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[theme music] NARRATOR: In August 1994,
nine-year-old Diana Rebollar left her house in Houston, Texas
and headed to a grocery store
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to buy some sugar. But she would never return home. There was no Diana. There was nothing.
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Nobody saw her or did anything. Eventually, her body was
found in a horrific fashion.
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NARRATOR: Diana had
become the third casualty of a twisted sexual predator
named Anthony Shore, a man who
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would abduct, rape,
and then strangle the life out of his victims. GERALD BOURQUE: He's
got this tourniquet.
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He's just driving around with it
in his glove box all the time? When the urge strikes him, and
he's always just one insult
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away from killing a woman? NARRATOR: Years later,
Shore's confessions would stun investigators,
who were just
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beginning to find out about
his terrifying history of rape and murder. NARRATOR: Anthony Shore
had gone on record
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and revealed himself as one of
the world's most evil killers. [theme music] In October 2003, telephone
repairman, Anthony Shore,
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sat down with detectives
in Houston, Texas and confessed to four
murders and the rape
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of a 14-year-old girl. NARRATOR: The
41-year-old father of two had only been captured because
his DNA remained on file
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after he was
convicted of sexually assaulting his own daughters. Despite his shocking
crimes, Shore didn't come
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across as a deranged killer. He could be sitting in
this room with you and me. And if he didn't open
his mouth, we would
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think he was just like us. He was an average-looking guy. He wasn't ugly. He wasn't handsome.
He wasn't tall.
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He wasn't short. He wasn't fat. He wasn't skinny. He was just a very
average-looking man.
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And if you put a hard hat on him
and a Southwestern Bell shirt on him, you would
think that you could
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take him to Sunday dinner. ANDY KAHAN: His victims were
young, vulnerable, slight
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of build, couldn't
protect themselves, couldn't fight, couldn't run,
scream, yell or fight back.
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And that's who he preyed upon. NARRATOR: Of Shore's four
victims, three of them were children.
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The youngest being
just nine years old. ANDY KAHAN: I'm sorry. Anyone who kills a nine-year-old
girl and sexually assaults them
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and just leaves their body,
anyone of that magnitude to me is the lowest of the lowest.
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There's reasons that we
have the death penalty. And Anthony Shore would
be a poster child for why
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we do have the death penalty. NARRATOR: This
killer's story begins on the 25th of June 1962.
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Anthony Allen Shore was born
in Rapid City, South Dakota. Both his parents
worked in the military.
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And his father's career led to
a fairly transient childhood. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Shore
moved around a lot when he
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was a child and an adolescent. And the reason for this moving
around was his father's job.
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So I think this has two impacts. Firstly, it has an effect on
how able he is to maintain
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relationships with peers,
because he never really gets the chance to do that. And secondly, he gets a bit
of a message sent to him
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subliminally through
this, in that dad's job is the reason why we're moving. So dad's position is what
determines what we do.
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And this kind of reinforces
a sort of patriarchal way of looking at the world
that actually, life revolves
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around what men are doing. And we just follow
where they go. NARRATOR: Even at
a young age, Shore
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began to display
worrying signs of what would come later in his life. MIKE GRACZYK: When Shore was
about four or five years old,
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he took a knife
and killed a cat. It was a neighbor's cat. And he was upset that the
cat kept trying to go home.
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And he wanted the
cat to be with him. So he took a knife
and killed the cat. And psychologists will tell you
that children, in particular,
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who do great harm to
domestic animals, that's not a good sign, not
a good sign at all.
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NARRATOR: Shore's
disturbing behavior continued as the
family move back and forth across the country.
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GEOFFREY WANSELL: He attacked
his sister with a screwdriver when he was 10. And from about the
age of 10 onwards,
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he would encourage
his younger sister-- they used to ride
their bikes together--
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to knock on the doors of girls
in the local neighborhood and invite them out. And then he would grope them.
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ELIZABETH YARDLEY: So this
shows us how manipulative and how premeditated he was
even at an incredibly young age.
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He's involving his sister
in getting access to what were essentially victims. So he's involving other
people in his ruse.
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So this shows that level of
manipulation and planning that is very chilling
for someone this young.
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NARRATOR: As Shore grew
up, his parents grew apart and eventually divorced. GEOFFREY WANSELL:
Essentially, what had already
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been a fairly
kaleidoscopic childhood became even more fractured. He didn't know where he was.
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Eventually, he finds himself
back in Houston, Texas, but I believe looking
for some kind of roots,
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looking for somewhere to be,
somewhere to feel at home. NARRATOR: By 1985, 22-year-old
Anthony Shore had settled down.
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He was married with two
children and working as a telephone repairman. I mean, he was about as
nondescript as you can get.
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I mean, like the proverbial
person next door, you're not going to think
twice about Anthony Shore.
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GEOFFREY WANSELL: He
was to some extent this apparently proper man. He had a job.
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They had a house. There were children. But there was something
off about him. NARRATOR: In September
1986, Anthony Shore
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killed for the first time. He gave an account
of the attack years later, where he
claimed he'd struck
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up a friendship with 15-year-old
schoolgirl, Laurie Lee Tremblay. GERALD BOURQUE:
He befriended her,
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and she got
comfortable with him. And then the fateful day where
the weather was bad, he stops,
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picks her up to give
her a ride to school, and make some sexual advances. She basically told him
that she wanted to stop.
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And that is just a
foreign language to him, because what he says goes. So when a woman challenges
him, that really angers him,
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that really enrages him, because
his key objective all the time is to maintain control.
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So if he can't maintain
control by non-physical means, he is going to be violent.
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MIKE GRACZYK: She was strangled. Her body was found next to
a trash dumpster outside
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of a Houston restaurant. NARRATOR: Laurie
Lee Tremblay's body was found later that same day,
the 26th of September 1986.
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Shore had strangled the
15-year-old with a cotton cord, which left two
distinct lines on her neck.
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There were no witnesses. And the investigation
stalled at an early stage. GEOFFREY WANSELL: As far
as the law is concerned,
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Shore has got off scot-free. No sign of anything. There is no conclusive evidence.
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We were in the very
early days of DNA. So the tracks were, to
say the least, muddied.
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And there was no clarity. NARRATOR: It was a
promise that Anthony Shore would not be able to keep.
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Over five years passed, in
which Shore later admitted, he struggled to keep a
lid on his perversions.
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NARRATOR: But by the
16th of April 1992, the 30-year-old
killer could no longer contain his wicked impulses.
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GEOFFREY WANSELL: Maria
Carmen del Estrada, always known to her friends as Carmen.
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She was 21, small, 5 foot
1, only weighed 104 pounds, olive skin, almond eyes. NARRATOR: Shore pulled
into the parking
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a Dairy Queen restaurant on
Westview Drive in Houston. Carmen Estrada had no
idea she was just moments
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away from being murdered. NARRATOR: Shore strangled Carmen
to death with a tourniquet,
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a different method to
the cotton cord he'd used almost six years beforehand. MIKE GRACZYK: Police said that
her ligature around her neck
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was so tight that it
almost couldn't be seen. It was embedded so
deeply into her neck.
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NARRATOR: Just as he done
with Laurie Lee Tremblay, Shore left the body of
Maria del Carmen Estrada
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in the parking lot. She was found just hours later. MIKE GRACZYK: Investigators
were able to collect
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from beneath one of her
fingernails a speck of evidence that they ran DNA tests on.
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At the time, there was no match. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: At
this point in time, Shore is lethal to women.
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He has been violent
towards them. He's killed them. And he's got away with
it up until this point.
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So he feels that he can
behave however he likes and get away with it. NARRATOR: Another 18
months passed before Shore
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was ready to strike again. By the 19th of
October 1993, he had his sights firmly set
on his next victim,
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a 14-year-old schoolgirl. ANDY KAHAN: Anthony Shore, you
know, working as a telephone
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repairman, would be
able to go in all these different neighborhoods. And so evidently, he
scoped out a young girl
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and kind of knew
her patterns, when she would come home
from school, if anybody else was home with her.
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And he just decided,
you know what? You're going to be next. NARRATOR: In a change to his
usual MO of attacking victims
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in his car, Shore put on a
bandanna to cover his face and broke into the
young girl's home.
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And so she came home
from school one day. He was waiting inside the home. When she got inside the
house, he tied her up
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and sexually assaulted her. MIKE GRACZYK: She
does everything she can to fight him off.
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And, indeed, finally
does fight him off. And he screams after her. You tell anybody about
this, and I'll kill you.
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Well, to our eternal
credit, she kept her nerve and also kept her life. GERALD BOURQUE: I
always wondered,
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why didn't he kill her? And it's just obvious, she
didn't know who he was. She didn't know who
the perpetrator was.
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Tremblay knew who
the perpetrator was. Carmen Estrada knew who
the perpetrator was.
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He was killing them
to protect himself. He didn't have to protect
himself from this girl.
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She didn't know who he was. He had a mask on. So he didn't have
to kill her, which
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raises all kinds of issues. How many other victims are out
there that didn't come forward?
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[music playing] NARRATOR: Shore's
home life was just as chaotic as his secret one.
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He'd split up with his wife
but kept custody of his two children, Amber and Tiffany.
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While projecting a public
image of an upright citizen, behind the scenes,
he was treating
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his daughters terribly. ELIZABETH YARDLEY:
Shore's children had a really miserable childhood.
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He was absolutely
brutal towards them. There was abuse. There was neglect. They had to eat food that had
ants crawling all over it, that
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had gone past its sell-by date. They had to use the same
water when they had a bath.
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Their clothes didn't get washed. So when they were at
school, the other children
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would make fun of them. And Shore was acutely
aware of all of this stuff. So he knew that
actually, by sending
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his children to school in that
state, they would be bullied. They would be excluded.
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And I think there's a sadistic
side of him that really takes pleasure in all of that.
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But he sees his children
not as sentient beings who are autonomous individuals. He sees them as
things that he owns.
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And he has a right to treat
them however he wants to. NARRATOR: Shore soon moved
on from the breakdown
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of his marriage, when
he met a new girlfriend 14 years younger than himself,
high school senior, Amy Lynch.
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He saw her photograph
in her father's house. He was attending
to the telephones and thought, oh,
she looks wonderful.
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And believe it or
not, she was 18. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: So it's
almost like he's shopping.
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And he's looking in a catalog. And he's selecting
something that he wants. This is how he sees women.
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They are things to be
acquired, things that he gets to own and possess. And this is exactly
how he saw her.
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NARRATOR: A new, younger
girlfriend did nothing to abate Shore's
sexual deviance,
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which was about to reach
new depths of depravity. On the 7th of August 1994,
nine-year-old Diana Rebollar
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left her house with $3 on
an errand for her mother. She headed to the local grocery
store on North Main street
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to buy some sugar. GERALD BOURQUE: So she walks
down there, she buys the sugar. She's walking back.
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And somewhere on the walk back,
she's literally kidnapped off the sidewalk in broad daylight.
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NARRATOR: When Diana didn't
return from the store, her distraught mother
began a desperate search
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for her daughter. ANDY KAHAN: First, they went
around to the neighbors, seeing if anybody ever seen her.
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They retraced her steps. And eventually, the
police were called. There were a lot of
people in the area
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that were aware of what
was happening, aware that she was missing. NARRATOR: Diana Rebollar
had been snatched
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and murdered by Anthony Shore. The nine-year-old had been
sexually assaulted and then
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strangled with a tourniquet. It's a depraved, obscene crime
to snuff out this young life.
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For what? For is sexual pleasure? Is that what's really
going on all the time. This is about lust
for young women.
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It's a tragedy. It's a disgrace. ANDY KAHAN: There was no
direct, physical evidence.
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Obviously, later,
it was determined that she was extremely,
viciously raped in every ways
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that you can't even
imagine, what you would do to a nine-year-old girl. NARRATOR: Diana's body was
found the following day,
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2 and 1/2 miles away from
where she'd been abducted. The tourniquet, a bamboo stick
attached to a length of rope,
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was found around Diana's neck. Diana's murder galvanized
the city of Houston. Then, Diana became everybody's
young girl, young daughter.
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It really touched a nerve. People were really on
heightened alert back then. And they didn't
know what to think.
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And, of course, there
were no answers. NARRATOR: Anthony
Shore had stooped to a new level of
wickedness, and once again
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managed to escape justice. By 1995, the 32-year-old
had moved his new girlfriend
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into the family home. But his two daughters,
10-year-old Amber and 9-year-old Tiffany, were
about to expose their father
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as the monster that he was. Shore had been molesting
them for years. ELIZABETH YARDLEY:
Shore's daughters
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disclosed to the school nurse
that they were being abused. And this was a really
big thing for them to do.
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This would have taken an
immense amount of courage. But when child
protective services
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came around to the house
to investigate further, they denied it. They said that they hadn't
been truthful about this.
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And then it kind of went away. NARRATOR: Terrified
of speaking out against their father, Amber and
Tiffany changed their story.
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Once again, Anthony Shore was
getting away with the most wretched of crimes. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Shore was so
confident in the power that he
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had over his children that
he never in a million years thought that they were going
to speak up about their abuse.
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And when they are in his house,
they are dependent on him. They need him, essentially.
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So he's their tormentor, but
he's also their provider. So he thinks that he's got
the perfect balance there.
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Well, I'm sure he felt
that he could walk on water. There was nothing anybody
was going to do to stop him.
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NARRATOR: And soon, Anthony
Shore would kill again. On the 26th of June 1995,
16-year-old Dana Sanchez was
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reported missing by her mother. 10 days later, on
the 6th of July, the teenage runaway was
approached by Shore.
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NARRATOR: Shore
claimed that he pulled his van into a parking
lot and began to try
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and kiss the 16-year-old. GERALD BOURQUE: She's
sort of a savvy woman. She's not naive.
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So she started to--
look, I got a boyfriend. I don't need any of this. That didn't do anything
to mitigate his actions.
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It just emboldened him. NARRATOR: Shore
strangled Dana with another makeshift
tourniquet, made up
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of nylon rope and a toothbrush,
before driving her body towards a remote field. NARRATOR: Unlike his
previous victims,
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Shore dumped Dana's body
in a less public place. Eight days later, she still
hadn't been discovered.
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ANDY KAHAN: Here's the
ego, maniac part of Shore. He was pretty much, what I
understand, a news junkie.
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He would follow the news. And I guess he didn't
see any news on this. And if you're going to commit
these types of murders,
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you're going to want credit. And so he actually called
an assignment editor at our NBC affiliate KPRC.
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And she recognized
pretty quickly that the person
calling her, that was giving her clues as to
where they might find a body,
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was the actual killer. NARRATOR: On the 14th
of July, investigators headed out to the
secluded location
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where Shore had
told them to look. ANDY KAHAN: They actually
went out there looking around.
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And sure enough, there is
the body of Dana Sanchez. And it was-- keep in
mind, when a body is
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out in a field for a
week it's not going to be in very good condition. And it was just a horrific state
that her body was found in.
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NARRATOR: It appeared that
Anthony Shore was now gloating. Despite investigators linking
the murders of Carmen Estrada,
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Diana Rebollar, and Dana Sanchez
due to their similarities, a task force failed
to find a suspect.
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In 1997, Shore married
his girlfriend, Amy Lynch, it was an apparent fresh start
for the 35-year-old, which
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meant there was no
room for his daughters from his previous marriage. GEOFFREY WANSELL: Shore decided
that he and Amy should begin
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their married life, in
a sense, on their own and dispatched his
daughters, Amber and Tiffany,
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to their grandmother in
Sacramento, California. NARRATOR: Shore had
no idea this would be
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the beginning of his downfall. While in California, the two
girls finally felt brave enough
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to speak out about
the sexual abuse they'd suffered at the
hands of their father.
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And I think it
was Tiffany, who's the youngest, told
her aunt, daddy's been doing these things to me.
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So then the aunt calls
her mom, grandma. And says, look, this is
what Tiffany just told me.
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So then, grandmother
goes to Amber and says, well, what do you
know about this and this?
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And then Amber spills
the beans on her dad. NARRATOR: In January 1998, Shore
pled no contest to two charges
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of indecency with a child. He had molested his own flesh
and blood for almost a decade,
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but he escaped imprisonment. GEOFFREY WANSELL: These girls
are saying that their father
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drugged them, raped
them, assaulted them, exposed himself to them. What do the authorities do?
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They give him a $500 fine
and eight years probation. But they do place him on
the sex offenders register.
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And significantly,
very significantly, they take his DNA. NARRATOR: Shore lost
his well-paid job.
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And by 2003, he and
Amy were divorced. He hadn't killed
anyone for eight years and was seemingly laying low.
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But unbeknownst to Shore,
a new investigation into the deaths of Carmen,
Diana, and Dana had begun.
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So by this time now, you
had three murders that were basically kind of lumped in.
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And you had detectives
at this time that decided to form a cold case
task force between the Sheriff's
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Department in the Houston
Police Department, looking into these
unsolved cases. It could be the same killer.
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Let's get together,
and work on it. NARRATOR: In October 2003,
11 years after the murder
00:31:13
of Carmen Estrada,
detectives revisited the DNA that was discovered
beneath her fingernails.
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ANDY KAHAN: By now, you have
more advanced technology. DNA is much better than
it was 10-plus years ago.
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And again, they
send the sample off. And this time, CODIS gets a hit. And bingo, bango,
everything explodes.
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NARRATOR: On the
24th of October 2003, Anthony Shore was finally
arrested for murder.
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DNA under Carmen's fingernails
was a match to the 41-year-old. GERALD BOURQUE: He was
arrested, taken into custody.
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He waived his Miranda rights
and gave his confession. NARRATOR: During open and frank
interviews with detectives,
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Shore confessed to the murders
of Carmen Estrada, Diana Rebollar, and Dana Sanchez
as well as the 1986 killing
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of Laurie Lee
Tremblay, and the rape of a 14-year-old
schoolgirl in 1993. The reason that
Shore confesses
00:32:35
is partially because he
wants the acknowledgment. He wants the recognition
that he's the one
00:32:40
who's committed these crimes. But also, there is
an element of wanting to control the narrative.
00:32:46
Because by confessing, by
giving his side of the story, it's his version of events
that is going to stick.
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He silenced these victims. They're dead. They can't speak anymore. So by seizing the narrative
by becoming the storyteller,
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he remains in control. NARRATOR: After getting away
with murder for so many years,
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Anthony Shore's vile crimes
had finally come to light. GERALD BOURQUE: Well, he was
charged with capital murder.
00:33:13
The reasons are very clear. They had DNA. They had a confession. That was an easy case.
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That was a bing,
bang, we got you. ANDY KAHAN: Eventually, they
charged him with the one murder
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officially. That's what he's charged with
capital murder of Maria del Carmen Estrada, because
that's the one they
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had the most evidence
on, because that's the one you had the DNA. And they decide,
as a capital case,
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you're going to seek
the ultimate punishment. And in Texas, the
ultimate punishment
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is the death penalty. And the death penalty
in Texas is carried out. NARRATOR: In October 2004,
Anthony Shore was due in court,
00:33:54
charged with capital murder. In his confessions to
detectives the previous year,
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the killer had claimed
that a malevolent force had driven him to take
the lives of his victims.
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GEOFFREY WANSELL: When Shore
is confronted with his crimes, he says, I have evil in me.
00:34:18
I have to keep the evil at bay. As if some dark hand
stretches up into his body and squeezes him,
and says, you must
00:34:29
kill innocent, young women. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: I think
this is very kind of poetic.
00:34:46
It's very symbolic. But you've got to
look at what it does. It detracts our attention
away from the fact
00:34:51
that he decided to do
the things that he did. When he's talking about
this idea of inherent evil,
00:34:57
we are kind of conjuring
up images of something that's beyond his control. But he very much knew
what he was doing.
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NARRATOR: The first
part of Shore's trial would determine
whether or not he was guilty of the capital murder
of 21-year-old Carmen Estrada.
00:35:13
Considering Shore had
confessed to killing her, it would be a near-impossible
task for public defender,
00:35:20
Gerald Bourque. GERALD BOURQUE: It was
very clear from the get-go we weren't going to be walking
out the back door with a not
00:35:26
guilty. They had the DNA. They had it locked down. Our experts agreed with their
experts, so here we are.
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ANDY KAHAN: There was no
Anthony Shore might be innocent. He was guilty. And Shore knew it.
00:35:44
So it was anticlimactic,
the trial. Most capital murder
cases are pretty lengthy.
00:35:50
I've been to many of them. But this one was
over in 1, 2, 3 days. It was over. It was what you would
call a slam dunk.
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NARRATOR: Anthony
Shore was promptly found guilty of the
murder of Carmen Estrada.
00:36:04
The trial now moved
into the second stage, which meant the 14-year-old girl
who was raped by Shore in 1993,
00:36:12
would come face-to-face
with her attacker once more. ANDY KAHAN: In Texas,
you have two parts.
00:36:18
You had the guilt
and innocence part, and then you have
the punishment part. And punishment part
is where you can bring
00:36:25
in all the extraneous
other offenses in anything about Shore's character. And they actually had the
young girl, who at that time
00:36:35
was in her 20s,
testified to being sexually assaulted by Shore. And she was on the stand.
00:36:42
And she was able to identify. And it's very rare
that you have someone who survives a serial killer.
00:36:48
It's not often that
people survive that. And yet, this brave,
young lady was able to do that and point to
the person that did this to her.
00:36:59
NARRATOR: During the
punishment phase of the trial, Shore's daughters
also took to the stand
00:37:05
and spoke out against their
father and former tormentor. I seem to remember,
the only times
00:37:12
that I really saw
emotion was when his two daughters were testifying. And I remember tears in his
eyes, welling up in his eyes.
00:37:22
I would say from a
lawyer's standpoint, sitting in the courtroom,
it was a surreal moment.
00:37:32
Lots of thoughts running
through my mind for the girls and for him. And what's he thinking?
00:37:37
And does he really know
now what he's done to them, how it's going to play out, what
additional damage is being done
00:37:46
to them at this very moment? NARRATOR: As the punishment
phase of the trial progressed,
00:37:53
42-year-old Shore seemed
resigned to his fate. ANDY KAHAN: I think he knew what
the outcome was going to be.
00:38:01
And I think in his own
mind, he actually thought that he deserved
to be put to death,
00:38:07
because I've not
seen in other cases-- I've not seen where someone
just lays down and just
00:38:14
says, do what you want with me. At least there's some sort of,
I'm going to fight for my life.
00:38:19
He didn't even
fight for his life. NARRATOR: On the
21st of October 2004, the jury were ready to
deliver their verdict.
00:38:29
The jury goes
back to deliberate whether or not
they're going to give him the death penalty or life.
00:38:37
Seriously, I could have
gone down the cafeteria, ordered a grilled
cheese, and come back,
00:38:44
and the jury was ready. It was that quick,
within an hour, which is almost unheard of.
00:38:51
They came back and gave him
the ultimate punishment, which was the death penalty.
00:38:57
And I think Shore pretty much
was resigned by that time. He was going to death
row where he belonged.
00:39:04
NARRATOR: Years later
while on death row, Shore admitted to carrying
out many more heinous crimes.
00:39:11
GEOFFREY WANSELL:
He then confesses in the wake of his conviction
to 60 further rapes.
00:39:20
He's clearly been a sexual
predator of the highest order over many years and
throughout that area of Texas.
00:39:32
ELIZABETH YARDLEY: And I
think there's definitely an element of numbers here. And these offenders
will get competitive.
00:39:39
They will want to be
seen as the baddest, the biggest, the most prolific. So I think that's
what's going on here.
00:39:45
This is his narcissistic
element coming through again. He wants recognition for all
of these evil things he's done.
00:39:53
NARRATOR: 14 years after
his conviction for murder, 55-year-old Anthony
Shore was finally
00:40:00
given an execution date. Victim advocate, Andy
Kahan had a front row seat in Huntsville, Texas
on the 18th of January 2018.
00:40:12
Now, unlike TV,
here's what happens when you're in the chamber. Anthony Shore at that
time is already tied
00:40:19
down, strapped in on a gurney. It's not like you see-- "Dead Man Walking," you know,
where they march somebody in.
00:40:29
And it's not like that at all. It's very choreographed
and concise. NARRATOR: Journalist
Mike Graczyk,
00:40:37
in his role as a media witness,
was also in attendance. I remember that his
voice was choking as he
00:40:44
was giving his final statement. And in the statement,
he said he was sorry, and that no amount of words
could undo what he had done.
00:40:54
And he said, that's all warden. And at that time, the lethal
dose of pentobarbital begins.
00:41:02
ANDY KAHAN: Well,
and I remember, he, in a very Southern
twang, he says, ooh-wee.
00:41:08
Or he made out some
weird, ooh-wee, I feel it. I feel it. And that was it. NARRATOR: At 6:28 PM
local time, Anthony Shore
00:41:19
was pronounced dead. The man who ruined so many lives
had finally been laid to rest.
00:41:27
And then they asked
me to address the media on behalf of the families. And I had the pictures
of the four girls.
00:41:35
And I just said,
this is their day. This day is about Laurie,
Carmen, Dana, Diana.
00:41:48
I said, this is not
about Anthony Shore. This is about these
four young girls. This is why we are here.
00:41:57
And I remember saying, and
the reign of terror of Anthony Shore is finally over.
00:42:05
We can all breathe
a sigh of relief. He will no longer
harm anybody again. And all these families can
go to wherever their loved
00:42:14
ones are buried or
kept and say, justice is finally served on this day. NARRATOR: Shore continually
got away with murder
00:42:24
for over a decade
before his deception was undone by the
two people he thought he had full control over.
00:42:32
GERALD BOURQUE: His daughters,
they're the real heroes in this situation. They don't even know the lives
that they have saved, you know.
00:42:40
Let's assume they don't come
forward, then what happens? Anthony Shore is still out here.
00:42:48
We don't have his DNA. We don't know who he is. He may still be alive,
running the streets,
00:42:54
and doing things to young women. They're the heroes. They literally saved lives.
00:43:08
NARRATOR: Anthony Shore preyed
upon the young and vulnerable. He would try and worm his way
into the lives of his victims.
00:43:16
And when his feelings
weren't reciprocated, he would squeeze the
life out of them.
00:43:21
He destroyed the
lives of strangers and also his supposedly
nearest and dearest.
00:43:27
Shore was a dangerous
sexual predator, who will be remembered as one of
the world's most evil killers.
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