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[OMINOUS MUSIC] NARRATOR: This time, on "Killers
Caught on Camera," in the US, South Carolina, an elderly
woman goes silent for a week
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and is reported missing. There's just no sign
that anything bad happened. It was as if she just vanished.
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NARRATOR: A man who goes into
a store just to buy yogurt comes under suspicion. And miles away in
the state capital
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a University of South
Carolina student disappears. But a patrol officer
gets a lucky break.
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[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] MAN 1: It just
sounds like something bad is happening to her.
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WOMAN 1: We know what
happened because the video tells us what happened. MAN 2: I heard some gunshots.
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POLICE OFFICER: Drop it! Whatever it is, drop it! That Does now prove that
I killed my wife.
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MAN 3: The camera doesn't lie. [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Travelers
Rest, South Carolina,
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A small city in the foothills
of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Greenville County, Home two 80-year-old
Edna Suttles.
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GREG WALTER: When you
talk about Edna Suttles, you need to think of somebody
who lived life to the fullest.
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I mean, 80 years old, and she's
out still, coming and going. She's still going
out with her friends,
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spending time with family,
just so full of life. NARRATOR: Edna was a formidable
pioneer in her youth,
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becoming South Carolina's
first female bail bondsman. She looked after other elderly
people in the community.
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Friday, August 28, 2021. 911 dispatchers received
a worrying call. GREG WALTER: The deputy
shows up at her house
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because that's the last known
location of where she should be, knocks on the door, no answer.
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The door is secure. The windows are locked. There's just no sign that
anything bad happened.
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It was as if she just vanished. NARRATOR: Seven
whole days went by, and Edna Suttles
was still missing.
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Then a breakthrough-- her
Jeep located at a hotel. It was removed, and
detectives checked the vehicle
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for forensic evidence. Greg Walter was an
investigator for the Greenville County Sheriff's Office.
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The police pulled
all the surveillance footage from the day before
Edna Suttles went missing.
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Friday, August
27, 2021, Edna was filmed leaving her home in the
morning in her gold Jeep Grand
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Cherokee. This footage is
from the business right outside Edna's
house at approximately
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09:30 in the morning. And you can see Edna
Suttles departing her house. NARRATOR: Her Jeep was
next picked up pulling
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into the Food Lion parking lot. GREG WALTER: Edna had arrived. She's sitting at the front of
the store in the parking lot.
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NARRATOR: An unknown man
walked up to and past the car. GREG WALTER: From the
looks of the camera,
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you see him look at her
vehicle and his body language, mannerisms indicate that
they knew one another.
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He waved at her. You see him walk
back to his car. He gets a small bag
out of his trunk
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and walks over to Edna's car,
who's parked right nearby. And then he hops in with
her like they were friends,
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and she was expecting
to pick him up. NARRATOR: Edna and the mystery
man drove off together.
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It was obvious that they
had some sort of relationship. GREG WALTER: Edna got
home and made a phone call
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at around 10:15 in the morning. Nearly four hours later,
Edna's Jeep was seen again,
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this time leaving the house. At 1343 in the afternoon,
as the vehicle transitions
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from the driveway
onto the main roadway, it's not a smooth transition. Instead, it's a bit
abrupt and jerky
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compared to somebody who would
be familiar with transitioning into that roadway.
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This made us think that
whoever's driving is not Edna. [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Just before 2
o'clock, Edna's car returned
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to the Food Lion parking lot. But this time, the
unidentified man was driving. He parked at the very back
edge of the parking lot.
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He gets out, and he
walks back to the front where his car is parked. He gets into his car and drives
it so it's alongside the Jeep
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Grand Cherokee. He's definitely about to load
something in to the front car. And right there, you see
that blonde head being loaded
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into the front passenger seat. And then after she is seated
into the passenger seat,
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he leans in as if
he's buckling her in. NARRATOR: To the untrained
eye, it's hard to see.
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But frame by frame, police
deduced the blonde head belonged to Edna Suttles. What's key from
this angle is you
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see directly inside
of the passenger compartment of the sedan. You see no movement coming from
the passenger compartment, which
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implies to us that Edna
Suttles is, at the very least, incapacitated. He then shuts the
doors and he hops back
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into the Jeep Grand Cherokee. NARRATOR: 4 minutes
later, he pulled up in the hotel parking lot.
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Then you see this
individual wipe the vehicle down front to back. You see him walking around
the car, wiping door handles,
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wiping down the sides. This behavior is
absolutely suspicious. At around 2 o'clock, the
man walked back to his car
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and drove off with Edna
slumped in the passenger seat. We didn't know if she
was with him willingly,
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if she had been kidnapped, or
if she was dead at this point. People over 60 don't
go missing very often,
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and people over
80 certainly don't go missing very
often, especially if they don't have dementia.
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And when we're talking
about abductions in places like the United Kingdom and
the US, over the age of 80
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is so rare that those statistics
aren't even published. So when you get this footage
that starts putting these two
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people together, that must have
been an absolute breakthrough that they would just
never have had if they
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hadn't had that footage. They wouldn't even
have considered that she might have been taken.
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NARRATOR: The police needed to
identify the man seen with Edna. [OMINOUS MUSIC] Footage from inside the store
captured five hours earlier,
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provided the breakthrough. GREG WALTER: Around
9:30 that morning, he's walking into the store.
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And that gives us a very good
shot of what he looks like and what he's wearing. This footage is
absolutely critical
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because now we have a face and
an image of who this guy is, and he has a lot of
distinguishing features.
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He's taller, older, and he has
a very distinguishable birthmark on the left side of his face.
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[TENSE MUSIC] He goes into the store, he makes
a purchase of four yogurts. We see him paying with cash.
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The cashier asked the
customer, do you want to use your card for the discount? And just a typical
reaction, obliged him.
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NARRATOR: The loyalty card
helped police identify the man as 59-year-old Daniel Printz.
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Delving into his records
revealed a disturbing past. GREG WALTER: We found
out that he had actually
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been arrested in
1996 in Michigan for a prior kidnapping charge. NARRATOR: Daniel Printz had
served 13 years in prison
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for kidnapping. He also had prior convictions-- firearm possession and
assault and battery.
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But the police had no
evidence to charge Daniel with the kidnapping
of Edna Suttles.
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They had to bring him
in on another charge. As far as we were aware and
what her family was aware of,
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he didn't have permission to
take and drive her vehicle. Even though it was
a short distance,
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we actually signed
an arrest warrant for grand larceny
of her vehicle, which is just a misdemeanor.
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But nonetheless, it's
an arrest warrant and gives us an opportunity
to detain and talk with him.
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[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Six days
later, police moved in to arrest Daniel Printz at his
home in Bostic, North Carolina.
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He was very nonchalant about
the entire arrest process. When you see somebody acting
almost too calm compared
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to how you or I would react-- --yeah, it definitely
raises flags that he was, in part, expecting it.
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[TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: The team on the ground
began to search the property. NARRATOR: Greg Walter
conducted the first interview
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with Daniel Printz. He was very arrogant
and very callous about this entire interview.
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At this point
in the interview, he was unaware about the
surveillance footage. He didn't know how much
information we had acquired
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and what the true scope
of the investigation was. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Daniel revealed
that he was a handyman,
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and Edna had asked him to
do some jobs at her house. GREG WALTER: Interviewing Daniel
Printz was like playing a game.
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You knew that this guy
did something with Edna. But for one reason or another,
he wasn't revealing what
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he had done or where she was. NARRATOR: Greg decided
to confront Daniel with the surveillance footage.
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Yep I directly confronted
him and told him that, you know where
Edna Suttles is,
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because I want to see
how he would respond both physically and verbally. I would compare his mannerisms
to a snake oil salesman.
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He had an answer or an
excuse for everything. NARRATOR: Daniel Printz
wasn't helping the police,
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and they still had no idea
where Edna Suttles was. Whatever Daniel Printz
knew about Edna,
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he wasn't saying anything. NARRATOR: The police
were left empty-handed. They needed more evidence
to link him to Edna
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and continue to
search Printz's home. [TENSE MUSIC] By chance, a huge breakthrough.
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Not only did they find
an entire cache of firearms and ammunition, but they also
found a number of documents
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with Nancy Rego's name on her. Nancy Rego is not his wife. Why does he have all
of her documents?
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[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: The police
were starting to wonder if they had a second victim.
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GREG WALTER: There's a lot
of alarm bells and flags that are going off. Now we have to figure
out who Nancy Rego is.
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And is she missing? NARRATOR: Police contacted
Nancy Rego's family. They discovered Nancy hadn't
been seen since her mother,
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Dolores Sellers, died in 2017. With more than one
potential victim, Daniel Printz was arrested and
taken back to a holding cell.
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The case was upgraded. The FBI were called in to
investigate whether Daniel Printz was a serial killer.
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Because of his personality,
they thought he might respond well to somebody from the FBI.
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What we were going after was to
build a relationship with him where we could come back
and talk to him again
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and again if needed. NARRATOR: Watching the
interview in real time was FBI Special
Agent Erin Carlisle.
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I had the job of
looking at Mr. Printz and analyzing him to pick up
on all those little clues,
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to feed that information
to Agent Newsome. It was abundantly clear
from the first interview
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that we shouldn't bruise his
ego, give him some deference, because that's what his
personality needs and wanted.
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One of the first
things the FBI agent does is he says, you're very
intelligent, which, to me,
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I register as a really
obvious manipulation tactic to get him to soften up. But we know from research
that the people who are being
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flattered in those situations
don't read it like that, and it usually works. So when someone is tapping into
something that we do take pride
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in ourselves and
they're flattering us, we are more likely
to build rapport. And we are more likely
to trust that person
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and tell them things. That I could ask the questions
in a way that made him feel
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like he was helping us, that we
were a team or a partnership, that he responded well to that.
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I knew that I
couldn't interview him again for his third
interview until I had some new information.
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Because during our interview
he made it very clear that once he had spoken or
talked about something,
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he didn't want to
talk about it anymore. [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: The new
information came
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in the form of a
significant discovery back at Printz's property. 28 different electronic
devices were recovered.
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Why do we have
almost 30 devices? What's on those devices? So we're going to start picking
through each of those one
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by one. NARRATOR: It was detailed
digital forensics, and the evidence they
recovered was chilling.
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[OMINOUS MUSIC] We discover a couple of the
devices belong to Nancy Rego. We find one that belongs to
Dolores, who is Nancy's mother.
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Why does he have Nancy's
mother's telephone? [OMINOUS MUSIC] In addition to Nancy and
Dolores, one of the devices
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revealed a new
name, Lee Goodman. There was a
particular message that reached out to the
individual and said,
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hey, mom, we're
worried about you. And that happened to be
Leigh Goodman's daughter,
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and she let us
know that they had not seen her mother in a
significant amount of time.
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NARRATOR: The FBI
were now looking at four possible victims-- Edna Suttles, Nancy
Rego, Delores Sellers,
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and Leigh Goodman. There's a category of offender
who are known as extreme career
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criminals, and what that means
is that someone is basically integrating into their life
the various serious crimes
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that they're committing. Normally, kidnapping,
which already is very rare, is a one-off event.
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It's very targeted. It's a specific kind of person. When you've got multiple
people being abducted
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by the same person,
you're already in an exceptional circumstance. If you've got multiple murders,
you've got a serial killer.
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All of this is highly unusual. NARRATOR: Then at Printz's
property, another breakthrough,
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a beekeeping box
with vital evidence relating to Edna Suttles. Inside that bee box were
found Edna Suttles' belongings
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to include her keys,
her purse, other things that she would have
had with her on the day
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that she went missing. Beside that bee box also were
found her shoes, a shovel, binding equipment, a pickaxe,
things that a lot of us
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would assume belong to someone
who has disposed of a body. NARRATOR: Alongside a
used yogurt container,
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the same brand as
the ones Printz picked up the day
Edna went missing. Traces were found
of drugs lorazepam,
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tramadol, and cyclobenzaprine. The drugs make you sleepy,
dizzy, and relaxed. It was time to confront Daniel
Printz about all four women.
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It was a real definitive
moment in the interview where he knew he knew about the victims.
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He knew he had found
the Suttles' belongings and how bad that looked. NARRATOR: Although the
camera was turned off,
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the decision was taken to
keep the audio running. It was a pretty powerful time.
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He basically stated that
he had multiple victims that he would tell us about. Daniel Printz was
a serial killer,
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and he doesn't match what we
normally think of when we think of serial killers, because it
was almost a sort of slow burn,
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where he would trap his victims. He would have this emotional
connection with the victims,
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and then he would kill them. And exactly at what point
we don't really understand,
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possibly when it no longer
was as fun as it used to be, possibly when he had
all of the account
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information that he needed or
money that he'd taken from them. You have this relationship.
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You exploit it, and then
you murder the person. And that is definitely
a type of serial killer,
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but not one that
we see very often. We were able to get him to
name how many bodies there were
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and a little bit
of the information around each person's
disappearance. NARRATOR: But Daniel
still hadn't told them
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where Edna Suttles' body was. We actually had to
pull him out of jail, transport him up
to the property,
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and walk him out into the woods. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] --and have him
point exactly where
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he claimed to have buried her. NARRATOR: Edna's remains were
finally recovered in May 2022.
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JUSTIN NEWSOME: Their
loved one was deceased, but were able to recover them. They could have a funeral.
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They were able to have all the
things that a lot of people want for their closure after
the death of somebody they love.
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NARRATOR: Daniel Printz could
have received the death penalty, but his cooperation on
all four known victims
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resulted in a plea deal. He pleaded guilty to
the charge of kidnapping resulting in death.
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Daniel Printz will spend
the rest of his life in a federal prison. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
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ERIN CARLISLE:
Surveillance footage was key to this investigation. Without a crystal clear
picture of Daniel Printz's face
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walking into that grocery
store, and then also checking out with the yogurt that
he was purchasing that day,
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I think it would
have been a much more challenging investigation. NARRATOR: The footage
also linked Daniel Printz
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to a critical piece of evidence. We believe that Daniel Printz
did utilize the yogurt that he
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purchased at the grocery store
that morning to potentially take some of the medications that
were Nancy Rego's initially,
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crushed them up and put it
in the yogurt, which he then served to Edna Suttles,
and unfortunately
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led to a Suttles death. NARRATOR: Police believe that
Edna was drugged and then suffocated with a plastic bag.
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Her body was then buried
on Printz's property. But the question still
remains, why did he do it?
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He was able to manipulate
these women into allowing him into their lives
to a point where he
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had access to their finances. He had gotten himself
placed on their wills. In fact, that's how we
were able to identify
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a potential living
victim who we think would have been his next target. You have the romantic piece,
the sexual component of it.
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They believed they were in
a relationship with him. Was it a power trip? I don't know.
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He's living a double
life the whole time. He's married to someone but yet
in these other relationships.
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He has control over these women. They are trusting of him. They give him everything.
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They give him access
to everything. Why does he do it? And then why does he
kill them in the end?
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Those are questions I
don't think we can answer. Are we done with Daniel Printz?
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I don't think so. No one can say for
certain that we have found all of his victims.
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Unless we presented
the evidence to him, he was not volunteering
anything to us.
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So his secrets are his secrets. To finally be able to
tell Edna Suttles' family,
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we found your loved one,
it's emotional for all. It's emotional for
us as law enforcement
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to be able to watch a
family get that closure. [OMINOUS MUSIC] [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Daniel Printz was a
repeat offender, a serial killer
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who avoided capture for years. We may never know the
full extent of his crimes. While having a history
of violent crimes
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is a risk factor
for perpetrating more violent crimes, the same
isn't true the other way around.
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So just because you don't
have a history of violence, it doesn't mean you're
not capable of murder.
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And so murder, because
it's such an unusual thing to do that people often do
quite opportunistically,
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almost impulsively, you don't
need this whole backstory. You don't need to escalate
to murder, necessarily.
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NARRATOR: In our next
case, a more random, opportunistic
attacker who preyed upon an unsuspecting
and unknown victim.
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[SIRENS WAILING] [OMINOUS MUSIC] [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] In the heart of South Carolina,
the state capital, Columbia,
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Home to the University of South
Carolina and a large population of college students, including
21-year-old Samantha Josephson.
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Samantha was warm,
loving, genuine person. She was the kind of person who
was always there for her friends
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willing to do anything
if they needed it, just the kind of person
that you wanted your friends
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and family to be around. NARRATOR: Samantha grew up
in Robbinsville, New Jersey.
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She was one of two children. She'd studied in
Barcelona, Spain, and traveled around
Europe before coming home
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to study political science. Samantha had her whole
life in front of her. She had planned to go on to
study law after she graduated,
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so she had a real sense
of going somewhere. NARRATOR: Like any
other University city,
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Columbia has a
well-known part of town, with a buzzing nightlife. Five Points is an area in
Columbia where college students
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like to go and let off some
steam, go to some bars, have drinks, party, dance,
things of that nature.
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NARRATOR: On the evening
of March 29, 2019, Samantha and a group of friends
went to the Bird Dog bar.
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You can see Samantha Josephson
here walking through the bar. She's there with her
friends, her roommates,
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having a good time,
talking, laughing, just enjoying the night out. NARRATOR: Just before 2:00 AM,
Samantha decided to go home.
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So she ordered an Uber. Samantha also had a job in
addition to being a student, and she had to
work the next day.
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She was never late for work. She was never a no show. ROBERTA BABB: She doesn't look
unduly stressed or panicked.
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She's calm and waiting. There doesn't seem
to be any indication that anything suspicious, risky,
or threatening is going on.
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NARRATOR: At 12 minutes past
2:00, Samantha got into a car. And it drove off. But later that night, when
her friends arrived home,
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Samantha was nowhere to be seen. By lunchtime the next day,
Samantha was still missing.
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Her friend called 911. NARRATOR: As well as
informing the police, Samantha's friends took
matters into their own hands.
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They call the local
hospitals and are unsuccessful. They call the local jails
and are unsuccessful.
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They call friends. No one knows anything or
has seen or heard anything. So eventually, they get in
the car and go looking for her
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themselves. NARRATOR: Samantha's boyfriend,
Greg, had been speaking to her on the night she disappeared.
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He tracked her phone,
leaving the bar. DAN GOLDBERG: The last
point he saw where
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her phone was was in this
area near the intersection of Montgomery and Ott. So her roommate's
drive to that location
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and literally get out of the
car and walk around going door to door trying to
see if anyone has seen her
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or heard anything. Unfortunately, they came up
empty, as there was no sign of her being in that area.
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NARRATOR: Samantha's friends
and boyfriend turned detective and retraced her last steps.
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DAN GOLDBERG: They were
able to make contact with one of the
managers of the bar
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in order to try to get
a look at any video that may have existed at the bar. They were able to
see video of her
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and them inside
the bar that night, as well as her leaving and
standing outside on the sidewalk
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awaiting the Uber to
come and pick her up. As they continued to watch the
video, they saw a black sedan,
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four-door car pull up to
the curb where Samantha is standing by herself. And they see her
get in that vehicle
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and watch the vehicle back up
and pull away from the location. NARRATOR: Her friends
told the police
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about the surveillance footage. DAN GOLDBERG: The windows
were tinted on the car,
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so no one could
see who the driver was or anything of that nature. Additionally, the license
plate identifying the car never
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came into view on the camera,
so the only information that the police had
to go on was that it
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was a darkened color
four-door sedan that looked like a Chevrolet Impala. Otherwise, they had no idea
anything about the identity
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of the vehicle or the driver. NARRATOR: Samantha's friends
could still access her laptop.
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When they logged into
her Uber account, they discovered the ride she'd
ordered had been canceled.
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It was clear she was picked
up by a complete stranger. The individual
drive in the car
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was looking for an
opportunity to take advantage of a vulnerable, lone
individual, which
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feels really, really scary. That's when the tenor
of things really changed and it began to dawn on everyone
that this quite possibly
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was an actual kidnapping. NARRATOR: Samantha's
parents were notified that she'd disappeared.
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Dr. Roberta Babb is a
clinical psychologist. ROBERTA BABB: When a
child goes missing.
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For any parent, it's
their worst nightmare. Their world stops. There's a real sense
of anguish and anxiety.
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Their darkest thoughts
would be that their child is no longer alive, and they
will never see them again.
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And that's their
worst fear that they pray with every bone in their
body is not going to happen.
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NARRATOR: 14 hours
after Samantha got in the car,
a major discovery in the middle of
nowhere, more than 60
00:35:55
miles away from her home. Two hunters who were out
there looking for turkeys stumbled across a
body of a young female
00:36:04
and immediately
called the police. She had sustained numerous
injuries, stab wounds all
00:36:12
over her body. However, there was not any blood
on the ground around her body, which seemed to suggest to them
that the crime had occurred
00:36:20
somewhere else and that
she had been brought and dumped in this location. NARRATOR: A medical
examination of the body
00:36:29
revealed extreme violence. ROBERTA BABB: 120 stab
wounds really signifies the viciousness of the attack.
00:36:38
It probably speaks something
to the mind of the attacker in that moment because
it feels very frenzied,
00:36:44
it feels very uncontrolled, and
it feels very excessive in terms of really wanting to ensure that
this person was not only dead,
00:36:51
but eliminated or damaged
beyond recognition. Once the dots are connected
and it's determined that that
00:36:59
is, in fact, Samantha,
the focus shifts back to Colombia and the
police department
00:37:04
there trying to locate
the person responsible. NARRATOR: As detectives tracked
back through the footage,
00:37:10
they found the car Samantha got
into filmed on multiple cameras. This car was circling the
area almost like a shark,
00:37:18
looking for someone, looking for
something until he found what apparently he was looking for.
00:37:25
NARRATOR: Finding
the vehicle was critical to the investigation. They put together a BOLO
or Be On the Lookout, which
00:37:33
is a sheet of paper that
has photos of the vehicle that she got into. The police also checked
Samantha's bank records.
00:37:42
DAN GOLDBERG: Law
enforcement was able to get video from two ATM
machines showing an individual
00:37:48
trying to get cash. This person was wearing
similar clothes in both videos. NARRATOR: They needed to
find the man and the car.
00:37:59
11 hours after Samantha's
body was found, a patrol officer
spotted the type of car they were looking for.
00:38:06
He was approximately two
blocks away from the Bird Dog, and he happened to pull up right
behind a darkened colored Chevy
00:38:14
Impala. NARRATOR: Inside, a male
driver and female passenger. NARRATOR: Police were in
pursuit from every angle.
00:38:57
He was cornered. DAN GOLDBERG: Fortunately,
another officer was on the other
end of the street--
00:39:08
DAN GOLDBERG: --and was able to
contain and subdue the driver so that he could be taken
into custody in order
00:39:15
to try to identify who he
is and what he had been doing in the last 24 hours. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
00:39:28
NARRATOR: Back at
the suspect's car, officers also detained
the female passenger.
00:39:43
NARRATOR: They checked inside
for any evidence of Samantha being in the vehicle.
00:40:03
They had flashlights looking
into the interior of the vehicle and pretty quickly
observed that there
00:40:08
was a great deal
of blood located in the back seat of the car. NARRATOR: The driver was
identified by police.
00:40:20
His name was Nathaniel Rowland. DAN GOLDBERG: Not much was known
about Mr. Rowland at the time
00:40:28
that this occurred. He had been arrested one
time before for trying to sell some stolen
items at a pawn shop,
00:40:35
but otherwise appeared to
come from a good family. There was no suggestion that
he was capable of anything
00:40:40
like this. NARRATOR: Nathaniel was taken
into custody for questioning, his clothes removed
for DNA testing.
00:41:29
NARRATOR: Nathaniel's last
known address was close to where Samantha's body had been found.
00:41:48
NARRATOR: The police tracked
down Nathaniel's girlfriend. DAN GOLDBERG: Mr.
Rowland actually
00:41:55
been staying at her house on the
night that Samantha was taken. They went and got in bed
at approximately 1:00 AM.
00:42:03
A short time thereafter,
she describes Mr. Rowland getting out of
bed, and she fell asleep.
00:42:10
When she awoke at 6:00
AM, he wasn't there. [OMINOUS MUSIC] NARRATOR: A search of Nathaniel
Rowland's girlfriend's house
00:42:20
uncovered clothing
which matched the person covering their face at the ATM. DAN GOLDBERG: Nike hoodie with
some distinct drawstrings,
00:42:31
a black jacket, a tan shirt,
black pants, some flip-flops that were red and black.
00:42:37
When he was pulled over by
the police on that night, he was still wearing some
of those items as well.
00:42:45
NARRATOR: When the police
searched the trash, they also found a
two-bladed knife.
00:42:52
Nathaniel Rowland was also
filmed in a cellular city store just hours after
Samantha was killed.
00:43:00
DAN GOLDBERG: He's
wearing the Nike hoodie with the distinctive
drawstrings coming down,
00:43:04
the same drawstrings you
can see on the ATM footage, the same sweatshirt. There's a sense of
a lack of empathy,
00:43:13
a lack of remorse or guilt,
a sense of entitlement to do as you please to other
people, which characterizes
00:43:22
the fact that Nathaniel
stabs Samantha so many times and then, within a
short window, was
00:43:29
casually seen selling her
items for his personal gain. NARRATOR: He was charged
with kidnapping, murder,
00:43:38
and possession of a weapon. When the case went to trial,
the surveillance footage
00:43:53
was shown to the jury in court. One of the challenges that we
had with prosecuting the case
00:44:00
is there was nothing
to definitively show that at the time that Samantha
Josephson was in the car
00:44:07
and killed, that
Nathaniel Rowland was the one in the vehicle. The surveillance footage
was able to do that
00:44:13
by way of showing everything
from the car itself to Mr. Rowland at the ATM,
at a cell phone store,
00:44:21
all wearing these similar
items of clothing that were later discovered at
his girlfriend's house.
00:44:28
NARRATOR: The footage of
Samantha outside the Bird Dog bar was vital. It was very possible that Mr.
Rowland, without this video,
00:44:37
could still be
walking the streets. NARRATOR: After being presented
with seven days of evidence,
00:44:43
the jury took just 60 minutes
to find Nathaniel Rowland guilty of Samantha's murder.
00:44:50
He was sentenced to
life without parole. The only way that Mr. Rowland
will be leaving the prison
00:44:58
will be in a pine box. We don't know what took place
or what activated Nathaniel
00:45:05
to act in such a
violently savage way, where he stabbed
Samantha 120 times. But that is very much
demonstrating a disregard
00:45:14
for life, demonstrate
his propensity for violence and aggression
to the point of wanting
00:45:20
to annihilate an individual. And there's a real sense
of a lack of remorse or even guilt or shame
about what has been done.
00:45:29
As horrific as this
case is, there was some good that came from it. Samantha's parents have
been fierce advocates
00:45:40
for rideshare
safety to the point that the United
States government has enacted laws, putting
certain requirements
00:45:47
on rideshare companies. When you get to an Uber and
you're opening the door, you say to the driver,
what's my name?
00:45:56
Because if they
don't know your name, then they're not
your Uber driver. That came directly from
Samantha's parents.
00:46:03
And in fact, the name
of the organization that they have founded and run
is What's My Name foundation.
00:46:12
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