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in January
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1983 the discovery of a young woman's
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skeletal remains LED New Jersey
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detectives to the door of Richard Beal a
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serial killer with a very specific
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choice of victims dark hair dark eyes
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and and and darker skin these are the
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attributes which brought big world to
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withraw killings when investigators
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scratched the surface they found Bean
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wal not only killed for pleasure he also
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had a long list of victims he murdered
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for
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money beon wal was a mob enforcer a
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killer for higher beegan wall began his
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murderous career age just 17 years old
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he would go on to kill at least six
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people though some believe his tally of
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victims is much higher
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it was like if he said I I'll kill you
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you had to believe if he got a chance he
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was going to kill you he was a cold
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blooded killer he had no
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remorse uh he was a sociopath a man
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happy to kill for any reason or for no
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reason at all Richard bewal has earned
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the title of one of the world's most
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evil kills
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in 1983 when the full extent of Richard
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Bean Wall's crimes were reported across
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the United States the public was
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horrified it was like no matter what you
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did you turned the TV on you turned the
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radio it was Richard because we had
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never had anything like that before as
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well as committing a long list of
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murders Bean wal along with an
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accomplice appeared to be planning to
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carry out even greater
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atrocities they had a Mac semi-automatic
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weapon but they were engineering
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cigarette lighters to be 22 caliber
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handguns they had bombs they had d rape
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drugs and some
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sedatives what possibly could have you
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know happened with the bombs what was
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happening the next week that we didn't
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know
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about this wasn't the kind of guy who
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wanted to get caught this was the kind
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of guy who was just going to keep going
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regardless you catch me when you catch
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me and if you kill me you kill me that
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that kind of a person what I would
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describe as a real psychopath
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this killer Story begins on Staten
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Island New York Richard Bing world was
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born in August of 1940 to Albert and
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Sally banor a couple that to say the
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least was dysfunctional he didn't have a
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good childhood you know his father had a
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leg amputated he was a drinker and was
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an abusive both husband and father
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author Jon o rock has delved deep into
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Bean Wall's trouble back ground his
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problems started when he was still just
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a
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baby there's a small infant he was doing
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unusual body movement if you will
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stopping and just staring
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momentarily uh just odd behavior
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patterns that as time went on indicated
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to them that it was there was definitely
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a
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problem he was diagnosed with
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schizophrenia kind of before he was even
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a teenager and that's really
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unusual another attribute that he had
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was fascination with death from early on
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he just didn't fit in he was very
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impulsive he actually set himself on
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fire as as a kid I believe was eight
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eight when he set himself on fire the
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young Bean wal also displayed another
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worrying trait abusing
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animals his fascination with um hurting
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animals and and death uh ultimately
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increased to the point where they
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brought Richard to Belleville Hospital
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in New York the Psychiatric Center
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trying to seek help Richard spent his
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childhood in institutions designed to
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help him find a way in the world to keep
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to the straight and narrow they did
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exactly the opposite attorney Lou
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Diamond who represented Bean wal as an
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adult believes the treatment the young
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child was given made his problems worse
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not better they gave him electric shock
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therapy to an
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8-year-old and then threw cold water on
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him naked and let him sleep on a on the
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iron table at night and he'd have to
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urinate on himself to stay warm an
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8-year-old and we ask where do these
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people come from we make them and in
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those days it was
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unknown what it could lead to and what
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it led to was Richard they took the
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young boy out of him
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far too
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early this was a person who had problems
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from the beginning if we overlay that
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with the abuse in the home as well and
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overlay that again with some of the
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treatments the electro convulsive
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therapy treatments that he had this guy
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was never going to be a functioning
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adult as time moved on and he got older
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his behavior pattern increased well he
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was starting to get involved in some
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criminal activity was breaking into into
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cars uh stealing things smoke sort of
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smoking in an early age and room has it
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that he was even drinking at you know
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before he was 10 he was he was consuming
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alcohol maybe mimicking his father in
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1957 16-year-old Bean wal was living
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back with his mother on Staten Island it
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soon became clear he was far from a
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reformed
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character he dropped out of school and
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started stealing things stealing cars
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and committing crimes he went down to
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Tennessee and he stole a car and brought
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it into Kentucky or vice versa and he
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did a almost a year in a reform St when
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he was released once again Bean Wall's
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offending drastically
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escalated in December 1958 Bean wal and
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a teenage accomplice entered a grocery
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store in own New Jersey by the time they
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walked out the owner was
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dead the first victim was Steven slowski
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A store owner uh an entrepreneur who was
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a
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lawyer and a prosecutor in in town well
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respected individual I think he walked
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in to the store with the intent of
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actually killing him and that's exactly
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what he did he walked into the store
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with the sort of shotgun what
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conversation took place we don't know
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but what we do know is he shot him with
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with the with the shotgun and then fled
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to store uh and he decided to flee and
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he fled South I don't
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know necessarily if he had a destination
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in mind other than getting uh as far
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away from Bon and Staten Island as he
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could along with his accomplice who
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thought he was simply taking part in a
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grocery store robbery Bean wal went on
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the run from the police
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went through
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Delaware had a shoot out in
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Delaware went to Maryland they had a
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shoot out there and eventually he got
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shot in the
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face the story Richard told me was that
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when they came to arrest him tracked him
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down it was like surreal it was snowing
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a little bit and they had him surrounded
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with with the shotguns and everything
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and he had his gun and he's telling
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himself what should I do and he was
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considering letting him shoot him
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this is a guy who's not invested in what
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the world has to offer him at all he's
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just going to do what he wants to do
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he's got no respect for the world or its
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rules I I would question whether he even
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had that much respect for his own
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mortality and it was inevitable really I
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suppose that he was going to start
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killing people at just 18 years old
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Richard Bean old had committed his first
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murder he plad guilty and was sentenced
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to life in prison with the possibility
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of parole the first few years in prison
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were problematic he had to defend
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himself let it be known not to mess with
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him he not only survived he thrived
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there as time went on he realized that
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he does have a possibility for
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parole it's time
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to start complying start showing that
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you are
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capable of being reintroduced into
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society turns himself into the perfect
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prisoner a model prisoner he's
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everybody's friend gets on well with his
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fellow inmates and in
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1975 he's released well the world is his
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oyster he returned to Staten Island his
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mother was living on shot's Road in
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Staten Island so he was living with his
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mother and immediately was able to pick
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up some labor work painting some
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mechanic jobs Staten Island is known for
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a community that is rich in organized
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criminal activity and it is believed
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that he somehow caught the eye of of an
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organized crime
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Network he was
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working odd construction jobs and also
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doing collection work for good
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people I believe he would been a very
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good collector when you owe money to a
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bookmaker or somebody like that and you
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don't pay you didn't have to look at his
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body you looked in his eyes and you knew
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you should pay if the rumors were true
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Bean Wald was willing even happy to do
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whatever Dirty Work his criminal bosses
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asked of him one might be said that he
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was for hire I would think mostly to
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make sure the problem disappeared
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it was work that suited Bean Wall's
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ruthless nature and his taste for
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extreme
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violence he always used
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22s because with or without silences
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because the bullet would rattle around
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in the person's head he would go and
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pick up hookers or drug deers in newk
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and test out new guns and and silencers
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on them and back outs they have these
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trash cans in New York City heavy broad
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IR with holes in them and
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everything and he loved chopping people
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up and he would put the body parts in
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there and wire the tops and then throw
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them off a boat in the Jersey sound and
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let the crabs eat
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them he was so devoid of empathy I think
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that made him incredibly
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dangerous in
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1978 Lou Diamond got a call to represent
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Bean wal who was is in jail accused of
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rape so I went down to the courthouse to
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meet him in the jail cells for the first
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time and he was a unique looking person
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um he had blondish red hair and he had
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these piercing blue eyes you know that
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just right through you right away his
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attorney realizes this is a man who is
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highly intelligent so he turns to big
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and wal and he says you have a very
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interesting hair color oh and by the way
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we're having a lineup tomorrow and he
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walks out of the jail cell we got to
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court the next day and everybody was
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yelling and screaming I went downstairs
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and he was
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bald ultimately leading to him not
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getting picked out of the lineup and he
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gets released back into society Bean
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Wall's female victim was denied Justice
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and for several years he dropped off the
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radar of law enforcement
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in 1980 P ofal meets a much younger
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woman Diane whom he marries and they
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move to asrey park in New
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Jersey famous for its music culture and
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liberal politics Asbury Park was an
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unlikely home for a convicted
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killer for a couple of years Bean wall
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did not attract the attention of the
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police but that did not mean he wasn't
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committing crimes in fact his taste for
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brutality seemed to know no
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bounds in January of
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1983 two kids are playing in an
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abandoned lot Jason to a Burger King
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parking lot during their little
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Adventure going into this this paral
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land they discover a body Decay by then
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basically skeletal remains with some
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clothing interesting no
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shoes I was the detective on duty my
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captain sent me out there take a charge
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of the cross I'm seeing Kevin Quinn was
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the first person to examine the female
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body she had a black shirt on and jeans
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and the body was faced down with her
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arms kind of outstretched her feet kind
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of outstretched and the hair had kind of
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fallen down around the skull some and
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then we moved the hair just a little bit
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and I remember seeing the first hole and
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it's you can't mistake it it was a
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bullet hole we actually found when we
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picked up the skull we could hear the
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spent rounds inside the head
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comedy the medical examiner concluded
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the young woman had been dead for
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several months and confirm what
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detectives already knew she had been
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brutally murdered shot several times in
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the back of the head at close
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range there was nothing on the body to
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identify who this murdered woman was but
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within a day or so investigators had
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their answer it gets reported in a paper
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a description of the woman with her
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clothing a local police officer by the
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name of Mike Dowling sipping his cup of
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coffee reading his newspaper and he
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noticed the article and the victim had
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no shoes and that Drew him back to the
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summer before Oran of
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82 where he had been summoned to a
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missing person's case a woman named Anna
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oarts who went missing on the Asbury
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Park
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Boardwalk she had come to the boardwalk
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with a friend and they were at the
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boardwalk together the friend had to go
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I guess she had to use a bathroom at
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which point she left Anna there at the
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boardwalk and went to this place to use
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the bathroom and when she got back an it
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was missing she was
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gone it was a round Labor Day so the
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beach was still unutilized it was still
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warm enough and they were walking around
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and they must have been on the beach and
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stuff maybe that's why she didn't have
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her shoes on we got dental records and
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sure enough the dental records matched
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anal lesu the police had identified
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their 18-year-old victim but that was
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all they had at this stage of the
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investigation
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we had no suspects we had nothing really
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other than a a body with skeleton with
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three holes and three boards we had no
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motive in this case there was no no sign
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of of sexual assault where do you start
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what's the motivation for this murder
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most people are murdered by somebody
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they
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know but in a case like this it's quite
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possible that it was somebody that they
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they didn't know so that makes it even
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more difficult if if there's no
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relationship between the victim and the
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killer the police are at a huge
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disadvantage for the next 7 Days
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detectives searched for clues in the
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hopes of cracking the case then a
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witness came forward with an incredible
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story to tell a young lady came into the
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police department by the name of Teresa
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Smith Teresa Smith said she had
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something to tell us about the uh
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homicide involving an
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anls Teresa started laying out this
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story about this guy named Richard bald
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who liked going hunting on the boardwalk
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and finding victims she knew that
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Richard had killed a girl and that he
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had actually shown her the body Teresa
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told detectives that about a year
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earlier she'd become friends with a
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coworker Diane bewal Diane introduced
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Teresa to her husband Richard and the
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two had embarked upon an unconventional
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relationship with Theresa moving into
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the couple's
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apartment have this extraordinary
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Menage there's no doubt that Not only
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was Richard married to Diane but that
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Teresa had a relationship with Richard
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they were much younger than he was man
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in his early 40s there in their 20s he
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represented something exciting out of
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the orary indeed many ways dramatic so
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you can sort of see how that might have
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been quite
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intoxicating being a world had been
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trying to groom
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Teresa to take part in his
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killings the night Anna went
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missing beegan W led her off the
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boardwalk with marijuana he drove Anna
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the victim who still we believe was
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still alive
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to the apartment in Asbury Park he goes
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into the
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house and he goes up to the bedroom to
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Teresa's bedroom and wakes her up he
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wants
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her to help in killing Anna and Teresa
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probably in a sleep induced drug sleep
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induced uh comr couldn't couldn't get
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herself up out of bed she does remember
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staring out the window and seeing a a
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female figure in the
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car the next morning Teresa discovered
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that bean Wald had done what Teresa
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refused to he'd murdered Anna oeso witz
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vegan took Teresa to see her body in the
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shed behind their apartment block and to
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touch it he said you touch the body see
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what it feels like and the body also had
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a ring black and gold ring which he
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subsequently took off the body and gave
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to Theresa Teresa moves out horrified by
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the sight of the body starts
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relationship with somebody else they go
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away on holiday and when they come back
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in January 1983 5 months after she's
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moved
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out there's the news of the discovery of
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Anna's body behind the Burger King she
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is physically sick and she knew that
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that was the victim that she was shown
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in the shed that big wanted her to touch
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logically concluding that the only
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witness connecting Richard bald to an
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artz was Teresa Smith she panicked she
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knew that time wasn't on her side she
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realizes oh shoot he's going to kill
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me Theresa's story was compelling but
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was any of it true officers needed to
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investigate we do a background check and
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find out who this guy is you know we
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find out he's had previously done time
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for murder Teresa had told detectives of
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seeing Anna alowitz sitting in the
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passenger seat of bean wald's car just
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before he murdered her a couple of days
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later Bean wal had abruptly sold the car
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when Kevin Quinn tracked it down it told
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a story of its own I could see up in the
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headliner of the car blood splatter and
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actually holes from one of the rounds
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that probably went up in a headliner at
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a car there was blood on the seat that
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they had cleaned in detailing the car to
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for
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sale
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not quite perfect
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enough after confirming the details of
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Theresa's wild story detectives were
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sure that Richard Bean Wald had murdered
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Anna alowitz
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Theresa also told them that bean wal may
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not have been working alone he had an
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accomplice who lived in the same
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building Darren Fitzgerald was a friend
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of Richie Richie Bon wals they met in
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prison when Darren got out he looked
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Richie up they then moved to Asbury Park
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and there was four or five apartments in
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this address and Darren took another
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apartment in there so they were living
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together they were friends down
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Fitzgerald is a very strong figure a
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very masculine man
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has violent
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tendencies if not for big and W I'd say
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he was the leader but big wal was that
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strong of an imposing figure when the
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Asbury Park police looked into his
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background Fitzgerald appeared to be a
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loyal foot soldier with a predel for
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violence Fitzgerald a lot of his
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reputation although he was involved in
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in some criminal stuff and he did some
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serious jail time involving weapons and
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and guns and violent CRI time was a
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little bit of Bluster where big a world
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was not to Big a world Fitzgerald was a
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was a
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reliable coworker if you will someone
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who could be dependent upon someone that
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would keep his mouth
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shut these were the men detectiv
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suspected of murdering 18-year-old Anna
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alowitz their intelligence painted a
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picture of two ruthless Killers who had
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to be
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stopped on the 22nd of January 1983
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detective William Lucia and his team
00:23:31
prepared for a high stakes raid on bean
00:23:34
wals and Fitzgerald's
00:23:38
home we were told that there was a lot
00:23:41
of dangerous items in the house by way
00:23:45
of firearms and bombs and snakes and so
00:23:49
we knew that it was a risky
00:23:52
situation once the police know this they
00:23:54
have to have a plan to make sure that
00:23:56
they're not walking into literally Al a
00:23:58
trap and so they have to find a way of
00:24:01
getting beel out of the house unarmed so
00:24:04
that they can arrest him they dressed up
00:24:06
one of the detectives and they put him
00:24:08
in the backyard of bean wal's house and
00:24:12
the Detective knocked on Bon Wall's door
00:24:15
and said you know we found this guy as a
00:24:17
Prowler and myself other
00:24:22
detectives we hid by beond the house
00:24:25
next door and he's like all confused
00:24:29
and that was probably just enough to get
00:24:31
him to take one or two steps out the
00:24:34
door onto the porch and we all just
00:24:36
pounced on them and we had him up
00:24:39
against the wall handcuffed them and
00:24:41
then dragged them down the driveway and
00:24:44
put him in a Asbury Police Court with
00:24:47
one of the men suspected of murdering
00:24:50
teenager Anna alowitz in custody it was
00:24:53
time to track down Bean Wall's alleged
00:24:55
accomplice Darren Fitzgerald
00:24:59
and to find out if Theresa Smith's
00:25:01
claims about this house of horrors were
00:25:06
true we had been tipped off to the fact
00:25:09
that fitgerald had built a little room
00:25:12
in his apartment with a two-way mirror
00:25:15
that he could hide in so we went in the
00:25:17
house basically I went through the door
00:25:19
and I saw the
00:25:21
mirror and we kept pulling on the mirror
00:25:24
from the bottom cuz it was like you
00:25:27
could see it was hinged on on the to
00:25:29
when they were pulling you could almost
00:25:32
see like somebody was hanging on to the
00:25:34
other end of it for Joel was inside
00:25:37
there and he had I know one rifle but
00:25:41
maybe more weapons in there they had
00:25:44
actually marijuana plants and stuff and
00:25:46
other stuff in there too there was like
00:25:48
25 or 30 of these bombs in there all
00:25:54
fused up and ready to go and then they
00:25:56
had obviously tons of
00:25:59
guns and a submachine gun and it had
00:26:03
Teflon bullets that they had coded
00:26:05
themselves which would defeat a
00:26:07
bulletproof vest Darren Fitzgerald was
00:26:10
quickly disarmed and cuffed when
00:26:12
detective Quinn and his team of crime
00:26:14
scene officers moved in to scour the
00:26:17
property there were even more Grizzly
00:26:19
surprises awaiting
00:26:23
them and as we went inside the house
00:26:26
went through the kitchen into the living
00:26:28
room room there's a big gaping hole in
00:26:31
the living room floor and that's where
00:26:33
beg and Wald had his bedroom in the
00:26:35
basement we found a lot of guns couple
00:26:38
of explosive devices a poisonous snake
00:26:41
we found a ring which we believe to have
00:26:45
been ano lesa's ring which we confirmed
00:26:48
later we found a gun that ballistically
00:26:51
later on turned out to be the murder
00:26:53
weapon on
00:26:56
Antz they had knock knockout drops
00:26:59
chloral hydrate and then of course you
00:27:00
turn around and there's a big aquarium
00:27:03
with this puff add looking at you
00:27:05
African puff one of the most poisonous
00:27:08
snakes in the world as they continued to
00:27:10
search the bizarre Arsenal detectives
00:27:13
began to piece together the deadly plans
00:27:15
Bean wal and his associate had been
00:27:18
making and they discover this arsenal of
00:27:22
Weaponry plus a notebook and the
00:27:24
notebook contains all manner of details
00:27:27
about individual targets
00:27:28
about the plan of the shopping mall they
00:27:30
intended to attack a pipe bomb you know
00:27:33
and how they might use it they also had
00:27:36
something called
00:27:37
DMSO and I know DMSO is dthy
00:27:41
sulfoxide and whatever you mix with that
00:27:44
will absorb through the skin but I see
00:27:48
the snake I see that they're milking the
00:27:51
Venom cuz I recognized they had a jar
00:27:54
with a cellophane or something over the
00:27:57
top and and teeth bite marks from the
00:28:01
snake and I said oh my God what they
00:28:03
were going to mix
00:28:05
DMSO the snake venom which would make
00:28:09
you die real quick and paint it on the
00:28:13
ear pieces of
00:28:15
payones and then sit in the boardwalk
00:28:19
and watch people Teel over I guess after
00:28:23
they talk there was an address with some
00:28:25
numbers it was the chief judge of to the
00:28:28
state of New Jersey's parking spot at
00:28:30
his country
00:28:32
club gosh thinking about the danger that
00:28:35
vegan wal poses to society huge massive
00:28:40
massive nobody would want to come in
00:28:43
this gu eyeline and potentially become
00:28:48
the next
00:28:49
Target Richard Bean Wald and Darren
00:28:52
Fitzgerald had both been arrested on
00:28:54
suspicion of murdering 18-year-old
00:28:57
tourist an or lesowitz but if cops were
00:29:00
hoping for a confession from Bean Wald
00:29:03
they would be waiting a long
00:29:05
time you know we arrested him and that
00:29:08
was it for a while he would not talk not
00:29:11
no nobody was you know nobody was giving
00:29:14
us any information I had
00:29:17
suspected that Anna LESA wasn't the only
00:29:20
person this guy killed I mean you just
00:29:22
don't all of a sudden just kill somebody
00:29:25
that you don't know da after his arrest
00:29:29
Bean Wall's accomplice Darren Fitzgerald
00:29:32
decided to talk and what he told James
00:29:35
Fagan Pro the prosecutor right Anna was
00:29:39
not Bean Wall's only victim there were
00:29:42
many many
00:29:44
more so Darren fitzerald comes forward
00:29:46
and says if I give you the locations of
00:29:50
a few bodies that I help big wall to
00:29:54
dispose
00:29:55
of can we Dr the charges of of murder CU
00:29:58
I had no involvement in in her death
00:30:01
other than helping dispose of the body
00:30:03
and that
00:30:05
started uh very many days weeks and
00:30:08
months of going to different places and
00:30:11
digging up and finding other bodies one
00:30:14
of the victims Fitzgerald told the cops
00:30:16
about was 34-year-old William Ward who'd
00:30:20
been killed in September
00:30:22
1982 the murder weapon had been found
00:30:24
during the search of bean Wall's
00:30:26
basement bedroom
00:30:29
Ward was just a a drug dealer who really
00:30:32
had no dealings with ban World Ward had
00:30:35
gone to the house in Asbury Park and met
00:30:38
up with Darren Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald
00:30:42
and him got into an
00:30:44
altercation at which point big and Wald
00:30:47
came out of the house with a gun and
00:30:49
shot him in the head five times Fitz
00:30:51
Gerald helped B World dispose of William
00:30:54
Ward's body I believe in the
00:30:56
cemetery Gerald led us to that body and
00:31:00
we were able to locate it and actually
00:31:03
recovered the body of Ward as they are
00:31:06
preparing their case and still figuring
00:31:09
out how many bodies there are they
00:31:12
realize that besides William Ward a
00:31:15
local criminal comes forward and
00:31:19
says I know Richard being World killed
00:31:21
another person uh at an abandoned
00:31:25
airport in Flemington New Jersey Jersey
00:31:28
a man by the name of John
00:31:32
Patron Patron was an associate who ban
00:31:37
wal found out he was a state police
00:31:39
informant and asked him to go out target
00:31:41
shooting one day and shot him in the
00:31:44
head we did dig up part of John Patron
00:31:48
in the State game Lance um it was
00:31:51
missing his lower
00:31:53
mandible very quickly Fitzgerald had
00:31:56
helped asrey Park Police tie Richard
00:31:58
Bean wall to three unsolved murders Anna
00:32:02
alowitz William Ward and the 1978
00:32:06
killing of John Patron and as
00:32:09
investigators kept digging they were
00:32:11
sure that they were barely scratching
00:32:13
the surface they were building a picture
00:32:15
of a man who killed when business
00:32:17
matters demanded it but also to feed his
00:32:21
own Twisted
00:32:23
needs which makes him
00:32:26
different than the average serial killer
00:32:30
the profile is different because in
00:32:34
addition to his thrill killings he had
00:32:37
this criminal connection that was almost
00:32:41
businesslike and the thrill killings
00:32:43
were his his relaxation if you will
00:32:46
through the spring of 1983 with Bean
00:32:49
Wald in custody detectives were
00:32:51
horrified to discover the full extent of
00:32:53
his murderous spree I asked them to pull
00:32:57
missing P persons and specifically young
00:33:01
girls in either the Ocean County or the
00:33:04
mammoth County area and sure enough
00:33:06
there were a couple of girls that were
00:33:09
just gone from Ocean and then there was
00:33:12
another girl that was gone from
00:33:14
Mammoth cold cases are really really
00:33:17
difficult for police don't know who the
00:33:19
Killer is don't know what their
00:33:21
motivation was don't even know if they
00:33:23
had any relationship at all with the
00:33:26
victim and you've got to go back however
00:33:28
many months years that that victim has
00:33:32
been dead and try and recreate their
00:33:35
last movements incredibly difficult the
00:33:38
first of these missing persons cases
00:33:40
linked to Bean Wald was that of
00:33:42
17-year-old Betsy bacon who disappeared
00:33:46
in November
00:33:47
1982 she was from seagar I suspect she
00:33:50
was
00:33:51
hitchhiking and he picked her up Betsy
00:33:55
Bacon's body was found in tinon fall
00:33:58
P Gerald had described that Richie B and
00:34:00
wal had killed this girl asked him to
00:34:03
help him get rid of the body so he led
00:34:06
us to that area which we went to and
00:34:10
believe it or not we spotted a
00:34:13
hands coming out from the
00:34:15
dirt detectives also linked another
00:34:19
homicide Cold Case to the man they had
00:34:21
in custody 17-year-old Virginia Clayton
00:34:25
who'd vanished in the Autumn of 1982
00:34:28
after heading to a beach town just down
00:34:30
the coast from Asbury
00:34:35
Park she went missing in
00:34:38
September her body was found only 3 days
00:34:40
later however there was no connection to
00:34:42
Rich and Big W at that time it wasn't
00:34:44
until after he was arrested and and the
00:34:46
bodies coming in that the authorities
00:34:49
were able to piece together the profile
00:34:52
of these throw killings time frame where
00:34:54
Richard be world was and the likely
00:34:57
victims
00:34:58
Virginia was one of his victims they
00:35:01
were just terrible just terrible you
00:35:03
know and then the deal with the parents
00:35:06
you know it's just a heartbreak you know
00:35:07
it really is the roster of bean Wall's
00:35:11
victims was getting longer by the day
00:35:14
then Darren Fitzgerald asked to meet
00:35:16
prosecutor James Fagen once again and
00:35:19
bean Wall's accomplice was armed with
00:35:22
another bombshell so I sat down with
00:35:26
Fitzgerald and he says you know two
00:35:29
bodies are in his mother's backyard in
00:35:34
Staten Island he said well one I I came
00:35:38
home one time
00:35:39
and pan wal had chopped this girl up and
00:35:44
put put her in plastic bags and wanted
00:35:46
my help in burying her in his mother's
00:35:49
backyard I helped him dig a hole and
00:35:51
when I'm digging it there was another
00:35:54
body there in plastic bag bags also cut
00:35:59
up we went out to the house and we
00:36:03
executed our search warrant and we dug
00:36:05
where he alleged that the bodies were
00:36:08
and yes we did find those two
00:36:12
bodies I had suspected who they were but
00:36:15
we had to get identification took them
00:36:17
to the New York Medical examiner's
00:36:19
Office detectives went back to the list
00:36:22
of missing teenage girls from the early
00:36:25
1980s after Bean Wald had moved to the
00:36:28
Jersey
00:36:29
Shore there was a Deborah Osborne and a
00:36:32
Maria
00:36:33
Chella U who I won't forget that cuz I
00:36:36
used to have a picture of her on my desk
00:36:39
Maria went missing in November of 1981
00:36:43
Deborah uh went missing in April of
00:36:47
82 these women these young women were
00:36:49
not sexually assaulted they were simply
00:36:51
shot in the head that it is it's
00:36:56
horrifying genuinely
00:36:58
that they were entirely innocent victims
00:37:01
of a man who wanted to kill detectives
00:37:04
realized there was a strong physical
00:37:06
resemblance between all of bean Wall's
00:37:08
teenage victims and his former
00:37:11
girlfriend Theresa Smith who' brought
00:37:13
about Bean Wall's downfall when she went
00:37:16
to the police months earlier to
00:37:18
implicate him in the murder of Anna
00:37:21
Elizabet 18 to 22 somewhere around that
00:37:24
that age range dark hair brown eyes nice
00:37:27
very attractive petite that he would
00:37:31
Target and somehow some way that was
00:37:34
probably connected to Teresa because she
00:37:37
was a living breathing girlfriend of his
00:37:41
that looked very familiar to his victims
00:37:45
now linked to seven coldblooded killings
00:37:48
Richard Bean Wald wasn't talking to the
00:37:50
cops facing the death penalty if
00:37:53
convicted he asked his mother Sally to
00:37:56
contact attorney diamond and beg him to
00:37:59
save Bean Wall's life she told me nice
00:38:02
nice lady uh that Richard had been
00:38:05
arrested put the news
00:38:06
on and Richard had been arrested for a
00:38:09
murder so I agreed to go to Trenton
00:38:12
State Prison to interview him they were
00:38:15
going for the death penalty which was an
00:38:17
existence thing so there was no plea
00:38:19
offer a conversation takes place between
00:38:23
big wal and his attorney if I give up a
00:38:26
number of
00:38:28
IES will
00:38:30
they take the death penalty off the
00:38:33
table the number was suggested at
00:38:36
anywhere between 25 bodies that he would
00:38:39
he would give up to 75 ironically the
00:38:42
man who took all these lives and the man
00:38:44
who had this fascination with death now
00:38:47
is looking at the death
00:38:50
penalty and he doesn't want the death
00:38:53
penalty so he's in fear of death
00:38:57
something that he had been fascinated
00:38:58
with his whole
00:38:59
life basically Richard's position was he
00:39:02
wasn't lying down for
00:39:04
anybody you know he he done enough time
00:39:07
in jail to know that nobody respected
00:39:09
you so they come forward with that we're
00:39:12
going to give you these bodies take the
00:39:14
death penalty off the
00:39:16
table and that offer was turned down the
00:39:18
prosecutor's office was Secure in the
00:39:22
fact that they had enough evidence hard
00:39:25
evidence to see secure convictions on
00:39:29
him that they would put him away for
00:39:31
years without a
00:39:33
doubt with the death penalty still on
00:39:36
the table Richard Bean wal pleaded not
00:39:39
guilty as his trial began at Monmouth
00:39:41
County Superior
00:39:43
Court when Bal goes on trial on the 28th
00:39:47
of November
00:39:49
1983 part of the evidence against him is
00:39:52
forensics discovered by the police in
00:39:55
his car and the police also had for the
00:39:57
prosecution the evidence of Darren
00:40:00
Fitzgerald who turned against his quote
00:40:03
sorcerer and Theresa Smith had done the
00:40:06
same thing a very powerful
00:40:09
case well I first became aware that van
00:40:13
Le not by name but by actually seeing
00:40:16
her
00:40:18
body hardly
00:40:20
surprisingly being invol is found guilty
00:40:23
of the killing of
00:40:24
Anna in February 198 before Richard Bean
00:40:28
Wald was sentenced to death by lethal
00:40:31
injection for the murder of Anna
00:40:34
elth didn't even blink an
00:40:37
eye went in the back he says all right
00:40:40
what are we doing
00:40:42
now yeah we both knew what was going to
00:40:44
happen he showed nothing I mean it was
00:40:47
just it was blank you know it's just I
00:40:51
he didn't care Bean Wall's next court
00:40:53
appearance also in February 1984 was for
00:40:56
the murder a petty drug dealer William
00:40:59
Ward the William Ward trial was in Mount
00:41:02
Holly I traveled there to testify pretty
00:41:05
much told the same story talked about
00:41:08
the bombs the this the
00:41:11
snake what area is this okay this is the
00:41:14
basement bedroom area under of Mr B wall
00:41:19
that trial he was obviously found guilty
00:41:22
too and then that was it he pled to the
00:41:25
other ones in September 1984 Bean wal
00:41:30
pleaded guilty to the murders of
00:41:32
17-year-old Maria Chella and Deborah
00:41:35
Osborne after a series of legal wrangles
00:41:38
his death sentence was commuted to life
00:41:40
in prison without parole with
00:41:43
prosecutors lacking concrete evidence
00:41:46
Bean Wald was never charged in
00:41:48
connection with the deaths of Virginia
00:41:49
Clayton and John Patron and efforts to
00:41:53
get him to confess to any further
00:41:55
murders came to nothing Mike ding who
00:41:58
was an investigator in prosecutor's
00:42:00
office at the time and myself we took a
00:42:03
ride to Trenton State Prison Michael and
00:42:06
I were sitting at a table and I I
00:42:08
remember Michael looking at me oh got
00:42:10
cold in here turn around and Richard's
00:42:12
coming in he says what do you want and I
00:42:15
said I'll tell you what we want and I'll
00:42:17
be very right out there and say I want
00:42:20
to know where you put these other bodies
00:42:23
you'll never be charged with any of
00:42:25
these crimes I simply want to put to
00:42:28
rest these families I mean if you know
00:42:31
there's people out there looking looking
00:42:33
for people just left and said you don't
00:42:36
think I'm going to do that do
00:42:38
you bean wall died in prison in 2008 he
00:42:43
refused to ever explain his actions
00:42:46
meaning those who knew him have been
00:42:48
left to speculate about why he murdered
00:42:51
his victims sometimes it was for self-
00:42:54
protection he felt that they may be
00:42:55
about to give him up on something one
00:42:57
case another time it was a release that
00:43:01
he
00:43:02
needed it was an Impulse that he had to
00:43:06
satisfy something deep within
00:43:08
him he showed no
00:43:11
remorse he killed people out of
00:43:17
wh I would say he was an evil
00:43:20
man unlike many serial killers Richard
00:43:24
Bean Wald never sought fame or notoriety
00:43:27
for his murders he refused invitations
00:43:30
to tell his story to the press or to
00:43:33
investigators his stubborn Silence has
00:43:36
denied a sense of closure to the
00:43:38
families of those victims who've been
00:43:40
identified and the many who have not
00:43:44
Richard bewal enjoyed killing it was a
00:43:47
way of life a Pastime and a solution to
00:43:50
his problems he will be remembered in
00:43:53
New Jersey and Beyond as one of the
00:43:55
world's most evil killers
00:44:00
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