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FBI S08E18 SYNCOPY
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00:00See் Хот
00:00where to open theесс
00:02and get out
00:02I continuously
00:04tired
00:29it's
00:54No, sweetie, stay with me.
00:59Oh, my stomach hurts.
01:02Mine too.
01:05This will all be over soon.
01:21Don't be scared.
01:23Mommy's gonna fix everything.
01:28Please.
01:30It's been days.
01:34Have you made your choice?
01:36He needs to eat.
01:38Have you made your choice?
01:50Yes.
02:03So you're saying that this car is tied to a missing persons case?
02:07What?
02:08A mother and young son disappeared when they were visiting family upstate.
02:11FBI is assisting in the search.
02:12But this is the first real lead we've gotten.
02:15The plates are a match to the Palmers.
02:18Well, wherever they went, they left their luggage behind.
02:21Park Ranger found it a few days ago, abandoned by a trail.
02:25I just got around the lock and the plates in this morning.
02:28You've been sitting on the information for 48 hours?
02:31That's the two of them there, okay?
02:33Every second counts.
02:34So if there's anything else you might have overlooked.
02:36Like I told you, the car was abandoned.
02:39We told it.
02:40Heads up.
02:43Got a vertical gas from the sidewall of this flat.
02:46It's about two inches long.
02:47Any chance to just hit a curb?
02:48No, I don't think so.
02:50This curb is deep and narrow and there's no radio scuffing.
02:53Somebody slashed it.
02:54We need the exact location where this was towed from.
03:03I'm Agent Bell.
03:04This is Agent Ramos in Scuola.
03:05The SUV was over this way.
03:07Tire was flat.
03:09So I cut whoever owned it some slack.
03:11Gave them time to find a spare.
03:13When was this?
03:14Thursday.
03:16After a couple days, I called for a tow.
03:18Man's got to have limits to his goodwill.
03:21Mr. Ream, do you think it's possible
03:23that the Palmers got lost on the trail?
03:25Over the years, some folks have been known
03:27to go in and never come out.
03:29What does that mean?
03:30Nature can be cruel.
03:32That's all.
03:34You said you were working that day.
03:36You see these people?
03:38No.
03:39Not that I recall.
03:41Any cameras in the park?
03:43Not unless you're looking for Hessel's hair streak.
03:46What?
03:47The butterfly on the endangered species list.
03:49Beautiful creature.
03:51They're dying off.
03:53I suppose some things are too fragile for this world.
03:57Hanford University put up this camera last year to track them.
04:00Pretty sure that it records.
04:05All right.
04:06We're going to need to get our hands on that footage.
04:08And while you're at it,
04:09a list of your whereabouts this past week.
04:13We finally caught a break in our missing persons case.
04:16We now know that Valerie and Troy Palmer detoured on their way from Long Island to Utica.
04:20We located their vehicle here.
04:22Tires slashed.
04:23Seemingly abandoned.
04:24But maybe they went hiking and got lost or hurt.
04:27Although something tells me that tire didn't slash itself.
04:30Either way, we are swimming with questions,
04:33and we need to start fishing for answers.
04:35Yeah.
04:35State police expanded the search grid to include the trail.
04:37No trace of the family.
04:39But?
04:39They found Valerie Palmer's cell phone in a ditch.
04:41Smashed pretty good.
04:42Oh, I do not like where this is going.
04:44Hey, got that butterfly cam video.
04:46Cue to the day.
04:48The Palmers went missing.
04:49Let it rip.
04:51Okay, here they are.
04:54Mother and son stopping for a hike, right?
04:56Tire looks fine.
04:58Let's flip forward.
04:59Whoa, whoa, whoa.
05:01What is this?
05:05Whoa.
05:06That explains the tire.
05:08I think that's enough for an ID.
05:09Got a little profile there.
05:10Maybe.
05:13What about the Palmers?
05:15All right, let's go up forward.
05:16Okay.
05:18Okay.
05:18Oh, here we go.
05:19Mother and son return from the trail after about an hour.
05:23They see the flat.
05:24And here goes.
05:26Is that our tire slasher?
05:29He circles back.
05:30Looks like he's offering to help.
05:31So the tire slasher vandalized the Palmers' vehicle,
05:34then posted as a good Samaritan to offer them a ride.
05:37Yeah, the plan comes together for our bad guys.
05:38So this is not just a missing person's case.
05:41The Palmers were abducted.
05:42Let's see if we can get lucky and get an ID with what we got there.
05:46Okay, yeah, resolution's too low for facial wreck on the driver.
05:50What about the car?
05:52Running the plates.
05:54Stolen.
05:55Yeah, okay, NYPD looking at the stolen vehicle.
05:57Here's something.
05:58That Nissan passed a plate reader 15 minutes ago.
06:01Yeah?
06:01Entering Caleb Smith State Park.
06:04Get a team there now.
06:09That's the vehicle.
06:12Clear.
06:12Off the trunk.
06:19Jubal, we found the stand.
06:21There's blood in the trunk and Troy Palmer's hat.
06:27Guys, it's like we got a set of food prints.
06:33Well, our suspect could have gone anywhere.
06:35All right.
06:36What do you want to do, Maggie?
06:42We're going in.
06:44Let's split up.
06:45Stay in your comms.
06:47Go dark.
07:12I just feel like I'm being watched here.
07:19The suspect is fleeing south on foot.
07:21I'll try to cut him off.
07:35FBI.
07:44Skola, Eva.
07:45I've got eyes on the mother.
07:47We're too late.
07:50You see him?
07:52He's got to be close by.
07:53We need to set up a cordon.
07:56I need a helo.
07:58A canine.
08:02We have another body.
08:03Young male.
08:09Hey.
08:10So, the best I can tell you, victims were killed in the last 24 hours.
08:14Ligature marks on their wrists and ankles suggest they were bound for several days.
08:18Bodies were washed with soap and bleach, so no trace DNA.
08:21And rape kits came back negative for both.
08:23There's not a lot to go on.
08:24Well, autopsies were more revealing.
08:26Both mother and son show signs of organ shrinkage pointing to starvation.
08:30Plus, darkening in the buccal membrane and poor skin turgor.
08:34Classic signs of dehydration.
08:36So, he abducted them and then starved them.
08:38To start with.
08:39You know, I can email you my report.
08:43I'm already here.
08:45Right.
08:45I just figured what's what happened to your sister.
08:49Thanks, Neil.
08:51Um, it's okay.
08:52I'm good.
08:53Boy was killed quickly.
08:55Slit throat.
08:56Mom, not so lucky.
08:58Cause of death.
08:59Penetrating sharp force injury to the chest.
09:02She was stabbed in the heart?
09:04At least 20 times.
09:06It's violent and rageful.
09:09What do you know about the weapon?
09:10Wounds suggest a non-standard profile and thickness.
09:13A specialty blade?
09:15Or a combat, maybe?
09:16Edge geometry's multi-purpose.
09:18I think we're looking more for her.
09:19A dive knife.
09:20Right.
09:21Actually, how do you know that?
09:23For the same reason I know I need to get back to the beach.
09:26Thanks.
09:35There's no sign of our suspect since he slipped the cordon last night,
09:37but the cadaver dogs did hit on another pair of graves.
09:41Got an adult female, adolescent male.
09:46You're right, Maggie.
09:48You want to tell me what's going on here?
09:57Yeah.
09:58There was a case back in 2002.
10:01A serial killer took 17 lives before the burial caught the guy.
10:05The details match the Palmer murders.
10:07I mean, from the way they were tied up, they were starved,
10:10and even the weapon, a dive knife.
10:12You think this is all connected?
10:14I do.
10:15Maggie!
10:17Give me a sec.
10:18Yeah.
10:19Hey, Peter.
10:20Thanks for coming.
10:24What's up?
10:25I don't really know how to say this.
10:27You can just say it.
10:28The South Shore Ripper is back.
10:31Maggie, I caught the Ripper a long time ago, and he's dead.
10:36Hey, guys.
10:38Dog's got another hit.
10:45Six new bodies, including the Palmers.
10:49So if the Ripper's dead, how is he still killing?
10:56This is the face of pure evil.
10:58Howard James Metcalf, a.k.a.
11:00The South Shore Ripper.
11:0224 years ago, he terrorized the city,
11:05abducting pairs of victims, always a mother and a son.
11:08He held them captive, bound them, and starved them
11:12until he eventually killed them.
11:13He had evaded capture for two years,
11:17killing 17 victims that we know of.
11:20One victim escaped.
11:22Abel Gaskin goes by Abel Shaw now.
11:25And Abel led us to Metcalf.
11:27No.
11:27But when he escaped, Metcalf got spooked.
11:30He set the home that he had been holding them in on fire,
11:33destroying any evidence we could have used against him.
11:36State police were able to track him down,
11:38thanks to the BAU profile,
11:40but Metcalf hanged himself in his holding cell that same evening.
11:44So the case was never adjudicated,
11:46but the killing stopped after Metcalf's death.
11:48Must be the guy.
11:49Well, Peter Olson was the profiler, and he thought so,
11:51but now we have six new victims, same M.O.
11:53All we know for certain is that there is a killer out there
11:56that has to be stopped.
11:59State police found two graves, both the same,
12:02middle-aged woman and young boy.
12:04The most recent set was killed inside of a month.
12:06The oldest exhibit advanced decomp
12:08had a post-year formation, so about five months.
12:12Can you tell us the cause of death?
12:13The same as the Palmers.
12:14The boys had their throats slit,
12:16women were stabbed in the chest repeatedly.
12:21Can you give us a minute, please?
12:23Yeah.
12:26Come on.
12:27Tell me you see it.
12:29The victims.
12:30The Palmers.
12:31Mothers and sons.
12:33Has to be a copycat.
12:35Valerie Palmer was stabbed in the heart so many times
12:37that Mosbeck said he lost count.
12:40That's overkill.
12:42Peter, the FBI never went public with that detail,
12:44and the South Shore Ripper never made it to trial.
12:48Now, the only way somebody could recreate these killings
12:50is if it was the same...
12:52He put himself in his cell.
12:54We arrested him.
12:56He punched his own ticket.
12:57I understand why you'd want to hold on to that.
12:59What is that supposed to mean?
13:01The only victim to get away from the Ripper
13:03said you got the wrong guy.
13:05The victim was a 12-year-old boy
13:07who had just seen his mother murdered.
13:09He was traumatized.
13:11But what if he could have led us to a different suspect?
13:15Or an accomplice?
13:17My profile clearly said one killer, not two.
13:21Then how do you explain this?
13:23All these years later,
13:24we've got new murders with the same M.O.
13:26The Ripper was in it for the pain.
13:29Once his victims couldn't feel it anymore,
13:32he tossed the bodies into a dumpster.
13:34They were trashed him.
13:35Precisely.
13:35These new victims were buried.
13:37The M.O.'s are not the same.
13:39It's been 24 years, Peter.
13:43The killer could have evolved.
13:47Maybe your theory needs to as well.
13:52We've been comparing the two cases.
13:54Back in 2002,
13:55the Ripper used a standard dive knife,
13:57and the new victims were killed with the same problem
14:00as these knives are widely available.
14:02Right.
14:02What about the grave site?
14:03The R.T. find anything usable there?
14:05Negative, but analysis of the trace fibers
14:07found embedded in the Palmer's wrists and ankles came in.
14:11It looks like the killer bound them with half-inch diameter rope
14:15featuring a 12-strand double-braid construction
14:17and a unique dye pattern
14:20that's consistent with marine rope.
14:22It's manufactured specifically
14:23by this small company in Ohio, Tide Turner.
14:26It's only sold in three stores in the tri-state area.
14:28All right, let's get a list over to Eva and Scola.
14:31I want a full report on anyone
14:32who has purchased that rope in the last year.
14:34I don't want to be the one to say this,
14:35but if Peter Olsen got it wrong two decades ago...
14:38Well, then Maggie will get to the bottom of it.
14:41She and Peter are sitting with April Sean now.
14:44Look, if this is the same killer,
14:46maybe the lone survivor can give us some insight.
14:50I was 12,
14:52and the Ripper held me and my mom in a basement.
14:56No food.
14:57Just enough water to keep us alive
15:00for five days.
15:07Sorry, I'm trying not to think about it anymore.
15:10Is this really necessary?
15:12I know that this is difficult.
15:14We would not be asking you if it wasn't important.
15:16It's okay. It's okay.
15:19After the third day,
15:21he said that we had to choose
15:23who would live and who would die.
15:28My mother...
15:36She always protected me,
15:38and so she volunteered.
15:41I know that this is called comfort,
15:44but the Ripper found excitement
15:48breaking down his victims.
15:50The choice was irrelevant.
15:52He was always going to kill you both.
15:54Then he grabbed the wrong woman,
15:56because when he
16:02started stabbing her,
16:07she fought back
16:09and
16:11bought me time
16:12to run,
16:15to survive.
16:18After you escaped,
16:21you said that Metcalfe
16:23wasn't the man
16:24that killed your mother.
16:26Now, that was 24 years ago.
16:27Do you still believe that now?
16:30Of course.
16:30Wait, why are you asking?
16:37He's killing again, isn't he?
16:39Someone is killing, yes, but...
16:40This is your fault.
16:42Abel said you had the wrong guy.
16:43The real killer's been running free
16:44this whole time
16:45because you wouldn't believe him.
16:46Erica's okay.
16:47No, no.
16:48None of this is okay.
16:49You know, Abel changed his name
16:51so the real killer
16:52couldn't track him down.
16:53He always could have
16:54contacted the Bureau.
16:56We could have helped you.
16:56Oh, so you would have
16:57believed him then?
16:58Erica.
17:03I miss my mother every day.
17:07Can you tell us anything
17:09about the man that you remember?
17:13I'm sorry.
17:15Even now,
17:16the feeling,
17:18it's clear as day,
17:20but my memory is fuzzy.
17:23It has been since I escaped.
17:24Wait, except the thing from EMDR.
17:27Yeah.
17:27It's a therapy used for PTSD.
17:30And it helped.
17:31It also unlocked
17:33something that I had repressed,
17:34a smell.
17:36We were starving
17:37and he would cook every night.
17:39Fish.
17:40And that smell tormented us.
17:43It's probably nothing.
17:45Hmm.
17:45Anything you remember is helpful.
17:50So, you still think
17:51Metcalf is the Ripper?
17:52The boy experienced
17:54a paratraumatic dissociation.
17:56It's a coping mechanism,
17:57nothing more.
17:58Okay, what about the new memory?
18:00The smell of the fish?
18:01You can't just ignore that.
18:03Maggie,
18:04I wrote the Ripper's profile.
18:06I knew who we were looking for.
18:08Metcalf checked every box.
18:11Peter.
18:11Peter.
18:15What if...
18:16Look, hear me out.
18:19What if you have a blind spot?
18:21Okay, what if your ego
18:22caused you to jump the gun
18:2424 years ago
18:26and now it's impairing your judgment?
18:29And what if you just
18:31want me to have erred
18:32so you could fix a failure
18:33of your own?
18:35Wow.
18:36No, all I'm saying...
18:38You know what?
18:38This has nothing
18:39to do with my sister.
18:40All I'm saying is
18:41we've all got blind spots, Maggie.
18:43At BAU,
18:44we analyze hundreds
18:45of data points
18:46from the crime scene
18:47to victimology
18:48to gain insight
18:50on the offender
18:51based on their behavior.
18:53Behavior.
18:53I know what BAU does.
18:55I also know that profiling
18:57is not a hard science.
18:58It's a proven skill
18:59fortified by statistics.
19:01Okay.
19:02Then look me in the eye
19:03right now and tell me
19:04there's no statistical chance
19:05that you made a mistake.
19:13Are you just gonna leave?
19:15No, I am going to my car.
19:17I brought my case notes
19:18and we can go over
19:19all the old suspects again.
19:28You Jack?
19:30Jack moved to Boca.
19:31It's my shop now.
19:33Can I help you?
19:35Yeah, FBI.
19:36Special Agents Ramos and Scola.
19:39Yeah, I made you as feds
19:40a second.
19:40You stepped in.
19:41Oh, we were going
19:42for fishermen.
19:44Maybe you could help us out.
19:45We were canvassing
19:46some marine supply shops
19:48in the tri-state area
19:49as part of an investigation
19:51and your store popped up
19:52as one of the few
19:53that Supplies Tye Turner wrote.
19:56Don't remind me.
19:57Had to take it off the shelves
19:58if it's such a day.
19:59You haven't sold any recently?
20:01No, sir.
20:02In fact, I used my leftover stock
20:03to dress in white-tailed gear
20:04behind it last fall.
20:06Tye Turner might be crap for boats,
20:08but it's great for stringing up
20:09a carcass.
20:12Well, would you have records
20:13of any customers
20:14who might have purchased
20:14that brand of rope?
20:16I got five years of receipts
20:18downstairs in case a tax man
20:20comes calling.
20:21Welcome to luck.
20:24Sounds good.
20:29All right.
20:30Frederick Monk.
20:32Died in 2009, stroke.
20:36Okay.
20:36Next, William Hoffman.
20:40Incarcerated in 2014
20:41for aggravated sexual assault
20:43in Santa Cruz.
20:44Where does he know?
20:45Died in prison last year.
20:47Nope.
20:48And he had an IQ of 70.
20:50Okay.
20:51All right.
20:52Let's try Reggie Kramer
20:53with a K.
20:55Hold on.
20:56Kramer dated Mary Vant?
20:57That's the Ripper's first victim.
20:59Please, just forget about Kramer.
21:01So he's still alive,
21:02lives in Massapequa.
21:04Says here that he found
21:06his own mother murdered
21:07when he was 15.
21:08Okay.
21:08Well, that's the same age
21:10as the boys the Ripper
21:10abducted and killed.
21:11The Ripper was organized,
21:13methodical, fastidious.
21:14When I interviewed Kramer
21:16in 2002,
21:16his house was a pigsty.
21:19There's absolutely no way.
21:20Wait, wait.
21:21Guys, there's more.
21:22Kramer owns
21:23one of the bait and tackle shops
21:24that Skola and Eva are canvassing.
21:29Sales receipts
21:29are in a couple of boxes
21:31back there.
21:39You ever thought about
21:41tidying up down here a bit?
21:43You could digitize
21:44during the 21st century.
21:46Huh.
21:53Maggie.
21:55Hello?
21:59Service down here
22:00is terrible.
22:01Better luck upstairs.
22:06Yeah, go ahead.
22:20Skola.
22:21Maggie.
22:22Yeah, what's up?
22:23Hey, we're looking at the suspects
22:24of the old Ripper case
22:26and one of the names stood out.
22:27Hmm.
22:30Those boxes are just
22:31around the corner.
22:34Yeah, keep going.
22:36Yeah.
22:40His name is Reggie Kramer.
22:42He owns one of the stores
22:43on your list.
22:44Wait, Kramer?
22:45Kramer, we're here now.
22:56You sharpen your own knives,
22:58Mr. Kramer?
22:58Yeah, just a little something
22:59I like to do to relax.
23:03Would you like to see
23:04my handiwork?
23:09Drop the knife.
23:10Now.
23:11Hey, put the knife
23:12on the ground right now.
23:14Slowly.
23:15Keep your hands
23:16where I can see them.
23:17Okay, let's all
23:18take a deep breath.
23:20No one has to get early.
23:23Now turn around.
23:25Hands behind your back.
23:36Now I can show you
23:37my handiwork.
23:48five days ago,
23:49Valerie and Troy Palmer
23:51were abducted
23:51from a trailhead
23:52just outside of the city.
23:54If you say so.
23:56Suspect matches
23:57your height
23:58and your build.
23:59There's a lot of people
24:00on this planet.
24:01And where on this planet
24:02were you
24:03five days ago,
24:04Mr. Kramer?
24:06Oh, you know,
24:07here and there.
24:08Okay.
24:10Can't say it for certain.
24:11You ever visited
24:12Caleb Smith's state park?
24:13Oh, many times.
24:17You want no secret?
24:19Sure.
24:22White pools.
24:26Best fly fish
24:27on a wholeness of cock.
24:31He's toying with them.
24:33More like a test.
24:34Serial killers
24:35are motivated
24:36by domination,
24:37manipulation,
24:38and control.
24:39Right.
24:40Control.
24:41He's cuffed to the table.
24:42He could be
24:42hog-tied to the floor.
24:44As far as he's concerned,
24:45he can still win
24:45the chess match.
24:46That is exactly
24:47what we want.
24:48Why's that?
24:49It's the only way
24:50Maggie can put him
24:51in checkmate.
24:54Your mother, Darlene,
24:55died when you were young,
24:57right?
24:59You're being obvious,
25:00Agent Bill.
25:01How so?
25:02She was murdered.
25:04You think there's
25:05a connection?
25:05Isn't there?
25:06You were 15 years old,
25:09and you were the one
25:10that found the body.
25:11She was in the kitchen,
25:13strangled with her apron.
25:16Rick did it.
25:17Yeah, your stepfather.
25:19At least that's
25:20what the police said.
25:22You think the police
25:23got the wrong guy?
25:24Do you?
25:27Do you miss her?
25:30Well,
25:32she wasn't
25:32a very good mother.
25:35Well, then again,
25:36I wasn't a very good son.
25:37The thing I find interesting
25:38is you have not once
25:40asked why we brought you in.
25:42I suppose I'm just
25:43waiting for you
25:44to show your hand.
25:45Okay, here it is.
25:47Three pairs of bodies,
25:49all mothers and sons,
25:50all found in a remote
25:53wilderness wildlife refuge
25:54that you just admitted
25:55to visiting.
25:57And they were tied up
25:59with rope,
26:00like the one from my shop.
26:01And stabbed to death
26:02with a dive knife,
26:03like you own?
26:06Murdered in their prime,
26:08just like Mom.
26:10Right again, Reggie.
26:12maybe they weren't
26:13good mothers
26:15or good sons.
26:17Are you the South Shore Ripper?
26:20What do you think?
26:23I just have one more question.
26:25Why these women?
26:29Women like that.
26:32Yeah, they would never be
26:33with someone like me.
26:35They look at me
26:36and they see a monster.
26:39Why this monster
26:40gave them what they deserved?
26:48Start at the beginning.
26:58Great work.
26:59I'll let the Eastern District know
27:00their life just got easier.
27:01Don't bother.
27:02Kramer's not our killer.
27:03He just wants us to think
27:04that he is.
27:04Hold on.
27:05You're telling me
27:06this guy just took the rap
27:07for six murders
27:08that he didn't commit?
27:08Why would he do that?
27:09To feel important.
27:11Okay, all due respect
27:13to the BAU
27:13and its methods,
27:14we're going to need
27:15more than that
27:15to throw out a confession.
27:17Kramer claimed
27:17that he was attracted
27:18to his victims.
27:19The rape kits came back
27:20on the Palmers negative
27:22and nothing in the evidence
27:23supports psychosexual motive.
27:26I think that our killer
27:27is angry
27:28and grievance-driven.
27:29Okay, fine.
27:30But I am holding Kramer.
27:32Let's keep running down leads.
27:34You've also got
27:34the park ranger,
27:35Clyde Bream.
27:36I mean, given the timeline,
27:37he deserves another look.
27:38Bring him in.
27:48Peter.
27:51I don't want to keep
27:53dwelling in the past.
27:55So, how do you feel
27:57about building a new profile
27:58with only the current cases?
28:01Sounds good to me.
28:04Good call on Kramer.
28:07All right, let's begin
28:08with victimology.
28:09We know that our current killer
28:11abducts mothers and sons.
28:13It's repetitive,
28:14virtualistic.
28:15All six victims are white,
28:16since serial killers
28:18rarely kill across race.
28:20We can assume he's white, too.
28:21The abductions are clustered.
28:23The hiking trails
28:24in this park.
28:25We know he lives
28:26in and around Long Island.
28:28Okay.
28:28Crime scene analysis
28:29shows that he is organized,
28:31but not just cleaning
28:33and disposing the bodies.
28:34He plans the abductions,
28:35the captivity.
28:37It shows patience
28:38and maturity.
28:39But he has to be able
28:40to dispose of the bodies,
28:40so we're probably looking
28:41for somebody
28:42who's younger than 50.
28:44Very good.
28:45The signature.
28:46All right.
28:47We know that he deprives
28:47his victims of food
28:48and light.
28:49And assuming that he's
28:50giving his new victims
28:51the same impossible choice,
28:53it underscores his need
28:54for power.
28:55Right, the power
28:55that he carries through
28:56until he has an emotional release
28:58where he violently
28:59kills the mother.
29:00But then with the boy,
29:01it's more mechanical.
29:03It's quick.
29:06Peter, everything
29:07we've come up with
29:08just looks like your profile
29:09back in 2002.
29:11Well, I still can't get
29:12around the change
29:13in the post-mortem MO.
29:16Because he used to dump
29:17the bodies,
29:17but now he buries them?
29:18What were you saying before?
29:20He's evolving?
29:22He's...
29:22Yeah, I think
29:23something's changed.
29:24Hmm?
29:25Hmm?
29:34It's right in front of us.
29:36What?
29:37Our killer is ritualistic
29:38because he needs to fill
29:39some psychological need.
29:41Right?
29:42He's working through something.
29:43Okay.
29:44He's hiding his self-loathing.
29:47Peter, you were right.
29:48The Ripper is not the killer,
29:50but he's not a copycat either.
29:52Our killer knows
29:53the intimate details
29:54of the Ripper's methods
29:55because he witnessed
29:56them firsthand.
29:58Oh, my God.
29:59Yeah, and if you saw
30:00your mother attacked,
30:01wouldn't you be ashamed?
30:09I don't get it.
30:10Why are you looking
30:11for my husband?
30:11We believe that Abel
30:12has picked up the mantle
30:13for the South Shore Ripper.
30:14What?
30:15By committing these murders,
30:16he's reenacting his trauma.
30:18No, that is not possible.
30:19Abel would never do that.
30:20Erica, I know
30:21this is a lot to take in,
30:23but sometimes a killing
30:24follows a precipitating event.
30:27The first pair of murders
30:28happened about five months ago.
30:30So did anything happen
30:31to Abel around that time?
30:32Abel's been stressed,
30:34but everyone would be
30:35in our situation.
30:37What's your situation?
30:38I'm pregnant.
30:39The doctors said
30:41it was impossible,
30:42but then we were blessed
30:43with this miracle.
30:44Boy.
30:46How did Abel react
30:47to that news?
30:48He was nervous.
30:50He's been through so much.
30:52How far along are you?
30:54A little over five months.
30:56Five months.
30:57We've already been
30:58to your house.
30:58Abel isn't there.
30:59Do you know
30:59where he is right now?
31:00He went fishing.
31:01He stopped going years ago,
31:02but when he found out
31:04he was going to be a dad,
31:05that's how he's been
31:05blowing off steam.
31:10He's using fishing
31:11as a pretext
31:12to abduct another family.
31:14All right, listen up.
31:15Maggie and Peter
31:16are convinced Abel Shaw
31:17has already abducted
31:17a new set of victims.
31:18Jubal, it looks like
31:19a mother and son
31:20from Southampton
31:21vanished yesterday.
31:22Audrey embraced Cahill.
31:24Kids 12, fits the bill.
31:25Car was found abandoned
31:26at Rogers Beach
31:27near Quag.
31:27One tire slashed.
31:29Phones found smashed
31:29down the road.
31:30Okay, so this has
31:31got to be our guy.
31:32We can't track the Cahills.
31:34Can we track Abel?
31:34Nothing on his phone location.
31:36All right, so we need
31:37to do this the old-fashioned way.
31:38Where could Abel
31:39have taken them?
31:40What do we know about him?
31:41Where does he eat?
31:42Where does he sleep?
31:42What does he do for a living?
31:43I can help with the last one.
31:45Abel manages
31:45a significant real estate portfolio,
31:47some commercial,
31:48mostly residential.
31:49So he could be holding
31:50victims at one of his properties,
31:51but which one?
31:52Well, I can cross-reference
31:53utilities against
31:54property tax records
31:55and see if any of them
31:55are vacant.
31:56Yeah, do it.
31:56I might have a shortcut.
31:57Okay.
31:58In 2002, the Ripper
31:59held Abel and his mother
32:00captive in the basement
32:01of an abandoned home
32:02in East Meadow.
32:03That home was located
32:04on a corner at 1827 Lucille.
32:06Okay.
32:06On the night
32:07that the Ripper was caught,
32:07he burned it to the ground.
32:09Years later,
32:10someone else bought the lot
32:11and built a new home on it.
32:13Only this time,
32:13the front door
32:14was facing the adjacent street.
32:16Same exact property,
32:17has a new address
32:18and guess who owns it now?
32:19Abel Shaw?
32:20Yes, that's Abel Gaskin.
32:22It's the only property
32:22still registered
32:23under his birth name.
32:24If Abel is trying
32:25to recreate the Ripper's crimes...
32:26It makes sense.
32:27He would use the same kill box.
32:29Get Maggie on the line.
32:30So we found his kill box.
32:32So now what?
32:33Are we gonna breach an arrest?
32:34No, it's way too risky.
32:35Abel's capture phase
32:36lasted about five days.
32:37He'll still be alive.
32:39We're certainly not
32:40sitting around, no, either.
32:42No.
32:42The team did a trash cover
32:43and discovered
32:44that he uses
32:45a seafood delivery service.
32:46Nice way.
32:47He cooks food to taunt his victims
32:48just like the original Ripper.
32:50Yeah.
32:50We're making a delivery
32:51to the house in an hour.
32:52That's our end.
33:19That's our end.
33:34That's him.
33:35Hit it.
33:46Oh, God.
33:53Hey, I've been upstairs
33:54and checked the brakes
33:55when I got her.
34:00Ready?
34:01Yeah.
34:04Audrey?
34:05Bryce?
34:09We're too late.
34:15Maggie?
34:16Yeah?
34:17No Cahill's in the basement.
34:19Where are they?
34:21Did you kill him?
34:24Why would I do that?
34:26They haven't chosen yet.
34:32Swat rated every property
34:33in Abel's portfolio.
34:35Still no sign of the Cahills.
34:36If they are still alive,
34:37he's got to tell us
34:38where he's moved them.
34:39Well, that'll be tough.
34:40He's fixated on them
34:41completing the ritual.
34:43Abel's compulsions
34:44are motivated
34:45by his shame and remorse.
34:46So why don't we confront him?
34:48Use that against him?
34:50Do it.
34:54Are you coming?
34:56No, you saw Abel
34:57for who he really is.
34:58It's your case now.
35:06Guess what, Abel?
35:08You washed the bodies.
35:09You didn't clean the basement.
35:11Your teeth found
35:11prints in DNA.
35:12And we're going to tie you
35:13to all six murders.
35:14And the only way
35:15that you can help yourself
35:17at this point
35:18is by telling me
35:19where you're hiding,
35:20Audrey and Bryce Cahill.
35:25It's over.
35:26You can't hurt them anymore.
35:30I've been studying
35:30your patterns, Abel.
35:32All you're doing
35:33is repeating
35:33what happened to you
35:34when you let your mother die.
35:36Well, except
35:37you did wash the bodies.
35:40Then you lay them to rest.
35:42You know what that tells me?
35:46It tells me
35:47that you're ashamed.
35:49that you're remorseful.
35:55You don't know
35:56what you're talking about.
36:00You still have a chance
36:02to save Audrey and Bryce
36:04and redeem yourself.
36:07Be the hero
36:08that you wanted to be
36:09all those years ago.
36:15tell me where they are.
36:23Not until they choose.
36:27I thought he was supposed
36:28to be remorseful.
36:29I'm no longer sure
36:30abandoning his mother
36:32is the root of his shame.
36:33How are we supposed
36:34to know what the root is?
36:36Well, Maggie
36:37will have to
36:38reprofile him
36:39on the fly.
36:40It is over.
36:42No.
36:44It isn't.
36:45Well, how do you figure?
36:46I mean, short of putting
36:46the knife in Bryce's hand
36:47yourself.
36:59There was a second choice
37:00that day.
37:02The Ripper put the knife
37:03in your hand
37:04and gave you the choice.
37:06You kill your mother
37:07or he's gonna kill you both.
37:11None of the other kids
37:12could pull it off.
37:13They couldn't go through
37:14with it,
37:14but you were different.
37:17You made the choice
37:18to kill your own mother.
37:24That's why Metcalf
37:25let you go.
37:26Because he saw you
37:27for who you really are.
37:29You're a killer.
37:29Just like him.
37:30Don't.
37:31No, and you didn't want
37:32to identify him
37:33because you didn't want
37:33everyone else
37:34to know your shame.
37:35Shut up.
37:36Shut up, okay?
37:37I mean, when he died
37:39you must have thought
37:40this was all done.
37:41Right?
37:42You could just put it
37:42all behind you.
37:45Until your wife
37:46got pregnant.
37:50That wasn't supposed
37:51to happen.
37:53So when she comes
37:54to tell you
37:54that she's gonna have
37:56this miracle baby,
37:58a baby boy,
38:01you panicked.
38:04I panicked.
38:05I mean, why wouldn't you?
38:07What if this precious baby
38:10is like you?
38:12Broken.
38:14I'm not broken.
38:15You have made
38:15all of these people
38:16live your exact nightmare
38:18for one thing alone.
38:19You wanted to find
38:19one other person
38:20who made the same choice
38:21as you
38:21so that you wouldn't
38:22feel alone.
38:26I can free them.
38:28I can free them
38:29from the lies
38:32that they tell themselves
38:33about who they really are.
38:34No, nobody else
38:35has made that choice
38:36and nobody's going to.
38:38Not even Bryce.
38:38You don't know that.
38:41I know.
38:42No.
38:42Yes, and you know what?
38:43I think deep down
38:44you know that too.
38:45You weren't there.
38:47You didn't see
38:48the look in that kid's face
38:50when I gave him the knife.
38:53He's gonna do it.
38:55He swore he would do it.
38:58I bet he already has.
39:02You don't tell us
39:03where they are.
39:04How are you ever
39:05gonna know for sure?
39:21Checkmate.
39:29Go around the sides.
39:30Yeah.
39:32It's locked, Skola.
39:36Pull it!
39:43Okay.
39:46Ma'am.
39:47Bryce.
39:48Come on.
39:49Hey, wake up.
39:50Bryce?
39:55I've got a pulse.
39:57It's faint,
39:57but she's alive.
39:58Your mom's gonna be okay.
40:00So are you.
40:01I...
40:02I didn't do it.
40:03I couldn't.
40:08I couldn't.
40:18I didn't do it.
40:21I didn't do it.
40:34hey hey look uh a couple of things i said back there no no i'm the one who needs to
40:43apologize
40:43your original profile was spot on and i shouldn't have pushed uh no no no no no you were right
40:50in the end i missed some things you sensed them and you never stopped questioning
41:00you know ever since aaron died i've i've been trying to separate what happened to her with what
41:07i do i can't i don't think i'll ever be able to so i'm choosing to use it as an
41:17edge to save whoever
41:18i can you once told me that you no longer recognize the world around you but i think you
41:29see the world exactly for what it is all the bad and all the good and you just refuse to
41:37give up on it and uh well i'm lucky to know you maggie
41:52thank you see you around
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