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[Music] [Applause] When you look into someone's eyes, they always say you can see into someone's
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soul. There wasn't a soul there. Bill Bradford was an absolute monster. the most violent predator that you can
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imagine. I'm Pam Bozanic. I'm one of two prosecutors who tried the Bill Bradford
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murder case. >> Bradford during the 70s and 80s would meet women and convince them that he was
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a photographer. And sometimes these women were never seen again. I'm Captain Ray Peavey. I'm
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in charge of the LA County Sheriff's homicide cold case unit. Every time I drive through Culver City
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on the 405 freeway, I think of Tracy and Sherry. Every single time. Sherry met Bill Bradford in a bar and he enticed
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her out to the desert where she was thought she would be modeling clothes. Sherry had been strangled.
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She'd also been mutilated. 6 days later, Tracy Campbell disappears. The desert site was his rape and torture
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and killing field. [Music] He killed two young women in 8 days. These were not the first.
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The police went to Phil Bradford's house and they started going through all his photographs and they took every
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photograph he had. A few months ago, my detectives brought these pictures to me, basically like a
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shoe box full of pictures of women. We want to find out who these women are. Could they have become victims of
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Bradford? >> The detectives put together a poster board of women whose pictures were found
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in Bill Bradford's possession. It's important to find out who he killed. >> 6 weeks ago, I made the phone call to LA
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County Sheriff. Number three in your profile is my sister. My real life sister. I'm Eva Laroo and I play Natalyia Boa
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Vista on CSI Miami. And my sister Na was photographed by Bill Bradford. >> I am sure that Bill Bradford had other
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victims. >> Obviously, he's a serial killer. We know that he's killed at least five people.
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Bill Bradford admitted that he killed many other women. >> Who are these women? >> Exposed
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[Music] [Music] [Music] I talked to him. He's going to take his own. >> Thank you.
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>> So, quiet. >> Lock it up. Let's roll down action. >> Here on the set of the hit CBS show CSI
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Miami, everything may look normal. >> You go run my DNA against these samples, please.
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>> I'm sorry. I do it, please. >> But says star Eva Laroo, it's not. >> Just this one scene just showed to me
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that this is going to be such so much harder an episode than I ever thought. >> That's because this episode is based on
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a true story. I think these pictures were taken by somebody they trusted. >> A story that to Eva is painful and
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personal. >> One of those pictures is of my sister. >> Were you thinking about your sister,
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your real sister, when you were doing this scene? >> No, I couldn't. >> Lock it up.
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>> In this episode, I'm going to have to be open to what I haven't even been open to
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in real life yet. Over 20 years ago, Eva and her sister Na came face to face with a real life
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serial killer. This is something that happened when we were growing up, when we were teenagers.
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>> It was the early8s. [Music] A period that with the benefit of hindsight seems much more innocent than
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today. They used to have in Southern California these amateur photo days is what they called them.
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>> Thousands of girls would show up at these events, all chasing their dreams. >> Every little girl wants to be a star and
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every little girl wants to grow up and be a be a supermodel. >> Any guy could come up and say, "I'm a
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photographer and I'm going to make you a star." And young girls tend to believe that. Like Evil Aru, Alina, Mon'nique,
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and Tina were all regulars at these open model shoots. >> Maybe I could get more exposure. I could
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get discovered. >> You'd go to these events. You had amateur and budding photographers, guys
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that did it as a hobby. >> You're saying that basically any anybody with a camera could show up.
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>> Anyone with a camera and $7 is a photographer. >> And they were most of them pretty nice.
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>> Do you remember Bill Bradford? >> I do. >> What do you remember about him? >> He was not a badl looking man. He was
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very approachable, cleancut, not the persona of what you would expect the bad guy to look like.
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>> Bill Bradford was one of many amateur photographers who showed up at those photo shoots and came away with pictures
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of pretty girls. He was approachable and cleancut and had away with the models. But in truth, Bradford was after
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something more than photos. He was a serial killer and a particularly vicious one. He strangled his victims and took
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body parts as souvenirs. [Music] >> Bill Bradford was a psychopath of the First Order.
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>> Former district attorney Pam Bazanic says Bradford operated in Los Angeles and other parts of the country from 1975
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to 1984. >> It turns out that there are quite a few women in this world who were last seen
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with Bill Bradford. One woman who was lucky enough to get away is Bradford's ex-wife, Cindy Sue Horton, who met him
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when she was only 15 years old. >> He was going to make a model out of me. Uh he told me I was beautiful.
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I never felt beautiful in my life. >> But once she became pregnant, Cindy says everything changed.
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>> He'd kick me down the street. He tried to slam my stomach in the door, beating me up and raping me.
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>> In the 5 years they were together, Cindy says Bradford regularly bragged about
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hurting women. >> He'd come home and tell me that he hurt other people or he made somebody pay
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today. >> He obviously despised women and spent most of his life trying to punish them.
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>> Bzanic was a young district attorney when she first heard the name Bill Bradford.
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This place feels very creepy to me. >> The year was 1984 and cops had just discovered the body of a naked woman who
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had been strangled and dumped in this lot in West LA. >> She was wrapped in some dirty old
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blanket and her body had been mutilated. >> Mutilated in a number of places, including a patch of skin on the woman's
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left ankle. Jigsaw John, who is the famous number one homicide detective, picked up her case.
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>> John St. John, better known as Jigsaw John, has since died. He is an LAPD legend, but initially even he was
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stymied by the case. The woman was classified as Jane Doe number 60. >> Her body's found July 6th. 6 days later,
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Tracy Campbell disappears. The last person she's seen alive with is Bill Bradford.
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>> 15-year-old Tracy Campbell was Bradford's next door neighbor. >> They went to Bill Bradford's house and
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they talked to him and they decided to get a search warrant. >> Police soon discovered hundreds of
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photographs and negatives of young women. and one in particular caught the eye of
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Jigsaw John and his partner John Rockwood. Rockwood zeroed in on a tattoo barely
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visible on the woman's left ankle. [Music] He flashed on the location of the patch
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of skin that had been removed from Jane Doe number 60. It was in the exact same spot.
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>> They went to Bill Bradford. Who is this girl? Her name's Sher Miller. Using fingerprints, detectives quickly
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established that Jane Doe, number 60, was Sher Miller. >> Bill Bradford had been seen with Sher
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Miller on or about the day that she disappeared from the face of the earth. So now they know he's probably a killer.
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>> And Sherry's picture yielded yet another important clue. >> The pictures had very distinctive rock
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formations behind them. Detectives figured if they could find that rock, they might unravel the
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mystery of what happened to Tracy Campbell. A buddy of Bradfords, led cops out to
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Bradford's favorite camping spot in the desert. This is called the Anal Valley. It's real remote out here. Not a lot of
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people. Sergeant Dick Adams, now retired, was one of dozens of police officers who in 1984 traveled to the
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desert north of Los Angeles searching for evidence. We came out here to try and find the
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location of the photographs of Sher Miller. >> The police set up a command post and
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fanned out, some on horseback in search of the unique rock formation. And finally, they find it.
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>> This rock formation up here is where the picture of Sher Miller was taken. And within 100 yards of that rock.
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>> Up here we found the body of Tracy Campbell covered with some rocks and brush.
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15-year-old Tracy Campbell, like Sher Miller, had been strangled to death. >> We believe this is his killing ground.
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>> It was a place where no one could hear the women scream. >> But the killer made a terrible mistake,
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leaving behind an incriminating piece of evidence. When they found Tracy Campbell, she had a blouse wrapped
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around her head that belonged to Sher Miller. >> And that tied the two of them to
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Bradford. >> Yes. He was the killer of those two girls, and nobody else could have done
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it. >> Bosanic was determined to convict Bradford and convinced a judge to tie the murder cases together.
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>> This is why I became a DA is to put people like him away. I mean, it's just so evil what he did.
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>> Bradford was convicted of the murders of Sher Miller and Tracy Campbell. Then at sentencing, Mosanic brought in a
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parade of women who said they'd been raped by Bradford. >> Six rape victims. And he didn't just
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rape them. He tortured them. >> But Bradford wasn't finished with them. He fired his lawyers and questioned the
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women himself, including ex-wife Cindy Horton, who told jurors what it was like to live with
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Bradford. >> He beat me and raped me in front of my sons. And the last thing he told me was that
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he was going to kill me. >> Pam Bazanic argued Bradford should be put to death. And he didn't disagree.
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>> He got up and told the jury he killed other women. >> He shocked everyone in the courtroom by
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telling the jury, "Think of how many you don't even know about." >> When he uttered those words, what what
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went through your mind? I think that like some people want to be the CEO of their company or they want to be the
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executive producer of some TV show, Bill Bradford wanted to be on death row. >> Having found the defendant guilty of the
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crime of murder of the first degree, fix the penalty at death, the jury did send
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Bradford to death row. But the question lingered, how many others did Bill Bradford kill?
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[Music] Once Bill Bradford was sent to San Quentin's death row, the hundreds of photos he took of young
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women seemed to disappear along with him. >> No one could find them for a long time.
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They just got lost in the shuffle. For years, we've been looking for the photos.
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>> Former DA Pam Bzanic, now retired. >> You'd like to think that they were cataloged nicely. I mean, they're housed
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in impossibly small spaces with archaic methods of storage. >> By a lucky accident, the photos were
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found in the summer of 2006 in an unmarked folder in the back of a filing cabinet.
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>> Some of the women were nude. Some were actually involved in sexual activity. Some were in bikinis.
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Some actually looked like professional models that he had photographed. >> Captain Ray Peavey,
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>> what's the goal? Goal is very simple. We want to find out who these women are. We
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want to find out if they're alive. Could they possibly have become victims of of
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Bradford? >> These hundreds of photographs are giving detectives another chance to
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investigate. They've always believed that Bradford began killing in 1975 and didn't stop until he was arrested in
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1984. And remember, he taunted the jurors who convicted him, implying there were many other victims out there. Now,
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investigators are determined to learn how many more. >> Where's a picture of the girl with
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glasses? >> It's in that in that bunch. >> Right here. Right. >> Right there. With a newfound urgency,
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detectives poured through hundreds of Bradford photographs. Forensic artists worked their magic. And in July 2006,
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the LA Sheriff's Department was ready to attack this massive cold case. >> What we have here is a a very large
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group of pictures of women that we do not know for the most part who they are. >> They released a poster featuring 47
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women Bradford had photographed and asked for help in identifying them. It was a cold case, but tonight
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investigators are hot on the trail after almost 30 years. >> The response was immediate.
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>> I didn't know anything about Bradford at all. >> When amateur photographer Larry Gray
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read about the renewed investigation, he went to the website police set up to look at the women in Bradford's photos.
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>> As soon as I brought it up onto the screen, I recognized two girls immediately, and I thought, "Oh my god,
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what's going on here? Back in the early 80s, Gray was a regular at group model shoots that were
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held around Southern California. A model would set up her location and a group of photographers would stand
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around in a semicircle around her. >> Bill Bradford was at some of those same shoots, but Gray has no memory of him.
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>> I wasn't there really to be looking at the photographers anyway. I was mainly
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there to be taking pictures of the the models. But it was a different story as Gray
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studied the photos on the website. >> Tina Tise is number eight >> and compared them with his own photos
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from the shoots. >> I was able to identify number 10, Monnique Gabrielle. >> In the end, he identified six of the
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women on the poster. All of them alive and well. It was something from 20 years ago in my
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life. part of my life that I no longer live. >> Hey Leslie, it's Tina at Grooming Dales.
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How are you? >> Tina Tits was one of those models. >> I was shocked. I thought possibly I was
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uh misided. >> Tina Alina Thompson and Monnique Gabrielle. >> On the positive side, this sounds like a
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great opportunity for for young girls to to make a name for themselves. On the negative side, I mean, quite honestly,
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this sounds like fly paper for perverts. >> It is. It is >> using photography to get young girls is
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as old as photography. >> Bzanic says people simply were not as suspicious then as they are now.
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>> We're talking about the early 80s. We have all been through the last 25 years
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or so where we now know that perverts and weirdos are everywhere. [Music] >> When you saw that picture, what did you
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think? shocked and wishing that my photo wasn't there. Kind of took me a week or so to kind of like
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not be so freaked out about it. >> Mon'nique Gabrielle attracted a lot of men at the photo shoots and Bradford was
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no exception. >> I was posing in one of the cars. He said, "Oh, I want to do a shoot with you
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one day where I can really shoot and there's no other distractions." I end up calling him and talking to him
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on the phone a couple times. Then he said that he was going to shoot for a magazine, a car magazine.
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He said it was going to be out in the desert. >> But when Mon'nique asked Bradford a few
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more questions, her gut told her something was wrong. >> The more I talked to him, he just got a
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little stranger to me. When I questioned him about the hair and makeup, he kept contradicting himself on who was going
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to be there. And then he finally said, "Oh, well, you have to do your own hair and makeup." And I luckily just got like
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a weird feeling about it and didn't think it was it was right. And the reason why I'm just emotional about this
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is because the thought that, you know, I could have gone out in the desert with him.
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And Monnique now knows all too well that Sher Miller and Tracy Campbell went to the desert with Bradford and never
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returned. >> One, two, three, go. Alina Thompson was just 12 when she became a model. Too young, she says, to
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be aware of who might be behind the many cameras pointing at her. >> I didn't even consider what their
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motives were. What I thought about it was, I want to be a model. I want to be glamorous.
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>> For Alina, going to the group model shoots was a family affair. She went with her parents and older sister. It
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>> was good to have my parents there because I didn't know. I was really naive. But on one occasion, one of the men
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behind a camera was Bill Bradford. >> I was taking pictures with a lot of photographers around me and he came up
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to me right in the middle of me shooting and said, "I need you to come over here
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with me and I can shoot you in a better light and I can get better pictures of these guys." So, I took off with him.
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There was some photographers who knew me. They went up to my mother and they told my mother, "Hey, this photographer
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just took off with your little girl." Alina's father, Carl Thompson, went looking for her and found his daughter
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alone with Bradford in an alley. >> And when I was alerted to it, I went over there and I I guess I saved her
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life. >> My dad stood next to him and started taking pictures of me like he was another photographer.
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>> And that irritated him, I guess, because he wanted to air by himself. >> Bill said, "Excuse me, can you get out
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of here?" And my dad would didn't even say anything, just kept taking pictures. And then he got really agitated and he
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was like, "You know what? I'm out of here." He got mad and he left. I think that was a near- miss situation for me
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that, you know, something was about to happen that my father stopped. >> 22 years later, when the sheriff's
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poster came out, Carl was shocked to see photos of both of his daughters. >> And it really tore me up. I thought here
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this predator had pictures of my girls and maybe maybe he was thinking of them as the next
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victim or something. I think about all the young girls that would come to the photo shoots that had
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no one, no parents with them. Just how many did he end up taking out to the desert?
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I look at their faces. I look at the smiling faces and I say, "What was going on in their minds? What was he telling
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them at the time?" And then I look at some of the other pictures where the women actually look terrified. And I
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wondered, what was he doing to them? What was he saying to them to cause them to have this look? And was this the last
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look they ever had? [Music] And now the case is going placesy never even considered. Girl in the toll booth
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car is my sister. [Music] Most girls grow up with this dream of being a model or an actress.
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>> The dream is an old one. >> That's it, baby. Give me six. >> Although it looks a lot different when
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imagined by the creators of CSI Miami. >> Eva Laroo, >> it's clay dust. >> An actress on the show.
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>> Like from a clay tile. >> Mhm. >> Says she and her sister Na had the same dream back in the 80s when they traveled
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to amateur modeling competitions looking for attention. >> It's a big ego stroke to have somebody
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say, "You look like a model. I could really help you to get the photos from these photographers. You would give them
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your home address and your home phone number. >> That's exactly what Bill Bradford was
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hoping for when he met and photographed Eva and her sister Na as teenagers. Years later, it was this photo of Na
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that would eventually wind up on the LA County Sheriff's poster. What what did you think when your
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sister's picture turned up? >> I don't know how to answer that because I don't think that I was thinking. You
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are looking at a picture of your little sister of your baby sister who is found amongst a cache of missing and unknown
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girls that came from a serial murderer. I think my head actually just went completely blank.
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But Eva did manage to call the police to identify her sister and she did tell the story to the
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writers at CSI Miami. >> First team stepping in. >> First team stepping in. >> All right. All around.
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>> All right. >> It was just unbelievable. It It hits pretty close to home. >> John Haynes, a writer for the show, used
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Eva's real life tale as an inspiration for an episode titled Dark Room. So tell me about the story that you
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crafted. >> Our killer on the show is um a amateur photographer tries to take advantage of
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his position in locating naive girls, promising certain things and fulfilling their dreams and then ultimately taking
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advantage of of them. >> What you're describing is exactly how this guy Bradford operated back then.
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>> Yes. >> All right, let's line up a mark for Eva for her pacing. Haynes wrote a big part
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for Eva's character who learns that her sister has been abducted by a rogue photographer.
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>> We're all sounding action. >> What's going on? >> The girl in the toll booth car. It's my
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sister. Oh my god. We've got to find her. >> We will. >> It was stunning for me. I had hit an
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emotional wall in the scene because I couldn't be connected to it as crazy as that might sound because I
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hadn't >> yet connected to it for myself. >> But it's all about controlling your
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panic. So >> you have evil the actor and then you have evil the human being that actually
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lived the story. You could see a little bit of conflict with there because she was telling
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herself, "I have to act, but at the same time, these emotions are coming to the surface."
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Which I thought was amazing. >> But here's a thought. >> Seeing the problems Eva was having, the
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show's star, David Caruso, stepped in to help. >> David was the one who sort of pulled me
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aside and he actually gave me a couple of really great notes. >> Let's roll. Sound.
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>> Whatever Caruso said >> worked. Action. Miss Bista, what's going on? The girl in the toll booth car,
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my sister. We have to find her. We will. Fortunately for Eva, Bradford never got
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any closer to her real life sister Na than through the camera lens. >> I looked like Brook Shield circa pretty
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baby like 5 lbs of makeup on my face. It was about three uh rolls of film that he had taken of me.
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When you found out that your picture was in his group of photos, what did you think? It
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>> it could have been me just as easily as it could have been any of these girls
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because I was there just as they were. I was doing the same thing they were. It's
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like a sniper in a group of people. That person wasn't lucky and that person wasn't lucky.
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is just whoever's unlucky day it was. >> Na has a small role in Monday's episode
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written by Haynes. >> Lieutenant, who are these girls? >> While I'm not at liberty to discuss the
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details of an ongoing investigation here, we're coming up on our question documents room.
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>> Where are we standing now? This looks familiar. We're here on the set of CSI Miami and this is the DNA lab.
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>> Now, you and I have been in a lot of precinct houses over the years. >> That's right.
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>> They don't look like this. >> No, they don't. No, they don't. >> Haynes knows the real deal because for
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years he was a wellrespected detective for the LA County Sheriff's Department. >> There was a lot of turf wars, a lot of
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dope rips that occurred, a lot of murders, and we were out there trying to do something about it. And Bobby and I
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worked together in South Central and Southeast LA as young detectives in gangs and narcotics back in the early
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80s. >> Bobby as in Sergeant Bobby Taylor. >> Number one has not been identified.
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>> Now in charge of finding the women on the poster. >> Number 49 has been identified alive and
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well. Number 31 has not been identified. It's another real life connection between the Brford story and the
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fictionalized world of CSI Miami >> Miami date police. >> When you think about it, do you think
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about the contrast between makeelieve in real life? >> I do. Sometimes when we're gathered in
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the writer room, someone will be, you know, telling a story about something that they saw on the news or whatever.
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It does impact me in a different way. It was hard to change hats from being a cop
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and then being a writer. And I used to tell people that, hey, you know, it's not as whimsical as that. And that there
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really are lives that are truly affected forever. >> None more so than the women who fell
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victim to Bill Bradford. And now, another woman on the poster who was last seen with Bradford has turned
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up dead. Of all the photos on the sheriff's poster, one in particular hits home for Lisa
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Mora and Lorie Du Hamill. >> She did have a beautiful smile. >> A picture of their long lost mother,
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Donnelly, there at number 28. I always remembered, if nothing else, just how soft she was and feeling her next to me.
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>> It's been decades since 31-year-old Donnie Du Hamill vanished, leaving behind two daughters who were 11 and
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nine. >> She dropped us off at my grandma's house and never came back. I definitely cried
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every night. You know, I really missed my mom. She just she never came back. The questions haunting Lisa and Lorie
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about their mother's disappearance resurfaced in the summer of 2006 when police went public with the Bradford
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photos. >> We want to know who killed our mother. Um, that's the bottom line. >> The story of Doo Hamill's disappearance
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dates back to 1978 on a night when she was out with boyfriend Jake Carter at a local bar in
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Culver City. I was in a place called the Frigot. I was playing pool and she was sitting having a couple of margaritas.
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She seemed in good spirits. She seemed uh she was talking to people. Once again, it seems being photographed
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was the killer's lure. Donnie D Hamill met a man in that bar who told her she could be a model. She left her purse,
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her keys, and her car and told her boyfriend she'd be back soon. I was hoping it was was legitimate. You know,
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I was I didn't want to have her not have an opportunity to do something with her
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with her with herself. >> Jake now believes that photographer was Bill Bradford.
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>> I described him as looking kind of like Omar Sheree uh when he was first starting out.
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>> Jake waited all night in the bar for Donnelly, but she never returned. I wish
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I wouldn't have let her go with this guy or or at least go out there either go with him or or make have her make an
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appointment. >> After several days, Donnie's mother went to the police. >> Didn't seem like anything was getting
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done about it. I mean, they posted up a few flyers around Culver City, um around where the bar was and that's
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all I knew about. And my mom was gone. Somebody took her from me and I didn't understand. Years passed and then in
00:32:43
1985, police contacted Lisa and Lori. >> Do you remember when you actually first
00:32:48
heard about Bill Brford? What did you hear? >> My grandmother and I went down to the
00:32:53
police station together. This is when right when they found the picture, all the pictures that they're just showing
00:32:58
now. We went down there just to identify that two of the pictures were of my mother.
00:33:03
The police had found the photographs of Donnelly in Bill Bradford's apartment, and Bradford admitted taking them the
00:33:10
night he met Donnie in the bar. According to Sergeant Bobby Taylor, >> he indicated to the investigators during
00:33:16
during that time that he in fact was present at the Frigot Bar on the date and time that she disappeared.
00:33:24
>> The police checked their records and discovered the body of an unidentified woman found in Topanga Canyon about the
00:33:30
same time Donnelly went missing. Using dental records and fingerprints, detectives established conclusively that
00:33:37
the woman was in fact Donnie Du Hamill. >> I was horrified. My thoughts turned to
00:33:45
what happened to her and what he actually, you know, what possibly he did to her.
00:33:50
>> Police still lacked enough evidence to charge Bradford, but he was sent to death row for the murders of Sher Miller
00:33:56
and Tracy Campbell. And the file on Donnelly remained open. just kind of fell by the wayside, it seems,
00:34:03
>> until the summer of 2006 when Captain Ray Peavey of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, hoping for more
00:34:10
information, included Donny's photo on the poster. >> When you see your mother's picture on
00:34:15
that poster, what do you think when you look at that photo? It's awkward to be happy to see her,
00:34:22
to see her mom no matter what, just to have her name come up again and to have somebody looking into what
00:34:31
happened to her. >> Attorney Gloria Allred is assisting Lisa and Lorie. The fact that he is sitting
00:34:37
on death row convicted of the murders of two other young women should not stop them from trying to get
00:34:48
answers and accountability. >> After all these years and false starts, the Donnie de Hamill case is now at the
00:34:55
forefront of the sheriff's investigation. >> We're absolutely convinced that he murdered her. That's a case that uh will
00:35:02
eventually be presented to the district attorney. Look at your mommy. >> Lisa and Lorie, who now have daughters
00:35:08
of their own. >> That's me and my mom, >> are hoping to finally see their mother's
00:35:13
killer held accountable. >> She deserves to be at peace and, you know, somebody to be convicted for her
00:35:20
murder. >> There are so many others who want Bradford to pay for all he's done. >> It's time. Goodbye.
00:35:29
>> Including this woman who is speaking out for the first time. My closure was for
00:35:35
him to be executed. >> I'm Jodine Larson and Bill Bradford is my father. >> That's right. His daughter wants him
00:35:42
dead. But this woman, she wants to set him free. [Music] I've known Bill Bradford for 7 and 1/2
00:36:01
years. I've been his federal lawyer on his federal death penalty appeal, so I know
00:36:07
him quite well. >> Today, Darlene Ricker is going where few have gone behind the walls of San Quentin prison
00:36:20
to visit death row inmate Bill Bradford. And she's determined to help him win back his freedom.
00:36:28
>> What is Bill Bradford like in your opinion? Bill Bradford is a real interesting guy. Real interesting guy.
00:36:37
He's amusing. He's funny. He's witty. >> How do you explain the fact that he looked at those jurors and said, "You
00:36:46
have no idea how many others are out there." >> I wasn't there at the time and I
00:36:51
summized that Mr. Bradford was angry at the jury at that point and just kind of tossed up his hands and said, "You know
00:36:56
what? You guys, you didn't believe me. Do what you want with me now." When you hear him described as worse than the
00:37:02
devil, pure evil, what do you what do you say? >> I say he's being described by people who
00:37:07
haven't met him, who don't know him. But ex-wife Cindy Horton lived with Bradford
00:37:12
for 5 years, and she knows him all too well. If you gave me a choice to be in a room with Charles Manson,
00:37:30
Lucifer himself, or Bill Bradford, I would rather be in a room with Lucifer and Charles Manson than Bill Bradford.
00:37:38
>> Cindy is one of four women who married Bradford. Each of his wives wound up on the
00:37:44
sheriff's poster. All are alive. Bradford also has five children. One of his daughters talked to 48 hours.
00:37:55
>> As a child, I remember him being very doting um daddy's little girl. >> 32-year-old Jodine Larson says Bradford
00:38:04
was a good father up to a point. >> He loved to take photographs and we did that often. He was just a good dad.
00:38:14
But Jodine says everything changed after Bradford was sent to prison where she visited him as a teenager.
00:38:21
>> All of a sudden, I had what those women had. He was so fixated on talking about
00:38:26
it. Show a little of this. Show a little of that. You're Foxy or Foxy girl. You know, you
00:38:33
don't you don't say that to your kid. >> Bradford's reaction convinced Jodine there is a killer living inside her
00:38:40
father and she cut him out of her life. It just angers me that somebody can do what they do and have no remorse or no
00:38:52
regret and damage families the way he did. He didn't just damage them, he damaged us.
00:39:02
>> Former DA Pam Bozanic knows the toll Bradford's actions have taken. The whole thing is so awful and so
00:39:12
haunting and so disgusting. But for the sake of all the families and for the sake of those lost souls, somebody has
00:39:19
to keep this thing alive. >> Number 12, 13, and 14, these three women are unidentified at this point in time.
00:39:27
>> Sergeant Bobby Taylor is making progress. >> Number 22, she's been identified. She's
00:39:33
alive and well. She's an Orange County woman. Now, Taylor and his partner, Sergeant Fred Castro, have even more
00:39:40
work to do. Scores of additional Bradford photos have only just been rediscovered.
00:39:46
>> So, 23 additional women are going to be added. >> With the new photographs, a new poster
00:39:51
is created. And this poster features this belt buckle left beside an unidentified woman's body found in the
00:39:58
desert in June 1984, not far from Bradford's killing field. Then one of Bradford's ex-wives
00:40:06
recognized that belt buckle as Bradford's. It's a tantalizing lead, but his lawyer says nothing will come of it.
00:40:14
>> I have lived with this case for seven and a half years. I have talked to Bill
00:40:18
Bradford on just about a weekly basis, exchanged letters, met with him, spent hours with him, and I know I know that
00:40:26
he's innocent. >> Isn't it possible that he's charmed you like the police say he charmed all of
00:40:32
his victims? I doubt it cuz I just am not that naive. I got to tell you, I'm pretty good at judging who's conning me
00:40:39
and who isn't. And he isn't. Bradford's own daughter begs to disagree. I feel sorry for the people who have
00:40:51
suffered. I'm sorry for your pain and your loss. I'm sorry for your suffering. After the second poster was released to
00:41:02
the public, 39 women have been identified. Dozens of others have not been heard from.
00:41:10
>> This is the quintessential cold case, isn't it? >> Yes, it is. >> Even if they only find two or three more
00:41:17
women, that's two or three more families who can know what happened to their loved ones. And that's what the police
00:41:22
are here to do. They're here to solve crime. And the police vow to keep searching until they know who's alive
00:41:30
and who's dead. [Music]