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[Music] I was out doing my patrols we just started our shift that day and I was driving down Sunset Boulevard
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and I received a call A beige color car with no license plates following this uh
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little girl in Los Angeles in 1968 8-year-old tally Shapiro was walking to school when a car pulled up alongside
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her a Good Samaritan a witness sees a little girl the little 8-year-old tally get in the car thinks it's suspicious
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follows him and puts a call into LAPD a pair Los Angeles police officer Chris kamacho reached the location and
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knocked on the door and I said police officer open the door I need to talk to you this male appeared at the door I
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will always remember that face at that door very evil face and he says I'm in the shower I I
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got to get dressed and I told him okay you got 10 seconds finally I kicked the door
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[Music] in the image will be with me forever we could see in the kitchen that there was a body on the floor a lot of
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blood they say A picture says a thousand words in that image of those little white Mary Janes on that floor with that
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metal bar that he used to strangle her with and that puddle of blood it just looks like too much blood to come out of
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a tiny little 8-year-old like that there was no breathing we all thought she was dead
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kamacho began frantically searching the house for her attacker moments later he walked back
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into the kitchen and witnessed a miracle she was gagging and trying to breathe and I thought one for the good
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guys she's going to make it clinging to life tally was rushed to the hospital it
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had it not been for that police officer T Shapiro would have died on rot alcohol's kitchen floor
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we started searching the residence there was a lot of photograph equipment and all of us were amazed at the amount of
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photographs that he had there of young girls very young girls we found lot of ID picture ID of a
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Rodney aala he was a student at UCLA the suspect 25-year-old Rodney aala had slipped through the officer's fingers
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when I kicked in the front door the suspect went out the back back door with alala in the wind former detective Steve
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hodell was grasping at thin air but we kept coming up empty back then you know we didn't have a lot of the forensics
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you have today he was a snake charmer I went and talked to his professor at uccla he says Rod Alcala wouldn't hurt
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anybody he's a great guy he truly believed that you know and and a lot of people did