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The Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer | World’s Most Evil Killers

July 11, 2024 / 43:15

This episode discusses the chilling case of Richard Paul White, a serial killer from Denver, Colorado, who confessed to multiple murders and violent crimes against women. Key topics include his abusive childhood, the murders of several women, and the investigation that led to his capture.

Richard Paul White was arrested in September 2003 after the murder of his friend Jason Reichart. During police interrogation, he confessed to killing at least three women, detailing the horrific acts he committed against them. Detectives, including Joel Humphrey, worked to verify his claims.

White's troubled childhood, marked by abuse and neglect, contributed to his violent behavior. His relationship with Hazel, who endured years of abuse, highlighted his controlling nature and obsession with violence. Hazel's eventual escape from White's grasp coincided with the disappearances of women in the area.

The investigation revealed the bodies of two victims buried in White's former backyard. Analicia Gonzalez and Victoria Turpin were identified through forensic evidence, confirming White's confessions. The episode also touches on the psychological aspects of White's actions and his lack of remorse.

Ultimately, Richard Paul White was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his crimes, leaving a lasting impact on the families of his victims and survivors of his violence.

TLDR

Richard Paul White, a serial killer, confessed to multiple murders and violent crimes against women in Denver, leading to his life sentence.

Episode

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

  • Richard Paul White's Confession
    In September 2003, Richard Paul White confessed to multiple murders, revealing a dark past.
    “I tell you that parking for just a punch in her face...”
    @ 00m 39s
    July 11, 2024
  • Hazel's Escape from Abuse
    Hazel finally found the courage to leave her abusive relationship with White.
    “Finally, I got the courage to talk to people about it.”
    @ 14m 45s
    July 11, 2024
  • The Brutality of His Crimes
    White described his brutal methods of torture and murder in graphic detail.
    “These women weren’t just strangled to death; they were tortured for hours.”
    @ 23m 56s
    July 11, 2024
  • The Discovery of Victims
    Detectives uncover the remains of Analicia Gonzalez and Victoria Turpin, revealing the horror of White's crimes.
    “Richard Paul White's graphic confession was being proven to be true”
    @ 28m 50s
    July 11, 2024
  • Hazel's Shock
    Hazel confronts the reality of her ex-boyfriend's horrific actions in their shared home.
    “I was freaking out, scared. How could that happen?”
    @ 30m 51s
    July 11, 2024
  • White's Plea Bargain
    Richard Paul White pleads guilty to multiple murders, avoiding the death penalty in exchange for cooperation.
    “White's cooperation would also mean he would not be charged with a woman's murder”
    @ 37m 49s
    July 11, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • Man, you guys, I'm so glad I'm caught.
    The Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer | World’s Most Evil Killers
  • I think he enjoyed what he was doing.
    The Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer | World’s Most Evil Killers
  • I need this to stop. I need to die or to be away forever.
    The Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer | World’s Most Evil Killers
  • I was freaking out, scared. How could that happen?
    The Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer | World’s Most Evil Killers
  • I know that there’s something wrong with me.
    The Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer | World’s Most Evil Killers

Key Moments

  • Arrest of White00:11
  • Childhood Trauma03:22
  • Escalating Violence07:11
  • Jason's Death18:01
  • White's Admission22:55
  • Hazel's Realization30:51
  • Plea Bargain37:49
  • Final Identification40:37

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