跟讀練習: How Every Infamous Serial Killer Was Finally Caught - 通過影片學習英語口語
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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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本課介紹
在本節課中，學習者將通過分析一段關於臭名昭著連環殺手的案件描述，練習英語口語表達和聽力理解。你將接觸到多個相關的詞彙和片語，這些內容將幫助你在真實的對話中更自信地表達自己的想法。在練習過程中，將特別關注口語的流暢性和語音的準確性，通過“shadowing”技巧提升你的英語口語技能。
關鍵詞彙和短語
- 警察 (police)
- 受害者 (victim)
- 兇手 (killer)
- 手銬 (handcuff)
- 威脅 (threaten)
- 人頭 (human head)
- 案件 (case)
- 影像 (photographs)
練習技巧
對於這段影片的模仿練習，建議跟隨影片的說話速度，確保能夠準確捕捉到每個細節。可以嘗試在“shadowing site”上練習，逐句跟讀，逐漸提升自己的語音識別和記憶能力。影片中的語調和情感都非常重要，因此在練習時，請注意模仿語速和語調，以便在實際的交流中自如地使用這些表達。
另外，為了提高你的流利度和自然度，選擇在安靜的環境中進行“shadowspeak”練習，儘量避免分心的因素。重複播放短句，嘗試用不同的語氣和速度朗讀它們，幫助自己更好地掌握這些短語在實際對話中的運用。這將大大有助於提升你的“英語口語練習”能力和“雅思口語練習”的表現。
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | could be traced · be traced · was arrested |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | man who had · people who had |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。