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