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Narrator: Up next,
this part of south Texas
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was known for being safe.
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We didn't lock our doors
back then.
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Narrator: That changed after
local women came under attack.
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She would not let me go.
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She kept telling me,
"Protect me from the bad man."
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Narrator: Are these attacks
random, or are they related?
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The only word that would
come to mind is "evil."
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Just pure evil.
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Narrator: If you go to
Huntsville, Texas,
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and mention
Halloween night 1987,
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some local residents
still shudder,
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and for reasons
that have nothing to do
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with ghosts and goblins.
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That day, I went from having
so much fun with my family
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on that Halloween night,
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and it exploded in my face
like a bomb.
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There's very few days that go by
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that I don't think about
this case.
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Narrator:
Around 10:00 that evening,
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36-year-old Mary Risinger
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was washing her car
at the local car wash.
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With her was her daughter,
Kristen,
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who was just about to turn 4.
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Mary had stopped
to clean their car
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because Kris was going to be
baptized the next morning
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and she wanted
to get her car clean.
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Narrator:
As Mary was rinsing off her car,
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Kristen was playing
in the water.
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A man drove up
and got out of his truck.
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It didn't seem like he was there
to get it cleaned.
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Dowgar: I believe she knew
something was up
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when this perpetrator pulled up.
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Narrator:
The man pulled out a knife,
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grabbed Mary from behind,
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and tried to drag her
toward his truck.
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He didn't appear
to see the child.
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He had something in mind
for Mary Risinger,
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and nothing was going to
prevent him from doing that.
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Narrator: He tried to force Mary
into his truck,
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but she wasn't going anywhere,
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especially with a toddler
to protect.
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Burro:
That woman fought like a demon,
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and I'm convinced
that it was less to do
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with saving her own life
than her daughter's.
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Narrator:
Mary, unarmed and outmatched,
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didn't stand a chance.
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Her throat was slashed,
and she was dead within minutes.
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A lot of lives changed forever
that night.
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Dusty Dowgar, an officer
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with the Walker County
sheriff's department,
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was trick-or-treating
with his family
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very near the car wash
when he heard what happened.
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He rushed to the scene.
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Dowgar:
Looked like a horror film.
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Soon as I pulled
into the car wash,
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I seen a female body.
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And she was covered in blood.
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Narrator: Officer Dowgar
checked the car and saw Kristen.
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The terrified little girl had
locked herself inside the car.
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Told her I was a police officer,
come out,
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and I would protect her.
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She unlocked the door.
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I'll never forget this --
she jumped into my arms.
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That was the hardest bear hug
I ever had.
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She was scared to death,
and she would not let me go.
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Narrator: This photograph
was taken later that night.
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Dowgar: She kept telling me,
"Protect me from the bad man.
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He's killed my mom."
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That's all she could say.
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And I held that little girl...
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until we got some help.
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She wouldn't let me go.
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Narrator: The young girl
was wearing a ballerina costume.
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At first, Officer Dowgar
thought it was red.
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As he lifts her up, he realizes
that it's not a red costume.
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This little girl is covered
in her mother's blood.
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It's been 40 years,
but I can look back at that
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and it's just like it happened.
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I can see the little girl
in a ballerina costume...
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covered in blood
from head to toe.
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And all she was wanting
was somebody to protect her.
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Narrator:
Within minutes, Kristen's family
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met her at the sheriff's office.
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Berger:
I took her to the bathroom,
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and I took her in there
and washed her off.
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And as I was
getting her dressed,
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she looked at me
and she said...
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Sorry.
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She said, "My mama's dead.
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For real.
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"My mama's dead."
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I'm sorry.
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Narrator:
Did Mary know her killer?
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Was this a random attack?
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No one knew.
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Even worse,
there was no murder weapon,
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no fingerprints, or any other
physical evidence at the scene,
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and the only eyewitness was
a severely traumatized child.
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Narrator:
Texas detectives amassed
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all the resources
at their disposal
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to find Mary Risinger's killer.
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The problem was that
back in 1987,
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there weren't all
that many resources at hand.
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The technology to extract DNA
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and collect DNA
from crime scenes
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and from bodies was very
rudimentary back then.
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Merillat: There were
no surveillance cameras
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that we could utilize.
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That was a very rare thing,
to have surveillance cameras,
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especially in Huntsville.
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I don't know of any business
that had them at that time.
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Narrator:
With the dearth of resources
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and the absence
of physical evidence,
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Mary's case went cold.
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Bush: I had, I think,
three deputies working for me,
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three detectives.
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We still had burglaries
going on.
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We still had cars being stolen.
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Still had drugs being sold.
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Some things stick with you
more than others.
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I've seen a lot of dead people.
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I've seen them killed
with firewood, hatchets,
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shot, stabbed, run over.
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Some things stick with you
that others don't.
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I think it was the little girl
being involved.
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I wish I could've done more
for her.
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Narrator: Nearly a year
after Mary's murder,
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Wendy Gauntt, a student
at nearby Texas A&M University,
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was leaving campus at lunchtime
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when she was confronted
by a man with a knife
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as she got into her car.
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Burrough:
The man was on her in seconds,
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and immediately,
as if he'd rehearsed it,
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got her arms behind her,
wrapped up her wrists,
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and connected it somehow
to the safety belt
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so that she couldn't move.
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The windows were closed,
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so even to the extent
that she was making noise,
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the parking lot
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Nobody heard it.
I mean, not a soul.
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The man drove Wendy
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to a wooded area
at the edge of town.
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He took her out to a park
in the College Station area
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and raped her,
tied her to a tree,
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and cut her throat.
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She's not dead,
but she knows she's dying.
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Narrator: Despite a gaping
neck wound so deep,
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she couldn't scream
or even talk,
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Wendy was determined to survive.
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She survived the attack
by playing dead.
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She lies there naked
on the ground,
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with blood gushing out
of her throat,
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listening, listening, listening
for the footsteps
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that would tell her that the man
who's attacked her is leaving.
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Narrator: Finally,
Wendy's attacker left the area,
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apparently assuming
she was dead.
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The one thing she knew for sure
is if she was going to die,
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she didn't want to die
in the woods.
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She wanted to die in a place
that they would find her body.
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Hidalgo: She untied herself
and walked out to the roadway
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and was spotted
by a construction worker,
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who got on his radio,
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called for police
and an ambulance.
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Merillat:
I wonder if I would have
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that same courage that she had.
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And she endured great pain,
great suffering,
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and not knowing if she'd ever
see her parents again
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or if anybody
would find her body.
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Narrator: Alert detectives
studying this crime
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thought it looked familiar.
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It bore some similarities
to Mary Risinger's murder
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just one year earlier,
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as well as the rape and murders
of Alice Martin and Debra Ewing,
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two local women whose cases
also remained unsolved.
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We were getting to wonder
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if we had one person
that was in this area
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who's basically a predator
on young ladies.
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Narrator: Perhaps the answer
lay with Wendy,
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who was determined to find
the man who tried to kill her.
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At the hospital,
she had two urgent requests.
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Burrough: When she comes to
complete consciousness
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there in the hospital,
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she motions
for something to write with
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because she can't talk --
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her throat has been
deeply cut --
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and she immediately
writes out two things.
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One is, "Somebody go feed
my horse."
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And the second is,
"Get me a sketch artist."
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Narrator: Karen Taylor,
a noted forensic artist,
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was called in
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and faced a challenge
like none she'd ever seen.
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How do you create a sketch with
a victim who can't even speak?
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My immediate supervisor,
he thought there was no way.
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We shouldn't even attempt this.
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Narrator:
After her miraculous escape
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from a rapist
who left her for dead,
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Wendy Gauntt found herself
unable to speak
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because of a nearly fatal
knife wound to her neck.
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Wendy was one of the most
self-possessed people
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you can imagine
in such a situation.
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She knew exactly
what had happened to her.
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She knew exactly
what she needed to do.
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Narrator:
And that was to identify
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the man who tried to kill her.
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Forensic artist Karen Taylor
was brought in to see
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if she could come up
with a composite sketch
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of Wendy's attacker --
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a difficult task
under any circumstances,
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but particularly difficult
in this one.
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Taylor:
She could nod yes or no,
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and I would ask always
open-ended questions
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to avoid leading her in any way.
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I would ask things like,
"Was he a certain type?
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Did he strike you
as sort of a jock,
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or was he a cowboy
kind of a guy,
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or more of a rocker
kind of a guy?
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Was there a certain type?"
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Narrator: To jog Wendy's memory,
Karen Taylor showed her
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an FBI manual of facial types.
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Taylor: I began to introduce
the reference feature pictures
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so she could further refine
each feature for me --
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the eyes, the nose,
the mouth, the hairstyle,
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and the glasses shape
she described.
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Once she was into it,
she was into it, and she kept --
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and this sometimes happens.
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The memory is refreshed,
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and the detail
just keeps coming.
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And that happened with her.
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It's amazing how well
we were able to communicate,
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even though she couldn't speak.
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NARRATOR:
Despite the pain Wendy was in
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and the trauma from what
she'd just gone through,
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she and Karen
worked together for hours.
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I just remember her nodding and
nodding and being so pleased.
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I let her decide
when we were done,
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when it was as accurate
as we could get it.
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And she was happy, I was happy.
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That's how we finished it.
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Narrator:
This was the final sketch.
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Just one hour after it
was released to the media,
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a prison guard called police.
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He said he was sure
it was an inmate
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once housed
at one of the local prisons.
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The inmate's name?
Daniel Lee Corwin.
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Merillat:
I've seen a lot of composites
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in 40 years of police work,
and never seen one that good.
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That looks just like him.
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Narrator: In the mid-1970s,
when Corwin was in high school,
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he was found guilty
of assaulting
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and attempting to murder
a fellow student.
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Her name was Brenda Evans,
and like Wendy Gauntt,
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she also survived
by playing dead.
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When she's in the ambulance,
she can barely speak
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'cause her throat's been cut,
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and she said,
"Daniel Corwin did this."
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Narrator: The attack on Brenda
was virtually identical
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to the attack on Wendy,
on Mary Risinger,
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and the other two cases in which
the victims did not survive.
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In all those cases,
the killer used a knife,
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which was not left
at any of the crime scenes.
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Police in Huntsville, Texas,
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were confronting something
they'd never seen before.
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When this case dropped,
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serial killer wasn't something
that came to my mind.
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Burrough: The idea
that there was a serial killer
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in some small Texas town,
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as one of the police
said to me, you know,
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"You might as well tell me
there was some nuclear terrorist
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on the south side of our town
making a nuclear bomb
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before I'd be thinking
that there was a serial killer."
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Narrator: Corwin served just
9 years of a 40-year sentence
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for the attempted murder
of his high-school classmate.
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And you say, "Well, what gives?
This is Texas.
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Isn't Texas supposed to be
super tough on offenders?"
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Well, yes and no.
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Back in the '80s,
the problem that Texas had was
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it was growing
incredibly rapidly,
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and with the growth in people
came a growth in prisoners.
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As a result, not only were Texas
prisons incredibly crowded,
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but there was immense pressure
to get them -- as they said --
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"Get them out the back door,"
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get them out
as fast as possible.
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Narrator:
After his release,
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Corwin went to work
for a local cabinet maker.
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Corwin's employer, Ben Pruitt,
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had taught a carpentry class
at the prison.
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He knew of Corwin's past
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and wanted to give him
a second chance.
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But when local women
started getting attacked,
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Mr. Pruitt suspected
Corwin might be responsible.
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After
the highly publicized attack
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on Wendy Gauntt,
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Mr. Pruitt remembered
something strange
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from right after the murder
of Mary Risinger.
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Ben Pruitt recalls Daniel Corwin
coming to work
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the day after Halloween 1987
with cuts on his hands.
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Narrator: Could
Daniel Lee Corwin be the man
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who was attacking local women?
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It looked that way,
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but in the absence
of any physical evidence --
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and there was none --
there was no way to be sure.
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Police procedurals
look so simple on TV,
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and they're just not.
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You know, even when youknow
it's somebody,
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it's not aboutknowing.
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You got toprove
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Narrator:
Texas investigators
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were familiar
with Daniel Lee Corwin.
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When Debra Ewing was raped
and murdered back in 1987,
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Corwin was brought in
for questioning.
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Just hours before
Debra's murder,
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Corwin had been
installing cabinets
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at the vision center
where Debra worked,
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and as an ex-con who served time
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for a sexually motivated
attempted murder,
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he was a potential suspect.
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Burrough: What really struck
the people who interviewed Danny
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that Monday morning
in Huntsville
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was there was no sense
of what they thought
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a killer would look like
or act like.
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There was no sense of anxiety.
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There was no sense of,
"Oh, they got me."
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He was just flat.
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He was just without emotion.
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Narrator: At the time
of the Debra Ewing case,
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Corwin appeared to have
a solid alibi.
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Now investigators
were becoming convinced
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he was not only Debra's killer
but a serial killer.
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Could one of
the still-living victims,
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Wendy Gauntt, identify him?
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Detectives put Corwin's picture
in a photo lineup
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to see if she could.
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It didn't work.
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If I recollect correctly,
it wasn't a matter of
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she couldn't identify him
for sure.
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I think it was one of those,
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"Maybe, kind of looks like him,
but I'm not sure."
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Narrator:
Investigators were worried.
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They were convinced
Corwin was their killer,
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but they didn't have
a shred of evidence.
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Burrough:
They wanted to arrest him,
but the D.A. basically said,
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"It would be nice if you had
some physical evidence."
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Narrator: Wendy's vehicle
had been impounded,
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and forensic technicians
combed every inch of it.
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Burrough: A tech came back with
a single fingerprint
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that was not Wendy's.
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And so they sent it up
to Temple,
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where Danny had
the adolescent record.
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Today, that takes, what,
eight minutes.
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Back then, they mailed
the print in a letter.
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It took two days.
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When it finally came back,
it matched.
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Narrator: Daniel Lee Corwin
was immediately arrested
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for the attempted murder
of Wendy Gauntt.
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Investigators were eager to know
what drove Corwin to kill.
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To their disappointment,
he really didn't know himself,
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or at least
couldn't explain it.
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Okay.
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Faced with the evidence
against him
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in the Wendy Gauntt case,
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Corwin pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to 99 years.
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But the open murder cases
for which
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Corwin might be responsible
still begged for resolution.
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Hidalgo:
When you're a homicide detective
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or you investigate homicide,
you speak for the dead.
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There's no one else that's left.
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Narrator: At times,
Corwin seemed remorseful.
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Investigators hoped
he might confess
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and sent veteran detective A. P.
Merillat to interview him.
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Merillat thought
a trip to the crime scenes
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might provoke something
in Daniel Corwin.
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Merillat:
I brought him to the car wash.
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I pulled into the bay
that he described
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as being the one he drove into.
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And it was really odd to me
that he appeared to go into,
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like, a trancelike state, or --
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at first,
I thought he was faking,
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but he continued to do this
every time we met.
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So I think it was real.
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But he started reliving
the events of that night
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when Mary Risinger was killed.
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Narrator:
Even Corwin admitted
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he got into a trancelike state
during these attacks,
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and this might explain
one other commonality
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with all his crimes.
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All of them were spontaneous,
spur-of-the-moment attacks
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in public places with plenty
of potential witnesses.
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They're obviously high-risk
crimes from the standpoint
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that it was high risk
to the offender.
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The suspect is putting himself
at high risk of being caught
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for committing
that kind of a crime.
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Narrator:
Eventually, Corwin confessed
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to a total of three murders,
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including the murder
of Mary Risinger.
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Merillat: I made it very clear
to him throughout the process
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that what I was doing
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was going to end up in
a capital murder trial one day,
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did he realize that,
and he said yes.
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And I said,
"Do you understand that I'll be
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on a witness stand one day
trying to take your life?"
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And he said, "Yeah, I just wish
they would hurry up with it."
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Narrator:
Corwin came remarkably close
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to getting away
with multiple murders.
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With DNA technology
in its infancy,
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the only physical evidence
against him
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was the single fingerprint
he left on Wendy Gauntt's car.
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Without it,
he might have walked away
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and claimed even more victims.
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Merillat: I'm fully convinced
had he not been prosecuted,
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he'd have done this again.
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I don't think
he would have stopped.
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Narrator:
In December of 1998,
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Daniel Lee Corwin was executed
by lethal injection.
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He was 40 years old.
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I didn't want
something like Daniel Corwin
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to hurt either of my kids
or any other kids like that.
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Narrator: Investigators
are convinced that the sketch
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created by Wendy Gauntt
and Karen Taylor,
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the one that finally alerted
detectives to Daniel Corwin,
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saved an untold number of lives.
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Hidalgo: Daniel Corwin
picked the wrong woman
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to attack that day.
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He still
would have kept killing.
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There's no doubt in my mind that
that would have --
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there would've been
more people out there dead.
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Taylor:
Wendy put a face on him.
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There was a lot of
investigative work done
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on all these cases,
but make no mistake,
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it was Wendy who brought down
Daniel Lee Corwin.
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She connected the dots.
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It was her strength
that put it all together.
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Burrough:
Not a lot of people like that.
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She actually said to me,
"I've had a great life,
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and the way I look on this is,
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I've had a great life
for 38 years and one bad day."
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