1 00:00:39,349 --> 00:00:40,730 [man] There's still so many things 2 00:00:40,868 --> 00:00:42,421 we don't understand about this case, 3 00:00:42,559 --> 00:00:44,044 and probably never will. 4 00:00:46,425 --> 00:00:47,944 We just had bits and pieces 5 00:00:48,082 --> 00:00:51,258 of some kind of strange puzzle. 6 00:00:51,396 --> 00:00:54,778 And even if we could put them all together, 7 00:00:54,916 --> 00:00:57,229 I don't know if I want to see whatever picture they make. 8 00:00:59,197 --> 00:01:06,169 [tense music playing] 9 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,251 [clears throat] 10 00:01:19,389 --> 00:01:20,597 -[producer whispers] -Yeah. 11 00:01:20,735 --> 00:01:22,289 Uh-huh. 12 00:01:22,427 --> 00:01:23,704 My name is Joseph Kirby. 13 00:01:23,842 --> 00:01:25,982 I'm a former lead detective sergeant 14 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:27,708 in San Bernardino County. 15 00:01:27,846 --> 00:01:30,262 I was supervising the Major Crimes Unit 16 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,438 between 2007 and 2015. 17 00:01:34,611 --> 00:01:36,958 San Bernardino County is about 60 miles east 18 00:01:37,097 --> 00:01:38,236 of Los Angeles. 19 00:01:38,374 --> 00:01:39,547 It is a part of California's 20 00:01:39,685 --> 00:01:41,998 Inland Empire region. 21 00:01:42,136 --> 00:01:44,483 We have a population of about two million. 22 00:01:44,621 --> 00:01:46,382 We've seen our share of violent crimes, 23 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:47,797 gang-related homicides, 24 00:01:47,935 --> 00:01:49,799 relatively large-scale drug busts, 25 00:01:49,937 --> 00:01:50,834 what have you. 26 00:01:50,972 --> 00:01:52,008 We probably run 27 00:01:52,146 --> 00:01:56,392 upwards of 65 murders a year 28 00:01:56,530 --> 00:01:59,464 in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau, 29 00:01:59,602 --> 00:02:02,052 which is higher than the national average. 30 00:02:02,191 --> 00:02:04,365 But I had never seen anything like what happened 31 00:02:04,503 --> 00:02:06,954 to the Sheridan family on Alton Avenue. 32 00:02:07,955 --> 00:02:08,956 Nobody had. 33 00:02:09,094 --> 00:02:11,165 [dial tone] 34 00:02:11,303 --> 00:02:13,478 [dispatcher] 911, what is your emergency? 35 00:02:13,616 --> 00:02:14,410 [female voice] 36 00:02:22,003 --> 00:02:23,936 [dispatcher] 37 00:02:24,074 --> 00:02:25,800 [female voice] My name... 38 00:02:25,938 --> 00:02:27,871 My name is Kacie Porter, 39 00:02:28,907 --> 00:02:32,255 and I was friends with Tiffany Sheridan. 40 00:02:32,393 --> 00:02:35,362 Our kids went to the same elementary school. 41 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:37,743 [laughs] When you have kids that age, 42 00:02:37,881 --> 00:02:41,506 and you meet a lot of parents that you don't always care for, 43 00:02:41,644 --> 00:02:45,855 but Tiff and I, we just hit it off. 44 00:02:45,993 --> 00:02:48,754 We were supposed to meet at this restaurant for lunch, 45 00:02:48,892 --> 00:02:51,447 but she never showed, and I just... 46 00:02:51,585 --> 00:02:55,934 I figured she had forgotten, so I let it go. 47 00:02:56,072 --> 00:02:58,523 But then Lauren came home, and she said 48 00:02:58,661 --> 00:03:01,560 that Sam hadn't been to school in a few days. 49 00:03:01,698 --> 00:03:03,424 And, um, I kept calling 50 00:03:03,562 --> 00:03:07,532 and I kept texting, but I never got a reply back. 51 00:03:08,843 --> 00:03:11,984 And I just knew, in the back of my head, 52 00:03:12,122 --> 00:03:14,332 that something is wrong. 53 00:03:23,237 --> 00:03:25,929 [operator] 54 00:03:26,067 --> 00:03:27,448 I'm Will Martinez. 55 00:03:27,586 --> 00:03:28,691 I'm a deputy sheriff 56 00:03:28,829 --> 00:03:31,072 with the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department. 57 00:03:31,211 --> 00:03:32,764 Me and my partner were the first officers 58 00:03:32,902 --> 00:03:34,731 to arrive on scene. 59 00:03:34,869 --> 00:03:36,733 We got a call regarding a welfare check 60 00:03:36,871 --> 00:03:39,288 for a residence in the Shandin Hills. 61 00:03:39,426 --> 00:03:41,290 Nice area. 62 00:03:41,428 --> 00:03:44,569 It was a gated community, as I remember. 63 00:03:44,707 --> 00:03:51,679 [tense music playing] 64 00:03:57,892 --> 00:03:59,100 The whole thing felt weird. 65 00:04:00,274 --> 00:04:02,414 Something about it was just off. 66 00:04:02,552 --> 00:04:04,485 [tense music playing] 67 00:04:04,623 --> 00:04:05,831 Police department! 68 00:04:09,490 --> 00:04:10,698 Police department! 69 00:04:10,836 --> 00:04:11,906 Anybody home? 70 00:04:12,044 --> 00:04:14,875 [woman speaking on radio] 71 00:04:15,013 --> 00:04:19,155 [tense music playing] 72 00:04:19,293 --> 00:04:20,467 [Martinez] We need to go around. 73 00:04:29,683 --> 00:04:31,892 Police department! Anyone home? 74 00:04:40,866 --> 00:04:42,696 My partner called out, 75 00:04:42,834 --> 00:04:44,870 identified ourselves again, 76 00:04:45,008 --> 00:04:45,975 but there was no movement. 77 00:04:47,666 --> 00:04:48,667 Hello? 78 00:04:52,464 --> 00:04:53,396 Anybody home? 79 00:04:53,534 --> 00:04:57,607 [tense music playing] 80 00:04:58,781 --> 00:05:00,507 [whispering] Mother of God. 81 00:05:00,645 --> 00:05:02,923 [tense music playing] 82 00:05:03,061 --> 00:05:04,545 This was a crime scene. 83 00:05:04,683 --> 00:05:11,656 [tense music playing] 84 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:17,455 [Kacie] Oh, what happened to them... 85 00:05:19,215 --> 00:05:22,080 I think about it every day. 86 00:05:22,218 --> 00:05:24,220 I have nightmares about it. 87 00:05:24,358 --> 00:05:30,191 [tense music playing] 88 00:05:32,159 --> 00:05:33,816 Why them? 89 00:05:33,954 --> 00:05:40,029 [tense music playing] 90 00:05:40,167 --> 00:05:42,997 That... was a bad day. 91 00:05:43,135 --> 00:05:50,142 [tense music playing] 92 00:05:57,667 --> 00:06:01,568 When I saw that, I was... 93 00:06:01,706 --> 00:06:03,639 floored. 94 00:06:03,777 --> 00:06:05,157 I looked at my partner and I said, 95 00:06:05,295 --> 00:06:08,678 "Oh, my God, he's back." 96 00:06:08,816 --> 00:06:14,097 [dramatic music playing] 97 00:06:53,930 --> 00:06:55,207 Hi. 98 00:06:55,345 --> 00:06:56,657 My name's Lexi Taylor. 99 00:06:56,795 --> 00:06:58,590 I'm a senior homicide detective 100 00:06:58,728 --> 00:07:00,868 for the San Bernardino P.D. 101 00:07:01,006 --> 00:07:03,526 I worked as a patrol officer for about nine years 102 00:07:03,664 --> 00:07:05,942 before being offered a job in the homicide bureau, 103 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,151 and that's when I started working with my partner, 104 00:07:08,289 --> 00:07:09,843 Joe Kirby. 105 00:07:09,981 --> 00:07:12,155 Growing up, my mom worked two jobs 106 00:07:12,293 --> 00:07:14,157 to support me and my older brother. 107 00:07:14,295 --> 00:07:17,367 There was a rotating door of less-than-great men, 108 00:07:17,506 --> 00:07:19,680 you would say, come and go in our life. 109 00:07:19,818 --> 00:07:21,337 I think that's when I first started 110 00:07:21,475 --> 00:07:22,787 thinking that, maybe, I would like 111 00:07:22,925 --> 00:07:24,616 to try to help people. 112 00:07:24,754 --> 00:07:26,031 You know, maybe I could help someone 113 00:07:26,169 --> 00:07:29,518 like my mom out of a tough situation. 114 00:07:29,656 --> 00:07:31,658 I actually never intended to be a cop. 115 00:07:31,796 --> 00:07:35,524 I had aspirations of being a drummer in a metal band. 116 00:07:35,662 --> 00:07:37,526 But one of my friend's brothers 117 00:07:37,664 --> 00:07:40,529 was in the Academy, and I thought it sounded cool. 118 00:07:40,667 --> 00:07:42,358 I liked how you had to think on your feet, 119 00:07:42,496 --> 00:07:44,636 use your brain as well as your body. 120 00:07:44,774 --> 00:07:47,121 After a couple of days in training, 121 00:07:47,259 --> 00:07:49,503 I was hooked, man. 122 00:07:50,953 --> 00:07:52,092 [Taylor] That is how I have always approached 123 00:07:52,230 --> 00:07:54,301 my career in law enforcement. 124 00:07:54,439 --> 00:07:57,131 Try to be there for people when things are at their worst. 125 00:07:58,685 --> 00:08:01,308 And, fuck, it was never worse than on this case. 126 00:08:02,965 --> 00:08:06,313 Between 1993 and 1995, there were three murders 127 00:08:06,451 --> 00:08:09,005 in Riverside and San Bernardino County 128 00:08:09,143 --> 00:08:12,526 that we eventually realized were serial murders, 129 00:08:12,664 --> 00:08:17,117 and which had some ritualistic aspects. 130 00:08:23,848 --> 00:08:25,953 [man] I think this is it. 131 00:08:26,091 --> 00:08:28,024 Yeah. 132 00:08:28,162 --> 00:08:30,613 Okay, she was covered with a blue tarp. 133 00:08:30,751 --> 00:08:33,098 You could see it easily from the road. 134 00:08:33,236 --> 00:08:35,445 This is a service road, not a lot of people 135 00:08:35,584 --> 00:08:37,206 come down it. 136 00:08:37,344 --> 00:08:39,311 It was just horrible. I mean, you never expect 137 00:08:39,449 --> 00:08:41,141 to see something like that. 138 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:45,076 [Kirby] On August 8th, 1993, 139 00:08:45,214 --> 00:08:48,597 the torso of 24-year-old Shifra Gutierrez 140 00:08:48,735 --> 00:08:50,081 is discovered in San Bernardino 141 00:08:50,219 --> 00:08:51,461 National Forest. 142 00:08:52,704 --> 00:08:54,223 She had been dismembered. 143 00:08:55,465 --> 00:08:57,744 Her genitals mutilated. 144 00:08:57,882 --> 00:09:00,263 The uterus removed. 145 00:09:00,401 --> 00:09:01,920 The coroner gave a best-guess estimate 146 00:09:02,058 --> 00:09:03,404 she had been there two weeks, 147 00:09:03,543 --> 00:09:05,683 but it's difficult to tell. 148 00:09:08,237 --> 00:09:09,341 [woman] Shifra was my best friend 149 00:09:09,479 --> 00:09:10,550 in high school. 150 00:09:12,103 --> 00:09:13,311 She was a dope bitch. 151 00:09:13,449 --> 00:09:14,726 [laughs] 152 00:09:15,969 --> 00:09:17,557 She just had this joy for living, 153 00:09:17,695 --> 00:09:20,421 and this lust for life, you know? 154 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:22,251 And she was funny as fuck. 155 00:09:24,771 --> 00:09:26,738 She wasn't a bad person. 156 00:09:26,876 --> 00:09:29,189 You know, she just... 157 00:09:29,327 --> 00:09:30,915 I don't know, she just got into some bad shit, 158 00:09:31,053 --> 00:09:33,158 like a lot of people out here do. 159 00:09:33,296 --> 00:09:35,609 I was always telling her, I was like, 160 00:09:35,747 --> 00:09:37,024 "This is dangerous, Shifra. 161 00:09:37,162 --> 00:09:38,819 You know, you gotta stop doing this." 162 00:09:40,027 --> 00:09:42,236 Oh, shit, I said I wasn't going to do this. 163 00:09:43,617 --> 00:09:46,516 [Taylor] There's an area off the 91 164 00:09:46,655 --> 00:09:48,035 in the Casablanca neighborhood, 165 00:09:48,173 --> 00:09:50,693 and that's where Shifra was last seen. 166 00:09:50,831 --> 00:09:53,213 We do know she went up to a room at a motel 167 00:09:53,351 --> 00:09:56,319 called Dean's Corner that was frequented by sex workers. 168 00:09:56,457 --> 00:09:58,667 And there was a man with her, but... 169 00:09:58,805 --> 00:10:00,945 clerk couldn't remember what he looked like. 170 00:10:01,083 --> 00:10:02,463 He could've killed her there. 171 00:10:02,602 --> 00:10:04,638 Could've been strangulation, for example. 172 00:10:04,776 --> 00:10:06,157 We'll probably never know. 173 00:10:06,295 --> 00:10:07,365 What we do know for sure 174 00:10:07,503 --> 00:10:09,022 is that she was somehow moved 175 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,783 from that room without anybody noticing. 176 00:10:11,921 --> 00:10:14,579 Or somebody noticed and just didn't care. 177 00:10:15,787 --> 00:10:17,202 But we got our first lead. 178 00:10:18,307 --> 00:10:20,033 A name. 179 00:10:20,171 --> 00:10:21,862 All guests had to fill out a ledger, 180 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,277 and the suspect had written down 181 00:10:23,415 --> 00:10:25,866 the name Albert Shiny. 182 00:10:27,316 --> 00:10:29,007 And the case went cold. 183 00:10:29,145 --> 00:10:31,320 I don't need to tell you that, especially at that time, 184 00:10:31,458 --> 00:10:33,667 sex workers and marginalized people 185 00:10:33,805 --> 00:10:35,289 tended to get the short end of the stick 186 00:10:35,427 --> 00:10:37,153 in the criminal justice system. 187 00:10:37,291 --> 00:10:38,189 I'm not saying it was right. 188 00:10:38,327 --> 00:10:39,639 I'm just saying it was, 189 00:10:39,777 --> 00:10:41,675 and is the reality. 190 00:10:43,263 --> 00:10:45,783 So, it was written off as an isolated incident. 191 00:10:47,508 --> 00:10:50,684 But we were wrong. 192 00:10:50,822 --> 00:10:53,204 A grisly crime scene has police on high alert 193 00:10:53,342 --> 00:10:54,757 in Arlanza tonight, 194 00:10:54,895 --> 00:10:57,001 not far from the Riverside Municipal Airport, 195 00:10:57,139 --> 00:10:59,486 where the body of 82-year-old Ambrose Griffith 196 00:10:59,624 --> 00:11:00,590 was discovered murdered 197 00:11:00,729 --> 00:11:02,178 in his apartment earlier today. 198 00:11:02,316 --> 00:11:04,180 Mr. Griffith was disabled and, apparently, 199 00:11:04,318 --> 00:11:06,389 suffered from MDS, a blood condition 200 00:11:06,527 --> 00:11:08,737 that required daily assistance from a caretaker. 201 00:11:08,875 --> 00:11:11,256 [Kirby] Nine months after Shifra Gutierrez is killed, 202 00:11:11,394 --> 00:11:12,741 Ambrose Griffith is found murdered 203 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:14,846 in his assisted living facility. 204 00:11:14,984 --> 00:11:18,194 On the night of June 3rd, 1994, 205 00:11:18,332 --> 00:11:20,127 someone scaled the back side of his building 206 00:11:20,265 --> 00:11:22,267 and entered his unit through a sliding glass door 207 00:11:22,405 --> 00:11:24,304 that was apparently left unlocked. 208 00:11:25,788 --> 00:11:27,687 He was bludgeoned with an oxygen tank 209 00:11:27,825 --> 00:11:29,136 that was in his room, 210 00:11:29,274 --> 00:11:30,897 and then stabbed more than 30 times 211 00:11:31,035 --> 00:11:32,657 with a box cutter. 212 00:11:32,795 --> 00:11:33,934 That was brutal. 213 00:11:34,072 --> 00:11:35,764 And you gotta understand, this guy was bedbound. 214 00:11:35,902 --> 00:11:36,903 I mean, he could not walk, 215 00:11:37,041 --> 00:11:38,939 or could barely walk, on his own. 216 00:11:39,077 --> 00:11:41,631 So, he was totally defenseless to the attack, 217 00:11:41,770 --> 00:11:43,910 which was obviously unprovoked. 218 00:11:44,048 --> 00:11:46,188 No one else in the building heard so much as a peep 219 00:11:46,326 --> 00:11:47,776 from his room. 220 00:11:47,914 --> 00:11:51,952 So, it must've happened fast, which is... 221 00:11:53,091 --> 00:11:54,506 some comfort, I guess. 222 00:11:56,025 --> 00:11:57,509 One of his eyes was also removed. 223 00:11:57,647 --> 00:11:59,166 [Taylor] It was a sloppy scene. 224 00:11:59,304 --> 00:12:01,203 A murder committed by somebody in a frenzy 225 00:12:01,341 --> 00:12:03,274 who was not thinking it through at all. 226 00:12:03,412 --> 00:12:05,794 It's probably why we were able to get our first real clue. 227 00:12:07,623 --> 00:12:08,969 [Kirby] The print was run through the system, 228 00:12:09,107 --> 00:12:10,419 but nothing came back. 229 00:12:10,557 --> 00:12:12,283 The lab guys stayed on it for weeks, 230 00:12:12,421 --> 00:12:14,147 but it was only a partial. 231 00:12:14,285 --> 00:12:15,424 No motive. 232 00:12:15,562 --> 00:12:16,701 82-year-old victim 233 00:12:16,839 --> 00:12:18,461 with no family and few friends, 234 00:12:18,599 --> 00:12:20,740 except the few people that lived in his building 235 00:12:20,878 --> 00:12:23,087 who were just as sick as he was. 236 00:12:23,225 --> 00:12:24,640 So, the police didn't make any connection 237 00:12:24,778 --> 00:12:26,469 with the Gutierrez murder. 238 00:12:26,607 --> 00:12:27,816 Not yet. 239 00:12:27,954 --> 00:12:29,921 [sobs] 240 00:12:30,059 --> 00:12:31,026 [man] It's okay. It's okay. 241 00:12:31,164 --> 00:12:33,269 It's okay. It's okay. 242 00:12:33,407 --> 00:12:34,408 We want to thank everyone 243 00:12:34,546 --> 00:12:36,790 from the Riverside Police Department 244 00:12:36,928 --> 00:12:38,274 with their continued support. 245 00:12:39,931 --> 00:12:41,346 Someone out there 246 00:12:41,484 --> 00:12:43,279 knows what happened to our little boy, and... 247 00:12:43,417 --> 00:12:44,487 and... 248 00:12:47,801 --> 00:12:49,147 [voice breaking] We are begging 249 00:12:49,285 --> 00:12:50,321 for you to help us 250 00:12:50,459 --> 00:12:52,806 return him home 251 00:12:52,944 --> 00:12:55,119 safely and unharmed. 252 00:12:55,257 --> 00:12:56,603 [Kirby] Noah Lafone was abducted 253 00:12:56,741 --> 00:12:57,915 while walking home from school 254 00:12:58,053 --> 00:13:00,883 on October 7th, 1995. 255 00:13:01,021 --> 00:13:02,436 He was 12 years old. 256 00:13:03,506 --> 00:13:04,818 There were no witnesses, 257 00:13:04,956 --> 00:13:08,028 and pretty much no information to go on. 258 00:13:08,166 --> 00:13:10,582 There was a pretty extensive search 259 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,689 and media effort this time to try to find him. 260 00:13:13,827 --> 00:13:15,484 We were doing door-to-doors. 261 00:13:15,622 --> 00:13:18,487 This was the first case I was on involving a child, 262 00:13:18,625 --> 00:13:20,869 so I really threw myself into it. 263 00:13:21,421 --> 00:13:24,769 I'd get off work and I'd go join Search and Rescue. 264 00:13:24,907 --> 00:13:26,633 People put in hundreds of hours, 265 00:13:26,771 --> 00:13:28,738 but days turned into weeks 266 00:13:28,877 --> 00:13:32,742 and it gets harder and harder to stay positive. 267 00:13:32,881 --> 00:13:34,641 Three months later, in January, 268 00:13:34,779 --> 00:13:36,712 his body is discovered in a shallow creek 269 00:13:36,850 --> 00:13:38,300 near Silverwood Lake. 270 00:13:42,476 --> 00:13:44,893 He had been weighed down by concrete bricks, 271 00:13:45,031 --> 00:13:47,240 and his body was in pretty bad shape. 272 00:13:47,378 --> 00:13:49,829 [tense music playing] 273 00:13:49,967 --> 00:13:51,382 There were multiple lacerations 274 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:52,901 to his abdomen, 275 00:13:53,039 --> 00:13:54,523 and his liver had been removed. 276 00:13:55,731 --> 00:13:56,870 Twelve years old. 277 00:13:58,354 --> 00:13:59,390 Whole life ahead of him. 278 00:14:00,805 --> 00:14:01,771 Poof. 279 00:14:02,876 --> 00:14:05,534 We also found a box cutter, the weapon, 280 00:14:05,672 --> 00:14:07,260 as well as Noah's school backpack 281 00:14:07,398 --> 00:14:09,400 and all its contents. 282 00:14:09,538 --> 00:14:12,058 This is where we got our second lead. 283 00:14:12,196 --> 00:14:13,749 It was a page that had been written on 284 00:14:13,887 --> 00:14:15,268 and then torn out, 285 00:14:15,406 --> 00:14:17,580 but you could still see an imprint. 286 00:14:19,548 --> 00:14:20,549 Kaliban. 287 00:14:21,584 --> 00:14:23,724 What the heck was kaliban? 288 00:14:23,863 --> 00:14:25,865 A bird from the Caribbean, we found out. 289 00:14:26,003 --> 00:14:28,074 Or a character from Shakespeare. 290 00:14:28,212 --> 00:14:29,730 I mean, was this some kind of a code? 291 00:14:29,869 --> 00:14:32,423 Was this another Zodiac Killer? 292 00:14:32,561 --> 00:14:34,563 Then, two weeks after his body was discovered, 293 00:14:34,701 --> 00:14:36,254 the Riverside Police Department 294 00:14:36,392 --> 00:14:38,947 received a letter in the mail. 295 00:14:39,085 --> 00:14:41,225 Provided details of the three killings. 296 00:14:41,363 --> 00:14:44,538 It was unreleased information only the police would know, 297 00:14:44,676 --> 00:14:46,540 which basically proves whoever wrote it 298 00:14:46,678 --> 00:14:48,301 was the killer, or at least someone 299 00:14:48,439 --> 00:14:51,131 who had direct contact with the killer. 300 00:14:51,269 --> 00:14:52,374 And there was a message. 301 00:14:55,756 --> 00:14:58,069 [distorted male voice] Thanks for not catching me. 302 00:14:58,207 --> 00:15:00,071 Learned a lot. 303 00:15:00,209 --> 00:15:03,833 Ten transits remain, isn't it insane? 304 00:15:03,972 --> 00:15:06,284 I'll be back. 305 00:15:06,422 --> 00:15:09,080 Was he telling us he was planning on killing ten more? 306 00:15:09,218 --> 00:15:10,806 Was that what he meant? 307 00:15:10,944 --> 00:15:12,187 This was the first time we realized 308 00:15:12,325 --> 00:15:14,637 this was an actual serial killer. 309 00:15:14,775 --> 00:15:17,917 It's worth mentioning the jurisdictional problems 310 00:15:18,055 --> 00:15:19,677 that can arise when someone commits a murder 311 00:15:19,815 --> 00:15:20,920 across county lines. 312 00:15:21,058 --> 00:15:23,405 It can make connecting them 313 00:15:23,543 --> 00:15:24,889 a lot more difficult. 314 00:15:25,027 --> 00:15:26,615 But this guy wanted us to know. 315 00:15:26,753 --> 00:15:27,996 He wanted us to know what he did, 316 00:15:28,134 --> 00:15:30,653 and that he wasn't finished. 317 00:15:30,791 --> 00:15:32,759 And he signs the letter with that symbol. 318 00:15:34,726 --> 00:15:35,658 [Kirby] Years went by. 319 00:15:35,796 --> 00:15:37,937 The cases went cold. 320 00:15:38,075 --> 00:15:39,800 Detectives at that time figured 321 00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:42,182 whoever was responsible for the three deaths 322 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,357 was either incarcerated for another crime 323 00:15:44,495 --> 00:15:46,152 or had died, 324 00:15:46,290 --> 00:15:47,947 because they probably wouldn't have stopped killing 325 00:15:48,085 --> 00:15:49,638 on their own. 326 00:15:49,776 --> 00:15:52,882 But as soon as I saw that symbol on the ceiling, 327 00:15:53,021 --> 00:15:55,678 I realized that was the killer from '95. 328 00:15:55,816 --> 00:15:57,784 He wasn't bluffing in his letter. 329 00:15:57,922 --> 00:15:59,579 He hadn't stopped. 330 00:15:59,717 --> 00:16:02,962 He'd just taken a 15-year break. 331 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:04,066 Why? 332 00:16:05,447 --> 00:16:07,311 We're still trying to figure that one out. 333 00:16:07,449 --> 00:16:09,520 One thing's for sure. 334 00:16:09,658 --> 00:16:11,832 If his first murder spree had felt sloppy 335 00:16:11,971 --> 00:16:13,386 and unplanned, 336 00:16:13,524 --> 00:16:17,666 this new one was anything but. 337 00:16:17,804 --> 00:16:24,811 [dramatic music playing] 338 00:16:31,404 --> 00:16:32,957 [Taylor] The suspect gained entry 339 00:16:33,095 --> 00:16:35,097 through the first floor bathroom window, 340 00:16:35,235 --> 00:16:37,168 cut through a screen on the side of the house, 341 00:16:37,306 --> 00:16:40,965 then attacks Ted and Tiffany sometime after 1:15 a.m., 342 00:16:41,103 --> 00:16:44,486 after Tiffany sends her last work email. 343 00:16:44,624 --> 00:16:46,591 There was bruising on Ted's face. 344 00:16:46,729 --> 00:16:48,386 Struck by a blunt object. 345 00:16:48,524 --> 00:16:50,423 We think the suspect probably roughed him up 346 00:16:50,561 --> 00:16:52,080 as a form of intimidation, 347 00:16:52,218 --> 00:16:53,771 and convinced him and Tiffany 348 00:16:53,909 --> 00:16:56,084 to go downstairs willingly. 349 00:16:56,222 --> 00:16:58,879 This little girl, Samantha... 350 00:17:00,226 --> 00:17:02,573 Yeah, it looks like she put up more of a fight. 351 00:17:02,711 --> 00:17:03,988 Some of the furniture in her room, 352 00:17:04,126 --> 00:17:05,438 her comforter, 353 00:17:05,576 --> 00:17:07,750 all disturbed and in disarray. 354 00:17:07,888 --> 00:17:10,132 The suspect zip-ties their hands and feet, 355 00:17:10,270 --> 00:17:12,548 wraps duct tape around their mouths. 356 00:17:12,686 --> 00:17:14,309 You see, this guy had gotten smarter. 357 00:17:14,447 --> 00:17:16,690 He'd learned from the murders in '95. 358 00:17:16,828 --> 00:17:19,038 Less sloppy, more methodical. 359 00:17:19,176 --> 00:17:21,143 I mean, the buckets? What the fuck? 360 00:17:22,420 --> 00:17:24,457 Pardon my French. 361 00:17:24,595 --> 00:17:25,837 He ties the three of them 362 00:17:25,975 --> 00:17:29,289 to chairs around the dining room. 363 00:17:29,427 --> 00:17:31,602 Deliberately facing each other, do you understand? 364 00:17:31,740 --> 00:17:33,086 He places their feet 365 00:17:33,224 --> 00:17:36,227 in these five-gallon painters buckets. 366 00:17:36,365 --> 00:17:38,229 He prepared these things ahead of time. 367 00:17:38,367 --> 00:17:40,059 Like, they had their names on them. 368 00:17:40,197 --> 00:17:41,060 Literally. 369 00:17:41,198 --> 00:17:43,131 Like, "Ted," "Tiffany," 370 00:17:43,269 --> 00:17:45,581 "Samantha" written out. 371 00:17:45,719 --> 00:17:48,136 He draws three lines 372 00:17:48,274 --> 00:17:50,138 on each of them, like the kind you'd find 373 00:17:50,276 --> 00:17:51,898 on a measuring cup. 374 00:17:52,036 --> 00:17:54,107 Except this wasn't for measuring out rice. 375 00:17:55,384 --> 00:17:56,454 It was for their blood. 376 00:17:57,662 --> 00:17:58,629 By volume. 377 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:01,080 Going. 378 00:18:02,460 --> 00:18:03,427 Going. 379 00:18:05,394 --> 00:18:06,947 Gone. 380 00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:10,089 The suspect used a box cutter 381 00:18:10,227 --> 00:18:13,264 to make a small, six-centimeter incision 382 00:18:13,402 --> 00:18:15,956 through the skin on each victim. 383 00:18:17,579 --> 00:18:19,857 And the result was fatal blood loss. 384 00:18:19,995 --> 00:18:22,342 There's about a gallon and a half of blood 385 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:23,688 in the human body. 386 00:18:23,826 --> 00:18:26,277 It takes maybe 15 minutes for that to drain out, 387 00:18:26,415 --> 00:18:29,729 but you can be dead in as soon as three. 388 00:18:29,867 --> 00:18:32,041 The femoral artery is at your groin, 389 00:18:32,180 --> 00:18:33,974 basically the top of your thigh. 390 00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:35,873 If you're sitting upright, 391 00:18:36,011 --> 00:18:38,634 gravity just kind of does its thing. 392 00:18:38,772 --> 00:18:42,362 The technical term for this is exsanguination. 393 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:44,053 [Kirby] Part of what really earns that term, 394 00:18:44,192 --> 00:18:45,572 "ritualistic," 395 00:18:45,710 --> 00:18:49,645 in my opinion, is anything done post-mortem. 396 00:18:49,783 --> 00:18:51,854 So, in a normal homicide, 397 00:18:51,992 --> 00:18:54,167 you stab a person, shoot a person, 398 00:18:54,305 --> 00:18:55,824 you get the heck out of there. 399 00:18:55,962 --> 00:18:57,343 You don't stick around. Every second you wait 400 00:18:57,481 --> 00:18:59,897 is another second to get caught. 401 00:19:00,035 --> 00:19:01,933 From what we can put together, 402 00:19:02,071 --> 00:19:05,868 our suspect hung around another two hours at least. 403 00:19:06,938 --> 00:19:08,906 He leaves the house, 404 00:19:09,044 --> 00:19:11,495 comes back with a 24-foot extension ladder 405 00:19:11,633 --> 00:19:13,393 that he gets from his vehicle, 406 00:19:13,531 --> 00:19:14,705 and then he goes to work 407 00:19:14,843 --> 00:19:17,052 painting this thing on the ceiling. 408 00:19:17,190 --> 00:19:18,778 And it's not a small room, 409 00:19:18,916 --> 00:19:21,194 and he goes almost wall to wall. 410 00:19:21,332 --> 00:19:23,714 It's almost 20 feet. 411 00:19:23,852 --> 00:19:25,336 And he does a good job. 412 00:19:25,474 --> 00:19:26,682 He's careful, 413 00:19:26,820 --> 00:19:27,890 does a couple of layers, 414 00:19:28,028 --> 00:19:30,410 almost no drips on the floor. 415 00:19:30,548 --> 00:19:32,378 Then he positions the bodies. 416 00:19:32,516 --> 00:19:33,931 And all this 417 00:19:34,069 --> 00:19:36,209 he does without any neighbors 418 00:19:36,347 --> 00:19:39,695 hearing a sound or seeing a thing. 419 00:19:39,833 --> 00:19:42,491 No fingerprints, no DNA left at the scene. 420 00:19:43,699 --> 00:19:44,769 No motive. 421 00:19:44,907 --> 00:19:46,771 No relation to the victims. 422 00:19:46,909 --> 00:19:47,841 Three days later, 423 00:19:47,979 --> 00:19:49,188 another letter arrives 424 00:19:49,326 --> 00:19:50,327 in the mail. 425 00:19:53,019 --> 00:19:54,089 [distorted male voice] Hope you blue baddies 426 00:19:54,227 --> 00:19:56,195 are having fun chasing my tail 427 00:19:56,333 --> 00:19:58,680 because the harvest has just begun, 428 00:19:58,818 --> 00:20:01,234 and reaping's so much fun! 429 00:20:01,372 --> 00:20:03,823 A gruesome discovery was made just this morning 430 00:20:03,961 --> 00:20:06,239 by a jogger of a human head here, 431 00:20:06,377 --> 00:20:07,758 in Perris Hill Park. 432 00:20:07,896 --> 00:20:09,449 The jogger, Chelsea Lunsford, 433 00:20:09,587 --> 00:20:11,037 has been coming here every weekday morning 434 00:20:11,175 --> 00:20:12,349 for two years. 435 00:20:12,487 --> 00:20:14,213 She enjoys the serenity of the landscape, 436 00:20:14,351 --> 00:20:16,629 and was not prepared for what she would find. 437 00:20:16,767 --> 00:20:19,079 My friend was just telling me how I should bring a mace 438 00:20:19,218 --> 00:20:20,667 or a stun gun or something with me 439 00:20:20,805 --> 00:20:23,256 when I go running, and... 440 00:20:23,394 --> 00:20:24,568 Yeah, I guess she was right. 441 00:20:36,338 --> 00:20:37,857 [Taylor] On the night of November 8th, 442 00:20:37,995 --> 00:20:40,169 the suspect entered the home of the two victims, 443 00:20:40,308 --> 00:20:41,930 Tamara Latour and her boyfriend, 444 00:20:42,068 --> 00:20:43,103 Glen Sandweiss, 445 00:20:43,242 --> 00:20:44,243 through a dog door 446 00:20:44,381 --> 00:20:46,245 in the back of the house. 447 00:20:46,383 --> 00:20:48,143 They were watching TV in the living room. 448 00:20:48,281 --> 00:20:50,697 The volume was up, which allowed him to sneak up 449 00:20:50,835 --> 00:20:53,976 on them undetected until the last minute. 450 00:20:54,114 --> 00:20:56,738 According to Mr. Sandweiss, he attacks Tamara first, 451 00:20:56,876 --> 00:21:00,017 uses a stun gun to incapacitate her. 452 00:21:00,155 --> 00:21:02,330 We think the suspect was not expecting Sandweiss 453 00:21:02,468 --> 00:21:03,503 to be home. 454 00:21:03,641 --> 00:21:06,989 Sandweiss says that he seems confused. 455 00:21:07,127 --> 00:21:08,991 There's a brief struggle before Sandweiss 456 00:21:09,129 --> 00:21:10,648 is overpowered by the suspect, 457 00:21:10,786 --> 00:21:12,581 brought to the floor. 458 00:21:12,719 --> 00:21:14,894 That's when the attack with the propane torch begins. 459 00:21:15,964 --> 00:21:18,518 He literally burns this guy's face off. 460 00:21:20,865 --> 00:21:22,211 Is there anything else you can remember 461 00:21:22,350 --> 00:21:24,697 that will help us catch who did this? 462 00:21:24,835 --> 00:21:26,112 [Glen] 463 00:21:26,250 --> 00:21:30,150 [Taylor] 464 00:21:30,289 --> 00:21:31,082 [Glen] 465 00:21:31,220 --> 00:21:32,463 [Taylor] 466 00:21:32,601 --> 00:21:33,671 [Glen sighs] 467 00:21:33,809 --> 00:21:35,363 [Glen] 468 00:21:37,088 --> 00:21:42,266 [Glen] 469 00:21:43,163 --> 00:21:43,957 [Glen] 470 00:21:44,095 --> 00:21:46,374 [dramatic music playing] 471 00:21:46,512 --> 00:21:49,480 [Glen speaks indistinctly] 472 00:21:49,618 --> 00:21:52,069 What the fuck is happening? 473 00:21:52,207 --> 00:21:54,347 Oh, God, what am I going to do? 474 00:21:57,902 --> 00:22:00,215 [clicks lighter] 475 00:22:00,353 --> 00:22:01,699 What do you want to know? 476 00:22:02,769 --> 00:22:04,357 The fuck you think I haven't? 477 00:22:07,084 --> 00:22:08,327 You really think I was going to be able 478 00:22:08,465 --> 00:22:10,225 to be a teacher looking like this? 479 00:22:12,227 --> 00:22:14,436 Standing up in front of a group of fifth-graders? 480 00:22:16,024 --> 00:22:17,370 They'd be terrified. 481 00:22:17,508 --> 00:22:19,027 [whoops] 482 00:22:19,165 --> 00:22:20,822 [producer] 483 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,030 Doing what? 484 00:22:23,721 --> 00:22:25,171 Telling my story? 485 00:22:26,414 --> 00:22:27,932 Huh? 486 00:22:28,070 --> 00:22:30,901 Trying to be inspirational? 487 00:22:31,039 --> 00:22:32,489 I can't work. 488 00:22:34,111 --> 00:22:36,113 Got no friends. 489 00:22:38,046 --> 00:22:40,082 Nerve damage. 490 00:22:40,220 --> 00:22:42,878 Feels like my face is on fire all the time. 491 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,365 I'm already dead, man. 492 00:22:47,745 --> 00:22:49,229 I'm just not in the ground... 493 00:22:50,714 --> 00:22:52,129 like Tamara is. 494 00:22:54,027 --> 00:22:55,028 Fuck! 495 00:22:56,651 --> 00:22:59,101 You... You got what you need. I'm fucking done. 496 00:23:00,171 --> 00:23:01,759 Get my money and get the fuck out of my house. 497 00:23:04,244 --> 00:23:06,557 [Kirby] Tamara's head, the sculpture, 498 00:23:06,695 --> 00:23:08,145 the weird trinkets on the ground, 499 00:23:08,283 --> 00:23:10,319 all of it was carefully examined. 500 00:23:10,458 --> 00:23:12,770 And, once again, no fingerprints, 501 00:23:12,908 --> 00:23:14,047 no DNA left behind. 502 00:23:14,185 --> 00:23:15,359 We had nothing. 503 00:23:16,429 --> 00:23:18,293 Until we got lucky. 504 00:23:18,431 --> 00:23:19,812 A woman who works at the strip mall 505 00:23:19,950 --> 00:23:21,123 down the street from the park 506 00:23:21,261 --> 00:23:23,022 said she had seen a guy 507 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,473 with a truck unloading several garbage bags 508 00:23:25,611 --> 00:23:28,303 into a dumpster the morning of the murder. 509 00:23:28,441 --> 00:23:31,064 White truck, red lettering, she said. 510 00:23:31,202 --> 00:23:32,203 So, we pulled footage 511 00:23:32,341 --> 00:23:33,653 from the Credit Union's ATM 512 00:23:33,791 --> 00:23:35,759 at the strip mall and... 513 00:23:35,897 --> 00:23:37,795 It wasn't a great angle, 514 00:23:37,933 --> 00:23:39,314 but it did catch something. 515 00:23:41,143 --> 00:23:43,594 [tense music playing] 516 00:23:43,732 --> 00:23:44,630 [Taylor] The owner of the white truck, 517 00:23:44,768 --> 00:23:45,665 Victor Shamaz, 518 00:23:45,803 --> 00:23:47,011 was a 45-year-old man 519 00:23:47,149 --> 00:23:48,081 living in Riverside 520 00:23:48,219 --> 00:23:49,082 who had a small house 521 00:23:49,220 --> 00:23:50,221 painting business. 522 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:51,326 He had a rap sheet. 523 00:23:51,464 --> 00:23:52,914 It was relatively clean. 524 00:23:53,052 --> 00:23:55,019 Few minor narcotics citations, 525 00:23:55,157 --> 00:23:57,884 a B&E from a decade earlier. 526 00:23:58,022 --> 00:24:00,508 But he had a restraining order taken out against him recently 527 00:24:00,646 --> 00:24:04,132 for apparently stalking a woman he met online. 528 00:24:04,270 --> 00:24:06,099 That didn't sit well with us. 529 00:24:06,237 --> 00:24:07,515 We called him in for questioning 530 00:24:07,653 --> 00:24:09,378 and he agreed. 531 00:24:09,517 --> 00:24:11,001 Mr. Shamaz, 532 00:24:11,139 --> 00:24:12,485 thank you for meeting with us today. 533 00:24:12,623 --> 00:24:14,004 Yeah. It's... 534 00:24:14,142 --> 00:24:15,212 Yeah. Just, you know, wanted to help. 535 00:24:27,638 --> 00:24:29,468 [Kirby] 536 00:24:37,096 --> 00:24:38,200 [Taylor] So, just to be clear, 537 00:24:38,338 --> 00:24:41,721 [Taylor] 538 00:24:44,275 --> 00:24:46,346 [Taylor] 539 00:24:50,972 --> 00:24:52,905 Shamaz continues to claim he has no knowledge 540 00:24:53,043 --> 00:24:55,908 of any crimes, that he simply didn't notice 541 00:24:56,046 --> 00:24:57,841 his work truck was stolen. 542 00:24:57,979 --> 00:24:59,221 We asked him if he'd be willing to take 543 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,501 a polygraph test, to which he agrees. 544 00:25:02,639 --> 00:25:04,157 [examiner] Is your name Victor Shamaz? 545 00:25:04,295 --> 00:25:06,228 -Yes. -[Taylor] He bombs 546 00:25:06,366 --> 00:25:07,678 the polygraph test about as badly as you can. 547 00:25:07,816 --> 00:25:09,266 Chose to be evasive, 548 00:25:09,404 --> 00:25:12,372 or lying about nearly every question asked. 549 00:25:12,511 --> 00:25:14,098 In fact, the only question he actually 550 00:25:14,236 --> 00:25:17,205 appears to tell the truth on are his name and address. 551 00:25:17,343 --> 00:25:20,001 Of course, polygraph tests aren't always accurate, 552 00:25:20,139 --> 00:25:23,004 and they're not admissible in court. 553 00:25:23,142 --> 00:25:24,764 It's just a useful tool. 554 00:25:24,902 --> 00:25:28,112 But it was pretty obvious Shamaz was lying. 555 00:25:28,250 --> 00:25:29,458 [camera shutter clicks] 556 00:25:29,597 --> 00:25:31,564 So, Shamaz manages to get himself arrested 557 00:25:31,702 --> 00:25:32,945 after it's discovered he's carrying 558 00:25:33,083 --> 00:25:34,912 a fairly large amount of methamphetamine 559 00:25:35,050 --> 00:25:36,707 and an unregistered handgun. 560 00:25:36,845 --> 00:25:39,020 Looks like Shamaz was trying to skip town. 561 00:25:39,158 --> 00:25:42,644 I, uh, just wanted to come and clear the air, you know? 562 00:25:54,725 --> 00:25:56,589 I was at this Quick-N-Go... 563 00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:16,505 [Kirby] Okay, slow down. 564 00:26:16,644 --> 00:26:17,576 It became evident 565 00:26:17,714 --> 00:26:19,094 Shamaz wasn't our guy. 566 00:26:19,232 --> 00:26:20,199 I mean, he was a scumbag, 567 00:26:20,337 --> 00:26:22,166 but he wasn't our scumbag 568 00:26:22,304 --> 00:26:24,686 and he didn't really know anything. 569 00:26:24,824 --> 00:26:27,482 Although he did give us one new piece of information. 570 00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:30,830 [Taylor] 571 00:26:30,968 --> 00:26:32,280 No, I... Yeah, I saw him. 572 00:26:32,418 --> 00:26:34,006 I should've mentioned that, but... 573 00:26:39,356 --> 00:26:44,085 [tense music playing] 574 00:26:44,223 --> 00:26:46,328 [Taylor] He started wearing a mask. 575 00:26:46,466 --> 00:26:48,158 That meant only one thing. 576 00:26:48,296 --> 00:26:49,608 He'd seen us on the news 577 00:26:49,746 --> 00:26:51,955 and knew we were actively pursuing him. 578 00:26:52,093 --> 00:26:55,337 Oh, he wanted to make that loud and clear in his next letter. 579 00:26:57,685 --> 00:26:59,652 [distorted male voice] So close, yet so far! 580 00:26:59,790 --> 00:27:02,551 How frustrating that must be. 581 00:27:02,690 --> 00:27:05,693 The great Shambler arrives at the gate. 582 00:27:05,831 --> 00:27:08,350 We will all perish in a flesh mausoleum 583 00:27:08,488 --> 00:27:12,320 but be reborn amidst wonder and glory forever. 584 00:27:12,458 --> 00:27:14,805 [Taylor] A few months go by, nothing new happens. 585 00:27:14,943 --> 00:27:16,980 And of course, a part of me is thinking, 586 00:27:17,118 --> 00:27:18,913 hoping, maybe that's it. 587 00:27:19,051 --> 00:27:22,571 Maybe it's already over and this guy's finished. 588 00:27:22,710 --> 00:27:25,609 Yeah, but another part of me, the cynical part, 589 00:27:25,747 --> 00:27:28,025 knows it can't be true. 590 00:27:28,163 --> 00:27:29,751 He'll let us know when he's finished. 591 00:27:31,546 --> 00:27:34,825 It's about 6:00 in the morning and I get a call from Joe. 592 00:27:34,963 --> 00:27:37,069 They found another body. 593 00:27:37,207 --> 00:27:39,071 Earlier this morning, a horrific discovery 594 00:27:39,209 --> 00:27:40,797 was reported to police here, 595 00:27:40,935 --> 00:27:43,213 at the North Riverside Aquatic Center. 596 00:27:43,351 --> 00:27:44,835 This was a bad one. 597 00:27:46,457 --> 00:27:48,114 A group of skate kids broke into the building 598 00:27:48,252 --> 00:27:50,289 to check the place out and smoke weed. 599 00:27:50,427 --> 00:27:52,153 You know, just a couple of dumb teenagers. 600 00:27:56,019 --> 00:27:58,159 They're not going to be doing that again anytime soon. 601 00:27:59,436 --> 00:28:01,610 [tense music playing] 602 00:28:01,749 --> 00:28:04,786 When you first saw the body, it looked like... 603 00:28:04,924 --> 00:28:07,547 like it was covered in mud or slime or something, 604 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:09,549 'cause it was so shiny. 605 00:28:12,242 --> 00:28:14,140 [Taylor] Coroner's official cause of death? 606 00:28:15,590 --> 00:28:17,903 Fatal loss of blood by leeches. 607 00:28:18,041 --> 00:28:20,146 [tense music playing] 608 00:28:20,284 --> 00:28:22,114 [Kirby] Victim's name was Dennis Zao, 609 00:28:22,252 --> 00:28:23,805 a 43-year-old Chinese immigrant 610 00:28:23,943 --> 00:28:25,048 living in Riverside. 611 00:28:25,186 --> 00:28:26,290 He was last seen leaving 612 00:28:26,428 --> 00:28:27,429 an apartment he shared 613 00:28:27,567 --> 00:28:29,880 with several other people to catch a bus 614 00:28:30,018 --> 00:28:31,433 and was never seen again. 615 00:28:31,571 --> 00:28:33,297 Body's found four days later, 616 00:28:33,435 --> 00:28:35,472 and he had only been deceased less than a day. 617 00:28:37,612 --> 00:28:40,477 [Taylor] Our suspect had been breeding them, right? 618 00:28:40,615 --> 00:28:43,480 This particular type of leech takes about three weeks 619 00:28:43,618 --> 00:28:46,034 for the eggs to form and hatch, 620 00:28:46,172 --> 00:28:48,588 then another two weeks to reach maturity. 621 00:28:49,624 --> 00:28:52,592 So, he'd been preparing this thing for over a month. 622 00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:54,802 Coming here, day after day, 623 00:28:54,940 --> 00:28:57,666 checking in on his babies, feeding them, 624 00:28:57,805 --> 00:29:00,842 keeping their water clean, checking the pH. 625 00:29:02,085 --> 00:29:03,845 He might be a monster, 626 00:29:03,983 --> 00:29:06,434 but he does have some kind of paternal instinct. 627 00:29:07,780 --> 00:29:09,023 Then he abducts Dennis Zao 628 00:29:09,161 --> 00:29:10,714 and brings him here, 629 00:29:10,852 --> 00:29:13,544 strips him naked, puts him in the water. 630 00:29:13,682 --> 00:29:15,512 He creates this barrier 631 00:29:15,650 --> 00:29:18,170 around the deep end and all along the edges 632 00:29:18,308 --> 00:29:21,276 so he can't get out no matter how hard he tries. 633 00:29:21,414 --> 00:29:23,796 Then he begins releasing these things in the pool. 634 00:29:24,935 --> 00:29:27,593 The species found in the pool with Mr. Zao 635 00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:30,078 is called H. stagnalis. 636 00:29:30,976 --> 00:29:32,771 In the case of H. Stagnalis, 637 00:29:32,909 --> 00:29:35,083 it has this sucker 638 00:29:35,221 --> 00:29:36,498 on the front of its body that it uses 639 00:29:36,636 --> 00:29:38,362 to attach to the host. 640 00:29:39,847 --> 00:29:41,503 They have three small jaws 641 00:29:41,641 --> 00:29:43,505 that create a Y-shaped incision. 642 00:29:43,643 --> 00:29:46,301 It's how they get the tasty paydirt. 643 00:29:46,439 --> 00:29:50,616 [dramatic music playing] 644 00:29:50,754 --> 00:29:52,756 Leeches will consume up to ten times 645 00:29:52,894 --> 00:29:54,689 their own body weight in blood, 646 00:29:54,827 --> 00:29:58,037 which sounds like a lot but it's really... 647 00:29:58,175 --> 00:30:00,005 It's like two teaspoons. 648 00:30:00,143 --> 00:30:02,110 [Kirby] This bloodletting-by-leeches 649 00:30:02,248 --> 00:30:05,458 process went on for nearly three straight days. 650 00:30:05,596 --> 00:30:08,220 The suspect just methodically keeps 651 00:30:08,358 --> 00:30:11,050 fishing out full leeches, adding more empties, 652 00:30:11,188 --> 00:30:12,224 on and on... 653 00:30:12,362 --> 00:30:13,397 as Dennis Zao becomes 654 00:30:13,535 --> 00:30:16,642 more and more incapacitated. 655 00:30:16,780 --> 00:30:19,196 I've always been lousy at math, but, basically, 656 00:30:19,334 --> 00:30:21,820 it took a shit ton of leeches to kill Dennis Zao. 657 00:30:22,959 --> 00:30:24,201 Eventually, after he was naked 658 00:30:24,339 --> 00:30:25,720 in this filthy, leech-filled water, 659 00:30:25,858 --> 00:30:27,687 he finally succumbed to his injuries. 660 00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:30,483 Oh, and the reason no one ever hears screaming 661 00:30:30,621 --> 00:30:31,795 from the building? 662 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:35,074 Zao's tongue was cut out. 663 00:30:35,212 --> 00:30:36,904 [Kirby] A leech bite 664 00:30:37,042 --> 00:30:39,872 looks a little like the symbol, doesn't it? 665 00:30:40,010 --> 00:30:41,909 See how it's sort of a triangle? 666 00:30:43,255 --> 00:30:44,187 But like most clues, 667 00:30:44,325 --> 00:30:45,705 this just led to more questions. 668 00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:48,329 What do these dots mean? 669 00:30:48,467 --> 00:30:50,227 What the hell am I looking at? 670 00:30:50,365 --> 00:30:51,919 We later figured out that the suspect 671 00:30:52,057 --> 00:30:53,886 first got in contact with Mr. Zao 672 00:30:54,024 --> 00:30:56,647 because of a Craigslist ad he posted. 673 00:30:56,785 --> 00:30:58,477 They had exchanged a few messages 674 00:30:58,615 --> 00:31:00,030 and then arranged to meet up for sex 675 00:31:00,168 --> 00:31:02,274 at a motel down the street from the pool. 676 00:31:02,412 --> 00:31:04,863 This finally led to the big break in the case. 677 00:31:05,001 --> 00:31:07,417 Our technicians were able to identify the IP address 678 00:31:07,555 --> 00:31:10,454 where the Craigslist ad was originally posted. 679 00:31:10,592 --> 00:31:13,078 The ad and subsequent back-and-forth messaging 680 00:31:13,216 --> 00:31:14,562 had been made from a coffee shop 681 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:17,323 in Mission Grove on February 11th. 682 00:31:17,461 --> 00:31:19,187 This was a huge lead. 683 00:31:19,325 --> 00:31:21,362 We finally were able to trace the suspect's 684 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:23,743 whereabout outside of a crime scene. 685 00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:26,125 I mean, I gotta admit, I was really starting to think 686 00:31:26,263 --> 00:31:29,749 we were chasing a ghost or a vampire or something. 687 00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:32,511 We did surveillance on the place for about a week. 688 00:31:32,649 --> 00:31:33,926 The last thing we wanted to do 689 00:31:34,064 --> 00:31:35,479 was draw any attention to ourselves. 690 00:31:35,617 --> 00:31:37,861 If this guy was a regular, for example, 691 00:31:37,999 --> 00:31:40,208 and came in all the time... 692 00:31:40,346 --> 00:31:41,830 I mean, we were always hoping and praying 693 00:31:41,969 --> 00:31:43,798 maybe he swings by for a cup of coffee 694 00:31:43,936 --> 00:31:45,351 or place another ad, 695 00:31:45,489 --> 00:31:47,422 and just like that, we'd have him. 696 00:31:48,630 --> 00:31:50,046 No such luck. 697 00:31:50,184 --> 00:31:52,911 There were three employees working that day. 698 00:31:53,049 --> 00:31:54,878 None of them could remember the suspect. 699 00:31:55,016 --> 00:31:56,328 It's a popular place, 700 00:31:56,466 --> 00:31:58,295 so he may have picked it for that reason. 701 00:31:58,433 --> 00:32:01,436 No surveillance system, no cameras anywhere at all. 702 00:32:01,574 --> 00:32:04,301 But the area does have a large homeless population. 703 00:32:06,269 --> 00:32:08,305 [Kirby] Excuse me, sir. 704 00:32:08,443 --> 00:32:10,307 You mind if I talk to you for a sec? 705 00:32:10,445 --> 00:32:11,653 That's... 706 00:32:11,791 --> 00:32:14,311 You're talking about the one near Andulka Park? 707 00:32:14,449 --> 00:32:16,865 Yeah. Yeah, that's it. 708 00:32:17,004 --> 00:32:19,282 I'm just sitting there, right? 709 00:32:19,420 --> 00:32:20,904 And he... 710 00:32:21,042 --> 00:32:22,492 He comes up to me and... 711 00:32:23,631 --> 00:32:25,115 I knew what he wanted. 712 00:32:25,253 --> 00:32:27,773 "I want to hire you as day labor." 713 00:32:27,911 --> 00:32:29,395 [Kirby] Did he say what kind of labor? 714 00:32:29,533 --> 00:32:32,053 Uh... landscaping. 715 00:32:32,191 --> 00:32:33,986 Working on the house or something. 716 00:32:34,124 --> 00:32:35,712 [Kirby] And you get in his car? 717 00:32:35,850 --> 00:32:38,163 -Yep. -[Kirby] What kind of car? 718 00:32:38,301 --> 00:32:39,405 Like a... 719 00:32:40,475 --> 00:32:41,787 sedan or something. 720 00:32:41,925 --> 00:32:44,686 Like a, like a blue Camry. 721 00:32:44,824 --> 00:32:46,516 [Kirby] When I started talking to this guy, 722 00:32:46,654 --> 00:32:48,967 my jaw was on the floor, man. 723 00:32:50,071 --> 00:32:52,729 I mean, if he was telling the truth, this was huge. 724 00:32:52,867 --> 00:32:54,593 We even had a vehicle description. 725 00:32:54,731 --> 00:32:55,801 But it gets even better. 726 00:32:55,939 --> 00:32:57,561 Mr. Johnson tells us 727 00:32:57,699 --> 00:32:59,874 he knows where the suspect's house is. 728 00:33:00,012 --> 00:33:03,050 Apparently, the suspect had driven him to it. 729 00:33:03,188 --> 00:33:05,742 Okay, see that [inaudible]? 730 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,364 It wants you to go left, 731 00:33:07,502 --> 00:33:08,676 but you're going to go straight. 732 00:33:08,814 --> 00:33:10,298 [Taylor] He didn't know the street address, 733 00:33:10,436 --> 00:33:11,817 but he says he thinks he can remember 734 00:33:11,955 --> 00:33:13,681 how to get there by memory. 735 00:33:13,819 --> 00:33:16,718 Apparently, he'd been driven to a residence in Highgrove, 736 00:33:16,856 --> 00:33:18,720 where the suspect says he needs to grab 737 00:33:18,858 --> 00:33:22,000 some tools before they went to the so-called "job site." 738 00:33:24,795 --> 00:33:25,624 [Kirby] And that's what brought us 739 00:33:25,762 --> 00:33:27,798 to 144 Artesian Avenue. 740 00:33:27,936 --> 00:33:29,869 After picking up a duffel bag, 741 00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:32,631 they get on the 215 headed north. 742 00:33:32,769 --> 00:33:35,703 Mr. Johnson says the guy seems normal, friendly. 743 00:33:35,841 --> 00:33:37,877 I mean, even conversational. 744 00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:39,948 And that brings us to the bracelet. 745 00:33:40,087 --> 00:33:41,709 Johnson says he found this bracelet 746 00:33:41,847 --> 00:33:43,883 in a trash container a few years ago. 747 00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:47,370 Says he just likes to wear it, thinks it's cool. 748 00:33:47,508 --> 00:33:49,579 Apparently, the suspect asks him about it, 749 00:33:49,717 --> 00:33:50,890 starts grilling him. 750 00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:52,030 "How long have you been a diabetic? 751 00:33:52,168 --> 00:33:54,239 Do you take insulin?" etc. 752 00:33:54,377 --> 00:33:56,482 Johnson tells him the bracelet's not his. 753 00:33:57,587 --> 00:34:01,384 And then the suspect gets very visibly angry, 754 00:34:01,522 --> 00:34:03,731 pulls off the highway, tells him to get out, 755 00:34:03,869 --> 00:34:06,492 drives off, and that's that. 756 00:34:06,630 --> 00:34:08,046 Johnson never sees him again. 757 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,808 He's incredibly lucky. 758 00:34:11,946 --> 00:34:13,913 I believe if that bracelet had been real, 759 00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:15,605 if Johnson had fit whatever criteria 760 00:34:15,743 --> 00:34:17,952 our suspect was looking for, 761 00:34:18,090 --> 00:34:20,334 he would most definitely be dead right now. 762 00:34:20,472 --> 00:34:22,784 [Taylor] After learning all this we go to the house. 763 00:34:22,922 --> 00:34:24,476 Just a normal house. 764 00:34:24,614 --> 00:34:25,994 We knock. 765 00:34:26,133 --> 00:34:27,582 Nobody's home. 766 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:29,067 But we can't just kick the door in 767 00:34:29,205 --> 00:34:31,069 without probable cause. 768 00:34:31,207 --> 00:34:32,415 I mean, all we've got is the word 769 00:34:32,553 --> 00:34:33,761 of an unemployed drifter 770 00:34:33,899 --> 00:34:35,625 with a minor criminal record 771 00:34:35,763 --> 00:34:38,904 who we also paid for the information he gave us. 772 00:34:39,042 --> 00:34:40,423 It's not going to get us a warrant. 773 00:34:42,183 --> 00:34:44,392 And that's when I see it above the door, 774 00:34:44,530 --> 00:34:47,188 staring us in the face. 775 00:34:47,326 --> 00:34:50,916 We kept most of the evidence we had, which wasn't much, 776 00:34:51,054 --> 00:34:51,951 pretty close to the chest 777 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,126 as far as the media was concerned. 778 00:34:54,264 --> 00:34:56,024 That symbol, the image, 779 00:34:56,163 --> 00:34:57,923 was never released to the public. 780 00:34:58,061 --> 00:34:59,269 So, nobody could know about it 781 00:34:59,407 --> 00:35:01,168 unless they were involved in one of the crimes. 782 00:35:02,445 --> 00:35:03,929 That was enough. 783 00:35:04,067 --> 00:35:05,517 We called in the cavalry. 784 00:35:05,655 --> 00:35:12,627 [tense music playing] 785 00:35:19,772 --> 00:35:20,773 [officer] Big windows on left. 786 00:35:25,813 --> 00:35:31,336 [tense music playing] 787 00:35:31,474 --> 00:35:33,545 All clear! 788 00:35:33,683 --> 00:35:34,787 [Kirby] I don't know what I was expecting 789 00:35:34,925 --> 00:35:36,479 to find in there. 790 00:35:36,617 --> 00:35:38,688 Torture dungeon, haunted house, 791 00:35:38,826 --> 00:35:40,103 something from a horror movie. 792 00:35:41,967 --> 00:35:43,693 But it wasn't like that at all. 793 00:35:43,831 --> 00:35:45,971 It was... banal. 794 00:35:46,109 --> 00:35:47,386 Mundane. 795 00:35:47,524 --> 00:35:48,974 That doesn't mean it wasn't a little weird. 796 00:35:49,112 --> 00:35:55,843 [tense music playing] 797 00:36:10,133 --> 00:36:12,549 But weird doesn't necessarily make you guilty. 798 00:36:12,687 --> 00:36:14,172 There was no evidence the person that lived there 799 00:36:14,310 --> 00:36:15,380 was involved in anything, 800 00:36:15,518 --> 00:36:17,554 other than the symbol over the doorway, 801 00:36:17,692 --> 00:36:19,453 and that was purely circumstantial. 802 00:36:21,213 --> 00:36:23,215 Look at this. 803 00:36:23,353 --> 00:36:25,148 That's just lovely, isn't it? 804 00:36:25,286 --> 00:36:26,770 The property owner was an older woman 805 00:36:26,908 --> 00:36:28,047 who lived in San Diego 806 00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:29,187 who said she'd been renting 807 00:36:29,325 --> 00:36:30,912 the house to... 808 00:36:31,050 --> 00:36:32,914 You guessed it, someone who called themselves 809 00:36:33,052 --> 00:36:34,709 Albert Shiny. 810 00:36:34,847 --> 00:36:36,711 Apparently, Mr. Shiny was willing to pay 811 00:36:36,849 --> 00:36:38,161 for a year upfront in cash, 812 00:36:38,299 --> 00:36:40,370 so she didn't ask too many questions 813 00:36:40,508 --> 00:36:42,924 and had only met him twice. 814 00:36:43,062 --> 00:36:45,410 So, we start dusting for fingerprints 815 00:36:45,548 --> 00:36:47,170 but we can't find any, literally. 816 00:36:47,308 --> 00:36:48,344 Not one print, 817 00:36:48,482 --> 00:36:49,724 which makes no sense for the inside 818 00:36:49,862 --> 00:36:50,760 of someone's house. 819 00:36:50,898 --> 00:36:53,107 There should be thousands of them. 820 00:36:53,245 --> 00:36:54,488 I mean, was this guy wearing gloves 821 00:36:54,626 --> 00:36:57,422 every second of every day? 822 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,320 [Kirby] Finally, we found some fingerprints 823 00:36:59,458 --> 00:37:01,943 on a telescope that was outside, on the deck. 824 00:37:02,081 --> 00:37:03,324 We immediately got them out to the lab 825 00:37:03,462 --> 00:37:05,499 and ran through the computer. 826 00:37:05,637 --> 00:37:09,192 And boom, we got a hit. 827 00:37:09,330 --> 00:37:10,469 The print matched the partial 828 00:37:10,607 --> 00:37:11,781 that was found in '95 829 00:37:11,919 --> 00:37:13,127 on the Noah Lafone murder. 830 00:37:14,439 --> 00:37:15,888 I couldn't believe it. 831 00:37:16,026 --> 00:37:17,580 We might have our guy. 832 00:37:19,961 --> 00:37:23,344 The fingerprints belonged to a Leslie Sykes, 833 00:37:23,482 --> 00:37:27,452 born December 20th, 1962 in Branson, Missouri. 834 00:37:29,488 --> 00:37:31,387 Homer Johnson, the homeless gentleman, 835 00:37:31,525 --> 00:37:34,562 swore Sykes was the person who had given him a ride. 836 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:37,772 The woman who rented the house also IDed him off his photo. 837 00:37:37,910 --> 00:37:40,430 Sykes had no criminal record, no employment history, 838 00:37:40,568 --> 00:37:42,329 no current address, no phone number 839 00:37:42,467 --> 00:37:44,779 or bank account and, big surprise, 840 00:37:44,917 --> 00:37:47,920 the guy hadn't paid taxes in more than two decades. 841 00:37:48,058 --> 00:37:50,268 Yeah, he really was a ghost, but he was our ghost 842 00:37:50,406 --> 00:37:52,787 and we had to find him before he killed again. 843 00:37:52,925 --> 00:37:55,134 Riverside police are asking for the public's help 844 00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:57,171 in locating this man. 845 00:37:57,309 --> 00:37:59,967 Fifty-year-old Leslie Sykes is a person of interest 846 00:38:00,105 --> 00:38:03,695 in what has been dubbed as "the Mr. Shiny murders." 847 00:38:03,833 --> 00:38:06,007 The killer in that case has now taken the lives 848 00:38:06,145 --> 00:38:08,493 of eight people in both San Bernardino 849 00:38:08,631 --> 00:38:11,116 and Riverside counties, and is still at large. 850 00:38:11,254 --> 00:38:13,221 We tried to do a total media blitz, 851 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,501 get this guy's picture in front of as many people as possible. 852 00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:19,193 The story got carried all over California, 853 00:38:19,331 --> 00:38:21,126 even in a few other surrounding states, 854 00:38:21,264 --> 00:38:23,611 but no one was really paying attention. 855 00:38:23,749 --> 00:38:25,786 But one person that did see the coverage 856 00:38:25,924 --> 00:38:27,201 was Leslie Sykes. 857 00:38:29,790 --> 00:38:30,722 [distorted male voice] Leslie Sykes 858 00:38:30,860 --> 00:38:32,413 has been transfigured. 859 00:38:32,551 --> 00:38:35,554 You can't stop him or what he has become. 860 00:38:35,692 --> 00:38:37,004 Hail Azragor! 861 00:38:37,142 --> 00:38:38,488 Hail Drag Aul! 862 00:38:38,626 --> 00:38:40,766 You have no idea what I am saying. 863 00:38:40,904 --> 00:38:43,735 Five to go and then you'll know. 864 00:38:43,873 --> 00:38:47,014 Five to go and then we'll know... 865 00:38:47,152 --> 00:38:48,395 what? 866 00:38:48,533 --> 00:38:50,500 It was a sick game to him, 867 00:38:50,638 --> 00:38:52,226 but it was also absolutely serious. 868 00:38:52,364 --> 00:38:55,022 Would he really stop at five? 869 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,611 The next murder happened less than a month later, 870 00:38:57,749 --> 00:38:59,854 March 19th. 871 00:38:59,992 --> 00:39:02,478 The victim was a 16-year-old 872 00:39:02,616 --> 00:39:05,722 high school student named Victoria Macenroe. 873 00:39:07,034 --> 00:39:08,035 Sixteen. 874 00:39:09,864 --> 00:39:12,867 She was alone at her parents' home in Hiland. 875 00:39:13,005 --> 00:39:16,215 They had gone out to visit friends in Rancho Cucamonga. 876 00:39:16,354 --> 00:39:17,941 Sykes jumped the gate and entered 877 00:39:18,079 --> 00:39:21,359 through a first floor window at or around 9:21. 878 00:39:21,497 --> 00:39:23,015 And we know this 879 00:39:23,153 --> 00:39:25,086 because it was caught on camera. 880 00:39:25,224 --> 00:39:27,675 Okay, so this is the Color Dreams palette 881 00:39:27,813 --> 00:39:29,367 by Adorable Damage. 882 00:39:29,505 --> 00:39:31,403 I am just obsessed with this brand lately. 883 00:39:31,541 --> 00:39:33,957 I actually reviewed their Shimmer Shadow palette 884 00:39:34,095 --> 00:39:35,407 in my top ten video 885 00:39:35,545 --> 00:39:38,237 and they are just killing it, okay? 886 00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:39,480 What I'm going to do 887 00:39:39,618 --> 00:39:41,240 is I'm going to go in 888 00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:44,554 for kind of a smoky look with this one right here. 889 00:39:44,692 --> 00:39:47,971 And then, you can just go in, like, a circular motion. 890 00:39:48,109 --> 00:39:50,077 You don't have to do a bunch of back-and-forth 891 00:39:50,215 --> 00:39:52,217 windshield-wiper crap. 892 00:39:52,355 --> 00:39:53,736 So, start... 893 00:39:55,082 --> 00:39:57,049 "Windshield wiper," that sounds stupid. 894 00:39:57,187 --> 00:39:59,983 [heavy steps] 895 00:40:00,121 --> 00:40:01,778 Hey, I thought you were going to text me on the way home! 896 00:40:01,916 --> 00:40:03,401 I'm starving! 897 00:40:06,611 --> 00:40:08,406 Mom? Mom? 898 00:40:09,855 --> 00:40:10,822 Dad? 899 00:40:16,724 --> 00:40:23,697 [Victoria screams] 900 00:40:29,081 --> 00:40:31,946 No, please! Please! No, please! Please! 901 00:40:32,084 --> 00:40:34,811 [screaming] 902 00:40:34,949 --> 00:40:35,916 [gunshot] 903 00:40:40,230 --> 00:40:45,995 [tense music playing] 904 00:40:46,133 --> 00:40:47,755 [gunshots] 905 00:40:51,172 --> 00:40:58,145 [tense music playing] 906 00:41:33,732 --> 00:41:36,355 [ethereal whispering] 907 00:41:36,494 --> 00:41:42,361 [audio distorts] 908 00:41:45,675 --> 00:41:47,435 The video glitches pretty bad there 909 00:41:47,574 --> 00:41:48,920 and it's hard to tell what's going on. 910 00:41:49,058 --> 00:41:51,163 We've combed over it frame by frame, 911 00:41:51,301 --> 00:41:54,132 but it's just too messed up to see anything clearly. 912 00:41:55,271 --> 00:41:56,755 But obviously, Sykes was performing 913 00:41:56,893 --> 00:41:59,482 some kind of ritual. 914 00:41:59,620 --> 00:42:02,071 Ritual murder, strictly speaking, 915 00:42:02,209 --> 00:42:05,039 is a relatively obscure phenomenon 916 00:42:05,177 --> 00:42:07,766 not just in the United States, but worldwide. 917 00:42:07,904 --> 00:42:12,460 It just doesn't happen that often in its purest form. 918 00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:14,739 To this day, people still believe 919 00:42:14,877 --> 00:42:18,674 that the Manson Family was a satanic cult. 920 00:42:19,778 --> 00:42:20,952 It's not true. 921 00:42:21,090 --> 00:42:22,609 Of course, that's not to say 922 00:42:22,747 --> 00:42:24,956 that ritual murder never happens. 923 00:42:25,094 --> 00:42:28,718 There were the murder-suicides in the Solar Temple cult, 924 00:42:28,856 --> 00:42:32,757 the Fall Rivers cult, Order of the Black Sun. 925 00:42:32,895 --> 00:42:37,071 The Mr. Shiny murders definitely seem ritualistic, 926 00:42:37,209 --> 00:42:40,074 but I didn't recognize any of the iconography. 927 00:42:40,212 --> 00:42:42,525 This wasn't some goetic rite 928 00:42:42,663 --> 00:42:46,149 pulled from a grimoire, there was nothing Abrahamic. 929 00:42:46,287 --> 00:42:48,496 As I told the police at that time, 930 00:42:49,636 --> 00:42:50,809 whatever it was, 931 00:42:52,259 --> 00:42:55,642 this guy was a true believer 932 00:42:55,780 --> 00:42:58,679 and very, very dangerous. 933 00:43:00,232 --> 00:43:02,614 And this is all crazy in its own right, 934 00:43:02,752 --> 00:43:06,100 but what's truly unexpected is what happens next. 935 00:43:07,377 --> 00:43:12,831 [panting] 936 00:43:19,631 --> 00:43:24,256 [Victoria moans in pain] 937 00:43:24,394 --> 00:43:26,465 Somehow, Victoria survives being shot 938 00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:27,466 not only in the head, 939 00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:28,744 but in the back twice 940 00:43:28,882 --> 00:43:30,262 and the shoulder. 941 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,437 This is probably because a 22-caliber weapon 942 00:43:32,575 --> 00:43:36,337 was used, and just incredible luck. 943 00:43:38,132 --> 00:43:38,995 [woman] Victoria? 944 00:43:39,133 --> 00:43:41,377 [woman screams] Oh, my God! 945 00:43:41,515 --> 00:43:43,551 Emergency workers arrive in about 15 minutes 946 00:43:43,690 --> 00:43:45,312 and they're able to stabilize Victoria 947 00:43:45,450 --> 00:43:48,418 on her way to St. Bernardine Medical Center. 948 00:43:48,556 --> 00:43:52,215 I wish I could tell you the story ended there. 949 00:43:52,353 --> 00:43:53,769 After going through surgery, 950 00:43:53,907 --> 00:43:55,011 she was put in the recovery ward, 951 00:43:55,149 --> 00:43:56,737 and I had multiple officers 952 00:43:56,875 --> 00:43:58,532 assigned to guard her room, just in case. 953 00:43:58,670 --> 00:44:01,328 And the hospital security was put on alert. 954 00:44:01,466 --> 00:44:02,950 It should've been enough. 955 00:44:04,952 --> 00:44:09,025 [tense music playing] 956 00:44:09,163 --> 00:44:10,993 Sykes attacks and subdues a nurse 957 00:44:11,131 --> 00:44:14,030 just getting off his shift in the hospital parking lot, 958 00:44:14,168 --> 00:44:16,239 takes his uniform and entry badge. 959 00:44:17,758 --> 00:44:20,278 He walks straight through the front doors, 960 00:44:20,416 --> 00:44:21,486 right past security, 961 00:44:21,624 --> 00:44:23,868 and goes to Macenroe's floor. 962 00:44:24,006 --> 00:44:27,388 I mean, he seems to know exactly where to go. 963 00:44:27,526 --> 00:44:29,080 He goes to the nurses' station 964 00:44:29,218 --> 00:44:31,392 and introduces himself to the other staff, 965 00:44:31,530 --> 00:44:34,361 says he was transferred from Pediatrics. 966 00:44:34,499 --> 00:44:35,742 They believe him. 967 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,226 Says he knows all the vernacular 968 00:44:37,364 --> 00:44:38,883 and hospital procedure. 969 00:44:39,021 --> 00:44:40,194 Sykes quite literally cares 970 00:44:40,332 --> 00:44:41,402 for three different patients 971 00:44:41,540 --> 00:44:43,473 over a four-hour period. 972 00:44:43,611 --> 00:44:46,442 He walks by police and security several times 973 00:44:46,580 --> 00:44:48,030 and is never noticed. 974 00:44:49,652 --> 00:44:51,516 Yeah, including by Joe or me. 975 00:44:54,588 --> 00:44:55,693 [Kirby] He was right there. 976 00:44:57,073 --> 00:44:59,697 We practically touched each other. 977 00:44:59,835 --> 00:45:01,181 If I'd just been paying attention, 978 00:45:01,319 --> 00:45:03,597 if I'd just looked into his eyes... 979 00:45:05,944 --> 00:45:07,635 I'll never forgive myself for not realizing 980 00:45:07,774 --> 00:45:11,605 just how bold he might really be. 981 00:45:11,743 --> 00:45:13,434 He waits until there's a shift change, 982 00:45:13,572 --> 00:45:15,747 enters the room for storing pharmaceuticals, 983 00:45:15,885 --> 00:45:18,819 and proceeds to poison an AB negative blood transfusion bag 984 00:45:18,957 --> 00:45:20,787 with an industrial cleaner 985 00:45:20,925 --> 00:45:22,927 he finds in a custodial closet. 986 00:45:23,065 --> 00:45:25,826 He knows that Macenroe is the only with AB negative 987 00:45:25,964 --> 00:45:29,554 in the wing and is the only one who will receive that bag. 988 00:45:31,038 --> 00:45:32,005 Then he leaves. 989 00:45:33,972 --> 00:45:35,940 Later that night, a nurse comes in to rotate out 990 00:45:36,078 --> 00:45:37,562 Macenroe's backup bag 991 00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:39,253 and unknowingly replaces it 992 00:45:39,391 --> 00:45:41,221 with the poisoned one. 993 00:45:41,359 --> 00:45:42,981 Victoria was dead within minutes, 994 00:45:43,119 --> 00:45:45,604 but Sykes was long gone by then. 995 00:45:45,743 --> 00:45:46,951 This was a huge blow 996 00:45:47,089 --> 00:45:49,160 to everyone involved in the case. 997 00:45:49,298 --> 00:45:51,265 The one victim that survived, 998 00:45:51,403 --> 00:45:53,647 we couldn't protect her. 999 00:45:53,785 --> 00:45:55,269 I mean, we were right there. 1000 00:45:55,407 --> 00:45:57,340 We could've had him. 1001 00:45:57,478 --> 00:45:58,825 Yeah, that was one of the roughest nights 1002 00:45:58,963 --> 00:46:00,481 in my entire life. 1003 00:46:04,865 --> 00:46:06,384 Could we take a break? 1004 00:46:06,522 --> 00:46:07,488 [producer] Yeah. 1005 00:46:09,939 --> 00:46:13,494 [sad music playing] 1006 00:46:13,632 --> 00:46:14,979 [man] It was a rollercoaster. 1007 00:46:20,605 --> 00:46:22,193 Realizing that she might be hurt, 1008 00:46:25,023 --> 00:46:30,442 then thinking that she might be okay... 1009 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:38,312 thinking that she was okay, and... 1010 00:46:41,246 --> 00:46:43,801 Some days I feel like she's still here. 1011 00:46:46,355 --> 00:46:53,327 [sad music playing] 1012 00:46:57,021 --> 00:46:59,195 [producer] 1013 00:47:00,921 --> 00:47:01,957 Yeah. 1014 00:47:02,095 --> 00:47:04,200 We couldn't touch it. 1015 00:47:04,338 --> 00:47:06,720 I think about that saying a lot, 1016 00:47:06,858 --> 00:47:10,137 "you really die the last time someone says your name." 1017 00:47:11,311 --> 00:47:14,417 Yeah, I guess we kept all her stuff 1018 00:47:14,555 --> 00:47:17,489 because we didn't want her to die. 1019 00:47:19,802 --> 00:47:23,012 Even though I know she's dead. 1020 00:47:24,980 --> 00:47:26,740 Victoria Macenroe was serial killer 1021 00:47:26,878 --> 00:47:29,087 Leslie Sykes' ninth and most recent victim 1022 00:47:29,225 --> 00:47:30,951 in the Mr. Shiny murders, 1023 00:47:31,089 --> 00:47:33,057 a killing spree that spans three counties 1024 00:47:33,195 --> 00:47:34,990 and over 18 years. 1025 00:47:35,128 --> 00:47:36,715 Authorities continue to urge the public 1026 00:47:36,854 --> 00:47:39,028 to keep a watchful lookout for Sykes, 1027 00:47:39,166 --> 00:47:41,065 who remains at large and is considered armed 1028 00:47:41,203 --> 00:47:42,998 and extremely dangerous. 1029 00:47:43,136 --> 00:47:44,689 Residents of the Hiland neighborhood 1030 00:47:44,827 --> 00:47:46,449 where Macenroe was murdered 1031 00:47:46,587 --> 00:47:48,141 have expressed their frustration at police 1032 00:47:48,279 --> 00:47:50,108 for their inability to capture, 1033 00:47:50,246 --> 00:47:51,696 or even come close to capturing, 1034 00:47:51,834 --> 00:47:53,594 the elusive killer. 1035 00:47:53,732 --> 00:47:55,286 It's unacceptable. 1036 00:47:55,424 --> 00:47:56,839 It's insane. 1037 00:47:56,977 --> 00:47:59,393 Somebody in the San Bernardino Police Department 1038 00:47:59,531 --> 00:48:00,912 should be held accountable 1039 00:48:01,050 --> 00:48:02,638 for letting it get out of hand like this. 1040 00:48:02,776 --> 00:48:05,158 It's messed up how they haven't caught the guy yet. 1041 00:48:06,193 --> 00:48:07,919 This used to be a pretty great place to live, 1042 00:48:08,057 --> 00:48:10,059 but, honestly, I'm really scared. 1043 00:48:10,197 --> 00:48:12,199 And that girl, she just lives, like, 1044 00:48:12,337 --> 00:48:13,787 a couple blocks from here! 1045 00:48:13,925 --> 00:48:16,376 So, I mean, who's next, right? 1046 00:48:16,514 --> 00:48:17,618 [Taylor] We were really feeling the pressure 1047 00:48:17,756 --> 00:48:18,757 by this point. 1048 00:48:18,896 --> 00:48:20,173 Macenroe's murder seemed to be 1049 00:48:20,311 --> 00:48:22,313 the straw that broke the camel's back 1050 00:48:22,451 --> 00:48:25,005 in terms of public outrage. 1051 00:48:25,143 --> 00:48:26,800 But I felt for all of them. 1052 00:48:26,938 --> 00:48:29,872 Every single victim deserved justice. 1053 00:48:30,010 --> 00:48:32,771 And for everything we'd done up until this point, 1054 00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:36,430 until you catch your guy, you haven't done shit. 1055 00:48:36,568 --> 00:48:38,432 We'd already been offering a cash reward 1056 00:48:38,570 --> 00:48:41,297 for any lead that led to the arrest of Leslie Sykes, 1057 00:48:41,435 --> 00:48:44,680 but I convinced the D.A.'s Office to substantially up it. 1058 00:48:44,818 --> 00:48:46,095 It ended up being one of the highest 1059 00:48:46,233 --> 00:48:47,476 in San Bernardino's history. 1060 00:48:47,614 --> 00:48:50,203 $80,000 for just one person. 1061 00:48:50,341 --> 00:48:51,687 At the same time, we were digging 1062 00:48:51,825 --> 00:48:53,344 into Sykes' past, trying to figure out 1063 00:48:53,482 --> 00:48:56,795 everything we could, which wasn't easy. 1064 00:48:56,934 --> 00:48:58,901 All his known relatives were dead. 1065 00:48:59,039 --> 00:49:00,558 He had been briefly married in '88 1066 00:49:00,696 --> 00:49:02,767 to a woman named Suzanne Hemler, 1067 00:49:02,905 --> 00:49:04,734 but that was over by '91. 1068 00:49:04,872 --> 00:49:07,082 Tried to contact her, but she committed suicide 1069 00:49:07,220 --> 00:49:09,187 in 2008. 1070 00:49:09,325 --> 00:49:10,809 We started reaching out to people 1071 00:49:10,948 --> 00:49:12,156 Sykes went to high school with, 1072 00:49:12,294 --> 00:49:14,779 but nobody seems to remember him. 1073 00:49:14,917 --> 00:49:17,437 Finally, we find someone who will talk to us. 1074 00:49:17,575 --> 00:49:19,439 A guy named Jared Kelly. 1075 00:49:53,231 --> 00:49:54,750 [Kirby] How so? 1076 00:49:54,888 --> 00:49:57,028 [Jared] Just, like, agitated, 1077 00:49:57,166 --> 00:49:58,996 distracted. 1078 00:50:04,829 --> 00:50:06,244 [Taylor] A cave? 1079 00:50:27,162 --> 00:50:28,197 [Taylor] Like what? 1080 00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:50,047 It's, like, ingrained. 1081 00:50:59,366 --> 00:51:00,988 Which is metal as fuck. 1082 00:51:04,923 --> 00:51:06,718 [dial tone] 1083 00:51:06,856 --> 00:51:07,961 [dispatcher] 1084 00:51:08,099 --> 00:51:13,380 [male voice] 1085 00:51:13,518 --> 00:51:15,658 [dispatcher] 1086 00:51:15,796 --> 00:51:17,108 [male voice] Police. 1087 00:51:17,246 --> 00:51:18,799 -[male voice] -[woman sobbing in background] 1088 00:51:18,937 --> 00:51:21,492 [dispatcher] 1089 00:51:21,630 --> 00:51:23,632 [Taylor] Sykes attempts to break into the residence 1090 00:51:23,770 --> 00:51:25,254 of Miles and Kelly Harris, 1091 00:51:25,392 --> 00:51:27,808 an older couple living in Rancho West. 1092 00:51:27,946 --> 00:51:30,190 He scaled the fence into their backyard, 1093 00:51:30,328 --> 00:51:31,812 but is almost immediately attacked 1094 00:51:31,950 --> 00:51:34,815 by the Harrises' 48-pound pit bull, Caesar. 1095 00:51:34,953 --> 00:51:37,024 Mr. Harris overhears the commotion, 1096 00:51:37,163 --> 00:51:38,302 looks into his backyard 1097 00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:39,924 and sees the struggle happening. 1098 00:51:40,062 --> 00:51:41,684 I mean, this was a big animal, 1099 00:51:41,822 --> 00:51:44,825 and it's able to physically knock Sykes off his feet. 1100 00:51:44,963 --> 00:51:46,275 We know he was hurt pretty bad 1101 00:51:46,413 --> 00:51:47,759 because we find blood on the ground 1102 00:51:47,897 --> 00:51:49,761 in multiple places. 1103 00:51:49,899 --> 00:51:51,763 Sadly, the dog's only able to keep this up 1104 00:51:51,901 --> 00:51:54,628 for so long before Sykes uses a bladed weapon 1105 00:51:54,766 --> 00:51:56,009 and stabs it repeatedly, 1106 00:51:56,147 --> 00:51:57,907 then he jumps the fence again. 1107 00:51:58,045 --> 00:51:59,633 [Kirby] This time, I was not going to let 1108 00:51:59,771 --> 00:52:01,014 the same thing happen to the Harrises 1109 00:52:01,152 --> 00:52:03,154 that happened to Victoria Macenroe. 1110 00:52:03,292 --> 00:52:06,399 They were immediately put into protective custody. 1111 00:52:06,537 --> 00:52:08,573 Not that it mattered, because Sykes must have had 1112 00:52:08,711 --> 00:52:11,197 a backup plan for that night. 1113 00:52:11,335 --> 00:52:13,992 31-year-old Leo Deetz was working the night shift 1114 00:52:14,131 --> 00:52:15,477 at a 24-hour doughnut shop 1115 00:52:15,615 --> 00:52:17,548 in La Sierra when he was attacked. 1116 00:52:17,686 --> 00:52:18,721 [Leo] Yeah, I don't like fantasy shit, 1117 00:52:18,859 --> 00:52:21,276 but this one's actually pretty dope. 1118 00:52:21,414 --> 00:52:25,521 It's, like, violence and sex and stuff. 1119 00:52:25,659 --> 00:52:28,731 It's based on books, so it seems pretty legit. 1120 00:52:29,939 --> 00:52:30,837 [chuckles] 1121 00:52:30,975 --> 00:52:33,909 Yeah. Yeah, you too, man. 1122 00:52:34,047 --> 00:52:35,359 Yeah. Peace! 1123 00:52:38,051 --> 00:52:45,058 [tense music playing] 1124 00:53:01,419 --> 00:53:03,559 [Leo groans in pain] 1125 00:53:08,978 --> 00:53:15,985 [Leo screams] 1126 00:53:21,577 --> 00:53:23,752 [dramatic music playing] 1127 00:53:23,890 --> 00:53:25,443 [Taylor] Leo Deetz is found the next morning 1128 00:53:25,581 --> 00:53:28,101 with his heart removed from his body. 1129 00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:35,212 [tense music playing] 1130 00:53:38,249 --> 00:53:40,838 A security guard sees Sykes exit the back of the shop 1131 00:53:40,976 --> 00:53:43,427 and tries to confront him, but Sykes flees. 1132 00:53:44,221 --> 00:53:46,084 [guard] Honestly, I was just doing my job. 1133 00:53:46,223 --> 00:53:47,948 I was wrapping up my rounds for the evening 1134 00:53:48,086 --> 00:53:49,329 here in this complex. 1135 00:53:49,467 --> 00:53:50,434 I was going to take some doughnuts home 1136 00:53:50,572 --> 00:53:51,573 to me and the girlfriend. 1137 00:53:51,711 --> 00:53:52,919 I saw a man leaving the shop 1138 00:53:53,057 --> 00:53:55,439 in a very, very weird mask. 1139 00:53:55,577 --> 00:53:56,992 [Taylor] The guard still manages to grab 1140 00:53:57,130 --> 00:53:59,719 his license plate number and report it to the police. 1141 00:53:59,857 --> 00:54:01,652 I'm just bummed I didn't get the reward money. 1142 00:54:01,997 --> 00:54:03,930 In the surveillance video from the doughnut shop, 1143 00:54:04,068 --> 00:54:06,415 you could tell Sykes was in pain from the dog bite. 1144 00:54:06,553 --> 00:54:08,452 He's unfocused and unprepared. 1145 00:54:08,590 --> 00:54:10,039 Then he's forced to ditch his car 1146 00:54:10,177 --> 00:54:11,627 after it's reported by the guard, 1147 00:54:11,765 --> 00:54:12,973 which we find abandoned 1148 00:54:13,111 --> 00:54:15,976 near the 91 and 215 interchange. 1149 00:54:16,114 --> 00:54:17,599 The more desperate Sykes became, 1150 00:54:17,737 --> 00:54:20,947 the more likely he was to make a mistake. 1151 00:54:21,085 --> 00:54:22,120 That was the hope. 1152 00:54:23,156 --> 00:54:24,330 [Kirby] We'd kind of hit a brick wall 1153 00:54:24,468 --> 00:54:25,814 digging into Sykes' past. 1154 00:54:25,952 --> 00:54:29,127 He just vanished into thin air after '91. 1155 00:54:29,818 --> 00:54:30,819 That's when we realized 1156 00:54:30,957 --> 00:54:33,856 it's because he wasn't in the country. 1157 00:54:33,994 --> 00:54:36,514 Turns out Sykes had used his late ex-wife's credit card 1158 00:54:36,652 --> 00:54:42,106 to purchase a one-way ticket to, of all places, Jerusalem. 1159 00:54:42,969 --> 00:54:45,730 I know, what the F, right? 1160 00:54:45,868 --> 00:54:47,560 I mean, we were just baffled. 1161 00:54:47,698 --> 00:54:49,803 And we also realized this was beyond the scope 1162 00:54:49,941 --> 00:54:51,943 of our resources, so we reached out 1163 00:54:52,081 --> 00:54:53,980 to the FBI and asked for their help. 1164 00:54:54,429 --> 00:54:56,638 They, in turn, got in contact with Interpol 1165 00:54:56,776 --> 00:54:58,881 and a whole side investigation got underway, 1166 00:54:59,019 --> 00:55:01,470 trying to find out what Sykes was doing over there. 1167 00:55:02,575 --> 00:55:04,301 What was found out was... 1168 00:55:05,543 --> 00:55:07,683 Let's just say it didn't clear anything up. 1169 00:55:08,028 --> 00:55:10,341 Sykes flies to Jerusalem in '96, 1170 00:55:10,479 --> 00:55:12,861 not long after the murder of Noah Lafone, 1171 00:55:12,999 --> 00:55:15,346 and then, evidently, he passes into Syria. 1172 00:55:15,967 --> 00:55:18,522 Now, the information here is sketchy at best, 1173 00:55:18,660 --> 00:55:20,696 but apparently, Sykes was living in northern Iraq 1174 00:55:20,834 --> 00:55:21,973 for two years, 1175 00:55:22,111 --> 00:55:24,217 but then flees after Operation Desert Fox 1176 00:55:24,355 --> 00:55:26,012 in '98. 1177 00:55:26,150 --> 00:55:28,808 As far as we know, Sykes didn't speak Arabic, 1178 00:55:28,946 --> 00:55:32,225 but apparently, he learned. 1179 00:55:32,363 --> 00:55:34,469 Sykes then crosses the border into Turkey, 1180 00:55:34,607 --> 00:55:37,023 and then into Italy in 2001. 1181 00:55:37,161 --> 00:55:39,094 While there, he attends a museum exhibit 1182 00:55:39,232 --> 00:55:42,477 on Etruscan pottery in the city of Mantua 1183 00:55:42,615 --> 00:55:46,170 and gets into some sort of altercation and is arrested. 1184 00:55:47,551 --> 00:55:48,621 I don't know what Sykes is doing 1185 00:55:48,759 --> 00:55:50,208 looking at Etruscan pottery, 1186 00:55:50,347 --> 00:55:51,762 but he doesn't stay in Italy long 1187 00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:54,730 before moving on to Germany in 2003. 1188 00:55:54,868 --> 00:55:56,594 And that's where we learn of someone who claims 1189 00:55:56,732 --> 00:55:59,079 to have had direct contact with him there. 1190 00:55:59,217 --> 00:56:03,739 I met Mr. Sykes when I was living in Xanten. 1191 00:56:03,877 --> 00:56:06,742 He contacted me through the internet 1192 00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,125 about several books that I was selling. 1193 00:56:10,263 --> 00:56:11,782 Specifically, he was looking to buy 1194 00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:17,443 my copy of a printed work from the late Middle Ages, 1195 00:56:17,581 --> 00:56:21,308 a manuscript known as... 1196 00:56:21,447 --> 00:56:23,310 It's a very valuable book, 1197 00:56:23,449 --> 00:56:27,211 only half a dozen copies or something still exist. 1198 00:56:27,349 --> 00:56:29,040 [producer] 1199 00:56:29,178 --> 00:56:31,871 It's a book of spells, basically. 1200 00:56:32,009 --> 00:56:33,217 Witchcraft. 1201 00:56:33,355 --> 00:56:34,908 [producer] 1202 00:56:35,046 --> 00:56:36,358 Well, he wanted to buy it off me, 1203 00:56:36,496 --> 00:56:38,015 but I wasn't selling. 1204 00:56:38,153 --> 00:56:40,155 I don't know if he was for real or not, 1205 00:56:40,293 --> 00:56:42,813 but he offered some wild prizes. 1206 00:56:42,951 --> 00:56:45,678 100, 150,000 euro. 1207 00:56:45,816 --> 00:56:48,301 The guy kind of creeped me out, to be honest. 1208 00:56:50,096 --> 00:56:52,650 So, when my shop was vandalized 1209 00:56:52,788 --> 00:56:54,445 a couple days later and the book was gone, 1210 00:56:54,583 --> 00:56:56,999 I immediately knew who did it. 1211 00:56:57,137 --> 00:56:59,450 To know that I came that close in contact 1212 00:56:59,588 --> 00:57:01,141 with a serial killer... 1213 00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:04,248 The thing that gets me more than anything else 1214 00:57:04,386 --> 00:57:06,595 though is what the hell happened to that book. 1215 00:57:07,631 --> 00:57:10,530 [Kirby] We had hoped, maybe, that Sykes 1216 00:57:10,668 --> 00:57:12,256 would be deterred by how bungled 1217 00:57:12,394 --> 00:57:14,189 the last two attacks had been. 1218 00:57:14,327 --> 00:57:17,192 We didn't think he would stop, but maybe just slow down 1219 00:57:17,330 --> 00:57:18,952 long enough for us to find him. 1220 00:57:20,298 --> 00:57:23,336 If anything, it must have reinvigorated his cause. 1221 00:57:23,474 --> 00:57:24,855 Get in the fucking car, Coby! 1222 00:57:24,993 --> 00:57:26,063 -This is not our issue. -[man] Wait! 1223 00:57:26,201 --> 00:57:27,167 We can't just leave him! 1224 00:57:27,305 --> 00:57:28,168 Are you fucking kidding me? 1225 00:57:28,306 --> 00:57:29,238 This is not our problem! 1226 00:57:29,376 --> 00:57:30,239 I'm leaving. 1227 00:57:30,377 --> 00:57:31,586 [man] Emily! Wait! 1228 00:57:34,830 --> 00:57:41,112 [tense music playing] 1229 00:57:41,250 --> 00:57:42,631 Holy shit. 1230 00:57:45,462 --> 00:57:47,015 This is fucking crazy. 1231 00:57:58,958 --> 00:58:00,511 [Kirby] The victim was Saroj Mallick, 1232 00:58:00,649 --> 00:58:02,271 the security guard that saw Sykes 1233 00:58:02,409 --> 00:58:03,445 behind the doughnut shop 1234 00:58:03,583 --> 00:58:05,516 and reported his plate to police. 1235 00:58:05,654 --> 00:58:07,207 After leaving work on April 2nd, 1236 00:58:07,345 --> 00:58:08,864 he was supposed to meet his girlfriend at a bar 1237 00:58:09,002 --> 00:58:10,659 at 8:30 but never shows. 1238 00:58:10,797 --> 00:58:12,730 He doesn't show up for work the next day either, 1239 00:58:12,868 --> 00:58:14,594 and his cell phone is off. 1240 00:58:14,732 --> 00:58:16,665 Although his coworkers are a little concerned, 1241 00:58:16,803 --> 00:58:18,667 nothing's reported to police. 1242 00:58:18,805 --> 00:58:20,704 I guess he had a habit of just blowing out 1243 00:58:20,842 --> 00:58:22,913 to Vegas for the weekend without telling anybody. 1244 00:58:24,017 --> 00:58:26,710 But he didn't go to Vegas. 1245 00:58:26,848 --> 00:58:28,263 [Taylor] The following day he's found hung 1246 00:58:28,401 --> 00:58:30,714 from a public playground swing set. 1247 00:58:30,852 --> 00:58:33,855 "Displayed" is the word. 1248 00:58:33,993 --> 00:58:36,478 It was a form of torture the ancient Vikings 1249 00:58:36,616 --> 00:58:39,585 used to use called "blood eagle." 1250 00:58:39,723 --> 00:58:42,104 The flesh of the back is cut open, 1251 00:58:42,242 --> 00:58:44,072 ribs are bent back, 1252 00:58:44,210 --> 00:58:46,626 then both lungs are pulled out. 1253 00:58:46,764 --> 00:58:48,525 The mutilation resembles... 1254 00:58:49,733 --> 00:58:50,941 Yeah, you guessed it, wings. 1255 00:58:51,079 --> 00:58:52,494 Blood eagle. 1256 00:58:52,632 --> 00:58:55,773 It was clearly done for dramatic effect. 1257 00:58:55,911 --> 00:58:58,017 When the Fire Department is getting his body down, 1258 00:58:58,155 --> 00:58:59,501 they find a CD. 1259 00:59:01,641 --> 00:59:08,199 [digital sounds] 1260 00:59:11,893 --> 00:59:17,312 [soft music playing] 1261 00:59:17,450 --> 00:59:18,762 [digital sounds] 1262 00:59:18,900 --> 00:59:23,214 [dance music in background] 1263 00:59:23,352 --> 00:59:27,253 [man groans] 1264 00:59:27,391 --> 00:59:28,426 [man] The fuck? 1265 00:59:30,843 --> 00:59:31,844 Hello? 1266 00:59:33,535 --> 00:59:34,916 Hello? 1267 00:59:35,054 --> 00:59:36,434 Anybody, help! 1268 00:59:39,368 --> 00:59:40,231 Hello! 1269 00:59:40,369 --> 00:59:41,439 Help! 1270 00:59:44,097 --> 00:59:44,995 Hello! 1271 00:59:45,133 --> 00:59:46,272 Somebody help me! 1272 00:59:48,308 --> 00:59:49,758 Yo, yo, yo, yo! Okay, okay! 1273 00:59:49,896 --> 00:59:50,759 Whoa, whoa, whoa! 1274 00:59:50,897 --> 00:59:51,760 Sir, please no, no, no! 1275 00:59:51,898 --> 00:59:52,865 Oh! Oh, shit! 1276 00:59:53,003 --> 00:59:54,832 No! No! Fuck! 1277 00:59:54,970 --> 00:59:58,042 -No! Shit! Somebody! -[drill whirring] 1278 00:59:58,180 --> 00:59:59,768 Stop it! Somebody! 1279 00:59:59,906 --> 01:00:01,598 Okay, I'll do anything! I'll do anything! 1280 01:00:01,736 --> 01:00:03,634 Please stop! Please stop! Please stop! 1281 01:00:03,772 --> 01:00:05,912 [ringing sound] 1282 01:00:06,050 --> 01:00:06,948 Okay. 1283 01:00:07,086 --> 01:00:08,121 "I have been selected 1284 01:00:08,259 --> 01:00:10,710 because of my direct actions. 1285 01:00:10,848 --> 01:00:13,437 I should not have interfered with the Great One's plan. 1286 01:00:13,575 --> 01:00:18,753 And for my blasphemies, I will be put into transit." 1287 01:00:20,030 --> 01:00:20,996 Hello? 1288 01:00:24,482 --> 01:00:25,483 Hello? 1289 01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:29,487 Help! 1290 01:00:29,626 --> 01:00:31,282 He wanted us to know 1291 01:00:31,420 --> 01:00:33,112 he was punishing this guy 1292 01:00:33,250 --> 01:00:34,285 for trying to stop him. 1293 01:00:34,423 --> 01:00:35,666 He was saying, 1294 01:00:35,804 --> 01:00:37,495 "Stay out of his way or else." 1295 01:00:37,634 --> 01:00:39,325 He was saying, 1296 01:00:39,463 --> 01:00:41,741 "This is your fault, not mine." 1297 01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,470 [producer] 1298 01:00:46,608 --> 01:00:47,954 Oh, but I do. 1299 01:00:49,059 --> 01:00:51,371 No, I'll carry his death, and all of their deaths, 1300 01:00:51,509 --> 01:00:54,029 on my conscience until the day I leave this planet. 1301 01:00:55,375 --> 01:00:56,860 [Taylor] After the Mallick murder, 1302 01:00:56,998 --> 01:00:57,999 a lot less tips came in. 1303 01:00:58,137 --> 01:00:59,552 People were afraid. 1304 01:00:59,690 --> 01:01:02,486 I guess they had every right to be. 1305 01:01:02,624 --> 01:01:03,798 We picked apart Sykes' house 1306 01:01:03,936 --> 01:01:04,902 with a fine-toothed comb 1307 01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:06,110 and found almost nothing 1308 01:01:06,248 --> 01:01:07,594 useful at all. 1309 01:01:07,733 --> 01:01:09,804 We excavated parts of the backyard. 1310 01:01:09,942 --> 01:01:12,185 There was nothing but dirt. 1311 01:01:12,323 --> 01:01:15,188 We knew Sykes used Presto brand toothpaste, 1312 01:01:15,326 --> 01:01:17,052 the one DVD he owned was season two 1313 01:01:17,190 --> 01:01:18,709 of Meet the Furballs, 1314 01:01:18,847 --> 01:01:21,160 and his favorite drink was 2% milk. 1315 01:01:21,298 --> 01:01:22,161 Yikes. 1316 01:01:22,299 --> 01:01:23,610 He ate there, 1317 01:01:23,749 --> 01:01:25,440 he slept there, but it didn't seem 1318 01:01:25,578 --> 01:01:26,683 like he lived there. 1319 01:01:26,821 --> 01:01:28,236 It was like a front. 1320 01:01:28,374 --> 01:01:30,065 It was like a show being put on to pretend 1321 01:01:30,203 --> 01:01:32,689 the person that lived there was vaguely normal. 1322 01:01:33,897 --> 01:01:35,657 After a long day of chasing some leads 1323 01:01:35,795 --> 01:01:38,349 that went nowhere, 1324 01:01:38,487 --> 01:01:40,110 I went to the backyard of Sykes' house 1325 01:01:40,248 --> 01:01:41,525 to get some fresh air. 1326 01:01:42,699 --> 01:01:45,598 I think I was hoping I'd have some transcendent moment 1327 01:01:45,736 --> 01:01:47,289 a lot of profilers talk about, you know, 1328 01:01:47,427 --> 01:01:48,877 when you enter the headspace of the killer 1329 01:01:49,015 --> 01:01:50,603 and you start to think like them. 1330 01:01:51,949 --> 01:01:53,088 That never happened. 1331 01:01:54,193 --> 01:01:55,884 None of it made any sense to me. 1332 01:01:57,230 --> 01:01:58,369 So, it was like 2:00 in the morning 1333 01:01:58,507 --> 01:02:00,130 and I'm just... 1334 01:02:00,268 --> 01:02:03,581 you know, zoning out, looking up at the stars. 1335 01:02:05,204 --> 01:02:09,035 And then I remember that telescope 1336 01:02:09,173 --> 01:02:11,037 that we pulled Sykes' prints from. 1337 01:02:13,074 --> 01:02:15,386 What stars was Leslie Sykes looking at? 1338 01:02:16,525 --> 01:02:18,596 The area in the sky that Leslie Sykes 1339 01:02:18,735 --> 01:02:20,322 had his telescope pointed at was interesting 1340 01:02:20,460 --> 01:02:21,496 for two reasons. 1341 01:02:21,634 --> 01:02:23,360 First, he was looking at Ophiuchus. 1342 01:02:23,498 --> 01:02:25,949 Now, most people hadn't even heard of Ophiuchus. 1343 01:02:26,087 --> 01:02:28,434 It's one of the 13 major constellations 1344 01:02:28,572 --> 01:02:29,953 along the ecliptic, 1345 01:02:30,091 --> 01:02:32,749 smack in between Scorpius and Sagittarius. 1346 01:02:32,887 --> 01:02:33,957 It's also called the... 1347 01:02:34,095 --> 01:02:36,131 The so-called 13th zodiac sign, 1348 01:02:36,269 --> 01:02:38,271 although that's getting into astrology 1349 01:02:38,409 --> 01:02:39,652 and not hard science. 1350 01:02:39,790 --> 01:02:42,793 My wife would kill me for explaining it that way. 1351 01:02:42,931 --> 01:02:44,795 The ancient Greeks were the one that named 1352 01:02:44,933 --> 01:02:46,832 all the constellations as we know them today. 1353 01:02:46,970 --> 01:02:50,525 Pisces is a fish, Taurus is a bull, etc. 1354 01:02:50,663 --> 01:02:53,355 Ophiuchus is the serpent bearer, 1355 01:02:53,493 --> 01:02:56,669 a man battling a giant snake. 1356 01:02:56,807 --> 01:02:58,222 The reason I mention Ophiuchus 1357 01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,121 is because a rare celestial event 1358 01:03:00,259 --> 01:03:01,881 was taking place in its constellational 1359 01:03:02,019 --> 01:03:03,780 borders that exact month. 1360 01:03:03,918 --> 01:03:05,229 A planetary alignment 1361 01:03:05,367 --> 01:03:07,680 where Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn 1362 01:03:07,818 --> 01:03:09,820 come in earshot of each other 1363 01:03:09,958 --> 01:03:12,858 in a way that happens once every 800 years or so. 1364 01:03:12,996 --> 01:03:14,929 This is a real thing, you can look it up. 1365 01:03:15,067 --> 01:03:17,103 May 13th, 2011. 1366 01:03:17,241 --> 01:03:19,312 You could view it with a naked eye. 1367 01:03:19,450 --> 01:03:22,799 But only for a few hours, which is why it's so special. 1368 01:03:24,007 --> 01:03:26,009 The symbol. 1369 01:03:26,147 --> 01:03:27,493 A leech bite. 1370 01:03:29,702 --> 01:03:32,153 Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn. 1371 01:03:33,326 --> 01:03:36,813 The rare planetary alignment that was only a few weeks away. 1372 01:03:38,469 --> 01:03:40,299 So, is this all one big coincidence? 1373 01:03:41,645 --> 01:03:43,164 One thing they really drill into your brain 1374 01:03:43,302 --> 01:03:45,062 at the Academy is that the human mind 1375 01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,064 is very adept at finding patterns 1376 01:03:47,202 --> 01:03:49,480 in things, even if they aren't there. 1377 01:03:50,550 --> 01:03:51,724 They tell you to watch out for it, 1378 01:03:51,862 --> 01:03:53,036 to not get carried away, 1379 01:03:53,174 --> 01:03:55,452 to remember Occam's razor. 1380 01:03:55,590 --> 01:03:58,904 The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. 1381 01:04:01,389 --> 01:04:04,426 But sometimes, it's actually the strangest. 1382 01:04:05,738 --> 01:04:07,636 We had brough in these big halogen lights 1383 01:04:07,774 --> 01:04:09,121 to Sykes' house because the place 1384 01:04:09,259 --> 01:04:10,674 was so dark at night. 1385 01:04:10,812 --> 01:04:13,608 But as soon as we turned it on, it blew a fuse. 1386 01:04:13,746 --> 01:04:16,266 So, one of the deputies is trying to reset the breaker 1387 01:04:16,404 --> 01:04:19,856 and realized the subpanel in the closet wasn't working. 1388 01:04:19,994 --> 01:04:21,271 As he's messing with it, 1389 01:04:21,409 --> 01:04:23,583 the whole thing just comes out of the wall. 1390 01:04:23,721 --> 01:04:26,552 Like everything in that house, it was a fake. 1391 01:04:26,690 --> 01:04:29,589 Behind it, there was a space with a lockbox. 1392 01:04:29,727 --> 01:04:30,901 Of course, we cleared the house 1393 01:04:31,039 --> 01:04:31,971 and called the bomb squad, 1394 01:04:32,109 --> 01:04:33,110 just in case. 1395 01:04:33,248 --> 01:04:34,456 They used one of those little robots 1396 01:04:34,594 --> 01:04:35,457 and everything. 1397 01:04:35,595 --> 01:04:36,838 No bomb. 1398 01:04:36,976 --> 01:04:39,289 But that didn't seem like his style, anyway. 1399 01:04:39,427 --> 01:04:40,842 The box was just a cheapo, 1400 01:04:40,980 --> 01:04:43,603 we just pried it open with a crowbar. 1401 01:04:43,741 --> 01:04:46,261 And inside, just two things. 1402 01:04:46,399 --> 01:04:47,918 Leslie Sykes' passport, 1403 01:04:48,056 --> 01:04:50,058 expired from 2003, 1404 01:04:51,163 --> 01:04:53,751 and a key with an attached keychain. 1405 01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:00,586 [Kirby] We drove over there straight away 1406 01:05:00,724 --> 01:05:02,657 and went inside the unit. 1407 01:05:02,795 --> 01:05:04,348 In retrospect, it was pretty stupid of us. 1408 01:05:04,486 --> 01:05:05,867 I mean, the thing could've been booby-trapped, 1409 01:05:06,005 --> 01:05:08,180 or he could've been waiting in there for us. 1410 01:05:08,318 --> 01:05:09,975 Who knows. 1411 01:05:10,113 --> 01:05:11,769 But it felt like we'd run out of time. 1412 01:05:12,770 --> 01:05:14,117 We just got lucky. 1413 01:05:14,255 --> 01:05:16,395 Everywhere my light goes, you can go, okay? 1414 01:05:16,533 --> 01:05:21,124 Jackpot, winning-lotto-ticket, royal-flush lucky. 1415 01:05:21,262 --> 01:05:27,924 [tense music playing] 1416 01:05:35,241 --> 01:05:37,209 Here's why we never get fingerprints. 1417 01:05:37,347 --> 01:05:40,453 Guy wears a full-on hazmat suit. 1418 01:05:40,591 --> 01:05:45,079 This is the mold, we believe, for the mask he's been seen in. 1419 01:05:46,287 --> 01:05:47,978 Yeah, this guy is big into space. 1420 01:05:48,116 --> 01:05:49,462 [officer] Over here. 1421 01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:50,670 [Kirby] Real big. 1422 01:05:51,809 --> 01:05:53,466 [Taylor] 1423 01:05:53,604 --> 01:05:54,674 [Kirby chuckles] 1424 01:05:54,812 --> 01:05:56,159 Oh, you gotta check this out. 1425 01:05:56,297 --> 01:06:01,336 This is... early-childhood reading for... 1426 01:06:01,474 --> 01:06:04,167 "Celestial Witchcraft of Early England." 1427 01:06:04,305 --> 01:06:07,480 [tense music playing] 1428 01:06:07,618 --> 01:06:08,895 This right here 1429 01:06:09,034 --> 01:06:11,346 we think is Dennis Zao's tongue, alright? 1430 01:06:11,484 --> 01:06:13,452 Unless he's cut out other tongues. 1431 01:06:14,763 --> 01:06:18,664 This here's Victoria Macenroe, we think it is because it's... 1432 01:06:18,802 --> 01:06:20,700 We watched her hair get cut off. 1433 01:06:20,838 --> 01:06:22,840 And that is Saroj Mallick. 1434 01:06:22,979 --> 01:06:25,878 [tense music playing] 1435 01:06:26,016 --> 01:06:27,328 [Kirby] He's been here recently. 1436 01:06:27,466 --> 01:06:28,674 [Taylor] Yeah. 1437 01:06:28,812 --> 01:06:30,020 [Kirby exhales] 1438 01:06:30,158 --> 01:06:32,367 Over here is what we think 1439 01:06:32,505 --> 01:06:33,851 is Sheridans' blood. 1440 01:06:36,923 --> 01:06:38,201 [officer] What's this shit up here? 1441 01:06:39,685 --> 01:06:42,239 [Kirby] "Hail Azragor." 1442 01:06:44,552 --> 01:06:47,451 And then this weird... 1443 01:06:47,589 --> 01:06:48,556 altar. 1444 01:06:49,971 --> 01:06:51,904 Is this Azragor? 1445 01:06:52,042 --> 01:06:54,044 [producer] 1446 01:06:54,182 --> 01:06:55,839 [Jonas] Azragor? No. 1447 01:06:55,977 --> 01:06:58,324 [producer] How about Kaliban? 1448 01:06:58,462 --> 01:07:00,568 Like in Shakespeare? 1449 01:07:00,706 --> 01:07:02,811 The Thorn of Time sounds familiar. 1450 01:07:02,949 --> 01:07:05,124 I've heard that. Where have I heard that? 1451 01:07:05,262 --> 01:07:07,023 This is pre-cuneiform 1452 01:07:07,161 --> 01:07:10,371 so it's all very cryptic, but here. 1453 01:07:10,509 --> 01:07:15,410 [reads in foreign language] 1454 01:07:16,998 --> 01:07:21,209 "The temple of the outer gate 1455 01:07:21,347 --> 01:07:25,006 beyond the thorn of time." 1456 01:07:25,144 --> 01:07:26,111 [inaudible] 1457 01:07:26,249 --> 01:07:27,215 I've heard before. 1458 01:07:27,353 --> 01:07:29,424 That means... 1459 01:07:29,562 --> 01:07:30,943 Krönung. 1460 01:07:31,081 --> 01:07:32,427 Crowning... 1461 01:07:33,842 --> 01:07:35,051 Coronation. 1462 01:07:37,536 --> 01:07:39,434 [Kirby] Whereas before we had little to no evidence 1463 01:07:39,572 --> 01:07:42,782 to go on, we now had way too much. 1464 01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:44,681 Sykes had collected tons of information 1465 01:07:44,819 --> 01:07:46,234 on each of his victims, had them all 1466 01:07:46,372 --> 01:07:47,477 in a filing cabinet. 1467 01:07:47,615 --> 01:07:49,272 Criminal history, medical records, 1468 01:07:49,410 --> 01:07:51,239 information the public does not have access to, 1469 01:07:51,377 --> 01:07:52,792 so he must've been paying off cops 1470 01:07:52,930 --> 01:07:54,587 or private investigators. 1471 01:07:54,725 --> 01:07:57,142 And every murder had been meticulously documented. 1472 01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:58,867 There were photos, drawings, 1473 01:07:59,005 --> 01:08:00,593 hundreds of hand-written pages 1474 01:08:00,731 --> 01:08:03,044 by Sykes with his ramblings. 1475 01:08:03,182 --> 01:08:06,012 A pure window into a man's madness. 1476 01:08:06,151 --> 01:08:07,531 [Taylor] We were pulling all-nighters 1477 01:08:07,669 --> 01:08:09,464 in that horrible space. 1478 01:08:09,602 --> 01:08:11,294 Even after the bodies were removed, 1479 01:08:11,432 --> 01:08:13,261 the smell never went away. 1480 01:08:13,399 --> 01:08:14,573 We were going crazy. 1481 01:08:15,781 --> 01:08:17,472 On May 8th, the manager of the place 1482 01:08:17,610 --> 01:08:18,680 comes looking for us. 1483 01:08:18,818 --> 01:08:21,718 Someone sent mail to the office for us. 1484 01:08:21,856 --> 01:08:23,237 It was another letter. 1485 01:08:25,998 --> 01:08:27,310 [distorted male voice] The great lord 1486 01:08:27,448 --> 01:08:29,967 of the threshold has arrived at the gate. 1487 01:08:30,106 --> 01:08:32,142 The great rectification, 1488 01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:34,800 the final extirpation. 1489 01:08:34,938 --> 01:08:36,526 The dawn of Kaliban. 1490 01:08:37,699 --> 01:08:38,838 One left for me, 1491 01:08:38,976 --> 01:08:41,151 then he's set free. 1492 01:08:41,289 --> 01:08:42,704 [dial tone] 1493 01:08:42,842 --> 01:08:45,017 [dispatcher] 1494 01:08:45,155 --> 01:08:47,537 [woman] 1495 01:08:47,675 --> 01:08:48,952 [dispatcher] 1496 01:08:49,090 --> 01:08:51,057 [woman screams] 1497 01:08:51,196 --> 01:08:54,337 [indistinct loud noises] 1498 01:08:55,476 --> 01:08:57,063 [dial tone] 1499 01:08:57,202 --> 01:08:59,376 Around midnight on May 12th, 1500 01:08:59,514 --> 01:09:00,757 Sykes breaks into the home 1501 01:09:00,895 --> 01:09:02,897 of Glenn and Stephanie Courtland 1502 01:09:03,035 --> 01:09:04,347 via a garage window 1503 01:09:04,485 --> 01:09:06,487 and abducts their three-month-old baby, 1504 01:09:06,625 --> 01:09:07,660 Sawyer. 1505 01:09:09,317 --> 01:09:16,290 [tense music playing] 1506 01:09:24,953 --> 01:09:27,335 [baby crying] 1507 01:09:44,870 --> 01:09:46,285 He could've killed that child 1508 01:09:46,423 --> 01:09:47,873 in his crib right then and there, 1509 01:09:48,011 --> 01:09:49,185 but he was waiting. 1510 01:09:49,323 --> 01:09:50,393 I mean, he was deliberately 1511 01:09:50,531 --> 01:09:52,084 waiting for something. 1512 01:09:53,327 --> 01:09:54,190 But what? 1513 01:09:54,328 --> 01:09:55,777 But we had no idea where Sykes 1514 01:09:55,915 --> 01:09:57,400 was going or what his plan was, 1515 01:09:57,538 --> 01:09:59,022 but it didn't seem like a coincidence 1516 01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,127 that the triangle in the sky 1517 01:10:01,266 --> 01:10:04,027 was supposed to appear that morning. 1518 01:10:04,165 --> 01:10:06,236 That was a Friday, by the way. 1519 01:10:06,374 --> 01:10:07,686 The 13th. 1520 01:10:08,756 --> 01:10:10,067 Coincidence, right? 1521 01:10:12,346 --> 01:10:15,003 I am just getting to work, it's around 3:00 a.m., 1522 01:10:16,142 --> 01:10:17,627 and... Let's see. 1523 01:10:17,765 --> 01:10:19,629 Okay, right here. 1524 01:10:19,767 --> 01:10:21,700 Right here, not 20 feet from where I found 1525 01:10:21,838 --> 01:10:23,529 that woman's body, 1526 01:10:23,667 --> 01:10:26,083 I see this red SUV parked. 1527 01:10:26,222 --> 01:10:27,533 The vehicle is empty. 1528 01:10:27,671 --> 01:10:29,259 I just got a weird vibe. 1529 01:10:29,397 --> 01:10:30,709 So, I called it in. 1530 01:10:30,847 --> 01:10:32,883 I immediately got a reply 1531 01:10:33,021 --> 01:10:34,816 that the automobile has been stolen, 1532 01:10:34,954 --> 01:10:38,889 and that the driver is armed and dangerous. 1533 01:10:39,027 --> 01:10:40,236 Now, I... 1534 01:10:40,374 --> 01:10:42,479 I watched the news closely 1535 01:10:42,617 --> 01:10:44,170 and I was like, "Is this Mr. Shiny?" 1536 01:10:44,309 --> 01:10:46,794 They found Sykes' SUV 1537 01:10:46,932 --> 01:10:48,623 right in the spot of the very first murder 1538 01:10:48,761 --> 01:10:50,280 in '93. 1539 01:10:50,418 --> 01:10:52,627 He ran out of gas right there, 1540 01:10:52,765 --> 01:10:54,180 of all places. 1541 01:10:54,319 --> 01:10:55,389 What are the odds? 1542 01:10:57,287 --> 01:10:59,358 [Taylor] This three-planet alignment 1543 01:10:59,496 --> 01:11:03,500 was going to be visible between 6:00 and 6:30 a.m. 1544 01:11:03,638 --> 01:11:05,295 I mean, that gave us just a matter of hours 1545 01:11:05,433 --> 01:11:07,401 to find Sykes and baby Sawyer. 1546 01:11:07,539 --> 01:11:10,611 But one way or another, this thing was going to end. 1547 01:11:10,749 --> 01:11:14,925 [tense music playing] 1548 01:11:15,063 --> 01:11:17,928 [insect chirping] 1549 01:11:20,310 --> 01:11:22,347 [woman 1] But[inaudible], that... 1550 01:11:22,485 --> 01:11:24,832 That's a pretty believable thing 1551 01:11:24,970 --> 01:11:26,661 that he died. I don't know. 1552 01:11:26,799 --> 01:11:27,800 -I... -[woman 2] I don't know. 1553 01:11:27,938 --> 01:11:29,112 [woman 1] I believe that's the case. 1554 01:11:29,250 --> 01:11:30,424 [woman 2] Do you want a marshmallow? 1555 01:11:30,562 --> 01:11:31,977 -[woman 3] Ready. -[woman 1] Yeah. 1556 01:11:32,115 --> 01:11:32,978 Made the s'mores. 1557 01:11:33,116 --> 01:11:34,600 -[woman screams] -Oh! 1558 01:11:34,738 --> 01:11:36,084 I said I was going to do it. 1559 01:11:36,222 --> 01:11:37,672 -[woman laughing] -Mm. 1560 01:11:37,810 --> 01:11:39,191 This is disgusting, I'm so sorry. 1561 01:11:39,329 --> 01:11:40,606 [woman laughing] 1562 01:11:40,744 --> 01:11:42,436 We all went to UC Riverside together, 1563 01:11:42,574 --> 01:11:45,335 but I was moving out of state for my Master's degree, 1564 01:11:45,473 --> 01:11:48,165 so it was sort of a last hurrah 1565 01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:49,650 with the girls. 1566 01:11:49,788 --> 01:11:51,548 We didn't even know that thing 1567 01:11:51,686 --> 01:11:53,999 with the planets was even happening. 1568 01:11:54,137 --> 01:11:56,173 [woman 1] I think we're just getting old, dude. 1569 01:11:57,485 --> 01:11:59,384 Old asses for life. 1570 01:11:59,522 --> 01:12:00,385 [woman 1 laughs] 1571 01:12:00,523 --> 01:12:01,731 -[twig breaks] -[police sirens] 1572 01:12:01,869 --> 01:12:03,042 [Elizabeth] Do you hear that? 1573 01:12:03,180 --> 01:12:10,084 [police sirens] 1574 01:12:10,222 --> 01:12:12,051 [Kirby] We had units coming in from Arrowhead, 1575 01:12:12,189 --> 01:12:13,812 Crestline, even Big Bear, 1576 01:12:13,950 --> 01:12:15,400 but they were spread out all over the place. 1577 01:12:15,538 --> 01:12:17,333 If Sykes was on foot, he could only get so far, 1578 01:12:17,471 --> 01:12:19,749 but we still needed a lot of manpower. 1579 01:12:19,887 --> 01:12:21,233 Best we could do in that first hour 1580 01:12:21,371 --> 01:12:22,959 was two cars. 1581 01:12:23,097 --> 01:12:24,063 Two. 1582 01:12:25,341 --> 01:12:27,308 That park is almost a million acres. 1583 01:12:30,656 --> 01:12:32,658 [man] When we were on the way out there, 1584 01:12:32,796 --> 01:12:34,729 you know, I was actually excited. 1585 01:12:34,867 --> 01:12:36,041 [producer] Why? 1586 01:12:36,179 --> 01:12:38,561 'Cause Sykes was the boogeyman of Berdoo. 1587 01:12:38,699 --> 01:12:41,011 I mean, even the FBI was after him. 1588 01:12:41,149 --> 01:12:42,530 If we were the arresting officers... 1589 01:12:42,668 --> 01:12:43,738 [chuckles] 1590 01:12:43,876 --> 01:12:45,119 That would be huge. 1591 01:12:47,777 --> 01:12:49,295 So fucking stupid. 1592 01:12:51,436 --> 01:12:53,196 [Taylor] They started going from campsite to campsite 1593 01:12:53,334 --> 01:12:54,197 in a grid. 1594 01:12:54,335 --> 01:12:55,440 Every tent, RV, 1595 01:12:55,578 --> 01:12:56,889 Porta-Potty out there, 1596 01:12:57,027 --> 01:12:58,546 they were shining a light into it. 1597 01:13:00,790 --> 01:13:01,825 [officer] Who's in there with you? 1598 01:13:01,963 --> 01:13:02,964 It's just my daughter. 1599 01:13:04,449 --> 01:13:05,726 [Pearce] Nobody's being cooperative 1600 01:13:05,864 --> 01:13:07,383 or wanting to talk to us, 1601 01:13:07,521 --> 01:13:08,763 but, I mean, who would be? 1602 01:13:08,901 --> 01:13:09,764 [officer] Anybody else here with you? 1603 01:13:09,902 --> 01:13:10,869 [woman] No. 1604 01:13:11,007 --> 01:13:12,008 Imagine you're asleep in your tent 1605 01:13:12,146 --> 01:13:13,734 and a cop shines a light in your face. 1606 01:13:13,872 --> 01:13:16,253 Like, I'd be pissed too. 1607 01:13:16,392 --> 01:13:18,083 [officer] You see anything suspicious tonight? 1608 01:13:18,221 --> 01:13:19,395 You see a man with a baby? 1609 01:13:20,672 --> 01:13:21,811 [man] A baby? 1610 01:13:21,949 --> 01:13:23,606 [Taylor] It was a clusterfuck. 1611 01:13:23,744 --> 01:13:26,919 Heavy brush, too dark, lots of places to hide. 1612 01:13:27,057 --> 01:13:29,439 Even now, GPS maps in that kind of area 1613 01:13:29,577 --> 01:13:31,372 just aren't that reliable. 1614 01:13:31,510 --> 01:13:32,891 Neither are cell phones. 1615 01:13:33,029 --> 01:13:36,101 But luckily, some places still had landlines. 1616 01:13:36,239 --> 01:13:38,137 [dial tone] 1617 01:13:38,275 --> 01:13:40,450 [dispatcher] 1618 01:13:40,588 --> 01:13:42,901 [woman crying] 1619 01:13:43,039 --> 01:13:49,977 [Silvia Vallejo] 1620 01:13:50,115 --> 01:13:51,634 There's a property out there where you can rent 1621 01:13:51,772 --> 01:13:54,568 these individual cabins for the night. 1622 01:13:54,706 --> 01:13:57,122 Sykes forces his way inside one of these cabins 1623 01:13:57,260 --> 01:13:59,400 where Martin and Silvia Vallejo are staying. 1624 01:13:59,538 --> 01:14:01,782 It's about 4:00 in the morning at this point. 1625 01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:03,853 He's able to subdue Martin, 1626 01:14:03,991 --> 01:14:05,337 but Silvia gets away 1627 01:14:05,475 --> 01:14:08,202 and calls 911 at the cabin next door. 1628 01:14:08,340 --> 01:14:11,895 [police sirens] 1629 01:14:12,033 --> 01:14:15,209 [tense music playing] 1630 01:14:15,347 --> 01:14:16,486 [officer] Did you make the call, ma'am? 1631 01:14:16,624 --> 01:14:17,694 [crying] Yes, he's in there 1632 01:14:17,832 --> 01:14:18,695 with my husband! 1633 01:14:18,833 --> 01:14:19,696 [officer] Where's the cabin? 1634 01:14:19,834 --> 01:14:20,870 Third cabin on the right! 1635 01:14:21,008 --> 01:14:21,871 Please help him! 1636 01:14:22,009 --> 01:14:22,872 [officer] Stay here. 1637 01:14:23,010 --> 01:14:23,873 He has a child! 1638 01:14:24,011 --> 01:14:24,874 There's a baby with him! 1639 01:14:25,012 --> 01:14:25,875 [officer] Stay here. 1640 01:14:26,013 --> 01:14:27,152 [Taylor] The two closest units 1641 01:14:27,290 --> 01:14:29,188 arrived at the cabin around 4:50 a.m. 1642 01:14:29,326 --> 01:14:30,362 Backup was on the way, 1643 01:14:30,500 --> 01:14:31,570 but ended up getting lost 1644 01:14:31,708 --> 01:14:33,641 and wouldn't get there for over an hour. 1645 01:14:34,677 --> 01:14:35,954 These guys had no idea 1646 01:14:36,092 --> 01:14:38,370 what they might be walking into. 1647 01:14:38,508 --> 01:14:40,372 [police sirens] 1648 01:14:40,510 --> 01:14:43,375 [tense music playing] 1649 01:14:53,316 --> 01:14:55,042 [officer] Check out the front door. 1650 01:14:55,180 --> 01:14:59,356 [tense music playing] 1651 01:15:02,567 --> 01:15:03,602 [Pearce] Clear. 1652 01:15:03,740 --> 01:15:04,707 [officer] Come on. 1653 01:15:11,196 --> 01:15:12,162 [Pearce] Alright, it's clear. 1654 01:15:12,300 --> 01:15:13,923 [officer] Stand by. 1655 01:15:14,061 --> 01:15:16,270 [Kirby] The place was deserted, alright? 1656 01:15:16,408 --> 01:15:18,030 Extremely bad vibes. 1657 01:15:19,722 --> 01:15:21,068 [Pearce] Are you seeing this? 1658 01:15:23,311 --> 01:15:24,589 I think that's... 1659 01:15:24,727 --> 01:15:26,176 that's when I started to get scared. 1660 01:15:29,214 --> 01:15:30,491 Then we found Mr. Vallejo. 1661 01:15:31,906 --> 01:15:33,149 [officer] Looks like a bedroom. 1662 01:15:36,670 --> 01:15:37,567 We got a suspect. 1663 01:15:37,705 --> 01:15:38,844 [Pearce] We got a suspect! 1664 01:15:38,982 --> 01:15:40,536 [officer] Let me see your hands! 1665 01:15:40,674 --> 01:15:41,985 [Pearce] Hands! Hands! 1666 01:15:43,918 --> 01:15:44,954 [officer] Give it up. 1667 01:15:45,092 --> 01:15:45,989 It looks like he's duct-taped. 1668 01:15:46,127 --> 01:15:47,163 His hands. 1669 01:15:48,474 --> 01:15:49,821 [Pearce] What the fuck? 1670 01:15:51,892 --> 01:15:53,376 -I got him. I got him. -[officer] Get the mask. 1671 01:15:54,446 --> 01:15:55,551 [Pearce] Oh my God. 1672 01:15:55,689 --> 01:15:56,724 Get medical out here! 1673 01:15:58,726 --> 01:16:01,384 [Taylor] Sykes essentially lobotomizes the man... 1674 01:16:02,661 --> 01:16:04,456 leaves the body to be found like that. 1675 01:16:09,944 --> 01:16:11,290 [Pearce] It was just bad, bro, I... 1676 01:16:13,638 --> 01:16:15,329 I don't know what else to say. 1677 01:16:15,467 --> 01:16:17,365 An empty glass is found on the kitchen counter 1678 01:16:17,503 --> 01:16:19,298 with remnants of milk from the fridge, 1679 01:16:19,436 --> 01:16:22,647 and Sawyer's dirty diapers' thrown in the garbage. 1680 01:16:22,785 --> 01:16:24,787 Even then, he was still taking care of the baby. 1681 01:16:26,823 --> 01:16:30,137 After this pit stop, he leaves into the woods. 1682 01:16:30,275 --> 01:16:35,245 [tense music playing] 1683 01:16:35,383 --> 01:16:37,282 [officer] Closer ETA on RO unit, over. 1684 01:16:37,420 --> 01:16:38,628 [gunshot] 1685 01:16:38,766 --> 01:16:39,629 What the hell was that? 1686 01:16:39,767 --> 01:16:41,217 [man screams] 1687 01:16:41,355 --> 01:16:44,151 [baby cries] 1688 01:16:44,289 --> 01:16:45,324 [officer 2] We should go check it out. 1689 01:16:45,462 --> 01:16:46,532 [Pearce] Shouldn't we wait for backup? 1690 01:16:46,671 --> 01:16:48,017 [officer 2] But, dude, he's got a baby. 1691 01:16:48,155 --> 01:16:49,052 [Pearce] I didn't even want to go, 1692 01:16:49,190 --> 01:16:50,122 you know? 1693 01:16:50,260 --> 01:16:51,123 But it was a baby, right? 1694 01:16:51,261 --> 01:16:53,263 Like, what would you do? 1695 01:16:53,401 --> 01:16:54,817 Imagine that's your kid. 1696 01:16:57,682 --> 01:16:59,338 But I should've said no. 1697 01:16:59,476 --> 01:17:01,099 I should've waited at the car. 1698 01:17:02,341 --> 01:17:03,791 [exhales] 1699 01:17:03,929 --> 01:17:05,551 If that makes me a coward, 1700 01:17:05,690 --> 01:17:07,174 I don't give a shit. 1701 01:17:07,312 --> 01:17:13,387 [tense music playing] 1702 01:17:33,856 --> 01:17:34,857 Oh, shit. 1703 01:17:36,617 --> 01:17:38,032 You heard that? 1704 01:17:38,170 --> 01:17:42,243 [baby cries] 1705 01:17:42,381 --> 01:17:44,349 He was doing witchcraft out there, man. 1706 01:17:46,420 --> 01:17:48,249 You saw the video. 1707 01:17:48,387 --> 01:17:49,803 What else would you call it? 1708 01:17:53,220 --> 01:17:54,773 Yo, what the fuck is this, man? 1709 01:17:55,981 --> 01:17:56,844 [gunshot] 1710 01:17:56,982 --> 01:17:58,052 [tense music playing] 1711 01:17:58,190 --> 01:17:59,260 [officer shouts indistinctly] 1712 01:18:07,061 --> 01:18:09,270 [baby cries] 1713 01:18:16,174 --> 01:18:17,106 [Pearce gasps] 1714 01:18:20,074 --> 01:18:21,766 [Pearce screams in pain] 1715 01:18:21,904 --> 01:18:23,733 Fuck! 1716 01:18:23,871 --> 01:18:29,394 [screams] 1717 01:18:29,532 --> 01:18:30,567 Fuck! 1718 01:18:30,706 --> 01:18:31,879 [screms] 1719 01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:35,607 Fuck! 1720 01:18:39,162 --> 01:18:43,373 [groaning] 1721 01:18:55,282 --> 01:18:57,733 [baby cries] 1722 01:19:07,225 --> 01:19:09,020 [Pearce] I didn't understand at the time 1723 01:19:09,158 --> 01:19:12,161 what exactly that wood thing was, but... 1724 01:19:12,299 --> 01:19:15,267 You know, I found out they have a name for it. 1725 01:19:15,405 --> 01:19:16,475 A pyre. 1726 01:19:18,339 --> 01:19:20,100 That's where the... the crying was coming from. 1727 01:19:21,239 --> 01:19:23,482 [baby cries] 1728 01:19:24,552 --> 01:19:25,519 Sykes... 1729 01:19:27,279 --> 01:19:30,248 [distorted audio] 1730 01:19:30,386 --> 01:19:31,283 Oh, shit. 1731 01:19:31,421 --> 01:19:35,598 [loud cracks] 1732 01:19:35,736 --> 01:19:37,565 What the fuck? 1733 01:19:37,703 --> 01:19:43,330 [tense music playing] 1734 01:19:43,468 --> 01:19:47,334 I don't know what we saw or didn't see. 1735 01:19:48,645 --> 01:19:50,095 It was strange. 1736 01:19:50,233 --> 01:19:52,132 If you looked at it from one angle, 1737 01:19:52,270 --> 01:19:53,374 you could see it. 1738 01:19:53,512 --> 01:19:55,652 From another, it wasn't as clear. 1739 01:19:55,791 --> 01:19:57,827 The videos don't do it justice at all. 1740 01:19:57,965 --> 01:20:00,140 I'm just still not convinced any of that... 1741 01:20:00,278 --> 01:20:01,141 what do you call it? 1742 01:20:01,279 --> 01:20:02,349 Karmic phenomena? 1743 01:20:02,487 --> 01:20:03,522 [producer] 1744 01:20:03,660 --> 01:20:05,076 Cosmic phenomena. 1745 01:20:05,214 --> 01:20:06,663 I mean, sky looked weird that morning, 1746 01:20:06,802 --> 01:20:07,837 no doubt about that, 1747 01:20:07,975 --> 01:20:09,080 but there's plenty of weird stuff 1748 01:20:09,218 --> 01:20:10,978 that happens in the sky. 1749 01:20:11,116 --> 01:20:13,739 Aurora borealis? 1750 01:20:13,878 --> 01:20:16,259 [producer] 1751 01:20:16,397 --> 01:20:17,709 Okay, but you can't tell me 1752 01:20:17,847 --> 01:20:20,816 that's not some weird looking space stuff too, right? 1753 01:20:20,954 --> 01:20:23,059 [Pearce] I don't remember much. 1754 01:20:23,197 --> 01:20:24,164 It gets hazy. 1755 01:20:24,302 --> 01:20:26,166 So, that... that thing in the sky? 1756 01:20:28,202 --> 01:20:29,721 It looked like red eyes. 1757 01:20:31,171 --> 01:20:32,966 [woman 1] Jeez, dude. 1758 01:20:33,104 --> 01:20:34,726 Holy shit. 1759 01:20:34,864 --> 01:20:36,797 What the fuck? 1760 01:20:40,697 --> 01:20:42,734 [woman 1] What the fuck is that? 1761 01:20:42,872 --> 01:20:44,184 [Elizabeth] I don't know, dude. 1762 01:20:45,944 --> 01:20:48,015 [woman 1] Lizzie? 1763 01:20:48,153 --> 01:20:49,120 Lizzie? 1764 01:20:50,811 --> 01:20:51,812 Lizzie! 1765 01:20:53,676 --> 01:20:54,988 Liz! 1766 01:20:55,126 --> 01:20:56,161 Dude, Lizzie! 1767 01:20:56,299 --> 01:20:58,370 Lizzie! Lizzie! Lizzie! 1768 01:20:59,647 --> 01:21:01,753 Lizzie! Kate! Kate, wake up! 1769 01:21:01,891 --> 01:21:04,135 I need you to call 911! Kate, please! 1770 01:21:04,273 --> 01:21:10,693 [tense music playing] 1771 01:21:16,595 --> 01:21:21,773 [Pearce shouts indistinctly] 1772 01:21:21,911 --> 01:21:23,050 [gunshot] 1773 01:21:23,188 --> 01:21:24,949 [police sirens] 1774 01:21:25,087 --> 01:21:27,089 [baby crying] 1775 01:21:27,227 --> 01:21:30,437 [Pearce groans] 1776 01:21:30,575 --> 01:21:33,129 [Kirby] And just like that, it was over. 1777 01:21:37,409 --> 01:21:38,445 We got him. 1778 01:21:40,861 --> 01:21:41,724 [baby crying] 1779 01:21:41,862 --> 01:21:43,899 Don't turn away, just... 1780 01:21:44,037 --> 01:21:45,624 I'll be right... How's the baby? 1781 01:21:45,762 --> 01:21:47,281 He's okay. 1782 01:21:47,419 --> 01:21:48,869 [Kirby] That was too goddamn close. 1783 01:21:49,007 --> 01:21:50,319 [Pearce hyperventilates] 1784 01:21:50,457 --> 01:21:52,321 -[Taylor] He's gone! -[Kirby] What? 1785 01:21:52,459 --> 01:21:53,839 [Taylor] We need some help over here! 1786 01:21:53,978 --> 01:21:55,600 [Kirby] You've got to be fucking kidding me! 1787 01:21:55,738 --> 01:22:00,053 [tense music playing] 1788 01:22:00,191 --> 01:22:01,778 Leslie Sykes' body was found 1789 01:22:01,917 --> 01:22:04,195 about 100 yards from the cabin, in a creek... 1790 01:22:06,991 --> 01:22:08,440 covered in leeches. 1791 01:22:08,578 --> 01:22:11,374 He'd only been in the water for a matter of minutes. 1792 01:22:11,512 --> 01:22:13,445 It's like they were drawn to him. 1793 01:22:13,583 --> 01:22:16,276 They made any kind of visual identification impossible, 1794 01:22:16,414 --> 01:22:19,313 but we still confirmed it with fingerprint and DNA. 1795 01:22:21,764 --> 01:22:23,524 It looks like Sykes had been living out there 1796 01:22:23,662 --> 01:22:25,492 for at least a couple weeks. 1797 01:22:25,630 --> 01:22:27,356 Sleeping in a makeshift shelter, 1798 01:22:27,494 --> 01:22:29,772 stealing food from other people's campsites. 1799 01:22:30,980 --> 01:22:34,397 His final time on this earth was spent hungry, 1800 01:22:34,535 --> 01:22:37,262 cold, and alone. 1801 01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:40,472 [Taylor] No phantoms, no ghosts. 1802 01:22:40,610 --> 01:22:42,060 A flesh-and-blood human. 1803 01:22:43,234 --> 01:22:45,201 Piece of shit human, 1804 01:22:45,339 --> 01:22:46,582 but human nonetheless. 1805 01:22:49,343 --> 01:22:55,694 [dramatic music playing] 1806 01:23:05,256 --> 01:23:06,567 So, I was... 1807 01:23:06,705 --> 01:23:08,328 I was getting up for work that morning 1808 01:23:08,466 --> 01:23:10,192 and I was checking my Facebook, 1809 01:23:10,330 --> 01:23:12,090 and I had, like, 1810 01:23:12,228 --> 01:23:14,161 all of these messages, and I was like, what? 1811 01:23:14,299 --> 01:23:16,094 You know, what's going on here? 1812 01:23:16,232 --> 01:23:17,854 And then I realized they got him. 1813 01:23:21,306 --> 01:23:23,584 Like, they really fucking got him. 1814 01:23:23,722 --> 01:23:26,932 [police sirens] 1815 01:23:27,071 --> 01:23:29,521 [reporter] The Inland Empire can breathe a sigh of relief 1816 01:23:29,659 --> 01:23:31,213 with the news just coming in 1817 01:23:31,351 --> 01:23:32,904 that the hunt for serial killer 1818 01:23:33,042 --> 01:23:36,183 Leslie Sykes, a.k.a. Mr. Shiny, 1819 01:23:36,321 --> 01:23:38,806 has finally come to an end. 1820 01:23:38,944 --> 01:23:40,222 Police shot and killed Sykes 1821 01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:41,533 this morning in a standoff 1822 01:23:41,671 --> 01:23:43,259 in the San Bernardino mountains, 1823 01:23:43,397 --> 01:23:44,743 but not before ending the life 1824 01:23:44,881 --> 01:23:47,332 of one Riverside Police Department deputy. 1825 01:23:50,232 --> 01:23:51,336 [Pearce] Richie... 1826 01:23:54,581 --> 01:23:55,927 I don't want to talk about it. 1827 01:23:59,793 --> 01:24:01,001 Should've been me. 1828 01:24:02,761 --> 01:24:05,385 I'm here to formally announce that Leslie Sykes, 1829 01:24:06,489 --> 01:24:08,974 otherwise known as Mr. Shiny, 1830 01:24:09,113 --> 01:24:11,218 died this morning at approximately 6:00 a.m. 1831 01:24:11,356 --> 01:24:13,048 Pacific standard time 1832 01:24:13,186 --> 01:24:14,739 as a result of an extended gun battle 1833 01:24:14,877 --> 01:24:16,430 with local authorities. 1834 01:24:18,087 --> 01:24:19,295 [Monica] I couldn't believe it. 1835 01:24:20,572 --> 01:24:22,229 Like, all of this... 1836 01:24:22,367 --> 01:24:24,404 This, like, weight was 1837 01:24:24,542 --> 01:24:27,131 just lifted from my chest, you know? 1838 01:24:30,065 --> 01:24:32,584 Like Shifra could finally rest in peace, you know, 1839 01:24:32,722 --> 01:24:35,415 'cause that fucking asshole was dead. 1840 01:24:35,553 --> 01:24:37,831 I mean, nothing's ever going to bring my girl back, but... 1841 01:24:39,557 --> 01:24:41,869 at least we can all, like, start to heal now. 1842 01:24:43,699 --> 01:24:45,735 I feel no joy in Leslie Sykes' death. 1843 01:24:45,873 --> 01:24:47,185 I really don't. 1844 01:24:47,323 --> 01:24:49,601 I did in the beginning but, as time has gone on... 1845 01:24:51,741 --> 01:24:53,605 I wish I could've interviewed him. 1846 01:24:53,743 --> 01:24:56,436 I wish we could've gotten more information. 1847 01:24:56,574 --> 01:24:58,921 In the timespan that Sykes was actively killing, 1848 01:24:59,059 --> 01:25:01,613 that we know about, there were over 100 unsolved homicides 1849 01:25:01,751 --> 01:25:03,063 in the two counties. 1850 01:25:03,201 --> 01:25:04,582 Could some of these be Sykes? 1851 01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:06,135 We'll never know. 1852 01:25:06,273 --> 01:25:07,861 Is it possible Sykes had an accomplice, 1853 01:25:07,999 --> 01:25:10,622 someone that helped him, funded him? 1854 01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:12,003 We'll never know. 1855 01:25:14,005 --> 01:25:16,904 [Pearce] He got off too easy, if you ask me. 1856 01:25:17,042 --> 01:25:18,768 Should've drawn and quartered that motherfucker. 1857 01:25:20,494 --> 01:25:22,151 Sorry, is... Was that too much or...? 1858 01:25:22,289 --> 01:25:24,257 [producer] No, that's actually perfect. 1859 01:25:27,708 --> 01:25:29,296 Happy I could set the record straight. 1860 01:25:33,611 --> 01:25:36,061 When we first found out that they killed him... 1861 01:25:37,994 --> 01:25:40,376 I guess it was bittersweet. 1862 01:25:44,656 --> 01:25:47,452 I was just glad he couldn't hurt anybody else. 1863 01:25:47,590 --> 01:25:49,489 [April] We tried to keep Victoria's memory alive, 1864 01:25:49,627 --> 01:25:52,147 but it gets harder as time goes on. 1865 01:25:54,597 --> 01:25:56,151 Friends lose interest. 1866 01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:01,052 I think about that saying a lot 1867 01:26:01,190 --> 01:26:02,812 that goes 1868 01:26:02,950 --> 01:26:05,988 "you really die the last time someone says your name." 1869 01:26:06,126 --> 01:26:07,472 [Jim] Honey, you already said this. 1870 01:26:07,610 --> 01:26:09,025 I know. 1871 01:26:09,164 --> 01:26:11,304 It's just so true. 1872 01:26:11,442 --> 01:26:14,238 Ted Bundy. Gacy. 1873 01:26:14,376 --> 01:26:15,998 These guys will live forever. 1874 01:26:17,241 --> 01:26:20,071 And now so will Mr. Shiny. 1875 01:26:21,417 --> 01:26:22,970 Eight victims were honored today 1876 01:26:23,108 --> 01:26:26,388 at a memorial held at Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, 1877 01:26:26,526 --> 01:26:28,459 including those from the original crimes 1878 01:26:28,597 --> 01:26:30,046 in 1995. 1879 01:26:30,185 --> 01:26:32,152 Almost 1,000 people joined the service 1880 01:26:32,290 --> 01:26:33,774 to pay their respects to those lives 1881 01:26:33,912 --> 01:26:35,431 taken too soon 1882 01:26:35,569 --> 01:26:37,744 by serial killer Leslie Sykes. 1883 01:26:39,021 --> 01:26:40,781 [woman 1] Lizzie! Lizzie! 1884 01:26:40,919 --> 01:26:43,301 Kate! Kate, wake up! I need you to call 911! 1885 01:26:43,439 --> 01:26:45,717 [producer] 1886 01:26:45,855 --> 01:26:47,616 [Elizabeth] Yep. 1887 01:26:47,754 --> 01:26:50,170 Great place to have your first one, right? 1888 01:26:50,308 --> 01:26:52,517 [producer] 1889 01:26:52,655 --> 01:26:55,244 Started for the first time that night. 1890 01:26:55,382 --> 01:26:58,627 And I wasn't the only one who had bad luck, either. 1891 01:26:58,765 --> 01:27:02,527 Gail randomly started having vertigo 1892 01:27:02,665 --> 01:27:04,011 after that trip. 1893 01:27:09,362 --> 01:27:11,985 So, you know, you asked me if I believe 1894 01:27:12,123 --> 01:27:15,644 in ghosts and this paranormal stuff, 1895 01:27:15,782 --> 01:27:16,817 and I don't. But... 1896 01:27:19,579 --> 01:27:21,753 No, I don't believe in that stuff, 1897 01:27:21,891 --> 01:27:24,377 but I still wish we never went camping that weekend. 1898 01:27:25,757 --> 01:27:26,965 [Kacie] We moved to Portland. 1899 01:27:28,001 --> 01:27:29,520 I know it sounds superstitious, 1900 01:27:29,658 --> 01:27:32,454 but it just seemed like that whole county was cursed. 1901 01:27:39,046 --> 01:27:41,083 [producer] 1902 01:27:41,221 --> 01:27:42,912 I have no idea. 1903 01:27:43,050 --> 01:27:46,330 [producer] 1904 01:27:46,468 --> 01:27:47,952 What do you want me to say? 1905 01:27:48,090 --> 01:27:50,437 He was part of some apocalypse cult 1906 01:27:50,575 --> 01:27:54,130 trying to summon a six-million-year-old leech god? 1907 01:27:54,269 --> 01:27:56,374 Thorn of Time, Kaliban? 1908 01:27:58,134 --> 01:28:00,861 That's not something you put in a police report, pal. 1909 01:28:00,999 --> 01:28:02,484 That's not going to help the families 1910 01:28:02,622 --> 01:28:05,314 try and bring closure and heal from this mess. 1911 01:28:07,765 --> 01:28:10,250 What I can say for sure is this. 1912 01:28:10,388 --> 01:28:12,287 Leslie Sykes was a monster. 1913 01:28:13,391 --> 01:28:15,497 We caught him and we killed him. 1914 01:28:17,395 --> 01:28:18,707 [producer] 1915 01:28:20,812 --> 01:28:22,814 As Lexi likes to say, 1916 01:28:22,952 --> 01:28:25,127 same shit, different day. 1917 01:28:26,887 --> 01:28:28,337 Same shit, different day. 1918 01:28:29,614 --> 01:28:30,995 [producer] 1919 01:28:32,065 --> 01:28:35,171 [Taylor] It's postdated two days before he died. 1920 01:28:35,310 --> 01:28:37,519 If he sent it, he must've had an inkling things 1921 01:28:37,657 --> 01:28:39,072 might not go to plan. 1922 01:28:40,349 --> 01:28:42,558 [producer] 1923 01:28:44,457 --> 01:28:46,597 Well, if it's true, 1924 01:28:46,735 --> 01:28:49,013 I guess we'll find out in another 800 years. 1925 01:28:53,742 --> 01:28:55,847 [distorted male voice] Rejoice for I can now learn 1926 01:28:55,985 --> 01:28:57,780 the mysteries of the world. 1927 01:28:58,988 --> 01:29:01,059 The harvest season will return. 1928 01:29:01,197 --> 01:29:03,338 The reaping will continue. 1929 01:29:04,546 --> 01:29:05,685 I'll be back. 1930 01:29:09,205 --> 01:29:11,173 [police sirens] 1931 01:29:11,311 --> 01:29:14,210 [unsettling music playing] 1932 01:29:14,349 --> 01:29:15,695 [Kirby] There's still so many things 1933 01:29:15,833 --> 01:29:17,421 we don't understand about this case, 1934 01:29:17,559 --> 01:29:19,354 and probably never will. 1935 01:29:21,321 --> 01:29:22,978 We just had bits and pieces 1936 01:29:23,116 --> 01:29:26,153 of some kind of strange puzzle. 1937 01:29:26,291 --> 01:29:29,743 And even if we could put them all together, 1938 01:29:29,881 --> 01:29:32,228 I don't know if I want to see whatever picture they make. 1939 01:29:50,039 --> 01:29:51,282 Yeah? 1940 01:29:51,420 --> 01:29:52,490 Got what you need? 1941 01:29:52,628 --> 01:29:53,733 [producer] I think that's all we need... 1942 01:29:55,769 --> 01:29:58,082 Okay. Awesome. 1943 01:29:58,220 --> 01:29:59,394 Alright. Thanks, guys. 1944 01:29:59,532 --> 01:30:03,708 [unsettling music playing] 1945 01:30:03,846 --> 01:30:10,784 ["Strange Harvest" playing] 1946 01:30:20,691 --> 01:30:27,525 ♪ Night passing through windows ♪ 1947 01:30:27,663 --> 01:30:32,047 ♪ Turning them on ♪ 1948 01:30:32,185 --> 01:30:37,535 ♪ Turning them off ♪ 1949 01:30:37,673 --> 01:30:41,850 ♪ Sometimes all I've got is other people's windows ♪ 1950 01:30:41,988 --> 01:30:46,855 ♪ Sometimes all I've got is other people's windows ♪ 1951 01:30:48,857 --> 01:30:54,794 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1952 01:30:54,932 --> 01:30:58,936 ♪ Let them find you when you know you're lost ♪ 1953 01:30:59,074 --> 01:31:03,147 ♪ You've been kneeling in a false dawn ♪ 1954 01:31:03,285 --> 01:31:07,323 ♪ Let them take you coz you don't belong ♪ 1955 01:31:07,462 --> 01:31:09,187 ♪ In these waves ♪ 1956 01:31:09,325 --> 01:31:11,673 ♪ In these waves ♪ 1957 01:31:27,999 --> 01:31:34,868 ♪ Time will come to life again ♪ 1958 01:31:35,006 --> 01:31:39,010 ♪ My strange harvest ♪ 1959 01:31:39,148 --> 01:31:43,567 ♪ Will taste sweet again ♪ 1960 01:31:45,085 --> 01:31:49,227 ♪ Something I can't touch is reaching out for me ♪ 1961 01:31:49,365 --> 01:31:53,853 ♪ Something I can't touch is reaching out for me ♪ 1962 01:31:56,407 --> 01:32:00,480 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1963 01:32:00,618 --> 01:32:02,655 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1964 01:32:02,793 --> 01:32:04,726 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1965 01:32:04,864 --> 01:32:06,831 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1966 01:32:06,969 --> 01:32:08,902 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1967 01:32:09,040 --> 01:32:10,939 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1968 01:32:11,077 --> 01:32:13,079 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1969 01:32:13,217 --> 01:32:15,219 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1970 01:32:15,357 --> 01:32:17,497 ♪ Seeing through me ♪ 1971 01:32:19,085 --> 01:32:23,089 ♪ Let them find you when you know you're lost ♪ 1972 01:32:23,227 --> 01:32:27,231 ♪ You've been kneeling in a false dawn ♪ 1973 01:32:27,369 --> 01:32:31,269 ♪ Let them take you coz you don't belong ♪ 1974 01:32:31,407 --> 01:32:33,444 ♪ In these waves ♪ 1975 01:32:33,582 --> 01:32:35,826 ♪ In these waves ♪ 1976 01:32:35,964 --> 01:32:39,933 ♪ Let them find you when you know you're lost ♪ 1977 01:32:40,071 --> 01:32:44,144 ♪ You've been kneeling in a false dawn ♪ 1978 01:32:44,282 --> 01:32:48,148 ♪ Let them take you coz you don't belong ♪ 1979 01:32:48,286 --> 01:32:50,254 ♪ In these waves ♪ 1980 01:32:50,392 --> 01:32:52,463 ♪ In these waves ♪ 1981 01:32:52,601 --> 01:32:56,812 ♪ Let them find you when you know you're lost ♪ 1982 01:32:56,950 --> 01:33:00,954 ♪ You've been kneeling in a false dawn ♪ 1983 01:33:01,092 --> 01:33:05,062 ♪ Let them take you coz you don't belong ♪ 1984 01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:07,133 ♪ In these waves ♪ 1985 01:33:07,271 --> 01:33:09,307 ♪ In these waves ♪ 1986 01:33:33,504 --> 01:33:36,645 [Kirby] Okay, August 23rd, 2023. 1987 01:33:36,783 --> 01:33:38,992 Back at Pinto again. 1988 01:33:39,130 --> 01:33:41,305 I'm a little further south this time, but... 1989 01:33:42,651 --> 01:33:43,859 Yeah, it's a bust. 1990 01:33:45,309 --> 01:33:47,483 Something about this place just doesn't... 1991 01:33:47,622 --> 01:33:49,209 doesn't feel right. 1992 01:33:49,347 --> 01:33:50,901 Talked to a guy at a gas station, 1993 01:33:51,039 --> 01:33:54,974 he told me there's a series of caves down at a... 1994 01:33:55,112 --> 01:33:56,561 Coxcomb, 1995 01:33:56,700 --> 01:33:58,149 so we're going to try that next. 1996 01:33:59,357 --> 01:34:00,669 It's worth a shot.