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[narrator] Rachanda Pickle
is still missing.
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Friends and family
scramble for answers.
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What really happened
that day?
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How did it happen?
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Only the one who took her
knew the truth.
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And, of course, the trees.
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The trees always saw
the monster's deception.
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[John Ackroyd speaking]
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[officer speaking]
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John goes to work.
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Comes back early.
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Which, in and of itself,
is not unusual.
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But it's-- It's a flag.
Why would he come home early?
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He talks to Rachanda.
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He leaves.
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He comes back, she's gone.
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He's not too
worried about her
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even though he doesn't
see her anywhere.
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The location.
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Those things are flags.
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And as the afternoon
and the evening wears on,
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there's still no concern,
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that's gonna be a flag.
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[Noelle] The whole thing
seems very odd.
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No one is calling 911
on a 13-year-old child,
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you know,
in this rugged environment,
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who rarely strayed from home.
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Then this development happens
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that really stood out
to investigators.
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On the day of his
stepdaughter's disappearance,
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he is all over Linda.
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And then,
when asked by police,
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"Well, how was it?"
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He goes on to describe
this encounter.
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Anybody that's been
a parent knows
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the gut-wrenching feeling
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when your kids are
five minutes late
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let alone...
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You come home,
they're not there
and you can't find them.
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That being said,
before she is
reported missing,
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that night, they had
the nest sex
of their married life.
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[Mike] Detectives
were suspicious
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'cause in other cases,
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men may have difficulty
getting an erection
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unless they are committing
an act of violence.
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[Mandy] Sweet Home,
is, you know, right there
in the foothills.
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And so there's green trees,
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and beautiful mountains
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and it's just like
this picturesque little
quaint, small town.
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Some days it can be,
like, idyllic and sunny
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and you look out,
and you're like,
"It's so beautiful here."
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It looks so pretty to the eye.
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But the spirit is not pretty.
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I remember thinking,
"Sweet Home?
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"There's nothing sweet
about this place."
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There's a lot of
hidden secrets
inside that town.
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I remember
talking to the officers.
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I remember telling them,
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you know,
"We know who did this.
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"We know what happened."
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One day, when Rachanda's
nine or ten,
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she started coming to school
with real, real apparent
signs of abuse.
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She was not
doing her hair as much,
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which was a big deal before.
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She was anxious.
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Not smiling as much.
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And just sad.
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And, like, I do remember,
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she had a black eye
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and she had a little
cut under her eye.
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[Michelle]
She would, literally,
count down the hours.
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There'd be two--
exactly two hours
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before we'd have to go home.
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She was like, "Oh, my gosh.
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"Two hours
and we're going home."
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And I'm like, "I know."
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'Cause I didn't
wanna go home either.
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[Mandy] Well, my stepdad
was very physically,
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emotionally abusive,
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sexually abusive.
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And that's--
that was our life.
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[Michelle] I mean,
it's not like
I asked Rachanda,
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"Are you being molested?"
You know.
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I just remember,
she taps me on the shoulder,
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and she said, um...
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"You know what you told me
that happened
to you and Mandy?"
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And I said, "Yeah?"
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She's like, "Well,
that's happening to me."
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Her stepdad, John Ackroyd,
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was coming in to her room.
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[Mandy] I think that is
what brought out
a lot of our talks
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and just knowing that
we all felt like
we're going to hell.
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[Byron]
I remember one night,
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I'm 14, Rachanda's 13.
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My mom was gone.
I think she was staying
down at Sweet Home.
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And it was just
John Rachanda and me.
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And I don't even know
how I woke up
but woke up.
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And there was John
in Rachanda's bedroom,
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kneeling down
on the side of her bed
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and Rachanda's there in bed
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and it was weird,
I'm like, "What's going on?"
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Allegedly, John heard
Rachanda, you know,
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possibly having a nightmare.
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Screaming, "Mom, no!"
And went in there.
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And I thought that was weird.
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So when I asked
Rachanda, "What's going on?"
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She-- "I don't wanna
talk about it." I'm like...
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"'Chanda, what's going on?"
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[Mandy] One day,
Rachanda told an adult
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a trusted person,
what was happening.
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[Michelle] And we were like,
"Good for you, Rachanda.
Good for you."
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But she honestly...
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Uh, she never said anything,
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what happened after that.
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[Mandy] I also had
confided in the same adult
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about what was happening
in our home.
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And I remember
just saying,
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"I'm tired of getting beat up.
I'm tire of getting hit.
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"I'm tired of my stepdad
coming into our room."
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And I remember,
in my heart,
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I felt like I was
at the end of a tunnel
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I knew the police officers
were coming.
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We were gonna be saved.
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And then, this trusted person,
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is like, "They didn't really
feel like you were
telling the truth.
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so they're not--
They're not gonna do anything.
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And I left it at that.
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And so, when Rachanda
went and told them,
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I felt, in my heart,
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that nothing happened.
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That they ignored her.
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[Michelle] And she
was really, really scared.
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Because she told
about the abuse.
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So she was scared
on what John Ackroyd
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might do.
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[Noelle] It requires
so much for a child
to come forward.
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And then, for that,
to be treated
with indifference
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is deeply upsetting.
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Clearly, there was a culture
that allowed men
not to be held accountable.
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Sexual abuse and rape,
at the time,
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was not investigated
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and treated the way
it is by police today.
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[people shouting indistinctly]
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[Lynn] While we were
out searching in the woods,
for Rachanda,
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I was one of the people
that was assigned
to be with John.
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And he would talk
about things
that were so strange.
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Talking about, like,
his daughter's--
stepdaughter's breast size.
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And what she's wearing.
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And about her period.
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We kept talking
about Rachanda
in the past tense.
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Not the present.
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Then, when we decided
to change on
to some other subject,
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that's when he started
talking about--
about Kaye Turner.
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[Gary] It's about August.
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So it would've been eight
months after Kaye Turner
went missing.
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This guy comes into the store.
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And says that he found
some clothes in the woods.
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I remember it
really vividly.
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It's etched there
because it was strange.
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He just said
he was the last one
to see her alive.
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I didn't know at the time.
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That was Ackroyd.
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[Noelle] John Ackroyd
goes to the Camp Sherman store
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and says, "I found
the missing jogger's
clothing."
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Then he says,
"Why did I have to find her?
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"I was the last one
to see her alive."
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It's an alarming statement.
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And he would later say,
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he was the last person
to see his stepdaughter,
Rachanda, alive.
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[Gary] Ackroyd
brought me here.
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This was kind of a thicket.
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So, from the road,
you couldn't see in here.
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This area right here,
is where the clothes were.
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They were just put there,
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which was odd.
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[Noelle] These clothes
appeared to be
on top of the pine needles.
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Investigators
would later surmise
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that he had
placed these things there.
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[Gary] He didn't say much.
He seemed exited.
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Like he--
Like he got excited
seeing these clothes.
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Minutes after that,
big police showed up,
the real guys.
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[William] We went
and searched the area.
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We found
a lower jaw bone.
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Couple of bones.
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Ad it was determined
it was Kaye Turner.
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While I was
waiting by the road,
talking to the store owner,
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John Ackroyd came up.
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I didn't know him.
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Hadn't really
talked to him before.
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When Kaye Turner vanished,
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on Christmas Eve, 1978,
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police set up a roadblock.
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Um, they began to look
for potential suspects.
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John Ackroyd's name
had emerged early on
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because he had been seen
by another highway worker
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who knew John from work.
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[William] When Ackroyd's
name came up,
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we interviewed him
about Kaye Turner.
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He said he did see her.
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[Noelle] On January 11th,
John Ackroyd is interviewed.
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John Ackroyd is treated
as nothing more
than a witness.
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John was just a good, old boy.
A local guy.
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He liked to hunt, fish,
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do things outdoors.
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Police did seem to be
particularly interested in
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following up with him
as a suspect.
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Eight months
after Kaye Turner
has gone missing,
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Kaye's friends
put up a $1,000 reward.
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And then, out of nowhere...
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John Ackroyd claims
he's found these clothing
in the woods.
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[William] As soon
as I found out
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Ackroyd had found
these articles,
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I had a--
I had a suspicion
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that John Ackroyd was--
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knew more
than he was telling us...
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and asked him
to take a polygraph.
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Well, he failed
the polygraph.
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[birds chirping]
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[Butch] I was
a detective sergeant.
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And a lieutenant
for the Oregon State Police
had come to my office,
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asking me if I knew
John Ackroyd.
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And I said, "Yeah,
for a fact, I do."
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I said, "I kinda
grew up with him."
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And I knew his mother.
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We'd been in
the same community
all our lives.
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And he said, "Well...
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"He's had something
to do with that
Kaye Turner thing."
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And I said,
"How do you know that?"
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He said, "I polygraphed him
and he's dirty."
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1958-'59 school year.
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That was at Pleasant Valley.
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I knew John Ackroyd
because we went
to school from--
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from the first grade
to the 12th grade.
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We were never close friends.
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He was...
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quiet.
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Kind of a loner type.
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Uh, I never really
knew him
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to have much association
with anybody.
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I remember an incident
in-- in the sixth grade.
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There were
a couple of little rabbits
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that lived right there,
where we got off the bus.
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And one day, John set
one of those rabbits on fire.
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Somebody said, "John,
you set that rabbit on fire!"
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And the rabbit was--
scurried off.
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And he just kinda had a grin
on his face, like...
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He was proud
of what he'd done.
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I thought, you know, "Why?"
249
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I was raised that you don't
hurt anything or kill anything
250
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unless you're gonna
eat it, you know.
251
00:14:21,209 --> 00:14:24,143
You didn't go
shooting deer
just for the horns,
252
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you know,
unless you needed the meat.
253
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You just--
You just didn't kill anything.
254
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After Kaye Turner
came up missing,
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I reached out
to the investigators.
256
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From the standpoint that
257
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I thought that it might be
a little more difficult
258
00:14:41,010 --> 00:14:45,109
for John to avoid
pertinent questions with me
259
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than a total stranger.
260
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Because I knew John's mom.
261
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We worked together,
in law enforcement,
in the late '70s.
262
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At that time, there was
only one police officer
in Sweet Home
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on the graveyard shift,
and that was me.
264
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And she was
the dispatcher.
265
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I'd quite often
ask her about John.
266
00:15:03,410 --> 00:15:05,410
You know, as
what we had to talk about.
267
00:15:05,410 --> 00:15:06,810
[radio chatter]
268
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Some of the police officers
came to interview me.
269
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I was really disappointed
on how they perceived me.
270
00:15:14,810 --> 00:15:18,209
They asked me
questions that were
totally inappropriate.
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I don't think they had
ever had that type
of investigation, before.
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And at that time,
I ended the conversation,
273
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I said, "We have
nothing to talk about."
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00:15:29,743 --> 00:15:32,309
[Noelle] At the time
of Turner's disappearance,
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law enforcement
weren't necessarily
in the habit
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of collaborating
and sharing.
277
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And we're talking about
a rural law
enforcement agency.
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Me, in the Jefferson County
Sheriff's office.
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And we're talking about,
you know, a small community,
280
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and the Oregon State Police.
281
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And there's not email.
No one's sending these reports
to one another.
282
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[Butch] Small town politics.
283
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Law enforcement doesn't share
a lot of information
with other--
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unless it's
a need-to-know basis.
285
00:16:04,043 --> 00:16:08,010
[Noelle] After Ackroyd
finds Kaye Turner's
clothing in the woods,
286
00:16:08,076 --> 00:16:10,510
his story begins to shift.
287
00:16:11,209 --> 00:16:13,810
After he failed
the polygraph,
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00:16:13,810 --> 00:16:16,276
I interviewed him
in my office.
289
00:16:16,910 --> 00:16:19,510
And he denied
everything except--
290
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he said that he talked to her.
291
00:16:23,010 --> 00:16:26,010
[Noelle] He discloses
that he spoke with Kaye.
292
00:16:26,010 --> 00:16:28,810
That they actually had
a brief conversation.
293
00:16:30,309 --> 00:16:32,410
They exchanged
holiday greetings.
294
00:16:32,476 --> 00:16:36,109
And it's all very charming
and cordial.
295
00:16:37,910 --> 00:16:41,510
[William] The polygraph
asked if he'd ever
touched Kaye Turner.
296
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And he said no.
297
00:16:43,410 --> 00:16:46,209
But the polygraph showed
that he did.
298
00:16:46,276 --> 00:16:48,610
So we ask him
about not touching her.
299
00:16:48,610 --> 00:16:52,109
And he said, well, he did
touch her in February,
300
00:16:52,109 --> 00:16:55,710
when she was laying
on top of the snow.
301
00:16:55,710 --> 00:16:58,410
That's be two months
after she disappeared.
302
00:16:58,410 --> 00:17:01,410
There were three feet of snow
in February that year.
303
00:17:01,476 --> 00:17:04,109
She couldn't have been
on top of the snow.
304
00:17:05,343 --> 00:17:08,810
[Noelle] What he ends up
admitting-- acknowledging
is that
305
00:17:08,877 --> 00:17:11,010
he find a decomposing body
in the woods,
306
00:17:11,010 --> 00:17:15,810
and that he stops
and touches these remains
307
00:17:15,877 --> 00:17:18,209
and then does not
tell anyone
308
00:17:18,276 --> 00:17:23,576
despite knowing about
the extensive search
and investigation for Kaye.
309
00:17:25,410 --> 00:17:27,610
His disclosure is disturbing.
310
00:17:27,610 --> 00:17:29,610
Because it's--
it's very graphic.
311
00:17:29,610 --> 00:17:33,810
He says that he saw
a body lying
next to a large log.
312
00:17:33,877 --> 00:17:36,910
That he was repulsed
by what he saw.
313
00:17:36,910 --> 00:17:40,510
That he had seen
her neck had been slashed.
314
00:17:40,510 --> 00:17:43,710
And that it appeared
she had a bullet wound
in her chest.
315
00:17:43,710 --> 00:17:46,010
So, suggesting
how she had been killed.
316
00:17:46,076 --> 00:17:49,610
You know, she had been
cut or stabbed
and then she had been shot.
317
00:17:52,910 --> 00:17:54,610
Another element emerges
318
00:17:54,610 --> 00:17:58,510
in this crucial
Oregon State Police interview.
319
00:17:58,510 --> 00:18:02,209
And that is that
John Ackroyd was not alone.
320
00:18:03,710 --> 00:18:08,209
He was with his friend,
Roger Dale Beck.
321
00:18:08,276 --> 00:18:12,610
So, police go interview Roger
and Roger's wife, Pam.
322
00:18:12,610 --> 00:18:18,410
Pam Beck provided an alibi
for Roger Beck
and John Ackroyd.
323
00:18:18,410 --> 00:18:24,510
According to Pam,
Ackroyd arrived at their house
on Christmas Eve morning.
324
00:18:24,510 --> 00:18:29,076
And Ackroyd and Beck
did not go out that day.
325
00:18:30,910 --> 00:18:33,010
There are all of these
troubling signs
326
00:18:33,076 --> 00:18:36,309
that implicate Ackroyd
in the murder
of Kaye Turner
327
00:18:36,309 --> 00:18:39,510
But there is actually
no physical evidence.
328
00:18:39,510 --> 00:18:42,610
There's no eyewitness.
There's no clarity.
329
00:18:42,610 --> 00:18:46,209
that Ackroyd was involved.
330
00:18:47,610 --> 00:18:50,209
[William] We had
no evidence to hold him
331
00:18:50,276 --> 00:18:51,877
so we let him go.
332
00:18:56,843 --> 00:19:00,376
[narrator] The woods witnessed
exactly what John had done.
333
00:19:01,309 --> 00:19:03,510
Helpless, they watched
him walk free,
334
00:19:03,510 --> 00:19:05,576
to hide once more.
335
00:19:06,443 --> 00:19:08,710
Justice failed.
336
00:19:08,710 --> 00:19:11,309
What else would happen
before he stopped?
337
00:19:11,309 --> 00:19:14,510
[horns honking]
338
00:19:15,910 --> 00:19:18,010
[Lynn] It was
very important to Durr
339
00:19:18,076 --> 00:19:21,710
that we keep the spirit
of Kaye Turner alive.
340
00:19:21,777 --> 00:19:24,309
He even checked me up
before I made a drive
341
00:19:24,376 --> 00:19:26,010
to the top of Santiam Pass,
342
00:19:26,010 --> 00:19:28,209
introduced me
to John, personally.
343
00:19:28,910 --> 00:19:30,010
To look at him,
you wouldn't think
344
00:19:30,076 --> 00:19:32,209
he was the smartest person
in the world.
345
00:19:32,209 --> 00:19:34,209
But John was clever.
346
00:19:35,810 --> 00:19:39,410
Clayton Durr told me
this is the guy
that killed Kaye Turner.
347
00:19:39,410 --> 00:19:41,810
He says, "You need
to know this guy
348
00:19:41,877 --> 00:19:43,910
"because this'll happen
again sometime."
349
00:19:46,209 --> 00:19:48,410
And the next time
we came across John Ackroyd,
350
00:19:48,410 --> 00:19:50,777
his stepdaughter
shows up as missing.
351
00:19:53,143 --> 00:19:55,010
And John's back
in the spotlight again.
352
00:20:15,143 --> 00:20:18,209
[Noelle] For me,
as a journalist on the story,
353
00:20:18,276 --> 00:20:20,910
you're asking questions,
"Well, who is this guy?"
354
00:20:22,043 --> 00:20:24,410
I thought, "Well,
I'm gonna dig in
355
00:20:24,476 --> 00:20:27,510
"to the big file cabinet."
356
00:20:27,510 --> 00:20:32,309
Buried among all that
was this slim set of reports
357
00:20:32,309 --> 00:20:35,810
that showed Ackroyd
had had this violent encounter
358
00:20:35,810 --> 00:20:37,510
with a stranger,
359
00:20:37,510 --> 00:20:40,677
a year before
Kaye Turner's murder.
360
00:20:42,143 --> 00:20:46,910
It was an incredibly
important moment
in the timeline
361
00:20:46,977 --> 00:20:49,810
of Ackroyd's
criminal exploits.
362
00:20:49,810 --> 00:20:54,176
This woman, she had
not talked about this
since it happened.
363
00:21:16,043 --> 00:21:18,510
[Marlene] John Ackroyd
could have been stopped.
364
00:21:18,510 --> 00:21:21,710
If the police
would have listened to me,
365
00:21:21,777 --> 00:21:24,710
none of this
would have ever happened.
366
00:21:31,309 --> 00:21:34,576
I'm never gonna forget
about what happened
that night.
367
00:21:37,510 --> 00:21:41,209
Every time I wash--
I can never get him
out of my mind,
368
00:21:41,209 --> 00:21:42,810
I can never get that dirt off.
369
00:21:42,877 --> 00:21:45,576
I still can't, and I'm 66.
370
00:21:47,610 --> 00:21:50,209
There was times
I'd wake up in the middle
of the night, screaming.
371
00:21:50,276 --> 00:21:54,710
and flailing,
and throwing punches
and kicking.
372
00:21:54,777 --> 00:21:57,309
I gave my husband
a black eye once.
373
00:22:02,143 --> 00:22:03,610
It was always
right there with me.
374
00:22:03,610 --> 00:22:06,176
It was like
he was on my shoulders.
375
00:22:07,410 --> 00:22:09,410
Like i was carrying him
on my shoulders
376
00:22:09,476 --> 00:22:12,076
but no one could see him
or feel him but me.
377
00:22:20,710 --> 00:22:23,610
[crowd cheering]
378
00:22:29,510 --> 00:22:32,877
My husband Bill and I,
we went to the rodeo.
379
00:22:33,943 --> 00:22:36,209
And got all dressed up.
380
00:22:36,276 --> 00:22:40,209
We used to wear,
you know, cutoff work pants
381
00:22:40,209 --> 00:22:41,810
and gym pants,
382
00:22:41,810 --> 00:22:44,510
you know, to take care
of a baby, all day long.
383
00:22:44,510 --> 00:22:48,710
And it was the first time
I had on a pair of jeans,
real nice.
384
00:22:48,710 --> 00:22:52,143
Looking good
and smelling sweet.
385
00:22:52,143 --> 00:22:55,710
And I had these boots on
that I waited
for a very long time
386
00:22:55,710 --> 00:22:59,209
and my husband did without
to buy me those boots, for me.
387
00:23:02,010 --> 00:23:05,209
We got there
and that's when
I started drinking beers.
388
00:23:05,209 --> 00:23:07,309
And... Though they
really hit me fast
389
00:23:07,309 --> 00:23:09,410
'cause I hadn't been
drinking since... What?
390
00:23:09,476 --> 00:23:14,209
Eight months
and then nine months.
It had been over a year.
391
00:23:14,209 --> 00:23:17,510
We had some food
and then some people
came over.
392
00:23:17,510 --> 00:23:20,309
"Oh, Bill, I heard
you were over."
Some buddies of his.
393
00:23:20,309 --> 00:23:22,209
"Let's go to this bar."
394
00:23:22,276 --> 00:23:23,977
I can't go in a bar.
395
00:23:24,510 --> 00:23:26,610
I was 19.
396
00:23:26,677 --> 00:23:29,410
You have to be 21 in Oregon
to get in a bar and drink.
397
00:23:29,410 --> 00:23:30,810
So, I got angry.
398
00:23:30,810 --> 00:23:32,710
"No, we came here,
you and me,
399
00:23:32,710 --> 00:23:35,209
"first time we've been
out since, you know..."
400
00:23:35,276 --> 00:23:38,576
But he hadn't seen
his buddies in so long
and blah-blah-blah.
401
00:23:39,209 --> 00:23:41,476
So, I said, "Fine,
I'm going home."
402
00:23:46,010 --> 00:23:49,209
I was always
used to hitchhiking.
403
00:23:49,209 --> 00:23:51,510
In Oregon, back in those days,
404
00:23:51,510 --> 00:23:53,977
you didn't have to
really worry about it.
405
00:23:54,943 --> 00:23:59,410
So I went to Highway 20
and I stuck my thumb out.
406
00:23:59,410 --> 00:24:02,576
And lo and behold,
the first ride I got
was John Ackroyd.
407
00:24:04,743 --> 00:24:08,810
He pulls over
and I run up to the truck.
408
00:24:08,877 --> 00:24:12,209
And I opened the door
and I kinda glanced
at the door like this,
409
00:24:12,209 --> 00:24:14,209
and got all the way in
and shut it.
410
00:24:16,410 --> 00:24:18,309
Then I looked
at the little knob
411
00:24:18,376 --> 00:24:21,610
that you push up and down
for the lock,
and there wasn't any.
412
00:24:22,543 --> 00:24:26,376
By that time, he was off
on Highway 20, driving.
413
00:24:27,343 --> 00:24:30,109
I passed out
and I went to sleep.
414
00:24:30,109 --> 00:24:35,109
Just before dusk,
I feel my feet being grabbed
415
00:24:35,176 --> 00:24:39,209
and he was dragging me out
by my feet
o the passenger side
416
00:24:39,209 --> 00:24:44,109
And my head hit every--
from the seat
to the car-- truck floor,
417
00:24:44,109 --> 00:24:46,610
and to the outside edge
of the truck,
418
00:24:46,610 --> 00:24:50,410
the door,
and then, all of a sudden,
the ground.
419
00:24:50,410 --> 00:24:54,910
And I-- I tried to
te-- to scream.
I couldn't scream.
420
00:24:56,043 --> 00:24:57,610
He even put the knife
to my throat.
421
00:24:57,610 --> 00:25:00,143
And it hurt.
'Cause he pressed.
422
00:25:00,143 --> 00:25:03,510
And he says, "You're gonna
do every [bleep] thing
I tell you to do, aren't ya?"
423
00:25:03,510 --> 00:25:06,309
And I go, "Yes, sir.
424
00:25:06,309 --> 00:25:08,810
"What do you want?
Anything
I'll do anything you want.
425
00:25:08,810 --> 00:25:10,677
"Just don't hurt me."
426
00:25:11,843 --> 00:25:15,810
He took my pants
by the front of them,
belt and all
427
00:25:15,810 --> 00:25:19,610
and just ripped
all the way down
to the boots.
428
00:25:19,610 --> 00:25:22,309
And then he got pissed
'cause he couldn't
get 'em further
429
00:25:22,309 --> 00:25:24,977
so he took a knife
and he [bleep]
cut my boots off.
430
00:25:26,309 --> 00:25:29,109
I wanted my baby
to have a mother,
431
00:25:29,176 --> 00:25:31,109
I had to stay alive for her.
432
00:25:31,109 --> 00:25:34,309
That's all I pictured
in my head,
was her little bald head.
433
00:25:34,376 --> 00:25:36,176
Perfectly round.
434
00:25:40,309 --> 00:25:43,410
Afterwards, I was, like,
in a fetal position
435
00:25:43,410 --> 00:25:45,309
'cause I was in pain.
436
00:25:45,309 --> 00:25:47,777
And he was, like,
you know, um...
437
00:25:48,209 --> 00:25:49,910
zipping up his pants.
438
00:25:49,977 --> 00:25:52,810
Straightening up
his jacket
and shirt and stuff.
439
00:25:52,810 --> 00:25:57,176
And I go-- And he
looked at me and he goes,
"Now what do I do with you?"
440
00:25:58,309 --> 00:26:01,209
I said, "Take me home."
441
00:26:04,843 --> 00:26:07,710
I was just being nice to him
442
00:26:07,777 --> 00:26:12,109
because I wanted
to go back to my baby.
443
00:26:14,109 --> 00:26:16,510
I had John Ackroyd drop me off
444
00:26:16,576 --> 00:26:18,677
at Bill's mom's house.
445
00:26:19,209 --> 00:26:21,410
So, I'm knocking, knocking.
446
00:26:21,410 --> 00:26:23,109
And that's when
she came to the door
447
00:26:23,176 --> 00:26:25,510
and I go, "I've
just been raped,
he raped me!.
448
00:26:25,510 --> 00:26:27,576
-"Please call the police."
-[siren wailing]
449
00:26:31,743 --> 00:26:34,810
The police came over
and they took a report.
450
00:26:34,810 --> 00:26:38,010
After they did that,
I left and went
to the hospital
451
00:26:38,076 --> 00:26:39,810
and did the rape kit.
452
00:26:39,810 --> 00:26:42,209
And then they ask me
if I would submit
to a lie-detector
453
00:26:42,209 --> 00:26:44,010
and I go, "Yeah, I'll do it."
454
00:26:44,076 --> 00:26:46,910
Because I know
I was telling the truth.
455
00:26:46,910 --> 00:26:49,309
They asked if I egged him on.
456
00:26:49,309 --> 00:26:52,810
If I, you know,
came on to him,
you know, sexually.
457
00:26:52,877 --> 00:26:55,209
Was I flirting
with him, you know?
458
00:26:55,209 --> 00:26:57,010
"Do you do drugs, Marlene?"
459
00:26:57,810 --> 00:27:01,209
"How much were you drinking?"
"That much?"
460
00:27:02,109 --> 00:27:04,476
The police made me
feel like a liar.
461
00:27:05,610 --> 00:27:08,610
Why would a mother
of a little, tiny baby
462
00:27:08,610 --> 00:27:11,076
that's breastfeeding
lie-- [scoffs]
463
00:27:12,510 --> 00:27:13,810
lie about a rape?
464
00:27:16,610 --> 00:27:18,209
[Noelle]
His explanation was
465
00:27:18,209 --> 00:27:21,209
Marlene, she had
come onto him.
466
00:27:21,276 --> 00:27:23,810
And he just kind of
submitted to her.
467
00:27:23,877 --> 00:27:26,777
And that, apparently,
made sense to the detective.
468
00:27:28,143 --> 00:27:30,810
[Marlene] I felt stupid.
They made me feel stupid.
469
00:27:30,877 --> 00:27:34,209
Little woman,, brown woman,
don't know what she
was talking about.
470
00:27:34,209 --> 00:27:36,010
[scoffs]
471
00:27:36,076 --> 00:27:38,476
They made me feel
like it was my fault.
472
00:28:21,910 --> 00:28:23,410
[Marlene] They questioned him.
473
00:28:24,209 --> 00:28:28,043
Didn't prosecute him
or even arrest him.
474
00:28:28,043 --> 00:28:30,076
They believed him
and not me.
475
00:28:31,343 --> 00:28:32,877
How does that fly?
476
00:29:12,243 --> 00:29:15,010
[Marlene] After that incident
with John Ackroyd,
477
00:29:15,076 --> 00:29:17,510
I was so scared...
478
00:29:17,510 --> 00:29:22,109
so paranoid
that he was gonna come back
and finish me off.
479
00:29:22,176 --> 00:29:24,510
'Cause I--
You know, I told on him.
480
00:29:25,810 --> 00:29:27,910
That's how I got insomnia.
481
00:29:27,977 --> 00:29:30,610
I'd get up,
two or three time,
in the middle of the night
482
00:29:30,677 --> 00:29:33,910
check every single lock,
every single door.
483
00:29:36,810 --> 00:29:38,910
[Noelle] He got
away with it.
484
00:29:38,910 --> 00:29:41,309
If he would have
been held accountable,
485
00:29:41,309 --> 00:29:44,810
you know,
it could have had
a chilling effect on him.
486
00:29:44,877 --> 00:29:47,209
He would have been known
as someone
with a rape conviction.
487
00:29:49,410 --> 00:29:52,309
Sometimes I almost wish
that he would have killed me
488
00:29:52,376 --> 00:29:54,910
but I don't do that anymore.
489
00:29:54,977 --> 00:29:57,677
Especially after I found out
that 13-year-old girl.
490
00:29:59,143 --> 00:30:01,610
Really? A child?
491
00:30:03,710 --> 00:30:05,276
It's just heartbreaking.
492
00:30:07,910 --> 00:30:11,209
[narrator] Marlene tried,
but no one listened.
493
00:30:11,276 --> 00:30:13,410
Her pleas were silenced.
494
00:30:13,476 --> 00:30:16,810
The monster was allowed
to continue hunting.
495
00:30:16,810 --> 00:30:18,877
Getting bolder.
496
00:30:24,209 --> 00:30:27,510
[Byron] My family, in general,
was close with John, you know.
497
00:30:27,510 --> 00:30:30,510
My grandmother loved John.
Loved John,
498
00:30:30,510 --> 00:30:32,777
In her eyes, he was
the perfect son-in-law.
499
00:30:34,010 --> 00:30:37,109
My grandmother died
thinking John was
completely innocent.
500
00:30:37,176 --> 00:30:39,610
That the law
and everybody in the State
501
00:30:39,610 --> 00:30:42,977
was just against John,
just trying
to destroy the family.
502
00:30:45,309 --> 00:30:48,910
When you're around a family,
you know, a lot of people
are high school dropouts.
503
00:30:48,910 --> 00:30:52,510
And then you have this guy
that appears to have
all of his [bleep] together.
504
00:30:52,510 --> 00:30:54,810
And he wants to come
and be a part of the family
505
00:30:54,810 --> 00:30:58,010
and marry, you know,
their daughter,
which is my mom.
506
00:30:58,010 --> 00:31:01,510
They all felt like
it was a step up.
507
00:31:01,510 --> 00:31:05,176
They didn't
wanna let go of that--
The happy ever after, kinda.
508
00:31:07,610 --> 00:31:11,510
[Jennifer] Well, for me,
'cause I was
sexually assaulted
509
00:31:11,510 --> 00:31:13,710
throughout most
of my childhood
510
00:31:13,710 --> 00:31:15,476
by older men...
511
00:31:16,610 --> 00:31:21,376
John was one of the very few
that never abused me.
512
00:31:22,910 --> 00:31:26,309
So, to me,
that was a win,
513
00:31:26,309 --> 00:31:31,877
I felt comfortable and safe
whenever John was around.
514
00:31:35,143 --> 00:31:37,810
[Byron] I mean, I didn't like
the spankings and beatings
that we got.
515
00:31:37,810 --> 00:31:39,710
I definitely knew
that wasn't normal.
516
00:31:39,777 --> 00:31:41,410
I knew that wasn't normal.
517
00:31:41,410 --> 00:31:43,309
I knew that my other friends,
that I went to school with,
518
00:31:43,309 --> 00:31:47,209
didn't suffer the crap
that me and my sister did.
519
00:31:47,209 --> 00:31:51,910
[Noelle] This was
a hellish existence
for Rachanda and her brother.
520
00:31:51,977 --> 00:31:55,510
Ackroyd disclosed
in one police interview
521
00:31:55,510 --> 00:32:00,376
that he had made a paddle
that he would use
to discipline Rachanda.
522
00:32:02,109 --> 00:32:03,510
[Corinna] He was a good liar.
523
00:32:03,576 --> 00:32:06,376
He was truly
two different people.
524
00:32:06,810 --> 00:32:08,877
I never saw the John
525
00:32:09,743 --> 00:32:12,576
that Linda and the kids
had to live with.
526
00:32:17,209 --> 00:32:20,710
[Mark] When Rachanda
went missing,
527
00:32:20,710 --> 00:32:24,410
he was just
like a good old boy, you know.
528
00:32:24,476 --> 00:32:25,877
"I'm just here to help."
529
00:32:27,043 --> 00:32:31,977
John would come up
with these theories on
what a guy would do.
530
00:32:34,343 --> 00:32:38,576
With John, it was always
an-- another person.
531
00:33:23,043 --> 00:33:24,176
[officer] Mmm-hmm.
532
00:33:29,010 --> 00:33:30,109
[officer] Mmm-hmm.
533
00:33:39,209 --> 00:33:42,677
"A guy would do this."
And, "A guy would do that."
534
00:33:44,843 --> 00:33:49,710
I was convinced he was
demonstrating to me
what he'd done.
535
00:33:49,777 --> 00:33:52,410
When he talked
about tying her up,
536
00:33:52,410 --> 00:33:55,610
there was a search
done of the house
and his truck
537
00:33:55,610 --> 00:33:59,209
and there was rope
with Rachanda's hair
538
00:33:59,209 --> 00:34:02,109
in the back f John's truck.
539
00:34:02,109 --> 00:34:04,610
He talked about
holding her down
540
00:34:04,677 --> 00:34:05,810
which was indicating
541
00:34:05,810 --> 00:34:10,010
that she was struggling,
yet still alive.
542
00:34:10,076 --> 00:34:12,810
And there was blood found
on the bedspread
543
00:34:12,810 --> 00:34:14,877
near the front door
of the house.
544
00:35:00,109 --> 00:35:02,610
[narrator] The woods
have a way of getting darker,
545
00:35:03,043 --> 00:35:05,410
entombing secrets.
546
00:35:05,410 --> 00:35:09,109
Secrets John hopes
will never see the light.
547
00:35:10,510 --> 00:35:14,810
[Jennifer] John was
a Jekyll and Hyde
kind of person.
548
00:35:14,810 --> 00:35:18,276
He's Hyde
when he was my uncle.
549
00:35:18,810 --> 00:35:20,576
Somebody I can count on.
550
00:35:22,043 --> 00:35:24,677
When he was
doing bad things,
551
00:35:25,910 --> 00:35:27,176
that's Jekyll.
552
00:35:28,810 --> 00:35:33,309
But one time,
I was with John,
in his truck.
553
00:35:33,309 --> 00:35:36,576
It was a while
after Rachanda
came out missing.
554
00:35:37,343 --> 00:35:42,209
And he decided to go off
on some side road.
555
00:35:43,910 --> 00:35:47,910
It was all brushy
and secluded.
556
00:35:47,977 --> 00:35:52,309
The bushes came
right up to the door,
on both sides.
557
00:35:52,376 --> 00:35:54,476
It was that dense.
558
00:35:57,010 --> 00:35:59,043
And he said to me,
559
00:35:59,043 --> 00:36:03,610
"You know, you could hide
a body in here and nobody
would ever find it."
560
00:36:05,209 --> 00:36:08,710
I said, "Yeah, you can.
Can't you?"
561
00:36:10,043 --> 00:36:14,510
And he said, "Yeah.
Do you have to go potty?"
562
00:36:14,510 --> 00:36:16,910
And I said, "No, I'm good."
563
00:36:16,910 --> 00:36:20,610
And I had to go
really, really bad.
564
00:36:20,610 --> 00:36:25,010
But something told me
to stay near the truck.
565
00:36:25,076 --> 00:36:29,309
I watched him as he went
straight down to the left
566
00:36:29,376 --> 00:36:31,710
and then, I couldn't
see him anymore.
567
00:36:34,810 --> 00:36:37,010
I was terrified.
568
00:36:37,010 --> 00:36:40,977
And I've never been
afraid of John, like that.
569
00:36:46,043 --> 00:36:48,410
At the time, I wasn't aware
570
00:36:48,410 --> 00:36:51,576
that John was
capable of murder.
571
00:36:52,610 --> 00:36:54,410
I just blocked it
out of my mind.
572
00:36:55,410 --> 00:36:58,309
But you can bet
your sweet bottom
573
00:36:58,376 --> 00:37:00,276
if I would have
gotten out of that truck,
574
00:37:01,343 --> 00:37:02,777
he would have killed me.
575
00:37:10,910 --> 00:37:13,510
[Jennifer] When
Rachanda came up missing,
576
00:37:14,910 --> 00:37:16,510
a week went by,
577
00:37:16,510 --> 00:37:18,977
two weeks, three weeks.
578
00:37:19,309 --> 00:37:20,977
Now it was...
579
00:37:23,710 --> 00:37:25,376
She ain't coming back.
580
00:37:27,543 --> 00:37:29,209
[Byron] I need to know
where my sister is.
581
00:37:29,209 --> 00:37:30,510
This is what you guys are--
582
00:37:30,510 --> 00:37:32,109
You guys are supposed
to be the good guys
helping us out.
583
00:37:32,176 --> 00:37:33,010
Help us out.
584
00:37:33,010 --> 00:37:34,109
Let me know what's going on.
585
00:37:34,176 --> 00:37:35,810
This is my sister.
This is my blood.
586
00:37:35,810 --> 00:37:38,143
This is my best friend,
you know.
587
00:37:38,143 --> 00:37:39,677
Where is she?
588
00:37:43,043 --> 00:37:44,910
[narrator]
The monster is free.
589
00:37:44,910 --> 00:37:47,810
And they are no closer
to finding Rachanda.
590
00:37:50,043 --> 00:37:53,276
[Mark] We searched
for Rachanda everywhere.
591
00:37:55,410 --> 00:37:57,476
And we couldn't find her.
592
00:37:59,410 --> 00:38:02,109
The evidence,
the blood spots
and the rope,
593
00:38:02,543 --> 00:38:04,610
were problematic for us
594
00:38:04,610 --> 00:38:06,476
because she lived there.
595
00:38:07,510 --> 00:38:10,510
There are many ways
that she could have bled.
596
00:38:10,576 --> 00:38:12,209
She could have cut herself.
597
00:38:12,209 --> 00:38:15,109
She could have had
a nosebleed.
598
00:38:16,043 --> 00:38:18,910
We didn't have
any DNA evidence
599
00:38:18,977 --> 00:38:21,977
to tie John directly to it.
600
00:38:23,643 --> 00:38:26,410
It was very clear
to all of us
601
00:38:26,476 --> 00:38:28,977
that he had taken her life.
602
00:38:29,410 --> 00:38:33,109
But we didn't have a body.
603
00:38:33,176 --> 00:38:38,476
At that point in time,
they would not prosecute
without a body.
604
00:38:40,043 --> 00:38:42,010
You've gotta be able to prove
605
00:38:42,010 --> 00:38:43,910
that she met with foul play
606
00:38:43,977 --> 00:38:45,309
and she was killed.
607
00:38:45,376 --> 00:38:47,910
If you can't prove your case,
608
00:38:47,910 --> 00:38:52,410
You can't go try him again.
They're done. And you lost.
609
00:38:52,476 --> 00:38:53,977
And they're out there, free.
610
00:38:58,510 --> 00:39:00,309
Everything kinda just...
611
00:39:03,309 --> 00:39:04,677
went back to normal.
612
00:39:06,410 --> 00:39:08,209
It was over pretty fast.
613
00:39:08,209 --> 00:39:11,076
The searches were over
before school even started.
614
00:39:17,143 --> 00:39:20,810
[Michelle] Being that young
and feeling helpless...
615
00:39:20,810 --> 00:39:23,977
The beginning
of seventh grade was horrible.
616
00:39:24,543 --> 00:39:26,010
[sobs]
617
00:39:28,343 --> 00:39:30,109
because she wasn't there.
618
00:39:33,309 --> 00:39:35,810
[Byron] All I know
is that my sister's gone
619
00:39:35,810 --> 00:39:37,109
and my family's destroyed.
620
00:39:37,109 --> 00:39:40,510
It's done.
[bleep] game over.
621
00:39:40,576 --> 00:39:42,510
Here we are, in the world,
by yourself.
622
00:39:49,810 --> 00:39:52,810
I'd give up everything.
Even if that meant
my last breath.
623
00:39:52,877 --> 00:39:54,610
[sobs]
624
00:39:54,677 --> 00:39:57,677
just to let her know
that I love her. i miss her.
625
00:39:59,309 --> 00:40:01,176
[sobs]
626
00:40:04,943 --> 00:40:08,309
[narrator] They sense,
as with Kaye Turner,
627
00:40:08,309 --> 00:40:10,810
Rachanda's life
had come to an end.
628
00:40:11,410 --> 00:40:15,109
John Ackroyd
remains unscathed
629
00:40:15,109 --> 00:40:17,209
and enjoys his freedom.
630
00:40:19,109 --> 00:40:21,610
[Corinna] After
Rachanda went missing,
631
00:40:21,610 --> 00:40:25,510
I don't think anybody
suspected John Ackroyd
632
00:40:25,510 --> 00:40:27,910
capable of doing
anything like that.
633
00:40:27,977 --> 00:40:30,877
A lot of the guys
were like, "There's no way."
634
00:40:31,943 --> 00:40:35,410
And then we started hearing
that he actually had been
635
00:40:35,476 --> 00:40:38,143
the main suspect
in Kaye Turner's murder
636
00:40:38,143 --> 00:40:40,810
and he found Kaye's body.
637
00:40:40,810 --> 00:40:42,710
I think everybody up there
was shocked.
638
00:40:44,943 --> 00:40:47,510
You just think back.
How many times
have you seen him?
639
00:40:47,510 --> 00:40:48,810
How many times
have you talked to him?
640
00:40:48,810 --> 00:40:50,143
How many times
when you're with him
641
00:40:50,143 --> 00:40:52,010
in the maintenance shop
at night?
642
00:40:52,010 --> 00:40:55,910
We didn't want him
up there anymore.
We weren't comfortable.
643
00:40:55,910 --> 00:41:00,309
Our only phone
on the compound,
that was available to us,
644
00:41:00,309 --> 00:41:04,910
was one phone
up in the wash-house
in the trailer shed.
645
00:41:04,910 --> 00:41:09,710
We kept telling the police
we spend a lot of time
alone here, as women.
646
00:41:09,777 --> 00:41:11,410
They got quite a bit
of pressure.
647
00:41:11,410 --> 00:41:13,410
So they moved him.
648
00:41:13,410 --> 00:41:15,710
And we were thankful
to see him go.
649
00:41:17,543 --> 00:41:21,910
John Ackroyd was transferred
from the Santiam junction
650
00:41:21,977 --> 00:41:24,777
to Corvallis,
Highway Department.
651
00:41:27,143 --> 00:41:30,910
And I said, "That's nuts!
652
00:41:30,977 --> 00:41:33,209
"That's a college town
full of girls!
653
00:41:34,043 --> 00:41:35,777
"That's crazy!"
654
00:41:37,109 --> 00:41:39,777
But I wasn't in control.
655
00:41:41,910 --> 00:41:44,109
When we heard that John
had been moved
656
00:41:44,109 --> 00:41:46,810
to the Highway Department
in Corvallis,
657
00:41:46,810 --> 00:41:49,910
we were like, "Holy [bleep],
who's thinking
that one through?"
658
00:41:53,143 --> 00:41:57,376
We need to truly get this guy
before he kills again.
659
00:42:00,143 --> 00:42:02,643
Nobody wants to have
a serial killer
in their backyard.