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a serial killer was loose
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and investigators had no leads until an
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alert investigator saw something
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no one else had seen
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a possible fingerprint on the victim's
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skin
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the problem
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was how to collect it
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texas city texas is one of the largest
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oil refinery sites in america
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the oil business is labor-intensive
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which poses its own unique set of
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problems
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we have a large population of
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contract workers that come in from out
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of state all over the country come in to
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work at the
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refinery and it greatly impacts the
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community the police department from all
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facets traffic and crime and things like
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that
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that became all too clear
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on may 16 2001
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just after dawn
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in the marshland south of the city
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municipal workers made a gruesome
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discovery
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they found the bodies of two young women
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on the edge of a dirt road
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about 120 feet apart
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the first girl that we came upon
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was nude except for her shoes was bound
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and bloody
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the second one was bloody nude
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the victim's clothing was scattered near
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their bodies
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the contents of their purses had been
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strewn above the scene
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forensic investigators estimated they
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had been dead for less than six hours
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making the time of death
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sometime around midnight
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i've run across a lot of deceased scenes
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and been involved in a lot of homicide
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since
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i haven't seen anything like it you
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could just
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when you saw the first the first body
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the first victim lying there
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you could feel
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the anger
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that was
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was carried out that day at least at
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least i could i could feel it it was uh
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it was horrific
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we were dealing with somebody who's had
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absolutely zero regard for another human
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being he was just
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mean and sorry it was my first thought
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the two women were identified as 31 year
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old dana faisal and 32 year old kami
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kellemann
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background checks revealed both worked
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as prostitutes i do believe that my
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sister was a manic depressant
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and she just couldn't get any help that
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she needed
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so she took towards drugs
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she self-medicated herself
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and
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she got on
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the wrong drug and it just took her
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dana faisal's story was similar
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she had a lifelong drug problem and she
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had been arrested many times by local
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police
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they were both beautiful young ladies
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came from very good families
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had a lot going for him
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it was a tragedy it was a tragedy that
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they
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went down that path why i don't think
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anybody ever knows
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when we got there we realized the
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remoteness of that area
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in the sagebrush and the snakes and the
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coyotes and the insects we couldn't get
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back in there to check to see if there
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was another girl
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that had been killed
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so the coast guard conducted an aerial
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search
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fortunately there were no other victims
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investigators looked at how the crimes
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were committed hoping to find clues to
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the killer's identity
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in their view
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it was a disorganized crime scene
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indicating it might be
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his first murder maybe at the time he
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got caught up in his actions in my
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opinion it was it was kind of a sloppy
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scene for somebody
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to leave so much behind because there
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was so much that was gathered during the
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course investigation
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near the bodies investigators found two
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white washcloths
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we thought of was there dna on it that
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he put in her mouth did he put some
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other sort of substance on it that would
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help him achieve his goal of controlling
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the girl
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investigators also found
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shattered glass on the ground and
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embedded in one of the victims legs
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she apparently kicked out the glass
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to his vehicle and and shattered the
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window and there were some beer cans in
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the area that looked new we picked up
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all those beer cans and certainly you'd
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always pick up those hoping you get
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whatever you get off of them
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investigators collected all of this
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evidence
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not quite sure what if anything
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would help them find the killer
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two young women were murdered in the
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marshlands of southeast texas
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and their families wanted answers
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i gotta say that no matter what they
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were doing
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at the time of their death
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nobody deserves the way they died
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not at all
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a criminal profiler gave police a
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chilling warning the person who
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committed these murders
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would strike again
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he would in no uncertain terms told me
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that this this individual is going to
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produce numerous bodies in this area if
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you don't stop them and stop them
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immediately
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just before they were about to take the
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bodies to the city morgue
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an investigator thought he saw something
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there was a blood smear on cami
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kelleman's left thigh which looked like
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it contained
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a fingerprint
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every minute that you wait is it just
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goes down
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because we know they're out there in the
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elements
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between that and the bodies are starting
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to sweat you have
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animals you have ants anything that will
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start anything deteriorating
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if this was a fingerprint
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lifting it would be difficult
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skin is porous and stretches easily
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two things that usually make it
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impossible to get a usable print
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the odds of getting a bloody print on an
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actual body is
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very slim
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the area around the fingerprint was
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treated with amido black a chemical that
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reacts with the proteins in blood
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the stain
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makes a print visible as in this
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simulation of a print forming on skin
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the amido black enhanced the ridge
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detail of the fingerprint created in
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blood
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anytime you have a lot of blood it will
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just actually cover up your ridges
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so the
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the less blood there is the better print
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would be when you do process it with a
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metal black
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so
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the
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very small places that had just a tiny
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bit of blood that's where i got the
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print
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but there was a problem
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investigators couldn't see the print
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clearly
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so they sent it to the fbi in washington
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dc
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fbi image analyst richard vorder brugie
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scanned the image and examined it
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digitally on a computer
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he immediately saw the problem
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the texture of the skin on the victim's
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leg
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obscured the fingerprint
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there are two different patterns we're
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dealing with here you're dealing with
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the pattern of the fingerprint which is
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a very specific type of pattern and then
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we've got this this texture of the skin
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that is distinct from the fingerprint
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with the aid of the computer vorder
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brugi had to first identify the victim's
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skin pattern
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then have the computer remove as much of
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that as possible it's a trial and error
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technique it's not unlike an
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archaeologist using a dental tool to to
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scrape away fine pieces
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and leave the artifact intact as opposed
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to taking a bit a pick ax
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and just
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swinging for the fences
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the computer helped identify the
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repeating patterns of the victim's skin
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and
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i can show you
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how you can get rid of those wavelengths
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by just
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sending all of those bright spots to
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zero
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and what was left
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was the print presumably of the killer
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all investigators needed now was a
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suspect's print to compare it to
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meanwhile
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another print found at the scene a tire
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impression had significant potential
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it was clearly from the side wall of a
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tire for those conditions to exist such
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as the pressure of the tire hitting the
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side of the mud and the moisture and the
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type of soil
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it was one in a million shot that that
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actually came out as perfect as it did
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it was so perfect
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that technicians could actually read the
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brand of the tire
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we saw the entire commander logo on
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there which is very very rare it was in
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perfect condition when we we saw it
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casts were made of the print
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and when they were examined marks along
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the treads showed
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something unusual
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we concluded with the assistance of the
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tire manufacturer that these were snow
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tires well
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if you've ever lived in
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this part of texas you know we don't
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need snow tires investigators worked
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with the manufacturer to identify where
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these tires were sold
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we were able to conclude that these
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tires were actually sold in a particular
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area of colorado my initial thoughts
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that day were
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how in the world are we going to find
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this person
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it was an england haystack
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the murders of two prostitutes had texas
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police believing they were dealing with
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a potential serial killer well i think
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he's a monster i think we all realized
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the magnitude of what we had and that
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this was going to happen again if we
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couldn't solve it
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we would have another one to solve
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investigators spoke to other prostitutes
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in the area hoping one of them might
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help them they have a wealth of
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information of what goes on out there i
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mean if you can get a good rapport with
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with one of the girls
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you'd be surprised at the amount of
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information they know everything that
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goes on in the streets
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and that's how they uncovered an
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important piece of information
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another local prostitute said she was
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attacked three days before the murders
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she had been taken out to the same area
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and she had been treated in much
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the same way as we suppose these other
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girls were treated other than the fact
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she was not killed
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she said the man tried to tie her hands
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behind her back with medical tape and
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gag her with a white rag
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fortunately she escaped
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by the grace of god she was able to to
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get loose or free herself enough
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and she had the will to survive that
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night she had the will to survive she
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was able to walk that long lonely dark
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desolate scary walk
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to the highway
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she described her assailant as hispanic
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in his early 30s with the tattoo of a
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dagger on his right forearm
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and he was driving
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a white car
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she gave us a partial license plate of
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of c41
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and three out of six is pretty good to
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uh to to keep an eye out for and look
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for
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incredibly
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she said she kept the washcloth he used
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to gag her
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it was made by the same manufacturer and
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had the same thread count as the
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washcloth found at the murder scene
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she did everything right she's pretty
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street savvy she has uh
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she's been around she's been in some
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situations
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i would expect she'd been in situations
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where she depended on her wits and
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nothing else to save her
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authorities combed the area for a man
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and a car that fit the woman's
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description
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a check of motor vehicle records
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indicated there were many white cars
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with a c41 on the license plate
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we picked up
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several hispanic males driving a small
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white car
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and they were brought in we took
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dna samples we took tire
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pictures of tires and
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and we were investigating everything we
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could
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three days later
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detective paul edinburg was driving into
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work and he passed a suspicious looking
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car headed out of town
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i just happened to look to my right
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and there was a a small white four-door
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car
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this one caught my attention and saw the
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first three
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on the license plate is c41
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and i'm telling you my heart i think
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stopped beating
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edinburgh pulled the car over
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the driver was 30 year old jose
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castillon an orderly at a local nursing
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home
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i saw the forum
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with a tattoo of a dagger on there and
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i i was two or three seconds i was i was
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speechless because what's going through
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my mind now
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is this is the guy that
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everybody's been talking about
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interestingly
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castion's stepfather was a texas police
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officer
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castion's only previous brush with the
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law was a misdemeanor conviction for
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which he served no time in jail
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when questioned castillon denied any
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involvement in the murders
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employment and motor vehicle records
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showed castillon had recently moved to
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texas from colorado and bought a set of
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commander brand snow tires when he was
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there
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these were similar to the impressions
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found at the crime scene
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we saw a lot of uniformity between the
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tire impressions of the defendant's
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vehicle to the actual cast that we had
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taken from the crime scene
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as far as tread design tread size
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the logo itself
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investigators noticed
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the back window of castillon's car was
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broken
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pieces of that window were compared to
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the glass found on the leg of one of the
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murder victims
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the refractive index
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a measure of the speed of light as it
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passes through the glass was identical
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in both samples
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finally
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investigators compared castion's
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fingerprints to the bloody print found
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on one victim's leg
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it matched
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the middle finger
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on his right hand
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it was a huge moment it was the
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definitive moment in
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we've got a very very good case
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and let's get it to trial we've got the
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right man without a doubt
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two days after the murder of dana faisal
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and kami kelemann jose castillon was
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arrested and charged with two counts of
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murder
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but prosecutors wanted to know
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why
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police assumed alcohol was involved so
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they analyzed the beer cans found at the
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crime scene
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through the code on the on the beer cans
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contact the manufacturer to find out
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where those beer cans would have been
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what lot would they have been sold in
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where was that lot sold they tracked it
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down to the store and that store's
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computerized sales system indicated a
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man bought the beer on the same night as
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the murders they examined their receipts
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and found that this particular batch of
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beer was sold at this particular time
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and sure enough he'd written a check
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for beer
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the check was written
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for
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19.68 cents
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by
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jose castellon
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and what about
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the white washcloths
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casteon worked at a nursing home that
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used hundreds of white washcloths every
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day
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they took us back into their laundry
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area and we dug through and found
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washcloths from the same manufacturer
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same description same thread count same
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so we knew we had a link
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prosecutors believe castillon probably
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picked up both victims at the same time
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he was drinking
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and carelessly discarded the beer cans
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the bar code proved that castillon
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bought them
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apparently
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castillon bound the women with tape and
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gagged them with washcloths he stole
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from work
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one of the girls kicked the rear
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windshield and broke it
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a shard of glass stuck to her leg
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after the murders
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when he dragged the women into the grass
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he left the bloody fingerprint on kami
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kelemann's thigh
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when he drove away
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he left his tire impressions in the soft
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mud
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i can't even begin to imagine and i
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really don't want to imagine
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they probably went out and decided that
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they were going to go get high and party
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a little bit and
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she just got in the wrong car
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i think they were friends and
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at one point they were picked up
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together
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and one saw the horror of the other one
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dying
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evidence technicians working fast and in
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difficult conditions performed a minor
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miracle by retrieving a print from the
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victim's skin
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later computer technology enhanced the
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print and proved
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jose castillon
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was the killer
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the tire impression 2
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was an almost perfect specimen
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i think that if you tried a thousand
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times to duplicate that tire impression
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you could never do it the circumstances
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had to be exact
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that he had been pretty sloppy
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considering he did leave so much
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evidence behind
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maybe he just wanted to be caught
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because a lot of these cases they don't
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have that much evidence
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and there was just gobs of evidence
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facing a certain death sentence
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castion agreed to plead guilty to
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capital murder and kidnapping
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and was sentenced to life in prison
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without parole
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it was overwhelming how many people do
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you think walk in
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and want to play the two consecutive
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live sentences if they thought they had
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a chance
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no one perhaps not even jose castillon
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himself knows
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what caused his rage toward women
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i can only rely upon what the
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psychiatrist told us when we met with
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him it began as control
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dominance hatred towards women
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and he said it manifested itself
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initially as
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just minor acts of violence
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but
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gradually would become more brutal and
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now that he'd taken the step that he had
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that it was it was just going to be a
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downhill spiral from there
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the nature of the crime indicates
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he was a serial killer in the making
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but the decision to process the crime
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scene quickly and the technology that
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helped identify the print
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provided all the evidence needed to keep
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him from claiming
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even more victims
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i think the fingerprint with the new
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science and with people willing to
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experiment to get the science where it's
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accepted in court was
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was phenomenal that's one of the great
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things about this technology is that it
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in this case
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it made
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a piece of evidence
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that was effectively useless
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a critical component in the prosecution
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of this case
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if you got a you know a fingerprint is
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accepted in every court in the land as
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being conclusive
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and
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if you've got a
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the body
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of a female out here and has
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an individual's fingerprint
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on her body in blood
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and what else can that tell you except
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he was there
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he has handled that body sometime
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after there was blood on
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you
