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[Music] website it was cold and dreary as Josephina Rivera made her way down 6th
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Street in North Philadelphia on the night of Wednesday November 26th 1986 it had been a difficult year for
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the 25-year-old who had lost the custody of her three young children due to her ongoing struggles with the drug
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addiction with the new year just around the corner Josephina was determined to make some
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positive changes her social worker had promised that if she could find a job and a
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stable home she'd have a chance at getting her kids back needing money to secure an
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apartment Josephina had turned to sex work she was in the process of getting off drugs and making her new home just
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right so her social worker could see just how serious she was about regaining custody of her
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children the following day was Thanksgiving Josephina intended to make a nice dinner so she headed out with the
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hopes of doing a quick job or two so that she'd have some extra cash she typically found it easy to find willing
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customers but being a holiday the streets were quiet Josephina couldn't help but notice
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that one particular vehicle had driven by her a couple of times it was a brand new Cadillac Coupe devill
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the expensive car standing out in the rough and underresourced neighborhood eventually the Cadillac
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pulled over the driver a white middle-aged male rolled down his window and asked Josephina if she was
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working she responded that she was the two negotiated a price and Josephina got into the passenger
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seat the man introduced himself as Gary and said he just had to make a quick stop first
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the two drove along the quiet street giving Josephina the chance to clock a proper look at
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Gary there was nothing particularly remarkable about him he was of slim build about 6t tall relatively clean cut
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but with scruffy dark hair and a full beard he wore jeans and a Shabby CDE jacket with fringing down the arms both
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of which had visible stains on them in in direct contrast to his somewhat unkempt appearance Josephina
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noticed a genuine gold chain around his neck and an expensive Rolex watch on his
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wrist Gary stopped in at a McDonald's restaurant and grabbed a cup of coffee back in the car he told Josephina
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he wanted them to go to his house this was something Josephina didn't typically do she serviced most of
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her clients in their own cars or the nearby Mot Hills getting in and out as quickly as she could but it was a slow
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night and Gary had offered a decent price there was also nothing about him that raised any red
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flags just this once Josephina decided to make an exception [Music] [Music] Gary drove a few blocks further north
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into the 25th district a predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhood notorious for drug rated gang
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violence he eventually turned down North Marshall Street a residential block characterized by deterior ating roow
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houses most of them two or three stories high and sharing at least one wall with
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its neighboring building Gary pulled up at 3520 North Marshall Street it was just like all the
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others save for a couple of distinct differences only one side of Gary's house shared a war with his neighbor on
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the other side was an empty block lded with rubbish unlike the surrounding homes
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whose front door opened directly onto the cracked sidewalks Gary's house was set several feet back separated from the
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street by a short chain link fence Gary and Josephina got out of the Cadillac and made their way inside as
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Gary unlocked the door Josephina noticed that the key he used was unlike any she'd everever seen
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before she asked about it and Gary explained that he'd made it himself by Soaring the regular key in half so the
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front part stayed permanently inside the lock this way no other key would work except
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his although Josephina thought this was odd she didn't give it much more thought the inside of Gary's house was
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otherwise ordinary albeit sparsely furnished and relatively untidy the only unusual detail was that
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Gary had meticulously glued coins into the walls of his kitchen in the living room the window was
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protected by metal bars which was typical of the area the room housed a grubby orange
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couch a couple of arcade games a television with a video cassette recorder and a large stack of video
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cassette tapes Josephina caught a quicker glance of the handwritten titles and could see
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that many of them were pornographic films she followed Gary upstairs noticing that the walls in the hallway
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were plastered with $1 bills every now and then there was a $20 bill among them they went into the bedroom and had
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consensual sex as agreed afterwards as Josephina got up to get dressed Gary made some strange small
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talk on the drive over Josephina had told Gary that she had three children who were home with a babysitter and she
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couldn't be out long she'd made up the lie about the babysitter so that Gary wouldn't try to
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make her stay but instead it seemed to have sparked his interest Gary seemed particularly
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curious about josephina's fertility asking if she was still able to have children and probing about whether or
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not she'd had a hysterctomy then out of nowhere Gary came up behind Josephina and secured his
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hands firmly around her neck having been lucky enough not to have experienced experienced violence on
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the job before Josephina was completely caught off guard it took her a moment to realize
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what was happening images of her life flashed before her in a way that she described
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as being like a broken film projector before the reality dawned on her that she was being
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choked Gary loosened his grip just as Josephina began to fade into unconsciousness coming too she started
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struggling against him only realized that he'd managed to slip a handcuff over her right
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wrist Josephina begged Gary not to hurt her promising to comply with whatever he
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wanted Gary remained completely calm and collected he said he wouldn't hurt her as long as she stood
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still he then proceeded to cff josephina's hands behind her back and to led her back down the stairs
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once they got to the kitchen Gary opened another door he led Josephina down a narrow set
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of steps into a dank damp basement it was cold and the smell of mold filled the air there was only one small window more
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like an air vent which was covered by a metal flap that blocked any view of the outside
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world a single overhead light bulb illuminated The Bleak surroundings which included a white freezer chest a washing
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machine and a bucket various bits of debris lited the concrete floor while sandbags and
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insulation had been stacked against the walls as sound proofing scanning the room Josephina
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noticed something in the middle of the floor a section of concrete had been demolished and a hole roughly the size
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of a small bathtub had been dug out underneath wondering what purpose this whole could possibly serve Josephina was
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struck with the terrifying thought was she looking at her own grave as Josephina stood there naked
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Gary proceeded to secure a metal chain around her ankle using a homemade shule device he'd fashioned from a muffler
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clamp a small metal bar and a super glue methodically he used a hair dryer to dry the glue before attaching the
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other end of the chain to a sewer pipe that ran along the ceiling affixing it with a
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padlock this enabled Josephina to move around but only by shuffling her feet and as far as the 12T long chain would
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allow Gary then shoved Josephina into the hole in the basement floor and covered it up with a piece of
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plywood it wasn't until she was in there that she realized just how restrictive it
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was Josephina was only 5'6 with the petite frame but she had to fold her legs against her chest just to fit her
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whole body inside and even then she stuck out to much for the plywood to sit completely
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flat to hold it down Gary secured it by placing a couple of bags of dirt on top Josephina could barely breathe Panic
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gripped her body as she tried to comprehend what was happening how long did Gary intend to
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keep her in the hole would he even let her out at all certain she'd run out of air
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Josephina sobbed and begged for mercy as her arms started going numb she screamed for what felt like
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hours even though she knew there was no point Gary had set his radio to a local rock station and was blasting it as loud
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as it would go Josephina knew right away this wasn't to keep her entertained it was to drown out the
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sound of her screams hour after hour ticked by as Josephina endured the extreme pain and
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the discomfort of being stuck in the hole while also battling hunger exhaustion and emotional
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distress her voice cracked and achd from her constant screaming it was pitch black but she was
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able to keep track of time thanks to the radio announcements 20 hours passed by before Josephina
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heard footsteps suddenly her vision was flooded with light as the plywood lid was ripped off the
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hole Gary was back in the basement in his hand was a large stick he lent into the hole and began
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beating Josephina with it grabbing her by the hair and administering blow after painful blow while repeatedly telling
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her to shut up Josephina did as she was told shocked by the brutality of Gary's actions Gary then shoved her back into
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the hole and replaced the plywood lid before disappearing back upstairs he returned about 30 minutes
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later with a glass of water ordering Josephina to get out of the hole and onto an air mattress which had been
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pushed into the corner of the room he removed her handcuffs and gave her the water which she drank thirstily
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before Gary proceeded to rape her Josephina was too exhausted and terrified to fight
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back then to her dismay Gary laid down beside her and fell asleep while he slept she looked around
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for possible ways to escape but she knew it was no use Gary hadn't brought the keys to the
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padlock with him so there was no way she was getting out of her chains then Gary woke up with a
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start he immediately hopped up grabbed a shovel and got to work widening the hole
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on the basement floor as he worked he chattered candidly to Josephina telling her that his one
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dream in life was to raise a big family he explained that he'd fathered four different children to four
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different women but each time the authorities had taken the children away and he never got to see them
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again he spoke with the disdain about protective services and the government in general explaining that he used to
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work as a medic for the Army until they began dosing him with hallucinogenic drugs without his
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concern Gary told Josephina quote I went to the doctors with a medical complaint
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and by the time they finished treating me I was out of my [ __ ] mind he said he was discharged from the
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military and had been in and out of mental health facilities ever since most recently Gary had signed up
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for a matchmaking service which paired American men with women from the Philippines he hadd been matched with a
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woman named Betty who flew over to the United States to marry him but Betty wasn't the subservient wife that Gary
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had dreamed of she got pregnant and ran out on Gary before their baby was born she now refused to let Gary see his son
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while suing him for child support this time Gary had a plan to make sure that didn't happen
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again he told Josephina he intended to hold up to 10 women in his basement and impregnate each
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one he said he preferred black women and ideally ones he didn't consider smart once the babies were born Gary
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said that they would all raise them together under the one roof where no one could interfere like one big happy
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family Josephina listened intently it occurred to her that Not only was Gary deeply unwell he was also
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incredibly lonely she figured her best chance of survival was to play along by lending a
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sympathetic ear and agreeing with what Gary had to say after he was done digging he left
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Josephina alone in the basement chained up but free of the handcuffs she fell to her knees as the
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gravity of what he told her sank in Josephina who was half Puerto Rican and half Mexican had grown up in a
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loving foster home after she and her siblings were abandoned by their parents she adored her foster mother and
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had enjoyed a comfortable upbringing going to a good school and on to college it was only when she discovered
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drugs that things in her life spiraled out of control before her chance encounter with
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Gary she'd been determined to start the upcoming year with a clean slate now realizing that Gary had no
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intention of releasing her anytime soon Josephina began to panic thinking of her
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foster mother and children she prayed to God that she'd find the strength to get
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herself out of this situation Josephina knew that no one would realize she was missing or be out
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looking for her at that moment she made up her mind that she wasn't done living and she was
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going to get out of that basement no matter what when Josephina awoke the next day
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she was alone in the basement freezing and with no concept of time she hadn't eaten in 2 days face and her body and
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mind were weakening then she felt vibrations overhead as the engine of Gary's car
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began revving in the garage and drove away realizing this meant she was alone in the house Josephina wasted no
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time frantically using all of her remaining strength she began picking at the superglue on the screw of the right
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Muffler clamp after about 30 minutes the screw came loose Josephina freed her right ankle
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from the shackles and ran as far as the chain would allow it was just long enough for her to
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reach the one small window in the basement it was only about 1 and 1/2 ft wide but Josephina was sure she'd be
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able to crawl through she pushed the metal flap on the window and was relieved to feel it open
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easily revealing the trash covered backyard the welcome sight of daylight flooded
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into the basement as Josephina tried to hoist herself up but try as she might she couldn't fit her body more than a
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few inches into the window still chained to the pipe by one ankle this left her with a very little
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wiggle room Josephina could hear voices nearby and started screaming for help at the
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top of her lungs the neighborhood had a large his spanic population so she screamed in a
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blend of English and Spanish explaining that a man had her chained up and was raping
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her she begged someone to call the police saying this man was going to kill her Josephina could hear every word of
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what the people nearby were saying so she couldn't understand why they weren't responding to her desperate pleas for
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help she managed to grab hold of a stick and started whacking the neighbor ing fence she did this for almost 20 minutes
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until finally somebody heard her but it wasn't the Savior she was hoping for it was
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Gary Gary was back inside the basement he grabbed the chain dragging Josephina away from the window in a way
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that made her feel like a fish on a line she used all her strength to maintain her position way out of the
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window still screaming at the top of her lungs she managed to jam her free foot against the window frame which
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effectively secured her in place Gary let go of the chain and a minute later he appeared in the
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backyard he stood over Josephina and tried to push her back into the basement from the
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outside she continued fighting against him all the while yelling at him to get off and begging for some one to call the
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police after a few minutes Gary gave up and went back into the basement this time he yanked on
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josephina's chain so violently that she was sure her leg would break the pain was so intense that she
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relented letting her body flop as Gary pulled her all the way back inside seemingly exhilarated by this
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Victory he said he'd have to do a better job of sec securing her shackles this time as he got to work regling the
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clamps he assured a Josephina that nobody was going to come to her Aid the neighborhood was filled with the
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drug dealers whom he paid to leave him alone for her attempt to escape Gary beat Josephina and handcuffed her arms
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behind her back leaving her on the hard cold basement floor he then bolted the metal flap on
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the window to the wall and packed the outside with sandbags sealing off her last possible connection with the
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outside world the next day Gary returned to the basement to give Josephina some bread
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and water and continue digging out the hole in the ground he raped her again before
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ordering her back inside the hole this time it was big enough to fit the air ress inside and Josephina was
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able to sit up relatively comfortably compared to the squashed fetal position she'd been in
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previously she heard Gary leave the house but instead of being relieved that he was gone she was filled with
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fear Gary was the only one who knew she was down there it occurred to her that if anything happened to him while he was
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out she'd be left there to rot a a few hours later Gary returned but this time he wasn't
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alone Josephina could hear two sets of footsteps along with a woman crying Gary was trying to comfort the
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woman saying come on Sandy you know I'm not going to hurt you right why are you crying you know me stop
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crying suddenly light flooded into the hole as Gary removed the plywood board and yanked Josephina up by the
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arm a young black woman who looked to be about the same age as herself stood there naked with her hands cuffed behind
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her back and in an obvious state of distress Gary introduced the two women as though there was nothing unusual
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about the circumstances in which they were meeting he then got to work supergluing
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another Muffler clamp shackle to the ankles of his new victim before p locking her chains to the seore
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pipe once he was finished he ordered both women into the hall and sealed them inside alone with Gary's new captive
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Josephina did her best to calm the woman down she explained that her name was Sandra Lindsay and she was 25 years
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old she had known Gary whose last name was hyneck for about 4 years the the two had met through the
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elwin Institute a facility in West Philadelphia that provides support and services to individuals with a range of
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intellectual and physical disabilities Sandra was intellectually disabled herself and although she lived
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relatively independently her mental capabilities were more aligned with a 15-year-old Gary hynick was a qualified
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nurse who had previously worked at The elwin Institute and the two became friends
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Sandra explained to Josephina that Gary had always been good to her sometimes taking her out to amusement parks fast
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food restaurants or to his place he was also the self-ordained minister of his own church which catered specifically to
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people with intellectual and physical disabilities known as the United Church of the Ministers of God Gary H weekly
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sermons at his home on Marshall Street where he taught hymns and read Bible passages to the small
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congregation Sandra was one of the 10 or so followers who attended often one of the things she liked most
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about it was that Gary never asked his congregants for money earlier that day of Saturday
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November 29 Sandra had been experiencing menstrual cramps and had gone out to buy
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some painkillers when Gary drove by and offered her a lift they they went out to eat like
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usual and then back to Gary's house to have sex afterwards he started strangling her
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and dragged her downstairs I don't understand it Sandra cried Gary's my friend why is he doing
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this it was clear to Josephina that Sandra didn't fully grasp what was going on she asked Sandra if she'd ever had
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sex with Gary before Sandra responded that she'd had sex with both Gary and a friend of his named Tony Brown she'd
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once gotten pregnant by Gary and had an abortion which made Gary angry Sandra explained now he says I'm going to have
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his baby whether I want to or [Music] not a few hours later Gary returned to the basement he laid Josephina and
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Sandra side by side and raped them both it struck Josephina that he didn't seem to get any particular pleasure from
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this act his moves seemed mechanical reinforcing to her that he was serious about his Twisted reproductive
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Mission afterwards he gave the women a shirt each to wear and a portable toilet to use in place of the bucket they'd
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been using so far Gary then got back to work work digging the hole deeper and wider when they were left alone
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Josephina and Sandra speculated between themselves about what his intentions could
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be was he making space for more captives or did he intend on burying their bodies
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in there Josephina focused on trying to figure out who exactly Gary hyck was and
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what made him tick through Sandra she learned that for the most part Gary was a kind man but he
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didn't like to be told no he was highly intelligent with a Nursing degree yet received a full
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Disability Pension from the government he'd taught himself how to work the stock market turning $1,500
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into a portfolio of over 500,000 within a decade he also had schizophrenia and had
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tried to take his own life on more than one occasion he was supposed to take a daily dose of
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a medication called a Thorazine but he didn't always do so and instead sometimes hoarded it up for an
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overdose the thought of this terrified Josephina already feeling like they were living in a permanent grave she was just
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as scared of something happening to Gary as she was of something happening to herself a few days after sand Ra's
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Abduction the women heard someone knocking at the front door it was Sandra's sister wanting to
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know if Sandra was there shortly after Gary came downstairs wearing a pair of rubber gloves and
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holding a pen and paper he handed these to Sandra and ordered that she write the following
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message dear Mom do not worry we'll call love Sandy in her childlike handwriting Sandra did
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as she was told she then wrote her mother's address on an envelope and sealed the letter
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inside after this Gary locked Sandra and Josephina in the hall and left the house
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saying he was going to New York to send the letter so that Sandra's family wouldn't come looking for her at his
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place again as each hour ticked by Josephina was gripped by Panic at the thought that
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Gary wasn't coming back over 24 hours passed before Josephina felt the vibrations of Gary's
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car pulling into the garage she was relieved by the sound and told him as much little did she know this was a huge
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mistake Gary froze how did you hear my car he asked only then did it occur to Josephina that the blaring radio had
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been to prevent her and Sandra from hearing his movements as much as it had been to prevent Outsiders from hearing
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their screams silently Gary went back upstairs he returns to the basement shortly after with a
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screwdriver he pushed Sandra and then Josephina onto the ground don't scream he warned as he
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inserted the screwdriver into their is I know how far I can go without making you
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deaf with this a routine was established every morning Gary came down with some bread and water he' then rape
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Josephina and Sandra before continuing work on the hall if either woman ever put up a fight or screamed Gary beat
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them often with the handle of his shovel so they quickly learned to comply Josephina decided that her best
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chance of survival was to keep quiet and submit to Gary's demands no matter what whenever Gary left the house he
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sealed Josephina and asandra into the hole he soon brought down a batterypowered television which he let
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the women take into the hole with them the pair discovered that leaving the TV on too long deprived them of
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precious oxygen so they had to ration their viewing time to no more than 2 hours per
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day all the while the radio blared in the background for hours on end playing a rotation of the same 10 or so songs
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which drove the women mad boredom and hunger became a constant over time Gary started bringing
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down tea bags and sugar along with an old coffee pot that women could use to boil water
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they tried to ration the tea bags but loaded each drink with as much sugar as they could handle desperate for the
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calories Gary gave the women Sanitary products but at no point were they allowed to
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bathe their only method of cleaning themselves was the occasional baby wipe Gary gave
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them by Monday December 22 1986 almost the month had passed since Josephina Rivera and Sandra Lindsay had been held
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captive at Gary heck's home on North Marshall Street that night the two women were
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lying on the air mattress when the basement door opened suddenly in came Gary with a young black
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woman naked in handcuffs he introduced the woman as Lisa chatting jovially as Lisa sobbed he
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got to work fitting her with his trademark Muffler clamp shackles and chain like with the others Gary was
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meticulous about the way he fitted Elisa's restraints he counted the number of chain links between her ankles to ensure
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he could still rape her with these he also made a Shore to chain each woman several feet apart so there was enough
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space for him to rape them one at a time with Lisa secured to the chain he then forced her into the hole SE in her
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inside before going back upstairs Josephina and Sandra immediately raced over and started
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talking into the Hall reassuring Lisa that everything would be okay they told her to do as Gary said
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and there wouldn't be any problems he came back down shortly after bringing bread and water for the women
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with him he let Lisa out of the hole until they all ate their meals before G laid
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them down and raped them individually he then handed Elisa a shirt before disappearing back
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upstairs Josephina and Sandra learned that Gary's latest victim was 19-year-old Lisa Thomas a single mother
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who lived with her own mother and young son approximately 2 miles away Lisa had been walking to retrieve a
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pair of gloves she'd left at a friend's place when Gary pulled over over in His Cadillac mistaking her for a sex
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worker although Lisa was insulted by this she couldn't help but be impressed by his expensive
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car Gary apologized for the misunderstanding and offered Lisa a ride to make up for it Lisa thought that Gary
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seemed nice and she was allured by the prospect of showing up at her friend's house in a flashy car so she
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accepted after colle ing the gloves from her friend Lisa accepted Gary's offer to
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join him for dinner the pair went to a casual dining restaurant for cheeseburgers and
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fries as they ate Gary invited Lisa to accompany him on a trip to Atlantic City the following
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day she found herself somewhat intrigued by him on the outside he appeared somewhat scruffy and uncamp but his
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expensive car and the way he splashed money around led her to wonder if he was secretly
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wealthy Lisa told Gary she had nothing to wear but that wasn't a problem for Gary he offered to take her to a nearby
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department store after dinner where she could have $50 to spend on whatever she wanted pleased with how the evening was
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panning out Lisa agreed to join Gary at his home on Marshall Street to show off her new outfits and watch a
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movie She didn't really want to but felt she owed it to him after how generous he'd
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been it was only when Lisa saw his dirty home in the downtrodden neighborhood that she realized she'd been wrong about
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his millionaire status keeping her disappointment to herself they sat down to watch a movie
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together Lisa started drinking a wine coer but she'd also taken an allergy pill over dinner and the combination of
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the two made her increasingly drowsy before she knew it she had KN it off completely when she woke up the
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realization dawned on her she was in Gary's bed completely naked Lisa consented to having sex with
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Gary and when she asked for a ride home afterwards he launched an [Music] attack Lisa Thomas's story was becoming
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all too familiar to Josephina Rivera Gary had established a Clearo and he showed no signs of stopping anytime
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soon but with three women now in the basement there wasn't enough room for all of them in the
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hall Josephina used this to her Advantage she'd been carefully observing Gary's behavior for weeks and had
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learned that Above All Else what he wanted was praise and adoration he wanted to feel like the
00:37:28
women wanted to be there with him not that they had to with this in mind Josephina worked on
00:37:36
strengthening her relationship with Gary by assuring him that she wasn't going anywhere this tactic worked and Gary
00:37:45
started leaving Josephina in the basement while Sandra and Lisa were still confined to the
00:37:52
hall eventually he started bringing the women upstairs one by one so they could would bathe though their chains were
00:37:59
always kept on during these few minutes alone Josephine are engaged to Gary in conversation to learn as much about him
00:38:08
as she could he repeated his plan about bringing several more women to the basement so he could impregnate each one
00:38:16
and raise a large group of babies Gary's parents had divorced when he was 3 years old after which his
00:38:25
mother went on to remarry several more times both her second and third husbands were black and she began telling Gary
00:38:33
that he was of mixed race having had multiple Affairs while married to his father Gary said he wanted to create the
00:38:42
perfect race with no influence from the outside world his dream for the future was that
00:38:48
white and black people would procreate for hundreds of years until there was only one race only then did he believe
00:38:56
the world would be at peace while Josephina could sense that Gary was softening towards her this did
00:39:05
a little to change the reality of the situation in their darkest moments the three captives discussed the possibility
00:39:13
of launching an attack against Gary but without the keys to their padlocks they knew it was no
00:39:20
use if they managed to kill him or knock him unconscious they'd still be chained
00:39:25
to the pipes and left there to starve Christmas day was a particularly Bleak time for all three
00:39:35
women as the radio announcers wished everyone a happy holiday it was a quiet day for Josephina Sandra and Lisa as
00:39:43
they thought about their loved ones celebrating without them Sandra's letter had seemingly
00:39:49
thrown her family off Gary scent and while Lisa was sure her mother would be looking for her they had no way of
00:39:57
knowing for sure besides they knew how prevalent crime was in the area with over 300 homicides a year the
00:40:07
police already had their work cut out for them Gary tried to lighten the mood with
00:40:14
an unexpected surprise he came into the basement with a menu for a Chinese restaurant telling
00:40:20
the women they could order one dish each when their meals came they saved every me MW watering bite relishing the
00:40:29
rare feeling of being properly full afterwards Gary ordered the women to lay down and he took turns raping
00:40:37
them but even this couldn't break their Spirits the next few days went by as per
00:40:46
usual as the New Year approached Josephina was consumed with longing for her children and mother on the
00:40:54
outside she knew she couldn't tolerate her living conditions much longer regardless she was grateful for
00:41:02
the company of Sandra and Lisa having one another to talk to and to share the experience with was the
00:41:09
only thing keeping them from falling apart completely when Gary wasn't around they
00:41:16
passed the hours chatting among themselves about their lives families and relationships on the
00:41:23
outside then came New Year's Eve 198 6 and with it a new [Music] arrival Gary H enck's three captives
00:41:40
heard of Deborah Dudley before they laid eyes on her the 23-year-old sex worker had found herself at Marshall Street the
00:41:48
same way as the others having accepted a ride from Gary but unlike the rest of them who had entered the basement
00:41:55
shaking and crying in fear Here Deborah was immediately combative naked and handcuffed Deborah
00:42:03
fought against Gary with all her might as he began fitting her ankles with Muffler clamps she screamed in his face
00:42:10
swearing and yelling for him to let her go the other women looked on in Terror when Deborah saw them there she
00:42:19
began screaming at them too once Gary managed to restrain Deborah he ordered her to get into the Hall she refused
00:42:28
saying there was no way she was going down there incensed Gary picked up his shovel and began beating Deborah with
00:42:36
the handle he shoved her into the hole covered it with the plywood lid and placed several bags of dirt on top
00:42:43
before disappearing back upstairs in a half the other three women began reassuring Deborah that it would all be
00:42:51
okay if she just stopped fighting they told her about Gary's deranged plans to impregnate them all
00:42:58
and advised her to just do what he said but Deborah wasn't hearing it she constantly screamed at the others to let
00:43:07
her out and every time Gary came into the basement from then on in she hled and for against
00:43:14
him for Josephina Deborah's determination was somewhat admirable it turned out that Deborah had lived a hard
00:43:23
life surrounded by crime drugs and abuse and she'd had to fight every day to survive but her refusal to submit to
00:43:32
Gary's demands also brought a new level of Discord to the situation at Marshall Street The Other Women watched on as
00:43:40
Gary beat Deborah constantly he began looking for new objects to discipline her with remarking that nothing he did
00:43:48
seemed to make any difference eventually Gary became so frustrated that he started ordering the
00:43:55
others to beat Deborah on his behalf as traumatizing as she found it Josephina didn't dare to
00:44:04
refuse she apologized to Deborah afterwards pleading with her to stop screaming and to just
00:44:11
comply she explained that Gary was mentally ill and their best chance of survival was to do whatever he
00:44:19
said Deborah refused she called Josephina weak for going along with things for as long as
00:44:26
she had and said it was time for them to come up with a proper plan to overcome Gary after all there were four of them
00:44:34
and only one of him Josephina repeatedly explained that without the keys to their padlocks it
00:44:42
was no use but Deborah wasn't having a bar of it she was convinced that someone would
00:44:49
hear them if they screamed loud and long enough Gary started bringing the other women more substantial Foods oatmeal
00:44:59
rice shriveled hot dog sausages and poptarts while continuing to feed Deborah nothing but bread and
00:45:06
[Music] water life continued on like this for two more weeks until Sunday January 18
00:45:16
1987 when there was an unexpected change in routine by this point Josephina Rivera
00:45:24
had been held at Marshall Street for 7 and 1/2 Weeks weeks Sandra Lindsay for seven Lisa Thomas for almost four and
00:45:32
Deborah Dudley for 18 days that afternoon the basement door burst open and in came
00:45:40
Gary with him was 18-year-old Jackie asins Jackie was a sex worker who had been waiting on a corner roughly 3 and 1
00:45:50
half miles from Gary's house when Gary pulled up Jackie had been working alongside
00:45:57
another woman and they started arguing over which one of them should get his business Jackie lied to Gary warning him
00:46:05
that the other woman had a sexually transmitted disease and he should pick her instead to Jackie's Delight Gary did
00:46:13
just that while she didn't typically go home with her clients Gary had a cake on his
00:46:21
back seat which he said was for his daughter's birthday and he needed to get it into the fridge
00:46:28
Gary seemed harmless so Jackie agreed she was playing one of the arcade games in his living room when he
00:46:35
suddenly grabbed her in a headlock from behind Jackie put up a fight but it was no
00:46:42
use Gary managed to handcuff her and to drag her down the steps into the basement Jackie was visibly terrified
00:46:52
she screamed for Gary to let her go but this only resulted in a beating Gary warned Jackie there would be plenty
00:47:00
more of that if she didn't obey his commands as soon as Gary left Josephina went over to Jackie and told her to be
00:47:10
quiet I'm going to get you out of here she said but you got to be patient by the next evening Gary's mood
00:47:20
was markedly different it was josephina's 26th birthday and he surprised the group with
00:47:27
a special treat like he'd done at Christmas he handed the women a menu for a Chinese
00:47:33
restaurant and told them to order one dish each he returned shortly after with the food a cake and a present for
00:47:42
Josephina a pair of red fluffy slippers he cracked open a bottle of sparkling cider and danced with The
00:47:50
Josephina to the song Purple Rain by Prince but it wasn't just the birthday or the introduction of his latest victim
00:48:00
that gave Gary henck cause to celebrate he had reason to believe that both Josephina and Sandra were
00:48:12
pregnant for Josephina the realization that her period was 2 months late sparked mixed feelings on one hand the
00:48:21
possibility that she could be pregnant with Gary heck's baby sickened her to the Core
00:48:27
on the other hand she wondered whether Gary would treat her better if she was carrying his
00:48:32
child the slippers he gave her seemed like a good sign that her plan to befriend him was
00:48:39
working Josephina reasoned that he wouldn't give a present to somebody he didn't like and he certainly hadn't
00:48:46
given this type of treatment to any of the others on the downside it was clear that
00:48:51
the other women weren't happy about the positive attention she was receiving the general Vibe between the group was
00:49:00
beginning to sour with the number of captives growing Gary started implementing a kind of
00:49:06
hierarchy system given that Josephina Sandra and Lisa had been there the longest and were the most compliant they
00:49:14
were allowed out of the hole and to sleep on a regular mattress Deborah's rebellious Behavior
00:49:21
earned her a near constant spot in the hle while Jackie as the newest captive was mostly kept with
00:49:28
her Gary began pitting the women against one another by leaving one of them in charge whenever he left them
00:49:35
alone he'd encouraged the one in charge to tell on the others if they misbehaved those who fell out of line
00:49:43
received beatings extra time in the hole or Worse still they were subjected to a
00:49:49
stretched torture device that Gary introduced in late January he installed a hook into a
00:49:56
ceiling r after and forced the disobedient woman to stand suspended by a single handcuff her arms held overhead
00:50:03
for hours with her feet barely able to touch the floor the sexual assaults also remained
00:50:11
a daily occurrence sometimes Gary raped just one woman other times he'd go from one to
00:50:18
the next or forced the women to perform sex acts on each other if they submitted without a fight
00:50:25
he'd reward them with treats such as cookies the women were so deprived of food that they found themselves
00:50:32
scrambling over one another in the hopes that they'd be the chosen victim for the
00:50:37
day when they were brought upstairs to bathe each used this time alone with Gary to their perceived
00:50:47
Advantage Gary still suspected that Josephina and Sandra were pregnant but they weren't given pregnancy tests to
00:50:55
confirm this if the two women really were pregnant Gary wasn't giving them any special treatment such as extra food
00:51:03
needed to nourish a baby while Josephina was gaining a bit of weight despite the restricted diet
00:51:10
the symptoms she'd experienced with her other three pregnancies were notably absent she suspected that the slight
00:51:17
weight gain could be a result of withdrawing from drugs as for Sandra she hadn't been
00:51:24
feeling well for weeks as the days passed she began eating less and less which angered Gary as she
00:51:32
needed the nutrients for the baby thinking Sandra was rebelling by refusing to wait in early February he
00:51:39
put her in the hole but then caught her trying to push aside the plywood lid as punishment Gary handcuffed one of
00:51:48
Sandra's arms to the ceiling hook and left her suspended there for days The Other Women watched on in
00:51:55
horror as s Ra's Health deteriorated she began vomiting and came down with a fever unable to wait the
00:52:02
meager amounts that were given to her Gary tried to force feed her a piece of bread when Sandra wouldn't swallow it
00:52:11
Gary beat her across the legs with a stick and ordered that she'd do as she was told Sandra began choking and spat the
00:52:20
bread out seemingly too tired to even hold her own body weight while Gary was convinced that
00:52:28
Sandra was faking being sick just to be defiant the others knew this was no joke
00:52:35
when Gary went back upstairs they noticed that Sandra's body had completely slumped
00:52:40
forward she appeared to have lost Consciousness completely the women encouraged Sandra
00:52:47
to wake up but Gary heard the commotion and came rushing back into the basement finding Sandra's lifeless body
00:52:55
hanging there Gary unlocked the handcuffs her body slammed to the floor she's dead he
00:53:04
announced Fury in his voice he added now I've lost another [Music] baby Gary hoisted Sandra's lifeless body
00:53:19
over his shoulder and carried her upstairs leaving the other four women in a State of
00:53:24
Shock Josephina was particularly shaken not only had she and Sandra been in this ordeal together from the start
00:53:33
she'd felt quite protective of Sandra Josephina couldn't help but feel that she'd failed by not delivering on
00:53:41
her promise to get them out of there the sheer lack of concern from Gary was also cause for alarm he Den
00:53:50
know Sandra for years and she'd considered him a friend yet he showed nothing but casual indifference to her
00:53:57
death if he could treat Sandra that way Josephina knew none of them were safe the remaining four women spent the
00:54:06
night mostly in stunned silence shaken by what they'd witnessed the next morning a foul stench
00:54:16
filled the basement none of the women had ever smelt anything like it and they struggled to breathe in the putrid air
00:54:25
when Gary came came downstairs the smell only got worse it seemed to have soaked into his
00:54:32
hair and skin and the women were forced to breathe it in every time he raped them while Sandra's death had
00:54:41
temporarily shaken Deborah Dudley into silence it didn't take long for her to snap out of it within 3 days Deborah
00:54:49
resumed screaming and fighting sick of being in the hall she began bashing against the lid and trying
00:54:57
to fight Gary off when he came down to discipline her fed up he stormed downstairs with a
00:55:04
key in one hand he unlocked Deborah's padlock and dragged her upstairs while the other women looked on in
00:55:12
fear a few minutes later Gary returned a visibly shaking Deborah to the basement
00:55:18
locked her up and then disappeared again the others could see that Deborah was clearly TR traumatized by whatever
00:55:27
had happened upstairs they asked her what was wrong but she was too Disturbed to speak she
00:55:35
huddled in the corner hugging her knees to her chest the others pressed on before
00:55:42
Deborah eventually spoke he showed me Sandra's head she said it's sitting in a pot and he's
00:55:50
boiling it on the stove her ribs are in a roasting pan in the oven and he's got her arms and legs in the
00:55:58
freezer he told me if I don't change my attitude I'll end up the same way shortly after Sandra Lindsay's death
00:56:11
the other women were watching the television when a dog food commercial came on as the camera panned over chunks of
00:56:18
meat and vegetables Deborah and Jackie made some off-hand comments about how good the dog food looked
00:56:26
Gary was downstairs at the time and their remarks immediately peaked his interest the next day he returned with
00:56:35
an open can of dog food and a fork and passed it to Deborah and Jackie in the hall eat it he
00:56:44
demanded the women did as they were told while Josephina and Lisa looked on in disgust from that point on cander dog
00:56:54
food became part of their their usual diet meanwhile the beatings and rapes continued
00:57:02
daily Deborah and Jackie couldn't take anymore having witnessed what Gary did to Sandra they knew he had absolutely no
00:57:11
regard for whether they lived or died if they wanted to get out of there alive it
00:57:16
was time to act one day when they thought Gary was out of earshot they told Josephina and
00:57:24
Lisa they had a plan the next time Gary came down the four of them would launch an attack against him
00:57:32
with four against one and armed with the stick he'd been using to beat them with
00:57:37
the pair were confident they could overpower him alternatively knowing that Josephina
00:57:43
often received preferential treatment they urged her to try and steal a knife next time she was allowed
00:57:50
upstairs they could wait until Gary was raping one of them and then stab him in the back
00:57:58
Josephina thought it was a terrible idea and told them as much without the keys to their padlocks they'd be
00:58:06
doomed but Deborah and Jackie thought it was worth a shot they argued it was entirely possible that Gary had been
00:58:14
keeping the keys in his pockets all along when Josephina still refused to help the others accused her of siding
00:58:22
with Gary saying she'd been down there so long that she was starting to like it as for Deborah and Jackie they were
00:58:31
going to do it with or without her help the next day Gary brought Josephina upstairs for a bath and outright asked
00:58:41
her about their scheming realizing he must have overheard the entire conversation
00:58:47
Josephina replied as casually as she could that there had been some talks between the others but she'd dismissed
00:58:55
their plan when they went back downstairs Gary told the others he knew what they were up to
00:59:03
he assured them he didn't carry the keys around with him one wrong move and they'd all die down
00:59:11
there Deborah and Jackie were furious with The Josephina believing she'd ratted them out but that didn't stop
00:59:19
them from trying to get out one day Gary pretended to leave in his car just to see what they'd do while
00:59:27
he was gone as soon as they thought he'd had driven away Deborah and Jackie began
00:59:34
screaming and banging on the lid of the hole Gary burst in and dragged them out along with Lisa he handcuffed each
00:59:44
woman to the hook in the ceiling one at a time and covered their mouths with duct
00:59:49
tape just like he'd done with the Josephina and Sandra earlier he took a screwdriver and jamed it into their ears
00:59:57
until P came out Jackie felt her spirits beginning to break completely she later told Deborah there
01:00:06
was no point screaming there's nobody out there she said the only one who can hear you cry
01:00:15
is [Music] God by mid-march 1987 Deborah Dudley had been held captive at Marshall Street for
01:00:27
2 and 1/2 months but still she refused to comply with Gary heck's demands it was a constant source of
01:00:35
contention between the other women who urged her to stay quiet for her own sake as well as
01:00:42
theirs Jackie did her best to fall into line but because she was usually kept in
01:00:47
the hole with the Deborah she was often deemed Guilty By Association one day Gary came up with a
01:00:55
new idea to try to get all of the women to behave he took the lid off the hole ran
01:01:02
a hose into it and filled it with a few inches of water he then handcuffed Deborah and Jackie together and ordered
01:01:10
them back into the hole placing the lid on top Gary took an extension cord which
01:01:16
had been stripped on one end to expose the wires within he plugged it in and touched the
01:01:23
bare wire to the women's chains sending an electric shock jolting into their bodies panicked screams emanated from
01:01:32
within the hall a few seconds later Gary removed the wire and ordered Josephina to have a
01:01:39
turn administering a shock the very thought sickened her but she knew that she'd pay the price if she
01:01:47
didn't comply reluctantly she did as she was told with Deborah and Jackie thrashing
01:01:55
and crying inside the hole Gary seemed satisfied he unplugged the cord telling them now you think about that for a
01:02:06
while before disappearing upstairs Gary's latest torture device filled the four women with a whole new
01:02:15
sense of dread if his plan really was to impregnate the all than electrocuting them didn't sound like a smart way to go
01:02:23
about it they w worried about what this meant for his State of Mind the other women were also furious
01:02:32
at Josephina for obeying his commands and this only added fuel to their belief that she was siding with
01:02:40
him two days later Gary was back in the basement this time he ordered a Deborah Jackie and Lisa into the water filled
01:02:50
hole he plugged in the cord and administered a shock before ordering Josephina to do the
01:02:57
same as she hesitantly touched the exposed wires to Deborah's chains the three women inside began
01:03:05
screaming he's killing me Deborah shrieked then the basement fell silent thinking the cord must have
01:03:15
stopped working Gary raced upstairs to grab another one but inside the hle Lisa and Jackie
01:03:23
watched on in horror as Deborah's body went limp and collapsed face first into the
01:03:29
water outside Josephina heard them announce Debbie's [Music] dead when Gary returned to the basement
01:03:41
10 minutes later it took him a moment to realize that the women weren't messing around he removed the lid from the hole
01:03:49
uncuffed liser into Jackie and dragged Deborah's lifeless body out by the hair he laid her out on the floor and looked
01:03:58
at the others aren't you glad it wasn't one of you he remarked before adding Thank God now my troubles are
01:04:08
over and my basement can go back to normal as the three surviving women stood around Frozen in shock and fear he
01:04:18
made the me a sandwich he went upstairs and fetched the me a cigarette and a can of beer
01:04:26
then he handed Josephina a piece of paper and a pen and told her to write the following
01:04:33
message March 18th 1987 I Josephina Rivera and Gary hynick killed Deborah Dudley by applying
01:04:41
electricity to her chain while sitting in a pool of water in a hole in a basement of 3520 Marshall
01:04:49
Street Josephina did as she was told she put her signature on the bottom and handed it to Jackie and Lisa so they
01:04:57
could both sign it as Witnesses Gary held the letter up and said if you ever go to the cops I can
01:05:06
use this as evidence that you killed Debbie for the first time in almost 4 months he then leaned over and unlocked
01:05:16
josephina's chains go upstairs and go to bed he said [Music] in the most extreme of circumstances it
01:05:29
slowly dawned on Josephina that her plan had worked all those months of complying
01:05:36
with Gary's Twisted demands and lending him a sympathetic ear had finally paid off he no longer viewed her as a slave
01:05:45
but as a partner she was allowed to bathe put on clean clothes and walk around his house
01:05:52
unsupervised and unrestrained having succeeded in his plan to get her pregnant Gary no longer raped her
01:06:01
either but for all these improvements Josephina was far from free all of the windows in Gary's home
01:06:10
had bars on them he didn't appear to own a phone and his front door could only be
01:06:15
opened with the saof key that he kept safe in his pocket Josephina also knew that if she
01:06:23
made any attempt to escape Lisa and Jackie's lives would be at immediate risk if Josephina got out she had no
01:06:32
doubt that Gary would kill the others and Destroy evidence of his crimes for the next couple of days she
01:06:41
tried to go about life as normally as possible following Gary around and doing whatever he
01:06:48
asked despite the trauma of the past few months being exacerbated by Deborah's death Josephina made a effort not to
01:06:56
display any emotion or act shocked by anything Gary did or said the only time her tough exterior
01:07:04
almost cracked was when Gary brought her into the kitchen and showed her Sandra Lindsay's charred and rotting remains
01:07:12
which he'd attempted to dispose of just as Deborah had described but there was something the
01:07:19
others didn't know Gary revealed to Josephina that he'd tried to feed Sandra's remains to the neighborhood
01:07:26
dogs but they'd left the obviously human bones scattered around his backyard he said that Sandra's family
01:07:35
suspected he had something to do with her disappearance so he had to be incredibly careful not to attract any
01:07:41
attention to himself it was only when Deborah commented about how good the dog food
01:07:47
commercial looked that Gary got an idea he said he started mincing up Sandra's remains and MI ing them in with
01:07:56
the canned dog food which he then fed to the women downstairs Josephina did her best to
01:08:05
remain expressionless while inside she was reeling from the extreme horror of it
01:08:11
all Gary went on to explain that they wouldn't have to be so careful with Deborah no one knew he was linked to her
01:08:20
in any way so all they had to do was find a good spot to dispose of her body if the cops ever found her there would
01:08:28
be nothing to tie her back to Marshall Street Gary took a Josephina for a drive to the neighboring state of New Jersey
01:08:40
on the lookout for the perfect spot to dump Deborah's body along the way they stopped in at a
01:08:47
McDonald's restaurant so Gary could get something to eat Josephina didn't look anyone in the
01:08:53
eye in case Gary missed interpreted her intentions they drove along Route 676 in
01:09:01
the densely forested Pine baronss of Warton State Forest about 40 Mi east of North
01:09:08
Philadelphia eventually Gary pulled down a discreet dirt track that led about a 100 yards into the woods and
01:09:16
determined this will do later that night under the cover of Darkness Gary retrieved Deborah's body
01:09:25
from a freezer in the basement he'd been keeping her there folded over into a clear garbage
01:09:32
bag ordering Josephina to follow him he carried the bag to his garage and dumped
01:09:38
the body into the trunk of his Cadillac the pair then made their way back to the Pine Barons and to the
01:09:45
location that Gary had scouted earlier Josephina didn't dare move as Gary removed the keys from the engine
01:09:54
and carried Deborah's frozen body into the dark woods as she sat there in the car alone
01:10:01
she thought about running off her heart pounded as she wondered what would happen if Gary caught
01:10:08
her it then occurred to her that he might have brought her along just so he could kill her and dump her body there
01:10:16
too by the time Gary returned to the car Josephina was almost relieved she she spent the rest of the
01:10:26
drive tense and traumatized by what they'd just done meanwhile Gary seemed completely
01:10:34
unfazed again he stopped at McDonald's for a burger and fries checking his stocks in a newspaper and remarking on
01:10:42
their poor performance as though burying a body in the woods was a common occurrence for the first time it
01:10:50
occurred to Josephina that this might actually be a common occurrence for Gary cried
01:10:56
Nick it only just struck her that there could have been other victims before Sandra and
01:11:04
Deborah the next day Gary took a Josephina to buy some clothes from a thrift store and then had her drive
01:11:11
behind him in his Cadillac while he took his other car a Rolls-Royce to the mechanic during each trip Josephina kept
01:11:20
her focus on the task at hand and avoided making eye contact or convers ation with anyone
01:11:27
else she realized that Gary was enjoying having her company and decided the smartest thing she could do was continue
01:11:35
earning his trust the more trust he put in her the greater her chance would be to escape
01:11:42
when the right opportunity arose meanwhile downstairs in the basement the conditions had improved
01:11:53
slightly for Lisa and Jackie Gary brought them blankets and pillows and stopped putting them in the
01:12:00
hole he mostly left them alone although the daily rapes continued with two of his five victims
01:12:09
now dead and only one of them pregnant Josephina could tell that Gary was getting rattled at the realization that
01:12:16
his Twisted plot wasn't going according to plan by Monday March 23 6 days had passed since Deborah death and
01:12:26
josephina's release from the basement that night Gary turned to her and said I want to get another
01:12:36
girl Josephina saw this as her opening it was clear to her that Gary now viewed her as an accomplice and was beginning
01:12:45
to let his guard down she told Gary that she'd help him but on one condition after they were done she
01:12:54
wanted to go to see her family Josephina told Gary they'd be worrying about where she'd been these
01:13:01
past 4 months and she just wanted to introduce them to him so they knew she was okay without asking any further
01:13:10
questions Gary agreed that night he took Josephina out cruising the streets until they came
01:13:18
across a 24-year-old woman named Agnes Adams Josephina was somewhat familiar with Agnes having worked with her at the
01:13:27
same strip club in the past Agnes was a sex worker and she was standing on the street corner looking for
01:13:35
clients when she saw Gary she waved him over it turned out that Gary had hired Agnes for sex work in the
01:13:44
past he pulled up alongside Agnes and invited her to come to his house for paid sex work seeing Josephina in the
01:13:52
passenger seat Agnes didn't hesit itate to hop in back at Marshall Street Josephina
01:14:01
waited in the living room while Gary and Agnes went upstairs together 15 minutes later they returned
01:14:08
this time with Agnes naked in handcuffs Gary beckoned for Josephina to follow him into the
01:14:16
basement when lcer and a Jackie saw that Josephina had helped Gary abduct a new victim they looked at her with outright
01:14:24
dismay convinced she was now a willing accomplice Josephina avoided their gaze as Gary chained agus up with the muffler
01:14:34
clamps and ordered her down into the Hall Josephina Then followed Gary back upstairs he turned to her and
01:14:44
said that was easy we can do that again tomorrow now you want to go see your family let's go
01:14:58
josephina's heart pounded in her chest as Gary steered His Cadillac down 6th Street toward the corner of Gerard
01:15:05
Street where he'd first picked her up on Thanksgiving Eve almost 4 months earlier Josephina indicated a place for
01:15:14
Gary to pull over she told him her family was going to have all kinds of questions and it
01:15:21
would be best if she could have some time alone with them to smooth things over first she'd explained to them that Gary
01:15:28
was her boyfriend and the two had been away for a while before coming to get him so he could meet everyone
01:15:35
too there was a gas station around the corner where Josephina said he could grab a cup of coffee in the
01:15:43
meantime to her surprise Gary agreed Josephina got out of the car and started making her way as calmly as she
01:15:53
could down Gerard Street there was a pay phone about a block away and if she could just make it there
01:16:00
without arousing his suspicion this was her one chance adrenaline sword as Josephina
01:16:08
made it around the corner the pay phone inside she quickened her Pace terrified that Gary would peer down the street and
01:16:18
see what she was up to Against All Odds Josephina Rivera made it to the pay phone grabbed the receiver
01:16:31
and immediately dialed 911 you've got to help me she told the operator 4 months ago I was picked up
01:16:40
and held hostage in this guy's basement he's got three other girls down there I know where he's at and I managed to get
01:16:49
away if he finds out that I'm not coming back he's going to kill the others I need someone to come pick him up so he
01:16:57
can't get back to the other girls the operator asked Josephina to repeat herself it was clear they were having a
01:17:07
hard time believing a word she was saying regardless they told Josephina to stay put and that a police car was on
01:17:15
its way the next few minutes felt like hours as Josephina nervously tapped her foot
01:17:22
anxiously waiting for the police to appear here while simultaneously keeping an eye out for Gary's
01:17:29
Cadillac finally a police car pulled up with two officers inside Josephina was visibly shaking as
01:17:38
she repeated her story telling the officers she'd been chained up and repeatedly raped beaten and tortured for
01:17:44
4 months by a man named Gary hynick who was at the gas station around the corner he'd also killed two women and
01:17:54
dismembered one of their bodies the officers urged to Josephina to calm down they asked if she was a sex worker
01:18:03
and whether this had something to do with her not getting paid exasperated Josephina pulled up the
01:18:10
leg of her jeans to reveal the red raw skin and bruises caused by the shackles one look at the injuries
01:18:18
quelled any of their doubts Josephina provided a description of Gary and told them where he was
01:18:27
parked the officers sped around the corner finding him just like she'd described they ordered Gary to turn off
01:18:36
the ignition and get out of the car with his arms on top of his head he did as he
01:18:41
was told asking what's this all about officer didn't I pay my child support Gary hynick was placed under
01:18:52
arrest for rape kidnapping aggravated assault and suspicion of murder another officer drove Josephina
01:19:00
to the gas station so she could confirm Gary was the right man that's him Josephina
01:19:08
said as she later described in the Oxygen Channel documentary monster preacher the look on Gary's face told
01:19:15
her exactly what he was thinking I really should have gotten rid of this [ __ ] when I had the chance
01:19:26
Josephina was taken back to the sex crimes unit where she told her story in full detail describing all the depraved
01:19:33
acts committed by Gary henck over the past 4 months all the while she continued to
01:19:40
ask whether anyone was going back for The Other Women almost 5 hours passed before a
01:19:46
search warrant was issued and orders were finally given to enter Gary's home on Marshall
01:19:52
Street police still weren't sure exactly what to make of josephina's story it was
01:19:59
so rich in detail yet Gary's home appeared so ordinary it was hard to comprehend that what she was saying was
01:20:07
true officers were on edge as they broke Gary's door down with a crowbar and entered the
01:20:15
premises inside the heat was cranked to high and a distinct foul odor filled the
01:20:21
air the television and radio blasted at full volume but the house was otherwise quiet using a flashlight officers made
01:20:31
their way to the basement where they found Lisa Thomas and Jackie asins asleep on a mattress on the
01:20:38
floor the two women jumped up in a fright their blanket dropping to reveal they were naked from the waist down and
01:20:45
a chained at the ankles their bodies were bruised wounded and emaciated they didn't dare say a word
01:20:54
Terri ified this could be another of Gary's TS an officer asked if there were any
01:21:01
other women in the house Lisa and Jackie pointed to the plywood on the floor the officer pulled it back and Out
01:21:10
jumped Agnes Adams naked and handcuffed it took a moment for the women to realize what was really
01:21:18
happening lcer and Jackie began jumping up and down hugging one another and yelling we're
01:21:27
saved officers removed the shackles and the three women were LED from the house for urgent medical
01:21:33
treatment neighbors had gathered in the street to see what all the fuss was about and upon seeing the survivors they
01:21:40
began cheering Josephina Lisa Jackie and Agnes were all taken to the hospital to be
01:21:48
evaluated other than Agnes who had been held captive less than 24 hours the others were all severely dehydrated and
01:21:58
undernourished after having their bloods taken the doctor sat Joseph down and delivered some unexpected yet very
01:22:05
welcome news you're not pregnant he said when Lisa Thomas's mother paet Thomas received the call to say that her
01:22:19
daughter was alive and well she couldn't believe it as soon as Lisa had failed to
01:22:25
return home from her friend's house in December the year prior pette knew something was horribly
01:22:31
wrong Lisa was a doting mother to her young son and she would never voluntarily leave him without a good
01:22:39
explanation poette had repeatedly called the police to report her daughter missing but they had dismissed her
01:22:45
concerns saying Lisa was an adult who was free to do as she pleased poette had taken it upon herself
01:22:53
to search for her daughter and make her own inquiries fearing the worst she'd even
01:22:59
visited the morg a couple of times to hear that Lisa was alive after all this time was unbelievable
01:23:08
news when the two were able to speak over the phone from the hospital the first thing Lisa asked was how her son
01:23:16
was doing and whether he was still using his pacifier polette was in awe of her daughter's courage telling
01:23:25
reporters the most amazing thing is how tough she is she's got strong willpower I wouldn't have held up like she
01:23:35
did for Sandra Lindsay's family it was a different reaction entirely Sandra had been incredibly
01:23:43
close to her mother and sister and they'd known something was wrong as soon as she had failed to return home from
01:23:50
her trip to buy painkillers the day after Thanksgiving Saturday November 27 1986 although Sandra had a job and lived
01:24:00
fairly independently for someone with her intellectual disability she always checked in with her family with a phone
01:24:07
call at least twice a day Sandra's family were aware that she sometimes spent time around Gary heick
01:24:15
and attended his church sermons on Sundays she had raved to her sister about all the fun places Gary had taken
01:24:23
her and it was clear that she looked up to him therefore one of the first places
01:24:29
Sandra's family thought to check after her disappearance was Gary's place they just weren't sure where he
01:24:37
lived Gary and Sandra had a mutual friend named sirel Brown who went by the nickname
01:24:44
Tony like Sandra Tony had an intellectual disability and spent a lot of time with Gary having even lived with
01:24:52
him for a period of time Sandra's family asked Tony Brown for Gary's address and phone number which he
01:25:00
readily supplied when Sandra's family got to 3520 Marshall Street they could hear the
01:25:07
radio blasting inside they pounded on the door repeatedly but Gary didn't answer convinced he knew where Sandra
01:25:17
was the family made inquiries with some of the neighbors who confirmed they'd recently seen Sandra enter the home
01:25:25
home when she still hadn't surfaced or made contact by Monday her family filed a missing person report with the
01:25:33
police they handed over Gary's details the only thing they weren't sure of was his last
01:25:42
name a police officer went to 3520 Marshall Street to conduct his own check for Sandra he heard the radio blaring at
01:25:51
full volume inside but his knocks to the front door door went unanswered the officer Tracked Down Tony
01:25:58
Brown who confirmed Gary's contact details including his last name the officer ran Gary's name through
01:26:07
the computer but nothing came up to indicate he had a prior criminal record when Sandra's family received a
01:26:15
handwritten letter from Sandra a few days later postmarked from New York in which she claimed to be okay the officer
01:26:23
concluded Sandra was a grown woman who was free to make her own decisions the police did nothing further
01:26:31
to look for her and made no more attempts to enter Gary's home even when Tony Brown gave Sandra's family some
01:26:38
truly bizarre information Tony claimed that he'd kidnapped Sandra on Gary's behalf in
01:26:46
exchange for a new car Gary had then offered Tony $100 to get Sandra pregnant as Christmas approached Sandra's mother
01:26:59
received a second card from Sandra urging her not to worry although her mother recognized the
01:27:06
writing as Sandra's the card contained a $10 bill money which her mother knew Sandra didn't have access
01:27:15
to again she reported these incidents to the officer in charge of Sandra's missing person case who maintained there
01:27:22
was nothing they could do even if Sandra was with Gary they had no evidence that anything criminal had
01:27:30
taken place and they therefore couldn't enter the premises without a search warrant however what the officer didn't
01:27:39
know at the time was that Tony Brown had accidentally given him the incorrect spelling for Gary's last
01:27:47
name had this error been identified the officer would have discovered information that could have saved both
01:27:54
Sandra and Deborah's [Music] lives the reality was Gary henck had a criminal record dating back to
01:28:08
1976 beginning with charges for aggravated assault and carrying a firearm without a
01:28:15
license most disturbingly was a crime committed in 1978 that should have raised alarm Bells especially given the
01:28:23
AL ations from Sandra Lindsay's family by March 1978 Gary HCK was in a defacto relationship with an
01:28:33
intellectually disabled black woman named Anette Davidson and they were living in an apartment in North
01:28:41
Philadelphia the couple had recently welcomed the baby girl but during anette's pregnancy Gary had insisted on
01:28:48
providing her prenatal care himself this resulted in complications and the baby was put into foster care as
01:28:56
soon as she was born a few weeks later on Sunday May 7 1978 the couple went to visit anette's
01:29:05
sister Alberta who lived in a mental health facility Alberta was 34 years old but
01:29:12
with the mentality of a 5-year-old and she'd been living in the Care Facility since she was a
01:29:19
teenager Gary and an Janette were given the green light to take our B out for the day as long as she was back the
01:29:26
following morning the next day Gary called the facility and requested some vacation
01:29:32
time for Alberta and staff there tentatively agreed 9 days later Alberta still hadn't
01:29:41
returned a worried staff member went to Gary's apartment looking for her but Gary claimed he'd put our burder on a
01:29:48
bus back to the facility days earlier and a search of his home turned up no sign of her
01:29:54
her the next day the staff member returned with a police officer who searched the entire
01:30:02
building they found a terrified Alberta cowering in an old storage room in the basement showing signs of trauma and
01:30:10
sexual assault Gary was charged with kidnapping rape false imprisonment and involuntary
01:30:17
deviate sexual intercourse among other crimes he pleaded not guilty claiming our ber had asked to stay with them
01:30:25
because she was being mistreated at the Care Facility due to her intellectual disability Alberta was deemed unable to
01:30:34
testify in court Gary was therefore convicted of several lesser crimes including unlawful
01:30:41
restraint and recklessly endangering another person the judge concluded that Gary was
01:30:48
psychosexually immature unable to tolerate criticism in constant need of external validation and quote easily
01:30:58
threatened by women whom he would consider to be equal to him either intellectually or
01:31:05
emotionally the judge gave the highest sentence possible of 3 to 7 years which Gary
01:31:12
appealed a subsequent psychological report stated that Gary heck had a proclivity to exploit and manipulate
01:31:19
intellectually disabled black women both financially and sexually as it gave him
01:31:24
a sense of authority to be in charge of more vulnerable individuals the psychiatrist predicted
01:31:31
that Gary would go on to commit further sexual assaults in the future stating forebodingly in order to avoid such a
01:31:41
tragedy in the future it will be necessary for him to be very closely supervised and for him to receive
01:31:47
continuing surveillance over a long period of time for the next 2 and a half years Gary
01:31:57
served his prison sentence in silence claiming he was unable to speak because the devil had shoved a cookie down his
01:32:05
throat he was released on parole 5 years later in March 1983 shortly after he joined the
01:32:14
Filipino matchmaking service and began corresponding with his future wife Betty the two got to know one another
01:32:23
via letters and phone calls for almost 2 years before Betty finally flew to the United States to meet Gary in
01:32:31
person they were married days later but the honeymoon period was shortlived within a week Gary started
01:32:40
bringing home other women sometimes several at a time they were always black and
01:32:46
typically sex workers or patients from The elwin Institute Betty said she'd leave but har
01:32:54
constantly beat and raped her threatening to kill her if she ran away 3 and A2 months after arriving at
01:33:01
Marshal Street in late January 1986 Betty said she was going out shopping and ran straight to the police
01:33:11
instead Betty filed charges against Gary for spousal rape indecent assault and involuntary deviate sexual
01:33:19
intercourse the charges just happened to be laid 2 days after Gary's parole ended
01:33:25
for his crimes against Alberta Davidson which was unfortunate timing as it meant
01:33:30
he wasn't in breach of his parole conditions unbeknown to Gary Betty was also pregnant after the child was born Betty
01:33:41
sued Gary for child support and they both appeared in the family court in January
01:33:48
1987 Gary lied about his substantial assets saying he'd spent the profits from his Investments and the only money
01:33:55
he had was from his Disability Pension convinced that Gary was being intentionally evasive the judge promised
01:34:04
to Betty another hearing once he'd had the chance to do some further investigation meanwhile as he sat in
01:34:12
court lying openly Gary was holding Four Women captive in his basement Sandra Lindsay's family had
01:34:21
managed to track Betty down in their hunt for Sandra and learned about Gary's deviant sexual practices and history of
01:34:29
holding women captive Sandra's family told the police about this but they found themselves at
01:34:37
yet another roadblock after Betty's Escape she'd been so terrified of Gary that she'd
01:34:44
failed to appear in court and the charges against him had been subsequently dropped the police promised Sandra's
01:34:52
family that they'd apply for search warrant for Gary's house but they never did closing the missing person
01:34:59
investigation instead with the help of Josephina Rivera Deborah Dudley's remains were
01:35:08
recovered from New Jersey and returned to Philadelphia forensic investigators also
01:35:14
recovered what they could of Sandra Lindsay's dismembered remains from Marshall Street including her skull from
01:35:20
the stove top rib cage from the oven and arms and legs from the freezer with the available evidence and
01:35:29
testimony from the surviving women Gary henck was charged with more than 50 crimes including two counts of murder
01:35:38
kidnapping rape aggravated assault false imprisonment involuntary deviate sexual
01:35:44
intercourse unlawful restraint indecent exposure and abuse of a corpse with Gary's crimes making head
01:35:53
lines across the United States members of the public were curious to know more about his background and
01:36:00
upbringing following his arrest for the crimes against Alberta Davidson in 1978 Gary had told a court appointed
01:36:08
investigator that his childhood was marred by trauma he said that his father was a
01:36:14
racist who hated his mother because she had multiple affairs with black men Gary alleged that his father had
01:36:22
beaten him frequent ly during his Youth and offered no love or emotional support Gary frequently wet the bed and
01:36:31
when he did so his father would force him to hang his soiled sheets out of his bedroom window so the whole neighborhood
01:36:38
would know these claims were supported by Gary's younger brother Terry who spoke
01:36:45
to reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer in detail following Gary's arrest in 1987
01:36:53
Terry said that Gary chose black women because he felt a need to dominate them and intellectually disabled women
01:37:00
because he thought they were easier to control Terry said their father had taught them that quote life has no value
01:37:10
if it is a black life and that although Gary didn't outwardly express it he adopted their father's racist
01:37:20
attitudes along with the beatings Terry also claimed claimed that their father would paint Bull's eyes on the back of
01:37:26
their pants so that other kids at school would Target them too according to Terry when Gary was a
01:37:33
child he fell from a tree which caused his head to become permanently misshapen after that Gary's Behavior
01:37:41
changed significantly he became violent and was increasingly seeking his father's
01:37:49
approval Terry stated Gary spent his whole childhood trying to be the light of my father's
01:37:58
eyes he said that being accepted by their father was quote probably what my brother was looking for his whole
01:38:08
life Terry explained that he and Gary were eventually sent to live with their mother but she had a string of failed
01:38:15
relationships and marriages and also struggled with alcohol addiction which further added to their instability
01:38:24
Gary and Terry eventually joined the army but were both discharged after being diagnosed with
01:38:31
schizophrenia their mother eventually took her own life and they lost contact with their
01:38:38
father Gary and Terry's Father Michael henck denied claims of childhood abuse in 1978 he told the court
01:38:48
appointed investigator that Gary had shown signs of mental illness since he was a young boy
01:38:54
and that he'd disowned Gary completely in the 1960s after discovering that he was
01:38:59
living with a black woman however when speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer during a phone
01:39:06
interview following Gary's arrest in 1987 his story differed while Michael upheld that he'd
01:39:14
disowned and disinherited Gary he said that had nothing to do with his involvement with a black
01:39:21
woman Michael denied being racist stating he wouldn't care if Gary lived with a black woman adding quote I don't
01:39:30
care if he lived with 10 of them but there was one thing that both Terry and Michael henck could agree on
01:39:40
when they first heard about the crimes Gary had been accused of Terry said I believed it right off the bat Gary was
01:39:49
very capable of that Michael told USA today that his son should be hanged adding I'll even pull
01:39:58
the Rope execution was a very real possibility for Gary hnik with the state of Pennsylvania offering the death
01:40:08
penalty for anyone found guilty of first-degree murder given the mountain of evidence against him including
01:40:16
testimony from the four women who survived the ordal Gary's defense team knew there was no way their client could
01:40:23
Escape ape the charges instead they put forward a plea of Not Guilty by reason of
01:40:30
insanity after all Gary had a detailed medical record citing mental illness which dated back to 1963 when he was
01:40:39
discharged from the Army while he'd initially been given a 10% Disability Pension this had
01:40:46
increased over the years to 100% such a payment was reserved only for individ uals who were unable to
01:40:54
function normally in the community and demonstrated quote gross repudiation of reality if the defense could prove that
01:41:05
Gary wasn't of sound mind at the time he committed the crimes and couldn't tell right from wrong at the very least they
01:41:12
hoped to secure a conviction of third degree murder Under Pennsylvania law this would
01:41:18
mean the deaths of Sandra Lindsay and Deborah Dudley weren't intentional Gary's State of Mind at the time of the
01:41:28
crimes formed the entire basis of the defense's argument when the case went to trial in June
01:41:35
1988 the defense LED testimony from two psychiatrists the first of whom Dr Clancy McKenzie introduced a
01:41:43
controversial theory he believed that all patients with schizophrenia had two minds one of
01:41:51
the adult and one of their trouble Tred infant self Dr McKenzie explained that in the
01:41:58
key period of November 1986 to March 1987 Gary was operating under what he called an infant
01:42:07
brain Gary was just 17 months old at the time his mother gave birth to his brother
01:42:14
Terry when Gary's estranged wife Betty revealed to him in October 1986 that she'd given birth to their son Dr Kenzie
01:42:23
concluded quote this took him back to the first time when the most important woman in
01:42:30
the world to him his mother left him and had a baby and at that point he began to
01:42:37
experience the World Through The Eyes of the 17-month-old the reality is that Mommy is never going
01:42:45
to go away and leave me again during that 4 to 5 Monon period he could not have known right from
01:42:54
[Music] wrong the second psychiatrist disagreed with Dr McKenzie's Theory clarifying his
01:43:02
belief that schizophrenia was primarily a genetic mental illness from which Gary
01:43:07
had a long-standing battle he testified that Gary's schizophrenia affected him in such a
01:43:14
manner that he was unable to tell the difference between right and wrong he concluded that Gary was
01:43:21
delusional and that the crimes he committed were part of a quote systematized delusion that God
01:43:28
wanted him to produce a number of children and this was essentially to him like a pact with
01:43:35
God while he was somewhat aware of the laws he was breaking he saw God's law as Superior and didn't have the mental
01:43:44
capacity to differentiate between the [Music] two the prosecution didn't argue that
01:43:54
Gary had schizophrenia their case centered around the belief that his cognitive ability
01:44:00
was fully intact during the time he committed the crimes and he knew full well that what he was doing was
01:44:07
wrong after all if he was so insane how did he continue to successfully manage his stock portfolio or negotiate the
01:44:16
purchase of a Cadillac the prosecution put forward that Gary had long been exaggerated the
01:44:23
symptoms of his mental illness so that he could continue receiving disability benefits pre-trial testing had revealed
01:44:31
Gary to have an IQ of over 130 which put him in the top 1% of the population for
01:44:39
intellect this combined with his training as a psychiatric nurse meant he knew exactly what to do to make others
01:44:47
question his sanity during Josephina Rivera's time in captivity Gary had allegedly told her
01:44:56
that if he was ever arrested he would simply act crazy in court until his case was eventually thrown
01:45:03
out the prosecution put forth that this was exactly what he was doing Gary had refused to say a word to
01:45:13
their court appointed forensic psychiatrist instead pretending to be incapable of speech and when he entered
01:45:20
the courtroom he'd made the odd move of salute in the judge while Witnesses testified that
01:45:27
Gary had always been typically clean cut in court he appeared disheveled with a long uncamp beard and wore the same
01:45:35
Hawaiian shirt and tan pants every day the judge had even issued a court order forcing him to bathe before his
01:45:44
trial after it was revealed that he hadn't showered for well over a month the prosecution presented various
01:45:53
Witnesses who had dealings with Gary hynick around the time he was holding the women captive such as his car dealer
01:46:00
stock broker friends and medical professionals all testified that Gary was his usual self during the key period
01:46:09
between November 1986 and March 1987 and he wasn't suffering from any obvious delusions of grandeur or
01:46:19
hallucinations on the contrary he'd appeared clean courteous rational and intelligent during his January 1987
01:46:29
appearance in the Family Court his behavior was described as cunning and deceptive when it came to answering
01:46:36
questions about his true monetary worth so as to diminish his obligations to support his wife and infant
01:46:44
son the forensic psychiatrist who reviewed Gary's extensive medical history business records police
01:46:52
interviews and witness testimony for the prosecution concluded that while Gary did indeed have schizophrenia he was
01:47:00
manipulative and exaggerated his mental illness the psychiatrist concluded that Gary's cognitive ability was intacted
01:47:09
between November 1986 and March 1987 stating there is nothing to indicate that Gary henck did not know what he was
01:47:19
doing was wrong at the time he was doing it the trial ran for two weeks before the
01:47:27
defense presented their closing argument urging the jury to consider the Lesser conviction of third degree
01:47:34
murder Gary's lawyer stated the question is not whether Gary henck did these heinous acts but whether
01:47:43
or not he was insane let's say he's a malingerer a faker that he went into the army with
01:47:50
plans to develop a paranoid schizophrenic personality so one day he could make a living that way could he
01:47:57
fool all those doctors all the time could he fake mental illness schizophrenia for 25 years you have to
01:48:06
believe that you have to believe he did this for 25 years so when he got caught building his family in his basement he
01:48:15
could say he was insane that's the prosecution's case does that make sense his purpose was to raise 10 kids not to
01:48:26
kill anybody third deegree murder is reckless disregard for human life this is a
01:48:34
classic case of third degree as for the fact that Gary had chosen an intellectually disabled woman
01:48:42
and sex workers to be his victims the lawyer stated quote as sick as it is these were his
01:48:50
chosen people these were the good he wanted to reproduce with is that sane isn't it more likely he's insane
01:49:00
than not in rebuttal the prosecution told the jury that while none of the experts
01:49:07
could read Gary's mind to confirm whether or not he was lying the bottom line was quote this man repeated
01:49:16
sadistic and malicious acts upon six victims he planned it he did it and he sealed it make no mistake about it this
01:49:26
man committed murder in the first degree it's clear that Sandra Lindsay and Deborah Dudley were killed as a
01:49:34
result of being taken into that basement it's clear that Gary heck did it it was
01:49:42
premeditated it was deliberate it was intentional members of the jury deliberated for two and a half days
01:49:53
before delivering their verdict guilty on all counts including Murder in the First Degree for the deaths of Sandra
01:50:01
Lindsay and Deborah Dudley Under Pennsylvania law it was also up to the jury to decide the
01:50:09
penalty life imprisonment or execution the jury deliberated for less than 2 hours before delivering this
01:50:19
verdict for the murders of Sandra and ra Gary henck would be sentenced to death the conclusion of Gary's trial
01:50:33
didn't mark the end of the case the day after Gary was initially arrested his friend Tony Brown who was
01:50:41
also an associate of Sandra's had walked into the police station to see what was
01:50:45
going on Tony introduced himself as Gary's best friend and former housemate which
01:50:52
immediately aroused police interest Tony was interrogated for 18 hours during which he made some
01:51:00
startling assertions he revealed that this wasn't the first time Gary had held women
01:51:08
captive Tony claimed that in the summer of 1985 Gary had offered a sex worker hundreds of dollars to come back to his
01:51:17
house the next morning Tony went into the basement to do some laundry and found the woman there Bound in
01:51:25
Chains she asked Tony to let her out but he was too scared of what Gary might do
01:51:32
so he left her there a week later a hideous stench filled the house Tony claimed he found Gary
01:51:42
dismembering the woman's body parts which he then buried in his front yard this aligned with information from
01:51:50
the surviving victims who told the police that Gary had bragged to some of them about having killed up to six other
01:51:57
women a full excavation was done of the Marshall Street property but no other human remains were
01:52:06
found however Tony Brown wasn't done talking he also claims that on the Day Sandra Lindsay died Tony himself had
01:52:15
been in the basement Tony said he'd watched aary forced the bread into Sandra's mouth
01:52:22
before she presumably choked to death afterwards Tony claimed he helped Gary carry Sandra's body upstairs where
01:52:31
Gary later raped her corpse for this confession Tony Brown was also charged with Sandra Lindsay's
01:52:39
murder as well as conspiracy kidnapping and rape the problem with Tony's confession
01:52:47
was none of the surviving women backed his story up they claimed they'd never seen Tony Brown in the basement and he
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certainly wasn't there the day Sandra Lindsay died due to his intellectual disability
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during his early Court proceedings Tony had difficulty understanding basic questions and couldn't even State his
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own name his defense attorney told reporters quote Mr Brown was victimized to the
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same extent as the women involved although he was not hurt Brown fits the profile of each and every
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victim given there was no evidence to support them the charges against Tony Brown were ultimately
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dropped however Tony wasn't the only one who came under the spotlight as a potential
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accomplice another controversial opinion had Arisen during Gary's trial when his
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defense lawyer raised the possibility of charging Josephina Rivera as an accomplice to Gary's
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crimes the judge had warned against this on the grounds that it could hurt their
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Insanity defense stating if the defendant is clever enough to enlist the aid of an
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accomplice he knows what he's doing the defense stopped short of pressing for charges but they did urge
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the jury to consider josephina's impact on their client's Behavior saying that she was quote feeding a sick mine
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they argued that Josephina LED Gary to believe that what he was doing was okay and this gave him the corroboration he
01:54:31
needed to keep going the other surviving women Lisa Thomas Jackie asins and Agnes Adams
01:54:40
agreed that Josephina was complicit to some extent they struggled to understand how
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she could have aided in Deborah's death and helped kidnap Agnes knowing what she
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was about to endure given that Josephina was the oldest of the group they felt it was her
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responsibility to protect them not cause them further harm Jackie later told the documentary
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monster preacher even though Josephina was in a bad situation she was still supposed to
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protect us at the end of the day Philadelphia made her a hero for who for us no she
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wasn't a hero for me even members of the jury later said they believed Josephina was more
01:55:31
culpable than was presented but many others disagreed renowned criminal behavior
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analyst Laura Richards told the show killer profile that Gary had learned through his childhood that people could
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be controlled using abuse ridicule and beatings when Gary started to trust The Josephina
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that's when he began to lose his power Laura said he's the great manipulator but
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ultimately Josephina wins on the manipulation level of getting him to trust her Josephina went on to write a book
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about her experience titled sell girl in which she made it clear that her intentions were always to make sure the
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women got out of the basement alive Josephina was traumatized by the ideal that she was unable to regain
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custody of her children and she spent years continuing to struggle with substance abuse disorder to escape the
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pain of it all she later told the Daily Mirror you don't ever totally get over an experience like mine you just have to
01:56:43
learn to live with it Gary hynick sat on death row for 11 years saying he had no intentions of
01:56:55
appealing his sentence regardless an appell at review was mandatory Under Pennsylvania law and
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a forensic psychiatrist was appointed by the court to interview Gary Gary stated he wanted the execution
01:57:10
to go ahead because quote I am innocent and I can prove it when you execute an innocent man there
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will be no more capital punishment in this state and possibly anywhere else in this
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country go ahead and execute me that's the end of capital punishment Gary's lawyers said that his
01:57:34
willingness to be executed was further proof that he wasn't of sound mind but the psychiatrist concluded that Gary
01:57:42
understood fully and was just trying to put a good spin on a bad ending the sentence was upheld and the
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execution was scheduled for Tuesday July 6th 1999 as the time loomed near news that
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the execution would be going ahead sparked hot debate among those who were against the death
01:58:06
penalty protesters gathered outside the governor's home until the final orders were given that
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evening 55-year-old Gary hynick ate a final meal of two slices of cheese pza and two cups of black coffee before
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being left led to the execution chamber just before 10 p.m. he had no last words as he was
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strapped to the gurnie and administered with a lethal injection with Gary declared dead
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Applause rang Out Among the witnesses gathered thank you Jesus one Cried Out Josephina Rivera Lisa Thomas Agnes
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Adams and Jackie asins weren't among them as survivors of Gary's crimes they weren't eligible to
01:58:57
attend Jackie celebrated the news of the execution surrounded by loved ones at home telling reporters over the
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phone I've been waiting 13 years for this it was a sentiment shared by Deborah Dudley's sister Carolyn who
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witnessed the execution firsthand it struck her that Gary's death was easy while ra had quote died
01:59:24
like a dog Carolyn told reporters that with Gary gone she felt like a burden had
01:59:31
been lifted from her and her sister could finally be at peace Sandra Lindsay's sister Tracy felt
01:59:41
conflicted one part of her felt relieved like the chapter of their lives involving Gary hetin it could finally be
01:59:47
closed and she could focus on celebrating Sandra's life instead another part of her wished that Gary had
01:59:55
been left to suffer in prison where the women he'd killed would always be there to haunt
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him Tracy hoped to Gary's death would bring her family some sense of closure but it wasn't that
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simple years later Sandra's loved ones continued to Grapple with what had happened tormented by the details about
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how Sandra had died as one Outsider who attended Ed the execution commented in an editorial to
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the Patriot news Sandra Lindsay struggled to find her place in her complicated confusing
02:00:32
world this was not just a crime against her or even our society what Gary henck did to her was
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in my opinion a crime against [Music] humanity when the news first broke about Gary heck's crimes and the extraordinary
02:00:53
tale of the women's survival one of the biggest questions was how could the neighbors have not heard or suspected
02:01:00
anything Deborah Dudley had spent the majority of her nearly 3 months in captivity screaming and fighting for her
02:01:08
life members of the public couldn't help but wonder how nobody had heard the women screaming for help all that
02:01:15
time Gary's house shared a war with a woman named Doris zuka it's turned out that dorus had once
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heard constant banging from next door she thought it might have been Gary trying to get her attention so she
02:01:30
banged back the noise then abruptly stopped Doris later had the chance to ask of the survivors why they didn't let
02:01:40
her know they were trapped at that time they explained they thought it was Gary banging back as some kind of
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test Doris and other neighbors could offer no further explanation as to why they hadn't heard the
02:01:57
women some had seen them enter the property and just assumed they'd left later in the
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night other locals told reporters that given all the drug dealing in the area they'd learned to mind their own
02:02:11
business Gary even had other women visit the house during the period in question
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and none of them had heard or seen anything UNT even the officer who'd run a background check on Gary hadn't bothered
02:02:24
to double check the spelling of his name or dig further to see whether the claims
02:02:28
that he was dangerous were valid the only thing that raised any questions was the stench emanating from
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Gary's home in the days following Sandra Lindsay's death neighbors who knew of Gary's past
02:02:43
suicide attempts were concerned that he might have killed himself thus explaining the
02:02:49
odor an officer visited the premises to conduct a welfare check on Gary and had noted the overwhelming stanch as
02:02:57
well yet even with Sandra Lindsay's family having reported their suspicion that Gary was involved in Sandra's
02:03:04
disappearance the officer accepted Gary's explanation that he' just burnt a roast he planned on having for
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dinner had the police intervened then they would have found Sandra's remains in the kitchen and at the very least
02:03:19
Deborah Dudley's life would have been saved for many the reason this didn't happen is
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simple one retired police commissioner stated in the monster preacher documentary that Gary's Behavior was
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overlooked because he was a white male in an underprivileged neighborhood Who targeted women of
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color Gary's defense lawyer told the documentaries producers I don't want to play the race
02:03:48
card but I have to say the handwriting is on the wall in this case the fact that Sandra Lindsay was
02:03:56
from a poor black family who doesn't have any connections I think that's what ended the
02:04:02
investigation you have good cops and bad cops and stupid cops and smart cops we had a lazy and stupid cop which was a
02:04:12
lethal combination for Sandra a retired detective who worked on the case added if Gary hen's victim had
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been middle class white women everything would have been different I think there would have been
02:04:27
more help for these women more organizations would have come forward to help them and absolutely it would have
02:04:34
been different irrespective of how they got there they were still victims of a crime and Society needs to see them as
02:04:44
that some have said that Gary heiden's crimes are up there with the most sadistic killers in American
02:04:52
history this was further solidified when it was revealed that he'd partly inspired the character of Buffalo Bill
02:04:59
in the famous psychological Thriller novel by Thomas Harris and the film by the same name Silence of the
02:05:07
Lambs Buffalo Bill is the story's main antagonist a serial killer who keeps his female victims in a well within his
02:05:17
basement some still question whether Gary HCK really was s enough to have been eligible for the death penalty
02:05:24
While others question his true motive whether he really did unknowingly forc cannibalism on the surviving women
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also remains Up For Debate when police recovered Sandra Lindsay's remains from Marshall Street
02:05:39
they also seized Gary's food processor and some other appliances despite the claims he'd made
02:05:47
to Josephina Rivero about mixing parts of Sandra's body in with the dog food and feeding it to the others testing of
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these appliances revealed no evidence to support this while this didn't discount the
02:06:00
possibility entirely it meant there was no proof to support allegations of cannibalism whatever the truth Gary was
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right about one thing although the death penalty remains in Pennsylvania and many inmates
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continue to sit on death row no other prisoner has been executed since Gary in 1999 his lawyer doesn't believe that
02:06:26
Gary's refusal to appeal had anything to do with making a political statement he
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told reporters that Gary had heard by targeting black victims as he was quote getting his ass kicked every
02:06:41
single day in jail as far as his lawyer was concerned Gary chose the death penalty to avoid a
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lifetime of beatings the basement at Gary heck's former home on Marshall Street has been filled in
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with the upper floors converted into Apartments but for the women who survived Gary's crimes the psychological
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scars remain Jackie asins was just 18 years old when she was freed from the Marshall
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Street basement weighing in at just 48 lb or roughly 20 kilos she had to regain muscle and
02:07:22
weight and learn how to walk again all these years later she can't bring herself to walk into a basement
02:07:30
and she relies on various medications to help manage her anxiety fear and post-traumatic stress
02:07:37
disorder Jackie told killer profile that after they were freed she wasn't given many tools to deal with the
02:07:45
trauma instead she said you find a way in your heart in your brain to forget something that
02:07:54
tremendous it's like barricade it hide it so you can get on with your life for the most part you got to be happy that
02:08:03
you're free in November 2020 33 years after their escape Jackie asins and Josephina
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Rivera agreed to be reunited for the first time since Gary heck's trial as part of Oxygen's monster preacher
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documentary for all those years Jackie still harbored resentment towards Josephina that all changed when the
02:08:30
women sat down and got to hash out their differing opinions for the first time they both agreed that they should
02:08:37
have had that conversations decades ago so they could have shared their healing journey
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together accepting josephina's apology Jackie said the person that should be apologizing to us is not
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here she hoped they could move forward with a friendship given they were the only ones who could really understand
02:09:01
what the other went through Jackie said maybe that's what we're both missing out of our life each
02:09:12
other Josephina Rivera tries not to dwell on what happened to her but it isn't easy she eventually went went through
02:09:21
extensive therapy beat her drug addiction and reconnected with her children she told killer profile that
02:09:30
she considers it a win when she can go a whole day without thinking about the ordeal that one good day can give her a
02:09:38
light at the end of the tunnel for Josephina a depressive episode can be triggered by something as
02:09:46
small as seeing Workman digging in the road or laying eyes on a screwdriver or chain
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she also struggles with The Unwanted Legacy of surviving the crimes I'm never Josephina Rivera she
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said I'm always henck victim the henck girl the henck this the hick that it's not Josephina
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Rivera it's never over it's just never over [Music] for