Pratica di Shadowing: How Every Infamous Serial Killer Was Finally Caught - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube
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Jeffrey Dahmer The police had already returned one of his victims to him.
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Jeffrey Dahmer The police had already returned one of his victims to him.
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This time, the victim ran.
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It is approximately 11.30 p.m on July 22, 1991.
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Two Milwaukee patrol officers, Rolf Mueller and Robert Routh,
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are driving down North 25th Street when they spot a man stumbling along the road.
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He is only partially dressed.
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A single handcuff dangles from his right wrist.
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His name is Tracy Edwards.
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He has just escaped from apartment 213.
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Edwards tells them a calm,
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blonde man held a knife to his chest and threatened to eat his heart.
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The officers are skeptical.
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They drive him back to the apartment.
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The door opens.
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Jeffrey Dahmer is polite, apologetic, sober.
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The officers almost believe him.
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But then, one of them notices the open dresser drawer.
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Inside are Polaroid photographs of dismembered human bodies.
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In the refrigerator, they find a human head.
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In the freezer, three more.
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In a 57-gallon drum in the bedroom corner,
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several bodies are dissolving in acid.
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Two months earlier, Milwaukee police had returned a naked,
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bleeding 14-year-old boy named Konorak Sintasamphone to this same apartment.
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Believing Dahmer's story that it was a lover's quarrel,
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Dahmer killed him within the hour.
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17 victims, 11 inside the apartment,
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one unlocked handcuff and did what an entire police department could not.
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BTK He killed 10 people in 17 years.
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Then, he asked the police if a floppy disk could be traced.
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Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader strangled 10 people in Wichita, Kansas.
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He named himself BTK.
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Bind.
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Torture.
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Kill.
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He sent letters to the police,
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taunting them with the details only the killer would know.
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Then, in 1991, In 1991, he stopped.
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For 13 years, the case went cold.
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Rader returned to his job as a city compliance officer.
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He served as president of the council at Christ Lutheran Church.
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In January of 2004, the Wichita Eagle ran an article asking whether BTK was dead or in prison.
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Rader could not let it stand.
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He began writing again.
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He sent driver's licenses, stolen from his victims.
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He sent dolls, bound with plastic bags.
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Then, in a letter to the police,
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he asked a single question.
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If he sent a floppy disk, could it be traced?
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The police answered through a classified ad in the Eagle,
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Rex, it will be okay.
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On February 16, 2005, Rader mailed a purple Memorex floppy disk to a Wichita television station.
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Investigators checked the metadata of a deleted Word document on the disk.
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Two fields appeared.
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Christ Lutheran Church, last modified by Dennis.
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Nine days later, Dennis Rader was arrested.
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In the interrogation room, he said four words,
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The floppy did me in.
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Ted Bundy Ted Bundy killed at least 35 women across five states.
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He was caught three different times for traffic violations.
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By August 1975, In 1975,
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Ted Bundy had murdered at least 11 women across Washington and Utah.
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He was a law student,
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charismatic, intelligent, with no criminal record.
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At approximately 2.30 a.m on August 16,
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1975, in a suburb of Salt Lake City,
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Sergeant Bob Hayward noticed a beige Volkswagen Beetle driving slowly through a residential neighborhood with its headlights off.
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Hayward flashed his high beams.
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The Beetle accelerated and ran two stop signs before pulling over.
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Inside the car, Hayward found a ski mask,
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pantyhose with eye holes cut into them,
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a crowbar, handcuffs, an ice pick, rope, and trash bags.
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The passenger seat had been removed.
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It was a kidnapping kit.
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Bundy was arrested for evading a police officer.
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In June of 1977, he escaped from a Colorado courthouse by jumping from a second-floor window.
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He was recaptured six days later after making an illegal U-turn in a stolen car.
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In December of 1977, he escaped again.
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This time, he fled to Florida and killed five more people,
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including a 12-year-old girl.
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On February 15, 1978, in Pensacola,
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Officer David Lee ran the plates of a Volkswagen Beetle.
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The plates came back stolen.
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The most famous serial killer in American history was caught three separate times by the same traffic violation.
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John Wayne Gacy Twenty-nine bodies were buried under his house,
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but it was a drugstore receipt that brought him down.
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By December of 1978, John Wayne Gacy was a respected businessman in Norwood Park Township, Illinois.
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He owned a successful construction company.
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He was a Democratic Precinct captain.
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Seven months earlier, he had been photographed shaking hands with First Lady Rosalind Carter.
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He performed at children's hospitals,
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dressed as Pogo the Clown.
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He had also murdered 33 young men and boys,
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29 of whom were buried beneath his house at 8213 West Somerdale Avenue.
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On the evening of December 11,
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1978, 15-year-old Robert Piest left his shift at Nissan Pharmacy in De Plains to speak with a contractor about a construction job.
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He never came back.
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Lieutenant Joseph Kozenchek insisted on a full investigation.
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He learned that the contractor was Gacy.
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Two days later, police searched Gacy's house.
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In a kitchen wastebasket, they found a photo development receipt from Nissan Pharmacy.
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A co-worker of Piest's named Kimberly Byers had borrowed his coat that day before.
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She had placed the receipt in the pocket.
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Piest had been wearing the coat when he met Gacy.
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Police placed Gacy under round-the-clock surveillance.
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One officer smelled rotting flesh inside the house.
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On December 21, Gacy was arrested for distributing marijuana.
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That afternoon, investigators returned with a second search warrant.
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They entered the crawlspace.
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The first body was found within minutes.
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What followed were 29 more.
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A pharmacy receipt the size of a fingernail ended the killings
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of a man who had shaken hands with the First Lady of the United States.
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Richard Ramirez For 14 months,
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he was the most feared man in Los Angeles.
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The people he terrorized caught him themselves.
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Between April 1984 and August 1985,
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Richard Ramirez broke into homes across Los Angeles County.
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He shot sleeping couples, raped women in front of their children,
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and drew satanic pentagrams on bedroom walls in lipstick.
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Survivors were forced to swear allegiance to Satan before he left.
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The press named him the Night Stalker.
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On August 30th, 1985, police released his name and mugshot to the media.
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By the morning of August 31st,
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his face was on every television and every newspaper in California.
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That same morning, Ramirez returned from Tucson by bus, unaware.
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He walked into a convenience store in East Los Angeles and picked up a copy of La Opinion.
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His own face was staring back at him.
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Elderly Hispanic women in the store began whispering, El matador.
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Ramirez bolted from the store and ran across the Santa Ana freeway.
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He tried to carjack a Ford Mustang.
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The owner and neighbor pulled him out.
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He ran to another car.
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Manuel de la Torres struck him across the head with a fence post.
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A crowd of more than 10 residents chased him down Hubbard Street in Boyle Heights.
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They beat him until the police arrived.
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According to witnesses, Ramirez shouted as the crowd held him down.
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It's me!
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It's me!
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I'm lucky the cops caught me.
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Ed Kemper He drove a thousand miles to confess.
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The police did not believe him.
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By April of 1973, Ed Kemper had murdered six female college students in Santa Cruz, California.
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He had decapitated each of them in his mother's bathroom.
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He had buried one head in his mother's garden, facing her bedroom window.
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She always wanted people to look up to her, he later said.
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The Santa Cruz police had no idea.
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Kemper, 6 foot 9 inches tall and nearly 300 pounds,
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was a regular at the jury room,
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a bar frequented by local officers.
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They called him Big Ed.
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They liked him.
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On the morning of April 20th,
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1973, Kemper bludgeoned his sleeping mother to death with a claw hammer.
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Hours later, he invited her best friend Sally Hallett over for dinner and strangled her.
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Then, he got into his car and drove east.
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He drove for nearly a thousand miles without stopping.
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Fueled by caffeine pills, he reached Pueblo, Colorado.
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He found a phone booth and called the Santa Cruz police.
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Then, he confessed.
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The officer who answered laughed.
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It was Big Ed playing a prank.
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He told him to call back later.
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Kemper called a second time.
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He asked to speak to an officer he personally knew.
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He recited details only the killer would know.
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Then, he waited next to the phone booth for the police to come and arrest him.
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The only serial killer who caught himself had to convince the police he was the one they were hunting.
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The Golden State Killer He committed his last crime in 1986.
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He was caught 32 years later by a DNA test his ancestors had no idea would ever exist.
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Between 1974 and 1986, a single man committed at least 13 murders,
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51 rapes, and 120 burglaries across California.
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He went by four different names in four different regions.
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The Vassalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist,
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the Original Night Stalker, the Golden State Killer.
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He was a former police officer named Joseph James D'Angelo.
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By the time DNA technology connected the four killers in 2001,
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his trail had been cold for 15 years.
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In December of 2017, FBI lawyer Steve Kramer and investigator Paul Holes did something no law enforcement team had ever done.
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They took DNA, preserved from a 1980 rape kit,
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and uploaded it to GEDmatch,
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a public consumer genealogy database used by ordinary people to trace their family trees.
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The DNA matched distant relatives of the killer,
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people who had voluntarily submitted their own DNA to learn about their heritage.
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A genealogist named Barbara Rae Venter built 25 family trees from those matches.
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One tree contained nearly a thousand names.
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She filtered by age, sex, location, and eye color six men remained, five were eliminated.
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On April 24th, 2018, Joseph James D'Angelo was arrested at age 72 in his own front yard.
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For 32 years, he believed he had gotten away with it.
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In the end, his own DNA betrayed him.
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Informazioni su questa Lezione
In questa lezione, ci concentreremo sulla pratica dell'inglese parlato attraverso una trascrizione che narra la cattura di alcuni dei più infami serial killer. L'obiettivo principale è migliorare la pronuncia inglese e acquisire familiarità con un lessico specifico legato a crimine e investigazione. Utilizzando la tecnica del shadowing, avrai l'opportunità di imitare le intonazioni e le espressioni di un narratore esperto, rendendo la tua pratica di conversazione in inglese più efficace e naturale.
Vocabolario e Frasi Chiave
- Serial killer - assassino seriale
- Victim - vittima
- Detectives - detective
- Crime scene - scena del crimine
- Evidence - prova
- Interrogation - interrogatorio
- Capture - cattura
- Polaroid photographs - fotografie Polaroid
Consigli per la Pratica
Quando utilizzi la tecnica del shadow speak per il video, è fondamentale prestare attenzione alla velocità e al tono del narratore. Data la natura drammatica della trascrizione, prova a imitare non solo le parole, ma anche l'emozione e il ritmo. Ecco alcuni suggerimenti per massimizzare il tuo apprendimento:
- Ascolta attentamente: Prima di iniziare a ripetere, ascolta la sezione del video senza parlare. Familiarizzati con la pronuncia e le intonazioni.
- Ripeti frase per frase: Inizia a ripetere piccole frasi alla volta, facendo pausa dopo ogni segmento per imitare le pause naturali del parlato.
- Focalizzati sulla pronuncia: Presta particolare attenzione ai suoni che non esistono in italiano. Questo ti aiuterà a migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese nel lungo periodo.
- Registra la tua voce: Fai registrazioni delle tue sessioni di shadowing. Ascolta e confronta la tua pronuncia con quella del narratore per identificare aree di miglioramento.
- Pratica regolarmente: Dedica del tempo ogni giorno alla pratica di conversazione in inglese; la coerenza è la chiave per la padronanza.
Attraverso questi suggerimenti, potrai migliorare non solo la tua pronuncia, ma anche la tua comprensione dell'inglese colloquiale e l’abilità di interagire in situazioni comunicative complesse.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.
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