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in 1981 a search at Billy mansvi Jr's
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sprawling rural property in Florida
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turned up the bodies of four young women
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he would drive and look for girls
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hitchhiking and abduct them or he'd hang
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out at malls a serial killer by his
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early 20s Mansfield Junior's abuse of
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women had be gun in his teens Mansfield
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Jr is someone that was raised in the
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world of violence and wre havoc in
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violence on anyone he came into contact
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with his sexual crimes escalated over
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time both in terms of how violent they
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were to eventually resulting in murders
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convicted of killing five victims no
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young woman who crossed paths with Billy
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Mansfield Jr was safe these women as
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evil he doesn't value life at all
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Mansfield could be approachable Charming
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but that was the mask over this much
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more malevolent depraved human being
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Billy Mansfield Jr's short but deadly
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spree was brought to an end in 1980 when
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he was exposed as one of the world's
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most evil killers
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in 1980 when a woman was found dead the
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morning after leaving a bar in
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Watsonville California with 24-year-old
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Drifter Billy Mansfield Jr detectives
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were shocked at how little the killer
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had done to cover his tracks that kind
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of um hootspa if you will speaks to his
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feeling that he he was more clever than
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anyone else and that he could do
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whatever he wanted to do he acted with
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complete impunity he just he did not
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care sometimes he even boasted about his
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crimes and kind of derived joy out of
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being able to recollect his crimes and
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what he did almost like these were
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accomplishments that he should be
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rewarded for I don't believe he ever
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showed remorse and I don't think he even
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feels remorse I don't think he's capable
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of it this killer Story begins in a
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shack on the edge of Grand Rapids
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Michigan in
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1956 a troubled childhood he was bullied
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and was a bully Billy's parents were
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William Mansfield's senior and Virginia
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Mansfield he was their first child they
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would have four more after him three
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boys and a
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girl you could say it was a
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completely dysfunctional family on the
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edge of the law at all times times the
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boys were encouraged to fight amongst
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each other by their father he was reared
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in a world of violence at one point the
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father was seen uh chasing uh some of
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the kids down the street with a
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gun so this is the first instance that
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Billy is learning about the rules of
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life and all of this is coming from his
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father who was this is a way that Billy
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is learning even from a young age that
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this is how you solve problems when
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people don't agree with with you and the
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family was actually very well known to
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the police because there were a number
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of different charges both violent and
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nonviolent between the men and the boys
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of the family bringing did not prepare
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Billy Mansfield Jr for a successful
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school life Mansfield Jr attended School
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in Grand Rapids and was often described
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as a social misfit and often got into
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trouble in school by the age of 14
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Mansfield Jr was already charged with
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Larsson which is stealing in effect fact
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is it's an additional allegation against
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Manfield Jr was that he sexually
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assaulted a 14-year-old girl on her way
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home from
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school his father William Mansfield
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Senior had been tried for a similar
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offense some 20 years earlier while
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still in his teens he was acquitted but
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it was the first of many such trials for
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the family
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patriarch serve time for rape in both
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Michigan and in Nevada and an armed
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robbery up in
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Michigan his father had been charged
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with multiple nonviolent and violent
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crimes including sexual molestation of
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multiple individuals who were underage
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so perhaps even from that just watching
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his father recognizing that this is
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something that people do perhaps or
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maybe even his father explained those
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incidences away as things that were okay
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to do so this is the first instance that
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Billy is learning about the rules of
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life
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already on a dark path by the age of 14
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Mansfield Jr known to his family as
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Billy decided that formal education
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wasn't for
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him he dropped out of school when he was
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14 he altered his birth certificate
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which back in those days was much easier
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to do than it is now and uh wound up
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joining the
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Army during his time in the Army
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Mansfield Jr was assigned to places such
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as Germany
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um but after about 14 months of service
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uh they determined that he really was
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not of age and that he had lied about
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his age to enlist and he was
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discharged Mansfield maintained that
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that army career is where he became an
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alcoholic and first experimented with
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drugs which made him volatile extremely
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volatile despite his troubles at the age
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of 17 Mansville settled down with his
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child childhood sweetheart Phyllis the
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couple had first met at school in their
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early teens by the time they married in
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1973 they already had a child together
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and 5 months later a second baby
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followed the marriage became very
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turbulent very
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quickly whenever his wife threatened to
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leave or when they would have a fight he
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would threaten aggression on her and
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threaten that he would kill her and at
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one point when she was holding their
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baby he put a gun to her
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head Phyllis would later tell
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investigators about her husband's sexual
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proclivities she talked about how Billy
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was isexual they would pick up men in
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gay bars bring them home make her watch
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him have sexual encounters with
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them in 1974 when Billy Mansfield Jor
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was 18
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um he was brought to trial for sex
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offenses in fact um forcing two women uh
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to perform sex acts on him and at the
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same time and it goes to trial and the
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jury find it impossible to believe that
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one man Co coer two women to act in ways
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they didn't want to act it was around
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this time that the family took the
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opportunity to leave their legal
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difficulties in Michigan behind
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them after a fire at the Mansfield
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property in Michigan the Mansfield Clan
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purchased a 5 acre plot in Spring Hill
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Florida it was surrounded by dense Grove
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it was rural it was rustic and it had
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several trailers uh on the property in
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different
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places property was overgrown it had
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junk cars refrigerator parts all kinds
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of things on it local Hernando County
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prosecut Ed Jimmy Brown quickly became
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well acquainted with the family during
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the course of my time knowing the
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manfields I prosecuted the dad and Billy
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and his brother Gary and his brother
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Robbie and his brother Terry Billy's
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family and another local family here we
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referred to them as the Hernando County
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version of the Hatfields and The McCoys
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they had an animosity toward each other
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they feuded they got into fights they
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beat each other up they stole things
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from each other I think it would be fair
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to describe the household the
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family as utterly
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Lawless there's no doubt that that
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Lawless atmosphere that they were living
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in would have shaped their relationship
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with the legal system on the outside of
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that
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house far from starting aresh in Florida
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the Mansville family continued their
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criminal
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Pursuits in fact Billy mansvi Jr was
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about to escalate with catastrophic
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consequences for any young woman who
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crossed his
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path by
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1975 the entire mansvi Clan had settled
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on the sprawling plot of land including
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Billy Mansfield Jr and his wife and
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children that winter at a camp site 13
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mil away in Brooksville teenager Elaine
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Zigler went
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missing Elaine Zigler was a 15-year-old
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girl on holiday with her mother and
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stepfather they came from
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Ohio her family had been down here in
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1975 for Christmas staying at the KOA
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Campground Elaine had been looking
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forward to seeing in the new year but
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around 10:30 that evening she was seen
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talking to a dark-haired man in his 20s
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with a beard and piercing
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eyes she was seen getting into a blue
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light blue Ford Fair Lane with him with
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floored plates and that was the last
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that she was
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seen on New Year's Day
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1976 her parents made a frantic phone
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call to the police telling them that
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Elaine is missing
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the police respond by reaching out to
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the community and giving descriptions
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there's a reward of $500 placed for
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information leading to her
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recovery I remember her going missing we
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did an extensive search and we were
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concerned from the beginning that she
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had met with um Foul
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Play Jimmy Brown was at this time the
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deputy State Attorney serving atando
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County the only thing that we had was a
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statement he had very striking eyes and
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they were described as
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mesmerizing uh so he very striking
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appearance police officers canvasing
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members of the public for information
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had come across a young man who matched
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the description in the vicinity of the
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campground showed him a picture and he
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said oh yeah I talked to that girl she's
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from Ohio and I saw her New Year's Eve
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and she was said she was leaving and
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heading back home to Ohio because she
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had um people she needed to see and
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things she needed to
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do her parents swore she would not have
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left she was um happy she wasn't having
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problems she wasn't
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um the type of person who would run
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away they stuck around for I think it
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was like six weeks before they finally
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went
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home they stuck around for a long time
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elain Ziegler's disappearance remained
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unsolved
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in early
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1976 Billy Mansfield Jr moved with his
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family back to Michigan where he spent
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the next four years in and out of
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prison in 1976 Mansfield Jr is arrested
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for being drunk and disorderly and he's
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put in jail upon being released from the
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drunk and disorderly arrest in October
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of 1976 he's immediately rearrested for
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the rape of a 16-year-old Michigan girl
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he plead guilty to a lesser charge and
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he went back to jail in 1978 Mansfield
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Jr is accused of sexual assault and the
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attempted rape of two other
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women was sentenced to one year because
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he flipped on his cellmate who had
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committed
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murder and at this point his wife uses
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the opportunity to file for divorce
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while he's away from her so so she can
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start the proceeding
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he got out in
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1980 and came back down to Florida he
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and his dad and his brother Gary were
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working doing refrigeration repair work
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and installation work heating and air
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conditioning
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things now a single man in March 1980
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24-year-old Billy Mansfield Jr was back
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in the bosom of his dysfunctional
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family just a month later a 20
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1-year-old Tampa woman went missing
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Sandy Graham was out uh drinking and uh
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playing pool at a local establishment
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that she
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frequented she was known to be this very
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outgoing recently divorced young adult
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who really was comfortable speaking to
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different
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people she started playing pool with a
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guy who was not a regular at the bar she
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took a break and started talking to
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another guy at the bar at which time the
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guy she was playing pool with who people
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didn't seem to know at the bar got very
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upset observers describe the Man's eyes
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as being very scary looking and
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piercing The
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Stranger threw her car keys in the trash
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but s nevertheless was seen leaving the
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bar with this stranger well her friends
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who'd been there with her absolutely
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expected to return because everything
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was there her glasses were there
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everything so what happened well the
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answer was no one knew she literally
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disappeared Into Thin Air a month later
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a 16-year-old girl called Theresa
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fillingham moved to Tamper she had gone
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off the rail and her teens had some
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difficult and complicated family
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relationships but appeared to be
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starting over trying to start fresh and
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and clean slate in May 1980 Theresa left
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her foster home in Washington state to
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move in with her older sister Margaret
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somehow she convinced me
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to take her to Florida with me and so I
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brought her back with me and we rented a
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place uh it was going to be a temporary
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place for a while and she was going to
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get her GED and get a job Teresa had
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only been in Tampa for a few days when
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she vanished she told me that evening
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that she had a job interview at
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University Mall in
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Tampa this girlfriend of hers was going
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to go after a job too and they were
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going to go together I said okay so I
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went to work that night I got home
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probably
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about
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10:00 and she still wasn't home and she
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had never showed for the job interview
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she didn't show
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up and when Margaret told the law
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enforcement about it because she had a
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history of running away they thought
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maybe she was just running away again in
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the course of things over the next few
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months uh she still didn't turn up all
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of her belongings were left behind
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intact her suitcase her clothing any
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jewelry that she had she never came back
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for
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it the Tampa Police Department had me
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come out and identify some Jane Doe's so
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I had to go down and none of them were
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her and then the case just got colder
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and colder and colder and colder and she
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never came back
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back in June 1980 40 Mi north of tamper
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in Hernando County William Mansfield
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Senior fell foul of the law once again
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and this time on even more serious
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charges my Mansfield Jr's father was
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charged with over 40 counts of sexual
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abuse of children we sent him away for
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56 years for sexually molesting children
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from age three to age 15 multiple times
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Billy's father was a serious and
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prolific sexual offender of the worst
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kind he was a very manipulative
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individual as well and he would
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manipulate women as some sex offenders
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do to facilitate access to children and
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this is a lawless man with not a moral
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molecule in his
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body 5 days after William Mansville
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senior's arrest a young woman was
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attacked in Brooksville not far from the
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camping ground where Elaine Zigler had
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gone missing 5 years before 18-year-old
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Pamela Cheryl was walking home along a
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road in Brooksville Florida when a man
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pulled up next to her in a car dragged
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her into the car drove her to a nearby
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mobile home tried to force sex on her
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and when she refused he dragged her
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around the trailer by her
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hair and she fought back in the most
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remarkable way she attacked him with a
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knife from the from the kitchen and as
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she left the mobile home she threw the
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knife at him she ran immediately to the
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uh Sheriff's Department called and
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reported what had happened and gave an
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absolutely perfect description local Law
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Enforcement Officers immediately
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recognized Pam's description of a man
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they'd had plenty of dealings with
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before and a warrant was issued for
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Billy Mansfield Jr's arrest he found out
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that the warrant was in existence and he
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and his brother Gary took off in a van
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headed north went up toward Ohio through
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Illinois down through Texas and Nevada
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and wound up in Santa Cruz
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California appears that he was trying to
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start a new life to try to evade the
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police was using a new Alias was trying
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to make himself look different and try
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to leave no trace of his crimes
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behind the mansfi family member settled
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at a campground in the Watsonville
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California area where mansfi Jr uh got a
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job as a maintenance man at a local
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mushroom farm um he took the Persona of
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a man named Tom um the local people
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there described him as
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creepy despite using an alias the local
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sheriff's department got wind of
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Mansfield Jr and discovered the Hernando
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County arrest warrant on
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him and yet again that that charm comes
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into
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play he's arrested formally charged with
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the attack on Pamela but he gets
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bail in November 1980 Billy mansfi Jr
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was released and continued living at the
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campground in Watsonville along with his
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younger brother Gary
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two weeks later another woman Renee
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sailing had the grave Misfortune to
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cross paths with the mansfields on the
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6th of December 1980 Renee showed up at
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a bar in Watsonville California looking
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for her
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husband Billy and his brother Gary
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happened to be there at the time it was
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observed that mansvi Jr came on very
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very strongly to another woman that was
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at the bar and work finding no success
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with a woman he'd be harassing mansfi Jr
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turned his attentions to 29-year-old
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mother of three Renee eventually Renee
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was seen walking towards the parking lot
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with Mansfield
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Jr a short time later Mansfield Jr comes
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back in the bar and talks to one of his
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associates asks him if he wants to meet
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the chick he gives him the keys to his
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car and tells him she's out in the car
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at which point he tells him don't let
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let her go keep her locked
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up this acquaintance did go to the car
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and look in but because he couldn't
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understand Renee and she was intoxicated
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he then left just hours later on the 7th
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of December 1980 she was found
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dead Renee sailing was found faed down
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in a drainage ditch at the side of
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Buenavista drive a road that ran from
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the bar in Watsonville to the campground
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where Mansfield had been
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staying her pants had been pulled down
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to around her ankles her shirt was up
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over the top of her head when a member
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of the public found her they noticed a
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black cord wrapped so tightly around her
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neck that it was embedded in her flesh
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she had obviously been
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strangled there were many features of
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the crime scene that police would see
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repeated again and again not least the
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cause of death Mansfield Jr's preferred
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method of killing was Str ulation and
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this involves the person being very up
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close to you your victim basically
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having their last breath being choked
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out of them by your bare hands and
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individuals who kill in this way there's
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a sense of wanting to overpower their
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victims and maybe deriving some sense of
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pleasure from that and feeling more
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powerful than ever that you're taking a
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human
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life a number of witnesses identified
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Billy Mansfield Jr as being the man
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Renee sailing had left the bar with but
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when police arrived to arrest the
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24-year-old Mansfield was long gone
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Mansfield junor and his brother Gary
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they fled the campsite that they were at
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and they eventually found their way to
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Las Vegas to try to evade
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charges I think it was 4 days later he
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got caught in a place called wamaka
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Nevada wamaka is not a very large place
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and Billy and Gary were distinctive uh
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Billy had a beard Gary had a beard had
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had long hair billies was parted in the
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middle and uh the police in wamaka got
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lucky and saw
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them Billy was charged with murder in
00:23:12
the first degree and Gary was charged
00:23:14
with being accessory to the murder it
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appears that he did nothing really to
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hide his crimes or or protect himself
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from from being caught I'm not sure that
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he was taught that you tried to get away
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with your crimes you just do them
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extradited back to California the
00:23:35
brothers were sent to jail in Santa Cruz
00:23:38
to await trial for the murder of Renee
00:23:41
sailing then Mansfield Jr's former wife
00:23:44
philis told Hernando County Law
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Enforcement an extraordinary Story one
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that had nothing to do with
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Renee once Billy was safely Behind Bars
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Phyllis came forward and Conta contacted
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us down
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here with information that she thought
00:24:03
could be relevant so in early 1976 while
00:24:07
they were back in Michigan for a short
00:24:09
time Mansfield Jr told his wife that he
00:24:12
had killed a
00:24:14
woman now the wife actually didn't
00:24:16
believe this she took it as a threat to
00:24:18
her um that he could be a killer if she
00:24:20
ever left
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him we then got some corroborating
00:24:24
information found out that Billy
00:24:26
frequented the KOA Campground here he
00:24:29
partied quite a bit and he liked a
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younger
00:24:33
women the Campsite in Brooksville
00:24:36
Florida was the very place that
00:24:38
15-year-old elain zegler had vanished
00:24:41
from on New Year's Eve
00:24:44
1975 there was hope at last that the
00:24:47
mystery of the teenager's disappearance
00:24:50
might be solved in March 1981
00:24:54
investigators finally had the go-ahead
00:24:56
to act on the information man field J's
00:24:59
ex-wife had given them March 16th of
00:25:03
1981 got the search warrant somewhat
00:25:06
different from an ordinary search
00:25:08
warrant because of the nature of the
00:25:09
property with the abandoned cars the
00:25:12
refrigerator parts and the air
00:25:13
conditioning parts and all the junk that
00:25:15
was there and just general trash it was
00:25:19
a lot of the ground was covered and
00:25:21
there was a lot of vegetation on it too
00:25:24
so we commandeered unit from the city of
00:25:26
Brooksville public works department
00:25:27
there a County Public Works Department
00:25:30
we had bulldozers we had
00:25:33
backos Excavating the 5 AC site looks
00:25:37
said to be a daunting
00:25:39
task but within 24 hours the first
00:25:43
Grizzly Discovery was
00:25:45
made on March
00:25:49
17th found the first
00:25:52
bones once I found the bones then we had
00:25:55
a team a forensic archaeology team from
00:25:57
the University of South Florida that
00:25:59
came up and helped with the
00:26:03
excavation she had multiple blunt force
00:26:05
trauma to the head there was also wire
00:26:09
electrical wire which was found in the
00:26:10
vicinity of her neck and also her hands
00:26:15
she was found in a fetal position and
00:26:17
the cause of death was strangulation and
00:26:21
the immediate cause of death the blunt
00:26:23
force multiple blunt force trauma the
00:26:27
discovery of a female body was not a
00:26:29
surprise to the search team but the
00:26:32
forensic archaeologists soon realized
00:26:35
this was not 15-year-old Elaine
00:26:38
Zigler ultimately they recovered the
00:26:41
skeleton full skeleton of a 22-year-old
00:26:45
estimate 22y old white
00:26:48
female detectives got to work in
00:26:50
identifying the remains of the body
00:26:52
uncovered at Billy Mansfield Jr's
00:26:55
Florida home while the 24-year-old
00:26:58
remained in custody 2,800 mil away in
00:27:02
California for the murder of Renee
00:27:05
sailing we an official reconstruction
00:27:07
expert take the skull ultimately and
00:27:10
rebuild a face and then published the
00:27:13
face throughout the country while they
00:27:15
waited to find out if a match would come
00:27:18
back for their Jane Doe detectives tried
00:27:21
to find out where else their suspected
00:27:23
serial killer may have
00:27:26
struck the investigator in
00:27:29
Florida circulate a picture of Billy
00:27:32
Mansfield Jr to other police
00:27:35
forces
00:27:37
and the police in
00:27:40
Tampa recognize the picture and suggest
00:27:44
that he looks very like the man they're
00:27:45
searching for in The Disappearance of
00:27:48
Sandy Graham mansvi Jr was officially
00:27:52
named as the main suspect in Sand's
00:27:55
disappearance but the body found at his
00:27:58
property on March the 17th was not hers
00:28:01
and investigators were only beginning to
00:28:04
scratch the surface of Billy Mansfield
00:28:06
Jr's career of murder 9 days into their
00:28:10
search detectives made another Discovery
00:28:14
fairly close to the location of the
00:28:16
first body and also
00:28:19
shallow and she was white female age
00:28:25
15 this one is naked with a cord wrapped
00:28:29
tightly around its neck in a fetal
00:28:31
position she had multiple blunt force
00:28:34
trauma to the head and had electrical
00:28:36
wire near her head and um her neck and
00:28:41
her
00:28:42
hands she was ultimately identified by
00:28:45
Dental charts and U by the jewelry that
00:28:48
she was
00:28:49
wearing she was identified as Lane
00:28:52
Zigler the 15-year-old ohy girl had been
00:28:55
missing from the nearby Campground for
00:28:58
over 5 years her parents were told and
00:29:02
they had waited 6 years to find out what
00:29:05
had happened to their
00:29:08
daughter and I think the really sad
00:29:10
thing is that when they found out what
00:29:12
did happen to her it was that worst case
00:29:14
scenario it was the the the thing of
00:29:17
their nightmares
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the third victim we found was shortly
00:29:31
after that it was April 3rd as I recall
00:29:34
she was about 75 ft from the back door
00:29:39
of the mfield
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house the body looked to be that of a
00:29:45
white female in her late
00:29:47
teens she had multiple blunt force
00:29:50
trauma to the to the head and also had
00:29:53
electrical heavy electrical wire around
00:29:55
her neck and around her one of her
00:29:57
wrists
00:29:59
did a facial reconstruction on her and
00:30:01
published her paper newspaper and
00:30:03
photograph
00:30:05
and no one came
00:30:09
forward the bodies of three young women
00:30:13
had now been found on Billy Mansfield
00:30:15
Jr's property all had suffered violent
00:30:18
deaths while Mansfield Jr remained in
00:30:21
jail thousands of miles away in
00:30:24
California the search continued and on
00:30:27
April the 7th 1981 a fourth and final
00:30:31
set of remains was recovered from the
00:30:33
Mansfield's Florida
00:30:36
property she likewise was found
00:30:39
strangled with wire and with a cord she
00:30:43
had her pants pulled down to around the
00:30:45
ankle area and her shirt pulled up
00:30:49
overhead the woman had dark hair and was
00:30:52
still wearing jewelry similar to that of
00:30:55
missing 21-year-old Sandy Graham
00:30:59
the detective from tamper goes to look
00:31:03
at the remains and notices for example
00:31:06
that Sandy Graham was wearing a very
00:31:09
distinctive serpent
00:31:12
bracelet but he also notices that the
00:31:15
remains the teeth are perfect and Sandy
00:31:19
Graham's teeth were
00:31:21
perfect she had last been seen at a bar
00:31:24
down in Tampa with someone matching
00:31:26
Billy's description
00:31:28
just like Renee sailing was lasting
00:31:30
alive leaving a bar in Santa Cruz with
00:31:33
someone matching Billy's
00:31:39
description the search of the property
00:31:41
concluded on April the 17th 1981 and
00:31:45
investigators were able to tell two
00:31:48
families what had happened to their
00:31:50
loved
00:31:51
ones I've always felt that the worst
00:31:54
thing in the world is not knowing it is
00:31:58
at the same time a horrific experience
00:32:01
because you're telling someone that
00:32:04
someone that was their family someone
00:32:06
they loved and had spent their lives
00:32:08
with has been
00:32:10
murdered but it does give a chance for
00:32:14
closure two of the bodies found at the
00:32:17
Mansville family property remained
00:32:21
unidentified in July 1981 25-year-old
00:32:25
Billy Mansfield Jr stood trial in Santa
00:32:28
Cruz California for the murder of Renee
00:32:34
sailing but that trial ended with jurors
00:32:36
not being able to determine whether he
00:32:38
was guilty or not um because there was
00:32:40
not enough
00:32:42
evidence but later that year Mansfield
00:32:45
Jr's brother who is also facing charges
00:32:48
in the murder as an accessory after the
00:32:50
fact agreed to testify against his
00:32:52
brother in the murder so we cut a
00:32:55
two-state deal with Gary that he would
00:32:58
cooperate both in California and in
00:33:01
Florida against his brother in exchange
00:33:04
for immunity from prosecution in Florida
00:33:07
and in exchange for charges being
00:33:09
dismissed in Santa
00:33:12
Cruz this is a family that would bond
00:33:15
together when it was convenient but when
00:33:17
it came time for self-preservation they
00:33:19
also did not have any uh reluctance in
00:33:23
abandoning one another just so that they
00:33:24
could save themselves in February 19
00:33:27
1982 Billy Mansfield Jr was back in
00:33:31
front of judge and jury this time in
00:33:33
Marin County
00:33:36
California the retrial takes place and
00:33:38
this time it only takes 2
00:33:40
weeks mansvi Jr was sentenced to 25
00:33:44
years to life for the murder of Renee
00:33:47
sing in May 1982 Jimmy Brown brought
00:33:51
Mansfield Jr back to Florida to face
00:33:54
charges there the 6-hour flight was the
00:33:57
first time the prosecutor had properly
00:33:59
chatted to the convicted
00:34:02
killer he came across as friendly he was
00:34:05
able to strike up conversations with
00:34:07
people it just struck me that he'd
00:34:10
already been sentenced to to life in
00:34:12
prison for murder on Renee sailing he
00:34:15
was indicted for four murders here in
00:34:18
Hernando County and it was like none of
00:34:21
it was real none of it bothered him at
00:34:24
all through the summer of 198 2
00:34:28
prosecutors in Hernando County prepared
00:34:31
to put Billy Mansfield Jr on trial for
00:34:34
the murders of elain zagler Sandy Graham
00:34:37
and the two unidentified women whose
00:34:40
remains had been found on his property
00:34:43
the killer faced the stiffest of
00:34:45
penalties if found
00:34:48
guilty Florida's statute for first three
00:34:51
murder provided for two penalties either
00:34:53
death by electrocution or life in prison
00:34:57
but El for parole after serving 25 years
00:35:00
of the sentence my feeling was at that
00:35:03
point in time with everything we knew
00:35:04
about Billy that he should never be in a
00:35:07
position where he could be released ever
00:35:11
andun Billy was still quite young at the
00:35:14
time 26 I
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think Billy getting out of prison and
00:35:25
being able to go back and hurt other
00:35:28
people was just something I could not
00:35:30
bear the thought
00:35:34
of in August 1982 on the eve of trial
00:35:38
Mansfield Jr in order to avoid the death
00:35:40
penalty in Florida decided to plead
00:35:42
guilty to the murder of the four victims
00:35:45
found on the Mansfield property
00:35:47
Mansfield also pleaded guilty to
00:35:50
snatching and attacking pamet Cheryl the
00:35:53
teen he'd taken to his mobile home near
00:35:55
Brooksville in 1980 based on his plea
00:35:59
Mansfield Jr was sentenced to four life
00:36:01
sentences plus 5 years for the kidnap
00:36:04
and attempted rape of Pamela
00:36:06
Cheryl Mansfield Jr was then returned to
00:36:10
California to serve out his remaining
00:36:12
sentence in the murder of
00:36:14
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00:36:16
ree Billy mansvi Jr remains incarcerated
00:36:20
at the California Health Care Facility
00:36:23
in Stockton he became eligible for
00:36:26
parole there in 19 97 but has not yet
00:36:29
met the conditions that would allow him
00:36:31
to be released and is perhaps unlikely
00:36:35
ever to do
00:36:37
so this is somebody who you can't say is
00:36:41
likely to be rehabilitated because it
00:36:43
doesn't really seem like he even cares
00:36:46
that he took the lives of these
00:36:48
people he was cold and
00:36:52
Relentless and could have at any minute
00:36:56
committed another murder
00:36:58
It is believed that Mansville Killing
00:37:00
Spree did not begin or end with the five
00:37:04
women whose murders he'd been convicted
00:37:06
of after his sentencing in 1982 mansfi
00:37:10
Jr approached prosecutors with a deal he
00:37:15
didn't like the idea that his father was
00:37:16
in prison for 56 years and he offered
00:37:20
that if we would let his dad out of
00:37:22
prison and if we would give him immunity
00:37:25
in each of the States involved that uh
00:37:28
he would provide details so the families
00:37:30
of about 80 victims would have
00:37:35
closure which of course we couldn't do
00:37:38
so we still don't know we do know that
00:37:40
they stopped in KOA Campgrounds all the
00:37:43
way from here to Santa Cruz and koe
00:37:47
campgrounds were Billy's favorite
00:37:50
um hunting ground if you will for
00:37:53
victims
00:37:55
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in 2020 38 years after Mansfield's
00:38:06
Florida convictions there was a major
00:38:08
breakthrough in identifying one of the
00:38:11
two unnamed bodies found buried on the
00:38:14
mansvi property advances of DNA
00:38:17
technology meant that they could extract
00:38:18
DNA from The Remains they discovered and
00:38:21
then they gave that DNA to a forensic
00:38:25
genealogist who constructed a family
00:38:28
tree the forensic genealogist found
00:38:31
someone on an online database whose DNA
00:38:34
profile suggested they were related to
00:38:37
the unnamed
00:38:38
teenager the expert then used this to
00:38:41
start building the family tree of this
00:38:44
individual which led to the realization
00:38:47
there was a young woman in the family
00:38:49
whose birth was registered but no
00:38:51
further records existed for
00:38:54
her the information was handed to a cold
00:38:57
case detective in Hernando County
00:38:59
Florida who called Margaret johns with a
00:39:03
question do you have a sister that I
00:39:05
missing in 1980 and I I was speechless I
00:39:10
couldn't I could hardly answer him I
00:39:12
said he said yeah I think that we have
00:39:16
identified your sister who went missing
00:39:20
in Tampa in
00:39:22
1980 Margaret gave a DNA sample and 6
00:39:26
weeks later the remains were positively
00:39:28
identified as belonging to her younger
00:39:31
sister Theresa fillingham 16-year-old
00:39:35
Theresa had disappeared in Tampa some 41
00:39:38
years earlier just after moving in with
00:39:42
Margaret I felt guilty I took her away
00:39:45
from where she was safe and sound into
00:39:48
Florida with me I failed to protect her
00:39:51
or take care of her or watch over her
00:39:54
and so over the years I just blamed
00:40:01
myself and nothing ever happened until
00:40:05
the day I got the phone call saying that
00:40:08
they may have identified
00:40:12
her so it took a year just to get
00:40:16
the once the positive identification
00:40:20
happened just to get her remains back
00:40:23
and um that was it that's the end of it
00:40:27
so now I have
00:40:33
it knowing is something you can then
00:40:36
process and deal with not knowing is an
00:40:41
emptiness a casm a black hole inside you
00:40:46
of just worrying about all of the the
00:40:48
different scenarios not knowing I think
00:40:51
for people is much worse than anything
00:40:54
they might come to know
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the identification of Theresa fillingim
00:41:03
offers hope the remains of Billy
00:41:04
Mansfield Junior's final unidentified
00:41:07
victim May one day be returned to her
00:41:10
family my message to people who do have
00:41:13
loved ones still missing maybe is don't
00:41:16
give up anything's
00:41:22
possible as with so many serial killers
00:41:25
the question of whether Billy man Phil
00:41:27
Jr was born evil or was the product of
00:41:30
his violent dysfunctional upbringing may
00:41:33
never be fully answered but few would
00:41:36
disagree with investigators who
00:41:38
described him as a man without a soul a
00:41:42
remorseless calculating killer who
00:41:44
placed no value on the lives he took and
00:41:48
as Revelations about his crimes continue
00:41:50
to this day Mansville will forever be
00:41:53
remembered as one of the world's most
00:41:56
evil tellers
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