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Daniel Bible had already lived through - and escaped from - hell. He was doing his best to forget the devil he'd lived with for 8 years - his father. However, to this day, he doesn't know the scope of his father's horrendous crimes.
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00:00when you asked me to tell my story I really didn't want to I wanted to keep
00:11the memory in the past and just let it leave it alone and let it die and for a
00:18long time I've been scared that my what my father was was like in my blood I
00:27share his name but I have tried my whole life not to be like him
00:48I try to fight myself inside trying to keep from doing it and I don't want to
00:56I didn't want to do what I did rape murder or anything I didn't want nothing else to happen
01:02you knew you were capable of doing it again
01:04yeah he had it in him he had the instincts to kill I feel pain for the people that he hurt
01:15because I know what they went through to hear his voice to see him and everything
01:21just makes me more mad it makes me more angry he knew the whole time what he was doing he was
01:30torturing people he was torturing us he was torturing my family when we were kids he knew what he was
01:36doing I wish I could tell him to his face you were a coward the whole time in your whole life
01:41you picked on the weak if he really wanted to stop doing what he was doing there was plenty of help out
01:50there but he didn't want that help he wanted to continue killing
01:54I'm gonna do it
02:03I'm gonna do it
02:06and we're gonna do it
02:38I've seen this picture before. This is the picture of a normal family. My uncles, my grandfather, my aunts. This is my father right here.
02:56I see my future tormentor. The future abuser of my mother and my brother and my sister. I see the future killer.
03:12And you wonder, you know, how can a person or a family that did look this normal create such a monster?
03:24It makes me wonder where did it all start from? When in his life did he become the monster that he was?
03:34My mom and dad met in a bar in Mexico.
04:00My mom had two kids, a boy and a girl.
04:05So he started bringing things for the kids to learn that, you know, he was going to, you know, basically help her change her life.
04:12You know, they could come live in the States and he was going to adopt them.
04:16I mean, the story that he told her was anybody would fall for it, you know, anybody would want that to change their life and to improve their life and to go to the United States and become, you know, a citizen and live the good life.
04:32But that's not what it was.
04:35There was a log cabin and it was really small and we called it compound because nobody else lived there, just us.
05:05There was nothing around, no kids, no nothing, no nobody around.
05:10There's just my grandfather and my grandmother and that was it.
05:14We lived miles away from even the closest person.
05:20We were isolated from everything.
05:23He had us trapped there.
05:26My father never had loving words, never said, I love you.
05:44He never tucked you in.
05:47And we were always like walking on eggshells when he's around.
05:50One day my brother was sitting at the table and he was full and he didn't want to eat no more and my dad just went around and just backhanded him and hit him.
06:04I remember feeling fear, like frozen fear, you know, because I didn't want to be next.
06:16And my brother was crying so my mom went over to protect him and he hit her too.
06:21Because she was babying him and she said, stop babying him.
06:26They got to learn to grow up to be a man.
06:29At that time, I felt like this was the normal family.
06:34That, you know, the father was the evil person and the mother was the loving, nurturing, caring person.
06:41I had to grow up fast and if I didn't grow up fast, I wouldn't have survived.
07:01I knew there was something wrong with my surroundings.
07:06My cousins would come over and visit my grandparents and they were happy.
07:17They were not scared.
07:21Their dads were playful and everything and ours was a caged animal.
07:26They would have good clothes.
07:29We walked around barefooted.
07:31It was totally different from what we've been seeing.
07:36I've never had a father tuck me in and say he loves me or cares about me, you know,
07:42and to see fathers walking with their kids, holding their hands or anything like that,
07:47I've never seen that.
07:48The abuse with my father started slowly and it escalated.
08:06It still comes to mind.
08:11It still, sometimes you still hear it in your mind when your mom is like,
08:17like blood curdling, screaming sometimes.
08:20Get away from me.
08:21Let me go.
08:24And you're sleeping at night and she screams and she's, and she's yelling, no, don't.
08:33I don't know what exactly he's doing to hurt her, but I hear her crying.
08:40I hear her in pain and we were scared.
08:43And we're over there crying, you know, but crying quietly so he won't hear us.
08:51Then you see your mom with a busted lip or bruised eye or a scratch on her neck.
09:07It always sticks with you.
09:12You always, you always remember it every once in a while.
09:16You always felt the helplessness of it.
09:22It's really hard to see your mother go through that.
09:25It's upsetting and it's, and it's painful and it's angering
09:28because you don't have the power to stop it.
09:37Growing up, I did not know what he did for a living.
09:44I did not have the slightest clue as to what he did.
09:49Oftentimes, my father would take these trips and he'd be gone for like a week or so.
09:56As long as he wasn't there, we, we, we were happy he'd go.
10:01We hope he never came back.
10:02I think he was out there killing and raping and doing all this stuff when he was out on these trips.
10:14And he hadn't got caught for it.
10:18I don't think that, you know, he became a, he became a killer from one instant to the next.
10:24I think he's been always that.
10:26And most serial killers are like that.
10:32They don't become a killer just, just by the snap of a finger.
10:36They've progressed into it.
10:39My thoughts that, you know, my dad was using Mexico as a hunting ground until he found my mother.
10:49I think he would go back across the border and that was his killing ground.
10:56We know that the devil's going to walk through the door.
11:09When he returned, that's when all the tension would come back.
11:13We try to walk around him, try to stay away from him.
11:18Try not to be seen by him.
11:19There's one incident I remember that we were all sitting on the sofa.
11:25We're trying to be quiet and everything.
11:28And then my dad calls my older sister over.
11:35But my mom tells my sister to stay where she's at.
11:37And she goes to see what he wants.
11:41And she's like, no, Dan, no.
11:42And then he starts hitting her.
11:46And he drags her by her hair to her closet, throws her in the closet,
11:51shuts the door and puts the chair in front of it so she won't be able to get out.
11:58My mom was banging on the door and said, please, Danny, don't do it.
12:01Please, Danny, Danny, don't.
12:02And we were crying and everything.
12:05And he grabs my sister.
12:07I was young.
12:20I didn't know what he was doing to her.
12:23You know, I didn't know he was hurting her,
12:27but I didn't know that he was doing something like that to her until I got older.
12:32At that age, I didn't know what rape or sexual contact or anything was.
12:40I just knew that he was hurting her.
12:43And there's nothing I can do about it.
12:49You're helpless.
12:51You can't fight the devil.
12:55We're not talking about somebody who's a father.
12:58We're not talking about somebody who's nurturing, caring, and loving.
13:01We're talking about a demon.
13:06We knew that we were living with a very evil person.
13:10We had never gone before, but one day, we all got in the car and went to the store.
13:35And my mom, just trying to find help or somewhere, she's begging people, help me, help me, please.
13:44You know what I'm saying?
13:45And it's just like nobody cared, nobody listened.
13:49And she's begging and crying.
13:51My dad seen her.
13:52He grabs her and he pulls her and he takes her to the car, and we're crying too, and he tells her, get the f*** in the car.
14:04That's when he pulls the gun and puts it in her head.
14:06I never know he had a gun.
14:13He said, I'll kill you before you leave.
14:17I thought he was going to kill her.
14:18I thought he was going to, you know, end her life right there.
14:24That was the last time we ever went out with him.
14:27Ever.
14:27I don't know how she survived all this, what happened to her.
14:39Because that was a lot.
14:41That was more than anybody could handle in their life.
14:44You know.
14:46There's no doubt in my mind that he was going to kill her one of these days.
14:51And I knew it was going to happen.
14:53It was going to happen soon.
14:57My mom was almost like a timid mouse because of all the abuse that she got.
15:07She's doing everything that he wants her to do so he would be happy.
15:10But in reality, she was looking for a way out.
15:16One Sunday morning, my dad went with my grandparents to church.
15:20And my mom, she uses the phone.
15:26And she comes back and she's throwing stuff in a bag.
15:32And there was a car waiting at the end of the road.
15:37I have no idea what was happening.
15:43She got my two younger brothers and my older brother and my older sister.
15:47And she says that me and my other brother can't come.
15:53You have to be very, very strong.
15:55She doesn't have enough money to, because she has to get a bus to go to Mexico.
16:05I think I was around seven.
16:07My brother was around six.
16:10She said, I will come back for you.
16:12And I told her, Mom, I know, I want to go.
16:17She said, I will be back.
16:18I can't take you with me.
16:19I will be back.
16:21I said, Mom, no, no, don't leave me.
16:23You know?
16:25But, see, I, what do you say?
16:31I know she had to go.
16:34I know she had to leave, because if she didn't go, she was going to die.
16:40I understand that.
16:43I didn't understand that as a kid.
16:47And she got in the car, and it drove off.
16:52I felt abandoned.
16:54I felt like she left us here with this monster here that, you know, that God knows what's
17:03going to happen to us when he gets back.
17:10He came home, and he asked us, where's your mom at?
17:25And I was scared.
17:27I said, I don't know where she's at.
17:29I don't know.
17:30He says, where the f*** your mom at?
17:32I said, I don't know.
17:33I don't know where she's at.
17:34So he starts hitting me, and I black out.
17:44And then I wake up.
17:45I don't know where I'm at at the beginning.
17:49I'm in the back of the trunk of the car.
17:51And the trunk is open, and I can hear, like, a shovel.
18:00Like somebody digging, and I see him digging a hole.
18:04He thought he killed me, and he was going to bury me that day.
18:09And I said, Dad.
18:11And he looks at me, and it's just like, oh, he's alive.
18:15And he just turns around, and he just stares at me like, like, he's in shock.
18:24Where the f*** is your mom at?
18:27Where did she go?
18:28Who took her?
18:30And I'm telling him, I don't know.
18:33And he just gets in his car, and he leaves.
18:37He takes off.
18:38I don't know where he goes.
18:38His intention was to bury me that day.
18:44What stopped him at that moment from doing it, I don't know.
18:50I don't know.
18:53I don't know what came into him.
18:55Did I shock him into reality when I woke up?
19:01I run that scenario in my head millions of times.
19:05Millions of times.
19:05And I ask myself that same question.
19:07Why did he let me live?
19:10I don't know if it was an act of God.
19:13I don't know what stopped him from doing it.
19:18Because I know that was my grave.
19:20I know that was my grave.
19:22After my mom left, my dad was barely at home.
19:39We barely seen him.
19:40I always thought that he was out there looking for my mom.
19:44That's what I always thought.
19:45He was out there searching everywhere for her.
19:47And I was praying that he never found her.
19:53He'd leave us locked in the house for hours at a time.
19:56I mean, to the time that he came back at night.
20:02Food and everything was basically what two little kids can scrunch up cereal, chips.
20:10And we are locked inside the house and we heard a knock on the window.
20:20And we go and we look at the window and there's my mom.
20:35And she's scared.
20:36I know she's scared because she's looking around and like if she's looking to see if she's there, but he's not there.
20:42So she cut a hole through the screen and lifted up the window and pulled us out.
20:53And she hugged us.
20:56Even though it was an amazing moment, an amazing time that my mom came and everything,
21:02but there was always the fear of him coming back.
21:05There was always the fear of him catching us.
21:08They said, let's go, let's go.
21:09And so she hurried up and we walked down the road and there was a car waiting for us.
21:16My mom took her life in her own hand when she came back for us.
21:21She sacrificed her life to come and get us.
21:24Next thing you know, my dad comes out of nowhere.
21:42I don't know where he came from.
21:44He might have been waiting at the border or something.
21:47And my mom was carrying my brother and she had me by the hand and we ran across that border.
21:52I just remember running and seeing different colored uniforms and people just speaking Spanish.
22:01Then my dad yelling and behind us and everything, trying to stop us.
22:07At the border, there's like police, you know, the Mexican police and everything.
22:12And my mom's asking them for help.
22:16He was going to kill her.
22:17I know he was going to kill my mom.
22:19There was somebody actually that came and said, no, you're not going to do that.
22:24The Mexican police officers were not going to give us up.
22:27I don't give a damn what he said.
22:30They were not going to give us up to him.
22:33And they got on his ass that day.
22:39When we crossed that border into Mexico, that's when I saw your relief.
22:44We're free.
22:46And he said, I'm going to come back for you.
22:50I'm going to get you.
22:50I was happy in Mexico whenever we got away from him.
23:01We were kids again.
23:02We were climbing trees.
23:04We were playing with other kids.
23:06We were swimming.
23:07We were running down the street.
23:10As long as he was not there doing what he did to our family, I didn't care.
23:19You know, we didn't have that much, but we were finally at peace.
23:27Years later, one day my mom came and told us that we're going back to the United States.
23:36My father was in prison.
23:38That means he couldn't come after us.
23:42And I didn't bother to ask her why.
23:45I didn't care.
23:49To the people that want to know why didn't I ask questions as to what he was,
23:55because I didn't care.
23:57I didn't want to know what he was.
23:59I didn't care if he was alive, dead, or whatever.
24:04I just knew that he wasn't coming after us.
24:06Other than that, I didn't care about that.
24:09I didn't care about him.
24:11I wanted him completely erased from my mind and my memory.
24:15A few years later, we learned that he was a killer, a murderer.
24:23It didn't hit me as a shock.
24:27It was nothing shocking to me, because as a young kid, I already knew that it was in him.
24:33And as a young kid, I knew that he was capable of doing it.
24:37I thought I had gotten rid of him completely.
24:40I thought I had gotten rid of him completely.
24:52Then, one day, my grandmother and my grandfather wanted to pick us up and take us to Texas to see my dad in prison.
25:14My dad wanted to see us.
25:16I didn't want to go.
25:17I told my mom that I didn't want to go, but my younger brothers that didn't remember that way he was wanted to go and see him.
25:29So, I went to keep an eye on them.
25:35We went over there, and he was in his prison, White, and he tried to act like he was some badass or something.
25:47And, you know, like, he was like some sort of superhero in prison and everything, trying to, oh, I'm Mr. Johnny Badass.
25:58But in reality, you know, I seen him for the weak person that he was.
26:06And I didn't get near him.
26:09I stayed as far away from him as I could.
26:12He would try to talk to me, and I was like, you know, I'm all right.
26:16I don't need to talk to you.
26:18No, you're not cool for what you did.
26:19You're a piece of for what you did.
26:25When I looked into his eyes, I didn't see a soul in him, remorse.
26:32I seen the demon that he was.
26:34After that visit, I knew I was never going to go see him again.
26:36The pain, the hurt, and the things that he has done to me, my brothers, my sisters, my mother, I think he was the epitome of evil.
26:49What's wrong with you?
27:14This is him, 1984.
27:18You see the killer in his eyes.
27:23He'd have no remorse or anything.
27:30This is the guy that tormented me and my family
27:34when we were younger.
27:39This is my first time ever seeing this picture of him.
27:43It was not long after we escaped him that this photo was taken.
27:52But I never knew there was pictures of him in prison.
27:58Or mug shots because I never looked him up.
28:04So when this picture was taken, he was convicted and sentenced to
28:1225 years in prison for the murder of Pam Hudgens.
28:18He served eight years.
28:21That's not even justice.
28:27There's no justice.
28:30I feel like they should have just gave him the chair then.
28:37I don't know this person.
28:50I don't know this person.
29:04This is Inez Deaton.
29:07She was killed by your father in 1979 with an ice pick.
29:11This is the first time I've ever seen this photo.
29:14I didn't know he killed her.
29:17I'm sorry that he killed her.
29:19I have no words to express, you know.
29:23Wow.
29:26You're just a f***ing animal.
29:29It's an evil person.
29:33The reason that we're meeting with you is regarding the murder of Inez Deaton.
29:48Inez was murdered in 1979.
30:03Are you familiar with that event?
30:07Yes, sir.
30:08Okay.
30:09What I'd like for you to do is to tell me everything that you recall about this event.
30:16Okay?
30:17Yes, sir.
30:18I was sitting in the house watching TV in the living room and a tall, blonde-haired woman
30:26come through the door.
30:28I immediately grabbed her and forced her down to the ground.
30:32I can remember strangling her and using her knife because I couldn't see blood on the side
30:41of her neck and took her out and dumped her body.
30:46And then I left and went back to the house.
30:51What prompted you to attack her?
30:55I don't know.
30:57I don't know what was running through my mind at that particular time.
31:01I don't know.
31:02I don't know what was running through my mind.
31:04I really don't know what was running through my mind.
31:05Why?
31:06Why?
31:07Wow.
31:08It could have easily happened to us, when he lived with us.
31:11Wow.
31:12It could have easily happened to us.
31:15He lived with us.
31:17Wow.
31:18The voice I remembered was cruel and commanding.
31:22The voice I remembered was cruel and commanding, like a sick drill sergeant, you know, commanding
31:33in your face, demanding.
31:38That's the kind of voice I remember, not the timid person that he's trying to be right
31:43there.
31:47Was he doing that when he was with, when we were on the compound also, and then he like,
31:56oh, I don't recall, I probably did it, I mean, come on, really?
32:00You remember raping a girl and killing her and stabbing her?
32:05You know exactly what you did, he meant to kill her, just like he meant to kill a lot
32:12of other people that he killed.
32:15His excuses, his downplaying, his little meekness doesn't, doesn't fool me, he just got caught.
32:24And like he said, he just immediately grabbed her, he just, he like just grabbed my sister
32:30and did what he did to her when he molested my sister.
32:36That was me, he put in the trunk of a car.
32:40He put me in the trunk of a car and he was going to bury me, that could have been us.
32:46I'm sorry that it was her, that I could also have been us too, if my mom didn't come back
32:52for us.
32:54If my mom hadn't left, that could have been all of us.
32:57I'm just glad we got away from him before he could kill us.
33:06I tried to fight myself inside trying to keep from doing it and I don't want to, I didn't
33:16want to do what I did.
33:17There was a lot more that he didn't confess to.
33:22I know there's a lot more, because you just don't start killing people.
33:28I mean, he's a predator, there's no woman safe from him, he's a predator.
33:39He would have kept on doing it until he got killed by somebody or they caught him and they
33:46killed him.
33:49That's what predators do, that's what he was.
33:58Did you know Tracy, yes, my wife's sister-in-law, we were having an argument at some point,
34:12I don't know.
34:13She started out in the room and I grabbed her and pushed her and from what I can't remember,
34:19she went down to the bottom of the stairs.
34:21She was by herself, you know what I'm saying, she had a baby and she was holding a baby.
34:26She was saying anything and she moved me.
34:28No, sir.
34:29How about the baby?
34:30No, sir.
34:31I went in the kitchen and opened and one of the doors up and took the ice pick.
34:37I don't know if I struck her or I walked with the ice pick and I don't know if she would
34:41have had to hold her.
34:49Escalated again.
34:51It's murder and killing people with ice picks with the baby.
34:56I didn't know he killed a child, I didn't know he did that, but he's just a cold blooded
35:03animal.
35:06But it just reminds me of my mom because whenever we was in the house, we were supposed to be
35:13very quiet, no crying, no none of that.
35:20He had that wrath.
35:21I seen that wrath.
35:22I lived it.
35:23I got beat for it.
35:24I almost got buried for it.
35:28First victim that we're going to talk about is . Can you tell me what happened?
35:40I started sitting on my lap and hugging me and one thing led to another and the next thing
35:53I know I had sex with her at least one time and touched her in different parts of her body.
36:02How old is at the time of this incident?
36:0612 to 13.
36:08Let's go to the next victim.
36:10How old was .
36:1210 to 12.
36:14How many times did you fool with this girl?
36:17I had sex with her once and 10 to 20 times the problem leaving.
36:24Victim number four is .
36:26How old was during this time, Dan?
36:318 to 9 years old.
36:34Okay, we're going to go to victim number five.
36:37Danny, how old was .
36:396 to 7 years old.
36:42And how many encounters did you have with her?
36:45About four to five times.
36:48Did you have sex with her all the time?
36:50Yes, sir.
37:006 to 7.
37:037 to 12.
37:04Wow.
37:15That is really sick.
37:16That is really sick.
37:20That is really sick.
37:23I have no words for this .
37:28I really don't.
37:29I have no words to say that.
37:34He .
37:36Finding out everything that I know about him.
37:42And everything that he did.
37:44And everything.
37:45I wish him more pain and hell that he did.
37:52Deserves.
37:53Sometimes I wish I got my hands on him.
37:59But right now.
38:00Where I am.
38:01Yeah.
38:06I would have taught him a very good lesson.
38:08I would have hurt anybody again.
38:10No.
38:11But you are dead.
38:12No.
38:13No.
38:14No.
38:15No.
38:16No.
38:17No.
38:19No.
38:22No.
38:23No.
38:27No.
38:28No.
38:29No.
38:30No.
38:31No.
38:32No.
38:33That is the animal, that is him.
38:42I wish that he had a soft throat, a lot more pain, and endured a lot more pain than what
38:49he did.
38:50That lethal injection was too good for him.
38:54I feel no pity for him.
39:00I wish him all the pain in the world where he's burning in hell.
39:05I care nothing about him.
39:10I don't see him as a human being, I see him as a demon that destroyed lives, hurt people,
39:22kill people, kill the child.
39:24I mean, how low can you go to kill the child, you know?
39:29How much further raped a child, how much more of it do you need to say, well, this is evil.
39:39That's evil.
39:41I never really close the door on something that scarred you for the rest of your life.
39:55Scar is always going to be there for the rest of your life.
39:57I tried to do it.
39:59I've tried to close it.
40:00I've tried, but it always comes back.
40:02It's never closure.
40:04You are always going to see it somewhere.
40:08Sin is always going to trigger a memory.
40:10You're always going to have it.
40:14My mom wants to forget.
40:17And now that she is more going to church and everything, she said, just forgive and forget.
40:24She told me the same thing, just forgive and forget and just let him die.
40:29And I don't feel like that.
40:32I feel like, you know, people need to know, people need to understand.
40:39I want people to realize that you've got to watch your children and you've got to protect
40:47them from animals and monsters like that.
40:50Try to help them see the signs.
40:53Try to help them see that there are people out there that are dressed as sheep, but are
41:01really wolves.
41:03I don't want nobody in this world to go through what we went through.
41:13He looked up at me, I mean the coldest look I've ever seen.
41:16He grabbed me and he began to choke me, trying to like twist it hard, like to break my neck.
41:23I just think about the young me and wishes she knew better.
41:28It's heartbreaking.
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