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Barbara was very creative.

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She was always very theatrical.

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I always thought
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because everything
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[Narrator] Is found
brutally murdered

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in a mountain canyon.
[suspenseful music]

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[gunfire blasting]

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We could see five
or six gunshot wounds.

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There was some speculation

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that she had been
sexually assaulted.

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[Narrator] A clue
left by the victim

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leads to surprising suspects.

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He finds this note addressed
to all the Mormon roommates

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that she was leaving to
go be with her people.

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Just how bad was
this relationship

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with her roommates,

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and what could it
cause anyone to do?

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[Narrator] And a
series of bizarre twists.

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He's telling us that

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bullet holes were in
a triangular pattern,

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and that that's a sign of
a possible Satan killing.

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Somebody took her up
there into the woods.

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This was potentially
a sacrifice.

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[Narrator] Until the
evidence reveals a killer

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no one saw coming.

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There was DNA from the soil
that was underneath her body.

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It was like finding
a needle in a haystack,

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a big haystack.

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He just didn't
seem like somebody

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who would kill somebody.

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It was just the biggest
shock you could fathom.

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[dramatic music]

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[bright music]

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[Narrator] Provo, Utah,
a small college town

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in a picture-perfect
mountain setting.

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It sits in a county
south of Salt Lake.

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It's where the Brigham Young
University campus is at.

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It's a very safe community.

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During the 1970s,
Provo was definitely

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a place that was
very low on crime,

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and you didn't have to worry

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about locking your
doors at night.

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[Narrator] That
innocence is lost

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on a cold March
afternoon in 1974,

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when a grisly discovery
in a nearby canyon

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sends shockwaves
through the community.

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On March 11, 1974,

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the Salt Lake County
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received a telephone call
from a power company worker

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who had started walking
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[dramatic music]

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and as he was cutting
through some brush,

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he came across a white female

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with gunshot wounds to her back.

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The crime scene is essentially

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a couple of miles
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Big Cottonwood Canyon.

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[Narrator] Investigators
race to the canyon

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where the utility worker
leads them to the body.

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We could see five
or six gunshot wounds.

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All of them looked to be
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The shot placements looked
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and it looked like
she had been there

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for a few hours at least.

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With the way that her
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we felt like sexual assault
was part of this crime scene.

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Her arms were tucked
up underneath her.

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That told us that
she was in pain.

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That she was fearful of
what was happening to her.

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We're looking for
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but the ground around the
body was not disturbed.

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It looks like where she
was is where she was killed.

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[Narrator] Detectives are
stuck buy an unusual detail.

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Her clothes were folded neatly

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and piled towards
the top of her head.

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was probably trying
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As she was being
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she was stacking her
clothes in this neat pile.

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[Narrator] More
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when they turn the victim over.

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We found some possibly

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38 caliber bullets
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after they had gone
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We also picked up some soil

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and logged it into
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Detectives back in the '70s,

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the didn't have the
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in today's crime
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They focused on all
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like the soil, fibers, hairs,

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may link the suspect
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[suspenseful music]

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[Narrator] While the body
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detectives interview
their only witness.

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The only thing we
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was a utility worker
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and we were able to
clear him fairly quickly.

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But we didn't know
who the victim was.

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We didn't have any
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to go with at that point.

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We got a hold of
the local media.

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Let them know that we had
a white female Jane Doe

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that we were trying to identify.

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we received a telephone call

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from the Brigham Young
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that they had received
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of a white female
earlier that day.

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The missing person in Provo

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matched the description
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[Narrator] The missing person

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is 22-year-old student,

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Barbara Jean Rocky,

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but police need a
formal identification

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to be sure she's also
their murder victim.

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[Todd] We made a phone call
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that were hanging
out with Barbara.

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Gerry Hicker is
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the missing person's report.

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Gerry is also a student at BYU,

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and he was a friend of Barbara's

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and some of her roommates.

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Edward Fisher and Gerry
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to do an identification
on our Jane Doe.

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[Narrator] Edward
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the murdered woman
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Police now face
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of informing her family.

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At the time of
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my parents were
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My mom found out
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and was crying,
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nothing was the same.

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It was just

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the biggest shock
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[somber music]

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It's like what you knew of
the world has just imploded.

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[somber music]

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[upbeat music]

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[Narrator] Born in 1952,

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Barbara had an idyllic childhood

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growing up in Menlo
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Barbara was very creative.

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She was always very theatrical.

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I always thought
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because languages and music

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came so easy to her.

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Barbara was always
rooting for the underdog.

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If somebody needed help,

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she would open doors for them.

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I mean, always doing
something very sweet.

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[upbeat music]

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[Narrator] When the time
came to go to college,

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Barbara's choice reflected a
growing spiritual interest.

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Barbara was always
searching for a religion.

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Barbara was interested
in the Mormon religion.

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My parents were very happy

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for her to go to Brigham Young

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because they felt that she would

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get the safe group of friends

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and the good education

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and religion that she required.

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When Barbara went
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she seemed up and happy, and

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like things were going well.

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[Narrator] Investigators
ask Barbara's loved ones

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if they can think of anyone
who might be responsible.

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Since she was away at college
and out of our supervision,

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we had no idea

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what she was doing.

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We just didn't know what kind
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In speaking with the family,

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they just had no idea on who
could have done this to her.

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[Narrator] With the family
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detectives hope
her college friends

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might be able to point them

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in the right direction.

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Ed Fisher was dating one
of Barbara's roommates.

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When asked if he had any idea

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who would have done
this to Barbara,

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he just had no idea.

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He felt Gerry Hicker might have

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more information about
Barbara than he would.

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Gerry Hicker is
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and Barbara seemed to spend
lots of time with him.

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Gerry described that
he was just devastated

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that this had
happened to Barbara.

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He knew Barbara very well.

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[Narrator] Police
ask Gerry what led him

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to file a missing
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just hours before
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He said that he had gone
skiing the day before,

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used Barbara's car to
take the skis back,

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and then he met up with
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at about 10 o'clock
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and gave the car
keys back with plans

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to meet up later on to
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After leaving Barbara,

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Gerry spoke with one
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and then he went to
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[dramatic music]

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Later that day Gerry and Barbara

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had plans to grab some food

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but she didn't show up.

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As Gerry left the BYU campus,

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he walked past Barbara's house

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and he didn't see Barbara's car,

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so he continued
towards his home.

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And as he was passing the
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and sees Barbara's car
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which was someplace that Barbara

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would have never parked her car.

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He said that was kind of odd

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why it would've been parked

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where it's not normally parked.

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Inside the car he finds

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this note that was
left by Barbara.

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It was addressed to
all the roommates.

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That basically said that
she had found her people.

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That she was leaving to
go be with her people.

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I think that he looked
at it as a suicide note,

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and so he took the note
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and that raised enough suspicion

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to report her as
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[Narrator] In
order to clear Gerry

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as a person of interest,

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detectives drill deeper
into his timeline.

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Gerry gave his timeline
up until that evening,

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and essentially once
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he came and talked to us.

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Gerry reported her missing.

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He found the note.

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He was cooperating
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so he really wasn't somebody

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that fit as a suspect.

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[Narrator] When
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about any conflicts
Barbara may have had,

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he mentions one
unexpected source.

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Gerry tells investigators that

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the roommates and
Barbara kind of have

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an off-again on-again
relationship.

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Barbara Jean Rocky lived
with seven other women

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from Mormon families.

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Barbara sometimes liked to
do things for shock value,

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and this is not a
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to shock others.

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There was a little
bit of intimidation

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between Barbara and
some of the girls.

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Gerry said things
had gotten so bad,

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that he had tried
to find Barbara

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another place to live.

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[Narrator] Was it possible
one of Barbara's roommates

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could be the culprit
behind her death?

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Just how bad was
this relationship

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that Barbara Jean Rocky
had with her roommates,

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and what could it
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[foreboding music]

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[Narrator] Coming up

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detectives uncover dark secrets.

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The majority of the roommates

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were very religious.

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He had a relationship
with Barbara Jean

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and had been dating
one of her roommates.

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A love triangle could
easily turn deadly

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when there's jealousy involved.

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He had pulled a dagger on her

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and said that he was
going to stab her.

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[Narrator] And links
to a terrifying killer.

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She described him
as a great warlock

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and maybe even a
devil worshiper.

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There's women all
over the American West

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that are going missing
and being discovered dead.

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This guy turns out to be
probably the most famous

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notorious serial
killer of all time.

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[Narrator] Until the evidence
reveals the horrific truth.

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He was not who we suspected,

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and so to learn that
he was responsible

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for killing her was
very surprising.

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[dramatic music]

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[Narrator] After 22-year-old
college student Barbara Rocky

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is found shot dead,
police have discovered

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she had clashed
with her roommates

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and bring them in
separately for questioning.

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The roommates had only
known her since January,

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when Barbara moved into
the house, and going to

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a predominantly Mormon school,

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Barbara really
didn't fit that mold.

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She was from California,

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and she was more
of a free spirit.

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She was somebody who
was very opinionated

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and was not a conformist.

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Barbara Jean Rocky's roommates

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say that she was kind
of dating around,

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not necessarily saving
herself for marriage,

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and it was generally
not accepted.

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The roommates
were very religious.

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They attended church faithfully.

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I think Barbara would
probably experiment

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with different religions
just to expand her knowledge

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and at times would do things
that would maybe scare them.

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Barbara Jean's roommates

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said she was kind
of into witchcraft,

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so she was attracted to
that lifestyle a little bit.

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They didn't want to be
a part of Barbara's life,

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and so they would keep
her at arm's length.

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[Narrator] Had one
of Barbara's roommates

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lashed out and done
something unthinkable?

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Being more of the
typical LDS BYU student,

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you just wouldn't think
that somebody like that

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could kill somebody,

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but until you do the
leather work on it,

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you can't clear them.

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[Narrator] Detectives work

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to verify the roommates' alibis.

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Once the investigators corroborated

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all the stories and
looked at the timelines,

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they were able to clear
the roommates as not being

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somebody that had
killed Barbara.

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[Narrator] As
detectives continue

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asking the roommates
about Barbara,

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they learn some startling
new information.

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Investigators found out
through the interviews

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of the roommates that Barbara

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would carry a 357
revolver pistol.

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Some of the roommates
described Barbara

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as being maybe a
little bit paranoid

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where she would think
people were following her.

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In 1974, people
weren't just walking

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around with guns the
way they do today,

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so if a 21-year-old college kid

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was walking around with
a 357 magnum pistol,

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who is she afraid of?

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[Narrator] Detectives
get more surprises

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when they search
Barbara's vehicle.

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When the investigators looked
in the rear of the vehicle,

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they found ammunition
and targets,

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things that you wouldn't expect

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in a female BYU student's car.

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Did Barbara feel like

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she needed to have a gun?

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Did she practice with the gun?

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Was somebody after her?

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We weren't sure what all of
that meant at that point.

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[dramatic music]

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The car was fingerprinted,

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but there was just nothing

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of good forensic value

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that we could come
up with at that time.

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[Narrator] With more
questions than answers,

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detectives turn their attention

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back to the note
Barbara's friend Gerry

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had found earlier
in Barbara's car.

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You found a victim
shot multiple times,

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and then someone else
finds this note in her car

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that says she's leaving
to be with her people,

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and what's the purpose of this?

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The investigators
were wondering

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if the note was even
authored by Barbara,

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so they do some
handwriting analysis on it

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and send it out
to have that done.

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[Narrator] While
detectives await results,

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the autopsy report comes in.

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At that time they came up with

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six bullet hole entrance wounds.

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The shot in the arm was probably

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the bullet that killed her

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because it went
back into the chest

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and hit some vital organs,

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and the final wounds were

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when Barbara was turned
over and on her stomach

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and the entrance wounds
were in her back.

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Being shot in the back
is a good indicator that

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the person is known
by the assailant.

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He doesn't want
to see their face

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when he kills them.

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[dramatic music]

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At the autopsy the
medical examiner took swabs

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of both her rectum
and her vaginal area

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to try to preserve any evidence

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that might be there.

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The autopsy report indicated

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no definitive evidence

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that she had been
sexually assaulted.

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[Narrator] With the autopsy
offering no new leads,

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investigators turn their focus

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to any romantic relationships

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Barbara may have had.

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They were talking
with the roommates

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more about other men that
may be in Barbara's life,

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and they came up with
a guy named Richard.

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They knew that Barbara was

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very much infatuated with him.

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She spoke about
him all the time,

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even called him her boyfriend.

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[Narrator] As police
focus on Richard

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they make a
disturbing discovery.

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They had asked if Richard

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had ever been violent
towards Barbara,

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and Barbara had
relayed one story that

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Richard had pulled
a dagger on her

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and said he was
going to stab her.

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[Narrator] This was not
the only alarming story

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Barbara's roommates
relayed to detectives.

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About a month before
Barbara was murdered,

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she reported that
her gun was missing,

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and that raises all
kinds of concerns.

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She reported it
to campus police,

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and to my knowledge,

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she never got that gun back.

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A 357 revolver would have fit

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with the potential murder weapon

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that killed Barbara.

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[gunfire blasting]
She had expressed

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concern to her roommates that

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the person that
had taken the gun

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may use that gun on her,

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and the roommates just
kind of dismissed it.

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But now that Barbara
was found shot to death,

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the roommates were concerned
for themselves as well.

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Having that information,

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the investigators really

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wanted to find out
who Richard was.

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At this point all we have
is Richard's first name.

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He's willing to maybe take
a dagger and stab her.

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[suspenseful music]

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We strongly felt that he
could have been responsible

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for her murder.

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[dramatic music]

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[Narrator] Three
days have passed

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since student Barbara Rocky

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was discovered shot dead

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in Big Cottonwood Canyon,

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and police are hunting
a man named Richard,

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who they believe
is her boyfriend.

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This could be the person
that killed Barbara.

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But all we have is
Richard's first name,

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and so we're kind of
running into a dead end.

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[Narrator] With
no way to identify

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their potential prime suspect,

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detectives catch a lucky break.

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Out of the blue a guy
named Richard Finder

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calls into our department

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and tells us that he
knew Barbara Rocky.

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Richard Finder
initiated contact

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offering his
services to basically

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try to help them
solve this case.

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First question we had
was is this the Richard

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that we've been looking for?

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[dramatic music]

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[Narrator] As investigators

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prepare to meet
with Richard Finder,

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they learn everything
they can about him.

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We find out that
he's in his 30s,

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and he's a
self-proclaimed psychic.

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He lived in California.

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Barbara was from California,

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so that was one of the
connections that they had.

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We also found out
that a 357 pistol

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was registered to him,

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which is obviously the same
caliber that we're looking for.

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[Narrator] Richard Finder
arrives at the sheriff's office

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and detectives begin by asking
him about his relationship

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with the 22-year-old
college student.

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Barbara heard Richard Finder

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on the radio talking
about the occult.

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Barbara had called
into the radio station.

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They ended up exchanging
phone numbers.

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Barbara had gone up to
see him at his hotel,

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and I think Barbara
at one point,

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even felt that Richard
was her boyfriend.

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Richard claimed that it was
just a spiritual relationship.

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That he looked at Barbara
not in a physical way.

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[Narrator] Under
further questioning,

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Richard mentions something

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that gets the
detectives' attention.

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The place that
he was staying at

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was very close to the
mouth of the canyon

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where it was that
Barbara Jean was found.

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[dramatic music]

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[Narrator] Detectives
cut to the chase

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and ask Richard where
he was on March 11th,

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the day that Barbara was killed.

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He tells them that
he was in Salt Lake

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at the time of the murder.

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He said that he had gotten
up and had some breakfast,

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and then he went over
and helped a friend

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do some construction work
on a house all day long,

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and then he went back home

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and went to sleep on the couch.

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[Narrator]
Detectives set to work

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checking out Richard's alibi.

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The guy that Richard
Finder was staying with,

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did confirm that Richard
was with him in the evening.

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But he could not
confirm the times

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that Richard told us
about during the daytime.

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[Narrator] With holes
in Richard's alibi,

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detectives dig deeper
into his claims

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about his relationship
with Barbara.

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Our investigators talked
to Barbara's therapist,

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and she just really
got the impression

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that Barbara was in
love with Richard.

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[Narrator] The therapist
reveals another way

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the relationship
was less innocent

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than Richard made it seem.

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Barbara described
Richard as a great warlock

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and maybe even a
devil worshiper.

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[tense dramatic music]

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I think that the satanic
and the witchcraft,

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it's not too
far-fetched to think,

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"Okay, somebody took her
up there into the woods.

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"This was potentially
a sacrifice."

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[Narrator] When
police confront Richard

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with these allegations,

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his response is
even more alarming.

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He's telling us that
he's having these dreams,

517
00:21:21,889 --> 00:21:25,327
and that she was shot in the
back in a triangular pattern,

518
00:21:25,327 --> 00:21:30,593
and that that's a sign of
a possible Satan killing

519
00:21:31,377 --> 00:21:33,030
or devil worship.

520
00:21:33,030 --> 00:21:35,642
Richard also told us
that he had a vision

521
00:21:35,642 --> 00:21:38,558
that the murder weapon was
also thrown into water.

522
00:21:38,558 --> 00:21:41,343
How would he know that we
didn't have the murder weapon?

523
00:21:41,343 --> 00:21:44,390
So that really raised
a question to us.

524
00:21:44,390 --> 00:21:47,131
We're wondering is this
guy confessing to us?

525
00:21:47,131 --> 00:21:49,351
Is he telling us
about our crime scene?

526
00:21:49,351 --> 00:21:50,918
He has all of this knowledge.

527
00:21:50,918 --> 00:21:53,921
Is this guy the one that
killed Barbara that day?

528
00:21:53,921 --> 00:21:56,358
When you start putting all
of these things together,

529
00:21:56,358 --> 00:21:59,318
it made Richard Finder
a pretty good suspect.

530
00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:01,450
[Narrator] Despite the
circumstantial evidence

531
00:22:01,450 --> 00:22:03,278
stacking up against him,

532
00:22:03,278 --> 00:22:05,933
detectives need
something more concrete.

533
00:22:05,933 --> 00:22:08,631
So we collect all of his
weapons for ballistic tests

534
00:22:08,631 --> 00:22:12,418
with the projectiles that we
located from Barbara's body.

535
00:22:12,418 --> 00:22:15,551
We received the results
from the ballistics tests,

536
00:22:15,551 --> 00:22:16,900
and they were not a match,

537
00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:18,293
[dramatic music]

538
00:22:18,293 --> 00:22:19,555
and that pretty much blew up

539
00:22:19,555 --> 00:22:21,818
most of our case
with Richard Finder.

540
00:22:23,603 --> 00:22:25,387
[Narrator] Detectives
pin their hopes

541
00:22:25,387 --> 00:22:28,129
on the results of the
handwriting analysis

542
00:22:28,129 --> 00:22:30,566
on the note found in
Barbara's vehicle.

543
00:22:31,654 --> 00:22:34,440
Maybe she wrote the
note under duress.

544
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,572
Maybe she was forced
to write the note.

545
00:22:36,572 --> 00:22:38,313
It could be a
significant clue,

546
00:22:38,313 --> 00:22:39,575
especially if it's
determined that

547
00:22:39,575 --> 00:22:41,534
our victim didn't
author the note.

548
00:22:41,534 --> 00:22:44,450
It's like someone writing a
suicide note for someone else.

549
00:22:44,450 --> 00:22:46,321
The handwriting
analysis came back,

550
00:22:46,321 --> 00:22:48,149
and it showed that
Barbara was the one

551
00:22:48,149 --> 00:22:49,368
that had written the note.

552
00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:50,673
The letter itself seemed

553
00:22:50,673 --> 00:22:52,588
to be a valid letter
to her friends,

554
00:22:52,588 --> 00:22:55,461
and several people said
that's Barbara's handwriting.

555
00:22:55,461 --> 00:22:58,420
The investigators
concluded that maybe

556
00:22:58,420 --> 00:23:00,335
Barbara was thinking
about moving home,

557
00:23:00,335 --> 00:23:02,816
and she was just explaining
that in the note.

558
00:23:04,470 --> 00:23:07,647
At this point we're starting
to run out of leads.

559
00:23:07,647 --> 00:23:09,997
[Narrator] As the
investigation stalls,

560
00:23:09,997 --> 00:23:13,566
Barbara's family is
rocked by another tragedy.

561
00:23:15,045 --> 00:23:18,484
My dad would call the
police practically every day,

562
00:23:18,484 --> 00:23:21,138
when nothing was
coming to fruition,

563
00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:26,230
and he died like within
a year after she died.

564
00:23:26,230 --> 00:23:27,449
It killed my father,

565
00:23:27,449 --> 00:23:29,495
[somber music]

566
00:23:29,495 --> 00:23:33,760
and we had so many
key relatives die

567
00:23:35,457 --> 00:23:37,894
still wanting to know
what happened to Barbara.

568
00:23:39,548 --> 00:23:42,333
[Narrator] Detectives
never give up on the case,

569
00:23:42,333 --> 00:23:45,206
and a year later in 1975,

570
00:23:45,206 --> 00:23:48,601
they notice a disturbing
pattern of crimes.

571
00:23:48,601 --> 00:23:51,255
There's women all
over the American West

572
00:23:51,255 --> 00:23:52,431
that are going missing

573
00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:54,433
and being discovered dead.

574
00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:57,523
College coeds with dark
hair were found murdered,

575
00:23:57,523 --> 00:23:59,655
and the serial
killer was certainly

576
00:23:59,655 --> 00:24:02,223
the big topic of conversation.

577
00:24:02,223 --> 00:24:03,529
[Narrator] A surprising arrest

578
00:24:03,529 --> 00:24:06,488
changes the whole course
of the investigation.

579
00:24:06,488 --> 00:24:10,231
In 1975, a Utah state trooper

580
00:24:10,231 --> 00:24:12,712
makes an arrest west
of Salt Lake city.

581
00:24:12,712 --> 00:24:16,629
The suspect was arrested
for a kidnapping case

582
00:24:16,629 --> 00:24:18,674
and some of the
evidence in the vehicle

583
00:24:18,674 --> 00:24:20,546
definitely could have
had something to do

584
00:24:20,546 --> 00:24:22,504
with Barbara's murder as well.

585
00:24:22,504 --> 00:24:25,420
The driver's
name is Ted Bundy.

586
00:24:25,420 --> 00:24:29,250
This guy turns out to be
probably the most famous

587
00:24:29,250 --> 00:24:32,253
notorious serial
killer of all time.

588
00:24:32,253 --> 00:24:33,950
Is he the one that
killed Barbara?

589
00:24:34,777 --> 00:24:37,650
[dramatic music]

590
00:24:42,045 --> 00:24:43,612
[Narrator] A year and a half

591
00:24:43,612 --> 00:24:45,571
after the murder
of Barbara Rocky,

592
00:24:45,571 --> 00:24:48,530
the investigation is
sparked back into life

593
00:24:48,530 --> 00:24:52,360
by the arrest of notorious
serial killer Ted Bundy.

594
00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:54,101
[dramatic music]

595
00:24:54,101 --> 00:24:56,495
More and more that police
start investigating Ted Bundy,

596
00:24:56,495 --> 00:24:58,540
the more connections
they find to missing

597
00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:00,716
and murdered women
all over the country.

598
00:25:00,716 --> 00:25:05,504
In 1974, Ted Bundy was
also in the Utah area,

599
00:25:05,504 --> 00:25:07,680
going to school at the
University of Utah.

600
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,725
Barbara Jean fit
Ted Bundy's profile.

601
00:25:09,725 --> 00:25:11,379
She was a college student.

602
00:25:11,379 --> 00:25:13,033
She was a brunette,

603
00:25:13,033 --> 00:25:16,340
and she was the age that
Ted Bundy seemed to target.

604
00:25:16,340 --> 00:25:17,516
Ted Bundy had a reputation

605
00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:18,778
of being a very charming man.

606
00:25:18,778 --> 00:25:20,344
You know, he was
a good looking guy

607
00:25:20,344 --> 00:25:22,651
and was kind of a smooth talker.

608
00:25:22,651 --> 00:25:24,610
Ted bundy would
act like he was hurt

609
00:25:24,610 --> 00:25:28,614
and ask for some
assistance from a female,

610
00:25:28,614 --> 00:25:30,398
and that would have fit right

611
00:25:30,398 --> 00:25:31,791
with the personality of Barbara.

612
00:25:31,791 --> 00:25:34,141
She would have helped Ted Bundy

613
00:25:34,141 --> 00:25:36,665
if he had approached her.

614
00:25:36,665 --> 00:25:37,753
[Narrator] With
Barbara fitting

615
00:25:37,753 --> 00:25:40,277
the profile of bundy's victims,

616
00:25:40,277 --> 00:25:42,845
detectives connect with the FBI.

617
00:25:42,845 --> 00:25:46,632
The investigators were able
to get a hold of a timeline

618
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,591
that the FBI had
prepared to find out

619
00:25:49,591 --> 00:25:53,334
what his whereabouts
were on March 11, 1974.

620
00:25:54,770 --> 00:25:57,207
When the investigators looked
at Ted Bundy's timeline,

621
00:25:57,207 --> 00:26:00,820
they found that he had an
ironclad alibi for that day

622
00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:04,084
because he was in Washington
committing another murder.

623
00:26:06,390 --> 00:26:07,783
[Narrator] With Bundy cleared,

624
00:26:07,783 --> 00:26:10,177
the Barbara Rocky investigation

625
00:26:10,177 --> 00:26:11,657
grinds to a halt.

626
00:26:11,657 --> 00:26:12,962
The investigators had done

627
00:26:12,962 --> 00:26:15,530
everything forensically
that they could.

628
00:26:15,530 --> 00:26:17,837
They had done all the
interviews that they could.

629
00:26:17,837 --> 00:26:20,491
They had looked at all the
suspects that they could,

630
00:26:20,491 --> 00:26:22,711
and the case just went cold.

631
00:26:22,711 --> 00:26:25,366
Once the case was cold,

632
00:26:25,366 --> 00:26:28,543
we pretty much accepted that

633
00:26:28,543 --> 00:26:30,545
it was not going to be solved.

634
00:26:30,545 --> 00:26:31,764
When a case goes cold,

635
00:26:31,764 --> 00:26:33,679
it definitely
affects the family,

636
00:26:33,679 --> 00:26:35,463
every bit as much, if not more,

637
00:26:35,463 --> 00:26:36,812
than the investigator.

638
00:26:36,812 --> 00:26:39,641
They just want someone
to be held accountable

639
00:26:39,641 --> 00:26:42,296
for their daughter's death.

640
00:26:42,296 --> 00:26:45,604
[Narrator] The case
lies unsolved for 30 years

641
00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:48,737
while Barbara's family
yearns for answers.

642
00:26:48,737 --> 00:26:51,566
The hope and the drive

643
00:26:51,566 --> 00:26:53,699
to crack this case someday

644
00:26:54,830 --> 00:26:58,660
was powered by losing
so many family members

645
00:26:58,660 --> 00:27:01,445
that were enraged
and wanted justice.

646
00:27:01,445 --> 00:27:05,624
So we had nothing
to lose by trying.

647
00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:07,451
[Narrator] In 2005,

648
00:27:07,451 --> 00:27:08,627
Barbara's loved ones

649
00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:11,760
make one last push for justice.

650
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,501
I asked mom, I said,

651
00:27:13,501 --> 00:27:14,720
"Do you want me to
try to open this,"

652
00:27:16,243 --> 00:27:19,638
and she said, "Yes, because
I need to know before I die."

653
00:27:19,638 --> 00:27:22,249
I was a fairly new
homicide detective,

654
00:27:22,249 --> 00:27:24,251
and my phone rang,

655
00:27:24,251 --> 00:27:27,515
and it was one of the
family members saying,

656
00:27:27,515 --> 00:27:30,649
"Hey, my sister was
killed back in 1974.

657
00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:31,954
"Our mom's getting up in years,

658
00:27:31,954 --> 00:27:34,261
"and she'd really like to know

659
00:27:34,261 --> 00:27:36,002
"who killed her daughter."

660
00:27:36,002 --> 00:27:38,613
The family would
expect us to just

661
00:27:38,613 --> 00:27:40,789
do what needs to be done
to solve their case,

662
00:27:40,789 --> 00:27:45,446
and you can't put a price
tag on this level of justice.

663
00:27:45,446 --> 00:27:48,492
[Narrator] Digging into
the 30-year-old case files,

664
00:27:48,492 --> 00:27:49,972
detectives' attention is drawn

665
00:27:49,972 --> 00:27:52,671
to one suspect in particular,

666
00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:56,022
the self-proclaimed
psychic, Richard Finder.

667
00:27:57,284 --> 00:28:01,331
I was not convinced
that law enforcement

668
00:28:01,331 --> 00:28:06,772
had closed the door all
the way on Richard Finder.

669
00:28:07,860 --> 00:28:09,688
I wanted to look
into Richard further,

670
00:28:10,819 --> 00:28:13,996
because the timeline to
me wasn't rock solid,

671
00:28:13,996 --> 00:28:15,694
and I wanted to try to look more

672
00:28:15,694 --> 00:28:17,913
into the forensic end of it.

673
00:28:17,913 --> 00:28:20,524
DNA and the ballistics stuff

674
00:28:20,524 --> 00:28:24,877
has come a long way since 1974.

675
00:28:24,877 --> 00:28:26,922
As I'm looking through
each piece of evidence,

676
00:28:26,922 --> 00:28:29,098
I'm trying to figure
out if that would have

677
00:28:29,098 --> 00:28:33,363
any forensic benefit
to having tested.

678
00:28:33,363 --> 00:28:35,757
[Narrator] While evidence
from the original crime scene

679
00:28:35,757 --> 00:28:37,498
is sent to the crime lab,

680
00:28:37,498 --> 00:28:41,632
investigators dig deeper into
Richard's version of events.

681
00:28:41,632 --> 00:28:44,766
As I started looking
at Richard's alibi,

682
00:28:45,941 --> 00:28:47,813
I spoke with some
of the same people

683
00:28:47,813 --> 00:28:50,554
that the investigators
had spoke with previously.

684
00:28:50,554 --> 00:28:51,860
As we re-investigated

685
00:28:51,860 --> 00:28:53,732
and re-interviewed these people,

686
00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:57,083
information that wasn't
known back then was revealed.

687
00:28:57,083 --> 00:29:01,957
What I learned was that
Richard had been dating

688
00:29:01,957 --> 00:29:04,873
and seeing a friend
of Barbara's, Janelle.

689
00:29:04,873 --> 00:29:08,790
But then Barbara also
found that Janelle

690
00:29:08,790 --> 00:29:12,751
was getting closer to Richard
Finder than Barbara was,

691
00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:14,013
and there was some animosity

692
00:29:14,013 --> 00:29:15,754
from what I understand
regarding that.

693
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:19,409
I learned that
sometime very close

694
00:29:19,409 --> 00:29:23,065
to the murder Richard had
left town with Janelle Bock,

695
00:29:23,065 --> 00:29:27,156
and Richard and Janelle became
boyfriend and girlfriend.

696
00:29:27,156 --> 00:29:29,768
That was kind of
a blow to Barbara.

697
00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:31,857
That really kind
of stuck out to me.

698
00:29:31,857 --> 00:29:35,774
Janelle came back to Salt Lake

699
00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:37,601
for three or four
days around the time

700
00:29:37,601 --> 00:29:40,604
of the homicide
with Richard Finder,

701
00:29:40,604 --> 00:29:42,737
and they were staying at a house

702
00:29:42,737 --> 00:29:45,609
just west of the
mouth of the canyon

703
00:29:45,609 --> 00:29:47,350
where Barbara was found.

704
00:29:47,350 --> 00:29:50,092
[Narrator] Had
Barbara confronted
Richard about Janelle,

705
00:29:50,092 --> 00:29:52,921
only for the encounter
to turn fatal?

706
00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:55,794
Because of this relationship

707
00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:57,752
between Janelle and Barbara,

708
00:29:57,752 --> 00:30:01,887
and because Richard Finder
supposedly had guns,

709
00:30:01,887 --> 00:30:04,150
and then because
of his witchcraft

710
00:30:04,150 --> 00:30:07,806
and the possibility
of human sacrifice,

711
00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:09,111
Richard Finder was up there

712
00:30:09,111 --> 00:30:11,070
on the list as a
potential suspect.

713
00:30:11,070 --> 00:30:13,550
[Narrator] Investigators
try to bring Richard in

714
00:30:13,550 --> 00:30:15,204
for another interview.

715
00:30:15,204 --> 00:30:17,641
Unfortunately, we
found that Richard Finder

716
00:30:17,641 --> 00:30:18,817
had passed away.

717
00:30:19,948 --> 00:30:21,863
But really the
only avenue I had

718
00:30:21,863 --> 00:30:24,474
was to go talk with Janelle.

719
00:30:24,474 --> 00:30:26,868
[Narrator] Was Janelle
the only living person

720
00:30:26,868 --> 00:30:29,479
who knew what really
happened to Barbara?

721
00:30:29,479 --> 00:30:33,092
I didn't see any
information in the case file

722
00:30:33,092 --> 00:30:34,876
where Janelle Bock
had really given

723
00:30:34,876 --> 00:30:38,445
a good interview about
Richard Finder, and

724
00:30:38,445 --> 00:30:41,709
so that was the place
that I wanted to start.

725
00:30:41,709 --> 00:30:43,058
Barbara was upset that

726
00:30:44,103 --> 00:30:45,974
Janelle had essentially
taken Richard Finder,

727
00:30:45,974 --> 00:30:47,106
so when they came back,

728
00:30:47,106 --> 00:30:48,890
there's this potential triangle

729
00:30:48,890 --> 00:30:50,936
and some jealousy.

730
00:30:50,936 --> 00:30:53,199
It placed some
suspicion on Janelle.

731
00:30:53,199 --> 00:30:55,070
Any time an
investigation reveals

732
00:30:55,070 --> 00:30:57,116
some sort of a love triangle,

733
00:30:57,116 --> 00:30:58,900
that can easily turn deadly

734
00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:00,467
when there's jealousy involved,

735
00:31:00,467 --> 00:31:03,035
and all of a sudden
the whole thing shifts

736
00:31:03,035 --> 00:31:05,733
from one guy to the person
that's least suspected.

737
00:31:05,733 --> 00:31:08,649
[dramatic music]

738
00:31:14,307 --> 00:31:15,961
[Narrator] Three decades
after Barbara Rockyic]

739
00:31:15,961 --> 00:31:18,920
was found murdered
in a Utah canyon,

740
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,791
cold case detectives
want to speak

741
00:31:20,791 --> 00:31:23,185
to Barbara's former
roommate Janelle,

742
00:31:23,185 --> 00:31:25,274
who had been dating
Richard Finder,

743
00:31:25,274 --> 00:31:28,799
the psychic Barbara had
fallen in love with.

744
00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:30,192
Janelle was looked at because

745
00:31:30,192 --> 00:31:33,804
of this triangle and
this dispute, and

746
00:31:33,804 --> 00:31:36,155
Richard Finder was aware

747
00:31:36,155 --> 00:31:38,897
that there was this jealousy.

748
00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:40,159
[Narrator]
Detectives want to know

749
00:31:40,159 --> 00:31:42,117
if either Richard or Janelle

750
00:31:42,117 --> 00:31:44,990
had the opportunity
to kill Barbara.

751
00:31:44,990 --> 00:31:47,818
They were back in Salt Lake

752
00:31:47,818 --> 00:31:50,125
for three or four
days on a ski trip

753
00:31:50,125 --> 00:31:52,040
during the time of
Barbara's demise,

754
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,302
but they never went skiing,

755
00:31:53,302 --> 00:31:55,957
and they were staying at a place

756
00:31:55,957 --> 00:31:58,220
that was close to
the crime scene

757
00:31:58,220 --> 00:31:59,961
where Barbara was found.

758
00:31:59,961 --> 00:32:01,484
Janelle was able to give me

759
00:32:01,484 --> 00:32:05,010
a timeline that she was
with Richard that day,

760
00:32:06,141 --> 00:32:07,969
and the hours that
she wasn't coincided

761
00:32:07,969 --> 00:32:11,146
with the times from the
initial investigation.

762
00:32:11,146 --> 00:32:12,669
It was confirmed with others

763
00:32:12,669 --> 00:32:14,845
that she was very sick
when she came up here.

764
00:32:14,845 --> 00:32:16,325
She didn't even leave the house,

765
00:32:16,325 --> 00:32:19,111
and she was being taken
care of by Richard Finder

766
00:32:19,111 --> 00:32:20,851
during the time of the homicide

767
00:32:20,851 --> 00:32:22,505
and was not in that area.

768
00:32:22,505 --> 00:32:25,987
Janelle Bock was able to
give me enough information

769
00:32:25,987 --> 00:32:28,294
to make me feel
that he definitely

770
00:32:28,294 --> 00:32:30,252
was not the killer of Barbara,

771
00:32:30,252 --> 00:32:33,081
and she was not a
suspect any longer.

772
00:32:34,256 --> 00:32:36,519
[Narrator] Undeterred,
detectives scour through

773
00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:38,652
the files from 1974

774
00:32:38,652 --> 00:32:41,481
looking for details the
original investigators

775
00:32:41,481 --> 00:32:43,222
may have missed.

776
00:32:43,222 --> 00:32:45,441
As I was going
through the case file,

777
00:32:47,008 --> 00:32:49,228
Gerry Hicker's name
kept popping up.

778
00:32:49,228 --> 00:32:52,057
So Gerry's early
role in the case was

779
00:32:52,057 --> 00:32:53,841
he was one of the last people

780
00:32:53,841 --> 00:32:56,191
to allegedly have
seen Barbara Jean

781
00:32:56,191 --> 00:32:58,019
at about 10 o'clock
in the morning.

782
00:32:58,019 --> 00:32:59,281
He reported her missing,

783
00:32:59,281 --> 00:33:01,022
so he really wasn't somebody

784
00:33:01,022 --> 00:33:02,371
that they were looking at

785
00:33:02,371 --> 00:33:05,026
as having a role in her death.

786
00:33:05,026 --> 00:33:06,375
They were really good friends.

787
00:33:06,375 --> 00:33:08,899
That came through in
the investigation,

788
00:33:08,899 --> 00:33:12,903
but I wasn't satisfied about him

789
00:33:12,903 --> 00:33:14,905
not being a suspect.

790
00:33:14,905 --> 00:33:16,168
[Narrator]
Detectives reach out

791
00:33:16,168 --> 00:33:18,039
to Barbara's former roommates,

792
00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:20,172
asking them about Gerry.

793
00:33:20,172 --> 00:33:21,825
Some of the
roommates told me that,

794
00:33:21,825 --> 00:33:24,219
"You know, Gerry just didn't
have a lot of friends,

795
00:33:24,219 --> 00:33:26,917
"and Barbara was
accepting of everybody.

796
00:33:26,917 --> 00:33:28,745
"Gerry just kind of
latched onto Barbara,

797
00:33:28,745 --> 00:33:32,227
"and I think Gerry had
more romantic feelings

798
00:33:32,227 --> 00:33:34,316
"for Barbara than
Barbara did for him."

799
00:33:34,316 --> 00:33:37,189
I think that the roommates
kind of looked at Gerry

800
00:33:37,189 --> 00:33:40,192
as basically kind of a stray pet

801
00:33:40,192 --> 00:33:42,194
that people were taking care of.

802
00:33:42,194 --> 00:33:43,978
He just didn't
seem like somebody

803
00:33:43,978 --> 00:33:45,414
who would kill somebody.

804
00:33:45,414 --> 00:33:47,199
[Narrator] When
investigators dig into

805
00:33:47,199 --> 00:33:50,071
Gerry's life after
Barbara's murder,

806
00:33:50,071 --> 00:33:52,943
they make a
disturbing discovery.

807
00:33:52,943 --> 00:33:54,336
Gerry had been accused of

808
00:33:54,336 --> 00:33:57,209
rape in the Provo area
after Barbara's murder.

809
00:33:58,732 --> 00:34:02,127
When I found that Gerry was
arrested for a sexual assault,

810
00:34:02,127 --> 00:34:03,432
I wanted to know could Gerry

811
00:34:03,432 --> 00:34:05,608
have been the one
that killed Barbara?

812
00:34:05,608 --> 00:34:07,088
Barbara's roommates

813
00:34:07,088 --> 00:34:10,004
had been away from
Gerry for a long time.

814
00:34:10,004 --> 00:34:13,181
In the interviews
I found out that

815
00:34:13,181 --> 00:34:16,315
Gerry really had an
obsession with guns,

816
00:34:16,315 --> 00:34:21,624
and that he helped Barbara
find the 357 that she bought.

817
00:34:22,495 --> 00:34:23,365
He took her out,

818
00:34:23,365 --> 00:34:25,106
showed her how to shoot the 357.

819
00:34:25,106 --> 00:34:26,412
Gerry would
always tell Barbara

820
00:34:26,412 --> 00:34:28,283
about how to load her firearm,

821
00:34:28,283 --> 00:34:32,026
leaving one of the cylinders
in the revolver empty,

822
00:34:32,026 --> 00:34:35,073
and then looking back
and seeing that Barbara

823
00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:36,422
was shot five times,

824
00:34:36,422 --> 00:34:39,120
is that relevant in this case?

825
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,862
We actually looked
at the ME's report,

826
00:34:41,862 --> 00:34:43,342
and we couldn't really determine

827
00:34:43,342 --> 00:34:45,648
if she had been shot
five or six times.

828
00:34:45,648 --> 00:34:47,824
There was the opinion
that it was six,

829
00:34:47,824 --> 00:34:49,130
but it could have also been

830
00:34:49,130 --> 00:34:50,653
through the re-entries
and fragments.

831
00:34:50,653 --> 00:34:52,133
Could have been five.

832
00:34:52,133 --> 00:34:53,830
As I'm going through
these interviews

833
00:34:53,830 --> 00:34:56,746
and I'm listening to what
the roommates are telling me,

834
00:34:56,746 --> 00:35:00,489
he was a rock solid
suspect at this point.

835
00:35:00,489 --> 00:35:04,711
[Narrator] Detectives race
to track down Gerry Hicker.

836
00:35:04,711 --> 00:35:08,845
I went to Gerry Hicker's
house in Washington.

837
00:35:08,845 --> 00:35:10,195
Explained to him that I was

838
00:35:10,195 --> 00:35:11,718
looking at the
Barbara Rocky case,

839
00:35:11,718 --> 00:35:14,068
and Gerry immediately said,

840
00:35:14,068 --> 00:35:15,765
"You'll have to talk
with my attorney,"

841
00:35:15,765 --> 00:35:19,073
and that he wasn't going
to give me a statement.

842
00:35:19,073 --> 00:35:20,379
So at that point,

843
00:35:20,379 --> 00:35:21,728
I had nothing else
to do but leave.

844
00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:25,297
[Narrator] With Gerry
refusing to cooperate,

845
00:35:25,297 --> 00:35:28,038
investigators must
find concrete evidence

846
00:35:28,038 --> 00:35:30,302
to link him to Barbara's murder.

847
00:35:30,302 --> 00:35:35,002
We wanted to see if
with today's technology

848
00:35:35,002 --> 00:35:36,308
that if there was
a sexual assault,

849
00:35:36,308 --> 00:35:37,396
that there might be something

850
00:35:37,396 --> 00:35:39,528
suitable for DNA testing.

851
00:35:39,528 --> 00:35:42,531
I was pretty excited
to find that a vaginal

852
00:35:42,531 --> 00:35:44,533
and rectal swab had
been taken on Barbara

853
00:35:44,533 --> 00:35:48,320
because by now we were
utilizing DNA testing,

854
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,452
and I thought that I
was going to be able to

855
00:35:50,452 --> 00:35:53,368
match those up with
DNA that we got

856
00:35:53,368 --> 00:35:56,415
from whatever suspects
were in the case file.

857
00:35:56,415 --> 00:35:59,287
[Narrator] Investigators
hope that the swab test results

858
00:35:59,287 --> 00:36:01,463
will point towards Gerry.

859
00:36:01,463 --> 00:36:04,074
They didn't know
about DNA in 1974,

860
00:36:04,074 --> 00:36:06,207
and they packaged
everything in plastic.

861
00:36:06,207 --> 00:36:08,340
Because it was
packaged in plastic,

862
00:36:08,340 --> 00:36:10,907
it ruined any DNA that was in

863
00:36:10,907 --> 00:36:14,520
any of the biological
material that was taken.

864
00:36:16,086 --> 00:36:17,349
I was devastated.

865
00:36:17,349 --> 00:36:19,089
I thought I was going to be able

866
00:36:19,089 --> 00:36:21,483
to solve that case
really quickly,

867
00:36:21,483 --> 00:36:23,485
but that's not what happened.

868
00:36:23,485 --> 00:36:25,095
[Narrator] Fearing
that the case

869
00:36:25,095 --> 00:36:27,359
will go cold again
without solid evidence,

870
00:36:27,359 --> 00:36:29,535
investigators gamble
on another way

871
00:36:29,535 --> 00:36:32,102
to obtain the evidence
they're looking for.

872
00:36:32,102 --> 00:36:33,365
[dramatic music]

873
00:36:33,365 --> 00:36:35,932
I took items that
had not been tested yet

874
00:36:35,932 --> 00:36:39,109
from the original
evidence to our crime lab

875
00:36:39,109 --> 00:36:40,589
to have them tested.

876
00:36:40,589 --> 00:36:42,504
[Narrator] The original
crime scene evidence

877
00:36:42,504 --> 00:36:45,899
includes a soil sample from
beneath Barbara's body.

878
00:36:45,899 --> 00:36:49,598
I was just more or
less taking the dirt out

879
00:36:49,598 --> 00:36:52,384
to have a sample taken in case

880
00:36:52,384 --> 00:36:55,517
some seminal fluid had
migrated down into the dirt.

881
00:36:55,517 --> 00:36:57,780
There was still the belief,

882
00:36:57,780 --> 00:37:00,130
based on the scene
and everything,

883
00:37:00,130 --> 00:37:01,131
that there was a possibility

884
00:37:01,131 --> 00:37:02,437
of a sexual assault.

885
00:37:02,437 --> 00:37:04,265
When I got the
results of the test,

886
00:37:04,265 --> 00:37:08,617
surprisingly we got a
match that there was DNA

887
00:37:08,617 --> 00:37:12,055
from the soil that was
underneath Barbara's body.

888
00:37:12,055 --> 00:37:13,143
[dramatic music]

889
00:37:13,143 --> 00:37:14,841
[Narrator] After 30 years,

890
00:37:14,841 --> 00:37:18,540
had DNA analysis finally
identified Barbara's killer?

891
00:37:18,540 --> 00:37:22,762
What came back as a result
of that testing was shocking.

892
00:37:22,762 --> 00:37:25,591
[dramatic music]

893
00:37:31,510 --> 00:37:33,338
[tense music]arrator] It's been

894
00:37:33,338 --> 00:37:35,253
since student Barbara Rocky

895
00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:37,255
was found stripped and shot

896
00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:39,735
in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.

897
00:37:39,735 --> 00:37:45,175
In 2007, DNA in a soil
sample from under her body

898
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:47,352
finally reveals her killer.

899
00:37:47,352 --> 00:37:51,573
Finding that DNA in the soil

900
00:37:51,573 --> 00:37:53,923
was like finding a
needle in a haystack,

901
00:37:53,923 --> 00:37:55,534
a big haystack.

902
00:37:55,534 --> 00:37:58,450
The results come in
and we've got a match,

903
00:37:59,407 --> 00:38:00,408
and it's Gerry Hicker.

904
00:38:00,408 --> 00:38:02,758
[dramatic music]

905
00:38:02,758 --> 00:38:04,673
Just that little
bit of information

906
00:38:04,673 --> 00:38:06,588
was all that we needed
to link Gerry Hicker

907
00:38:06,588 --> 00:38:08,286
to this crime scene.

908
00:38:08,286 --> 00:38:10,766
He was not who we
suspected initially,

909
00:38:10,766 --> 00:38:13,334
and so to learn that he was

910
00:38:13,334 --> 00:38:15,902
the one responsible
for killing her

911
00:38:15,902 --> 00:38:17,425
was very surprising.

912
00:38:17,425 --> 00:38:20,254
[Narrator] On
November 6, 2007,

913
00:38:20,254 --> 00:38:22,691
56-year-old Gerry
Hicker is charged

914
00:38:22,691 --> 00:38:26,304
with the first-degree
murder of Barbara Rocky.

915
00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:27,609
When I first found out that

916
00:38:27,609 --> 00:38:30,830
the killer of Barbara
was Gerry Hicker,

917
00:38:30,830 --> 00:38:31,961
I was

918
00:38:31,961 --> 00:38:33,311
surprised

919
00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:34,616
because I heard that

920
00:38:34,616 --> 00:38:36,879
he was just sort of
a guy from next door.

921
00:38:36,879 --> 00:38:38,577
It was a shock.

922
00:38:38,577 --> 00:38:41,101
I never thought it
would be solved.

923
00:38:41,101 --> 00:38:44,191
[Narrator] As prosecutors
prepare for their day in court,

924
00:38:44,191 --> 00:38:48,282
they piece together a theory
of how Gerry killed Barbara.

925
00:38:48,282 --> 00:38:51,764
So our belief of
what happened was,

926
00:38:51,764 --> 00:38:55,289
Gerry Hicker knew that
Barbara may be leaving,

927
00:38:55,289 --> 00:38:58,640
because that next morning
he was aware of the letter

928
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,339
before he brought the car back.

929
00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:03,428
I think what tipped
him over the edge was

930
00:39:03,428 --> 00:39:05,038
he wanted Barbara

931
00:39:06,605 --> 00:39:10,391
sexually, and her rejection
and her indication

932
00:39:10,391 --> 00:39:13,394
of leaving Gerry was
more than he could take.

933
00:39:13,394 --> 00:39:15,614
Hicker winds up talking Rocky

934
00:39:15,614 --> 00:39:17,746
into going up Big
Cottonwood Canyon

935
00:39:17,746 --> 00:39:21,750
with this scenic view one
more time before she leaves.

936
00:39:21,750 --> 00:39:24,753
And when they
get to this spot,

937
00:39:24,753 --> 00:39:27,843
Gerry's trying to put
the moves on Barbara,

938
00:39:27,843 --> 00:39:29,758
and she doesn't want to have

939
00:39:29,758 --> 00:39:31,673
anything to do with
Gerry that way.

940
00:39:31,673 --> 00:39:33,414
Hicker takes out a gun,

941
00:39:33,414 --> 00:39:37,723
and in rage he tells
her to strip down,

942
00:39:37,723 --> 00:39:40,639
and she was probably
folding the clothes

943
00:39:40,639 --> 00:39:43,381
in order to buy herself
a little more time.

944
00:39:43,381 --> 00:39:45,513
Barbara's pleading
for her life.

945
00:39:45,513 --> 00:39:47,515
She's just trying
to get anything

946
00:39:47,515 --> 00:39:49,952
into Gerry's mind
to not do this.

947
00:39:51,432 --> 00:39:52,651
And then he shot her,
[gunfire blasting]

948
00:39:52,651 --> 00:39:54,522
apparently while
she was standing up,

949
00:39:54,522 --> 00:39:56,002
and then she went down,

950
00:39:56,002 --> 00:39:57,569
and then he shot her

951
00:39:58,700 --> 00:40:00,920
four times in the
lower back region.

952
00:40:01,703 --> 00:40:02,835
[Narrator] After the murder,

953
00:40:02,835 --> 00:40:05,533
Gerry tried to cover his tracks.

954
00:40:05,533 --> 00:40:08,318
Gerry has to drive
back to campus.

955
00:40:08,318 --> 00:40:09,842
He gets rid of the gun,

956
00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:14,412
and he's trying to
come up with alibis.

957
00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:16,544
He knows he can't park the car

958
00:40:16,544 --> 00:40:18,285
right there at Barbara's house,

959
00:40:18,285 --> 00:40:22,420
so he takes it over to the
Parkway Plaza Apartments.

960
00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:24,422
That's where he decides

961
00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:26,424
he's going to use this letter

962
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:27,729
making her a missing person.

963
00:40:27,729 --> 00:40:30,819
This was a young woman
who trusted somebody.

964
00:40:30,819 --> 00:40:33,561
They're supposed to be
going to a nice spot,

965
00:40:33,561 --> 00:40:36,303
and instead she's
shot and murdered.

966
00:40:36,303 --> 00:40:38,697
I felt so horrible
knowing that

967
00:40:38,697 --> 00:40:41,482
she had gone through
something like that.

968
00:40:41,482 --> 00:40:44,442
She was probably so scared.

969
00:40:44,442 --> 00:40:46,748
Nobody deserved
to die like that.

970
00:40:46,748 --> 00:40:48,533
Nobody.
[gentle music]

971
00:40:48,533 --> 00:40:50,796
I believe that Gerry was

972
00:40:50,796 --> 00:40:54,452
being the concerned,
loving friend,

973
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:58,499
and that may have
put some thoughts

974
00:40:58,499 --> 00:40:59,892
in the investigators
mind that there's just

975
00:40:59,892 --> 00:41:02,808
no way Gerry could
have done this.

976
00:41:02,808 --> 00:41:05,767
Beneath the facade
just seemed to be rage

977
00:41:05,767 --> 00:41:08,770
and anger that
he'd been rejected.

978
00:41:08,770 --> 00:41:11,556
I think Gerry Hicker
was a sexual predator

979
00:41:11,556 --> 00:41:14,733
that got away with
a lot of crimes.

980
00:41:14,733 --> 00:41:18,127
We were so glad
and so grateful

981
00:41:18,127 --> 00:41:19,651
[gentle music]

982
00:41:19,651 --> 00:41:22,436
that the detectives
had worked so hard.

983
00:41:22,436 --> 00:41:26,832
It boggled my mind that they
could solve it after 34 years.

984
00:41:28,355 --> 00:41:30,139
[Narrator] Despite an
airtight case against Gerry,

985
00:41:30,139 --> 00:41:34,492
his declining health leaves
prosecutors with a new dilemma.

986
00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:36,885
When I went to arrest Gerry,

987
00:41:36,885 --> 00:41:39,497
he had been diagnosed
with cancer.

988
00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:41,803
He was just the shell of a man.

989
00:41:41,803 --> 00:41:44,763
We didn't feel
that his life span

990
00:41:44,763 --> 00:41:48,070
was much of five years, if that.

991
00:41:49,550 --> 00:41:51,421
So we worked out a
deal that he would plead

992
00:41:51,421 --> 00:41:54,773
to a substantially reduced
charge of manslaughter,

993
00:41:54,773 --> 00:41:55,861
and that he would be sentenced

994
00:41:55,861 --> 00:41:58,037
to the prison for five years,

995
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:00,996
figuring that would
be a life sentence.

996
00:42:00,996 --> 00:42:05,131
Going with the plea deal
was my mom's decision.

997
00:42:05,131 --> 00:42:07,655
She wanted him to say

998
00:42:07,655 --> 00:42:10,963
in his own words that he did it.

999
00:42:10,963 --> 00:42:13,487
She wanted those answers.

1000
00:42:14,923 --> 00:42:16,490
[Narrator] Gerry
Hicker serves three years

1001
00:42:16,490 --> 00:42:18,144
in Utah state prison,

1002
00:42:18,144 --> 00:42:19,841
and in 2014,

1003
00:42:19,841 --> 00:42:22,540
five years after
pleading guilty,

1004
00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:23,932
he dies of cancer.

1005
00:42:25,717 --> 00:42:28,197
I bet you he had been
looking over his shoulders

1006
00:42:28,197 --> 00:42:29,895
all these years.

1007
00:42:29,895 --> 00:42:32,724
I felt that his ill health
was Barbara's justice.

1008
00:42:32,724 --> 00:42:36,945
This is somebody that
wasted away not only his life,

1009
00:42:36,945 --> 00:42:40,819
he ruined so many people's
lives by his selfish act.

1010
00:42:40,819 --> 00:42:42,560
Barbara didn't deserve this.

1011
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,562
She had so much ahead of her,

1012
00:42:44,562 --> 00:42:47,042
but the family does
have some answers.

1013
00:42:47,042 --> 00:42:49,697
That's the goal in
my investigation.

1014
00:42:49,697 --> 00:42:52,700
I think that in this
case justice was served,

1015
00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:55,268
and that the family got answers

1016
00:42:55,268 --> 00:42:57,531
that they would not
have otherwise had.

1017
00:42:57,531 --> 00:42:59,402
The thing I miss
most about Barbara

1018
00:42:59,402 --> 00:43:03,755
was the times that we used
to blast Beatles music

1019
00:43:03,755 --> 00:43:06,671
and sing and dance for hours.

1020
00:43:06,671 --> 00:43:08,455
Just being kids, you know?

1021
00:43:09,674 --> 00:43:11,501
I remember her then.

1022
00:43:11,501 --> 00:43:13,242
Barbara was such
a giving person.

1023
00:43:13,242 --> 00:43:15,288
I feel inspired by her

1024
00:43:16,898 --> 00:43:19,553
ability to give of herself

1025
00:43:22,948 --> 00:43:25,298
and I try to emulate that.

1026
00:43:28,257 --> 00:43:30,912
[somber music]