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A young woman vanishes after entering a patrol car. For 35 years, she’s a Jane Doe. As fear and rumors consume a small town, a chilling clue under hypnosis cracks the case open—and exposes a predator no one saw coming.
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00:00I dig all the graves at Riverside Cemetery in Blue Earth. I've been digging
00:13graves since 1966 and I still is I buried Jane Doe's body back in 1980 a few days
00:32after they found her
00:36that was the first time I have ever buried anybody that did not have a name
00:42it made me sad because I knew there was somebody out there looking for her and wondering what
00:53happened to her she had been buried for 34 years when they asked if I'd dig her back up
01:03putting people in the ground is one thing but digging them back up it's a lot different
01:13that's the thing about the dead when you start pulling them back up
01:21you never know what you're gonna find
01:25so
01:36It all started out
02:06about 45 years ago.
02:09It was a bright, sunny day.
02:11I had just started the day shift at 9 o'clock that morning.
02:18And Jura Fletcher just said, a farmer at Gilbert Shave
02:21called, and we had gotten about five inches of rain
02:25two days before that.
02:27And a farmer found something floating in a drainage ditch
02:31east of town.
02:36Usually, that drainage ditch is pretty empty.
02:40But at that time, it was probably seven or eight feet deep.
02:43And it was clogged up with old corn stalks
02:46from the previous fall.
02:50I don't think anybody was really too worried about what
02:53we were going to find.
02:54We had no missing persons from our county or anything like that.
02:57So well, when I got there, I was the first one on the scene.
03:04Walked down the grassy area.
03:14And all of a sudden, I saw the body.
03:18You just kind of catch your breath and realize it is a body.
03:23The victim was floating on his back amongst all the corn stalks.
03:29It was starting to decompose.
03:31He was kind of swollen.
03:33I couldn't tell right away if he was a man or a woman,
03:36even though he was nude.
03:37Once we got out of the water, then you could tell it was female.
03:44And there was a gray-colored cord around the victim's neck.
03:50The cord around her neck indicated ligature strangulation.
03:56She looked like a younger lady, probably anywhere from 20
03:59to 30 years old.
04:02We noticed that she had no hair except for a small tuft
04:06in the back.
04:08The one thing that was interesting was
04:10there was no fingernails at all on either hand.
04:16The reason for no fingernails was that they'd been ripped off.
04:22I mean, that's torture.
04:26All you can think of is, what is this poor woman going through?
04:31I just imagine she just probably died of fright too, you know?
04:36After the body was taken away, I walked along the drainage ditch,
04:43seeing if I could find any type of clothing or anything of interest.
04:48The rain washed away everything.
04:51A good tire track and dirt would just be completely washed away.
04:59As you can imagine, any time a murder occurs in a small town, word spreads like wildfire.
05:06It was all over the newspapers.
05:08It was on the radio.
05:09It's not every day you get a murder in a small town like this, especially one where it
05:13seems like it wasn't just the elements that erased the scene.
05:16It looked like it was a deliberate attempt to clean up after a crime.
05:23This was a case where somebody knew what they were doing.
05:26And whoever did do this, they're still out there.
05:29We started calling her Jane Doe because she was unknown.
05:39We had no idea who she was.
05:41We took x-rays of her teeth and hoped to find a dental match somewhere.
05:46But the only hope we really had of any type of identification was one fingerprint, which
05:53indicated we had nothing.
05:57Once you find out a person's name, then you can go back 24 to 48 hours and find out where
06:05they've been, you know, who they were with, what they were doing.
06:10It's something you have to have.
06:13Blue Earth got its name from the Dakota phrase, which means the river where the Blue Earth is
06:18gathered.
06:21Somebody was digging down about 16 feet, you'll hit Blue Earth, kind of like a blue clay.
06:29And that's how they named it Blue Earth.
06:31They even used to give away little bottles at the gas stations for souvenirs with Blue
06:37Earth in it, a keychain deal.
06:43This area was sacred to the Dakota people.
06:47They would use the Blue Earth as body paint to ward off evil spirits.
06:56In a small town like Blue Earth, murders like this don't happen.
07:01It's a friendly town.
07:04Everybody seems to know everybody.
07:06It's just a nice place to live.
07:08I was born in Blue Earth and I'll be there all my life and I won't be leaving no place.
07:17News travels fast in a small town.
07:20I heard it.
07:21I heard it.
07:22Some of my good friends pulled Jane Dole out of the dredge ditch.
07:27In 1980, when they discovered the body, Blue Earth had a population of just 4,500.
07:42It was a very safe community.
07:45People left their doors unlocked.
07:46The film Friday the 13th had just come out a few weeks prior and everyone around town
07:51was talking about it.
07:53Some dates I was certain to wait about them.
07:58Friday the 13th, figures bad luck and everything like that.
08:02And I remember seeing that movie.
08:05It was a great movie.
08:06Everyone loves a good horror movie.
08:08But now there was somebody out there doing real life, horrible things.
08:13We checked around the area for women in the age group of 20 to 30 in the Blue Earth area.
08:24And we couldn't find out anybody like that.
08:27Nobody had any missing person reports.
08:30We knew they were all accounted for.
08:32So we were sure it wasn't somebody that was local.
08:38We started looking for any missing 25 to 30 year old females anywhere in the United States.
08:47We also had dental records to try to match Jane Doe.
08:51We got several hundred leaves and still came up empty.
09:01I can remember watching the news that night with my family.
09:05I can remember feeling afraid and scared.
09:08We were within a five, ten minute walk of I-90.
09:11We didn't know who the killer was.
09:14It just put fear in everybody's mind.
09:16Nobody knew if the killer was still here, lurking around town, looking for who could be next.
09:26About two weeks later, there were two teenage boys, aged 13 and 14, walking along the river under the I-90 bridge near Blue Earth.
09:39You know how it is when you're that age, you want to try and scare each other by going by a creepy bridge and doing something dangerous.
09:52And that's what these kids are probably doing.
09:54But they got more than they bargained for.
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10:27a big mystery. It was gonna be next to impossible for us to solve and that's
10:43when we found out that a couple of kids in July of 1980 found some clothing
10:54under a bridge in the blue earth area. What they found tucked underneath the piece of styrofoam
11:06was a golden white striped sweater with bloodstains on it and right next to it
11:13someone's ID card. The ID was a Texas issue ID for a woman with brown hair and brown eyes
11:22and they don't understand what they found but they know it shouldn't be here.
11:27And that's when detectives get a call from one of the boys fathers.
11:38It was a big deal. Well being there was an identification you know all of a sudden you
11:46have a name and a parent address and birth date to go by so you can do some checking on that to see
11:54if anything pans out on it. Maybe it could be connected to our Jane Doe case. Maybe we could
12:03find out who she is. Unfortunately the lab determined that the blood on the garment was
12:10animal blood and the ID was fake so these items were not helpful. That to me was very disappointing.
12:20But it did give detectives a new theory on potentially who this person could be.
12:29I figured possibly this person was a hitchhiker on the interstate and somebody had abducted her.
12:39Just a couple of weeks after the body was discovered.
12:51The state trooper came in into the sheriff's office there to use the cocky machine. He says,
13:07well how are you guys coming on the Jane Doe case? And he kind of threw my hands up and says,
13:16we can't identify her. We have no real crime scene. The only evidence we have is the body itself.
13:23And he says, we're kind of stuck. And he laughs and says, well I'll make it easy for you. I did it.
13:34And I says, not funny Bob. And he says, just messing with you.
13:45Then he walked away into the, into the other room to use the coffee machine. He was laughing.
13:53A lot of cops have a morbid sense of humor, you know.
13:58But I'm sure there was a lot of curiosity.
14:03Everybody felt pressure from the public because we couldn't identify her.
14:09And it's caused a lot of concern from the law enforcement aspect.
14:14At the time in 1980, my kids were still in high school. Just, it affects you as a parent to see somebody's
14:22young daughter is missing somewhere. Just hiking down the road.
14:26This is a scary time for Blue Earth. A lot of back roads, a lot of country roads.
14:34One of the things that happens in a small town, when you don't have a suspect, you don't know who did it,
14:43in a case like this is parents get nervous. They get scared. You don't know what steps you have to take
14:49to keep your family safe. It was like everybody was waiting for something to happen.
14:57But the truth is, it already had.
15:03We started looking outside of our immediate county to surrounding areas to see if there's
15:11any type of crime which could possibly be connected to ours in some way.
15:17Backup requested.
15:27And we found something.
15:37Joanne Bonchus was last seen leaving the American Legion bar on October 3rd, 1975 at about 1230 AM.
15:47She was supposed to be going home where she lived with her parents, but she never made it.
16:03No.
16:17Get off.
16:19They had enough to be found inside.
16:21They were going outside of our house.
16:23They didn't know, they were going for us to be attacked.
16:25They wanted to be killed and shot them to be a lot of dead.
16:27They were going outside of that building.
16:29They had all I can do with them.
16:31Investigators scoured the area, found her car, two miles outside of Tremont.
16:43Inside her vehicle, the keys were still in the ignition, her purse was in the car.
16:51And the most chilling detail were the tire tracks.
16:53It looked like somebody had pulled her over.
17:05And then they couldn't find her, and all sorts of people were out searching for her here in
17:10Martin County.
17:12And then all of a sudden, everybody went to eat, and we got a farmer that finds the body
17:21right where a bunch of the other people had just checked the area.
17:26That seems strange.
17:28Being the fact that the two victims are approximately the same age and they're both dumped in a ditch,
17:37it seems kind of coincidental.
17:41We had our case, and Martin County had their case.
17:46We're wondering, is there a serial killer out there, or is it just coincidences, or what?
17:55And they realized this was something far worse than they ever imagined.
17:58Not just one murder, but a pattern.
18:06Three years later, four years later, we were still closer to finding a killer of Jane Doe.
18:17But then early 1983, we heard about a serial killer that was talking about murdering several
18:23hundred people, one at a time picking up hitchhikers and strangling them.
18:29The notorious serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas, confessed to killing a hitchhiker on Interstate
18:3690, the same road where Jane Doe was picked up.
18:41We thought, this is our guy.
18:46Everything seemed to match.
18:47He was a trucker and picking up hitchhikers all over the United States.
18:51So we were very hopeful.
18:53Henry Lee Lucas earned the nickname the confession killer because he confessed to killing 600
19:00people.
19:01He would always tell his victims, hop in, where are you headed?
19:04But they never would get where they were going.
19:06At that time, he was incarcerated, and nobody had talked to him yet.
19:11My investigator was the first one to interview him.
19:14He was a small guy, about 5'2".
19:19He told me he had one eye.
19:22He was kind of eerie, sitting there alone.
19:25The Texas Rangers didn't want to come in there.
19:27They were so tired of listening to him murdering all these girls.
19:31I was in there by myself.
19:33I killed by strangulation.
19:36I killed by knife and I killed by hit and runs, shootings, robberies, hangings.
19:43Every type of crime, I've done it.
19:46He wanted to see the pictures that I had of our James duo.
19:50And he looked at them very carefully.
19:52And he said, it wasn't me because I didn't stab her 20 or 30 times.
19:59He talked about, he killed a lady in Minnesota.
20:03But he said that he sure that he didn't kill the one in Blue Earth.
20:08It was not ours.
20:10He was admitting to several other murders.
20:14And so, he basically had nothing to lose by admitting to ours.
20:17But he definitely denied killing Jane Doe.
20:20It turns out, he was very good about researching cases and knowing all the publicly available information about the cases.
20:29But when police questioned him about things that were not publicly available, his story fell apart.
20:38He was only ever convicted of killing three people.
20:41His mother, his wife, and an elderly woman that he lived with.
20:46It's like being a movie star.
20:49You're just playing the part.
20:51Make out that you're the worst serial killer in the history of the United States.
20:56And that's what I did.
20:58Lucas was somebody who wanted the world to believe he was more dangerous than he really was.
21:04It was disappointing.
21:06You don't have your killer and the case goes on.
21:09In a small town like Blue Earth, everybody's worried.
21:14Until the killer is captured, nothing's the same anymore until there's a resolution.
21:20And in this case, it took a long time for that to happen.
21:23To find out who may have done it.
21:29But as of February 1988, eight years have passed since Jane Doe was discovered.
21:37And then detectives got a call from the Smith County Sheriff's Office in Texas.
21:43In February 1988, I got this phone call and it said,
21:47this is J.G. Smith down in Smith County, Texas.
21:50And I've got a fellow here that I got him in jail right now.
21:53And he's confessing sexually molesting his kids.
21:56And he's talking about the possibility that he thinks he also killed someone in your district.
22:02So he said, I think he made me better come down here and talk to him.
22:06We recognized the name.
22:09Realized it was somebody that was from our area and that would be familiar with the case.
22:14This was a guy that we all worked with.
22:18You know, he had access to the front office where we kept the copy machine,
22:22where he would use the photocopier for some of his reports and that.
22:26Turns out he was the guy that asked me how we were coming on the case.
22:30And he kind of laughed.
22:33He said, well, I can make it easy for you.
22:36I did it.
22:38It's just like somebody hits you with a ton of bricks.
22:40Son of a bitch, that told me he did this.
22:44Do you know?
22:46His name was Robert Nelson, a Minnesota State Patrol officer from 1970 to 1985.
22:52He was stationed in this district,
22:57which included the city of Blue Earth when Jane Dole was discovered.
23:01He had a bad temper, a trigger temper.
23:14Nelson, from what I have heard, was not a well-liked police officer in this community.
23:20At one point, quit his job as a police officer and moved to Texas.
23:23Pastor Bernier from the church that Robert Nelson belonged to in Texas had come in with Robert Nelson and wanted to talk to the sheriff.
23:34Nelson had been molesting his children.
23:37Nelson also started talking about the killing in Minnesota.
23:41When I walked into the room, we just exchanged greetings like we'd known each other for 20 years.
23:46Which we had.
23:49It felt unbelievable.
23:51Somebody that we know and somebody that we'd work with.
23:54Just unbelievable.
23:56He was one of our own, you know.
23:59You just don't expect it.
24:01He was a little bit nervous.
24:03One thing we did notice, he was a very fussy individual.
24:06Very neat in appearance, and he was wearing his prison jumpsuit.
24:09And he kept picking little pieces of length off of his jumpsuit.
24:14Just a nervous tick.
24:16Our first question was about Demontis' murder.
24:22She's well-known over there.
24:24Family's well-known in Martin County, and they want blood.
24:28There were just so many similarities between the two that we considered Bob Nelson to be a person of interest, a very strong interest.
24:35We knew that Robert Nelson carried an old shotgun in his car at all times.
24:41We knew that she'd been killed with an old shotgun because of the paper wadding that was embedded in her.
24:46From talking with the deputies, I'd heard that this gal wasn't the type to pull over for just anybody on the roadway.
24:55People felt like there was a police officer that pulled over.
24:58But he said, no, I did not have anything to do with that.
25:03And I'll tell you, I don't want to talk about that murder.
25:10We went through several interviews with him, and eventually brought him back to Minnesota, interviewed him again on the Jane Doe murder case.
25:18Good. July 17th, 1989, and we're in the city of Bloor, and I'm in the company of Robert Nelson, conducting an interview with the murder of Jane Doe. Do you feel comfortable with it?
25:34Yes. I'm ready to proceed.
25:38I sort of feel like you're talking to the devil.
25:41In your own mind, you wonder what in the hell happened.
25:44When we first started talking to Robert Nelson, our first question was about our murder, Jane Doe, in 1980.
25:59July 17th, 1989, and we're in my office at the sheriff's office.
26:05I'm Jerry Cabe, deputy sheriff, and I'm in the company of Robert Nelson, conducting an interview with the murder of Jane Doe.
26:16He knew that what he had done was wrong, and he knew that it was him that did it, but it wasn't the real him.
26:23All he talked about, like, two people.
26:25There's me, the good guy, and me, the bad guy.
26:28It's like a reflection in a mirror, back and forth, like a split personality.
26:31It's been nine years ago, it had been very painful, and I said, all I want to do is see if the truth comes out, even if it's awful, better than not being known.
26:44He readily admitted it.
26:46He admitted that he had killed the person that we had been following, Jane Doe.
26:52Tell me what happened in the last part of me in 1980.
26:56Probably about 9.30 at night. It was completely dark. I was parked off the freeway interchange where I could kind of watch traffic.
27:09You wouldn't notice the police car there.
27:11I saw the gal standing there, and she kept walking down the freeway ramp.
27:16I had been sitting with all the lights off, just the radios on, so I could hear any calls.
27:23Drove up to where she was walking.
27:27Nelson approached the young woman and asked her where she was going, and she said she was going nowhere.
27:36And he asked her if she wanted a ride.
27:38We headed west on Interstate 90 towards Blue Ridge.
27:47And I was looking for a quiet place, you know, a place out of the way.
27:57And that's when she began to indicate that she wasn't going to go through with any sexual advances.
28:02At that point, I handcuffed her with her hands behind her back.
28:09By this time, she's very upset, and she was screaming and carrying on that she was going to see me fired and in jail and in prison.
28:18Now I was looking at some serious problems, and she's yelling and hollering, and I know she's right.
28:23And to try to shut her up, I found a flyer in the trunk of the car.
28:32What I did is, yanked out two or three fingernails to tell her I missed her.
28:36All the frustration and all the anger and something inside me snapped.
28:50I grabbed the drawstring in the bottom of her jacket.
28:54Is she still handcuffed, babe?
28:55Yes.
28:57I stood behind her at one end in each hand and strangled her.
29:06And I hated myself, I hated her, I hated everything at that moment.
29:10At this time, I think we'll conclude the tape, Bob, and the saves.
29:21When he told them about pulling the fingernails out of her, that wasn't released to the public.
29:27Nobody knew about that other than Roger and Jerry.
29:33We had a killer that's with us all the time, interacting with us.
29:37And here he was, hiding in plain sight.
29:41We just didn't know it.
29:43Based on Robert Nelson's confession, he was ultimately found guilty of and pled guilty to sexual assault and first-degree manslaughter.
29:53Robert Nelson was sentenced to 86 months in prison.
29:57He will serve that time in a Texas facility concurrently with his Texas life sentence.
30:03And we always thought that if we could find out who killed her, that person would know who it was.
30:12But it wasn't the case.
30:14We were no closer to knowing who she was than when we'd started.
30:18It was still Jane Doe.
30:21There was no name.
30:25We had gotten several thousand leads.
30:26Some of them looked good and some of them were immediately thrown out.
30:31After many years, we could narrow it down to nothing.
30:36Just a nameless victim and a trail that has gone cold.
30:40When I first heard about the Jane Doe case, I was at a bar with my husband and a friend of ours who was a Bloor City police officer.
30:55And I asked him if he had any cold cases or things just kidding him.
31:00And this one time, finally, he went, OK, you want one?
31:06And he goes, there's a woman buried in a cemetery that's never been identified.
31:09And I said, what?
31:11And he goes, yeah, she's just buried under stone, says unidentified woman, found May 30, 1980.
31:17So I immediately went out there to see it.
31:31And it was there.
31:33I couldn't let it go.
31:35This woman deserved more than just an unmarked grave.
31:38She was a human being, and I refused to believe that they're throwaway.
31:43So I started asking questions and trying to find out any information I could get.
31:50And I requested and many, many times demanded access to the records that they had on this Jane Doe.
31:59People just ignored me, and some of the official agencies, they wouldn't deal with me because I was a private citizen.
32:06And then, finally, someone that still worked there, an old-timer, that said, oh, yeah, we do have the records.
32:19So we set up a time, and I went to the courthouse.
32:26It was kind of after hours.
32:29He took me down into the basement, and he said, I got some stuff to take care of for a little while.
32:34When I come back, you're done.
32:41And under the stairs was a crate.
32:50And I immediately just started paging through it, taking pictures of every page I could as fast as I could.
32:54And he came back within 15, 20 minutes, and I had gotten 99% of it.
33:08The moment when I got access to the file, I was just beside myself because I was able to start seeing what they had done, what they hadn't done.
33:20And the sheriff's department had worked on that case hard.
33:23They cared. They did the best they could.
33:24But there wasn't DNA. There wasn't databases, you know.
33:29But they did try diligently to give her her name back.
33:34It just wasn't the resources there are now.
33:38It wasn't too long, and I realized that getting her exhumed was going to be the key to getting her name.
33:44And so I had to convince the sheriff's department to exhume the body.
33:51You know, as a young child, knowing about this case from six years old, this case was lingering always in the back of my mind.
34:00Every time I would drive by or ride my bike by I-90, I'd often think about who was this young lady? How did she get there?
34:08And then May of 2006, when I became an investigator, the sheriff came to me and said, I'm going to sign the Jane Doe case to you.
34:19So I was very excited. I remember telling my parents, and they were excited for me, too.
34:25I had high hopes that I would find a name for Jane Doe.
34:29Deb and the previous investigators had talked about exhuming Jane Doe, trying to get new DNA, new leads.
34:35Sheriff Gormley and I, we made the decision to exhume her body.
34:42Generally, you hear of Friday the 13th as a possible spooky day.
34:47You know, it's like a full moon.
34:49But yet, on this Friday the 13th, the past refused to stay buried.
34:53So on August 12, 2014, the exhumation was scheduled. And it was a beautiful sunny day, actually.
35:07They had closed the cemetery, but I had a personal invite from the sheriff's office.
35:13It was kind of surreal. It was really quiet. But there were lots of people there with jackets on, like, from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the sheriff's department.
35:28And my friend Gary Sunken was there with his equipment, and they were digging the hole.
35:35She had been buried for 34 years, and we were just trying to get to the truth, what happened to her and who she was.
35:45I didn't know what to expect. I'd never been in this situation before.
35:52They pulled the cover off, and a lot of it was just dirt and debris.
36:12We could see that she was in there, and you see a perfect body, but she's in the body bag.
36:21I've dealt with hundreds of dead bodies in my career, but I've never honestly dealt with a body that was this severely decomposed.
36:30A lot of it looked like dirt, ashes to ashes. And I saw her skull.
36:36And they lifted her out and then put her in a van to take her to have the DNA extracted and have an autopsy.
36:47I didn't know what I was going to think or feel, but I don't know why I'm getting choked up now, either.
36:53I didn't feel like she had become my friend in some way, like she gave me a purpose.
37:01In my mind, this was, after this many years, going to be the final step.
37:12If we do not get a match, will we ever find a name for Jane Doe?
37:17When I got the phone call, Sheriff Cornley was just walking by my office. I yelled his name to come back.
37:28The agent then said, we have a match to Jane Doe.
37:33Both of us were absolutely ecstatic.
37:35Not too long after the exhumation took place, a few months, I checked my messages and I hear this woman's voice and she says, this is Marla Boucher and I'm looking for Deborah Anderson.
37:53And I called the number back.
37:56I said, hi, this is Deb Anderson. Can I help you?
37:58There was a voice on the other end of the phone that said, are you the woman that's been taking care of my sister all these years?
38:07And she said they were sure that the DNA had come back and it was her sister.
38:13Michelle.
38:17And this is Michelle Boucher.
38:19She was from Bay City, Texas.
38:22It was very surreal to finally find out who she was.
38:26I think I was kind of in some kind of shock for the first day or two.
38:32We're here today to announce that a murder victim has been identified.
38:36Michelle Boucher was 18 years old when she disappeared from her family's home in Texas.
38:41Her family had never stopped looking for her.
38:43Her father didn't want to change his phone number, his address in case she ever tried to come back.
38:49Michelle was a beautiful young woman just at the beginning of her life.
38:54She was the middle child in a family of five.
38:59Michelle left home to travel cross country with her friends.
39:03She was calling home every two weeks and checking in.
39:06And then the call stopped and her family filed a missing person report on May 9, 1980.
39:13This was the same day the film Friday the 13th had come out.
39:19These horror movies seem like fun and people are fans of them and everything when they're at a movie theater or whatever, but this was real life.
39:26This was a real human being, somebody's child.
39:32It's a sad ending because I'm sure that they always maintain a little bit of hope, but at least now they know.
39:37We'd all been waiting for this and here it turns up 35 years later it took to identify her.
39:48Michelle Boucher wasn't from here, but I think this community sort of calls her one of their own.
39:54She's a part of the lore of Blue Earth in Fairville County and so is Debbie Anderson.
40:01Her name was the key to her life, to her death, to the man who took it all away.
40:07One of the things that was unique about this situation is the film Friday the 13th had just come out on May 9, 1980.
40:20Michelle's family reported her missing on May 9, 1980.
40:25And on Friday the 13th, the truth came to the surface.
40:29And Michelle got her name back.
40:31It was just kind of mind-blowing.
40:33Nelson wasn't just a child abuser, he was a serial predator.
40:38And because he had a badge, he had power over anybody he would pull over, including and especially women.
40:45He wasn't protecting people, he was hunting them.
40:48It's supremely awful.
40:52Not even just what he did to Jane Doe, but when you get into the court documents,
40:56you see what he's done to other people.
40:58Including voyeurism, exposing himself in public, harassing people he would stop.
41:05This is indeed a monster.
41:08If I'd have gotten a couple of flashes of blood on me, you'd have never noticed it on your trousers.
41:13A lot of times I'd have blood all over me and never see it.
41:16I mean, never see it.
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