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in September 2003 on the outskirts of
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Denver Colorado Richard Paul White was
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arrested on suspicion of killing his
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closest friend that was a coldblooded
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murder uh bloody shooting detectives who
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questioned white quickly realized he'd
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more than just one crime to get off his
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chest man you guys I so glad I'm caught
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because I've had girls running down the
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street away from me in handc Richard
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Paul White was happy to describe his
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brutal murders in graphic
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detail I tell you that parcking for just
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punch in her face handc on a TI not to
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get up off the
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ground I think he enjoyed what he was
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doing the more they that he'd do it the
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less he would have feelings about it
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white blamed his violence on his
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childhood on God and on the innocent
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women he abducted and
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attacked he had a real issue with women
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who didn't walk the straight in nrow
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with four confirmed murders and many
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more traumatized survivors Richard Paul
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White had confessed to being one of the
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world's most evil killers
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in September 2003 when Richard Paul
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White made his detailed and disturbing
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confession to Colorado detectives it
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sparked a Statewide search for the
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people he claimed to have killed he gave
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us a very detailed description of what
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had occurred
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thinking about it the whole
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time as like
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drive hours with somebody in your
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car he goes into detail
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about two bodies and where is disposed
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of a third he also maintains another two
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bodies have been dumped in a canal uh in
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Lun we had these blood hounds from
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Douglas County come down and sniff
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I can't tell you if there were two other
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women that he killed or if this is just
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something that he made up some of white
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stories checked out others may have been
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nothing more than fantasy Joel Humphrey
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was one of the Denver detectives task
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with separating truth from fiction there
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was no record that we could find of
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anyone being dragged to death behind a
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car and of course that is such a
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horrific act that certainly be
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investigative records about it
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investigators soon realized that both
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the crimes white committed and the ones
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he imagined were the product of an
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incredibly dark and twisted
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mind this killer Story begins on the
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29th of October
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1972 in Denver Colorado Richard Paul
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White and his two younger sisters had a
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miserable childhood their mother and
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father's volatile marriage broke down
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when the children were still
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small his parents got divorced and then
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his mother took up with a drunken
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abusive man who abused everybody beat up
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his mother kids would see the beatings
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and then he would force her to have sex
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those kinds of
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things along with violence and neglect
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white and his sisters suffered
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psychological torture at the hands of
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their
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stepfather he would engrave the initials
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of you know the children on onto bullets
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and then hold a gun to their head that's
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sadistic controlling abusive
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Behavior White's role with his sisters
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was he was kind of the protector and he
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would do anything to protect those two
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girls as they were growing
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up white and his sisters did not enjoy a
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settled stable childhood
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he moved around a lot I think he
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attended 23 elementary
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schools and that would have created an
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awful lot of instability and inability
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to make friends at school to build
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relationships with the teachers in his
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teens Richard Paul White lived with his
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father in the isolated town of Mita in
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costia County about 5 hours drive from
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Denver the house there was poor with
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dirt floors
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as white entered adolescence those
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around him noticed signs that all was
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not well with his mental
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state white got his sister's pet
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parakeet and twisted its head off and
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threw it on the ground so the cat could
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eat
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it cruelty to animals in children is
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just one of those flags that says
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there's something wrong
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here white was laid to claim to the
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police that he committed his first rape
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when he was a young teenager in eth
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grade if this was true it was just one
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indicator of the unhealthy attitude
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white was developing towards women
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perhaps as a result of his experiences
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at
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home watching his mother be abused stay
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in the relationship she was in you know
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the stepfather would beat her and then
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he would rape her and the next day
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they'd go drinking again
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makes it look like violence can be a
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normal part of
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relationships in 1998 at the age of 26
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Richard white met 22-year-old Hazel at a
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bar in South Denver and he wasted no
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time in demonstrating to her his Twisted
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attitude towards
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women he was just charming and nice to
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me
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and asked me out on a date a couple
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times before I went the first date that
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we had we went out to drinking at the
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bars and we came back to his house and
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he was violent that first night by like
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smacking something out of my hand got
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really angry with me but then the next
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morning he like drew me a bath and got
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me flowers which is I guess kind of a
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typical thing for abusers to do but I
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didn't know that at the time cuz I never
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been in an abusive relationship so I
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forgave him and we kept on dating Hazel
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moved in with white whom she called
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RP when I moved in there is when it got
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the abuse got worse and the
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control and it was a very abusive
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relationship he would beat her I thought
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that it would like it was just like a
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one-off thing maybe he's just got angry
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and it won't happen again but it
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continued to happen and and escalated to
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the point where you know he would if I
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left him he was threatening to you know
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know kill my family or do something to
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my dad or my sister I was scared to
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leave he probably would have absolutely
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meant that but it tells us what a
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controlling individual he is he sees
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relationships as something he is an
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owner of control and violence became
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part of Hazel's daily life
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it was pretty much an everyday thing
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that he beat
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me at first it was maybe in the face and
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places where people could see and then
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he got better at hiding the the bruises
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like punch me on my legs or my back or
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he'd Point guns at me all the time he'd
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make me you know give him you know
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sexual favors with a gun pointed at me
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he raped me over and over
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to in 2002 the couple moved into Hazel's
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father's vacant house in North Denver
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four years into the unhappy relationship
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Hazel was doing what she could to cope I
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was smoking pots so that I could block
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out what was going on in my life and
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drinking he drank a lot usually he was a
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little happier when he was drinking but
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sometimes it would escalate that point I
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was working from like 5:00 a.m. to 5:00
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p.m. and then going to college until
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11:00 p.m. just so I could be away from
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the house as much as possible Hazel's
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fear of her boyfriend was made worse by
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his obvious fascination with violence
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and murder orp used to read a lot of
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books about serial killers that was kind
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of a hobby of his he'd like to learn
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about the specifics about how they got
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away with it when he would read them or
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tell me about him he always had this
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look in his eye that was really
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scary he was obsessed with one
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particular awful film that had been
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banned in fact and he used to make hazel
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watch this film it was awful I hate
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watching that maybe think about what
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kind of person he was or what kind of
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person would listen or watch those kind
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of things white also revealed to Hazel
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that he'd given more than a passing
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consideration to the practicalities of
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getting away with murder he would tell
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me about how he thought it would be so
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easy to pick up people who like
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prostitutes who
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didn't have family members looking for
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them or you know no one would miss
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them and he could do whatever with them
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he would kind of have this excitement
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about him when he talked about
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it though Hazel was terrified of white
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she never suspected that his fantasies
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might become a
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reality in January that year a young
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woman whom we're calling Tracy went
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missing from East kfax Avenue Less Than
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3 miles away she was the mother of two
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children she lived with her grandmother
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and she was last seen at a bus station
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on
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kofax The Disappearance of 25-year-old
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Tracy who was blind in one eye left a
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hole in her family's life especially her
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young children we had a little girl that
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was wanted to know what happened to her
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mother she thought she'd been abandoned
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by her mother that her mother had just
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left town didn't care about her
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birthdays didn't care about ever seeing
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her
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again in the late summer of that year
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another woman went missing from the same
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stretch of
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highway Victoria Tarpon
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was a gal that lived in Denver on these
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kofax with her
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sister East kfax is the longest street
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in the United States the portion that
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goes through Denver has deteriorated it
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has deteriorated to the point that it
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really that it is a place you would not
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want to go it is prostitutes people
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purchasing drugs and people selling
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drugs Victoria Turpin was from Salt Lake
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City she had a criminal history she was
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working as a sex worker she went out
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told her sister she's gone out for
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cigarettes but she decided then that she
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had the opportunity to make some money
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as the mother of two approached a
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potential client a woman she knew a
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fellow sex worker warned her not to
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go she advised Victoria Turpin that the
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individual that was picking her up had a
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reputation among the sex workers for
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being violent she was willing to take
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that risk in order to get the quick
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money so she could buy
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drugs she never came
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back Victoria was last seen on the 29th
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of August
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2002 she failed to turn up to her 33rd
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birthday party in September Victoria's
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sister reported her missing but in
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reality it was not unusual for Victoria
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to disappear from time to
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time the sex workers in
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Denver would frequently go missing or do
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frequently go missing and it attracts no
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attention it is part of their life
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lifestyle that they may disappear for a
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while they may find another area to work
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they may find an individual to live with
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may may be arrested and
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incarcerated the other people that they
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work with are not particularly concerned
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about this because it is such a regular
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fact of
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life less than a month after Victoria
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Turpin got into a Cent's car and
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vanished another woman disappeared in
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similar circumstances
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an Alicia Gonzalez was picked up at Cole
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fax and pearl she was 26 years old she
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had had a very troubled life she was
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certainly loved by her family she met
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people that introduced her to drugs she
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became a drug addict and then she turned
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to prostitution to find a means of
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getting the money for drugs on a regular
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basis after a short stint in prison and
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a month in rehab in the summer of 2002
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Alicia moved in with her mother and
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tried to stay clean but then in August
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she told her mother she was going to go
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out and party just weeks after returning
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to a life of drugs and sex work Analicia
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Gonzalez seemingly vanished Into Thin
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Air her sister became concerned after
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she spoke to her on September the 9th
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and then never heard from her again
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there were things like birthdays and
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things like that that her mother would
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would not have uh thought she would have
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missed and her mother was concerned she
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was missing while the families of the
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missing women hope for their safe return
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in the Autumn of 2002 in a house just a
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few miles away 26-year-old Hazel was in
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the process of breaking away from her
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abusive boyfriend Richard Paul
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White finally I got the courage to uh
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talk to people about it start talking to
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people about his abuse I called the safe
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house here in Denver and then I told my
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dad about it and I told RP that I had
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told these people I think he was worried
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of being found out that he was an
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abuser and finally he said that one
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night I could if I didn't want to be
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with him it was okay that he would
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leave it was not a clean break for
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months white refused to leave the home
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they shared a house which belonged to ha
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's father he didn't have a place to go
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he didn't have a whole lot of friends
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and he didn't have a job at that time
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anymore and when he left he kept calling
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me he was calling me at work he was
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calling me on my cell phone you know at
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home I had to get a restraining order
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against him but by May 2003 Hazel's
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ordeal at White's hands appeared to be
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over he stopped calling and stopped
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making threats while Hazel attempted to
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move on with with her life whites
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appeared to have
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stalled I think RP was staying with his
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sister some of the time and also was
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just homeless might have been staying in
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his car he didn't really call
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me hazel had nothing of her ex-boyfriend
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for 4 months then one evening in
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September 2003 she learned that one of
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whites only friends Jason reichart had
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died unexpectedly
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Jason reichart worked at a printing
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company with Richard white at one time
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their friendship began there white met
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Jason in the late 1990s at a print shop
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in Denver he introduced his friend and
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co-worker to his then girlfriend
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Hazel we hung out with him we'd go over
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to his house and hang out and and drink
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and you
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know have barbecues and stuff like that
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Jason was a really sweet and giving man
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he
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was fun to be around he was always nice
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to everyone I don't I've never seen him
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like in a bad mood or or be rude to
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anyone I know Jason was close to his
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family he owned his own house and he had
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a nice truck and you know he was friends
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with his neighbors he had a good job
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when Richard white left the printing
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company the friends stayed in touch in
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August 2003 white turned up on Jason's
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door step in Aurora a city just outside
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Denver he was now single and jobless and
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he kind of was living in his truck and
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uh I think that Mr rker took pity on him
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took him in gave him a place to stay and
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then he also got him a job at the
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printing place where he was working this
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happy demestic Arrangement lasted just a
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few
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weeks on Monday the 8 of September 2003
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27-year-old Jason failed to turn up for
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work he was one of those employees who
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never missed and when he was late didn't
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show up his boss got concerned he tries
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to call him can't find him and
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eventually contacts the
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police they did a welfare check at his
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house and upstairs in a bedroom they
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found Jason's
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body they found find Jason Reichard dead
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in a pool of blood in his
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bedroom the sudden death of Good
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Samaritan Jason reichart was a shock to
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those who knew and loved him
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investigating officers worked quickly to
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make sense of the
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scene he was shot in the forehead one
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shot right in the middle of his forehead
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he was shot with a pistol the pistol was
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there still at the crime scene
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and at one point there was a question
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was this a suicide or was this a
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homicide but there was no suicide note
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no shell casing nothing what is also
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significant is that his car his Dodge
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car is
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missing things like credit cards ATM
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cards those kind of things were gone
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things had been wiped down there had
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been an attempt to hide things like
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fingerprints on the door knobs that type
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of thing so there was some indication it
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was possibly a
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robbery there was no sign of Jason's
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temporary housemate 30-year-old Richard
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Paul White the following day local media
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reported Jason's death as a potential
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suicide hours later however White's
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sister contacted the Aurora Police
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Department with a different
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story White's sister knew it wasn't a
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suicide White had told her it was an
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accidental shooting that he had killed
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Jason while they were inspecting the gun
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and so she took him to a place in the
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Pine Forest he told her he was going
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camping there but he was really hiding
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out trying to avoid being arrested it
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didn't take him that long I think it was
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a few hours before they captured Mr
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White back at the Aurora Police
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headquarters Richard Paul White stuck to
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his story that Jason reichart's death
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had been an unfortunate
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accident he initially stated that they
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were cleaning pistols and it was an
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accidental
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discharge he clean his bread I clean my
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CL one minute we're sitting there
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talking laughing and next got
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a white insisted he had no reason to
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want his friend
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dead no there's him and Jason help me
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out he'd let me sleep on the chch he
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help me get a job
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you he was my only
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friend I did not mean to kill
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him the question in that investigation
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is whether that gunshot was fired by
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accident or whether it was fired
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deliberately there were a number of
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inconsistencies he initially stated it
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happened in one room he later changed
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that to to stating that it happened in
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another room
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homicide detectives interviewing white
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did not believe his story of the gun
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going off accidentally especially when
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he told them what he' done immediately
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after Jason's
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death I jumped in his
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truck and his other car was in there I
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went to an ATM
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machine took out
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$240 and then I ran around picked up
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some
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hookers White had used Jason's money to
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cruise the red light dist District of e
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kfax picking up three different women
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before he called his sister and went on
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the run this was a robbery he was taking
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advantage of somebody who had helped him
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out and he killed him and then he took
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his belongings he took his money took
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his truck clearly was not an accident as
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Aurora detectives probed Richard White's
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story to get to the truth they had
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difficulty keeping him on the topic of
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Jason reichhart several occasions he
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interrupted them and said I've done this
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before don't you want to talk to me
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about the other ones I could give you
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the world I could make your
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day and finally they told him okay we'll
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talk about the other ones when the
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police officers finally allowed white to
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expand on his claims nothing could have
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prepared them for what he had to say he
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tells the police he's
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killed at least three times
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he also admits to abducting
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torturing and
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hurting other women as
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well can't stop doing things I can't
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stop cruising it back I can't stop I
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need this to stop I need to die or to be
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away
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forever Richard Paul White told the
00:23:23
police that he'd been abducting sex
00:23:26
workers from Denver's East kfax Avenue
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in horrifying detail white outlined his
00:23:32
murderous
00:23:34
routine he stated in each case he picked
00:23:37
up his victims off the street once they
00:23:40
arrived at his house he would punch them
00:23:43
and knock them down at which point he
00:23:46
would begin sexually assaulting them
00:23:49
white described putting his victims
00:23:50
through a prolonged sadistic
00:23:53
ordeal these women weren't just
00:23:56
strangled to death they were tortured
00:23:58
for hours 24 hours sometimes they were
00:24:03
handcuffed they were forced to pray with
00:24:05
him he would go through these states of
00:24:08
Rage where he would beat them or he
00:24:11
would strangle them almost to death and
00:24:13
then he let them come back the whole
00:24:15
time raping them at some point then he
00:24:19
would strangle each of them and then he
00:24:21
would dispose of them and in a manner
00:24:23
that he thought they wouldn't be
00:24:25
found during that conversation that
00:24:28
initial conversation the number of three
00:24:31
became five he didn't know any of his
00:24:34
victims and they didn't know him the
00:24:38
officers were shocked at the possibility
00:24:40
that a serial killer could have snatched
00:24:42
multiple victims without anyone noticing
00:24:45
Denver detectives including Joel
00:24:48
Humphrey took over the investigation to
00:24:50
find out if White's confession held
00:24:53
water he advised us that the first
00:24:55
individual that he killed was blind in
00:24:57
one eye had a scar on her left
00:25:00
arm he stated that he had abducted her
00:25:04
taken her to his house originally his
00:25:06
only intention was to rape her he stated
00:25:08
that first it was desire then it was
00:25:12
power and then after he had raped her he
00:25:16
became concerned that she would inform
00:25:18
the police about that and out of fear he
00:25:21
killed
00:25:22
her white told detectives he' committed
00:25:25
his first murder in January 20 2 he said
00:25:29
he'd then driven the young woman's body
00:25:32
280 Mi to costia County where he'd once
00:25:36
lived with his father he left her body
00:25:38
in a shallow grave in the remote
00:25:41
desert he did that with the intention of
00:25:45
her body being eaten by
00:25:48
animals Southern Colorado in that
00:25:50
location is not a lot of people nobody's
00:25:54
going to go hiking over her body or that
00:25:57
kind of thing
00:25:59
white claimed he'd made the 5-Hour drive
00:26:01
to check on the body a number of
00:26:04
times been after several times to see up
00:26:08
there St Richard white stated that the
00:26:12
last time he viewed her body the only
00:26:14
thing that was left of her body was her
00:26:16
pelvis four days after White's
00:26:19
confession detective Joel Humphrey went
00:26:21
to MAA to search for the woman's remains
00:26:25
they found only animal bones still
00:26:27
having no no idea if Richard Paul White
00:26:30
was a serial killer or a fantasist
00:26:33
investigators set out to verify another
00:26:36
of his claims he says two bodies are
00:26:39
buried in the backyard of a house that
00:26:41
he and Hazel shared Richard White had
00:26:45
told them that he had buried the victims
00:26:50
in the flower bed that ran along the
00:26:52
north wall of the house consequently the
00:26:55
homicide unit went out and excavated
00:26:57
that area
00:26:59
area in September 2003 Mitch morisy was
00:27:04
Denver's Chief Deputy district attorney
00:27:08
he attended the dig at the house where
00:27:10
Richard Paul White once lived with his
00:27:12
former girlfriend Hazel White had since
00:27:16
moved
00:27:17
out so I walked up to the men as they
00:27:20
were working in the trench digging and
00:27:24
they said they already had one body out
00:27:26
of the ground and right next to me was a
00:27:29
wheelbarrow and in the wheelbarrow was a
00:27:31
half opened suitcase a
00:27:35
bag there was clearly a body in the bag
00:27:38
but it was packed in really tightly and
00:27:41
it was discolored I've been to hundreds
00:27:45
of crime scenes and I've never seen
00:27:48
anything like this the female body was
00:27:51
exactly who homicide officers had
00:27:54
expected to find 26-year-old Analicia
00:27:59
Gonzalez she was immediately identified
00:28:02
because Richard White had kept property
00:28:04
of hers and he had remembered the name
00:28:07
and he gave the name to the police when
00:28:09
he made his
00:28:11
confession White had explained to police
00:28:14
what he'd done after murdering Analicia
00:28:17
in September
00:28:19
2002 she was
00:28:21
bleeding and he put a plastic bag over
00:28:24
her face to try to contain the blood uh
00:28:28
tied her up so he could put her in a
00:28:29
suitcase he then buried her in the
00:28:32
flower bed that ran along the north wall
00:28:34
of the
00:28:35
house there was still some remnants of
00:28:38
that on her body when they did the
00:28:41
autopsy uh there was still ropes and
00:28:43
things that tied her feet to her
00:28:47
hands Richard Paul White's graphic
00:28:50
confession was being proven to be true
00:28:53
and the grizzly discoveries at his
00:28:55
former home did not stop there they had
00:28:58
a map that had been drawn by Mr White
00:29:02
and they were told there were two so
00:29:04
they're obviously looking for the second
00:29:06
victim she was in the ground with
00:29:09
concrete on top of
00:29:12
her with some difficulty the second
00:29:15
woman in the yard of Richard Paul
00:29:17
White's former home was disinterred
00:29:20
while efforts began to identify her her
00:29:23
body was taken for an autopsy and it
00:29:25
became clear that she and Analicia had
00:29:28
met a similar
00:29:30
end the question was how did these women
00:29:33
die and that was pretty clear the
00:29:36
cartilages in their necks were broken
00:29:39
and they had clearly been strangled to
00:29:43
death not manually but with a ligature
00:29:47
what the autopsies could not show was
00:29:49
how both the women had suffered at
00:29:51
White's hands their bodies were too
00:29:54
decomposed but the killer was more than
00:29:56
happy to supply the
00:30:00
details he would talk to them about
00:30:02
their lives or he would describe his
00:30:05
life to
00:30:06
them and it basically would be an
00:30:09
ongoing process of sexual assault casual
00:30:13
conf conversation sexual assault more
00:30:16
casual conversation and praying sexual
00:30:19
assault more casual conversation and
00:30:23
praying detectives couldn't believe what
00:30:25
they were hearing an interview that had
00:30:28
begun with white confessing to
00:30:30
accidentally killing his friend Jason
00:30:32
reichart had turned into an horrific
00:30:35
tale of a serial killer and the demise
00:30:38
of at least two victims White's former
00:30:41
partner Hazel was confronted with the
00:30:43
fact not only that her ex-boyfriend was
00:30:45
a murderer but also that he'd taken his
00:30:48
victim's lives in the home that she and
00:30:51
Richard Paul White had
00:30:54
shared I was I was freaking out I was
00:30:58
scared I didn't have any I was just
00:31:01
freaking out like how could that happen
00:31:04
how could that happen without me knowing
00:31:07
as well I suppose how could he do that
00:31:10
like in my own house at least one of the
00:31:13
victims had been held in the house when
00:31:15
Hazel was at home he tied her up and
00:31:19
placed her underneath the stairs in a
00:31:22
storage area that they had that was
00:31:23
walled off underneath the stairs kept
00:31:26
her there all night
00:31:29
out the whole
00:31:31
plan that's like like to have your
00:31:33
girlfriend come home and know you got T
00:31:35
B you know how long is she in the
00:31:38
basement she a day a day or so little
00:31:42
longer but I don't know cuz RI moris
00:31:45
didn't leave yet so I'm thinking little
00:31:48
more than 24 hours I knew he was capable
00:31:52
of that
00:31:53
and if he had said that he had done
00:31:56
those things to other women I knew that
00:31:58
that was very possible to be true
00:32:02
because he did the you know he did
00:32:03
pretty horrible things to me and I was
00:32:06
pretty close to death in a lot of the
00:32:09
situations and maybe because he had some
00:32:12
kind of feelings for me that I was
00:32:15
spared I was very lucky to be
00:32:18
spared on the 12th of September the
00:32:21
search moved 3 hours south of Denver to
00:32:24
La hunter in Otero County local unders
00:32:28
Sheriff Ken kimsey found himself drawn
00:32:31
into white
00:32:33
story two of them he allegedly brought
00:32:35
down to oo County and dumped them we
00:32:39
found out that his grandmother lived in
00:32:41
Lun from visz in there his grandmother
00:32:46
there he knew some of the places to go
00:32:48
and ended up going to that canal and
00:32:51
dumping
00:32:53
them I felt safety there I felt kind of
00:32:56
rural I think it's interogation
00:33:02
you this canal is one of the bigger
00:33:05
canals in that runs in O Terell County
00:33:07
and it's 114 miles long runs towards the
00:33:10
Kansas so we brought some dogs out of
00:33:13
Douglas County and they were dogs that
00:33:16
would sniff like for bodies over a year
00:33:20
had passed since White had allegedly
00:33:22
thrown his victims off a bridge to
00:33:25
dispose of their bodies
00:33:28
we weren't really able to find anything
00:33:30
because of the time span but I truly
00:33:33
believe he did dump him there why would
00:33:35
he lie about that now on the 17th of
00:33:39
September while Ken and his team
00:33:41
continued to search in Otero County
00:33:44
white was formerly charged in Aurora
00:33:46
with his friend Jason reichart's death
00:33:49
he'd not yet been charged in relation to
00:33:52
the women found buried in his
00:33:55
backyard he was in the arapa County jail
00:33:58
and he was going to be there until he
00:34:01
got convicted or acquitted in a trial so
00:34:05
we had some time to put together our
00:34:10
case once it broke in the media and once
00:34:13
there were pictures of Mr White in the
00:34:15
newspaper on TV women that had gotten
00:34:19
away from him started to come forward
00:34:22
and they had been raped by him they had
00:34:25
been tied up by him some of them had had
00:34:27
been taken back to the same house where
00:34:30
we found the other victims but had
00:34:32
escaped
00:34:34
him during the initial interview of
00:34:36
Richard white Richard white stated that
00:34:39
he had abducted one woman sexually
00:34:42
assaulted her multiple times and that
00:34:45
when he was taking her out of the house
00:34:47
he had her
00:34:49
handcuffed and she ran from
00:34:52
him fact Split Second she's running down
00:34:55
the street
00:34:58
from my house with
00:35:01
handcuffs and no copul so I gra the
00:35:04
AR15 you know and I'm thinking okay this
00:35:08
is it this is the
00:35:11
end he initially thought about shooting
00:35:13
her that thought better of that and she
00:35:17
ran off and got
00:35:19
away we were eventually able to identify
00:35:22
her and we interviewed her three women
00:35:25
would eventually come forward to tell
00:35:28
they had been abducted and violently
00:35:30
attacked by Richard Paul white one was
00:35:33
able to successfully identify him from a
00:35:36
lineup another LED officers to the house
00:35:39
where she'd been kept prisoner for
00:35:41
almost 24 hours she attempted to appease
00:35:44
him and make it appear as if she really
00:35:47
had emotional feelings towards him she
00:35:49
also talked to him about music and how
00:35:51
she liked Hard Rock and he liked Hard
00:35:54
Rock after the multiple sexual assaults
00:35:56
concluded he drove her back and dropped
00:35:59
her off and she
00:36:00
survived in White's interview with
00:36:03
police he said that God would often
00:36:05
determine the outcome for the
00:36:09
victims we have to pray together because
00:36:11
two people come together in God's name
00:36:13
he'll listen I told her I was going to
00:36:15
kill her she was terrified you know what
00:36:17
she went straight to heaven because we
00:36:18
prayed we prayed before I killed
00:36:21
her in December 2003 investigators were
00:36:26
able to identify by the second woman
00:36:28
found in White's former Garden in North
00:36:31
Denver her picture was released and her
00:36:35
sister came forward and advised us
00:36:38
that her sister Victoria Turpin had been
00:36:42
missing a DNA match between a family
00:36:45
member and the remains confirmed the
00:36:47
victim was 32-year-old Mother of two
00:36:50
Victoria Turpin who disappeared in
00:36:53
August 2002 after going out to buy
00:36:56
cigarettes
00:36:58
in May 2004 Richard Paul White was
00:37:01
charged with 53 offenses including the
00:37:04
kidnap sexual assault and murder of
00:37:07
Analicia Gonzalez and Victoria Turpin as
00:37:11
well as the sexual assault kidnap and
00:37:13
attempted murder of the three
00:37:16
survivors when it came down to settling
00:37:19
this case either through a trial seeking
00:37:21
the death penalty any of those kind of
00:37:24
things there was a plea bargain that was
00:37:26
made the still related to locating the
00:37:29
remains in ctia county of the woman
00:37:32
White had admitted killing in January
00:37:36
2002 the da suggests that if he shows
00:37:40
them where the first body was buried
00:37:44
they won't proceed with the claim for
00:37:46
the death penalty White's cooperation
00:37:49
would also mean he would not be charged
00:37:52
with a woman's murder he eventually took
00:37:55
them to where the body was what I
00:37:59
remember is basically a section of her
00:38:02
pelvis and part of her backbone and that
00:38:05
was that was about it and obviously
00:38:08
there was nothing to
00:38:11
indicate whose body this was the remains
00:38:16
that were found in September 2004
00:38:19
matched White's description of what was
00:38:21
left of the victim's body that same
00:38:23
month Richard Paul White pleaded guilty
00:38:26
to the murders of Jason reichhart
00:38:28
Analicia Gonzalez and Victoria Turpin on
00:38:32
the 29th of November 2004 white is
00:38:36
indeed sentenced to two life terms
00:38:39
without parole and 144 years for the
00:38:43
attacks on the women who are lucky
00:38:45
enough to survive
00:38:47
him in early December
00:38:51
2004 he's given life without parole for
00:38:54
the murder of Jason rar
00:38:59
Richard Paul White will spend the rest
00:39:01
of his days at the supermax Centennial
00:39:04
Correctional Facility in Fremont County
00:39:08
Colorado was
00:39:11
just a sense of relief I guess knowing
00:39:14
for a fact that he would never be out he
00:39:17
did write me a
00:39:20
letter and almost in a almost a mocking
00:39:24
mockingly told me that I don't even like
00:39:27
saying the word but he said I'm sorry I
00:39:29
I killed those hookers in your and in
00:39:34
your house and buried them in your yard
00:39:36
he might have written the words down but
00:39:38
I know that wasn't he wasn't
00:39:42
sorry after his sentencing white sat
00:39:45
down with a police artist to describe
00:39:48
the victim whose partial remains he'd
00:39:50
LED police to in M white remembered
00:39:53
clearly the facial disfigurement of the
00:39:56
woman he'd murdered in January
00:39:59
2002 when the drawing was finished a
00:40:01
local detective recognized her
00:40:05
immediately he looked at the composite
00:40:07
and he goes I know who this woman is
00:40:10
this woman was a eyewitness to a
00:40:13
homicide that I had about six years ago
00:40:16
he figured out her name they were able
00:40:18
to go back to her family and contact her
00:40:22
children contact her grandmother and she
00:40:25
had been missing for all that time
00:40:28
the body was confirmed as Tracy the
00:40:30
mother of two who disappeared from East
00:40:33
kfax early in 2000 and two with this
00:40:37
final identification there was some
00:40:39
closure for the women's families as well
00:40:41
as for hazel who had to process what her
00:40:44
sadistic ex-boyfriend had done right
00:40:47
under her nose I just felt horrible for
00:40:51
those women of their families and
00:40:53
remembered how he said that no one would
00:40:55
ever miss them or know that they were
00:40:58
gone but obviously people do and their
00:41:02
families did we contacted the families
00:41:05
later on and did like a candle light
00:41:08
vigil and the families came over to the
00:41:10
house and they were able to light
00:41:12
candles for them which was
00:41:16
good while Whit's surviving victims
00:41:19
continue to try and make sense of his
00:41:22
devastating crimes the killer himself
00:41:24
has expressed ambivalence saying that
00:41:27
while he feels anger towards sex workers
00:41:30
he also feels sorry for
00:41:34
them he expressed remorse he described
00:41:37
himself as an evil person and he stated
00:41:42
that God was telling him to commit these
00:41:46
crimes I don't deserve to the I know
00:41:50
that there's something wrong with
00:41:52
me serial killer Richard Paul White's
00:41:55
worldview was dominating ated by ideas
00:41:58
of good and evil people who were worthy
00:42:01
of respect and good treatment and people
00:42:04
whose lifestyle meant they were
00:42:06
deserving of brutality and pain this
00:42:09
belief along with his own sexual
00:42:11
deviancy led to White torturing and
00:42:14
killing at least three innocent women
00:42:17
and likely even more white has never
00:42:20
explained why he shot dead his friend
00:42:23
Jason but with four confirmed murders
00:42:26
and many survivors who suffered at his
00:42:28
hands there is no doubt that Richard
00:42:31
Paul White is one of the world's most
00:42:34
evil killers
00:42:37
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