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