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There's still so many things we
don't understand about this case

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and probably never will.

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We just have bits and pieces
of some kind of strange puzzle,

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and even if we could
put them all together,

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I don't know if I want to see
whatever picture they make.

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Yeah.

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My name is Joseph Kirby.

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I am a former lead detective
sergeant in San Bernardino County.

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I was supervising the major
crimes unit between 2007 and 2015.

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San Bernardino County is about 60 miles
east of Los Angeles and is a part of

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California's Inland Empire region.

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We have a population of about 2 million.

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We've seen our share of violent
crimes, gang related homicides,

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relatively large scale
drug busts, what have you.

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We probably ran upwards
of 65 murders a year

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in the San Bernardino County
Sheriff's Homicide Bureau,

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which is higher than the national average,

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but I had never seen anything

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like what happened to the
Sheridan family on Alton Avenue.

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Nobody had.

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911...what is your emergency?

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I'm not sure if this is the right person to call,

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but I was calling to see if it's possible
to get a welfare check for someone.

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Can I get your name please?

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My name?

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My name is Kacie Porter and
I was friends with Tiffany Sheridan.

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Our kids went to
the same elementary school.

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When you have kids that
age and you meet a lot

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parents that you don’t always care for.
But Tiff and I, we just hit it off.

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We were supposed to meet at
this restaurant for lunch,

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but she never showed and I
figured she had forgotten,

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so I let it go,

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but then Lauren came home and she said
that Sam hadn't been to school in a few

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days and I kept calling
and I kept texting,

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but I never got a reply back.

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and I just knew in the back of
my head that something is wrong.

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I know it's not very
long but it's just

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not like her to miss
a lunch and not call.

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We'll send someone over
there to check it out.

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I'm Will Martinez.

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I'm a Deputy Sheriff with the San
Bernardino Sheriff's Department.

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Me and my partner were the first
officers to arrive on scene.

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We got a call regarding a welfare check
for a residence in the Shandin Hills.

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Nice area. It was a gated
community as I remember.

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Whole thing felt weird.

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Something about it was just off.

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Police department.

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Police department,
anybody home?

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Let’s go around.

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Police department.
Anyone home?

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My partner called out. We
identified ourselves again,

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but there was no movement.

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Hello?

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Anybody home?

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Mother of god.

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This was a crime scene.

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What happened to them...

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I think about it every day.

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I have nightmares about it.

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Why them?

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That was a bad day.

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When I saw that I was floored.

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I looked at my partner and I
said, oh my God, he's back.

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Hi.

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My name's Lexi Taylor.

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I'm a senior homicide detective
for the San Bernardino PD.

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I worked as a patrol officer for about
nine years before being offered a job in

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the homicide bureau and that's when I
started working with my partner, Joe Kirby.

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Growing up, my mom worked two jobs
to support me and my older brother.

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Saw a rotating door of less than great men
you would say come and go in her life.

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I think that's when I first
started thinking that maybe

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I would like to try to help people,

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Maybe I could help someone like
my mom out of a tough situation.

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I actually never intended to be a cop.

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I had aspirations of being
a drummer in a metal band,

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but one of my friend's brothers was in
the academy and I thought it sounded cool.

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I liked how you had
to think on your feet,

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use your brain as well as your body.

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After a couple of days in training,

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I was hooked, man.

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That is how I have always approached
my career in law enforcement.

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Try to be there for people when
things are at their worst.

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Fuck. It was never worse than on this case.

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Between 1993 and 1995,

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there were three murders in Riverside
and San Bernardino County that we

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eventually realized were serial
murders and which had some

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ritualistic aspects.

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I think this is it. Yeah.

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Okay, she was covered with a blue tarp.
You could see it easily from the road.

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This is a service road. Not a lot of
people come down it.

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It was just horrible.

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I mean, you never expect
to see something like that.

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On August 8th, 1993,

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the torso of 24-year-old Shifra
Gutierrez is discovered in

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San Bernardino National Forest.

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She had been dismembered.

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The genitals mutilated...
the uterus removed

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The coroner gave a best guess
estimate she'd been there two weeks,

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but it's difficult to tell.

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Shifra was my best friend
in high school.

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She was a dope bitch.

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She just had this joy for
living and this lust for life,

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and she was funny as fuck.

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She wasn't a bad person, you know.
She just, I don't know.

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She just got into some bad shit
like a lot of people out here do.

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I was always telling her, I was
like, this is dangerous, Shifra,

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you got to stop doing this.

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Oh shit. I said I wasn’t going to do this.

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There's an area off the 91 in the
Casa Blanca neighborhood and

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that's where Shifra was last seen,

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but we do know she went up to a room at
a motel called Dean's Corner that was

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frequented by sex workers
and there was a man with her,

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but the clerk couldn't remember
what he looked like.

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He could have killed her there.

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Could have been strangulation, for
example. We'll probably never know.

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What we do know for sure is that she
was somehow moved from that room without

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anybody noticing or somebody
noticed and just didn't care.

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But we got our first lead.

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A name.

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All guests had to fill out a ledger and
the suspect had written down the name

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“Albert Shiny”

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And the case went cold.

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I don't need to tell you
that especially at that time,

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sex workers and marginalized people tended
to get the short end of the stick in

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the criminal justice system.
I'm not saying it was right,

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I'm just saying it was and is the reality.

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So it was written off
as an isolated incident,

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but we were wrong.

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A grizzly crime scene has police
on high alert in Arlanza tonight,

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not far from the Riverside Municipal
Airport where the body of 82-year-old

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Ambrose Griffith was discovered
murdered in his apartment earlier today.

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Mr. Griffith was disabled and apparently
suffered from MDS, a blood condition that

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required daily assistance
from a caretaker.

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Nine months after Shifra
Gutierrez is killed,

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Ambrose Griffith is found murdered
in his assisted living facility.

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On the night of June 3rd, 1994,

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someone scaled the backside of his
building and entered his unit through a

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sliding glass door that was
apparently left unlocked.

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He was bludgeoned with an oxygen tank
that was in his room and then stabbed more

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than 30 times with a box cutter.

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Yeah, it was brutal and you got to
understand this guy was bed bound.

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I mean, he could not walk or could
barely walk on his own,

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so he was totally defenseless to the
attack, which was obviously unprovoked.

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No one else in the building heard
so much as a peep from his room,

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so it must have happened fast,

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which is some comfort, I guess.

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One of his eyes was also removed.

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It was a sloppy scene. Murder committed
by someone in a frenzy who was not

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thinking it through at all.

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It's probably why we were able
to get our first real clue.

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The print was run through the
system, but nothing came back.

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The lab guys stayed on it for weeks,
but it was only a partial.

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No motive.

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82-year-old victim with no family and few
friends except a few people that lived

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in his building who were
just as sick as he was.

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The police didn't make any
connection to the Gutierrez murder.

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Not yet.

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It's okay. It's okay.

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We want to thank everyone from the
Riverside Police Department with their

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continued support.

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Someone out there knows what
happened to our little boy and

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we are begging for you to
help us return him home

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safely and unharmed.

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Noah LaFone was abducted while walking
home from school on October 7th, 1995.

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He was 12 years old.

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There were no witnesses and pretty
much no information to go on.

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There was a pretty extensive search and
media effort this time to try to find him.

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We were doing door to doors.

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This was the first case I
was on involving a child,

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so I really threw myself into it.

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I’d get off work and I'd
go join search and rescue.

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People put in hundreds of hours

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but days turn into weeks and it
gets harder and harder to stay positive.

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Three months later in January,

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his body is discovered in a
shallow creek near Silverwood Lake.

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He had been weighed down by concrete
bricks and his body was in pretty bad shape.

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There were multiple lacerations to his
abdomen and his liver had been removed.

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12 years old.

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Whole life ahead of him.

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Poof.

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We also found a box cutter - the weapon.
As well as Noah's school backpack and

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all its contents. This is
where we got our second lead.

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There was a page that had been
written on and then torn out,

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but you could still see an imprint.

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“Kaliban”

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What the heck was Kaliban?

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A bird from the Caribbean we found out.

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Or a character from Shakespeare.

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I mean, was this some kind of a code?
Was it another Zodiac killer?

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About two weeks after
his body was discovered,

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the Riverside Police Department
received a letter in the mail.

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Provided details of the three killings.
It was unreleased information

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only the police would know,

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which basically proves whoever wrote it
was the killer or at least someone who

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had direct contact with the killer.

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And there was a message.

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Thanks for not catching me!
Learned a lot.

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Ten transits remain,
isn’t it insane?

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I’ll be back.

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Was he telling us he was
planning on killing ten more?

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Was that what he meant?

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This was the first time we realized
this was an actual serial killer.

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It's worth mentioning the jurisdictional
problems that can arise when someone

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commits a murder across county lines.

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It can make connecting
them a lot more difficult,

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but this guy wanted us to know.

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He wanted us to know what he did
and he wasn't finished.

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And then he signs the
letter with that symbol.

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Years went by.
The cases went cold.

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Detectives at that time figured whoever
was responsible for the three deaths was

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either incarcerated for another
crime or had died because

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they probably wouldn't have
stopped killing on their own.

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But as soon as I saw that
symbol on the ceiling,

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I realized that was the killer from 95.
He wasn't bluffing in his letter.

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He hadn't stopped. He had
just taken a 15 year break.

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Why?

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We're still trying
to figure that one out.

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One thing's for sure:
If his first murder spree

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had felt sloppy and unplanned,

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this new one was anything but.

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The suspect gained entry through
a first floor bathroom window,

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cut through a screen on
the side of the house,

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then attacks Ted and Tiffany
sometime after 1:15 AM

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after Tiffany sends her last work email.

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There was bruising on Ted's
face. Struck by a blunt object.

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We think the suspect probably roughed
him up as a form of intimidation and

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convinced him and Tiffany
to go downstairs willingly.

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This little girl...

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Samantha.

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Yeah, it looks like
she put up more of a fight.

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Some of the furniture in her room, her
comforter, all disturbed and in disarray.

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The suspect zip-ties their hands and feet.
Wraps duct tape around their mouths.

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You see, this guy had gotten smarter.
He had learned from the murders in 95.

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Less sloppy, more methodical. I
mean, the buckets. What the fuck?

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Pardon my French.

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He ties the three of them to
chairs around the dining room

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deliberately facing each
other. You understand?

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He places their feet in these
Five-gallon painters buckets.

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He prepared these things ahead of time.

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Like, they had their names on them, literally.

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Like, “Ted”, “Tiffany”,
“Samantha” written out.

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He draws three lines on each of them,

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like the kind you'd
find on a measuring cup.

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Except this wasn't for
measuring out rice...

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It’s for their blood.

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By volume.

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Going,

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Going.

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Gone.

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The suspect used a box cutter
to make a small six centimeter

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incision through the skin on each victim

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and the result was fatal blood loss.

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There's about a gallon and a
half of blood in the human body.

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It takes maybe 15 minutes
for that to drain out,

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but you can be dead in as soon as three.

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The femoral artery is
at your groin, basically

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at the top of your thigh.
If you're sitting upright,

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gravity just kind of does its thing.

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The technical term for this
is exsanguination.

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Part of what really earns that
term “ritualistic”, in my opinion,

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is anything done post-mortem.

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So, “normal homicide” you stab
a person, shoot a person,

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you get the heck out of there.
You don't stick around.

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Every second you wait is another
second to get caught.

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From what we can put together,

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our suspect hung around
another two hours at least.

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He leaves the house,

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comes back with a 24-foot extension
ladder that he gets from his vehicle,

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and then he goes to work painting
this thing on the ceiling.

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And it’s not a small room and
he goes almost wall to wall.

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It's almost 20 feet.

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And he does a good job.
He's careful.

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Does a couple of layers,
almost no drips on the floor.

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And he positions the bodies.

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And all this he does without any
neighbors hearing a sound

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or seeing a thing.

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No fingerprints,
no DNA left at the scene.

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No motive.
No relation to the victims.

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Three days later, another
letter arrives in the mail.

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Hope you blue baddies are having fun chasing my
tail because the harvest has just begun

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and reaping’s so much fun.

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A gruesome discovery was made
just this morning by a jogger

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of a human head here
in in Paris Hill Park.

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The jogger, Chelsea Lunsford, has been coming here
every weekday morning for two years.

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She enjoys the serenity of the landscape
and was not prepared for what she would find.

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My friend was just telling me how I should
bring mace or a stun gun or something

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with me when I go running and
yeah, I guess she was right.

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On the night of November 8th, the suspect
entered the home of the two victims,

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Tamara LaTorre and her
boyfriend, Glenn Sandweiss,

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through a dog door in the back of the house.

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They were watching TV in the
living room. Volume was up,

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which allowed him to sneak up on them
undetected until the last minute.

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According to Mr. Sandweiss,
he attacks Tamara first.

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Uses a stun gun to incapacitate her.

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We think the suspect was not
expecting Sandweiss to be home.

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Sandweiss says that he seems confused.

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There's a brief struggle before Sandweiss
is overpowered by the suspect and brought to

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the floor. That's when the attack
with the propane torch begins.

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He literally burns this guy's face off.

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Is there anything else you can remember
that would help us catch who did this?

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Like what?

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Anything he might have done or said?

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I don't know.

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Okay.

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He was just rambling, he kept saying

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he wasn't going to hurt
us and not to be afraid.

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Something about

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“Kaliban”

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I have no fucking idea!

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Jesus Christ, why the
fuck is this happening?

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Oh God. What did we do?

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What do you want to know?

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The fuck you think happened?

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You really think I was going to be
able to be a teacher looking like this?

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Standing up in front of a
group of 5th graders.

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They’d be terrified.

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You could still work in education.

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Doing what?

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Telling my story?

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Try and be inspirational.

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I can't work.

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Got no friends.

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Nerve damage.

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It feels like my face
is on fire all the time.

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I'm already dead, man.

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I'm just not in the ground

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like Tamara is.

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You got what you need. I'm
fucking done. Get my money

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and get the fuck out of my house.

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Tamara's head, the sculpture,
the weird trinkets on the ground,

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all of it was carefully examined
and once again, no fingerprints,

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no DNA left behind.
We had nothing.

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Until we got lucky.

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A woman who works at the strip mall down
the street from the park said she had

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seen a guy with a truck unloading
several garbage bags into a dumpster the

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morning of the murder. White
truck, red lettering, she said.

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So we pulled footage from a credit
union's ATM at the strip mall and

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it wasn't a great angle, but
it did catch something.

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The owner of the white truck,
Victor Shamaz, was a 45 year old man

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living in Riverside who had
a small house painting business.

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He had a rap sheet...
it was relatively clean.

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A few minor narcotic citations,
a “B&E” from a decade earlier,

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but he had a restraining order taken
out against him recently for apparently

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stalking a woman he met online.
That didn't sit well with us.

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We called him in for
questioning and he agreed.

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Mr. Shamaz, thank you
for meeting with us today.

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Yeah. I just wanna help.

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So, in regards to this work truck,

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it looks like you called it in stolen
yesterday after we got off the phone.

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Yeah. Yeah. I actually didn't even know
that it was gone until you guys told me.

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Even though it had been
missing for a week?

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I haven't been taking
a lot of jobs lately,

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so it's just been sitting there
parked down the road and stuff.

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I didn't even notice.

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So just to be clear,

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you are stating you have not left
your house since November 9th?

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Yeah, I think so.

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You think so?

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Did you go anywhere else?

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No. I mean, I didn't drive anywhere.

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Shamaz continues to claim he
has no knowledge of any crimes.

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That he simply didn't notice
his work truck was stolen.

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We asked him if he'd be willing to take
a polygraph test to which he agrees.

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Is your name Victor Shamaz?

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Yes.

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He bombs the polygraph test
about as badly as you can,

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shows to be evasive or lying about
nearly every question asked.

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In fact, the only question he
actually appears to tell the truth on

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are his name and address.

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Of course,

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polygraph tests aren't always accurate
and they're not admissible in court.

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It's just a useful tool, but it was
pretty obvious Shamaz was lying.

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So Shamaz manages to get himself arrested
after it’s discovered he's carrying a

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fairly large amount of methamphetamine
and an unregistered handgun.

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Looks like Shamaz was trying to skip town.

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I just want to come and clear the air.

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I don't know what you think I've
done, but I have not killed anybody.

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Okay. I had nothing to do with
any of these fucking murders.

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Then why'd you lie to us, Victor?

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I was at this “Quik N Go” and somebody
come and pulled me out of my truck

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and beat the shit out of me, okay?

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Like I thought I was a fucking dead man and
then he just takes my truck and that's it.

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So I don’t say shit because I’m scared

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but I have nothing to do with the fucking
killers or the murders or any of that shit.

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I swear to God it wasn't me.

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Okay, slow down.

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It became evident Shamaz wasn't
our guy. He was a scumbag,

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but he wasn't our scumbag and
he didn't really know anything,

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although he did give us one
new piece of information.

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So this guy that beat you up
and attacked you,

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What did he look like?

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No. Yeah. Sorry,
I should have mentioned that.

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But he was wearing like a mask,

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like a freaky ass mask.

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He started wearing a mask.

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That meant only one thing.

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He had seen us on the news and
knew we were actively pursuing him.

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He wanted to make that loud
and clear in his next letter.

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So close yet so far!
How frustrating that must be.

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The Great Shambler arrives at the gates!

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We will all perish in a flesh mosoleum,

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but be reborn amidst
wonder and glory forever.

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A few months go by, nothing new happens.
And of course a part of me is thinking,

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hoping maybe that's it. Maybe it's
already over and this guy's finished.

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But another part of me, the cynical
part, knows that can't be true.

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He'll let us know when he is finished.

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It's about 6 in the morning
and I get a call from Joe.

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They found another body.

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Earlier this morning,
a horrific discovery was

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reported to police here at the
North Riverside Aquatics Center.

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This was a bad one.

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A group of skate kids broke into the building

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to check the place out and smoke weed.

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Just a couple of dumb teenagers.

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I doubt they'll be doing
that again anytime soon.

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When you first saw the body,

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it looked like it was covered
in mud or slime or something.

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It was so shiny.

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Coroner's official cause of death...

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Fatal loss of blood by leeches.

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Victim's name was Dennis Zhao,

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43-year-old Chinese immigrant
living in Riverside.

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He was last seen leaving an apartment
he shared with several other people

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to catch a bus and was never seen again.

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Bodies found four days later and he
had only been deceased less than a day.

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The suspect had been breeding them, right?

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This particular type of leech takes about
three weeks for the eggs to form and hatch.

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And another two weeks to reach maturity.

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So he'd been preparing this thing for
over a month, coming here day after day,

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checking in on his babies, feeding
them, keeping the water clean.

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Checking the PH.

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He might be a monster,

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but he does have some
kind of paternal instinct.

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Then he abducts Dennis Zhao and he
brings him here, strips him naked,

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puts him in the water,

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creates this barrier around the
deep end and all along the edges

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so he can't get out no
matter how hard he tries.

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Then he begins releasing
these things in the pool.

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The species found in
the pool with Mr. Zhao

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is called H. Stagnalis.
In the case of H. Stagnalis

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it has this sucker on the front of
its body that it uses to attach to

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the host.

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They have three small jaws that
create a Y-shaped incision.

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It's how they get the tasty pay dirt.

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Leeches will consume up to ten times
their own body weight in blood,

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which sounds like a lot, but it's
really, it's like two teaspoons.

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This bloodletting by leeches process went
on for nearly three straight days.

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The suspect just methodically
keeps fishing out full leches,

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adding more empties on and on

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as Dennis Zhao becomes
more and more incapacitated.

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I've always been lousy at math,

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but basically it took a shit load
of leeches to kill Dennis Zhao.

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Eventually up to his neck in
this filthy leech filled water,

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he finally succumbeded to his injuries.

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Oh, and the reason no one ever hears
screaming from the building...

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Zhaos tongue was cut out.

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A leech bite looks a little
like the symbol, doesn't it?

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See how it's sort of a triangle?

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But like most clues, this just
led to more questions.

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What do these dots mean?

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What the hell am I looking at?

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We later figured out that the suspect first
got in contact with Mr. Zhao because of

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a Craigslist ad he posted.

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They had exchanged a few messages and
then arranged to meet up for sex at a

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motel down the street from the pool.

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This finally led to the
big break in the case.

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Our technicians were able to identify the
IP address where the Craigslist ad

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was originally posted.

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The ad and subsequent back and forth
messaging had been made from a coffee shop

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in Mission Grove on February
11th. This was a huge lead.

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We finally were able to trace the suspect's
whereabout outside of a crime scene.

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I mean, I got to admit,
I was really starting to think

31:15.395 --> 31:18.435
we were chasing a ghost
or a vampire or something.

31:19.065 --> 31:21.185
We did surveillance on
the place for about a week.

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The last thing we wanted to do was draw
any attention to ourselves if this guy

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was a regular, for example, and
came in all the time.

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I mean, we were always hoping and
praying maybe he swings by for a cup

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of coffee or place another ad, and
just like that we'd have him.

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No such luck.

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There were three employees
working that day.

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None of them could remember the
suspect. It's a popular place,

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so he may have picked it for that
reason. No surveillance system,

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no cameras anywhere at all. But the area
does have a large homeless population.

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Excuse me, sir, you mind
if I talk to you for a sec?

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You're talking about the
one near Andulka Park?

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Yeah. Yeah, that's it. I'm
just sitting there, right?

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And he comes up to me and

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I didn’t know what he wanted...
“I want to hire you as day labor.”

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Did he say what kind of labor?

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Landscaping, working on
a house or something.

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And you get in his car?

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Yep.

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What kind of car?

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Like a...

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...sedan or something, like a blue Camry.

32:33.648 --> 32:37.858
When I started talking to this
guy, my jaw was on the floor, man.

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But if he was telling
the truth, this was huge.

32:41.740 --> 32:44.620
We even had a vehicle description,
but it gets even better.

32:44.868 --> 32:48.248
Mr. Johnson tells us he knows
where the suspect's house is.

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Apparently the suspect
had driven him to it.

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Okay, see that arrow?

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It wants you to go left,
but you're going to go straight.

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He didn't know the street address,

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but he says he thinks he can
remember how to get there by memory.

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Apparently he had been driven to a
residence in High Grove where the suspect

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says he needs to grab some tools before
they went to the so-called “job site”.

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And that's what brought us
to 144 Artesian Avenue.

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After picking up a duffel bag, they
get on the 215 headed north.

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Mr. Johnson said the guy seems normal,
friendly. I mean, even conversational.

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And that brings us to the bracelet.

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Johnson says he found this bracelet
in a trash container a few years ago,

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says he just likes to
wear it, thinks it's cool.

33:36.544 --> 33:39.664
Apparently the suspect asks him
about it, starts grilling him.

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“How long have you been a diabetic?
Do you take insulin?” Etc

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and Johnson tells him,
bracelet's not his.

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And then the suspect gets very
visibly angry, pulls off the highway,

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tells him to get out,
drives off, and that's that.

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Johnson never sees him again.

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He's incredibly lucky.

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I believe if that bracelet had been real,

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if Johnson had fit whatever criteria
our suspect was looking for,

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he would most definitely
be dead right now.

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After learning all this, we go to
the house. Just a normal house.

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We knock... nobody's home.

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But we can't just kick the door
in without probable cause. I mean,

34:20.505 --> 34:24.215
all we've got is the word of an unemployed
drifter with a minor criminal record

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who we also paid for the
information he gave us.

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That's not going to get us a warrant.

34:30.974 --> 34:35.264
And that's when I see it above
the door - staring us in the face.

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We kept most of the evidence we had,

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which wasn't much, pretty close to the
chest as far as the media was concerned.

34:43.236 --> 34:46.526
That symbol... the image was
never released to the public

34:46.948 --> 34:49.908
so nobody could know about it unless they
were involved in one of the crimes.

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That was enough.

34:53.038 --> 34:54.328
We called in the cavalry.

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I don't know what I was
expecting to find in there.

35:25.453 --> 35:27.493
Torture dungeon...
haunted house...

35:27.497 --> 35:28.877
something from a horror movie.

35:30.667 --> 35:32.087
But it wasn't like that at all.

35:32.544 --> 35:35.464
It was banal, mundane.

35:36.006 --> 35:37.376
That doesn't mean it
wasn't a little weird.

35:58.778 --> 36:00.618
But weird doesn't necessarily make you guilty.

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There was no evidence the person that
lived there was involved in anything other

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than the symbol over the doorway,
and that was purely circumstantial.

36:09.998 --> 36:13.338
Look at this. That's
just lovely, isn't it?

36:13.835 --> 36:17.545
The property owner was an older woman
who lived in San Diego who said she had

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been renting the house to, you guessed it,

36:20.300 --> 36:23.100
someone who called
themselves Albert Shiny.

36:23.720 --> 36:26.850
Apparently Mr. Shiny was willing
to pay for a year up front in cash,

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so she didn't ask too many questions
and had only met him twice.

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So we start dusting for fingerprints
and we can't find any - literally.

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Not one print, which makes no sense for
the inside of someone's house.

36:39.402 --> 36:42.202
There should be thousands of them.

36:42.197 --> 36:45.287
I mean, was this guy wearing gloves
every second of every day?

36:46.076 --> 36:50.116
Finally, we found some fingerprints on a
telescope that was outside on the deck.

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Immediately got them out to the lab
and run through the computer

36:54.417 --> 36:57.127
And boom, we got a hit.

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The print matched to the partial that was
found in 95 from the Noah LaFone murder.

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I couldn't believe it.
We might have our guy.

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The fingerprints belonged
to a Leslie Sykes.

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Born December 20th, 1962
in Branson, Missouri.

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Homer Johnson, the homeless gentleman,

37:20.485 --> 37:22.775
swore Sykes was the person
who had given him a ride.

37:23.321 --> 37:26.121
The woman who rented the house
also ID’ d him off his photo.

37:26.700 --> 37:30.080
Sykes had no criminal record, no
employment history, no current address,

37:30.287 --> 37:33.287
no phone number or bank
account, and big surprise,

37:33.581 --> 37:37.921
the guy hadn't paid taxes in more than
two decades. Yeah, he really was a ghost,

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but he was our ghost and we had to
find him before he killed again.

37:41.631 --> 37:45.511
Riverside Police are asking for the
public's help in locating this man.

37:45.885 --> 37:50.595
50-year-old Leslie Sykes is a person of
interest in what has been dubbed as

37:50.807 --> 37:51.937
the “Mr. Shiny murders”.

37:52.475 --> 37:56.725
The killer in that case has now taken
the lives of eight people in both

37:56.730 --> 37:59.740
San Bernardino and Riverside
counties and is still at large.

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We tried to do a total media blitz,

38:02.068 --> 38:04.778
get this guy's picture in front
of as many people as possible.

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The story got carried all over California,

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even in a few of the surrounding states,
but no one was really paying attention.

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But one person that did see
the coverage was Leslie Sykes.

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Leslie Sykes has been transfigured.
You can't stop him or what he has become.

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Hail Azragor. Hail Drag Aul.

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You have no idea what I’m saying.
Five to go, and then you'll know.

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Five to go and then we'll know what?

38:37.228 --> 38:40.938
It was a sick game to him, but
it was also absolutely serious.

38:41.149 --> 38:45.909
Would he really stop at five? The next
murder happened less than a month later.

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March 19th.

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The victim was a 16-year-old high school
student named Victoria Macenroe.

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16...

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She was alone at her
parents' home in Highland.

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They had gone out to visit
friends in Rancho Cucamonga.

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Sykes jumped the gate and entered through
a first floor window at or around 9:21.

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And we know this because
it was caught on camera.

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Okay, so this is the “Color Dreams”
palette by Adorable Damage.

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I am just obsessed with this brand lately.

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I actually reviewed their “Shimmer
Shadow” palette in my top ten video and

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they are just killing it. Okay?

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What I'm going to do is I'm going to go
in for kind of a smoky look

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with this one right here,

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and then you can just
go in a circular motion.

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You don't have to do a bunch of back
and forth windshield wiper crap.

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So we'll start...

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“Windshield wiper” -
that sounds stupid.

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Hey, I thought you were going to text
me on the way home. I'm starving.

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Mom?

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Mom?

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Dad?

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No please. Please I’ll do anything.

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Please, my parents can pay you
anything, just please don’t hurt me.

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Please!

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The video glitches pretty bad there
and it's hard to tell what's going on.

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We've combed over it frame-by-frame,

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but it's just too messed
up to see anything clearly.

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But obviously Sykes was
performing some kind of ritual.

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Ritual murder, strictly speaking,
is a relatively obscure phenomena,

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not just in the United
States, but worldwide.

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It just doesn't happen that
often in its purest form.

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To this day, people still believe that the
Manson family was a Satanic cult.

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It's not true.

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Of course, that's not to say
that ritual murder never happens.

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There were the murder suicides
in the Solar Temple cult,

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the Falls Rivers Cult,
Order of the Black Sun.

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The Mr. Shiny murders
definitely seem ritualistic,

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but I didn't recognize
any of the iconography.

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This wasn't some goetic
rite pulled from a grimoire.

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There was nothing Abrahamic.

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As I told the police at that time,

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whatever it was,

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this guy was a true believer,

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and very, very dangerous.

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Now, this is all crazy in its own right,

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but what's truly unexpected
is what happens next.

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Somehow, Victoria survives being shot not
only in the head but in the back twice

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and the shoulder. This is probably because
a 22-caliber weapon was used.

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And just incredible luck.

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Victoria?

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Emergency workers arrive in about 15
minutes and they're able to stabilize

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Victoria on her way to
St. Bernadine Medical Center.

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I wish I could tell you
the story ended there.

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After going through surgery,
she was put in the recovery ward

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and I had multiple officers
assigned to guard her room

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just in case, and the hospital
security was put on alert.

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It should have been enough.

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Sykes attacks and subdues a nurse just
getting off his shift in the hospital

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parking lot. Takes his
uniform and entry badge.

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He walks straight through the front doors,

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right past security and
goes to Macenroe’s floor.

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I mean, he seems to know exactly where to go.

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He goes to the nurses station,
introduces himself to the other staff,

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says he was transferred from pediatrics.

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They believe him, says he knows all
the vernacular and hospital procedure.

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Sykes quite literally cares for three
different patients over a four-hour period.

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He walks by police and security
several times and is never noticed.

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Yeah, including by Joe or me.

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He was right there. We
practically touched each other.

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If I had just been paying attention.
If I had just looked into his eyes.

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I’ll never forgive myself for not realizing
just how bold he might really be.

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He waits until there's a shift change

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enters the room for stored pharmaceuticals
and proceeds to poison an an AB-negative

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blood transfusion bag with an industrial
cleaner he finds in a custodial closet.

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He knows that Macenroe is the only one
with AB-negative in the wing and is the

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only one who will receive that bag.

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Then he leaves.

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Later that night, a nurse comes in
to rotate out Macenroe’s backup bag

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and unknowingly replaces
it with the poisoned one.

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Victoria was dead within minutes,

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but Sykes was long gone by then.

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This was a huge blow to
everyone involved in the case.

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The one victim that survived,
we couldn't protect her.

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I mean, we were right there.
We could have had him.

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Yeah, that was one of the roughest
nights in my entire life.

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Could we take a break?

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It was a rollercoaster.

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Realizing that she might be hurt,

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then thinking that

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she might be okay,

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thinking that she was okay...

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Some days I feel like she's still here.

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You’ve kept her room like this?

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Yeah, we couldn't touch it.

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I think about that saying a lot.

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“You really die the last time
someone says your name”

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and I guess we kept all her stuff because

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we didn't want her to die,

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even though I know she's dead.

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Victoria Macenroe is serial
killer, Leslie Sykes’,

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ninth and most recent victim
in the Mr. Shiny murders,

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a killing spree that spans three
counties and over 18 years.

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Authorities continue to urge the public
to keep a watchful lookout for Sykes

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who remains at large and is considered
armed and extremely dangerous.

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Residents of the Highland neighborhood
where Macenroe was murdered

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have expressed their frustration
at police for their inability to capture

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or even come close to
capturing the elusive killer.

47:41.923 --> 47:44.293
It's unacceptable. It's insane.

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Somebody in the San
Bernardino Police Department

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should be held accountable for
letting it get out of hand like this.

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It’s messed up how they
haven't caught the guy yet.

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This used to be a pretty great
place to live, but honestly,

47:57.188 --> 48:01.608
I'm really scared and that girl, she just
lives like a couple blocks from here,

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so I mean who's next, right?

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We were really feeling the
pressure by this point.

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Macenroe’s murder seemed to be the
straw that broke the camel's back in terms

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of public outrage, but
I felt for all of them,

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every single victim deserved justice and
for everything we'd done up until this point

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until you catch your guy,
you haven't done shit.

48:24.507 --> 48:28.177
We'd already been offering a cash reward
for any lead that led to the arrest of

48:28.178 --> 48:32.598
Leslie Sykes, but I convinced the
DA's office to substantially up it.

48:32.599 --> 48:35.599
It ended up being one of the
highest in San Bernardino's history.

48:35.602 --> 48:38.402
$80,000 for just one person.

48:38.396 --> 48:40.896
At the same time, we were
digging into Sykes past,

48:40.899 --> 48:44.319
trying to figure out everything
we could, which wasn’t easy.

48:44.903 --> 48:47.023
All his known relatives were dead.

48:47.030 --> 48:50.620
He had been briefly married in 88
to a woman named Suzanne Hemler,

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but that was over by 91. Tried to contact
her, but she committed suicide in 2008.

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We started reaching out to people
Sykes went to high school with,

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but nobody seems to remember him.

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Finally, we find someone who will talk to us.

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A guy named Jared Kelly.

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He was what? Shy, quiet? He was just
off socially. We'd go to bars, hang out,

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pick up chicks, and
he would just strike out.

49:19.738 --> 49:22.658
Leslie's only real hobby,
if you could call it that,

49:22.657 --> 49:24.787
was hiking.
Some rock climbing.

49:25.327 --> 49:29.417
He'd go out to Joshua Tree sometimes
on the weekends by himself,

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do his thing, and then
one time he came back.

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We were doing gate installation,

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and he's like fucking all

49:38.173 --> 49:41.043
wound up acting weird as shit.

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How so?

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Just like... agitated, distracted.

49:46.890 --> 49:50.390
Later on he told me he'd had some
sort of “religious experience”

49:50.393 --> 49:52.973
in a cave that he found out there...

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A cave?

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He saw these red lights coming
from inside of a cave and he

49:59.277 --> 50:03.527
heard the sound of
rushing water, “but not”,

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and that he smelled food
cooking like barbecue

50:08.119 --> 50:12.879
And that he went inside and
something appeared to him.

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Like what?

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I don’t fucking know. Like a vision.

50:19.798 --> 50:24.098
The last time I saw him,
he was living out of his car

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and he said that he had
burnt all of his possessions.

50:31.893 --> 50:36.473
The shit that he was saying. It was so
out there that it fucking stuck with me.

50:36.481 --> 50:38.071
It's like ingrained.

50:39.401 --> 50:42.111
“Shambler from the Stars”

50:44.614 --> 50:46.364
and “The Thorn of Time”,

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which is metal as fuck.

50:50.078 --> 50:52.288
What do you think that means?

50:54.916 --> 50:55.786
911 -

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Hi, I need help at (redacted),
San Miguel Parkway, Rancho West.

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Do you need an ambulance or police?

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Police.

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Somebody killed my dog.

51:06.928 --> 51:12.888
Somebody killed your dog? Sykes attempts to break
into the residence of Miles and Kelly Harris,

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an older couple living in Rancho West.
He scales the fence into their backyard,

51:18.189 --> 51:22.359
but is almost immediately attacked by
the Harris's 48 pound pit bull, Cesar.

51:22.819 --> 51:24.529
Mr. Harris overhears the commotion,

51:24.946 --> 51:28.326
looks into his backyard and sees
the struggle happening. I mean,

51:28.325 --> 51:32.405
this was a big animal and it's able to
physically knock Sykes off his feet.

51:32.954 --> 51:37.084
We know he was hurt pretty bad because
we find blood on the ground in multiple places.

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Sadly, the dog's only able to keep
this up for so long before

51:40.920 --> 51:44.130
Sykes uses a bladed weapon
and stabs it repeatedly.

51:44.132 --> 51:45.642
Then he jumps the fence again.

51:45.967 --> 51:49.177
This time I was not going to let the
same thing happen to the Harris’ that

51:49.179 --> 51:50.809
happened to Victoria Macenroe.

51:51.181 --> 51:53.391
They were immediately put
into protective custody.

51:54.434 --> 51:57.854
Not that it mattered because Sykes must
have had a backup plan for that night.

51:59.272 --> 52:02.192
31-year-old Leo Deetz was
working a night shift

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at a 24-hour donut shop in
La Sierra when he was attacked

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Yeah, I don't like fantasy shit either,
but this was actually pretty dope.

52:09.407 --> 52:12.407
It was like violence and
sex and stuff. I dunno.

52:13.620 --> 52:16.500
It's based on books, so
it seems pretty legit.

52:20.051 --> 52:22.761
Yeah, you too, man.
Yeah. Peace.

53:11.561 --> 53:15.361
Leo Deetz is found the next morning
with his heart removed from his body.

53:25.992 --> 53:29.912
A security guard sees Sykes exit the back
of the shop and tries to confront him,

53:29.913 --> 53:31.033
but Sykes flees.

53:32.165 --> 53:33.705
Honestly, I was just doing my job.

53:34.042 --> 53:36.672
I was wrapping up my rounds for
the evening here in this complex.

53:37.087 --> 53:38.917
I was going to take some donuts
home to me and the girlfriend.

53:39.464 --> 53:42.544
I saw a man leaving the shop
in a very, very weird mask.

53:43.093 --> 53:47.463
The guard still manages to grab his
license plate number and report it to the police.

53:47.597 --> 53:49.267
I'm just bummed I didn't
get the reward money.

53:49.724 --> 53:51.804
In the surveillance video
from the donut shop

53:51.810 --> 53:54.150
you could tell Sykes was
in pain from the dog bite.

53:54.312 --> 53:56.112
He's unfocused and unprepared.

53:56.273 --> 53:59.433
Then he's forced to ditch his car
after it's reported by the guard,

53:59.442 --> 54:03.532
which we find abandoned near
the 91 and 215 interchange.

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The more desperate Sykes became, the
more likely he was to make a mistake.

54:08.827 --> 54:10.037
That was the hope.

54:10.829 --> 54:13.459
We kind of hit a brick wall
digging into Sykes past.

54:13.707 --> 54:16.667
He just vanished into thin air after 91.

54:17.419 --> 54:21.049
That's when we realized it's
because he wasn't in the country.

54:21.798 --> 54:24.548
Turns out Sykes had used his
late ex-wife's credit card

54:24.551 --> 54:28.101
to purchase a one-way ticket
to - of all places

54:28.888 --> 54:29.928
Jerusalem.

54:30.807 --> 54:33.267
I know. What the F, right?

54:33.810 --> 54:38.020
I mean, we were just baffled and we also
realized this was beyond the scope of our

54:38.023 --> 54:41.603
resources, so we reached out to
the FBI and asked for their help.

54:42.027 --> 54:46.237
They in turn got in contact with Interpol
and a whole side investigation got

54:46.239 --> 54:48.909
underway trying to find out
what Sykes was doing over there.

54:50.243 --> 54:55.123
What was found out was... let's just
say it didn't clear anything up.

54:55.832 --> 54:58.212
Sykes flies to Jerusalem in 96,

54:58.209 --> 55:03.009
not long after the murder of Noah LaFone,
and then evidently passes into Syria.

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The information here is sketchy at best,

55:06.343 --> 55:09.253
but apparently Sykes was living
in Northern Iraq for two years,

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but then flees after
Operation Desert Fox in 98.

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As far as we know, Sykes didn't speak
Arabic, but apparently he learned.

55:20.190 --> 55:24.150
Sykes then crosses the border into
Turkey and then into Italy in 2001.

55:24.819 --> 55:25.489
While there,

55:25.487 --> 55:29.697
he attends a museum exhibit on
Etruscan pottery in the city of Mantua

55:30.283 --> 55:33.613
and gets into some sort of
altercation and is arrested.

55:35.121 --> 55:37.961
I don't know what Sykes is doing
looking at Etruscan pottery,

55:37.957 --> 55:42.087
but he doesn't stay in Italy long
before moving on to Germany in 2003,

55:42.545 --> 55:44.795
and that's where we learned of
someone who claims to have

55:44.798 --> 55:46.388
had direct contact with him there.

55:47.050 --> 55:50.390
I met Mr. Sykes when I
was living in Xanten.

55:51.721 --> 55:56.101
He contacted me through
the internet about several

55:56.101 --> 55:58.021
books that I was selling.

55:58.269 --> 56:02.069
Specifically, he was looking to
buy my copy of a printed

56:03.358 --> 56:05.278
work from the late Middle ages,

56:05.485 --> 56:08.405
a manuscript known as
“The Scriptures of Valeel”

56:09.280 --> 56:10.910
It's a very valuable book.

56:11.074 --> 56:14.364
Only half a dozen copies
or something still exist.

56:14.953 --> 56:16.113
What is the book about?

56:17.038 --> 56:20.418
It's a book of spells,
basically. Witchcraft.

56:20.959 --> 56:21.959
And he bought it off you?

56:22.752 --> 56:25.092
Well, wanted to buy it off
me, but I wasn't selling.

56:26.089 --> 56:30.469
I don't know if he was for real or
not, but he offered some wild prices.

56:30.802 --> 56:35.562
100...150,000 Euro. The guy
kind of creeped me out, to be honest.

56:38.059 --> 56:42.019
So when my shop was vandalized a couple
of days later and the book was gone,

56:42.021 --> 56:43.821
I immediately knew who did it.

56:44.899 --> 56:48.609
To know that I came that close
in contact with a serial killer.

56:50.029 --> 56:53.199
The thing that gets me more than anything
else though is what the hell happened

56:53.199 --> 56:54.329
to that book?

56:55.326 --> 57:00.286
We had hoped maybe that Sykes would
be deterred by how bungled the last

57:00.290 --> 57:03.250
few attacks had been. We
didn't think he would stop,

57:03.418 --> 57:06.588
but maybe just slow down long
enough for us to find him.

57:07.881 --> 57:10.801
If anything, it must have
reinvigorated his cause.

57:11.176 --> 57:13.796
Get in the fucking car, Cody.
This is not our issue.

57:13.803 --> 57:14.963
We can't just leave him.

57:14.971 --> 57:17.771
Are you fucking kidding me?
This is not our problem. I'm leaving.

57:17.899 --> 57:19.319
Emily, wait!

57:28.743 --> 57:29.823
Holy shit.

57:32.998 --> 57:34.418
This is fucking crazy.

57:46.428 --> 57:48.218
The victim was Saroj Mallick,

57:48.221 --> 57:52.641
the security guard that saw Sykes behind
the donut shop and reported his plate to police.

57:53.184 --> 57:54.894
After leaving work on April second,

57:54.894 --> 57:58.184
he was supposed to meet his girlfriend
at a bar at 8:30, but never shows.

57:58.189 --> 58:01.649
He doesn't show up for work the next
day either, and his cell phone is off.

58:02.360 --> 58:05.410
Although his co-workers are a little
concerned, nothing's reported to police...

58:06.364 --> 58:09.404
I guess he had a habit of just blowing
out to Vegas for the weekend

58:09.409 --> 58:10.949
without telling anybody.

58:11.536 --> 58:12.996
But he didn't go to Vegas.

58:14.205 --> 58:17.875
The following day he's found hung
from a public playground swing set.

58:18.668 --> 58:23.008
“Displayed” is the word.
It was a form of torture

58:23.006 --> 58:26.086
the ancient Vikings used
to use called “Blood Eagle”.

58:27.218 --> 58:28.848
The flesh of the back is cut open,

58:29.596 --> 58:33.556
the ribs are bent back, then
both lungs are pulled out.

58:34.517 --> 58:38.517
The mutilation resembles,
yeah - you guessed it. Wings.

58:38.772 --> 58:39.902
Blood eagle.

58:40.315 --> 58:42.735
It was clearly done
for dramatic effect.

58:43.485 --> 58:46.865
When the fire department is getting
his body down, they find the CD.

59:14.974 --> 59:15.804
Oh fuck.

59:18.436 --> 59:21.526
Hello? Hello!

59:22.690 --> 59:24.070
Anybody, help!

59:26.945 --> 59:27.775
Hello!

59:32.742 --> 59:33.752
Let me out of here!

59:36.871 --> 59:40.711
Okay. Whoa, whoa, stop.
Please. No. Oh shit. No!

59:49.259 --> 59:51.679
Please stop! Please stop! Please stop!

59:54.514 --> 59:56.594
I have been selected because
of my direct actions.

59:58.309 --> 01:00:01.479
I should not have interfered with
the great one's plan and

01:00:01.479 --> 01:00:06.739
for my blasphemies,
I will be put into transit.

01:00:07.485 --> 01:00:08.905
Hello!

01:00:12.198 --> 01:00:13.028
Hello.

01:00:17.328 --> 01:00:21.748
He wanted us to know he was punishing
this guy for trying to stop him.

01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:25.800
He was saying stay out of his
way or else. He was saying

01:00:26.963 --> 01:00:29.003
this is your fault, not mine.

01:00:31.176 --> 01:00:33.136
You can't actually feel responsible
for any of the deaths.

01:00:33.928 --> 01:00:35.268
Oh, but I do.

01:00:36.764 --> 01:00:39.974
No, I'll carry his death and all of their
deaths on my conscience

01:00:39.976 --> 01:00:41.396
until the day I leave this planet.

01:00:42.937 --> 01:00:46.567
After the Malik murder, a lot less
tips came in. People were afraid.

01:00:47.442 --> 01:00:48.992
I guess they had every right to be.

01:00:50.069 --> 01:00:52.569
We picked apart Sykes’ house
with a fine tooth comb

01:00:52.572 --> 01:00:54.662
and found almost nothing useful at all.

01:00:55.158 --> 01:00:58.578
We excavated parts of the backyard.
There was nothing but dirt.

01:00:59.629 --> 01:01:02.219
We knew Sykes used
Presto brand toothpaste.

01:01:02.590 --> 01:01:07.220
The one DVD he owned was season two of
“Meet the Fur Balls” and his favorite drink

01:01:07.220 --> 01:01:11.730
was two percent milk. Yikes.
He ate there, he slept there,

01:01:11.850 --> 01:01:15.020
but it didn't seem like he lived
there. It was like a front,

01:01:15.478 --> 01:01:17.518
it was like a show
being put on to pretend

01:01:17.522 --> 01:01:19.822
the person that lived
there was vaguely normal.

01:01:21.151 --> 01:01:24.491
After a long day of chasing
some leads that went nowhere.

01:01:25.822 --> 01:01:28.492
I went to the backyard of Sykes’
house to get some fresh air.

01:01:29.909 --> 01:01:32.869
I think I was hoping I'd have
some transcendent moment

01:01:33.079 --> 01:01:36.469
a lot of profilers talk about when you
enter the headspace of the killer and you

01:01:36.466 --> 01:01:38.176
start to think like them.

01:01:39.261 --> 01:01:40.811
That never happened.

01:01:41.263 --> 01:01:42.593
None of it made any sense to me.

01:01:44.182 --> 01:01:49.022
So it's like two in the morning
and I'm just zoning out,

01:01:49.020 --> 01:01:50.520
looking up at the stars

01:01:52.274 --> 01:01:58.314
and then I remember that telescope
that we pulled Sykes’ prints from.

01:02:00.282 --> 01:02:02.662
What stars was Leslie Sykes’ looking at?

01:02:03.577 --> 01:02:07.077
The area in the sky that Leslie Sykes
had his telescope pointed at was

01:02:07.289 --> 01:02:08.749
interesting for two reasons.

01:02:08.748 --> 01:02:13.008
First, he was looking at Ophiuchus. Now, most
people haven't even heard of Ophiuchus.

01:02:13.211 --> 01:02:17.801
It's one of the 13 major constellations
along the ecliptic smack in between

01:02:18.216 --> 01:02:23.176
Scorpius and Sagittarius. It's also
called the so-called “13th zodiac sign”,

01:02:23.555 --> 01:02:26.345
although that's getting into
astrology and not hard science.

01:02:26.892 --> 01:02:29.612
My wife would kill me for
explaining it that way.

01:02:29.978 --> 01:02:33.438
The ancient Greeks were the ones that
named all the constellations as we know

01:02:33.440 --> 01:02:37.280
them today. Pisces is a fish,
Taurus is a bull, et cetera.

01:02:37.819 --> 01:02:40.239
Ophiuchus is the serpent bearer,

01:02:40.864 --> 01:02:43.194
a man battling a giant snake.

01:02:43.825 --> 01:02:48.325
Reason I mention Ophiuchus is because a
rare celestial event was taking place in

01:02:48.330 --> 01:02:50.670
its constellation
borders that exact month.

01:02:51.166 --> 01:02:53.376
A planetary alignment where Mercury,

01:02:53.501 --> 01:02:58.221
Jupiter and Saturn come in earshot of
each other in a way that happens once

01:02:58.215 --> 01:03:02.255
every 800 years or so. This is a
real thing. You can look it up.

01:03:02.260 --> 01:03:06.100
May 13th, 2011 - you could
view it with the naked eye,

01:03:06.556 --> 01:03:09.806
but only for a few hours,
which is why it's so special.

01:03:11.061 --> 01:03:11.901
The symbol.

01:03:13.355 --> 01:03:14.855
A leech bite.

01:03:16.900 --> 01:03:19.570
Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn.

01:03:20.487 --> 01:03:23.777
A rare planetary alignment
that was only a few weeks away.

01:03:25.492 --> 01:03:27.202
So is this all one big coincidence?

01:03:28.703 --> 01:03:31.863
One thing that they really drill into your
brain at the academy is that the human

01:03:31.873 --> 01:03:36.373
mind is very adept at finding patterns
in things, even if they aren't there.

01:03:37.504 --> 01:03:40.044
They tell you to watch out for
it - to not get carried away.

01:03:40.257 --> 01:03:41.887
To remember Occam's razor.

01:03:42.717 --> 01:03:46.057
The simplest explanation
is usually the correct one,

01:03:48.431 --> 01:03:51.231
but sometimes it's actually the strangest.

01:03:52.769 --> 01:03:56.649
We had brought in these big halogen lights
to Sykes’ house because the place was

01:03:56.648 --> 01:04:00.448
so dark at night, but as soon as
we turned it on, it blew a fuse.

01:04:00.819 --> 01:04:04.869
So one of the deputies is trying to reset
the breaker and realizes the sub-panel

01:04:04.864 --> 01:04:08.194
in the closet wasn't working.
As he's messing with it,

01:04:08.410 --> 01:04:12.040
the whole thing just comes out of the
wall. Like everything in that house

01:04:12.247 --> 01:04:16.087
it was a fake. Behind it, there
was a space with a lockbox.

01:04:16.918 --> 01:04:20.298
Of course, we cleared the house
and called the bomb squad just in case.

01:04:20.297 --> 01:04:22.467
They used one of those
little robots and everything.

01:04:22.966 --> 01:04:26.256
No bomb. That didn't seem
like his style, anyway.

01:04:26.594 --> 01:04:28.174
The box was just a cheapo,

01:04:28.179 --> 01:04:32.809
we just pried it open with a crowbar.
And inside just two things:

01:04:33.393 --> 01:04:36.933
Leslie Sykes’ passport expired from 2003

01:04:38.189 --> 01:04:40.569
and a key with an attached key chain.

01:04:46.364 --> 01:04:48.864
We drove over there straight away
and went inside the unit.

01:04:49.868 --> 01:04:51.828
In retrospect, it was pretty stupid of us.

01:04:51.828 --> 01:04:55.168
I mean, the thing could have been booby trapped
or he could have been waiting in there for us.

01:04:55.582 --> 01:04:56.342
Who knows?

01:04:57.208 --> 01:04:58.668
But it felt like we'd run out of time.

01:04:59.794 --> 01:05:01.124
We just got lucky.

01:05:01.463 --> 01:05:03.173
Everywhere my light
goes, you go. Okay?

01:05:03.715 --> 01:05:07.755
Jackpot, winning-lotto-ticket,
royal flush lucky.

01:05:22.233 --> 01:05:23.983
Here's why we never get fingerprints.

01:05:24.402 --> 01:05:27.242
The guy wears a full on hazmat suit.

01:05:27.739 --> 01:05:32.249
This is the mold we believe for
the mask that he's been seen in.

01:05:33.536 --> 01:05:37.746
Yeah, this guy's big into
space. Over here. Real big.

01:05:38.958 --> 01:05:40.458
Carl Sagan, eat your heart out.

01:05:42.087 --> 01:05:43.917
Oh, you got to check this out. This is...

01:05:46.174 --> 01:05:49.044
early childhood reading for late night.

01:05:49.177 --> 01:05:51.427
“Celestial Witchcraft
of Early England.”

01:05:54.682 --> 01:05:58.522
This right here we think is
Dennis Zhao’s tongue, right?

01:05:58.520 --> 01:06:00.440
Unless he's cut out other tongues.

01:06:01.856 --> 01:06:03.776
This hair is Victoria Macenroe.

01:06:03.775 --> 01:06:07.945
We think it is because we
watched her hair get cut off

01:06:07.946 --> 01:06:09.776
and that is Saroj Mallick.

01:06:12.992 --> 01:06:14.502
He's been here recently.

01:06:14.494 --> 01:06:15.074
Yeah.

01:06:17.414 --> 01:06:20.744
Over here is what we
think is Sheridan's blood.

01:06:24.129 --> 01:06:25.129
Check this shit up here.

01:06:27.132 --> 01:06:29.222
“Hail Azragor”

01:06:31.553 --> 01:06:35.223
And then this weird altar.

01:06:37.025 --> 01:06:38.195
Is this Azragor?

01:06:38.860 --> 01:06:40.700
Have you ever heard of Azragor?

01:06:41.196 --> 01:06:42.316
Azragor... no.

01:06:42.948 --> 01:06:44.198
How about Kaliban?

01:06:45.325 --> 01:06:46.495
Like in Shakespeare?

01:06:47.661 --> 01:06:51.631
“The Thorn of Time” sounds familiar.
I've heard that. Where have I heard that?

01:06:52.249 --> 01:06:56.709
This is a pre-cuneiform, so it's
all very cryptic, but here

01:06:57.462 --> 01:07:02.592
“Et El Groth Gulka
Levesque Kertubu”

01:07:04.094 --> 01:07:11.394
“The Temple of the Outer Gate
beyond the Thorn of Time”

01:07:12.102 --> 01:07:15.022
“Kertubu” I've heard
before. That means...

01:07:18.108 --> 01:07:18.988
Crowning.

01:07:20.819 --> 01:07:22.029
Coronation.

01:07:24.489 --> 01:07:26.949
Whereas before we had little
to no evidence to go on,

01:07:27.534 --> 01:07:29.404
we now had way too much.

01:07:29.869 --> 01:07:32.539
Sykes had collected tons of
information on each of his victims,

01:07:32.664 --> 01:07:35.834
had them all in a filing cabinet.
Criminal history, medical records,

01:07:36.126 --> 01:07:38.246
information the public
does not have access to,

01:07:38.253 --> 01:07:41.003
so he must have been paying off
cops or private investigators,

01:07:41.464 --> 01:07:45.634
and every murder had been meticulously
documented. There were photos, drawings,

01:07:45.635 --> 01:07:49.725
hundreds of handwritten pages
by Sykes with his ramblings,

01:07:50.098 --> 01:07:52.308
a pure window into a man's madness.

01:07:53.310 --> 01:07:55.770
We were pulling all-nighters
in that horrible space.

01:07:56.396 --> 01:07:59.686
Even after the bodies were
removed, the smell never went away.

01:08:00.233 --> 01:08:01.523
We were going crazy.

01:08:02.694 --> 01:08:05.654
On May 8th, the manager of the
place comes looking for us.

01:08:05.655 --> 01:08:07.825
Someone sent mail to the office for us.

01:08:08.783 --> 01:08:09.823
It was another letter.

01:08:13.413 --> 01:08:16.163
The Great Lord of the Threshold
has arrived at the gate.

01:08:17.125 --> 01:08:20.705
The Great Recification,
The Final Extirpation!

01:08:21.921 --> 01:08:23.261
The dawn of Kaliban.

01:08:24.716 --> 01:08:27.256
One left for me, then he’s set free.

01:08:29.804 --> 01:08:31.924
911 emergency.
How can I direct your call?

01:08:32.223 --> 01:08:32.843
Hello?

01:08:33.308 --> 01:08:33.938
Help me.

01:08:34.476 --> 01:08:35.976
Ma’am, do you need police or -

01:08:35.977 --> 01:08:36.607
Help.

01:08:37.479 --> 01:08:37.939
Ma’am?

01:08:44.235 --> 01:08:45.815
Around midnight on May 12th,

01:08:46.654 --> 01:08:51.234
Sykes breaks into the home of Glen and
Stephanie Courtland via a garage window

01:08:51.242 --> 01:08:54.212
and abducts their three
month old baby, Sawyer.

01:09:31.699 --> 01:09:34.699
He could have killed that child
in his crib right then and there,

01:09:35.328 --> 01:09:38.878
but he was waiting. I mean, he was
deliberately waiting for something,

01:09:40.291 --> 01:09:41.131
But what?

01:09:41.259 --> 01:09:44.059
We had no idea where Sykes was
going or what his plan was,

01:09:44.179 --> 01:09:47.929
but it didn't seem like a coincidence
that the triangle in the sky

01:09:47.933 --> 01:09:50.223
was supposed to appear that morning.

01:09:50.977 --> 01:09:52.267
That was a Friday, by the way,

01:09:53.063 --> 01:09:54.353
the 13th.

01:09:55.649 --> 01:09:56.689
Coincidence, right?

01:09:59.027 --> 01:10:04.027
I am just getting to work. It's
around 3:00 AM and let's see.

01:10:04.491 --> 01:10:09.541
Okay, right here, right here. Not 20 feet
from where I found that woman's body.

01:10:10.497 --> 01:10:15.417
I see this red SUV parked. The vehicle
is empty. I just got a weird vibe,

01:10:16.086 --> 01:10:16.956
so I called it in.

01:10:17.420 --> 01:10:22.220
I immediately got a reply that the
automobile has been stolen and that the

01:10:22.217 --> 01:10:25.387
driver is armed and dangerous.

01:10:26.930 --> 01:10:30.850
I watch the news closely and
I was like, is this Mr. Shiny?

01:10:30.976 --> 01:10:32.556
They found Sykes’ SUV,

01:10:33.687 --> 01:10:36.437
right in the spot of the
very first murder in 93.

01:10:37.190 --> 01:10:42.030
He ran out of gas right there of
all places. What are the odds?

01:10:44.030 --> 01:10:49.830
This three planet alignment was going
to be visible between 6 and 6:30 AM.

01:10:50.328 --> 01:10:53.628
I mean, that gave us just a matter of hours
to find Sykes and baby Sawyer.

01:10:54.165 --> 01:10:56.245
One way or another, this
thing was gonna end.

01:11:06.928 --> 01:11:10.558
...like Osama Bin Laden? That's the
first thing... that's a pretty believable

01:11:11.391 --> 01:11:15.351
thing that he died.
I dunno. I believe those -

01:11:15.353 --> 01:11:16.603
Do you want a marshmallow?

01:11:16.604 --> 01:11:17.224
Ready...

01:11:17.230 --> 01:11:18.900
Yeah I want a marshmellow.

01:11:18.898 --> 01:11:19.858
Made the sm’ores.

01:11:21.484 --> 01:11:22.644
Extra gooey.

01:11:24.529 --> 01:11:26.029
This is disgusting, I'm so sorry.

01:11:27.407 --> 01:11:29.367
We all went to UC Riverside together,

01:11:29.367 --> 01:11:31.997
but I was moving out of
state for my master's degree,

01:11:32.203 --> 01:11:35.703
so it was sort of a last
hurrah with the girls.

01:11:36.499 --> 01:11:39.919
We didn't even know that thing
with the planets was even happening.

01:11:40.962 --> 01:11:42.842
I think we're just
getting old, dude.

01:11:44.090 --> 01:11:45.430
Old ass hoes for life.

01:11:57.062 --> 01:12:00.402
We had units coming in from
Arrowhead, Crestline, even Big Bear,

01:12:00.398 --> 01:12:03.238
but they were spread out all over
the place. If Sykes was on foot,

01:12:03.234 --> 01:12:05.774
he could only get so far, but we
still needed a lot of manpower.

01:12:06.363 --> 01:12:09.983
Best we could do in that
first hour was two cars. Two.

01:12:11.993 --> 01:12:13.823
That park is almost a million acres.

01:12:17.207 --> 01:12:20.747
When we were on the way out there,
you know, I was actually excited.

01:12:21.628 --> 01:12:22.458
Why?

01:12:23.046 --> 01:12:27.176
Because Sykes was the boogeyman
of Berdo. Even the FBI was after him.

01:12:27.759 --> 01:12:31.559
If we were the arresting
officers, that would be huge.

01:12:34.682 --> 01:12:36.022
So fucking stupid.

01:12:38.103 --> 01:12:40.893
They started going from
campsite to campsite in a grid.

01:12:41.106 --> 01:12:45.146
Every tent, RV, porta-potty out there -
they were shining a light into it.

01:12:47.445 --> 01:12:48.275
Whose in there with you?

01:12:48.696 --> 01:12:49.736
It's just my daughter.

01:12:50.907 --> 01:12:55.287
Nobody was being cooperative or wanted
to talk to us, but who would be?

01:12:55.453 --> 01:12:56.413
Anybody else here with you?

01:12:56.871 --> 01:12:57.371
No.

01:12:57.705 --> 01:13:00.335
Imagine you're asleep in your tent
and a cop shines a light in your face.

01:13:01.167 --> 01:13:01.997
I'd be pissed too.

01:13:02.877 --> 01:13:05.837
You see anything suspicious
tonight? You see a man with a baby.

01:13:07.424 --> 01:13:08.254
Baby?

01:13:08.716 --> 01:13:10.426
It was a clusterfuck.

01:13:10.427 --> 01:13:13.467
Heavy brush, too dark.
Lots of places to hide.

01:13:13.721 --> 01:13:17.561
Even now, GPS maps in that kind
of area just aren't that reliable.

01:13:17.976 --> 01:13:22.316
Neither are cell phones, but luckily
some places still had landlines.

01:13:25.108 --> 01:13:26.858
What is your emergency, please?

01:13:27.569 --> 01:13:29.029
My name is Silvia Vallejo

01:13:29.654 --> 01:13:32.404
Some crazy guy broke into
our place where we’re renting.

01:13:33.241 --> 01:13:35.951
My husband is still inside with
him, please send somebody...

01:13:36.703 --> 01:13:40.873
There's a property out there where you
can rent these individual cabins for the night.

01:13:41.216 --> 01:13:45.346
Sykes forces his way inside one of these
cabins where Martin and Silvia Vallejo

01:13:45.345 --> 01:13:47.845
are staying. It's about 4 o'clock
in the morning at this point.

01:13:48.390 --> 01:13:49.640
He's able to subdue Martin,

01:13:50.558 --> 01:13:54.268
but Silvia gets away and calls
911 at the cabin next door.

01:14:01.653 --> 01:14:02.773
Did you make the call, ma'am?

01:14:02.988 --> 01:14:04.488
Yes. He's in there with my husband.

01:14:04.948 --> 01:14:05.778
Where's the cabin?

01:14:05.782 --> 01:14:08.042
Third cabin on the right. Please help him.

01:14:08.368 --> 01:14:09.038
Stay here.

01:14:09.035 --> 01:14:11.245
He has a child. There's a baby with him.

01:14:11.371 --> 01:14:12.041
Stay here.

01:14:12.038 --> 01:14:16.918
The two closest units arrived at the cabin
around 4:50 AM. Backup was on the way,

01:14:16.918 --> 01:14:19.718
but ended up getting lost and
wouldn't get there for over an hour.

01:14:21.089 --> 01:14:23.889
These guys had no idea what
they might be walking into.

01:14:39.941 --> 01:14:40.901
I got the front door.

01:14:49.159 --> 01:14:49.999
Clear.

01:14:57.459 --> 01:14:58.549
Alright, it's clear.

01:14:58.835 --> 01:14:59.545
Standby.

01:15:00.503 --> 01:15:04.623
The place was deserted.
Extremely bad vibes.

01:15:06.593 --> 01:15:07.423
You seeing this?

01:15:10.096 --> 01:15:12.516
I think that's when I
started to get scared.

01:15:15.769 --> 01:15:17.059
Then we found Mr. Vallejo.

01:15:18.605 --> 01:15:19.435
Looks like a bedroom.

01:15:23.234 --> 01:15:24.144
We got a suspect.

01:15:24.277 --> 01:15:25.397
We got a suspect!

01:15:25.403 --> 01:15:26.523
Let me see your hands!

01:15:27.238 --> 01:15:28.278
Hands! Hands!

01:15:30.658 --> 01:15:31.198
Moving up.

01:15:31.201 --> 01:15:33.581
It looks like he’s duct taped...
with his hands.

01:15:34.954 --> 01:15:35.954
What the fuck.

01:15:35.955 --> 01:15:36.955
That’s a drill.

01:15:38.500 --> 01:15:39.130
I got him, I got him.

01:15:39.125 --> 01:15:39.835
Pull off the mask.

01:15:40.919 --> 01:15:41.679
Oh my god.

01:15:41.678 --> 01:15:42.098
He’s injured.

01:15:42.095 --> 01:15:43.135
God, get medical out here!

01:15:45.098 --> 01:15:50.558
Sykes essentially lobotomizes the man.
Leaves the body to be found like that.

01:15:56.276 --> 01:15:57.776
It was just bad, bro.

01:15:59.905 --> 01:16:01.405
I don't know what else to say.

01:16:01.823 --> 01:16:05.653
An empty glass is found on the kitchen
counter with remnants of milk from the fridge

01:16:05.660 --> 01:16:08.920
and Sawyer's dirty diaper
is thrown in the garbage.

01:16:09.247 --> 01:16:11.247
Even then, he was still
taking care of the baby.

01:16:13.210 --> 01:16:16.220
After this pit stop he
leaves into the woods.

01:16:21.760 --> 01:16:23.140
What’s the ETA on RA unit, over.

01:16:25.180 --> 01:16:25.890
What the hell was that?

01:16:30.518 --> 01:16:31.808
We should go check it out.

01:16:31.811 --> 01:16:33.231
Shouldn’t we wait for backup?

01:16:33.230 --> 01:16:34.190
Dude, he's got a baby.

01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:38.319
I didn't even want to go, but it was
a baby, right? What would you do?

01:16:39.819 --> 01:16:40.949
Imagine that's your kid,

01:16:44.074 --> 01:16:47.034
But I should have said no.
I should have waited at the car.

01:16:50.413 --> 01:16:52.993
If that makes me a coward,
I don't give a shit.

01:17:20.443 --> 01:17:21.103
Shit.

01:17:22.862 --> 01:17:23.702
You hear that?

01:17:28.576 --> 01:17:30.496
He was doing witchcraft
out there, man.

01:17:32.706 --> 01:17:33.786
You saw the video.

01:17:34.541 --> 01:17:35.541
What else would you call it?

01:17:39.629 --> 01:17:41.089
Joe, what fuck is this, man?

01:17:52.017 --> 01:17:53.227
Where the fuck’s the shooter!

01:18:49.949 --> 01:18:51.409
Just one more.

01:18:53.578 --> 01:18:57.328
I didn't understand at the time what
exactly that wood thing was, but

01:18:59.042 --> 01:19:01.722
I found out they have
a name for it.

01:19:01.720 --> 01:19:02.930
A pyre.

01:19:04.514 --> 01:19:06.304
That's where the crying
was coming from.

01:19:10.687 --> 01:19:11.517
Sykes.

01:19:22.449 --> 01:19:23.289
Fuck.

01:19:29.623 --> 01:19:33.293
I don't know what
we saw or didn't see.

01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:36.300
It was strange.

01:19:36.630 --> 01:19:38.510
If you looked at it from one angle,

01:19:38.506 --> 01:19:41.046
you could see it. From
another, it wasn't as clear.

01:19:41.718 --> 01:19:43.558
The videos don't do it justice at all.

01:19:44.179 --> 01:19:47.229
I'm still not convinced any of
the, what do you call it?

01:19:47.224 --> 01:19:48.344
Karmic phenomena.

01:19:48.558 --> 01:19:49.978
“Cosmic” phenomena.

01:19:49.976 --> 01:19:51.226
Cosmic phenomena.

01:19:51.394 --> 01:19:53.684
I mean, sky looked weird that
morning, no doubt about that.

01:19:53.688 --> 01:19:56.608
But there's plenty of weird
stuff that happens in the sky.

01:19:57.400 --> 01:19:59.030
Aurora Borealis.

01:20:00.070 --> 01:20:01.780
That looks totally different.

01:20:02.614 --> 01:20:06.364
Okay, but you can't tell me that's not
some weird looking space stuff too, right?

01:20:07.118 --> 01:20:12.078
I don't remember much. It gets
hazy. So that thing in the sky,

01:20:14.251 --> 01:20:16.131
it looked like red eyes.

01:20:17.295 --> 01:20:18.505
Jeez, dude.

01:20:19.464 --> 01:20:20.294
Holy shit.

01:20:21.049 --> 01:20:22.929
What the fuck.

01:20:27.013 --> 01:20:28.423
What the fuck is that?

01:20:32.152 --> 01:20:32.992
Lizzy?

01:20:34.196 --> 01:20:35.026
Lizzy?

01:20:35.447 --> 01:20:36.277
What’s going on?

01:20:39.826 --> 01:20:40.656
Liz?

01:20:46.792 --> 01:20:49.302
Kate, wake up. I need you
to call 911. Kate, please.

01:21:16.530 --> 01:21:19.080
And just like that... it was over.

01:21:23.370 --> 01:21:24.750
We got him.

01:21:27.874 --> 01:21:29.834
Help's on the way.
Just stay there.

01:21:30.377 --> 01:21:31.127
How’s the baby?

01:21:31.753 --> 01:21:33.003
He’s okay.

01:21:33.421 --> 01:21:34.761
That was too god damn close.

01:21:36.424 --> 01:21:37.294
He's gone.

01:21:37.801 --> 01:21:38.511
What?

01:21:38.510 --> 01:21:39.930
We need some help over here.

01:21:39.928 --> 01:21:41.428
You got to be fucking kidding me.

01:21:45.892 --> 01:21:49.902
Leslie Sykes’ body was found about a
hundred yards from the cabin in a creek

01:21:53.108 --> 01:21:56.488
covered in leeches. He'd only been in
the water for a matter of minutes.

01:21:57.487 --> 01:21:59.027
It's like they were drawn to him.

01:21:59.531 --> 01:22:02.291
It made any kind of visual
identification impossible,

01:22:02.284 --> 01:22:05.154
but we still confirmed
it with fingerprint and DNA.

01:22:07.622 --> 01:22:10.672
It looks like Sykes have been living out
there for at least a couple of weeks,

01:22:11.418 --> 01:22:15.718
sleeping in a makeshift shelter and
stealing food from other people's campsites.

01:22:16.715 --> 01:22:19.335
His final time on this earth was spent

01:22:19.342 --> 01:22:22.262
hungry, cold and alone.

01:22:23.305 --> 01:22:25.475
No phantoms. No ghost.

01:22:26.558 --> 01:22:28.438
A flesh and blood human.

01:22:29.227 --> 01:22:32.397
A piece of shit human,
but human nonetheless.

01:22:51.208 --> 01:22:55.918
So I was getting up for work that
morning and I was checking my Facebook

01:22:56.213 --> 01:23:00.003
and I had all of these
messages and I was like what

01:23:00.217 --> 01:23:01.887
you know, what's going on here?

01:23:02.260 --> 01:23:03.850
And then I realized they got him.

01:23:07.182 --> 01:23:08.982
Like they really fucking got him.

01:23:12.979 --> 01:23:17.399
The Inland Empire can breathe a sigh of
relief with the news just coming in that

01:23:17.400 --> 01:23:19.860
the hunt for serial killer, Leslie Sykes,

01:23:20.278 --> 01:23:24.948
AKA Mr. Shiny, has
finally come to an end.

01:23:24.950 --> 01:23:29.120
Police shot and killed Sykes this morning
in a standoff in the San Bernardino mountains,

01:23:29.329 --> 01:23:33.539
but not before ending the life of
one Riverside Police Department Deputy.

01:23:36.211 --> 01:23:41.391
Richie... I don't want to talk about it.

01:23:45.645 --> 01:23:46.815
It should have been me.

01:23:48.398 --> 01:23:51.028
I'm here to formally
announce that Leslie Sykes,

01:23:51.943 --> 01:23:57.113
otherwise known as Mr. Shiny, died
this morning at approximately 6:00 AM

01:23:57.115 --> 01:24:01.745
Pacific Standard Time as a result of an
extended gun battle with local authorities.

01:24:03.997 --> 01:24:04.957
I couldn't believe it.

01:24:06.625 --> 01:24:12.965
Like all of this, this like, weight was just
lifted from my chest, you know?

01:24:15.592 --> 01:24:20.352
Like Shifra could finally rest in peace
because that fucking asshole was dead.

01:24:21.306 --> 01:24:23.766
I mean, nothing's ever going
to bring my girl back, but

01:24:25.227 --> 01:24:27.647
at least we can all start to heal now.

01:24:29.439 --> 01:24:32.689
I feel no joy in Leslie Sykes’ death.
I really don't.

01:24:33.193 --> 01:24:35.313
I did in the beginning,
but as time has gone on...

01:24:37.405 --> 01:24:39.025
I wish I could have interviewed him.

01:24:39.449 --> 01:24:41.369
I wish we could have got more information.

01:24:42.285 --> 01:24:45.495
In the time span that Sykes was
actively killing - that we know about -

01:24:45.497 --> 01:24:48.337
there were over 100 unsolved
homicides in the two counties.

01:24:48.875 --> 01:24:51.205
Could some of these be
Sykes? We'll never know.

01:24:51.878 --> 01:24:54.968
Is it possible Sykes had an accomplice?
Someone that helped him, funded him?

01:24:56.299 --> 01:24:57.389
We'll never know.

01:24:59.553 --> 01:25:01.093
He got off too easy if you ask me.

01:25:02.806 --> 01:25:04.936
Should have drawn and quartered
that motherfucker.

01:25:06.393 --> 01:25:07.893
Sorry, is that too much?

01:25:08.103 --> 01:25:09.893
No, that's actually perfect.

01:25:13.108 --> 01:25:14.438
Happy I could set the record straight.

01:25:19.156 --> 01:25:21.696
Oh, when we first found
out that they killed him,

01:25:24.411 --> 01:25:26.001
I guess it was bittersweet.

01:25:30.375 --> 01:25:32.125
I was just glad he
couldn't hurt anybody else.

01:25:33.378 --> 01:25:37.588
We try to keep Victoria's memory alive,
but it gets harder as time goes on.

01:25:40.343 --> 01:25:41.753
Friends lose interest.

01:25:45.015 --> 01:25:47.435
I think about that saying a lot that goes,

01:25:48.560 --> 01:25:51.980
“You really die the last time
someone says your name.”

01:25:51.980 --> 01:25:53.480
Honey, you already said this.

01:25:53.481 --> 01:25:56.861
I know, but it is just so true.

01:25:57.194 --> 01:25:58.194
Ted Bundy.

01:25:59.070 --> 01:25:59.780
Gacy.

01:26:00.155 --> 01:26:01.695
These guys will live forever

01:26:03.074 --> 01:26:06.034
and now so will Mr. Shiny.

01:26:07.204 --> 01:26:11.164
Eight victims were honored today at
a memorial held at Pioneer Memorial

01:26:11.333 --> 01:26:15.663
Cemetery, including those from
the original crimes in 1995.

01:26:15.837 --> 01:26:19.837
Almost a thousand people joined the service
to pay their respects to those lives

01:26:19.841 --> 01:26:23.391
taken two soon by serial
killer, Leslie Sykes.

01:26:24.763 --> 01:26:25.593
Lizzy.

01:26:26.264 --> 01:26:29.264
Lizzy - Kate. Kate, wake
up. I need you to call...

01:26:29.392 --> 01:26:31.812
So the lights on the sky triggerd a seizure?

01:26:33.563 --> 01:26:35.063
Great place to have your first one, right?

01:26:35.899 --> 01:26:37.489
Wait, you weren't epileptic before that?

01:26:38.318 --> 01:26:39.778
Started for the first time that night,

01:26:40.946 --> 01:26:43.486
and I wasn't the only one
who had bad luck either.

01:26:44.658 --> 01:26:49.408
Gail randomly started having
vertigo after that trip.

01:26:55.001 --> 01:26:59.681
So you know, you ask me if I
believe in ghosts and this

01:27:00.590 --> 01:27:02.470
paranormal stuff and I don't. But...

01:27:05.387 --> 01:27:06.637
No, I don't believe in that stuff.

01:27:07.597 --> 01:27:09.807
But I still wish we never
went camping that weekend.

01:27:11.476 --> 01:27:15.266
We moved to Portland. I know
it sounds superstitious,

01:27:15.272 --> 01:27:18.032
but it just seemed like that
whole county was cursed.

01:27:24.614 --> 01:27:26.154
What do you think
Leslie Sykes was up to?

01:27:27.075 --> 01:27:27.905
I have no idea.

01:27:29.035 --> 01:27:31.865
You must have theories. Come on,
people are going to want hear this.

01:27:32.289 --> 01:27:33.129
What do you want me to say?

01:27:33.790 --> 01:27:39.130
He was part of some apocalypse cult trying
to summon a six million year old leech god.

01:27:40.046 --> 01:27:43.216
The Thorn of Time. Kaliban...

01:27:44.009 --> 01:27:45.969
That's not something you put
in the police report, pal.

01:27:46.803 --> 01:27:51.263
That's not gonna help the families try
and bring closure and heal from this mess.

01:27:53.476 --> 01:27:55.106
What I can say for sure is this.

01:27:56.062 --> 01:28:01.242
Leslie Sykes was a monster and
we caught him and we killed him.

01:28:02.986 --> 01:28:04.526
What about his last letter?

01:28:06.531 --> 01:28:10.791
As Lexi likes to say,
“Same shit, different day.”

01:28:12.537 --> 01:28:14.077
Same shit.
Different day.

01:28:15.165 --> 01:28:16.665
Do you think it means anything?

01:28:17.792 --> 01:28:20.512
It’s post-dated two days
before he died.

01:28:21.129 --> 01:28:24.759
If he sent it, he must have had an
inkling things might not go to plan.

01:28:26.259 --> 01:28:27.799
What about what he says
at the end of the letter?

01:28:30.180 --> 01:28:34.480
Well, if it's true, I guess we'll
find out in another 800 years.

01:28:39.689 --> 01:28:43.029
Rejoice for I can now learn
the mysteries of the worm.

01:28:44.736 --> 01:28:46.736
The harvest season will return,

01:28:46.738 --> 01:28:48.828
the reaping will continue.

01:28:50.283 --> 01:28:51.113
I'll be back.

01:29:00.001 --> 01:29:03.211
There's still so many things we don't
understand about this case

01:29:03.213 --> 01:29:04.873
and probably never will.

01:29:07.050 --> 01:29:10.890
We just have bits and pieces
of some kind of strange puzzle,

01:29:12.097 --> 01:29:14.427
and even if we could
put them all together,

01:29:15.517 --> 01:29:17.897
I don't know if I want to see
whatever picture they make.

01:29:35.662 --> 01:29:38.922
Yeah, got what you need.
I think that's perfect.

01:29:41.468 --> 01:29:42.508
Okay. Awesome.

01:29:43.511 --> 01:29:44.851
Alright.
Thanks guys.

01:33:18.902 --> 01:33:23.282
Okay. August 23rd, 2023.
Back at Pinto again.

01:33:24.449 --> 01:33:28.749
Went a little further south this
time, but yeah, it's a bust.

01:33:30.121 --> 01:33:33.711
Something about this place just
doesn't, doesn't feel right.

01:33:34.501 --> 01:33:36.171
Talked to a guy at a gas station.

01:33:36.169 --> 01:33:41.219
He told me there's a series
of caves down at Cox comb,

01:33:41.925 --> 01:33:45.305
so we're going to try that
next. It's worth a shot.