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[music] In January of 2000, I was a college freshman at Suscoana University. [music]
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I was 18 years old. I was on a second date with Dan Zap, [music] who was a college freshman at Carnegie Melon
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University. My mom had a suggestion for us to just maybe walk around my town, go down to
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the go down to the marina. [music] Jan and I uh we just stopped and we're talking. We started picking up
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some stones and trying to skip some stones. Well, as we were there, there was a um a
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red pickup truck came up and [music] uh stopped by us and out comes this guy and
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he pulls [music] a um a dog out, Rottweiler. He was asking us if we needed a ride and we of course, you
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know, politely declined. He seemed normal. He got back in his truck and as we continued walking, um the truck, this
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guy [music] must have turned his truck around behind us. Um, and he comes up next to us off to our right [music] and
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blocks our path. He immediately comes out of the truck with a [music] gun pointed at us.
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He pointed it right at us and said, "Get in the effing truck." And he was dead serious.
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At that moment, [music] I felt like I had entered a nightmare. It seemed completely unreal. [music]
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I remember Dan next to me was just saying I um here take my [music] wallet, take my um I have here here are my keys,
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my car, I can give you my car, there's a laptop in my car. Just started offering
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like him all these things or whatever. And he's like, "No, I don't want those things. Get in the truck."
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[music] It felt like we were driving forever. It felt like an eternity. At this point, this [music] guy was
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just, you know, ranting and raving. He was just at it acting crazy. Completely crazy. We just didn't want to be hurt.
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So, of course, we were just saying, you know, we whatever whatever you want us to do, you know, we'll do that. Just
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please just let us go. He eventually turned [music] left onto this dirt road. The three of us were standing there next
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to [music] his truck. um the rivers in front of us and he's kind of like pacing [music] back and forth and you know has
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the gun in his hand and to emphasize [music] his points he would like shoot the gun um shoot shoot the gun towards
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the river [music] like I don't know what to do bang you guys have seen my face what am I going
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to do with you guys [music] bang when I first heard the gunshot go off bang it became more serious bang This
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guy really has the potential to [music] end my life. I thought we were both going to die.
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>> [music] >> I just kept thinking about, okay, you know, what can I say [music] to calm
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this guy down? He was just acting crazy. We could tell that he was really frustrated and agitated and really
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getting worked [music] up. I just remember huddling next to Dan during that time
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when he was shooting his gun. He was shooting [music] it into the river. It was almost as though he was doing it to
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scare us and it did. And then eventually [music] he told me to get back in the front of the truck
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and he >> [music] >> um had Dan get in the back with the dog. And I remember sitting in the front of
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the truck and he comes in and he comes into the side and there we are again just sitting [music] in the same spot
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again. Him in the driver's seat, me in the passenger seat. And I had no idea [music] what to expect next.
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[music] >> [music] >> While we were sitting there and waiting, he looks over at me and he says, "So,
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you said you'll do anything?" And right in that instant, I knew exactly what he was talking about.
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And I knew right then that I was going to be raped. And I kind of just nodded my head.
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cuz I didn't want to die and I definitely did not want Dan to die because of me.
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So, um, [music] he did. He raped me. [music] and he uh he took his gun [music] and he kind of
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pointed it down for us to he said go go go walk down there to which [music] would be walking down towards the river.
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So Dan and I, you know, grabbed a hold of one another and we started walking down towards the river
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and [music] um I was praying that he had gotten what he wanted from me, you know,
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that he was going to [music] to let us go. And then I heard the gun go off again
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and then I saw Dan fall down and he fell down right in [music] front of me. There was blood coming out of his mouth
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and I [music] knew that if Dan had gotten shot, I was going to get shot. I was next. I mean, I immediately kneel
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down and Dan and I, we said, "I love you." And we said goodbye [music] to each other.
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And >> [music] >> Everything just went black. I don't remember feeling any pain, but I
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just remember feeling like [music] a lot of pressure in my head. [music] The next [music] thing I remember is
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waking up and I was in the river and my whole body was just I guess numb. Like [music] I really just couldn't feel
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anything at all. And [music] I kept um I was spitting out things, you know? So I
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figured I had been I had been shot in the head, shot through [music] the mouth. In that moment, I
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I prayed with more [music] faith than I have ever had in my whole life. And I just said,
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"Please, dear Jesus, just take my soul." [music] Soon after that moment is when um I
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spotted Dan. I [music] remember when I when I saw him just being, you know, just, "Oh my gosh, Dan's alive." And
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just trying to get towards him with like everything I could. And I eventually got
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to Dan and I grabbed hold of him so tightly and we were we looked back at shore where we had been and we saw this
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guy um just standing there staring at us. I mean the gun was still in his hand. And I remember Dan saying to me
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that well if we just you know [music] if we just play dead if we just you know don't move and just kind of float down
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he'll just think [music] we're dead and he'll leave. And eventually you know we kept watching him and we watched him get
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back in the truck and leave. If I did not have Dan there to guide me, I don't know. I don't know what I would
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have done. I mean, he [music] would he was put there to save my life in that river.
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I was sitting [music] in my truck and uh looked upstream and uh I saw two objects
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coming. [music] I saw that it was two people and when they got down to me, [music] I stepped
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in the water and uh reached out and got a hold of his hand and pulled them into shore.
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And then I saw that they were both shot in the head. At that point, neither one of them could talk. They were shaking
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violently. I had to get help at that point. and it happened a car coming [music]
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down there and I stopped them and I told them what happened and I said, "You got
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to go up town here and get help." >> Dispatch 27, can I help you? >> Yes. Uh I'm down in uh where the [music]
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gut road starts. There's two young teenagers down here shot. >> At that time, he started to bleed very
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bad and uh he couldn't talk. Uh, the blood was [music] choking him and he just couldn't talk. I thought they'd be lucky
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if they [music] can make it. It was the evening of January [music] 8th. I had a phone call that Danny's been
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shot in the face. I went opened the drawer on the way out the door and I picked up a photograph
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that I carried in my lap uh with a cell phone. I wanted part of her with me and a
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photograph was the first thing that I was able to find and uh I clutched that and and kept that um uh with me talking
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to the photograph from Harrisburg to um to York Hospital. during the drive down.
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Um, I could only pray that she would be okay. Uh, I had no idea if uh if I was going to ever see Danny, Danny alive
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again, would ever get to hold her again. [music] The drive to the hospital with my mom
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was [music] really, really scary cuz I didn't know what I was going to see um once I got to the hospital. I didn't
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know what I was going to hear. [music] I just knew that I immediately had to get there to see how Danny [music] was
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doing. It was so scary cuz this was this was one of my best friends. I didn't know if she was going to make
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it. And if she did make it, I didn't know how she was going to be, if she was going to be the same person.
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[music] I met Danny on the first day of uh freshman orientation at Suscoan [music]
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University. One of the first things that I noticed about her was that she was just a [music] really kind-hearted,
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genuine person and she had a great personality and [music] she was just as enthusiastic about college as I was. So,
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I knew that we would get along really well. A couple months into [music] freshman year, a mutual friend
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introduced Danny to Dan Zap. She met [music] up with him for dinner and they had a lot to talk about and she just she
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just really felt like she had a lot of chemistry with this [music] person and she couldn't wait till the next time
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they met up. I didn't know how something [music] like this could have happened. I couldn't
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imagine who would want to do this to the [music] two of them. We saw Danny's mom
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there in the hospital. She told us all of the details of the injuries. >> [music]
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>> My first reaction was that the two of them were not going to make it. I thought that they that the shot to each
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of their heads would would kill them. >> The most extensive injury on the female
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patient [music] involved the right lower jaw. The bones were shattered in so many
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pieces that it looked [music] like Rice Krispies. We noticed tremendous facial swelling. The patient's face and head
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were almost the size of a bowling ball. >> The feeling that I had when I first saw
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Danny in that condition was this sense of of um helplessness. I as her dad I couldn't fix the problem for her that
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uh the dads like to do and then knowing that my innocent sweet daughter was laying
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there in that condition and you know asking why. Of course at time nobody had an answer.
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The brutality of this crime is is beyond explanation. How do you victimize two innocent
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people, kidnap them, terrorize them, uh sexually assault the female victim, then
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shoot them in the head, push them into a river, and and leave them for dead? I think everyone was just shocked.
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Everyone was angry. Everyone was upset. We need to get this guy and we need to get him. Now,
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>> being a father of two daughters of the same age, I was uh deeply concerned about this case. I told the mother that
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we would do everything we could uh humanly possible to identify who this was and [music] bring him to justice.
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This was quite an undertaking. the fact that we had so much area, so much riverfront [music]
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to uh explore and look for a crime scene. We were [music] walking pretty much shoulderto-shoulder looking down at
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the uh the ground in front of us and within minutes I came across a large pool of blood that was about 3 ft up
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from the water's edge. And as I looked down into the water, I saw about three shell casings from a 9 mm handgun in
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there. >> The clock was running and we needed to to get as much information as we could.
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I was assigned to go down to York Hospital to attempt an interview with Daniel andor Danielle.
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Unfortunately, Danny was in an induced coma, so we were unable to interview her. We learned that Dan was awake uh
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and that we needed to interview him as soon as possible. Dan's wounds at this point were [music]
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very serious. >> The male's medical condition was critical. They were very concerned. a
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blood clot could form and cut the blood supply to the brain. >> He was in pain. Any kind of movement
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that he would make uh was was very painful for him, but he was eager to to help us. And being that Dan was unable
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to speak because he was on a respirator, we got a notepad from the hospital um and a pen and uh we gave that to Dan and
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then we proceeded to ask him questions about the description of the suspect. Dan described the perpetrator as being a
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white male, 35 to 45 years of age, very drunk, blonde hair. He had a brown hat, blue jeans, and black Nike hightop
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sneakers. He described the weapon as a black semi-automatic pistol, and the dog, of course, uh this black Rottweiler
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named Sam. Dan was able to provide us with information regarding the the vehicle as
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being a beat up red pickup truck with a uh white or gray cap. He described items
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in the back to include a toolbox and a aluminum baseball bat. We were looking for a violent person,
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someone with knowledge of the area and this dog. As we started talking with local investigators from surrounding
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agencies, Mr. Babner's name came up. His record entailed [music] uh run-ins with with police involving
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alcohol, domestic violence, [music] altercations between himself and others, and he did have a Raw Wilder. So, it was
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decided that a photo lineup would be constructed and to include a photograph of Mr. Badmer. I then took that photo
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lineup down to Dan and I asked him, you know, can you help me? And as I have the
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pictures in my hand and I'm laying them down in front of him and Dan's watching as I'm putting the pictures down and as
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I get to Mr. Badmer's picture, there was an instant reaction in his face uh of pure horror. Um his pupil dilated. His
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one eye was swelled shut, but his [music] his his other eye I mean I just bam I saw his pupil go and he
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immediately just started hitting the picture. He's hitting it. He's hitting it. He's hitting it [music] on a table.
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And I said, "Dan, is that the man?" He said, "Yes, it's him." And uh I said, "Are you sure?" He said, "Yes."
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And he's, you know, definitely. And he's hitting that. And uh I looked at him and
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I said, "Dan, we're going to go get him. [music] When I was in the hospital, I had one
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hallucination [music] after the other because of the pain meds. I was flipping out. I was so scared. Um, [music] and
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the nurses had to come in and calm me down. At one point, I was seeing bloody images everywhere. I saw like a a woman
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hanging with blood running down her face. It was like blood was everywhere. She would write down on the paper or
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draw what she saw floating bodies in the air, bloody faces. It was hard to sit there and again not be able to help,
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only to comfort her in the best way I could by holding her hand. I couldn't fight all those demons that she was
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having inside of her at the time. But I tried. >> I notified everybody that, you know, we
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had a positive identification on the suspect. The problem was is we didn't know where he was.
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We looked for him at known associates houses, residences, anywhere we could possibly find him. We were unable to
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locate him. It was late. We've been working all day. We broke. I went home, took my gun off, took my badge off. I
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remember I was climbing into bed and my pager went off. It was to uh uh chief county detective. I called him and he
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said, "We found the truck. Get back in here." >> I had a phone call saying that they were
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activating the QRT team. The quick response team, which is another word for a SWAT team, is utilized for barricaded
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gunmen, hostage rescue, and high-risisk warrants. This was a special type of criminal, a
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very, very violent one. We didn't know if he was armed for sure, but we assumed [music] that he still had the weapons
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that he used to commit this crime. He shot two people in cold blood. We weren't going to take that chance that
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he threw those guns away. We discovered [music] that William Babner was staying at his girlfriend's
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house. By the time we arrived, it was around midnight. We deployed the team and and were set up about a house away.
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We were in the alley sort of in the shadows, crouched down, hiding. Snipers were set up to cover the front of the
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house. Sometime early in the morning, a female left the [music] residence, and she gave a whole bunch of information
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about who was left in that apartment. It was learned that at around 8:00 in the morning, Mr. Badmer's girlfriend's
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youngest child would be coming out to get on a bus. The plan was that once that child got on the bus and that bus
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started taking off down the road that we were to assault. We're hearing the snipers looking down
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at him. Okay, we have an open door. There's a child. There's a man. Yes, it's Babner. [music]
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He's in the door. We're still waiting and we're we're hearing the child's going down the stairs. The child's
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getting on the bus. Go, go, go. I was [music] about the third man through the door. I grabbed him and I was yelling,
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"Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands and get down to the ground. Get down. Get down." And physically took him
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and [music] knocked him to the ground. We cuffed him and then that was it. He was shocked. It's not every day that um
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you can say you put your hands on a on a monster. And that's what I did that day.
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During the execution of the search warrant, all this stuff that Dan had seen was there. We found the black
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[music] Nike high top sneakers, blue jeans, the shirt, the hat, as well as the firearm. And uh [music] to no
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surprise to us, um Sam was just as Dan had described it. Dan's recollection was just outstanding. [music]
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You know, we have the who, what, when, where, and how, but not a why. Um and you know,
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I don't think we'll ever know the why. After Babner was captured, I had a big sigh of relief, but I knew our job was
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just beginning and we had to hope for the best for the two kids and that they' be able to come to the trial and testify
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against him. I still wasn't sure of the conditions of either one of them. [music]
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>> When I was in the hospital, they put me in an induced coma. While I was in the
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induced coma, they sewed my tongue. My jaw had been shattered, so they added [music] a plate in my jaw. So when I
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woke up, I had a tracheotomy. So I had a a tube coming out of there. I had a stomach tube [music] when I woke up. I
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mean, I was bandaged and swollen. Like my jaw was like out to here. [music] You know, my mouth was wired
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shut. My teeth were all dirty. Like there was dirt in my [music] teeth. And when I looked at myself in the mirror,
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you know, it was only, you know, from here on up. But when I looked at myself, I started to cry. I hated what I saw.
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That first picture that Dan and I ever took together [music] of me and him in my car.
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It was like right next to me on the bed. I I knew I I remember watching Dan [music] walk out of the river, but I
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didn't know what had happened to him since then. I really had this feeling that he had died, [music]
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that he did not make it. When I woke up from the hospital, I kept asking my [music] family, you know,
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where's Dan? How's he doing? And my family kept saying, you know, he's alive. He's doing really well. He's
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right down the hall from you. And I did not believe them. I [music] thought that
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he had died. And so he wrote me a note [music] and it said, "I love you. I'm okay."
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And after I saw that, I knew um I knew that he was alive. I knew that he made it.
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I never had any idea how close I was um to to dying even after I had been back at the hospital.
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The bullet entered back here. There's a tiny lump behind my ear and it [music] went straight through
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through my windpipe and out of my jaw and it exited over here. It wasn't [music] until much
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later that I heard how the bullet had chipped one of my vertebrae, how the bullet had passed straight through my
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windpipe. You know, if the bullet would have uh been another inch or a few millimeters closer to my vertebrae, I
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could be dead or paralyzed. When I saw the picture the first time, I was scared at first to see his face again. [music]
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But I was extremely excited, just extremely relieved that I had found him. I knew that this was him. I knew beyond
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a shadow of a doubt that this was the guy who had shot us. [music] And whether he admitted it or not, these are things
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that he had done and he was going to have to pay for them. Nobody wanted to take this case to
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trial. And we certainly didn't want to have Dan and Danielle go [music] through this
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experience. But he left us no choice. He just wouldn't admit his guilt. He wanted
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his day in court for whatever bizarre and sick reason. And he got it. Danielle [music] and Dan were both very
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emotional before the preliminary hearing. When they entered the courtroom for the first time, we just tried to
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tell them they were going to be safe. He could do nothing further to harm them. >> I was terrified to see him again. I
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mean, he was a monster to me. I did not want to be in the same room with him. >> I felt just full of fear again. You
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know, that face had [music] just instilled so much panic inside of me. Babner did not testify at trial. I don't
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recall him calling any witnesses. He He had nothing. He had nothing but his arrogance. [music] He just sat there and
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it was almost like [snorts] he either wanted to have Dan and Danielle [music] relive this by recounting what happened
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in a public forum or he just frankly didn't care. When Dan and Danielle were [music] testifying at trial, it was
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completely silent in the courtroom. You could have heard a pin drop. >> When I was up [music] there on the
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stand, I mean, there were times where I had to break down. I mean, I they they had to show me, you know, all the
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evidence so I could point out. I mean, they showed me the clothes that were cut off of me. So, it was the first time
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seeing that. Um, and there was like mud splattered all over them. you know, [music] the gun. Is this what
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the gun looked like? It was a really hard experience, [music] you know, to sit there and and share
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that with everybody. And I knew that, you know, my family was sitting there. So, I knew like all the details I was
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sharing, especially about the rape, my family was hearing it, too. The amount of courage that Danielle showed during
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that trial was unbelievable because she had to tell total strangers some of the most intimate details that she could
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ever possibly [music] have to relate to anyone. Dan saw the crime from a different
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perspective than Danielle. So the the jury was [music] very interested in what Dan had to say.
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I was [music] trying to come up with any plan to get us out of that situation. And I start to try to plead with him and
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I'd said, you know, sir, I [music] I'll give you anything you want if you just let us go. He just told me to shut up.
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He said, shut [music] up. I don't want to hear it from you. At some point, I realized that they're
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starting to move around up front. I realized that that he's raping her. That [music] was really hard to know
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that something that terrible was happening to someone that I cared about and I was that close, but I couldn't.
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There was nothing [music] I could do about it. After he had raped Danielle, he motioned
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with the gun and he said, "Walk down there, you know, walk down by the river." The real gravity of the situation
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started to hit me. I started to realize that I'm going to die today. that no matter what I try to do, this man is
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going to kill me and today is going to be the last day of my life. And all of a sudden, I just felt this
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tremendous force, this impact that just hit me and and [music] knocked me right to the ground. And it was so sudden and
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it was so powerful that my mind couldn't even catch up to it. I didn't [music] I
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wasn't even sure what had happened until I hit the ground. I didn't even know that I had been shot and I was just sort
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of laying there looking at the dirt and I realized [music] that there's like blood coming out of my mouth. I started
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to get really cold and I started to get really tired [music] very fast. And she kneled down and she was obviously upset
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and I just said to her, I said, "Damy, I'm sorry. I [music] have to go now." And the next thing that I remember is
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this [music] feeling of being rolled, of my body like sort of turning end over end.
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And then all of a sudden this shock of of cold of like freezing [music] cold as I hit the water.
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And so I just started to like float [music] in the water and sort of drift downstream with the current. It was
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right around [music] that point that I noticed that Danny was right there too. I don't know what I would have done
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[music] if Dan was not there. Dan was my lifesaver in that river. I remember at one point
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[music] our hands separated from each other and I could not move on my own and Dan, you know, he he felt my hand slip
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from his [music] and he turned back around and he swam back out and he grabbed me and he pulled me to shore. I
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[music] do not believe I would have survived without him. Dan will never admit this, but he truly
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is the hero of the entire case. He was constantly thinking. He was constantly encouraging. Without Dan, Babner has no
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face and is not apprehended. Without Dan, Danielle isn't able to swim in the water. Dan kept both of them alive.
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>> It's still tough. I still don't consider myself a hero in any sense. Um, but I'm glad I was there and I'm glad
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that, you know, if me if me being there meant that, you know, she survived and I' I'd do it again. I'd do
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it a thousand times. When the verdict came, I remember sitting next to Dan and I was holding on
00:32:56
to Dan's hand [music] and he was uh charged guilty on all accounts, you know, on everything that he was charged
00:33:03
with. I mean, I just remember afterwards like this flood of relief just going through
00:33:09
me. William Babner was convicted of two counts of attempted murder, two counts of kidnapping, one count of robbery,
00:33:18
three counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, one count of rape. His sentence was 117 12 to 235 [music]
00:33:27
years in a state correctional institution. William Babner is the face of evil. Next time Babner is
00:33:35
going to get out of prison, he's going to be in a box. Danielle and I stayed in touch after the
00:33:55
incident and we tried to talk um occasionally um but our relationship wasn't anything like it was
00:34:06
before. [music] It was like every time that I talked to her, I had to bring up the past all over again.
00:34:13
[music] I had to think about all the things that I thought I had done wrong, all the ways
00:34:19
that I couldn't save her and I couldn't get us both out of that situation. And a most of the time I couldn't stand it.
00:34:30
And over a period of time, I started to pull further and [music] further away. Transitioning back to being in college
00:34:45
was really hard for me. I really struggled with [music] being around strange men that were strangers to me.
00:34:54
>> At first, she was a little withdrawn. You know, [music] she she was very scared. um she didn't want to walk alone
00:35:01
at night. She did have a lot of nightmares and um it was it was upsetting for all of us because we
00:35:09
really wanted to help her and we [music] really we didn't want her to be scared or sad. But with the circumstances,
00:35:17
there really wasn't any other way. That's, [music] you know, that's how she was. I I knew though in the back of my
00:35:23
mind that there was still a lot that I [music] had to do personally in order to again feel as though I could you know
00:35:30
live again. >> 4 months [music] after Babner was convicted we had take back the night on
00:35:37
the Suscoan University campus and uh what takeback the night is is a rally against rape. um everybody can attend
00:35:46
and they can get up and speak about their experience with rape or violence. >> And I saw all these brave women, you
00:35:55
know, walk up to the microphone and just share, you know, [snorts] I'm a rape survivor and share parts of their story.
00:36:03
It was just so inspiring and so empowering that they had a voice that they were able to share.
00:36:18
There was about 10 minutes of silence. [music] Nobody was getting up to speak and
00:36:30
Danny got up to speak. and we knew that she was going to tell the whole story and we knew that she was going to share
00:36:36
this with everybody. And that was probably the most emotional um moment for all of us because
00:36:45
you could kind of see the bravery [music] in Danny and the growth that she was making and how
00:36:53
strong she was. She just got up there and she told the whole story and um it just really moved
00:37:01
everyone and it really moved all of us and we were we were so proud of her. We were really really proud of her. [music]
00:37:13
I just [music] I felt so much power and so much strength and a part of what I felt he had taken from me. I was able
00:37:21
[music] to to pull back and say, you know what, he may have taken, you know, a few things, but
00:37:29
there's so much that he didn't take that he couldn't touch and that is what makes
00:37:35
me who I am. I think that it took me a lot longer than it should have to get to a more
00:37:45
comfortable place in dealing with the incident and talking about it and [music] looking at it from a healthy
00:37:52
perspective. I knew that I [clears throat] should be getting therapy, you know, I should be dealing
00:37:57
with it. I just really didn't want to. I wanted to try to ignore it and just hope that
00:38:04
eventually it went away. In the last eight years, I feel like I've grown up a whole lot. Regarding the incident, my
00:38:12
perspective has almost [music] entirely changed. Danielle and I really reconnected over
00:38:19
the past couple of years. We really started our relationship over from where it kind of ended and we're really close
00:38:25
now. And I consider her a great friend. >> Dan met um an amazing woman at college
00:38:31
uh who has been such a great companion for him. She has definitely [music] helped him to get to that next level in
00:38:40
his own survival and healing. [applause] They got married in 2007. >> I feel like everything's kind of going
00:38:51
in the direction that I always wanted it to go and I'm just really happy for everything that I have right now.
00:39:01
In spring of junior year, I introduced Kevin Maguire to Danny and they connected [music] instantly and
00:39:14
dated, fell in love, and he proposed to her just just a couple years later. >> [music]
00:39:31
>> The police chief and the men who uh rescued Dan [music] and Danny, including the duck hunter, were all guests at the
00:39:39
wedding as well. [music] >> Danny looks absolutely wonderful. She is just doing great [music] and uh looking
00:39:48
great and uh extremely proud of her. [music] I'm so happy that I have made it to where I am today. The
00:40:00
gratefulness that I have for my beautiful baby girl and the [music] husband that I have, I don't have to
00:40:06
think about what happened to me every day. It doesn't define me anymore. I have learned how to make it a part of
00:40:12
who I am, but it has made me a better person. [music] Danielle and I are forever entwined.
00:40:22
That's like a connection that no one can ever take away from us. She's always going to be a part of my life.
00:40:29
It's as though like our souls are almost connected. He will be a part of my life forever.
00:40:37
[music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Once I started, you know, and there was nothing else like it.
00:41:27
>> What are you holding in your hands now? >> These are items that were seized out of
00:41:31
Israel Keys jail cell. >> Has the public ever been shown this before? >> No. >> These skulls are drawn in blood.
00:41:42
The blood. Where do you believe the blood came from? >> I think it was Israel's blood.
00:41:47
>> Israel Keys is a serial killer who hid his crimes for many years. He was meticulous. Uh he was incredibly bright.
00:41:57
Uh and he was incredibly lethal. >> And the significance of the 11 skulls, what is that?
00:42:02
>> We believe that 11 is the total number of victims. I don't think anybody in his family, his
00:42:08
friends, his relationships, his spouses had any idea what he was doing. >> It gives me the chills to think I had
00:42:14
talked to him, had known him. >> That's where I got um my kicks, I guess, was being able to live two different
00:42:23
lives and have no one have a clue. >> Unless you heard him talk about the murders, you would not know that he was
00:42:32
a serial killer. with Keyset. It wasn't about a particular victim. It was about a location.
00:42:37
>> Why did you pick these folks? >> I didn't. It was just random. >> Samantha Koig is an 18-year-old girl who
00:42:46
was uh raised and lived in Alaska. She went to high school here. She worked at the coffee stand.
00:42:53
>> She was a young girl working her job. I I'm terrified of what she went through.
00:42:59
>> So, at this point, Samantha is just she's making coffee. She has no idea her entire life is about to change in a
00:43:07
horrible way. >> No, >> people never expected stuff to happen. >> He would wait until he had the victims
00:43:17
under control and then that's when I think the the real monster came out. [music]
00:43:24
>> There's always the specific way I wanted things done. Very specific way I wanted
00:43:29
things to happen. and uh and I have the whole thing planned out. I have everything I need to do it.
00:43:35
>> He loves to travel. >> Every time I drive, I'd be looking for places, good places to do stuff.
00:43:43
>> You'll see locations in Seattle, Gresham, Oregon, Port Angeles, Washington. >> He would rent [music] cars. He would
00:43:50
drive thousands of miles. He would take people from one state and he would bury them in other states. San Diego, Tijana,
00:43:56
Salt Lake City, Utah, Cleveland, Ohio, Edmund, [music] Washington, Fort Wayne, Indiana. There are potential victims
00:44:03
wherever Israel Keys traveled. >> Do you believe that this weapon somewhere in the United States may have
00:44:09
been used to kill someone? >> It's possible. >> Mhm. >> I had big plans for that gun.
00:44:16
>> We know that there are families out there whose loved ones um died at the hands of Israel Keys. Right now, we're
00:44:23
just trying to find them. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> In February of 2012, the residents of
00:45:20
Anchorage, Alaska, [music] were shaken by a frightening mystery. >> It basically looked like someone just
00:45:26
literally walked out of their shift. >> It was the evening of February 1st when [music] 18-year-old Samantha Koig
00:45:33
vanished after her night shift at this roadside espresso stand. She went to work that day expecting to go home, go
00:45:41
home to her boyfriend and her dad. >> Michelle Tasker is a family friend. >> Her boyfriend was supposed to pick her
00:45:46
up that night, >> but that didn't happen. Multiple calls went unanswered. Several hours later, her boyfriend's
00:45:54
cell phone lit up with a message from Samantha's phone. >> The text messages said something to the
00:46:01
effect of, "I'm going on vacation. I'm tired." [music] you know that she was just going away and she just left. But
00:46:08
we knew she hadn't left. That wasn't her character. So, they knew something was wrong.
00:46:13
>> Something was terribly wrong. And the next day, investigators watched it all unfold on security camera video. FBI
00:46:22
special agent Jolene Goden soon joined the team [music] trying to find Samantha.
00:46:30
What are we looking at? This is Samantha. 8:00 p.m. is closing time. So, she's doing all of her normal things
00:46:35
that she would do to to get ready for [music] closing. >> That's when a masked man walked up to
00:46:41
the window. He wanted much more than just [music] coffee. >> So, Samantha's over at the window here.
00:46:48
She handed something to the customer. She backs up. And this is where you see Samantha do this. You see her raise her
00:46:53
arms. >> When you raise your hands like that, it's usually because somebody's doing
00:46:59
this >> something. Exactly. What started as an apparent robbery suddenly took a darker
00:47:05
turn. >> She turns the lights off. >> Do you think her asalent said turn off the lights?
00:47:09
>> Yes. At this point, you see an individual jump in through the window. >> Uh, >> right through the window.
00:47:15
>> Right through the window. >> Have you ever seen something like that before? >> No.
00:47:21
>> And then you see two individuals walk away. It It looks like an abduction. As the news spread,
00:47:30
>> just please help find my daughter. >> Samantha's father, James Koig, went public.
00:47:36
>> I don't know if my daughter's being fed, taken care of, if she's still alive, if
00:47:40
she's getting any sleep. >> As time went on, there was a tremendous [music] amount of fear uh about what
00:47:48
happened and and who was in our community that could do something like this. [music]
00:47:52
>> The FBI joined the Anchorage Police Department in looking at family and friends. Did you have a sense you were
00:47:59
getting to know this young woman? >> Yes. Yes. >> FBI special agent Cat Nelson learned
00:48:05
everything she could about Samantha [music] and the people she knew. >> She seemed like she had a very good
00:48:11
spirit. Like she was a very kind individual, caring about others. Um you could tell that she had a lot of friends
00:48:19
[music] that cared about her a lot. >> Samantha's boyfriend was quickly ruled out as a suspect.
00:48:26
There was no obvious lead in this case and it posed so many um barriers for us in the beginning as to where to start
00:48:36
looking for her. >> 10 days after Samantha disappeared, a vigil was held. >> Hundreds of people came.
00:48:45
>> What else can we do? >> Flyers. Hand out flyers. Ask around. If you know somebody who knows something,
00:48:51
get them to talk. We just need some sort. And it's that one lead, that one tip that's going to bring her home.
00:48:59
>> As friends and family fan out across Anchorage to try to find Samantha, the question is, could she also be out here
00:49:08
somewhere [snorts] in the Alaskan wilderness? Then finally, after three agonizing
00:49:16
weeks, >> that's when the text came in that said there was a ransom note and where to go.
00:49:21
The text to Samantha's boyfriend was as mysterious as her disappearance. It said
00:49:27
to look in Connor Park under pick of Albert. [music] It also said, "Ain't she pretty." We
00:49:35
just got up and just ran and everybody [music] took off to the park. One of the girls kind of noticed
00:49:42
something on the bulletin [music] board. I walk up and there's a picture of a missing dog named Albert and right
00:49:47
underneath is a plastic bag with a look like a clipping and a photograph in it. Didn't touch it. We called the police.
00:49:55
That note contained a [music] picture of Samantha and a long typed out message that talked about putting $30,000 into
00:50:04
Samantha's bank account. >> That account [music] was connected to Samantha's debit card, which the
00:50:10
kidnapper had. [music] And the photo, which has not been made public, was of Samantha holding a newspaper.
00:50:16
>> I believe it was dated February 13th, so well after Samantha's abduction. So the
00:50:22
hope, of course, is that Samantha is alive. >> Samantha's dad deposited $5,000 into her
00:50:28
account. Several hours later, a man makes [music] an ATM withdrawal using Samantha's card. He has a covering over
00:50:36
his face, um, dark clothing, he has gloves on his hands, I so it's there's very little you can tell.
00:50:43
>> Investigators rushed to the ATM, but were too [music] late, missing the suspect by minutes.
00:50:50
One week later, another ATM withdrawal is made. >> This one is very different. This
00:50:56
withdrawal occurs in Wilcox, Arizona, >> nearly 4,000 [music] miles away. And then a short time later,
00:51:03
we have one in Lordsburg, New Mexico. [music] Then Umble, Texas. And then Shepard,
00:51:08
Texas. >> He's heading east. >> He's heading east. [music] We can see that he's moving across the I 10
00:51:13
corridor. >> But the suspect had made a crucial mistake during the ATM withdrawal in
00:51:19
Arizona. A white Ford Focus can be seen in the background. >> That information was [music] pushed out
00:51:24
to to law enforcement across that entire corridor. Then on March 13th, a state trooper notices a vehicle matching that
00:51:33
description in a Texas hotel parking lot. >> And a short time later, a man comes out.
00:51:39
He gets in the vehicle um and he starts to drive away. >> The trooper follows >> and once [snorts] that vehicle exceeds
00:51:46
the speed limit, he has his probable cause to pull that vehicle over. And when he asks the driver for
00:51:52
identification, >> he ultimately presents him with an identification card for Israel Keys.
00:51:58
>> And who the heck is Israel Keys? >> Israel Keys was not even on our radar. >> That trooper's [music] instincts were
00:52:07
spoton. A search of the car uncovers Samantha's ID, her debit card, her cell phone, and a gun along with a disguise
00:52:17
that matched the man in the ATM photos. >> At this point, we believe we have our
00:52:21
guy. >> But now, the FBI wanted to know [music] what had Israel Keys done with Samantha
00:52:29
Koig. >> The race is on because we still don't have Samantha. We have him, but we don't
00:52:34
have Samantha. So if Samantha is alive, then we really need to find her quickly.
00:52:51
>> [music] >> In March 2012, 2 weeks after Israel Keys was arrested [music] in Texas, he was
00:53:02
extradited to Anchorage, Alaska. >> At the point, we didn't really know, you know, was he the one who took and
00:53:09
kidnapped Samantha Koig or was he someone who was just using a credit card that he found? FBI agent Jolene Goden
00:53:18
says investigators [music] initially didn't know what to make of Keys. >> What was it [music] like to look into
00:53:24
the eyes of Israel Keys? >> I spent a lot of time with Israel Keys. You could be in a room with [music] him
00:53:30
and it was like you were in the room with your neighbor. >> I think I saw it at Walmart.
00:53:34
>> And then there were other times where the hair on the back of your neck stands
00:53:37
up a little bit. [laughter] >> Investigators scrambled to learn everything they could about Israel Keys.
00:53:45
the man. >> Did he have a criminal record? >> I believe he had a a DUI, but that was
00:53:50
it. No, no crimes of violence in his history, no sex offenses in his history, nothing like that. He's a 34 year old
00:53:57
man from Alaska who has a construction business, small kind of quiet life. Even one of my colleagues at the US
00:54:04
Attorney's Office used him as a handyman. One of your colleagues hired him to do some work.
00:54:09
>> Sure. This is someone you felt comfortable giving a key to your house so he could go there when you weren't
00:54:15
there to fix things. >> An anchorage resident since 2007, Keys lived in this house with [music] his
00:54:22
girlfriend and his 10-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. Neighbors say he didn't stand [music] out.
00:54:30
>> Nothing suspicious at all except for that he worked hard. >> But investigators had suspicions and one
00:54:37
very pressing question. We [music] started off with where is Samantha? No one knew if Samantha Conig was still
00:54:43
alive. >> Anchorage assistant US Attorney Frank Russo and his colleagues knew time was
00:54:50
of the essence. >> He would have been sitting right here. >> So they confronted Keys [music] about
00:54:55
Samantha. >> Once we heard what he had to say and went from being a very happy day as a
00:55:01
prosecutor to one of the worst I've ever had. We ended up hearing a confession. Keys admitted he had killed Samantha.
00:55:09
>> We wanted to find out why he [music] did what he did. >> But before he would say more,
00:55:13
>> the lawyers got you this. >> Keys began what would become a pattern for giving information.
00:55:20
>> He wanted an Americano coffee from Starbucks. He wanted a Snickers bar and he wanted a particular cigar.
00:55:25
Ultimately, Keys lays out the entire story of of how the abduction of Samantha occurred.
00:55:30
>> The video of that confession had never been made public before. in it. Key says
00:55:36
he pointed a 22 caliber pistol at Samantha. >> I remember asking him, you know, why did
00:55:42
you pick that coffee cart at that time? And he just simply said, well, it was open late.
00:55:49
>> Meaning he chose her completely at random. Keys said as they walked off into the night, Samantha broke free and
00:55:57
ran. >> He chased after her and tackled her. [music] He indicates that his plan is to
00:56:01
hold her for ransom, suggesting to Samantha that that if she cooperates, he'll release her. She'll be [music]
00:56:07
able to to go home. >> It was all a lie. Instead, Keys drove Samantha to his home, chained her up in
00:56:15
his shed, and sexually assaulted her. Keys then strangled her to death. Keys family, the FBI later determined, knew
00:56:25
nothing about the horrors that had just taken place. He was talking about the murder of this girl like someone else
00:56:34
would discuss what they had for lunch. >> Within hours of murdering Samantha, Israel Keys left Anchorage for a
00:56:42
Caribbean vacation with his family. >> And where did he leave Samantha? Where was she? Where was her body?
00:56:48
>> Samantha was in the shed uh at his house. >> Keys didn't return until 2 weeks later.
00:56:54
It was then that he posted the ransom note and texted Samantha's boyfriend, knowing she was already dead.
00:57:03
Keys told investigators he had driven some 35 mi north of Anchorage to Mantusa [music] Lake, where over the course of
00:57:11
three trips, he disposed of Samantha's remains. He [music] had drilled a hole and went ice fishing in the lake and he
00:57:20
[music] had tied it up with bailing wire and weights and he had placed parts of her body down the lake as he fished. I
00:57:29
remember asking him, "Did you catch any fish?" And he said, "Yeah, I caught fish." And I said, "What did you do with
00:57:34
the fish?" And he said, "Well, I took them home and ate them." And for me, that that just
00:57:40
turned my stomach. It took the FBI's dive team 10 hours to recover Samantha's body.
00:57:49
>> I remember I was the one who told both Samantha's mom and dad and that was that
00:57:58
was a bad day. >> Koig family friend Michelle Tasker. >> He has a daughter and you did that to
00:58:05
somebody else's daughter. I don't understand. >> You have the right to talk to a lawyer.
00:58:10
After talking to Keys, investigators realized they had a depraved killer on their hands [music] and that Samantha
00:58:17
was likely not Keyy's only victim. >> I'm two different people basically. >> How long have you been two different
00:58:25
people? >> A long [music] time. 14 years. >> And that tells you what. That he had
00:58:32
been a serial killer for 14 years. Special Agent Katherine Nelson [music] knew every aspect of Keyy's life needed
00:58:41
to be examined. >> Cleveland, Ohio. >> So, she started a deep dive into his paper [music] trail.
00:58:47
>> Cell phone records, financial records, anything we could find out about his background, his travels, anything that
00:58:53
would just tell us a better story about him. [music] >> It was starting to look like Keys could
00:58:58
have victims across the United States. We know that Israel Keys traveled to places such as Washington, California,
00:59:06
Wyoming, Texas, Vermont. >> The whole story eventually >> and he teased his interrogators with
00:59:13
details of other murders. >> I'll tell you about everything. I'll give you every single gory detail you
00:59:20
want. >> But before Keys would agree to do that, he wanted something extraordinary in
00:59:26
return. >> I want an execution date >> for you. Yes. >> And he said, "I want a promise that I'll
00:59:34
get the death penalty. If you do that, then I'll tell you about all the people I killed." What we said is, "The more
00:59:40
murders you give us, the more likely it is that they're going [music] to want to
00:59:45
impose the death penalty on you." >> But without a guarantee of death, Keys was [music] reluctant to say anything
00:59:52
more. >> So, give me something to work with. Hold a bunch of your cards back, but give me
00:59:57
a [music] card. Finally, keys folded. >> All right, I'll give you two bodies [music] and a name.
01:00:15
[music] >> Hey, how you doing? >> No, I'm fine. >> Candy bar. >> They are odd moments to see. Swear off
01:00:27
those candy bars. >> Yeah, it's it's in the fridge. >> I'm going to need it. >> Investigators casually bonding with
01:00:36
their interview guest. >> Get him a cigar. So, we got you over here. Awesome. >> Wow. Cigar for nothing.
01:00:44
>> In some ways, to the outsider, it looked like you guys were in a way befriending
01:00:49
a serial killer. >> Yeah. >> You give me like an hour on the internet maybe. [laughter]
01:00:56
But there was method to this madness, says assistant US attorney Frank Russo. >> It was just the act that we had to put
01:01:03
on when we went in that room. It was just trying to kind of do anything we could to get information.
01:01:10
>> Israel Keys voluntarily granted two dozen interviews to various investigators
01:01:16
>> in the seven months after his arrest. >> Is it true he could have walked out at
01:01:20
any time? >> Sure. >> FBI special agent Jolene Goden. I think he wanted to tell the story. He wanted
01:01:27
to talk about what he did. >> He gave him my own family pretty much as soon as I did it.
01:01:32
>> He enjoyed the rush. He enjoyed the thrill of it. >> That strategy paid off when Keys gave up
01:01:40
the names of two victims, a [music] married couple more than 4,000 miles from Anchorage in Vermont.
01:01:48
>> He gave us the names of the people. We wrote them down. >> And what was the couple's name?
01:01:52
>> Bill and Lorraine Courier. Do your intel guys immediately try to find out if there's a missing couple? Absolutely.
01:01:58
>> What do you learn >> right away that Bill and Lorraine are missing >> and have been missing for some time?
01:02:04
>> Correct. Bill and Lorraine Courier are a couple that lived in Essex, Vermont.
01:02:08
Nothing stands out really about them. They were just kind of living their life. >> The Couriers vanished on a night in June
01:02:14
2011, leaving their family bewildered. >> We love them both with all our hearts.
01:02:21
were devastated by their disappearance and in fear for their lives. >> After interviewing neighbors, police
01:02:28
drew this sketch of a possible suspect. Police say this composite sketch of a man who may have been seen driving the
01:02:36
couple's dark green Saturn sedan is a big break. >> But the case went cold for nearly a year
01:02:42
until Keys laid out the road map of what had happened. >> He flew into Chicago and he drove east.
01:02:49
He intended on that trip to commit a homicide. He didn't know who it would be yet.
01:02:54
>> On that trip, Keys stayed at this hotel in Essex, Vermont. While there, he dug
01:03:00
up a bucket similar to this one that he had buried a few years prior. >> So, this is just the standard orange
01:03:09
Home Depot bucket. >> For the first time, the FBI is showing 48 hours. >> These are several boxes of 22 [music]
01:03:17
ammunition. the contents of what Keys like to call a kill cache. >> So he would preposition these caches and
01:03:26
then when the urge came upon him, if he happened to be in that state, he had his
01:03:32
tools of destruction ready to go. >> Correct. Or he'd plan a trip to a particular state knowing he already had
01:03:37
a cash there. He didn't know who he was going to kill, but he already knew that he had the items there that he needed.
01:03:42
We have the silencer for the 22. We have a wood stock for a 22, a plastic stock for a 22, uh, a portion of a 22 rifle,
01:03:52
and then we have the drum magazine, the 22. >> Had a number of 22 caliber bullets.
01:03:57
>> That's correct. >> You ever seen anything like this in your career? >> No. >> The cash used in the courier attack has
01:04:04
never been found, but Keys told the FBI where they could find this, a weapon he had used in Vermont. This is a silencer
01:04:14
that he's actually constructed himself. >> With his murderous tools in [music] hand, Keys went hunting for victims and
01:04:21
found himself outside the courier house. >> I decided I was going to look for a house with a couple in it. I was looking
01:04:29
for a fairly easy way to get into the garage, and theirs was the first house I [music] found that had all those things.
01:04:36
He just happens to take a walk from his hotel into a neighborhood and this unsuspecting couple just living their
01:04:43
lives is about to have a [music] monster at their door. >> Yeah, >> the monster didn't knock.
01:04:52
>> He's very quickly in the house. He restrains Bill and Lraine very quickly. [music]
01:04:56
>> He just makes sure they know right away who's in charge and immediately tie them
01:05:01
up. And then he moves them to their car and he drives them to an abandoned farmhouse that he had scoped out
01:05:08
earlier. Keys attacks Lraine first. She's upstairs in the bedroom. He had restrained [music] uh Bill downstairs.
01:05:15
>> But the couriers were not going down without a fight. >> Bill's yelling for [music] his wife.
01:05:21
Bill ultimately starts to break free from the restraints and Keys has to go back downstairs in order to restrain him
01:05:27
again. >> And what happens down there? >> There's a struggle that ensues. So, I knew I was either going to have to knock
01:05:32
him out or just kill him. He saw the gun. He started to say something and it just pissed me off and I just started
01:05:38
pulling the trigger. >> Do you think this silencer might have been used in the murder of Bill Courier?
01:05:46
>> I think it's very likely. >> Keys then strangled Lorraine Courier and left [music] the couple in the basement
01:05:53
of the abandoned farmhouse. >> Did anyone ever find these bodies? [music] >> No. A short time after this happened,
01:06:01
the house ended up being demolished and it was taken to the landfill. We [music]
01:06:05
made numerous attempts at the landfill. It was a I believe a 10 or 12 week search at the landfill.
01:06:12
The FBI [music] was searching in an attempt to find them, but we were not able to recover their bodies.
01:06:17
>> But as meticulous as Keys was in covering his tracks, he slipped up. >> This is the one item in all the things
01:06:25
that we found that belong to Keys that actually had his fingerprint on it. There's a perfect ripe thumbs
01:06:32
for Israel cheese. >> Yeah, right. >> No, there is. I don't have the lab. >> Wow. Yeah, I'm impressed. Well, I'm
01:06:42
disappointed in myself mostly, but I'm sorry. >> What other clues had Keys left behind?
01:06:49
What other murders had he committed? Investigators began focusing on his time in Washington State, where Keys was
01:06:56
raised, a place where he would admit to killing at least four more people. >> Ready shot,
01:07:05
>> strangled. We'll get the whole story eventually. for as far back as I can remember. But, you know, that's
01:07:23
where I get a lot of the ideas, either fishing or out hunting and see somebody in the woods.
01:07:32
To understand Israel [music] Keys, you have to go deep into the vast remote wilderness where he was raised. The
01:07:39
place where he lived off and on for more than 20 years, Washington State. How many people in the state of
01:07:47
Washington do you believe Israel Keys killed? >> We believe he killed four victims total
01:07:53
in Washington state. >> FBI special agents Ted Holla and Colleen Sanders first question Keys in 2012.
01:08:02
They have spent 8 years investigating his life and crimes in Washington, searching for more victims. This is like
01:08:10
a horror movie, isn't it? >> It's very much like a horror movie. The opening scenes [music] of Key's life
01:08:17
took place in a secluded cabin outside the small town of Cville. He grew up poor. Uh he grew up in a
01:08:25
large family. There were 10 children in all and they kind of lived apart from society.
01:08:34
>> John, where are we heading now? >> So, we're heading north out of out of Calville. We're going to go see if we
01:08:40
can find [music] uh where Israel Keys grew up. Just right up here on the right. >> John Smith and his wife Desiree knew
01:08:48
Israel Keys when he was a teenager. Desiree hasn't been in this area since she was 15.
01:08:56
>> Yes, this could be [music] it. Yeah, I remember it being long and steep and kind of headed up the mountain side and
01:09:04
yet it [music] was completely impassible through most of the winter. It was built
01:09:09
to be completely off the grid, to be completely isolated from society. >> No radio, no television, no electricity,
01:09:17
nothing. >> Nothing. >> The Keys family attended a church that preached Christian identity theology, a
01:09:24
philosophy John and Desiree were also raised on, but have since disavowed. >> Christian identity theology is very
01:09:32
white supremacist. um they [music] come from the perspective that the other races are subhuman.
01:09:39
>> So with Israel Keys specifically, he could dehumanize anybody if they rejected his worldview.
01:09:47
>> Schooled at home, cut off from the outside world, Keys was socially awkward, >> very quiet, uh very lonerish, uh
01:09:57
standoffish. It's it's hard to explain how [music] he made me feel, but I felt unsafe being near him.
01:10:04
>> So, one specific conversation about killing a deer. Um, he said that the initial shot didn't kill it, and so when
01:10:10
he arrived, he started to gut the thing while it was alive. >> This is interrogation audio of Keys
01:10:16
describing himself. >> I've known since I was 14 that there were things that that I thought were
01:10:23
normal and that were okay that nobody else seems to think are normal and okay. >> Yeah. But just when Keys committed his
01:10:31
first murder is still an open question. >> Whose [music] picture are you holding?
01:10:36
>> My daughter Julie Marie Harris. She was 12 years old and disappeared on March
01:10:40
3rd, 1996. >> Sher Odgard says her daughter Julie, [music] a Special Olympics athlete with
01:10:49
prosthetic feet, vanished from Kovville while waiting for a ride to church. Then
01:10:54
I went up and down every street in this town and screamed her name >> and there was no trace.
01:10:59
>> There was no trace. >> Israel Keys, then 18 years old, lived in the area at the time.
01:11:08
Julie's prosthetic [music] feet were discovered at the mouth of the Cville River. The next year, her skeletal
01:11:15
remains were found. We asked Israel Keys about Julie Harris and her death and he
01:11:21
said he was aware of it but that he was not involved in it. >> I remember the name. I don't remember
01:11:26
the details of the story. >> Keys told investigators the birth of his daughter convinced [music] him to never
01:11:33
target children. >> Something kind of changed in the way I thought and I didn't want to do anything that would
01:11:41
mess with kids or whatever. But Keyy's daughter was born after Julie Harris was murdered.
01:11:50
48 Hours tracked down friends of Julie who had never spoken with law enforcement. One of those friends told
01:11:56
us she remembers Keys talking to Julie at the pool where she often swam and that Julie ended up giving [music] him
01:12:06
her address and phone number. Have you heard this? >> No, I did not know that. Does that sound
01:12:13
tantalizing as a possible clue? >> Like any other lead that we have, we would want to investigate it fully. We
01:12:22
would certainly be be interested in talking with her. >> People have wondered if your daughter
01:12:26
was the very first victim of Israel Keys. >> And I'm wondering that too. Despite the
01:12:33
intrigue surrounding Julie Harris, Keys claims his first attempted murder came in 1997 or 1998 when he abducted and
01:12:42
sexually assaulted a young woman near Bend, Oregon. >> It was weird. I mean, she was scared,
01:12:48
but also just talking like about random stuff. I don't know. It was weird. I I was just convinced that I had screwed up
01:12:56
that time in Oregon because, you know, I I let her go. He indicated he never let
01:13:02
another go after that. >> Sometime after that assault, Keys joined the US Army. >> Our investigation lent us to believe
01:13:11
that he was a model soldier and excelled in the army. >> Keys told investigators he waited
01:13:16
[music] until he completed a three-year stint in the army before he stalked his next victim.
01:13:23
>> And you told us it wasn't long when you got out of the military that you killed somebody. And it was that sort of
01:13:30
feeling that you needed to do something that was hard to resist. >> Yeah. Naying town.
01:13:38
>> Nia Bay at the farthest northwestern tip of Washington is [music] best known as
01:13:43
home to the Macau tribe. Legendary whale hunters. Keys moved here after marrying
01:13:50
a tribe member he met online. They started a family. >> He lived there. He rented the house out.
01:13:58
Eric Johnson worked with Keys at the parks and recreation department. [music] >> This is his shop here. The blue part.
01:14:04
>> The blue part. That was his shop. That's where he worked. >> Yeah. >> There are reminders of Keyy's [music]
01:14:09
skilled carpentry all around town, including this structure. >> He was a great family guy, a smart guy,
01:14:18
gifted carpenter, you know, well spoken, >> an upstanding member of the community.
01:14:22
>> Upstanding member of the community. Yeah. I would do something and [music] then I would go back like
01:14:29
business as usual and go out with friends, go out to bars. You know, for all the years they've known me, they
01:14:36
actually don't know me at all really. About 60 miles southeast of Nia Bay is another spectacular location. One of the
01:14:49
deepest lakes in the United States, [music] which investigators suspect is also a
01:14:54
watery grave. >> You guys know about Lake Crescent in Washington. >> He revealed to us that one of the
01:15:01
Washington State victims was actually uh their body was sunk in this particular lake.
01:15:07
>> I think that lake is [music] 5 to 700 ft deep. Here's a picture of Israel Keys's
01:15:12
boat. >> Sometime in 2005 or 2006, [music] Keys had a body in this boat. >> Any idea who this person may be? Any
01:15:22
idea how this person was killed? >> No. >> How long does a body last in a freshwater lake? In the last months of
01:15:30
2012, special agents Hala and Sanders were hopeful that Keys would give them more information on who is at the bottom
01:15:39
of this lake. But the killer had another plan. >> I can't be satisfied sitting in prison
01:15:45
for all my life. I'd rather go out while I still have some sanity, good memories.
01:15:56
>> [music] [music] >> You really think I would feel like learning any more information? After 7
01:16:17
months of interrogations, seven months of teasing investigators with bits and pieces of his violent
01:16:24
past, Israel Keys decided to take one more life, his own. >> Serial killer Israel Keys was found dead
01:16:33
at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. [music] >> We received a call early in the morning
01:16:38
that on December 1st, 2012, Israel Keys had committed suicide in his jail cell. He used a disposable razor to split his
01:16:46
wrist and Keys attempted to strangle himself with bedding. >> And what was your reaction to that?
01:16:52
>> My reaction was a lot of these secrets were going to die with him now. >> For Samantha Koig's loved ones, the news
01:17:02
hit like a gut punch. >> He should have been executed. Now, he killed himself. That's great. It's not
01:17:08
what we wanted. We wanted him to stand trial. We wanted him to answer for what he did.
01:17:14
>> [music] >> But the world's better off. He's gone. >> Inside Keyy's cell, jailers discovered a
01:17:21
bizarre blood soaked suicide note with passages like, "Crush like a bug, you still die."
01:17:29
>> We had hoped that that note was going to be clues and tips for us on that he was
01:17:33
finally going to give us all of the information on the homicides, and it really wasn't. It was kind of a rant.
01:17:40
But the end of Keys was by no means the end of this case. A few months before his suicide, investigators found those
01:17:48
Macob drawings. >> He drew a series of 11 skulls and these were found underneath his bed
01:18:00
in his jail cell. >> Drawn in Israel Keys own blood. >> You have 11 skulls. What does this mean?
01:18:09
I think this is the entirety of of his crimes. >> And it indicates that there are seven
01:18:14
victims we don't have identified. >> Prior to his death, Keys had pointed the FBI to another victim.
01:18:22
>> There's one in New York. >> He refused to provide that victim's name, but investigators believe it
01:18:29
happened when Keys took a road trip through New York State in the spring of 2009.
01:18:36
>> [music] >> So, they comb through missing person's reports and Keyy's computer.
01:18:41
>> Is this the person buried in New York? No. >> Her name was on your computer. Which
01:18:47
computer? Mine. >> When they confronted him with photos, one in particular rattled him. It was a
01:18:54
photo of a woman named Deborah Feldman. given the way he looked at it and he started shaking a little bit. Um, I
01:19:02
would say she is definitely one of his victims. >> Deborah Feldman is a a woman who went
01:19:08
missing from New Jersey. It was in 2009. Her body has never been recovered. We're
01:19:13
relatively confident about Deborah Feldman. However, we do not have any forensic evidence to to make that
01:19:19
connection. According to the FBI, that would [music] make Deborah Feldman Keyy's fourth known victim along with
01:19:26
Samantha Koig [music] and Bill and Lorraine Courier. Agents are now determined to identify the remaining
01:19:33
seven. And there are clues that point to at least two other states. >> Tell me about Wyoming and what was there
01:19:41
for him. >> The Green River in Wyoming is where Keys had buried his cashmere. Is there a sense that there may be a
01:19:50
body somewhere near that river? >> We have a strong suspicion that Keys may have a victim located in that area.
01:19:57
[music] >> In the late 2000s, Israel Keys also spent time in California's wine country,
01:20:05
including visiting the posh Sonoma town of Heelsburg in May of 2007. Keys has often talked to investigators about
01:20:15
using boats and also kayaks in the disposal of bodies. We know that he rented a single person kayak in Helsburg
01:20:25
near a campground during that time in 2007. >> But Keyy's road trips weren't limited to
01:20:31
the US. >> In 2007, he drove along the Alcine Highway by himself for about a week of
01:20:37
that year. >> The Alcine Highway goes uh through Canada up to Alaska. Yes, correct.
01:20:43
>> We know that Keys traveled to Canada quite extensively and specifically said that he would go to Montreal.
01:20:49
>> When he was asked about whether he'd killed anyone in Canada, what did he say?
01:20:53
>> He said, "Canadians don't count." >> It's been several years since Israel Keys killed himself.
01:21:01
The FBI hopes investigators across the country will take a second look at suspicious deaths in their area. They're
01:21:10
also hoping the public can help. >> If anyone has any information on Israel Keys and his travels or if they have a
01:21:19
family member that they think may have been potentially a victim of Israel Keys that they come forward to the FBI with
01:21:25
that information. >> That includes the Lake Crescent area of Washington State where Keys told
01:21:31
investigators he had dumped a body. >> We absolutely want people to come forward who think they may have seen
01:21:37
something connected to Israel. keys, especially on this lake. [music] >> And what about those kill caches buried
01:21:45
throughout the country? >> If anyone out there comes across one of these, what should they do
01:21:52
>> first? For people not to not to touch too much and not to contaminate it too much and definitely contact local law
01:21:58
enforcement in their community who can then reach out to us. >> For the FBI, their focus is clear. For
01:22:07
me, the important thing is Samantha and Bill and Lorraine and Deborah and all the victims that we don't have
01:22:13
identified. That's what this case is about. >> And their commitment [music] unwavering.
01:22:19
Do you have an optimistic streak that says we can find answers to the other seven cases?
01:22:26
>> I do. I absolutely do. And it won't be easy by any means. And it may take a long time, but I'll never give up
01:22:35
trying. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> in July 1997.
01:23:35
This man's been shot. Johnny Versace. [music] There's something inherently sexy in a
01:23:49
Versace design. [music] There is a flamboyance that is contained and [music] controlled.
01:24:04
The clothes we wear sent a message about how the [music] world perceives us. It says is a real wow factor. I'm Tim Gun
01:24:11
and I [music] am the mentor on Project Runway. The Versace customer was not faint of heart. One of the most iconic
01:24:21
Versace pieces was the gown that he made for Elizabeth Hurley. Two stars were born with that dress. Princess Diana
01:24:28
wanted a whole new look for the world and Courtney loved it also. I mean, he took her from trashy to sophisticated.
01:24:37
>> Versace helped put Miami on the international map. >> My name is Tara Solomon and I am the
01:24:44
Miami Herald's former nightlife correspondent. Versace brought his entire world of fabulosity
01:24:55
and while he may have had homes all around the world, he came to Miami Beach to relax.
01:25:03
>> Do you remember where you were when you heard that Versace had been murdered?
01:25:07
>> Oh, I remember profoundly. I opened up my computer and it flashed before me that Jenny Versace had been murdered. I
01:25:15
was stunned >> when Versace was killed. There was pure pandemonium. >> On that particular morning,
01:25:26
Johnny Versace decided to go over to the news cafe and it was on his return home
01:25:32
approaching the door. [music] He was he was shot and killed >> and all of a sudden we hear bang bang.
01:25:39
Two shots. >> 116 ocean. >> Yes. Please immediately please. Do you remember where roughly he was?
01:25:46
>> He was right right here. >> And there was obviously >> blood. Yes. Plenty of blood.
01:25:53
And >> if you mention Johnny Versace, um people still don't remember those names of the
01:25:58
first few people that were killed. >> There was uh the homicide of Jeff Trail and David Matson.
01:26:09
There was the murder of Lee Migglin. Then there was the murder of William Reese.
01:26:18
We have [music] what we typically call a spree killer. This wasn't a haphazard crime. Mr.
01:26:26
Versace was targeted. [music] >> [music] >> World famous fashion designer Johnny
01:26:59
[music] Versace fatally shot, >> gunned down outside his mansion in Miami Beach, Florida,
01:27:03
>> turned into a gruesome crime scene early this morning. 5 days before he was murdered, Johnny
01:27:13
Versace and his partner [music] Antonio Demo had arrived at Kasa Kazarina, their
01:27:19
lavish Miami Beach retreat. They'd been in Paris and New York. Versace could not
01:27:25
have known it, but his killer was already in town. The 911 call came in about 8:45 the
01:27:37
morning of July 15th, 1997, just as Carlos Noriega, then a lieutenant with the Miami Beach Police
01:27:45
Department, was heading to work. >> I drove over to the scene and encountered an area just flooded with
01:27:55
police officers. There was uh evidence at the front steps. There was blood. There was uh
01:28:02
clothing. Giani Versace was an icon. You have a worldrenowned fashion designer, a
01:28:11
celebrity who was tragically killed. This was all hands on deck. >> Yeah. You don't want to screw this case
01:28:16
up. >> Exactly. >> It all happened in broad daylight. Versace had gone out alone to a local
01:28:25
cafe to buy magazines and then he walked home. As [music] he was putting the key in the
01:28:33
door lock, he was shot twice. Once in the face, point black ridge and the other one was behind the left ear in the
01:28:41
neck and that was a through and through shot. >> Noriega believes the gunman approached
01:28:46
Versace from behind or from the side. I believe he was shadowing him. It was a very strategically timed, strategically
01:28:56
placed attack uh to to kill Giani Versace. >> The question was who would want to kill
01:29:02
him? >> One of the first motives that we felt was a possibility was that it was a
01:29:08
contract hit organized crime mafia if you will uh because there was a dead bird found next to the body.
01:29:15
>> Is that a sign that to to us that's a sign of a mafia hit? But the bird, it turned out, was in the wrong place at
01:29:22
the wrong time. Hit by a fragment from a [music] bullet that killed Versace. And
01:29:28
that left police with not much to go on. But not for long. They got a break from
01:29:35
Lazero Quintanana, who was a friend of Versace. >> He used to call me Lazaretta.
01:29:42
>> Lazero was at the mansion that morning. [music] He was in the dining room with
01:29:45
Antonio when he heard the shots. >> Antonio got up and he went to the window that faces the gate to enter the mansion
01:29:55
and he yelled out, "No, no." And I ran out. >> You came here? >> I came here. Johnny was right here.
01:30:03
>> Versace was already dead on the front steps. >> And then Antonio came and he was he's
01:30:10
crying and he was destroyed. He was destroyed and he's he's who did this? Who did
01:30:18
this? And there was there was a lady standing here and she's pointing but she couldn't speak and Jonah said go get
01:30:24
him. So I went after him. >> Lazero followed the gunman. >> We're talking this pace real fast.
01:30:32
>> I yelled, "You bastard. Why did you do this? Why did you do this?" >> He makes a left turn.
01:30:38
>> As he makes the left turn. Yes. He makes the left turn. And we're still going.
01:30:42
We're still going all the way through. He turns over to the right and car is coming so I couldn't get across. Car
01:30:48
stops. >> Uhhuh. >> And they yell, "He's got a gun." He stops right across here.
01:30:53
>> Yeah. >> At the alley. And that's when he's pointing the gun at me. >> Show me how he pointed the gun at you if
01:30:58
I'm you. >> So he didn't even look at you. >> No. Never looked at >> You never saw his face.
01:31:03
>> Never saw his face. >> But you saw his clothes. >> Yes. The shooter cut through this alley while
01:31:09
Lazero raced around the corner. He remembered seeing a police officer there earlier.
01:31:14
>> I reached him and I said to him, "Mr. Versace has just been shot." >> Were you calm? Were or were you?
01:31:20
>> No. >> No. >> No. A friend of mine was just shot. Nor was I calm. I was nervous. I was upset.
01:31:28
>> You came down this street with the police officer. >> I did. Luckily, he came upon some men in
01:31:33
front of this building and asked them if they saw a man running >> and they pointed they pointed to the
01:31:39
garage. >> They said he went in here. >> He went in here. So, that's when I told
01:31:42
the officer, I said, "He's in there. Go get him. Go get him." And then we heard over the radio the commotion and and
01:31:49
Okay, now there is a manh hunt. When police searched the 13th Street garage, they discovered a pile of
01:31:56
clothes, a gray t-shirt, and black shorts, just what Lazero had seen the shooter
01:32:04
wearing. He had obviously changed clothes. When he walked out of this garage just shortly after the murder,
01:32:11
nobody knew who the shooter was. Nobody knew what he looked like. Nobody knew what he was wearing. He was able to just
01:32:18
vanish. But he left a mountain of evidence for investigators. Next to that pile of clothes was a truck that had
01:32:26
been reported stolen in New Jersey. And inside the truck were documents with a name.
01:32:33
>> I mean, he left his identification in the truck. That's correct. He had his passport, um, ID, a whole lot of items
01:32:41
that connected him right away. 101. >> By 12 noon, some 3 hours after Johnny Versace was murdered, police had a
01:32:49
suspect. His name, Andrew Kunanan. And as it turned out, the Miami Beach Police Department was not the only one
01:33:00
looking for him. In Milan, Italy today, those who knew and admired Giani Versace said goodbye
01:33:27
to the murdered fashion designer. One week after Johnny Versace was murdered, celebrities and friends from
01:33:36
around the world gathered inside this Gothic cathedral in Milan, Italy for his funeral.
01:33:44
>> I saw Versace's funeral on television and I cried. It was It was hard. It was
01:33:50
tough. >> Princess Diana was there at the funeral. Sting Trudy Elton In Miami, not far from where he was
01:34:04
murdered, there was a small intimate service to celebrate the designer's life. >> The flowers left on the steps of
01:34:17
Versace's opulent mansion served as one somber reminder of what had happened. that we consider Andrew Kunan to be
01:34:26
armed and to be extremely dangerous. >> The police activity was another. They were tracking every lead they
01:34:35
could, hunting for Johnny Versace's suspected killer, 27-year-old Andrew Kunanan.
01:34:42
>> You had a very good suspect. >> Michael Band was the prosecutor assigned to this case. And our first step was to
01:34:50
go out into community with pictures of Canadan and start beating the bushes and looking for this guy, looking to figure
01:35:00
out, is this the guy? >> Authorities were starting to learn all about Andrew Kunanan.
01:35:08
Three months before Versace's murder, Kunanan was living in San Diego and his life was, to say the least, complicated.
01:35:18
>> I thought he'd be a very successful businessman or maybe in, you know, the fashion industry or something star
01:35:25
quality like. >> Back in the 80s, Robert Erenss remembers his seventh grade classmate Andrew
01:35:31
Kunanan as a good-looking kid with a keen fashion sense. I remember Andrew [music] would put dimes in his penny
01:35:39
loafers. It was always that little extra something that made him sort of stand out and get noticed. Andrew sort of had
01:35:45
this air about him that I thought was kind of beyond his years at that time. According to Erands, Andrew Kunanan grew
01:35:54
up in a workingclass San Diego suburb and did not share much about his home life. I had no idea who his mom was, his
01:36:03
dad, whether he had brothers or sisters. I had no idea he was half Filipino. Andrew's [music] father, Modesto, was a
01:36:12
former Navy man turned stockbroker. He and Andrew's mother, Maryanne, raised four children together. But Andrew stood
01:36:22
out. He had a genius IQ. So he enrolled in the pricey and prestigious Bishop School in the Tony Beach enclave of La
01:36:33
Hoya. >> When I heard that he was going to La Hoya and transferring to Bishops, I
01:36:37
thought, well, you've got to have money. That's a private school. >> The class of 1987 mentioned Andrew
01:36:44
Kunanan as most likely to [music] be remembered. He chose a quote from King Louis X 15th
01:36:52
to accompany his senior photo. A premo l deluge. After me, the deluge. Turns out those words could have been an
01:37:03
omen. A year after Andrew's high school graduation, his father was facing embezzlement charges. He fled the
01:37:11
country, leaving his family abandoned and broke. He was openly gay in high school and
01:37:21
very flamboyant. And >> when 48 hours first spoke to Nicole Murray Ramirez back in 1997, he knew
01:37:28
Andrew Kunanan. Today, he still remembers Kunanan as the young man who didn't have a job, but was a big spender
01:37:36
and an even bigger talker. >> Andrew Cananan was basically known in the gay community's night life and the
01:37:44
bar scene. He would walk in with an entourage and always pay for the bill. He wanted the
01:37:52
illusion that it was his money. He tried to brag that he came from a Filipino family and he knew the Mald Marcos.
01:38:00
>> Michael Williams owned a local restaurant and knew Andrew Kunanan. He also knew where Kunanan really got all
01:38:08
that money. >> He had a very wealthy older partner who really provided for him. How much older?
01:38:18
>> I would say probably by 40 years. >> What did you make of that relationship? >> I stopped trying to figure that out. I
01:38:24
was like, you know, here's this young, attractive, good-looking guy with this extremely older man. I mean, I
01:38:34
can't imagine what the connection was there. >> I would imagine that you had an idea
01:38:42
what the connection was there. I did. You know, >> Michael Williams was introduced to
01:38:47
Andrew through their mutual friend, a young Enson named Jeff Trail. >> Andrew was very pretentious,
01:38:56
loud, you know, always had to be the center of the the party. [music] Jeff was opposite of that. Jeff
01:39:04
was pretty conservative and quiet, always helping people. Trail was an Annapolis graduate and a
01:39:14
Gulf War veteran living in San Diego. He was also gay as out as was possible. >> Tonight on 48 hours,
01:39:25
the battle over homosexuals in the military. >> In 1993, when he appeared in Silhouette
01:39:31
for a 48 hours interview, he talked to us about issues affecting gay people in the military.
01:39:37
>> We're not here to be feared. We just want to do our jobs. That's all we're asking for.
01:39:43
>> While Trail and Kunanan were friends, to the best of anybody's knowledge, that is
01:39:48
all they were. >> Jeff was always had the contagious personality where you just wanted to be
01:39:54
around him. And I think that, you know, in a way, Andrew wanted that in his life. So surrounding himself around
01:40:02
Jeff, he always seemed very happy and and up. >> You did not like Andrew. >> No.
01:40:10
For reasons known only to Cananan, he sometimes used the name Andrew Dilva. [music] That's how Michael Williams knew
01:40:17
him. And he would soon learn a lot more about Andrew. Who he was and what he would do would
01:40:26
change the life of Michael Williams and end the lives of five innocent victims. Tracing Andrew Kunanan's blood soaked
01:40:43
path to Johnny Versace's front door means following a series of unexplainable events punctuated with
01:40:53
unfathomable viciousness. None of the dots are easily connected except in the mind of the murderer.
01:41:04
The road begins with Jeff Trail. He just had that charisma about him. >> It was Trail who befriended Andrew
01:41:14
Kunanan. And Michael Williams believes his friend knew Kenan had lived a dangerous life.
01:41:21
>> Andrew had a past of dealing drugs. He had a past of prostitution. [music] And I really think that Jeff was trying
01:41:29
to pull him out of that. Williams says Jeff Trail had left the Navy and was training to join the
01:41:37
California Highway Patrol. And then suddenly, and with no explanation, in the fall of 1996,
01:41:45
Trail moved to Minneapolis. The day that he got in the car to leave, I said, "Please be safe." And he reached under
01:41:54
the seat and he he pulled out his handgun and he said, "I'm going to be safe. I've got this
01:42:03
Around that same time, Jeff Trail's friend Andrew Kunanan was struggling. According to Nicole Murray Ramirez,
01:42:11
>> he was not good-looking anymore. He had to have looked in the mirror and saw what I saw, which was a a six going down
01:42:18
to a four. What was left for his life? >> Kunanan had gained weight and given away
01:42:25
much of his expensive designer wardrobe. >> He had dabbled into drugs. He was now an
01:42:31
older young man with average looks. >> On top of that, his older wealthy partner broke up with him.
01:42:40
>> I surmise that Andrew one day woke up after his older boyfriend broke up the relationship and what's next? How was he
01:42:51
going to live? >> He lost the money, the mansion, and all that went with it. >> He lived off other people. He also was
01:43:00
someone who was revengeful. >> Former FBI profiler Mary Elano Tulle. >> This is not someone that you break up
01:43:08
with easily because when you're grandiose and you're the center of the world, people don't break up with you.
01:43:16
>> And then for reasons Kunanannon never fully explained, on Friday, April 25th,
01:43:22
1997, he went to Minneapolis. He flew from San Diego on a one-way ticket. >> Do you think that he went up to
01:43:32
Minneapolis with murder on his mind? >> Yes, I think that he did. >> Kunana knew people in Minneapolis. Jeff
01:43:42
Trail was there and Michael Williams thinks something happened between the two of them.
01:43:50
>> I called to check on Jeff and he was just really depressed. It alarmed me. We've never had a conversation like
01:43:57
that. I uh I asked him, "Have you spoken to Andrew?" And he said, "Uh, no, and I'll never speak to him again."
01:44:19
That's odd. Kunanan knew somebody else in Minneapolis, a 33-year-old architect named David Madson. Kunanan and Madson
01:44:29
had had a relationship. >> He loved to laugh. >> I just got a little lunch. Okay.
01:44:35
>> And he always had big energy. >> Julie Huffland was David Madson's friend and coworker.
01:44:43
>> He liked problem solving. We talked about world issues. He was a downto-earth person.
01:44:52
>> Did David ever mention Andrew Cananan? >> Um, yes, he did. I think he had a fling
01:44:58
with Andrew. Um, I don't think it was anything serious because there were other people in his life that he cared
01:45:05
about more. He didn't care about Andrew um that much really. >> But according to Kunanan's friends,
01:45:12
Andrew believed David was the love of his life. Julie Hlin didn't talk to David Madson
01:45:21
over the weekend. On Monday, she was surprised when he didn't show up at work. And by Tuesday, everyone was
01:45:29
worried. >> I called them, went to voice messaging, and um a couple of my co-workers went to
01:45:36
his house over lunch hour on Tuesday. Um heard his dog barking in the apartment.
01:45:45
She didn't know it, but Kunanan's killing spree had already started. >> It was noticeable as soon as you open
01:45:53
the door and walk in. Nobody made any effort to try and conceal it or hide it. >> When retired Minneapolis homicide
01:46:02
detective Dale Bars arrived at Madson's apartment, what he saw was gruesome. There was a bloody body wrapped in a
01:46:11
rug. I thought he was dead that day. I pretty much cried the whole night and then later we found out that um it
01:46:25
wasn't David's body in the the carpet. >> How did you feel when you heard that? >> Um shocked. But then oh,
01:46:36
what happened? The body in David Madson's apartment was Jeff Trail. He had been beaten to
01:46:44
death with a hammer. And not far from the body, police found a duffel bag with a name on it, Andrew Kunanan.
01:46:53
>> This is the travel bag that we believe uh Andrew Kunanan brought to Minneapolis
01:46:57
on April 25th. >> But where was Andrew Kunanan and where was David Madson? [music]
01:47:05
The trail stayed cold for just 4 days. And then on Saturday morning, two fishermen found the body of a young man
01:47:14
on the shores of East Rush Lake about an hour north of Minneapolis. It was David
01:47:19
Madson. He'd been shot in the head. >> We learned that David died pretty soon after Jeff Trail.
01:47:31
>> Oh my gosh. you know, to be in the situation that David's in with this crazy person, you know, and how scary
01:47:41
for him. I'm sure he tried to calm Andrew down, you know. I I mean, I'm sure there was survival mode going on,
01:47:49
like how do you diffuse this situation? But he obviously failed at that. Um, and
01:47:57
he lost his life because of that. Ballistic tests showed the bullets used to kill Madson came from a 40 caliber
01:48:07
gun like the one Jeff Trail had taken to Minneapolis. Police believe Kunanan took
01:48:13
that gun. >> Presumably, when you were able to link Madson's death to Trail's death, that
01:48:20
changed the whole investigation. >> And now we're down to Where's Andrew? There were tire tracks near Madson's
01:48:27
body and his car, a red Jeep, was missing. But it would not stay missing for long.
01:48:34
>> 72-year-old Lee Miglin was found tortured and stabbed to death in the garage of his mansion on Chicago's Gold
01:48:40
Coast. >> On the morning of May 3rd, 1997, Steven and Barbara Byer found the body of their
01:48:50
neighbor, Lee Miglin. He was a wealthy real estate developer. I can still picture it today. I could see the points
01:48:57
of his shoes and I said, "It leases right there." I mean, it was absolutely um chilling.
01:49:08
Inside Lee Miglin's townhouse, there was some money and other things missing. And
01:49:13
there was evidence the killer had stayed a while. Police photos show he had shaved and taken a bath.
01:49:21
>> Debris in the kitchen sink. uh melted ice cream coming out of their containers. Then in uh Lee's library,
01:49:28
finding this uh large ham uh sliced sitting on his desk. That was plenty to recognize that uh something very, very
01:49:38
bad had gone on. >> Around the corner from the murder scene, police would discover David Madson's red
01:49:45
Jeep. But now, Lee Migglin's green Lexus was missing. To this day, police do not
01:49:52
know what, if any, connection Kunanan had to Miglin, but they feared Kunanan would strike again.
01:50:01
[music] [music] >> I do know it's not a random act of violence. A nationwide manhunt is still
01:50:19
underway for Kunan >> after Andrew Kunanan murdered Jeff Trail, David Madson, and Lee Migglin.
01:50:28
The gay community was terrified, especially in San Diego. >> I think everybody was in a state of
01:50:34
shock. I think some people were in a state of fear. People didn't answer their doors. People
01:50:43
that knew him the most stayed other places. >> Michael Williams relocated to Scottdale,
01:50:52
Arizona. >> Everybody was on very high alert >> cuz he didn't know where he was going to
01:50:57
strike again. >> Yeah. Just 6 days after he killed Miglin, while Kunanan was on the run in Miglin's
01:51:05
green Lexus, police believe he realized the FBI was tracking the car phone's signal and he needed a new vehicle.
01:51:16
>> He's believed to have struck here in Pensville Friday afternoon at the remote
01:51:20
Fins Point Cemetery at Fort M Park. >> FBI is going to work concurrently with the New Jersey State Police. The Lexus
01:51:27
was found at this cemetery in southern New Jersey. Inside the office lay victim number four. He was 45year-old William
01:51:37
Reese. He'd been shot in the head and his red pickup was gone. >> Yeah. He all he was is a caretaker at a cemetery.
01:51:48
>> Minneapolis detective Dale Bars says William Reese was killed simply for his truck. You know, he just was a very
01:51:55
honorable man >> in the wrong place. >> Absolutely. >> At the wrong time >> and alone.
01:52:04
>> You're in scon somewhere in Scottsdale. He's last heard of in New Jersey. Can
01:52:09
you relax? >> No. >> Until he's caught, you don't relax. As Johnny Versace was in Europe working
01:52:19
on what would be his final collection, Andrew Kunanan was the focus of a nationwide manhunt. He was featured on
01:52:27
America's Most Wanted. >> Police say Kunanan may be wearing glasses [music] >> and earned a spot on the FBI's 10 most
01:52:35
wanted list. [music] >> You think he enjoyed the the attention that he got? >> Oh, I absolutely do.
01:52:40
>> Former FBI profiler Mary Elano Tulle. He basically held the United States hostage
01:52:47
because we were looking for him everywhere. We didn't know where he was. >> Otul says having murdered four men in
01:52:54
three states over 12 days, Kunanan was now considered a spree killer. >> A spree killer continues and continues
01:53:03
and continues and does not go back into their normal life. Life as they know it.
01:53:08
It's done. So Otul believes Kunanan knew he had nothing to lose. >> There's no way to undo what he's done
01:53:17
now. Absolutely no way. So he's really boxed himself into a corner. From a behavioral standpoint that makes him
01:53:24
more dangerous. >> But then for 2 months there was no sign of Kunanan until July 15th, 1997
01:53:34
when he struck again. This time was different because this time his victim was Johnny Versace.
01:53:47
When you heard that he had done it again, do you remember how you felt? >> Every time there was another killing, it
01:53:55
was almost like you're being stabbed. You know, it it's that rush of pain and you're just automatically, oh my god,
01:54:05
why can't they catch him? >> There's no question that he knew that we were hot in this trail.
01:54:11
>> Carlos Noriega remembers that within hours, hundreds of police officers piled
01:54:15
onto Miami Beach. >> We all but locked down uh the causeways and the ways in and out of the city. And
01:54:22
I believe that created that bottleneck where he felt uncomfortable trying to leave the city.
01:54:28
Crime Stoppers. >> With all the attention on this case, every day brought a flood of tips.
01:54:35
>> How long ago? >> The tips that were coming in were overwhelming at times, >> especially since this was Detective Gus
01:54:42
Sanchez's first homicide investigation. >> Were you nervous at all? >> Of course, I was.
01:54:48
>> Yeah. >> We know already that he had killed numerous people. I remember going to
01:54:53
different locations knocking on doors and it always crosses your mind that Kunan can be in there armed and he can
01:54:58
shoot through the door. >> Detectives soon learned Kunanan had been in Miami Beach for about 2 months.
01:55:04
>> He was sort of hiding in plain sight. >> Exactly. >> The police had missed several
01:55:09
opportunities to get him. About a week before he killed Versace, Kunanan pawned a gold coin stolen from Lee Miglin.
01:55:19
How'd the pawn shop know it was him? He told them >> on the coin about a week before the
01:55:24
homicide >> and used his own name. >> Used his own name. >> What's more, Kunanan's name was on a
01:55:30
form the pawn shop was required to send to the Miami Beach Police Department. It
01:55:37
arrived 5 days before the murder. >> We did not have an automated system at the time.
01:55:42
>> It was just one of many forms and unfortunately nobody looked at it. Did you think
01:55:50
why didn't we know about this before Johnny Versace was killed? >> That thought went through my mind
01:55:55
several times because apparently he was on the beach for a period of time. >> Kunanan listed his address as the
01:56:01
Normandy Plaza Hotel. >> It was a dump. You and I wouldn't stay in that hotel. >> He'd registered under his own name. Must
01:56:11
drive you nuts to know that this guy was walking around free as a bird, >> right? I I mean, just the fact that this
01:56:17
guy [music] was being looked for speaks to the fact that he was able to blend in
01:56:23
and change his appearance and successfully [music] just stay one step ahead that way.
01:56:29
>> Things might have turned out differently if police had a little more luck. 4 days
01:56:35
before Versace was killed, someone at this subshop recognized Kunanan from the America's Most Wanted story. He called
01:56:44
the police, but they arrived too late. >> I was disappointed. I was frustrated. It's just unfortunate that we didn't
01:56:51
catch him before it happened. >> After Versace's murder, with Kunanan on the loose, anxiety grew.
01:56:58
>> Let me assure you that Miami Beach and Dade County are safe. >> I was afraid.
01:57:06
>> Remember, Versace's friend, Lazaro Quintana, had chased Kunanan. So I told the officer, "Go get him. He's in there.
01:57:14
Go get him." >> He knew who I was, but I didn't know who he was. >> How did you behave when you were out?
01:57:21
>> Scared, cautious, looking over my shoulder a lot, >> literally. I mean, >> absolutely. Oh, yeah. I was Yeah. I
01:57:28
mean, I got goosebumps on it. Absolutely. This man had a gun. This man knew what he was doing.
01:57:35
>> The longer Kunanan dodged police, the more intense the hunt became. I think the police were getting anxious. Where
01:57:44
could he be? What kind of resources did he have? >> Former prosecutor Michael Band.
01:57:51
>> That's a lot of pressure. That's a lot of pressure on law enforcement. The whole world's watching, but we don't
01:57:57
want anybody else dead. >> There was a sense that maybe we lost him by some people. I just thought that he
01:58:03
was hiding out. >> Yeah. Go ahead, Tom. >> And then the tip came in that would change everything. Here we go, guys.
01:58:10
Here we go. >> I get a call. Michael, >> I think we found him. >> What's your emergency?
01:58:32
>> Got in and they're shooting. I heard over the police radio that there had been a shot fired,
01:58:38
that they were surrounding a housebo. [music] >> You think what? >> We got him. >> After a 9-day manhunt, Miami Beach
01:58:48
detective Gus Sanchez believed Andrew Kunanan was finally cornered on a housebo just 40 blocks from where he had
01:58:57
shot down Johnny Versace. [music] When Sanchez arrived, it was a standoff. At this point, nobody's seen Kunan on
01:59:09
the housebo. >> No, there's no confirmation at this point. >> The houseboat's caretaker saw signs of a
01:59:14
breakin, and when he went inside, a shot was fired. >> Police quickly surrounded the housebo.
01:59:21
>> They are communicating by bullhorn with the housebo. >> After a 4hour siege, the SWAT team fired
01:59:28
tear gas. and went on board. When it was safe, prosecutor Michael Band followed them.
01:59:43
>> It was a mess. It was just a mess. >> In an upstairs bedroom, they found a body.
01:59:54
>> I just recall an individual lying on the bed looking up. He had a bullet wound in
02:00:01
his head. There's a gun next to him. >> When you looked at that face, what did your gut tell you?
02:00:07
>> My gut told me it's him. >> But that wasn't enough. >> I wanted fingerprints.
02:00:16
>> As band waited, an expert at the scene compared fingerprints from the corpse with Kunanins.
02:00:23
>> He looks up and he says, "It's him. The reign of terror brought upon us by Andrew Kunanan is over.
02:00:32
>> It turned out Kunanan shot himself with the same gun he used to kill Johnny Versace, William Ree, and David Madson.
02:00:41
It was the gun he had taken from his friend and first victim, Jeff Trail. >> There's a sense of relief.
02:00:50
>> But this was not the outcome Michael Williams hoped for. I didn't want him to do anything but go to jail and rot.
02:00:59
>> Andrew Kunanan's suicide left the world with a pile of questions. Was there any
02:01:05
connection between Johnny Versace and Andrew Kunanan? There have always been rumors. There is no hard evidence.
02:01:14
>> Do you think they knew each other? >> I I think there's a strong possibility that they they crossed paths before
02:01:20
>> and that plays into his motive. >> I I think so. I think they knew each other or he wanted to be in his circle
02:01:26
and maybe he was rejected and this this is all speculation. >> There is some sense it's not complete.
02:01:32
Why' he do it? What was the folks in Minnesota? Why Chicago? Why New Jersey? Why Versace? Was there a connection
02:01:41
there? Was this just some sort of serendipitous unfortunate occasion where just two lives intersected at the wrong
02:01:51
time? >> And we'll never know. >> We'll never know. >> 20 years after Versace's death, Tim Gun
02:02:00
says Versace's influence still lives. >> Sexy, alluring, gorgeous red carpet gowns. It's all attributable to Johnny
02:02:09
Versace. Singer Bruno Mars not only wears Versace, he mentions Versace in one of
02:02:18
his songs. [music] >> If guys like Bruno Mars are singing about Johnny Versace 20 years after his
02:02:29
death, what in your mind does that say about Johnny Versace? >> That he's fully embedded in our society
02:02:35
and culture and has a has a profound legacy. I feel his presence uh when I'm designing.
02:02:42
>> Lyanna Aguilar, a Project Runway contestant, was just a teenager when Versace was killed.
02:02:49
>> There are Versace elements in what you're wearing today, right? >> Yes. Tim Gun saw this and he said, "This
02:02:54
looks like Versace." And I was like, "Yes, mission accomplished." [laughter] >> Of course, the memories are infinitely
02:03:01
more personal for Michael Williams who lost his best friend. And two decades later, it still hurts.
02:03:09
>> This hasn't left you. >> I'm better. It's taken me years. You know, if it was just Jeff being
02:03:17
killed would be one thing, but then you got David and Lee Miglin and William Ree
02:03:23
and Johnny Versace, five people that you're now connected to. It is a connection no one would ever
02:03:36
seek. The world [music] lost an icon, but five families lost loved ones. Friends, lost
02:03:46
friends. All for a reason we'll never know, if there ever was one. [music] Heat. Heat.
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