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Jordan: When he decides
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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
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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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Schubert:
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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Earnest-payte: 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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Hagan: He knows the floor plan.
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He knows how to get in
and how to get out.
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Lane: 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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Lane: 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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Jordan: 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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Beery: 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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Jackson:
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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Beery: 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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Anderson: 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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Massie: 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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Gafni: 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
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Beery: It almost is like
a ticking time bomb
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because you know
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You don't know where,
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[ Telephone ringing ]
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Smith: 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
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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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Keene: 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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Keene: She was going
about her routine,
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and she hears noises
coming from upstairs.
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Smith: It kind of alarmed her.
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She decided to go investigate.
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Keene: She grabbed a pair
of scissors, went upstairs.
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Smith: Looked in
the roommate's room.
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There was nothing.
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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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Jordan: 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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Keene: 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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Arutt: 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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Keene: 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
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Jordan: 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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Smith: 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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Beery: 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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O'Toole: 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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Smith: 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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Jordan: 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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Keene: She walked
into the garage,
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and that's when she was attacked.
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Jackson: 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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Gagliano: 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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Gagliano: 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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Beery: 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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Keene: 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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Smith: 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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Jordan: 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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Hahn: 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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Keene: 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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Jackson: 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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O'Toole: 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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Beery: 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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Beery: 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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Jackson: 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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Beery: 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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Gafni: 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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Beery: 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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Woman: 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.
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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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Massie: 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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since he first started
attacking women in 1991.
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Another significant development
from the 2006 case
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was that a surveillance camera
belonging to a neighbor
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captured a vehicle leaving the scene.
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Newly released surveillance video
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shows the serial rapist police
blame for attacks
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across northern California.
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One camera captured the suspect
driving away
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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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and we found out later
he had pulled into the garage.
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Beery: 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.
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He had blacked-out, tinted windows
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so you couldn't see in the car.
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Beery: We were pretty confident
that that white s.U.V.
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Belonged to our suspect.
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Woman: 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.
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Getting a vehicle that a subject
could have traveled
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to or from a crime scene on videotape
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is incredibly useful to investigators.
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Every vehicle has to be
registered to somebody,
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and, yes, people could use
somebody else's car,
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yes, they could steal a car,
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but it gives you a place to start.
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Beery: 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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to be reasonably accurate.
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I thought at that point, "hey,
they're gonna get this guy.
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I can sit back and be happy
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that maybe this is
finally coming to a close."
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Beery: And then, of course,
that portion
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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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and, as you can imagine,
that was a huge, huge list.
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It narrowed it down a bit,
but it was still overwhelming.
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We had a lot of detectives
who worked a lot of hours
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trying to track down
all the registered owners.
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It was not a list that we were
able to exhaust
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because there were so many.
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Jackson: Operation 4runner
actually ended without them
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identifying the norcal rapist,
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which was a most unfortunate outcome.
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But the task force was determined
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that they were going to stay together
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and come up with new strategies
to try to hone in
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and identify who is the norcal rapist.
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No tip that gets called in got ignored.
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We took upwards of over 120 DNA swabs.
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You would have someone
that would look really good
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and I would be really excited
418
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and I would think,
"this is gonna be the guy."
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♪♪
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Law-enforcement officials
have formed a task force
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to bring all the norcal
rapist cases together.
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Criminal profilers now add
their critical analysis
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to provide detectives with
a better understanding
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of this twisted phantom.
425
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The heat is finally on.
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The norcal rapist doesn't know
it, but police are closing in.
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There is about to be a major
break in the case,
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and investigators are about to execute
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one of the most impressive
manhunts in U.S. history.
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Jackson: On November 21, 2006,
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the task force holds a press conference,
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and you have one of these two roommates
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who's bold enough and courageous
enough to come forward
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so that they can catch the norcal rapist.
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Gagliano: If you can get it out
into the public's consciousness,
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maybe somebody hears about it
437
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that knows something
that can come forward.
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Woman: Police have released
an undated sketch
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of the rape suspect, as well
as surveillance video of him
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using a victim's atm card
at a woodland bank
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after one of the attacks.
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A mask distorts his face,
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but detectives say someone
should recognize him.
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We released not only the composites
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but we released the Toyota
4runner surveillance video
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and we released the atm photo
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to see if anybody in any community
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throughout the bay area
and in northern California
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recognized any of those pieces
of evidence.
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Hahn: It impacts
a whole city and,
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in this case, a whole region of our state
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where people are worried that
this is going to happen to them
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or their loved ones
when they're not home.
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If I can't be in my house and be safe,
455
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then where is the safe place?
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Jordan: As investigators hoped,
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the public reaction to that
press conference was immediate.
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[ Telephone ringing ]
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Public fear was stirred up,
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and dozens of new tips
and clues started pouring in.
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Beery: We did get a lot of leads
from people.
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We got a lot of tips.
463
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We did a lot of follow-up on those...
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On those leads and those tips.
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People would see the composites
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that were put out on the television
467
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and throughout the media,
468
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and they would call in
and they would try to help.
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"We think that this
is our neighbor."
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Gagliano: No tip that gets
called in got ignored,
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no matter how superfluous or tangential
472
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or how ridiculous it sounds.
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Some of my victims would call and say,
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"hey, there was a sexual assault
that happened in this city.
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It sounds really similar.
Can you look into it?"
476
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Investigators run every one
of those leads to ground
477
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because you don't know
when one of those leads
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is gonna be the thing that's gonna cause
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and help you to break the case.
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We took upwards of 120... over 120...
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Swabs, DNA swabs, from...
From individuals.
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You would have someone
that would look really good,
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and I would be really excited
and I would think,
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"this is gonna be the guy,"
485
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and we would send that swab
to the crime lab,
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they would do their testing on it,
487
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and the DNA didn't match.
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I think any case that is a big
case like this is frustrating
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because you don't have the leads
490
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that you need to solve it right away.
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Beery: It was a roller coaster
in that sense,
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up one minute, thinking,
"this is gonna be it,"
493
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and then down the next minute
when it really
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wasn't your person.
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Hahn: I think there's a lot of
challenges and frustration
496
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that goes on a case
that has gone this long.
497
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Beery: As happens with most
cases, leads dry up
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and tips stop coming in,
and you pretty much feel
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like you've worked to the end
of where you can go.
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♪♪
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Maybe he's dead.
Maybe he's in jail somewhere.
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It may have been an illness
or an injury or something
503
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,540
that made him feel less likely
to get away with it,
504
00:26:27,626 --> 00:26:30,166
or there may be victims
that we don't know about.
505
00:26:30,250 --> 00:26:33,750
O'Toole: Could be that he did
engage in crimes
506
00:26:33,834 --> 00:26:36,294
but those crimes weren't reported.
507
00:26:36,375 --> 00:26:38,415
Beery: Highly unlikely that he
probably completely stopped
508
00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:41,750
100%, but it's just really hard to know.
509
00:26:41,834 --> 00:26:44,134
Jordan: Ultimately,
the investigation
510
00:26:44,209 --> 00:26:47,959
into the norcal rapist ground to a halt,
511
00:26:48,042 --> 00:26:50,292
no hint of an arrest on the horizon.
512
00:26:50,375 --> 00:26:53,495
I felt like I had failed...
Some sort of sense
513
00:26:53,584 --> 00:26:57,294
of letting down all of these women.
514
00:26:57,375 --> 00:27:00,455
Anderson: As time went by,
I started losing hope
515
00:27:00,542 --> 00:27:02,542
because it had been a long time.
516
00:27:02,626 --> 00:27:04,126
He hadn't struck again,
517
00:27:04,209 --> 00:27:09,249
and I just tried my best
to move on with my life.
518
00:27:09,334 --> 00:27:11,504
Schubert: It is revolutionary.
519
00:27:11,584 --> 00:27:14,174
I asked one of my colleagues
that's one of the brainiacs
520
00:27:14,250 --> 00:27:16,130
working on it,
"is this gonna work?"
521
00:27:16,209 --> 00:27:17,879
And it got a hit.
522
00:27:17,959 --> 00:27:20,169
It was a huge surprise.
523
00:27:20,250 --> 00:27:26,330
♪♪
524
00:27:28,334 --> 00:27:38,754
♪♪
525
00:27:40,167 --> 00:27:42,327
DNA is the greatest tool
ever given to law enforcement
526
00:27:42,417 --> 00:27:43,827
to find the truth.
527
00:27:43,918 --> 00:27:46,918
The Sacramento district
attorney, Anne Marie schubert,
528
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,500
and her team that employed
investigative genetic genealogy
529
00:27:51,584 --> 00:27:54,044
are really on the cutting edge
530
00:27:54,125 --> 00:27:56,625
to resolve these decades-old cold cases.
531
00:27:56,709 --> 00:27:59,329
They are taking crime-scene DNA,
532
00:27:59,417 --> 00:28:02,327
analyzing that with genealogy sites
533
00:28:02,417 --> 00:28:06,127
in order to identify an unknown suspect.
534
00:28:06,209 --> 00:28:09,749
Jackson: D.A. Schubert had been
looking at cold cases
535
00:28:09,834 --> 00:28:13,544
that could be solved using
this new DNA technology.
536
00:28:13,626 --> 00:28:17,206
The first case that she tackled
was the golden state killer case
537
00:28:17,292 --> 00:28:20,712
that had been unresolved since the 1970s.
538
00:28:20,792 --> 00:28:22,922
Schubert: On the golden state
killer case,
539
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,420
I asked one of my colleagues
that's one of the brainiacs,
540
00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:28,170
"is this gonna work?"
541
00:28:28,250 --> 00:28:30,750
And the answer was,
"it's our greatest hope."
542
00:28:30,834 --> 00:28:32,214
Man: The accused
golden state killer
543
00:28:32,292 --> 00:28:33,632
just made his first court appearance,
544
00:28:33,709 --> 00:28:35,329
and you might be shocked
at how police cracked
545
00:28:35,417 --> 00:28:37,877
this 30-year-old cold case.
546
00:28:37,959 --> 00:28:39,879
The golden state killer was
the first case
547
00:28:39,959 --> 00:28:43,419
that we worked on
that involved genetic genealogy.
548
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,540
Police say they found him
using information
549
00:28:45,626 --> 00:28:47,326
from one of those genealogy websites
550
00:28:47,417 --> 00:28:48,787
that will tell you about your ancestry
551
00:28:48,876 --> 00:28:50,916
or help you find a long-lost relative.
552
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,250
Schubert: Essentially, you take
that DNA from your crime scene
553
00:28:54,334 --> 00:28:56,674
and you develop a profile,
554
00:28:56,751 --> 00:29:00,791
and then you utilize
your genealogy site to determine
555
00:29:00,876 --> 00:29:04,626
if there's any relatives
that may match your suspect.
556
00:29:04,709 --> 00:29:08,129
Man: They compared the genetic
profile to those online
557
00:29:08,209 --> 00:29:11,329
and identified potential relatives.
558
00:29:11,417 --> 00:29:15,667
That finally led police
to the alleged serial killer.
559
00:29:15,751 --> 00:29:18,331
Once I became aware
that an arrest was made on that,
560
00:29:18,417 --> 00:29:20,747
my first thought was,
"we have to do this with norcal.
561
00:29:20,834 --> 00:29:22,174
You know,
we have to do this."
562
00:29:22,250 --> 00:29:27,130
I really felt like that was
our last hope.
563
00:29:28,667 --> 00:29:33,247
The norcal rapist obviously left
this DNA at the crime scene.
564
00:29:35,709 --> 00:29:39,289
Beery: That DNA was given
to the crime lab.
565
00:29:39,375 --> 00:29:42,165
The crime lab was able
to develop a profile.
566
00:29:42,250 --> 00:29:45,710
Campbell: And that was then
uploaded to gedmatch.
567
00:29:45,792 --> 00:29:52,042
♪♪
568
00:29:52,125 --> 00:29:54,075
Jackson:
Investigators are on edge.
569
00:29:54,167 --> 00:29:56,827
They're waiting and hoping
between a possible match
570
00:29:56,918 --> 00:29:58,538
between the crime-scene DNA
571
00:29:58,626 --> 00:30:03,416
and a relative's DNA
in the gedmatch database.
572
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:06,290
They got a hit,
and it wasn't an exact hit,
573
00:30:06,375 --> 00:30:10,245
but it was someone they felt was
related to the norcal rapist.
574
00:30:10,334 --> 00:30:14,084
And they had a very narrow link
on a very close relative.
575
00:30:14,167 --> 00:30:16,287
It was a huge surprise.
576
00:30:16,375 --> 00:30:18,165
Jackson: But, at this point,
the police don't know
577
00:30:18,250 --> 00:30:19,540
who the suspect is.
578
00:30:19,626 --> 00:30:22,206
They only know who a close relative is.
579
00:30:22,292 --> 00:30:23,922
From there, you do the law-enforcement
580
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,290
work of building the trees.
581
00:30:25,375 --> 00:30:27,375
We have to figure out who are
their parents,
582
00:30:27,459 --> 00:30:29,709
their grandparents, and beyond.
583
00:30:29,792 --> 00:30:33,672
Would be building family trees
in order to get to our suspect.
584
00:30:33,751 --> 00:30:36,581
Moore: When you have a very
close relative match,
585
00:30:36,667 --> 00:30:38,127
like in the norcal case,
586
00:30:38,209 --> 00:30:40,539
it involves much less tree-building
587
00:30:40,626 --> 00:30:43,956
because you really just have
to identify their grandparents
588
00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:46,922
and then the descendants
of those grandparents,
589
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,790
and one of those should be the suspect.
590
00:30:49,876 --> 00:30:53,626
Campbell: They're using
census records and birth,
591
00:30:53,709 --> 00:30:55,289
adoption, marriage records,
592
00:30:55,375 --> 00:30:56,875
divorce records, military records,
593
00:30:56,959 --> 00:30:58,879
those kinds of things
to get the information
594
00:30:58,959 --> 00:31:00,459
you need to build your trees.
595
00:31:00,542 --> 00:31:03,792
Then we can start eliminating
people based on gender.
596
00:31:03,876 --> 00:31:06,786
Gafni: Eliminating females
because they're not the suspect.
597
00:31:06,876 --> 00:31:10,076
Moore: Age, often, location.
598
00:31:10,167 --> 00:31:11,957
Gafni: People who live
in other areas
599
00:31:12,042 --> 00:31:13,582
at the times of the crimes.
600
00:31:13,667 --> 00:31:17,707
Moore: Trying to narrow down the
number of potential suspects.
601
00:31:17,792 --> 00:31:19,042
Campbell: We're obviously
looking for somebody
602
00:31:19,125 --> 00:31:21,575
that fits the description and the age
603
00:31:21,667 --> 00:31:24,247
and the height, weight,
and having a connection
604
00:31:24,334 --> 00:31:25,924
to the area where the crime occurred.
605
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,540
Gafni: Then you start
looking at,
606
00:31:27,626 --> 00:31:29,826
"okay, we know certain guns
were used in these crimes.
607
00:31:29,918 --> 00:31:32,328
Did this person own those guns?
608
00:31:32,417 --> 00:31:34,417
Is he registered
for these firearms?"
609
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,830
Finally, you narrow it down
to one individual
610
00:31:37,918 --> 00:31:40,878
that you have all
your high suspicions on.
611
00:31:40,959 --> 00:31:44,249
Campbell: At that point, we let
the investigative agency
612
00:31:44,334 --> 00:31:46,334
know about the suspect.
613
00:31:46,417 --> 00:31:49,537
Beery: We had an actual
photograph of this individual
614
00:31:49,626 --> 00:31:52,376
that we believed was our suspect.
615
00:31:52,459 --> 00:31:56,289
I almost was in shock
because it was like, "holy cow.
616
00:31:56,375 --> 00:32:00,285
This is the person that
I've been wondering about
617
00:32:00,375 --> 00:32:02,745
for the last 12 years."
618
00:32:02,834 --> 00:32:05,584
Schubert: Roy Charles waller.
619
00:32:05,667 --> 00:32:08,287
He's 58 years old.
He's a white male.
620
00:32:08,375 --> 00:32:11,915
Woman: Waller lives in benicia,
is married, has children,
621
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,580
and has worked at uc Berkeley
for the last 25 years.
622
00:32:15,667 --> 00:32:18,747
He led a relatively
quiet life in benicia,
623
00:32:18,834 --> 00:32:22,084
working over at the campus of uc Berkeley
624
00:32:22,167 --> 00:32:24,077
as a safety engineer.
625
00:32:24,167 --> 00:32:25,667
Gafni: He was married.
626
00:32:25,751 --> 00:32:28,381
His neighbors didn't know
too much about him.
627
00:32:28,459 --> 00:32:30,169
Man: Neighbors at
the benicia home
628
00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:32,630
where waller has lived
with his wife are stunned.
629
00:32:32,709 --> 00:32:34,209
From a distance, he seemed normal.
630
00:32:34,292 --> 00:32:36,832
We're very surprised
and obviously shocked.
631
00:32:36,918 --> 00:32:38,378
You never know, do you,
632
00:32:38,459 --> 00:32:41,329
for certain who or what
your neighbors might be up to?
633
00:32:41,417 --> 00:32:42,827
Stanton: They would see him
in his garage,
634
00:32:42,918 --> 00:32:45,668
tinkering with motorcycles
and automobiles
635
00:32:45,751 --> 00:32:47,381
that he worked on.
636
00:32:47,459 --> 00:32:49,879
They didn't say he was very friendly.
637
00:32:49,959 --> 00:32:52,419
You were his former brother-in-law.
638
00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:54,790
Man: This family member
in disbelief.
639
00:33:00,876 --> 00:33:02,576
This is the kind of guy that,
if he did happen
640
00:33:02,667 --> 00:33:05,037
to get pulled over
by the police or get a flat tire
641
00:33:05,125 --> 00:33:08,575
and have somebody offer to help
him, he would be invisible.
642
00:33:08,667 --> 00:33:11,877
There was nothing that ever told police,
643
00:33:11,959 --> 00:33:13,879
"hey, you need to be
looking at this guy."
644
00:33:13,959 --> 00:33:15,459
There was no hint at all.
645
00:33:15,542 --> 00:33:20,132
Waller has held a stable job
for 25 years at uc Berkeley.
646
00:33:20,209 --> 00:33:21,789
They don't have any evidence
that anything
647
00:33:21,876 --> 00:33:24,246
he did happened on the Berkeley campus
648
00:33:24,334 --> 00:33:26,754
or with any of the students there.
649
00:33:26,834 --> 00:33:28,834
Campbell: The Sacramento police
department did a great job
650
00:33:28,918 --> 00:33:31,168
of taking that information
and running with it
651
00:33:31,250 --> 00:33:33,500
and learning so much about the suspect
652
00:33:33,584 --> 00:33:35,964
in such a short period of time.
653
00:33:38,167 --> 00:33:39,827
Jackson: But in order to
make an arrest,
654
00:33:39,918 --> 00:33:43,498
police need a current DNA sample
from Roy waller
655
00:33:43,584 --> 00:33:46,504
to match it against the crime-scene DNA.
656
00:33:46,584 --> 00:33:49,634
Beery: What we normally do in
these types of cases is
657
00:33:49,709 --> 00:33:53,789
to get what we call
a surreptitious DNA sample.
658
00:33:53,876 --> 00:33:58,376
That DNA sample
can come from a variety of ways.
659
00:33:58,459 --> 00:34:00,829
It can come from discarded trash.
660
00:34:00,918 --> 00:34:03,998
It can come from spitting
on the sidewalk.
661
00:34:04,083 --> 00:34:06,463
It can come from touching an object.
662
00:34:06,542 --> 00:34:08,792
Gafni: They basically sat
outside his house
663
00:34:08,876 --> 00:34:11,496
and waited for garbage day.
664
00:34:11,584 --> 00:34:15,214
They got a straw, a drinking straw,
665
00:34:15,292 --> 00:34:18,082
that had some of his DNA on it,
666
00:34:18,167 --> 00:34:20,917
and they pulled that from the garbage.
667
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,540
Beery: And the crime lab
told us,
668
00:34:23,626 --> 00:34:26,036
"okay, this sample
that you just brought me
669
00:34:26,125 --> 00:34:33,575
matches your DNA profile
from your 2006 case."
670
00:34:33,667 --> 00:34:35,877
Gafni: That was the final nail
in the coffin.
671
00:34:35,959 --> 00:34:38,129
Beery: And that gives us
probable cause
672
00:34:38,209 --> 00:34:41,379
to get an arrest warrant
for this individual
673
00:34:41,459 --> 00:34:44,539
and get him into custody.
674
00:34:44,626 --> 00:34:48,246
I just wanted to go and see
with my own eyes
675
00:34:48,334 --> 00:34:52,214
and know whether or not it was him.
676
00:34:52,292 --> 00:34:55,042
He walked in. I could feel both
of us just lose our breath.
677
00:34:55,125 --> 00:34:56,575
[ Gasps ] Like, gasped.
678
00:34:56,667 --> 00:34:59,827
My initial reaction was just shock.
679
00:35:08,626 --> 00:35:10,496
Jackson: The Sacramento police
have matched the DNA
680
00:35:10,584 --> 00:35:14,334
from the crime scenes
with that of a suspect,
681
00:35:14,417 --> 00:35:17,327
58-year-old Roy Charles waller.
682
00:35:17,417 --> 00:35:18,997
The plan is to arrest waller
683
00:35:19,083 --> 00:35:22,213
while he's on his way
to work at uc Berkeley.
684
00:35:22,292 --> 00:35:24,332
Hahn: So, there's a lot
of planning
685
00:35:24,417 --> 00:35:26,917
that goes into arrests like this.
686
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,040
Campbell: They knew exactly what
time he came and went,
687
00:35:29,125 --> 00:35:31,495
what he drove,
the routes he took to work,
688
00:35:31,584 --> 00:35:32,884
where he parked.
689
00:35:32,959 --> 00:35:36,629
Beery: Berkeley... that's
a very, very busy area
690
00:35:36,709 --> 00:35:38,789
with a lot of college kids
and that kind of thing,
691
00:35:38,876 --> 00:35:41,746
and so we had a lot of concern.
692
00:35:41,834 --> 00:35:44,634
Police knew from
the norcal rapist's m.0.
693
00:35:44,709 --> 00:35:46,579
That he had used guns in the past,
694
00:35:46,667 --> 00:35:48,667
and as a result of that,
they had reason to believe
695
00:35:48,751 --> 00:35:51,711
that this suspect could be
armed and dangerous.
696
00:35:51,792 --> 00:35:53,582
You're always worried
about what's gonna happen.
697
00:35:53,667 --> 00:35:55,497
How are they gonna react?
Are they gonna be violent?
698
00:35:55,584 --> 00:35:58,964
Are they gonna try to harm the officers?
699
00:35:59,042 --> 00:36:02,502
But when police moved in
on waller, he didn't resist.
700
00:36:02,584 --> 00:36:05,834
Hahn: If we said the perfect way
to make an arrest,
701
00:36:05,918 --> 00:36:07,708
the perfect circumstances,
that's what happened.
702
00:36:07,792 --> 00:36:09,252
There was no violence.
703
00:36:09,334 --> 00:36:11,334
Beery: He was very cooperative.
No one was injured,
704
00:36:11,417 --> 00:36:13,667
and then he was transported
back to Sacramento.
705
00:36:13,751 --> 00:36:16,791
I had the proverbial chills
down the spine,
706
00:36:16,876 --> 00:36:20,746
if you will,
almost to the point of euphoria
707
00:36:20,834 --> 00:36:24,294
as it set in that
they finally got this guy.
708
00:36:24,375 --> 00:36:27,125
It was a fantastic feeling.
709
00:36:29,334 --> 00:36:31,884
Reisig: The suspect was a
real-life bogeyman
710
00:36:31,959 --> 00:36:34,079
who crept into his victims' homes
711
00:36:34,167 --> 00:36:36,957
under the cover of darkness
and attacked them
712
00:36:37,042 --> 00:36:39,002
when they were most vulnerable.
713
00:36:39,083 --> 00:36:41,083
Keene: On the morning
of September 20th,
714
00:36:41,167 --> 00:36:43,457
we got sort of a cryptic e-mail
715
00:36:43,542 --> 00:36:45,292
from the Sacramento d.A.S
office.
716
00:36:45,375 --> 00:36:47,575
Announcing there
had been a major development
717
00:36:47,667 --> 00:36:49,327
in the norcal rapist case.
718
00:36:49,417 --> 00:36:52,167
Yesterday, Sacramento police
detectives arrested
719
00:36:52,250 --> 00:36:54,250
Roy Charles waller,
720
00:36:54,334 --> 00:36:59,584
a 58-year-old man living in benicia,
721
00:36:59,667 --> 00:37:01,707
the suspect who we believe is responsible
722
00:37:01,792 --> 00:37:04,082
for numerous horrific crimes
723
00:37:04,167 --> 00:37:07,207
where he terrorized women
in jurisdictions
724
00:37:07,292 --> 00:37:08,882
throughout northern California.
725
00:37:08,959 --> 00:37:11,669
Stanton: They had the d.A.S from
the various counties,
726
00:37:11,751 --> 00:37:14,171
dozens of law-enforcement
officers saying,
727
00:37:14,250 --> 00:37:17,750
"we cracked one of
the biggest cold cases ever."
728
00:37:17,834 --> 00:37:20,964
It was a momentous day.
729
00:37:21,042 --> 00:37:22,712
Through an incredible partnership
730
00:37:22,792 --> 00:37:27,082
between science
and passionate policework,
731
00:37:27,167 --> 00:37:30,037
the answer that many have waited so long
732
00:37:30,125 --> 00:37:34,785
has come to us in the last 10 days.
733
00:37:34,876 --> 00:37:37,956
The answer has always been in the DNA.
734
00:37:38,042 --> 00:37:40,582
They got him.
They got him.
735
00:37:40,667 --> 00:37:41,877
DNA got him.
736
00:37:41,959 --> 00:37:43,499
And I remember saying,
"thank you, thank you,
737
00:37:43,584 --> 00:37:45,004
thank you, thank you,"
738
00:37:45,083 --> 00:37:47,083
so many times and just was,
like, hysterical,
739
00:37:47,167 --> 00:37:49,377
and I kept repeating,
"it's been 27 years.
740
00:37:49,459 --> 00:37:51,129
It's been 27 years."
741
00:37:51,209 --> 00:37:52,329
Beery: It was great to know
742
00:37:52,417 --> 00:37:54,167
not only could I stop thinking about
743
00:37:54,250 --> 00:37:56,670
who this person was but mostly
744
00:37:56,751 --> 00:37:59,671
that all of my victims
could stop thinking about
745
00:37:59,751 --> 00:38:02,921
who this person was and where he was.
746
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:08,790
Genealogy is going to serve
more and more cold cases.
747
00:38:08,876 --> 00:38:12,246
Moore: With genetic genealogy,
we're coming for you.
748
00:38:12,334 --> 00:38:15,754
We are going to figure out
who you are eventually.
749
00:38:15,834 --> 00:38:19,674
No one is gonna be safe
from the long arm of the law.
750
00:38:19,751 --> 00:38:22,251
It is going to revolutionize
crime-solving.
751
00:38:22,334 --> 00:38:23,674
There's no question in my mind.
752
00:38:23,751 --> 00:38:26,581
I would be very scared
if I were a suspect.
753
00:38:26,667 --> 00:38:29,167
Keene: Waller was booked into
the Sacramento county jail
754
00:38:29,250 --> 00:38:32,290
on sexual-assault charges
that could bring a life sentence
755
00:38:32,375 --> 00:38:33,785
for him if he's convicted.
756
00:38:33,876 --> 00:38:36,076
Woman: The suspected
norcal rapist was in court
757
00:38:36,167 --> 00:38:37,747
for the very first time today.
758
00:38:37,834 --> 00:38:40,254
He did not enter a plea for
the charges listed against him
759
00:38:40,334 --> 00:38:41,834
by a Sacramento county judge.
760
00:38:41,918 --> 00:38:44,458
Several of the people in
the audience were his victims,
761
00:38:44,542 --> 00:38:47,962
who wanted to look him in the eye
762
00:38:48,042 --> 00:38:51,502
and show him that they had survived.
763
00:38:51,584 --> 00:38:53,584
Earnest-payte: I was gonna be
in the room with him
764
00:38:53,667 --> 00:38:55,207
for the first time in 27 years.
765
00:38:55,292 --> 00:38:57,292
I was sitting with another one
of the victims,
766
00:38:57,375 --> 00:38:59,205
and we were holding our hands
really tightly
767
00:38:59,292 --> 00:39:01,252
and our faces were kind of
right next to each other.
768
00:39:01,334 --> 00:39:03,884
When he walked in, I could feel
both of us just lose our breath.
769
00:39:03,959 --> 00:39:06,039
[ Gasps ]
770
00:39:07,709 --> 00:39:10,629
Like, gasped when he walked in.
771
00:39:10,709 --> 00:39:14,919
It actually felt good
to see him in a cage,
772
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,420
to see him behind bars.
773
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:19,670
It was very empowering.
774
00:39:19,751 --> 00:39:24,711
There's a sense of relief,
but there's also this sense of
775
00:39:24,792 --> 00:39:27,252
"now I can put a face to you."
776
00:39:27,334 --> 00:39:30,004
Anderson: I think I went
to the arraignment
777
00:39:30,083 --> 00:39:33,503
just because I wanted to know
whether or not it was him,
778
00:39:33,584 --> 00:39:40,294
and when I looked at him,
I knew immediately that was him.
779
00:39:40,375 --> 00:39:43,125
The defendant kind of stared at the judge
780
00:39:43,209 --> 00:39:45,749
and was softly kind of shaking his head.
781
00:39:45,834 --> 00:39:48,714
It almost seemed like he was questioning
782
00:39:48,792 --> 00:39:52,422
whether he's the wrong guy
behind bars for these crimes.
783
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:55,000
Earnest-payte was the first of 10 victims
784
00:39:55,083 --> 00:39:58,293
who allegedly fell at the hands
of Roy Charles waller.
785
00:39:58,375 --> 00:40:00,245
A range of emotions came over her
786
00:40:00,334 --> 00:40:02,294
as she saw waller behind bars
787
00:40:02,375 --> 00:40:05,245
for the first time Monday afternoon.
788
00:40:05,334 --> 00:40:10,004
As he left, he turned around,
kind of looked over the gallery,
789
00:40:10,083 --> 00:40:13,833
and then looked right at us.
790
00:40:13,918 --> 00:40:16,078
I felt like the blood
left my body at that point,
791
00:40:16,167 --> 00:40:18,577
and I was terrified.
792
00:40:18,667 --> 00:40:21,417
I hate to say that out loud,
'cause I don't want him to think
793
00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:24,750
that he still can make me terrified.
794
00:40:24,834 --> 00:40:28,754
I want to go to every single court date
795
00:40:28,834 --> 00:40:30,504
where I can actually be of help.
796
00:40:30,584 --> 00:40:32,924
Earnest-payte: I am looking
forward to getting on the stand
797
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,250
and telling the story to a jury.
798
00:40:35,334 --> 00:40:38,384
It will be a release for me.
799
00:40:38,459 --> 00:40:41,579
I'm willing to do whatever it is
that I have to
800
00:40:41,667 --> 00:40:45,497
so that he gets
the maximum sentence possible.
801
00:40:45,584 --> 00:40:53,504
I just think it's important
that you say what happened,
802
00:40:53,584 --> 00:40:58,794
you know, and don't let people
get away with evil stuff.
803
00:40:58,876 --> 00:41:02,626
This is, to me,
like a miracle that, you know...
804
00:41:02,709 --> 00:41:05,629
That he got caught.
805
00:41:05,709 --> 00:41:12,709
♪♪
806
00:41:12,792 --> 00:41:15,922
Police say that Roy waller
had been working at the same job
807
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,790
at the university of California,
Berkeley since 1992.
808
00:41:19,876 --> 00:41:21,576
After waller's arrest,
809
00:41:21,667 --> 00:41:23,497
two female staffers at the university
810
00:41:23,584 --> 00:41:27,384
reported that his disturbing
stares made them feel so uneasy
811
00:41:27,459 --> 00:41:30,419
that they avoided
walking past his office.
812
00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:33,880
According to campus police
and the Sacramento p.D.,
813
00:41:33,959 --> 00:41:35,959
there is no indication that any crimes
814
00:41:36,042 --> 00:41:37,582
relating to the norcal rapist
815
00:41:37,667 --> 00:41:39,957
occurred within the campus community.
816
00:41:40,042 --> 00:41:42,082
Norcal survivors Nicole and maki
817
00:41:42,167 --> 00:41:44,497
attended waller's first court appearance.
818
00:41:44,584 --> 00:41:47,834
They're helping prosecutors
with the case and grateful
819
00:41:47,918 --> 00:41:49,828
to see justice done.
820
00:41:49,918 --> 00:41:51,208
I'm Donnie wahlberg.
821
00:41:51,292 --> 00:41:54,462
Thanks for watching
"very scary people."