- He was working in Park City as basically a dog catcher,
a code enforcement officer. He was just the guy next door,
had children, had a wife. And that was the most difficult part of all for everybody to accept, that he was a normal guy
doing monstrous things. (intense music) - [Narrator] One of the
legends in the bone field is forensic anthropologist,
Dr. Clyde Snow. He helped identify the
remains of King Tut. Now, he'll face his biggest challenge, putting names and faces to the bones found under
John Wayne Gacy's house. Police now have more than enough evidence to put Gacy away forever, but they're still trying
to assemble the puzzle of Gacy's killing spree. - This was the first time
that forensic anthropologists had been asked to examine this number of bodies with victims from a single case. - [Narrator] First, police
want to get an overview of Gacy's crimes and see
if there's a common thread. Dr. Snow turns to the bones for help and starts with the most
basic question of identity. How old were these victims when they died? - To assess age of death of juveniles, forensic anthropologists frequently look at the size of the bones, it provide some clues as to age. In addition, you can see how
these bony caps on the ends of the bones of the
growing child are separate. As the bone continues to grow, these caps will grow right
on out with that bone until they fuse and then
they look like that. - [Narrator] When the bones fuse, that means they've stopped growing and different bones
stop at different ages. The hands and feet at about 15,
the thighbone at roughly 17, and the collarbone, the
last bone to stop growing, at approximately age 28. When Snow checks the collar
bones of the skeletons found under Gacy's house,
none of them are fully fused. These victims were all
less than 30 years old. The next question, what were
the genders of Gacy's targets? First, Dr. Snow will focus
on the size and shape of the femur or thigh bone. - The head of the femur, the part that fits into the pelvis, tends to be much larger in
males than it does in females. - [Narrator] Forensic
anthropologists can also look to other bones for clues, like the pelvis. Females usually have a
wider, rounder pelvis to accommodate childbirth. - And not only the pelvis,
but also their differences, particularly in adults, in the skull. Males, for example, have
a very heavy brow ridges above the eyes. Here they have big mastoid processes. This lump a bone right behind your ear. A number of differences. - [Narrator] Police have
covered very complete skeletons. So, Dr. Snow has enough markers to confirm each victim's gender. Based on these bones, the overall snapshot of Gacy's victims comes
more clearly into focus. They're not only young, they're all male. - [Narrator] March 1st, 1932, Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne, are settled in for the evening. The nanny makes her final
check on Charles Jr., Lindbergh's 20-month-old
toddler, nicknamed The Eaglet. When she notices an open window, she rushes to close it before
the baby catches a chill, but then notices that the crib is empty. The Eaglet is gone. In the child's room, investigators
find two critical clues, a chisel and a ransom
note demanding $50,000. And on the estate grounds,
the police find a ladder, broken into three pieces. A Wisconsin wood expert,
named Arthur Koehler, urges New Jersey police
to let him help solve the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case by examining the wooden
ladder used in the abduction. They send off slivers of
the ladder to Arthur Koehler in the federally funded
forest products laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. He instructs New Jersey police to search every single
lumberyard in the area for wood samples. Investigators search
over 1,500 lumberyards. They haul countless samples to Koehler who uses the most
sophisticated tools of the day to compare each and
every piece to the wood in the ladder used in the kidnapping. - To the average eye, we're not gonna understand
the difference in lumber. But he was able to figure out, to the 100th of an inch,
what this lumber looked like. - They were surprised
when he was actually able to make a match and they
were able to trace the wood to the National Lumber
and Millwork Corporation in the Bronx. - [Narrator] It's a short-lived victory. - Once they found the
lumberyard it was a dead end because there were no receipts leading to anybody that was involved. They knew where part of
the lumber came from, but beyond that, they
weren't able to follow up. - [Narrator] But detectives
may not have to worry about the wood evidence after all when a break in the case
changes the entire course of the investigation. Almost a year after the ransom was paid in traceable gold certificates, one of the notes has just been used. - [Mark] When they went to investigate, they were able to check the registration and found that it belonged
to Bruno Richard Hauptmann. - [Narrator] Bernard Hauptmann, 34, is a carpenter with a
previous criminal record for robbery in his native Germany. - Arthur Koehler tells police, "When you're doing your investigation of this suspect's home,
look for any missing wood to be the final piece
of this kidnap ladder." - [Narrator] Incredibly, when
they search Hauptmann's house, they find a floorboard is missing. Taylor takes rail 16 from the ladder, puts it right in the hole
in Hauptmann's floor, and it fits perfectly. - The wood evidence was one of the nails in Hauptmann's coffin. - [Narrator] Hauptmann is found guilty and sentenced to death. Cincinnati, Ohio, Redland Field. It's October 1st, the opening
game of the 1919 World Series. The Red's take on the Chicago White Sox in the first ever, best of nine series. (intense music) (crowd cheering) Sox manager, Kid Gleason, is confident. He calls on knuckleballer, Eddie Cicotte, who led the league in
wins, to start game one. Cicotte and other stars, like left fielder, Shoeless Joe Jackson, are expected to power
the Sox to the title. Gambling is illegal,
but bookies have the Sox as seven to five favorites. Just hours before the first pitch, money pours in picking the Reds to win. (crowd cheering) Crowds in New York's Times
Square follow the game on a mechanical scoreboard
updated live by telegraph. White Sox fans are stunned as Cicotte gives up
five runs in the fourth, including a triple to the Red's pitcher. (crowd cheering) Cincinnati takes the game
and a laugher, nine to one. (crowd cheering) In a stunning upset, they
go on to win the series, five games to three. Sports writer, Hugh
Fullerton, smells a rat. He suggests in the New York Evening World that White Sox players were
fixing the World Series. A claim that casts a deep
shadow on the national pastime. Shoeless Joe Jackson and
seven other White Sox are accused of taking $5,000
each to throw the series. This Chicago grand jury,
the first ever filmed, take statements in September,
1920 from the eight players. Three of them confess
to throwing the series. All eight are charged with conspiring to defraud the public. Here star pitcher, Claude Lefty Williams, a surprising oh and three in the series, arrives at the trial. The players get a mysterious break. When the confessions go missing, the jury finds them not guilty. Baseball commissioner,
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, is not so lenient. He punishes all eight with a lifetime ban. - [Narrator] This heavily
guarded concrete wall surrounds one of Indiana's maximum security prisons. The state's Pendleton
Correctional Facility is home to almost 1,800 prisoners
at any given time. But back in 1924, it was known as the Indiana State Reformatory and housed a man who
was about to become one of America's most notorious criminals, a legendary gangster named John Dillinger. He was born in Indianapolis
and was a teenager when his father moved the
family to Mooresville. He was hoping farm life
would straighten out his delinquent son. It didn't work. By the time Dillinger was 21, he was locked up doing 10 to 20 years for robbing and assaulting
a Mooresville grocer. He entered jail as a petty thief, but when he was released in 1933, his harsh and lengthy prison sentence had turned him into a
hardened and bitter criminal. Within weeks he and his
gang were captivating the American public with
brazen bank robberies and prison breaks that sealed his fate as one of America's most
notorious gangsters. In January, 1934, Dillinger was finally caught,
arrested, and sent here to the Lake County Jail
in Crown Point, Indiana. The front part of this building
was the sheriff's house. The large building in back was the jail where Dillinger was locked up. The charges against him included murder for the death of a police officer killed in a shootout during a bank robbery. At the time, the prison was
considered escape proof. Sheriff Lillian Holley
is reported to have said, "I know he's a bad baby
and a jail breaker, but I can handle him." Dillinger, on the other hand, had no intention of
staying in Crown Point. Within two months he managed
to escape by threatening guards with a fake wooden gun stained
black with shoe polish. He then grabbed some real guns, locked the guards in a cell, and ran out the front
door making his getaway in Sheriff Holley's own car. But by crossing the Indiana state line, Dillinger committed a federal crime and the FBI were soon hot on his tail. The U.S. attorney general at the time, called him public enemy number one and less than five months
later Dillinger was dead, killed by FBI agents in a hail of bullets, outside a Chicago theater. Actor Johnny Depp played the role of Indiana's famous gangster in the 2009 film, "Public Enemies." The real Dillinger is
buried here in Indianapolis in Crown Hill cemetery. - [Narrator] In 1987 in Cincinnati, Ohio, forensic pathologist, Lee Lehman, is investigating Donald Harvey's
seemingly outrageous claim that he's killed 24 people. - Donald Harvey was a 35-year-old man who had been working in hospitals
since he was 18 years old. He was quite bizarre and on certain levels raised some doubts as to whether or not this guy was reciting some sort of fantasy. - [Narrator] Cincinnati
detectives scour through hundreds of Drake Memorial Hospital files, looking for patients
that died unexpectedly under Donald Harvey's care. They can't substantiate
all of Harvey's claims, but they do narrow the list to 10 possible victims,
all died of illnesses that could be a cover
for poisons like arsenic, a substance found in large
quantities at Harvey's apartment. Arsenic can cause symptoms that look like many other problems. - Arsenic poisoning is interesting in that it is a great imitator. You're gonna be diagnosed
with an appendicitis. You may be diagnosed with heart disease, but you're not going to be
diagnosed with arsenic poisoning. - [Narrator] External
signs of arsenic poisoning are subtle white lines on the fingernails, called Meese lines. They're caused by the
interruption in nail growth as arsenic shuts down a
person's bodily functions. No one would think to look for them if foul play wasn't suspected,
but Lehman finds them in some of the exhumed bodies. For the others, a simple toxicology test will find the poison. Organs including livers
and stomachs are sent to an FBI lab and they
test positive for arsenic, but there are two cases that
remain somewhat of a mystery. Both died from what was
thought to be pneumonia, but unlike the other patients,
Dr. Lehman finds no sign of arsenic or cyanide poisoning, which is undetectable after embalming. Perhaps they aren't
victims of Donald Harvey. Just to be sure, he sends
their organs for a tox screen. The results show the presence of an organic solvent,
petroleum distillate, used in hospitals to remove colostomy bags and known to cause
pneumonia-like symptoms. Their causes of death
are officially switched from pneumonia to homicide. - He said he couldn't remember all of them and subsequent to that, people who have really
looked into the case deeply, believe that Donald Harvey killed, in and out of hospitals,
as many as 130 people which makes him the most
prolific serial killer in American history. - [Narrator] Dennis Rader
hardly fits the image of the vicious serial killer. - He was working in Park City as basically a dog catcher,
a code enforcement officer. He was just the guy next
door, lived a normal life in a normal neighborhood. Had children, had a wife. And that was the most
difficult part of all for everybody to accept, that he was a normal guy
doing monstrous things. - [Narrator] The task force
is ready to take Rader down, but he might suspect they have his DNA. So before they make a move, investigators want to prove Rader is BTK without tipping him off. - We wanted to be sure. The one way we could do
that is to get his DNA. We knew that if we asked him directly he would turn us down. Following him and trying
to get a DNA sample, that way would be very difficult. - [Narrator] But DNA crosses generations. If Rader is a father, his
offspring have his DNA. - So, we did research on his family, found out that he had two children. One of those children was
a 24-year-old daughter and we were able to
obtain, by court order, a biological sample that she
had from her gynecologist. - [Narrator] Familial
DNA testing is often used in court cases on immigration
status and paternity. Now, it might help capture a monster. - You get half your DNA from your mom and the other half from your dad. And because of that, we can then look at a sample that we think
is a suspected offspring to another sample and do a comparison. - [Narrator] A warrant clears the way for police to obtain the
daughter's pap smear. And the sample goes to the Kansas Bureau of
investigation forensic lab. - There were a significant shift in the priority of doing samples when we received that
particular pap smear slide. We stayed with it until
we were done with it. - [Narrator] The results are undeniable. - The father of that pap
smear was the individual who left that DNA at the crime scene. - [Narrator] And that is Dennis Rader. On February 25th, 2005, Rader
is driving home for lunch when police catch him
and interrogators ask him to provide a DNA sample. - And he'd ended up matching. - [Narrator] Even after 20
years of painful silence, no new witnesses,
evidence, or crime scenes, police have the proof they need. DNA is absolutely definitive. - [Narrator] Wisconsin,
many find comfort and solace in its wild places. Others find inspiration. Like one of the world's
most visionary architects who was inspired by
Wisconsin's natural beauty to build one of the most famous and admired houses in America. It's known as Taliesin, a Welsh word that means
shining brow for its position on the edge of a hill
overlooking the valley. This was the home and
workshop of Frank Lloyd Wright for 48 years until his death in 1959. Wright, a Wisconsin native,
built Taliesin in 1911 as a country home for him and his mistress, Martha Borthwick. He also wanted it to be a
laboratory for his ideas. Many of which were inspired by the landscape surrounding the house. Taliesin is filled with
beautiful design touches and bold experiments like
this cantilevered walkway that appears to float on thin air. But what Wright had imagined
as a peaceful haven, suddenly turned into a house of horrors. On August 15th, 1914,
Wright was out of town when his butler, Julian Carlton, who knew he was soon to be laid off, decided to take revenge. As a group of employees gathered in the dining room for lunch, Carlton locked the dining room doors, doused that wing of
the house with gasoline and set it ablaze. He then walked to an adjoining porch where Martha and her two
young children were sitting and killed all three of them with an ax. As the fire grew, six
of the employees escaped by climbing out the dining room windows, only to find the killer
waiting for them in the yard. Four were cut down. The other two managed to escape. When Frank Lloyd Wright
returned to Taliesin, he was devastated, but he
vowed to rebuild the house in the memory of his murdered love. But in 1925, the second Taliesin
also burned to the ground and Wright vowed once again to rebuild it on top of the ashes. Today, his third and final Taliesin, is now a museum and education center. - [Narrator] The mobster
mystique is enhanced by punchy nicknames like
Jake Greasy Thumb Guzic, Abe Kid Twist Reles, and Tony Joe Batters Accardo. The gangsters notoriety is amplified by their weapon of choice. The Tommy gun. This film shows the Michigan
state police training to fight back in kind. - [Commentator] Gangsters
go along with machine guns. So when the emergency arises, the state trooper must
fight fire with fire. He learns the technique of
a fire spitting Tommy gun. Here again, the rain of lead
must be directed effectively. - [Narrator] The rapid
firing submachine gun becomes the gangsters best friend. (gun firing) And can be purchased legally
over the counter until 1934. Armed with their Tommy guns, mobsters expand their
reach and their fame. During the 1920s, Brooklyn-born
Al Scarface Capone, takes over the rackets in Chicago. He buys his first three Tommy
guns from a hardware store. (engine whining)
(gun firing) It's used so prolifically
in the Windy City, it becomes known as
the Chicago typewriter. - Escobar's legacy was a river that ran with the blood
of more than 5,000 victims who were shot between 1989 and 1993. He died as he lived, by the bullet, but how can we determine
which gun took the kill shot? It's one for a sub-specialism,
forensic ballistics. This is the process of matching a specific firearm to a bullet by test firing the presumed
weapon with a new slug and comparing both bullets
under a microscope. And this specialty has a longer history than you might think. It began in England in 1835 when Scotland yard
detective, Henry Goddard, connected a bullet to a murder weapon for the first time in history. The forensic ballistics was limited in those earlier periods because of a lack of equipment to enable side-by-side
comparisons of bullets. As it stood, an investigator would have to examine one bullet under a microscope, while retaining a mental
image of the second bullet. This led to obvious wonders
and wrongful convictions. But a breakthrough occurred in the 1920s when a group of scientists
built an instrument consisting of two microscopes connected
by an optical bridge. Surprisingly, it was another Goddard, an American Army colonel,
Calvin Hooker Goddard, who used the comparison microscope to solve one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century. He examined bullet casings
to prove that the guns used to murder seven people in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre was not police issued weapons, concluding it must have been a mob hit. Colonel Goddard's victory
earned him the title, the father of forensic ballistics. We have a lot of ballistics detail from the Escobar autopsy report to help us out in this gunshot killing. - Gunshot wounds are interesting. They can actually give
us lots of information. This first wound to the back of the leg. The interesting thing about
this is the exit wound, 3.2 by two centimeters. What that indicates is a high
velocity assault rifle round. - [Woman] My chief
investigator, Brian Hook, is a specialist in ballistics. - Yeah, yeah, it's perfect. - [Woman] So, I've asked
him to take our dummy, made from specialist ballistics
gel, to a firing range. He's testing the weapons he
believes were used in the raid on Escobar's hideout with
expert marksman, Noel Francs. - The shot we're after is
the back of the left thigh. Let's give it a go. - [Woman] Brian has asked
Noel to use the Galil, an Israeli automatic rifle that fires a 7.62 millimeter round. The same weapon used by
the Colombian police. - Three, two, one, fire.
(gun firing) - We've got an entry wound here and it's gone straight through and that's consistent with
the postmortem reports. - Yes.
- So, I think it's safe to say that it's highly likely
that that was the Galil. - This tells us that the bullet through Escobar's leg
could well have been shot from a distance with
the Galil assault rifle. Let's look at the second wound. - The entry wound to the shoulder is one by 0.8 centimeters. We know that the round
was found at the bottom of the left jaw. That's probably a handgun. If that was the Galil, that would go straight the way through. - [Woman] For the second wound, Brian is testing a pistol that fires a nine millimeter round. The gel dummy has to be laid
at an angle for this shot because of the trajectory of the bullet through Escobar's body. - I can get the trajectory to move towards more or less the jaw.
- Okay. - So, we have the right
angle, whether it will lodge or not, we won't really
know till after we test. - [Brian] Our shooting. - [Woman] The gun must
have been shooting upwards, towards Escobar's back. - [Noel] Gung ho. Ready to fire. (gun firing) - Somewhere in the skull is the round. It hasn't actually exited. Could just as easily have wound
up underneath the left jaw as it did with Pablo.
- Yeah. - [Brian] We know that the
SIG Sauer nine millimeter was being used. - [Woman] That's the kind of
gun that Hugo Aguilar had. - Exactly right. The interesting thing here is
that that's also the handgun the Pablo Escobar had. - [Woman] We just have the
third wound now to test, the one that went through
Escobar's right ear. - And if you look at the third wound, the entry is 0.8 by 0.8 centimeters. That is a classic nine
millimeter round entry wound. - [Woman] That's interesting. - The exit wound is slightly bigger, two centimeters by one centimeter - [Woman] To create this wound, the most likely weapon would have been the nine millimeter SIG Saeur again. Brian is testing the theory with Noel. - Fire.
(gun firing) - Another good shot in the year, exactly the same place
as happened with Pablo. And yeah, if we look
at the entry wound here and the exit wound, they're
roughly the same size as reported on the post-mortem. So, I think it's safe to say that that's the nine millimeter. - [Narrator] Constable Baker is certain Richard Buckland killed both
Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. Struggling to make a case,
Baker has an unusual idea. - I was aware at that time
that Dr. Alec Jeffreys had been working at Leicester University in respect of DNA tests. - [Narrator] Dr. Jeffrey's new human DNA is mostly identical. - And well over 99% of our
DNA is the same between people that allows us to have two ears, two eyes, a nose, four fingers and
the thumb on each hand. - [Narrator] But Jeffrey's
wanted to know more about that other 1%. In 1984, he discovered a
patch of DNA that was unique to each individual, a
sort of DNA fingerprint. And when Constable Baker
thinks about Jeffrey's work, he has a question. If DNA can prove paternity,
can it also prove whether Richard Buckland
killed Dawn Ashworth and Lynda Mann? The police are willing to try anything. They give the lab the crime scene samples. These researchers may know DNA, but they've never used
it to solve a crime. The results of this real world experiment are anybody's guess. First, technicians extract the DNA by dissolving the evidence. At that time, they
needed a sample as large as a quarter to generate a DNA profile. Then Jeffreys has to
pinpoint the DNA fragments that are unique to their owner. To do that, he uses a
technique called RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism. - And what this does is that
it cuts the DNA into sections of various sizes. - [Narrator] To get the
DNA portrait he needs, Jeffreys has to sort
the fragments by size. Then the sample goes onto
one end of a gel plate. Technicians apply electrical current and electricity pulls the
fragments through the gel. - The gel acts exactly like a sieve and the small fragments
are able to travel quickly through the gel and the large
fragments travel slowly. At the end of the process,
we have an x-ray film which effectively has a barcode on it. - [Narrator] It may look
like random splotches, but that barcode is unique. In all the world, it
belongs to only one person. And soon the results are in. - The two murders, they had been committed
by the same individual. - [Narrator] But then the
story takes an unexpected turn. The DNA portrait doesn't
match that of the one and only suspect, Richard Buckland. Despite his tormented confession, Buckland didn't kill a soul. - [Narrator] June, 1938, a speedboat enters international waters, three miles off shore from
Santa Monica, California. It's passengers board
a former fishing barge, named the SS Rex, now transformed
into a floating casino. It's commanded by former rum runner, Anthony Tony the Hat Cornero,
also known as, The Admiral. He's found a gap in the market and spent $200,000 to create
a tax-free betting haven. A 12-minute speedboat ride away from California's anti-gambling laws. The Rex accommodates 2,000
guests and 350 staff. Roulette tables and card
games are surrounded by rows of slot machines. Gamblers can even bet on which hole a mouse will run through. The casino is open 24 hours and rich Californians
flock to take advantage. Cornero openly boasts about his business, declaring the Rex is operated by courageous, open-minded,
fearless American citizens. He takes in over $100,000 a month. Cornero's in business for a year when California redefines
the three mile limit. It brings him within range of the law. Cornero plays cat and mouse, but needs to be close to
shore for his customers. Cameras film the coast guard pouncing. The ship's gambling equipment is sent to the bottom
of the Pacific Ocean. - [Narrator] This 1922 footage
in Long Beach, California shows the police destroying
$30,000 worth of liquor. This is some of the earliest
film ever of prohibition. America is again a productive nation. Many believe it's also become
a sober nation as well. But for some, the party never ends. It just goes underground. In this rare home movie, the Adams family of Brattleboro, Vermont, films a party where the
liquor flows freely. A loophole in the law allows people to drink existing supplies at home. Even manufacturers find work arounds. In Napa Valley, vineyards stop making wine and start selling bricks of
dry grapes with instructions. - Hey Lucille, what they
do with all these grapes? - Well, my father buys
them to make grape juice. - [Narrator] Adding water and three weeks in a cupboard makes wine. But even these loopholes don't
meet the enormous demand. There's a growing black market and organized crime is happy to satisfy the country's thirst. By the end of the 20s, Al
Capone is earning millions of dollars a year from bootlegging. He's not the only one. Competition leads to gang wars. Nearly 600 mobsters die in Chicago alone over the course of a decade. The violence does nothing
to slow the demand. The Federal Bureau of Prohibition, it's chronically understaffed. It has only 1,500 agents to stop the flow of alcohol in America. Raids like this one on a Park Avenue bar are filmed for propaganda, but Americans know they can
easily get around the law. Prohibition has turned
millions of citizens who want to drink into criminals. Law breaking becomes normalized. The Adams family of Brattleboro,
Vermont film themselves on a trip to Canada in 1930. A bottle of scotch takes
center stage at a picnic. It's a luxury the Adams can't
enjoy legally in the U.S.. Some Americans don't want
to part with their whiskey when they head home. This unknown American bootlegger has crossed the Peace Bridge from Canada into Buffalo, New York. The agents rip his Chevy to pieces and find what they're looking for. They're just scratching the surface. Hundreds of others cross America's borders without incident every month. Americans know they can
easily get around the law. FBI profiler, Mary Ellen O'Toole, is using a carefully devised
psychological strategy in her interrogation of the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. Her goal is to get him to
confess to 44 unsolved homicides where no physical evidence exists that could link him to the crimes. O'Toole is recognized as
the FBI's leading expert in the area of psychopathy. - Many of these men kill women. They may mame them and
sexually assault them, but they love talking to women. They love talking to people
that are good interviewers and that will listen. My strategy was to get him talking and to have him do most of the talking. How are you this morning? - Good, slept real good, little
toss and turning, but good. - Good, glad to hear that. I would also sit very close to him, so that I could maybe
touch his elbow and say, "Gary, tell me what it feels like." - [Narrator] The questioning
goes on for weeks. Some sessions last for hours. - Turn him off and he will not talk. And your goal is to keep him talking. - [Narrator] And finally, something within Gary Ridgway cracks, bit by bit he starts talking - I don't know that it
started at an early age, but sex and hurting the woman. - And he loved being able to talk finally after all these years and in doing so, he kind of walked us down the
path of all of his murders. At one point, Gary referred to himself as something like the lean,
mean, killing machine. And he was very efficient, like a machine. Explain that process to me. - Let's say she's already in the car, I'm driving down the road. So, I whip out my ID
and my ID would be my, I put my finger over my
driver's license to hide my name and on the opposite side was pictures. And a picture of my son. They would know I was a
probably normal person. - But, you were really using
your son as part of your ruse. - [Narrator] The girls would think Ridgway was a kind, family man. They had no idea they were
setting off with a serial killer. - And he would drive up to them and sometimes he'd even
have his son's toys in the front seat and that would be a very effective ruse to convince these women that, hey, I can't be that serial killer, I've got my little boy's toys in the car. He was a very normal kind of
vanilla-type looking person and there was nothing
that stood out about him. Not dangerous. He could have been
anybody living next door. He was anybody living next door. (light music)
