[suspenseful music]
This is a case of a killer who is smart, methodical,
able to cover his tracks, and for his victims,
he doesn't just kill then.
He erases them.
♪
You don't even have a single body.
How do you catch a killer that's invisible
and that picks victims that no one will miss?
You know he's out there.
You know he'll kill again.
How do you stop him?
[dramatic music]
♪
Woonsocket is 8.6 square miles,
and everybody is pretty much close-knit.
What I love about Woonsocket is the people.
There are some great people.
There are some great neighborhoods,
but there are also some bad elements.
It's a tough little city.
♪
On March 2nd, 2003, early-morning hours,
the Woonsocket Police Department
was notified by a motorist
that there was a woman completely naked
lying in the middle of the road by the Mill District.
She was severely beaten.
She was transported to the hospital.
[siren wailing]
We responded and met with the victim,
and we were able to speak with her.
Her name was Jane Smith.
She told us that she was walking down
one of the streets in Woonsocket.
She was in the area of High and Arnold Street
when she was approached
by a male driving a small-style SUV.
He asked if she wanted to party.
She was a working girl. She didn't hide it.
She got in the vehicle.
She was brought to the rear of an old working mill
in the woods.
Then the abuse and the terror began.
♪
He punched her.
He stabbed her
in the face numerous times with a screwdriver,
stabbed her neck, her torso.
She truly felt that she was gonna die.
♪
She described her assailant as a man in his 30s
with blond hair, glasses, tattoos on his arms.
♪
We hit the streets.
We started from High and Arnold,
where she was picked up,
looked for witnesses, kind of traced her steps
all the way down to the street where she was found.
We were able to find the exact location
where the assault took place.
We were hoping to find a screwdriver,
any type of physical evidence.
♪
Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate anything.
He took all of her clothes. He took the screwdriver.
So the only thing that was there was her blood.
The fact that we didn't find
any physical evidence at the scene,
we started to think
he was taking steps to cover his actions,
meaning that he seemed calculated.
This isn't his first night on the street
and it's probably not gonna be his last.
♪
On April 4th, a woman came to the police station
to file a missing-person complaint
on behalf of her daughter, Audrey Harris.
♪
She was 33 years of age.
And the mother basically tells me
that Audrey would always come and go,
but she had close ties with her mother.
At least once or twice a week,
she went and made sure mom was okay.
Audrey's mother was extremely concerned
because it was three months that had elapsed
where she didn't see her.
Audrey was well-known as a prostitute.
She worked around the High and Arnold area.
So I spoke to practically every prostitute
in the High and Arnold area.
Some of these women showed a great deal of concern
about Audrey not being around.
They were nervous. They were scared.
But they had no information whatsoever to supply.
I wasn't getting any leads as to where she could be
or who she was last with.
She kind of just vanished.
When we learned of Audrey being reported missing,
my concern was that
we were in the middle of the Jane investigation.
Janie was violently beaten, stabbed with a screwdriver.
She had been picked up in the High and Arnold area--
same area Audrey would frequent.
It's all within a couple months.
So you'd think, "Are these connected?
"Is Audrey really missing?
What are the chances that she could have been
a victim as well?
So we started
to not really put these investigations together,
but sort of run parallel
to see if there is a common denominator here.
♪
A week after Audrey Harris was reported missing,
we were notified that another woman
was violently attacked...
again, from the High and Arnold Street area.
[siren wailing]
She was transported to the hospital.
We were informed that the victim was Christine Dumont.
♪
Early that morning, we went to the hospital.
Christine is visibly shaken. She was crying.
She was emotional.
Christine Dumont was a very slight woman.
When I met her the first time, I was kind of surprised,
but she looked like she was about 100 pounds,
but clearly quite a fighter.
She told us she was walking down that same street
that Jane Smith was walking down
just a little over a month prior.
She had been picked up by a male subject.
She was driven to the mill area.
The same secluded mill area
where Jane Smith was attacked.
She was removed from the vehicle.
He was screaming at her,
telling her her life was worth nothing.
The suspect then hit her over the head
repeatedly with a metal pipe.
She tried to fight, but he continued to assault her.
She thought she was gonna die.
At some point, she just lied there motionless.
And then he just drove away...
left her there lying, bleeding.
Christine Dumont provided
a very detailed description of her assailant,
very similar to Jane Smith's...
blondish hair, stocky white man
in his 20s with tattoos.
It was obvious to us
that, you know, we're looking for the same suspect.
If he is a person who's brutally assaulting prostitutes
in the same area
over a very short period of time,
there's also a good possibility
that he could be responsible
for Audrey Harris's disappearance.
What can we tell about who this person is?
He's preying on women who are sex workers.
He is full of rage.
This was unprovoked. It was spontaneous.
Think about the weapons that were used during their attack--
a screwdriver, something that was readily accessible to him,
and a tire iron, which was in the trunk of a vehicle.
This is not a sort of meticulous
well planned out crime.
This is someone who had a lot of rage towards these women
and clearly took it out on them.
This often comes from potentially their mother
or some sort of relationship that they had in the past
that created this anger towards women
and a need to degrade them,
hurt them, and potentially even kill them.
♪
That day, after meeting with Christine,
we went and picked up Jane, the first woman attacked,
and brought her into the station
to do another interview.
As we were speaking to her, out of the blue, she says,
"Oh, I remember
"that prior to being attacked that night,
we went to an ATM."
♪
Now we have the assailant go into an ATM,
who did a financial transaction,
who's most likely on camera.
This was really the break we needed.
♪
She just started crying and said, "That is him.
That's him."
And another woman was reported missing
from the High and Arnold Street area.
It's getting stranger and stranger in Woonsocket
that these girls are going missing.
♪
By April of 2003,
in a very short amount of time,
in the same, you know, area,
we had vicious assaults on Christine Dumont,
vicious assault on Jane Smith,
and we had an active missing-persons case
with Audrey Harris.
The Woonsocket police had reached out again
to Jane Smith
to try to learn if there was any other details
that she could remember--
try and identify this dangerous guy.
That is when Jane told us
that her assailant drove to Sovereign bank.
He went into the ATM, came back out a couple of minutes later,
and said, "I have $100. Now we're gonna party."
She remembered it was a little before 1:00 a.m.
The police immediately went to the bank
and were able to secure
the photo of the ATM transaction.
[dramatic music]
There was only one person who withdrew $100.
The subject making the transaction was a white male...
blondish short hair, goatee.
The exact description that Jane and Christine
gave as their assailant.
The cardholder for that debit card
was a Timothy Scanlon of Woonsocket.
♪
He had been arrested in the past
for larceny and...
possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
And we created a photo array
and went to the hospital where Christine still was.
We just asked her to take her time, look at the photographs,
and tell us if she could identify her assailant.
She became extremely emotional.
She pointed to Timothy Scanlon's photograph,
said, "That's the mother F that did it."
♪
The next step--
the detectives went to the first victim,
Jane Smith's house.
She just started crying and said,
"That is him. That's him."
♪
So now that both Jane and Christine Dumont
identified Timothy Scanlon as the assailant,
we were starting to wonder,
is there any connections with the Audrey Harris case?
She's in that timeframe?
She's a prostitute that works basically the same streets.
It wasn't a far leap to think that Timothy Scanlon
had something to do with Audrey Harris's disappearance.
♪
About a week after he had been identified,
we obtained a warrant for Timothy Scanlon
for kidnapping and assault on Jane and Christine.
Later that evening, we moved in.
He was placed under arrest him without incident.
He was brought up into the interrogation room.
He denied any involvement.
He immediately stated he want a lawyer.
And that was the end of the interview with him,
unfortunately.
Timothy Scanlon was charged with multiple counts
of first-degree assault
on Jane Smith and Christine Dumont.
He pled not guilty at his arraignment
and was held without bail pending his trial.
His defense was that he was with Jane Smith
and Christine Dumont in a consensual manner,
and they were assaulted after that.
So the testimony
of both Jane Smith and Christine Dumont
was the key to this case.
But Jane was so paralyzed with fear
of being in the same room with him again
that she did not want to testify.
♪
Christine wanted to testify and tell her story.
She was happy for a second chance in life.
She had a plan in her mind, right?
"I'm gonna be a better mother. I'm gonna get a job."
It seemed like she was gonna carry through.
Maybe a little bit of good
was gonna come out of this horrific event.
Christine was very dedicated.
She's a fighter.
She wasn't going to let her demon
stop her from testifying.
Christine's testimony is critical in the prosecution
of Scanlon for the assault on her.
Without her, they may not have a provable case.
If she does testify, she runs the risk
that he may come after her one day
or he may arrange for someone else
to come after her for testifying against him.
You're concerned about her safety.
There's always the factor of witness intimidation.
And that's very real, and it does happen.
There's multiple reasons why women
don't want to testify against their assailant.
When you're testify and you step up onto the stand,
in some ways, you yourself are being put on trial.
So, if you have any wrongdoing, have used drugs,
anything that could look poorly on you,
they're gonna bring that up in the courtroom
and that can be incredibly
damaging and hurtful to the person testifying.
♪
We didn't have a trial date,
but Christine Dumont was absolutely ready, willing,
and able to get in that courtroom
and tell what Scanlon had done to her.
But that's not what happened.
♪
On May 3rd of 2004,
Christine's sister
came to the station
to report her missing.
She had not been seen or heard from
in almost ten days.
♪
She hadn't communicated with family, her kids.
She didn't pick up her state check.
That's always a red flag.
♪
I was...
"Shocked" isn't the word for it.
I'm thinking, "Oh, my word,
I just lost the best witness I have.
♪
I believe Timothy Scanlon had something to do
with the disappearance.
It would be a much easier trial
if Christine Dumont wasn't around.
But there was no evidence.
There was no conversations that Timothy Scanlon had
with anyone that we had uncovered
that was pointing in the direction of a murder for hire
or any attempts to silence Christine
from testifying.
♪
So, obviously, we went back
to, you know, was it her lifestyle?
Having spoken with Christine's sister,
we learned that Christine was still often seen
in the High and Arnold Street area.
I really thought that the page had turned for Christine,
but it seemed like she went back to the street.
So we began pounding the streets
and trying to speak to people that frequent that area.
♪
The days turned into weeks.
There were no solid leads to go on.
It was a completely cold case as if she just disappeared.
♪
We could rule out that it was Timothy Scanlon
because we knew his whereabouts
during the time of her disappearance.
And so now we're thinking, "Is the person responsible
"for Christine Dumont's disappearance
"also responsible for Audrey Harris' missing
the year prior to this?"
If it is all connected,
there's another person out there targeting prostitutes.
[dramatic music]
Timothy Scanlon was responsible
for Jane Smith's assault,
Christine Dumont's assault
and we were hoping to find something to lock him
into the Audrey Harris case.
But now Christine Dumont was missing.
We could rule out that it was Timothy
because we knew his whereabouts
during the time of her disappearance.
So was there someone else out there
preying on these people
in the High Street and Arnold Street area?
When prostitutes go missing nine out of ten times,
it's a homicide or, you know, tragic ending.
So we were, at that point, assuming
that we're probably looking at a murder investigation.
♪
On July 4, 2004,
James Nelson came into the station
to report his girlfriend, Stacie Goulet,
had gone missing sometime the night before.
♪
Mr. Nelson said that he was with Stacie
in the area north of Arnold and High Street.
They were there for some of the celebrations
that were taking place, the fireworks.
♪
He decided to bum a cigarette off a friend of his,
and when he went back to where Stacie was walking,
he had no longer seen her.
So he just hung around knowing that she would come back
to that area, but she never did.
♪
We knew from Stacie's record
that Stacie was also known to be a prostitute in the city.
James was not being completely honest.
He doesn't want to embarrass Stacie
by saying she's prostituting.
So we pretty much gave him a rough interview.
We made him think that we were gonna arrest him
for her murder just to see where he was at.
But he stood up to the interrogation pretty well.
He told us he knew that she was working that night.
He was doing his best to watch Stacie.
He just assumed at the time
that she was picked up by a john.
So, when we ended it, we were like, "You know what?
We don't think it's him."
♪
After interviewing Mr. Nelson,
we needed to reach out to the parents.
♪
Mom had a hard time.
She was extremely upset, tearful.
♪
The plainclothes detectives came in, and they said to me,
"Are you Stacie Goulet's mother?"
I said, "Yes," and they said,
"Well, Stacie was reported missing,
"and, you know...
we have some information that we need to give you."
And they said, "Did you know that Stacie was a prostitute?"
And I said, "Well, she had told me she was."
When I found out, I said,
"Stacie, you know, it's dangerous.
You can get killed out there."
And I was like, "Well, Stacie, it's wrong."
"I know it's wrong, Mom, but I'm gonna do it anyways."
So I was kind of, like, all nervous
and all shaken up and everything.
♪
I kind of, like, just hoped for the best.
You know, I didn't want to put that she was murdered.
I didn't want to put that in my head.
Audrey Harris is missing. Christine Dumont is missing.
And now with this new Stacie Goulet case,
3 missing in 15 months
was just too much to believe it was chance.
♪
They were all involved in the same prostitution trade.
But if they were related,
then we could possibly have a serial killer on our hands.
♪
So, if prostitutes are going missing,
what's the best way to drudge up some suspects?
We decided to do a john sting.
♪
The best practice identifying johns,
is putting a female police officer out on the street.
We set up decoys at the corners
where the prostitutes were known to frequent and loiter.
We ended up arresting quite a few johns.
The biggest thing was not so much charging them
but using that opportunity to question them
to see if anything may come up, any leads in any investigation,
or certain anomalies on the johns
that may indicate they may be involved
in some type of foul play.
Unfortunately, we didn't get anything.
♪
If there is a serial killer who is preying on sex workers,
then police have some challenges ahead.
There are no bodies, and there are no crime scenes.
If these women who have gone missing
are in fact being killed,
you're dealing with a serial killer
who has the means and ability to hide these bodies.
So this is a sophisticated killer,
who's able to elude detection, elude law enforcement
and hide any potential evidence of their crimes.
All three women did frequent
the same track or area
that was known for prostitution.
That might be a common denominator
among the women.
Do you have other women on that track
that might have been assaulted and survived?
That's where your real case
is gonna start to pick up some wheels.
As the investigation progressed,
we really spent a lot of time
talking to other street girls,
stopping cars, talking to patrol.
We were just trying to get any further information.
Our activity helped
in us receiving an anonymous tip.
[telephone rings]
From out of the blue,
she said that he came up from behind, choked her.
That's the most nervous I've ever been
as a police officer.
All three cases of the missing females,
Audrey, Christine, and Stacie,
were eerily similar.
There was no leads to go on.
It was extremely frustrating.
[telephone ringing]
On July 11th,
I received a message on my work phone.
It was a male voice.
All it said was, "You may want to speak to Jocelin Martel.
She may have some information on your missing girls."
[line clicks] Click. That was it.
We were familiar with Jocelin Martel.
She was a known prostitute.
She was currently incarcerated at the women's prison,
and we immediately made arrangements
to go speak with her.
After she'd heard that three girls were missing,
she started to feel that maybe she could help
in an investigation.
[dramatic music]
She told us about an incident that she had with a john,
maybe a month before,
and that he brought her back to his apartment
on Cato Street.
From out of the blue,
she said that he came up from behind, choked her.
She thought that her life was over.
♪
She somehow managed to fight him off
and get away from him.
♪
She told us that the man was male, Caucasian, short, stocky,
maybe in the early 30s, late 20s, short hair.
She thought that just the way that he came after her
in such a violent nature,
it was not the first time
he's been involved in something like this.
She wasn't sure of the street number at the time,
but she was able to explain.
It was a white multifamily house with green shutters,
small white fence in front of the house.
♪
On the way back, we actually drove down Cato Street.
The location that she gave us and the house
was a spitting image of how she described it,
and we retrieved the address number of the house.
At that point, I notified the electrical company
to find out who lived there.
And then I went back to the station
and start looking through our database at this location
to see if there had been any incidents there.
And to our surprise, one popped up right away
with a known prostitute-- Teese Morris.
So we needed to speak with Teese immediately.
♪
Teese had a story extremely similar
to Jocelin's story.
It was February 15, 2004.
It was my birthday.
I wanted to go out. I wanted to have fun.
There was one gentleman, and he said,
"Put your money away. I'll buy you a beer.
This man looked...
like a everyday man.
♪
We ended up back at his home.
I needed a napkin, and he said,
"Go to that drawer right there."
When I opened the drawer is when he pounced.
He grabbed me in my neck,
and he just got tighter,
and I'm thinking...
"Okay, he's not playing."
Instantly you go into panic mode.
So, "All right, I can't get him off my neck."
I couldn't get air.
I'm grabbing at his eyes.
I'm trying to get at him.
I'm thinking to myself like,
"This guy has got to get off of me.
He's got to get off me."
I pushed all the way back.
I banged his back on his stove,
and I went with a lot of force.
And I'm begging, I'm screaming,
"Please, my daughter! I got to see my daughter!"
He dragged me towards the door, and he said,
"If I ever see you outside again"...
[sniffles] "I'll kill you."
♪
[sobs]
♪
Both the victims, Jocelin and Teese,
described as assault on them...
as a choking-hold to render them unconscious,
♪
He invited these women back to the house.
So, obviously, the objective
is maybe to have a good time,
but he attacked these women from the rear.
He placed them in a choke hold that is, you know,
similar to that of a pro wrestler.
Maybe just the act of strangling them
was what aroused him, and he didn't need to have sex.
Pouncing on them, unaware, from behind,
that's what he seemed to get a rush out of.
He's sort of jumping
straight to strangulation.
And this says a lot about him.
In this instance, the strangulation in and of itself
might be enough to bring him the gratification
that he needs.
We started thinking, "Well, maybe this was connected
with these three missing girls."
Through the electrical bills,
we were able to determine
that one person was living in the whole building at the time.
His name was Jeffrey Mailhot.
♪
From there, we start checking all type of background issues,
and we just didn't come up with anything.
There was no prior history.
We had to actually go to the registry of motor vehicles
and use a picture from his license
to form a lineup.
♪
He looked like such an unassuming person.
It'd be hard to believe that he was involved
in this type of activity.
♪
I took the lineup back to Jocelin,
and she picked out Jeffery Mailhot.
♪
Then we spoke with Teese Morris.
And it just was like, boom,
that's him.
♪
We were able to obtain a search warrant.
We could see what was clearly blood spatter.
♪
He said, "You think I killed those three girls?"
And I looked at him, I said,
"We never said that they were dead."
[dramatic music]
We had three missing prostitutes--
Audrey Harris, Christine Dumont...
and Stacie Goulet.
We also established that there was a John out there
that had two violent assaults with Jocelin Martel
and Teese Morris.
From what we determined from those two witnesses,
his name was Jeffrey Mailhot.
♪
So we were able to obtain a search warrant
and an arrest warrant for Mr. Mailhot for the assaults.
We set up a surveillance on the house
and waited for Mr. Mailhot to return from work.
We're sitting there a little bit down the street,
waiting for Jeffrey Mailhot to show up,
and then we were gonna grab him before he got in his house.
So, as soon as he pulled up, got out of his vehicle,
we quickly approached him.
♪
I said, "Are you Jeffrey Mailhot?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "You're under arrest."
Then he asked me, "What for?"
I said, "For the assault of two young ladies."
I told him that we would have a conversation with him
at the station, and he was very cooperative.
And he was put in the back of a police cruiser
and transported to the station.
♪
I walked into that house with a search warrant,
and the house was just orderly and neat.
We opened up the cupboards,
and it almost looked like he took a ruler
and measured the distance between the glasses.
[camera shutter clicking]
Everything was size-coded, color-coded, and alphabetized.
It was just super orderly.
♪
Jeff Mailhot's house
didn't look like it supported the two assaults,
let alone three missing victims.
But then we went into the bathroom
and looked at the tub,
and the bottom was just grimy
in, like, ground-in filth.
♪
And as the lieutenant got his flashlight,
in that area underneath the tub,
we could see what was clearly a blood spatter.
And so we sprayed the bathroom area with luminol,
and you could see the floor fluoresce--
a big area of the floor.
This was pooling blood that had been on that surface
long enough for it to seep into grout,
which is almost like cement.
♪
That's the most nervous I've ever been as a police officer,
because I'm standing in a house
where there is potential evidence
of a serial killer.
If Jeffrey Mailhot is in fact the killer,
what authorities find in his house is very telling.
They find, in some ways,
a meticulous household
with everything sort of in its place,
and then certain areas of the house
are in complete disarray and absolutely filthy.
This tells us, in some ways,
a lot about how his brain works.
He compartmentalizes.
He is likely a highly organized killer.
An organized killer is someone
who methodically chooses
the right victim.
He has a plan of attack...
and he's going to do this
the same way every time.
If Jeffrey Mailhot is an organized killer
then there are going to be challenges for the police
'cause he's an expert at covering his tracks.
♪
The time is 8:33 p.m....
We had Jeffrey Mailhot brought up
to the interrogation room by a uniformed police.
Sergeant Lee sat across the room.
I sat off to the side.
Basically what we try to do
from the beginning is establish a rapport.
At first, he was very hesitant,
but after talking with him,
he then admitted that he had been with prostitutes.
I mentioned the assaults on Teese and Jocelin.
That's when he was able to say, "Yeah, I had an incident,
and things got a little bit physical."
Yeah.
At that point, I had three pictures--
one of the each of the missing girls.
I decided to put those pitches out in front of him on a table
to see, you know, what type of reaction
I would be able to garner from him.
He immediately became visibly shaking, nervous.
And Eddie asked and said,
"Well, what are you so nervous for?"
And Jeff told us, he said, "Well, it's 'cause you think
I killed those three girls."
And I looked at him, I said, "Well, Jeff, we never said
"that they were dead.
"Do you know if they're dead or not?
We only told you that we're investigating missing girls."
♪
Eddie gets up and walks out of the interview room.
So I started to sit with him, and I'm like,
"Listen, dude, you're in some sh-- right now.
"You already talked about assault
"on a couple of girls, and that seems
"to have something to do with these three missing girls.
So why don't you just say it?"
So he's almost breaking down, crying.
I walk outside,
and I say, "Hey, I think he's ready to go."
You could just tell that he was starting
to get ready to say something.
Huh?
We were all just in shock, you know?
And we were like, "Oh, my God, this is a reality.
This guy is, like, killing these women."
We said, "Start with Audrey Harris, the first girl.
What happened?"
Mm-hmm.
He said when he woke up, it was a little hazy.
He thought it was a bad dream.
He walked into the bathroom, saw her laying there.
He was scared for a while.
Then once he realized that, "Hey, nobody caught me,
"no police knocked on my door,
it wasn't even in the newspaper,"
after a while, he was like, "Oh, you know what?
I can do that again."
He said he had an uncontrollable urge
to kill again.
He said it was just something inside him
that just kept telling him to do it.
He was haunted.
So he went out, and he got Christine Dumont.
♪
So, after successfully murdering two young ladies
and getting away with it, he picked up young Stacie Goulet,
strangled, and murdered her.
He said the biggest rush he would get
is not when he was choking them,
but when he actually locked the door
and knew that they couldn't leave.
So my immediate question was, "Well, where are they?"
[dramatic music]
Jeff Mailhot was in the interrogation room.
Now we got the confession.
I'm looking, you know, for the bodies at this point.
So my immediate question was, "Where are they now?"
He thought about an episode on "The Sopranos"
where someone had dismembered a body,
and he decided that he would take that route.
Went to a hardware store, bought a saw.
He would throw the bags in the dumpster,
figuring that all the garbage will just be taken away.
♪
This guy gave them explicit detail
for each particular woman,
even down to the body parts...
of how they were dismembered.
The overwhelming amount of detail...
shows the pleasure that he got out of it.
His decision to cut up the bodies wasn't emotional.
It wasn't blood lust. It was a practical decision.
He needed to get rid of the bodies.
Knowing what we do about him,
it sort of makes sense.
He keeps a meticulous home.
He's organized.
He's not necessarily impulsive,
and cutting up a body and disposing of it
is easier than disposing of an entire body.
It also poses a unique challenge for investigators.
We had no bodies.
His confession was detailed and compelling,
but if a suspect confesses to a crime,
that statement cannot be used against him
unless there's evidence independent of the confession
that that crime occurred.
Jeffrey Mailhot described where the dumpsters were
that he put the body parts,
and we could determine where the Woonsocket trash
was dumped at the central landfill.
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We had some state police
and the guys who work the landfill.
They ended up digging a 100 yards wide
by a 100 yards long by 20 feet deep.
That was their area of search.
Audrey had been gone for a year and a half.
And Christine, four months.
We're looking for bags of body parts.
It wasn't one body.
It was pieces of bodies,
double-bagged, cinch-tied, buried under tons of debris
with material spread on it through enhanced decomposition.
So it was like looking for a needle on a haystack.
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One of our patrol officers-- he was still a recruit--
he was raking, and the bag ripped open,
and he saw what looked like remains.
He said like hair, and it looked like arms.
He could see that it was a petite female.
Then the body was immediately transported
to the medical examiner's office.
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Came back that the remains that we found in the landfill
matched the DNA profile of Stacie Goulet.
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Finding Stacie was a miracle.
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No remains of Christine Dumont
or Audrey Harris were ever found.
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We got results for the bloodstains
in Jeff Mailhot's house.
There were three distinct bloodstains underneath the tub.
The biggest of those blood drops
matched a combination of Audrey Harris
and Christine Dumont's DNA.
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Jeffrey Mailhot was charged with three counts of murder,
one count with assault and intent to murder on Jocelin,
one count of felony assault on Teese.
On February 16, 2006,
he pled guilty to all five counts.
The three murder counts carried life sentence.
It was first-degree murder.
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The scary part about Jeffrey Mailhot,
he lived in plain sight--
just red-blooded American male,
choking prostitutes in the middle of the night,
chopping their bodies up and scattering them about,
then going to work the next day.
There are people in the world like that
that live amongst us,
and not all of them get caught.
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After all these years, you know, it still--
it bothers me in my heart.
Stacie didn't deserve that.
Nobody deserves that.
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The day the police came and told me,
that was the day
Jeffrey Mailhot ripped my heart apart.
He took away my only daughter who meant everything to me.
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I did go back and speak to Audrey's mother.
She was still hurt bad.
I felt a lot of sorrow.
There isn't a human alive
that deserves to have their life taken
the way these girls did.
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