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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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About This Lesson
In this lesson, you will practice your English speaking skills using a gripping transcript from a video titled "How Every Infamous Serial Killer Was Finally Caught." This content not only introduces you to real-life vocabulary and phrases but also allows you to enhance your shadowing technique. By listening to the narrative of notorious criminals, like Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Rader, you will improve your fluency and pronunciation through a unique subject matter, which can make your practice sessions more engaging.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Victim: A person who suffers harm or loss.
- Patrol officers: Police officers who monitor areas for crimes or disturbances.
- Apologetic: Showing regret or remorse for something.
- Dismembered: Having parts of a body cut off or removed.
- Taunting: Mocking or provoking someone in a hurtful way.
- Cold case: An unsolved criminal investigation that remains open but inactive.
- Strangle: To kill someone by choking them.
- Compliance officer: A person responsible for ensuring legal adherence within an organization.
Practice Tips
To maximize your English speaking practice with this video, try using the shadowing technique effectively. As you listen to the transcript, pay attention to the speaker's tone, rhythm, and pace. The video contains a captivating narrative that runs at a medium speed, making it ideal for non-native speakers. Start by playing a short segment and repeat what you hear, imitating the pronunciation and intonation as closely as possible. This method not only helps you with pronunciation but also improves your ability to think in English as you formulate sentences.
Consider using the shadowspeak technique by breaking the sentences into smaller parts. Practice saying each part until you feel comfortable before moving on to the next. This incremental approach will enhance your English speaking practice, making it easier to grasp complex phrases and vocabulary. Additionally, try recording yourself while shadowing, and listen to identify areas for improvement in fluency and clarity.
By engaging with this effective and captivating content, you will not only expand your vocabulary but also become more confident in using English in various contexts.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
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