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Does she live alone?

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Does she have a roommate?

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Does she have a boyfriend?

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Burglarizing their home,

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going through their personal possessions,

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serves his fantasy

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that this is actually
a consensual relationship

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and he's getting to know them.

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Welcome to "very scary people."

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I'm Donnie wahlberg.

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The norcal rapist terrorized
northern California

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from 1991 to 2006,

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his cruel violence causing lasting trauma

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and tragically altering lives.

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This twisted deviant studies
his victims...

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Their patterns, their habits.

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He slips into their homes
when they're away,

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memorizing the rooms
and planning his ambush.

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Elusive and careful, for a long time,

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it seemed like norcal was unstoppable,

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but he left key evidence at every scene.

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Who is the norcal rapist,
and how has he been able

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to get away with his reign
of terror for so long?

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This is part one of
"the phantom predator."

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For over 27 years,

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the individual who came to be known

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as the norcal rapist victimized women

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across northern California.

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And why has he been able
to get away for so long?

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We want to find the bad guys,
and we want to put them in jail.

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It's not always that easy, unfortunately.

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You always are thinking, you know,

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"will they ever get this guy?"

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It's something that never
left my head, still to this day.

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It could be 10 seconds, it could
be an hour of thinking about it,

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fantasizing about getting a call

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that he was caught every day
of my life for 27 years.

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It began in 1991.

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Cold cases often become
a journey for justice

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for law enforcement,

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prosecutors,
crime victims, their families,

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and, in many cases, for the communities

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that were so deeply
affected by that crime.

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Who was I in 1991?

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I was a fairly typical 21-year-old.

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Had a pretty active social life.

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Had a lot of friends.

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I was a hairstylist.

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I've always been a very hard worker,

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so I worked a lot of hours,

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and that was pretty much my life.

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Life was good

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for 21-year-old Nicole earnest-payte.

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She had a really good job.

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She owned her own condo in rohnert park,

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which is about 30 miles north
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I did not have a roommate.

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My ex-boyfriend had moved out.

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I had the mortgage to pay,

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so I actually had put an advertisement

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out for a roommate,

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but I was living alone for about...

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Probably about six weeks.

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It was a Saturday,

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and that's the biggest day
of the week for hairstylists.

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I had been working all day,

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and I came home to my condo
completely exhausted.

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Nicole gets home from her long day.

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She sinks into the sofa.

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She doesn't have much furniture
since her boyfriend moved out,

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and she just starts watching TV.

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Before she knows it,
she's passed out on the sofa.

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I woke up to a masked man

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who had his arm around my neck,

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my shoulders... the top of me, like this.

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And he very calmly said,
"don't make a sound.

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I have a gun.
I'm not going to hurt you.

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I just want your money."

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And I was thinking in my head,

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"okay, he's just here
to Rob me."

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Having a gun pointed at
you by a masked intruder

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in your own home is terrifying,

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but for Nicole,
the nightmare is just beginning.

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He eventually took me upstairs

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and then told me
to get on the bed facedown.

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I was bound.

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He was really careful to make
sure I wasn't harmed...

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You know, that my hair
wasn't in the duct tape.

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And then he put a pillowcase
around my head.

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I really did, at this point,
still think he was

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just there to Rob.

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I could hear him rifling through stuff.

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There was a specific item
that he was looking for

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that I had borrowed

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that I no longer had in my home

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and had not been in my home for weeks.

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"Where is it?
I know you have it.

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Where is it? Where is it?
Where is it? Where is it?"

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And that's when I knew, "oh, my god.

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He's been in my house.

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He must have been, or has been
watching me or something."

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Stalking is an obsessive
and compulsive activity

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where somebody is delving
into private matters

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of somebody else
that are not their business,

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and they create a world in their own mind

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where there is much more
going on between them

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than the other person even knows.

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He's turned on music

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and started saying,
"these could be our love songs.

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These are our songs."

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And I just thought, "oh, my god!

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He actually thinks I'm his
girlfriend or something."

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In his mind, he believes,
because of the amount of time

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he has invested in watching this woman

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and being in her apartment or her house,

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that he really knows her.

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He has a personal relationship with her,

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but she does not have a
personal relationship with him.

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I had been facedown the whole time,

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and then that's when he
cut me loose and turned me over

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and started to take everything off.

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And that's when I realized
I wasn't getting out of it.

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I was raped multiple times
throughout the night.

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And I thought that he was
eventually gonna shoot me

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and kill me.

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I kept visualizing my parents
getting that phone call,

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which is, to this day, the only
thing that makes me still cry.

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I can't explain how terrifying
it is as a 21-year-old woman

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to think the torture my parents
are gonna have to go through.

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He had stolen my atm card,

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so I knew he wanted to get to the bank.

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As he was leaving, he said,

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"you should lock your doors from now on.

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Somebody might come in
and try and hurt you"

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and then walked out the door.

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And that was like a knife in my chest

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because it was mocking me
and basically laughing, like,

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"what an idiot that she left
her back door unlocked."

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To assault somebody
and terrorize her for hours

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and then say,

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"you know, you really should
lock your door.

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Somebody might come in
and try to hurt you."

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That's almost gloating,

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and she probably wondered
for the rest of her life

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whether her doors had
actually been locked or not.

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I called
my mother. She was so calm.

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She just kicked right into gear

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of "I need you
to call the police, sweetie."

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They escorted me to the hospital.

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A few days later,
I had the formal sitdown

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with the detectives from rohnert park.

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They just didn't believe it at all.

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They thought I made up the story.

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The entire time they
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they were questioning
every bit of it as though

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I was this crazy person
making up this horrible story.

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It was the most horrendous experience

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I've ever been through.

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They came short of calling me,
you know, a whore.

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What Nicole went through
was her worst nightmare...

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Being raped, but then not being believed

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and then knowing
that this masked intruder

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was out there somewhere,

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maybe ready to come back and get her,

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was absolutely debilitating.

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But Nicole was determined that
this was not going to break her.

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I wanted to make
sure that I picked myself up.

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I picked myself up very quickly

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and marched right back into my life,

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but it was very altered.

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For quite a while, I wouldn't
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because I was convinced

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that he was watching and would come back.

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December 1991,
a 42-year-old woman in sonoma

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was awakened at about 1:30
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by a man wearing a mask.

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I thought, "oh, my god.
This is the same person."

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21-year-old Nicole earnest-payte

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is sexually attacked

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in her own home
in rohnert park, California.

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It's June of 1991,

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and then, six months later,
another attack.

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When this happened again in sonoma,

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and I read it in the paper,
I thought, "oh, my god.

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This is the same person."

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December 1991,

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a 42-year-old woman
in sonoma, California,

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was awakened at about 1:30
in the morning

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by a man wearing a mask.

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According to the sheriff's
spokesperson, Spencer crum,

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he tied her up and he raped her twice.

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After he raped her,
detectives say that he drove her

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to a local atm,

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where he forced her to withdraw money,

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and then took her back to her house.

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Crum said that DNA evidence
was collected at the scene,

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and the victim said it felt
like someone was stalking her

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because he knew
so many things about her life.

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How do we collect DNA in rape cases?

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Well, you can collect it
from a lot of trace evidence

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from somebody's body,
whether it's a hair follicle

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or whether or not
it's saliva, semen, blood,

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any type of bodily fluids.

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And even if somebody touches something,

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there is organic DNA material on a knife

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or the handle of a pistol

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a rapist or a murderer might use.

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And if the rapist leaves his DNA
at a crime scene today,

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there is no doubt in my mind

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that that person will be
brought to justice.

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So you have these two
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one in June of '91
and then the next in December,

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and they are both in sonoma
county but 20 miles apart.

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There are similarities,
but there are differences,

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and then you have another attack
that happens in 1992.

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In 1992, I was living alone in vallejo.

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I was going to school
to be a firefighter,

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and I was working for fedex.

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I also was trying to get
my EMT certificate,

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so I was pretty busy.

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My sister had just bought
a brand-new house

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that just got built in vallejo and said,

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"do you want to just
live there by yourself?"

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And I was like, "okay."

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Little did she know
that a sexual predator

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was tracking her movements.

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It was on February 13th,

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around 8:20,
8:30 in the morning.

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I walked out of the bedroom,

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and then there is this guy
in the bathroom

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with the black ski mask.

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So I ran into the bedroom.

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He jumped on me,
and I was trying to fight him,

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and he had a knife,
so I grabbed the knife.

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I didn't know, but...
You know, what I was doing

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because he was on top of me
and, you know...

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And I just was trying to...

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Just trying to do whatever I could to...

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To escape, you know?

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And I know he did say,
you know, "you cut me."

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When he put his hand over my mouth,

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I couldn't breathe anymore.

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I couldn't fight anymore.

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And then he, um...
He tied my arms and my legs up.

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You know, he raped me
probably three times, for sure.

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It was just like I was just,
um, kind of numb, you know?

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Yeah, I-I remember at times
just told him to just kill me,

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get it over with.

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I wasn't exactly scared of dying.

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I was just... just scared of,
you know, what was gonna happen.

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What was he gonna do next?

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Because, to me, laying there
and going through that...

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Probably dying would have been better

254
00:13:52,033 --> 00:13:58,503
than... him being there, so...

255
00:13:58,567 --> 00:14:02,497
So I was just...

256
00:14:02,567 --> 00:14:06,727
Doing everything I could to just...

257
00:14:08,901 --> 00:14:10,371
...to survive.

258
00:14:17,167 --> 00:14:20,597
I think most of us can't even
imagine what it would be like

259
00:14:20,667 --> 00:14:25,867
to go through something
like these victims endured

260
00:14:25,934 --> 00:14:30,104
and how life-changing it is for them,

261
00:14:30,167 --> 00:14:34,227
how it changes their...
Their perception of the world

262
00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,470
and that they don't feel safe anymore.

263
00:14:41,968 --> 00:14:44,468
I know he was talking a lot.

264
00:14:44,534 --> 00:14:46,734
He was asking me questions,
but I never...

265
00:14:46,801 --> 00:14:49,901
Never seen his face.

266
00:14:49,968 --> 00:14:51,868
He took a shower.

267
00:14:51,934 --> 00:14:53,434
He used my hairbrush.

268
00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:56,200
He was going through my purse,
and he had my phone book.

269
00:14:56,267 --> 00:14:59,967
I remember him saying, you know,
"if you call the cops,

270
00:15:00,033 --> 00:15:01,333
I'm gonna call this person.

271
00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,570
I'm gonna do this
and I'm gonna do that."

272
00:15:08,567 --> 00:15:11,727
Before the attacker
leaves, he takes a necklace

273
00:15:11,801 --> 00:15:15,301
that she's wearing off her neck.

274
00:15:15,367 --> 00:15:16,367
Why?

275
00:15:16,434 --> 00:15:19,974
So that he has a trophy of his conquest.

276
00:15:20,033 --> 00:15:22,733
It is sick.

277
00:15:22,801 --> 00:15:28,701
Trophies become memorabilia
for that individual of a time

278
00:15:28,767 --> 00:15:32,967
that was very important
to them, very erotic for them,

279
00:15:33,033 --> 00:15:37,203
very satisfying for them,
so, with that in mind,

280
00:15:37,267 --> 00:15:40,527
they don't easily part
with their trophies.

281
00:15:43,334 --> 00:15:46,004
As soon as I was able to untie myself,

282
00:15:46,067 --> 00:15:48,227
I called the cops

283
00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:52,000
and then I called my neighbor.

284
00:15:52,067 --> 00:15:54,597
Cops came right away.

285
00:15:54,667 --> 00:15:57,867
One of the cops said that he probably was

286
00:15:57,934 --> 00:16:00,104
in my house before the incident.

287
00:16:00,167 --> 00:16:03,327
What he did was cut a hole
through the drywall

288
00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,170
in the garage and stuck his hand
through the drywall

289
00:16:07,234 --> 00:16:10,274
and then opened the door,
you know, and unlocked it,

290
00:16:10,334 --> 00:16:12,704
'cause... 'Cause it was locked.

291
00:16:12,767 --> 00:16:15,027
This was clearly a well-thought-out crime

292
00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:17,700
and one he had clearly prepared for to...

293
00:16:17,767 --> 00:16:20,997
To open up a piece of sheetrock
to require that sawing

294
00:16:21,067 --> 00:16:24,127
and then to be able to come back in later

295
00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:25,530
in order to conduct the crime

296
00:16:25,601 --> 00:16:27,671
so the victim would not
hear them coming in.

297
00:16:27,734 --> 00:16:30,274
He literally planned it and executed it

298
00:16:30,334 --> 00:16:32,374
just like it was a military operation.

299
00:16:32,434 --> 00:16:35,534
The watching and the stalking

300
00:16:35,601 --> 00:16:37,431
is incredibly creepy.

301
00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:41,370
It's such a violation of privacy,

302
00:16:41,434 --> 00:16:45,004
and to be watching not just as a voyeur

303
00:16:45,067 --> 00:16:46,697
because somebody enjoyed watching

304
00:16:46,767 --> 00:16:51,127
but to be watching
with the intent of figuring out

305
00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,070
how to commit further crimes
against that person

306
00:16:55,133 --> 00:16:57,973
is incredibly creepy.

307
00:16:58,033 --> 00:17:01,573
Every day was a struggle,
but I just kept going.

308
00:17:01,634 --> 00:17:04,534
I had a lot of therapy,
and I said, "you know what?

309
00:17:04,601 --> 00:17:10,071
This person is not going to
put me in my own jail."

310
00:17:10,133 --> 00:17:15,503
But what he did will always be with me.

311
00:17:17,868 --> 00:17:19,268
With any crime,

312
00:17:19,334 --> 00:17:21,774
there's going to be mistakes
made by the suspect.

313
00:17:21,834 --> 00:17:25,334
All I can say is that there was
evidence left at the scene.

314
00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:26,900
It was a particularly horrific crime.

315
00:17:26,968 --> 00:17:29,628
It's just the stuff that
horror movies are made out of.

316
00:17:41,133 --> 00:17:43,133
Police have three different rape cases

317
00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,300
happening in three different
northern California towns.

318
00:17:47,367 --> 00:17:49,327
You have different agencies.

319
00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,300
You'll have different jurisdictions

320
00:17:51,367 --> 00:17:53,827
that were working these crimes
in different counties

321
00:17:53,901 --> 00:17:55,501
where these rapes happened.

322
00:17:55,567 --> 00:17:58,867
Investigators are looking to
collect physical evidence,

323
00:17:58,934 --> 00:18:01,834
whether it's a rape swab it for DNA

324
00:18:01,901 --> 00:18:06,231
or in the instance where
he was stabbed and his blood...

325
00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:07,600
There's liquid DNA

326
00:18:07,667 --> 00:18:10,667
right there to help track
down the perpetrator.

327
00:18:40,767 --> 00:18:44,467
Halloween night in 1996 in Martinez,

328
00:18:44,534 --> 00:18:48,504
and this involved a woman
who was basically on her couch.

329
00:18:49,701 --> 00:18:52,801
Just late that night,
she hears the doorbell.

330
00:18:56,367 --> 00:18:58,667
She thinks, "oh, it's probably
just a straggler."

331
00:19:00,634 --> 00:19:03,034
And she gets up and
answers and opens the door

332
00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:04,400
because, of course, she assumes

333
00:19:04,467 --> 00:19:06,467
it's just a late-night trick-or-treater.

334
00:19:13,467 --> 00:19:15,397
She answers the door...

335
00:19:17,300 --> 00:19:20,300
...and there's a man
in a skeleton mask.

336
00:19:20,367 --> 00:19:23,367
Totally in fitting with
a Halloween costume,

337
00:19:23,434 --> 00:19:25,404
and he wastes no time.

338
00:19:27,634 --> 00:19:30,674
He jumps on her, attacks her.

339
00:19:30,734 --> 00:19:33,274
It's just the stuff that
horror movies are made out of.

340
00:19:33,334 --> 00:19:35,274
It's just terrible.

341
00:19:38,334 --> 00:19:40,034
He overpowers her.

342
00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:41,730
He gets inside the house.

343
00:19:41,801 --> 00:19:47,171
He binds her like the other three people,

344
00:19:47,234 --> 00:19:50,704
and he rapes her repeatedly.

345
00:19:50,767 --> 00:19:52,427
One thing that investigators told me

346
00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:55,270
that was really of note for that case

347
00:19:55,334 --> 00:19:59,504
was he was very evidence-specific.

348
00:19:59,567 --> 00:20:01,167
Some people, in the heat of the moment,

349
00:20:01,234 --> 00:20:03,534
are just gonna not think
twice about evidence

350
00:20:03,601 --> 00:20:05,271
left behind or anything like that,

351
00:20:05,334 --> 00:20:07,734
where he wound up taking, like, bedding

352
00:20:07,801 --> 00:20:12,301
and trying to cover up
his DNA profile, potentially.

353
00:20:12,367 --> 00:20:14,427
And, like the first attack,

354
00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:17,900
he once again steals
the victim's atm card.

355
00:20:19,667 --> 00:20:21,797
Then, several weeks after the attack,

356
00:20:21,868 --> 00:20:25,428
he takes his emotional
torture a step further.

357
00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:30,400
Police say that he actually
phones the victim at work.

358
00:20:30,467 --> 00:20:33,427
And he apologizes.

359
00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:37,600
Calling her work to see
how she was or to...

360
00:20:37,667 --> 00:20:43,727
Ostensibly, to apologize was
another act of terrorizing her.

361
00:20:43,801 --> 00:20:47,971
It is an expression of dominance
and power and control.

362
00:20:48,033 --> 00:20:51,633
"See? I can find you again
any time I want to."

363
00:20:54,801 --> 00:20:57,571
Once the Martinez assault happened,

364
00:20:57,634 --> 00:21:00,974
they had another DNA profile,
and it's at that point

365
00:21:01,033 --> 00:21:04,373
where the investigators
from contra costa county say,

366
00:21:04,434 --> 00:21:08,104
"hey, this DNA matches
another sexual assault

367
00:21:08,167 --> 00:21:11,597
four years earlier in 1992."

368
00:21:11,667 --> 00:21:13,897
And they had these separate
individual sexual assaults

369
00:21:13,968 --> 00:21:16,868
happening that had
very similar kind of m.0.S...

370
00:21:16,934 --> 00:21:19,404
You know, bindings,
multiple sexual assaults.

371
00:21:19,467 --> 00:21:21,027
But this is the first time they said,

372
00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:24,930
"okay, we got a singular person
doing these crimes."

373
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,030
He was an intelligent criminal,

374
00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:31,730
planning these assaults,

375
00:21:31,801 --> 00:21:35,701
and so he would stalk in order
to get enough information

376
00:21:35,767 --> 00:21:41,067
to really be able to confidently
go into this person's home

377
00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:42,773
and stay there for hours,

378
00:21:42,834 --> 00:21:49,804
knowing that he was going to
be able to not be interrupted.

379
00:21:52,367 --> 00:21:54,597
This is the worst type of case

380
00:21:54,667 --> 00:21:56,367
for law enforcement to solve.

381
00:21:56,434 --> 00:21:58,274
Stranger rapes are very rare.

382
00:21:58,334 --> 00:22:01,434
Normally, a sexual assault
happens with someone you know,

383
00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:02,900
which makes it easier to solve, frankly,

384
00:22:02,968 --> 00:22:04,498
because you have
a narrowed list of people

385
00:22:04,567 --> 00:22:05,967
who could be the suspects.

386
00:22:06,033 --> 00:22:08,003
But here these are total strangers.

387
00:22:08,067 --> 00:22:09,127
Nothing to go on.

388
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,670
It starts in the early '90s,

389
00:22:10,734 --> 00:22:14,034
when DNA investigation
is sort of in its infancy,

390
00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:16,900
and it's bouncing around
from different counties,

391
00:22:16,968 --> 00:22:19,068
different jurisdictions for police.

392
00:22:19,133 --> 00:22:20,803
It's harder to find those common links

393
00:22:20,868 --> 00:22:23,228
and those common threads.

394
00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:26,870
When he went to the atm,
he was caught on surveillance

395
00:22:26,934 --> 00:22:31,134
wearing a clear, plastic Halloween mask.

396
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,000
Criminals...
They're gonna make mistakes.

397
00:22:33,067 --> 00:22:35,327
They think they're smarter than we are,

398
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,500
but that's not always the case.

399
00:22:50,801 --> 00:22:53,171
Investigators working
the norcal rapist case

400
00:22:53,234 --> 00:22:56,574
are gathering evidence left
behind at the crime scenes.

401
00:22:56,634 --> 00:22:58,774
Detectives are studying the similarities

402
00:22:58,834 --> 00:23:00,434
in the norcal rapist's m.0...

403
00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:03,970
How he threatens, the weapons he uses,

404
00:23:04,033 --> 00:23:07,903
and the atm cards he steals from
the women after each attack.

405
00:23:07,968 --> 00:23:09,628
Investigators are building a profile

406
00:23:09,701 --> 00:23:12,131
to narrow down possible suspects,

407
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:13,900
and now they've got his DNA.

408
00:23:13,968 --> 00:23:16,828
But norcal is about to strike again.

409
00:23:25,567 --> 00:23:30,297
It's January 25, 1997,
when the rapist strikes again,

410
00:23:30,367 --> 00:23:32,667
but this time it's different.

411
00:23:32,734 --> 00:23:34,974
It's a pair of roommates

412
00:23:35,033 --> 00:23:39,203
who live together in Davis, California.

413
00:23:39,267 --> 00:23:41,297
They hear a noise downstairs.

414
00:23:46,767 --> 00:23:48,667
They don't make anything of it

415
00:23:48,734 --> 00:23:51,204
and just go back
to their individual rooms

416
00:23:51,267 --> 00:23:52,867
and go to sleep.

417
00:23:59,934 --> 00:24:02,474
I was an investigator, detective,

418
00:24:02,534 --> 00:24:06,234
at the Davis police department in 1997.

419
00:24:09,133 --> 00:24:11,933
And was called to the scene the morning

420
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,670
of that particular sexual assault.

421
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,570
He was well planned
when he did this violent crime.

422
00:24:20,634 --> 00:24:23,704
He brought things with him, we know...

423
00:24:23,767 --> 00:24:26,067
The binding materials,

424
00:24:26,133 --> 00:24:29,803
most of which he took
with him when he left.

425
00:24:29,868 --> 00:24:32,668
He knew what he was doing,
what he wanted to do,

426
00:24:32,734 --> 00:24:38,234
and he carried it out
in a very detailed manner.

427
00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:42,330
He did a number of things,
including turning on a radio

428
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,100
to cover any sounds that were being made.

429
00:24:46,167 --> 00:24:50,667
He put a blanket over a window
so nobody could see in.

430
00:24:50,734 --> 00:24:53,504
He put a chair in front of the door,

431
00:24:53,567 --> 00:24:57,297
wedged it in so that nobody
could walk in on him...

432
00:24:57,367 --> 00:25:00,667
That sort of thing.

433
00:25:00,734 --> 00:25:02,834
Something interesting is happening here

434
00:25:02,901 --> 00:25:07,071
with these rapes in '96 and '97.

435
00:25:07,133 --> 00:25:10,873
It would appear his m.0.
Is actually evolving.

436
00:25:10,934 --> 00:25:13,574
The first three of his victims
were all Caucasian women,

437
00:25:13,634 --> 00:25:18,574
but, starting with number four,
they are petite Asian women.

438
00:25:18,634 --> 00:25:21,434
He could have simply discovered
a sexual preference

439
00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:22,700
for Asian women.

440
00:25:22,767 --> 00:25:25,067
However, Asian women are
very often petite

441
00:25:25,133 --> 00:25:26,903
and slight and weigh very little,

442
00:25:26,968 --> 00:25:29,068
so there's a vulnerability aspect

443
00:25:29,133 --> 00:25:31,573
because they tend to be so small.

444
00:25:31,634 --> 00:25:38,034
He is making sure he risks
nothing in being overpowered.

445
00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:42,530
He knew how he wanted
to interact with his victims

446
00:25:42,601 --> 00:25:49,271
in the way he approached them
and the things he said to them.

447
00:25:49,334 --> 00:25:55,234
I think he had a picture
in his mind of his relationship

448
00:25:55,300 --> 00:26:01,100
to these victims,
and I do believe, in his heart,

449
00:26:01,167 --> 00:26:06,197
he wanted to leave them thinking
that he was not such a bad guy.

450
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,200
The pattern does continue,

451
00:26:20,267 --> 00:26:23,397
because one of the victims
that he tied up and terrified...

452
00:26:23,467 --> 00:26:25,327
He took her atm card

453
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,530
and made her give him the pin,
and, remember,

454
00:26:27,601 --> 00:26:29,871
that relinquishing of the security pin

455
00:26:29,934 --> 00:26:32,334
is part of the power and control.

456
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,200
Was it about the money?
I don't think so.

457
00:26:35,267 --> 00:26:38,327
It was almost like
adding insult to injury.

458
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,030
"Now not only have I been
inside your body,

459
00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:42,900
I'm getting inside your bank account.

460
00:26:42,968 --> 00:26:44,528
There is nothing left of you

461
00:26:44,601 --> 00:26:48,031
that I haven't touched,
which I can't control."

462
00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:50,370
And getting that card
and taking her money

463
00:26:50,434 --> 00:26:54,174
was really almost like
the torturous icing on the cake.

464
00:26:54,234 --> 00:26:58,534
"Even after I've left,
I'm going to victimize you."

465
00:26:58,601 --> 00:27:02,071
The main thing is use
whatever you can to try

466
00:27:02,133 --> 00:27:05,133
and identify who this guy is.

467
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:09,900
We put out a letter to all
the banks stating we knew

468
00:27:09,968 --> 00:27:12,828
that the victims' card were taken,

469
00:27:12,901 --> 00:27:14,601
along with their pin numbers,

470
00:27:14,667 --> 00:27:18,827
so first we had to find out
if the cards were used

471
00:27:18,901 --> 00:27:21,471
and, if so, where were they used?

472
00:27:21,534 --> 00:27:25,504
So, here we worked with the
banks, the security system.

473
00:27:25,567 --> 00:27:29,467
We knew the cards, of course,
that the victims had.

474
00:27:29,534 --> 00:27:33,374
We contacted those people,
and in fairly short order...

475
00:27:33,434 --> 00:27:37,174
I'm talking over a two-,
three-day period...

476
00:27:37,234 --> 00:27:43,204
We knew where the cards were
used and what was drawn out.

477
00:27:44,234 --> 00:27:46,134
So when he went to the atm,

478
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,500
he was caught on surveillance
at that time,

479
00:27:48,567 --> 00:27:49,867
at about 7:30 A.M.,

480
00:27:49,934 --> 00:27:53,234
wearing a clear, plastic Halloween mask.

481
00:27:57,267 --> 00:27:59,467
Police have surveillance video

482
00:27:59,534 --> 00:28:02,134
of the rape suspect
using a victim's atm card.

483
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,100
A mask distorts his face.

484
00:28:04,167 --> 00:28:05,767
So, could this be the break in the case?

485
00:28:05,834 --> 00:28:09,374
Could this surveillance video
help police pinpoint

486
00:28:09,434 --> 00:28:11,934
the man who had been raping people

487
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,970
in northern California for six years?

488
00:28:17,434 --> 00:28:19,134
Not only do they have
an idea what he looks like,

489
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,600
but they have blood from the stabbing.

490
00:28:21,667 --> 00:28:24,067
Now they can check the DNA
from that blood

491
00:28:24,133 --> 00:28:27,133
and see if it matches the other rapes.

492
00:28:38,167 --> 00:28:40,497
Police from all of these
multiple jurisdictions

493
00:28:40,567 --> 00:28:43,767
in northern California,
from rohnert park to Davis,

494
00:28:43,834 --> 00:28:45,774
they'd all been loosely working

495
00:28:45,834 --> 00:28:48,304
to solve their individual crimes.

496
00:28:48,367 --> 00:28:51,127
At one point, the norcal rapist
slipped up

497
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,730
and allowed himself
to be caught on camera.

498
00:28:53,801 --> 00:29:00,531
We were able to get a photo of
him while he was using the atm.

499
00:29:00,601 --> 00:29:04,571
Unfortunately, he was wearing
an opaque mask

500
00:29:04,634 --> 00:29:08,204
that would distort
the features of your face,

501
00:29:08,267 --> 00:29:12,367
so we weren't able to get
a clear understanding

502
00:29:12,434 --> 00:29:14,874
of what this person looked like.

503
00:29:14,934 --> 00:29:18,374
The norcal rapist...
What he has going for him

504
00:29:18,434 --> 00:29:20,374
is that he's kind of hiding
in plain sight.

505
00:29:20,434 --> 00:29:22,334
He's operating in his comfort zone.

506
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,870
He cases these girls.
He stalks them.

507
00:29:24,934 --> 00:29:26,204
He knows their routines.

508
00:29:26,267 --> 00:29:28,897
This is the kind of case,

509
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,970
really, from a victim's standpoint,

510
00:29:31,033 --> 00:29:33,733
like, this is your worst nightmare.

511
00:29:33,801 --> 00:29:36,631
I think a lot of crimes
are crimes of happenstance.

512
00:29:36,701 --> 00:29:38,401
You come across it and you do something.

513
00:29:38,467 --> 00:29:41,297
This is clearly not what
the norcal rapist did.

514
00:29:41,367 --> 00:29:43,097
He planned his crime.

515
00:29:43,167 --> 00:29:45,397
He knew exactly what he was doing,

516
00:29:45,467 --> 00:29:47,627
and he victimized these women

517
00:29:47,701 --> 00:29:50,301
in some of the worst ways you can think.

518
00:29:50,367 --> 00:29:53,567
This instilled fear in the communities.

519
00:29:53,634 --> 00:29:55,634
I mean, people changed
the way they lived.

520
00:29:55,701 --> 00:29:59,401
They no longer felt like being
at home alone or locked doors

521
00:29:59,467 --> 00:30:02,997
that maybe they didn't lock before.

522
00:30:03,067 --> 00:30:06,567
It's terrifying to know that
somebody like that is out there

523
00:30:06,634 --> 00:30:08,304
and they haven't been able to catch him.

524
00:30:08,367 --> 00:30:10,127
Just shocked that it was
that close to home.

525
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,670
Mm, it's a little scary.

526
00:30:11,734 --> 00:30:16,604
And it impacted vast areas,
numerous communities,

527
00:30:16,667 --> 00:30:18,597
simply because of the fear instilled

528
00:30:18,667 --> 00:30:20,097
by the crimes committed.

529
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,800
In 1997, I was 21,

530
00:30:34,868 --> 00:30:38,628
and I was a college student
at chico state.

531
00:30:38,701 --> 00:30:41,971
I had a job as a counselor at that time.

532
00:30:42,033 --> 00:30:43,673
I was studying psychology.

533
00:30:43,734 --> 00:30:46,934
I was really close to graduating.

534
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,330
My life was fun.

535
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,970
Maki is bright.

536
00:30:50,033 --> 00:30:52,973
She loves going out and
socializing with her sister...

537
00:30:53,033 --> 00:30:54,703
A confident young woman.

538
00:30:58,267 --> 00:30:59,667
I was living by myself

539
00:30:59,734 --> 00:31:03,534
in an apartment
called paradise apartments,

540
00:31:03,601 --> 00:31:07,201
and I had actually just broken
up with my very first boyfriend.

541
00:31:07,267 --> 00:31:09,427
And this is important because it means

542
00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:12,230
he's not gonna be
coming over to her apartment.

543
00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:15,500
She is probably very vulnerable.

544
00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:20,130
When an offender stalks a victim,

545
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:21,700
burglarizing their home,

546
00:31:21,767 --> 00:31:23,597
going through their personal possessions,

547
00:31:23,667 --> 00:31:25,427
being able to look at their photographs,

548
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:28,900
it increases his comfort level
because he knows the floor plan.

549
00:31:28,968 --> 00:31:32,428
He knows how to get in
and how to get out.

550
00:31:35,634 --> 00:31:38,374
I'd come home, and
things would be out of place.

551
00:31:38,434 --> 00:31:40,934
I'd notice that my photo albums
would be moved

552
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,600
or certain things weren't
exactly where I had put them.

553
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,770
And I thought it was my ex-boyfriend

554
00:31:51,834 --> 00:31:53,504
going into my house.

555
00:31:57,133 --> 00:31:58,603
The night of the attack,

556
00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:02,427
me and my sister
had gone to the bear in chico.

557
00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:07,000
It was a really popular place
to go dancing.

558
00:32:07,067 --> 00:32:09,897
I actually got home late,

559
00:32:09,968 --> 00:32:13,368
and then I went into the kitchen
to make myself some toast,

560
00:32:13,434 --> 00:32:17,204
and I looked at my sliding glass door

561
00:32:17,267 --> 00:32:21,197
and felt like somebody was there,

562
00:32:21,267 --> 00:32:23,697
but then just kind of dismissed
it quickly, thinking,

563
00:32:23,767 --> 00:32:27,767
"oh, it's nothing," and then
decided I would go to bed.

564
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,770
It was only a couple hours later
that I was woken up

565
00:32:38,834 --> 00:32:44,704
with a gun to my head
and his hand covering my mouth,

566
00:32:44,767 --> 00:32:47,567
and he told me to, you know,

567
00:32:47,634 --> 00:32:51,734
shut up and not scream or he'd kill me.

568
00:32:51,801 --> 00:32:53,701
His hand was over her mouth,

569
00:32:53,767 --> 00:32:56,067
and he very clearly threatened her

570
00:32:56,133 --> 00:32:58,633
that if she screamed,
if she made a sound,

571
00:32:58,701 --> 00:33:02,431
he would not hesitate to kill her.

572
00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:04,500
I thought I was gonna die.

573
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,630
He starts tying her wrists

574
00:33:09,701 --> 00:33:12,871
and her ankles with zip ties and ropes.

575
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,670
I remember when he was binding
my wrists and my hands,

576
00:33:23,734 --> 00:33:25,834
I'd I... I left a little bit of space

577
00:33:25,901 --> 00:33:28,171
so that I had wriggle room.

578
00:33:28,234 --> 00:33:31,004
I just pretended like I was
holding a ball in my hand

579
00:33:31,067 --> 00:33:35,397
so that I would have
the ability to escape.

580
00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:39,300
He covered my eyes in duct tape.

581
00:33:47,467 --> 00:33:50,227
He kept going in and out of the room.

582
00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:51,830
He was going through my things.

583
00:33:51,901 --> 00:33:56,131
All I could think of was how to get free.

584
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,500
So every time he'd leave the room,

585
00:33:58,567 --> 00:34:00,697
I'd work harder on loosening the bindings

586
00:34:00,767 --> 00:34:04,427
and trying to get
the tape off of my mouth.

587
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:06,400
It was a fight-or-flight response,

588
00:34:06,467 --> 00:34:09,797
and I decided to fight.

589
00:34:09,868 --> 00:34:12,998
Maki is determined,
and she actually does succeed

590
00:34:13,067 --> 00:34:15,167
in freeing herself of those restraints.

591
00:34:15,234 --> 00:34:17,974
I just kept putting
saliva all over the duct tape

592
00:34:18,033 --> 00:34:21,633
so that it would be easier to tear off.

593
00:34:21,701 --> 00:34:24,131
I got free, but then he came in

594
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:28,170
and... and tried to make
the bindings tighter.

595
00:34:28,234 --> 00:34:32,804
I just remember him being really angry.

596
00:34:32,868 --> 00:34:34,668
Is he going to get his revenge

597
00:34:34,734 --> 00:34:37,334
on her escape attempt by killing her now?

598
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:42,670
Some offenders will flee if
the victim physically resists,

599
00:34:42,734 --> 00:34:44,774
while others will increase violence

600
00:34:44,834 --> 00:34:47,604
and severely injure the victim.

601
00:34:47,667 --> 00:34:48,797
When something like that happens,

602
00:34:48,868 --> 00:34:50,798
you just think of the worst,

603
00:34:50,868 --> 00:34:53,598
and I thought for sure I would be dead.

604
00:34:53,667 --> 00:34:55,327
I didn't think I would survive
that night.

605
00:35:00,267 --> 00:35:04,697
He walked into the room,
and I was able to see his face,

606
00:35:04,767 --> 00:35:06,897
and I just told him, "you better run.

607
00:35:06,968 --> 00:35:09,068
I'm gonna get you.
You better leave."

608
00:35:18,634 --> 00:35:23,234
1997, maki Anderson
is fighting for her life.

609
00:35:24,133 --> 00:35:26,803
The norcal rapist ties her up.

610
00:35:26,868 --> 00:35:29,798
Notwithstanding being tied up,
she breaks free.

611
00:35:29,868 --> 00:35:32,268
He finds her.
He ties her up again.

612
00:35:32,334 --> 00:35:35,334
But she continues to try to escape.

613
00:35:37,701 --> 00:35:39,601
The second time that I got free,

614
00:35:39,667 --> 00:35:42,267
I was able to sit up.
My arms were free.

615
00:35:42,334 --> 00:35:44,234
My face was uncovered.

616
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:49,330
And he walked into the room,
and I was able to see his face.

617
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:50,830
I just told him, "you better run.

618
00:35:50,901 --> 00:35:53,101
I'm gonna get you.
You better leave."

619
00:35:53,167 --> 00:35:56,427
And it looked like he was going to,

620
00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:00,800
and then he changed his mind
and started charging me.

621
00:36:04,434 --> 00:36:08,534
And I grabbed the scissors
and stabbed him.

622
00:36:10,601 --> 00:36:12,571
I didn't have it in me to kill him.

623
00:36:12,634 --> 00:36:13,904
I could have killed him,

624
00:36:13,968 --> 00:36:16,198
but I didn't have it in me to kill him.

625
00:36:16,267 --> 00:36:18,197
That seemed to only upset him.

626
00:36:18,267 --> 00:36:19,527
He got really angry, and...

627
00:36:19,601 --> 00:36:22,231
And he was more forceful after that.

628
00:36:24,133 --> 00:36:27,203
Maki is a fighter.
She has tried to escape twice.

629
00:36:27,267 --> 00:36:29,727
She's managed to stab her attacker.

630
00:36:29,801 --> 00:36:34,401
But he still seems determined
to rape her.

631
00:36:34,467 --> 00:36:37,827
In order to prevent myself
from getting raped,

632
00:36:37,901 --> 00:36:39,931
I lied and told him I was pregnant.

633
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,830
I told him, "please don't
hurt the baby."

634
00:36:41,901 --> 00:36:46,301
I kept bringing up "the baby,"
and, fortunately, it worked.

635
00:36:46,367 --> 00:36:48,567
I-I was... I was sexually assaulted,

636
00:36:48,634 --> 00:36:52,974
which, you know, is still bad,
but I was spared rape.

637
00:36:53,033 --> 00:36:56,873
In maki's case, for her
to say she was pregnant,

638
00:36:56,934 --> 00:37:00,274
it did humanize her
for him in that moment.

639
00:37:00,334 --> 00:37:01,904
People have to dehumanize their victim

640
00:37:01,968 --> 00:37:04,868
in order to be able
to commit crimes against them.

641
00:37:04,934 --> 00:37:07,104
Whatever his association
was to pregnancy,

642
00:37:07,167 --> 00:37:09,467
there had to be
something positive in there

643
00:37:09,534 --> 00:37:12,634
that made him draw some kind of a line

644
00:37:12,701 --> 00:37:15,471
in terms of what he was going to do.

645
00:37:22,634 --> 00:37:24,334
I was so tired by then.

646
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,000
It had been hours.

647
00:37:26,067 --> 00:37:29,227
And I started nodding off
because he was gone

648
00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:31,800
and I was just waiting.

649
00:37:31,868 --> 00:37:33,998
I didn't know if he was gonna
come back in again

650
00:37:34,067 --> 00:37:36,167
or if he had left.

651
00:37:36,234 --> 00:37:39,504
I just kept working on trying
to get free,

652
00:37:39,567 --> 00:37:44,667
and I just got the tape off of
my mouth and got my hands free,

653
00:37:44,734 --> 00:37:48,574
and then I got my legs free
and threw on some clothes

654
00:37:48,634 --> 00:37:49,934
and jumped out the bedroom window

655
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,070
and ran to the manager's
office to get help.

656
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,530
And she brought me into her office

657
00:38:00,601 --> 00:38:04,171
and called the police right away.

658
00:38:04,234 --> 00:38:07,004
They came within seconds.

659
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,800
I was able to give them
a good enough description

660
00:38:10,868 --> 00:38:13,328
in order for them to draw a sketch

661
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,130
of what he could look like.

662
00:38:19,334 --> 00:38:21,934
Thanks to maki's bravery
and quick thinking,

663
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,130
police finally have a sketch
of the norcal rapist.

664
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:27,970
Not only do they have an idea
of what he looks like,

665
00:38:28,033 --> 00:38:30,603
but they have blood from the stabbing.

666
00:38:30,667 --> 00:38:32,797
Now they can check the DNA
from that blood

667
00:38:32,868 --> 00:38:36,968
and see if it matches the other rapes.

668
00:38:37,033 --> 00:38:41,173
It was particularly after
the chico assault happened,

669
00:38:41,234 --> 00:38:45,134
where he left blood DNA at the
scene, where that matched up,

670
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,030
and then I think it was at
that point they were like,

671
00:38:47,100 --> 00:38:50,630
"okay, we have a serial rapist
here on our hands."

672
00:38:50,701 --> 00:38:54,301
But now that you know
it's a serial rapist there,

673
00:38:54,367 --> 00:38:55,527
that's why it's important, then,

674
00:38:55,601 --> 00:38:57,501
to bring your resources together.

675
00:38:57,567 --> 00:38:58,897
You have the information.

676
00:38:58,968 --> 00:39:02,528
DNA linked the different
scenes in different areas.

677
00:39:02,601 --> 00:39:04,531
Now you've got to do the link analysis.

678
00:39:04,601 --> 00:39:07,201
Find other things that link in.

679
00:39:07,267 --> 00:39:09,397
Investigations are Jigsaw puzzles.

680
00:39:09,467 --> 00:39:11,097
It's getting enough pieces

681
00:39:11,167 --> 00:39:13,467
that you can identify
the person responsible.

682
00:39:13,534 --> 00:39:17,234
These offenders are not
perfect 100% of the time.

683
00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:18,570
They make mistakes.

684
00:39:18,634 --> 00:39:23,104
Investigators are trained
to look for those subtleties,

685
00:39:23,167 --> 00:39:26,567
those mistakes that even
serial offenders make.

686
00:39:26,634 --> 00:39:30,004
There are no perfect crimes.
People make mistakes.

687
00:39:30,067 --> 00:39:31,297
Criminals are no different.

688
00:39:31,367 --> 00:39:33,167
They think they're smarter than we are,

689
00:39:33,234 --> 00:39:35,334
but that's not always the case.

690
00:39:39,033 --> 00:39:41,803
I lived in fear for a really long time.

691
00:39:41,868 --> 00:39:44,228
I constantly was looking
in my rearview mirror

692
00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:46,770
while I was driving, trying to figure out

693
00:39:46,834 --> 00:39:48,834
if he was following me or not.

694
00:39:48,901 --> 00:39:50,071
It was hard.

695
00:39:50,133 --> 00:39:53,833
It... it hasn't been an easy journey.

696
00:39:53,901 --> 00:39:56,331
But I'm glad I'm alive.

697
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:57,930
One of the victims actually told me...

698
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,430
She said, "every time a male

699
00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:05,300
comes in to where I work,

700
00:40:05,367 --> 00:40:10,827
if he's about the right age
and about the right everything,"

701
00:40:10,901 --> 00:40:13,371
she says, "I think to myself,
'is that him?'"

702
00:40:13,434 --> 00:40:16,704
and so to have to live
your life that way,

703
00:40:16,767 --> 00:40:18,327
always looking over your shoulder

704
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,970
and always wondering, it has to be...

705
00:40:22,033 --> 00:40:24,473
It has to be really difficult.

706
00:40:24,534 --> 00:40:27,974
For cops, you want to bring
closure for that person.

707
00:40:28,033 --> 00:40:30,173
You want to arrest the bad guys.

708
00:40:30,234 --> 00:40:32,934
Those victims will always be
forever scarred.

709
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,800
Their life will never, ever,
ever, ever be the same.

710
00:40:37,868 --> 00:40:41,868
So, in a lot of instances where
people have long crime sprees

711
00:40:41,934 --> 00:40:43,574
like the norcal rapist,

712
00:40:43,634 --> 00:40:46,334
they think they're safe because
they haven't been arrested.

713
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:47,700
It's never too long.

714
00:40:47,767 --> 00:40:49,067
It's never too late.

715
00:40:49,133 --> 00:40:52,303
The long arm of the law
is gonna find you.

716
00:40:52,367 --> 00:40:54,297
It almost is like a ticking time bomb

717
00:40:54,367 --> 00:40:56,867
because you know
it's going to happen again.

718
00:40:56,934 --> 00:40:59,334
You don't know where,
and you don't know when.

719
00:41:06,634 --> 00:41:09,774
The norcal rapist has gotten so confident

720
00:41:09,834 --> 00:41:12,104
with his 15-year rape spree

721
00:41:12,167 --> 00:41:14,827
that he is beginning to screw up.

722
00:41:14,901 --> 00:41:16,401
He's made a big mistake.

723
00:41:16,467 --> 00:41:18,967
Right now a serial rapist
is on the loose.

724
00:41:19,033 --> 00:41:21,103
And Sacramento police have new evidence

725
00:41:21,167 --> 00:41:23,497
this guy has been
attacking women for years.

726
00:41:23,567 --> 00:41:26,467
I have said many times that
DNA is the greatest tool

727
00:41:26,534 --> 00:41:29,234
ever given to law enforcement
to find the truth.

728
00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:31,300
This technology's groundbreaking.

729
00:41:31,367 --> 00:41:32,427
It's eye-opening.

730
00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:33,670
It was like, "holy cow.

731
00:41:33,734 --> 00:41:37,834
This is the person that
I've been wondering about

732
00:41:37,901 --> 00:41:40,031
for the last 12 years."

733
00:41:42,567 --> 00:41:45,767
By 1997, the norcal rapist had committed

734
00:41:45,834 --> 00:41:47,874
at least seven vicious attacks.

735
00:41:47,934 --> 00:41:50,974
News of his rampage spread
fear throughout the communities

736
00:41:51,033 --> 00:41:52,503
of northern California.

737
00:41:52,567 --> 00:41:55,027
Women did not feel safe
in their own homes.

738
00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:57,330
No one knew when he would strike next.

739
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,970
Could forensic science
finally break the case

740
00:42:00,033 --> 00:42:03,503
and give detectives the evidence
they needed to make an arrest?

741
00:42:03,567 --> 00:42:06,327
The hunt for the norcal rapist continues

742
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,930
in part two of
"the phantom predator."

743
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,270
I'm Donnie wahlberg.

744
00:42:10,334 --> 00:42:11,474
Thanks for watching
"very scary people."