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00:00I guess I was about 6 years old when my mother disappeared.
00:07I do remember feeling like she was going to come home.
00:11A massive manhunt is now on.
00:15A serial murderer may be on the loose in Delaware.
00:18I just found this poem a couple days ago.
00:22My grandfather wrote it.
00:24As we gaze to the heavens at a beautiful star,
00:27your family finds comfort in knowing there you are.
00:41We pray you have found everlasting peace at last.
00:48With this thought, we are able to handle the past.
00:54I said it's beautiful.
00:57I'll never be able to forgive or forget.
01:13I don't know how you could forgive someone for something like this.
01:16I don't know.
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03:22Você pode ver que há mutilação em sua área, ela tinha uma marca no seu estômago.
03:30Ela tinha uma marca no seu dedo.
03:33Parece que ela tinha feito um combate com o seu ataque.
03:37Então, em uma parte, eu vejo que eu tenho um murder,
03:40mas então eu vejo esses elementos que foram estranhos para mim.
03:43Eu não entendia bem o que isso tudo meant naquela época.
03:47Detectives identificam a vítima como Shirley Ellis
03:54e acham para a sua próxima família, a mãe, procurando para a vítima.
04:09Um aspecto que você realmente olhar para tratar de determinar
04:12por que a pessoa foi morta é a vítima.
04:15Etymologia.
04:16Nós tentamos encontrar o seu estilo de vida, o seu escolhimento em sua vida
04:20como nós podemos.
04:22Mrs. Ellis,
04:23a chance que alguém que fez isso conhece Shirley.
04:26Você pode pensar de alguém que seria amigável?
04:29Não.
04:30Shirley Ellis, ela foi bastante acostumada a viver na rua.
04:33Ela tinha sido previously arrestada por prostituição,
04:36e ela era uma previousa druga usada.
04:39Então, nós sabíamos que ela viajava em circunstância
04:41com pessoas que, você, sabe,
04:43patronize prostitutes e usam drogas e coisas da natureza.
04:46Ela disse que na noite de sua morte, ela iria visitar dois amigos de hospital.
04:58Ela iria hitchhiking, iria iria para onde ela precisava de ir.
05:03Ela viu a minha irmãs na rua 40, para a cidade de Wilmington,
05:09na frente da rua, e foi em 5 minutos até 6 minutos na noite.
05:13Shirley never made it to the hospital.
05:18Detective Swisky wonders if Shirley's murder is the result of a sexual assault.
05:36When you see the body at the crime scene, you're going to think that she was sexually assaulted.
05:43The victim was not sexually assaulted.
05:46There was no signs of seminal fluid, no sperm, nothing.
05:52She was not raped in the traditional sense of rape.
05:58Both nipples had been mutilated, and it looked like a pinching-type device.
06:03It had been used basically pliers or something of that nature.
06:06There was ligature marks at her ankles and her wrists,
06:11and she had a ligature strangulation mark around her neck.
06:16Examination of her skull revealed that she had been struck in the skull three times
06:20with a hard cylindrical object, perhaps a hammer.
06:25With such force, it actually crushed her skull.
06:27Kathleen Jennings is the deputy attorney general for the state of Delaware.
06:45Someone had tortured her before she was killed.
06:49That was highly unusual and highly disturbing.
06:55I had certainly seen some gruesome murder scenes,
07:00but this one seemed very deliberate.
07:05I had never, never seen that type of deliberate,
07:10premeditated and cold-blooded murder before.
07:14Jesus, this girl was tortured first.
07:33Have you ever seen anything like this?
07:36No.
07:37You?
07:39No.
07:40No.
07:40Authorities begin to think they don't have a random murder on their hands.
07:48This is something else.
07:51So where do we go next?
07:53But with no witnesses or DNA evidence,
07:56they make little progress with the investigation.
07:59We never were able to develop a solid suspect.
08:04There just wasn't one.
08:06We had no leads as to the identity of the person who would have done this.
08:12What we knew was that this was sadistic,
08:16and those types of killings are rare.
08:21Then, seven months pass.
08:23Well, the morning of June 29th of 1988,
08:33I was called to a construction site known as Fox Run off of the Route 40 area.
08:40Detective James Hedrick, a four-year veteran of the Newcastle County Police Department,
08:52responds immediately to the scene.
08:56Upon my arrival there, I observed a female.
09:02Appeared to be possibly in her early 30s.
09:07She was completely nude.
09:09Catherine DeMauro, a 31-year-old divorced mother of two,
09:14lays on the soft dirt.
09:18You could tell right away that the individual was not killed where she was found,
09:24which meant that wherever the crime scene was, the actual crime scene,
09:28we have no idea at that point where to even begin to look.
09:32Detective Hedrick also sees something tragically familiar in the details of the victim's body.
09:39There were specific injuries, you know, to the breast area,
09:48the binding of the hands and the feet.
09:51All injuries that you wouldn't see in a normal homicide.
09:56All of us were familiar with a piece of a case that had happened prior to this,
10:03and we asked them to actually come to our crime scene
10:06and see if they felt it was similar to their case in 1987.
10:20Detective Swisky immediately heads over.
10:23His reaction is instantaneous.
10:25When I actually saw Catherine DeMauro's body,
10:29it became readily obvious it had to be the same person.
10:35As soon as Cathy's body was discovered,
10:40we knew we had a serial killer on our hands.
10:46A serial murderer may be on the loose in Delaware.
10:50Police answered questions today on the similarities of these brutal slayings.
10:55All serial killers will not stop until they're caught.
10:58So it became a question of,
11:00are we going to have three, are we going to have six,
11:03are we going to have ten?
11:04Because he's never going to stop until we catch him.
11:07A massive manhunt by police is now on.
11:31They believe a serial murderer may be on the loose in Delaware.
11:36The investigation takes a rather intense turn
11:40when you realize you have a serial killer.
11:44We are being assured by everybody around us
11:47that you're going to have more victims.
12:01Can you go ahead and put up the coroner's report, please?
12:02Detectives James Hedrick and Joseph Swisky
12:08have never hunted a serial killer before.
12:12So they call in experts who have.
12:15The FBI.
12:17We presented our photographs,
12:20all crime scene work,
12:23everything that we had gathered at this point
12:25for both investigations.
12:26Based on the evidence that you've been able to gather,
12:29we're able to determine that your suspect
12:31is going to be wiped.
12:32It's probably going to be in his 20s to early 30s.
12:36They provided us with a behavioral profile
12:39of the individual
12:41that we would most likely be looking for.
12:43He's going to portray a macho attitude.
12:46You may find aspects of S&M pornography.
12:49I'm writing as fast as I can
12:52because for me, this is all new information.
12:55And this is what they had gathered
12:57from all their interviews with serial killers
12:59throughout the United States.
13:01This guy's not even willing to...
13:02The clues included
13:03what we can now look at as common sense,
13:07but not so obvious
13:10if you weren't specializing
13:14in searching for a serial killer.
13:17But the clues were this.
13:18We knew that these murders
13:21happened in close proximity to each other.
13:24And the behavioral scientists informed us
13:27that we would likely be looking for someone
13:29who operated out of that comfort zone,
13:31that Route 40 corridor.
13:36And he needed a place to do this.
13:38So we also believed
13:40we were looking for someone
13:42who had possibly customized a vehicle
13:47in which he could
13:49torture and kill people.
13:54One particular detail about their killer
13:57takes the detectives by surprise.
14:00Most likely he works with his hands,
14:02probably in construction
14:03or some other similar trade.
14:05Now I found this to be...
14:08How would you possibly be able
14:10to determine that?
14:13And then they quickly identified
14:15he's using tools
14:17that he's comfortable using.
14:20Hammers, pliers.
14:21These are things that he probably uses every day.
14:25Chances are this guy's right in your backyard.
14:26The FBI assured us
14:38this person is going to be
14:40the regular person.
14:42They're going to hold a job.
14:44They're not going to look like Charlie Manson.
14:46In 1987, 88,
14:50there were approximately 750,000 people
14:53that resided in the state of Delaware.
14:56You divide it, say,
14:57half are female, half are male.
14:59That's the number of suspects
15:01we were looking at.
15:03By day, he's going to be normal.
15:06But at night,
15:07this guy's living a very, very secret life.
15:10Our next question was,
15:16what would you suggest
15:17that we try to do
15:18to stop number three from happening?
15:24At this point, we only had two,
15:26but we felt strongly
15:27that the third body
15:29was coming at some point.
15:32And we need to figure out
15:33what's the best course of action
15:36to try to take
15:36to try to prevent number three
15:39if we can.
15:41If number three does come,
15:43what's the best course of action
15:45that we can take
15:46to try to, you know,
15:49resolve this
15:49and find the individual involved?
16:01The agents recommend
16:02Swisky and Hedrick
16:03let their serial killer
16:05come to them.
16:06They suggested we run
16:08on the decoy operation,
16:09take a female police officer,
16:12dress her in similar attire
16:14that our victims
16:15were last seen wearing,
16:17place her in similar environments,
16:19and engage in conversations
16:21similar to what a prostitute
16:22might engage in.
16:33Swisky and Hedrick
16:34immediately recruit
16:35officer Renee Tashner.
16:38Renee was a young cop,
16:39six months on the job,
16:41very street smart.
16:43So you'll be down the block
16:44and able to hear everything?
16:45Yes.
16:47And if anything happens,
16:47you'll come around?
16:48Absolutely.
16:49I didn't really have to think
16:51long and hard
16:51about jumping
16:52into this assignment
16:53because to me,
16:54it was, you know,
16:55I'm a brand new officer,
16:57it was exciting,
16:58it was something different.
16:59So,
17:00you want to have some fun?
17:01It was an opportunity
17:03to work on a,
17:04you know,
17:04homicide case
17:05and that was something
17:06that I had always wanted to do.
17:08I could show you a good time.
17:10So really,
17:11it was a no-brainer.
17:16Officer Tashner
17:17is wired up
17:18and begins walking
17:19a stretch of Route 40.
17:22So how's your night been?
17:24She flirts with every John
17:26who pulls over,
17:27looking for ones
17:29who fit the FBI profile.
17:32I had a gun on me
17:33at all times.
17:35I carried a handbag
17:36that had a special pocket in it.
17:38So I was able
17:40to have my hand on my gun
17:41the entire time,
17:42aimed at whoever stopped for me
17:44in case they did something.
17:47Which party?
17:49Jimmy and I,
17:50our job was to monitor
17:52the microphone
17:52and record the interactions
17:55Renee was having
17:55with the people that stopped.
17:57You've been around here before?
17:58I haven't seen you.
17:59You know, I would ask them,
18:01you know, are you married?
18:02What's your name?
18:03What do you do for a living?
18:05These guys were telling her
18:06everything she wanted to know
18:08without even questioning it.
18:10We felt that within
18:12the matter of days,
18:13our suspect would come
18:15and identify himself
18:16in a manner
18:17which we would know
18:18it was him.
18:22That didn't happen.
18:23What I remember about
18:44my mom's personality
18:45is most of it
18:45she was very nice
18:46and she was very kind.
18:48She was just always...
18:50she always seemed
18:51to be happy.
18:55She was very nice.
18:56I can't remember
18:57her ever being upset.
19:02I wish I remembered more.
19:05Richard Finner
19:06is five years old
19:07the night he last sees
19:08his mother, Margaret Lynn.
19:10The night that my mother left,
19:12me and my little brother
19:13were laying up in the bed,
19:15getting ready to go to bed.
19:16My mother came up.
19:18She told us she loved us.
19:20I remember her
19:20turning the lights off
19:21as she left
19:22and telling us goodbye
19:22and she would see us later.
19:25So I see her,
19:25see her face saying goodbye.
19:28It definitely just seemed
19:29like a normal night
19:30but it wasn't.
19:32And I'll never get
19:33to see her again.
19:34In August of 1988
19:45we had an individual
19:47reported missing
19:48by the name of
19:49Margaret Lynn Finner.
19:51She was working
19:52as a prostitute
19:52at the time
19:53and, you know,
19:5448 hours have already
19:55went by
19:56since she was last seen.
19:58We had no reason
19:59to believe
20:00Lynn Finner
20:00would simply get
20:01into a vehicle
20:02and drive off
20:03to start a new life.
20:04She had her two children,
20:06her mother, her father
20:07and we really
20:09quickly realized
20:10that she was
20:11most likely a victim.
20:22Then,
20:23three months
20:23after her disappearance,
20:262 hunters just pulled up
20:30in a car
20:30and asked me
20:31to call the state police
20:32because they found
20:33the body down the canals.
20:35It said,
20:35it looked like
20:35it's been there for a while.
20:44I really do remember
20:45feeling like she was
20:46going to come home
20:47and we waited.
20:51But then,
20:51I remember seeing
20:52my grandmother crying
20:53a lot
20:53talking to one
20:55of the detectives
20:56in our living room.
20:57So,
20:58I'm pretty sure
20:59that's when we found out
20:59that she wasn't
21:00going to come home.
21:04The body is identified
21:06as Margaret Lynn.
21:13How has this happened?
21:15The investigators
21:16have been out patrolling
21:17Route 40 every night.
21:20The suspect
21:21is operating
21:23right under our noses
21:24and we're missing it.
21:27The detectives
21:28are in desperate need
21:29of a break in the case.
21:33So,
21:33this was the last place
21:34you saw her?
21:35Yeah.
21:36And they get it
21:37in an eyewitness
21:39who saw Margaret Lynn
21:40the day she disappeared.
21:41His statement to us
21:43was that
21:44a blue van
21:45with rounded headlights
21:48actually came
21:49into the crossover
21:49where she was
21:50and he saw her
21:52in the crossover
21:52talking to this individual
21:53through the window.
21:56She gets in the van
21:57and they drive off.
22:01Now,
22:02we asked,
22:03did you see
22:03interior light?
22:04It was all the way
22:05over there.
22:05I couldn't see
22:06inside the van.
22:07He was unable
22:08to supply any description
22:09of the occupant
22:11or occupants
22:12of the vehicle.
22:13He was only able
22:14to tell us
22:14it was a blue Ford van.
22:17The eyewitness's
22:18description
22:18of the vehicle
22:19Margaret drove off in
22:21isn't much to go on,
22:23but it's something.
22:25We're looking
22:25for a blue Ford van.
22:28And now,
22:30so is Renee Tashner.
22:32After weeks
22:33of walking Route 40
22:34night after night,
22:36opportunity strikes.
22:37The van stops
22:41and he's waving me
22:43in to come
22:44into the van.
22:45As Renee approaches,
22:47Swisky and Hedrick
22:47are at the ready.
22:50So it's your name.
22:51Does it matter?
22:53Do detectives
22:54have their man?
22:58Why don't you
22:59get in the van?
22:59on I.D.
23:14To recap,
23:15county and state police
23:16along with the FBI
23:17are treating all three murders
23:19as related.
23:20Everybody going out
23:20at night,
23:21I mean,
23:21I'm scared to death.
23:22You know,
23:23because they seem
23:23to be right around
23:24my age.
23:31The fear
23:32every day
23:32was that
23:34this is going
23:35to happen again
23:36and there's going
23:37to be another victim.
23:39These girls
23:39are on the road
23:40alone at night
23:41and someone
23:44is picking them up
23:45and we really don't
23:47even know
23:47what we're looking for,
23:48you know,
23:49other than a blue van.
23:54Hey.
24:02How's your night going?
24:04Going well.
24:06What's your name?
24:07Does it matter?
24:09He asked me
24:09at one point
24:10in the conversation
24:11if I was a cop.
24:12I said,
24:12no,
24:12why are you?
24:14Over Renee's wire,
24:16Detectives Hedrick
24:17and Swiskey
24:18hear the suspect
24:19insisting
24:19that she get
24:20into his van.
24:21Just get in.
24:21Hey,
24:22that's not how this works.
24:23That spiked
24:25our suspicions
24:26big time.
24:27Why are they
24:28pushing so much
24:28for her
24:29to get in?
24:30Just come with me.
24:34Forget it.
24:35When Officer Tashner
24:36refuses,
24:37the man drives off.
24:39So this guy
24:40becomes a person
24:41of interest
24:41at this point
24:42because of his actions.
24:49The detectives
24:50run his plates.
24:53The man appears
24:55to be a local
24:56schoolteacher
24:56with a wife
24:58and a seemingly
24:58normal life.
25:00Just what the FBI
25:01told them to expect
25:02from a serial killer
25:04with something to hide.
25:09We develop enough
25:11information
25:12to do a search warrant.
25:13We go to his residence.
25:15His wife was home
25:17at the time.
25:17So we begin
25:19to search.
25:20The evidence team
25:21goes upstairs.
25:23They go to an attic area
25:25and they find
25:26a loose panel.
25:29And they go in there
25:30and then they find
25:31a trove of pornography,
25:34adult toys.
25:37I'm shocked the hell
25:38out of me.
25:38We realized
25:43that we had uncovered
25:44somebody who had been
25:45living two different lives.
25:47He had one life
25:48where he was a notable
25:49prominent schoolteacher,
25:51a good family man.
25:53But then we saw
25:54the side where
25:55he patronized
25:56prostitutes
25:56quite regularly
25:57and had a desire
26:00for pornography
26:01and other adult activities.
26:03We interviewed him
26:12at length.
26:14Looks like you've been
26:15living some secret life.
26:17So what?
26:18How is what I do
26:20in my home
26:21any of your business?
26:24The police have nothing
26:25that can tie
26:26the schoolteacher
26:27to the murders.
26:31But then
26:32the medical examiner
26:33calls.
26:35Something had been found
26:36on the body
26:37of the second victim,
26:39Catherine DeMauro.
26:41You could literally
26:42see blue fibers
26:44on her body.
26:46We were able
26:47to determine
26:48that this particular fiber
26:50was turned into
26:51a particular type
26:52of carpet.
26:53It was sold
26:54in very limited quantities
26:55in our area.
26:57So we knew
26:58we were dealing
26:58with carpet fiber.
27:00We knew it was blue.
27:02These fibers
27:03became
27:04crucial elements
27:06of evidence
27:07in the case.
27:13Police returned
27:14to the schoolteacher's
27:15home and van
27:16searching for
27:17telltale carpet fibers.
27:20We're seeking desperately
27:21a way to know
27:22is this the guy?
27:23You know,
27:24that's the million dollar question.
27:25Is this the one?
27:26we totally
27:30dismantled his vehicle.
27:32I mean,
27:32looking for any trace
27:33of evidence
27:34we could find.
27:36Nothing.
27:37Nothing at all.
27:43They have nothing
27:44concrete
27:45to tie him
27:46to murders
27:46and have to let him go.
27:50I mean,
27:51everything is being done
27:52that can be done.
27:53And that's what's frustrating
27:54about this job is
27:56is that you can do
27:58everything there is
28:00humanly possible to do.
28:01And sometimes
28:02you don't end up
28:03with good results.
28:04It was a
28:05tense time
28:07because
28:09we knew
28:11he was out there.
28:13There was the fear
28:14that despite
28:15our best efforts
28:16we may not be able
28:17to find this man
28:18before he struck again.
28:20This was frightening
28:22to all of us.
28:24It rocked
28:26this area
28:28and made us all
28:30question
28:30the security
28:33of the lives
28:33we live.
28:36Today's developments
28:37in the Glasgow
28:38serial murder case,
28:40Delaware State Police
28:41say the deaths
28:42of the three women
28:43are similar
28:43in description,
28:45location,
28:45and time.
28:46A warning has been issued
28:47for the area
28:48urging people
28:49not to walk
28:50on routes 13
28:51and 40.
28:56While investigators
28:58keep a close eye
28:59on their school teacher,
29:00Officer Tashner
29:01continues posing
29:02as a prostitute
29:03on the lookout
29:04for other Johns
29:05driving blue vans.
29:08And one night
29:09in September 1988,
29:11she encounters one
29:12being driven
29:13by someone unusual.
29:17He leans over
29:18and unlocks the door
29:19and, you know,
29:21I'm standing there
29:21and I'm talking to him.
29:23and he's checking off
29:39and in my head
29:42I'm clicking off
29:43really what the FBI
29:45Behavioral Sciences Unit
29:46told us
29:47in terms of
29:48the profile
29:49of the person
29:49and he's checking off
29:51every single mark.
29:53Stay on top
29:54of this, guys.
29:55And I just knew
29:56instinctively
29:57that this might
29:58be our guy.
30:00God, I love your van.
30:01Can I love you?
30:01and I felt
30:02very uncomfortable
30:03because I just
30:05didn't know
30:05if somebody
30:05was in the back
30:06of the van
30:07that I couldn't see
30:08so I asked him
30:08to turn the interior
30:09light on
30:10so I could see
30:11the, you know,
30:12how pretty the car was.
30:14And when he did,
30:15my stomach just sank
30:16and it was like,
30:18whoa.
30:20Blue carpet
30:21was everywhere.
30:24For lack of a better word,
30:25it was a no shit moment
30:26because I knew
30:27I was looking
30:27at the eyes
30:28of the killer.
30:31Renee Tashner
30:32has been ordered
30:33to never get
30:34into a suspect's vehicle.
30:36God, this van's amazing.
30:38But the blue carpet
30:39that is now
30:40just beyond her reach
30:41could be the evidence
30:43that identifies the killer.
30:45She isn't about
30:46to let this opportunity
30:47slip away.
30:48Do you mind
30:49if I look inside?
30:52Go ahead.
30:53Okay.
30:53Yeah.
31:05Oh my God,
31:06this carpet
31:07is gorgeous.
31:10I don't like this.
31:13If he did anything
31:15at all remotely
31:16threatening towards me,
31:18if I didn't shoot him,
31:21then my backup team
31:23would have done
31:24whatever it took
31:25to make sure
31:25that I came home
31:26safe that night.
31:28So,
31:29I took some
31:30of the fibers.
31:33Why don't you
31:34get in the van?
31:38Yeah, you know what?
31:39I'm a little tired tonight.
31:40I don't think this...
31:42Um...
31:42As the fibers
32:06are sent off
32:07for analysis,
32:08Detectives Swiskey
32:09and Hedrick
32:10run the van's plates.
32:13We determined
32:14the person
32:14who was operating
32:15the van
32:16was Steven Pinnell,
32:17a very, very big guy,
32:19very powerful-looking person.
32:21But he was
32:22very normal-looking.
32:24He had a job,
32:25he was an electrician,
32:26he was married,
32:27had two children,
32:28regular guy.
32:29He didn't display
32:30any aberrant behavior.
32:31He...
32:32Nothing that we could say,
32:33wow, this guy's
32:34was very strange
32:35or anything.
32:37Did a thorough
32:37background on him.
32:39For all intents
32:40and purposes,
32:41he was a normal guy.
32:44A union electrician
32:45by trade.
32:46He had been
32:47an applicant
32:49to be a police officer
32:50with the city of Wilmington.
32:52Everything to do with him
32:53seemed to be normal,
32:55that he was a normal,
32:56everyday person.
32:57Could Pinnell
33:11really be a serial killer
33:12hiding in plain sight?
33:15Swisky and Hedrick
33:16began tailing him,
33:17watching his every move.
33:22The surveillance
33:23we conducted on Pinnell,
33:24we called a spot surveillance.
33:25We would follow him
33:27through the evening,
33:28see what he did.
33:31But Pinnell doesn't appear
33:32to be hiding anything
33:33out of the ordinary.
33:35Our surveillance team
33:37followed him
33:37to his residence,
33:39watched him go in the residence,
33:41watched the lights go out.
33:45We felt that he was done
33:47for the night.
33:47September 22nd,
34:06we got a report
34:08of a body floating
34:11in the C&D Canal.
34:12We knew that this
34:15was going to be
34:16a related case.
34:17And I say that because
34:18the injury structure
34:20was exactly the same
34:22as DeMauro and Ellis.
34:25There was binding
34:26of the hands and feet,
34:28so we knew then
34:30that for sure
34:30she's one of our victims.
34:33She is identified
34:35as 22-year-old Michelle Gordon.
34:44A serial murderer
34:45on the loose in Delaware.
34:47Police answered questions today
34:49on the similarities
34:50of these brutal slayings.
34:52The investigators
35:01are devastated.
35:04While they have been
35:05watching Stephen Pinnell,
35:07the killer struck again.
35:10Have they been tailing
35:11the wrong man?
35:13Are we spinning our wheels?
35:16Is this the guy?
35:17Is it not the guy?
35:19Because he seems
35:20pretty normal.
35:20Everybody involved
35:22in this investigation
35:23was giving 110%
35:25relentlessly.
35:27And we felt
35:29we were not getting it done.
35:32We felt totally responsible.
35:41But Officer Tashner
35:43had been face-to-face
35:45with Stephen Pinnell.
35:46And she is certain
35:47he still has secrets.
35:49He was very dark.
35:52You could tell
35:53he was trying
35:54to hide something,
35:55but what that something was
35:56you just didn't know.
36:02Unless the blue carpet fibers
36:04prove to be a match,
36:06all the detectives
36:07know for certain
36:07is that the body count
36:09is quickly rising.
36:10The FBI told us
36:13that in some cases
36:15the serial killer
36:16would go into a frenzy
36:17and begin killing
36:18very, very frequently.
36:20And the frequency
36:22was escalating.
36:24I'm sure there's going
36:25to be more coming
36:26at this point.
36:27We're doing everything
36:28we can and we're literally
36:29getting nowhere
36:30at this point.
36:32The biggest fear
36:33is the suspect's
36:34going to be there
36:34and you're going to miss him.
36:36That was truly a fear.
36:37The real serial killer
36:40is finally
36:41about to make himself known.
36:44I cannot imagine
36:46the loss
36:47of control
36:48being helpless
36:49in the face
36:50of a monster
36:51who's torturing you
36:53and is clearly
36:55going to kill you
36:57at the end.
36:58What does a serial killer
37:17look like?
37:19He looks like
37:20the guy next door,
37:21the blue-collar guy
37:22that does everything
37:24normal like you
37:25and I do.
37:26The only problem is
37:27somewhere in his mind
37:28and in a dark place,
37:30you know,
37:30he goes and does
37:31these things.
37:33But that's what
37:34a serial killer is.
37:35He's the guy
37:35right next to you.
37:36You don't even know it.
37:37Homicide detectives have been trailing Stephen Pinnell
37:58around the clock
37:59for days.
38:00If this ordinary-looking electrician
38:09is secretly a serial killer
38:11stalking local prostitutes,
38:13he has done nothing
38:14to give himself away.
38:16So in our minds,
38:18this guy's fairly normal.
38:20He's gone home,
38:21he's gone to bed,
38:22the lights are out,
38:24goes to work the next day
38:25and there's no big deal.
38:26But then,
38:34one night after his wife
38:36and children are asleep,
38:37they catch Pinnell slipping out.
38:39Where's he going
38:40at this hour?
38:42We realize that
38:44this guy comes home,
38:46the lights go out,
38:47all of a sudden,
38:48he'll get up,
38:49go back out,
38:50driving up and down
38:51the same stretch of highway,
38:53where we know that
38:54most of the girls
38:55go missing.
38:59Several hours go by,
39:00she goes home.
39:03And there is no question
39:04in my mind at this point,
39:06we absolutely have
39:07the right guy.
39:10But without proof,
39:12police can't make an arrest.
39:13Each day that passes
39:26without an answer
39:27becomes another night
39:29Stephen Pinnell
39:30is roaming the streets.
39:37Hey,
39:38I woke up this morning
39:40at three
39:41and you weren't there.
39:42is everything
39:43okay?
39:46I took a drive.
39:49Um,
39:50with anyone?
39:53You don't ask me
39:54about that.
39:55finally,
40:11police get the news
40:13from the FBI
40:13they've been waiting for.
40:16Carpet fibers
40:16from the victim
40:17are a match
40:19to the ones
40:19found in Pinnell's van.
40:21It's enough cause
40:23for a full search warrant
40:24of Pinnell's home.
40:25When we conducted
40:26a search on
40:27Mr. Pinnell's residence,
40:29we found a shed.
40:35And as soon as
40:36you walked in the shed
40:36you realized
40:37something was different.
40:42There was a bar
40:44which secured the door
40:45but it was on the inside.
40:48So nobody could get in
40:49while you were
40:50inside the shed.
40:51We located
40:55a pornographic tape
40:56in a video cabinet
40:58and it was cued
40:59to a certain spot
41:00in the tape
41:01which was
41:01very disturbing.
41:03It was a sadistic treatment
41:04of a female
41:05a specific
41:06breast mutilation.
41:08We found duct tape.
41:11We found pliers.
41:14We found a hammer.
41:15And we found
41:17the final piece
41:18of evidence
41:19which led to his arrest
41:20and that was
41:21the blood
41:21found in the carpeting
41:23in the van
41:25that matched
41:26Kathy DeMauro.
41:3231-year-old
41:33Steven Pinnell
41:34was taken to
41:35Gander Hill Prison
41:35early this morning.
41:37He's been charged
41:38with the first degree
41:38murder of
41:39Katherine DeMauro.
41:40Police say
41:41Pinnell could later
41:42be linked to the murders
41:43of Michelle Gordon,
41:44Shirley Ellis,
41:45and Margaret Lynn Finner
41:46as well.
41:48Pinnell's wife,
41:49his children,
41:50his entire community
41:51are in disbelief.
41:54I think through his life
41:55Steven Pinnell
41:57became an expert
41:59on living two lives.
42:01He tried his best
42:02to be normal.
42:04His family
42:05seemed very normal.
42:07What's unique
42:08about this individual
42:09is that
42:10he could do
42:11such a heinous thing
42:12but live a normal life.
42:14I mean
42:15do things
42:16with your kids
42:17and go places
42:18like nothing
42:18ever happened.
42:23There was
42:24a very cold
42:25and evil
42:26part of him
42:27that he hid
42:28from everyone.
42:32These women
42:33were not human beings
42:34to him.
42:35They were objects
42:41for his pleasure
42:42and I think
42:45that came across
42:45to the jury.
42:57After eight days
42:58of deliberation,
43:00Steven Pinnell
43:01is found guilty
43:02of two counts
43:03of murder.
43:05Two years after
43:06the first of five
43:07disappeared,
43:07Steven Pinnell
43:08asked Judge
43:09which would get blind
43:09to impose
43:10a death sentence.
43:11He did.
43:12On March 14, 1992,
43:15he is executed
43:16by lethal injection.
43:17I do feel like
43:27my family
43:28got justice
43:28to an extent
43:29but justice
43:31doesn't do anything
43:33for my mom
43:33not being there.
43:35You know,
43:35I've missed my mom
43:36for a long time
43:37and I'll never
43:37get to see her again.
43:41I don't think
43:42any of us
43:43can fathom
43:44what would
43:45motivate someone
43:46to torture
43:47and murder
43:47other human beings.
43:51A serial killer
43:52has no remorse.
43:54He doesn't feel it.
43:56That person
43:56has no value
43:57to him
43:58except the satisfaction
43:59he got out of
44:00torturing
44:01and killing them.
44:02everybody has secrets.
44:06The guy next door,
44:08you don't know
44:08what secrets he has.
44:10You don't know.
44:12It's so normal
44:13that you'll never,
44:15you'll never,
44:15ever see it.
44:16you don't know.
44:17You don't know.
44:18You don't know.
44:18You don't know.
44:19You don't know.
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44:22You don't know.
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44:31You don't know.
44:32You don't know.
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