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on the 3rd of February 1997 the bodies
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of a 35 year old woman and a 10 year old
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girl were discovered by firefighters as
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they responded to an emergency call in
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Cook County Chicago Illinois
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they knew that without an autopsy that
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they had been murdered their throats
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were slit the mother and daughter had
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become the fifth and sixth victims of a
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sexual sadist named Paul Runge
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the unique ammo that he had used when he
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was killing his victims was using a
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guy's or ruse to lure them or to get
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inside their homes
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and then by the end sexually assaulting
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killing and setting their homes on fire
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years later rungi would shock
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investigators with a detailed confession
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of his two-year crime spree
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after you pour the liquid on them what'd
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you do I walked away to the bed with the
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match
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I haven't even walked me through the
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crimes how he did each one how he
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basically cased the crime scenes you
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know the thought that he put into it the
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premeditation
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I mean the guy was an absolute animal
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the barbaric killer had gone on record
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Paul Runge had become one of the world's
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most evil killers
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foreign
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between 1995 and 1997 Paul Runge raped
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and killed Six Women and a young girl in
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Chicago Illinois the police had
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suspected him in the early investigation
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but lacked the evidence to make an
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arrest
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but in 2000 a DNA match taken from his
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youngest victim finally led to his
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conviction
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they were watching them I mean the FBI
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was involved
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and uh that doesn't happen in local
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murders all the time so they were they
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were lying to him and they were watching
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him but they needed a break they needed
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a big a big break
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The Big Break came in the DNA
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when confronted Runge confessed to
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killing 35 year old Yolanda Gutierrez
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and her ten-year-old daughter Jessica
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munis and began to divulge the
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horrifying intricacies of many more
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murders
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I want to do the right thing and help
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you guys and you already know I've been
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trying to do the whole time I didn't ask
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for an attorney that stuff you know
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because
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I'm guilty I did this stuff
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he was almost like gratuitous and
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sharing the details of these crimes that
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he was proud of himself like he was
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bragging and it was almost like he
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wanted to show police you know look how
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look what I was able to accomplish
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this killer Story begins on the 28th of
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January 1970.
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Paul Frederick Runge was born in
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Illinois and adopted as an infant
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he told me that he was raised in a very
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loving family in the south suburbs
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Chicago Oak Forest Illinois
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he was sent to good schools he had a
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younger brother he told me that his
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mother was very loving
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Paul renji was extremely close to his
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adoptive mother when she was the person
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that chose to adopt him I think he
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really took to that and they had a very
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strong attachment
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as a young boy rangi displayed some
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troubling Behavior while attending the
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local Catholic School
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ranji had a history at a very young age
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of starting to show the sexual deviance
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towards other girls and he would grab
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them touch them in appropriate ways
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around the age of eight he was asked to
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leave the school
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the fact that a boy of this age is
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actually asked to leave an educational
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institution shows that his behavior
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really was off the scale in terms of
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being unacceptable
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the scales would be tipped again in 1984
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when at the age of just 14 rangi was
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accused of raping two girls
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once they were questioned by police they
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seemed to
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say that this was actually more
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consensual than they originally had
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claimed and ranji was let go
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I think it sends a very significant
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message out to him that actually this
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kind of behavior isn't all that serious
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at the age of 17 a traumatic event in
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the teenager's life would trigger an
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escalation in his behavior that would
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lead to more serious consequences in
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1987 comes probably the most significant
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moment
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in Paul rangi's life
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his mother
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is suffering from cancer
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and she's dying
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he's actually at home with her on the
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day that she passes away
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this is extremely traumatizing
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especially for a child that's already
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been in some ways abandoned by parents
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when he was put up for adoption
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but one thing that we need to remember
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is that he was engaging it in
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inappropriate and abusive Behavior
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towards girls before this event actually
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happens so it doesn't explain why he
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went on to to do what he did
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in August 1987 whilst grieving the death
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of his adoptive mother rangi inflicted
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unspeakable torture on a schoolgirl
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three years his Junior
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he called a 14 year old girl at one
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o'clock in the morning his father was
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out of town
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and he enticed the girl to meet him
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but what she doesn't know is that he's
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going to keep her hostage
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for the weekend
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and
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sexually abuse her throughout that time
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in the most vicious
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premeditated and
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ruthless manner
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he's lured this girl to his house he
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strikes her over the head she becomes
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very disorientated and what follows on
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from this is is a sustained and violent
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and sadistic sexual attack it really was
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incredibly depraved
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eventually he placed her in a sleeping
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bag and put her in the cross piece of
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the house
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and uh taped up and told her to shut up
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and stay there and she was able to
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Escape run out into the street and get
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some help from a passerby
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seventeen-year-old rangi was arrested
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shortly after the attack and would later
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plead guilty to aggravated kidnapping
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and sexual assault
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he was sentenced to 14 years
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in prison and in Cook County you get
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day-for-day good time so he was released
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seven years later in 1994.
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I think this sends a very important
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message to him again that sexual
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violence towards women especially this
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nature is not something that that's
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really going to result in a massively
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long prison sentence
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after being released from prison 24 year
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old rangi met his girlfriend Charlene
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who was known as Sherry
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in late 1994 he moved in with Sherry and
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her housemate Dina bartolini who got on
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well with the couple
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he was funny he was Charming
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you know we laughed all the time it was
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just
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he was just like really kind of fun guy
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to be around
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he'd wake up in the morning go to work
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come home we'd do dinner or order out or
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whatever and he would help clean it was
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just he was a normal everyday person
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except he wasn't
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he most certainly was not
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on the 3rd of January 1995 just months
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after his release from prison Paul Runge
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killed for the first time
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24 year old Stacey fro Bell was an old
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friend who'd recently been reunited with
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Dina and Sherry and the friends were
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looking forward to catching up
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she was a friend of ours from when we
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used to go to the bars during the
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weekends and we see where the forest
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preserves and we just hang out there and
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which was kind of like part of the group
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that we used to hang around with
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she was such a sweetheart
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she had come over earlier during the day
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we were kind of going through old
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pictures
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and she was having such a good time
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she's like well let me go home she's
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like I want to come back maybe I you
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know have some drinks whatever and just
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you know continue this reminiscing
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years later when recounting the events
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of that night Runge would claim that
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Sherry called him before Stacey returned
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it worked and as she said
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and that uh she probably will be a good
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candidate for having a freeway
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we're just laughing having a good time I
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was actually sick that night I was like
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running 103 fever I think I had one wine
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cooler I'm like all right guys my head
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kind of went really warm and I went to
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bed
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put some good music on and uh
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as you can think or you know kind of
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really drunk in that stuff and turn sure
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he went upstairs and uh Sherry came and
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we went into our bedroom and she said
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well Stacy I'm spend the night
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yes I remembered I think I woke up to go
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to the bathroom and
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Sherry said that she was gonna that
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Stacy was gonna spend the night because
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she was drinking
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rangi later claimed that Shetty was
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angry with Stacy and that led to him
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targeting his girlfriend's sleeping
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friend
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the weight was sitting on the uh on the
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table in our bedroom and uh I said okay
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and I picked the uh the um wait up when
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I went to the room and she was laying
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out of bed you know kind of drunk I went
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to the room and I hit her on the head
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twice
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and then um
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we uh kind of like
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he's dead you know I mean she she's not
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alive anymore
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he's starting off with somebody he knows
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it's almost a kind of warm-up killing
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it's one that he feels confident that he
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can accomplish
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when Dina woke the next morning she was
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surprised to learn that Stacy had not
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stayed the night
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I think I was halfway down the stairs
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and I didn't see
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her I figured she'd be sleeping on the
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couch and
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Charlene came by and she you know came
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came towards me I'm like where's Stacy
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you know well she's not here
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she's like how her husband wanted her
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home
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so she drove home
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but Stacy hadn't made it home
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and when Dean went to work I brought
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stage in the bathroom
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and uh put her in the bathroom
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I close the door and I saw her and
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remember
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after he's finished
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what did you do uh I'm sure he got me uh
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kitchen bags out of the kitchen garbage
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bags and I put the pieces into the
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garlic
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that evening Runge and Sherry asked to
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borrow Dina's car
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we couldn't put those body parts in my
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car because it was too small
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mostly they just needed my vehicle to go
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to the store or something because theirs
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had no gas
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and then they left and came back so it
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was for me it was no big deal to give
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them the key to say go ahead
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uh buying parts of her car
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drove off toward the sky okay if you
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drop them all in one place or do you
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scattered they were all wrong
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the following day the 5th of January
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Stacey froble's husband reported her
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missing after she'd failed to return
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home from the Runge house
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police questioned all three housemates
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we found out that she never made it home
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and then we found out that her car was
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found over in Hanover Park somewhere I
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think in front of a bar
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so that was really kind of creepy he was
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like wow what happened to Stacy
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we had people we had you know police
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over asking us questions about you know
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Stacy being there that night and if we
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seen anything weird or you know
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and as far as I knew of course she went
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home because her husband wanted her home
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the housemates were shaken by their
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friends mysterious disappearance we
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talked about it a lot wondering where
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she went after she left our townhouse
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when she never made it home so we used
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to discuss that and what happened to her
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about you know about her you know maybe
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she met somebody at a bar
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we mean we had no idea
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he was so arrogant and confident about
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his lie and trying to put her housemate
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off the sense that he was able to get
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away with it and that's just astonishing
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two weeks after she was reported missing
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police received a call from a dog walker
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who discovered body parts 20 miles away
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at the Illinois Wisconsin border
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it would be many months before DNA would
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identify the victim as Stacey froble
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the news came as a shock to her friend
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Dina who was no longer living with Runge
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so that was really
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it's really quite upsetting
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to find out that she her body was found
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somewhere just
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just bits and pieces of it
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I don't think they even found her whole
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body
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so yeah it was it was weird and what
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happened we didn't know why I didn't
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know what happened to her nobody knew
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what happened to her well
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I didn't know what happened to her
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rangi married Sherry just weeks after
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killing Stacey frobo but when
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investigators learned of the newlyweds
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previous conviction for the depraved
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attack on a teenage girl he became the
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prime suspect in Stacy's murder they
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believed that ranji had committed the
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murder of froble but they couldn't prove
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it to the amount they they needed to
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arrest him and bring charges against him
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he may be a person of interest in
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inquiry but
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nothing certain no hard evidence
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so inspired or perhaps encouraged by
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that
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success if you like
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with uh Stacy froble
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ranga kills again
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years later rangi described how in July
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of 1995 he and his wife had targeted two
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Bosnian sisters under the guise of
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setting up a fake cleaning company
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assistant State's Attorney General Bob
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Milan remembers the hallowing
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recollection so Janet and Amelia Pagan
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bevik came over the United States from
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Bosnia to start a new life
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I've been in the country about six
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months they're 22 and 20. looking for
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work
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Keen to establish themselves in the
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community
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they found out through a friend that
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they worked with that Paul rongi and his
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wife were going to start a cleaning
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business rangi and his wife eventually
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brought the girls over to their house on
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July 12th of 1995 under the rules that
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they were going to interview them for
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this cleaning business
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but what they don't realize
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and that's the horrifying part what they
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don't realize is just how much danger
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they are both in
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the real reason for luring the women
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back to the house soon became clear when
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rangi made them a proposition of a very
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different kind a foursome with him and
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his wife
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all right about sex and uh she's like
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what do you mean sex I meant the four of
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us having sex upstairs in the bedroom
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for money
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and uh you know we should look back for
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about her sister and said something to
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her sister and her sister got up and ran
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the one sister broke for the door she
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actually ran and actually got outside
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the back door
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I caught him by the back of the hair and
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pulled her down to the ground what was
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your colors the ground and concrete the
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driveway concrete travel yes what
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happened to her when we did that uh she
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couldn't put her hands back she went
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straight down to figure out her head on
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the concrete
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she was hurt so badly that she was
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throwing up
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and almost unconscious and he dragged
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her back in the house
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when the sisters saw her injured sibling
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she started screaming
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but the sister that was screaming and he
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handcuffed her to a weight bench
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down in the in the basement
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and then he
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started to assault
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the sister that was injured in front of
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the other sister
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afterwards she said she said why are you
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doing this you're looking out why are
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you doing this what did you say to her I
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didn't say anything I didn't thought
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about it and I was complaining for
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myself you know I don't understand this
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you know why this is why this turn to
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wise turnout like this and I died I
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couldn't I she was right and I didn't
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understand
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it's for a girl who's screaming on the
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weight bench pulling trying to pull her
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hand away screaming you know my sister
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my sister please don't do that to my
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sister
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eventually brought the injured sister
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upstairs and and uh drowned her in a
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bathtub
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can you go back back downstairs what
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happens
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uh chairs down there and the girl uh
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that's what was that what was that and
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uh
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that's what we're talking about to go
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talk to my sister and uh I said she
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drowned in the tub
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and she started screaming and
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you can just imagine the the level of
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fear and just the violence that that's
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gone on in this particular attack
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raped the second sister
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in the basement while she was handcuffed
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to the weight bench
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eventually he brought her upstairs and
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strangled her
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put her in the bathtub and dismembered
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both of their bodies
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after you've dismember the bodies what
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did you do with the body parts
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I put him into cold cases in the bags
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how many garbage bags did you fill the
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side effects maybe eight to ten
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it was a horrifying confession
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uh later on that night we uh drove to
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some apartments nearby and uh put the
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bags in adultery
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foreign
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detectives looking into the reported
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disappearance of Janet and emila learned
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that a mutual friend of the rungies and
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the sisters had helped set up a meeting
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about a cleaning job
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This was later confirmed when
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investigators made a vital Discovery in
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the couple's garbage
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they found in there at the note that he
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or Sherry wrought out that connected
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them to the Bosnian sisters okay their
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numbers were honored
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Hanover Park PD now had three women who
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were never seen alive again after
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visiting the rungies it was too much of
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a coincidence
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so now they know
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all right please no
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in search of the definitive evidence
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they needed to prove it FBI approached
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rangi's former housemate Dina who was
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surprised to learn that he'd become a
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suspect I found out Paul was involved
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when the FBI came knocking out my door
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first I'm like whoa what were you guys
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want to do with me
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but it was this like they said they said
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you're not you know you're not in any
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trouble we just want to talk to you and
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basically propose that I try to help
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them try to get some information from
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Charlene and Paul
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Dina agreed to wear a wire and visited
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the rungies who were now living with his
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father in Glendale Heights the attempts
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proved unsuccessful
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I had a feeling they they knew something
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was up though
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I mean I'm not a very good actress so
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they were very very quiet
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they didn't give up any information
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the FBI and the police were convinced of
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runge's involvements but had no proof
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aware that he was being watched the
00:22:01
sexual sadist was about to change
00:22:03
tactics and take his Killing Spree to
00:22:06
another level
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renji seemed have a slight change in his
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Mo where he went from being almost
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responsive to the environment to
00:22:18
actually going into the environment to
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pick his ideal victim
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in January in 1997 rangi was working as
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a delivery driver when he noticed of a
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sale sign as he drove past the house of
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single mother dorota Dorothy Dubach
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now he's a very Sly operator he goes to
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a local pay phone
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and rings are up
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and says I see you're selling your house
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I'd really quite like to see it
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in a sense endears himself to her using
00:22:52
that plausible manner
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on Surface nothing to fear
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on the 10th of January rangi called
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Dorothy to arrange a second viewing
00:23:03
he was playing the part of a buyer that
00:23:06
was trying to make a decision in a short
00:23:08
time frame and needed to see the home
00:23:10
twice he could have used the time in
00:23:13
between his two showings of the home to
00:23:16
cool off think about his decision decide
00:23:19
not to commit murder but instead I think
00:23:22
that time in between actually served to
00:23:24
get him more excited about the crime
00:23:28
foreign
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ER wasn't home that day
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so
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Dorothy called one of her very good
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friends
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he said I got this guy coming over he
00:23:39
was here the other day he's kind of
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weird
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um she said if you don't hear from me in
00:23:43
15 minutes
00:23:45
half joking you know call the police
00:23:49
as she showed Runge around Dorothy
00:23:52
explained that she was having problems
00:23:54
with the furnace and an engineer was due
00:23:56
to visit that day to carry out repairs
00:24:00
posing as the concerned buyer rangi
00:24:03
wanted to inspect it himself
00:24:06
and uh I told her I thought I knew what
00:24:08
was wrong with it and she came over to
00:24:10
look and we came over the look I pushed
00:24:12
her on the floor
00:24:13
by the way
00:24:15
um that I screamed my color show up so
00:24:18
uh I'm not gonna hurt you I can do
00:24:20
anything be quiet if you want to see
00:24:22
your daughter don't don't kill me
00:24:24
and my uh polish fan up and walk her
00:24:26
into her life
00:24:27
oh wrongy was a very disarming guy which
00:24:32
made him even more frightening he
00:24:35
he uh talked his way in to he told me
00:24:39
over a hundred houses
00:24:40
uh if you met him and he came to your
00:24:43
door and asked to use the phone or to
00:24:46
ask for directions or whatever you'd let
00:24:48
him in very frightening guy
00:24:51
off to raping Dorothy rungy claimed he
00:24:54
forced her to shower before taking her
00:24:56
back into the bedroom and tying her
00:24:59
hands
00:25:01
where'd you do that later on in bed and
00:25:04
what position is the layer in the back
00:25:06
player on the battery stomach
00:25:07
foreign okay
00:25:11
what'd you do that uh again proper Irene
00:25:15
leaned on her with my hand like this I'm
00:25:18
the high part of the back lower neck
00:25:19
area and I was talking to her I said
00:25:21
don't say anything don't tell nobody
00:25:23
don't do anything I'm not going to come
00:25:25
back I'm not gonna hurt you or your
00:25:26
daughter or anything like that uh
00:25:29
that was that was pretty much it whether
00:25:31
you're leaning hard or we land inside uh
00:25:33
I was late enough to I guess you are
00:25:36
and what do you mean by that because uh
00:25:38
when I got up my first she was more she
00:25:41
wanted me to breathing that I realized
00:25:42
she started carrying my pillow
00:25:45
Paul Runge had now cruelly taken four
00:25:49
lives and was quick to make sure he left
00:25:52
no evidence that might lead the police
00:25:54
to his door
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what was your reason for the United
00:26:04
States to draw attention to that I don't
00:26:08
know
00:26:09
as he ignited the closet wanted to do
00:26:13
that if I went to work
00:26:17
a short while later the furnace engineer
00:26:21
arrived to find the house Ablaze the
00:26:24
fire department raced to the scene and
00:26:26
discovered Dorothy's body on the bed
00:26:30
at first
00:26:32
determined that you know okay well maybe
00:26:34
she died of the fire she might have been
00:26:36
smoking or something like that however
00:26:38
when an autopsy was conducted it was
00:26:41
determined that number one she had no
00:26:44
smoke in her lungs
00:26:46
which means she wasn't breathing when
00:26:48
the fire
00:26:49
was on uh two they noticed signs of
00:26:54
trauma
00:26:55
the Pathologists found evidence that
00:26:58
suggested Dorothy had been tied up and
00:27:01
strangled
00:27:03
there are also signs of sexual assault
00:27:06
so what looked like
00:27:08
a terrible accident
00:27:10
is actually
00:27:12
a cold-blooded premeditated murder
00:27:15
rangi's previous victims had all visited
00:27:18
his home and been killed there but his
00:27:21
change in tactics meant he was operating
00:27:24
under the police's radar in a new area
00:27:27
Cook County Paul Runge had already
00:27:30
killed unbeknownst to investigators he
00:27:34
was now stalking his prey
00:27:37
less than a month later
00:27:40
rangi strikes again
00:27:43
responding to a local selling ad for a
00:27:47
children's reading program known as
00:27:49
Hooked on Phonics he posed as an
00:27:51
interested father and visited the
00:27:54
apartment of 35 year old Yolanda
00:27:57
Gutierrez and her ten-year-old daughter
00:27:59
Jessica
00:28:01
came over to her place to see it one
00:28:04
morning early before Jessica went to
00:28:06
school
00:28:07
he actually saw Jessica he saw Elana
00:28:10
Gutierrez found her attractive
00:28:12
he looked at Hooked on Phonics and said
00:28:14
he wanted to think about it and he left
00:28:17
why should they know think this chapter
00:28:19
is turned up isn't a legitimate buyer it
00:28:23
was the cost in their lives
00:28:26
rangi had assessed his potential victims
00:28:29
reassured that she was single and that
00:28:32
there would be no obstacles to his
00:28:34
attack three days later on the 3rd of
00:28:37
February 1997 he returned to the
00:28:41
apartment
00:28:45
around her around the front and put it
00:28:49
back to a drop tragically Jessica was
00:28:52
also home that day your daughter say
00:28:55
anything no she'd do anything
00:28:56
nothing except the shack work and then
00:28:59
uh I took another tape out of the pocket
00:29:01
and I take their hands behind her back
00:29:03
and then the little girl can't find her
00:29:04
back
00:29:05
got him on the bed he repeatedly raped
00:29:08
them
00:29:10
Jessica had been subjected to a quite a
00:29:12
sustained sadistic sexual attack at the
00:29:15
same time her mother had so this tells
00:29:17
us that this killer has no boundaries he
00:29:20
has no limits the fact that there's a 10
00:29:22
year old child there is not something
00:29:24
that puts his brakes on or gets in his
00:29:27
way or stops him from doing what he
00:29:29
wants to do if anything she's part of
00:29:31
the appeal for him
00:29:35
rangi slashed the throats of the mother
00:29:37
and her young daughter
00:29:40
the 27 year old killer once again set
00:29:43
about covering his tracks
00:29:45
this time he'd come prepared so he had
00:29:48
his briefcase and inside the briefcase
00:29:50
he had the duct tape he had the knife he
00:29:53
had the flammable substance in there
00:29:55
and he poured the flammable substance
00:29:57
all over both of them
00:29:59
after you pour the liquid on them what'd
00:30:01
you do I walked over the bed with the
00:30:04
match
00:30:07
real fast out
00:30:09
why didn't you do that
00:30:12
um
00:30:14
to a hide the fact of what I didn't
00:30:16
start next
00:30:17
couples
00:30:19
uh
00:30:20
um I can't tell you why I cooked next I
00:30:23
mean I don't know I don't know why I did
00:30:25
that
00:30:26
the Chicago Fire Department arrived soon
00:30:30
after being alerted by a member of the
00:30:32
public it was a Halloween scene
00:30:37
they knew that they're without an
00:30:41
autopsy that they had been murdered
00:30:43
their throats were slit and they were
00:30:46
they were partially new
00:30:49
whilst rangi remained prime suspect in
00:30:52
the investigation into the 1995 killings
00:30:55
of three women who disappeared after
00:30:57
visiting his home nobody knew he was
00:31:00
also responsible for the recent murders
00:31:03
in Cook County
00:31:05
in March investigators had another body
00:31:09
on their hands when a female was found
00:31:11
dead following a fire at her home
00:31:15
I mean there was no doubt when they got
00:31:17
there that there was a crime that had
00:31:18
been committed that uh
00:31:21
she had been murdered and that a fire
00:31:24
had been set to cover up
00:31:27
the victim was later identified as
00:31:30
kamira Peru and it soon emerged that
00:31:33
just like the murder of Dorothy Dubach
00:31:35
the 45 year old woman had been selling
00:31:38
her apartment and rangi had already been
00:31:41
to recce the scene of the crime
00:31:45
would go over and case the place which
00:31:46
he did in all three cases a case that
00:31:48
looked it over made sure nobody else is
00:31:51
around and then he'd return to those
00:31:53
scenes and attack on the 14th of March
00:31:57
1997 Runge returned to the apartment
00:32:03
getting ready to leave and I said okay
00:32:06
thank you that kind of stuff my turn
00:32:08
then I turned back she turned around the
00:32:09
other way and I grabbed it from behind
00:32:11
him turn on the floor
00:32:13
in the back of the neck area push her
00:32:15
down to the ground she started reading
00:32:16
real bad uh profusely but then what
00:32:19
happened I stood up and walked into the
00:32:22
bathroom
00:32:24
what happened in the band
00:32:26
um I laid her down on a floor in the
00:32:28
bathroom and uh she was kind of crack
00:32:31
Rocky and uh she's still bleeding real
00:32:33
bad and it depends off
00:32:36
they raped her she did wake up and try
00:32:38
to fight back she actually grabbed an
00:32:39
iron
00:32:40
that was nearby and tried to hit him in
00:32:42
the head
00:32:43
where I just kind of went like there's
00:32:44
my armor we will close the toilet
00:32:48
and he strangled her and asphyxiated her
00:32:51
on the on the floor
00:32:52
after he raped her again he took a
00:32:55
flammable substance poured it over her
00:32:57
body and in the bathroom and set it on
00:33:00
fire and left the scene
00:33:03
cat and mirror had been desperate to
00:33:06
return home to her native Poland but
00:33:09
runghi had crawly snuffed out her dream
00:33:12
so the victims are all women who live
00:33:15
without a male partner they're all women
00:33:17
who have something that they're selling
00:33:19
usually their home their property and
00:33:22
this is just a pattern that is not going
00:33:25
to emerge randomly the killings are too
00:33:27
close together and it's just far too
00:33:30
much of a coincidence
00:33:32
Chicago PD investigators now knew they
00:33:36
had a serial killer on the loose who'd
00:33:38
murdered four people in the space of
00:33:41
just three months
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00:33:43
the police are able to link the murders
00:33:45
together because of how similar they
00:33:47
were all committed around the same time
00:33:50
in the same way
00:33:52
with the places being set on fire
00:33:55
police were pretty certain that it was
00:33:58
the same actor
00:34:00
investigators have no clue as to who
00:34:03
this sadistic individual was meanwhile
00:34:06
detectives over in Hanover Park
00:34:08
investigating the murders of the three
00:34:11
women that had visited runge's home were
00:34:14
confident that he was their killer but
00:34:16
had yet to find the evidence to prove it
00:34:20
unbeknownst to the two investigating
00:34:22
teams they were seeking the same man
00:34:25
although without evidence connecting him
00:34:28
to the murders of Stacey fro Bell and
00:34:30
sisters emila and Janet passenbergovic
00:34:33
Hanover Park had an ace up their sleeve
00:34:36
that would get rungy off the streets to
00:34:40
still on parole
00:34:41
from what he did to the little girl back
00:34:43
in
00:34:44
87. in 1996 they conducted a search
00:34:48
warrant on his father's home and they
00:34:50
found
00:34:52
their weapons they found a stun gun they
00:34:56
found combat knives
00:34:58
and some other weapons in their
00:34:59
crossbows that he wasn't supposed to
00:35:02
have
00:35:02
the possession of weapons was a
00:35:05
violation of his parole and in May 1997
00:35:09
27 year old rangi was arrested
00:35:13
filed a petition called the sexually
00:35:15
violent person's petition for they have
00:35:17
evidence that a person is sexually
00:35:18
violent
00:35:19
found these weapons and that he should
00:35:21
be taken off the streets so we could
00:35:23
take our time and build a case
00:35:30
if investigators couldn't find something
00:35:33
new Paul Runge would walk free they are
00:35:37
left just thinking that this person
00:35:39
almost certainly committed this crime
00:35:41
but they can't actually prove it they
00:35:44
couldn't prove it to the amount they
00:35:46
they needed to arrest him and bring
00:35:48
charges against him
00:35:50
in 2003 years after he was sent back to
00:35:54
jail investigators were running out of
00:35:57
options they turned to runge's now
00:36:00
ex-wife offering her immunity if she
00:36:03
testified against him Charlene took the
00:36:06
deal and admitted to luring the sisters
00:36:09
to their home under false pretenses
00:36:11
cleaning up after all three murders and
00:36:15
helping rangi dispose of the bodies
00:36:18
whilst Hanover Park geared up to put
00:36:21
runghi on trial scientists were
00:36:23
re-examining evidence from the Chicago
00:36:26
PD fire murders they had a breakthrough
00:36:29
that would finally expose the full
00:36:32
extent of the Killer's actions
00:36:35
in September of 2000 there is a DNA
00:36:39
match which emerges from the body of
00:36:42
little ten-year-old Jessica and it's a
00:36:44
match for rungee's DNA
00:36:46
the DNA it's a game changer it's a game
00:36:49
changer
00:36:51
rangi is a killer who thinks he's
00:36:53
incredibly smart that he's just going to
00:36:56
get away with it that he's thought of
00:36:57
everything but the one thing that he
00:36:59
hadn't anticipated would be that science
00:37:01
would catch up with him
00:37:04
now investigators knew that Paul Runge
00:37:07
was also responsible for the four fire
00:37:10
murders it was a memorable moment for
00:37:14
assistant State's Attorney Bob Milan
00:37:18
gave him his rights introduced myself
00:37:20
said I understand you
00:37:22
want to hear it from me well the DNA is
00:37:24
yours right he said yeah
00:37:27
and so first off you know it's yours
00:37:29
right I mean you know what you're you
00:37:31
don't need me to tell you we're there
00:37:32
why would we be talking to you about
00:37:33
this unless we had your DNA right
00:37:36
and I go here it is Boom
00:37:39
said one town and then I knew and so
00:37:41
once I showed it to him and confronted
00:37:43
him with that
00:37:45
he confessed to the Gutierrez Muniz
00:37:47
murders
00:37:49
once the floodgates had opened there was
00:37:52
no holding back rangi shocked
00:37:55
investigators when over the course of 10
00:37:58
hours he went on to confess to all seven
00:38:01
murders
00:38:03
communicated to me that you wanted to
00:38:05
explain why you're telling yourself
00:38:07
about these papers
00:38:09
yes
00:38:12
um
00:38:13
I'm telling you the cases because I want
00:38:15
to help the families that are
00:38:17
going through this right now I don't
00:38:19
know what happens to our loved ones I
00:38:20
want to do the right thing and help you
00:38:21
guys
00:38:22
I didn't ask for an attorney that stuff
00:38:24
you know because
00:38:26
I'm guilty I did this stuff and I just
00:38:28
wanted you I wanted I wanted to do it
00:38:30
over with
00:38:32
I think this is because he realizes that
00:38:35
the game is up now and he's risking
00:38:37
actually losing control of the story
00:38:40
around these crimes so this is when he
00:38:42
starts confessing because he's trying to
00:38:44
get ahead of that he's trying to claim
00:38:45
the narrative for himself
00:38:47
his demeanor was notable to Bob Milan
00:38:50
who listened to all the horrifying
00:38:53
details
00:38:54
so I asked him how did is it to
00:38:57
dismember somebody's leg or arm how hard
00:38:59
is it to saw through and
00:39:01
remember he told me it's not that hard
00:39:03
it's like sawn through a small Branch
00:39:05
that's how he answered the question
00:39:06
that's how he told me
00:39:08
uh
00:39:09
there's no tears no remorse
00:39:13
nothing
00:39:15
he wanted to be known as being so bad
00:39:17
and that was one reason why he was
00:39:19
willing to share all of the horrific
00:39:22
details of the ways that he murdered
00:39:24
these women and I think it was really to
00:39:27
almost get
00:39:28
credit for it to see himself in such a
00:39:31
horrible manner but to know that he was
00:39:35
almost like an evil villain and he was
00:39:37
really the worst there is
00:39:41
the full extent of runge's past and his
00:39:45
confession to the heinous murder of
00:39:47
Stacey fro Bell came as a huge shock to
00:39:50
her friend Dina who'd been in the house
00:39:52
on the night of the murder in 1995.
00:39:57
I've had found out that he they had
00:39:59
actually killed her in the room across
00:40:02
the hall where I was that night sleeping
00:40:04
upstairs in the bedroom
00:40:06
he killed her and cut her up in the
00:40:07
bathroom
00:40:09
and then used my vehicle
00:40:11
to dispose of her body
00:40:16
I just can't believe thank goodness I
00:40:18
didn't hear anything because I have a
00:40:19
feeling if they knew I did
00:40:21
that I would have been dead too
00:40:25
I would not be sitting here talking to
00:40:27
you guys today
00:40:31
but it did it was
00:40:34
like I said it was like an out of Body
00:40:36
Experience just even thinking that
00:40:38
something like that could happen right
00:40:40
across the hall from where I was
00:40:41
sleeping
00:40:43
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00:40:47
in January 2006 Paul Runge stood trial
00:40:52
for the murders of Yolanda Gutierrez and
00:40:55
her ten-year-old daughter Jessica munis
00:40:59
case they elected Anne which was the
00:41:01
most evidence was The Majestic
00:41:02
community's Greer is murders because he
00:41:05
had the DNA plus the confession
00:41:07
I actually testified not only to that
00:41:10
case but a number of the other ones
00:41:13
rangi was convicted by the jury at the
00:41:16
sentencing hearing the other crimes came
00:41:18
in to be taken under consideration and
00:41:21
the jury sentenced him to death
00:41:22
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00:41:24
unbelievably rangi was never tried for
00:41:27
the other murders he confessed to
00:41:34
how do you tell the families of the
00:41:35
Bosnian sisters we're not going to try
00:41:37
this case we're not going to reach a
00:41:39
conviction with it how do you tell them
00:41:40
that I I don't get it and when we had
00:41:43
the note that connected him to those
00:41:45
sisters and the people that connected
00:41:47
him to those sisters and then of course
00:41:49
full confessions to the crime so
00:41:52
I don't get it I wasn't for it but it
00:41:55
wasn't my decision to make
00:41:58
in 2011 capital punishment in Illinois
00:42:03
was repealed and rangi's sentence
00:42:06
changed from the death penalty to
00:42:08
Natural life in prison
00:42:11
later that year it was announced that as
00:42:14
he had already been given the maximum
00:42:16
penalty the other case is against Runge
00:42:19
had been dropped in reality he was a
00:42:22
monster
00:42:23
charm and disarming ways to get into
00:42:26
homes
00:42:27
and rape and murder multiple women
00:42:31
I think Stacy her family all the things
00:42:34
that they've got to go through and every
00:42:36
single woman that he has murdered
00:42:39
their lives have been changed forever
00:42:41
they'll never be the same
00:42:44
nobody will in this investigation
00:42:47
this whole entire
00:42:48
thing with Paul rugby he's just evil
00:42:51
he is just plain evil
00:42:55
foreign
00:42:57
was a sexual sadist who took advantage
00:43:01
of the trust that he was afforded by the
00:43:03
young and vulnerable women who let him
00:43:06
into their homes a cold and calculated
00:43:09
deviant he inflicted unfathomable
00:43:12
torture on his victims he is a dangerous
00:43:16
predator who will forever be known as
00:43:19
one of the world's most evil killers
00:43:23
foreign
00:43:30
foreign
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