with handcuffs mcra was convinced uner would ask the prostitutes to wear them to fulfill his sexual fantasy but it was about control the killer wanted their hands secured to prevent them from resisting the bodies were fa M's testimony linked the victims together to where they were across two continents the trail of deaths followed Jack onager where he went women died while he visited Los Angeles three prostitutes were murdered and their slayings mimic those in Europe Shannon Exley and the other two American women were strangled to death the offender used their bers as ligatures and uner tied the knots on the ligatures in exactly the same way as he had on the ones in [Music] Europe MCC pointed out that the probability was infantes that more than one killer committed the crimes and what are the chances that more than one offender would be not only choosing to liage to strangle a victim with an article of her own clothing uh but he would tie the knots in exactly the same way very very remote chance that we' had different offenders committing the crime in that manner but the defense argued there was a difference you say the victims in Los Angeles had been strangled with their bers and women in Europe had been strangled with their panty holes but mccre countered that European prostitutes do not wear bers What mattered to the killer was that he used an article of the victim's clothing I'm sure that he was much more hurried La criminalist ly Harold was asked to compare the knots from the panty hose to those from the bras in the case of the panty hose you had one leg the second leg was double backed on itself and used as the third segment for the weaving or braiding in a manner extremely similar to one of the bra cases where the two pieces P of elastic formed two segments and the left strap was pulled through as the third braid in all the trial lasted 2 and 1/2 months on June 28th 1994 a jury in Gratz Austria found Johan Jack uner guilty of nine of the murders the remaining victims were found two badly decomposed to convict uner Beyond A Reasonable Doubt the verdict meant life in prison to a man who swore he would never spend another day behind bars and he never did Mona strangled himself with a nylon cord stripped from his uniform we normally think of suicide as coming from depression or someone who feels uh shame or guilt or remorseful in some way this is not at all what was going on when Jack committed suicide a more Psychopathic offenders like Jack do it to exert control and it's the last great defiant act that that that he exercised to rest control of this situation away from the government away from the the authorities he would not allow himself to be imprisoned uh for the rest of his life Jack uner proved that serial killers are not just an American phenomen phenon European law enforcement agencies realized that to fight criminals of this sort they would have to follow the FBI's example what we learned out of their case was that uh in Austria and even in Europe we didn't had a similar system like Yap violent crime apprehension program the criminal psychology service trying to get a similar system here to Austria and therefore we can work with all uh six Prime cases and homicide [Music] cases now thanks to the lead of the FBI many countries have adopted profiling and a computerized criminal database in the hopes that open borders and conflicting jurisdictions will no longer allow these predators to escape Justice [Music] [Music]