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00:00What did you think you were dealing with?
00:04With the ligature around her neck and her pants down,
00:10it appeared to be a sexual predator.
00:12It was very violent.
00:14She went through hell out there.
00:15We knew that it was somebody that was really sick.
00:19We had daughters that were in fear of their safety.
00:24There was a lot of concerned people.
00:27He was a very evil person.
00:32Just pure evil.
00:36Another girl was murdered.
00:38This happened again in our town.
00:40It was a shock.
00:42They were similar in age.
00:44They were in close proximity of each other.
00:47Both had been strangled using an article of clothing.
00:51We thought that those two cases were connected.
00:54Investigators looked at people who had been strangled
00:57people who had violent sexual assault convictions
00:59to see if they were involved.
01:01How real was the fear that whoever killed Christina
01:05and Kimberly would strike again?
01:08It was a real concern because if we don't find him,
01:12he was killed again.
01:14This guy's not going to stop.
01:29Hi.
01:30I'm Paula Zahn.
01:32And tonight we're on the case in Howell, Michigan,
01:35a sleepy suburb just west of Detroit.
01:38It was here in this tight-knit community
01:40that two young women were abducted off the street
01:43during a pair of shockingly similar crimes.
01:47And when their bodies were found,
01:49police had little doubt that both had been murdered
01:52by the same deadly predator.
01:54From the start, it was clear that solving the cases
01:58would be challenging.
01:59Police had few leads and almost no evidence.
02:03In fact, many in law enforcement feared that the only way
02:08this prolific killer would be caught was if he struck again.
02:15March 29th, 1983.
02:18It was 1.30 on a dreary winter afternoon
02:22when police got a disturbing 911 call from a hunter
02:27that would force them to confront something far worse
02:30than just the elements.
02:34What did he report?
02:35Walking through the state game area in Livingston County,
02:38he had come across a half-clothed female
02:40found deceased in a wooded area.
02:44At the time, Detective Bob Bazat had no idea
02:48he was about to embark upon an investigation
02:51that would haunt him the rest of his career.
02:54But one glance at the victim was all it took.
03:01Was it obvious to you how she was killed?
03:05We saw the ligature around her neck and her pants
03:07and underwear were down.
03:09So it was pretty obvious as we approached her
03:11what we were dealing with.
03:13What did you think you were dealing with?
03:17Sexual predator, definite homicide.
03:19Although the crime scene was troubling,
03:25investigators like Ed Moore knew
03:27that every piece of evidence they found
03:30might be the one that put a killer behind bars.
03:35My initial responsibility was taking pictures
03:38of the scene and then processing the scene.
03:43How would you describe the position her body was found in?
03:46She had no clothing from the waist down.
03:48She was dressed from the waist up.
03:51She had on a black t-shirt, a hooded sweatshirt
03:55and then she had a coat that was pulled down
03:58behind her back but her wrists were still in the coat.
04:01Below her right shoulder was her bra that had
04:05the straps torn off and was tied in a knot.
04:08Could you tell how the victim had died?
04:11Yes, she had one of her socks tied around her neck.
04:14Detective Ed Moore carefully collected
04:23the other articles of clothing scattered near the victim.
04:26Her blue jeans and one shoe and sock
04:31sock was within 10 to 15 feet to her left side
04:38and her other shoe was approximately 35 feet away from her.
04:42The evidence told a grim story
04:50and the thin layer of wet snow
04:52on top of many of the items
04:54helped pinpoint when the attack had taken place.
04:57On the 20th of March,
05:02we received about 68 inches of snow during that snowfall.
05:06But it hadn't snowed again for more than a week.
05:11So we figured that she was at that spot
05:14before the snow started
05:15because she didn't have any snow underneath her.
05:17Police study the ground around the area for additional clues.
05:23Were there any obvious signs of struggle
05:27in the area around where her body had been found?
05:30We didn't see any areas of struggle.
05:32The weather probably helped compromise it,
05:35but there was no indications
05:37of any shoe impressions around her body.
05:41Could you get any sense
05:43if the murder happened there
05:46or if the body was just disposed there?
05:49We figured that the body was disposed there.
05:52She was placed there.
05:55The murder could have happened just about anywhere?
05:57Yes.
06:00And the lack of a crime scene
06:02was just one of the factors that made it clear
06:05the investigation would be challenging.
06:08Did the victim have any identification on her?
06:10No.
06:11And we had not heard any reports.
06:13We didn't know where she was from.
06:14Investigators could only hope
06:17that a review of the statewide missing persons database
06:21would fill in some of the blanks.
06:28Meanwhile, the victim's body was transported
06:31to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy.
06:35What did the medical examiner
06:37determine was the cause of her death?
06:39The medical examiner listed it
06:41as a ligature strangulation homicide.
06:46Were there any obvious defensive wounds
06:49on her body?
06:50No.
06:51The Emmy's findings
06:53also confirm the motive for the attack.
06:57The medical examiner
06:58concluded that she was sexually assaulted.
07:02Was biological evidence found?
07:04Yes, it was.
07:05We took semen,
07:06but technology wasn't nearly what it is today.
07:09What was the best you could hope for
07:12through testing of that evidence?
07:14Back then, all you're identifying is a blood type.
07:17The troubling evidence detectives saw
07:24at the crime scene
07:25and the details in the Emmy's report
07:28weighed heavily on them.
07:31This could very easily have happened
07:32to any of our daughters.
07:33It becomes much more personal.
07:35I had three daughters,
07:36so it gets to you.
07:43Not only being sexually assaulted,
07:45but being strangled to death
07:46with her own clothing
07:48and then being left in a field.
07:52She went through hell out there.
07:57While detectives struggled
07:59to put those emotions aside,
08:01their colleagues had uncovered a solid lead.
08:05Reports of a missing teenager
08:07who had disappeared
08:08from a neighboring community
08:10nine days before their Jane Doe was found.
08:14She was taken from Redford, Michigan,
08:15which is about 50 miles from Howell.
08:20The missing person in that case
08:21was 19-year-old Christina Castiglione,
08:25and the photograph officers were given
08:27erased any doubt
08:29that she had been the victim found
08:31in the field.
08:38That meant detectives
08:39now had to perform
08:41the most gut-wrenching job
08:42in law enforcement,
08:44telling the young woman's family
08:46that she was never coming home.
08:50It gets pretty emotional.
08:52It's heartbreaking.
08:56When police arrived
08:57at the Castiglione's home,
08:59loved ones were still praying
09:02for Christina's safe return.
09:05Were you all at home together
09:06when the officers broke the tragic news?
09:08Yes.
09:09When I saw them all walking up the driveway
09:11and the priest was with them,
09:13I thought, this is not good.
09:15They're coming to say that they found her.
09:18The news of Christina's death
09:25shattered her family.
09:27I do remember my dad hollering at the priest
09:29and told him to get the hell out of his house
09:31because if there was a God,
09:33his daughter would be with him today.
09:34For Anna, then just 20,
09:39it seemed impossible to believe
09:41that her younger sister was gone.
09:44It was a hectic time.
09:46We had detectives in and out of the house.
09:48It was a shock.
09:53Christina had just graduated high school.
09:55She was loved by everyone she knew.
09:59How would you describe Christina's personality?
10:01She was a very social person,
10:04very caring, loved animals,
10:07loved children.
10:09She did a lot of sports.
10:10In the summertime,
10:11she would teach children basketball.
10:13Just a real good person.
10:15But instead of looking forward
10:20to a lifetime of celebrating birthdays
10:22and milestones with her sister,
10:24Anna was now answering questions
10:27about who might have wanted Christina dead.
10:30They were talking to me about people
10:33I used to know.
10:34I said, I have no idea who did this.
10:36Everybody loved her.
10:38Anna and her parents told police
10:41that Christina had no enemies
10:44and there was no reason for her
10:46to have been in that state park 50 miles away.
10:49We had no idea why she would have been
10:51where she was found.
10:58Still, detectives believed
11:00that if they could uncover
11:02how she had ended up in that remote area,
11:05it might point them to a suspect.
11:11I'd say 95% of the time,
11:13in homicide cases,
11:14the victim knows the suspect.
11:15It's not just a random type deal.
11:18Who did you think
11:19could have been responsible
11:20for such a violent attack?
11:24At that time,
11:25we weren't really sure.
11:27We just knew that it was somebody
11:29that was really sick.
11:43The police investigating Christina's murder
11:47went back through her missing persons case file
11:51and read it cover to cover.
11:55It was already more than a week
11:57since the teenager had disappeared.
11:59So, detective Bob Besat knew
12:01he was playing catch-up.
12:03What were some of the first steps
12:05you took in the investigation?
12:07We were trying to talk to as many people
12:09as we could,
12:10tracing her steps.
12:11Who's the last person that's seen her?
12:15Redford Township worked with us
12:17on trying to piece back together
12:18what may have happened.
12:20The mystery began
12:26on Saturday evening,
12:28March 19th.
12:29Christina had spent the afternoon
12:32socializing with the girls.
12:34But as the sun went down,
12:36she was ready to head out.
12:39She had been at a friend's house
12:40waiting for her boyfriend
12:41to pick her up.
12:42And then her boyfriend
12:44didn't show up.
12:47Christina eventually decided
12:49to make the short trip back home on foot.
12:53She was walking towards our house
12:55and she stopped at a pay phone
12:57and called one of her friends
12:58who lived two blocks away from us,
12:59said, I'm coming to your house.
13:04That call was the last time
13:07anyone spoke with Christina.
13:11But it wasn't the last time she was seen.
13:16Who was the last person
13:18to see Christina?
13:20The last person to see her
13:21would have been her boyfriend.
13:27According to Christina's boyfriend,
13:29he had seen her from the car he was in
13:32with several people
13:33as she made her way up the road
13:35towards her friend's house.
13:37What time of night was this?
13:38She was seen walking on Five Mile Road
13:40at about 8 p.m.
13:41How would you describe the road?
13:43Five Mile Road is a very suburban road.
13:45There were streetlights.
13:46It was a very well-traveled area.
13:48Investigators were puzzled
13:50and had a lot of questions
13:52for Christina's boyfriend
13:53about what happened next.
13:56Why didn't he pick her up?
13:58He was in a vehicle
13:59with a bunch of his friends
14:00and Christina didn't necessarily
14:02like the friend group
14:03that he was associated with.
14:04So he had chose to pass her
14:07and then got dropped off
14:08at a party store
14:09less than a mile down the road
14:10and waited for her to arrive
14:13because she was walking
14:14in that direction.
14:15Did she ever make it
14:16to the party store?
14:17She did not.
14:21So within minutes
14:22of his driving by her,
14:24she disappeared?
14:25Yes.
14:30Christina's boyfriend said
14:31he tried to find her.
14:33He started walking back towards her
14:35and he went to several houses
14:36around the area,
14:37people that they kind of
14:38hung out with.
14:39They were looking
14:40for most of the night.
14:41None of the friends
14:42had reported seeing her
14:44and then the next day
14:45is when she was reported
14:46missing by her parents.
14:51Officers fanned out
14:53and retraced
14:54Christina's last known movements.
14:57Redford Township
14:58knocked on every door.
14:59They checked with hospitals,
15:00her employer.
15:01They were on the case
15:02and they were working
15:04hard at it.
15:05But there were
15:06no sightings of Christina
15:07nor a single clue
15:09as to her whereabouts
15:11until her body
15:12was discovered 50 miles away.
15:18Now,
15:19as homicide detectives
15:20took over the investigation,
15:22they believed
15:23the place to start
15:24was clear.
15:26They needed to have
15:27a face-to-face meeting
15:28with Christina's boyfriend.
15:31When you first heard his story,
15:32were you surprised
15:32that on a cold night
15:33he didn't pick her up?
15:34The story from the boyfriend
15:35didn't make sense.
15:37The fact that he had
15:38bypassed her
15:38and then got dropped off
15:39down the road
15:40rather than stopping
15:41and getting out
15:42right where she was at
15:42definitely threw up
15:43a red flag for investigators.
15:47You try to put yourself
15:47in that spot
15:48and I'm thinking,
15:49man, I would have stopped.
15:50Why didn't he stop?
15:52That's very suspicious.
15:54Was it possible
15:55that he was making up
15:56that story to cover his tracks?
15:58100%.
15:58That's what we thought.
15:59That's what we thought.
16:04And her boyfriend's credibility
16:06came further into question
16:08once they heard
16:09why he and his friends
16:10had driven past Christina.
16:13They were doing drugs.
16:14He had promised her
16:16that he wouldn't hang out
16:17with these guys
16:18because of his drug issues.
16:19He himself had a drug problem.
16:26Those details
16:27added to detectives' concerns.
16:30And since they knew
16:31that most lies contained
16:33an element of the truth,
16:35they wondered
16:36if what really happened
16:37that night
16:38was that Christina
16:39had seen her boyfriend
16:41in the car
16:41and when he met up with her,
16:43she was angry
16:44about his broken promise.
16:46If so,
16:48had a heated argument ensued
16:50which led
16:51to something tragic?
16:54Did he have
16:55a window of opportunity
16:56to have killed Christina?
16:58Yes, he would have had
16:59a window to kill her.
17:00She wasn't reported missing
17:02until the following day.
17:07Christina's loved ones
17:08had reached
17:09a similar conclusion.
17:12Did your family
17:13believe he was involved?
17:14My father did
17:16right off the bat.
17:18And now investigators
17:19wondered
17:20if the physical evidence
17:22they had collected
17:23would prove
17:24those suspicions
17:25were right.
17:27He looked like
17:28a prime suspect,
17:29obviously.
17:41Investigators
17:42trying to solve
17:43Christina Castiglione's
17:44murder
17:45hope the crime scene
17:47evidence would help
17:48strengthen the case
17:49they were building
17:50against her boyfriend.
17:53But forensic testing
17:55in 1983
17:56wasn't nearly as conclusive
17:58as it is today.
17:59All they could do
18:00was blood type it.
18:01They couldn't do
18:02anything more than that.
18:03They knew
18:04that the suspect
18:05was type A.
18:06blood type
18:09match the evidence
18:10in the case?
18:11It did.
18:13But investigators
18:14also knew
18:15that type A blood
18:17was extremely common
18:19and the match
18:20wasn't strong enough
18:21evidence
18:22to arrest
18:22Christina's boyfriend.
18:28Police spent hours
18:30in the interrogation
18:31room trying to find
18:32a hole in his alibi.
18:33but the emotional
18:35young man
18:36stuck to his odd
18:37story
18:38about riding
18:39past her
18:40just moments
18:41before she disappeared.
18:43And surprisingly
18:44the timeline
18:45they developed
18:46through witness
18:47accounts
18:48seemed to back it up.
18:49Friends
18:50she associated
18:51with confirmed
18:52that he did
18:53in fact
18:53go within
18:54the Redford area
18:54looking for it
18:55that night.
18:56His interview,
18:57his statement,
18:58everything kind of fit.
18:59police discovered
19:03there was actually
19:04no period of time
19:05where he was alone
19:06long enough
19:07to have traveled
19:0850 miles
19:09to dispose
19:10of Christina's body.
19:14Still,
19:15investigators
19:16were eager
19:17to see what happened
19:17when the young man
19:18was given a polygraph.
19:21When Christina's boyfriend
19:22took a lie detector test
19:23what were the results?
19:25His results came back
19:26as him being truthful.
19:27He passed
19:29with flying colors.
19:32And police also
19:33tested anyone
19:34who was with
19:35Christina's boyfriend
19:36that night.
19:39Once we got
19:39their statements
19:40and then they passed
19:41polygraph tests
19:42we were comfortable
19:43that he was not involved.
19:50The results
19:51put investigators
19:52back at square one.
19:54What did investigators
19:55really have to do?
19:56work off of?
19:58Just the boyfriend's
20:00statement
20:01that he had seen her
20:02walking
20:03but she never showed?
20:04That was it.
20:05There was no evidence.
20:06There was no eyewitnesses.
20:07The main theory
20:08was that she was
20:09abducted into a vehicle.
20:12It was just whether or not
20:13it was a stranger
20:14or somebody she knew.
20:15could you find anyone
20:21who would have had a reason
20:23to hurt Christina?
20:25There was a lot of time
20:26and effort put in
20:27just trying to develop suspects
20:29but we couldn't find anybody
20:30that would want to harm Christina.
20:32It was difficult because
20:35how do you investigate something
20:37where there's no evidence
20:38and there's no tips?
20:39It's basically boots on the ground,
20:41detectives knocking on doors.
20:43Everything was a dead end.
20:49Desperate for a lead,
20:50investigators turned to the State Police
20:53Behavioral Science Unit
20:55hoping they could learn more
20:57about the type of person
20:58they were looking for.
21:01Did investigators believe
21:02that whoever killed Christina
21:04had likely killed before?
21:07Yes, they believed
21:08that it was somebody
21:09who had done this before,
21:10somebody who had propensity
21:12for violence,
21:13somebody who was
21:14a sexual deviant.
21:17Detectives poured through
21:18dozens of case files
21:19from crimes
21:20in the surrounding areas.
21:22Searching for attacks
21:23that might match
21:24their killer's M.O.
21:27And their hard work paid off
21:29when they discovered
21:31an eerily similar
21:32abduction and murder
21:34of a 16-year-old
21:35that had taken place
21:36a year before Christina's murder.
21:43In fact,
21:44the deeper they dug into the attack,
21:47the more likely it seemed
21:49that it had been committed
21:50by the same perpetrator.
21:53Similar circumstances,
21:54a similar-age female
21:55had gone missing.
21:57Both of them had family
21:58in the same area
21:59at the time,
22:00and both were found
22:01deceased,
22:02sexually assaulted.
22:05The locations they were taken from,
22:06it just kind of made sense
22:07that they were connected.
22:11It seemed like the clues
22:12were a huge break in the case.
22:14If investigators were right,
22:17they were now on the hunt
22:18for a deadly predator
22:21who had already killed
22:23two young women.
22:25But it also raised
22:26a chilling question.
22:28Was it just a matter of time
22:30before he struck again?
22:32As investigators continued
22:46to work around the clock
22:48trying to solve the murder
22:49of Christina Castiglione,
22:51their focus shifted
22:53to a brutal homicide
22:55that had taken place
22:56almost exactly one year before.
22:59The victim in that case
23:02was 16-year-old
23:03Kimberly Lewissell.
23:09What were some of the similarities
23:10between Kimberly
23:12and Christina's cases?
23:13They were similar in age.
23:16They looked very similar
23:17and were in close proximity
23:19of each other.
23:21The operating theory
23:22at the time was that
23:23she was abducted
23:24into a vehicle.
23:26And just like
23:27Christina Castiglione,
23:29Kimberly's body
23:30had been found
23:31partially clothed
23:32in a field far away
23:34from where she was last seen.
23:36Both of them ended up
23:38in two separate
23:39state-owned lands.
23:41According to the medical reports,
23:42she had been beaten.
23:43She had been repeatedly raped.
23:45It was a brutal
23:46end of Kim's life.
23:53And there was more.
23:56At the time they disappeared,
23:58both teenagers
23:59were walking home
24:00after a ride
24:01they had expected
24:02never arrived.
24:04In fact, police were convinced
24:07that Kimberly was abducted
24:08after using a pay phone
24:10not far from where
24:12Christina had disappeared.
24:14She had made several calls
24:15to try to get someone
24:16to pick her up.
24:17So witnesses actually
24:18remembered seeing her?
24:19Correct.
24:21We had one witness
24:22that described someone
24:23matching Kim's clothing
24:24half a mile west
24:25of where that phone booth was.
24:27Were their manner of deaths
24:29also similar?
24:30Yes.
24:31Both had been strangled
24:32using an article
24:33of clothing of theirs.
24:34All of those little things
24:42we look at
24:43as pieces of a puzzle
24:44and we thought that
24:45Christine and Kim's case
24:46were connected.
24:51Even though police
24:52had no physical evidence
24:53to back up their theory,
24:55the cases were investigated
24:57as one
24:58and that opened up
24:59new avenues
25:00for detectives
25:01to explore.
25:04Did you look into
25:05any of the suspects
25:06in Kimberly's case?
25:07We did.
25:08We started working together
25:09with the state police.
25:10We were trying to cross
25:11investigations
25:12and suspects
25:13and see if there was
25:14any connections.
25:15They were even
25:16interviewing Kimberly's
25:17ex-boyfriends
25:18and her family
25:19about Christina
25:20to see if there was
25:21any ties that they
25:22could find there.
25:23Did they know each other?
25:24By all accounts,
25:25they did not.
25:27Was there any detail
25:28from Kimberly's case
25:29that helped move
25:30Christina's case forward?
25:32No.
25:33Nothing that really
25:34helped push
25:35Christina's case forward.
25:42Police found the lack
25:43of progress troubling
25:45and it was even
25:46more disturbing
25:47for the parents
25:48of teenage girls
25:49in Livingston County
25:50who were forced
25:51to wonder
25:52if their child
25:53might be next.
25:56There was a lot
25:57of concerned people
25:58when you'd walk
25:59down the street
26:00and people knew
26:01that you were in law enforcement
26:02wanting to know
26:03have you found anything?
26:04We had daughters
26:05that were in fear
26:06of their safety.
26:07The urgency
26:08was very high.
26:09You have two victims
26:10and this guy's
26:11not going to stop
26:12unless he's caught.
26:13Did any promising tips
26:14come in?
26:15None.
26:16The tips that came in
26:18were people who believed
26:20they saw something,
26:21who wanted to give a name
26:22that they thought
26:23of somebody who could
26:24be involved,
26:25but ultimately,
26:26they were all ruled out.
26:31For detectives
26:32like Bob Bazat,
26:33every name scratched
26:34off the list
26:35was painful.
26:37The unsolved cases
26:39never left his mind.
26:41Is it true
26:42that you've had
26:43a picture of Christina
26:44on your desk?
26:45Yeah.
26:46Just as a reminder
26:47to make sure
26:48I did something every day
26:49on her case.
26:50Nothing detectives did
26:52brought them any closer
26:53to identifying a suspect.
26:55It was a helpless feeling.
26:57Any time that you can't
26:59bring closure
27:00to a family
27:01on something this horrific,
27:02it is frustrating
27:03because you're looking
27:04for answers
27:05to help the family.
27:06But police had nothing
27:12that even resembled an answer.
27:15And with each passing day,
27:17their fears of the call
27:18that will report
27:19the killer's next victim grew.
27:22Detectives were very concerned
27:24that they had a serial predator
27:26on their hands.
27:27Did he strike again?
27:28He did not.
27:29It just stopped in 1983.
27:31Did that surprise them?
27:32It did.
27:33Investigators just didn't understand
27:35how one person did multiple murders
27:37and then just stopped.
27:43Although detectives
27:44were obviously relieved
27:46that no more teenagers
27:48were murdered,
27:49it also meant
27:50that their chances
27:51of finding a vicious killer
27:53were slowly fading away.
27:55Did the investigation
27:56hit a standstill?
27:58Yeah.
27:59In about 1986,
28:00tips stopped coming in.
28:02There was nothing really
28:03more to follow up on.
28:04DNA technology still
28:05had not progressed
28:06to where we could
28:07do anything more
28:08with the evidence.
28:09The case had gone cold
28:10at that point.
28:12What did you think
28:13needed to happen
28:14to solve the case?
28:15A miracle.
28:16Honestly.
28:17A miracle.
28:18The detectives
28:19on these cases
28:20poured their heart and soul
28:21into them.
28:22And for some reason,
28:23they were just unable
28:24to find that missing piece.
28:25you know there's something
28:26out there.
28:27It's just a matter
28:28of trying to find it.
28:35But for decades,
28:36the big break investigators
28:37needed to crack the cases
28:39remained out of reach.
28:43Just how determined were you
28:44to try to bring the family
28:46some answers?
28:47I was very devoted
28:48to the case.
28:49You looked at the
28:50physical evidence,
28:51you looked at the interviews,
28:52the polygraphs,
28:53everything together,
28:54and you're saying,
28:55okay, what am I missing here?
28:56You have other detectives
28:57come in and you say,
28:58okay, these are the facts.
28:59Any more ideas?
29:00Did you lose faith
29:05that the case
29:06would ever be solved?
29:08I wouldn't say
29:09I lost faith.
29:10I knew in my heart
29:11they were still trying
29:12to find who did this.
29:14But that faith
29:15only made investigators
29:16feel worse
29:17when it became clear
29:19that the answers
29:20everyone so desperately wanted
29:22would not arrive in time
29:24to ease the pain
29:25of Christina's parents.
29:28One of the saddest things
29:29about this whole story
29:30is the mom and dad
29:31both passed away.
29:34My mom had said
29:35she just wished she knew
29:36what happened to her daughter.
29:37And then my dad was the same way.
29:39The night before she passed away
29:40I told her,
29:41go see Christine.
29:47Still, Anna remained committed
29:49to getting justice
29:50for her sister and Kimberly.
29:53And so were investigators.
29:56And the evidence they needed
29:57to officially connect the two murders
30:00and find a vicious killer
30:01was almost within reach.
30:04The investigation into the murders
30:20of Kimberly Lewissell
30:22and Christina Castiglione
30:24were a top priority
30:26for the cold case task force
30:28investigating them.
30:29They believed solving one
30:31would ultimately lead
30:33to justice for both.
30:35But for now,
30:37Christina's case held the most promise.
30:42When you looked into Christina's case
30:44for the first time,
30:45did you really think it could be solved?
30:48I did.
30:49This is the only cold case
30:50that we had in Livingston County
30:51that had DNA evidence.
30:52And I started really looking at
30:54what you could do with DNA.
30:57The team hoped
30:58that the development of CODIS,
31:00the FBI's national DNA database,
31:02would be the key
31:03to identifying a suspect.
31:08Investigators were so hopeful
31:09with CODIS technology
31:10that we would have a known offender.
31:13When the unknown profile
31:16was entered into CODIS,
31:18was there a hit?
31:19There was not.
31:20No hits came back.
31:26Cold case investigators
31:28went back to the beginning
31:30and attempted to review
31:31the massive case files.
31:33But the process
31:34was incredibly time-consuming.
31:36Our cold case files
31:38are unorganized.
31:39We have papers
31:40and binders
31:41and boxes full of stuff.
31:43The problem seemed
31:44like it might overwhelm the effort
31:46until Detective Sergeant Larry Rothman
31:49reached out
31:50to the Michigan State University's
31:51Criminal Justice Program.
31:53What kind of help
31:54did you need from the students?
31:55Helping to organize the cases
31:56and helping to find out
31:57what we're missing.
31:58The students digitized every report
32:00into an easily searchable database.
32:04It made all the hard work done
32:05by previous investigators
32:07available to the team
32:08with a single keystroke.
32:13And from the start,
32:15it was obvious
32:16what the biggest hurdle would be,
32:18finding physical evidence
32:19that would confirm investigators'
32:21decades-old theory.
32:23And from the start,
32:24it was obvious
32:25what the biggest hurdle would be,
32:26finding physical evidence
32:27that Kimberly Louissell's
32:29unsolved murder
32:30was connected to Christina's.
32:34What did you see
32:35as your biggest challenge?
32:36We had a lot of physical evidence,
32:37but we had no DNA.
32:39Sergeant Rothman checked
32:41his newly compiled evidence list,
32:43looking for something
32:44that could be submitted
32:45to the crime lab.
32:47But the technicians
32:48he spoke with
32:49weren't optimistic.
32:51If you look at a case
32:5240 years old,
32:53we were told that
32:54it would be one of those
32:55needle in a haystack
32:56type of situations.
32:57But despite the long odds,
32:59the lab agreed
33:00to process every item.
33:04While he waited for the results,
33:06Sergeant Rothman turned to his faith.
33:09I'd been praying
33:10that if there was any evidence
33:11there whatsoever
33:12that God would reveal that.
33:14Then, a few weeks later,
33:16his phone rang.
33:17Take me back to the day
33:18when you got the results
33:19from the testing
33:20on that DNA evidence.
33:21We have a connection
33:22between the Louissell case
33:23and the Castiglione case.
33:25It was amazing,
33:26absolutely amazing.
33:27For me,
33:28it was an answer to prayer.
33:29So it, in fact,
33:30was the miracle
33:31that you thought
33:32it was going to take
33:33to solve this case?
33:34It was.
33:35It was a miracle.
33:36I think it's pretty clear
33:37that's what it was.
33:39A miracle that would allow
33:40the two cases
33:41to be prosecuted as one
33:43if they ever found
33:44the man responsible.
33:45All of these cold cases
33:58were being solved
33:59through forensic genealogy.
34:00That's when we pursued
34:01that process.
34:02The DNA evidence
34:03was sent to a private forensic lab
34:05that created a massive family tree
34:07related to the suspect.
34:08Investigators painstakingly
34:09whittled the list down.
34:10The DNA evidence
34:11was sent to a private forensic lab
34:12that created a massive family tree
34:14related to the suspect.
34:15They were found
34:16until they reached their goal.
34:17Only one name
34:18really stood out.
34:19What was his name?
34:20Charles David Shaw.
34:27As detectives
34:28dived into Shaw's past,
34:30they were convinced
34:31they were on the right track.
34:33What did you find out about him
34:35when you looked
34:36into his background?
34:37I started looking
34:38in all of my databases
34:39and we immediately
34:40located an arrest record
34:41in 1981
34:43where he was arrested
34:44after attempted abduction
34:45of another female.
34:47What were the details
34:48of that attack?
34:49The woman reported
34:50that she was in the McDonald's
34:51parking lot
34:52in her car
34:53and a male approached her
34:55at her driver's side window
34:56and sprayed some sort
34:57of chemical irritant
34:58into her face
34:59and then tried to pull her
35:00out the window
35:01of her vehicle.
35:02The victim managed
35:05to fight off Shaw
35:07and as he fled the scene,
35:09she got a good look
35:10at his car.
35:11She was able
35:12to get a good make
35:13and model of the vehicle
35:14as well as a license plate
35:15and investigators
35:16caught up with him
35:17a short distance away
35:18from where the incident
35:19occurred and arrested him.
35:20And how much time
35:21did he serve in prison
35:22for that?
35:23He actually didn't go to prison.
35:24He spent about two weeks
35:26in the Livingston County Jail
35:28and pled his case
35:29down to two years
35:30of probation.
35:31And there was more.
35:37During his probation,
35:39Charles Shaw lived
35:41and worked in the area
35:43where both Christina
35:44and Kimberly
35:45were attacked.
35:46Charles David Shaw
35:47actually resided
35:48on the same street
35:49as Kimberly
35:50Louissell's boyfriend.
35:51Then he later got
35:52an apartment within a mile
35:53of where Christina
35:54lived with her parents.
35:55What went through your mind
35:56when you saw that
35:57in the file?
35:58I knew it was him.
35:59It made perfect sense.
36:01After four long decades,
36:04the pieces of the puzzle
36:06had finally come together.
36:07Based on the evidence
36:09you had against him,
36:11did you think you had
36:12enough to charge Shaw
36:14with murder?
36:15Absolutely.
36:16That's when Sergeant Young
36:18discovered a devastating detail.
36:21We learned
36:22that he had died in 1983.
36:27How disappointing
36:28was it to learn
36:29that he had died?
36:30It was disappointing
36:31because I wanted to be able
36:32to put handcuffs on this guy
36:33and put him in jail.
36:34But there is some solace
36:36knowing that he's probably
36:37burning in hell right now.
36:40Investigators learned
36:42that at the time of his death,
36:44Shaw was a deeply troubled man,
36:47living alone,
36:48tormented by his own
36:50psychological issues.
36:51Charles Shaw's family
36:54was very, very cooperative
36:55with us.
36:56They told us
36:57that he had problems.
36:58He was a disturbed young man
37:00and things going on
37:01within him that drove him
37:03to do these type of crimes.
37:05Still, Shaw's death, just over a year
37:13after Christina's murder,
37:15helped explain two of the biggest mysteries
37:18on the case.
37:19Why the attacks had come to such a sudden end
37:22and why Shaw's DNA never made it into CODIS.
37:26Is there any doubt in your mind
37:30that if Shaw had lived,
37:31that he would have murdered again?
37:33He absolutely would have.
37:35You could see from 1981
37:37until Christina's death
37:38that his propensity for violence
37:40was increasing.
37:41I think he would have continued
37:42along the manner that he was going.
37:44He was a very evil person.
37:45Just pure evil.
37:47Shaw's death also meant
37:56there are questions
37:57that will never be answered.
37:59In particular,
38:00how and why Shaw targeted
38:03the two teenagers.
38:06What do you think happened
38:08on the night of Christina's
38:10abduction and murder?
38:12I believe based on the 1981 case
38:14and the way that he operated
38:16that he used some sort of force
38:19to control Christina
38:21and order her into his vehicle.
38:24And then from there,
38:25she was killed and sexually assaulted.
38:28And just like Kimberly Louissell,
38:30Christina was simply
38:32in the wrong place at the wrong time.
38:37He saw her alone
38:38and took the opportunity
38:39to victimize her.
38:40For Sheriff Baba Zod,
38:42it was the end
38:43of the most painful case
38:44of his career.
38:45How satisfying was it
38:47to bring the family some answers?
38:49You finally know what happened.
38:50Try to bring a resolution
38:51to the family.
38:52There's any detective out there
38:53that's worked on these cases.
38:54You know, it gets to you.
38:55I can see it cuts you deep.
38:56It does.
38:57Makes you appreciate family
38:58a lot more.
38:59And those deep emotions
39:14made investigators meeting
39:15with Anna Castiglione
39:17a moment no one will ever forget.
39:20What was your reaction
39:22when you were informed
39:24that Charles David Shaw's DNA
39:28was a match to the DNA
39:30from the crime scene?
39:31Thank God.
39:32I never expected them
39:33to tell me that.
39:34Were you angry
39:36that he never had to face justice
39:38for what he had done?
39:39Yes.
39:40He was a horrible person.
39:42My sister did not deserve this.
39:44But the bitterness was offset
39:47by a sense of gratitude.
39:49What did it mean to you
39:51that law enforcement
39:52never gave up
39:53on Christina's case?
39:55It was absolutely wonderful
39:57because this doesn't happen
39:58all the time.
39:59They wanted to solve the murder
40:03like it was their own son
40:04or daughter.
40:08And even though the final resolution
40:10had come too late
40:11for her own mother and father,
40:13Anna knows they are now
40:16finally at peace.
40:18They are with her
40:19and they're happy now.
40:20They got their answers.
40:23And I just think of it that way.
40:28What kind of a woman
40:29do you think Christina
40:30would have become
40:31if her life hadn't been
40:33tragically cut short?
40:35I think she probably
40:36would have been caring
40:37for other people
40:38because she loved doing that stuff.
40:40I'm sure I'd have nieces
40:41and nephews.
40:43Now, especially being older,
40:45I just miss her altogether.
40:47I wish I had a sister.
40:53Police say they will continue
40:55to work with the criminal justice students
40:57at Michigan State University
40:59to bring other families
41:01the justice they deserve.
41:03I'm Paula Zahn.
41:05Please join us again next time
41:07when we're back
41:08on the case.
41:10On the next
41:11on the case.
41:12When they walked
41:13into Kathy's bedroom,
41:15what did they see?
41:16She was stabbed, strangled,
41:18and beaten.
41:19It's about as bad
41:20as it could get.
41:21On her left leg
41:23was written,
41:24I was here.
41:25Did the killer
41:26leave us a message?
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