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When he decides
to actually prey on a victim,
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he's already done his homework.
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The fantasy is already alive and well
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and reeling through his head.
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So when he is assaulting her,
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he doesn't think he's raping her.
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He thinks he's just living out a fantasy
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and that she is an active
and willing participant.
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Welcome to "very scary people."
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I'm Donnie wahlberg.
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The norcal rapist wears a ski mask.
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He is armed with knives and guns.
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He makes each woman his prisoner,
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the torture lasting for hours on end.
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Norcal was a stalker, meticulous planner,
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but he has made some mistakes,
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leaving solid evidence
and promising clues
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at crime scenes
across northern California.
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Will investigators eventually
connect the dots?
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Here is part two of
"the phantom predator."
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It began in 1991.
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As I have said many times before,
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cold cases often become
a journey for justice.
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I woke up to a masked man
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who had his arm around my neck,
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and he very calmly said,
"don't make a sound.
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I have a gun."
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I was picked, and I don't know why.
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How did he even pick these people?
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He cased their homes.
He learned their habits.
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He stalked them.
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He is always going to pick
a vulnerable victim.
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Who lives alone or is alone
a sufficient amount of time
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for him to commit the assault.
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That following and watching
and voyeuristic behavior,
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intel-gathering behavior...
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That could have predated those
assaults by as much as months.
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Who is this guy, and why has he been able
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to get away for so long?
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He will always act in the
interest of self-preservation,
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meaning he's gonna be organized.
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He is not impulsive.
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This is very carefully thought out.
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He knows the floor plan.
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He knows how to get in
and how to get out.
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One of the cops said that he probably was
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in my house before the incident.
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What he did was cut a hole
through the drywall
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in the garage and stuck his hand
through the drywall
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and then opened the door,
you know, and unlocked it.
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He is using what I would call
more of a blitz attack.
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A sudden and quick effort
to overpower the victims.
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He jumped on me, and he had a knife.
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I was just gonna do everything
possible to survive.
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Before the attacker
leaves, he takes a necklace
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that she's wearing off her neck.
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Why?
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So that he has a trophy of his conquest.
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The trophies become memorabilia
for that individual
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of a time
that was very important to them.
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When you know that there
are multiple people
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who he's already attacked,
your mind starts going to,
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"when is he going to hit next?"
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He jumps on her, attacks her.
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He took her atm card
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and made her give him the pin,
and, remember,
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that relinquishing of the security pin
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is part of the power and control.
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"Even after I've left,
I'm going to victimize you."
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When he went to the atm,
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he was caught on surveillance
at that time,
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at about 7:30 A.M., wearing
a clear plastic Halloween mask.
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And then we had a couple of victims
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who were not so cooperative,
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and they did try to fight with him.
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I grabbed the scissors
and stabbed him in his arm.
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I didn't have it in me to kill him.
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I could have killed him.
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He made a mistake.
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He tried to clean up the scene,
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but he left something behind.
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His blood is... you know,
there's liquid DNA right there
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to help track down the perpetrator.
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And it was particularly
after he left blood
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DNA at the scene where that matched up,
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and then I think it was at
that point they were like,
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"okay, we have
a serial rapist here."
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It almost is like a ticking time bomb
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because you know
it's going to happen again.
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You don't know where,
and you don't know when.
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The night of this
incident, I got a call at home.
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Dispatcher came on and said,
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"hey, you've got to
get in here."
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This was a young 22-year-old
college girl,
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home for the weekend, studying
for a computer science final.
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She had been in and out of her apartment
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that evening, doing laundry.
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I think she might have left
her door unlocked at one point.
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Her roommates had gone home
for the weekend.
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She was there alone.
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She was going about her routine,
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and she hears noises
coming from upstairs.
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It kind of alarmed her.
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She decided to go investigate.
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She grabbed a pair
of scissors, went upstairs.
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Looked in the roommate's room.
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There was nothing.
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Went to the second roommate's room.
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She was confronted by the guy in the mask
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that jumped out from behind the door.
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It was just a matter of seconds
and instantly overpowered her.
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He's surprising the victims,
and he's overwhelming them.
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She told him that her roommate
was about to come home.
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She may have thrown him off his game
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by saying that the roommates
were coming home,
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but he is determined.
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He changes his plan of attack.
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He responded by carrying
her out of the apartment
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and taking her to her car.
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And then he drove her away from her home.
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The minute an assault
like this goes into a vehicle,
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the risk goes up exponentially
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that it's going to also be a murder.
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He then drove around for several hours.
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He stopped occasionally
to sexually assault her.
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He drove her back, stopped in
the vicinity of her residence,
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left the motor running.
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Actually asked her if she wanted him
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to call somebody to come and help her.
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As if he were being gentlemanly
or caring.
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It may seem unfathomable
that a rapist would actually
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express concerns towards his victim,
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but that is completely consistent.
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He once again is acting
on a fantasy in his head
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that she is a willing participant.
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She was bound,
so it was incumbent upon her
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to try to free herself
of the bindings enough
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that she could escape
the vehicle and get help.
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She ended up going to the police
station on her own,
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still having duct tape attached to her,
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and filed a report saying she was raped.
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When I got to the police department,
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the victim was sitting in the lobby.
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It was almost like she was in shock.
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This was a very well-planned attack.
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To take somebody out of their home,
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carry them out to their vehicle,
put them in it,
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and then drive them elsewhere...
That's a very risky thing to do.
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That was definitely a much bolder move
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than we had seen
in some of the other cases.
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M.0. Changes over time
as the offender
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gets better at the crimes
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and he gets more experience,
more confident,
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maybe wanted to take a risk
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because that was quite exciting for him.
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This particular incident, we
had basically two crime scenes.
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You had the victim's apartment
on one side,
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and then you had the car where
they actually left the scene
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and where the attack occurred.
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The vehicle seats were processed,
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and they, in turn,
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yielded what we felt was usable
amounts of DNA evidence.
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It was a period of time later
that we got notification
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that the DNA in our case
had matched other cases.
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They basically had this genetic
blueprint of their suspect
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without knowing who it is.
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This was a case involving
literally like a stranger
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in the night.
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The suspect came in,
the crime was committed,
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and he vanished into the dark.
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Think of it as just a clock winding up,
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unwinding, resetting.
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It will never stop until he's caught.
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She walked into the garage,
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and that's when she was attacked.
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For nearly a decade,
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the norcal rapist
has been able to elude police.
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He has left DNA at several
of the crime scenes,
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but, still, police have been
unable to make an arrest.
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The big question is why.
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People think that
if you have somebody's DNA
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that that means that
it's like going to the dmv
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and punching somebody's
name in and vehicle type
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and having their picture
flash up on the screen
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with all their pertinent data
related to them,
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and that's not the way that it works.
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California has this
incredible thing called codis,
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which is the DNA data bank
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that is run by the department of justice.
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Every state in this country
has a similar system
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of collecting DNA from people
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that have been convicted of crimes
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and also trying to figure out
if any unsolveds.
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So, if you have an unsolved
case, you've got DNA,
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you then upload it to the DNA data bank
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and you look to see
if it matches any person
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or if it matches any other unknown case.
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Having that DNA sample
isn't the end-all, cure-all,
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because somebody could have
never been arrested before.
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They're not in the national database.
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It's like having a
fingerprint from a suspect.
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And you know you have a fingerprint,
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but you don't know who
that fingerprint belongs to
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until a person is arrested.
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You're hoping and praying for a hit,
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meaning it comes up
and matches some criminal
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you already have in the database,
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but that doesn't always happen.
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There was no witnesses to this crime.
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There was no video evidence
of this crime.
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There was nothing to go on.
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It wasn't long before we suddenly felt
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we were at a dead end.
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After the 2000 Davis assault,
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there was a six-year gap
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in the norcal rapist's activities.
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There's any number of
reasons that the series can stop
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for a period of time.
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Could the suspect have been in custody?
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Could the suspect have moved
to a different jurisdiction?
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Could his marital status changed
or his personal life changed?
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He may be able, because
of the fear of getting caught
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in that interest in self-preservation,
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to actually desist from acting
on his fantasies,
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but make no mistake...
The fantasies never stop.
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They're still going on in his head.
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It will never stop until he's caught.
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The earliest I can remember
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becoming aware of the norcal rapist
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is when he struck here in
Sacramento, which was in 2006.
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There were two victims.
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They were roommates.
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They lived in the natomas area
of the city.
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One of the roommates
was at home by herself.
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She decided to take a shower.
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And when she got out of the shower...
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...she was accosted by an
individual inside of her home.
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He immediately grabbed her and bound her,
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covering her eyes and her mouth,
and took her to the bedroom.
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He seemed to know that she had
a roommate,
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and it appeared
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as if he was waiting
for the roommate to come home.
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She came home to find
the suspect's vehicle
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parked in the garage.
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She thought it belonged
to a friend of her roommate
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who was helping to remove some things.
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And that's when she was attacked.
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She said the norcal
rapist took her to the same bedroom
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that he had taken her roommate to attack
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and attacked her, as well.
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Throughout a number of hours
in the evening
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and into the next morning,
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he sexually assaulted both
of the victims numerous times.
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After he had finished,
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he took them into the bathroom
of the home
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and forced them to clean themselves.
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He evidently was trying
to get rid of traces of DNA.
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Right now a serial rapist
is on the loose.
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And Sacramento police have new evidence
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this guy's been
attacking women for years.
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When an offender graduates
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to multiple victims at the same time,
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it could suggest he's trying
to make it more exciting,
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he's trying to take bigger risks,
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and with risk comes more mental
and sexual excitement.
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It could also suggest
that he feels very confident
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in his own strength,
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in his own ability
to control the situation.
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It could be that he's bored
and he wants to change it
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a little bit,
make it a little bit different.
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It appeared to us that he had
some knowledge
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of both of the victims,
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that he did a lot of research
prior to the attack.
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He knew a lot of details
about their jobs.
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Where they worked or what
their daily pattern was.
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The fact that he knows where
they work leaves these women
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with a fear that
this person is still out there.
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They're scared of walking
around their neighborhood,
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wondering when this person
is gonna strike next.
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We were able to see on
the video-surveillance camera
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that there was a white s.U.V.
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That drove down the street
where the victims' house was.
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We were pretty confident
that that white s.U.V.
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Belonged to our suspect.
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So, in 2006, the norcal rapist attacks
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two roommates in their home.
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He tries to get rid of the DNA
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by showering the victims thereafter,
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but the police were able to
retrieve that DNA nonetheless.
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That DNA was given to the crime lab.
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The crime lab was able
to develop a profile,
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and then that profile is uploaded
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to a national database called codis.
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They obviously didn't have
a name of the person,
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but they had a DNA profile.
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It did tell us that we had other cases
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that were linked to our Sacramento case,
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so it was a DNA case-case hit.
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We knew that this person had not
only struck in Sacramento
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but he had struck in other areas
throughout northern California.
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It was a game-changer
because it was at that point
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that we realized, "holy cow.
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We've got a prolific offender."
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The utility of a task force
in law enforcement
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is not just the sharing of resources,
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but it's the ability to go back
and look at cases
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that are unsolved and say,
"I want to look at this thing"
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with a renewed interest,
with a different eye.
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I want to bring some different people in.
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I'm gonna reinterview witnesses,
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"and I'm gonna try and get this
case back on the forefront."
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Sacramento county d.A. Is
kind of taking the lead on it,
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and they're working
with these d.A.S
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from these other six counties.
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What we immediately did was
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get a hold of all those other reports
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from all the other agencies.
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Who were the victims in the other cases?
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What did he do to those victims?
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Did he take anything from them
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that was monetary
or any type of property?
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Were there any leads in those cases
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that maybe weren't followed up
on or could be followed up on?
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Definitely, we had some great leads.
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In the 2006 case, we had a lot
of evidence
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that came from that scene.
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One of the victims
had her blindfold slip,
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and she was able to catch
a glimpse of him
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and provide a description to the police,
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which led to a sketch
being released to the public.
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The suspect is white, in his late 30s,
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roughly 6 feet tall, 250 pounds,
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and has brown spiked hair.
334
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This is the second sketch
of the norcal rapist
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from a victim
who caught a glimpse of him,
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the first from 1997
and the second from 2006.
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00:18:28,959 --> 00:18:31,669
We were able to see
that he had gained weight.
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He had gained 30 to 40 pounds
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00:18:33,667 --> 00:18:38,167
since he first started
attacking women in 1991.
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00:18:38,250 --> 00:18:41,380
Another significant development
from the 2006 case
341
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was that a surveillance camera
belonging to a neighbor
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00:18:44,042 --> 00:18:45,582
captured a vehicle leaving the scene.
343
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Newly released surveillance video
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shows the serial rapist police
blame for attacks
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00:18:50,417 --> 00:18:52,127
across northern California.
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One camera captured the suspect
driving away
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00:18:55,083 --> 00:18:57,003
from the latest sexual assault last month
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in a white Toyota 4runner.
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We were able to see
on the video-surveillance camera
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that there was a white s.U.V.
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That drove down the street
where the victims' house was
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about the time that
the crime would have occurred.
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He drove out of the camera shot,
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00:19:13,375 --> 00:19:17,495
and we found out later
he had pulled into the garage.
355
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And then that same vehicle
was seen leaving that scene about
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when the victims said
he would have left their house.
357
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He had blacked-out, tinted windows
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so you couldn't see in the car.
359
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,080
We were pretty confident
that that white s.U.V.
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Belonged to our suspect.
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00:19:32,709 --> 00:19:34,129
They believe he was last seen
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driving a white Toyota 4runner
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with tinted windows
and possibly a roof rack.
364
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Getting a vehicle that a subject
could have traveled
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00:19:41,375 --> 00:19:43,745
to or from a crime scene on videotape
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00:19:43,834 --> 00:19:47,174
is incredibly useful to investigators.
367
00:19:47,250 --> 00:19:49,540
Every vehicle has to be
registered to somebody,
368
00:19:49,626 --> 00:19:52,496
and, yes, people could use
somebody else's car,
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00:19:52,584 --> 00:19:54,504
yes, they could steal a car,
370
00:19:54,584 --> 00:19:56,384
but it gives you a place to start.
371
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We turned that vehicle surveillance video
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over to our auto-theft unit,
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and they were able to narrow down
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that we were most likely looking
for a 1998
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to 2000 Toyota 4runner limited,
white over silver.
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There was a description of a vehicle.
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There was a composite drawing believed
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00:20:17,167 --> 00:20:19,037
to be reasonably accurate.
379
00:20:19,125 --> 00:20:23,125
I thought at that point, "hey,
they're gonna get this guy.
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I can sit back and be happy
381
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that maybe this is
finally coming to a close."
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And then, of course, that portion
383
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of the task force went forward
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with trying to locate all of
the registered owners
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of Toyota 4runners
in the northern California area,
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00:20:40,667 --> 00:20:44,827
and, as you can imagine,
that was a huge, huge list.
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00:20:44,918 --> 00:20:48,628
It narrowed it down a bit,
but it was still overwhelming.
388
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We had a lot of detectives
who worked a lot of hours
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00:20:53,042 --> 00:20:55,712
trying to track down
all the registered owners.
390
00:20:55,792 --> 00:20:58,082
It was not a list that we were
able to exhaust
391
00:20:58,167 --> 00:20:59,667
because there were so many.
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Operation 4runner
actually ended without them
393
00:21:02,459 --> 00:21:04,419
identifying the norcal rapist,
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00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:06,380
which was a most unfortunate outcome.
395
00:21:06,459 --> 00:21:08,669
But the task force was determined
396
00:21:08,751 --> 00:21:10,291
that they were going to stay together
397
00:21:10,375 --> 00:21:13,665
and come up with new strategies
to try to hone in
398
00:21:13,751 --> 00:21:17,541
and identify who is the norcal rapist.
399
00:21:20,542 --> 00:21:23,132
No tip that gets called in got ignored.
400
00:21:23,209 --> 00:21:26,669
We took upwards of over 120 DNA swabs.
401
00:21:26,751 --> 00:21:29,461
You would have someone
that would look really good
402
00:21:29,542 --> 00:21:30,882
and I would be really excited
403
00:21:30,959 --> 00:21:33,379
and I would think,
"this is gonna be the guy."
404
00:21:47,459 --> 00:21:50,419
Law-enforcement officials
have formed a task force
405
00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:53,130
to bring all the norcal
rapist cases together.
406
00:21:53,209 --> 00:21:56,669
Criminal profilers now add
their critical analysis
407
00:21:56,751 --> 00:21:59,541
to provide detectives with
a better understanding
408
00:21:59,626 --> 00:22:01,666
of this twisted phantom.
409
00:22:01,751 --> 00:22:03,541
The heat is finally on.
410
00:22:03,626 --> 00:22:07,036
The norcal rapist doesn't know
it, but police are closing in.
411
00:22:07,125 --> 00:22:09,665
There is about to be a major
break in the case,
412
00:22:09,751 --> 00:22:11,711
and investigators are about to execute
413
00:22:11,792 --> 00:22:16,212
one of the most impressive
manhunts in U.S. history.
414
00:22:26,334 --> 00:22:29,044
On November 21, 2006,
415
00:22:29,125 --> 00:22:31,325
the task force holds a press conference,
416
00:22:31,417 --> 00:22:33,377
and you have one of these two roommates
417
00:22:33,459 --> 00:22:36,709
who's bold enough and courageous
enough to come forward
418
00:22:36,792 --> 00:22:39,582
so that they can catch the norcal rapist.
419
00:22:57,626 --> 00:23:00,036
If you can get it out
into the public's consciousness,
420
00:23:00,125 --> 00:23:01,455
maybe somebody hears about it
421
00:23:01,542 --> 00:23:03,462
that knows something
that can come forward.
422
00:23:03,542 --> 00:23:05,132
Police have released an undated sketch
423
00:23:05,209 --> 00:23:08,079
of the rape suspect, as well
as surveillance video of him
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00:23:08,167 --> 00:23:11,127
using a victim's atm card
at a woodland bank
425
00:23:11,209 --> 00:23:12,789
after one of the attacks.
426
00:23:12,876 --> 00:23:14,416
A mask distorts his face,
427
00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:17,630
but detectives say someone
should recognize him.
428
00:23:17,709 --> 00:23:20,749
We released not only the composites
429
00:23:20,834 --> 00:23:23,674
but we released the Toyota
4runner surveillance video
430
00:23:23,751 --> 00:23:25,961
and we released the atm photo
431
00:23:26,042 --> 00:23:29,292
to see if anybody in any community
432
00:23:29,375 --> 00:23:32,125
throughout the bay area
and in northern California
433
00:23:32,209 --> 00:23:34,879
recognized any of those pieces
of evidence.
434
00:23:49,626 --> 00:23:51,536
It impacts a whole city and,
435
00:23:51,626 --> 00:23:53,746
in this case, a whole region of our state
436
00:23:53,834 --> 00:23:56,964
where people are worried that
this is going to happen to them
437
00:23:57,042 --> 00:23:59,042
or their loved ones
when they're not home.
438
00:23:59,125 --> 00:24:02,375
If I can't be in my house and be safe,
439
00:24:02,459 --> 00:24:06,329
then where is the safe place?
440
00:24:06,417 --> 00:24:08,457
As investigators hoped,
441
00:24:08,542 --> 00:24:11,632
the public reaction to that
press conference was immediate.
442
00:24:12,876 --> 00:24:14,326
Public fear was stirred up,
443
00:24:14,417 --> 00:24:18,127
and dozens of new tips
and clues started pouring in.
444
00:24:18,209 --> 00:24:20,629
We did get a lot of leads from people.
445
00:24:20,709 --> 00:24:22,079
We got a lot of tips.
446
00:24:22,167 --> 00:24:23,917
We did a lot of follow-up on those...
447
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,460
On those leads and those tips.
448
00:24:26,542 --> 00:24:28,422
People would see the composites
449
00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:31,500
that were put out on the television
450
00:24:31,584 --> 00:24:33,174
and throughout the media,
451
00:24:33,250 --> 00:24:36,670
and they would call in
and they would try to help.
452
00:24:36,751 --> 00:24:39,541
"We think that this
is our neighbor."
453
00:24:39,626 --> 00:24:41,876
No tip that gets called in got ignored,
454
00:24:41,959 --> 00:24:44,499
no matter how superfluous or tangential
455
00:24:44,584 --> 00:24:47,384
or how ridiculous it sounds.
456
00:24:47,459 --> 00:24:49,379
Some of my victims would call and say,
457
00:24:49,459 --> 00:24:53,209
"hey, there was a sexual assault
that happened in this city.
458
00:24:53,292 --> 00:24:56,212
It sounds really similar.
Can you look into it?"
459
00:24:56,292 --> 00:24:58,672
Investigators run every one
of those leads to ground
460
00:24:58,751 --> 00:25:00,581
because you don't know
when one of those leads
461
00:25:00,667 --> 00:25:02,207
is gonna be the thing that's gonna cause
462
00:25:02,292 --> 00:25:03,752
and help you to break the case.
463
00:25:03,834 --> 00:25:08,334
We took upwards of 120... over 120...
464
00:25:08,417 --> 00:25:11,497
Swabs, DNA swabs, from...
From individuals.
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00:25:11,584 --> 00:25:15,214
You would have someone
that would look really good,
466
00:25:15,292 --> 00:25:17,382
and I would be really excited
and I would think,
467
00:25:17,459 --> 00:25:19,209
"this is gonna be the guy,"
468
00:25:19,292 --> 00:25:21,792
and we would send that swab
to the crime lab,
469
00:25:21,876 --> 00:25:24,036
they would do their testing on it,
470
00:25:24,125 --> 00:25:28,125
and the DNA didn't match.
471
00:25:28,209 --> 00:25:32,919
I think any case that is a big
case like this is frustrating
472
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,750
because you don't have the leads
473
00:25:34,834 --> 00:25:36,834
that you need to solve it right away.
474
00:25:36,918 --> 00:25:39,248
It was a roller coaster in that sense,
475
00:25:39,334 --> 00:25:41,674
up one minute, thinking,
"this is gonna be it,"
476
00:25:41,751 --> 00:25:44,581
and then down the next minute
when it really
477
00:25:44,667 --> 00:25:47,037
wasn't your person.
478
00:25:47,125 --> 00:25:49,745
I think there's a lot of
challenges and frustration
479
00:25:49,834 --> 00:25:52,964
that goes on a case
that has gone this long.
480
00:25:53,042 --> 00:25:56,422
As happens with most cases, leads dry up
481
00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:02,330
and tips stop coming in,
and you pretty much feel
482
00:26:02,417 --> 00:26:06,497
like you've worked to the end
of where you can go.
483
00:26:17,042 --> 00:26:21,712
Maybe he's dead.
Maybe he's in jail somewhere.
484
00:26:21,792 --> 00:26:24,882
It may have been an illness
or an injury or something
485
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,540
that made him feel less likely
to get away with it,
486
00:26:27,626 --> 00:26:30,166
or there may be victims
that we don't know about.
487
00:26:30,250 --> 00:26:33,750
Could be that he did engage in crimes
488
00:26:33,834 --> 00:26:36,294
but those crimes weren't reported.
489
00:26:36,375 --> 00:26:38,415
Highly unlikely that he
probably completely stopped
490
00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:41,750
100%, but it's just really hard to know.
491
00:26:41,834 --> 00:26:44,134
Ultimately, the investigation
492
00:26:44,209 --> 00:26:47,959
into the norcal rapist ground to a halt,
493
00:26:48,042 --> 00:26:50,292
no hint of an arrest on the horizon.
494
00:26:50,375 --> 00:26:53,495
I felt like I had failed...
Some sort of sense
495
00:26:53,584 --> 00:26:57,294
of letting down all of these women.
496
00:26:57,375 --> 00:27:00,455
As time went by, I started losing hope
497
00:27:00,542 --> 00:27:02,542
because it had been a long time.
498
00:27:02,626 --> 00:27:04,126
He hadn't struck again,
499
00:27:04,209 --> 00:27:09,249
and I just tried my best
to move on with my life.
500
00:27:09,334 --> 00:27:11,504
It is revolutionary.
501
00:27:11,584 --> 00:27:14,174
I asked one of my colleagues
that's one of the brainiacs
502
00:27:14,250 --> 00:27:16,130
working on it,
"is this gonna work?"
503
00:27:16,209 --> 00:27:17,879
And it got a hit.
504
00:27:17,959 --> 00:27:20,169
It was a huge surprise.
505
00:27:40,167 --> 00:27:42,327
DNA is the greatest tool
ever given to law enforcement
506
00:27:42,417 --> 00:27:43,827
to find the truth.
507
00:27:43,918 --> 00:27:46,918
The Sacramento district
attorney, Anne Marie schubert,
508
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,500
and her team that employed
investigative genetic genealogy
509
00:27:51,584 --> 00:27:54,044
are really on the cutting edge
510
00:27:54,125 --> 00:27:56,625
to resolve these decades-old cold cases.
511
00:27:56,709 --> 00:27:59,329
They are taking crime-scene DNA,
512
00:27:59,417 --> 00:28:02,327
analyzing that with genealogy sites
513
00:28:02,417 --> 00:28:06,127
in order to identify an unknown suspect.
514
00:28:06,209 --> 00:28:09,749
D.A. Schubert had been
looking at cold cases
515
00:28:09,834 --> 00:28:13,544
that could be solved using
this new DNA technology.
516
00:28:13,626 --> 00:28:17,206
The first case that she tackled
was the golden state killer case
517
00:28:17,292 --> 00:28:20,712
that had been unresolved since the 1970s.
518
00:28:20,792 --> 00:28:22,922
On the golden state killer case,
519
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,420
I asked one of my colleagues
that's one of the brainiacs,
520
00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:28,170
"is this gonna work?"
521
00:28:28,250 --> 00:28:30,750
And the answer was,
"it's our greatest hope."
522
00:28:30,834 --> 00:28:32,214
The accused golden state killer
523
00:28:32,292 --> 00:28:33,632
just made his first court appearance,
524
00:28:33,709 --> 00:28:35,329
and you might be shocked
at how police cracked
525
00:28:35,417 --> 00:28:37,877
this 30-year-old cold case.
526
00:28:37,959 --> 00:28:39,879
The golden state killer was
the first case
527
00:28:39,959 --> 00:28:43,419
that we worked on
that involved genetic genealogy.
528
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,540
Police say they found him
using information
529
00:28:45,626 --> 00:28:47,326
from one of those genealogy websites
530
00:28:47,417 --> 00:28:48,787
that will tell you about your ancestry
531
00:28:48,876 --> 00:28:50,916
or help you find a long-lost relative.
532
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,250
Essentially, you take
that DNA from your crime scene
533
00:28:54,334 --> 00:28:56,674
and you develop a profile,
534
00:28:56,751 --> 00:29:00,791
and then you utilize
your genealogy site to determine
535
00:29:00,876 --> 00:29:04,626
if there's any relatives
that may match your suspect.
536
00:29:04,709 --> 00:29:08,129
They compared the genetic
profile to those online
537
00:29:08,209 --> 00:29:11,329
and identified potential relatives.
538
00:29:11,417 --> 00:29:15,667
That finally led police
to the alleged serial killer.
539
00:29:15,751 --> 00:29:18,331
Once I became aware
that an arrest was made on that,
540
00:29:18,417 --> 00:29:20,747
my first thought was,
"we have to do this with norcal.
541
00:29:20,834 --> 00:29:22,174
You know,
we have to do this."
542
00:29:22,250 --> 00:29:27,130
I really felt like that was
our last hope.
543
00:29:28,667 --> 00:29:33,247
The norcal rapist obviously left
this DNA at the crime scene.
544
00:29:35,709 --> 00:29:39,289
That DNA was given to the crime lab.
545
00:29:39,375 --> 00:29:42,165
The crime lab was able
to develop a profile.
546
00:29:42,250 --> 00:29:45,710
And that was then uploaded to gedmatch.
547
00:29:52,125 --> 00:29:54,075
Investigators are on edge.
548
00:29:54,167 --> 00:29:56,827
They're waiting and hoping
between a possible match
549
00:29:56,918 --> 00:29:58,538
between the crime-scene DNA
550
00:29:58,626 --> 00:30:03,416
and a relative's DNA
in the gedmatch database.
551
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:06,290
They got a hit,
and it wasn't an exact hit,
552
00:30:06,375 --> 00:30:10,245
but it was someone they felt was
related to the norcal rapist.
553
00:30:10,334 --> 00:30:14,084
And they had a very narrow link
on a very close relative.
554
00:30:14,167 --> 00:30:16,287
It was a huge surprise.
555
00:30:16,375 --> 00:30:18,165
But, at this point, the police don't know
556
00:30:18,250 --> 00:30:19,540
who the suspect is.
557
00:30:19,626 --> 00:30:22,206
They only know who a close relative is.
558
00:30:22,292 --> 00:30:23,922
From there, you do the law-enforcement
559
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,290
work of building the trees.
560
00:30:25,375 --> 00:30:27,375
We have to figure out who are
their parents,
561
00:30:27,459 --> 00:30:29,709
their grandparents, and beyond.
562
00:30:29,792 --> 00:30:33,672
Would be building family trees
in order to get to our suspect.
563
00:30:33,751 --> 00:30:36,581
When you have a very
close relative match,
564
00:30:36,667 --> 00:30:38,127
like in the norcal case,
565
00:30:38,209 --> 00:30:40,539
it involves much less tree-building
566
00:30:40,626 --> 00:30:43,956
because you really just have
to identify their grandparents
567
00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:46,922
and then the descendants
of those grandparents,
568
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,790
and one of those should be the suspect.
569
00:30:49,876 --> 00:30:53,626
They're using census records and birth,
570
00:30:53,709 --> 00:30:55,289
adoption, marriage records,
571
00:30:55,375 --> 00:30:56,875
divorce records, military records,
572
00:30:56,959 --> 00:30:58,879
those kinds of things
to get the information
573
00:30:58,959 --> 00:31:00,459
you need to build your trees.
574
00:31:00,542 --> 00:31:03,792
Then we can start eliminating
people based on gender.
575
00:31:03,876 --> 00:31:06,786
Eliminating females
because they're not the suspect.
576
00:31:06,876 --> 00:31:10,076
Age, often, location.
577
00:31:10,167 --> 00:31:11,957
People who live in other areas
578
00:31:12,042 --> 00:31:13,582
at the times of the crimes.
579
00:31:13,667 --> 00:31:17,707
Trying to narrow down the
number of potential suspects.
580
00:31:17,792 --> 00:31:19,042
We're obviously looking for somebody
581
00:31:19,125 --> 00:31:21,575
that fits the description and the age
582
00:31:21,667 --> 00:31:24,247
and the height, weight,
and having a connection
583
00:31:24,334 --> 00:31:25,924
to the area where the crime occurred.
584
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,540
Then you start looking at,
585
00:31:27,626 --> 00:31:29,826
"okay, we know certain guns
were used in these crimes.
586
00:31:29,918 --> 00:31:32,328
Did this person own those guns?
587
00:31:32,417 --> 00:31:34,417
Is he registered
for these firearms?"
588
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,830
Finally, you narrow it down
to one individual
589
00:31:37,918 --> 00:31:40,878
that you have all
your high suspicions on.
590
00:31:40,959 --> 00:31:44,249
At that point, we let
the investigative agency
591
00:31:44,334 --> 00:31:46,334
know about the suspect.
592
00:31:46,417 --> 00:31:49,537
We had an actual
photograph of this individual
593
00:31:49,626 --> 00:31:52,376
that we believed was our suspect.
594
00:31:52,459 --> 00:31:56,289
I almost was in shock
because it was like, "holy cow.
595
00:31:56,375 --> 00:32:00,285
This is the person that
I've been wondering about
596
00:32:00,375 --> 00:32:02,745
for the last 12 years."
597
00:32:02,834 --> 00:32:05,584
Roy Charles waller.
598
00:32:05,667 --> 00:32:08,287
He's 58 years old.
He's a white male.
599
00:32:08,375 --> 00:32:11,915
Waller lives in benicia,
is married, has children,
600
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,580
and has worked at uc Berkeley
for the last 25 years.
601
00:32:15,667 --> 00:32:18,747
He led a relatively
quiet life in benicia,
602
00:32:18,834 --> 00:32:22,084
working over at the campus of uc Berkeley
603
00:32:22,167 --> 00:32:24,077
as a safety engineer.
604
00:32:24,167 --> 00:32:25,667
He was married.
605
00:32:25,751 --> 00:32:28,381
His neighbors didn't know
too much about him.
606
00:32:28,459 --> 00:32:30,169
Neighbors at the benicia home
607
00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:32,630
where waller has lived
with his wife are stunned.
608
00:32:32,709 --> 00:32:34,209
From a distance, he seemed normal.
609
00:32:34,292 --> 00:32:36,832
We're very surprised
and obviously shocked.
610
00:32:36,918 --> 00:32:38,378
You never know, do you,
611
00:32:38,459 --> 00:32:41,329
for certain who or what
your neighbors might be up to?
612
00:32:41,417 --> 00:32:42,827
They would see him in his garage,
613
00:32:42,918 --> 00:32:45,668
tinkering with motorcycles
and automobiles
614
00:32:45,751 --> 00:32:47,381
that he worked on.
615
00:32:47,459 --> 00:32:49,879
They didn't say he was very friendly.
616
00:32:49,959 --> 00:32:52,419
You were his former brother-in-law.
617
00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:54,790
This family member in disbelief.
618
00:33:00,876 --> 00:33:02,576
This is the kind of guy that,
if he did happen
619
00:33:02,667 --> 00:33:05,037
to get pulled over
by the police or get a flat tire
620
00:33:05,125 --> 00:33:08,575
and have somebody offer to help
him, he would be invisible.
621
00:33:08,667 --> 00:33:11,877
There was nothing that ever told police,
622
00:33:11,959 --> 00:33:13,879
"hey, you need to be
looking at this guy."
623
00:33:13,959 --> 00:33:15,459
There was no hint at all.
624
00:33:15,542 --> 00:33:20,132
Waller has held a stable job
for 25 years at uc Berkeley.
625
00:33:20,209 --> 00:33:21,789
They don't have any evidence
that anything
626
00:33:21,876 --> 00:33:24,246
he did happened on the Berkeley campus
627
00:33:24,334 --> 00:33:26,754
or with any of the students there.
628
00:33:26,834 --> 00:33:28,834
The Sacramento police
department did a great job
629
00:33:28,918 --> 00:33:31,168
of taking that information
and running with it
630
00:33:31,250 --> 00:33:33,500
and learning so much about the suspect
631
00:33:33,584 --> 00:33:35,964
in such a short period of time.
632
00:33:38,167 --> 00:33:39,827
But in order to make an arrest,
633
00:33:39,918 --> 00:33:43,498
police need a current DNA sample
from Roy waller
634
00:33:43,584 --> 00:33:46,504
to match it against the crime-scene DNA.
635
00:33:46,584 --> 00:33:49,634
What we normally do in
these types of cases is
636
00:33:49,709 --> 00:33:53,789
to get what we call
a surreptitious DNA sample.
637
00:33:53,876 --> 00:33:58,376
That DNA sample
can come from a variety of ways.
638
00:33:58,459 --> 00:34:00,829
It can come from discarded trash.
639
00:34:00,918 --> 00:34:03,998
It can come from spitting
on the sidewalk.
640
00:34:04,083 --> 00:34:06,463
It can come from touching an object.
641
00:34:06,542 --> 00:34:08,792
They basically sat outside his house
642
00:34:08,876 --> 00:34:11,496
and waited for garbage day.
643
00:34:11,584 --> 00:34:15,214
They got a straw, a drinking straw,
644
00:34:15,292 --> 00:34:18,082
that had some of his DNA on it,
645
00:34:18,167 --> 00:34:20,917
and they pulled that from the garbage.
646
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,540
And the crime lab told us,
647
00:34:23,626 --> 00:34:26,036
"okay, this sample
that you just brought me
648
00:34:26,125 --> 00:34:33,575
matches your DNA profile
from your 2006 case."
649
00:34:33,667 --> 00:34:35,877
That was the final nail in the coffin.
650
00:34:35,959 --> 00:34:38,129
And that gives us probable cause
651
00:34:38,209 --> 00:34:41,379
to get an arrest warrant
for this individual
652
00:34:41,459 --> 00:34:44,539
and get him into custody.
653
00:34:44,626 --> 00:34:48,246
I just wanted to go and see
with my own eyes
654
00:34:48,334 --> 00:34:52,214
and know whether or not it was him.
655
00:34:52,292 --> 00:34:55,042
He walked in. I could feel both
of us just lose our breath.
656
00:34:55,125 --> 00:34:56,575
Like, gasped.
657
00:34:56,667 --> 00:34:59,827
My initial reaction was just shock.
658
00:35:08,626 --> 00:35:10,496
The Sacramento police
have matched the DNA
659
00:35:10,584 --> 00:35:14,334
from the crime scenes
with that of a suspect,
660
00:35:14,417 --> 00:35:17,327
58-year-old Roy Charles waller.
661
00:35:17,417 --> 00:35:18,997
The plan is to arrest waller
662
00:35:19,083 --> 00:35:22,213
while he's on his way
to work at uc Berkeley.
663
00:35:22,292 --> 00:35:24,332
So, there's a lot of planning
664
00:35:24,417 --> 00:35:26,917
that goes into arrests like this.
665
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,040
They knew exactly what
time he came and went,
666
00:35:29,125 --> 00:35:31,495
what he drove,
the routes he took to work,
667
00:35:31,584 --> 00:35:32,884
where he parked.
668
00:35:32,959 --> 00:35:36,629
Berkeley... that's
a very, very busy area
669
00:35:36,709 --> 00:35:38,789
with a lot of college kids
and that kind of thing,
670
00:35:38,876 --> 00:35:41,746
and so we had a lot of concern.
671
00:35:41,834 --> 00:35:44,634
Police knew from
the norcal rapist's m.0.
672
00:35:44,709 --> 00:35:46,579
That he had used guns in the past,
673
00:35:46,667 --> 00:35:48,667
and as a result of that,
they had reason to believe
674
00:35:48,751 --> 00:35:51,711
that this suspect could be
armed and dangerous.
675
00:35:51,792 --> 00:35:53,582
You're always worried
about what's gonna happen.
676
00:35:53,667 --> 00:35:55,497
How are they gonna react?
Are they gonna be violent?
677
00:35:55,584 --> 00:35:58,964
Are they gonna try to harm the officers?
678
00:35:59,042 --> 00:36:02,502
But when police moved in
on waller, he didn't resist.
679
00:36:02,584 --> 00:36:05,834
If we said the perfect way
to make an arrest,
680
00:36:05,918 --> 00:36:07,708
the perfect circumstances,
that's what happened.
681
00:36:07,792 --> 00:36:09,252
There was no violence.
682
00:36:09,334 --> 00:36:11,334
He was very cooperative.
No one was injured,
683
00:36:11,417 --> 00:36:13,667
and then he was transported
back to Sacramento.
684
00:36:13,751 --> 00:36:16,791
I had the proverbial chills
down the spine,
685
00:36:16,876 --> 00:36:20,746
if you will,
almost to the point of euphoria
686
00:36:20,834 --> 00:36:24,294
as it set in that
they finally got this guy.
687
00:36:24,375 --> 00:36:27,125
It was a fantastic feeling.
688
00:36:29,334 --> 00:36:31,884
The suspect was a real-life bogeyman
689
00:36:31,959 --> 00:36:34,079
who crept into his victims' homes
690
00:36:34,167 --> 00:36:36,957
under the cover of darkness
and attacked them
691
00:36:37,042 --> 00:36:39,002
when they were most vulnerable.
692
00:36:39,083 --> 00:36:41,083
On the morning of September 20th,
693
00:36:41,167 --> 00:36:43,457
we got sort of a cryptic e-mail
694
00:36:43,542 --> 00:36:45,292
from the Sacramento d.A.S
office.
695
00:36:45,375 --> 00:36:47,575
Announcing there
had been a major development
696
00:36:47,667 --> 00:36:49,327
in the norcal rapist case.
697
00:36:49,417 --> 00:36:52,167
Yesterday, Sacramento police
detectives arrested
698
00:36:52,250 --> 00:36:54,250
Roy Charles waller,
699
00:36:54,334 --> 00:36:59,584
a 58-year-old man living in benicia,
700
00:36:59,667 --> 00:37:01,707
the suspect who we believe is responsible
701
00:37:01,792 --> 00:37:04,082
for numerous horrific crimes
702
00:37:04,167 --> 00:37:07,207
where he terrorized women
in jurisdictions
703
00:37:07,292 --> 00:37:08,882
throughout northern California.
704
00:37:08,959 --> 00:37:11,669
They had the d.A.S from
the various counties,
705
00:37:11,751 --> 00:37:14,171
dozens of law-enforcement
officers saying,
706
00:37:14,250 --> 00:37:17,750
"we cracked one of
the biggest cold cases ever."
707
00:37:17,834 --> 00:37:20,964
It was a momentous day.
708
00:37:21,042 --> 00:37:22,712
Through an incredible partnership
709
00:37:22,792 --> 00:37:27,082
between science
and passionate policework,
710
00:37:27,167 --> 00:37:30,037
the answer that many have waited so long
711
00:37:30,125 --> 00:37:34,785
has come to us in the last 10 days.
712
00:37:34,876 --> 00:37:37,956
The answer has always been in the DNA.
713
00:37:38,042 --> 00:37:40,582
They got him.
They got him.
714
00:37:40,667 --> 00:37:41,877
DNA got him.
715
00:37:41,959 --> 00:37:43,499
And I remember saying,
"thank you, thank you,
716
00:37:43,584 --> 00:37:45,004
thank you, thank you,"
717
00:37:45,083 --> 00:37:47,083
so many times and just was,
like, hysterical,
718
00:37:47,167 --> 00:37:49,377
and I kept repeating,
"it's been 27 years.
719
00:37:49,459 --> 00:37:51,129
It's been 27 years."
720
00:37:51,209 --> 00:37:52,329
It was great to know
721
00:37:52,417 --> 00:37:54,167
not only could I stop thinking about
722
00:37:54,250 --> 00:37:56,670
who this person was but mostly
723
00:37:56,751 --> 00:37:59,671
that all of my victims
could stop thinking about
724
00:37:59,751 --> 00:38:02,921
who this person was and where he was.
725
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:08,790
Genealogy is going to serve
more and more cold cases.
726
00:38:08,876 --> 00:38:12,246
With genetic genealogy,
we're coming for you.
727
00:38:12,334 --> 00:38:15,754
We are going to figure out
who you are eventually.
728
00:38:15,834 --> 00:38:19,674
No one is gonna be safe
from the long arm of the law.
729
00:38:19,751 --> 00:38:22,251
It is going to revolutionize
crime-solving.
730
00:38:22,334 --> 00:38:23,674
There's no question in my mind.
731
00:38:23,751 --> 00:38:26,581
I would be very scared
if I were a suspect.
732
00:38:26,667 --> 00:38:29,167
Waller was booked into
the Sacramento county jail
733
00:38:29,250 --> 00:38:32,290
on sexual-assault charges
that could bring a life sentence
734
00:38:32,375 --> 00:38:33,785
for him if he's convicted.
735
00:38:33,876 --> 00:38:36,076
The suspected norcal rapist was in court
736
00:38:36,167 --> 00:38:37,747
for the very first time today.
737
00:38:37,834 --> 00:38:40,254
He did not enter a plea for
the charges listed against him
738
00:38:40,334 --> 00:38:41,834
by a Sacramento county judge.
739
00:38:41,918 --> 00:38:44,458
Several of the people in
the audience were his victims,
740
00:38:44,542 --> 00:38:47,962
who wanted to look him in the eye
741
00:38:48,042 --> 00:38:51,502
and show him that they had survived.
742
00:38:51,584 --> 00:38:53,584
I was gonna be in the room with him
743
00:38:53,667 --> 00:38:55,207
for the first time in 27 years.
744
00:38:55,292 --> 00:38:57,292
I was sitting with another one
of the victims,
745
00:38:57,375 --> 00:38:59,205
and we were holding our hands
really tightly
746
00:38:59,292 --> 00:39:01,252
and our faces were kind of
right next to each other.
747
00:39:01,334 --> 00:39:03,884
When he walked in, I could feel
both of us just lose our breath.
748
00:39:07,709 --> 00:39:10,629
Like, gasped when he walked in.
749
00:39:10,709 --> 00:39:14,919
It actually felt good
to see him in a cage,
750
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,420
to see him behind bars.
751
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:19,670
It was very empowering.
752
00:39:19,751 --> 00:39:24,711
There's a sense of relief,
but there's also this sense of.
753
00:39:24,792 --> 00:39:27,252
"Now I can put a face to you."
754
00:39:27,334 --> 00:39:30,004
I think I went to the arraignment
755
00:39:30,083 --> 00:39:33,503
just because I wanted to know
whether or not it was him,
756
00:39:33,584 --> 00:39:40,294
and when I looked at him,
I knew immediately that was him.
757
00:39:40,375 --> 00:39:43,125
The defendant kind of stared at the judge
758
00:39:43,209 --> 00:39:45,749
and was softly kind of shaking his head.
759
00:39:45,834 --> 00:39:48,714
It almost seemed like he was questioning
760
00:39:48,792 --> 00:39:52,422
whether he's the wrong guy
behind bars for these crimes.
761
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:55,000
Earnest-payte was the first of 10 victims
762
00:39:55,083 --> 00:39:58,293
who allegedly fell at the hands
of Roy Charles waller.
763
00:39:58,375 --> 00:40:00,245
A range of emotions came over her
764
00:40:00,334 --> 00:40:02,294
as she saw waller behind bars
765
00:40:02,375 --> 00:40:05,245
for the first time Monday afternoon.
766
00:40:05,334 --> 00:40:10,004
As he left, he turned around,
kind of looked over the gallery,
767
00:40:10,083 --> 00:40:13,833
and then looked right at us.
768
00:40:13,918 --> 00:40:16,078
I felt like the blood
left my body at that point,
769
00:40:16,167 --> 00:40:18,577
and I was terrified.
770
00:40:18,667 --> 00:40:21,417
I hate to say that out loud,
'cause I don't want him to think
771
00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:24,750
that he still can make me terrified.
772
00:40:24,834 --> 00:40:28,754
I want to go to every single court date
773
00:40:28,834 --> 00:40:30,504
where I can actually be of help.
774
00:40:30,584 --> 00:40:32,924
I am looking
forward to getting on the stand
775
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,250
and telling the story to a jury.
776
00:40:35,334 --> 00:40:38,384
It will be a release for me.
777
00:40:38,459 --> 00:40:41,579
I'm willing to do whatever it is
that I have to
778
00:40:41,667 --> 00:40:45,497
so that he gets
the maximum sentence possible.
779
00:40:45,584 --> 00:40:53,504
I just think it's important
that you say what happened,
780
00:40:53,584 --> 00:40:58,794
you know, and don't let people
get away with evil stuff.
781
00:40:58,876 --> 00:41:02,626
This is, to me,
like a miracle that, you know...
782
00:41:02,709 --> 00:41:05,629
That he got caught.
783
00:41:12,792 --> 00:41:15,922
Police say that Roy waller
had been working at the same job
784
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,790
at the university of California,
Berkeley since 1992.
785
00:41:19,876 --> 00:41:21,576
After waller's arrest,
786
00:41:21,667 --> 00:41:23,497
two female staffers at the university
787
00:41:23,584 --> 00:41:27,384
reported that his disturbing
stares made them feel so uneasy
788
00:41:27,459 --> 00:41:30,419
that they avoided
walking past his office.
789
00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:33,880
According to campus police
and the Sacramento p.D.,
790
00:41:33,959 --> 00:41:35,959
there is no indication that any crimes
791
00:41:36,042 --> 00:41:37,582
relating to the norcal rapist
792
00:41:37,667 --> 00:41:39,957
occurred within the campus community.
793
00:41:40,042 --> 00:41:42,082
Norcal survivors Nicole and maki
794
00:41:42,167 --> 00:41:44,497
attended waller's first court appearance.
795
00:41:44,584 --> 00:41:47,834
They're helping prosecutors
with the case and grateful
796
00:41:47,918 --> 00:41:49,828
to see justice done.
797
00:41:49,918 --> 00:41:51,208
I'm Donnie wahlberg.
798
00:41:51,292 --> 00:41:54,462
Thanks for watching
"very scary people."