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Hey, you, and welcome. My name is Mike.

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And in this old podcast where you folks,

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folks, fellow

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patriots, I have for you too.

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Get them two separate stories

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for you. There now, these are two stories.

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In one podcast, we're doing a two for

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Both of these are absolutely shit

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your puns terrifying. So look

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forward to that, I guess. And both

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of the stories in this podcast are

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about serial killers

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in the cities of Phoenix, Arizona

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and Scottsdale, Arizona. Now, I'm kind of like giving

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you a two for here on these ones guys. Because Scottsdale

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and Phoenix are like pretty much I mean,

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come on to pretty much the same city. They're like right

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by each other, so that's not, you know, beat around

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the bush here. The first story have

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Hugh Revolved. I

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mean, it happened in the past, but I'm telling you to you

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know, there was two serial

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killers active at the same time

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in the city of Phoenix during two

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thousand and five and

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two thousand and six. If you can believe

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that two serial killers active in the

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same city at the same time.

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That's a hearty hell no from your boy over

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here. The second story I have for you today

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is said in Scottsdale and it was

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a race against the clock for the

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police to find the killer as

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a number of people a whole heap

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of people who were involved in a court

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case started dying one

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by one by one. And the police

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needed to find this killer before he

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struck again. And although

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both of these stories, you know, they were separated

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from each other by over a decade,

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there was in fact one person

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who was involved in both doctor

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Steven Pitt. He was helping

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out the police in the first story In

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the second story, he was a victim.

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So before we get into this one,

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folks, if you enjoyed and I really

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hope you do, what do I say?

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Please, you know, subscribe to the podcast. Give

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whole five stars, anything it all really

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does really does help out folks. And

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now let's give it

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a go. It

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all started. It all began. It was

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bird in the summer

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of two thousand and five. That summer,

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it was long. It was hot.

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Towas a hoodie. It's all the good stuff right there.

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Although it's in Arizona, so I'm pretty sure

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all their summers are long and hot.

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But this one was like that but more. Enduring

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that summer over the months, there had

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been like strange signs, you

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know, kind of rumors whispered

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about some odd characters in town.

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Gunshots were hurt. Police reports

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were filed. And there were some

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strange shooting bets. That

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largely remained unsolved. It was

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as if you know, there was there was something

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in the air. Maybe it was

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the exposure Maybe the

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hot Arizona sun was scrambling people's

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brains. Vote just fed up, you

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know, had enough of this.

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Or maybe something new had

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arrived in town and was making

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itself known. It

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was when Georgia Thompson's body was

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found, that the police knew

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there was something more to what was going on

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than they had initially thought. Georgia

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was nineteen, an exotic dancer, and

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on September ninth two thousand and five,

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her body was found in the car park of

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an apartment building. She'd been

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shot in the head. Her pants had

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been unbuttoned, but she hadn't been

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sexually assaulted. And at

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the scene, the police found a bullet

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casing. Now in

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the preceding months, there had been random

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shootings and what started with dogs

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and cats and even horses being shot

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quickly spread to humans The

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homeless manly, the so called

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less dead. Called the less dead

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along with sex workers, because

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police rarely investigate terminally when those

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murders occur. In addition to

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this, a number of sexual assaults were

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reported, and it was on the increase.

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In August two thousand and five, one

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month before George's body was found,

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there had been a number of sexual

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assaults on teenagers near the

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baseline road in South Phoenix.

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That area had become a hotspot, and

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the perpetrator was still at large.

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The number of attacks in Phoenix would increase

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exponentially over the next two

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months. Four more in September

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alone, Tree Moore in November,

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a mix of robberies, sexual assaults,

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and random murders on the streets

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of Phoenix. A man Nathaniel

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Shaffner was shot and killed on the side

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of the road trying to protect his dog.

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Sometimes the attacks would occur within minutes

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of each other. A shop being held up

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by good point before the perpetrator ran

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out of a store and dragged a passing

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woman into his car to be sexually

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assaulted. It was anarchy and

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it was terrifying. In

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December, Things

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didn't get any better, shockingly. On

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December twelfth, Tina Washington

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was shot in the head as she walked home

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from a preschool where she worked. That

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same day a man named Jose Ortiz

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was shot and killed walking the streets.

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Before two thousand and six, Rangan,

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there would be another robbery, shooting,

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and murder in the city all linked

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together. But without any

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clear perpetrator. It was

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then the police began to theorize there

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wasn't one person behind all of this

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there were two. See, in some

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instances, random people were

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shot at as they strolled down the road

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and witnesses who survived the attack were

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able to tell the police it was a

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light, blue, bored or car

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that the shots ran out from. In

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the other case, well, the cases were

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linked as a number of sexual assaults

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had occurred along baseline road.

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There were of course other murders where

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they hadn't been linked yet.

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In February, two thousand and six,

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two more bodies were found. Those

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of Ramellia Vargas thirty eight,

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and Mirna Palma Roman twenty four

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years old, They were killed inside

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a food stall they both worked at, The

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Grill King, and both had been

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shot in the head. The next

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month Chiao, George Chu,

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twenty three years old, and Liliana Cabrera,

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twenty years old, were abducted

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from behind a restaurant they worked

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at. Ciao

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was about to give Loyana a ride home when

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they met. Someone, both

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were fans shot to death. It

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had been Liliana's first day

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on the job. Now

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you might be a little confused at this

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point so many attacks. Who's,

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who, who did what? And well,

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you weren't the only one. The city

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was confused, but more than anything

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scared. A dark cloud was

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hanging over the city. The killing seems

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to be intensifying. The killers

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were brazen. Not just going

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after alone less dead,

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but sometimes abducting two people

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at a time, a man and a woman.

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The police knew there were two

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serial killers, at least two.

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And if it was two, well, they

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were working overtime. One

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killer was shooting from cars, doing

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drive bys, the other assaulting

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women and shooting them on whoever they

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were with, if they resisted.

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It continued. Two weeks after

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the restaurant employees, Chao and Liliana

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were taken, a sex worker

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was found stuffed between a building

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and a shed. A month later, a woman

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was abducted by a man wearing a

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Halloween mask. The next

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day, another drive by shooting.

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And twenty year old Claudia Gutierrez

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Cruz was murdered. The

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police at this point came up with Nicknames

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ridiculous, e. You gotta have a nickname.

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Otherwise, are you a real serial killer?

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Are you though? The drive by

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sniper was named the serial

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shooter. They didn't know the car

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make or model. They just

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knew it was a light colored sedan.

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The other killer was called the baseline

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rapist. Due to the early attacks

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being located along or near

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baseline road. The murders

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were eventually connected to the sexual

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assaults. And so then the baseline

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rapist became the baseline killer.

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And a sketch was circulated of this

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person. Who at this point, May

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two thousand and six? They had eighteen

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separate crimes linked to

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whoever this monster was. That

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number would later rise substantially.

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As other past incidents were reviewed.

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But there would be one more

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victim of the baseline killer before

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he was caught. On

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June twenty ninth two thousand and six,

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at nine thirty PM, the baseline

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killer struck for the final time.

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This time though it would be captured on CCTV

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and shake Phoenix to its core.

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Not to be dramatic though, I suppose I

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think you know what everything we've gone through.

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This warrants it. A woman

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named Carmen Miranda was cleaning

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her car at a car wash, while at the same

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time she was on the phone to her boyfriend.

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As she was speaking to him, she told him

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a pan handler was approaching her.

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She then screamed, and

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the phone, it went dead. Hours

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later, her body was found in a building next

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door. Her pants unbuttoned and

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shot in the head. The CCTV,

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it's very hard to make it really anything

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other than two people struggling.

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One person forcing the other into

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the back seat of the car. And then

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the car door closes. Everywhere

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people were watching their back, watching every

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car that passed them on the streets, never

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knowing if one of the serial killers

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could be right behind you. The baseline

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had started well on a near baseline

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road, but it had spread across

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the city both killers were

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taken over. Two

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task forces were created to stop them.

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The serial shooter case had three hundred and

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seventy five people working on it the baseline

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killer one hundred. Though

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after what happened to Carmen Run

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at the Car Wash, the baseline killer

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went underground. The

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serial shooter, though, seeing well his

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time to shine, Neil can't have the baseline

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stealing the spotlight, ramped up.

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Eight more people were shot in July

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two thousand six with the final murder

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taking place on July thirtieth.

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A young woman, Robin Blasnick,

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shut and killed while walking down the street,

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talking on the phone. By

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this time, the baseline killer had murdered

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eight women and one man. An

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assaulted over thirty tree, women.

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The serial shooter had killed at least

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eight and wounded eighteen talk

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about a year of fear. There

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were no leads, no suspects, nothing.

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But then, there was something. And

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a one hundred thousand dollar reward will

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usually, I, you know, loosen

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some lips and sink. These

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serial shooters ship. In

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a bar called the star dust tavern,

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Northwest Phoenix. A guy named

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Ron Horton had been told some things

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by a dronk friend.

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The drunk friend was named Sam

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Denim. And he told Ron he had

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been involved in the shootings. Raginibertus,

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having a grand old time telling this old story.

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But then becoming remorseful.

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When the serial shooter's last victim

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was, well, serially

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shot Ron having, you know, kept

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this information to himself for few weeks.

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And now he was feeling like he

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could have prevented it. He called the police.

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Though it also helped that the reward had

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just been offered, what what rewards

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didn't even realize. Ron

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gave the police Sam's number. They

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traced it and also prevailed a man

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Sam used to live with, one Jeff

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Hauser. Tailing them both,

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they happen to see some getting into a

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light colored sedan. Maybe

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one of the survivors said bullets came

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from a light colored sedan. The

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plates of that car led to

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one Dale Housner, Jeff

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Housner's brother. It

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turned out that Dale and Sam lived

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together. They were the

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serial shooter together. One drove,

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one shot. The police tailed

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them, tailed them even as they drove

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the streets of Phoenix or looking for victims.

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They would slow down when people passed

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as if as of sizing them up,

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wondering if they should wind down the

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window or not before suddenly pulling

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off. After being granted wiretaps

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and bugging their apartment, they heard

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them talking and laughing that

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the killings. It

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was on August third they were both

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arrested. Dale Housner

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never admitted anything, even

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though it seemed he was the brains or

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Hold on. Wouter lack of them behind

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the operation. Sam Dieteman, he

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told the police about the whole shebang.

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They shut. They rubbed. They set buildings

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on fire. Slashed tires all

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the while smoking meth. And

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it was all a game, a real life video

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game. To them, they just wanted

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to wreck shit and smoke shit. They were

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they were out of their minds the entire time.

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Sound people just wanna watch the road,

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boom, some shit like that. Dale worked

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as a janitor at the airport. And

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in his free time, he was a freelance photographer

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and also worked in the boxing scene

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in Phoenix. He even managed to get

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a picture what Mike Tyson wants. He was

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a bit of a ladies man, though, he

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wouldn't really think it to look at him. I mean, he looks

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like someone on meth And he even

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tried to use the ladies, as alloys

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for him when the shootings occurred, couldn't

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have been me. was off riding near one.

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That would fall apart. He

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had suffered tragedy though. In

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nineteen ninety four, he was married with two

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kids in Texas. And one day

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while driving his wife fell asleep at

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the wheel, and the car went into a river.

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Both Dale's kids drowned. That

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is what turned into drugs

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and well, hating everything.

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Sam was nothing really

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fuck all to his name. He'd been an

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electrician, but due to drugs he really

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couldn't holden much, and he

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had a lengthy history. After

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the arrests on August third, the police

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banned scrapbooks in their apartment filled

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with news articles about the serial

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shooter making their making a little scrapbook

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about their adventures. Also

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inside were articles about the baseline

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killer, and the police realized

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they were having a friendly little

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competition, you know, between serial killers

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keeping keeping track of each other. And

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speaking of the baseline killer, When the

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serial shooters were arrested, he hadn't

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struck in close to two

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months. But he did have gaps

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like that before and it seemed It

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seemed only a matter of time before another

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victim turned

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up. They got

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in a forensic psychiatrist, a Steven

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Pitt, to diagnose the sky, and

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help create a profile. His

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modus operandi was well he started

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in August with the assaults before graduating

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to full on murder. He would

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kill if they didn't comply. But

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if they did, he never if

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they did comply with him, that way

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he would. He never finished.

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So DNA was actually kind of

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hard to find, but they did have it,

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though no profile to match at that

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point. Also,

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none of the women he killed were assaulted,

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but they were usually posed

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with their pants down anyway. They

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had a few suspects, and in fact, one

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false confession which wasted police

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time. And one of these suspects

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they had was a fellow named Marc Gudo,

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a handsome moustacheoed African American

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fella. He lived with his wife

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near where some attacks had occurred, and

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he had a history. As a teenager,

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he'd been accused of sexual assault

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but no charges were filed. And

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in nineteen eighty nine, he went to prison

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for sexually assaulting a woman and

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then chasing witnesses With

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a shotgun, he later robbed a store at Gunpoint,

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and for all this, he got twenty one

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years. In prison, he married

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Wendy Kerr. And he got out after

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thirteen years in two thousand and

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four. The next year,

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the baseline killer emerged. Mark,

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he lived a quiet life. He worked in construction.

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He would buy lunch for the guys. And he was

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he was a well liked charming

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guy. Which the police discovered

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when they put him under surveillance. They

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finally had a break when DNA came back from

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two teens that were assaulted

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back in September two thousand and five

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near baseline road. And

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at Match, Mark Trudeau. He

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was arrested on the sixth of September

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two thousand and six. That was his

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forty second birthday. Happy

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birthday. At that point, he

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was only charged with the attack on the

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two teens as they didn't have more. But

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That was enough to keep him inside till

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they got it. They would,

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but it would surprise everyone who knew much.

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But maybe not everyone who

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knew his record. Neighbors would say he

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was a sweet guy. His wife,

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you know, she would say he was innocent. She

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even created a website for him, which

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hasn't been updated in six years,

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so maybe she got the picture. The

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baseline killer. He's a convicted

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felon. He's a serial killer.

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Who's the marketer? You know? He's

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the

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baseline killer scapegoat. He

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is the person that was just black enough

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to be

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arrested. He's too old. He's

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too big. The

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police searched his home and found jewelry

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from his victims along with traces

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of wood. This wasn't enough

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to outright call him the baseline killer,

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but that would come in time. That

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would be right about when they were able to attribute

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the murder of Sofia Nunez to

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Mark. Sophia Nunez was

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the only victim of his killed in

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her own home. Her son

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walking in after school and finding his

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mother in the bathtub. With

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a bullet to the head. She

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wasn't initially thought of as a baseline

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a victim, but Mark was linked

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to it by witnesses at the scene after

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his initial arrest. Markudo

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was then charged with seventy four

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crimes. He would plead

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not guilty. Mark

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would have two trials. The first was for

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the attack on the two teams. In

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September two thousand and seven, he was found

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guilty and he got Sorry.

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Let me see here. Four

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hundred and thirty eight years in prison.

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And he still had another trial ahead

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of him for the other seventy

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four charges played against him.

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That would go ahead four years later.

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But in the meantime, the serial

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shooter trials began. Sam

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Edelman, he plead guilty to everything, and

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he got life without parole. Dayboy

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he was convicted of eighty of

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the eighty seven charges that were laid against

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him. He must have, oh my god, I didn't

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get those final seven. He tried

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to kill himself before

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the state could. It's weird he

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was so good at killing other people.

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Jeff Hoesner Dale's brother was also

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charged with participating in some of the

20:26

serial shooters shooting. He

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got a few decades for that. Dale

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Hauser was sentenced to death.

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Six times, he was sentenced to death actually.

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Just, you know, in case he survives the first

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five, you know, six

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times a term. Marco's

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trial for again,

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let me just check his notes Seventy

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four crimes went ahead in twenty eleven.

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They had his DNA. They had trophies from

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his victims. They had Tina Washington's

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ring found in his home and a bullet from

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her scene was the same as bullets found

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at all the others. He was

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found guilty of sixty seven of

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those seventy four crimes, including

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nine murders. He asked

21:09

the jury not to kill him. They just weren't

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having it, and they killed him nine

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times. In

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twenty thirteen, Dale Housner was

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found dead in his cell. He'd

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overdosed on antidepressants So

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I guess, I mean, he he got there

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in the end. His final victim was

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himself. Sam

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and Jeff are still in prison serving their

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sentences as is Merck, who's

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still to this day denies being the baseline

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killer. His sentences

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were reaffirmed in twenty sixteen.

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And that, my friends, my dear

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beloved friends, is the story of

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the baseline killer and the

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serial shooter. And how for for

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one year, Phoenix, Arizona

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was on edge with not one, but

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two serial killers prowling

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the streets that jeez, Janie

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Mackie, that is a stuff. Nightmares

22:07

are are truly made of But

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in the end, you know, hey. Whoa.

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Thankfully, they were caught. And Phoenix

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and the surrounding areas have been safe.

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Ever since. Oh,

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wait, shit. I have another story to tell The

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year, it is twenty eighteen, almost

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twelve years after the

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rampages of the baseline killer

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and the serial shooter, those tickets.

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In a small hotel room at the

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Scottsdale Extended Stay on

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ten six sixty North sixty

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ninth Street, A man was in a

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quiet, dusty, motel

22:54

room. The curtains shut against

22:56

the soft, evening light.

22:59

Inside, a man wrote down

23:02

four names on a small

23:04

scrap of paper. In that

23:06

darkened dusty, musty

23:08

room, the name's Pitt, Feldman,

23:12

Colby, and Selmy were scrawled

23:15

onto the front of an attorney's envelope.

23:19

Those four people, they were linked together

23:21

even if they didn't know it themselves. And

23:24

the person who angryly scrawled

23:27

their names had decided that

23:30

they were the kind worth

23:33

killing. On

23:38

Thursday, May thirty one, twenty eighteen,

23:40

A hot day, as Stephen Pitt left his office

23:42

at would have been, you know, around thirty five degrees Celsius,

23:45

ninety five degrees Fahrenheit, he stepped

23:47

out of his building onto the curb. Steven

23:50

Pitt was a forensic psychologist that

23:52

had had made headlines. He'd worked

23:54

on cases like Joan Bonnet Ramsay, Columbine

23:57

and he had helped identify Markudo as

23:59

the baseline killer. Eleven years

24:01

previous, as he struck just just

24:04

thirty minutes away and sometimes much

24:06

closer. Even though he worked

24:08

on these high profile cases, the

24:11

majority of his day to day was focused on

24:13

less sensational cases, you know.

24:15

Custody, divorce cases, and other

24:17

criminal cases. And

24:19

it was as he walked out of his building onto

24:21

a busy street at five thirty PM

24:23

on that thirty first of May, he

24:26

was gunned down, shots

24:28

rang out without warning. Witnesses

24:32

who happened to be in the area at the time

24:34

said the attacker, the shooter, was

24:36

a, quote, round man

24:38

with bags under his eyes, and wearing a

24:40

black cap. They said they overheard

24:43

Steven and this guy arguing before

24:45

gunshots rang out and

24:47

Steven Pitt was shot to death,

24:49

and the attacker fled the scene.

24:52

One witness who saw the shooter doing

24:54

a lager said he was a white

24:56

man His description was sketched

24:59

and it was circulated. It

25:03

would be less than twenty four hours

25:06

before this mysterious person

25:08

would strike again. On

25:10

Friday, the first of June, forty

25:12

eight year old Valeria Sharpe, stepped out

25:14

of the small law office she worked at.

25:17

Birtz, Feldman and Granier around

25:19

two fifteen PM, lunchtime. So

25:21

maybe she was

25:22

Yeah. What went to head out for a bit of rub

25:24

if it was any other

25:26

day? What's going on? The

25:29

lady's down on the ground. She's she's she's

25:31

fast out on the ground. Stay

25:32

on the phone. I'm gonna transfer us over to paramedics.

25:35

Okay. Just a moment. It

25:37

wasn't, and she was shot. She

25:39

was shot in the face and she managed to

25:41

stumble towards a bus nearby calling

25:44

for help, before collapsing

25:46

on the ground right beside her office.

25:49

When the emergency services arrived,

25:51

Valeria was already gone. But

25:55

there was a trail of blood leading back

25:57

to her

25:57

office. And following it inside,

26:00

there

26:01

was another woman just crumpled inside

26:03

the door. That

26:06

was another paralegal named

26:08

Laura Anderson. She had been shot

26:10

twice. It seemed like she had tried

26:12

to flee from the attacker.

26:16

And I see the lady on the ground

26:18

to let them on ground face down

26:21

right all over, and I thought the landed on her nose

26:23

and busted her nose kind of

26:24

thing. Yep. That's all I saw. But as I

26:27

as I was witnessing it, she was trembling

26:29

like So a shooting at

26:31

a law firm. Well, there's there's no

26:33

reason there's no shortage of reasons for that,

26:35

I'll say. It's kinda I guess it's kinda harder

26:37

to job to piss people off and screw

26:40

them over. So at the start, the

26:42

police had no indication of where to begin

26:44

and why this had happened. It may not have even

26:47

been linked to the profession of law,

26:49

loitering, etcetera, etcetera. It could

26:51

have been related to the private lives of either

26:53

Valeria Sharp or Laura Anderson. And

26:57

this time, no one got a go at the

26:59

shooter, who had marched into an office

27:01

and opened fire. Kind

27:04

of just shooting the shits

27:06

with no pun intended, One of

27:08

the investigators asked the attorneys and

27:10

partners of the firm, Bert, Feldman,

27:12

and Grooneer. You know, we

27:14

have we're just investigating a similar shooting just

27:17

a day before. You guys ever used Steven Pitt,

27:19

psychiatrist on any case by any chance?

27:21

Any links to you between what happened yesterday

27:23

and this? The answer

27:25

to that was, yes,

27:28

yes, they had. But they had used

27:30

him a few times on various cases.

27:33

So although that's a lead, It would take

27:35

while before that lead became solid, solid.

27:39

About seven hours after the shooting at

27:41

the offices of Bert, Feldman, and Groeneer,

27:44

A real connection was made when the shell

27:46

cases confirmed that the same person

27:48

had shot Steven Pitts, Valeria Sharp,

27:51

and Laura Anderson. Well, the

27:53

same gun shot them. Then

28:00

that very same day, Friday,

28:02

the first of June, maybe only a few

28:05

hours after Valeria Anoro shot

28:07

a man walked into an office building

28:09

less than seven miles away.

28:12

He was looking for a woman who had a private

28:14

office there. She wasn't

28:16

in at the

28:17

time. So what did this

28:19

guy do instead?

28:21

What he did was shoot a man who

28:23

was there. He

28:26

shot seventy two year old psychologist, Marshall

28:29

Levine twice in the face.

28:32

Marshall's body wouldn't be discovered until

28:34

close to midnight that night. When

28:36

his fiancee worried he hadn't come

28:38

home from work, Benham dead

28:41

in his office.

28:48

Medical. Medical. That's his help on the way can you see

28:50

him?

28:51

Yes. He's in his office. He's has

28:54

sober on the on the sofa. And

28:56

there's a bullet casing on the on the

28:59

Okay.

29:00

Do you find that? Yeah.

29:02

And shades of what had happened twelve

29:05

years earlier were beginning to emerge.

29:07

Watch, you know, at the time appear to

29:09

be random attacks occurring without warning,

29:11

with frightening suddenness, before

29:13

the mysterious shooter disappeared once

29:15

again into the city.

29:18

You get the guy who shot there's

29:20

two shootings and they get the person who did it. We

29:22

are still working on everything right

29:24

now. The claim was still kinda hectic scene.

29:26

Marsha's murder was quickly tied to

29:28

the and word began to spread that they

29:31

must be linked somehow.

29:33

Related to the other. I am.

29:36

I'm gonna say

29:36

Or it's relating to the other.

29:39

You said he was in the couch. Yeah.

29:41

Yeah. So

29:43

either he got nervous and missed or

29:45

he was killed. Yeah.

29:47

Look for bullet holes in the walls as well. Yes.

29:50

See if you can check behind that couch without moving

29:52

the couch. A well known forensic psychiatrist,

29:55

two paralegals on a psychologist. So

29:58

who could be next? Well, judges

30:00

were given extra security by law enforcement

30:03

as it appeared. Well, someone

30:05

wasn't happy with how things went in

30:07

a courtroom. It was certainly a

30:09

series of targeted attacks. Hundreds

30:12

of tips began pouring in. And

30:14

it was on Saturday night, the second

30:16

of June. That well,

30:18

there would be a breakthrough. See,

30:25

the police were correct in thinking the murders

30:28

were linked to a court case. And

30:30

maybe someone knew exactly which

30:32

case it was. Connie

30:35

Jones shorted. Connie

30:37

Jones was married to a retired Phoenix

30:39

police detective and she had one

30:41

son from a previous marriage who

30:43

was in college. She knew

30:45

who the killer was from that previous

30:48

marriage. She called the detectives

30:50

telling them that the three places that were

30:52

targeted, but only one of the persons

30:54

were all involved in her divorce

30:56

case from her first husband.

30:59

Her first husband was a guy named

31:01

Dwight Jones. Dwight

31:04

Jones, by the way, he was not white. So

31:06

the first witness got it way wrong.

31:09

Connie And Dwight started a relationship when

31:11

she was just eighteen years old.

31:14

Penny would go to medical school and become

31:16

a radiologist, Dwight, he would join the

31:18

army and they would marry in nineteen eighty

31:20

eight. Shortly

31:22

after Dwight dropped out of the army,

31:25

and it wasn't long before Dwight began

31:27

showing signs of depression and signs

31:29

of violence towards her. He

31:31

wouldn't be able to hold a job for a long

31:33

and over the years there were incidents of domestic

31:36

assault. They kept at it for

31:38

few years they'd have a son together and

31:40

stuck through it, you know, for him. But

31:42

the stake through the heart of their relationship

31:44

came in two thousand and nine.

31:46

Their young son was playing in a basque ball

31:49

game. And after back at home, he

31:51

obviously hadn't played well enough for his old

31:53

man as the white began to share with him.

31:55

Connie, she basically told him to stop

31:57

it, When Dwight pinned her up

31:59

against the wall, gave her a wall

32:01

up and said he would drown her in the

32:03

pool. Honey was able to document

32:06

this, She

32:22

did not think he was joking about

32:24

drowning her. She ran out of the

32:26

house and called the police, which

32:29

resulted in a standoff with

32:31

SWAT. Dwight finally coming

32:33

out with his young son in front of him

32:35

holding him like a human shield.

32:38

Great stuff. What an awesome dash. What

32:41

a fucking asshole? Less

32:43

than a week later, Connie filed for divorce.

32:46

Dwight was involuntary committed to a

32:48

mental health institute, but he was

32:50

let go after it was found he was, quote,

32:53

not mentally abnormal. Stephen

32:56

Pitt, the psychiatrist, then entered

32:58

the picture to assess Dwight. He

33:00

determined that he had anxiety and mood

33:02

disorders, was narcissistic, antisocial,

33:05

and paranoid. And

33:08

Stephen Pitt himself told the court

33:10

that without proper treatment, Dwight

33:13

would he would continue. He would continue

33:15

to unravel And

33:17

he was dead right. Way

33:19

too right. Thus, you know, him coming

33:21

forward and saying that would later

33:24

make him a target of the white.

33:27

Connie would get soul custody of their son

33:30

with the white getting supervised time with

33:32

him. Something he was not happy

33:34

about. Honey would also have to pay

33:36

Dwight six thousand dollars a

33:38

month in spousal maintenance. She

33:40

was a doctor, Dwight was jack shit.

33:47

The two paralegals killed.

33:49

Well, they worked at the law office, Connie's

33:51

divorce attorney worked at. Valeria

33:54

sharp and Laura Anderson weren't on

33:56

his shit list. They were just

33:58

there. Same for Marsha Levin,

34:00

actually, he simply worked in the same building,

34:03

Connie and Dwight's son, saw another

34:05

psychologist that She wasn't there

34:07

that day. While she had been, actually,

34:09

she had just left early, but

34:11

Marshall was still there, and

34:13

he ended up being killed. Cuddy,

34:16

her husband and son, had just returned

34:18

from a vacation when they saw the

34:20

news, and she saw the signs as

34:22

to who the killer was. And they

34:25

quickly left hand. It

34:27

was likely he may turn up at her door.

34:30

Honey knew who would likely be next. Paulette,

34:33

Selmy, the person who made the call

34:35

that Dwight gets supervised visits.

34:37

But in the meantime, why he would do this

34:39

was a mystery, especially so long

34:41

after the divorce, and she was paying

34:44

him a lot of money every month. What

34:47

what caused him to snap Well,

34:49

one indication could be from his

34:51

YouTube channel called exposing

34:54

low lives. It's

34:56

been removed from the Internet, but some clips

34:59

still remain. He never mentions his

35:01

name or shows his face. Instead, he

35:03

shows this trigon creepy

35:05

white mask. He somehow

35:08

came to the conclusion that there was some

35:10

kind of conspiracy against him at

35:12

Steven Pitt Coney Jones and all

35:14

the others had abused his son

35:16

and were trying to gaslight him and make him

35:18

look insane, though I think

35:21

Neil, after watching some of these clips, he was doing

35:23

a good enough job of that on his own.

35:26

Hello, YouTube, and welcome to my channel.

35:28

You will have a psychiatric problem based

35:30

on some piece of that she hired.

35:33

People who enable sexual

35:35

assault should be held accountable. They

35:38

should go to jail. Just

35:40

like the pedophile. Just like

35:42

the rapist. That's how Larry Nash

35:45

master doctor. Larry

35:47

Nash. Got

35:49

away with it for so long. And this new

35:51

guy, UNC, can't

35:53

think of that doctor's name. That's

35:55

how he got away with it so long. That's

35:58

how Bill Cosby got away with it.

36:01

All of these people had money and titles,

36:04

and they had people covering up their

36:08

crimes just

36:10

like Connie, how many people

36:12

does she have to grow? How

36:14

many children does she have to molest?

36:17

Before she's brought

36:19

to justice.

36:21

His

36:22

main thesis though was that he'd been robbed

36:24

at one son. And he'd kill those

36:26

responsible. All the videos were

36:28

posted within three weeks of the beginning

36:31

of his rampage. So

36:33

they knew who was responsible for the attacks,

36:35

and they even flew a helicopter in the

36:37

middle of the night to Connie and her son

36:39

to do a DNA test and confirm with

36:42

Tracy n a, they had found on a bullet, Nino,

36:44

to confirm as Dwight from his son's DNA,

36:46

where they didn't have Dwight himself. And

36:49

he wasn't done just yet.

36:53

Cell phone data would later show that

36:55

on Sunday morning, Shortly before

36:58

the police began to attract white, he had

37:00

driven to an upscale neighborhood in

37:02

Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Inside

37:05

a house there, police found the bodies of

37:07

Mary Simons and Brian Thomas.

37:09

Both were in their seventies. Both

37:12

had been shot to death. Why

37:14

he killed them is unknown? He

37:16

knew them, but they weren't involved in the

37:18

divorce case, and it's never

37:20

really been explained. They wouldn't be

37:22

discovered for another day and he had

37:25

no reason to kill them. The

37:27

only real link was that Dwight and Brian

37:30

occasionally played tennis together.

37:32

A few hours later, the police began tailing

37:34

him, and they saw him dump the hand gun in a

37:36

dumpster. Along with a black hat.

37:40

The police would eventually tail him to Scottsdale

37:42

Extended Stay on ten six sixty

37:44

North sixty ninth Street. Early

37:47

on Monday, the fourth of June, police

37:49

surrendered the hotel and began to get guests

37:52

out of there. They

37:54

tried to do, you know, this quietly without

37:56

alerting Dwight, but not unfortunately

37:59

quietly enough. As to

38:01

why he must have heard something. He got

38:03

out of bed. He poked his little head out the window

38:05

and saw his hotel absolutely

38:08

surrounded by Boys.

38:13

At this point, Dwight shatters

38:15

his own hands. And then he

38:18

was, oh, like light bulb. Light

38:20

bulb moments, you know, in his head, he realized,

38:22

oh, shit. I actually wrote them five names

38:25

on that envelope, not four. He

38:27

had another look at it. Uh-huh.

38:30

The last name was his

38:32

own. And you know so, hey, four

38:34

to five, you gotta finish what you started.

38:36

After popping off a few shots at the

38:38

police, he popped one off

38:40

at himself. He

38:43

didn't leave a note or anything. All

38:45

he left behind was a hotel room

38:48

filled with crazy person,

38:50

pure shite. The

38:53

police found his body inside, along with

38:55

disguises, the white mask from

38:57

his videos, guns, knives,

38:59

and ammo. They

39:01

also found his laptop and the laptop

39:04

had two bullets in it like he

39:06

had shot it. Now I'm not

39:08

sure exactly this is a bit of

39:10

an unsolved mystery if you ask me because

39:12

I'm not sure how he thought the Internet

39:15

works, but shooting

39:17

your computer does not amazingly

39:20

enough eraser search history.

39:24

Just finished watching support. Where

39:26

is the shotgun? In his

39:28

search history, they found the names and addresses

39:30

of everyone he had been looking for.

39:33

When he died, he was wearing a t shirt with the

39:35

punisher logo on a along with the

39:37

hat and he had comic books and DVDs of

39:39

the punisher two. He was a big fan. I

39:42

guess he saw himself much like Frank

39:44

castle, avenging those that took

39:46

away his son. He saw himself as a

39:48

hero, vigilante. They

39:50

also found the envelope with the names of his

39:52

intended victims. He only

39:54

actually got one of them, Stephen Pitt

39:56

along with five others who

39:58

had nothing to do

40:00

with anything. Why

40:03

Dwight did what he did is still a mystery?

40:05

He had been living in that hotel for years.

40:07

If you can believe that, since he moved out of his

40:09

house he had shared with Connie, so

40:11

he was likely just just doing,

40:14

going more and more batch it with each

40:16

passing day until he just had

40:18

enough killing himself was probably

40:20

always the likely plan. The

40:23

fact that he killed the two older victims,

40:25

it's still strange. It's understood

40:28

White asked one of them either Mary or

40:30

Brian for money shortly before he began his

40:32

rampage. Even though he was getting six

40:34

grand a month, from Connie. They

40:36

likely refused and maybe he killed

40:38

them out of revenge, though he

40:40

didn't steal anything from their fancy

40:42

house in Fenton Hills. It

40:46

is very likely though if he hadn't seen Oben

40:48

tracked down after his big weekend

40:50

notes, he would have crossed off

40:53

all the names on his list. So he would

40:55

have gone back for those he missed and eventually

40:58

probably his wife's. Thankfully

41:00

though, cheers to white he

41:02

crossed off his own name before he could.

41:06

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41:09

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41:11

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