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[Music] when you think of the Phoenix Desert you definitely aren't thinking of a
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waterfront the canal system goes right through the center of Phoenix the more people that were moving
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to the area the more that the trail along there were being used for walking running
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[Music] biking there are not many crimes that are like this one you had women riding bicycles along
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the canal on a typical Phoenix evening ambushed stabbed multiple times police are looking for whoever killed
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22-year-old Angela braso Angela braso dismembered decapitated police are looking at this
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scene and thinking what on Earth happened and who did this 10 months later uh 17-year-old
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Junior at Arcadia High School Melanie bernes this is the high school that Steven steelberg
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attended Melanie Bern's mother goes out to dinner and Melanie decides to go on a
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bike ride and the following morning a woman is riding her bike right here there was
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just a big puddle it looked different as I rode through it and all of a sudden I'm like that is
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blood so she called the police the police saw a blood trail and they see Melanie bernus body at the bottom of the
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canal my time in my life froze at that very moment the day we found out I made a promise to
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myself I just never stopped talking about her these murders became widely known as
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the Phoenix Canal murders my name is Clark schwarzkoff and I was with assigned to the C case unit
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investigating the canal murders I think there was over 600 Persons of Interest I said okay give me the
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list in this mound of information of all these people and all these possible suspects I believed our killer was
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listed eventually detective schwarzkoff found his prime suspect on that list and
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discovered that the alleged Canal killer had a second identity a man who dressed
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up like a comic book superhero and cruised The Valley in a decorated car dripping with fake blood the public knew
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this man as the zombie hunter what was his life as the zombie hunter like what did he do he would go
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to like parades and festivals and and show off this car and kind of be a part of the excitement if you
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will your assignment was to find this guy and you have found him yeah he is accused of
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being a killer but here he is posing with police officers before they discovered what he'd
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[Music] done it was almost like a slap in the face like I'm here but you don't know it
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it was like he was hiding in playing sight