1 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,100 I don't remember what they said to me... 2 00:00:11,270 --> 00:00:17,560 Something a parent never, never wants to hear. 3 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,350 There's not a day that goes by that I don't miss her, 4 00:00:20,350 --> 00:00:24,030 that I wish things could have been different, that I question 5 00:00:24,030 --> 00:00:26,500 myself, that I wished I would have done this, 6 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:28,980 or I would have done that, or maybe if. 7 00:00:28,980 --> 00:00:29,680 You know? 8 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:36,230 Portland police are warning 9 00:00:36,230 --> 00:00:38,930 that young girls and women living and walking the streets 10 00:00:38,930 --> 00:00:41,730 are even more vulnerable than usual. 11 00:00:41,730 --> 00:00:44,360 We didn't know what we were looking for. 12 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,160 We were looking for a serial killer. 13 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:49,720 So do you look for a hunter? 14 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,590 All three women found dead in Forest. 15 00:00:51,590 --> 00:00:53,180 Park fit that profile. 16 00:00:53,180 --> 00:00:55,010 There's a purpose. 17 00:00:55,010 --> 00:00:56,700 There's a mission. 18 00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:00,070 He's the predator, and that's the prey. 19 00:01:02,390 --> 00:01:04,810 It's scary to think how, you know, 20 00:01:04,810 --> 00:01:08,500 one little act or one little thing 21 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:09,950 can change your whole life, you know? 22 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,020 I could not wrap my mind around, why me? 23 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:18,520 Why am I the one that got away? 24 00:01:22,330 --> 00:01:27,600 I was going to make sure that I was worth it... 25 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,700 You know, I was worth saving. 26 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:35,710 A life. 27 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:08,590 About two days before you contacted me, 28 00:02:08,590 --> 00:02:10,420 I looked at my husband, and I... 29 00:02:10,420 --> 00:02:13,830 And I said out loud, I think it's probably 30 00:02:13,830 --> 00:02:17,310 about time I tell my story. 31 00:02:38,550 --> 00:02:42,510 It was winter time, 1992. 32 00:02:42,510 --> 00:02:45,600 I am seven months pregnant. 33 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:46,470 I'm coming home from work. 34 00:02:46,470 --> 00:02:48,660 There are no buses running. 35 00:02:48,660 --> 00:02:53,380 And a car pulls over in a parking lot. 36 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,880 The driver rolls down the window and asked 37 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,440 if I need a ride home. 38 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:05,470 No. 39 00:03:05,470 --> 00:03:06,300 No, thank you. 40 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:07,170 You sure? 41 00:03:07,170 --> 00:03:08,350 It's really no problem. 42 00:03:08,350 --> 00:03:10,660 And he just seemed like the nicest, 43 00:03:10,660 --> 00:03:13,680 you know, nerdy, harmless guy. 44 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,540 And it's like, I'm tired. 45 00:03:15,540 --> 00:03:17,160 My feet are swollen. 46 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,670 I see two car seats in the back seat. 47 00:03:21,670 --> 00:03:22,960 You know, I just... OK, sure. 48 00:03:29,630 --> 00:03:38,610 We probably went five blocks, and it went badly very quickly. 49 00:03:45,140 --> 00:03:47,750 The doors locked. 50 00:03:47,750 --> 00:03:48,850 He had a knife. 51 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,850 And you could feel the rage. 52 00:04:01,450 --> 00:04:04,710 He was very nervous, very freaked out. 53 00:04:04,710 --> 00:04:09,000 And he rear-ended another car. 54 00:04:16,690 --> 00:04:19,140 These two gentlemen got out of their car. 55 00:04:19,140 --> 00:04:21,390 And I thought yes, here it is. 56 00:04:21,390 --> 00:04:22,290 Here is my savior. 57 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:27,370 And then he sped off. 58 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,460 And I am just thinking, oh my god, 59 00:04:33,460 --> 00:04:37,330 this guy is going to kill me. 60 00:04:37,330 --> 00:04:40,360 I'm going to die in this car. 61 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,760 He drove me out in the middle of kind of nowhere 62 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:43,940 on this dirt road. 63 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,320 And I remember thinking my baby wasn't going to be born. 64 00:04:56,250 --> 00:05:00,260 That's what just kicked in those survival skills. 65 00:05:00,260 --> 00:05:03,710 I just began putting my fingerprints everywhere. 66 00:05:03,710 --> 00:05:07,940 And I started looking at everything in the car 67 00:05:07,940 --> 00:05:10,760 and memorizing everything. 68 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:16,940 And I just started acting like I liked him... 69 00:05:16,940 --> 00:05:19,730 You know, saying I can tell you're a nice guy. 70 00:05:19,730 --> 00:05:22,030 You know, what's wrong in your life? 71 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:24,140 It's going to be all OK. 72 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:32,320 But then he tried to put a belt around my neck. 73 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:41,170 He continuously raped me. 74 00:05:41,170 --> 00:05:44,120 SHELLY HARDING: 75 00:05:52,980 --> 00:05:58,010 When he finished assaulting me, he started crying. 76 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,950 And I told him it was OK... 77 00:06:04,950 --> 00:06:08,920 Don't worry, I wasn't going to tell anybody. 78 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,350 I promise you. 79 00:06:11,350 --> 00:06:13,320 That if he just took me back to where he found me. 80 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,070 And he did. 81 00:06:27,370 --> 00:06:31,940 Once that car door opened, and that air hit me, 82 00:06:31,940 --> 00:06:40,360 and my foot hit the concrete, then I knew I was getting away. 83 00:06:54,050 --> 00:06:56,540 I guess what struck me about Shelly 84 00:06:56,540 --> 00:07:01,560 was that she kept her composure through the whole thing. 85 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:02,520 She didn't quit. 86 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,280 She didn't give up. 87 00:07:07,250 --> 00:07:11,770 Thank you very much for meeting me. 88 00:07:11,770 --> 00:07:13,310 She was a survivor. 89 00:07:16,470 --> 00:07:21,500 And together we decided that we were going to catch this guy. 90 00:07:35,940 --> 00:07:41,190 The hit-and-run obviously became very important. 91 00:07:41,190 --> 00:07:43,720 A couple of guys were rear-ended, 92 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,270 and they jotted a license plate number down. 93 00:07:48,270 --> 00:07:52,960 And so when I got the case, a traffic officer 94 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,210 had already came up with the name of Todd Reed, who 95 00:07:58,210 --> 00:08:01,460 was the registered owner of the car that had struck these guys. 96 00:08:06,730 --> 00:08:13,950 Due to Shelly's efforts leaving evidence behind, 97 00:08:13,950 --> 00:08:16,740 everything matched up. 98 00:08:16,740 --> 00:08:19,310 And so we arrested Todd on the rape. 99 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,720 Alex did not call me on Mother's Day. 100 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,270 It was really unlike her. 101 00:08:59,270 --> 00:09:02,540 She was living on the street, and she 102 00:09:02,540 --> 00:09:03,810 wouldn't tell me where she was. 103 00:09:03,810 --> 00:09:06,020 But she would call to tell me she was OK. 104 00:09:06,020 --> 00:09:09,890 And she always told me she loved me... 105 00:09:09,890 --> 00:09:10,590 Always. 106 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:28,930 Alex was a tiny, petite girl, beautiful. 107 00:09:28,930 --> 00:09:30,810 She had a talent for writing. 108 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:39,370 And funny... yeah, we had a lot of laughs together. 109 00:09:53,410 --> 00:09:57,910 Alex was 12 when she started running away. 110 00:09:57,910 --> 00:10:00,730 She didn't want to go to school because some of the kids 111 00:10:00,730 --> 00:10:05,200 would make fun of her because she was different. 112 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,270 It started with shorter periods of time. 113 00:10:07,270 --> 00:10:11,350 Sometimes she'd be gone a day or a couple of days. 114 00:10:11,350 --> 00:10:15,150 And then it got longer and longer. 115 00:10:15,150 --> 00:10:18,220 It was really hard. 116 00:10:18,220 --> 00:10:20,050 It was really hard, and it was really worrisome 117 00:10:20,050 --> 00:10:21,490 because she was so young. 118 00:10:21,490 --> 00:10:26,450 And there's just so many crazies out there, 119 00:10:26,450 --> 00:10:28,370 and things that happen to kids. 120 00:10:43,510 --> 00:10:45,170 It made me sick to my stomach 121 00:10:45,170 --> 00:10:49,460 when I heard that she was using heroin. 122 00:10:49,460 --> 00:10:51,530 And we had quite a conversation about that. 123 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:57,110 I often told her, I don't want to read 124 00:10:57,110 --> 00:10:59,210 about you in the newspaper. 125 00:10:59,210 --> 00:11:00,290 I want you to get help. 126 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:20,750 That afternoon the detective showed up at my house. 127 00:11:20,750 --> 00:11:24,380 That was my worst fear had come true. 128 00:11:27,630 --> 00:11:30,080 My head felt like it had exploded. 129 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:38,060 And it's beyond anything I've ever experienced. 130 00:11:57,670 --> 00:12:02,340 You know, I was used to being a very strong personality. 131 00:12:02,340 --> 00:12:05,100 You know, the girl that always wore the lampshade at parties. 132 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:08,280 You know, the funny girl, the life of the party. 133 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,780 And all that went away... 134 00:12:09,780 --> 00:12:13,750 All of the self-confidence and the self-assurance. 135 00:12:19,110 --> 00:12:22,830 I tried to block out that pain, tried 136 00:12:22,830 --> 00:12:24,230 to block out those memories. 137 00:12:28,410 --> 00:12:35,580 And that's when substances became a problem for me. 138 00:12:39,070 --> 00:12:42,840 I had this child then that I could not take care 139 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,160 of because I was so screwed up. 140 00:13:05,770 --> 00:13:09,190 You know, I can't tell you a worse feeling 141 00:13:09,190 --> 00:13:10,600 when somebody is not going to trust 142 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:14,420 you alone with your own child. 143 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:23,540 And so I did my best to become that piece of dirt 144 00:13:23,540 --> 00:13:26,300 that they saw and said that I was. 145 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:28,490 And my life went downhill very fast. 146 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:48,430 You go into downtown cities and you'll 147 00:13:48,430 --> 00:13:49,920 see the, like, crazy girl walking down 148 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,630 the street with no shoes on and talking 149 00:13:51,630 --> 00:13:53,620 to herself like... that was me. 150 00:13:53,620 --> 00:13:57,240 I was that girl that you'd cross the street, believe me. 151 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,970 - I. - First met Lilla... 152 00:14:14,970 --> 00:14:17,390 We were in rehab together. 153 00:14:17,390 --> 00:14:22,540 And at first I didn't like her, and she bugged me. 154 00:14:22,540 --> 00:14:24,840 But in the end, we became very close. 155 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,820 And she became somebody that... 156 00:14:27,820 --> 00:14:32,520 That I really loved and genuinely cared about. 157 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:37,990 She just had a smile and a laugh that was infectious. 158 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:44,970 When you're homeless, you feel like gum on somebody's shoe, 159 00:14:44,970 --> 00:14:47,810 you know? 160 00:14:47,810 --> 00:14:51,540 But when I picture Lilla, there were times when 161 00:14:51,540 --> 00:14:53,390 we forgot where we were at. 162 00:14:53,390 --> 00:14:55,860 We were just being silly... 163 00:14:55,860 --> 00:14:58,600 Not engulfed in that pain and that other stuff. 164 00:15:08,690 --> 00:15:10,550 I don't remember the exact circumstances, 165 00:15:10,550 --> 00:15:13,850 but she hasn't came home in like a week. 166 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,970 Then another week goes by. 167 00:15:20,970 --> 00:15:25,910 No word from her, and I knew something bad had happened. 168 00:15:25,910 --> 00:15:27,610 I just knew it. 169 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:34,480 On the news they said they had found a body in Forest Park. 170 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:43,820 NEWSCASTER: In early May, 171 00:15:43,820 --> 00:15:45,800 hikers discovered the bodies of Lilla. 172 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,340 Moler and Stephanie Russell. 173 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:01,240 I was at home listening to the news 174 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,220 when the first two girls had been discovered. 175 00:16:06,820 --> 00:16:14,180 And I had a sinking feeling wondering where Alex was. 176 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,470 I was absolutely terrified. 177 00:16:22,470 --> 00:16:26,220 I called and filed a missing persons report. 178 00:16:29,260 --> 00:16:31,590 I was on a mission. 179 00:16:31,590 --> 00:16:32,850 I had to find her. 180 00:16:32,850 --> 00:16:37,810 And I didn't know where to look. 181 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:56,720 The next morning they had found a third person in the park. 182 00:17:00,030 --> 00:17:02,570 And that afternoon, the detectives 183 00:17:02,570 --> 00:17:03,570 showed up at my house. 184 00:17:08,820 --> 00:17:12,960 And when they showed up I knew exactly why they were there. 185 00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:22,200 I don't remember what they said to me... 186 00:17:32,670 --> 00:17:36,350 Something a parent never, never wants to hear. 187 00:17:39,010 --> 00:17:44,240 That was my worst fear had come true. 188 00:17:51,020 --> 00:17:53,540 That was my baby. 189 00:17:53,540 --> 00:17:55,590 She was 17 years old. 190 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,650 When you get more than one body that's... 191 00:18:25,650 --> 00:18:27,180 You're going to start thinking is do we 192 00:18:27,180 --> 00:18:29,760 have a serial killer going on? 193 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:37,050 Our victims were prostitutes, drug users, fringe dwellers. 194 00:18:37,050 --> 00:18:38,250 They're living their life, they're 195 00:18:38,250 --> 00:18:42,930 doing the best they can, and then this evil... 196 00:18:42,930 --> 00:18:47,220 Or whatever you want to call it... shows up and takes them. 197 00:18:47,220 --> 00:18:53,270 So our job is to hold him responsible for the desecration 198 00:18:53,270 --> 00:18:55,410 of a human life. 199 00:18:58,790 --> 00:19:05,120 And we spent a lot of nights out just driving around Portland, 200 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:06,480 talking to women on the street. 201 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:12,290 They were all worried about their own lives 202 00:19:12,290 --> 00:19:17,420 because there was somebody killing people just like them. 203 00:19:21,090 --> 00:19:22,210 Somebody was hunting them. 204 00:19:36,910 --> 00:19:38,110 Hikers in Forest. 205 00:19:38,110 --> 00:19:39,880 Park discovered the bodies of Lilla. 206 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,620 Moler and Stephanie Russell. 207 00:19:41,620 --> 00:19:44,700 The body of Alexandra Ison was found in early June. 208 00:19:49,630 --> 00:19:52,720 At the time when she died, I wanted 209 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,550 to know everything I possibly could 210 00:19:54,550 --> 00:19:56,160 about what happened to her. 211 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:01,420 I was trying to see if it was really real. 212 00:20:04,340 --> 00:20:06,100 Because it didn't feel real. 213 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:07,240 Nothing felt real. 214 00:20:09,970 --> 00:20:14,860 I read the police reports, and I asked for a copy 215 00:20:14,860 --> 00:20:17,620 of the autopsy report. 216 00:20:17,620 --> 00:20:19,920 I asked to see the crime scene photos. 217 00:20:22,420 --> 00:20:24,880 I needed a visual of her face. 218 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,430 I needed to know that that was really her 219 00:20:27,430 --> 00:20:33,400 and they hadn't made this huge mistake. 220 00:20:46,310 --> 00:20:50,180 Three bodies, no end in sight. 221 00:20:50,180 --> 00:20:55,650 We don't know what started it, what's going to stop it. 222 00:20:55,650 --> 00:20:58,260 The supervisors in the homicide detail 223 00:20:58,260 --> 00:21:02,800 requested that we form a task force. 224 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,330 The three victims that we had... 225 00:21:05,330 --> 00:21:10,170 People involved in drugs, people involved in prostitution... 226 00:21:10,170 --> 00:21:12,830 It is a real close community. 227 00:21:12,830 --> 00:21:16,290 And I needed a window into that lifestyle 228 00:21:16,290 --> 00:21:20,420 to see what people in the community 229 00:21:20,420 --> 00:21:23,790 were saying about these three women who had been killed. 230 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,100 One day at a friend's house... 231 00:21:37,020 --> 00:21:39,780 The phone rings. 232 00:21:39,780 --> 00:21:40,700 It's for me. 233 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:50,560 And on the other end is Detective Schlegel 234 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,120 saying are you aware of... 235 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,430 That girls have been disappearing? 236 00:21:55,430 --> 00:21:58,680 And I said, yeah, and, you know, let him know how one of them 237 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,300 was my friend. 238 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:03,740 He asked me to, like, vouch for him, 239 00:22:03,740 --> 00:22:07,720 to let people know that they could talk to him, 240 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,240 that he didn't care if they, you know, had warrants 241 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,970 or what they were doing in their life, 242 00:22:13,970 --> 00:22:17,330 that he just wanted to figure out 243 00:22:17,330 --> 00:22:20,580 what was happening to these girls to catch the person. 244 00:22:20,580 --> 00:22:23,610 And so I did. 245 00:22:23,610 --> 00:22:29,660 And he just treated me with respect and with empathy. 246 00:22:29,660 --> 00:22:36,670 And he was the first person in a long time that I could trust. 247 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:41,870 Portland police are warning 248 00:22:41,870 --> 00:22:44,570 that young girls and women living and walking the streets 249 00:22:44,570 --> 00:22:46,360 are even more vulnerable than usual. 250 00:22:49,010 --> 00:22:50,610 We were looking for a serial killer. 251 00:22:50,610 --> 00:22:53,890 So what do you look for? 252 00:22:53,890 --> 00:22:58,780 Our working theory was that the killer was picking these women 253 00:22:58,780 --> 00:23:04,840 up in high vice areas, somehow getting them into his car, 254 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,750 and then driving to a secluded spot. 255 00:23:10,130 --> 00:23:14,100 And I guess that's what we were looking for was a hunter. 256 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:25,520 So we... just like fishing, you put some bait out there 257 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,930 and see if the guy comes along and takes a nibble at it. 258 00:23:35,260 --> 00:23:38,690 Test, test 1, 2. 259 00:23:38,690 --> 00:23:41,210 We knew a female police officer that worked 260 00:23:41,210 --> 00:23:44,750 in drug and vice division. 261 00:23:44,750 --> 00:23:49,310 And we put her out on the street with undercover police 262 00:23:49,310 --> 00:23:51,600 officers. 263 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,410 She was approached by a guy in a car. 264 00:23:58,580 --> 00:23:59,560 Hi. 265 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:00,540 Hi. 266 00:24:03,970 --> 00:24:07,910 Something felt weird to her about it. 267 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,120 So we cruised around the area trying to find this car. 268 00:24:21,290 --> 00:24:23,500 We find it a block away from our decoy. 269 00:24:26,630 --> 00:24:29,240 And he's parked in such a manner that we 270 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,880 can see her on the opposite side of the street. 271 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,860 Normal people, if they're going to look at somebody, 272 00:24:39,860 --> 00:24:40,660 they'll do this. 273 00:24:40,660 --> 00:24:45,120 They'll sit in eyesight from you and look at you. 274 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:50,480 A hunter wants to observe without being seen. 275 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,640 He's the predator, and that's the prey. 276 00:24:56,890 --> 00:24:58,870 I was thinking, my god, we solved it. 277 00:24:58,870 --> 00:25:00,660 This is it. This is going to be the guy. 278 00:25:04,570 --> 00:25:08,160 And we're four or five feet apart. 279 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,960 And his back of his head's to me. 280 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,780 And as we drove past, I looked inside. 281 00:25:14,780 --> 00:25:17,030 And the hair on the back of my neck went up. 282 00:25:23,820 --> 00:25:29,030 The. 283 00:25:45,750 --> 00:25:47,760 I'm sitting in a restaurant with a friend 284 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,420 of mine, and I look up, and it's almost 285 00:25:51,420 --> 00:25:52,740 like in a Christmas story. 286 00:25:52,740 --> 00:25:55,870 You know, where the ghosts of Christmas past come in, 287 00:25:55,870 --> 00:25:56,570 or whatever. 288 00:25:59,270 --> 00:26:03,330 And you almost wonder, like, is that what I really saw? 289 00:26:03,330 --> 00:26:05,080 Did I hallucinate that? 290 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,960 And I looked at my friend, and I said that guy 291 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,070 - tried to kill me one time. - Hey! 292 00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:11,290 Hey, you! 293 00:26:11,290 --> 00:26:14,420 And I just started chasing him out of the restaurant, 294 00:26:14,420 --> 00:26:16,090 screaming you tried to kill me. 295 00:26:16,090 --> 00:26:17,540 You tried to kill me! 296 00:26:17,540 --> 00:26:18,520 Hey, come back here! 297 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:19,500 Hey! 298 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:21,500 And he got in the car. 299 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:23,010 And he just looked straight forward 300 00:26:23,010 --> 00:26:27,750 like... saying, you know, like I was just some crazy person. 301 00:26:37,890 --> 00:26:42,280 And I really felt like I had been duped. 302 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,630 The police, and the judges, and the whole judicial system... 303 00:26:46,630 --> 00:26:47,810 I didn't matter. 304 00:26:53,690 --> 00:26:55,910 I was hoping for that... yeah, a little 305 00:26:55,910 --> 00:26:57,800 longer sentence on the rape. 306 00:26:59,050 --> 00:27:01,430 He actually ended up being sentenced to 12 years 307 00:27:01,430 --> 00:27:03,570 and served 3. 308 00:27:03,570 --> 00:27:04,820 Don't tell me that. 309 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:14,760 What comes to your mind 310 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,400 when you see Todd after all these years? 311 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:20,130 Well with me, I get angry. 312 00:27:38,610 --> 00:27:41,820 The first night we run the decoy mission, 313 00:27:41,820 --> 00:27:45,250 and we're four or five feet apart. 314 00:27:45,250 --> 00:27:47,880 And his back of his head's to me. 315 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,660 And as we drove past, I looked inside. 316 00:27:54,970 --> 00:27:56,500 And there was Todd Reed. 317 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,900 I mean, it was just a... 318 00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:09,140 Like a bell going off, a siren going off. 319 00:28:09,140 --> 00:28:16,840 Circumstantially, it's a pretty cosmic coincidental moment. 320 00:28:23,580 --> 00:28:27,150 We needed evidence to convict him. 321 00:28:27,150 --> 00:28:32,170 We'd gotten DNA samples off the victims. 322 00:28:32,170 --> 00:28:34,830 We run it through our database to see 323 00:28:34,830 --> 00:28:36,290 if it popped up with a name. 324 00:28:39,730 --> 00:28:43,450 At the time it was a pretty slow process. 325 00:28:43,450 --> 00:28:49,910 So we kept on him 24 hours a day until we got the DNA tests back 326 00:28:49,910 --> 00:28:53,800 that positively identified that his DNA had been found 327 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,290 at the scenes up in Forest Park. 328 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,500 Employees at Rinella's Produce in southeast 329 00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:06,930 Portland can't believe their coworker, Todd Reed, 330 00:29:06,930 --> 00:29:08,700 is an alleged serial killer. 331 00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:11,970 Police showed up and arrested him. 332 00:29:11,970 --> 00:29:15,340 This certainly does not ease the pain felt by the families. 333 00:29:15,340 --> 00:29:17,400 Nor does this diminish the loss of Stephanie, 334 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,070 Lilla, or Alexandria. 335 00:29:21,850 --> 00:29:26,470 I think I was still in so much grief 336 00:29:26,470 --> 00:29:31,450 that I really didn't have time to focus on Todd Alan 337 00:29:31,450 --> 00:29:36,230 Reed other than the hatred that I felt toward him 338 00:29:36,230 --> 00:29:37,130 for what he had done. 339 00:29:49,590 --> 00:29:51,730 What I remember from her memorial service 340 00:29:51,730 --> 00:29:57,470 is there were hundreds of people there, 341 00:29:57,470 --> 00:30:07,010 and I had never felt so much love, and acceptance, 342 00:30:07,010 --> 00:30:09,350 and compassion as I did that day that I 343 00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:10,630 went to that memorial service. 344 00:30:22,550 --> 00:30:24,930 There were a lot of street kids there at her service. 345 00:30:27,940 --> 00:30:33,070 And my whole attitude changed because I 346 00:30:33,070 --> 00:30:35,290 saw the love they had for her. 347 00:31:22,610 --> 00:31:26,630 We decided we'd contact Shelly, tell 348 00:31:26,630 --> 00:31:29,480 her that we'd arrested Todd. 349 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,580 She was incarcerated at the time. 350 00:31:34,810 --> 00:31:39,000 And we were walking into the big open day room area. 351 00:31:41,630 --> 00:31:47,150 She walked up to me, and she goes, you got him didn't you? 352 00:31:47,150 --> 00:31:48,600 I said, yeah. 353 00:31:54,380 --> 00:31:57,580 And I said, what's the person's name? 354 00:31:57,580 --> 00:32:00,760 And he said, Todd Alan Reed. 355 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:09,550 And... and I felt like I shot out of my skin. 356 00:32:09,550 --> 00:32:12,450 I mean, I never felt shock like that before. 357 00:32:12,450 --> 00:32:16,590 And I could not wrap my mind around... 358 00:32:16,590 --> 00:32:17,460 Why me? 359 00:32:17,460 --> 00:32:21,100 Why am I the one that got away? 360 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:24,380 Because so many other women didn't. 361 00:32:36,930 --> 00:32:40,240 The jury hears what you have to say. 362 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,660 I just remember him saying look, I need you to help me. 363 00:32:43,660 --> 00:32:45,620 We need to put this guy away. 364 00:32:45,620 --> 00:32:48,110 And I can't do it if you're all messed up. 365 00:32:51,010 --> 00:32:52,690 He gave me her business card. 366 00:32:52,690 --> 00:32:53,920 And he said, you're going to go here, 367 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,040 and you're going to talk this lady. 368 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,440 Call. 369 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,630 I had tried to make changes so many times. 370 00:33:02,630 --> 00:33:04,660 And it never worked. 371 00:33:04,660 --> 00:33:10,340 It never stuck because I just couldn't 372 00:33:10,340 --> 00:33:12,450 handle the thoughts, the feelings, 373 00:33:12,450 --> 00:33:19,000 and I just wanted my mind to stop. 374 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,690 And I wanted to die. 375 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:32,600 But I felt a responsibility to Lilla and knowing 376 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,760 exactly what she went through. 377 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:40,110 And then I got pissed. 378 00:33:40,110 --> 00:33:41,590 And I was not going to let my story 379 00:33:41,590 --> 00:33:45,430 end there, dead in a ditch. 380 00:33:45,430 --> 00:33:48,260 I was going to do whatever it took to put him away. 381 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:14,050 I haven't read this in a long time. 382 00:34:19,970 --> 00:34:25,580 It says, my name is Michelle Kotoff Harding. 383 00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:30,470 I am the only known survivor of the defendant. 384 00:34:30,470 --> 00:34:33,170 What I want you to know is on that horrible night he 385 00:34:33,170 --> 00:34:37,190 continuously raped me and tried to take my life. 386 00:34:37,190 --> 00:34:40,790 I was seven months pregnant. 387 00:34:40,790 --> 00:34:44,870 He had no regard for my life and the innocent life 388 00:34:44,870 --> 00:34:47,320 of my unborn child. 389 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,840 Since the attack I've had to be hospitalized too many times 390 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,920 to count for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. 391 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,550 I'm terrified of the dark, and I have to sleep with the lights 392 00:34:56,550 --> 00:34:57,250 on. 393 00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:04,640 This is something that I'll carry 394 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,140 with me the rest of my life. 395 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,150 And I looked at him straight in the eye, 396 00:35:16,150 --> 00:35:19,300 and I said, but through it all I take 397 00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:23,690 great satisfaction knowing that you are going to burn in hell. 398 00:35:23,690 --> 00:35:25,290 And I got up and I left. 399 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:39,730 I'll always have a special place in my heart for Shelly. 400 00:35:39,730 --> 00:35:46,450 I was forever grateful for her coming forward and testifying 401 00:35:46,450 --> 00:35:48,880 at his sentencing. 402 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,490 I felt like that was a very brave and courageous 403 00:35:51,490 --> 00:35:52,510 thing for her to do. 404 00:35:55,410 --> 00:36:03,160 And when it came my turn to make a statement, 405 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,280 I looked him in the eye. 406 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,460 And he looked at me... 407 00:36:08,460 --> 00:36:14,560 No expression and didn't even blink when I told 408 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,330 him what he had stolen from me. 409 00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:51,760 I've been retired 10 years. 410 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,820 There were things that I saw that I 411 00:36:54,820 --> 00:36:56,140 didn't want to see anymore. 412 00:37:00,550 --> 00:37:05,080 I can't imagine the feeling of losing a child 413 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,890 in a situation like that. 414 00:37:08,890 --> 00:37:13,170 The aftermath of these things for the families 415 00:37:13,170 --> 00:37:18,790 and the victims, they're going to leave scars. 416 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,640 I don't know that you ever get over it. 417 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,260 You just deal one day at a time. 418 00:37:41,790 --> 00:37:44,210 Dear Dave, Hi. 419 00:37:44,210 --> 00:37:46,140 Yes, it's me. 420 00:37:46,140 --> 00:37:47,700 I wanted to make sure that you know 421 00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:49,860 how much I appreciate your friendship 422 00:37:49,860 --> 00:37:52,730 and compassion over the years. 423 00:37:52,730 --> 00:37:55,090 If it wasn't for you, I don't think I would 424 00:37:55,090 --> 00:37:57,230 have made it through all this. 425 00:37:57,230 --> 00:38:00,800 I'd probably be out there, messed up even worse, 426 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:01,610 instead of here. 427 00:38:05,710 --> 00:38:06,460 That's pretty nice. 428 00:38:23,970 --> 00:38:24,770 This is me. 429 00:38:24,770 --> 00:38:28,250 And this is Dave Schlegel. 430 00:38:28,250 --> 00:38:30,180 And it's very important that he was there. 431 00:38:32,990 --> 00:38:37,660 Because I wouldn't have been here without him. 432 00:38:37,660 --> 00:38:40,380 I would have never got to be this girl. 433 00:38:49,650 --> 00:38:52,600 Dearly beloved, we are gathered here... 434 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,290 Because I just remember sitting at bus stops. 435 00:38:56,290 --> 00:38:58,600 Like it being cold and not having on the right clothes. 436 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,750 And I can still remember watching cars go by 437 00:39:00,750 --> 00:39:03,180 and thinking, I want to be that person. 438 00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:05,630 And seeing those moms with their babies in the back 439 00:39:05,630 --> 00:39:07,140 and thinking, I want to be that person. 440 00:39:07,140 --> 00:39:10,260 Like, I want to be anybody but me, you know. 441 00:39:10,260 --> 00:39:14,880 And may your days be good and long on earth. 442 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,370 And Arthur, you may kiss the bride. 443 00:39:22,870 --> 00:39:26,490 Dave Schlegel, he was that one cheerleader, 444 00:39:26,490 --> 00:39:30,050 that one person that believed in me. 445 00:39:34,290 --> 00:39:35,820 I hope that he knows that he saved my life. 446 00:40:05,150 --> 00:40:07,580 I can say this happened 18 years ago, 447 00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:09,590 but it still affects my life today. 448 00:40:15,350 --> 00:40:18,010 All of my children have struggled with Alex's loss. 449 00:40:21,740 --> 00:40:23,510 My youngest daughter started having 450 00:40:23,510 --> 00:40:27,220 panic attacks at 11 years old. 451 00:40:27,220 --> 00:40:30,770 My son got into his addiction. 452 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:37,960 My other son just kind of went into a depression. 453 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:55,230 There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about her. 454 00:40:55,230 --> 00:40:57,210 I love her to pieces. 455 00:40:57,210 --> 00:40:58,010 And I miss her terribly. 456 00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:04,260 These memories are so cherished because it's 457 00:41:04,260 --> 00:41:06,590 all I have of her is memories. 458 00:41:21,830 --> 00:41:27,020 For those days when I really struggled and life seemed too 459 00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:30,020 much, I would tell myself, you know, 460 00:41:30,020 --> 00:41:31,180 Lilla doesn't get this chance. 461 00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:49,200 I just hope you know that... How much you mattered. 462 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:54,910 There's not many days that go by that I don't forget 463 00:41:54,910 --> 00:41:55,990 I'm not supposed to be here. 464 00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:02,190 I miss you. 465 00:42:02,190 --> 00:42:05,390 And I hope that you're proud of me. 466 00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:16,170 While Stephanie and Alexandria, they didn't get their do-over. 467 00:42:16,170 --> 00:42:18,630 They didn't get their second chance. 468 00:42:18,630 --> 00:42:21,220 And I did. 469 00:42:21,220 --> 00:42:24,510 And so I would want to make them proud also.